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What's a mystery humanity can solve, but choses not to?

2886 sats \ 50 comments \ @Fabs 27 Dec 2023 Ask_SN

I'll start; https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/risky-wealth-would-you-dare-open-mysterious-sealed-door-padmanabhaswamy-temple-021616

I'm always intrigued by "mysteries" like the one above.

We pretty much know that we won't be befallen by some ancient curse of the Gods, yet choose to abide to the folklore and keep our hands off it.

What other mysteries are still unsolved because we choose to?

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976 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 27 Dec 2023

Jeffrey Epstein's client list

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2023

Coming soon?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 28 Dec 2023

Don't hold your breath.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023

Ohh! Good one!

151 sats \ 13 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2023

The high correlation between SIDS and childhood vaccines

I don't have a strong view on this, but the relationship is especially alarming, because SIDS reportedly decreased dramatically during Covid when parents fell behind on their kids' vaccinations. Not to mention that SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) sprang into existence after a bunch of adults took a bunch of vaccines.

This would honestly be a pretty easy empirical exercise for someone who knew how to access the relevant data.

313 sats \ 12 replies \ @SimpleStacker 27 Dec 2023

Easy enough empirical exercise but good luck getting it past peer review and the medical establishment and their ~~journalistic~~ propagandist lackeys

303 sats \ 10 replies \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023

Vaccines are a curse and a blessing, ain't it?!

512 sats \ 4 replies \ @freetx 27 Dec 2023

The biggest problem with vaccines is the "vaccine court" mandate (ie. you can't sue vaccine manufacturers directly and instead must arbitrate via a special govt involved vaccine court). This distortion changes the potential liability heavily in favor of vaccine manufacturers.

If you spend a few moments thinking about vaccines - and how they are administered - its literally a crazy concept. Imagine you coming up with some mystery juice and the plan was to have non-doctors / old ladies shoot this mystery juice into random shoppers arms while they are in Walmart. Imagine bringing this concept to your local lawyer for approval....

Its a business model that only really exist because of the special "limited liability" distortion.

425 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 28 Dec 2023

The key issue is incentives and the state distorts them. We can argue about the safety all day but the incentives are clear and they lean hard against safety and responsibility.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2023

I agree and the product itself has predictably changed since manufacturer liability was removed.

I don't know if it's dangerous that vaccines have become more concentrated, but for some reason they were less concentrated in a full liability regime.

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023

Yep, if things take a turn for the worse for ya, you're referred to as the 0.1-in-a-hundred... Sucks to be you then, I guess...

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 28 Dec 2023

Great way of putting it.

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2023

Big time, which is why I wish it were possible to have a productive and honest public conversation about them.

I certainly don't know what the right vaccine schedule looks like, but I'm pretty confident that we're giving too many too early compared to what an honest risk assessment would recommend.

I'm also certain that any product or service that is exempt from liability will become dangerous, regardless of how safe it was initially.

293 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 27 Dec 2023

I was teaching my daughter today about how to think about "science" and how there's a lot of gray area in what constitutes scientific evidence... it's easy to cast doubt on solid evidence, and it's easy to upsell weak evidence... and the decisions usually just end up coming down to commercial interests. I'm not optimistic we can ever have an honest public conversation of anything with strong commercial stakes involved

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2023

I'm not optimistic we can ever have an honest public conversation of anything with strong commercial stakes involved

Me neither

293 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023 freebie

I haven't had my vaccines "updated" in years, until I've enlisted in the military a few months back, be it in the reserve, but still.

Me and my group got like 5-6 vaccines, dispersed over a 2-4 week period.

Nothing against covid but regulars like tetanus and ticks.

Makes me wonder what the trade-off's of those are.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2023

That would be interesting know. I haven't seen anything that really talks about adult vaccinations other than Covid.

Edit: We did use flu vaccines as an example of selection bias in an econometrics course.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2023

It's such an easy empirical exercise that it's definitely been done many times. The fact that it's not published is very telling.

263 sats \ 14 replies \ @PlebeiusG 27 Dec 2023

Religion.

Science has been around for way too long for religion to still exist.

Point being, there’s no logical reason to be following any established religion if you’re educated.

Read the book “A Manual for Creating Atheists” and it will explain the fallacy that is “faith.” Faith is incompatible with scientific thinking. Most jobs today require at least a basic understanding of the scientific process as this is taught in school. The fact that religion persists is due to human laziness in calling shit out.

10 sats \ 9 replies \ @kytt 27 Dec 2023 freebie

What do you believe happens when you die? By that I mean, do you think your consciousness doesn't exist at all or do you think there could be some form of an "afterlife"?

42 sats \ 5 replies \ @PlebeiusG 27 Dec 2023

What is most likely is that our consciousness is an emergent property of neural computation and when you die the lights essentially go out.

I don’t want that to be true, but given the facts that seems most reasonable. No amount of wishful thinking can change reality.

There could be an afterlife though. Unlikely, but who knows?

