Quirky facts we've learned

[BetteTheRed]

And humans will build in stupid places, like flood plains and tectonic faults. The mammalian equivalent to robins, the very stupidest of nest locators.

 

[Delightful Life]

 

[Mendalla]

And humans will build in stupid places, like flood plains and tectonic faults.

Here's the thing: there's almost no place on Earth habitable by humans that doesn't have some kind of potential problem. Even relatively stable, peaceful Southwestern Ontario gets severe storms including the odd tornado or derecho. These forces are literally what makes the Earth a habitable planet. Mars has none of this in its modern form (it does have some spectacular volcanoes but all are long-since extinct). Mars also doesn't have life (barring, possibly, some microbial ones though even that's iffy). And given continental drift and that climate has changed continuously throughout geological time even without our contribution, even a place that was relatively stable and peaceful might not be in a few millennia.

Flood plains, by the way, are where civilization largely began. Why? Rivers that flood regularly like the Nile, Yangtze, Indus, and Tigris/Euphrates leave very fertile land, perfect for agriculture. So it was not stupid to build there at one time, even if it arguably is now.

 

[Delightful Life]

Like the song says

There is no shelter here

The front lines are everywhere :3

I hope that when the Big One hits the Wet Coast that Bette won't raise an eyebrow and go "bad place to live"

(tho of course I expect the usual # of internet and news peeps mentioning that)

Interesting fact that we W.E.I.R.D. people are discovering that the Amazon, which grows in quite infertile soil, is a tended garden by human beings. There is a soil there called Terra Preta, made by human beings full of nutrients, made with charcoal and broken pottery and bones and compost and manure using a combo of slash and char and soil management. It looks like the Amazon (which includes floods) supported millions of people. We are finding quite well made cities and other works there. Human beings are amazing :3

 

[Delightful Life]

How to Outrun an Earthquake
John Cusak shows how it is done

 

[Luce NDs]

How to Outrun an Earthquake
John Cusak shows how it is done

Such things can leave mortals shaken ... or appearing as chimerae! Such words alter over time without our knowledge ... and we find difficult keeping up with greater wisdom ... kind of naivete as it incarnates! Is it legend or myth and what's to make 've it? Is there an onus or culpability attached to knowledge?

Most refuse and rebuke it ... and so many of us take off in High Flight! Study 's birds ... studious?

 

[Delightful Life]

And not to mention there are schmart, global warmin adverse people who we here see as gooduns buying property in places that are gonna flood

There are even places with faults where there didn't seem at the time (Madrid, Texas, which had 2012 movie style earthquakes where river flowed in reverse etc) or places like OK lake in BC interior where one side is gradually rising in relation to the other which causes small tremblors so far

We even have fijords where km high tidal waves happen

Our Earth seems to defy the Copernican principle as well. Our Earth moon system is very unusual and it leads to certain affects. Jupiter apparently protected Earth from a lot of bombardment. We have only 1 sun (mosy stars are binary). And other interesting unusualities:3

 

[Mendalla]

We even have fijords where km high tidal waves happen

Yeah, people tend to associate tsunamis with earthquakes and open ocean but there's been some beauts in fjords, usually triggered by landslides. I remember seeing a documentary about one of those, I think in Alaska. They noticed that there were no trees below a certain level on the walls of the fjord and research finally showed that a tsunami had basically swept everything below that level clean.

 

[Delightful Life]

The whole purpose of Goldies is to SHINE BRIGHTLY

(you can usually tell a Goldie owner because of their sunglasses)

*waggles eyebrows*

 

[Delightful Life]

This Christmas
I have actually seen
And touched
INCANDESCENT NOMA LIGHTS
ahhhh the beauty of them
the Bradburian warmth

 

[Mendalla]

INCANDESCENT NOMA LIGHTS

Haven't seen those in a long time, though the lights I have in the basement for my tree are incandescent. I just haven't used them in a long time. I would probably go LED if I had to replace them anyhow. Easier on hydro and don't run as hot.

 

[Delightful Life]

Learned this from my nephew who works in Japan



During their pandemic, a town closed themselves off to foreigners, justifying the racism by saying there is something special aboot Japanese that makes them not get the coof, foreigners bring it in

 

[Delightful Life]

Adam Lane Smith says don't forget that moving out of the home at 18 is a psyop by the mortagage industry to turn 1 family into 2 homes

Divorce is very good for a country's GDP

 

[Delightful Life]

There are megalithic cities in Ukraine that are estimated to be 6000 years old

 

[Waterfall]

There are megalithic cities in Ukraine that are estimated to be 6000 years old

Where?

 

[Delightful Life]

Where?

I first hoid it from Anthropologist David Wengrow (co-author of The Dawn of Everything--in that book he mentions the vital contributions of that Indiginous man to Enlightenment and European thought among other eye opening history), him noting that is one of his current interests

Here is a PLOS ONE paper on the subject

Governing Tripolye: Integrative architecture in Tripolye settlements

Recently, high-resolution magnetometry surveys have led to the discovery of a special category of buildings–so-called ‘mega-structures’–situated in highly visible positions in the public space of Tripolye giant-settlements of the late 5th and first half of the 4th millennium BCE. In this paper...

journals.plos.org

Here is a science news article on one site

Ancient ‘megasites’ may reshape the history of the first cities

At least two ancient paths to urban development existed, some archaeologists argue.

www.sciencenews.org

One of my friends says another ancient peoples their artefacts found in modern day Ukraine are mentioned in the bible...the Scythians...

The Scythians—Who Were They? And Why Did Paul Include Them in Colossians 3:11? - CBE International

Scythians in the Bible Colossians 3:11 Many readers of this journal will have memorized Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”1 They may not be as familiar with the parallel passage in Colossians 3:11, which omits...

www.cbeinternational.org

I can't believe I didn't know aboot any of this before

Its like the Amazon, where it looks like the Amazon is a cultivated garden where millions of people lived

 

[Delightful Life]

End of an era for Germany

Germany has become a normal country

5,000 German troops are plannned to be sent permanently to Lithuania

W O W :3

 

[Luce NDs]

We must always be prepared for avarice that is out there in our midst ... perhaps ever ICE ... for the cool at the end ... dark angels? Shades of black and white arrayed with red and yellow ...

They say red E' rose with a meaning of hunger for God knows what ... and we were consumed by the Phoebe ... thus the yellow ... sometimes denoting vast insecurity ... especially regarding the changes required for learning ... a definitive pain, or pathae! We tend to aphthae ...

 

[JayneWonders]

i'm not sure if it is quirky, but, i was astounded by the architecture of a car. I hadn't considered all the sensors, the need for each part to each other, the controls outwards (to the wider world). Blew my mind away.

 

[Delightful Life]

i'm not sure if it is quirky, but, i was astounded by the architecture of a car. I hadn't considered all the sensors, the need for each part to each other, the controls outwards (to the wider world). Blew my mind away.

those "awakenings" can be fun :3