• eskimofry@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    My own explanation is that their arrogance doesn’t allow them to even conceive how our ancestors could be engineers.

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    Ironically, people like our ancestors survived… whereas a majority of humans today would perish if you pull the plug on electricity.

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      Ironically, people like our ancestors survived… whereas a majority of humans today would perish if you pull the plug on electricity.

      History is built on a mountain of corpses. The default answer to “what would they do if something went wrong”, has almost always been “die horribly”.