A friend and I are arguing over ghosts.

I think it’s akin to astrology, homeopathy and palm reading. He says there’s “convincing “ evidence for its existence. He also took up company time to make a meme to illustrate our relative positions. (See image)

(To be fair, I’m also on the clock right now)

What do you think?

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[–] 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If a bunch of people were going around saying I got this weird burn on my skin after holding this rock for a while, scientists would have discovered radioactivity a lot sooner.

There are a bunch of people going around claiming to have interacted with ghosts, and we've got bupkis.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The indigenous Australians, the Mirarr people, identified an area in Northern Australia as sickness country which was very coincident with a high concentration of uranium.

    They just avoided the area instead of poking it

    https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/145214/145214_00_0.pdf

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Aw man. The northern tip of Australia has the cleanest air in the entire world. That data is from pre-y2k

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Not sure about that, you might be thinking of the Southern tip. Indonesia often conducts burn offs with a lot of wind blowing smoke over Australia as well as cultural burning conducted by the indigenous in the region. I remember seeing the haze growing up and walking through the burnt country at the start of the dry.

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