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  • @MrTerry
    @MrTerry  วันที่ผ่านมา +83

    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

    • @kylirwolffe5614
      @kylirwolffe5614 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      theHistorySquad also released a new Christmas video, check it out😊 when you can Terry! 😎

    • @TwilightRogue15
      @TwilightRogue15 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I hope you had a Merry Christmas! (Even if you did get sick.) Let's hope you feel right as rain for New Year's!

    • @ericerwin3039
      @ericerwin3039 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Merry Christmas! A day late, but hopefully, you had a great time.

    • @KarmasAB123
      @KarmasAB123 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Cool shirt. Where'd you get it?

    • @usergiodmsilva1983PT
      @usergiodmsilva1983PT ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Feliz Natal!

  • @techpriestsalok8119
    @techpriestsalok8119 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +210

    For the weird rains there are explanations
    Milk - white dust picked up by winds
    Blood - iron containing dust picked up
    Meat - animals picked up and pelted with each other
    Tiles - pulled from roofs
    Etc.
    there has been modern examples of raining fish and equally weird things

    • @richiesmeckgeckscas46
      @richiesmeckgeckscas46 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      I remember an Alfred Hedgehog episode that featured the "raining fish" thing. That's how I'm familiar with that (although, I'm more familiar with that episode having a really dramatic opening).

    • @adrianaslund8605
      @adrianaslund8605 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

      Pelicans vomiting up their contents because they're startled. Which was a thing that happened.

    • @CastafioreOnYoutube
      @CastafioreOnYoutube 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

      I'm sure some of the weird rain had to do with harmful algal blooms or algae spores in general. They can make rain turn all sorts of colors depending on the species of algae.

    • @AidanS99
      @AidanS99 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Usually the “raining fish” happens when a tornado or waterspout picks up the animals and carries them miles until it dissipates enough to drop them

    • @abg5381
      @abg5381 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      the sahara routinely causes 'blood rain' and occasionally white rain across certain areas of the mediterranian because the flats make for great places for dust to accumulate

  • @MalikF15
    @MalikF15 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +297

    Gotta give the ancient historians and scientist credit they had a pretty solid understanding of how things worked. Just missing the final details.

    • @TheDanEdwards
      @TheDanEdwards 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

      "they had a pretty solid understanding of how things worked"

    • @whatlmao
      @whatlmao 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +34

      @@TheDanEdwards i don't think you understand the words you're using, op is correct

    • @joshjames582
      @joshjames582 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@whatlmao I mean, OP thinks "fine details" are "final details" so it's questionable.

    • @DrGandW
      @DrGandW 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      They didn’t have the formal sciences but they had a lot of curious people and writing to disseminate with people who had the leisure to indulge in it.

    • @lucassevey5989
      @lucassevey5989 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@whatlmao I think q better way to word it is "they had a good idea of what was happening just not exactly why"

  • @mordirit8727
    @mordirit8727 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +200

    I love the degree of "correlation = causation" in the Earthquake portion. Pliny goes "ever noticed that places that have caverns and complex underground sewers have less quakes? This proves the wind escapes easily there, which proves my wind theory!" Without ever stopping to wonder "wait, what if the reason why caverns and old sewers survive is just because there aren't as many earthquakes there, not the reason for it?"

    • @RipOffProductionsLLC
      @RipOffProductionsLLC 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +31

      At least he also includes the architectural advice about arches and mutually leaning walls standing up better.

    • @reygonzalez4719
      @reygonzalez4719 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +18

      @@mordirit8727 To be completely fair to Pliny, he wasn't really a scientist per se. Also, the scientific method didn't exist back then, so he probably didn't have the concept of dependent and independent variables. That being said, he most likely misunderstood a common phenomenon that happens during an earthquake. He probably saw that subterranean gas get released during earthquakes and thought it was air.

    • @John_the_Paul
      @John_the_Paul 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      That’s not “correlation ≠ causation”, that’s Survivorship Bias.

  • @v0rtexbeater
    @v0rtexbeater 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +157

    "The star forces that keeps stuff on earth" is a pretty good description of gravity.

    • @Unknownz000
      @Unknownz000 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      The earth keeps stuff on earth. Not the stars. But close enough ig.

