• @[email protected]
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    574 months ago

    It took till this year for scientists to have the idea to use mri to track brainchanges in pregnancy.

    Just imagine how many super basic observations we must be lacking.

    Scientific thought is ancient but we barely scratched the surface in pretty much every field.

    • @Soup
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      434 months ago

      Ah see you said “pregnancy” which one o’ them woman things and see we just don’t got the time and energy to be spending on that stuff. /s

        • @Soup
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          24 months ago

          Pff, nonsense, if that were real then we would have heard of it by now!

          • @WoodScientist
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            63 months ago

            All real men spring forth, fully formed, from Zeus’s brow.

    • @[email protected]
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      194 months ago

      Took til past couple years to get funding for it. About 75-90% of scientific proposals to the NIH are not funded.

    • @TriflingToad
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      ignoring the elephant in the room that the study of anyone other than white males is rare, people don’t talk about the obvious. We don’t write it down.

      Gravity took FOREVER before someone went “wait why?” and there’s tons of stuff we don’t even think about, like the ‘new shape’ that people just didn’t think to talk about because it’s just so simple

      • aname
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        64 months ago

        the study of anyone other than non white males is rare,

        There’s plenty of studies on white males.

  • @saltesc
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    234 months ago

    I was born in the dark ages. Before 2014, we used to think the world was flat and didn’t think about climate change.

    • @[email protected]
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      164 months ago

      In the 70’s we lived in fear of the next ice age. Then the 80’s it was nuclear winter. Then we invented global warming to fix those problems.

    • @InverseParallax
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      54 months ago

      We used to think the world was flat.

      We still do, but we used to too.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    Look, we gave science a try for 10 years. It didn’t work out, so we’re just not using it anymore.

  • kbal
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    94 months ago

    It’s stairs we didn’t have before 2014. Everyone just used ladders.

    • Silverchase
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      44 months ago

      In Abraham Lincoln’s day, everyone just rocket jumped to get to the second floor!

    • stankmut
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      14 months ago

      Luckily builders would set aside space in buildings just in case someone had an idea for how to move between floors without a ladder. Made retrofitting stairs a breeze. You can’t even tell that they were added later most of the time.

    • @WoodScientist
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      -13 months ago

      Meanwhile in Alabama, things are so backwards there they haven’t even figured out shoes yet! It’s not like they prefer sandals or they’re too poor to afford shoes. They all go around barefoot, because the idea of shoes just has never occured to any of them. Most buildings instead have special brush ledges so you can scrape the dirt and blood off your feet before you walk in. Again, they’re just a hopelessly backwards people. So backwards, they haven’t even figured out shoes yet. Their cousins over in Mississippi are a bit further along. MSU currently has a study going where they’re experimenting with wrapping feet in ziplock bags, secured with rubber bands.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    14 months ago

    Closer to 10000 years. Maybe 10mil.