THE COLLISION (with no f-words)

The Danger of Seeking Truth

Revolutionary ideas and findings rarely enjoy what they deserve. Especially in the field of history. If you want to write something on a new page in the history book, first, you would need to scrape tons of lies and filth to get to that blank page. The unscrapable lies.

Here is a funny story from within the “Between Two Iberias“ project. It’s gonna make your evening. You can tell it to your friends tomorrow and be the king of the office.

I spent the first 15 years of the work trying to get through to the universities. Not in a single nightmare did I realize there not a single reason for the whole academia (which is a word not less ominous than “pharma“) to even answer my letters. The world spoke Kartvelian languages? The Troy is not there? The sea level rise is about to repeat? Are you kidding me? All these turn our academic programs into bullshit. Do you know how much money we spent on digging the fake Troy for 100 years? Do you know there are at least two universities (Cincinnati and Tubingen) that specialize on the fake Troy? Do you want to close whole universities?

But one case was particularly special. It was a guy from Cambridge, a German one, not even a professor. He did some genetic study that showed Basque genes spread all over Europe. Hello? Kamarad? Do you need a linguistic study to corroborate your findings?

I thought the gates to Cambridge were open. But not so fast, my friend…

I told the German guy the whole thing, the sea level rise in particular. He reacted sourly, but got kind of involved. Seemingly doltish, he started giving me certain tasks to do, like calculating probabilities that all that is not a mere coincidence (there was not yet any AI on the horizon). I did those stupid tasks, while the guy was trying hard to get rid of me, but couldn’t find an excuse.

But suddenly he told me one day: “Wait, you claim 3000 years ago all the planet’s ice was melted?”. I answered that yes, of course, don’t you remember how Ken Caldeira from Carnegie Institute calculated that if all the planet’s ice melts the sea level will rise by 120 meters?

And the guy laughed with a noticeable dose of relief, having clearly found that excuse to tell the Ukrainian weird man to clear off. “But what about the famous 100,000-year old Greenland ice? I’ve been following that work since childhood!“.

And that was the moment of big revelation for both. The German happily went home and I never spoke to him again. While I dug into the Greenland ice story and found out that a Denmark guy got a Nobel Prize for studying it. FOR STUDYING WHAT DID NOT EXIST 3000 YEARS AGO! The research is totally unverifiable, he could say whatever he wanted. You can find the images of that ice on the net and tell yourself, how many “annual layers“ it contains.

So, if the claims of “Between Two Iberias“ make sense, at least one Nobel Prize should be returned. And they do. How nerd is science after that?

But what a fabula for a Hollywood blockbuster, mammamia!