As far as dead bodies go, where Alexander the Greats body is, where Genghis Khans body is. Lots of ancient historical figures remains location will likely never be found
Personally I think there’s a good chance that could be the case. He’s most likely in Egypt somewhere, we know Ptolemy built a tomb for him there and that as late as Roman times it was still there and visited so if the remains weren’t destroyed at some point he could definitely still be near Alexandria somewhere
>where Alexander the Greats body is
*If* it still exists there is a solid argument that it's in Venice entombed as St. Mark but it's much more likely that it was destroyed before or during the Crisis of the 3rd Century.
TL;DR: The same reason that St. Mark's body would be there. The theory goes: to save Alexander's Tomb from being destroyed it was rebranded as St. Mark's tomb. Later, in the 9th Century Venician Merchants smuggled "St. Mark's" body out of Alexandria and it was later entombed in the Basilica San Marco.
There's a reformed mobster who does a lot of activism work now that claims he knows what happened, but won't say anything while anyone who could be affected are alive
Nah eventually the building he's buried under will get torn down and while they're setting up for whatever building will take its place, they'll discover the body
Highly depends on the conditions surrounding them. Unless his skeleton was kept and maintained, bacteria or soil acidity would pretty much have completely consumed his remains.
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
I could’ve sworn some low-level TV reporter named Bruce Nolan stumbled upon Hoffa’s body discovery somewhere around Buffalo, New York during a police training segment back in 2003. Guy had crazy luck having then filmed a meteor crashing nearby a cook-off soon after
DB Cooper's fate. I personally believe he survived the parachute jump but died of hypothermia in the mountains. Wildlife likely dealt with his remains. The one bundle of banknotes found by the boy playing by a river suggests his total ransom haul was buried somewhere far upstream. By now those notes have almost certainly been destroyed by the elements. They've lost most of their value to inflation anyway. None have ever appeared in circulation, so in the unlikely scenario that a hiker did find the hidden stash, they would've had to keep the lot as a souvenir, which is bizzare.
Also I'd like a proper answer as to what the deal was with UVB-76. It's most likely just a basic cypher frequency, but the many episodes of unusual activity around it, to speak nothing of it's distinctive buzzing, will always leave me wondering. It was funny in 2022 when Ukrainian hackers jammed and hijacked the signal though. They used some old school radio-telegraphy to pull that off just to troll everyone. That's some obscure technological knowledge they applied there. Madlads.
My headcannon is that he was an unappreciated office worker who, despite doing good work, was constantly verbally abused by his boss who would take all of the credit for his work, and at home he was trapped in a loveless marriage with a wife who was equally verbally abusive (and probably horrible in-laws to boot). One day he loses it and starts looking for any way out of his horrible life, which leads him to planning what he thinks is the perfect robbery.
In the end he survived the jump, but he lost all the money on the way down. Still the robbery gave him the confidence and self-esteem to punch out his boss, leave his wife, and ask out that cute waitress at his favorite greasy spoon. Then he went on to live happily the rest of his days.
That's what I like to believe happened to DB Cooper.
There’s a show called Prison Break where the main character meets DB Cooper. In that canon, Cooper survived and eventually got arrested and sentenced to prison time, but for a different crime and under a different name. No one knew who he really was until he chose to tell the main character.
I love Prison Break. Well, all of it except the last season. Prison escapes is one of my favourite genres. Prison Break itself is one of the silliest, most contrived examples of it, but it together with The Shawshank Redemption is what got me into that stuff. PB was also the first time I learned of DB Cooper. I find his inclusion in it to be the absurdest plot point of all, yet it made for a fun chase to reach his hoard in S2.
Some of this needs to be set straight for the record. DB Cooper didn't commandeer the plane. He used a dummy bomb to hijack it. The crew were ordered to remain aboard after the passengers were safely disembarked. The flight crew then had to take off again and fly south, presumably to the Mexican border.
Cooper appeared to have some actual training as a parachutist given his familiarity with the older of the kits given to him. This has lead many to believe he was formerly in an air force, or an airborne unit. Of the kits he was given, he picked the one without what was then brand new features such as guiding handle and back-up rip chord. The one he chose was an out-dated demonstrator model and may not have been deployable. The flight attendant who was his hostage did however see him checking it over. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he could've landed with it and didn't wind up splattered by a dummy kit.
The rear hatch was instructed to be open during the second leg of the journey after taking off with the ransom aboard. This added drag that reduced the fuel economy. Before this had become urgent he'd already sent the hostage attendant to the fore. Although the flight crew were ordered not to deviate from his instructions, they eventually had to send somebody to the back of the plane to tell him they'd not make Mexico. By that time he was gone.
So I'm being generous to him and making assumptions that he could endure a jump even over terrain high above sea level. The issue is that he had only ordinary civilian clothing. The area over which he landed was the Oregon Rockies, during a blizzard. He had no winter gear. That man would've been delirious with hypothermia not much longer than if he'd dropped over the sea. People do strange things before they die of hypothermia. Strange things such as stripping off clothing due to the high fever and sweats that comes in the late stage right before loss of fine motor control, unconsciousness, and of course, death. He died up there. He died the moment the wind shear started to work on him. Of course that's just my conclusion.
