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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

wasnt it more like 1920s? so "honey take some heroin for your cough from coal mining"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ehhh, the modern inception of the idea was Wegener in the 1910s, but it had no real mechanism for it.

it really wasn't until the 60s that it had been solidified into a single theory with strong evidence behind it and became widely accepted

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean "south america do be fitting africa" was that guy maybe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean yeah and "that's cute honey do you want a cigarette" is basically what geologists told him lmfao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

But they should have gave him some heroin, we need contemporaneous geologist headpat thurston

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