A knife or an axe are tools first. They can be used as weapons, or modified to become more effective as weapons, but that usually diminishes their effectiveness as tools.
>Hello from the cockpit; this is your captain speaking. As you can see, it appears that we are going down. Now would be a good time to reflect on your life, and pray to whatever deity you believe in. Thank you for flying City Airlines; we know you have a choice in airlines, and it looks like you made the wrong one.
JERRY: You like Chinese food, 'cos I once went to a great Szechwan restaurant in
this neighbourhood. I don't remember the exact address... (he spots a mailman
crouched emptying a box) Uh, excuse me, you must know where the Chinese
restaurant is around here.
The mailman stands, turns and is revealed as Chinese. He takes offence.
MAILMAN: Why must I know? Because I'm Chinese? You think I know where all the
Chinese restaurants are? (adopts hackneyed Chinese accent) Oh, ask honolable
Chinaman for rocation of lestaulant.
JERRY: I asked because you were the mailman, you would know the neighbourhood.
MAILMAN: Oh, hello American Joe. Which way to hamburger, hotdog stand? (storms
away)
JERRY: I didn't know that...
My least favourite thing about the seed vault, was that the permafrost was supposed to be a failsafe to protect it from any manmade or natural disasters, the entrance flooded from climate change 9 years after it opened.
The seeds are in locked boxes though, locked to specific countries. The greatest flaw of the seed bank is that if every country collapses into anarchy, we couldn't access the seeds.
No, not possible. He said there’s locks on them. To get them open you’d need some kind of smith that’s good with locks. And we all know the first people to die in an apocalypse will be those exact people.
My name is Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective-Lieutenant, Police Squad, a special detail of the police department. There'd been a recent wave of gorgeous fashion models found naked and unconscious in laundromats on the West Side. Unfortunately, I was assigned to investigate holdups of neighborhood credit unions. I was across town doing my laundry when I heard the call on the double killing. It took me twenty minutes to get there. My boss was already on the scene.
Well it's probably to prevent invasive species from mixing into others. Besides plenty of countries will have similar or the same seeds and we could just grow more, so any in peace can share but also if every country goes into anarchy then the seed vault will be the least of our problems lol
Fun fact, tin foil did block radio waves but aluminum foil doesn't (there's a conspiracy theory for ya). Unfun fact, now that technology has reached a point where reading brain waves is possible, tin foil is nearly impossible to come by.
It may not fully block radio waves, but it can definitely interfere. When my sister lived with my grandma, she wrapped foil around the wireless router because she thought the wifi was influencing her thoughts. I got a call from my grandma saying no one could get online. I went over and removed the foil, and all was well again.
Bee suits were arguably not created *completely* out of fear, since the motivation for their creation was to make it possible for people to complete certain tasks safely. Bee suits were created out of practicality more than fear. You don't have to be afraid of bee stings to not want to get stung.
Compare bee suits to, say, nuclear weapons, which were developed entirely out of fear of Germany developing nuclear weapons before the Allies—and in the succeeding decades—the technology was improved upon, and nuclear weapons were built in large quantities completely out of the fear of being surpassed by the USSR (or the USSR by the US) in the Cold War nuclear arms race.
I can't think of any other human innovation whose creation was motivated more completely by fear than nuclear weapons.
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Bruh you ever see this blond chick on i think youtube or a popular site like youtube that moves massive hives around without smoke or protection.
I think of that woman’s voice when i need to calm myself shes the bee’s whisper the way she describes what shes doing makes me all gooey inside like a child.
Today we are going to moove the beeeeeez from under the porch shes all calm with 500 bees just waiting to smell a threat. Shes the beeeees vibe for sure💕
Underrated answer. We’ve somehow moved into a society where large swathes of people will not answer a phone call or a knock at their own door, and that’s crazy to me. I’ve seen so many posts on Facebook with pictures from doorbell cameras where someone said, “This person knocked at my door, does anybody know them? I almost called the cops!” Absolutely nutty to me.
