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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    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

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    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

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        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”.

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      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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      Still better than the alternative: solid proof that we are in fact alone in the universe

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      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.

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      likewise, alien life probably even if just microbial would throw a monkeywrench in a lot of folks beilef system

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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

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      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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      We need douchebags already so we can feel less of a bad person while the one next to you is being an ass. Lol. Keyword: feel.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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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        Sorry for this website it’s not some special website, just one of many website describing the experiment. You can search in internet for better site with review of this experiment(Extended Wigners Friend Experiment).

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    Aspartame cures cancer, but only when ingested in soda.

    Pi equals exactly 3.

    The most effective, universal vaccine is based on asbestos.

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

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    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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      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.