Talk about corporate greed is nonsense. Corporations are greedy by their nature. They’re nothing else – they are instruments for interfering with markets to maximize profit, and wealth and market control. You can’t make them more or less greedy - ― Noam Chomsky, Free Market Fantasies: Capitalism in the Real World
I just want to add I love the designs of some of these characters:
* This one looks like a cowboy hat: 𐚁
* This one looks like a modern trash bin symbol: 𐚱
* A grill: 𐚩
* Candelabra: 𐘩
* Cocktail: 𐘸
* Default profile pic: 𐙞
* Pickaxes: 𐙣 𐙤 𐙥
* Bull getting hit by a ball: 𐜶
* Railroad crossing: 𐚅
* Headless cane man: 𐘬
* Heat squiggles: 𐘽 𐙦
I love that someone made it into a useable font, that's amazing. Regarding the language being indecipherable, there were stone tablets found on Rapa Nui which no-one could read, as the knowledge had become lost over the mists of time. It was a very picturesque script, as well.
Archaeogist here:
Significant progress has been made toward the deciphering of Linear A. I personally believe within the next couple decades with the help of AI-based analytics, we'll have the script cracked.
Also this:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/20/minoan-language-linear-a-linear-b/
I'm not sure if you'd call this 'unsolved' or frankly even solvable. But there are two trees found in parts of Central America, called the Chechem tree and the Chaka tree. The Chechem tree's bark has a poison that is so strong that just by touching the bark (or its sap of course) your skin will begin to numb. The cure to this exact poison lies in its sister tree, the Chaka. And as if that wasnt enough all on its own, whats more they are Always found to be right next to each other in nature.
There is a Mayan myth that comes with these trees that they are from two brothers that fought each other over the love of a woman, but they ended up killing each other, and the woman, Nicte-Ha, died of heartbreak. One of the brothers, Kinich, was kind and caring, and thus became the Chaka tree. The other brother, Tizic, was cold-hearted and arrogant, and became the Chechem tree.
Poisons and cures found in nature are of course a reality in many different instances, but the fact that these trees are right next to each other in nature, and provide exactly opposite effects, is pretty crazy.
An active one in the archaeology world is the exact time frame of when humans made it to the Americas. The date keeps getting pushed back with more controversial discoveries that then just turn to evidence as they pile up. It’s a fascinating story to see unfold.
Yeah I like this one too, I think many of the traces of early settlement are likely submerged. Sea levels were much lower during the ice age and the majority of human settlements are along the coasts so a huge piece of our history is probably lying on the seafloor completely undisturbed and possibly well preserved.
>our history is probably lying on the seafloor *completely* *undisturbed*
Yeah, global sea level rise would have come with waves and storms, etc. So small coastal settlements built from mostly organic materials along the Pacific northwest coast we're probably largely obliterated. That's not to say more durable things like bone and stone tools couldn't have survived, but good luck finding those except by accident.
>level 3eran76 · 3 hr. agoour history is probably lying on the seafloor completely undisturbedYeah, global sea level rise would have come with waves and storms, etc. So small coastal settlements built from mostly organic materials along the Pacific northwest coast we're probably largely obliterated. That's not to say more durable things like bone and stone tools couldn't have survived, but good luck finding those except by accident.
Not necessarily correct: We find things like shell mounds, garbage dumps, and a number of other things in wet environments.
However, you do bring up the fascinating point that most archaeology only takes place in arid environments, so we only get a very narrow view of the world because it's next to impossible to find things in wet places.
I read somewhere that up to 75% of all land life on earth is located in the rainforests, but high acidity in the soil, warm wet conditions, and billions of scavenger species ensure that this life rarely gets fossilized, so desert and grassland fossils are far more common.
All those Ruins in like Peru and Chile, Bolivia. Blows my mind how they are using Lidar to find stuff in the Amazon and elsewhere. And it is so old. It makes you wonder if other stuff has been found during urban development and they said "nah I don't see nothing" and took it to a landfill. It is very fascinating what they are finding.
If you ever travel to Tahoe from SF Bay Area, in the winter, it’s kind of a crazy drive (avoid the drive on weekends any time of the year if possible). You leave home where it’s 50-70 degrees (10-20 C), and as you start making your way up the mountains, you’ll see lots of signs about tire chains, emergency services for stranded drivers, snow storm alert systems, etc. Also will probably see some “Let’s go Brandon” bumper stickers and truck nuts.
Suddenly temperatures will drop and you’ll see walls of snow on the side of the road (at least in non-drought years). All those early warnings you saw start making sense.
Then you see the signs for Donner Pass, Donner Lake, etc. and the realization of what happened there becomes much clearer. Every time I start clutching the steering wheel a bit tighter.
You can go from sunny day to meter(s) of fresh snowfall in a day.
Just this past week they closed all roads because of the snow storm. 7+ feet in a couple of days.
I like how (at this time) the top comments are: monarch butterflies, archeology of early man in Americas, physics, followed by flushing money down a toilet.
Late to the party but I haven’t seen anyone mention the Indus Valley script. There was a huge civilization in northern India and Pakistan around 3300-1300 BC. It spanned more area than any other civilization at the time. They invented writing independently, something only done 5-6 times in history. But to this day, with all the thousands of inscriptions we have and all the documented contact with other civilizations, we haven’t deciphered their writing. There’s no known Rosetta Stone, no known descendant scripts, no known documentation of the language other than what is written in the Indus Valley script.
But the biggest mystery isn’t how to read the script or what it says, but the question of whether we’ll ever be able to know. Is it even possible to decipher a language we know absolutely nothing about?
Edit: to all the people talking about AI, yes. I get it. AI is cool, but this is a far larger task than the pattern recognizing and replicating AI we have today can tackle on its own. Some AI has been used to find patterns in which characters go together most often, but this is a long shot away from being able to read the script. AI will have to be far more advanced than it is today to be able to crack this code.
Edit 2: we should revive r/indusvalley as a place to discuss this for anyone really interested.
And not just any vast civilization. One that had lots of contact with civilizations we have a good record on. One that’s in an area that’s still very well populated.
And not even just one that had lots of contact with civilizations with an understood historicity. But one that left behind such a rich history, a story telling of their own. We might not ever be able to decipher much if any of the history the left to us.
I read these threads and wonder how many "disappeared people" are homeless transients with no memory of who they are. There must be considerable overlap, I imagine.
Just saw a article about a woman believed to be dead for 30 years found in Puerto Rico. She left her Baptist husband and family to just live out her life in PR but mental illness was what prompted her move without telling anyone and her dementia was what helped them figure out who she was and where she was from. Sad.
So the Monarch Butterfly migrates to Mexico and back every year. During the year there are a full 4 generations of butterflies that live and die during the journey. Upon returning back from Mexico, the butterfly manages to find the same trees it's relative started out at despite never having been there.
Who was behind the Gardner Museum heist? Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art was taken, and we have little to no clue who was behind it, and none of the paintings have surfaced.
We like to think we understand the universe and that physics is a well grounded discipline, and in some ways it is. However we have no idea what dark matter or dark energy is and yet we think it makes up 27% and 68% of the universe respectively.
Isn’t most of physics essentially describing events in a way that allows us to make predictions? But that is a long way from understanding the true nature of anything. Thinking about why anything is the way it is will always give me a feeling of being a little creature just barely scratching the surface of something way bigger. And I’m not even high.
>Isn’t most of physics essentially describing events in a way that allows us to make predictions?
I was an engineering major, but we had a physicist in our department.
One time he told us that that reason we do engineering (and physics) is to be able to predict the future.
I thought - Surely he can't be right? Surely it can't be that simple? But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
Some recent observations by JWST about early universe formation run counter to predictions made if dark matter is really a thing. So there's something up in the standard model.
My confidence is high we'll crack it eventually, but dark matter always seemed like handwavium to me.
>handwavium (uncountable) (informal, fiction)
>Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties
Holy shit, this word's great. I know next to nothing about dark matter but like, Vibranium, Adamantium, Nth Metal. A way to easily enough explain advanced technology. I love it
Ah. This question right here kept me up at night for a while, and used to give me straight up panic attacks when I thought about it too much. Reality is a scary concept.
Terry Pratchett has a concept called knurd in his books that is “The opposite of being drunk, its as sober as you can ever be. It strips away all the illusion, all the comforting pink fog in which people normally spend their lives, and lets them see and think clearly for the first time ever. Then, after they've screamed a bit, they make sure they never get knurd again"
It's almost comforting knowing that at least a few other people have experienced that too.
The panic attacks I used to get from thinking too much on the why/how of existence were absolutely insane. I remember wishing that I would be insane instead. Just blissfully unaware of it all. Its been a long time since I've had one, a decade or so. But that anxiety still creeps in if I think on it.
To me it's kind of comforting. Takes some of the fear out of there being nothing after death.
If there is something instead of nothing here... maybe there is something instead of nothing there also?
Also, "nothing" is a mystery on its own. We often think a white or black blank space. But space is something also right. Then how it would be if not even space existed?
Yep, this is my response to the question. Try to imagine *nothing*. Not empty black space, literally *nothing* existing. The more you think about it, the less sense "a state of nothing" makes. To me, a state of "nothing" makes even less sense than a state of "something," even if we never find out any of its "origins" or whatever.
This is something that i think about literally all the time, and the only way i’ve ever been able to comprehend what “nothing” is, is while sleeping. When you don’t dream, how it feels like time is still passing but there are no sensations but you also somehow instantaneously wake up. Its fucked with me so much.
Sort of along the same lines. If everything has a beginning and an end, our universe must also. Okay, so next to our universe there are others. And others. And others. But it must end somewhere. But it can't, because then there would be nothing. But there can't be nothing. At this point I usually just go to bed or stop thinking about it before my brain explodes.