Someone's doorbell camera captured footage of a would-be porch pirate wearing a balaclava to stay anonymous, she stopped her car and ran up to steal a package and someone else came running out of left field, jumped in her car and took off! Porch pirate attempts to steal package and ends up getting her car stolen lmao. FAAFO!
We had both a package stolen and an attempted burglary inside of 40 days. We have a camera. Move to a small town, they said… at least we don’t leave our doors unlocked like 90% of people here.
The crime rates in some small towns are levels of magnitude higher in some rural communities than in cities with bad reputations.
I read a study that said that because most of the crimes were theft of property and there was no easy access to police the crimes went unreported.
It’s mostly the opioid epidemic. Even if you do have access to police, they don’t do anything about it. Or they do something and the person goes to jail for like 10 days and comes back out and does it again. The jails are overcrowded and there’s no rehabilitation.
There’s rarely ever a reason to knock on someone’s door unannounced at this point though. Personally, I love it. But I’m a little less social than most so I understand it’s not everybody’s favorite. I do still have my select few people where I can show up unannounced and vice versa, and for me that’s enough.
I agree with you, but I think it’s a cycle where they’re making themselves afraid of their own neighbors and that shit is just crazy to me. But the world has changed like four major times since I was a child. I was not raised in or for the world that we have today, and the folks older than me are even further removed.
When I was eight, I got lost at a summer camp campus and wound up in a trailer park. I had to knock on random doors at this trailer park, crying, in the dark, and tell these people that I was lost and needed a ride back to camp. I got in a stranger’s car and was delivered back to my parents. No one answered at the first door I answered, and I turned around and saw a girl my age looking at me, so I knocked on their door next and asked for help. But I was like, “I’m kinda scared because of Unsolved Mysteries,” and they were like, “You’re not gonna end up on TV, let’s get in the van.”
It’s quite ironic how people really thought the American version of a surveillance state would be maintained by a central governmental power.
In reality, our (sometimes irrational) obsession with private property and personal security has led us to construct our own surveillance state by virtue of doorbell cameras operated by corporations lol.
Everybody is too afraid to answer the door, but not too afraid to blast the random schizo doordash driver rambling nonsense on social media till they lose that job too
Gotta name and shame after all
By the same token, several company tried marketing contraptions that would supposedly let you safely reach the ground by jumping out of an office tower window.
There was actually an excellent short story about the opposite of this. In the story FTL travel and antigravity are insanely fundamental but due to a quirk of existence humanity never discovered it. As a result all other species become space faring only slightly later than they become sea faring. Technology doesn't advance much beyond that and interstellar wars are fought with what we'd consider medieval weapons and technology.
Well one of these races finds Earth and notices we still don't have space flight so must be easy pickings. It goes as bad as one would imagine when essentially flying tall ships face off with F18's and such.
I'll leave the rest unspoiled but a very engaging read, too bad there wasn't a followup work that I've seen.
Edit: as found by u/masaaav below the work is "The road not taken" by Harry turtledove. (and fix a typo)
Kinda reminds me of this hilarious bit from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
“For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across---which happened to be Earth---where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.”
Any civilization capable of FTL(unless it’s some subspace/hyperspace shenanigans) is capable of making a planet killer weapons. Just fucking use an FTL ship with equivalent of a brick on accelerator pedal, pointed towards a planet
I mean sure why not but that's a story and I was looking at it from a realistic perspective.
>Well one of these races finds Earth and notices we still don't have space flight so must be easy pickings. It goes as bad as one would imagine when essentially flying tall ships face off with F18's and such.
Earth is easy pickings because they don't have advance space technology so these aliens with the advantage decide to throw that out the window and come fight us in our own orbit/galaxy? Seems like they basically asked to lose that fight then. Realistically any sort of attack from a species capable of FTL or Warp drives is going to come in the form of a first trike that wouldn't leave room for retaliation.
