• EleventhHour
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    “Everyone I know is an idiot, therefore I must also act like an idiot.”

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah, would love to see him, Eric Weinstein, Terrence Howard, Eric dubay, James tour, and Billy Carlson stuck in a room that they can’t leave until they can prove one of their worldviews to be plausible. Would be the most entertaining thing ever watching them argue while pretending they agree with each other bc they have to pretend they are all thinking the same thing or their whole “mainstream academia” thing falls apart.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      76 months ago

      He expected to be his own brand, like Musk or Trump or Limbaugh. When he realized he was still just another faceless interchangeable mouthpiece, that definitely fucked his ego.

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    136 months ago

    Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a great book that kind of explains all that in detail…

    but i would say it is either the Curie’s experiments, discovering the neutron, splitting the atom, Fermi’s reactor, or the tests during the Manhattan project; all really well documented.

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    At first look, I thought he was holding up a bullhorn straight at the camera instead of there being an annular throbber on the screenshot

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    56 months ago

    How convenient it would be to believe that the immense forces of destruction we are capable of did not originate with us

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    I have never met a person who can isolate the moment when X became known to man.

    The fuck does that even mean? The second? Is he asking for a dateand time? How many people has he asked? Could any of them look it up?

    I have never met a person who canisolatw the moment when ice cream became known to man.

    Edir: fixed a typo.

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      This isn’t ancient history, it was less than 100 years ago. Links in my top level comment, but the answer is that nuclear fission as a concept emerged right around Christmas 1938.

      Ice cream is far older, with early evidence of chilled dairy desserts from the Tang Dynasty ca. 618-907 CE.

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        And if you look back before fission, modern physics has a pretty well documented history. You can generally start at Maxwell, move forward to the guys who were trying to rectify the predicted speed of light vs observed speed of light, quantum physics, etc. I spent half a year getting real deep into it but you could probably teach the gist of pre-1945 nuclear physics in an afternoon

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    406 months ago

    Ah yes, the ol’ “if I don’t know something, then it MUST be X” argument.

    Substitute X for whatever ya like! Demons, ghouls, demon ghouls…the possibilities are endless!

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      86 months ago

      Dude my brother-in-law.

      Fuckin’ aliens built everything! Baghdad Batteries? Aliens. Pool of mercury in a pyramid? Alien Power Cell that we don’t understand yet.

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    It does again show that these people are like irrational, unscientific, religious cultists. We, as in humanity, should aim to progress away from such a dark past, not regress back into one. That way lies madness.