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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Anon is a physicist (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] TheUniverseandNetworks@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How do we know that lots of people didn't figure this out & then got on with their lives? Because there was no way for them to tell all the other people in the world, we'll never know, or if they wrote it down it's been lost, so likewise we'll never know.

Is hard to imagine what the world was like before mass literacy and mass communication.