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Lincoln, Washington, and FDR was good presidents, but they where not saints. FDR tried to manipulate the supreme court by increasing the number of judges. Lincoln engaged in secret…

We have tested that also. During 1945 we burned down 69 cites and killed 800 000 in Japan. The two small nukes was only 5% of the smoke. The result was at most an cooling of the gl…

We have detonated 2000 bombs in testing. So "just a few small nukes" is not enough to start any atomic winter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing

I do not understand that you are talking about. We have two distinct hypothesis. One is what Egyptians traveled to South America. That was his Ra Expedition. Another is that people…

The problem with that analogy is that the Kon-Tiki hypothesis was proven right last year. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01983-5

It has been done studies of education and gullibility. Sadly enough people who has some education, like a masters degree, was more gullible then people who lacked education. It was…

Lag in reporting also. So more like 9 vs 12.

Chekovs gun is a tool for better stories. It does not work in reality, because in the real world it is always a cost to doing things. And extreme action has extreme costs, so very …

All roads lead to hell?

Stupidity is about lacking intellectual capacity (not necessary the same as IQ, also things like not being interested in thinking, or lacking necessary facts about a subject can gi…

In the past people believed in lots of stupid things like "god exists", "the poor deserves its situation and the rich has earned its situation", "hatred toward blacks, Jews, neighb…

Yes, both USA and Soviet experimented with nuclear powered planes during the 60s. The problem was how to shield the pilots from radioactivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear…