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[–] [email protected] 200 points 5 months ago (5 children)

All plants require different levels nutrients to grow. If the same plant is grown repeatedly in the same soil then the soil will run out of the nutrients that plant needs and growing that plant becomes difficult. By rotating through plants with different nutrient requirements, the soil can maintain a sustainable balance of nutrients.

We now use the scientific method to argue ideas, but in the past ideas could just be laughed at if people thought they sounded dumb. People laughed at ideas like the sun being the center of the solar system and doctors needing to wash their hands before surgery. Refusal to accept these ideas held humanity back from technological advancement.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey, we still laugh at scientists who propose good ideas

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's that quote - something like "science progresses one funeral at a time"? Even scientists have their favourite theories that they'll defend in the face of logic and evidence.

[–] Yondoza 14 points 5 months ago

Humans gotta human!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago

Good explanation. Crop rotation also decreases plant diseases and insect damage.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People didn't just laugh at those ideas, they actively punished the people who proposed them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Execution is punishment? 🧐

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Would you consider it a reward?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Pros and cons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Well you don't have to witness utter morons destroying the planet...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

WHAT?

WHY?!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because change is costly and therefore a risk. When it seems that resources are scarce, risks are dangerous, and it can seem rational to destroy ideas that cost more resources, lest your imagined model of society collapse for lack of resources as the idea takes over.

It's always conservatism, in other words.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Let's not take the religious aspects out of it though.

The church said earth was the center so saying the sun was the center was going against the church which was blasphemy. Blasphemy punishable by lifelong imprisonment or death.

Likely both as dungeons weren't exactly life friendly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Because many considered any change to be an affront to Gods will. So they killed free-thinkers to prove God infallible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Because they challenged the notion that mankind is the center of and purpose for the universe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I feel like this is something that would happened at one of my past shitty jobs or in a crappy friend group.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

We now use the scientific method to argue ideas, but in the past ideas could just be laughed at if people thought they sounded dumb.

Used to before the whole covid scam anyway. Now it's "trust the science" which of course is an oxymoron. The whole point of science is that we don't trust it, we verify it. And that wasn't allowed.