@@arthurfilipe7380 no, they dont, most of them have an external fire source, like a cigarette or a candel, are laying in blankets and thus blankets are functioning like a wick burning body fat. its debunked or your post is satire and im german and humouros replies arnt recognized as that. a quirk of my culture.
@arthurfilipe7380 I'm pretty sure that's an urban legend. Basically every single instance of a human suddenly combusting turns up that it began from an external ignition source (such as, say, a lit cigarette or an electrical spark), and so was just a particularly violent and sudden version of someone accidentally lighting themselves on fire.
I would love to know how the Romans came to such conclusion, like what did they saw in seals that they were like "this things are imposible to strike with lighting".
@@Enyoiyourselfthe seals being near eagle and laurels, two things held in high regard by Roman tradition and myth make me think that seals might be on the list for the same reason. Like some myth that ties them to Triton or some other, lesser deity of the pantheon
@@Enyoiyourself Laurels? Shit, idk. Eagles? Well, there is an ongoing myth that airplanes in flight can't be hit by lightning (a mistake, they can) because they aren't grounded. Why specifically THAT bird? Shit, idk. Submerged creatures are mostly immune because the sea water conducts more than your body, so being within a conductor makes electricity pass by. A mistake as well, because if you are close to the impact (VERY close, like, under 10 meters/yards of it), you will get the buzz, but beyond 30 meters iirc, you will be fine. Seals can swim deeper than that, so maybe Pliny got an anecdote of a seal surviving a lightning strike. But also, any animal can if they swim deep enough during a strike so... Shit, idk.
@@Enyoiyourself I guess the way to this conclusion would be something like "Have _you_ ever heard or seen a seal, an eagle or a laurel being struck by lightning??!"
I love how Pliny’s various accounts just go from “huh, that’s really cool that you were able to know that so long ago” to “how do you function?!” delivered with the same cadence as DBZA Freiza.
It's really nice to see that some people, even back then, tried to use a combination of plain logic and knowledge from scholars to understand the world. Honestly, knowing that this kind of thinking has been natural throughout the ages gives me hope for humanity's survival.
I saw in a documentary that the "two suns" thing may have been from a Supernova explosion that was just close enough to become a really bright star in the sky, so I'm partial to that account of an aerial phenomena
Nah, that's not it, Supernovas would have been recorded by the Chinese, they where aware of them, That's why they're called Novas "new stars" It was probably a visual illusion, I believe there's a very specific way that causes the sun to be reflected in suspended ice particles, Creating the illusion of a second sun
@@jesusramirezromo2037 Well, for what I can find, the earliest the Chinese record of a "companion star" is in 185 AD while this accounts are circa 77 AD, and it's mentioned as something that happened in the past, so maybe, the Chinese records either didn't survived their multiple wars or, at that time, they didn't bothered to record something like that, but yeah, there could be multiple other phenomena. Still, I'm not convinced my Supernova theory is out yet.
@@Enyoiyourself "they didn't bothered to record something like that" I feel like a second sun appearing in the sky would be record worthy, but what do I know I'm not a Chinese Record-Taker Man
Something that always fascinates me is that, ancient humans have always been just like us in so, so many ways. They liked dick jokes, they carved funny messages into stones, they put up signs warning potential thieves of guard dogs, they studied and learned and dreamed. The only difference is the amount of concrete knowledge we have; they didn’t have nearly as much to work with, but they were still brilliant and learned people. They knew copper protected from diseases, they knew how big the earth was and how the water cycle worked, they could predict eclipses and chart the stars. Humans have always been humans, even if we sometimes forget, and it’s nice to be reminded on occasion
10:30 Sam is using chess notations. In this context 'Book' means according to the book i.e. a standard move neighter bad nor great, rather than the book he's reading.
35:48 You misread that, he was calling the people of lighter skin to the north savages due to the variable climate. Also on the "like those who have been burned" bit, bro was on the verge of describing UV radiation and its effects on the human body.
10:25 the rating system Sam adopted isn't saying you need to read the text. The chess rating has the book icon in the middle of the rating between "brilliant" and "blunder" because the move would have been "by-the-book" and just what would be the most standard play. For the Pliny grade, the rating of "book" would be that to our modern understanding of everything, what Pliny wrote is basically in line with what the general consensus of the time was. A modern reader would understand that what was written was "by-the-book" and not impressively accurate or completely wrong to our understanding of the world and history.
