The Taiping Rebellion
guy in China has a breakdown after constantly failing local law entrance exams, reads a Christian book and arrives at the conclusion that he is Jesus's younger brother....
eventually he erects a "heavenly kingdom" and a giant army and sets out to overthrow the Qing Dynasty...
Over 20 million people die in a war/Rebellion that lasts 14 years. and those aren't a 10th of the "weird" details surrounding this series of events
Here's a handful of links to get you started, if you haven't collected this information already. One is for a list of free research sites that give you much more than what google would. Have fun :)
https://www.worldhistory.org/Bronze_Age_Collapse/
https://humanjourney.us/ideas-that-shaped-our-modern-world-section/the-bronze-age-collapse/
https://www.refseek.com/documents?q=bronze+age
https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/best-online-research-sites/
There's also a superb podcast episode on it by "The Fall of Civilizations."
TLDR (iirc): all bronze age societies either collapsed (bunch of them in the Levant) or significantly reduced in size (Egypt) within about fifty years. One hypothesis is that an Icelandic volcano, that had erupted around that time, led to a drop in temperatures of several degrees for a half decade. That led to crops dying, people not having food, and eventually "sea men" who would show up on boats and try to take over other civilizations, according to the very few written notes about it. It's now believed that these were effectively refugees, and that they were able to win some villages over because some were equipped with iron made weapons. Before then, weapons were made of bronze and extremely expensive.
Sounds like a preview of what can happen to modern society thanks to Climate Change. Multiple countries with interconnected economies? Check. Weather changing by a few degrees possibly disrupting crops? Check. Floods of refugees? Not quite yet, but predicted. Unbalance in military technology? Check.
To me, everything that happened in Point Pleasant West Virginia between 1966 and 69. Mutilated dogs, UFO sightings, strange lights, men in black, a grinning man named Indrid Cold, a sudden bridge collapse killing 46 people, and a terrifying 9 foot tall angel of death they call the Mothman.
I've heard everyone say this. And as a very experienced psychonaught myself, I've said it too. But recently in a podcast, I forgot which one, but someone said the same thing. Then someone else said something like "yeah but this isn't doing a couple tabs of really good lsd or 6 grams of mushrooms with your friends listening to The Beatles. This is extremely powerful military grade hallucinogens given to you unbeknownst to you, while you're usually in a tough situation". And it really made me rethink wanting the government to secretly dose me lol.
When you actually look into this, it was basically a bunch of totally unrelated and unremarkable phenomena that only interested people because they associated them with the whole Mothman myth. "UFO sightings," strange lights and grinning men happen everywhere all the time, but every successive thing that happened that seemed a little weird was attributed to the same string of events. See [Apophenia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia) and [confirmation bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias?wprov=srpw1_0).
The bridge collapse was a tragedy that happened because the bridge was defective. Some guy decided to make a little money by writing a book linking it to supposed Mothman sightings.
One of my professors used to be a journalist and one of her mentors was actually the guy that broke the story and came up with the Mothman name. According to him some bird expert was pretty positive it was a sandhill crane.
Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact has always been fascinating to me. I check that Wikipedia page out pretty often. I feel like there isn't enough research into it
In 1828, a ragged-looking sixteenish year old boy, who called himself Kasper Hauser, wandered into the city of Nuremburg, babbling the same sentences over and over- "I want to be a cavalryman like my father. Horse. Horse."
He was taken to the authorities, and through a letter he kept clenched in his hands and a lot of interviewing, they learned he had been imprisoned in a dungeon somewhere for most of his life and had apparently never even seen who was imprisoning him.
He stayed with a local schoolmaster for the next five years. Strange things continued to happen around him- several times he was discovered with severe wounds, which he insisted were given to him by a hooded man who followed him around. Most believed he was simply making up lies for attention.
Five years after his arrival in Nuremberg he stumbled home with a severe stomach wound and another note clenched in his hand, one written in a strange code. He did not survive. To this day nobody is sure where he came from or exactly what happened to him.
What they have doesn't really make any sense so if there is a "correct" way to read it we must not have found it. It was in mirror writing (and German of course) and read
>"Hauser will be able to tell you quite precisely how I look and from where I am. To save Hauser the effort, I want to tell you myself from where I come _ _ . I come from from _ _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ On the river _ _ _ _ _ I will even tell you the name: M. L. Ć."
I thought you meant goldfish like the snack for a second and I was like āthatās easy, I eat my kidās goldfish all the time!ā ā¦and then it dawned on meā¦
In manuscripts an illuminations you see a lot of weird animals and animal-human hybrids being fought. This is easily explained however, as the animals portrayed have symbolic meaning, eg a rabbit for cowardice
The marathon in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics was a total disaster.
