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Did The Past Really Happen?

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Greece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions? *Sources and extra info below!!* me on twitter:   / tweetsauce   on instagram:   / electricpants   Humorous/interesting videos about how future archeologists might interpret us: VIDEO: “Beatles 3000”:    • Beatles 3000   VIDEO: “Neil deGrasse Tyson On Manhattanhenge”:    • Neil deGrasse Tyson On Manhattanhenge   Toto: http://allanellenberger.com/toto-find... “highway” vs “freeway”: http://sgtalcastro.blogspot.co.uk/201... why are old things so often underground?: http://goo.gl/u8SFFw http://www.archaeological.org/educati... “Motel of Mysteries” (great book I remember from when I was a kid): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Motel-Mysteri... Last Thursdayism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos... http://www.last-thursday.org/ Occam’s Razor: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics... Newton’s Flaming Lase …...more
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Did The Past Really Happen?
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2015Feb 6
Greece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions? *Sources and extra info below!!* me on twitter:   / tweetsauce   on instagram:   / electricpants   Humorous/interesting videos about how future archeologists might interpret us: VIDEO: “Beatles 3000”:    • Beatles 3000   VIDEO: “Neil deGrasse Tyson On Manhattanhenge”:    • Neil deGrasse Tyson On Manhattanhenge   Toto: http://allanellenberger.com/toto-find... “highway” vs “freeway”: http://sgtalcastro.blogspot.co.uk/201... why are old things so often underground?: http://goo.gl/u8SFFw http://www.archaeological.org/educati... “Motel of Mysteries” (great book I remember from when I was a kid): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Motel-Mysteri... Last Thursdayism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos... http://www.last-thursday.org/ Occam’s Razor: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics... Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: https://philosophynow.org/issues/46/N... other razors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_(p...) Interpreting the past (including us, when we become “the past”): http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/01/... http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist... http://bigthink.com/videos/how-will-f... http://www.albany.edu/~scifraud/data/... This American Life on people in the future: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio... The 15th century wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_cen... conservation of energy: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t... history of perpetual motion: http://www.hp-gramatke.net/perpetuum/... Why old computers and consoles turn yellow: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index... the Second Law of Thermodynamics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/... Heat Death of the universe: http://www.physlink.com/Education/Ask... Good entropy resources: http://entropysimple.oxy.edu/content.htm    • Entropy   http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2... http://www.askamathematician.com/2011... http://www.learner.org/courses/chemis...

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