wobbegongz

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by wobbegongz 5y ago
Lincoln, Washington, and FDR was good presidents, but they where not saints. FDR tried to manipulate the supreme court by increasing the number of judges. Lincoln engaged in secret manipulating of the media. Washington was a slave owner. h
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by wobbegongz 5y ago
We have tested that also. During 1945 we burned down 69 cites and killed 800 000 in Japan. The two small nukes was only 5% of the smoke. The result was at most an cooling of the global temperature of 0.1-0.2 Celsius. But the "multiple
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by wobbegongz 5y ago
We have detonated 2000 bombs in testing. So "just a few small nukes" is not enough to start any atomic winter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing
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by wobbegongz 5y ago
I do not understand that you are talking about. We have two distinct hypothesis. One is what Egyptians traveled to South America. That was his Ra Expedition. Another is that people traveled from South America to Polynesia. His Kon-Tiki expe
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by wobbegongz 5y ago
The problem with that analogy is that the Kon-Tiki hypothesis was proven right last year. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01983-5
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by wobbegongz 6y ago
It has been done studies of education and gullibility. Sadly enough people who has some education, like a masters degree, was more gullible then people who lacked education. It was first at PhD-level that education seemed to help. The expla
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by wobbegongz 6y ago
Lag in reporting also. So more like 9 vs 12.
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by wobbegongz 6y ago
Chekovs gun is a tool for better stories. It does not work in reality, because in the real world it is always a cost to doing things. And extreme action has extreme costs, so very seldom does any country do anything extreme. As an example,
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by wobbegongz 6y ago
All roads lead to hell?
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by wobbegongz 6y ago
Stupidity is about lacking intellectual capacity (not necessary the same as IQ, also things like not being interested in thinking, or lacking necessary facts about a subject can give you a lack of capacity.) Both stating wrong facts and hav
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by wobbegongz 6y ago
In the past people believed in lots of stupid things like "god exists", "the poor deserves its situation and the rich has earned its situation", "hatred toward blacks, Jews, neighbor country, homosexuals, handicappe
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by wobbegongz 6y ago
Yes, both USA and Soviet experimented with nuclear powered planes during the 60s. The problem was how to shield the pilots from radioactivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft They also experiment