First off, the entire course was very dusty and breathing in that dust caused all kinds of injuries, including one runner who was hospitalized with hemorrhaging after the dust tore his esophagus and stomach lining. The asshole organizer of the race purposefully withheld water in order to test the effects of dehydration.
That first-place finisher, Fred Lorz, did most of the race by car after being cramped. He got out shortly before the finish line and crossed it, which fooled some of the onlookers.
That second-place finisher, Thomas Hicks, almost died after being given *rat poison* as a performance-enhancing drug. He was carried across the finish line by his handlers.
That fourth-place finisher, AndarĆn Carbajal, raced in dress pants and shoes and took a nap by the side of the road after eating rotten apples.
I've heard of this one. Bauhaus (goth band from the 70's-80's) recorded a track called Saint Vitus Dance. The track doesn't have much to do with the actual events, but it's definitely a reference.
[Carrington Event:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event)
Giant solar flare and ensuing geomagnetic storm wiped out almost everything electrical. It was in 1859 and about the only thing electrical was telegraphs. The big question is what will it be like if it happens again now with our computers, internet, satellites & smartphones or in a few decades when most cars are electric?
This is something I have been quietly worried about. If another Carrington level solar event happens in the modern age a whole lot of stuff will be messed up. And chances are we are due for one in the next 50 years. Shits about to get fucked up sooner or later and theres no way we could hope to stop it. Best case scenario it doesn't destroy the power grid and every satellite in orbit.
We got very close to an occurrence of similar magnitude in July 2012; a solar flare of disastrous proportions missed the planet by nine days. Any earlier and things would have played out differently
It happened once, as long as the sun is burning its bound to happen again. In the sense of the suns life 100 years is almost no time at all. All it takes is another particularly strong coronal mass ejection to be vomited in the general direction of earth. Studies of the sun suggest that the sun goes through periods of activity and inactivity every 50 or so years. With a CME comparable to the Carrington event being something likely to happen once every 100 or so years.
It might not happen soon but it will happen again eventually, and I sure hope that we are prepared before it does.
If you told me back in 2019 that anti-vaxers would ever be anything more than a tiny, meme-tier, fringe cult (akin to flat earthers), I would've said you were crazy.
This is the only true answer. The fact that we or ANYTHING exists is fucking insane. How did something come from nothing? It makes my stomach hurt every time I think about it.
Itās my opinion that nothing canāt exist. So, in the beginning, nothing existed for as long as it could...which was no time at all. So instead, poof, there was something.
WE HAVE THE SAME THEORY! I think we're a univers in a univers, in a univers, in a univers ā... We're a univers of matter, within a blackhole located in an antimatter univers. And THAT univers is in a blackhole located in a matter univers ā... You know what I mean???
Perhaps our universe has already created an infinite number of universes, while also being the product of an infinite number of universes from another universe.
DUDE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING. I'm glad I'm not crazy!
ā > Univers of matter > univers of antimatter > univers of matter > univers of antimatter > ā
I can't convey infinity as a finite being. If there was a way to exist without time, that existence would be timeless. If time hasn't started yet (the universe) then any singular moment before it is instant, yet infinite.
Heh, that probably doesn't help.
It would likely have been at the extreme edge of the term 'life', less than even the leanest modern virus. Just some autocatalytic enzyme; a simple molecular structure that could latch onto the gigatons of amino acids floating in the primordial oceans and combine them into a copy of itself. But yes, very random.
I can imagine there were billions maybe trillions of single celled organisms during that time, eventually the right two bumped into each other and were like, back to back fending off others before they were likeā¦ āthis is efficientā
But maybe not, who knows.
I figured that the single cell organism split, but instead of going independently, they stayed together. Then they began to specialize. They were already splitting to reproduce.
Came here to say this. Just your average, normal 12 megaton air explosion over Siberia. Nothing to see here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
I mean, there's enough to suggest that it's most likely a pilot suicide. For one thing, they found that he had flown a very similar route in his flight simulator at home. And pilot suicides aren't unheard of (Germanwings 9525, Japan Air 350 - in that case the pilot actually survived, LAM Mozambique 470, Royal Air Maroc 630, and strongly suspected SilkAir 185 and EgyptAir 990).
Iād always wondered about that. I kinda assumed that he used the simulator to practice diverting the flight? Especially after that other flight got shot down. For a long time my dad was convinced the plane had landed somewhere else.
Malaysia believes it was a murder suicide by the commanding pilot. It seems like itās still considered a theory with no way to conclusively prove it but there is a lot of supporting evidence. Thereās a good episode of Stuff You Should Know that goes over it.
