Christian Huygens speculates on Jupiter’s shipbuilding prowess.
“Imagine having the moons of Jupiter visible all the time… except for the gigantically thick clouds, erm.”
Clearly Jupiterean sailors see in another spectrum altogether. Possibly at the cosmic ray end of energy levels. And thence to comics! The X-Ray-Eyed Demons From Ganymede.
I think the bird dropped him off on purpose.
THE BIRDY did not EAT MY DINGO!
I believe this article perfectly embodies the title of the thread:
metal shavings from a blade?
That’s probably steel. Everyone needs iron in their diet.
or, why those planets in the “habitable” zone probably aren’t habitable. Good source for a world designer.
It’s not Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Hydrogen, or Helium. Do we really need a more detailed breakdown of such a small proportion of the universe?
It’s probably stainless steel from blades, so there’s a puncture risk and Nickel allergy risk.
I’m going to imagine that you’re at risk of biting down through some juicy chicken and chomping on a vintage gold double eagle. Which will seem really cool until you have to sell it to pay the dental bill and it’s still not enough.
Possibly untrue and it’s been published in Science
I guess limiting tribalism on a family level being a good thing makes sense as far as it goes, but proving this is what led to civilization? I agree it’s a stretch.
it’s supposedly what led to individualism-- not civilization.
I didn’t read the whole article (and any of the paper), but was paraphrasing from the first paragraph:
The authors of a sweeping new study say that last, seemingly trivial prohibition may have given birth to Western civilization as we know it.
Maybe the journalist was reading more into the study than was there.
You’re not the only skeptic. Thread:
like, plus or minus eight ounces?
Yeah, but who needs historians… clearly, they are biased against science and facts! /s
I’m getting sick of people in other fields feeling the need to shit all over other kinds of knowledge production. It’s tedious and dangerous.
Especially when even a non-historian like me can tell they’re just plain wrong about stuff.
A lot of science people seem to swallow libertarianism and Nietzsche whole without even realising that’s what they’re doing.
the paper’s authors ( Jakub Scholtz and James Unwin) are interviewed.