• FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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    2 years ago

    They knew the world was round (like a ball) and savoured every bit of science they could learn from the textbooks that might filter their way out of the private academies and into their hands.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      unironically i remember watching this video of bhutanese peasants doing exactly this. they wanted to talk to a guy about quantum computing when he said he was a computer scientist and were so disappointed when he knew jack shit about it

      these people collected mushrooms for a living and had no internet

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      scientists and priests knew the world was round peasants weren't exactly formally educated on the implications of shadows indicating noon isn't always the same time