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kleinbl00  ·  2141 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Informational article about that extra-solar asteroid.

It sounds to me that the key is "oral cultures." When your body of knowledge exists as folklore shared amongst those you only know face-to-face, speculation is the same thing as lying. I'm unaware of any non-writing culture that thought hypothetically and thinking hypothetically is the crux of science fiction.