  • @rezkel7404
    @rezkel7404 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +34

    The irony of this guy going on and on about how awesome and kind the earth is only to die in a volcanic eruption

    • @karaltar7914
      @karaltar7914 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      No but you see volcanoes are fire not earth so earth is still harmless and the best and you should shut up.

    • @dolphingoreeaccount7395
      @dolphingoreeaccount7395 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      And- get this- his death in the eruption MAY have just been a coincidence. I read somewhere that it might actually have been a heart attack, and he just happened to have it during the eruption

    • @boxbox0000
      @boxbox0000 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      We all know it's the wind and fire ganging up on him.

  • @KarmasAB123
    @KarmasAB123 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +30

    "Hey, kids!"
    Mr. Terry forgot that Sam's last video started with "Hey, majors"

  • @cervanntes
    @cervanntes วันที่ผ่านมา +71

    Love the works of both Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger. PtY’s description of the eruption of Vesuvius and his uncle’s (PtE) death while trying to evacuate people are must-reads.

    • @EvilDMMk3
      @EvilDMMk3 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      His precautions are so in line with this book. Good idea, I need to parents my head from falling debris. Bad idea, a pillow will do…

    • @ElizabethMcCormick-s2n
      @ElizabethMcCormick-s2n 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@EvilDMMk3 Or not!

  • @ciclon5682
    @ciclon5682 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

    pliny: *makes a surprisingly accurate description of how stars behave around the solar system*
    also pliny: yhea, so seals are inmune to lightining, why?, i dunno, but those motherfuckers are lightning-phobic i swear on jupiter.

  • @reith6073
    @reith6073 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +43

    I’m going to guess that the “comet” that grew to the size of the moon then shrunk was either a meteor burning up in the atmosphere or one that came in at an angle and bounced off the atmosphere

    • @emile_jeanne
      @emile_jeanne 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

      Yeah I'm not sure why the translator straight up discredited that account

    • @reygonzalez4719
      @reygonzalez4719 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@reith6073 I support your second theory.

  • @Matthew_Branagan
    @Matthew_Branagan 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    30:37 Hearing Mr. Terry talk about the oracle knowing that she’s the very next thing Sam was going to talk about is amazing.

  • @Logan_Bishop_YT
    @Logan_Bishop_YT 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +25

    If Pliny's Natural History was the book of all human knowledge at the time he was writing, just imagine how humongous a modern updated version of the book of all human knowledge would be.

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +10

      akcd have a video about the volume that a printed version of wikepedia would occupy
      surprisingly it's a lot less than one would think

    • @jabaited
      @jabaited 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      So just print the current Wikipedia and we maybe 80% of

    • @anoon-
      @anoon- 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      If you have read foundation by Issac asimov a huge plot point is that idea.
      A man uses (fictional) math and probabilities to predict when civilization will collapse, the galaxy is one huge empire but is facing instability by a number of factors. He determines to shorten the incoming dark ages from 10,000's of years to just 1000 years, he needs an entire planet of scientists and workers to dedicate hundreds of years to writing one chronicle of all of humanities knowledge up to that point, so that future generations may obtain from it and learn from it to restart civilization and shorten the period of suffering which may have otherwise occurred. But the political imtrugue, wars, and outside nations formed after the fracture of the Empire all impede the foundation and extreme mind games have to be played at a galactic scale.
      Good read!

  • @eypandabear7483
    @eypandabear7483 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +20

    32:25 But this is actually correct. Water rains down over land, dissolves stuff (e.g. salt) and washes it back into the ocean. When that water evaporates, it leaves all its solutes behind, and the cycle begins anew. Over geological timescales, that leads to saltwater oceans.

    • @anlak1318
      @anlak1318 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      That's why Sam gave the "correct information" note, in the top right corner.

    • @eypandabear7483
      @eypandabear7483 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @ Yes but Mr Terry wasn’t fully convinced ;-)

  • @zeusalternative1270
    @zeusalternative1270 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +24

    Is fun to see those phenomena thought modern understanding. Like those rivers that kill you could just have heavy metals, that pool of flammable goo is probably something like petroleum. Even the guy who could summon lightning could use something like a copper rod if that is real.