I think book move just means either normal book text, like an introductory paragraph, where no ideas are stated yet, or Pliny's own rants. It lines up with how it usually appears when he's moving to another topic or just ranting.
@@swordsmancs “how could they get something as advanced for their time as the equation of relativity and completely miss the basics of instant quark transmissions!?”
I love this video because it ranges in how this man shifts from sharing true facts, making brilliant observations for his time, and absolute insanity in a matter of moments.
I love how half of this is either at least almost true if not completely and the other is just educated guesses that are batshit crazy like mars and Saturn causing Jupiter to send lightning to earth lmao
37:24 technically, Earthquakes can last years, As Earthquake Aftershocks count as a single earthquake, and they can continue to happen years after the original
you gotta remember that the ancient romans did not have a concept of what gravity is, the main concept of gravity we know and use today was created by isaac newton who did not live for over 1500 years after pliny lived
39:55 They actually recently found the fault lines underneath the temple that would have facilitated the release of the gasses. It was harder for the earlier archaeologists to find any fissures so they dismissed it as myth, but it is/was there. There’s a documentary out about it, iirc they finally found the evidence when one archaeologist had the bright idea to bring in his geologist friend to take a look around. 😂
If anyone is wondering about the Ethiopians... Pliny basically says that they are burnt by the sun, and they and Northern Europeans are dumb because of bad weather, and also tall because in one place it's hot and the other it's cold. Also the Northern Europeans are really fierce because the weather is bad. He then basically goes "but we Romans are lit. The best. We're really smart and civilized." Note: I checked three separate translations in trying to understand what was being said, and they vary somewhat, so this is my best attempt at understanding.
Eh. Expected, every nation always spoke of everyone else as savages, barbarians, uncivilized and so on. It's so funny to see that the old saying is true "the more things change, the more they stay the same".
The Oracle at Delphi actually did use cave gasses to hallucinate and do their oraclular thing. The details are now lost on me, but it's definitely worth looking into. Most interesting psychedelic religious thing in history imo.
I dunno, I feel like Chill was taking things a bit too seriously this video with his need to point out all the inconsistencies. Like...while they had some form of a scientific method, they also heavily lacked literally all the tools we have today to actually verify the things we know. Even his most batsh*t crazy ideas to explain the heavens/how the universe works without chalking it all up to just being a "god", while wrong, is still extremely impressive with and not TOO far off from the truth.
I do have to wonder if Pliny's "multiple suns" are him trying to describe the Sundog Effect which can look like three suns in the sky if you didn't know what it was.
Probably. We also should keep in mind that most of described phenomenon were not observed by Pliny himself but rather were told to him (often by the guy who heard the story from the friend whose friend know a guy who told that his uncle saw it).
Yeah, this was my immediate thought as well, I learned of this effect during my university days studying the arctic, where it happens often. With Pliny basing everything on accounts of others, he likely came across writings of people who did see it, and he didn't question it.
The earthquake lasting so long makes a little sense if you count the aftershocks as part of the earthquake. That is the only way i can see that duration making any sense.
its really crazy how much misinformation there is about how primitive people were back in the roman empire, dark ages, feudal ages etc. some people even say that in the time that Christopher Columbus was alive people debated whether the earth was round of flat.
People of present times whether it be the Romans, the Greeks, the Victorians or current times would always downplay the people of the past to make themselves seem greater. The Victorians created the notion that the people of the Medieval Period were dumb, brutish, superstitious, and ignorant with the world while they paint their walls with Arsenic and eat Tapeworms to slim down. Likewise, modern people downplay the Victorians calling them ignorant, prideful, fanatic, or insane while doing stupid things for fame like spraying poison on foods in groceries, eating Tidepods, or being obnoxious or hostile to towards different cultures or people with opposing ideological/religious/political views. Humans will always try to make their present self greater than the past even when they are wrong or play ignorant
I think it's high time we put the myth about Columbus and flat Earth to rest. Did people object to Columbus trying to sail around the world? Yes. Was it because they thought the Earth was flat? No, no, no, and again, NO. They objected, and rightfully so, because Columbus had messed up his math and thought the Earth was much smaller than it actually is. He thought it would be a fairly short trip, while everyone else told him "No dude, the ocean is freaking VAST, you're gonna starve to death long before you sail all the way around the globe". And they were 100% right. If the Americas weren't there to physically stop him from sailing further, Columbus and everyone on his expedition would have absolutely run out of supplies before ever reaching Asia. And the best part is, Columbus never learned he discovered a new continent. He died thinking the place where he landed was India because, get this, he's never actually BEEN in India before or after his expedition, even though an actual trade route with India was established just 5 years later by Vasco da Gama. In short, Columbus was NOT some pioneering genius who figured out something nobody else knew, he was a freaking moron who ignored everyone who told him he was wrong, managed to discover a new continent by pure dumb luck, and was so ignorant he never found out.
