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jb775 on April 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with w...

IMO you grossly overestimate the amount humans know about things.

Science is basically a stream of updated realizations that the previous "known" things were actually wrong.

rcxdude on April 24, 2021 [–]

and you vastly underestimate it

kingsuper20 on April 24, 2021 | [–]

I underestimate it and overestimate it.

Excuse me, I'm off to build a battery out of a bank of leaf springs.

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