The part about earthquakes is pretty funny because if you substitute wind getting stuck and bursting out by lava in the earth’s mantle, it is somewhat close to the correct answer. Can’t blame the guy, we only figured out plate tectonics in the 1960s. My mom is 67 and she was taught continental drift in school because plate tectonics wasn’t well established yet.
Imagine if someone 1,000 years from now read medical or geological textbooks we have today. I wonder how many things we're currently very wrong about without knowing it.
The whiplash is crazy. From "Thunder is the sound of lightning, it just arrives at a different time because light moves faster than sound." To "Seals are immune to lightning"
it reallygoes to show the pliny was a very smart and inquisitive guy with stuff that he could personally test and observe but it seems he was also easily swayed by myth and rumor that he could not verify himself
@@brandonwithnell612to be fair people in general have always been swayed by myths. There’s a ton of pop history that isn’t strictly true but the majority of the population accepts as truth bc enough popular media peddled it
@@brandonwithnell612 it also goes to show that while they didnt fully understand it, they at least tried to figure it out and ended on it being some act of god when they couldnt put a concrete answer down. Even today we technically do call things an act of god when we dont quite understand whats going on in a specific piece of research, instead we call them theories, giving it plausibility in a scientific sense.
If I'm getting it correct, Pliny said that a people's "character traits" are determined by what latitude one was born and raised in. The people south of Rome were used to the heat and were too nervous, and thus preferred a hit and run strategy, or outright flee from battle. The people north of Rome were used to the cold and were too brave and recklessly charged into battle to the point of detriment. The Romans, being located in the middle (the most noble position), were thus the perfect balance of all 'character traits'.
I dont think spontaneous human combustion falls into the same category as most conspiracy theories. It's a crazy rabbit hole for sure, but i haven't seen anyone claim there's a widespread effort to cover up it's existence.
@@CrabRangoonSortaGuyThat would be because there's no real proof it exists versus people overlooking potential sources of fire or sparks. Spontaneous human combustion is more likely just normal everyday combustion + human who doesn't notice it in time
I really appreciate your reactions for always trying to add to the video and not just coasting on "woah that's crazy!" I'll be very excited to see if you make any original content (if you have the time to do make a video like that)
@@maszkalman3676 the gas wasn't air, it came from the earth. Air is a mixture of specific gases, can't be calling all gases air, although the elements classification is already very dumb
Yeah it could be but even today there is no accurate information about it... The freshest of it was in 2010 a 67 year old smoker caught fire and completely burned fro mthe inside. Too bad he was fonud only days later so coroners can't get more information out of the case also the fire destroyed most of the and the char can't be studied...
As I often say the ancients were not stupid, they are ignorant. There are myriad things that they simply did not have the resources to figure out because unlike us they don’t have a practically infinite library of all human knowledge in their pockets.
That and, for many people, the size, age, and shape of the world doesn't really impact day-to-day life. It doesn't matter to me how many or how far the stars are if I make clay pots for a living
As soon as i saw the Sam O'nella video yesterday i was waiting for a history head to react to it! its impressive how much info he can get across in a fun accessible way i wonder how long it takes to make all the drawings for his videos! great reaction as always!
given that he uploads *very* infrequently, he probably juggles his video creations with real life stuff. But the video itself, I would guess if he had all the time he could to work on it, probably a month or so to gather up information, make sure its accurate and not fake, record the dialogue, then animate to the dialogue. Since he does all this himself.
if you're into roman history, "the unbiased history of rome" by dovahhatty is a great series on youtube, the gag being that it's from a romans point of view basically and uses memes to explain what went down back then
14:00 Holy shit you're the only person I've seen react to this that didn't laugh at the weirder things they "knew." Such an amazingly reasonable take. 18:00 this video made me curious on how tf nobody back then went "Hey so why does everything fall down?" and somehow nobody named the force that did that anything. Like these guys named everything else and were decently knowledgeable about the world but went "*shrug* Shit falls. No reason. It just does." Bruh they named all the winds and didn't go "Gravity™" 21:45 Tornados in Europe is wild. We don't really hear about them happening there very often. A tornado hitting houses/storage areas could, technically, explain a couple of the "raining weird shit" events he describes. Specifically the tiles and the wool. I think it happened with fish and frogs before.
I think there was SOMETHING in SOMEONE'S philosophy (fex me if I know where, who, or what, I stubbed my toes on it while looking for Marcionism and getting sidetracked with the Gnostics and demiurge shit and ending down a whole other rabbit hole related to Trithemius, cryptography, and snake-shaped cypher wheels that are integrated in the iconography of the Greek concept-embodiment of Prudentia), but the TL;DR is that it's part of one of the winds' jobs, one of them pushes things down and its opposite lifts things up, can't remember if it was north-south or east-west pair that did it.
The part about earthquakes is pretty funny because if you substitute wind getting stuck and bursting out by lava in the earth’s mantle, it is somewhat close to the correct answer. Can’t blame the guy, we only figured out plate tectonics in the 1960s. My mom is 67 and she was taught continental drift in school because plate tectonics wasn’t well established yet.
