• plinky [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    wasnt it more like 1920s? so "honey take some heroin for your cough from coal mining"

    • bunnygirl [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      ehhh, the modern inception of the idea was Wegener in the 1910s, but it had no real mechanism for it.

      it really wasn't until the 60s that it had been solidified into a single theory with strong evidence behind it and became widely accepted

      • plinky [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I mean "south america do be fitting africa" was that guy maybe?

        • bunnygirl [she/her]
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          10 months ago

          I mean yeah and "that's cute honey do you want a cigarette" is basically what geologists told him lmfao

          • plinky [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            But they should have gave him some heroin, we need contemporaneous geologist headpat thurston