31 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023

Could you expand on "consciousness is an emergent property of neural computation and when you die the lights essentially go out" ?

Interesting.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @PlebeiusG 28 Dec 2023

Like the surface tension of water being an emergent property of hydrogen bonding. The polar water molecules are like tiny magnets which link up. Zoom out trillions of trillions of molecules and you can see how water clings and acts strange, sometimes defying gravity.

If consciousness is really the result of unimaginably complex processing by thousands of layers of neural networks - then if that network breaks “you” vanish. Imagine going under anesthesia. If you had a soul, then why do you lose consciousness? Do the drugs affect your soul? No, they affect your reticular activation in your midbrain. We know how to stop someone being conscious by our technical understanding of the brain via science. When you die, your brain dies and your experiences vanish with it. There’s no brain to experience anymore. There’s no you.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 28 Dec 2023

Solid, makes sense.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kytt 27 Dec 2023

Personally, I think if the facts you've seen only point you to this belief, the. you havent looked hard enough and/or with an open mind, but that I just my opinion.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebeiusG 28 Dec 2023

Was a Christian for 25 years. I did all the studying. It’s easy to assume someone you disagree with is wrong. I do it all the time

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023

Well, there are people who report that there is indeed something after you die, and others who say that there's nothing but darkness.

Make of that what you will, the human mind is a strange thing.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @kytt 27 Dec 2023 freebie

There are also remarkable incidences, thousands, of children reporting past lives and being incredibly accurate. There are those who can willingly have out-of-body experiences (astral projection) and report conversations or descriptions of objects distances away, as well as those who can "see" things further away without leaving their body (remote viewing; CIA declassified as well).

There are other incidences I've had personally that have shown me this universe must have been created. By what, I don't know. Those are personal to me.

I say this as a previously dogmatic atheist who is disappointed with my formal self and the things I said to believers in the past. Although I don't agree with religion and see it more as a divisive mechanism, I do see the common ground between us.

All that being said, I urge you to keep a very open mind. In the grand scheme, we all know nothing.

Some interesting readings:

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
Anything by Ishtak Bentov
Before by Dr Jim Tucker

And The Monroe Institute

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023

True, and I indeed am open to these things, for there indeed have been instances as described by you above.

The human brain and conscience is a remarkable mystery.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @OgFOMK 28 Dec 2023

What is the etymology to the term "atheist"? Not the dogmatic definition. I mean the scientific root of the term atheist.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @PlebeiusG 28 Dec 2023

Without theism? 🤔 dunno

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OgFOMK 28 Dec 2023

Atheism for Dummies or Denying the Sky for the Dark Controllers

#368909

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023

+1.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 27 Dec 2023

Basically anything that would destroy a given business model, where the business model in question has a grip on research.

Cancer comes to mind. Existing "therapy" consists of lifelong management with medication on which these companies have patents, so they can charge exorbitant prices for them. Medication that would actually make it go away comes up every few years as a "promising new approach"; then you never ever hear anything more about it.

20 sats \ 6 replies \ @OT 27 Dec 2023

Energy, as in cheap electricity.

Bitcoin will fix this though

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kytt 28 Dec 2023

I've been following a YouTube channel, "Hidden Technology", for a while and their Liberty Engine in particular. It seems like it breaks the laws of physics, but if you look at as magnet as a form of stored energy, it could make sense how it works.

May be just a dream, but it's pretty convincing. Who knows.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fabs OP 28 Dec 2023

Oh! You mean those self sustaining machines that pretty much "should" keep on propelling itself through use of magnets? Yeah, was heavily into those in my teens, but they ve been proven to not work that way.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kytt 28 Dec 2023

Many, many things have been "proven" until they were disproven.

I have seen this over and over. This is why I always keep an extremely open mind.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fabs OP 27 Dec 2023

Hmm, how will Bitcoin fix that than? All-out swap to nuclear power?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 27 Dec 2023

It creates an incentive to find cheap energy.

For example a company might fund development for a household fusion product. They get to sell it at a premium until competition catches up and eventually gives the consumer an abundant and cheap energy solution.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 28 Dec 2023

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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonofbitcoin 28 Dec 2023

Female ejaculation. Because misogyny.

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 28 Dec 2023

One time my dad was coked up and tried to argue roads can be built to last forever but Big Asphalt won't let them. I was only thirteen but maybe he's right.

357 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonofbitcoin 28 Dec 2023

My dad spent his entire working life as an asphalt paving contractor. The engineering school I went to had a dedicated bituminous asphalt lab. Improvements in paving nowadays are only incremental, even using advanced modern materials. There's only so much you can do against thermal expansion & contraction along with massive uneven pressures from heavy loads.

But I suppose if you allowed a long enough time horizon, you could convince the powers that be to invest enough in roads today to avoid needing to replace them for a decade or maybe two. As you know, the incentives aren't aligned for that, though.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 28 Dec 2023

I was only kidding when I said "maybe he's right."

Lol I didn't expect to encounter an asphalt expert on SN though. Pretty awesome!