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re: What would have been the most insane natural phenomenon as an ancient person?
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:02 am to TeddyPadillac
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:02 am to TeddyPadillac
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I’d say a volcano erupting was probably a bigger deal, or a tsunami.
Forgot about these. Volcano would trip me out, but just imagining a small coastal village existing then being completely wiped away by a tsunami and their existence being entirely erased is crazy. Imagine you were a traveler and went to stop by and an entire village you knew was there had just vanished.
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Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:04 am to Thundercles
Total eclipse would have been trippy as shite, NGL
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:04 am to TeddyPadillac
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I’d say a volcano erupting was probably a bigger deal, or a tsunami.
Super volcano eruptions resulted in massive global population declines historically due to famine.
Put me down for that or asteroid strikes.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:05 am to el Gaucho
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Probably the iPhone
Can you imagine if you showed a caveman an iPhone?
They wouldnt know wtf they were looking at.
Unless you showed them porn or something... then he'd stay in his cave all day wanking it instead of hunting wild game and trying to bed a hairy cavewoman.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:09 am to Thundercles
Honestly, something as simple as lightning would have blown my Neanderthal mind.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:12 am to Thundercles
My wife loading the dishwasher in an efficient manner.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:13 am to Thundercles
The eclipse was cooler than I thought it’d be, but it was explainable.
Even in ancient times, a person should have been able to look up and see that the path of the moon and sun happened to overlap.
There would have been no known explanation for a big arse earth quake.
Even in ancient times, a person should have been able to look up and see that the path of the moon and sun happened to overlap.
There would have been no known explanation for a big arse earth quake.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:13 am to Thundercles
Eclipse, earthquake, or tsunami.
Something where how would you explain how something that huge can happen
Something where how would you explain how something that huge can happen
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:15 am to BurningHeart
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They wouldnt know wtf they were looking at.
That’s what I thought too. How far back could you go and have people able to grasp the importance/significance of the iPhone?
80’s? Not sure if the internet and computers were wide spread enough. 90’s for sure
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:17 am to VADawg
Bro, like 280,000 people died from that tsunami. I’d say a bunch of non-ancient folks in Indonesia thought the world was ending 12/26/04
This post was edited on 9/24/24 at 8:19 am
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:19 am to Thundercles
Eclipse and it’s not close.
The entire sun is going out in the middle of the day. That would have been unexplainable.
The entire sun is going out in the middle of the day. That would have been unexplainable.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:21 am to Sus-Scrofa
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Even in ancient times, a person should have been able to look up and see that the path of the moon and sun happened to overlap.
Maybe a handful, but the lay person wouldn’t have a clue.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:21 am to slackster
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Eclipse and it’s not close. The entire sun is going out in the middle of the day. That would have been unexplainable
Except that you just literally watched the moon move in front of it
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:24 am to Thundercles
Total eclipse. Even animals natural habits are affected by it.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 9:04 am to Thundercles
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1: Total eclipse
2: Earthquake
3. Northern Lights
4. Shooting stars
5. Tornado
Out of the ones listed, only the Eclipse would really qualify. The other four can happen multiple times in a person's lifetime and even multiple times in a year. Word of mouth would have spread through the village, and people growing up would have been taught by their elders what to expect.
An eclipse, while happening many times a year, is very precise on locations on the Earth. With the shorter life spans of people in ancient times, generations could come and go without seeing one. A true total eclipse is one of the strangest events to witness, and with no knowledge of what it is, people would easily think the sun is gone forever.
More rare than all though would probably be a meteor crashing to Earth, basically they would be witnessing something equal to an atomic explosion or greater. A lessor one would be a true comet, with tail. Think Hale-Bopp back in the late 90s.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 9:12 am to Sus-Scrofa
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Except that you just literally watched the moon move in front of it
You have to keep in mind that some people back then literally thought the sun and moon were gods. They couldn't possibly grasp what was happening.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 9:15 am to DarthRebel
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The other four can happen multiple times in a person's lifetime and even multiple times in a year. Word of mouth would have spread through the village, and people growing up would have been taught by their elders what to expect.
Native Americans thought tornadoes were living beings or agents of destruction from the spirits and if they honored/respected them they would be safe from harm
Posted on 9/24/24 at 9:16 am to Thundercles
They prob built temples and sacrificed more people involving an eclipse.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 9:18 am to Sus-Scrofa
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Except that you just literally watched the moon move in front of it
Except you really can't. You don't really see the moon until its totally blocking the sun. Try looking up at the next partial eclipse and you will see.
Once the moon is blocking the sun it's just a black hole with a corona. Probably fricked some people up.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 9:18 am to Thundercles
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4. Shooting stars
Definitely not this one. There are a shite ton of “shooting stars” and it’s a very regular occurrence. We just can’t see them because of all of the artificial light from the cities. Ancient people wouldn’t have had that issue.
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