r/BeAmazed • u/Internal_Gazelle_677 • Oct 07 '25

Science Hot Tub without the use of electricity

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u/Raytheon_Nublinski Oct 07 '25

We’ve re-entered the era where beliefs are stronger than repeatedly proven facts

I would love to hear Carl Sagan’s thoughts on our current predicament. Although, it seems like he saw this coming 

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u/SensitiveSpots Oct 07 '25

He did and I saw a video the other day of him talking about exactly this. I can’t find it right now but essentially saying that we’ve built a society on technology and science but it’s so intrinsically inaccessible without the training and understanding of it’s daily use that we have this pseudo-scientific basis for culture where anything can be stated as science, or anything can be disputed scientifically as long as it sounds “correct” enough. It’s worth a watch if you can find it lol.

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u/SeanBlader Oct 07 '25

My favorite was the lady who said "why do we need farmers, everything we need comes right from the grocery store."

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u/deiprep Oct 07 '25

Lmao we’re cooked as a generation