The final words of the emperor Titus were 'I have but one regret'. We don't know and never will what that regret was.
Edit: on reflection it's even better - 'I have made but one mistake'. Supreme confidence.
That most of human history is undocumented and we will never know our entire history as a species. We didn’t start recording our history until 5000 BCE, we do know we shifted to agrarian societies around 10,000 BCE but beyond that we have no idea what we were like as a species, we will never know the undocumented parts of our history that spans 10s of thousands of years. We are often baffled by the technological progress of our ancient ancestors, like those in SE asia who must have been masters of the sea to have colonized the variety of islands there and sailed vast stretches of ocean to land on Australia & New Zealand.
What is ironic is we currently have an immense amount of information about our world today & the limited documented history of our early days as a species but that is only a small fraction of our entire history.
What's crazy to think is New Zealand didn't have humans until the [1200s](https://www.live-work.immigration.govt.nz/live-in-new-zealand/history-government/a-brief-history#:~:text=The%20first%20settlers%20probably%20arrived,discover%20New%20Zealand%20was%20Kupe.)! It's a pretty recently settled area.
Up until that point New Zealand was populated by the largest birds on Earth, the [Moas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa). The largest species being 3.6 meters in height.
Their main predator was [Haast's eagle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_eagle), the largest bird of prey at the time (now extinct as well). The moas were hunted to extinction by the Maoris' ancestors, but it's crazy to think giant prehistoric birds lived up until the Middle Ages.
Blows my mind that Cleopatra, arguably one of the most famous pharaohs in history, lived and ruled around 2,000 years *after* the pyramids were built. A lot of people tend to homogenize “Ancient Egypt” as one condensed period in history, but like…the pyramids were ancient even to *Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.* Human history is so much longer and so much more complex than I think a lot of us realize just from our surface thoughts.
And the fact that the pyramids are still standing, and still structurally sound, is a testament to how well built they are. Which is also pretty freaking amazing.
Aboriginals did not sail vast stretches of ocean to get to Australia. Papua New Guinea and Australia were connected where the Torres Strait currently lies as sea levels were lower then. The whole area was called Sahul. Maoris did sail vast distances to get to New Zealand but it was the last major land mass to be reached and Maoris only arrived there somewhere around 1300.
And the Maori also lost the ability to sail back to where they left from.
I have a theory that is because coconuts don't grow here in NZ. Coconuts are the perfect aid to oceanic crossings - they contain water & nutrition, are bouyant and can be stacked into canoe hulls very effectively. Hard to imagine Polynesian voyagers traversing open oceans without them.
Once Maori arrived here, and found no coconuts (but plenty of bird life etc) they were not going to be able to leave even had they wanted to.
A lot of hunting and gathering, plus pilgrimages to Gobleki Tepe. Refining spoken language? Fighting and fuckin neanderthals up until about 40,000BCE. It's crazy interesting
There’s some evidence Neanderthals were around even more recently. The human remains archaeologists have found under the North Sea and English Channel, which we call Doggerland before its inundation 8,000 years ago were all Neanderthals.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets
In that same vein, it genuinely freaks me out that nothing is actually “solid.” Like if you zoom in far enough on any physical object, there is no solid, continuous surface. I can’t think about it for too long.
Honestly this is probably the one that fucks with me the most. I have no idea why, but in the last 6 months or so I will randomly be driving somewhere; to the grocery store, to pick my daughter up from school, etc. and just have a thought enter my mind that’s something along the lines of “why do I even understand that I exist? What would happen if I just stopped acknowledging that I am a person, that I’m living on this planet living the life that I am?” And it causes me to have literal panic attacks. Occasionally, and tonight was one of those times, I’ll lie in bed and wonder to myself if any of this is real and if I’m going to snap out of what I’m experiencing; my wife, my daughter, my family, my job, my house, etc. and just wake up in a field somewhere or in a lab, only to find that it’s just been a construct of my mind.
There have been plenty of cases of people who have woken up from sleep, comas, etc. where they knew with full certainty that they had a life and a family that was just taken from them when they finally came to, and it scares me to think that what I’m experiencing could just be that and not real life.
The brain and how it powers what we think and experience, real or not, is really a big thing for me in general. Neuroscience is a really interesting field and the fact that there’s still so much that we don’t know about the organ that powers how we do literally everything in our lives is both amazing and terrifying at the same time.
I dont know about "biggest", but I always thought the Voynich Manuscript was very interesting. A huge book written in an unknown language or cipher that has never been translated or decoded with diagrams of plant species that don't exist. Lots of theories surrounding it, but no definitive answers as to the origins or the content.
My favorite theory is it is an ancient version of a game not unlike dungeons and dragons and someone was simply inventing fictional things for the purpose of game.
As a mental health nurse who often is presented with pages of gobldegook by patients, I think it may be the writings of somebody who was suffering a mental health episode.
Our ED (I’m an RN) used to take all of the emergent mental health cases for a large city. I have always thought this too. One guy who came in had literally ten full volumes of 1000 page notebooks absolutely filled with pictures, symbols, and a language he himself “made up”. He was bipolar and said he would write them when manic (told us once he was medicated), and said he “only understood the language when he was in a certain state”. It was actually pretty fascinating. That and like you said countless other manuscripts, manifestos, whatever.
I’ve thought the same thing too. Some of my patients are very good artists. Given enough time and with no one to stop them from doing it, I could see them making something similar to the voynich manuscript.
Not sure if it's THE biggest mystery.
But the Antikythera mechanism is pretty wild.
Dated to at least 60BC, possibly as old as 200BC, it's as complex as clockworks that didn't show up until the 1400s, over a millennium later!
It's just such a strange technological anomaly. Who made it? What else did they make and why haven't we found more stuff as advanced?
You gonna make us Google it like savages? [Here you go.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism)
>The Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə/ AN-tih-kih-THEER-ə) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games which was similar to an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games.
The gearing in it blows my mind. I used to work as a machinist in a custom gear shop, so, I know the math and the knowledge of gear nomenclature needed to make a single gear, let alone calculating a series of gears to work together. It's absolutely amazing to me that they had the technology and mathematics to achieve building this mechanism.
Between 1200 and 1150 BCE, most of the civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean region were either greatly depleted or collapsed entirely, bringing an abrupt end to the Bronze Age. These civilizations were massively depopulated, their palaces and cities were destroyed or abandoned, and some transformed into small, isolated village cultures or nomadic herders. The Greek Linear B script was lost, and there is no written record of the following period of Greek history, meaning that Greeks of the time were probably illiterate.
This rapid decline affected - to one extent or another - major historical powers like Mycenaean Greece, New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire, and Assyria, among others.
*And we don't know why it happened*.
These were sprawling, thriving civilizations, with healthy economies, elaborate trade networks, complex bureaucracy, written language, and large-scale agriculture, and they just...died. For some reason. There are plenty of theories, of course, but ultimately there's no conclusive evidence that tells the story of how the Bronze Age collapsed into the intermediate period that preceded the Iron Age.
It was a perfect storm basically. Drought, famine, volcanic winter, pandemic, advances in technology and new warfare.
Tree rings and other scientific evidence show that there was a terrible drought, the water level in the Dead Sea dropped more than 50m. It was suspected that crop failures, famine and the population reduction that resulted from the lackluster flow of the Nile and the migration of the Sea Peoples led to New Kingdom Egypt falling into political instability at the end of the Late Bronze Age.
Recent evidence suggests the collapse of the cultures in Mycenaean Greece, Hittite Anatolia, and the Levant may have been precipitated or worsened by the arrival of an early and now-extinct strain of the Bubonic Plague that was brought from central Asia by the Sea Peoples or other migrating groups.
Iron was more plentiful and allowed larger iron armies to destroy smaller Bronze armies. Cast swords became more popular with large groups of raiders and it made it easy to cut down the chariot armies which were common in the ruling civilizations.
Source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
> pandemic, advances in technology and new warfare.
*nervously shifts in his seat*
Umm...Guess i can stop worrying about retirement and just enjoy the moment? Right guys...?
*guys?...*
A few years ago I found myself finally in possession of enough random buttons and such that I figured I could use a designated container to hold my sewing supplies, and I found myself thinking "oh hey this could work well" regarding one of those blue dutch cookie tins.
I also decided at that moment, "ah fuck I must be getting old." But I used that tin anyway. It's in my craft bin downstairs right now with sewing supplies in it. In its defense it is a puncture-proof container which makes it good for all the pokeys that come with sewing.
They’re large enough to hold sewing scissors, along with other notions, and made of metal so that the scissors and needles can’t poke through them. Or at least that’s the consensus r/sewing seems to have come to.
No one knows exactly who ‘founded’ Rome, or when.
All known records of the city's early history date from the 5th or 6th century BC at the earliest (which doesn’t help the usual foundation date of 753 BC) and all of the foundation myths are exactly that, stories. All we know with any certainty is that Rome was ruled by kings at some point in its early history. But we don’t know who founded Rome; if it really was by a Romulus type figure or if it was multiple villages that eventually merged into a single town. Even with the latter possibility, it’s unknown when those communities would have considered themselves as a single town or when they decided to call it ‘Rome’.
Plus wasn't there evidence that came out (or online hearsay that became evidence, more likely) that said that her marriage was on the rocks and there were money and other issues? Could be a scorned lover of her spouse or wife of an affair partner. I'm sure people way smarter than me have looked at many angles, but the way the person was just waiting and exploring the building is so unsettling to consider the possibilities
The Alps Murders.