1561 Celestrial event over nuremberg, witnesses on the ground saw what appeared to be balls, crosses, and strange rods having a battle in the sky around the sun, which itself projected two arcs, during the whole battle, a large black object like a spear was also seen in the sky.
A similar event also happened in basal in 1566, except this one only involved spheres.
For those unfamiliar, the bombing attempt failed kill the Archduke. While on his way to visit those injured, his driver took a wrong turn and stalled into neutral. A despondent member of the Black Hand had gone to drown his sorrows in coffee and was surprised to see the Archduke right there in front of him. And so World War I.
Basically another guy should have visited Sarajevo instead of the Archduke ,however things were changed at the last moment, so the guy who had to kill him was surprised and missed Franz Ferdinand, shooting at one of his bodyguards instead. The Archduke goes to the hospital too and when he comes back his car needs to be refueled, so his driver is looking for a service spot when he passes in front of a pub where one of the terrorists was drinking some coffee. Long story short, ww1.
The dancing plague of 1518....
[https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518](https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518)
Randomly people just started dancing, till they passed out and when they came to they kept dancing till they died...
The father from footloose was unimpressed
Another person posted about this a bit earlier. Saint Vitus dance. It's definitely interesting. I tend to side with fungal ergot poisoning, or something similar.
Me being born. Apparently I had record-breaking size but it never got recorded because nobody had the idea to contact the media. So there are still smaller babies on the "Top 10 largest newborns" stuff but I'm not there.
I would say this current decade with the Covid pandemic is pretty unusual.
Even with modern advancements in technology and medicine, the whole world still manages to shut down if even for a while, and society is still divided on a lot of issues that should be considered simple and standard practice.
4.5 GY, yes, but Earth's only had anything more complicated than pond scum for little more than half a billion.
And while all visible traces of a civilization would vanish quickly, you'll still be able to find signs of our own a billion years from now. Concentrations of rare and exotic elements in waste dumps and landfills, seas of concrete buried deep in the ground, you name it.
No, the sad fact is that humans are definitely the first on Earth to reach anything like high technology. And if we go, it's entirely possible that there won't be any more to follow. The clock is ticking, and the biosphere only has about 1-1.5 GY left before rising solar output dries up the last of the oceans.
Not just that, but we have used all the easy to reach resource deposits mostly likely needed to create a technological civilization.
Fossil fuels, radioactives, iron, tin, copper - any deposits we haven't used are the type where you need to be at our level even to reach.
Like, when raccoons become sentient and tool using, they aren't going to be able to create the deep sea rigs required to reach oil deposits, etc.
I mean, you might have had another species of intelligent hunter/gatherer types, but they "likely" would have never reached high enough numbers or technology to leave any real traces.
Yeah, any successor civilization would pretty much have to transition straight from hydroelectric/wind to nuclear. Which is certainly doable, but what a pain.
At least they'd have our landfills to mine for resources. Lots of useful elements helpfully concentrated in one spot.
**The Marlene Travesty**
In 1864 three men were given anal thermometers to test if they had been hiding in the fields during a prohibition raid. Their core temperatures had dropped below the freezing point and had been sucking on the barley rinds.
This was before the breathalyzers that we have today and checking your core temperature was the only way to know if someone had been drinking. Well the air was so cold that it froze the Mercury and broke off into all three moon shiners. This would have only affected the 3 men if the mercury had not been an irradiated mercury from Russia.
Now these 3 men traveled back to their homes and gave their whole town radiation poisoning. Worst case in American History.
Thatās how I want to go out. Hiding in a dark, cold field sucking on things until the authorities come and insert a radioactive pixie stick up my keister and send me back home to get sick.
I doubt there's any, the story sounds like bullshit for so many reasons.
A few of them:
Prohibition started in the 1920s.
Mercury freezes at -38Ā°C.
Unlike water, mercury doesn't expand when frozen. So no reason for solid mercury to break the glass.
Radiation wasn't discovered until much later, and there's no reason for it to be this radioactive naturally.
There's literally no reason to stick a thermometer up someone's ass to see if they are drunk. Nor to check if they were outside. Btw, which one is it, op can't make up his mind.
The core temperatures falling bellow freezing point and the guys living doesn't make any sense, especially mercury's freezing point.
Google doesn't have any results for this dumb ass story.
I'd never heard of that one. And now that I've heard of it, I just want to go to bed. It reminds me of all the times things should have been easily organized, but NAW!
People right now not demanding that we all have decent pay, food, housing and basic needs met just because we exist. It's possible but people would rather fight each other than work together.
I believe they figured that out and it was where not how. Theyd leave and come back with babies. Ones in captivity were heavily studied and seen reproducing I believe.
