I swear to god there is a guy here in this cafe explaining to a woman about how there wasn't GRAVITY before Newton "made it up."
One of his proofs is "how do you think they made the pyramids?"
I adore Alan Moore but there's a bit in one of his interviews where he declares that Native Americans literally couldn't see European ships because the ships were outside their known paradigm and it's like-- I can't watch someone I respect debase themselves with such chloroformed toddler logic.
So in the TV show “The Expanse” Holden repeats that bit of nonsense and hearing that Moore repeated it made me go look it up because of how willfully ignorant the statement seems, though it SOUNDS clever.
Yes it’s BS and based off some European tourist writing dumb shit. TIL.