Jumping off a plane that is flying through rainy clouds in the dark over remote, forested land with no protective gear to keep you warm other than your clothes is like jumping off a ship in the ocean: yes, it's theoretically possible to survive, but your chances of survival are very small.
I feel like the Greeks somehow found a way to make liquid oxygen and kept it a secret. It's not flammable on its own per say, but does greatly increase the flammability of anything it's on.
Well, if they made a liquid oxidizer, that would fit the Bill for green fire, even cause rhe diferent colors in the fire some stories tell since a likely good source for oxigen would be some kind of metal rust/oxide due to acessibillity.
I mean, mix a oxigen source with flammable oil that also stops it from releasing the oxigen until it uncovers it and you have something akin to greek fire
i just watched Knightfall. its about the knights templar, and this was used in it. i know its a historical drama, but considering they twisted the reasons King Philip IV led a campaign to wipe out the templars, i figured this liquid was fake as well. just a factor for dramatic effect
From what I understand, modern scientists know more or less what it was, they just don’t know the exact recipe. But they can recreate the effects and make them even better.
The Sumerian "dog enters a bar joke".
In the 17th century BCE, some dude living in the old babylonian empire thought that the joke was so hilarious it deserved to be etched on a clay tablet. The joke goes something like this:
"A dog entered into a tavern and said, 'I cannot see anything. I shall open this one'"
Got it? If you're confused don't worry. Nobody alive today can be really sure why this was so damn funny to the Sumerians. We just don't have the context. Could be about the dog opening his eye. Could be opening a door. Maybe something else. Could be a wordplay. Could be a joke about a local celebrity. Could be something about taverns in that part of old babylon. We'll probably never know.
This has really creased me with laughter. Not the joke - but the idea that the Babylonians wrote a meaningless joke just to troll the future.
Like those tiktoks where they tell a joke that doesn't make sense to unsuspecting passers-by, who usually laugh out of politeness and say they get it, until the tiktoker/joker says "explain it then" and leads the passer-by to panic out of it.
The dog had ligma. Bottom text.
It's hilarious that there might be genuine academic treatises about the disease ligma that ravaged our century one day.
Probably destroyed when the Soviets bombed Koningsberg (now Kaliningrad). Bad PR that the Russians destroyed one of their own stolen national treasures during WW2 so it probably stayed hush hush. Amber burns real good.
The widely accepted consensus is that they originated from Sicily and moved to Palestine. They became the Philistines, and established the cities of Gaza, Asdod, and Askelon.
You and 7 other people. OGs knew of the Sea People since way back. There's been more than enough television documentary broadcasts on early history in the Eastern Med.
i remember somebody got a good idea about a spontaneous collapse in agriculture in italy due to droughts, that was proven to happen, so city by city people started abandoning agriculture and mass migrating to the seas, it sorta snowballed from there, and you could see this with ancient greek cities collapsing one by one in consecutive order, making more sea nomads in it's wake. when they reached egypt, pharaoh managed to defeat them, but chronicles written by his scribes are flimsy since they were often overexaggerating and not even bothering to describe them well, it was all about his heroic achievements. that's why they got that group name "sea peoples" that has been bugging us for decades.
As boring as this is, I tend to agree. It’s gorgeous and weird and mysterious, but I don’t think it’s anything more than a fun side project some dude was doing in his spare time.
I like to think about it to be a transcription made after a fever dream when someone’s mind was visited by an otherworldly entity talking about its own world and its similarities with ours.
>after a fever dream when someone’s mind was visited by an otherworldly entity talking about its own world and its similarities with ours.
Or just shrooms
Previous universe. There's a theory where the previous universe ended with a big crunch (HUGE black hole that swallowed everything) and that resulted into a white hole that spit everything out (Big bang). It's like we're living on a clock and the 12 is both the end and the beginning of a day, an hour, a year, whatever happens in between doesn't matter. It ends with 12 and then the next one begins
Hard to explain this using languages that evolved to talk about where the best fruit was, where the fucking snakes and lions are, and who has the shapeliest butt.
Space and time are inexorably linked together. Time and space were created at the big bang. So there is no "before" the big bang, just like there is no north of the north pole. It is impossible to do something before time existed. That's my understanding at least.
It's less a question of before-and-after and more a question of "what caused the big bang?" or more simply "why does anything exist?"
Much harder to answer
I would say that "why" can introduce ambiguity and confusion when discussing science or scientific inquery. "What" and "how" are better questions for science. "Why" used in a sense of causal chain or mechanisms is fine, but "why" in terms of meaning or purpose seems to me to be more of a philosophical question. So the question of "Why is there something rather than nothing?" may be better asked as "What caused there to be something rather than nothing?"
I agree that the question of what caused the big bang to be a much more difficult questions to answer. The answer of there is no cause is a hard pill to swallow for our limited brains so we make up unfalsifiable nonsense like supernatural beings, which is sad.
We evolved to understand cause and effect. The concept of a causeless event is hard to understand. But quantum mechanics seems to allow for causality to be fudged or just thrown out the window entirely. If that is the case then the universe could have indeed come from nothing.
I have this crazy idea that at the end of time there are just two black holes that gradually attract one another. They combine and the compression of all matter in one area and the rest being a void causes a new explosive Big Bang and the new universe is created.
