History of this planet
Isn't reality a completely cool, completely impossible trip?
Posted At: 9/25/2025 6:17:18 AM
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🚀 Battlestar Galactica and the Forgotten History of Ancient Humanity: An Investigative Analysis<br/>Abstract<br/>The 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica has long been dismissed as a derivative space opera. Yet its narrative structure, mythological motifs, and thematic resonance suggest something…
Posted At: 8/24/2025 6:40:11 AM
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The Great Black Swamp and the old swamps that once dotted the floodplain of Council Bluffs, Iowa, are both emblematic of the United States’ wetland history. While they share a common identity as wetlands that were once abundant across the Midwest, they diverge markedly in size, ecological legacy,…
Posted At: 1/8/2023 11:40:39 PM
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Getting old is a lot like that scene in "Back to the Future" when Marty and his family start fading from the photo. More and more things that you knew for most if not all of your life begin to disappear, one by one. The grandparents. One, if not both, of your parents. Perhaps a sibling, or friend,…
Posted At: 8/29/2022 1:57:21 PM
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I have before heard about the mythical Rohela People , aliens and spaceships found in ancient cave paintings in India, this is the first I learned that they had an actual rocket-based combat system that they were using in warfare against England and it's famous Tea Company.<br/>Also interesting, the…
Posted At: 1/7/2022 11:27:05 AM
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Something that's there and we barely notice, taking for granted: A blinking cursor. Before that simple blinking, it was way harder to get things done. This article goes through the history of it's creation, and how much Steve Jobs (pboh) hated them. Good article, except the glaring flaw that says…
Posted At: 6/8/2021 11:27:59 AM
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This was made in 1870, "Bring Up the Dinner, Betsy" by British portrait photographer Harry Pointer and is probably the first humorous cat photo to "go viral" (Back then that meant passing around pictures known then as a Carte de visite (Visiting Card)
Posted At: 3/28/2021 11:16:22 AM
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The British used to rule 1/4 of the world's landmass and 1/3 of the world's population. To say this gave them a god complex is an understatement. I mean, shiat, the monarch's motto is "God and My Right", as-in, even if God His Own Damned Self told the monarch to fark right off, the monarch still…
Posted At: 7/19/2020 4:06:50 PM
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Smithsonian presents Aerial America: Nebraska. It's not so boring anymore.
Posted At: 6/29/2020 10:19:17 AM
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I think the biggest thing I am trying to point out is that right now today, no matter how many things we get rid of, tear down, destroy, or censor - none of us now are going to forget that these things happened. These things were not good. They are mistakes to learn from. But think in the future,…
Posted At: 6/18/2020 10:10:45 AM
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On 4 October 1957, 14,000 people watched a large hangar on the outskirts of Toronto open to reveal a beautiful, large, white, delta-wing aircraft. The plane was the Avro Arrow interceptor. A third longer and broader than today’s Eurofighter Typhoon, the Arrow could fly close to Mach 2.0 (1,500 mph,…