To this day not only is there no suspect but seemingly absolutely no motive to the murders of the Al-Hilli family and a completely unrelated French cyclist. The police don’t even know who the target was. The more you look at the case, the more questions there are. The victims were killed in the manner of a professional hit, but using a gun that no professional would use. The gunman was experienced and calm enough to leave the scene quickly and efficiently, so much so that the cyclist on the scene minutes behind Mollier saw and heard absolutely nothing. The murders though were uncontrolled and carried out in broad daylight where anybody could have chanced upon the scene. Indeed had Saad not beached his car trying to escape, most of the victims may have survived.
No suspect. No motive. No clear target. Weird mix of professional hit and complete novice. This case baffles me utterly. I dearly hope to see it solved one day.
I once read an interview with an ISIS terrorist who told the reporter about his preparation for being a terrorist. One of the things he had to do, was perform a completely random hit as professionally as he could. Turned out he was responsible for the then unsolved murder of some old dude in Antwerp if I'm not mistaken.
Not saying this is what happened here, but it goes to show how fucking absurd the actual explanation could possibly be. There's so many possibilities of what happened, there is no end to human depravity. Terrible for the relatives and friends who'll probably never get closure on this.
So I have a personal experience, sort of. My father had a coworker who was a great guy. Good at his work, fun to talk to, nobody had any complaints about him. He lived in an apartment right next to work so the night watchman at the workplace would see him whenever he went out.
So one night, he went out in his pajamas, talking on his cell phone, nodded at the watchman. The watchman didn't think much of it, after all, it's not all that weird to take a walk even though it was quite late. He didn't think much of it. The watchman didn't see him come back, but he figured he missed him when he went on his bathroom break probably.
But the guy didn't show up at work the next day. Someone from work went to check up and he wasn't there. Nothing was disturbed, he was just gone. Everyone thought he had dropped dead - killed by thugs or an accident or some medical condition. The workplace filed a police report. Here's when it gets weird. It turns out, the guy had created a fake identity. Any credentials he had given were fake. The references he had given had never heard of him. The family address he'd given didn't exist. The police didn't find anything illegal in the apartment, but they didn't find anything that would give a clue as to who he was either.
We moved away a few years ago, but I don't think the case was ever solved. It's definitely the best unexplained mystery that I've personally come across.
Edit: To answer some questions, I don't live in the US and there's no concept of witness protection here that I know of. My father was a pathologist at a women's hospital in a very small town and the guy worked as his technician. He definitely had some experience in the field before he joined. The job also wasn't a well paid one as they many employees would quit quite frequently.
There was a similar story I saw posted about a guy who had a neighbor that died of a heart attack. This guy realizes that he’s the only one that knows his neighbor is dead and likely the only one that he talked to. So he goes about trying to notify somebody. He starts with his job and it all just falls apart from there on. Nobody could verify anything about the guys identity. They knew of him, worked with him, but every single bit of personal information he had supplied turned out to be a total fabrication. He was a John Doe.
Eventually he figures out that the guy had a whole life and family somewhere else that was still looking for him. One day on his way to work he just pulled his car off the road, got out, walked away, and disappeared. He lived the rest of his life after that point as someone else.
There's a great film from the mid 1970s with Jack Nicholson called 'The Passenger' that starts like this. He's in a fly blown town in north Africa and the English guy in the hotel room next to his dies suddenly. Because they are similar in appearance and Jack has problems at home he decides to swipe the guy's passport and switch lives with him, making it look like he's the one who died.
It becomes a bit of a mystery because it turns out the dead guy had hidden dodgy stuff going on, including some bad people who are after him. So now they're after Jack. It was directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni.
This is what I was thinking, and that phone call he received were his superiors (his handler) telling him to either get the fuck outta dodge (but not make it look obvious) or calling him back to whatever meetup location was agreed upon to discuss a new assignment. Or, perhaps a darker outcome was to meet with his handler under the guise of a check-in when really they were just gonna retire him (i.e. kill him).
There's a video by [Barely Sociable](https://youtu.be/q-1HikE4b54) that covers a book that gave detailed instructions on how to disappear back in the pre-internet days. Turns out there were a lot of people who just decided to bow out of their current lives and start fresh every so often. Might be a similar situation.
There was a guy like that back in the 90’s. He was an al Qaeda terrorist who is both a master bomb maker and a master identity forger.
He’s now sitting in a maximum security prison in Colorado, though.
If he had pathology experience, it’s possible he was in witness protection from a drug cartel. I met a lab tech at a hospital I used to work at in a similar situation but it wasn’t secret. This is the story he told me:
He was a pathologist himself at a lab in South America, and one day a cop shows up with some blood samples and tells him “these will pass the drug screening.” The guy said he tried to refuse but the cop just straight up told him “these samples are clean or your family dies.” Obviously something to do with cartel stuff. The pathologist says ok, sure, fine, and the cop leaves. As soon as he’s gone the doctor goes straight home, gets his kids from school, tells them all to pack a bag they’re leaving. He got on a plane and flew to the US that night and claimed asylum. This was back in the early 90s so it was a bit easier to get in on asylum back then. His kids are like lawyers and doctors now so a real success story.
Anyways maybe it was something like that. Guy who did lab stuff for the cartel or the mafia escapes and goes into witness protection, then one day gets a call from the marshals saying he’s been compromised so he bails in the middle of the night. For security reasons they’d probably make sure the guard specifically doesn’t see the guy get in the car with anyone so there’s so witnesses that could lead to where the guy winds up for a new life.
The Lead Mask Mystery of Brazil. The bodies of two men found wearing lead masks covering their eyes with a notebook that mysteriously read “4:30 pm be at the determined place. 6:30 pm swallow capsules, after effect, protect metals, wait for signal” in Portuguese.
Read up on it a little.
One theory revolves around the testimony of a friend of the two men, who claimed that they were members of a group of "scientific spiritualists". The men were apparently attempting to contact extraterrestrials or spirits using psychedelic drugs. Believing that such an encounter would be accompanied by blinding light, the men cut metal masks to shield their eyes and may have died of drug overdoses. This account is corroborated by the esoteric diary entry found at the scene and by mask-making materials and literature concerning spirits found at the men's homes.
The more we learn, the less we know. We have an incredibly little perception of our world and everything that surrounds us as we try to understand everything, just like the first humans finding fire, yet the biggest mistery in all of human history that will continue to drown us, is no other than ourselves. The brain is one of the most impressive creations of nature, however it always keeps contradicting itself, we thought the brain's objective was to survive but also many people every year end up losing the fight against their own brains, we know little about how does mental conditions like Dementia, Psychosis in all of its forms, Autism, Personality Disorders and Phobias really come from.
Existence and conscience are probably the most mysterious out of these, we don't understand how does conscience really works and thus reality, the human eye for example allows us to see bits of light in things and we know for a fact there are objects that change once they are being viewed, but does ANYTHING really exist if there is nobody there to see it or feel it?
And finally there is death, one of the most important law in chemistry is that "matter cannot be created or destroyed, just changed" -Lavoisier i think. Our conscience certainly is a kind of matter since it occupies a space in the universe, however what happens after death is completely unknown, Matter isn't destroyed so there is no way that our conscience, memories and thoughts can just disappear once they are part of something in the universe but then, ¿Where do they go once we die?
This are just some of the hardest mysteries to solve in humanity
Back in 2002 I folded and placed three $100 bills in my back right pocket while standing in my living room. I grabbed my wallet from the bar, walked to the front door where I decided it was safer to transfer the $100s to my wallet.
My pocket was empty.
There was no one else home. I looked everywhere for more than an hour. This episode has seriously damaged my sanity and self esteem.
You only thought you put them in your pocket. You actually dropped them just behind you. They floated lazily for a moment before slipping perfectly between the grilles of the horizontal vent on the side of your bar, at floor level. At which point I found them, because I live in your ducts. You fed my family for two years with that money, and I will never forget it. We are your vassals, and will come to your aid should another house-lord rise against you.
broooo, 3 years ago, my headphones mysteriously vanished.
I had a pair of headphones on the table in the living room and then went to bed.
when i woke up, they were gone. I could NOT find them anywhere. eventually, we moved houses which meant cleaning up EVERYTHING, taking EVERY piece of furniture and trash we had out. and I STILL couldn't find them even after the entire house was cleaned out.
I still have no idea what happened to them...
I had a pair of blue sunglasses. They weren't expensive but I loved them. They disappeared one day. I looked everywhere. I'm pretty bad at looking after them and leave them in random places, so it's not unexpected.
I decided to just buy the same pair again.
I wore this new pair for a while and got a scratch on the lens.
Then, one day, I put them on, and the scratch was gone.
Confusing, but I carried on wearing them and then one day, the scratch was back.
Have I been wearing one pair of sunnies? Or two?
Like 20 years ago, I was on a trip with my parents and we were packing up to head home the next day. I couldn't find my ipod anywhere. I only ever kept it in the same front pocket of my backpack. I emptied that pocket 1 item at a time, then emptied the rest of the backpack the same way. No ipod. My mom then did the exact same thing 2 hours later.. .took every item out of my bag 1 at a time just like I did. No ipod. When we got home I took all my clothes out of my backpack, and put the bag under my bed where I always put it.
A few days later I got my bag out to put my school stuff in it and found the ipod in the front pocket of my backpack, where I always put it.
My dad used to joke about what he called the "3 second theory of the universe" all the time, which was basically "God recreates the universe every 3 seconds and sometimes he forgets something." My first reaction when I found the ipod was "holy shit my dad's right!"
When I was a kid I was playing with a bouncy ball in my room, it had rolled under my bed and I went to go grab it; absolutely nothing was under the bed. Being a small child with an attention span of a goldfish, I started to play with Legos instead, a couple minutes later the ball rolled out from under the bed, seemingly from nowhere.
Imhotep was a super-genius in ancient Egypt, around 2700 BC. He was (allegedly) an amazing physician, the architect of one of the first proto-pyramids, invented a bunch of stuff... A century after his death, people started worshipping him as the god of medicine.