@@ero-senninsama1734 Alternate history Hub is Cody's main channel ....Pointlesshub is just him letting off steam (ya know sharknaodo Transformers these Vids) :D
Right from the start, about other worlds, suns and moons, original text seems to be more about how people shouldn't try to fathom what's beyond Earth IF they can't fathom what is on Earth. Not like he denies existence of other planets and stars. He even proposes that they are infinite, which I don't know how widespread a believe was in that time, but honestly, to me seems kinda revolutionary for the time
The Ethiopian stuff I’m pretty sure was in reference to a theory they inherited from the Greeks that the further north and further south you go people’s blood got funny bc of the climate and that gave them whacky characteristics but Greece etc was in the middle so they were “normal” The idea was basically it gave you either thick or thin blood and thus it made you a certain way. Those in the south were effeminate and lazy due to this according to the Greeks/romans and the ones in the north were barbarous savages (there’s other stuff too but those were the big ones)
Pliny getting so many things basically correct, and then throwing in really weird sounding things makes sense if you realize it was way before the introduction of the scientific method. Actual repeatable experimentation was given the same value as hearsay and legends. Not realizing that even if it was based on genuine eyewitness accounts told and retold in good faith, they tend to change and get more dramatic with every retelling. We really aught to know better by now, but many still don't.
19:57 it's not that big a stretch to infer they might be talking about a solar halos personally I've only seen them twice, and you can kinda see "multiple suns" but if the halo is strong enough, and you squint hard enough right at the edges of the halos, you can see some duplicates of the sun's light kinda crazy stuff
I have a theory about when he says in "In Britain the tides rise 125 feet" he might be loosely (and very poorly) referring to the sunken Doggerland in between modern Great Britain and France but the time frame is a bit wack so idk
hey man, just wanted to say, i love your reactions. you add so much to the original content, and make it very entertaining. well done! not many reactors are so knowledgeable!
I've read papers about the moon phases affecting the reproduction of microscopic parasites (protozoa), so i wouldn't completely rule out the phases of the moon being linked to some livestock (and even human) diseases.
What a treat, i hoped to rewatch it with company of our favourite jacked encyclopedia:) Happy New Year to you all and have a nice year ahead, with all new stuff to learn and tasty snaks to eat!
20:00 its probably people staring at the sun for too long causing vision problems and seeing doubles or triples 25:41 I wonder if it's because of the jewelry they wear that protected them
The "book" just means that the info is "by the book", a.k.a. correct, but not particularly impressive to figure out and is either subjective, obvious or would've been common knowledge even back then. It's a chess rating system, so it just refers to the most common/expected move, like one part of a specific chess opening, for example.
first time watching your videos. I wanted to comment that you have a great voice! It does not come off as too strong. You have a calm and soothing voice that sounds very intellectual.
Pliny's worldview is broadly in line with the Stoic's of his day in that they didn't like the notion of human-like gods, and preferred pantheistic or monistic explanations of the divine.
A little improper to add a rant about religion in an encyclopedia but I know he's just trying to make conversation and living in a polytheist society with judaism+christianity just being another small group of people or hyper focusing on one idea of a god he probably just wanted to focus on the things that were known at the time or stuff he heard.
okay but it didn't sound outright racist. he is not talking shit about either race. he just explains the reason for their skin and hair colour in the way he thinks it happens. and the behavior thing is not fully inaccurate. the climat and amount of sunlight does have an impact on behavior even if he got it very wrong. people born close to the aequator do have skin and hair like charcoal. literally because they are closer to the sun. so its not like he was entirely wrong.
