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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 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.