@Chang Noi Pretty ironic that almost nothing you said was true. Between the destruction of the Library itself and the invasion in 642 there are countless works that have been lost such as the triumphs of Imhotep, works by Euclid , Archimedes, Theon, Hypatia, Hyparchus, Eratothoznes and many more. That's not counting the works of art and invention prototypes that were destroyed with the library... while it may be true that the actual knowledge itself gained before that time has since been reclaimed; theres no way to really know that... yes there was alot that has been copied but theres also alot that wasn't copied and preserved or atleast not known to have copies. Please stop spreading misinformation...
As a scientist, I feel the lost forever item would be Tesla's notes. The man was incredibly innovative. We would pay billions to have total access. Sadly we know some were stolen, others destroyed, and plenty remain unaccounted for.
I remember a cartoon at the time of "New Coke". The executives of Coca Cola were at a conference table discussing the failure of New Coke. "We have got to get back to the original recipe", says one exec. "But where are we going to get all that cocaine?" says another.
#2 Fun fact: The outside observer was Christina Maslach, Philip Zimbardo's future wife. She was a graduate student in psychology at the time, and was brought in to do interviews. Apparently, out of the 50+ people who had observed the experiment, she was the first person to question its morality. They were dating at the time, and her passionately pointing out how unethical it all was snapped Zimbardo out of it. Sadly, I have a feeling that if they hadn't have been dating, she wouldn't have been listened to. The experiment showed not only how easily abuse of power and cruelty happens, but how often people will casually observe it from a distance without questioning it.
Yeah, that was the one that felt like the biggest stretch for an "experiment gone wrong," but we liked the idea of highlighting an experiment that didn't get the expected results, and yet helped lead to so much more discovery.
Excellent improvement in your camera/lens/distance and teleprompter scanning. Was noticeable your first few vids but you’ve nailed it at this point. Well done, home-studio-producer Erin.
The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was a pioneer in understanding of gender and sexuality. Unfortunately the Institut was purged/destroyed in the 1930s and a lot of the research and social progress was lost.
Priceless things lost forever? I can think of a couple. Like many of the original Dr. Who episodes, parts of Notre Dame, the Russian Gold Room, and that museum fire in Brazil a few years ago that destroyed a ton of artifacts
I think I missed the deadline, but my suggestion for priceless things lost forever is the original Emancipation Proclamation, which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. I researched this for Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Illinois years ago, and my memory is that it was kept in the Chicago Library because it was believed to be a fire-proof building...except it had a wooden roof. A librarian tried to save it, but it was bolted to the wall to prevent theft.
A candidate for the next list show about things we lost - The Lost Library of the Moscow Tsars, or the Golden Library. It held texts from Greece, Egypt, Rome and China, including works from the Library of Alexandria that were taken before the fire. Apparently Ivan IV died without telling anyone where the library was, or hiding it away somewhere. It's thought to be somewhere near/under the Kremlin, but no one knows for sure.
There's a popular theory that Coca Cola did the New Coke thing as a marketing ploy to increase sales, knowing that it wouldn't succeed and would lead to a reaction which would drive up sales
I worked at Coca-Cola for a few years. A couple of my coworkers subscribed to that idea. Another popular one was that it was the cover for switching from sugar to high fructose corn syrup, but I think that one was debunked.
Idea for the next video: I've read that Homer's Odyssey and The Iliad were part of a trilogy and the third story has been lost to time. Oh Brother Where Art Thou is never going to get a sequel now...
The Amber Room, which was an entire room made of amber and other precious metals and stones. Apparently, it was dazzling. The room (really the panelling) was looted by the Germans when they besieged Leningrad. To this day, no one knows where the contents of the room are.
Or how about El Apostol, the first animated feature length film predating Disney’s Snow White by two decades! The only known copy was destroyed in a fire so we’ll never get to see it.
Wow, I am learning so much in these comments, and I kind of wish I wasn't. (I kid, but also:- what is the German word for getting bad news that actually happened a hundred years ago?)
My 8th grade Science textbook (Mill Valley CA) taught us about subluminipherous (sp?) aether. When I got to High School (1956) I learned about the M-M expedience.