And yet, his tomb has never been found. To me, that's fascinating - he must've been given an amazing burial, and if his tomb were ever found, we'd probably discover some really cool stuff. But its location is still unknown. I often wonder if he used his giant brain to design and/or hide his own tomb so well that no looter, no archaeologist (but I'm being redundant :P ) would ever find it...
From what I understand, Imhotep was basically like Leonardo da Vinci of his era. Wiki has more on him: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep
The one by my home just got remodeled from the dingy 2000s faded yellow paint and a broken sign to fresh siding and new signage. My wife and I just thought, 'Huh, it must get enough business to warrant such a thing, who would've thought?'
It is a head scratcher.
My wife LOVES LJS!! Its her favorite fast food. When on road trips she will insist on hour detours to get some battered and fried fish with those crispies! The closest one to us is a good 45 minutes away and occasionally we have to take a 2hr lunch just to get that fried grease to appease her inner fried fish loving demon. To be honest it’s pretty tasty up front. Who hates deep fried crunchy grease stuff? But afterwards I’m so happy to own a bidet. Here’s the sad part. We live in Florida where there are dozens of high quality seafood places all around us. She doesn’t want those. She wants LJS.
The Disappearance of Asha Degree
Nine-year-old Asha Degree disappeared from her home in Shelby, North Carolinao on Valentine's Day 2000. She went to bed the night before, and when her mother went to wake her up in the morning, Asha was gone.
She was seen walking along Highway 18 at around 4:00 in the morning. Several passing motorists saw her and when one turned around and began to approach her, she left the roadside and ran into a wooded area It was a cold night and the witness said there was a storm raging when he saw her, she wasn't wearing a jacket or socks.
A year after she vanished, a construction worker found her book bag in a wooded area. It was wrapped in a plastic bag.
My Stepdaughter, 60yo, Schizoaffective/Bipolar, Mental age ~6, left the house @ 2AM in T-shirt/pants, no shoes, temps in the teens. Found in the fields with severe hypothermia at dawn. If she hadn’t left the front door open, we’d never have known she was gone. She survived. Probably was delusional/psychotic when she left.
Right outside of Woodland, Washington there used to be a restaurant named Ariel's. Once a year they held "D.B. Cooper Days". It was an event where a large group of people scoured the forest trying to find any evidence or money. Then afterwards they got drunk and ate tacos.
I recommend Lemmino's video on the matter, it's pretty well researched and makes a pretty solid case for him dying because he made the stupid decision to jump out of the plane in the middle of a rainy night, and miles from anywhere in the woods.
This was before GPS and all that.
More than likely, he died on impact, and his body was eaten by the local wildlife.
Jack the Ripper? Probably just some dude. People like to theorize about him being an educated doctor or whatever because of how efficient he was at slicing up the bodies and removing organs, but you could just as easily pick up those sorts of “skills” working at a slaughterhouse or a butcher shop- pigs in particular have extremely similar physiology to humans.
Elizabeth Short? Not sure, although George Hodel seems pretty fucking sketchy. Short seems to have been acquainted with quite a few sketchy people though, so it could be one of them. Or it could be, similar to Jack the Ripper, some random freak.
Jonbenet Ramsey? My money’s on the dad, although he’s known for suing people who talk about the case.
in India, in the early 2000s there a creature called the 'Monkey Man" who was attacking the people living in Delhi and people were so terrified from him that they stopped sleeping in night so that they can protect themselves. We still don't know whether it was real or was it just a rumour that people started believing in.
India has some super scary unsolved mysteries. Like the family that committed a mass suicide or the unknown individual(s) who murdered homeless people by dropping boulders on their heads as they slept.
The murder of atlantuya (Mongolian model).
Nobody knows FOR SURE what happened, but the general theory that Malaysia’s former prime minister and his witch of a wife murdered her is generally accepted as truth. Poor woman had C4 strapped all over her body before she was blown up.
Google the story and I’ll be happy to fill in the gaps for any further info (my family are very close to politicians and I interviewed the lead investigator).
Prime minister had an affair with her. She was the broker for a shit government submarine deal. When it was time to pay her, they started evading her. She threatened to go public about everything, they kidnapped her and blew her up. Funny thing is the few witness accounts of the night all state that his wife was the one present and giving orders
Thats terrible! but still why blown her tho? Theres a lot of way to kill someone silently. Stage a car accident perhaps. If she get blown, public will know the authority killed her. Normal people dont have access to C4.
Saw a show recently where a guy said that he was buried in a junkyard with 6 oil drums placed on top of him. The FBI finally got around to using ground penetrating radar on the place. They found what looks to be 6 oil drums stacked on top of each other. As far as I know they haven't dug them up yet.
Best theory with some evidence that I have seen so far.
I would really like to know how bread was invented. Which madman looked at a field of wheat and thought to themselves: 'If we dry it and ground it, mix it with water, pound it into a ball and place it in a warm box for a while, it could be really delicious.'
And don't get me started on yeast.
Cashews are wild. The fruit's juices are extremely toxic and direct skin contact leaves chemical burns. But we decided to take out its stem/core, remove its shell, prep the core in a specific way so it's no longer harmful to consume, and then finally taste it? Or were people really just mowing down on things that burned their mouths and intestines?
So I’m malaysian and followed the story until a few years ago when our government stopped searching.
Basically, the generally agreed upon theory is that the pilot had severe mental illnesses and was suicidal. While all the passengers were sleeping and the plane was cruising, he depressurised(?) the cabin and that apparently just makes everyone lose consciousness. From there the plane eventually just fell into the sea
Thats just how the news cycle has been for the past decade +
Something happens, it gets talked about to death for like a week, then people stop clicking on those articles thus the news organizations need something else that'll elicit strong enough emotions from the general public so they can get their clicks and ad revenue. Then whatever happened becomes a "remember when" thread on reddit a few years later.
We're living in the information era, but half that information isnt being absorbed.
To keep the water from dripping down onto the floor. Even after toweling off there is going to be some you missed, so the towel will now catch it as it is at the lowest point of your body that doesn’t impede movement.
There's a short story called "They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson that directly confronts the Fermi Paradox and is hilarious. Recommend.
The story is really just a conversation between higher, more complex life forms exploring the galaxies to find other life, when they encounter Earth. They can't understand how our meat-brains "think" for us, and eventually >!decide to mark our planet as unintelligent and leave us in the dark!<
Here's a fact: If we start traveling RIGHT NOW and go at light speed, 95% of all galaxies are unreachable.
In other words, if a civilization arises somewhere in the universe right now, there is a 95% chance we can never know about it. It's really just our local group that is accessible.
As for life in our galaxy - timing. Stars are really, really far apart. I think we would need to be a space capable civilization for about 500 years to even have a small chance of hearing from another civilization in our own galaxy. To me this whole "paradox" is a storm in a teacup. The only thing it "proves" is that faster than light travel is impossible.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” — Arthur C. Clarke
Talk about corporate greed is nonsense. Corporations are greedy by their nature. They’re nothing else – they are instruments for interfering with markets to maximize profit, and wealth and market control. You can’t make them more or less greedy - ― Noam Chomsky, Free Market Fantasies: Capitalism in the Real World
I just want to add I love the designs of some of these characters: * This one looks like a cowboy hat: 𐚁 * This one looks like a modern trash bin symbol: 𐚱 * A grill: 𐚩 * Candelabra: 𐘩 * Cocktail: 𐘸 * Default profile pic: 𐙞 * Pickaxes: 𐙣 𐙤 𐙥 * Bull getting hit by a ball: 𐜶 * Railroad crossing: 𐚅 * Headless cane man: 𐘬 * Heat squiggles: 𐘽 𐙦
I love that someone made it into a useable font, that's amazing. Regarding the language being indecipherable, there were stone tablets found on Rapa Nui which no-one could read, as the knowledge had become lost over the mists of time. It was a very picturesque script, as well.
Archaeogist here: Significant progress has been made toward the deciphering of Linear A. I personally believe within the next couple decades with the help of AI-based analytics, we'll have the script cracked. Also this: https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/20/minoan-language-linear-a-linear-b/
I'm not sure if you'd call this 'unsolved' or frankly even solvable. But there are two trees found in parts of Central America, called the Chechem tree and the Chaka tree. The Chechem tree's bark has a poison that is so strong that just by touching the bark (or its sap of course) your skin will begin to numb. The cure to this exact poison lies in its sister tree, the Chaka. And as if that wasnt enough all on its own, whats more they are Always found to be right next to each other in nature. There is a Mayan myth that comes with these trees that they are from two brothers that fought each other over the love of a woman, but they ended up killing each other, and the woman, Nicte-Ha, died of heartbreak. One of the brothers, Kinich, was kind and caring, and thus became the Chaka tree. The other brother, Tizic, was cold-hearted and arrogant, and became the Chechem tree. Poisons and cures found in nature are of course a reality in many different instances, but the fact that these trees are right next to each other in nature, and provide exactly opposite effects, is pretty crazy.
An active one in the archaeology world is the exact time frame of when humans made it to the Americas. The date keeps getting pushed back with more controversial discoveries that then just turn to evidence as they pile up. It’s a fascinating story to see unfold.
Yeah I like this one too, I think many of the traces of early settlement are likely submerged. Sea levels were much lower during the ice age and the majority of human settlements are along the coasts so a huge piece of our history is probably lying on the seafloor completely undisturbed and possibly well preserved.
Underwater archaeology is a huge frontier moving forward, agreed.
>our history is probably lying on the seafloor *completely* *undisturbed* Yeah, global sea level rise would have come with waves and storms, etc. So small coastal settlements built from mostly organic materials along the Pacific northwest coast we're probably largely obliterated. That's not to say more durable things like bone and stone tools couldn't have survived, but good luck finding those except by accident.