For some god forsaken reason, reggie did a lets game it out and played satisfactory. If you want to watch a man descend into madness then i suggest reacting to it
17:40 i spend about an hour thinking and i just connot figure out how is this supposed to work. Moons shadow cobers only a tiny part of earth while earths shadow covers moon completely. How the fuck Pliny deduced from that that moon is larger?
wait you think harry potter was born with the lightning scar? it was originilay explained like that in the first books but its revealed its actualy a horcrux made by voldermort that is why he was hesitant to kill harry it was killing a part of his soul
Pliny: The God of ADHD It's hilarious how he gets stuff so right and so wrong it's like on one hand he knows how an eclipse work but on the other hand the moon is stealing our water. Tides are caused by the moon Buuuuut Earthquakes are because wind got stuck underground. God if one exists is the essence of everything and not just one specific being that really cares about you personally, but also OH! Look a Cat, I need that Cat hold on (runs for cat)
4:00 i assume with "Cute" you mean Demons Spawn that tortures us every year with a never ending barage of christmas themed music. i never seen whatever show the character is from but i pationately hate it anyways just because how people use it.
My two prime ancestry points, are both in his "savage" zone. Yet ironically my country is almost entirely (historically at least) either his "savages" or his "dullards" and is the global superpower. :)
I love how one moment, Pliny can go “Ah yes, mirrors can reflect light at a concentrated level to create fire” to “HUMANS CAN SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST”.
In Britain the tides rise *120 feet...*
Interestingly, people CAN spontaneously combust, it's called spontaneous human combustion
@@arthurfilipe7380 no, they dont, most of them have an external fire source, like a cigarette or a candel, are laying in blankets and thus blankets are functioning like a wick burning body fat.
its debunked or your post is satire and im german and humouros replies arnt recognized as that.
a quirk of my culture.
@arthurfilipe7380 I'm pretty sure that's an urban legend. Basically every single instance of a human suddenly combusting turns up that it began from an external ignition source (such as, say, a lit cigarette or an electrical spark), and so was just a particularly violent and sudden version of someone accidentally lighting themselves on fire.
@@TheAngryXenite yeah this whole thing is still being studied
"Light has a greater velocity than sound"
Ok now we're going somewhere
"Seals are immune to lightning"
Ah and we're back
I would love to know how the Romans came to such conclusion, like what did they saw in seals that they were like "this things are imposible to strike with lighting".
@@Enyoiyourselfthe seals being near eagle and laurels, two things held in high regard by Roman tradition and myth make me think that seals might be on the list for the same reason. Like some myth that ties them to Triton or some other, lesser deity of the pantheon
@@Enyoiyourself Laurels? Shit, idk.
Eagles? Well, there is an ongoing myth that airplanes in flight can't be hit by lightning (a mistake, they can) because they aren't grounded. Why specifically THAT bird? Shit, idk.
Submerged creatures are mostly immune because the sea water conducts more than your body, so being within a conductor makes electricity pass by. A mistake as well, because if you are close to the impact (VERY close, like, under 10 meters/yards of it), you will get the buzz, but beyond 30 meters iirc, you will be fine. Seals can swim deeper than that, so maybe Pliny got an anecdote of a seal surviving a lightning strike. But also, any animal can if they swim deep enough during a strike so... Shit, idk.
@@Enyoiyourself Has to be related to some kind of legend like the other 2 things that supposedly never get struck by lightning
@@Enyoiyourself I guess the way to this conclusion would be something like "Have _you_ ever heard or seen a seal, an eagle or a laurel being struck by lightning??!"
I love how Pliny’s various accounts just go from “huh, that’s really cool that you were able to know that so long ago” to “how do you function?!” delivered with the same cadence as DBZA Freiza.
It's really nice to see that some people, even back then, tried to use a combination of plain logic and knowledge from scholars to understand the world. Honestly, knowing that this kind of thinking has been natural throughout the ages gives me hope for humanity's survival.
wow he’s actually so based. Surprisingly and refreshingly enlightened for his time > no, scratch that, batshit ideas, product of his time > repeat
I saw in a documentary that the "two suns" thing may have been from a Supernova explosion that was just close enough to become a really bright star in the sky, so I'm partial to that account of an aerial phenomena
Nah, that's not it, Supernovas would have been recorded by the Chinese, they where aware of them, That's why they're called Novas "new stars"
It was probably a visual illusion, I believe there's a very specific way that causes the sun to be reflected in suspended ice particles, Creating the illusion of a second sun
@@jesusramirezromo2037 A Parhelion
@@jesusramirezromo2037 Well, for what I can find, the earliest the Chinese record of a "companion star" is in 185 AD while this accounts are circa 77 AD, and it's mentioned as something that happened in the past, so maybe, the Chinese records either didn't survived their multiple wars or, at that time, they didn't bothered to record something like that, but yeah, there could be multiple other phenomena. Still, I'm not convinced my Supernova theory is out yet.
