What would you expect from a seahorse though, am I right?

  • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    I think you underestimate our past ignorance. It took many decades of science being taught for the general population to “know” that air exists.

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      1 month ago

      I think the general population always knew that there was a transparent substance all around them which had to keep going in and out of their lungs or they would die - the “breath of life” from the Bible. I mean, even an uneducated peasant in ancient times could blow bubbles underwater and see that there was something coming out of his mouth.