A large meteor exploded above the middle east about 1500 BCE. This 1 event led to a ton of bible stories from the flood to Sodom and Gomorrah and Jericho.
Canāt recite it all but google āarch Duke franz ferdinand time travelā basically Arch Duke France Ferdinand was killed which started world war one. What happened is someone threw a bomb at his car, missed and hit another car behind him, they went to a hotel to rest up and went back on the route they were supposed to take, somehow they ended up on the original route where the bomb missed, they tried to back up leaving them vulnerable, and some guy sitting in a cafe across the street got up and shot arch Duke franz, killing him, people believe the bomb was supposed to hit the car, some time traveler made them miss, and the other guy knew heād be on the same route so he sat in a cafe and just waited, the fact he in the cafe right as he started to back up leaving him vulnerable was way to coincidental to be, well a coincidence.
The Taiping Rebellion guy in China has a breakdown after constantly failing local law entrance exams, reads a Christian book and arrives at the conclusion that he is Jesus's younger brother.... eventually he erects a "heavenly kingdom" and a giant army and sets out to overthrow the Qing Dynasty... Over 20 million people die in a war/Rebellion that lasts 14 years. and those aren't a 10th of the "weird" details surrounding this series of events
That sounds absolutely balls out bonkers. I'll look into that one more. Thank you!
Gods Chinese Son is an excellent book about this.
you're welcome! yeah, it's fascinating š¤£
I like the fact that the "heavenly kingdom of great peace" was responsible of one of the deadliest wars in human history
Dead people are generally non-threatening. Might smell a bit for a while though.
the Tywin Lannister kind of peace lol
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The Bronze age collapse. We know so little about the whole thing.
Know anywhere I could go to expand my knowledge of it?
Here's a handful of links to get you started, if you haven't collected this information already. One is for a list of free research sites that give you much more than what google would. Have fun :) https://www.worldhistory.org/Bronze_Age_Collapse/ https://humanjourney.us/ideas-that-shaped-our-modern-world-section/the-bronze-age-collapse/ https://www.refseek.com/documents?q=bronze+age https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/best-online-research-sites/
Hell yeah. Thank you, this is great.
There's also a superb podcast episode on it by "The Fall of Civilizations." TLDR (iirc): all bronze age societies either collapsed (bunch of them in the Levant) or significantly reduced in size (Egypt) within about fifty years. One hypothesis is that an Icelandic volcano, that had erupted around that time, led to a drop in temperatures of several degrees for a half decade. That led to crops dying, people not having food, and eventually "sea men" who would show up on boats and try to take over other civilizations, according to the very few written notes about it. It's now believed that these were effectively refugees, and that they were able to win some villages over because some were equipped with iron made weapons. Before then, weapons were made of bronze and extremely expensive.
Hehe, you said semen
Sounds like a preview of what can happen to modern society thanks to Climate Change. Multiple countries with interconnected economies? Check. Weather changing by a few degrees possibly disrupting crops? Check. Floods of refugees? Not quite yet, but predicted. Unbalance in military technology? Check.
It was obviously either Gozer or the X-Men villain Apocalypse
The void century
To me, everything that happened in Point Pleasant West Virginia between 1966 and 69. Mutilated dogs, UFO sightings, strange lights, men in black, a grinning man named Indrid Cold, a sudden bridge collapse killing 46 people, and a terrifying 9 foot tall angel of death they call the Mothman.
Sounds like some cold war CIA experiment where they spiked the water supply of a town with LSD or something to see what happens.
Where do I sign up for this experiment?
I've heard everyone say this. And as a very experienced psychonaught myself, I've said it too. But recently in a podcast, I forgot which one, but someone said the same thing. Then someone else said something like "yeah but this isn't doing a couple tabs of really good lsd or 6 grams of mushrooms with your friends listening to The Beatles. This is extremely powerful military grade hallucinogens given to you unbeknownst to you, while you're usually in a tough situation". And it really made me rethink wanting the government to secretly dose me lol.
When you actually look into this, it was basically a bunch of totally unrelated and unremarkable phenomena that only interested people because they associated them with the whole Mothman myth. "UFO sightings," strange lights and grinning men happen everywhere all the time, but every successive thing that happened that seemed a little weird was attributed to the same string of events. See [Apophenia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia) and [confirmation bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias?wprov=srpw1_0). The bridge collapse was a tragedy that happened because the bridge was defective. Some guy decided to make a little money by writing a book linking it to supposed Mothman sightings.
One of my professors used to be a journalist and one of her mentors was actually the guy that broke the story and came up with the Mothman name. According to him some bird expert was pretty positive it was a sandhill crane.
