MechTheDane t1_j6bgamz wrote on January 29, 2023 at 3:20 AM

Reply to comment by Katin-ka in At least 25 die in Peru when bus plunges off cliff, police say by Vegeta9001

All tires that take that road are bold.

MechTheDane t1_iqxcdo3 wrote on October 3, 2022 at 7:55 PM

Reply to TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

He wasn’t able to explain WHY it was happening though. His inability to come up with the mechanism, and his incorrect hypothesis’s for it; are the primary reason for his ridicule and the disbelief. Someone else, later on, had to do the hard part of figuring out why continents moved, and then after that this guys theory was accepted.