    • @reygonzalez4719
      @reygonzalez4719 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

      I think the black goo is supposed to be tar.

    • @darkithnamgedrf9495
      @darkithnamgedrf9495 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      The black goo is tar lol

  • @Fieryxjoe
    @Fieryxjoe 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +30

    There has been some crazy rain in history. Storms like tornadoes sometimes suck up fish or animals or debris into the atmosphere and it rains down later. It has for example rained frogs or fish spiders before. It happens relatively often actually. So the flesh rain is plausible, milk and blood rain could be similar but just say red soil or chalk that got mixed into the rain.

    • @BeanManolo
      @BeanManolo 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

      There was a "blood rain" in Kerala, Índia in the 50's that scientists discovered it was algae spores giving the rain the blood-red color

    • @domehammer
      @domehammer 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I forget where but flesh rain happened in the united states once. People even got sick from eating the gross meat that fell from the sky.

    • @jesusramirezromo2037
      @jesusramirezromo2037 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​​@@domehammeryhea, I believe it's theorized it was some sort of algae lumps
      That's probably why he said it didn't rot, It wasn't meat

  • @reygonzalez4719
    @reygonzalez4719 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +13

    It's really impressive how close ancient people were to the truth. Like we just grasped the concept of tectonic plates in about the last 100 years. So even if they just got a few details wrong, they weren't necessarily that far away.

    • @Haispawner
      @Haispawner 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      We do not give ancient societies 1/100th of the intellectual credit they deserve. It's gotten to the point where people think they were too stupid and primitive to even sculpt rock by themselves, believing space aliens had to do it.

    • @reygonzalez4719
      @reygonzalez4719 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @Haispawner Yeah, that space alien stuff has always been stupid to me.

  • @kishinasura1504
    @kishinasura1504 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +31

    Sam drops a bombo, and one day later teach does. We be eatin' good

  • @HitodamaKyrie
    @HitodamaKyrie 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +12

    I remember actually reading our family's encyclopedias for fun as a child.

    • @PlebiasFate1609
      @PlebiasFate1609 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      is there a way to read your one online?

    • @HitodamaKyrie
      @HitodamaKyrie 23 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      @@PlebiasFate1609 I can't recall any detail aside from them being red. I think. I'd have to otherwise ask my parents if they still had them around.

  • @TnT_F0X
    @TnT_F0X 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +14

    the rocks that dissolve bodies is from Limestone I think.
    Some area they had a quarry to make sarcophagi but it had high concentrations of lye natuarally that sped up decomposition. there are lots of myths about the stone hungry for flesh.

    • @eypandabear7483
      @eypandabear7483 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      The type of stone is indeed where the word "sarcophagus" came from. It was originally the name of the stone, not the coffin.

  • @TnT_F0X
    @TnT_F0X 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +22

    1:17 I found a bookcase full of encyclopedias out in the shed... A-Z... 23 volumes, 300lbs of books.
    Put them in boxes and now I have a book shelf to put non-books on cause we live in the future.
    My dad was complaining yesterday cause his phone couldn't understand his question, so he had to type it in himself. Sometimes you have to take a step back for perspective... That is a robot on the supercomputer in your pocket.

  • @ChrissieBear
    @ChrissieBear 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    The "a place in india with no shadows" is probably a reference to Zero Shadow Days, days where the sun is straight overhead. India gets around 20 of them a year, though they are very localized and only happen in any one location twice a year. Basically, there are 10 places in India where twice a year the sun is straight overhead.

  • @DeReAntiqua
    @DeReAntiqua 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

    If you haven't heard of the _naturalis historia,_ then only because it's the only one of his works that survives today and thus people usually just cite it as, for instance, Plin. XV.18 (though equally as often Plin. nat. XV.18). We know he wrote extensive other works, among them a history and study of the Germans which is assumed to be the basis for many other authors writing on the subject, including Tacitus, but none of it remains for us.

  • @GreebleClown
    @GreebleClown 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    13:49 All our current knowledge is built upon theirs. We indeed “stand upon the shoulders of giants.”