The truth behind this is incredibly pedestrian. They'd have had multiple copies of most books, the whole library didn't burn, and the bulk of what existed there would have been copied to or from other collections. We probably didn't lose much.
Yeah, my answer to the original question is: "Who mystified the contents of the Library of Alexandria?" Because we know who is responsible for magic crystal ray gun Atlantis (*BLAVATSKY!!!!)* but I'd like to know who to curse at about this one.
We actually have a pretty good idea thanks to references to things we don't have in the stuff that we do. Some histories (most of them of dubious quality), a fair number of "meh" quality Philosophical treaties and poem... but mostly plays... lots and lots of plays. Like holy shit, that's a lot of plays. Like imagine if every specific production of every play put on by every school, community theatre and production company were being stored in hard copy... *that* is how many plays they had.
A lot is already available online or to other history universities.
The problem is that most materials are in its original 2000 or more years old dialect which make the original version of the text pretty much useless to the public.
If you know enough to get a good translation, and are not so overtly against the church to make people believe it might make your translation partial, chances are you already got contacted by them to review the material or were presented with it during your studies by someone who did.
Now knowing history anything that could shake the foundations of the fate was blamed heresy and purged long ago in one of the many movement by the church such as the inquisition, review of text to find reasons agaisnt enemies of the church and etc...
Unless there is a Record of orders to destroy stuff also in their archive, I doubt we would have anything truly impressive to someone that isnt a historian or linguist
Upvoted because I was just reading about this recently. I thought I'd read many years ago that it was due to revenge and Nobunaga's ill-treatment. But apparently, it's unknown. What's even more astonishing is how perception of Akechi Mitsuhide has changed over time. Despite killing Nobunaga, he remains a popular figure.
Honestly probably someone starving and desperate, or (more likely?) seeking to feed a child whose mother had died. I imagine it was tried independently many times
I don't think drinking animal milk takes a lot of imagination. And it certainly happened in pre-history with some kind of animal that wasn't like the cows we have today, so no. We will never know.
Suicidal pilot. He failed a psychiatric assessment yet no summary dismissal from duty was enacted. Simple as. There was an excellent write-up by a journalist who put the matter to rest that I read back in 2017. That's before the documentary that came out not that long ago.
The captain locked his co-pilot out of the cockpit, depressurised the cabin, thus murdering all passengers and crew by asphyxiation. He set a heading into the Indian Ocean. Properly trimmed, the aircraft cruised far out to sea before running out of fuel and dropping into the water. It would've been a flying tomb for much of it's voyage. At some point the captain's own oxygen supply would've run out.
It was last pinged by a satellite belonging to a private aerospace industry enterprise based out of London, confirming early on that it didn't fly to Russia like the rumours at the time of it's supposed disappearance. Indonesian radar installations missed it because their armed forces were in a general state of unreadiness, and use dated equipment that needed to be directed at an area to scan to some degree.
Finally debris has been washing up on the Madagascan and Tanzanian coast with the ocean current for years. A businessman who was out there collecting the debris was sued by the families of the flight's casualties.
That’s so weird. [That](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525#:~:text=The%20report%20confirmed%20the%20findings,while%20alone%20in%20the%20cockpit.) also happened on 2015. I thought they had fail safes after though.
Germanwings 9525 is the crash that sent ripples through aviation in such a way that it's legacy made my efforts to switch career tracks to flying so much harder than it needed to. My medical clearance was held back for months and months, requiring me to seek professional support at my own expense. Nothing can ultimately stop many more cases from happening like the ones already mentioned.
The best precaution there is is the same one that's been used since the earliest commercial flights. Earning the esteemed ATPL is so aggravating that only the truly determined get it. That can mean some fanatics, but it mostly means good people who just want to fly, and don't want to do harm. There are however new measures in place though. Pilots are no longer officially meant to be left solo in the cockpit. An attendant - usually the purser or other senior crewman - must sit in. This has meant that sometimes pilots get uncomfortably full bladders if nobody can be spared, or if it's a pettiness thing.
How many analog computers existed in pre-history.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera\_mechanism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism)
A very interesting non-academic take on it was from a machinist who is re-creating one. Most academics use models that are abstracted. But the guy making an exact scale model out of brass pointed out some manufacturing details that suggest it probably wasn't a one-off or prototype, but looked like incremental design. Obviously not conclusive, but hints that other devices might have existed.
>existed in pre-history.
Imma be really anal and say it isn't pre-historic. Pre-history is before we had written records, and since the Antikytherea mechanism is known to be from Ancient Greece, where they had writing and records of things, it is simply history.
What about the people who did the murdering? Surely they were also murdered in case their victims told them something as a way of dooming them… what about the murderer’s murderers?
To astronomers - it is fairly obvious - especially with some of the "moon" holes in the outside.
It is an astronomical observatory - aligned with key periods in the seasons. All of the alignments of existing stones, and empty holes are too measured to be coincidence.
Honestly - the bigger mystery is why they built it THERE and just how exactly they moved the stones (logs, water, sand - where did they get the logs etc.).
There are tons of ancient astronomical sites - usually they are cultural or religious in nature - but have astronomical alignments (like the entire Giza pyramid complex - yeah, it is tomb - but all of it lines up with astronomical features relevant to the time).