Its fascinating how the book can go back and forth from being very accurate to very absurd.
Imagine if someone 1,000 years from now read medical or geological textbooks we have today. I wonder how many things we're currently very wrong about without knowing it.
The whiplash is crazy. From "Thunder is the sound of lightning, it just arrives at a different time because light moves faster than sound." To "Seals are immune to lightning"
it reallygoes to show the pliny was a very smart and inquisitive guy with stuff that he could personally test and observe but it seems he was also easily swayed by myth and rumor that he could not verify himself
@@brandonwithnell612to be fair people in general have always been swayed by myths. There’s a ton of pop history that isn’t strictly true but the majority of the population accepts as truth bc enough popular media peddled it
@@brandonwithnell612 it also goes to show that while they didnt fully understand it, they at least tried to figure it out and ended on it being some act of god when they couldnt put a concrete answer down. Even today we technically do call things an act of god when we dont quite understand whats going on in a specific piece of research, instead we call them theories, giving it plausibility in a scientific sense.
If I'm getting it correct, Pliny said that a people's "character traits" are determined by what latitude one was born and raised in.
The people south of Rome were used to the heat and were too nervous, and thus preferred a hit and run strategy, or outright flee from battle. The people north of Rome were used to the cold and were too brave and recklessly charged into battle to the point of detriment. The Romans, being located in the middle (the most noble position), were thus the perfect balance of all 'character traits'.
40:00 that's actually a current conspiracy theory called spontaneous human combustion.
I dont think spontaneous human combustion falls into the same category as most conspiracy theories. It's a crazy rabbit hole for sure, but i haven't seen anyone claim there's a widespread effort to cover up it's existence.
@@CrabRangoonSortaGuyThat would be because there's no real proof it exists versus people overlooking potential sources of fire or sparks. Spontaneous human combustion is more likely just normal everyday combustion + human who doesn't notice it in time
I really appreciate your reactions for always trying to add to the video and not just coasting on "woah that's crazy!" I'll be very excited to see if you make any original content (if you have the time to do make a video like that)
funny how it was the earth that he called "chill" caused his death
It was the gas that killed him not earth that would be air for them....
@@maszkalman3676 the gas wasn't air, it came from the earth. Air is a mixture of specific gases, can't be calling all gases air, although the elements classification is already very dumb
Spontaneous human combustion.
Yeah it could be but even today there is no accurate information about it... The freshest of it was in 2010 a 67 year old smoker caught fire and completely burned fro mthe inside. Too bad he was fonud only days later so coroners can't get more information out of the case also the fire destroyed most of the and the char can't be studied...
As I often say the ancients were not stupid, they are ignorant.
There are myriad things that they simply did not have the resources to figure out because unlike us they don’t have a practically infinite library of all human knowledge in their pockets.
That and, for many people, the size, age, and shape of the world doesn't really impact day-to-day life. It doesn't matter to me how many or how far the stars are if I make clay pots for a living
As soon as i saw the Sam O'nella video yesterday i was waiting for a history head to react to it! its impressive how much info he can get across in a fun accessible way i wonder how long it takes to make all the drawings for his videos!
great reaction as always!
given that he uploads *very* infrequently, he probably juggles his video creations with real life stuff. But the video itself, I would guess if he had all the time he could to work on it, probably a month or so to gather up information, make sure its accurate and not fake, record the dialogue, then animate to the dialogue. Since he does all this himself.
if you're into roman history, "the unbiased history of rome" by dovahhatty is a great series on youtube, the gag being that it's from a romans point of view basically and uses memes to explain what went down back then
Dovahhatty is the goat
14:00 Holy shit you're the only person I've seen react to this that didn't laugh at the weirder things they "knew." Such an amazingly reasonable take.
18:00 this video made me curious on how tf nobody back then went "Hey so why does everything fall down?" and somehow nobody named the force that did that anything. Like these guys named everything else and were decently knowledgeable about the world but went "*shrug* Shit falls. No reason. It just does." Bruh they named all the winds and didn't go "Gravity™"
21:45 Tornados in Europe is wild. We don't really hear about them happening there very often. A tornado hitting houses/storage areas could, technically, explain a couple of the "raining weird shit" events he describes. Specifically the tiles and the wool. I think it happened with fish and frogs before.
I think there was SOMETHING in SOMEONE'S philosophy (fex me if I know where, who, or what, I stubbed my toes on it while looking for Marcionism and getting sidetracked with the Gnostics and demiurge shit and ending down a whole other rabbit hole related to Trithemius, cryptography, and snake-shaped cypher wheels that are integrated in the iconography of the Greek concept-embodiment of Prudentia), but the TL;DR is that it's part of one of the winds' jobs, one of them pushes things down and its opposite lifts things up, can't remember if it was north-south or east-west pair that did it.
A comment for the algorithm god's. Also, first comment!
A reply and like for the algorithm god
"I'm not going to pause too much" he says after having paused 12 times within the first 5 minutes.