Pliny Explains it All: The Historia Naturalis Abridged (Books I-II) | Sam O'Nella | Teacher Reacts



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37 thoughts on “Pliny Explains it All: The Historia Naturalis Abridged (Books I-II) | Sam O'Nella | Teacher Reacts”

  1. Im pretty sure i would still sink in the dead sea. I dont float very well, which is an issue since I have my sailing instructor license. Ohwell. Thats what swimming is for. Also, if you're on a boat, wear a pfd, and hope there's another ship nearby. Lol

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  2. The water that relits the torch could be a gas that fuels any residual embers in the torch. Sort of like how you can relight a candle by bringing a flame to the little bit of smoke from the extinguished candle.

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  3. How can you look down upon ancient scientists when at that time with the very limited knowledge they possessed, they still knew the Earth is round, today though… 🤷‍♂
    They got a lot of it right. Way more than I could think they might have. But than the rest is utter insanity.

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  4. Its easy to make fun of these ideas, because its easy to forget this is where all of our modern sciences started. It started with people making their best guesses and trying to figure things out, creating their own measurement systems and tests. Some of these guesses are super close, and the ones that arent close at all, often have a believable (albeit wrong) theory behind it. Air getting trapped underground and causing quakes is a very good guess, far far better of a guess than "the gods on the mountain are mad today."

    The guesses have just gotten way more refined over the uears to the point the guesses are way more accurate, but it all still starts with "i wonder how that works.".

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  5. "hehehe Endymion's in love with the moon"

    ENDYMION'S IN LOVE WITH THE MOON

    ENDYMION IS THE NAME OF MAMORU AS THE PRINCE OF EARTH IN SAILOR MOON…WHERE HE'S IN LOVE WITH PRINCESS SERENITY…OF THE FUCKIN MOON

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  6. 32:30 You call that unscientific, but that is LITERALLY the scientific explanation for why the ocean is salty. Minerals and such go into the ocean, and the sun evaporates the clean water leaving behind the minerals, which is more or less exactly what he said.

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  7. 29:13 I wonder if this could have been a fault line, like the ones that make fences not line up anymore. If each plot was on each side, and a big fault shift happened, it could kinda look like they switched places. But that would still require a gigantic shift

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  8. 25:15 You look confused that that point. If you read the text you see that the translator translated it into a measurement of how many hours it took in total, but the original text referenced the starting an arrival times. like i "he started at 12 at noon and arrived at 3am". or something like that.

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