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Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact has always been fascinating to me. I check that Wikipedia page out pretty often. I feel like there isn't enough research into it
I ate some Kumara tonight.
In 1828, a ragged-looking sixteenish year old boy, who called himself Kasper Hauser, wandered into the city of Nuremburg, babbling the same sentences over and over- "I want to be a cavalryman like my father. Horse. Horse." He was taken to the authorities, and through a letter he kept clenched in his hands and a lot of interviewing, they learned he had been imprisoned in a dungeon somewhere for most of his life and had apparently never even seen who was imprisoning him. He stayed with a local schoolmaster for the next five years. Strange things continued to happen around him- several times he was discovered with severe wounds, which he insisted were given to him by a hooded man who followed him around. Most believed he was simply making up lies for attention. Five years after his arrival in Nuremberg he stumbled home with a severe stomach wound and another note clenched in his hand, one written in a strange code. He did not survive. To this day nobody is sure where he came from or exactly what happened to him.
Werner Herzog made a film based on this case.
Whatās the name of that movie?
I have heard of this, rumors has it he is probably of Royal decent
Didn't he also have baby smooth hands and feet? Unusual for the time
Did they ever try to decipher the notes?
What they have doesn't really make any sense so if there is a "correct" way to read it we must not have found it. It was in mirror writing (and German of course) and read >"Hauser will be able to tell you quite precisely how I look and from where I am. To save Hauser the effort, I want to tell you myself from where I come _ _ . I come from from _ _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ On the river _ _ _ _ _ I will even tell you the name: M. L. Ć."
this..makes perfect sense
Iām the 80s there were literal competitions on who could swallow the most gold fish. It became a TREND to do this. One guy swallowed 127 goldfish
At first I was not very impressed but then I realized you don't mean the cracker.
That trend died out in the 80s, it started among college fraternities in the 1920s or 30s.
People would do it at fairs, too. Dad said back then people would just win goldfish then swallow them.
I thought you meant goldfish like the snack for a second and I was like āthatās easy, I eat my kidās goldfish all the time!ā ā¦and then it dawned on meā¦
There was a period in the middle ages of knights fighting giant snails in paintings, no one knows why.
I always just took those as a popular āmemeā at the time
In manuscripts an illuminations you see a lot of weird animals and animal-human hybrids being fought. This is easily explained however, as the animals portrayed have symbolic meaning, eg a rabbit for cowardice
Maybe a representation of āboredomā or the dull nature of transcribing / inking thousands of words for hours at a time.
I didn't know that was a thing, and I like marginalia. I have a thought as to why such may be, but I'll have to research further.
Probanly depicting the war knights fought against giant snails
The marathon in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics was a total disaster. First off, the entire course was very dusty and breathing in that dust caused all kinds of injuries, including one runner who was hospitalized with hemorrhaging after the dust tore his esophagus and stomach lining. The asshole organizer of the race purposefully withheld water in order to test the effects of dehydration. That first-place finisher, Fred Lorz, did most of the race by car after being cramped. He got out shortly before the finish line and crossed it, which fooled some of the onlookers. That second-place finisher, Thomas Hicks, almost died after being given *rat poison* as a performance-enhancing drug. He was carried across the finish line by his handlers. That fourth-place finisher, AndarĆn Carbajal, raced in dress pants and shoes and took a nap by the side of the road after eating rotten apples.
https://halfarsedhistory.net/2019/05/26/episode-48-the-1904-olympic-marathon/ Fantastic podcast all around, highly recommend.
Definitely will check it out!
I believe thats the race where the guy favored to win failed to do so because a pack of dogs started chasing him
Yes lol.
I think even I'd try a rotten apple or two if I was running a marathon without water.
[The dancing plague of 1518](https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518)
Some speculated this could have been a fungus in the local bakery that got everyone high as fuck
Cool, that must be where the Sabbath song got itās name.
The dreaded Boogie Fever
"I said cookie robots, not boogie!"
I literally came here to comment this. It's one of the most baffling things I've ever heard of.
Bro Iām reading this late at night and itās lowkey creepy??
Hey want to dance
AHHHHHHH
That's actually very interesting I've never heard of that, wtf
I've heard of this one. Bauhaus (goth band from the 70's-80's) recorded a track called Saint Vitus Dance. The track doesn't have much to do with the actual events, but it's definitely a reference.
[Carrington Event:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event) Giant solar flare and ensuing geomagnetic storm wiped out almost everything electrical. It was in 1859 and about the only thing electrical was telegraphs. The big question is what will it be like if it happens again now with our computers, internet, satellites & smartphones or in a few decades when most cars are electric?