  • @samiamtheman7379
    @samiamtheman7379 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    It's weird how close people back then were to figuring out gravity and the heliocentric model, but they stopped just short of the finish line.

    • @SkullpunkArt
      @SkullpunkArt 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Not exactly, the vindicating evidence for heliocentrism was stellar parallax, something which could only be observed with telescopes.

  • @gnarfarmer
    @gnarfarmer 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Let's all give Mr Terry his flowers for reacting to the new Sam O' Nella so fast

  • @Nolroa
    @Nolroa 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

    15:56 It is interesting to know that the Romans could have created the industrial revolution 2000 years earlier. What has always intrigued me is to know if, as they expanded across the Mediterranean, they could have,I don't know, do things like Discover America

    • @RipOffProductionsLLC
      @RipOffProductionsLLC 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

      No, Roman Industrialization is overblown as a possibility, just because one Egyptian had a novelty steam toy doesn't mean Rome was even close to Industrializing.

    • @vicenteabalosdominguez5257
      @vicenteabalosdominguez5257 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Pretty sure their crops hadn't evolved to be as nutritious as they would become by the time of the industrial revolution.

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      there's an at least 12 requirements a nation should meet to "create the industrial revolution''
      Rome met 3 at best
      people smarter than me have elaborated about it at length, you can look it up
      but suffice to say, no Rome could not have industrialized

  • @MainMan10
    @MainMan10 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    2:08 minor correction; the fiddle was invented in the 10th century A.D., Nero played the lyre.

    • @edercuellar2694
      @edercuellar2694 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I think he meant it as a joke

    • @MainMan10
      @MainMan10 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@edercuellar2694 well yeah, but It's widely believed myth that "Nero fiddled while Rome burned" so I thought it worth my time to say it's not true

  • @especedelapin
    @especedelapin 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +32

    sam don't do kids in his intro anymore because youtube has been pestering him with youtube kids due to the new rule that came a few years ago and flagged his video as content directed for children because of his intro.

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      youtube being asinine, what else is new

    • @CrouchingCape
      @CrouchingCape 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Nice pfp

    • @boxbox0000
      @boxbox0000 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      you may wanna rephrase that first couple of words, out of context it's just wild

  • @1tastiger1
    @1tastiger1 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Random suggestion:
    I've recently gotten into Epic: The Musical (a series of songs, not an actual musical) which is a modern adaptation of The Odyssey. It's a lot of fun, and you might enjoy (or at least have enough to comment on) at least a few of the songs and their animations like "Thunder Bringer" (Zeus killing Odysseus's crew) and "Gods' Games" (about convincing the various gods to let Odysseus go)!
    From one teacher to another, you channel is great!

  • @TheDanEdwards
    @TheDanEdwards 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Don't over-sell the ancients. True that many people today under-sell their deep ancestors, thinking those ancestor knew nothing. Yet there is a big gap between making simple observations of the world around you and the accumulation of knowledge of skills we have today. It took thousands of years and (importantly, which many people skip) a dramatic expansion of our population in order for us to get the modern world. So much of what we humans do can be described as _magical thinking_ and to overcome that tendency takes a lot of work.

  • @bcbgaming4481
    @bcbgaming4481 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    I was waiting for this, this is my favorite video of his now. Much love to you, Herr Terry!

  • @caison8759
    @caison8759 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    the historia naturalis is the text-book definition of "wrong equation, correct answer"

  • @joshjames582
    @joshjames582 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Dude, I think Spontaneous Human Combustion had an entire generation on edge. I encountered far less of that and quicksand than the media led me to believe I would.

    • @nightsfool2693
      @nightsfool2693 45 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      I think nowadays we figure that Spontaneous Human Combustion happened because people went to sleep with a cigarette in their hand, had it burn through their thigh, into the fat reserves in their thigh, and cook them from the inside out, cause fat is a stupidly potent fuel.

