| ▲ | I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert(medium.com) |
| 54 points by vi_sextus_vi 2 days ago | 8 comments |
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| ▲ | rbanffy an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| One interesting techno-signature a civilization that happened hundreds of millions of years ago would be odd mineral deposits. It's never the Silurians, but it's fun to pretend we found something interesting. |
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| ▲ | mgaunard 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I was literally thinking ancient civilizations/aliens throughout the whole article. | |
| ▲ | vintagedave 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is. I wish the conspiracy theorist 'the pyramids could not have been built by humans' etc etc crowds didn't exist, because I wish there was space to theorise about pre-human, pre-ape intelligent culture just for fun. Same with UFOs. It seems to have changed in the past few years, but for a long time interest in them was associated with wackiness, and it was not something you could really discuss with a genuine sense of interest without the stain of appearing to believe something you didn't. It's intellectually and socially important to be able to be able to be curious and speculate without the appearance of belief in something. | | |
| ▲ | Etheryte 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Was the sense of wackiness wrong though? Nearly all UFO claims went away once high quality cameras in smartphones became ubiquitous. It's useful to play around with ideas, yes, but it's also important to acknowledge that some ideas simply are wishful thinking. |
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| ▲ | totetsu 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Was there a DeLorean hidden in the mine nearby? |
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| ▲ | zeusdclxvi 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_spin_liquid Neat |
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| ▲ | contingencies 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator |
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| ▲ | koolala 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "In theory, samples with no-interlayer impurities should look something like this in direct measurements" Can we tell their purity from looking at the photos? |
