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So lets see, in the last 2 says I've had to explain to three people why the earth is round, Relativity is real, and vaccines dont cause autism..
Its about to be 2020 and it feels more like 1020. How are we still wasting time on discussions like this rather than worrying about actual unknowns?
OMG, mind boggling. I think pschwede has it -- the masses now have access, and fall for ideas and theories like those.
Equal access to all in public chat areas, they stand out by weirdness.
Tekno has a good point too, obfuscation is hard at work, keep people distracted and unable to focus on more important things.
@freemo I'm designing a game with a mate, where you as a modern day person get thrown back in time to the dark ages. You have to try using your modern day knowledge to help a village with various medieval problems like water, sickness etc, without being accused as a witch and get executed.
@Rovine Sounds like a very cool idea.
I often consider what i'd do if i had access to go back in time. What would I bring, what knowledge would be useful to me, etc.. so many elements
For starters, in treality if any of us went to the past we would die of disease within a week. Our immune system arent adapted to the strains of virus that existed even a few hundred years ago. So like the native american's who encountered the european settlers most of us would jsut die off.
Moreover, if we survive most of our knowledge would be useless as most of it relies on tools or foundations not availible. Consider electricity for example, how would you even go about building a strong magnet, high quality copper wire, and all the other stuff you need to make an electric generator?
@freemo As a joke, we came up with a story that you happen to have your phone with offline Wikipedia in it, and solar charger when you get thrown back in time.
Absurd, isn't it? But, are you sure such "teaching moments" are a waste of time? And why worry about unknowns? We have enough knowns to worry about now 8-)
@bulent lol, well im not sure if the teaching is valuable for the time invested or not. I change my mind on that from day to day.
@freemo These sound like things that don't directly affect day to day life and decision making of majority of people, which is probably the reason some can afford the speculation. I would say having strong opinions is surprising, but it doesn't seem much different from having strong opinions on something like "whether spiderman can defeat batman".
I guess to not waste time, with people who don't "make sense" to you, stick to tangible things.
@freemo keeping you busy explaining these tired troll tropes is part of the political agenda. Getting regular citizens to actually believe these things... That's the work of magicians.