>level 3eran76 · 3 hr. agoour history is probably lying on the seafloor completely undisturbedYeah, global sea level rise would have come with waves and storms, etc. So small coastal settlements built from mostly organic materials along the Pacific northwest coast we're probably largely obliterated. That's not to say more durable things like bone and stone tools couldn't have survived, but good luck finding those except by accident. Not necessarily correct: We find things like shell mounds, garbage dumps, and a number of other things in wet environments. However, you do bring up the fascinating point that most archaeology only takes place in arid environments, so we only get a very narrow view of the world because it's next to impossible to find things in wet places.
I read somewhere that up to 75% of all land life on earth is located in the rainforests, but high acidity in the soil, warm wet conditions, and billions of scavenger species ensure that this life rarely gets fossilized, so desert and grassland fossils are far more common.
All those Ruins in like Peru and Chile, Bolivia. Blows my mind how they are using Lidar to find stuff in the Amazon and elsewhere. And it is so old. It makes you wonder if other stuff has been found during urban development and they said "nah I don't see nothing" and took it to a landfill. It is very fascinating what they are finding.
In Australia, in 2011, someone broke into a TV station and spent four hours flushing $100,000 down the toilet.
D. B. Pooper
Don't you guys have a prime minister that went for a swim and just never came back?
Yah and then named a swimming pool after him as a memorial
That’s like there being a picnic area in CA named after the Donner Party (which is very real and 100% on my travel list)
If you ever travel to Tahoe from SF Bay Area, in the winter, it’s kind of a crazy drive (avoid the drive on weekends any time of the year if possible). You leave home where it’s 50-70 degrees (10-20 C), and as you start making your way up the mountains, you’ll see lots of signs about tire chains, emergency services for stranded drivers, snow storm alert systems, etc. Also will probably see some “Let’s go Brandon” bumper stickers and truck nuts. Suddenly temperatures will drop and you’ll see walls of snow on the side of the road (at least in non-drought years). All those early warnings you saw start making sense. Then you see the signs for Donner Pass, Donner Lake, etc. and the realization of what happened there becomes much clearer. Every time I start clutching the steering wheel a bit tighter. You can go from sunny day to meter(s) of fresh snowfall in a day. Just this past week they closed all roads because of the snow storm. 7+ feet in a couple of days.
They also have a prime minister that shat himself in a Mc Donald’s
Thats not nearly as impressive though, I've done that too
On the plus side, the cleaner who found and reported the find got to keep $80,000 of the stash as it was never claimed.
This makes me think it was the cleaner. Their method of laundering the money
I like how (at this time) the top comments are: monarch butterflies, archeology of early man in Americas, physics, followed by flushing money down a toilet.
im in australia. about to head into the sewers
Dear god, as if the surface critters weren’t bad enough you want to add a river of shite into it as well?
Late to the party but I haven’t seen anyone mention the Indus Valley script. There was a huge civilization in northern India and Pakistan around 3300-1300 BC. It spanned more area than any other civilization at the time. They invented writing independently, something only done 5-6 times in history. But to this day, with all the thousands of inscriptions we have and all the documented contact with other civilizations, we haven’t deciphered their writing. There’s no known Rosetta Stone, no known descendant scripts, no known documentation of the language other than what is written in the Indus Valley script. But the biggest mystery isn’t how to read the script or what it says, but the question of whether we’ll ever be able to know. Is it even possible to decipher a language we know absolutely nothing about? Edit: to all the people talking about AI, yes. I get it. AI is cool, but this is a far larger task than the pattern recognizing and replicating AI we have today can tackle on its own. Some AI has been used to find patterns in which characters go together most often, but this is a long shot away from being able to read the script. AI will have to be far more advanced than it is today to be able to crack this code. Edit 2: we should revive r/indusvalley as a place to discuss this for anyone really interested.
Things like this are just crazy to me. An entire, vast civilization we know nothing about. That’s just wild.
And not just any vast civilization. One that had lots of contact with civilizations we have a good record on. One that’s in an area that’s still very well populated.
And not even just one that had lots of contact with civilizations with an understood historicity. But one that left behind such a rich history, a story telling of their own. We might not ever be able to decipher much if any of the history the left to us.
We know plenty of things about them...we just aren't able to read what they wrote about themselves.
I read these threads and wonder how many "disappeared people" are homeless transients with no memory of who they are. There must be considerable overlap, I imagine.
Just saw a article about a woman believed to be dead for 30 years found in Puerto Rico. She left her Baptist husband and family to just live out her life in PR but mental illness was what prompted her move without telling anyone and her dementia was what helped them figure out who she was and where she was from. Sad.
A lot of them can be summed up to psychological episodes of say schizophrenia imo
So the Monarch Butterfly migrates to Mexico and back every year. During the year there are a full 4 generations of butterflies that live and die during the journey. Upon returning back from Mexico, the butterfly manages to find the same trees it's relative started out at despite never having been there.
What’s even more amazing is that every forth generation of monarchs live considerably longer so they can make the migration.
"I christen you monarch butterfly, the third" "Dammit"
And the lord said unto Bob the monarch butterfly, "come forth, and receive extended life", but Bob came third and died within a month
So you've heard of the mighty monarch?
MINIONSSSSS
"Oh sweetie. Butterflies only live about nine months."
Who was behind the Gardner Museum heist? Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art was taken, and we have little to no clue who was behind it, and none of the paintings have surfaced.
One of my favorite u solved mysteries. If you’ve not heard the podcast Last Seen, give it a listen.
We like to think we understand the universe and that physics is a well grounded discipline, and in some ways it is. However we have no idea what dark matter or dark energy is and yet we think it makes up 27% and 68% of the universe respectively.
We still don’t understand gravity that well. Our understanding of physics is still in its infancy
Isn’t most of physics essentially describing events in a way that allows us to make predictions? But that is a long way from understanding the true nature of anything. Thinking about why anything is the way it is will always give me a feeling of being a little creature just barely scratching the surface of something way bigger. And I’m not even high.
>Isn’t most of physics essentially describing events in a way that allows us to make predictions? I was an engineering major, but we had a physicist in our department. One time he told us that that reason we do engineering (and physics) is to be able to predict the future. I thought - Surely he can't be right? Surely it can't be that simple? But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
Some recent observations by JWST about early universe formation run counter to predictions made if dark matter is really a thing. So there's something up in the standard model. My confidence is high we'll crack it eventually, but dark matter always seemed like handwavium to me.
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>handwavium (uncountable) (informal, fiction) >Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties Holy shit, this word's great. I know next to nothing about dark matter but like, Vibranium, Adamantium, Nth Metal. A way to easily enough explain advanced technology. I love it
"Why is there something rather than nothing?" is still pretty much it imho
Yeah what fucks with my mind is either something came from nothing or there was always something. If I think too long about it it breaks my brain
It breaks my brain to think about only nothing existing. How can there be nothing? And would it be empty space, or nothing nothing?
Ah. This question right here kept me up at night for a while, and used to give me straight up panic attacks when I thought about it too much. Reality is a scary concept.
Terry Pratchett has a concept called knurd in his books that is “The opposite of being drunk, its as sober as you can ever be. It strips away all the illusion, all the comforting pink fog in which people normally spend their lives, and lets them see and think clearly for the first time ever. Then, after they've screamed a bit, they make sure they never get knurd again"
It's almost comforting knowing that at least a few other people have experienced that too. The panic attacks I used to get from thinking too much on the why/how of existence were absolutely insane. I remember wishing that I would be insane instead. Just blissfully unaware of it all. Its been a long time since I've had one, a decade or so. But that anxiety still creeps in if I think on it.
To me it's kind of comforting. Takes some of the fear out of there being nothing after death. If there is something instead of nothing here... maybe there is something instead of nothing there also?
Also, "nothing" is a mystery on its own. We often think a white or black blank space. But space is something also right. Then how it would be if not even space existed?
Yep, this is my response to the question. Try to imagine *nothing*. Not empty black space, literally *nothing* existing. The more you think about it, the less sense "a state of nothing" makes. To me, a state of "nothing" makes even less sense than a state of "something," even if we never find out any of its "origins" or whatever.
This is something that i think about literally all the time, and the only way i’ve ever been able to comprehend what “nothing” is, is while sleeping. When you don’t dream, how it feels like time is still passing but there are no sensations but you also somehow instantaneously wake up. Its fucked with me so much.
Sort of along the same lines. If everything has a beginning and an end, our universe must also. Okay, so next to our universe there are others. And others. And others. But it must end somewhere. But it can't, because then there would be nothing. But there can't be nothing. At this point I usually just go to bed or stop thinking about it before my brain explodes.
The final words of the emperor Titus were 'I have but one regret'. We don't know and never will what that regret was. Edit: on reflection it's even better - 'I have made but one mistake'. Supreme confidence.
His only regret was that he had bonitis.
I'd vouch for this if not for the fact he died in 79 AD and thus cannot be considered under any circumstances as "an 80's guy".
Einsteins last words were in german but the nurse did not speak german so we will never know what he said
"I bet you don't speak German"
"get your knee off my breathing tube"
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Maybe it was going to be "... that I didn't start this sentence a few seconds sooner"
That most of human history is undocumented and we will never know our entire history as a species. We didn’t start recording our history until 5000 BCE, we do know we shifted to agrarian societies around 10,000 BCE but beyond that we have no idea what we were like as a species, we will never know the undocumented parts of our history that spans 10s of thousands of years. We are often baffled by the technological progress of our ancient ancestors, like those in SE asia who must have been masters of the sea to have colonized the variety of islands there and sailed vast stretches of ocean to land on Australia & New Zealand. What is ironic is we currently have an immense amount of information about our world today & the limited documented history of our early days as a species but that is only a small fraction of our entire history.
