71 here. (username checks out)
HairyOldCoot
- 0 Posts
- 8 Comments
HairyOldCoot@lemmy.cato Ask Science@lemmy.world•Has there ever been anything originally dismissed as pseudoscience that was later proven to be legit?English2·11 个月前I would say once they hit the ground they are meteorites. But while they are falling they are meteors. Based solely on my own assumptions. Not a hill I care to defend.
HairyOldCoot@lemmy.cato Ask Science@lemmy.world•Has there ever been anything originally dismissed as pseudoscience that was later proven to be legit?English7·11 个月前Meteors. I stole that from “and the earth will shake” (Robert Anton Wilson). There was a description of The Royal College of Astronomy, or somesuch, harrumphing about such a ridiculous, and ignorant superstition.
HairyOldCoot@lemmy.cato Ask Science@lemmy.world•Has there ever been anything originally dismissed as pseudoscience that was later proven to be legit?English14·11 个月前The idea that rocks sometimes fall from the sky.
I’m a retired programmer. A recent attempt at writing a Python script showed me that I have forgotten a LOT of the syntactic details. With that in mind, these are the langs that I have used professionally. “Know” might be an exaggeration at this point. HP basic Fortran C C++ C# Java Perl Python HTML (if that counts) Awk/sed
HairyOldCoot@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is one show you wish wouldn't have gotten cancelled when it did?18·2 年前Took me a few seasons to figure out that every season was the same. “I think we’ve found a place to settle down, but there might be a problem…”.
Self descriptive.
Rock, Putin, Scissors.