EndoExo
EndoExo t1_jefyxhm wrote
Reply to comment by kuahara in TIL: About Earth trojans. Two asteroids that share our orbit, leading us around the sun. by RevolutionaryAd94
If they're in our orbit and orbiting the sun at the same rate, there's no chance of them hitting us. We keep the same distance apart at all times. It's asteroids crossing our orbit that have a chance to hit us.
But it's not actually in the exact same orbit. It moves around a Lagrange point where the Earth-Sun gravity interaction creates a stable zone to hang out with us while we move around the Sun.
EndoExo t1_j9fgc2g wrote
Reply to TIL the tradition of naming American tanks after generals was actually started by the British during WW2. by edwardrha
It didn't help that the US named everything "M-Number" and gave multiple pieces of equipment the same numbers. Oh, you want an M1? Did you mean the M1 Garand rifle, the completely unrelated M1 carbine rifle, an M1 Thompson gun, an M1 flamethrower, an M1 helmet, or an M1 light tank? Oh, you want an M1 tractor? Cool, which kind?
EndoExo t1_j5uz9k5 wrote
Reply to comment by Hexatona in TIL that perhaps the first story about people being taken over by fungus ala "The Last of Us" was William Hope Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night". It later served as the inspiration for the Japanese horror film, "Matango". by ContinuumGuy
Also, The House on the Borderland. It starts with a dude's old mansion getting attacked by pig people and then it gets weird.
EndoExo t1_ivl53kf wrote
Reply to comment by IDropFatLogs in TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea. by PDRugby
You want facts? That crater is 58 million years old.
EndoExo t1_ivkyp8b wrote
EndoExo t1_ivkjdze wrote
Reply to TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea. by PDRugby
Just warning you, OP, you're about to get flamed by a bunch of idiots who listened to quacks on Joe Rogan.
EndoExo t1_ivkj4np wrote
Reply to comment by h1c253 in TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea. by PDRugby
Sacred geometrist Randall Carlson and unstable journalist turned pseudoscientist Graham Hancock. The best sources for archeological opinions.
EndoExo t1_iuxu733 wrote
Reply to TIL the former members of Timbuk 3 have refused to license the song "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" for commercials, including a $900,000 offer from AT&T and offers from Ford, the U.S. Army, and Bausch & Lomb for their Ray-Ban sunglasses. by big_macaroons
The Army using this song to recruit would be even worse than Wrangler using "Fortunate Son" to sell jeans. Or Mercedes Benz using Joplin's "Mercedes Benz". Or GM using "Little Pink Houses". Or Nike using "American Woman".
EndoExo t1_iuwk6n8 wrote
Reply to comment by Vlacas12 in TIL that the Persian King Xerxes was so enraged after a storm destroyed his bridges that he ordered the sea be given 300 whiplashes, and branded it with red-hot irons as the soldiers shouted at the water by LethalPoopstain
A lot of Herodotus is just him repeating stories he heard from random people, so it's possible this was a legend among the Greeks at the time. It the modern equivalent of your friend repeating a story he heard at the bar from a "guy who knows a guy".
EndoExo t1_iujslj0 wrote
Reply to TIL there used to be an anti-masturbation device with teeth used to treat nightfall. by carbondioxide-7
"Nightfall" sounds so much cooler than "wet dream".
EndoExo t1_iuhyabg wrote
Reply to comment by saucyB52 in TIL: Asthmador was an asthma treatment in the US in the 1950s. It was made up of 3 toxic/hallucinogenic compounds belladonna (atropine), stramonium (nightshade/jimson weed), and potassium perchlorate (oxidant commonly used in fireworks). One common delivery method for Asthmador - cigarettes! by Geek_Nan
Yeah, the "flying ointment" supposedly contained a bunch of psychoactive but also poisonous ingredients.
EndoExo t1_ist6f3b wrote
Reply to comment by SchillMcGuffin in TIL about some US Marine named Charles Brown who received the Medal of Honor in 1872, but deserted in Shanghai before he could receive it. by dragoniteftw33
Yeah, a bunch of soldiers received the Medal of Honor for the "battle" of Wounded Knee. It meant less back then.
EndoExo t1_is5jt3a wrote
Reply to comment by -Coffee-Owl- in TIL at the end of the Top Gear US Special after arriving in New Orleans, the hosts gave their cars away instead of selling them as originally planned after seeing the damage from Hurricane Katrina by PrettyPinkPonyPrince
It was totes a '91-'92 model, unless a previous owner swapped out the ground effects for the scoopy looking ones.
EndoExo t1_iqxppqq wrote
Reply to comment by Penquinn14 in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
Don't forget how it's going to sterilize and/or kill us to fulfill the Jews' Globalist Elite's plan to depopulate the Earth.
EndoExo t1_iqxmjf8 wrote
Reply to comment by Super_Silky in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
The science community will radically change its views based on evidence, just like they did when later evidence for plate tectonics showed that continental drift was true, or when the evidence backed Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. I can't think of anything similar in religious dogma. Like, pretty much every scholar and archeologist in the world is in agreement that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon, and that the things it describes are historically impossible, but you don't see the LDS Church accepting that evidence.
EndoExo t1_jeg6a2v wrote
Reply to comment by Bruce-7891 in TIL: About Earth trojans. Two asteroids that share our orbit, leading us around the sun. by RevolutionaryAd94
They're not planet-sized. Wiki says one is about 300m and another 1.2km. Everything in an orbit is traveling the necessary speed for that orbit, otherwise it wouldn't be an orbit. In most cases, an object in the same orbit around the Sun as Earth would eventually be pulled into a different orbit by Earth's gravity, but these asteroids are moving around a Lagrange point where the gravity of the Earth and the Sun kinda cancel out for orbital purposes.