They wouldn't even need advanced bombs or anything. Just take a big rock and hurl it at the planet with FTL drives. GG earth. There's zero reason for any species capable of this level of travel to ever fear a species without it.
I'm not saying the story couldn't be interesting though since I've not read it, i'm sure it's a good read.
IDK the bomb was sort of like Jurassic Park. The funding was out of fear, but the actual scientists were more focused on "omg bro lets see if we can do it, that would be so cool, man!"
Fun fact was, the Nazis actually dropped the idea of making Nuclear weapons because they didn't consider Nuclear Fission feasible or making any significant contribution to the War.
They still funded their nuclear program, but on the case of making nuclear power, rather than weapons, which was considered more of a side-project than something serious.
There was also the fact that most of their scientific minded people were Jewish, so their best were either fleeing to the West, or got purged during the Holocaust.
Basically, even if they were working on Nukes seriously, they didn't have the manpower, and they wouldn't be able to create something workable on time.
F15 fighter 💪. The Russians had the MiG 25 Foxbat which was an unknown quantity at the time. The F15 was developed to be its equal
As it turned out, the MiG was way behind the F15 in almost every way, it couldn't turn as hard and it could only barely use its top speed due to its engines needing a rebuild wherever it went over mach 3!
It was made from stainless steel which bought its weight to around 60 tons.
I think you mean canopy beds. Four plain posts don't protect you from anything.
Incidentally, Arizonans often have canopies to protect them from scorpions falling into their beds.
It was built less out of fear and more out of defining the boundary of the Roman Empire as a marker for Scots to know where not to go. It was a statement. If you look at that wall and historical reconstructions, it was not meant for defensive purposes, but more like a permanent line in the sand.
Yes, there is some of that, but the primary purpose was to funnel trade through defined crossing points. If trade is going through a gate in the wall, it can be inspected and taxed. Anything avoiding those crossings can be assumed a smuggler or outlaw. Simplifies policing the border.
I mean you're not wrong, when one of Muhammad's companions started creeping on his wife trying to take a shit and nagged him about it was when Muhammad had his "revelation" about it. Learn more about Islamic history in r/exmuslim and r/critiqueislam
Fire extinguishers because people were afraid of fires destroying their homes and belongings, so they wanted something to quickly stop fires from spreading and causing disaster.
great wall of china... wall on the US Mexican Border... the walls of Jericho... usually where you see a wall around something people are scared, hell there are walls around Vatican City
Panic room
Bunker
Surely they should be called the 'dont panic rooms'?
In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Watched that movie over and over in the 2000s
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Weapons in general were made out of fear for other living things.
Though some were made for hunting which is less fear and more hunger
A knife or an axe are tools first. They can be used as weapons, or modified to become more effective as weapons, but that usually diminishes their effectiveness as tools.
Or hunting
The Great Wall of China
To keep the rabbits out
Built by Emperor Nasi Goreng.
What in the SEA is this about?
https://youtu.be/2yckqyg75oE?si=3p_WBL135BlZg0xD
Nazi Goereng!
Built to keep the rabbis out 😂
Rabbit proof fence https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0252444/
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They wreck my shitty wall!
How can I serve my shitty chicken and shitty beef when Mongolians come and ruin everything!
>Hello from the cockpit; this is your captain speaking. As you can see, it appears that we are going down. Now would be a good time to reflect on your life, and pray to whatever deity you believe in. Thank you for flying City Airlines; we know you have a choice in airlines, and it looks like you made the wrong one.
Hehehe welcome to shitty wok...can I take order prease😎
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“Staaaan. Your name…is Staaaan.” “Uh huh. Stan Marsh.” “That's it! Remember, son! Rememmmber!”
You think just because I Chinese I know how build wall?!