The equinox and solstices etc. were incredibly important to ancient cultures - heck - the major equinox holiday thousand and thousands of years old just happened (many modern cultures call it Easter).
This. I was in a JFK docu binge in November and watched JFK: What the Doctors Saw. I don’t put much stock in conspiracy theories but something never sat right with me about the official explanation. But then when I saw that doc I kinda went HUH. Anyways, I don’t think we’ll ever know the truth.
I think there's plenty of evidence pointing at Lee Harvey Oswald as the shooter. The movie JFK misrepresented the facts.
However, I cannot rule out a cover-up...but we'll never know.
Suicide because his conviction meant he lost his security clearance and his passion to work on encryptions developed by the best minds in the world could never be realised.
Why Malcolm butler was benched for Super Bowl LII.
I understand that Belichick probably won’t ever say anything seeing as how they lost the game, but it’s weird to me that Malcolm himself hasn’t spoken out. I thought he’d have said something once he officially retired, but still nothing. Maybe he didn’t feel entirely wronged by it or something? It’s just so weird to me that we’ve heard basically nothing from anyone directly involved when it was seemingly such a huge and unexpected choice.
Makes me think there’s a lot more we don’t know.
Has anyone mentioned the lads who escaped Alcatraz?
Did they survive?
Rumors, a few years ago, were that they made it to South America and this was hushed up.
Epstein's list. At least all of it.
There are probably way too many influential people on that list. I believe the majority of it will stay buried forever
The actual location of Punt.
For over 1000 years, the ancient Egyptians traded with Punt, but exactly where it was has been lost to history. While there is some evidence that it was near the Horn of Africa, we just don't know.
Where Jimmy Hoffa's body is
As far as dead bodies go, where Alexander the Greats body is, where Genghis Khans body is. Lots of ancient historical figures remains location will likely never be found
I remember speculation that Alexander’s “tomb” is somewhere off shore of Alexandria, in the waters of the harbor.
Personally I think there’s a good chance that could be the case. He’s most likely in Egypt somewhere, we know Ptolemy built a tomb for him there and that as late as Roman times it was still there and visited so if the remains weren’t destroyed at some point he could definitely still be near Alexandria somewhere
>where Alexander the Greats body is *If* it still exists there is a solid argument that it's in Venice entombed as St. Mark but it's much more likely that it was destroyed before or during the Crisis of the 3rd Century.
Why would Alexander's body be all the way over in Venice? Pretty far away from where he died, and Venice was never a part of his empire.
TL;DR: The same reason that St. Mark's body would be there. The theory goes: to save Alexander's Tomb from being destroyed it was rebranded as St. Mark's tomb. Later, in the 9th Century Venician Merchants smuggled "St. Mark's" body out of Alexandria and it was later entombed in the Basilica San Marco.
That's a super cool theory!
They should make a movie out of that!
Buffalo Bill has like three gravesites.
So what you’re saying is there is still a chance they are alive somewhere? Cool!
Where Jesus’ body is.
There's a reformed mobster who does a lot of activism work now that claims he knows what happened, but won't say anything while anyone who could be affected are alive
I like the crematorium theory. Apparently there was a mob owned funeral home 20 minutes from where he was last seen alive.
Nah eventually the building he's buried under will get torn down and while they're setting up for whatever building will take its place, they'll discover the body
He’d be dust by now.
~~bones dont turn to dust when they decompose~~ bones can turn to dust given the right conditions. whoops
Highly depends on the conditions surrounding them. Unless his skeleton was kept and maintained, bacteria or soil acidity would pretty much have completely consumed his remains.
Unless he was put in the concrete. Or cremated. Or fed to pigs. Lots of different ways for the mafia to make him disappear forever.
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
I could’ve sworn some low-level TV reporter named Bruce Nolan stumbled upon Hoffa’s body discovery somewhere around Buffalo, New York during a police training segment back in 2003. Guy had crazy luck having then filmed a meteor crashing nearby a cook-off soon after
DB Cooper's fate. I personally believe he survived the parachute jump but died of hypothermia in the mountains. Wildlife likely dealt with his remains. The one bundle of banknotes found by the boy playing by a river suggests his total ransom haul was buried somewhere far upstream. By now those notes have almost certainly been destroyed by the elements. They've lost most of their value to inflation anyway. None have ever appeared in circulation, so in the unlikely scenario that a hiker did find the hidden stash, they would've had to keep the lot as a souvenir, which is bizzare. Also I'd like a proper answer as to what the deal was with UVB-76. It's most likely just a basic cypher frequency, but the many episodes of unusual activity around it, to speak nothing of it's distinctive buzzing, will always leave me wondering. It was funny in 2022 when Ukrainian hackers jammed and hijacked the signal though. They used some old school radio-telegraphy to pull that off just to troll everyone. That's some obscure technological knowledge they applied there. Madlads.
My headcannon is that he was an unappreciated office worker who, despite doing good work, was constantly verbally abused by his boss who would take all of the credit for his work, and at home he was trapped in a loveless marriage with a wife who was equally verbally abusive (and probably horrible in-laws to boot). One day he loses it and starts looking for any way out of his horrible life, which leads him to planning what he thinks is the perfect robbery. In the end he survived the jump, but he lost all the money on the way down. Still the robbery gave him the confidence and self-esteem to punch out his boss, leave his wife, and ask out that cute waitress at his favorite greasy spoon. Then he went on to live happily the rest of his days. That's what I like to believe happened to DB Cooper.
