I am no expert, but I think it is very likely most of these craters are from very early life of the planet, before there was life on Earth. Orbit of Mercury is very well cleaned of any other bodies and must have been like this for billions of years.
Because there is no erosion mechanism on Mercury (except for crumbling due to temperature changes) these craters were preserved perfectly.
"Stories with that structure often have 6 secondary features. These don't always appear with the sympathetic plot, but they're common:
1. The protagonist is appealing (e.g., strong, clever, kind).
2. They are alone & suffer early misfortunes (e.g., they're orphaned or abandoned).
3. They are high-status or tied to high-status individuals (e.g., there's a prophesy about them; they're the child of royalty).
4. They journey to distant places.
5. Their opponents are formidable & repulsive.
6. Anyone who opposes the protagonist suffers or is reformed." -- manvir singh @mnvrsngh
We show that 1 individual can reverse the norm of a group of 100s, and minorities as small as 0.3% of the pop can impose their norm (current thinking assumed 10%). Call it the
@GretaThunberg effect?
How? When inds are _less prone to adopt a new norm, their group becomes weaker."
Perhaps the difference is that according to the article, the scientific demons are explanatory metaphors, presumed to be imaginary; and according to Plato, Socrates acted like his daemon is real?
re. Twitter negative comments: sorry, it's very valuable to me. It's easy to curate: I use LIST. I have a focused list ("story") which provides great, relevant information. It seems there is a subgroup of people on Twitter who understand how to use (& how not to use) it / imo Twitter is underrated.