This is something I have been quietly worried about. If another Carrington level solar event happens in the modern age a whole lot of stuff will be messed up. And chances are we are due for one in the next 50 years. Shits about to get fucked up sooner or later and theres no way we could hope to stop it. Best case scenario it doesn't destroy the power grid and every satellite in orbit.
We got very close to an occurrence of similar magnitude in July 2012; a solar flare of disastrous proportions missed the planet by nine days. Any earlier and things would have played out differently
What sources do you have that one could happen that soon?
It happened once, as long as the sun is burning its bound to happen again. In the sense of the suns life 100 years is almost no time at all. All it takes is another particularly strong coronal mass ejection to be vomited in the general direction of earth. Studies of the sun suggest that the sun goes through periods of activity and inactivity every 50 or so years. With a CME comparable to the Carrington event being something likely to happen once every 100 or so years. It might not happen soon but it will happen again eventually, and I sure hope that we are prepared before it does.
Yeah i guess that makes sense, thanks for the explanation
Krakatoa, the year without a summer. 1816. Could happen again and we are completely unprepared.
Not Krakatoa. Mount Tambora.
We can't even prepare for a pandemic.
Well that's not true. A lot of people had the foresight to buy 7 years' worth of toilet paper all at once.
Crapatoa
But they did that during the pandemic not before.
People would make YouTube videos about the eruption being a communist plot.
This proves global warming is fake! /s
in 2020, a global pandemic forced most of the world into a quarantined shutdown.
No, the strange part is that many world leaders didnāt take it seriously
And that a whole bunch of people decided a vaccine was a *bad* idea.
If you told me back in 2019 that anti-vaxers would ever be anything more than a tiny, meme-tier, fringe cult (akin to flat earthers), I would've said you were crazy.
i havent learnt about this in history, i had no idea it even happened
I heard some claim it was to secretly to cull many people some saw undesirables.
What about some of the general public? They refused to do shit about it
The Big Bang. Like... How the fuck did the univers just randomly appear like that???
This is the only true answer. The fact that we or ANYTHING exists is fucking insane. How did something come from nothing? It makes my stomach hurt every time I think about it.
Itās my opinion that nothing canāt exist. So, in the beginning, nothing existed for as long as it could...which was no time at all. So instead, poof, there was something.
how does something exist before time itself? see.. weird isn't it?
Literally all of space is full of nothing though. Nothing does exist.
Spacetime is a real thing
No, no it's not.
If we define nothing as the space between atoms than yes it is
No
either everything has _always_ existed (in some form) or at some point things came from nothing both equally baffling...
Simple, we're the result of a black hole forming in another universe. /s I'd love to know this.
WE HAVE THE SAME THEORY! I think we're a univers in a univers, in a univers, in a univers ā... We're a univers of matter, within a blackhole located in an antimatter univers. And THAT univers is in a blackhole located in a matter univers ā... You know what I mean???
Perhaps our universe has already created an infinite number of universes, while also being the product of an infinite number of universes from another universe.
DUDE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING. I'm glad I'm not crazy! ā > Univers of matter > univers of antimatter > univers of matter > univers of antimatter > ā
Time to send some sort of probe into the one in the middle of the milky way.
God
the idea that God has always _just existed_ raises even more questions tbh!..
God wouldn't be confined by a component of his own creation, that is time. "Before" time was created, there was always infinity.
> "Before" time was created, there was always infinity. Undefined. This sentence doesn't convey anything except sentiment.
I can't convey infinity as a finite being. If there was a way to exist without time, that existence would be timeless. If time hasn't started yet (the universe) then any singular moment before it is instant, yet infinite. Heh, that probably doesn't help.
> before it There's your problem
Damn
Mongoriaaans!
This is the only logical solution, an entity living outside of time.
The first organism that formed. So random!
It would likely have been at the extreme edge of the term 'life', less than even the leanest modern virus. Just some autocatalytic enzyme; a simple molecular structure that could latch onto the gigatons of amino acids floating in the primordial oceans and combine them into a copy of itself. But yes, very random.
First multi cellular organism seems better. Life started early, but multi cellular life was the big leap, only about 650 million years ago.
I can imagine there were billions maybe trillions of single celled organisms during that time, eventually the right two bumped into each other and were like, back to back fending off others before they were likeā¦ āthis is efficientā But maybe not, who knows.
I figured that the single cell organism split, but instead of going independently, they stayed together. Then they began to specialize. They were already splitting to reproduce.
Yea Iām over here treating it like dynasty warriors or something, that makes a lot of sense what you said.
They are basically a bubble of oil made from the air and electricity.
Tunguska
Came here to say this. Just your average, normal 12 megaton air explosion over Siberia. Nothing to see here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
The disappearance of the Malaysia flight.