@@Enyoiyourself "they didn't bothered to record something like that"
I feel like a second sun appearing in the sky would be record worthy, but what do I know I'm not a Chinese Record-Taker Man
Wouldn't a supernova explosion being this close to appear as big as a sun just wipe us the hell out?
Something that always fascinates me is that, ancient humans have always been just like us in so, so many ways. They liked dick jokes, they carved funny messages into stones, they put up signs warning potential thieves of guard dogs, they studied and learned and dreamed. The only difference is the amount of concrete knowledge we have; they didn’t have nearly as much to work with, but they were still brilliant and learned people. They knew copper protected from diseases, they knew how big the earth was and how the water cycle worked, they could predict eclipses and chart the stars.
Humans have always been humans, even if we sometimes forget, and it’s nice to be reminded on occasion
It's less ancient humans being like us, and much more of us being like ancient humans.
10:30 Sam is using chess notations. In this context 'Book' means according to the book i.e. a standard move neighter bad nor great, rather than the book he's reading.
I think it basically means "Not true or false (like an introduction to a topic, not trying to state any ideas)/ author's personal beliefs and rants"
@@BambinaSaldana yeah, i think the book just represents Pliny's opinions on subjective things.
My reaction are like "oh yeah he's totally right... wait wait the hell you mean wet and dry stars?"
“We know that the tides are caused by the orbit of the moon”
Wow they actually realized that? that’s incre-
“The tide in Britain rises 120 feet”
pliny turns to stonetoss' art style when talking about ethiopians lmao
35:48 You misread that, he was calling the people of lighter skin to the north savages due to the variable climate. Also on the "like those who have been burned" bit, bro was on the verge of describing UV radiation and its effects on the human body.
Apart from that, Pliny just only repeats the idea of Rome as civilization at its peak, while the rest of societies are inferior regardless of race.
10:25 the rating system Sam adopted isn't saying you need to read the text. The chess rating has the book icon in the middle of the rating between "brilliant" and "blunder" because the move would have been "by-the-book" and just what would be the most standard play.
For the Pliny grade, the rating of "book" would be that to our modern understanding of everything, what Pliny wrote is basically in line with what the general consensus of the time was. A modern reader would understand that what was written was "by-the-book" and not impressively accurate or completely wrong to our understanding of the world and history.
I think book move just means either normal book text, like an introductory paragraph, where no ideas are stated yet, or Pliny's own rants. It lines up with how it usually appears when he's moving to another topic or just ranting.
@@BambinaSaldana Definitely works for that as well!
This is what we will sound like to people in 4025.
“It’s crazy how they got the theory of relativity right but completely missed quantum string fluctuations”
@@swordsmancs “how could they get something as advanced for their time as the equation of relativity and completely miss the basics of instant quark transmissions!?”
@@DG_Toti there you go, you get it
The people who screamed trust the science are already sounding like that to people in 2024.
I love this video because it ranges in how this man shifts from sharing true facts, making brilliant observations for his time, and absolute insanity in a matter of moments.
I love how half of this is either at least almost true if not completely and the other is just educated guesses that are batshit crazy like mars and Saturn causing Jupiter to send lightning to earth lmao
Educated batshit is what I like to call "fun ideas".
Actually incredible how much he got correct-adjacent
37:24 technically, Earthquakes can last years, As Earthquake Aftershocks count as a single earthquake, and they can continue to happen years after the original
you gotta remember that the ancient romans did not have a concept of what gravity is, the main concept of gravity we know and use today was created by isaac newton who did not live for over 1500 years after pliny lived
Then Einstein came along and we are back to not knowing what gravity even is
39:55 They actually recently found the fault lines underneath the temple that would have facilitated the release of the gasses. It was harder for the earlier archaeologists to find any fissures so they dismissed it as myth, but it is/was there. There’s a documentary out about it, iirc they finally found the evidence when one archaeologist had the bright idea to bring in his geologist friend to take a look around. 😂
If anyone is wondering about the Ethiopians...