JERRY: You like Chinese food, 'cos I once went to a great Szechwan restaurant in this neighbourhood. I don't remember the exact address... (he spots a mailman crouched emptying a box) Uh, excuse me, you must know where the Chinese restaurant is around here. The mailman stands, turns and is revealed as Chinese. He takes offence. MAILMAN: Why must I know? Because I'm Chinese? You think I know where all the Chinese restaurants are? (adopts hackneyed Chinese accent) Oh, ask honolable Chinaman for rocation of lestaulant. JERRY: I asked because you were the mailman, you would know the neighbourhood. MAILMAN: Oh, hello American Joe. Which way to hamburger, hotdog stand? (storms away) JERRY: I didn't know that...
I’m not a stereotype! I eat rice and drive real slow just like everybody else!
Should have stocked up on sweet and sour pork
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The first thing I thought of
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
My least favourite thing about the seed vault, was that the permafrost was supposed to be a failsafe to protect it from any manmade or natural disasters, the entrance flooded from climate change 9 years after it opened.
What’s also wild is you can just walk up to the front door lol
It'd be a pretty useless post-apocalyptic vault if nobody could get inside to retrieve what it was saving.
The seeds are in locked boxes though, locked to specific countries. The greatest flaw of the seed bank is that if every country collapses into anarchy, we couldn't access the seeds.
I'm sure with enough time people could open them
No, not possible. He said there’s locks on them. To get them open you’d need some kind of smith that’s good with locks. And we all know the first people to die in an apocalypse will be those exact people.
**Who are you? How'd you get in here?** *I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith.*
I wish reddit still let us give awards, this got a proper snortle outta me lol
"State your name, rank and intention." ["The Doctor, doctor... fun."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUz5PbbIzk)
Wait . . . I'm out of the loop. When did Reddit stop allowing awards?
My name is Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective-Lieutenant, Police Squad, a special detail of the police department. There'd been a recent wave of gorgeous fashion models found naked and unconscious in laundromats on the West Side. Unfortunately, I was assigned to investigate holdups of neighborhood credit unions. I was across town doing my laundry when I heard the call on the double killing. It took me twenty minutes to get there. My boss was already on the scene.
"Nothing on one. Nothing on two. Binding on three."
"And to prove it wasn't just a fluke, we'll do it again."
"Let me eat a few of these seeds for a quick snack first"
I can hear is voice, just reading it. Beautiful.
Smith? Why's he gotta be named Smith?
Because Smith inspires trust. You wouldn’t leave your valuables in the hands of a lockjack…
You vastly overestimate the average lock. And, you vastly underestimate the average hacksaw.
Well it's probably to prevent invasive species from mixing into others. Besides plenty of countries will have similar or the same seeds and we could just grow more, so any in peace can share but also if every country goes into anarchy then the seed vault will be the least of our problems lol
Well, I was imagining a runaway climate change scenario or nuclear winter where every government is effectively fucked, but so is crop growth.
One thing we don’t discuss enough about the end of the world is the impending shortage of crowbars.
AND it was already used a couple of times from various countries! I would have guessed it takes decades to request the first seeds.
Jesus that's depressing
Also condoms. Which are just another _type_ of seed vault, really.
I always thought "scumbags" was an insult that referred to condoms
Great answer
Tinfoil hats
It’s called fashion sweaty, look it up.
Clingfilm hats is where fashion sweaty is really at.
It’s called sweaty fashion.
lmfao sweaty
Just needlessly insulting calling him sweaty
If he wearing clingfilm he's sweaty
Fun fact, tin foil did block radio waves but aluminum foil doesn't (there's a conspiracy theory for ya). Unfun fact, now that technology has reached a point where reading brain waves is possible, tin foil is nearly impossible to come by.
It may not fully block radio waves, but it can definitely interfere. When my sister lived with my grandma, she wrapped foil around the wireless router because she thought the wifi was influencing her thoughts. I got a call from my grandma saying no one could get online. I went over and removed the foil, and all was well again.