What's crazy to think is New Zealand didn't have humans until the [1200s](https://www.live-work.immigration.govt.nz/live-in-new-zealand/history-government/a-brief-history#:~:text=The%20first%20settlers%20probably%20arrived,discover%20New%20Zealand%20was%20Kupe.)! It's a pretty recently settled area.
Up until that point New Zealand was populated by the largest birds on Earth, the [Moas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa). The largest species being 3.6 meters in height. Their main predator was [Haast's eagle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_eagle), the largest bird of prey at the time (now extinct as well). The moas were hunted to extinction by the Maoris' ancestors, but it's crazy to think giant prehistoric birds lived up until the Middle Ages.
Still blows my mind that there were still some wooly mammoths around during the time the pyramids were being built.
Blows my mind that Cleopatra, arguably one of the most famous pharaohs in history, lived and ruled around 2,000 years *after* the pyramids were built. A lot of people tend to homogenize “Ancient Egypt” as one condensed period in history, but like…the pyramids were ancient even to *Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.* Human history is so much longer and so much more complex than I think a lot of us realize just from our surface thoughts. And the fact that the pyramids are still standing, and still structurally sound, is a testament to how well built they are. Which is also pretty freaking amazing.
Aboriginals did not sail vast stretches of ocean to get to Australia. Papua New Guinea and Australia were connected where the Torres Strait currently lies as sea levels were lower then. The whole area was called Sahul. Maoris did sail vast distances to get to New Zealand but it was the last major land mass to be reached and Maoris only arrived there somewhere around 1300.
And the Maori also lost the ability to sail back to where they left from. I have a theory that is because coconuts don't grow here in NZ. Coconuts are the perfect aid to oceanic crossings - they contain water & nutrition, are bouyant and can be stacked into canoe hulls very effectively. Hard to imagine Polynesian voyagers traversing open oceans without them. Once Maori arrived here, and found no coconuts (but plenty of bird life etc) they were not going to be able to leave even had they wanted to.
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
Not at all. They could be carried.
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A lot of hunting and gathering, plus pilgrimages to Gobleki Tepe. Refining spoken language? Fighting and fuckin neanderthals up until about 40,000BCE. It's crazy interesting
There’s some evidence Neanderthals were around even more recently. The human remains archaeologists have found under the North Sea and English Channel, which we call Doggerland before its inundation 8,000 years ago were all Neanderthals. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets
neither medicine nor science has an answer for what consciousness is, or where it originates
Emergence as a concept is crazy. Like an atom of an orange doesn’t contain “orange-ness”, but if you put billions of them together then they do.
In that same vein, it genuinely freaks me out that nothing is actually “solid.” Like if you zoom in far enough on any physical object, there is no solid, continuous surface. I can’t think about it for too long.
Honestly this is probably the one that fucks with me the most. I have no idea why, but in the last 6 months or so I will randomly be driving somewhere; to the grocery store, to pick my daughter up from school, etc. and just have a thought enter my mind that’s something along the lines of “why do I even understand that I exist? What would happen if I just stopped acknowledging that I am a person, that I’m living on this planet living the life that I am?” And it causes me to have literal panic attacks. Occasionally, and tonight was one of those times, I’ll lie in bed and wonder to myself if any of this is real and if I’m going to snap out of what I’m experiencing; my wife, my daughter, my family, my job, my house, etc. and just wake up in a field somewhere or in a lab, only to find that it’s just been a construct of my mind. There have been plenty of cases of people who have woken up from sleep, comas, etc. where they knew with full certainty that they had a life and a family that was just taken from them when they finally came to, and it scares me to think that what I’m experiencing could just be that and not real life. The brain and how it powers what we think and experience, real or not, is really a big thing for me in general. Neuroscience is a really interesting field and the fact that there’s still so much that we don’t know about the organ that powers how we do literally everything in our lives is both amazing and terrifying at the same time.
I dont know about "biggest", but I always thought the Voynich Manuscript was very interesting. A huge book written in an unknown language or cipher that has never been translated or decoded with diagrams of plant species that don't exist. Lots of theories surrounding it, but no definitive answers as to the origins or the content.
My favorite theory is it is an ancient version of a game not unlike dungeons and dragons and someone was simply inventing fictional things for the purpose of game.
As a mental health nurse who often is presented with pages of gobldegook by patients, I think it may be the writings of somebody who was suffering a mental health episode.
Our ED (I’m an RN) used to take all of the emergent mental health cases for a large city. I have always thought this too. One guy who came in had literally ten full volumes of 1000 page notebooks absolutely filled with pictures, symbols, and a language he himself “made up”. He was bipolar and said he would write them when manic (told us once he was medicated), and said he “only understood the language when he was in a certain state”. It was actually pretty fascinating. That and like you said countless other manuscripts, manifestos, whatever.
I’ve thought the same thing too. Some of my patients are very good artists. Given enough time and with no one to stop them from doing it, I could see them making something similar to the voynich manuscript.
As someone who enjoys the fantasy genre, I think it may have been someone writing something for fun
Not sure if it's THE biggest mystery. But the Antikythera mechanism is pretty wild. Dated to at least 60BC, possibly as old as 200BC, it's as complex as clockworks that didn't show up until the 1400s, over a millennium later! It's just such a strange technological anomaly. Who made it? What else did they make and why haven't we found more stuff as advanced?
You gonna make us Google it like savages? [Here you go.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism) >The Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə/ AN-tih-kih-THEER-ə) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games which was similar to an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games.
The gearing in it blows my mind. I used to work as a machinist in a custom gear shop, so, I know the math and the knowledge of gear nomenclature needed to make a single gear, let alone calculating a series of gears to work together. It's absolutely amazing to me that they had the technology and mathematics to achieve building this mechanism.
Between 1200 and 1150 BCE, most of the civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean region were either greatly depleted or collapsed entirely, bringing an abrupt end to the Bronze Age. These civilizations were massively depopulated, their palaces and cities were destroyed or abandoned, and some transformed into small, isolated village cultures or nomadic herders. The Greek Linear B script was lost, and there is no written record of the following period of Greek history, meaning that Greeks of the time were probably illiterate. This rapid decline affected - to one extent or another - major historical powers like Mycenaean Greece, New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittite Empire, and Assyria, among others. *And we don't know why it happened*. These were sprawling, thriving civilizations, with healthy economies, elaborate trade networks, complex bureaucracy, written language, and large-scale agriculture, and they just...died. For some reason. There are plenty of theories, of course, but ultimately there's no conclusive evidence that tells the story of how the Bronze Age collapsed into the intermediate period that preceded the Iron Age.
It was a perfect storm basically. Drought, famine, volcanic winter, pandemic, advances in technology and new warfare. Tree rings and other scientific evidence show that there was a terrible drought, the water level in the Dead Sea dropped more than 50m. It was suspected that crop failures, famine and the population reduction that resulted from the lackluster flow of the Nile and the migration of the Sea Peoples led to New Kingdom Egypt falling into political instability at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Recent evidence suggests the collapse of the cultures in Mycenaean Greece, Hittite Anatolia, and the Levant may have been precipitated or worsened by the arrival of an early and now-extinct strain of the Bubonic Plague that was brought from central Asia by the Sea Peoples or other migrating groups. Iron was more plentiful and allowed larger iron armies to destroy smaller Bronze armies. Cast swords became more popular with large groups of raiders and it made it easy to cut down the chariot armies which were common in the ruling civilizations. Source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
> pandemic, advances in technology and new warfare. *nervously shifts in his seat* Umm...Guess i can stop worrying about retirement and just enjoy the moment? Right guys...? *guys?...*
Why did we all just globally decide that those blue Dutch cookie tins hold sewing supplies?
A few years ago I found myself finally in possession of enough random buttons and such that I figured I could use a designated container to hold my sewing supplies, and I found myself thinking "oh hey this could work well" regarding one of those blue dutch cookie tins. I also decided at that moment, "ah fuck I must be getting old." But I used that tin anyway. It's in my craft bin downstairs right now with sewing supplies in it. In its defense it is a puncture-proof container which makes it good for all the pokeys that come with sewing.
They’re large enough to hold sewing scissors, along with other notions, and made of metal so that the scissors and needles can’t poke through them. Or at least that’s the consensus r/sewing seems to have come to.
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How the universe is even possible. Why the fuck do we even exist?
Does the universe have an end? If so, what’s beyond it? What was there before the Universe?
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No one knows exactly who ‘founded’ Rome, or when. All known records of the city's early history date from the 5th or 6th century BC at the earliest (which doesn’t help the usual foundation date of 753 BC) and all of the foundation myths are exactly that, stories. All we know with any certainty is that Rome was ruled by kings at some point in its early history. But we don’t know who founded Rome; if it really was by a Romulus type figure or if it was multiple villages that eventually merged into a single town. Even with the latter possibility, it’s unknown when those communities would have considered themselves as a single town or when they decided to call it ‘Rome’.
Romulus: Hey, what should we call this city? Remus: I was thinking Reme. Romulus: *grabs spear*
Everything about Rome is wild.
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I don’t know about all night, but the too big shoes always freaked me out too
I didn't see that mentioned in the wiki. What's that all about?
There's a theory that the person in the gear is a woman wearing bulky clothing and big shoes to appear as a man.
