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Like, we'll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Scientists find proof that the hand of God created all life on Earth."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Solid proof of God? Yeah that would change things

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I was referring to how it would be spun if life was proven to have come from an extra terrestrial source.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You still have to come up with the explanation of what started life in the first place!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Id expand on this. I think the entire solar system has microbial life. Every crack it can exist it will. Asteroids, comets, the gas giants. Its likely all related too. Itd be mostly underground tho and hard to find. Probably multicellular life in some cases too like ice moons, and underground on mars in cave systems.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oncolytic Virotherapy!

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!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would like something proves the β€œinterconnectedness 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 .

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That the Big Bang is just one of many bangs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The universe was formed by the collapse of a massive star. Our massive stars make new universes. The cycle continues forever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Hey you leave my mom out of this!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Communicating with animals.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Microplastics and penile length. Seen some studies recently though lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only eat macrosplastics for this very reason

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you get your wiener hot enough, you can mold it into any shape you want.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You can get any length you want if you shove enough microplastics in there.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

We find out we need douchebags because ~~our~~ their assholery emits some kind of pheromone or something that repels imperialist extraterrestrials

Edit: some series did something like this, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Aspartame cures cancer, but only when ingested in soda.

Pi equals exactly 3.

The most effective, universal vaccine is based on asbestos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

A consistent model for the expansion of the universe that explains the different rates observed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you have something there with the booger theory. Please do testing and report back.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The actual impact of mankind on climate change, taking all other factors into consideration

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was going to go with that one, but I went with something else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Earth is flat.

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