Pliny basically says that they are burnt by the sun, and they and Northern Europeans are dumb because of bad weather, and also tall because in one place it's hot and the other it's cold. Also the Northern Europeans are really fierce because the weather is bad. He then basically goes "but we Romans are lit. The best. We're really smart and civilized."
Note: I checked three separate translations in trying to understand what was being said, and they vary somewhat, so this is my best attempt at understanding.
Eh. Expected, every nation always spoke of everyone else as savages, barbarians, uncivilized and so on. It's so funny to see that the old saying is true "the more things change, the more they stay the same".
@@Enyoiyourself Pretty much.
The Oracle at Delphi actually did use cave gasses to hallucinate and do their oraclular thing. The details are now lost on me, but it's definitely worth looking into. Most interesting psychedelic religious thing in history imo.
I dunno, I feel like Chill was taking things a bit too seriously this video with his need to point out all the inconsistencies. Like...while they had some form of a scientific method, they also heavily lacked literally all the tools we have today to actually verify the things we know. Even his most batsh*t crazy ideas to explain the heavens/how the universe works without chalking it all up to just being a "god", while wrong, is still extremely impressive with and not TOO far off from the truth.
I do have to wonder if Pliny's "multiple suns" are him trying to describe the Sundog Effect which can look like three suns in the sky if you didn't know what it was.
Probably. We also should keep in mind that most of described phenomenon were not observed by Pliny himself but rather were told to him (often by the guy who heard the story from the friend whose friend know a guy who told that his uncle saw it).
Yeah, this was my immediate thought as well, I learned of this effect during my university days studying the arctic, where it happens often. With Pliny basing everything on accounts of others, he likely came across writings of people who did see it, and he didn't question it.
The earthquake lasting so long makes a little sense if you count the aftershocks as part of the earthquake. That is the only way i can see that duration making any sense.
29:00 he had to lock in rq ig lol
its really crazy how much misinformation there is about how primitive people were back in the roman empire, dark ages, feudal ages etc. some people even say that in the time that Christopher Columbus was alive people debated whether the earth was round of flat.
People still debate that.
People of present times whether it be the Romans, the Greeks, the Victorians or current times would always downplay the people of the past to make themselves seem greater. The Victorians created the notion that the people of the Medieval Period were dumb, brutish, superstitious, and ignorant with the world while they paint their walls with Arsenic and eat Tapeworms to slim down. Likewise, modern people downplay the Victorians calling them ignorant, prideful, fanatic, or insane while doing stupid things for fame like spraying poison on foods in groceries, eating Tidepods, or being obnoxious or hostile to towards different cultures or people with opposing ideological/religious/political views. Humans will always try to make their present self greater than the past even when they are wrong or play ignorant
@@macdaddy1376 People didn't commonly debate that for centuries, perhaps even millenia, modern flat earthers are actually a fairly new thing
@@macdaddy1376 flat earth debate started in America in the 1800
I think it's high time we put the myth about Columbus and flat Earth to rest. Did people object to Columbus trying to sail around the world? Yes. Was it because they thought the Earth was flat? No, no, no, and again, NO. They objected, and rightfully so, because Columbus had messed up his math and thought the Earth was much smaller than it actually is. He thought it would be a fairly short trip, while everyone else told him "No dude, the ocean is freaking VAST, you're gonna starve to death long before you sail all the way around the globe". And they were 100% right. If the Americas weren't there to physically stop him from sailing further, Columbus and everyone on his expedition would have absolutely run out of supplies before ever reaching Asia. And the best part is, Columbus never learned he discovered a new continent. He died thinking the place where he landed was India because, get this, he's never actually BEEN in India before or after his expedition, even though an actual trade route with India was established just 5 years later by Vasco da Gama. In short, Columbus was NOT some pioneering genius who figured out something nobody else knew, he was a freaking moron who ignored everyone who told him he was wrong, managed to discover a new continent by pure dumb luck, and was so ignorant he never found out.
i am wondering ... is he aware of Cody's main channel ? :)
That's... A good question...
What is that?