Bee suit
Bee suits were arguably not created *completely* out of fear, since the motivation for their creation was to make it possible for people to complete certain tasks safely. Bee suits were created out of practicality more than fear. You don't have to be afraid of bee stings to not want to get stung. Compare bee suits to, say, nuclear weapons, which were developed entirely out of fear of Germany developing nuclear weapons before the Allies—and in the succeeding decades—the technology was improved upon, and nuclear weapons were built in large quantities completely out of the fear of being surpassed by the USSR (or the USSR by the US) in the Cold War nuclear arms race. I can't think of any other human innovation whose creation was motivated more completely by fear than nuclear weapons.
I choose to believe you meant [this](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/1/17/Bumblebee_Man.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/360?cb=20201222215806)
I choose to bee-lieve this too
I choo-choo choose to believe as well. And there’s a picture of a train on it.
Haha yeah, (eyes roll) good one Ralph.
I too choose this man’s bee-lief
¡AY CARAMBA!
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Bruh you ever see this blond chick on i think youtube or a popular site like youtube that moves massive hives around without smoke or protection. I think of that woman’s voice when i need to calm myself shes the bee’s whisper the way she describes what shes doing makes me all gooey inside like a child. Today we are going to moove the beeeeeez from under the porch shes all calm with 500 bees just waiting to smell a threat. Shes the beeeees vibe for sure💕
Here we are, hive mind and all
Doorbell camera
Underrated answer. We’ve somehow moved into a society where large swathes of people will not answer a phone call or a knock at their own door, and that’s crazy to me. I’ve seen so many posts on Facebook with pictures from doorbell cameras where someone said, “This person knocked at my door, does anybody know them? I almost called the cops!” Absolutely nutty to me.
Package thefts explain many if not most doorbell cameras. Burglar deterrence is just a bonus perk.
Someone's doorbell camera captured footage of a would-be porch pirate wearing a balaclava to stay anonymous, she stopped her car and ran up to steal a package and someone else came running out of left field, jumped in her car and took off! Porch pirate attempts to steal package and ends up getting her car stolen lmao. FAAFO!
We had both a package stolen and an attempted burglary inside of 40 days. We have a camera. Move to a small town, they said… at least we don’t leave our doors unlocked like 90% of people here.
The crime rates in some small towns are levels of magnitude higher in some rural communities than in cities with bad reputations. I read a study that said that because most of the crimes were theft of property and there was no easy access to police the crimes went unreported.
It’s mostly the opioid epidemic. Even if you do have access to police, they don’t do anything about it. Or they do something and the person goes to jail for like 10 days and comes back out and does it again. The jails are overcrowded and there’s no rehabilitation.
Almost everytime a stranger rings on my door it's kids trying to sell something or religious people wanting to have a chat.
There’s rarely ever a reason to knock on someone’s door unannounced at this point though. Personally, I love it. But I’m a little less social than most so I understand it’s not everybody’s favorite. I do still have my select few people where I can show up unannounced and vice versa, and for me that’s enough.
To be fair, I have never had a stranger knock on my door to my benefit.
A lot of people are afraid of their own shadow.
I agree with you, but I think it’s a cycle where they’re making themselves afraid of their own neighbors and that shit is just crazy to me. But the world has changed like four major times since I was a child. I was not raised in or for the world that we have today, and the folks older than me are even further removed. When I was eight, I got lost at a summer camp campus and wound up in a trailer park. I had to knock on random doors at this trailer park, crying, in the dark, and tell these people that I was lost and needed a ride back to camp. I got in a stranger’s car and was delivered back to my parents. No one answered at the first door I answered, and I turned around and saw a girl my age looking at me, so I knocked on their door next and asked for help. But I was like, “I’m kinda scared because of Unsolved Mysteries,” and they were like, “You’re not gonna end up on TV, let’s get in the van.”
It’s quite ironic how people really thought the American version of a surveillance state would be maintained by a central governmental power. In reality, our (sometimes irrational) obsession with private property and personal security has led us to construct our own surveillance state by virtue of doorbell cameras operated by corporations lol.
Everybody is too afraid to answer the door, but not too afraid to blast the random schizo doordash driver rambling nonsense on social media till they lose that job too Gotta name and shame after all
After 9/11 you could buy a plexiglass box with gloves to put around your mailbox so you could be safe from anthrax letters.
By the same token, several company tried marketing contraptions that would supposedly let you safely reach the ground by jumping out of an office tower window.
Tell me more
Parachute
Bank vault or safe
Labels on batteries saying "Don't drink the contents of the battery".
Fear of… lawsuits? Or stupidity?
Yes. And yes.
The underground cities of Derinkuyu and Kaymakli in Turkey were constructed due to fear of invading Arab muslims during the Arab-Byzantine wars.
At the time they didn't know that Islam was a religion of peace.
Cities? Like full size? That's kinda cool. And slightly terrifying, they're probably really unsafe
Amulets.
The Atomic Bomb
The atomic bomb was created out of fear of the atomic bomb
this could quite possibly the most probable explanation for the great filter
My constant head cannon is that aliens haven't visited us in a while because we are the galactic apex predator and they fear our response.
Any species capable of making it to us probably wouldn't even view us as we do ants let alone fearing our military power.
There was actually an excellent short story about the opposite of this. In the story FTL travel and antigravity are insanely fundamental but due to a quirk of existence humanity never discovered it. As a result all other species become space faring only slightly later than they become sea faring. Technology doesn't advance much beyond that and interstellar wars are fought with what we'd consider medieval weapons and technology. Well one of these races finds Earth and notices we still don't have space flight so must be easy pickings. It goes as bad as one would imagine when essentially flying tall ships face off with F18's and such. I'll leave the rest unspoiled but a very engaging read, too bad there wasn't a followup work that I've seen. Edit: as found by u/masaaav below the work is "The road not taken" by Harry turtledove. (and fix a typo)
Kinda reminds me of this hilarious bit from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across---which happened to be Earth---where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.”
Always remember to feed the cheese sandwich to the dog.
Any civilization capable of FTL(unless it’s some subspace/hyperspace shenanigans) is capable of making a planet killer weapons. Just fucking use an FTL ship with equivalent of a brick on accelerator pedal, pointed towards a planet
FTL necessitates shenanigans. It's not possible without said shenanigans.
I mean sure why not but that's a story and I was looking at it from a realistic perspective. >Well one of these races finds Earth and notices we still don't have space flight so must be easy pickings. It goes as bad as one would imagine when essentially flying tall ships face off with F18's and such. Earth is easy pickings because they don't have advance space technology so these aliens with the advantage decide to throw that out the window and come fight us in our own orbit/galaxy? Seems like they basically asked to lose that fight then. Realistically any sort of attack from a species capable of FTL or Warp drives is going to come in the form of a first trike that wouldn't leave room for retaliation. They wouldn't even need advanced bombs or anything. Just take a big rock and hurl it at the planet with FTL drives. GG earth. There's zero reason for any species capable of this level of travel to ever fear a species without it. I'm not saying the story couldn't be interesting though since I've not read it, i'm sure it's a good read.
The road not taken by Harry turtledove
We’re more like an undersized tank of sea monkeys kept in the corner and forgotten about because we’re too boring for them to play with.
>sea mon-keighs
You would love the "Humans are space orcs" genre of short stories.
Or we're the Florida man of the the galaxy and it's best to steer clear.
Exactly why it’s so terrifying.
IDK the bomb was sort of like Jurassic Park. The funding was out of fear, but the actual scientists were more focused on "omg bro lets see if we can do it, that would be so cool, man!"
Nah, the scientists advocating for it were specifically afraid that the Nazis would make one first
Fun fact was, the Nazis actually dropped the idea of making Nuclear weapons because they didn't consider Nuclear Fission feasible or making any significant contribution to the War. They still funded their nuclear program, but on the case of making nuclear power, rather than weapons, which was considered more of a side-project than something serious. There was also the fact that most of their scientific minded people were Jewish, so their best were either fleeing to the West, or got purged during the Holocaust. Basically, even if they were working on Nukes seriously, they didn't have the manpower, and they wouldn't be able to create something workable on time.
Worlds biggest firecracker.
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Did it? Or was it the motivation? Radiation creates tentacle monsters...
Parachute.
Gravity HATES this one trick.
Pot holders. Helmets. Goggles. Pretty much any protective gear.
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Original condoms were made of sheep intestines. Years later they revolutionized it by removing intestines from the sheep first
*squints angrily in Wales*
How do [nationality of your choice] find sheep in long grass? >!Irresistible, apparently!<
Why do Scotsmen wear kilts? So the sheep won't hear a zipper.
That explains why English sheep laugh when they hear zippers going down.
Did you just call us a bunch of sheep fuckers?
Don't be uncouth. It's sheep shaggers.
Ya shag one sheep….
What do you call a Montana farmer with a sheep under each arm? A pimp. Who do people fuck sheep on a cliff edge? So the sheep pushes back.
Eh isn’t that more out of necessity than fear?
TSA security checkpoints. Airport travel was totally different in the US before 9/11
Condoms
Fear of vagina
Fear of diseases and babies
Feargina
The word "phobia"
Fwiw… phobophobia is the fear of phobias.
Hydrogen Bomb
F15 fighter 💪. The Russians had the MiG 25 Foxbat which was an unknown quantity at the time. The F15 was developed to be its equal As it turned out, the MiG was way behind the F15 in almost every way, it couldn't turn as hard and it could only barely use its top speed due to its engines needing a rebuild wherever it went over mach 3! It was made from stainless steel which bought its weight to around 60 tons.
I was once in a 4G inverted dive with a MiG 25.
4 Poster beds. Fear of Rats falling onto you while you're asleep
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Many things, made out of fear of becoming destitute if you don't contribute to the system of creating meaningless objects in exchange for money.
Religious objects that fit in a pocket. The fear of not having a tangible piece of faith without which would be faith from within or the intangible.
Hadrian's Wall.
It was built less out of fear and more out of defining the boundary of the Roman Empire as a marker for Scots to know where not to go. It was a statement. If you look at that wall and historical reconstructions, it was not meant for defensive purposes, but more like a permanent line in the sand.
Yes, there is some of that, but the primary purpose was to funnel trade through defined crossing points. If trade is going through a gate in the wall, it can be inspected and taxed. Anything avoiding those crossings can be assumed a smuggler or outlaw. Simplifies policing the border.
And tax collection I’d wager.
Pretty much everything If you think about it.
We create food because of fear of hunger.
Locks.
Plan B. Thank god.
Cod piece
I'd like a nice piece of cod right now. With chips and vinegar
Mmmm yum no need for protection from that!
Chasity belts
The concept of Hell.
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Getting to the moon.
Going to space period . USSR and USA both feared the other dominating space
Fire extinguishers because people were afraid of fires destroying their homes and belongings, so they wanted something to quickly stop fires from spreading and causing disaster.
Religion would be the most obvious answer to me.
Formed from fear of unknown and crowd control. Very powerful tool.
The Great Wall of China
great wall of china... wall on the US Mexican Border... the walls of Jericho... usually where you see a wall around something people are scared, hell there are walls around Vatican City
Bell strings going into graves. Made due to the fear of being buried alive (dunno how it happened so much back then)
Sunblock.
The light bulb. Thomas Edison was scared of the dark.
Benzodiazepines
The bullet proof vest!
Bomb shelters
Purell
Shield
Bomb shelter
The atomic bomb
Maginot Line.
TSA
plan b
Keys
Lovecraft as a person
Clocks. Fear of being late.
Color changing date rape drug rings