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neuralkoitoday at 6:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

We are so full of ourselves we called ourselves Homo sapiens, wise man, but wise we don't seem to be.

I recently faced this feeling of overconfidence in knowledge trying to think about how seasons work or why rainbows have a curved or arcing shape.

You might think seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth, but why? Exercise left for the reader.


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throwawaysoxjjetoday at 6:04 AM

Same reason you can look at a sunset but not the noonday sun

ErroneousBoshtoday at 7:48 AM

> We are so full of ourselves we called ourselves Homo sapiens, wise man, but wise we don't seem to be.

Terry Pratchett said that a better name for humans would be Pan narrans, "Story-telling Chimpanzee".

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