c/agedlikemilk
POV: The earth is 2024 years old by now
I don't care if this is a fake, there are real people who would have this exact conversation. And it makes me sad for my species.
I like to believe the first dude was one of "those people" and the second dude was trolling.
Best of both worlds.
I had a friend who thought the big bang was what wiped out the dinosaurs...I gave her the most concise general history lesson from the big bang, photon decoupling, creation of hydrogen, abiogenesis, speciation, humankind, and civilization up to now. I'm no fancy pants smarty Mcgee but it literally hurts me when I see such large gaps of knowledge about the universe and our place in it yet they sure as shit know the hottest sneakers on the market.
Not knowing is not as bad as not caring though.
I'm staying with my elderly mother at an AirBnB right now. Yesterday I told her about a news article I was reading that said Mars was habitable for far longer than we thought, meaning there was a much greater chance of life developing there. She was totally uninterested. Whether or not Earth is the only planet with life on it is one of the most important questions in human history we still can't answer and she didn't care.
Helpful red circle, the megalodon looks too much like a human.
People weren't around 60 million years ago!
And how did they get a picture 60 million years ago??
Well, scientists claim that the James Wood space telescope can see billions of years in the past when looking at stars so they obviously just pointed it at the ocean and had someone jump in as a point of reference.
Duh.
