What scientific study are you waiting for that'll just shit on everything we've once thought to have believed in?
What scientific study are you waiting for that'll just shit on everything we've once thought to have believed in?
Like, we'll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.
Causal relationship between social media and degradation of basic critical thinking skills. Not just tiktok, anything in which people are primarily communicating asynchronously and has a "reward" (likes, upvotes, etc)
So Reddit/Lemmy for sure included
nice, have an upvote.
Casually closes this app, knowing I will be back in half an hour
I think a major issue is that nobody checks sources. Earlier, when everybody watched the news or read papers, sources were more reputable (not infallible for sure). Now any random creator can sway your opinion without that reputability. Pretty inherent to the internet as algorithms decentralise everybody into their own corner.
That agrees with my preconceived biases, for sure.
Beyond that, I think it's possible that the "sting" of negative reactions, or the perceived lack of positive reactions my possibly shape how people think.
And, you can buy that kind of engagement in bulk if you have money. You can train people to engage in different thought patterns buy buying upvotes (buying them dopamine), that would be my hypothesis.
If that's true, I think the inherent danger from a sociological standpoint could not possibly be understated.
Communicating with animals.
lol i wish for this one so much.
Solid proof that the source of all life on this planet actually began on a different world. The critical components came here via a comet or even an spacecraft that inadvertently dropped it off. Should screw with a lot of ideals
I thought we had evidence that life was seeded from off world? don't have sources right now but i remember coming by an article explaining that.
Want that the story about the teen aged alien that came here to jack off?
You still have to come up with the explanation of what started life in the first place!
This is always my reaction to this theory as well. If someone asks "How did life on Earth start?", surely we can assume they actually mean "How did life start?"
It's like if a kid saw a baby, and asks their parents "Where do babies come from?", and their reply is "Oh that baby lives next door, it came from that house".
likewise, alien life probably even if just microbial would throw a monkeywrench in a lot of folks beilef system
Still better than the alternative: solid proof that we are in fact alone in the universe
Not only is that unprovable, it seems highly unlikely.
A consistent model for the expansion of the universe that explains the different rates observed
I've got a couple that roll around in my head, radiation therapy will be seen as barbaric at some point. Assuming we don't burn ourselves off this earth in the next few years I think we'll see some progress on this. Moderna is known for their COVID shot, however they have basically eliminated melanoma with a tailored injection. Last I looked at it, it was in it's mid stage or something and was almost 100% effective.
Radiation therapy is bad. We know that, its a last resort tool to fight cancer. Once we find something to finally kill cancer before getting to that stage, i hope to see no more use of such treatment.
radiation therapy will be seen as barbaric at some point.
We already know it's barbaric. It's a last resort. It kills you and the cancer, only the cancer gets the worst of it. It's a terrible solution to the problem, only a step better than death.
Honestly most cancer therapy is like that. Chemo and radio are basically working on the fact that your body is more resilient than cancer cells so they will likely die before you do. They are not pleasant things to go through. Surgery is your best option if it's available and that involves chopping out chunks of yourself.
There was a news story recently about a virologist who possibly cured her own stage 3 cancer using this technique. Obviously more study is needed but it looks promising!
Virologist beats cancer with one weird trick!!! Scientists HATE her!!!
I would like something proves the “interconnectedness of all things” as Douglas Adams put it……something that proves individualism is a disease or a flaw, that could be eliminated, unlocking whole earth potential.
I would settle for evidence of Gaia theory that proves if humans don’t get our shit together, Mother Earth will give someone else a chance .
Dude I'm worried that the Participatory Anthropic Universe is real.
Maybe this is all a consistent hallucination we willed into existence based on our interactions with each other
That the Big Bang is just one of many bangs
well the universe is expanding so.
< enter your own "I banged your mom" joke here>
There seem to be several theories/concepts that posit this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch
The universe was formed by the collapse of a massive star. Our massive stars make new universes. The cycle continues forever.
Hey you leave my mom out of this!
I consider Extended Wigners Friend Problem Experiment to be quite fascinating. This experiment has already been performed, but I expect its results to be fully understood by the masses. And I am not proffesional physicist and want to understand it better too by myself. a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality The results of this experiment call into question one or more assumptions about the existence of objective reality, freedom of choice, or locality. All three cannot exist together. But personally, I think that the second and third points have been checked a lot of times, so no matter how improbable it may seem, the first point is the most likely. But what it really means remains to be understood.