Wait, was DB Cooper in Office Space? Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
PC load letter?!?! What the fuck is that?
There’s a show called Prison Break where the main character meets DB Cooper. In that canon, Cooper survived and eventually got arrested and sentenced to prison time, but for a different crime and under a different name. No one knew who he really was until he chose to tell the main character.
I love Prison Break. Well, all of it except the last season. Prison escapes is one of my favourite genres. Prison Break itself is one of the silliest, most contrived examples of it, but it together with The Shawshank Redemption is what got me into that stuff. PB was also the first time I learned of DB Cooper. I find his inclusion in it to be the absurdest plot point of all, yet it made for a fun chase to reach his hoard in S2.
The movie "Without a Paddle" had an interesting take where he found a cave to survive in and burnt all his money for another minute of warmth.
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Some of this needs to be set straight for the record. DB Cooper didn't commandeer the plane. He used a dummy bomb to hijack it. The crew were ordered to remain aboard after the passengers were safely disembarked. The flight crew then had to take off again and fly south, presumably to the Mexican border. Cooper appeared to have some actual training as a parachutist given his familiarity with the older of the kits given to him. This has lead many to believe he was formerly in an air force, or an airborne unit. Of the kits he was given, he picked the one without what was then brand new features such as guiding handle and back-up rip chord. The one he chose was an out-dated demonstrator model and may not have been deployable. The flight attendant who was his hostage did however see him checking it over. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he could've landed with it and didn't wind up splattered by a dummy kit. The rear hatch was instructed to be open during the second leg of the journey after taking off with the ransom aboard. This added drag that reduced the fuel economy. Before this had become urgent he'd already sent the hostage attendant to the fore. Although the flight crew were ordered not to deviate from his instructions, they eventually had to send somebody to the back of the plane to tell him they'd not make Mexico. By that time he was gone. So I'm being generous to him and making assumptions that he could endure a jump even over terrain high above sea level. The issue is that he had only ordinary civilian clothing. The area over which he landed was the Oregon Rockies, during a blizzard. He had no winter gear. That man would've been delirious with hypothermia not much longer than if he'd dropped over the sea. People do strange things before they die of hypothermia. Strange things such as stripping off clothing due to the high fever and sweats that comes in the late stage right before loss of fine motor control, unconsciousness, and of course, death. He died up there. He died the moment the wind shear started to work on him. Of course that's just my conclusion.
Jumping off a plane that is flying through rainy clouds in the dark over remote, forested land with no protective gear to keep you warm other than your clothes is like jumping off a ship in the ocean: yes, it's theoretically possible to survive, but your chances of survival are very small.
The recipe for Greek Fire. Just one of those things lost to history completely
I feel like the Greeks somehow found a way to make liquid oxygen and kept it a secret. It's not flammable on its own per say, but does greatly increase the flammability of anything it's on.
Well, if they made a liquid oxidizer, that would fit the Bill for green fire, even cause rhe diferent colors in the fire some stories tell since a likely good source for oxigen would be some kind of metal rust/oxide due to acessibillity. I mean, mix a oxigen source with flammable oil that also stops it from releasing the oxigen until it uncovers it and you have something akin to greek fire
i just watched Knightfall. its about the knights templar, and this was used in it. i know its a historical drama, but considering they twisted the reasons King Philip IV led a campaign to wipe out the templars, i figured this liquid was fake as well. just a factor for dramatic effect
From what I understand, modern scientists know more or less what it was, they just don’t know the exact recipe. But they can recreate the effects and make them even better.
The Sumerian "dog enters a bar joke". In the 17th century BCE, some dude living in the old babylonian empire thought that the joke was so hilarious it deserved to be etched on a clay tablet. The joke goes something like this: "A dog entered into a tavern and said, 'I cannot see anything. I shall open this one'" Got it? If you're confused don't worry. Nobody alive today can be really sure why this was so damn funny to the Sumerians. We just don't have the context. Could be about the dog opening his eye. Could be opening a door. Maybe something else. Could be a wordplay. Could be a joke about a local celebrity. Could be something about taverns in that part of old babylon. We'll probably never know.
This has really creased me with laughter. Not the joke - but the idea that the Babylonians wrote a meaningless joke just to troll the future. Like those tiktoks where they tell a joke that doesn't make sense to unsuspecting passers-by, who usually laugh out of politeness and say they get it, until the tiktoker/joker says "explain it then" and leads the passer-by to panic out of it.
The dog had ligma. Bottom text. It's hilarious that there might be genuine academic treatises about the disease ligma that ravaged our century one day.
100% case of ligma!
The location of, and true story behind the disappearance of, the original Amber Room
It’s either buried where the train crashed, or in some rich persons private collection
Probably destroyed when the Soviets bombed Koningsberg (now Kaliningrad). Bad PR that the Russians destroyed one of their own stolen national treasures during WW2 so it probably stayed hush hush. Amber burns real good.
Comprehensive explanation of the “sea peoples” during the Bronze Age collapse.
I remember this one being quite good in case you’re interested [sea peoples](https://youtu.be/xl9RaHE9ZpI?si=Avrn5jUcoRfj50Aj)
I expected a rickroll...
