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by dieselgate 1 day ago
There's no way to determine a "why" and there probably wasn't a single purpose in my opinion. The most interesting part to me, though, is how a lot of the hand "prints" include children.
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It's fascinating to me that "why" is so compelling to us that it nearly always gets answered, and quickly.

"The Sun is a god who is jealous of his sister, the Moon, and once tried to get busy with a really pretty human, but her husband found out and..."

"Electrons are fundamental particles composed of quarks that..."

Having the answer is actually more important than verifing the answer, in most cases. It's part of why our advancement is slower than it could be.