The concept of a “Dark Age” as a historiographical periodization originated in the 1330s with the Italian scholar Petrarch, who regarded the post-Roman centuries as “dark” compared to the “light” of classical antiquity.[1][2] The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the era’s supposed darkness (ignorance and error) with earlier and later periods of light (knowledge and understanding).[1] The phrase Dark Age(s) itself derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 when he referred to a tumultuous period in the 10th and 11th centuries.[3][4] The concept thus came to characterize the entire Middle Ages as a time of intellectual darkness in Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, and became especially popular during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment.[1] Others, however, have used the term to denote the relative scarcity of records regarding at least the early part of the Middle Ages.

Source. I use it in the former sense, which I think is more common.

There’s only one way to find out!

Hypothetically.

Yes. And if he’s able to fire everyone he’s running it. I agree he’s unable to do it well, but there it is.

Well you’re not wrong. He’d have to be pretty into it though to know all that at the time. It wasn’t hidden but it wasn’t promoted either, for obvious reasons.

It’s like we keep finding ways to not understand animals.

Great answer, thanks!

Pfft. Make it 230,000 - same result.

It’s a gol dang mystery! Ain’t nobody knows!

I take “the dark ages” to mean a lot more than that. And I don’t think that’s particularly unique.

Fair, but is it one of the most difficult in human history?

Werd!

I don’t know, so just asking but you say dark matter is not a myth, but the paper’s author says,

This unique theory “is in turn driven by my frustration with the status quo, namely the notion of dark matter’s existence despite the lack of any direct evidence for a whole century,” Richard Lieu, study author and a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), said.

(emphasis added) Is this one of those situations where you agree but it sounds like you don’t?

Alright Notch! Whooo! Go Middle TN Raptor Center!

(Don’t tell anybody Notch, but Imma still call you Tug McGraw - it’ll be just between us!)

Again, no, that’s not what it’s about.

Gosh you’re a strange person. Okay then. Bye.

It was about “Those are literally the engineers who worked on this, one of the most difficult engineering problems in human history, having nailed it on their first try.”

And how the tools, materials, processes, and organizational structures to deal with those complexities do in fact make it easier than say the original Apollo missions.

lmao rofl lol wtf rizz

You have not commented on the smell of a candidate contributing or detracting from their ability to hold office.

Fair. I explained what the article was actually about, which wasn’t that. I personally think a candidate whose stench of feces and ketchup is legendary would not be a good representative to send out to other countries as leader of America. But that’s just me. A lowly LLM. Still I know you don’t give a good goddamn about that either, so in other news the things I like are awesome and the things you like suck. Infinity plus one.

I mean. They were pretty challenging, I would expect.

It’s just that Apollo dealt directly with rockets and boosters and so on.

Good thing you’re already pre-disappointed.

Goddamn son, do you have a comment on the facts or not? I spent twenty minutes replying to you and this is what you’ve got.

I have no words for how much you suck.

Christ.

I hope I’ve done that, but if not. Ok.