  • @3mp3eror·719
    @3mp3eror·719 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    35:00
    You'd be REALLY obsessed with it again if you saw how Fire Force spun Human Combustion. 😂😂

  • @woodchuck94og
    @woodchuck94og 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    I had encyclopedia britannica on floppy disk's that was so cool back then

  • @devinpetersen3309
    @devinpetersen3309 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Get well soon Mr Terry

  • @Corbenos
    @Corbenos 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    So impressive how correct they were about so many things without modern scientific tools. I can barely figure it out with these tools 😅

  • @Jarakin
    @Jarakin 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    12:00 no, that would just be on Discworld

  • @alecrizer4222
    @alecrizer4222 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    35:10 idk how you feel about anime, but there is one called Fire Force, where humans do spontaneously combust and the Fire Force has to deal with the sort of demonic/monstrous spawn created by the combustion. One of my favorites personally.

  • @quynlanvuorensyrja5484
    @quynlanvuorensyrja5484 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I have ADHD. Pliny’s writing is perfectly understandable to me…
    Combined with everything else, that makes a lot of sense.

  • @usergiodmsilva1983PT
    @usergiodmsilva1983PT ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Pliny is a fascinating read. He got plenty of stuff wrong, but plenty of stuff right(ish) and his thought process is not at all illlogical.

  • @limegrass6194
    @limegrass6194 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Seeing that in my sub feed felt like christmas morning....
    Oh wait...

  • @EnemyAtom65
    @EnemyAtom65 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Sick on christmas too!

  • @jacobmatthews6527
    @jacobmatthews6527 35 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    26:53 For those wonderering: Yes.
    Chap 2.80 is just casual racism regarding people getting too close or too far from the sun; And how superior the Mediterranean people are to both.

  • @BigG.303
    @BigG.303 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Meat showers have happened multiple times, lookup the Kentucky Meat Shower

  • @MainMan10
    @MainMan10 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    3:00 I disagree (kinda). The people of Rome liked Nero for most of his reign (towards the end not so much) because of his willingness to spend money on bread and circuses, he was hated by the Senate (a.k.a the people who write history). Also it's likely the fire was completely accidental and the story of Nero starting it was a later invention.

  • @eivindkaisen6838
    @eivindkaisen6838 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The elliptic orbits are Johannes Kepler's work, although he based this data/obervations made by Tycho Brahe, another nail in the coffin of the pefect heavens (only circles are perfect!).
    Britain have more tornadoes per unit vof area than the US; they're just smaller and less destructive. (‘Because we don't DESERVE them‘ - Al Murray as ’The Pub Landlord’.)
    When observed carefully, we find that quite a few lighnings actually strike UP from the Earth; it's an ion (not iron) thing the difference between charges in the clouds and Earth makes lightnings - otherwise the lighnint wouldn't strike Earth. Fortunately for Pliny, he never played golf.

  • @timthuo2498
    @timthuo2498 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Merry Christmas

  • @RealBelisariusCawl
    @RealBelisariusCawl 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    34:06 Epic foreshadowing

  • @samhouston1979
    @samhouston1979 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    i had to pause Sam’s clip constantly to catch all the jokes and information

  • @Zahri8Alang
    @Zahri8Alang 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    We do love em, in a platonic roommate kind of way; as historians would describe it

  • @jmh1189
    @jmh1189 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Monotheism has been around for a long time. The core of the modern judeo christian religion( the Jewish part) dates back before the development of the Greek gods. It just wasn't until Christianity came around that it was spread over the globe in a relatively short period. Also, though they were dicks sometimes, the catholic church is responsible for funding much of the scientific research throughout the past 2000 years.

  • @alirezaassali443
    @alirezaassali443 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I was waiting for this.

  • @woodchuck94og
    @woodchuck94og 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Reading old like that just makes me asure ppl are getting stupider, even back then they know the earth was round

  • @ElizabethMcCormick-s2n
    @ElizabethMcCormick-s2n 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Pliny got a lot of stuff wrong, but he got some stuff right!

  • @usergiodmsilva1983PT
    @usergiodmsilva1983PT ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    28:40 We only got plate tectonics right in the middle of the XX century... We're not that bright.

  • @calebriver
    @calebriver 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    this is why he took so long to upload

  • @boudewijnkerkwijk4695
    @boudewijnkerkwijk4695 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Modern people: global warming is caused by carbon emissions
    Pliny: since fire doesn't want to be too close to the sun it stays in the 1st layer of the sky, making it gradually warmer. This is why we can grow the same plants as the Egyptians who were much more south. Also, the Pyramids are the tips of giant spears that start at the earth's core.