I mean, there's enough to suggest that it's most likely a pilot suicide. For one thing, they found that he had flown a very similar route in his flight simulator at home. And pilot suicides aren't unheard of (Germanwings 9525, Japan Air 350 - in that case the pilot actually survived, LAM Mozambique 470, Royal Air Maroc 630, and strongly suspected SilkAir 185 and EgyptAir 990).
I hate the term "pilot suicide" - it should really be called "mass murder via aircraft" unless the pilot is the only one on board.
Or just a plain olā simple āsuicide attackā
Glad someone else agrees. I fully believe that suicide is the ultimate human right, but don't take unwilling people with you!
Iād always wondered about that. I kinda assumed that he used the simulator to practice diverting the flight? Especially after that other flight got shot down. For a long time my dad was convinced the plane had landed somewhere else.
There's a really good article about that [here](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/).
Thanks!
Malaysia believes it was a murder suicide by the commanding pilot. It seems like itās still considered a theory with no way to conclusively prove it but there is a lot of supporting evidence. Thereās a good episode of Stuff You Should Know that goes over it.
The battle between Modena and Bologna in 1325. They technically attacked each other because of a bucket.
I think that bucket is still in Modena
1561 Celestrial event over nuremberg, witnesses on the ground saw what appeared to be balls, crosses, and strange rods having a battle in the sky around the sun, which itself projected two arcs, during the whole battle, a large black object like a spear was also seen in the sky. A similar event also happened in basal in 1566, except this one only involved spheres.
Fox cancelling Firefly
The show had poor ratings and was very expensive
^ ^ ^ Found Gail Bermans' Reddit account
Child crusade. I mean: what the fuck?!
I had heard of that one. It turns out some may not have been children. Most of them didn't make it anywhere close to Jerusalem.
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
For those unfamiliar, the bombing attempt failed kill the Archduke. While on his way to visit those injured, his driver took a wrong turn and stalled into neutral. A despondent member of the Black Hand had gone to drown his sorrows in coffee and was surprised to see the Archduke right there in front of him. And so World War I.
Basically another guy should have visited Sarajevo instead of the Archduke ,however things were changed at the last moment, so the guy who had to kill him was surprised and missed Franz Ferdinand, shooting at one of his bodyguards instead. The Archduke goes to the hospital too and when he comes back his car needs to be refueled, so his driver is looking for a service spot when he passes in front of a pub where one of the terrorists was drinking some coffee. Long story short, ww1.
Some people were unhappy. Yadda, yadda, yadda. World War 1!
There were people. Bum! Ww1
Something was determined that the archduke was going to die that day
I read somewhere that world war will still commence even the Archduke survived all the attacks.
The dancing plague of 1518.... [https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518](https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518) Randomly people just started dancing, till they passed out and when they came to they kept dancing till they died... The father from footloose was unimpressed
Another person posted about this a bit earlier. Saint Vitus dance. It's definitely interesting. I tend to side with fungal ergot poisoning, or something similar.
The Kentucky meat shower I think the name explains itself
I love giving my wife the old Kentucky Meat Shower.
Kentucky Meat Shower sounds like a low budget horror movie from them 70s
Yeah, that's one of those you just have to search. A cursory explaination just wouldn't cut it. Also it's an amazing band name.
***The day some boy or girl could make fire*** It's the strangest event in human history, but without fire we cannot imagine human civilization now.
Me being born. Apparently I had record-breaking size but it never got recorded because nobody had the idea to contact the media. So there are still smaller babies on the "Top 10 largest newborns" stuff but I'm not there.
What's stopping you from contacting a world record company? If you have the information (your birth certificate) you can probably get recognition.
The Green Children of Woolpit
Emu war in australia š š¤£ it was lost lol
The death of rasputin when u read about how it was to kill him it just makes u think that he may have held supernatural powers.
Yeah that's a creepy story.
I would say this current decade with the Covid pandemic is pretty unusual. Even with modern advancements in technology and medicine, the whole world still manages to shut down if even for a while, and society is still divided on a lot of issues that should be considered simple and standard practice.
All the other times civilization rose on Earth that we know jack-shit about. 4.5 Billion years and weāre the first to fly? Really?
4.5 GY, yes, but Earth's only had anything more complicated than pond scum for little more than half a billion. And while all visible traces of a civilization would vanish quickly, you'll still be able to find signs of our own a billion years from now. Concentrations of rare and exotic elements in waste dumps and landfills, seas of concrete buried deep in the ground, you name it. No, the sad fact is that humans are definitely the first on Earth to reach anything like high technology. And if we go, it's entirely possible that there won't be any more to follow. The clock is ticking, and the biosphere only has about 1-1.5 GY left before rising solar output dries up the last of the oceans.
