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We don't even know about previous human civilizations.

Recently discovered Göbekli Tepehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe, the oldest megalith structure, confirmed by radiocarbon tests to be more than 12.000 years old with massive stone pillars and 3d relief stone sculptures mostly still buried is still a mystery to science and some "scientists" still think hunter-gatherers built it with stone chisels.

The interesting thing is that a study based on the drawings on the structure correlated with Younger Dryas period might explain why nothing was found about the ancient civilization that built it.

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-ancient-stone-pillars-clues-co...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128512-ancient-carving...

So after all the Atlantis and the flood myth found in most cultures from around the world might be real.

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> ...and some "scientists" still think hunter-gatherers built it with stone chisels.

Well yes, that's how actual scientists work: on evidence. Until there's evidence to the contrary, the most likely hypothesis is that the structures were built with the tools and labor that we think humans possessed at the time.

I didn't find anything in your links that mentioned the myth of Atlantis.

> I didn't find anything in your links that mentioned the myth of Atlantis.

Do a YouTube search for Younger Dryas.

You're kidding, right? I'm getting Joe Rogan podcasts, channels like "Atlantis in the Java Sea", "Joe Rogan University" (...). I'm not watching any of that shit. I feel dumber just for knowing that "Joe Rogan University" exists.

Point me towards something that isn't part of the Kook Productions Network please.

> I'm not watching any of that shit.

Even if the best academic papers on the topic are likely to have less obviously incorrect information, you'd probably still learn a lot more by just sitting down and watching all the videos. I haven't seen the Joe Rogan thing that comes up, but I doubt that watching it would magically make you dumber or whatever.

I have to politely disagree. Sure, one video isn't a big deal -- it's just five or ten minutes. But, if I followed up every silly idea presented online with five or ten minutes of watching kooky videos, then yeah, I'd end up less knowledgeable than if I stuck to the stuff that tends to come from better sources.

Also, I've met enough smart people infected by silly ideas to know that nobody is immune to misinformation. Maybe I'm bored and one of those videos leads me down some YouTube rabbit hole that gets me stuck on some nonsense. I'd probably never see it coming; the people who listened to a little too much Coast to Coast surely didn't.

So while I'm excited by new ideas on just about every subject, I also have something of an immune response to them, a conscious decision that I'd rather be uninformed -- and maybe spend that time reading a book or doing something fun outside -- than misinformed. Since I'm not smart enough to know what's right and what's not when I don't know anything about the subject, I rely on the source as a strong signal of trustworthiness.

HN's just about the only guilty pleasure I've got left, but the S:N here is still better than a lot of other places.

I love Joe Rogan, but cringe when he gets into conspiracy theories. He’s so easily mislead cause he just listens to his friends and guests, and rarely does any independent reading or research.

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