How the cure for scurvy was lost over and over again.

Though it took great historical liberties, the movie Agora demonstrated well just how much knowledge that we take for granted these days is not at all easily discoverable.

Quick, without googling: with no modern instruments and no tools we take for granted, how would you demonstrate conclusively that the earth is rotating?

You wouldn’t, that’s how.

If we ever did find any truly advanced alien technology, the chances we’d be able to reverse engineer it would be about the same as the chance that a cat could reverse-engineer my GTO. Even a very smart cat.

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