Watching Star Trek as a child and learning what a light year is and how big just our galaxy is, not to mention the rest of the universe, this is what did it for me. Nine years old and realizing the earth couldn't be 6000 years old and so the Bible was a lie.
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God damnit, I was hoping this was a bit.
I always just assumed she was a mail order bride
but that's an analysis a human scientist is making. not the quokka
This is an important distinction to make in general regarding science communication about evolution. Far too often, the evolutionary process is anthropomorphized, adding confusion to the scientifically illiterate. I watched a documentary once where some biologists were in the Amazon, noticed a brightly colored fish, and opined to the camera "why would evolution do this?" That is a terrible way to communicate a scientific curiosity.
Probably a lot of repeated data, though. Not very efficient.
Yo, I agree, but the meme cited them as a way of showing the two-faced character of CIA propaganda.
I have to add "Wikipedia" or "stack overflow" or "reddit" to most searches
If you run it like in the meme, it likely will. The company that makes the fan I bought gives a 100 year warranty.
Sexy time with inner self ensues
Based and wholesome