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bagpuss
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by bagpuss » Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:41 am
basementer wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 2:53 am
I remember seeing the BBC documentary
The Restless Earth, when continental drift was becoming accepted. Gosh that was almost fifty years ago.
That very documentary was the cause of my dad giving up smoking when I was a mere slip of a child, so I have always thanked it.
Apparently he was completely fascinated, chain-smoked from start to end as a result, felt sick from all the smoking as soon as the programme finished and decided smoking was probably bad for you and he shouldn't do it again. And he didn't.
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jimbob
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by jimbob » Tue Feb 22, 2022 3:28 pm
basementer wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 2:53 am
I remember seeing the BBC documentary
The Restless Earth, when continental drift was becoming accepted. Gosh that was almost fifty years ago.
Dad said that was one of the first stories he saw in New Scientist.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation