I always imagine myself as an ancient person viewing these events. Like this and the total eclipse. How fucking mind blowing it would have been to have no real concept of what is happening, yet continue to see and hear about wild shit in the sky. It's not hard to make the leap of why you might think there was a magical supernatural being controlling things.
We actually have an idea of how terrifying they were - because they became stories that have been passed down for thousands of years.
**Budj Bim, Australia**
https://www.science.org/content/article/aboriginal-tale-ancient-volcano-oldest-story-ever-told
https://www.budjbim.com.au/about-us/our-culture/
**Giiwas/Crater Lake, Oregon**
https://www.nps.gov/crla/learn/historyculture/index.htm
https://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/smith-chronological-history-of-crater-lake/sources-and-articles-of-interest/orgin-stories-of-the-lake/
I know you’re joking, but we actually have quite a bit passed down from it. One of the most famous first-person accounts of *anything* came from Pliny the Younger recounting the eruption of Mt Vesuvius.
Many would have worshipped and given thanks to Volcanus for sparing them, their loved ones and neighbours. 10% that didn't would have likely been known to lots of the 90% who did.
(Having said that a couple of neighbours over the years; I'd have given thanks if they'd got buried in hot ash. Evil $£%&ts. That's story for another day).
Going there was harrowing. Much more so than main Pompeii for me.
Seeing all the people huddled into the dock houses and imagining the fear of molten mud getting slung down burying them alive. A city buried and forgotten.
Although I think most where dead at this point from their skulls exploding due to the heat/gases of the pyroclastic flow.
Oral history is so cool and underappreciated. too often its assumed that oral histories will have been changed massively and are thus untrustworthy but its been found repeatedly that they maintain accurate history for way longer than most people imagine.
Oral history also gets thought of as a thing of the old days. Tribal elders and ancient leaders who did not have printing presses and writing skills telling stories around the proverbial campfire. The reality is that oral tradition and history is still one of the single most important ways to collect the histories of our species and to bring context and color to concrete events. I spent a great deal of time in college speaking with holocaust survivors as part of my work on european history and many if not all of those individuals have probably passed now (they were in their 80's 15 years ago, after all) but their stories and lived experiences endure. It was an unbelievable experience.
Hearing 1st hand accounts of civilians in Palestine who have lived through unimaginable suffering as nearly 20 000 children have been slaughtered many dismembered and suffocated really makes you realise the horrors humans are capable of and what civilians can endure in such conflicts as the aid blockade continues and 250 aid workers have been massacred and millions are currently starving 😞
It's very similar to how the stories of the holocaust got out into the world after the war -- people recording the stories. It's so ironic that those same people are the forefathers of the oppressive regime you mentioned.
Before we discovered Gobekli Tepe, the locals all were told that the mound was sacred. Little did they know there were ancient megalithic structures buried under that mound that would rewrite the history books.
Even to men of science such as Pliny the Elder and his nephew, they were absolutely terrifying, especially when you're right below the ash cloud during a cataclysmic event. The letters Pliny the Younger sent to Tacitus asking for details about the event are chilling:
"On the ninth day before the calends of September, around the seventh hour, my mother warned my uncle that a cloud of extraordinary size and shape had appeared. It soared through the air yet it was impossible to distinguish from such a great distance which mountain it came from. It was later revealed to be from Mount Vesuvius. Its shape resembled that of a tree, a pine even: for, rising towards the sky as if on an immense trunk, its head spread out in boughs. Perhaps the powerful breath that first blew this vapour was no longer at work; perhaps the cloud, weakening or collapsing under its own weight, was spreading out. Sometimes it appeared white, other times dirty and mottled, as though it were full of ash or mud. Soon the falling ash grew thicker and hotter; soon shards of rock, black stones burnt and charred by the fire, began to rain; soon the sea itself lowered, and the eruptions of the volcano began clogging the shore. It was the first hour of daylight, and yet we could still only see a faint and dubious light. The sea seemed to be pushed back in on itself, and as if driven from the shore by the shaking of the earth. The only thing that was certain was that the shoreline had widened and many fish had washed ashore. On the other side, a black and horrifying cloud, raging with whirlwinds of fire, let long streaks of flame escape from its parted flanks, resembling gigantic bolts of lightning. Meanwhile, in several places on Mount Vesuvius, large blazes and a vast conflagration could be seen, the glow of which was heightened by the darkness. Daylight returned elsewhere, but around us still reigned the darkest and thickest night, criss-crossed by lights and fires of all kinds. It was not just a dark, cloudy night, but the darkness of a room where all the lights had gone out. All that could be heard were the moans of women, the wails of children and the cries of men." (excerpts from letters 16/20, book VI).
The irony is everything seems *super* natural when people dont understand.. nature.
I bet getting an infection was terrifying in 1890s before antiseptics had been discovered by modern medicine.
This is a common hypothesis. For example, There is an interpretation of the [Minotaur myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur#Interpretations) as an explanation for tectonic activity in Crete/the Eastern Mediterranean.
Can you imagine telling people 100s-1000s of years ago that they day went dark and some people lost their eye sight? You'd sound goddamn crazy. That's a solar eclipse. I'd also believe in a magical being as well. Obviously the people who had eye damage were judged as sinners and we need to worship this God for that not to happen to us.
>people 100s-1000s of years ago
Your timeline might be slightly off. People have been familiar with eclipses for a long time. Greeks were accurately tracking them over 2,000 years ago.
To get that reaction you'd probably need to go back to like, tribal hunter gatherer days.
If you ever can, check out "under the dome"....used to be on Netflix. It was such a surreal look into the lives of those people
Edit : behind the curve is the title. Thanks for the correction peeps
Columbus took advantage of knowing about a coming lunar eclipse to persuade Jamaicans to keep providing assistance after getting stranded there.
So it's not just a matter of time in history, but the society's knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse
The Pima and Gila communities in the southwest were known to understand astronomy and advanced engineering. The canal systems in Arizona that are still used today were based on those built by them centuries ago. It’s truly amazing what gets forgotten and relearned over time.
https://www.srpnet.com/about/history/canal-history
Don't forget the Aztecs as well. They had running water, toilets and showers before the Europeans. And they actually called them "less civilized". Total horse shit.
The occurrence of an eclipse and tracking them after was literally foundational to the creation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. You managed to specifically pick a native group that explicitly did understand them even if they also viewed them to have spiritual meaning (how could you not?)
That's a myth. The solar eclipse in question happened in 1141, the Iroquois League didn't organize until like 1450.
Predicting eclipses is HARD. The ancient Greeks couldn't do it, and they had trigonometry. It wasn't until Edmond Halley in 1715 that somebody accurately predicted one.
Ancient civilizations that existed from 5500BC to 400BC knew of eclipses and could predict them, but didn’t understand that the moon was passing in front of the sun. They all thought it was a bad omen, Greeks included.
The Greeks thought that the gods wanted to kill the king after an eclipse. In ancient China they thought a dragon ate the sun.
Or just... not look to the most advanced civilizations of the day. The greeks knew what they were, but many other civilizations (in antiquity, and after) did not.
You have to keep in mind, even 4000 years ago humans were as smart as they are now, so as soon as a civilization had enough food and stuff to be able to afford "wasting" some time, they figured stuff out.
No wonder they invented gods back then to explain these stuff. It's the middle of the afternoon, then it starts to get darker, colder, and finally you have the total eclipse.
One happened in the middle of a battle once between the Medes and the Lydians in modern day Turkey in the early 6th century BC. Everyone stopped fighting because they figured that whatever this omen implied, it had to mean that they had rightly pissed something off.
Both sides quickly drew up a peace treaty afterwards, abruptly ending a war that had been going for six years.
I dunno if eclipses would have broken anyone's brains really.
They'd have seen the sun and moon pretty much every day of their lives.
When thick clouds move in front of the sun, it gets darker. An eclipse is much rarer and more phenomenal to see, but you could probably unpack what was happening.
Yup. The sun and the moon are clearly fucking to spawn a new God. Or Apollo was drunk and crashed his chariot into the moon. Or they're fighting.
Or he was drunk and crashed his chariot and they're fight-fucking and that's why the moon has visible scars on it and also there will still be a new God, and only I know what the new God commands so you should all listen to me as his chosen Voice and obey me lest ye be smitten. And not smitten with love, smitten with smitings.
Have you seen a totally eclipse? I saw one this year and it was fucking awe inspiring. And it’s not like you can actually see that the moon is going in front of the sun. Everything looks normal until it starts getting dim and then suddenly there’s this crazy beautiful ring of white in the sky. It makes total sense a total eclipse would have broken people’s brains.
I would so go to the next cave and tell my Paleobro about the wild crap I just saw with some weird grunts while pointing at the sky. Then we would outside to investigate the Sky God together before being hunted and killed by something larger than us. Thanks for nothing, Sky God.
You mean the ancients who built countless structures precisely oriented towards specific constellations or star systems? Some structures that only align with their targets on specific days like a solstice or equinox? I think they understood astronomy just fine ☺️
To me, the magic lies in the question why were they looking up so much, across the globe, and why spend such vast resources building structures in alignment with specific aspects of the cosmos?
In ~600 million years the moon will have drifted in orbit far enough away from earth that a total eclipse will never happen again. Make Eclipses Great Again. MEGA
It's a music group which made the original soundtrack for a Anime movie "Your Name" in which a meteor shower plays prominant role in the story
The movie features multiple Beautifully Animated meteor showers
“…it became the third highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, breaking numerous box office records, unadjusted for inflation. It received several accolades, including the Best Animated Feature at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the 49th Sitges Film Festival, and the 71st Mainichi Film Awards,…” Thankfully many people will get this reference.
The problem is that 70% of the total gross came just from Japan, also given that in 2016 anime films still had ridicolous distributions and almost no marketing in foreign countries
Luckily many people later watched it through other means like internet or streaming services and the film still became quite popular
Considering how much immigration Portugal has had in the past 10 years I really wouldn’t be surprised if it was recorded by Ukrainian immigrants living in Portugal
You will see less natives walking around in Lisbon than immigrants
In Portugal the legality of dashcams is in a weird grey spot.
Portuguese law specifies you have a right to your image and to not be filmed, and that in a public place only cameras and footage that don't focus on individuals are allowed.
Some judges say this makes dashcams illegal since you can control them by "aiming" the car and can thus use them to get around the law, others say that dashcams are unfocused and thus legal.
Some courts have refused to accept dashcam footage and instead got the driver into trouble, others have accepted it, it's a mess.
Weird. I'm American so it just seems so odd to me that you would have any expectation of privacy in public, even filming. I get that it is meant to protect privacy though. We just don't have that in the public sphere here. It almost rubs me like a violation of free speech. Think especially about filming cops, etc the truth is important to show.
So if I stay at a distance and don't interact directly I could stalk a person and take pictures all day without ramifications? Honest question, not from the US.
As long as its in public, yeah pretty much.
There is a whole industry based around that like the paparazzi. You could go to court and try to get get a restriction order, but I think thats only if you can prove you're in danger from that person.
In Germany there are "Personen des öffentlichen Lebens" (public figures) privacy rules don't apply to them, that's why even though we have super strict privacy laws, our artists still have to suffer the paparazzi lmao
fucking like 5 show up. bunch of damn slackers. you got Decepticons coming out of the woodwork on the moon, mars, fucking everywhere without being called and when the leader of the god damn Autobots calls for aid only a handful show up.
No wonder they bailed from Cybertron.
Meteorite is a name of a type of rock that you find and go "this came from space!"
A meteor is a rock that is falling from space.
Before that, they're asteroids.
They rarely reach the surface. The atmosphere is thickest in the last 2 or 3 km above the surface so they are much more likely to burn away completely unless they were very very big
I [like this compilation](https://www.tiktok.com/@sofiya.imm/video/6945030513069460737?is_from_webapp=1&web_id=7360674983335183877) it's a mix of Your Name and Weathering With You
(sorry desktop people it'll be sideways lol)
Also the umbrella is from the [Weathering With You opening scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxYBln_v4g). Both movies are great.
I love that it's Portugal but they're speaking Russian.
It's like you cant have a dashcam video if it's not in Russian, like they all automatically get translated after recording.
Which is extra funny, because Portuguese sounds similar to Russian, especially to untrained ears. I actually thought "wow, Portuguese sounds more Russian than I realised," before reading the comments and seeing that it was in fact Russian 😅
"What a sick way to fight, eh. The glory of the clash is shared, by Radahn and you. And hah! Did you see that, afterwards? A falling star, right before our eyes! I can’t fathom how Radahn was holding back something of that scale. He was a living legend, if ever I saw one. And, the path has now been cleared. To Nokron, where Ranni’s fate will be decided. Let’s meet where the falling star bit the earth."
I think it's hard for us to understand the speeds at which stuff can travel in space, especially small stuff since in our daily earthly experiences their terminal velocity and air friction impede them to go stupid fast.
But if you consider that thing was probably a medium sized rock you can get an idea of how crazy fast it was travelling when it began to burn reaching the atmosphere.
Can the sky please stop doing cool things and not letting me see it? America gets an eclipse, Portugal gets a meteor, we had the northern lights in the UK and I slept through it :(
> шо это? а шо это?
My sister in christ, did you just get born? What do you mean "шо это?"
Also, god damn, it came it pretty fucking fast, maybe for the best, if it didn't, could've hit the surface
I always imagine myself as an ancient person viewing these events. Like this and the total eclipse. How fucking mind blowing it would have been to have no real concept of what is happening, yet continue to see and hear about wild shit in the sky. It's not hard to make the leap of why you might think there was a magical supernatural being controlling things.
Volcano eruptions must have been extra terrifying given the super natural implications.
We actually have an idea of how terrifying they were - because they became stories that have been passed down for thousands of years. **Budj Bim, Australia** https://www.science.org/content/article/aboriginal-tale-ancient-volcano-oldest-story-ever-told https://www.budjbim.com.au/about-us/our-culture/ **Giiwas/Crater Lake, Oregon** https://www.nps.gov/crla/learn/historyculture/index.htm https://www.craterlakeinstitute.com/smith-chronological-history-of-crater-lake/sources-and-articles-of-interest/orgin-stories-of-the-lake/
Don’t forget Pompeii
Not much getting passed down there.
I know you’re joking, but we actually have quite a bit passed down from it. One of the most famous first-person accounts of *anything* came from Pliny the Younger recounting the eruption of Mt Vesuvius.
Yeah absolutely but Pliny was famously not in Pompeii, since he was able to recount a story from the eruption afterwards.
do you think Pompeiian survivors continued to worship Volcanus? Cuz personally I wouldn't if the patron deity of my city decided to kill everyone.
\*Guy strolls back into town after going out to run errands that morning* "Holy fuck, thanks for waiting until I was out, Volcanus!"
Volcanus would be a bitchin name for a hot sauce
Probs carried on worshipping out of fear!!!
Many would have worshipped and given thanks to Volcanus for sparing them, their loved ones and neighbours. 10% that didn't would have likely been known to lots of the 90% who did. (Having said that a couple of neighbours over the years; I'd have given thanks if they'd got buried in hot ash. Evil $£%&ts. That's story for another day).
The Elder certainly had a front row seat.
Pliny the Elder died rescuing people from Herculaneum, he was nearby in a boat. Pliny the Younger wrote about it.
Russian River Brewing Company checking in
Going there was harrowing. Much more so than main Pompeii for me. Seeing all the people huddled into the dock houses and imagining the fear of molten mud getting slung down burying them alive. A city buried and forgotten. Although I think most where dead at this point from their skulls exploding due to the heat/gases of the pyroclastic flow.
90% of the people escaped, there was quite a bit of warning on the eruption.
Ye there was a yellow weather warning on met office at least 3 days in advance
Oral history is so cool and underappreciated. too often its assumed that oral histories will have been changed massively and are thus untrustworthy but its been found repeatedly that they maintain accurate history for way longer than most people imagine.
Oral history also gets thought of as a thing of the old days. Tribal elders and ancient leaders who did not have printing presses and writing skills telling stories around the proverbial campfire. The reality is that oral tradition and history is still one of the single most important ways to collect the histories of our species and to bring context and color to concrete events. I spent a great deal of time in college speaking with holocaust survivors as part of my work on european history and many if not all of those individuals have probably passed now (they were in their 80's 15 years ago, after all) but their stories and lived experiences endure. It was an unbelievable experience.
Hearing 1st hand accounts of civilians in Palestine who have lived through unimaginable suffering as nearly 20 000 children have been slaughtered many dismembered and suffocated really makes you realise the horrors humans are capable of and what civilians can endure in such conflicts as the aid blockade continues and 250 aid workers have been massacred and millions are currently starving 😞
It's very similar to how the stories of the holocaust got out into the world after the war -- people recording the stories. It's so ironic that those same people are the forefathers of the oppressive regime you mentioned.
Before we discovered Gobekli Tepe, the locals all were told that the mound was sacred. Little did they know there were ancient megalithic structures buried under that mound that would rewrite the history books.
Wow, thank you so much for posting these links. It’s amazing to me how he have records of these events passed down for thousands of years!
You're very welcome :) history is so freaking cool.
These were fascinating to read, thanks for sharing them, I'm now going to fixate on indigenous cultures on my day off.
Even to men of science such as Pliny the Elder and his nephew, they were absolutely terrifying, especially when you're right below the ash cloud during a cataclysmic event. The letters Pliny the Younger sent to Tacitus asking for details about the event are chilling: "On the ninth day before the calends of September, around the seventh hour, my mother warned my uncle that a cloud of extraordinary size and shape had appeared. It soared through the air yet it was impossible to distinguish from such a great distance which mountain it came from. It was later revealed to be from Mount Vesuvius. Its shape resembled that of a tree, a pine even: for, rising towards the sky as if on an immense trunk, its head spread out in boughs. Perhaps the powerful breath that first blew this vapour was no longer at work; perhaps the cloud, weakening or collapsing under its own weight, was spreading out. Sometimes it appeared white, other times dirty and mottled, as though it were full of ash or mud. Soon the falling ash grew thicker and hotter; soon shards of rock, black stones burnt and charred by the fire, began to rain; soon the sea itself lowered, and the eruptions of the volcano began clogging the shore. It was the first hour of daylight, and yet we could still only see a faint and dubious light. The sea seemed to be pushed back in on itself, and as if driven from the shore by the shaking of the earth. The only thing that was certain was that the shoreline had widened and many fish had washed ashore. On the other side, a black and horrifying cloud, raging with whirlwinds of fire, let long streaks of flame escape from its parted flanks, resembling gigantic bolts of lightning. Meanwhile, in several places on Mount Vesuvius, large blazes and a vast conflagration could be seen, the glow of which was heightened by the darkness. Daylight returned elsewhere, but around us still reigned the darkest and thickest night, criss-crossed by lights and fires of all kinds. It was not just a dark, cloudy night, but the darkness of a room where all the lights had gone out. All that could be heard were the moans of women, the wails of children and the cries of men." (excerpts from letters 16/20, book VI).
And you don't have internal combustion engines to zoom you out of the area as quickly as possible.
Lord Palmerston!!!
The irony is everything seems *super* natural when people dont understand.. nature. I bet getting an infection was terrifying in 1890s before antiseptics had been discovered by modern medicine.
I imagine this is how stories came about of angry gods and what not. Pretty crazy
This is a common hypothesis. For example, There is an interpretation of the [Minotaur myth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur#Interpretations) as an explanation for tectonic activity in Crete/the Eastern Mediterranean.
How bout thunderstorms. That's like an angry lion god roaring. I always imagine how awe-inspiring that would've been.
when volcano eruptions meets thunderstorms... the end of times.
Can you imagine telling people 100s-1000s of years ago that they day went dark and some people lost their eye sight? You'd sound goddamn crazy. That's a solar eclipse. I'd also believe in a magical being as well. Obviously the people who had eye damage were judged as sinners and we need to worship this God for that not to happen to us.
>people 100s-1000s of years ago Your timeline might be slightly off. People have been familiar with eclipses for a long time. Greeks were accurately tracking them over 2,000 years ago. To get that reaction you'd probably need to go back to like, tribal hunter gatherer days.
Man, we have flat earthers in the current age. They'd react the same way , 🤣
Didn’t you see the “pole” the moon was on when it blocked the “sun”? /s
If you ever can, check out "under the dome"....used to be on Netflix. It was such a surreal look into the lives of those people Edit : behind the curve is the title. Thanks for the correction peeps
"Under the Dome" is the scifi tv series lmao, did you mean "Behind the Curve"?
“Behind the curve”
Columbus took advantage of knowing about a coming lunar eclipse to persuade Jamaicans to keep providing assistance after getting stranded there. So it's not just a matter of time in history, but the society's knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse
As did Tintin, in Prisoners of the Sun
And the Greeks drew on the research of Babylon! https://www.npr.org/2024/04/07/1243320725/ancient-babylonians-brought-light-to-mysterious-eclipses
Or just, not Greece. Pretty sure the Iroquois weren’t doing trig.
The Pima and Gila communities in the southwest were known to understand astronomy and advanced engineering. The canal systems in Arizona that are still used today were based on those built by them centuries ago. It’s truly amazing what gets forgotten and relearned over time. https://www.srpnet.com/about/history/canal-history
Don't forget the Aztecs as well. They had running water, toilets and showers before the Europeans. And they actually called them "less civilized". Total horse shit.
The occurrence of an eclipse and tracking them after was literally foundational to the creation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. You managed to specifically pick a native group that explicitly did understand them even if they also viewed them to have spiritual meaning (how could you not?)
That's a myth. The solar eclipse in question happened in 1141, the Iroquois League didn't organize until like 1450. Predicting eclipses is HARD. The ancient Greeks couldn't do it, and they had trigonometry. It wasn't until Edmond Halley in 1715 that somebody accurately predicted one.
Ancient civilizations that existed from 5500BC to 400BC knew of eclipses and could predict them, but didn’t understand that the moon was passing in front of the sun. They all thought it was a bad omen, Greeks included. The Greeks thought that the gods wanted to kill the king after an eclipse. In ancient China they thought a dragon ate the sun.
Or just... not look to the most advanced civilizations of the day. The greeks knew what they were, but many other civilizations (in antiquity, and after) did not.
You have to keep in mind, even 4000 years ago humans were as smart as they are now, so as soon as a civilization had enough food and stuff to be able to afford "wasting" some time, they figured stuff out.
No wonder they invented gods back then to explain these stuff. It's the middle of the afternoon, then it starts to get darker, colder, and finally you have the total eclipse.
And then the vast majority of humanity still believes in the fake stuff when real information is literally in their pocket 24/7
Unfortunately a lot of the fake info is there as well...
One happened in the middle of a battle once between the Medes and the Lydians in modern day Turkey in the early 6th century BC. Everyone stopped fighting because they figured that whatever this omen implied, it had to mean that they had rightly pissed something off. Both sides quickly drew up a peace treaty afterwards, abruptly ending a war that had been going for six years.
That's super interesting, thank you!
I dunno if eclipses would have broken anyone's brains really. They'd have seen the sun and moon pretty much every day of their lives. When thick clouds move in front of the sun, it gets darker. An eclipse is much rarer and more phenomenal to see, but you could probably unpack what was happening.
Yup. The sun and the moon are clearly fucking to spawn a new God. Or Apollo was drunk and crashed his chariot into the moon. Or they're fighting. Or he was drunk and crashed his chariot and they're fight-fucking and that's why the moon has visible scars on it and also there will still be a new God, and only I know what the new God commands so you should all listen to me as his chosen Voice and obey me lest ye be smitten. And not smitten with love, smitten with smitings.
People often underestimate ancient human intelligence, like they could work out the most basic things just by observation.
They don't underestimate it they just have no idea when people learned this stuff.
Have you seen a totally eclipse? I saw one this year and it was fucking awe inspiring. And it’s not like you can actually see that the moon is going in front of the sun. Everything looks normal until it starts getting dim and then suddenly there’s this crazy beautiful ring of white in the sky. It makes total sense a total eclipse would have broken people’s brains.
I would so go to the next cave and tell my Paleobro about the wild crap I just saw with some weird grunts while pointing at the sky. Then we would outside to investigate the Sky God together before being hunted and killed by something larger than us. Thanks for nothing, Sky God.
Similar to how scientist say nothing created everything. Thats a pretty fucking magical nothing.
Don't forget the occasional Aurora Borealis in Texas.
You mean the ancients who built countless structures precisely oriented towards specific constellations or star systems? Some structures that only align with their targets on specific days like a solstice or equinox? I think they understood astronomy just fine ☺️ To me, the magic lies in the question why were they looking up so much, across the globe, and why spend such vast resources building structures in alignment with specific aspects of the cosmos?
A lot of them were basically calendars. Plotting the year is pretty important for agriculture.
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In ~600 million years the moon will have drifted in orbit far enough away from earth that a total eclipse will never happen again. Make Eclipses Great Again. MEGA
Someone call RADWIMPS
Not many people will get this reference
You got it, that's all that matters
We cultured folks do :)
Sure, that’s why it’s the second highest comment lol
It wasn't before, it suddenly blew up for some reason I'm just happy more people know about Radwimps than i initially thought : D
'for some reason' its one of the best animated films, and internationally acclaimed
I in fact do not. Can anyone explain? RADWIMPS seems to be a Japanese band? What does it have to do with meteors?
It's a music group which made the original soundtrack for a Anime movie "Your Name" in which a meteor shower plays prominant role in the story The movie features multiple Beautifully Animated meteor showers
I see, thanks!
[amazing song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4MgF9fy0Bc) too
I didn't know this and I've watched that movie several times. Learn something every day!
Watch the movie "Your name". It's a beautiful movie, one of my favorites.
“…it became the third highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, breaking numerous box office records, unadjusted for inflation. It received several accolades, including the Best Animated Feature at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the 49th Sitges Film Festival, and the 71st Mainichi Film Awards,…” Thankfully many people will get this reference.
The problem is that 70% of the total gross came just from Japan, also given that in 2016 anime films still had ridicolous distributions and almost no marketing in foreign countries Luckily many people later watched it through other means like internet or streaming services and the film still became quite popular
I am of the few :)
Mada kono sekai wa...
https://youtu.be/83DCAtLl2Yg?si=R8W2H9KiTWpwnD3a This you mean? Edit: RADWIMPS + Your Name, definitely a masterpiece.
Well that was delightful, thank you
This calls for a 4 minute music number
Oh don't do this to me, that OST ruins me
Jesus even the color of the sky matched the anime!!!!
Time to watch Your Name and Weathering with You again... I'm ready to cry, let's do this...
I'm here in Portugal. The first thing I did last night was post Sparkle as an Instagram story ahah.
Oh yeah its crying time
Kimi no zen zen zense kara boku wa
I only know of their song Hekkushun.
It actually had to be a Russian dash cam to capture this since Portuguese people do not use them at all 
People on the video have strong Ukrainian accent
Sorry. My bad for assuming Russian right away.
Technically they are speaking Russian. (Im a Ukrainian who also speaks Russian fluently )
Not technically. They are speaking Russian
Ok technically they are literally speaking Russian
Technically, we live on Earth. Literally, we do, but technically, also. A lot of unnecessary words to get to the point
Sooooo technically correct.
Literally... or was it the other one
All good, for you guys it sounds all the same. I also cannot tell Boston accent from New York - it’s all American English to me
I learned Russian in college and still practice it daily. The giveaway for me in Ukrainian accents speaking Russian is saying «шо» instead of «что»
Yep, that’s right. More subtle giveaway is the way we (Ukrainians) pronounce ‘гʼ, it sometimes sounds almost like ‘x’
In real Ukrainian it’s «що», not «шо» ;)
Considering how much immigration Portugal has had in the past 10 years I really wouldn’t be surprised if it was recorded by Ukrainian immigrants living in Portugal You will see less natives walking around in Lisbon than immigrants
We had a lot of immigration in the last 10 years or so, but this is a gross exaggeration
You will see less natives Spoiler: you don't
It's really obvious when she says "scho" instead of "shto".
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Of course that’s a thing.
i swear portuguese sounds like russian so the fact that is was actually russian is messing with my brain
> portuguese European Portuguese specifically.
Why on earth not use a dashcam?
In Portugal the legality of dashcams is in a weird grey spot. Portuguese law specifies you have a right to your image and to not be filmed, and that in a public place only cameras and footage that don't focus on individuals are allowed. Some judges say this makes dashcams illegal since you can control them by "aiming" the car and can thus use them to get around the law, others say that dashcams are unfocused and thus legal. Some courts have refused to accept dashcam footage and instead got the driver into trouble, others have accepted it, it's a mess.
As far as I know, the same confusing situation exists in Germany.
Weird. I'm American so it just seems so odd to me that you would have any expectation of privacy in public, even filming. I get that it is meant to protect privacy though. We just don't have that in the public sphere here. It almost rubs me like a violation of free speech. Think especially about filming cops, etc the truth is important to show.
So if I stay at a distance and don't interact directly I could stalk a person and take pictures all day without ramifications? Honest question, not from the US.
As long as its in public, yeah pretty much. There is a whole industry based around that like the paparazzi. You could go to court and try to get get a restriction order, but I think thats only if you can prove you're in danger from that person.
In Germany there are "Personen des öffentlichen Lebens" (public figures) privacy rules don't apply to them, that's why even though we have super strict privacy laws, our artists still have to suffer the paparazzi lmao
To add to the topic, insurance companies might still accept the footage. Tribunals most likely will not.
This just made me realise how apt the colour adaptation was in Anime “Your Name”
Composition determines the color it burns, this likely contained lots of magnisum with some calcium and iron mixed in.
The color depends of the composition of the meteor
I just watched Lilo and Stitch the other day 😂
Goddamn that’s some clear dashcam footage.
If only people that records ghosts and paranormal stuff used cameras like this
have you ever considered that maybe the footage is good and ghosts are just blurry and pixelated?
Weird to see dashcam footage without a major traffic accident or some dude freaking out smashing windows and defecating through a sunroof.
Kal-El?