@@ero-senninsama1734 alternate history hub, pointless Hub's main channel
@@ero-senninsama1734 Alternate history Hub is Cody's main channel ....Pointlesshub is just him letting off steam (ya know sharknaodo Transformers these Vids) :D
I sincerely recommend a youtuber named valefisk.
I second this
I have no mouth, but I must *bus*
Right from the start, about other worlds, suns and moons, original text seems to be more about how people shouldn't try to fathom what's beyond Earth IF they can't fathom what is on Earth. Not like he denies existence of other planets and stars. He even proposes that they are infinite, which I don't know how widespread a believe was in that time, but honestly, to me seems kinda revolutionary for the time
The Ethiopian stuff I’m pretty sure was in reference to a theory they inherited from the Greeks that the further north and further south you go people’s blood got funny bc of the climate and that gave them whacky characteristics but Greece etc was in the middle so they were “normal”
The idea was basically it gave you either thick or thin blood and thus it made you a certain way. Those in the south were effeminate and lazy due to this according to the Greeks/romans and the ones in the north were barbarous savages (there’s other stuff too but those were the big ones)
Pliny getting so many things basically correct, and then throwing in really weird sounding things makes sense if you realize it was way before the introduction of the scientific method. Actual repeatable experimentation was given the same value as hearsay and legends. Not realizing that even if it was based on genuine eyewitness accounts told and retold in good faith, they tend to change and get more dramatic with every retelling. We really aught to know better by now, but many still don't.
19:57
it's not that big a stretch to infer they might be talking about a solar halos
personally I've only seen them twice, and you can kinda see "multiple suns" but if
the halo is strong enough, and you squint hard enough
right at the edges of the halos, you can see some duplicates of the sun's light
kinda crazy stuff
brother u have a heavenly voice
16:03 you're telling me there's been a reverse name for Lucifer this entire time and NO ONE has used that in any work of fiction EVER??????????????
I have a theory about when he says in "In Britain the tides rise 125 feet" he might be loosely (and very poorly) referring to the sunken Doggerland in between modern Great Britain and France but the time frame is a bit wack so idk
Its probably do to the southern coast of England with those huge white cliffs of the shore of Dover
20:04 the multiple suns id a reference to "Sun-Dogs" where ice crystals refract the sunlight and it appears a smaller suns next to the real sun.
“Merry Christmas”
Posts on the 26th
for me its the 27th already
@@ChaosEater39bro lives on the fucking moon or something
26th is still christmas
Christmas is not a mere day, nor a mere holiday. You see, Christmas is the whole month of December. All of it. :D
For someone working without actual scientific measurement tools, he did pretty dang well
Nero being Fate's unofficial christmas mascot is hilarious and ironic when you realize Nero was literally the Antichrist from the bible.
The whole 6 6 6 thing was from his name too
@@rando23232 correct
I love how fast he weaves like a drunk from "making sense" to "OMG what are you smoking??"
hey man, just wanted to say, i love your reactions. you add so much to the original content, and make it very entertaining. well done! not many reactors are so knowledgeable!
I've read papers about the moon phases affecting the reproduction of microscopic parasites (protozoa), so i wouldn't completely rule out the phases of the moon being linked to some livestock (and even human) diseases.
37:00 he is probably talking about aftershocks but still years is wild
What a treat, i hoped to rewatch it with company of our favourite jacked encyclopedia:) Happy New Year to you all and have a nice year ahead, with all new stuff to learn and tasty snaks to eat!
20:00 its probably people staring at the sun for too long causing vision problems and seeing doubles or triples
25:41 I wonder if it's because of the jewelry they wear that protected them
34:32 In Ethiopia part Sam also made Pliny's face like a character from a Stonetoss comic, known neo-Nazi. Hilarious reference.
As a former encyclopedia set owner. I can attest they were Idk, valuable to my early learning.
Your thumbnail for this one was perfect lol. Great reaction, as always :D
The "book" just means that the info is "by the book", a.k.a. correct, but not particularly impressive to figure out and is either subjective, obvious or would've been common knowledge even back then. It's a chess rating system, so it just refers to the most common/expected move, like one part of a specific chess opening, for example.
When he started his recreation of the book I was just DEAD I was laughing so hard it's perfect i love this so much😂
first time watching your videos. I wanted to comment that you have a great voice! It does not come off as too strong. You have a calm and soothing voice that sounds very intellectual.
Came to learn something new of the past stayed at the throwing himself into a volcano to prove he is indeed a God.