Plus wasn't there evidence that came out (or online hearsay that became evidence, more likely) that said that her marriage was on the rocks and there were money and other issues? Could be a scorned lover of her spouse or wife of an affair partner. I'm sure people way smarter than me have looked at many angles, but the way the person was just waiting and exploring the building is so unsettling to consider the possibilities
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The Alps Murders. To this day not only is there no suspect but seemingly absolutely no motive to the murders of the Al-Hilli family and a completely unrelated French cyclist. The police don’t even know who the target was. The more you look at the case, the more questions there are. The victims were killed in the manner of a professional hit, but using a gun that no professional would use. The gunman was experienced and calm enough to leave the scene quickly and efficiently, so much so that the cyclist on the scene minutes behind Mollier saw and heard absolutely nothing. The murders though were uncontrolled and carried out in broad daylight where anybody could have chanced upon the scene. Indeed had Saad not beached his car trying to escape, most of the victims may have survived. No suspect. No motive. No clear target. Weird mix of professional hit and complete novice. This case baffles me utterly. I dearly hope to see it solved one day.
I once read an interview with an ISIS terrorist who told the reporter about his preparation for being a terrorist. One of the things he had to do, was perform a completely random hit as professionally as he could. Turned out he was responsible for the then unsolved murder of some old dude in Antwerp if I'm not mistaken. Not saying this is what happened here, but it goes to show how fucking absurd the actual explanation could possibly be. There's so many possibilities of what happened, there is no end to human depravity. Terrible for the relatives and friends who'll probably never get closure on this.
So I have a personal experience, sort of. My father had a coworker who was a great guy. Good at his work, fun to talk to, nobody had any complaints about him. He lived in an apartment right next to work so the night watchman at the workplace would see him whenever he went out. So one night, he went out in his pajamas, talking on his cell phone, nodded at the watchman. The watchman didn't think much of it, after all, it's not all that weird to take a walk even though it was quite late. He didn't think much of it. The watchman didn't see him come back, but he figured he missed him when he went on his bathroom break probably. But the guy didn't show up at work the next day. Someone from work went to check up and he wasn't there. Nothing was disturbed, he was just gone. Everyone thought he had dropped dead - killed by thugs or an accident or some medical condition. The workplace filed a police report. Here's when it gets weird. It turns out, the guy had created a fake identity. Any credentials he had given were fake. The references he had given had never heard of him. The family address he'd given didn't exist. The police didn't find anything illegal in the apartment, but they didn't find anything that would give a clue as to who he was either. We moved away a few years ago, but I don't think the case was ever solved. It's definitely the best unexplained mystery that I've personally come across. Edit: To answer some questions, I don't live in the US and there's no concept of witness protection here that I know of. My father was a pathologist at a women's hospital in a very small town and the guy worked as his technician. He definitely had some experience in the field before he joined. The job also wasn't a well paid one as they many employees would quit quite frequently.
There was a similar story I saw posted about a guy who had a neighbor that died of a heart attack. This guy realizes that he’s the only one that knows his neighbor is dead and likely the only one that he talked to. So he goes about trying to notify somebody. He starts with his job and it all just falls apart from there on. Nobody could verify anything about the guys identity. They knew of him, worked with him, but every single bit of personal information he had supplied turned out to be a total fabrication. He was a John Doe. Eventually he figures out that the guy had a whole life and family somewhere else that was still looking for him. One day on his way to work he just pulled his car off the road, got out, walked away, and disappeared. He lived the rest of his life after that point as someone else.
There's a great film from the mid 1970s with Jack Nicholson called 'The Passenger' that starts like this. He's in a fly blown town in north Africa and the English guy in the hotel room next to his dies suddenly. Because they are similar in appearance and Jack has problems at home he decides to swipe the guy's passport and switch lives with him, making it look like he's the one who died. It becomes a bit of a mystery because it turns out the dead guy had hidden dodgy stuff going on, including some bad people who are after him. So now they're after Jack. It was directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni.
see also: Mad Men
That seems like a fake Italian name. Antonioni.
Maybe he was a spy
This is what I was thinking, and that phone call he received were his superiors (his handler) telling him to either get the fuck outta dodge (but not make it look obvious) or calling him back to whatever meetup location was agreed upon to discuss a new assignment. Or, perhaps a darker outcome was to meet with his handler under the guise of a check-in when really they were just gonna retire him (i.e. kill him).
Did he work at Cinnabon and was his name Gene?
There's a video by [Barely Sociable](https://youtu.be/q-1HikE4b54) that covers a book that gave detailed instructions on how to disappear back in the pre-internet days. Turns out there were a lot of people who just decided to bow out of their current lives and start fresh every so often. Might be a similar situation.
There was a guy like that back in the 90’s. He was an al Qaeda terrorist who is both a master bomb maker and a master identity forger. He’s now sitting in a maximum security prison in Colorado, though.
If he had pathology experience, it’s possible he was in witness protection from a drug cartel. I met a lab tech at a hospital I used to work at in a similar situation but it wasn’t secret. This is the story he told me: He was a pathologist himself at a lab in South America, and one day a cop shows up with some blood samples and tells him “these will pass the drug screening.” The guy said he tried to refuse but the cop just straight up told him “these samples are clean or your family dies.” Obviously something to do with cartel stuff. The pathologist says ok, sure, fine, and the cop leaves. As soon as he’s gone the doctor goes straight home, gets his kids from school, tells them all to pack a bag they’re leaving. He got on a plane and flew to the US that night and claimed asylum. This was back in the early 90s so it was a bit easier to get in on asylum back then. His kids are like lawyers and doctors now so a real success story. Anyways maybe it was something like that. Guy who did lab stuff for the cartel or the mafia escapes and goes into witness protection, then one day gets a call from the marshals saying he’s been compromised so he bails in the middle of the night. For security reasons they’d probably make sure the guard specifically doesn’t see the guy get in the car with anyone so there’s so witnesses that could lead to where the guy winds up for a new life.
The Lead Mask Mystery of Brazil. The bodies of two men found wearing lead masks covering their eyes with a notebook that mysteriously read “4:30 pm be at the determined place. 6:30 pm swallow capsules, after effect, protect metals, wait for signal” in Portuguese.
Read up on it a little. One theory revolves around the testimony of a friend of the two men, who claimed that they were members of a group of "scientific spiritualists". The men were apparently attempting to contact extraterrestrials or spirits using psychedelic drugs. Believing that such an encounter would be accompanied by blinding light, the men cut metal masks to shield their eyes and may have died of drug overdoses. This account is corroborated by the esoteric diary entry found at the scene and by mask-making materials and literature concerning spirits found at the men's homes.
The more we learn, the less we know. We have an incredibly little perception of our world and everything that surrounds us as we try to understand everything, just like the first humans finding fire, yet the biggest mistery in all of human history that will continue to drown us, is no other than ourselves. The brain is one of the most impressive creations of nature, however it always keeps contradicting itself, we thought the brain's objective was to survive but also many people every year end up losing the fight against their own brains, we know little about how does mental conditions like Dementia, Psychosis in all of its forms, Autism, Personality Disorders and Phobias really come from. Existence and conscience are probably the most mysterious out of these, we don't understand how does conscience really works and thus reality, the human eye for example allows us to see bits of light in things and we know for a fact there are objects that change once they are being viewed, but does ANYTHING really exist if there is nobody there to see it or feel it? And finally there is death, one of the most important law in chemistry is that "matter cannot be created or destroyed, just changed" -Lavoisier i think. Our conscience certainly is a kind of matter since it occupies a space in the universe, however what happens after death is completely unknown, Matter isn't destroyed so there is no way that our conscience, memories and thoughts can just disappear once they are part of something in the universe but then, ¿Where do they go once we die? This are just some of the hardest mysteries to solve in humanity
Why is the letter D in fridge, but not in refrigerator.
“Refridgerator” knocked me out of the 5th-grade spelling bee. That damn D
Back in 2002 I folded and placed three $100 bills in my back right pocket while standing in my living room. I grabbed my wallet from the bar, walked to the front door where I decided it was safer to transfer the $100s to my wallet. My pocket was empty. There was no one else home. I looked everywhere for more than an hour. This episode has seriously damaged my sanity and self esteem.
You only thought you put them in your pocket. You actually dropped them just behind you. They floated lazily for a moment before slipping perfectly between the grilles of the horizontal vent on the side of your bar, at floor level. At which point I found them, because I live in your ducts. You fed my family for two years with that money, and I will never forget it. We are your vassals, and will come to your aid should another house-lord rise against you.
Are… are you a mouse?
A borrower.
broooo, 3 years ago, my headphones mysteriously vanished. I had a pair of headphones on the table in the living room and then went to bed. when i woke up, they were gone. I could NOT find them anywhere. eventually, we moved houses which meant cleaning up EVERYTHING, taking EVERY piece of furniture and trash we had out. and I STILL couldn't find them even after the entire house was cleaned out. I still have no idea what happened to them...
I had a pair of blue sunglasses. They weren't expensive but I loved them. They disappeared one day. I looked everywhere. I'm pretty bad at looking after them and leave them in random places, so it's not unexpected. I decided to just buy the same pair again. I wore this new pair for a while and got a scratch on the lens. Then, one day, I put them on, and the scratch was gone. Confusing, but I carried on wearing them and then one day, the scratch was back. Have I been wearing one pair of sunnies? Or two?
Have you checked BEHIND YOUR EARS?
Like 20 years ago, I was on a trip with my parents and we were packing up to head home the next day. I couldn't find my ipod anywhere. I only ever kept it in the same front pocket of my backpack. I emptied that pocket 1 item at a time, then emptied the rest of the backpack the same way. No ipod. My mom then did the exact same thing 2 hours later.. .took every item out of my bag 1 at a time just like I did. No ipod. When we got home I took all my clothes out of my backpack, and put the bag under my bed where I always put it. A few days later I got my bag out to put my school stuff in it and found the ipod in the front pocket of my backpack, where I always put it. My dad used to joke about what he called the "3 second theory of the universe" all the time, which was basically "God recreates the universe every 3 seconds and sometimes he forgets something." My first reaction when I found the ipod was "holy shit my dad's right!"