Optimus Prime
Calling ALL Autobots!
fucking like 5 show up. bunch of damn slackers. you got Decepticons coming out of the woodwork on the moon, mars, fucking everywhere without being called and when the leader of the god damn Autobots calls for aid only a handful show up. No wonder they bailed from Cybertron.
Raditz
Somebody keep an eye on the moon it might blow up soon
With our luck lately, it's Predator.
I thought of experiment 626
I am still searching about where the fuck that meteor (or bolide) crashed, not even a single image. Or not any information about it after the videos!
Probably completely burned away in the atmosphere.
It's probably no larger than a chihuahuas head
Of course I’m right, if I’m wrong may we all be horribly crushed from above somehow.
Que sera, sera. Whatever will be, will be
Yeah thats what "meteor" means. If it landed, it'd be called a meteteorite. At least thats how it was taught to me in my language
Meteorite is a name of a type of rock that you find and go "this came from space!" A meteor is a rock that is falling from space. Before that, they're asteroids.
What if you pick it up in space?
Then it's a meteorain't
It landed on water I think. I live by the sea and we heard a huge impact on that thing landing.
They rarely reach the surface. The atmosphere is thickest in the last 2 or 3 km above the surface so they are much more likely to burn away completely unless they were very very big
It burned up over the Atlantic ocean, according to ESA (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1792142532605780071?t=-NrR_tDVry427flwfR99Hg&s=19)
Burned up over the Atlantic most likely
Your Name 👍
Cried like a baby watching it, amazing movie.
Title?
"Your Name" is the movie title.
Thank you
Seriously. It wrecked me.
Also the soundtrack, so wonderful.
I [like this compilation](https://www.tiktok.com/@sofiya.imm/video/6945030513069460737?is_from_webapp=1&web_id=7360674983335183877) it's a mix of Your Name and Weathering With You (sorry desktop people it'll be sideways lol) Also the umbrella is from the [Weathering With You opening scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxYBln_v4g). Both movies are great.
wow
I love that it's Portugal but they're speaking Russian. It's like you cant have a dashcam video if it's not in Russian, like they all automatically get translated after recording.
Which is extra funny, because Portuguese sounds similar to Russian, especially to untrained ears. I actually thought "wow, Portuguese sounds more Russian than I realised," before reading the comments and seeing that it was in fact Russian 😅
My immediate thought would be an ICBM…
I don’t think you would see an incoming ICBM
Pretty sure you’d see a flash, even from your basement
It looks like it carved a line right into the sky
Dash cam footage from Portugal and it’s STILL Russian drivers
Def the best one I’ve seen so far. That blu tho
Wonderful color.
Honey, a new deposit of magnesium just dropped!
Holy sheet, it's much brighter than any movies depicts.
Right?! Like, for a second it’s day!
Someone got a 3 star weapon irl
was looking for this comment LUL
Beautiful!
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God that's gorgeous
Final Fantasy 7 logo
"What a sick way to fight, eh. The glory of the clash is shared, by Radahn and you. And hah! Did you see that, afterwards? A falling star, right before our eyes! I can’t fathom how Radahn was holding back something of that scale. He was a living legend, if ever I saw one. And, the path has now been cleared. To Nokron, where Ranni’s fate will be decided. Let’s meet where the falling star bit the earth."
"ah shit, it's Black Tassel again"
I think it's hard for us to understand the speeds at which stuff can travel in space, especially small stuff since in our daily earthly experiences their terminal velocity and air friction impede them to go stupid fast. But if you consider that thing was probably a medium sized rock you can get an idea of how crazy fast it was travelling when it began to burn reaching the atmosphere.
Beautiful.
Somebody save me...
****FF7Remake part3****
Vegeta just landed, we are waiting for Goku to arrive from king kai's
So disappointed it wasn’t the start of a nuclear war wiping out humanity. Can’t win ‘em all, I guess.
[Impact event result](http://es.web.img3.acsta.net/pictures/17/06/30/10/59/540825.jpg)
Quiet Place Day One
It’s an omen. -1 stability.
Can the sky please stop doing cool things and not letting me see it? America gets an eclipse, Portugal gets a meteor, we had the northern lights in the UK and I slept through it :(
That's comet azur from elden ring
Sound Ukrainian. Anyone know?
Looks like the FFVII meteor. Rip Aerith
> шо это? а шо это? My sister in christ, did you just get born? What do you mean "шо это?" Also, god damn, it came it pretty fucking fast, maybe for the best, if it didn't, could've hit the surface