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It's an established psychological phenomenon that people don't bother to memorize content when they think they can look it up later. The "precognition" could thus be explained easily: The students were presented with the words, the students thought they would need them for the second half of the experiment and subconsciously memorized them. So, the students memorized the words, recalled them for the experiment, and then memorized them again.
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The formation of stars still isn't 100% understood. The scientist merely detected an unusual radiation phenomenon. There is no scientific proof so far that Dark Matter is "matter". (We're looking at you, LHC...)
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Nightmares can kill people... but only an isolated group of asian sailors who have been God knows where and an isolated tribe with Stone-Age-level civilization.
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Inflationary parallel universes have nothing to do with the many-world-theory. They are based on radically different premises. And the theory that our Big Bang was just one out of many... Nice idea, but untestable.
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So, some guy has found computer-code in the structure of string-theory. Binary-code. Arranged in blocks. Alriiiiiight.
(Do I really have to note that 1. this is highly dubious, 2. the string-theory is man-made and has the attributes its researchers assign to it, 3. the string-theory is still unproven.)
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There is information in our DNA, but it's not a message from aliens.
THERE IS INFORMATION IN OUR DNA BECAUSE ITS A MANUAL FOR BUILDING NANOMACHINES OUT OF ORGANIC MOLECULES, YOU FUCKWAD. (Please note that this insult was directed at the guy who made the video, not the guy who posted it.)
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"Predictive programming". Or as sane people call it: "Corporations using knowledge about psychology to manipulate you into buying their shit."
(And please note how the author of the video abstains from giving an actual example of Big Media programming our brains.)
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"Bad news, general, Sir. Project Bluebeam has not met the goals of the financial year. The biggest freestanding hologram scientists could create in the year 2015 was only a dozen pixels and a few millimeters in size and required a full lab of rare and expensive equipment. ... And the budget-commision is complaining that our program should be canceled because Project Predictive Programming is already working on manipulating the masses."
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- First we need to find a way to establish communication between brains and computers, but research is making good progress.
- But the computing-power won't increase exponentially over time: Moore's law has been disproven in the recent years.
- We can already harness the power of the sun, and for the rest the author is postulating that those fantastic technologies will inevitably and eventually come along. (The driving force of scientific research isn't raw computational power: It's imagination and fantasy.)
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