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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Fun fact: the guy who first proposed this “running man” hypothesis about persistence hunting in the late 1960s (Grover Krantz) was better known as a staunch advocate for the existence of Bigfoot. Personally, I can’t believe that anybody could still believe in Bigfoot - it’s so obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.
For some weird reason, Krantz’s skeleton and that of his favorite dog are on display at the Smithsonian.
jnod4@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
The father of modern day physics changed course and started studying alchemy, chronology, biblical interpretation, losing himself to mysticism. He’d probably research big foot if he was alive as well. That doesn’t mean I’m going to dismiss his real magnum opus
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Contrary to modern-day physics, the “persistence hunting” thing is very much not a scientific consensus. It’s more of a fringe idea supported by hardly any science that somehow made it into popular science.
There’s about as much credible evidence to that theory as there is to the theory that eating chocolate helps with loosing weight.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
“losing”
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
who’s that? Leibnitz? not Newton?