HairyOldCoot@lemmy.catoAsk Science@lemmy.world•Has there ever been anything originally dismissed as pseudoscience that was later proven to be legit?English
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3 months agoMeteors. I stole that from “and the earth will shake” (Robert Anton Wilson). There was a description of The Royal College of Astronomy, or somesuch, harrumphing about such a ridiculous, and ignorant superstition.
I would say once they hit the ground they are meteorites. But while they are falling they are meteors. Based solely on my own assumptions. Not a hill I care to defend.