Microplastics and penile length. Seen some studies recently though lol.
You can get any length you want if you shove enough microplastics in there.
I think it’ll be wild if AI actually becomes incredibly intelligent. I’m thinking specifically about materials and what crazy new one AI could dream up but at a level that would require it to actually think and not regurgitate some LLM data it scraped.
what crazy new one AI could dream up but at a level that would require it to actually think and not regurgitate some LLM data it scraped.
A LLM wouldn't be useful but I wonder how far this can be done without AI (machine learning) technology, just programmatically like with protein folding simulations.
That may actually explain why I rarely get sick. I'm having a hard time remembering a single day of this year where I was sick that wasn't caused by things like eating uncooked foods or something else of that nature.
Was going to post this. Not very sanitary (hand washing first is required) or attractive, but it is good for your immune system in the long run. Ken Jennings, the jeopardy guy mentions it in his book.
What is dark matter?
We find out we need douchebags because
ourtheir assholery emits some kind of pheromone or something that repels imperialist extraterrestrialsEdit: some series did something like this, right?
i thought you were going to go somewhere that they are required for human mating.
I'll take the imperialist extraterrestrials, they're probably gonna be easier to mobilize humans in opposition against than the terrestrial imperialists we have now.
some series did something like this, right?
Dicks fuck assholes, chuck. You know what'd happen if dicks didn't fuck assholes? You'd get your dicks and pussies all covered in sheeyet.
The Earth is flat.
If it turns out there really is no free will. What will happen? Do we get a kind Utopia? Or fascism where you are mistreated based on your lot in life?
There's no functional difference, unless you can accurately predict someone's actions, and to do that you'd need to predict the environment in which someone is making choices as well, which requires omniscience. So, there's no functional difference.
Remember the reasons we have punishments? To discourage further misdeeds. Also, to restore justice by inflicting suffering on those who deserve it. Punishments would still be dished out for pragmatic reasons, but retributive punishment would be rendered entirely meaningless.
It would also shatter all sense of acomplishment an individual could have. All that would be left is maybe a perverse pride in knowing you where born "better" than others.
I don't think society would survive if it was a common knowledge.
The actual impact of mankind on climate change, taking all other factors into consideration
I think you have something there with the booger theory. Please do testing and report back.
i will willingly submit my boogers for science.
COVID originated in the swamps of the deep south.
Edit: obviously, not really, but we shouldnt be too quick to judge where it came from.
Were you around when the Fort Detrick conspiracy was going around? Obviously not true but has more evidence than the Wuhan shit so was fun to use to push back against that.
well COVID was found in the wastewater of Venice before the first cases were reported in china.
I was not! I'll have to check it out.
A high-resolution picture made on nearby "neutron stars" or nearby "stellar black holes".
Like dark matter and the big bang they don't exist and
so whatever they're looking at will never conform to their theories.
Both of these type of objects are stars larger than jupiter with the latter being the largest class of supergiants.Come again?
The more detailed pictures will be of these type of objects(stars),
the harder it will be to ignore their large sizes
and thus theories about them.Too many of these space objects are not behaving as they should have,
and so any crutch theories about them will be crushed.Stars simply don't work the way we think they do.
Planetary and star formation simply doesn't work the way we currently think they do.And the clearer the pictures are of these space objects,
the more clear it becomes that what scientists theorized
of what they thought they were looking at, just isn't it.One of them that should have alarmed scientists,
but hasn't, is how comets suspiciously look like asteroids,
pure rock, while they should have looked very icy with
some dust sprinkled on them.
You might even say that they look the same, but are just
traveling in different orbits.
And that would explain why the Philae lander's harpoons
wasn't able to penetrate "the ice" and instead bounced back.
Gravity + velocity: the practical applications of time travel. That or anything investigating anything to do with sentient energy because that will shit all over 99% of every religion.
I was going to go with that one, but I went with something else.
Like a fairly realistic one: measurement exclude a cosmological constant as the explanation for cosmic acceleration in favour of a quintessence scenario.