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Interesting related fact: Meteorites (as in: Rocks falling from the Sky) were not acknowledged as real until 1803. Only then did a large meteorite shower in Fr
by cloogshicer 6y ago
Interesting related fact:
Meteorites (as in: Rocks falling from the Sky) were not acknowledged as real until 1803. Only then did a large meteorite shower in France give enough evidence for the general public to acknowledge their existence.
Of course meteorites had fallen before and were even in people's homes (who just picked them up). But they were dismissed as conspiracy theories/hoax.
However, please don't misunderstand this comment as me saying you should believe in flat-earth theories and similar nonsense.
- naniwaduni 6y agoAll sorts of things like this. Rogue waves essentially weren't believed to be possible until 1995. Conflating failure of imagination (lack of proposed mechanism) and impossibility is a rather common failure mode. Heck, it took a decade for biologists to just agree on the Hardy-Weinberg theorem!