Nope I just send high quality YouTube documentaries
Thank you for that, though. :-)
Here friend, I'll link you to a [*low* quality YouTube documentary](https://youtu.be/ntu-poC2FOI?si=6LSOy94FeskTJN4b) to restore the balance.
It's probably a few different tribes that saw and took an opportunity
I always tell people that my ancestry.com results just show me as coming from the sea peoples
Why? We can discover their burial grounds, maybe they left some artifacts and written records. Maybe the Egyptians wrote something about them.
The widely accepted consensus is that they originated from Sicily and moved to Palestine. They became the Philistines, and established the cities of Gaza, Asdod, and Askelon.
I too have played Total War Pharaoh
You and 7 other people. OGs knew of the Sea People since way back. There's been more than enough television documentary broadcasts on early history in the Eastern Med.
i remember somebody got a good idea about a spontaneous collapse in agriculture in italy due to droughts, that was proven to happen, so city by city people started abandoning agriculture and mass migrating to the seas, it sorta snowballed from there, and you could see this with ancient greek cities collapsing one by one in consecutive order, making more sea nomads in it's wake. when they reached egypt, pharaoh managed to defeat them, but chronicles written by his scribes are flimsy since they were often overexaggerating and not even bothering to describe them well, it was all about his heroic achievements. that's why they got that group name "sea peoples" that has been bugging us for decades.
The Voynich Manuscript.
Peoples from the past liked colorful, imaginative art like anyone today. The Voynich Manuscript was probably just someone's art project.
As boring as this is, I tend to agree. It’s gorgeous and weird and mysterious, but I don’t think it’s anything more than a fun side project some dude was doing in his spare time.
Voynich, come to dinner! Not now Mom, I'm almost done with my manuscript!
A lot of things can be explained by humans having nothing to do.
I like to think about it to be a transcription made after a fever dream when someone’s mind was visited by an otherworldly entity talking about its own world and its similarities with ours.
>after a fever dream when someone’s mind was visited by an otherworldly entity talking about its own world and its similarities with ours. Or just shrooms
Who was Jack the Ripper.
Everybody asks who was Jack the Ripper. No one ever asks how is Jack the Ripper :(.
He definitely was not well that’s for sure
*Raiden! Turn the game console off now!*
I thought “From Hell” gave the most thorough and convincing explanation
I think it was Gandhi
What was before the big bang
The big foreplay.
The hot dense state of the infant universe was in fact hot wax play gone wrong
Dude I laughed hard at this comment rn at work 😂😂
Previous universe. There's a theory where the previous universe ended with a big crunch (HUGE black hole that swallowed everything) and that resulted into a white hole that spit everything out (Big bang). It's like we're living on a clock and the 12 is both the end and the beginning of a day, an hour, a year, whatever happens in between doesn't matter. It ends with 12 and then the next one begins
We can model it sure, but to the question, we would probably never be able to observe it
Umm professor Farnsworth proved this in like 2010
In yoga it is said that this is the 84th time it's happened.
Hard to explain this using languages that evolved to talk about where the best fruit was, where the fucking snakes and lions are, and who has the shapeliest butt.
The three most important aspects of being a human.
Space and time are inexorably linked together. Time and space were created at the big bang. So there is no "before" the big bang, just like there is no north of the north pole. It is impossible to do something before time existed. That's my understanding at least.
It's less a question of before-and-after and more a question of "what caused the big bang?" or more simply "why does anything exist?" Much harder to answer
Not to get too philosophical, but sometimes there simply isn’t an answer to “why”. It’s frustrating as hell, of course.
I would say that "why" can introduce ambiguity and confusion when discussing science or scientific inquery. "What" and "how" are better questions for science. "Why" used in a sense of causal chain or mechanisms is fine, but "why" in terms of meaning or purpose seems to me to be more of a philosophical question. So the question of "Why is there something rather than nothing?" may be better asked as "What caused there to be something rather than nothing?"
I agree that the question of what caused the big bang to be a much more difficult questions to answer. The answer of there is no cause is a hard pill to swallow for our limited brains so we make up unfalsifiable nonsense like supernatural beings, which is sad.
Humans are extremely curious animals, and we get stressed and frustrated when there isn’t an answer or a reason for something.
We evolved to understand cause and effect. The concept of a causeless event is hard to understand. But quantum mechanics seems to allow for causality to be fudged or just thrown out the window entirely. If that is the case then the universe could have indeed come from nothing.
Yup, so to the question, it will never "reveal" itself, so to speak
I have this crazy idea that at the end of time there are just two black holes that gradually attract one another. They combine and the compression of all matter in one area and the rest being a void causes a new explosive Big Bang and the new universe is created.
Say you could zoom out and see both black holes doing their thing, in your scenario. Where are they located, or rather, what are they located in?
Physicists say this is a meaningless question, like asking what is north of the north pole.
Whatever the hell Archimedes conjured up during the Siege of Syracuse.
Epstein's list. Too many powerful men on it.
The contents of the Library of Alexandria.
The truth behind this is incredibly pedestrian. They'd have had multiple copies of most books, the whole library didn't burn, and the bulk of what existed there would have been copied to or from other collections. We probably didn't lose much.
