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Like, we'll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.

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[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

Causal relationship between social media and degradation of basic critical thinking skills. Not just tiktok, anything in which people are primarily communicating asynchronously and has a "reward" (likes, upvotes, etc)

So Reddit/Lemmy for sure included

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago

Casually closes this app, knowing I will be back in half an hour

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[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Solid proof that the source of all life on this planet actually began on a different world. The critical components came here via a comet or even an spacecraft that inadvertently dropped it off. Should screw with a lot of ideals

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

I thought we had evidence that life was seeded from off world? don't have sources right now but i remember coming by an article explaining that.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Want that the story about the teen aged alien that came here to jack off?

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

no, a asteroid from space came with the seeds of life that helped kick-start it.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Lol I know.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

"Scientists find proof that the hand of God created all life on Earth."

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Solid proof of God? Yeah that would change things

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I was referring to how it would be spun if life was proven to have come from an extra terrestrial source.

[-] Railison@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

You still have to come up with the explanation of what started life in the first place!

[-] gazter@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

This is always my reaction to this theory as well. If someone asks "How did life on Earth start?", surely we can assume they actually mean "How did life start?"

It's like if a kid saw a baby, and asks their parents "Where do babies come from?", and their reply is "Oh that baby lives next door, it came from that house".

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Id expand on this. I think the entire solar system has microbial life. Every crack it can exist it will. Asteroids, comets, the gas giants. Its likely all related too. Itd be mostly underground tho and hard to find. Probably multicellular life in some cases too like ice moons, and underground on mars in cave systems.

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[-] mortalic@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I've got a couple that roll around in my head, radiation therapy will be seen as barbaric at some point. Assuming we don't burn ourselves off this earth in the next few years I think we'll see some progress on this. Moderna is known for their COVID shot, however they have basically eliminated melanoma with a tailored injection. Last I looked at it, it was in it's mid stage or something and was almost 100% effective.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Radiation therapy is bad. We know that, its a last resort tool to fight cancer. Once we find something to finally kill cancer before getting to that stage, i hope to see no more use of such treatment.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago

radiation therapy will be seen as barbaric at some point.

We already know it's barbaric. It's a last resort. It kills you and the cancer, only the cancer gets the worst of it. It's a terrible solution to the problem, only a step better than death.

[-] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Honestly most cancer therapy is like that. Chemo and radio are basically working on the fact that your body is more resilient than cancer cells so they will likely die before you do. They are not pleasant things to go through. Surgery is your best option if it's available and that involves chopping out chunks of yourself.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Oncolytic Virotherapy!

There was a news story recently about a virologist who possibly cured her own stage 3 cancer using this technique. Obviously more study is needed but it looks promising!

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[-] zante@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago

I would like something proves the “interconnectedness of all things” as Douglas Adams put it……something that proves individualism is a disease or a flaw, that could be eliminated, unlocking whole earth potential.

I would settle for evidence of Gaia theory that proves if humans don’t get our shit together, Mother Earth will give someone else a chance .

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Dude I'm worried that the Participatory Anthropic Universe is real.

Maybe this is all a consistent hallucination we willed into existence based on our interactions with each other

[-] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

That the Big Bang is just one of many bangs

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

well the universe is expanding so.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

Hey you leave my mom out of this!

[-] Earflap@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The universe was formed by the collapse of a massive star. Our massive stars make new universes. The cycle continues forever.

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[-] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Communicating with animals.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

lol i wish for this one so much.

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Microplastics and penile length. Seen some studies recently though lol.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

id rather have a small penis than be full of mircoplastics

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

The current studies are trying to say that the microplastics are causing length to be shorter, lol.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

oh...well maybe that's why it's looking smaller...

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

For me it's not the microplastics, it's just bad genetics lol.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

yeah i think its the same for me. oh well, its what we got.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

I only eat macrosplastics for this very reason

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[-] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We find out we need douchebags because ~~our~~ their assholery emits some kind of pheromone or something that repels imperialist extraterrestrials

Edit: some series did something like this, right?

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

i thought you were going to go somewhere that they are required for human mating.

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[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Aspartame cures cancer, but only when ingested in soda.

Pi equals exactly 3.

The most effective, universal vaccine is based on asbestos.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago
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