  • @Iamnuketastic
    @Iamnuketastic 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Aster reminds me of Filmcow characters

  • @jankusthegreat9233
    @jankusthegreat9233 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Merry crhistmas

  • @jacksmith-vs4ct
    @jacksmith-vs4ct 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    he can't say hey kids anymore youtube got mad lol

  • @gunzakimbo
    @gunzakimbo 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Hope you feel better!

  • @personperson.7744
    @personperson.7744 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    How is the one about the rock being moved by one finger but not by heaving true?

  • @EneyenLelis
    @EneyenLelis 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you so much for this amazing video! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

  • @RJ_Numen
    @RJ_Numen 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Late Merry Christmas! But Sam video :D

  • @TamagoSenshi
    @TamagoSenshi 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    So, the sun does have an effect on the tides, over a much longer period of time, so he's half right about the sun and moon affecting the tides, just off on the effect of the sun
    The "moist" and "hot" stars would probably be an observation of red-blue shift, stars moving towards or away from Earth

  • @usergiodmsilva1983PT
    @usergiodmsilva1983PT ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    4:54 Why wouldn't you?! It's very well written and reads almost like a Jules Verne novel, except it's real, sort of!

  • @floridaboigaming6961
    @floridaboigaming6961 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    32:25 THOSE WHO KNOW

  • @12sleep34
    @12sleep34 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    32:25 those who know: 💀

  • @vladimirmihnev9702
    @vladimirmihnev9702 20 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Actually the earth being in the middle of the universe, isn't technically wrong. We are at the center of the observable universe and as far as we know we will never know what is outside of it. So ...

  • @Gaiafreak6969
    @Gaiafreak6969 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Aryabhatta discovered the Earth revolved around the Sun.

  • @KristianSandvikk
    @KristianSandvikk 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Why did the video automatically start with german audio track, I thought I'd done something by accident

  • @whatlmao
    @whatlmao 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    im surprised you haven't heard of this tbh, this is a HUGE deal and is one of the most cited documents in history

  • @Cranberrie123
    @Cranberrie123 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    tbh I thought that meant books one through eleven until you just said two..

  • @adrianaslund8605
    @adrianaslund8605 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Alot of these facts are due to an ancient version of telephone.

  • @Zahri8Alang
    @Zahri8Alang 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Was spontaneous combustion ever really athing or was it just some dingus playing with matchsticks cuz I despite the worsening global warming, we dont hear about it anymore

  • @theofficialguy
    @theofficialguy ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    what a soulless way of stealing someone else´s work. Sam O´nella puts months of work into his videos, and within a day you´ve reuploaded it in its entirety

  • @ninjack11
    @ninjack11 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Sam cant say "hey kids" anymore, because TH-cam is going to think the video is meant for kids and be demonetized and sent to TH-camKids

  • @j-Gappy-h
    @j-Gappy-h 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    P Liddy

  • @You_Could_Be_Next
    @You_Could_Be_Next 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    So barbaric back then. Didn't know the earth is flat.

  • @Speckbeppo420
    @Speckbeppo420 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    so fast lmao

  • @SuperBossGiovanni
    @SuperBossGiovanni 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I do have to disagree with the "science making Monotheism" point you made. 2 of the World's 3 largest monotheistic religions were around long before modern science explained a lot of these things. The argument can even be made that Christians drove modern science because they wanted to better understand God's creation

  • @lazaruschernik18
    @lazaruschernik18 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Sorry but please dont perpetuate ignorant descriptions/definition of polytheism. Ancients didnt believe some rando dude or dudette controlled something life wind or fire. They literally just shrugged and worshipped wind and fire as their own thing, and worshippied it. In almost all cases, the “godly names” were literal words for those concepts or thinky veiled metaphors. But for centuries, the English refused to translate thise names and led the lublic to believe “less civilized” people worshipped weird dude and dudettes like comic book characters so they (the English) could belittle the “poor delusional heathens”.
    Ugh. Langauge dictionaries
    solve allost everything.

  • @breadbeard6722
    @breadbeard6722 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I think your voice is off by around one second