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The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3159/
I take everything he says with a grain of salt, though.
Yep. I later found inaccuracies in A Short History of Nearly Everything. Nothing that changed much, but still, I wasn't nitpicking either.
This is wise when reading or hearing anything
but then I would get salt overdose and high blood pressure