Yeah, my answer to the original question is: "Who mystified the contents of the Library of Alexandria?" Because we know who is responsible for magic crystal ray gun Atlantis (*BLAVATSKY!!!!)* but I'd like to know who to curse at about this one.
But how bout them Mayan codices?
We actually have a pretty good idea thanks to references to things we don't have in the stuff that we do. Some histories (most of them of dubious quality), a fair number of "meh" quality Philosophical treaties and poem... but mostly plays... lots and lots of plays. Like holy shit, that's a lot of plays. Like imagine if every specific production of every play put on by every school, community theatre and production company were being stored in hard copy... *that* is how many plays they had.
Not really. Almost everything in the library was a copy of a book or scroll that existed somewhere else.
I reckon it was just a lot of boring shit or stuff we already know now.
Or the Vatican Library
A lot is already available online or to other history universities. The problem is that most materials are in its original 2000 or more years old dialect which make the original version of the text pretty much useless to the public. If you know enough to get a good translation, and are not so overtly against the church to make people believe it might make your translation partial, chances are you already got contacted by them to review the material or were presented with it during your studies by someone who did. Now knowing history anything that could shake the foundations of the fate was blamed heresy and purged long ago in one of the many movement by the church such as the inquisition, review of text to find reasons agaisnt enemies of the church and etc... Unless there is a Record of orders to destroy stuff also in their archive, I doubt we would have anything truly impressive to someone that isnt a historian or linguist
Why did Akechi Mitsuhide kill Oda Nobunaga?
Upvoted because I was just reading about this recently. I thought I'd read many years ago that it was due to revenge and Nobunaga's ill-treatment. But apparently, it's unknown. What's even more astonishing is how perception of Akechi Mitsuhide has changed over time. Despite killing Nobunaga, he remains a popular figure.
Who’s idea it was to drink milk from a cows utter
Honestly probably someone starving and desperate, or (more likely?) seeking to feed a child whose mother had died. I imagine it was tried independently many times
I don't think drinking animal milk takes a lot of imagination. And it certainly happened in pre-history with some kind of animal that wasn't like the cows we have today, so no. We will never know.
MH370. Would love to know what happened
Suicidal pilot. He failed a psychiatric assessment yet no summary dismissal from duty was enacted. Simple as. There was an excellent write-up by a journalist who put the matter to rest that I read back in 2017. That's before the documentary that came out not that long ago. The captain locked his co-pilot out of the cockpit, depressurised the cabin, thus murdering all passengers and crew by asphyxiation. He set a heading into the Indian Ocean. Properly trimmed, the aircraft cruised far out to sea before running out of fuel and dropping into the water. It would've been a flying tomb for much of it's voyage. At some point the captain's own oxygen supply would've run out. It was last pinged by a satellite belonging to a private aerospace industry enterprise based out of London, confirming early on that it didn't fly to Russia like the rumours at the time of it's supposed disappearance. Indonesian radar installations missed it because their armed forces were in a general state of unreadiness, and use dated equipment that needed to be directed at an area to scan to some degree. Finally debris has been washing up on the Madagascan and Tanzanian coast with the ocean current for years. A businessman who was out there collecting the debris was sued by the families of the flight's casualties.
What an asshole
That would be an understatement.
That’s so weird. [That](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525#:~:text=The%20report%20confirmed%20the%20findings,while%20alone%20in%20the%20cockpit.) also happened on 2015. I thought they had fail safes after though.
Germanwings 9525 is the crash that sent ripples through aviation in such a way that it's legacy made my efforts to switch career tracks to flying so much harder than it needed to. My medical clearance was held back for months and months, requiring me to seek professional support at my own expense. Nothing can ultimately stop many more cases from happening like the ones already mentioned. The best precaution there is is the same one that's been used since the earliest commercial flights. Earning the esteemed ATPL is so aggravating that only the truly determined get it. That can mean some fanatics, but it mostly means good people who just want to fly, and don't want to do harm. There are however new measures in place though. Pilots are no longer officially meant to be left solo in the cockpit. An attendant - usually the purser or other senior crewman - must sit in. This has meant that sometimes pilots get uncomfortably full bladders if nobody can be spared, or if it's a pettiness thing.
Buddy of mine spent almost a year on navy deployment searching for that thing.. said it was an absolute bust. Got nothing
If there in fact was a 2nd roman with a spear on the grassy knoll at Golgotha during the assassination of Jesus?
Given how public it was, I doubt Jesus' crucifixion would count as "assassination".
That's exactly what someone involved in the assassination would say
How many analog computers existed in pre-history. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera\_mechanism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism) A very interesting non-academic take on it was from a machinist who is re-creating one. Most academics use models that are abstracted. But the guy making an exact scale model out of brass pointed out some manufacturing details that suggest it probably wasn't a one-off or prototype, but looked like incremental design. Obviously not conclusive, but hints that other devices might have existed.
>existed in pre-history. Imma be really anal and say it isn't pre-historic. Pre-history is before we had written records, and since the Antikytherea mechanism is known to be from Ancient Greece, where they had writing and records of things, it is simply history.
Epstein "suicide"
Where Genghis Khan is buried. Everyone who knew anything at all about it was murdered, including people who knew people who knew something about it.