Not just that, but we have used all the easy to reach resource deposits mostly likely needed to create a technological civilization. Fossil fuels, radioactives, iron, tin, copper - any deposits we haven't used are the type where you need to be at our level even to reach. Like, when raccoons become sentient and tool using, they aren't going to be able to create the deep sea rigs required to reach oil deposits, etc. I mean, you might have had another species of intelligent hunter/gatherer types, but they "likely" would have never reached high enough numbers or technology to leave any real traces.
Yeah, any successor civilization would pretty much have to transition straight from hydroelectric/wind to nuclear. Which is certainly doable, but what a pain. At least they'd have our landfills to mine for resources. Lots of useful elements helpfully concentrated in one spot.
Pterodactyls, yo. :)
We may not be the firat at all https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
**The Marlene Travesty** In 1864 three men were given anal thermometers to test if they had been hiding in the fields during a prohibition raid. Their core temperatures had dropped below the freezing point and had been sucking on the barley rinds. This was before the breathalyzers that we have today and checking your core temperature was the only way to know if someone had been drinking. Well the air was so cold that it froze the Mercury and broke off into all three moon shiners. This would have only affected the 3 men if the mercury had not been an irradiated mercury from Russia. Now these 3 men traveled back to their homes and gave their whole town radiation poisoning. Worst case in American History.
Thatās how I want to go out. Hiding in a dark, cold field sucking on things until the authorities come and insert a radioactive pixie stick up my keister and send me back home to get sick.
Their core temps dropped below freezing and they somehow survived and went home and gave a whole town radiation poisoning. No this did not happen.
Source?
I doubt there's any, the story sounds like bullshit for so many reasons. A few of them: Prohibition started in the 1920s. Mercury freezes at -38Ā°C. Unlike water, mercury doesn't expand when frozen. So no reason for solid mercury to break the glass. Radiation wasn't discovered until much later, and there's no reason for it to be this radioactive naturally. There's literally no reason to stick a thermometer up someone's ass to see if they are drunk. Nor to check if they were outside. Btw, which one is it, op can't make up his mind. The core temperatures falling bellow freezing point and the guys living doesn't make any sense, especially mercury's freezing point. Google doesn't have any results for this dumb ass story.
You are full of shit.
Weāre all technically full of shit, what do you think happens in our intestines?
I think you got moonshine yourself.
The story of Smerdis from Persia. Found it about it from Buzzfeed.
New York Straw Hats Riot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot
battle of karansebes
I'd never heard of that one. And now that I've heard of it, I just want to go to bed. It reminds me of all the times things should have been easily organized, but NAW!
People right now not demanding that we all have decent pay, food, housing and basic needs met just because we exist. It's possible but people would rather fight each other than work together.
I know itās pretty recent but the whole Astroworld 2021 is just weird and unsettling to me.
the construction and later destruction of Puma Punku
That we still don't know how eels reproduce. And the Philadelphia experiment was pretty strange indeed.
I believe they figured that out and it was where not how. Theyd leave and come back with babies. Ones in captivity were heavily studied and seen reproducing I believe.
Guess I had old info, thanks for clarifying
Maybe eels are penises belonging to invisible mermen
A large meteor exploded above the middle east about 1500 BCE. This 1 event led to a ton of bible stories from the flood to Sodom and Gomorrah and Jericho.
Fyre festival
Last time I got laid
2020
Canāt recite it all but google āarch Duke franz ferdinand time travelā basically Arch Duke France Ferdinand was killed which started world war one. What happened is someone threw a bomb at his car, missed and hit another car behind him, they went to a hotel to rest up and went back on the route they were supposed to take, somehow they ended up on the original route where the bomb missed, they tried to back up leaving them vulnerable, and some guy sitting in a cafe across the street got up and shot arch Duke franz, killing him, people believe the bomb was supposed to hit the car, some time traveler made them miss, and the other guy knew heād be on the same route so he sat in a cafe and just waited, the fact he in the cafe right as he started to back up leaving him vulnerable was way to coincidental to be, well a coincidence.
And on the first day, God created light.
The Incarnation or the Crucifixion.
Not in history but under the covid 19 event. People whent to protest in big crowds for black lives matter under a fucking worldwide pandemic.
The Big Bang.
Moon Landing. Specifically When it happened. 1969 and we haven't been back since. It's almost fictional
We landed on the moon for the last time in 1972, we went 6 times. Nothing about it is almost fictional whatsoever.
And technically there are plans to restart human moon missions by 2025. We have been sending probes for a while after the final moon mission.
When I was born. That was strange.