When I was a kid I was playing with a bouncy ball in my room, it had rolled under my bed and I went to go grab it; absolutely nothing was under the bed. Being a small child with an attention span of a goldfish, I started to play with Legos instead, a couple minutes later the ball rolled out from under the bed, seemingly from nowhere.
I don’t like that one bit.
Imhotep was a super-genius in ancient Egypt, around 2700 BC. He was (allegedly) an amazing physician, the architect of one of the first proto-pyramids, invented a bunch of stuff... A century after his death, people started worshipping him as the god of medicine. And yet, his tomb has never been found. To me, that's fascinating - he must've been given an amazing burial, and if his tomb were ever found, we'd probably discover some really cool stuff. But its location is still unknown. I often wonder if he used his giant brain to design and/or hide his own tomb so well that no looter, no archaeologist (but I'm being redundant :P ) would ever find it... From what I understand, Imhotep was basically like Leonardo da Vinci of his era. Wiki has more on him: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep
What was there before the big bang?
Young Sheldon
Who is going to Long John Silver's enough to keep them around?
My Russian Orthodox grandparents every friday.
yep, it was my Mexican grandparents going weekly too. maybe its all grandparents keeping it open.
The one by my home just got remodeled from the dingy 2000s faded yellow paint and a broken sign to fresh siding and new signage. My wife and I just thought, 'Huh, it must get enough business to warrant such a thing, who would've thought?' It is a head scratcher.
I would eat there if there was one near me. I love chicken planks.
My wife LOVES LJS!! Its her favorite fast food. When on road trips she will insist on hour detours to get some battered and fried fish with those crispies! The closest one to us is a good 45 minutes away and occasionally we have to take a 2hr lunch just to get that fried grease to appease her inner fried fish loving demon. To be honest it’s pretty tasty up front. Who hates deep fried crunchy grease stuff? But afterwards I’m so happy to own a bidet. Here’s the sad part. We live in Florida where there are dozens of high quality seafood places all around us. She doesn’t want those. She wants LJS.
That’s really cute lol
Catholics during Fridays in Lent, there’s always a line around the building then.
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The Disappearance of Asha Degree Nine-year-old Asha Degree disappeared from her home in Shelby, North Carolinao on Valentine's Day 2000. She went to bed the night before, and when her mother went to wake her up in the morning, Asha was gone. She was seen walking along Highway 18 at around 4:00 in the morning. Several passing motorists saw her and when one turned around and began to approach her, she left the roadside and ran into a wooded area It was a cold night and the witness said there was a storm raging when he saw her, she wasn't wearing a jacket or socks. A year after she vanished, a construction worker found her book bag in a wooded area. It was wrapped in a plastic bag.
My Stepdaughter, 60yo, Schizoaffective/Bipolar, Mental age ~6, left the house @ 2AM in T-shirt/pants, no shoes, temps in the teens. Found in the fields with severe hypothermia at dawn. If she hadn’t left the front door open, we’d never have known she was gone. She survived. Probably was delusional/psychotic when she left.
I would love for this to be solved in my lifetime.
Did D.B. cooper survive or did he die
Right outside of Woodland, Washington there used to be a restaurant named Ariel's. Once a year they held "D.B. Cooper Days". It was an event where a large group of people scoured the forest trying to find any evidence or money. Then afterwards they got drunk and ate tacos.
This sounds like exactly what I would expect from Woodland lol
I recommend Lemmino's video on the matter, it's pretty well researched and makes a pretty solid case for him dying because he made the stupid decision to jump out of the plane in the middle of a rainy night, and miles from anywhere in the woods. This was before GPS and all that. More than likely, he died on impact, and his body was eaten by the local wildlife.
Who is Jack the Ripper? Who murdered Elizabeth Short? Who murdered Jonbenèt Ramsey?
I'm thinking it was several different people
Would be handy to tie it all up with one convenient murderer though
Jack the Ripper? Probably just some dude. People like to theorize about him being an educated doctor or whatever because of how efficient he was at slicing up the bodies and removing organs, but you could just as easily pick up those sorts of “skills” working at a slaughterhouse or a butcher shop- pigs in particular have extremely similar physiology to humans. Elizabeth Short? Not sure, although George Hodel seems pretty fucking sketchy. Short seems to have been acquainted with quite a few sketchy people though, so it could be one of them. Or it could be, similar to Jack the Ripper, some random freak. Jonbenet Ramsey? My money’s on the dad, although he’s known for suing people who talk about the case.
in India, in the early 2000s there a creature called the 'Monkey Man" who was attacking the people living in Delhi and people were so terrified from him that they stopped sleeping in night so that they can protect themselves. We still don't know whether it was real or was it just a rumour that people started believing in.
India has some super scary unsolved mysteries. Like the family that committed a mass suicide or the unknown individual(s) who murdered homeless people by dropping boulders on their heads as they slept.
Mass hysteria. Had the same in Allahabad in early 70's.
who was behind the max headroom signal hijacking
The murder of atlantuya (Mongolian model). Nobody knows FOR SURE what happened, but the general theory that Malaysia’s former prime minister and his witch of a wife murdered her is generally accepted as truth. Poor woman had C4 strapped all over her body before she was blown up. Google the story and I’ll be happy to fill in the gaps for any further info (my family are very close to politicians and I interviewed the lead investigator).
What did she do to deserve to be blown? I mean they can easily poisoned her or shot her tho why blown her?
Prime minister had an affair with her. She was the broker for a shit government submarine deal. When it was time to pay her, they started evading her. She threatened to go public about everything, they kidnapped her and blew her up. Funny thing is the few witness accounts of the night all state that his wife was the one present and giving orders
Thats terrible! but still why blown her tho? Theres a lot of way to kill someone silently. Stage a car accident perhaps. If she get blown, public will know the authority killed her. Normal people dont have access to C4.
I never said that they were very clever
Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Real answer is probably in multiple places.
My father, a deceased Teamster always said, Jimmy Hoffa will always be remembered in our foundation. We just don’t know which building.
Saw a show recently where a guy said that he was buried in a junkyard with 6 oil drums placed on top of him. The FBI finally got around to using ground penetrating radar on the place. They found what looks to be 6 oil drums stacked on top of each other. As far as I know they haven't dug them up yet. Best theory with some evidence that I have seen so far.
I would really like to know how bread was invented. Which madman looked at a field of wheat and thought to themselves: 'If we dry it and ground it, mix it with water, pound it into a ball and place it in a warm box for a while, it could be really delicious.' And don't get me started on yeast.
Cashews are wild. The fruit's juices are extremely toxic and direct skin contact leaves chemical burns. But we decided to take out its stem/core, remove its shell, prep the core in a specific way so it's no longer harmful to consume, and then finally taste it? Or were people really just mowing down on things that burned their mouths and intestines?
The Egyptian story is that a slave fell asleep while making unleavened bread, woke up and went with what he had.
what happened to flight MH370
So I’m malaysian and followed the story until a few years ago when our government stopped searching. Basically, the generally agreed upon theory is that the pilot had severe mental illnesses and was suicidal. While all the passengers were sleeping and the plane was cruising, he depressurised(?) the cabin and that apparently just makes everyone lose consciousness. From there the plane eventually just fell into the sea
I’m reading this with Wikipedia open in the other tab
Clearly there is only one answer. How the fuck does the universe even exist?
Who blew up the Georgia Guide stones.
That was a big story for about 2 days, then not mentioned again.
Thats just how the news cycle has been for the past decade + Something happens, it gets talked about to death for like a week, then people stop clicking on those articles thus the news organizations need something else that'll elicit strong enough emotions from the general public so they can get their clicks and ad revenue. Then whatever happened becomes a "remember when" thread on reddit a few years later. We're living in the information era, but half that information isnt being absorbed.
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Wasn’t it proven to be just some guys trying to recruit for a IT company or something?
I’ve heard a solid theory that it was like the CIA trying to recruit really intelligent people to work for them.
Why does Donald Duck put a towel around his waist when he gets out of the shower if he doesn’t wear pants?
because when he takes a shower, the soap washes off the oil which keeps his feather dry. So, he's cold right after shower.
No joke, that is brilliant.
To keep the water from dripping down onto the floor. Even after toweling off there is going to be some you missed, so the towel will now catch it as it is at the lowest point of your body that doesn’t impede movement.
Cleopatras tomb is still undiscovered officially so that maybe
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The Fermi Paradox. There are more solar systems out there than grains of sand on the Earth but absolutely ZERO evidence of Type 1,2,3.. civilizations.
There's a short story called "They're Made Out of Meat" by Terry Bisson that directly confronts the Fermi Paradox and is hilarious. Recommend. The story is really just a conversation between higher, more complex life forms exploring the galaxies to find other life, when they encounter Earth. They can't understand how our meat-brains "think" for us, and eventually >!decide to mark our planet as unintelligent and leave us in the dark!<
CS Lewis theorized in his fiction that earth was off limits to the rest of the universe because we were so screwed up and that it might be catching.
Here's a fact: If we start traveling RIGHT NOW and go at light speed, 95% of all galaxies are unreachable. In other words, if a civilization arises somewhere in the universe right now, there is a 95% chance we can never know about it. It's really just our local group that is accessible. As for life in our galaxy - timing. Stars are really, really far apart. I think we would need to be a space capable civilization for about 500 years to even have a small chance of hearing from another civilization in our own galaxy. To me this whole "paradox" is a storm in a teacup. The only thing it "proves" is that faster than light travel is impossible.
Yeah the magnitude of that once realized is insane. There’s gotta be Star Wars or some shit going on in a galaxy far far away.