• Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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      95 hours ago

      There are people alive today who will tell you the moon is a hologram. Never respect human intelligence more than you have to.

      • @ByteJunk
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        44 hours ago

        May I suggest reading Carl Sagan’s Cosmos? Or watch one of the TV shows.

        While your average human is about as smart as a brick, there are so many minds throughout history that were able to pull humanity out of our dark caves and into space.

        What we need, to survive as a species, is to nurture people, give them (proper) education, and more will come up.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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          13 hours ago

          I grew up on Sagan. I’m not saying we should accept anything the way it is or not take inspiration from our achievements, just that we should not be prideful or expect any greatness from anyone.

          We’re currently smarter than we’ve ever been in a lot of ways, but I find the smarter you are it only changes the kinds of mistakes you make.

          I do agree that humans increase in value the more you value them, and vice-versa. Society should be structured around maximising “human capital”, so to speak.

    • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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      25 hours ago

      Just looking at them, they appear fairly similar to nebulas within our own galaxy. It took sophisticated spectroscopic measurements to realize they’re actually much further away.

      • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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        15 hours ago

        Thanks, and now I know the difference between a nebula and a galaxy.