Let hear them conjects

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    What we know about the age of the human species, and other life, the earth, the universe etc. depends on so many guesses that we know essentially nothing.

    Specifically, I think that elements and materials may have changed some of their properties and behaviour at some time in the past.

    We do not know that. Most people just assume they have remained constant at all times. And we build quite many of our guesses on this assumption.

    If, for example, C14 has changed it’s disintegration rate at some time, then quite many of our guesses would be very wrong.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      1 month ago

      Tied to this, I believe there is no intelligent life close enough to ever reach us physically (short of freezing themselves and traveling millions of years, but we really aren’t worth that trip lol) I don’t believe faster than light travel will ever exist.

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    1 month ago

    Either greed or religion has killed the most people before their time. One of them has to go.

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    1 month ago

    The Pizzagate conspiracy was created to cover up any media coverage of the police reports from the early 90s when Trump was hanging with Epstein and dumping ‘used’ underage girls at a pizza parlor the next morning.

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      The Piazzagate conspiracy theory was created by bored 4channers to see how ridiculous a story they can invent and how many people will just believe it. I don’t think anyone realised it would get as big as it did and then they did it again with Q.

      • Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Was it really a bunch of bored nerds, or did a PR agent make an anonymous post to start the rumor mill?