Since the latest season hasn’t concluded yet, let’s only look at plot holes from 1990 and before.
The universe is not locally real*.
*Locality and reality are defined in specific ways within quantum physics, and “not locally real” doesn’t necessarily mean ‘illusory’ as you might expect. Look into it, it’s some crazy shit.
That DB Cooper storyline was never resolved.
Lots of those. Characters just falling out of the narrative left and right.
Those aren’t plot holes. They’re upper story windows conveniently located in Russia.
Probably the stars that are older than the universe.
What
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_age_problem
We estimate the age of some stars to be older than the estimated age of the universe. JWST observations have also made it “worse”. https://youtu.be/hps-HfpL1vc?si=H9tdTD3DJYLkalvx
Since around 1997–2003, the problem is believed to have been solved by most cosmologists
Can’t watch videos right now, but the wikipedia article says the problem has been solved around y2k by recalculating the age of the universe, and says nothing about JWST making this problem worse.
Some astronomers are looking at JWST data and claiming they are seeing galaxies with red shifts in the range of 11-20, which if accurate, correspond to ages older than we’d expect to see galaxies of such size formed. Other astronomers disagree, and believe that the results aren’t so clear. This the “hubble tension” or “crisis in cosmology” maybe still live on.
It is exciting, either we get more data to confirm our current understanding or we need to discover be physics and form new theories that align with the data. Either way is great, imo.
IIRC, they’re too big to have formed in one of the ways we know and then continuously lost matter at the the rate they should have.
So one or more of the assumptions about how they could have formed or how they lost matter over time is wrong, right?
Nope. Older than the universe. Can’t weasel your way out of this one science boy
Or we have the age of the universe wrong.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/
We experience first-person sensations (consciousness/qualia) and it’s a big mystery what’s up with that.
My 6 year old was asking me about this a few weeks ago. He’s asking, how do our minds work? How did we come to be thinking and feeling and thinking about thinking? He says, “I know we’re made of cells, but how did the cells… find their voice?” He’s so fun.
Like a year prior to this, I stayed up all night trying to Google it, I guess for some reason I thought the answer would be a little clearer but apparently it’s highly debated and mostly unknown.
One approach that I’m reasonably sure is correct is “emergence”. A bunch of simple systems come together in a way that forms a more complex system than any of its individual parts. You can find this in many areas:
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computers are made up of very simple basic units that come together to do incredible things
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games can have simple systems that produce complex behaviour when taken together
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biological systems follow similar patterns
It just seems right that consciousness isn’t something that evolved as a standalone thing, but instead is the result of more and more simple systems coming together. We didn’t wake up screaming one night in the face of the sheer terror of existence, it was a choir that gradually got louder :)
We didn’t wake up screaming one night in the face of the sheer terror of existence
speak for yourself
Thanks for the ideas/explanation.
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The low entropy of the past
The Space Race ended without closing ceremonies.
That happens when goal posts are moved until both sides lose interest.
Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams 😔
Edit - too soon?
Gross
That’s not a plot hole, even after 1990. There’s no reason to melt it. Weakening is enough.
Well yeah, the question specified 1990 or before.
It’s too soon to be sure you mean it ironically. Did you?
duck billed platypus
If most people are good why doesn’t the world get better without violence?
Most people regularly eat dead animals, so violence is still everywhere. In fact, there’s more now than ever before. :(
Would you prefer they eat live animals?
Edgy!
There’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
“Germans: so estimable in the individual, so execrable in the aggregate”. – paraphrase of Goethe
I like that.
Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997):
A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
– Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K
The fact the Pepsi at one point had the 6th largest military in the world, and did nothing to conquer Coca-Cola.
Like, why even start that storyline if you dont take it to the inevitable conclusion?
Pepsi has also made huge profits in Russia since the west started sanctions.
Yes, they have. That’s why I don’t buy their products anymore.
Just to emphasise:
from 1990 and before
Why the weird arbitrary time?
I remember 1990. There was nothing arbitrary about it.
Because I didn’t want people arguing about current events and the end of the Cold War seemed as good a cutoff as any.
Did it really end? The Soviet Union might have imploded, but the KGB just took the country over, turned it into a mafia state, and kept right at it.
Folks can’t read past the headline. Truly this site has arrived.
Idk man I wasn’t alive then.
Nobody has figured out who the Zodiac killer is yet? Come on, people!
I thought it was Ted Cruz
Yeah pretty sure this was wrapped up in the comics
The Trump storyline is taking way too long to reach a definitive conclusion, and I’m not even confident that it will be a particularly satisfying one.
I know time got weird with the pandemic, but that was not actually before 1990, believe it or not.
That statement was also true before 1990, though.
I mean I was aware of him before 1990 and really could not understand how he was famous or successful. My brother is older than me and Trump came up on the news one day and he said “he’s either a criminal or his bankers are idiots”. We grew up quite a ways from NYC if you’re wondering.
The older you are the more insane this timeline seems. I knew he’d get elected. Racism and sexism put him over the top. Still felt like I was going crazy watching it.
Spoilers for future seasons: they try pretty hard to replicate the ratings bonanza of Chancellor Hitler storyline, but it veers way off into weird nonsense, and instead of any sort of satisfying conclusion eventually everyone just gets tired of him and he spends his last years muttering to himself at increasingly sadder and sadder rallies for his remaining geriatric fans.
Ha ha ha I totally misread the title. I thought it was 1990 and beyond. Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out!
Where all the aliens are.
Are we supposed to believe the largest most dominant military force in the world, Kublai Kahn’s Mongol fleet was defeated by some inclement weather… TWICE?? Lazy writing.
Inclement weather, just FYI. Although, your spelling also makes a lot of sense in the current times…
Not bashing your point though, that’s a good one.
My turn to learn a new fact today. Wild that I’ve never realised it was spelt that way.