Pliny the elder is basically a world builder...😂😂😂That's awesome...he's like me fr fr
Pliny's worldview is broadly in line with the Stoic's of his day in that they didn't like the notion of human-like gods, and preferred pantheistic or monistic explanations of the divine.
Flip you, I haven't gotten 'Padoru'd' this Christmas season until this video
40:35, she's so cute, awesome name btw, I wonder what it means.
Please watch “advice for time traveling to medieval Europe” by the pre-modernist
MERRY CHRYSLER
A little improper to add a rant about religion in an encyclopedia but I know he's just trying to make conversation and living in a polytheist society with judaism+christianity just being another small group of people or hyper focusing on one idea of a god he probably just wanted to focus on the things that were known at the time or stuff he heard.
40:26 how in the hell tid you do that. I aint seeing any lip flapping with that word my good man.
Pliny was the goat, damn it xD
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Actually, you used a Catalan accent (planetes) for this planets intstead of the Spanish planetas.
12:00 Huh. I wonder what happened to knAwledge guy.
very excited for this reaction
Interesting how close he got on some subjects simply by observing things.
okay but it didn't sound outright racist. he is not talking shit about either race. he just explains the reason for their skin and hair colour in the way he thinks it happens. and the behavior thing is not fully inaccurate. the climat and amount of sunlight does have an impact on behavior even if he got it very wrong.
people born close to the aequator do have skin and hair like charcoal. literally because they are closer to the sun. so its not like he was entirely wrong.
I start this video and get jump scared by the Lutece theme, thats when you know its going to be a good one.
43:52 Fire Force reference
actually there has been several year long earthquakes, like when sumatra (an indonesian island) was slipping for 32 years slowly
For some god forsaken reason, reggie did a lets game it out and played satisfactory. If you want to watch a man descend into madness then i suggest reacting to it
I swear the background song sounds a lot like a song from assassin's creed odyssey.
Merry Christmas jack and fam
Weird af of Sam to post this in the middle of Christmas commemoration
Happy new year 🥳
Couldn't the 2 suns be a supernova that was biggt enough? We have records later of such phenomenon
17:40 i spend about an hour thinking and i just connot figure out how is this supposed to work. Moons shadow cobers only a tiny part of earth while earths shadow covers moon completely. How the fuck Pliny deduced from that that moon is larger?
2:34 i had them as floppy disks
Damn no wonder your success you were literally born a chad
This dude looks like Marshall form bo6
book move here can mean it's either religion or already well established truth
I guess "Reading Britannica" would be very entertaining video in the year 4000 😁
I think the Castor bit was about st. elmo's fire but idk
wait you think harry potter was born with the lightning scar?
it was originilay explained like that in the first books but its revealed its actualy a horcrux made by voldermort that is why he was hesitant to kill harry it was killing a part of his soul
peak happy holidays
Weren’t the pre Christian romans pretty chill with Nero (or am I thinking of a different guy)
Pliny: The God of ADHD
It's hilarious how he gets stuff so right and so wrong it's like on one hand he knows how an eclipse work but on the other hand the moon is stealing our water. Tides are caused by the moon Buuuuut Earthquakes are because wind got stuck underground. God if one exists is the essence of everything and not just one specific being that really cares about you personally, but also OH! Look a Cat, I need that Cat hold on (runs for cat)
31:55 Is it a jab to the Aleksander the Great?
A lot of the things in this were unfathomably based for a dude 2000 years ago
4:00 i assume with "Cute" you mean Demons Spawn that tortures us every year with a never ending barage of christmas themed music.
i never seen whatever show the character is from but i pationately hate it anyways just because how people use it.
Does this guy dub over his voice in every video?
where is the lake that turns black
wait are you insinuating seals have fur... uhhhhh well they don't haha or at least not that kinda fur. 27:15
Seals actually do have fur, they just look like they have smooth skin because they're wet most of the time
Cooool i live close to como
Screw it I had to click this video I’ve been avoiding it because I dislike redaction channels but your mustache looked to awesome
Can you pleas react to EPIC the musical, it is a certified banger.
P Liny
O boy
Jaghatai Khan is the better Kahn
My two prime ancestry points, are both in his "savage" zone. Yet ironically my country is almost entirely (historically at least) either his "savages" or his "dullards" and is the global superpower. :)