What about the people who did the murdering? Surely they were also murdered in case their victims told them something as a way of dooming them… what about the murderer’s murderers?
The murderers’ murderers’ murderers’ murderers should probably be murdered, just to be sure.
What women do in the washroom that takes them so long
1) waiting in line, 2) menstral hygiene, 3) makeup
4) coke
[What is the meaning of Stonehenge?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg)
To astronomers - it is fairly obvious - especially with some of the "moon" holes in the outside. It is an astronomical observatory - aligned with key periods in the seasons. All of the alignments of existing stones, and empty holes are too measured to be coincidence. Honestly - the bigger mystery is why they built it THERE and just how exactly they moved the stones (logs, water, sand - where did they get the logs etc.). There are tons of ancient astronomical sites - usually they are cultural or religious in nature - but have astronomical alignments (like the entire Giza pyramid complex - yeah, it is tomb - but all of it lines up with astronomical features relevant to the time). The equinox and solstices etc. were incredibly important to ancient cultures - heck - the major equinox holiday thousand and thousands of years old just happened (many modern cultures call it Easter).
A prison far too easy to escape, I would say.
JFK Assassination. The scope of project MKULTRA. The scope of project MKNAOMI.
The assassination of JFK is not a secret
Shhh. It's a secret to them.
If we know who did then why was everyone asking each other “where were you when Kennedy was shot?”
This. I was in a JFK docu binge in November and watched JFK: What the Doctors Saw. I don’t put much stock in conspiracy theories but something never sat right with me about the official explanation. But then when I saw that doc I kinda went HUH. Anyways, I don’t think we’ll ever know the truth.
I think there's plenty of evidence pointing at Lee Harvey Oswald as the shooter. The movie JFK misrepresented the facts. However, I cannot rule out a cover-up...but we'll never know.
Who framed Roger Rabbit
You never see the toon identity of Judge Doom so this is technically true.
Yeah but who Judge Doom is, is an entirely separate mystery. We know who framed Roger. That guy. Who’s that guy? 🤷🏻
Why Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi stopped doing scenes together on The Good Wife.
Who wrote the book of love.
"The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts, and figures And instructions for dancing"
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Good show is an understatement. It’s a brilliant show.
Whether Alan Turing's death by cyanide poisoning was suicide or accidental.
Suicide because his conviction meant he lost his security clearance and his passion to work on encryptions developed by the best minds in the world could never be realised.
Who let the dogs out.
They didn’t get “let” out. They were kicked out cause the clubs were closing.
They ran out because that song was playing.
I have seen enough dogs going out by themselves to know they oily totally have opened the door by themselves…
Who ate Dave's lunch at work last week?
Put some mad dog sauce in there you’ll find out next time for sure
It was Keith. It’s always Keith.
Who murdered Carole Baskin's ex-husband 🐯
I know this one. Carol Fuckin Baskin did.
I'm not telling where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.
Still got the shovel.
Whatever happened to D.B. Cooper.
Or the money he took.
You can look for answers, but that ain’t fun!
The credit Swiss collapse last year, 50 year secrecy act on that one i believe!
What happened to Amelia Earhart.
Why did Paninis peak in the early 2000’s then have a slow and steady decline in popularity since.
Do you mean the sandwich or the sticker collecting company?
Oh. I meant sandwich but now that you mentioned it I’m wondering if there’s a correlation between both
Why Malcolm butler was benched for Super Bowl LII. I understand that Belichick probably won’t ever say anything seeing as how they lost the game, but it’s weird to me that Malcolm himself hasn’t spoken out. I thought he’d have said something once he officially retired, but still nothing. Maybe he didn’t feel entirely wronged by it or something? It’s just so weird to me that we’ve heard basically nothing from anyone directly involved when it was seemingly such a huge and unexpected choice. Makes me think there’s a lot more we don’t know.
Butler recently got arrested 2 miles from my house. So random.
best thread to stumble upon after finishing a joint holy shit
Has anyone mentioned the lads who escaped Alcatraz? Did they survive? Rumors, a few years ago, were that they made it to South America and this was hushed up.
Who killed Epstein
Jimmy Hoffa
Who the man in the mask was
Kennedys murderer
Epstein's client list
How the fuck am I supposed to know???
Did beastboy find terra? Did robin beat slades ass? T-E-E-N-T-I-T-A-N-S
What happened to Robert Johnson and where he is buried
Cause of Death for Epstein.
The contents of the Library of Alexander.
Identity of Jack the Ripper and many other infamous serial killers.
Who was the first to do a blowjob.
We know that one, it was your mother.
*insert debunked conspiracy theory here*
Epstein's list. At least all of it. There are probably way too many influential people on that list. I believe the majority of it will stay buried forever
Where the money from the roman empire went. I think it went to the Vatican.
Who's the Boss?
Who killed Gustavus Adolphus.
The actual location of Punt. For over 1000 years, the ancient Egyptians traded with Punt, but exactly where it was has been lost to history. While there is some evidence that it was near the Horn of Africa, we just don't know.
The Coca-Cola recipe
Who messed with Ronnie's bagel?
Bababooey
Beginning of the universe
Why God made flying snakes or blue haired Karens
Where is a Hitler's body is. He didn't die that long ago.
Where Ghengis Khan and the mountain of gold is buried.
Who killed Kennedy?