(1) Flexible Glass: During the reign of Tiberius Caesar (14-37 CE), an unknown inventor bought to Caesar a glass bowl. After Caesar inspected it, the inventor asked the Emperor to attempt to break it, and Tiberius threw it at the floor. The bowl was merely dented, and the inventor repaired it with a small hammer. The bowl was made of flexible glass. Impressed by the invention, Tiberius asked the inventor if he had taught the manufacture of flexible glass to anyone else. The inventor replied in the negative, and the Emperor had him executed on the spot. Tiberius was reportedly worried that this wondrous new material would exceed the value of gold, so had the inventor killed to preserve the current economic structure. (2) The Amber Room: The Amber Room was built in 1701 in Berlin City Palace using over 450 kg of Baltic amber. In 1716 it was gifted to Tsar Peter the Great who installed it in the Catherine Palace in St. Petersberg.It was expanded of the years to eventually contain more than 6 tonnes of amber. During WW2 it was looted by the German Army Group North, and briefly displayed in Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad). After the war it disappeared, though a reconstruction was displayed in St. Petersberg between 1979 and 2003. Personally I think it is in some Russian oligarch's mansion.
Didn't they find in 2019 the instructions given to the participants and it was basically an theatrical production? I don't remember if the text was released. But if the supervisor basically asked the guards to be cruel and then "found out" the guards become cruel... i guess it is a failed experiments on technical grounds :)
"The Secret of NIHM" is the darkest animated children's movie. It's about rats that were experimented on and go to bloody war. There's also cancer in it. There's another movie I haven't seen that have some vicious rabbits too... Anyone know the name?
1973 National Personal Records Center (NPRC) Fire, that destroyed 16-18 million personnel files and service history of veterans that served their country and were discharged between 1912 and 1964. The cultural, historical and genealogical lose of about 80% of personnel files that included two world wars. It also made it extremely difficult for veterans and their families to prove prior service to get veteran beneifts.
Missed one of the more interesting bits of biosphere 2 and it's lack of atmosphere and that is why. It's concrete foundation absorbed the CO2 as it cured. As much as you might want to get rid of CO2 from the atmosphere, you don't really want to do this too long because you are locking up Oxygen in the process as well as the Carbon. End result was people climbing stairs and nearly passing out. However, as one of the ideas of the experiment is building these things on Mars as an example, finding out about these problems here is where you want to do it.
Interesting fact: the Library of Alexandria wasn't destroyed by a single large conflagration but rather by the slow ebb and change of monarchs and political priorities.
What about Troy? The archaeologist Schliemann who excavated the site we believe to be Troy kept removing sediment looking for the Troy from Homer’s Iliad and other myths, and accidentally dug too far instead discovering an Early Bronze Age phase of the site. We’ll never know what the layers of soil he threw away might have told us!
Doing something new and it ending badly is not an experiment. Experiment: "Let's study what happens under these conditions." Winging it: "Let's do this to try to get a specific result."
If I may point out one thing that was valuable and now sadly lost forever, the library at Alexandria. It had over 400,000 scrolls of knowledge, art, writing, etc. Several scholars such as Hipparchus and Eratosthenes used the library for references and had supplied the library with several findings. The sheer amount of historical knowledge lost due to war can't be quantified.
Before the Biodome movie came out, I had a guided tour of the Biosphere- we weren’t allow in, so the tour was walking around the outside of the dome while our guide told us interesting facts about the experiment - the oxygen depletion was caused by the concrete curing. Concrete can take up to 10 years to cure and any general contractor could have told the dome builders this was going to be a problem in a sealed environment but nobody asked them The biodome inhabitants also ‘discovered’ that when they planted the same crops in the same place over and over again, the crop yield was reducing each cycle - so they had to move things around - imagine that - they ‘discovered’ something any farmer or avid gardener could have told them, something humankind has known about for thousands of years, crop rotation! This experiment would have worked much better if those with practical experience and skills had been included
Things lost forever: recently I've been really sad at the Ancient sites destroyed by terrorists groups, like the city of Palmyra in Syria or the Bamiyan Buddhas
The Aston Martin DB5 used by James Bond in Goldfinger seems to be missing as well.. the one they used for the films, with the turning number plates!! How can you “”lose”” a car that awesome??😢
The re-introduced "Classic" Coke didn't taste like the Old Coke I remembered from before 1985. For one thing, Classic Coke had a stronger anise component to its flavor.
My favorite conspiracy theory is that New Coke was never intended to last. The whole thing was a smokescreen to keep people from noticing their shift from sugar to corn syrup.
First of all, I like the idea of anyone being an evil magician/illusionist. Second of all, even though I've never seen an evil magician, I know that if one exists he would be rocking the dyed black goatee Zimbardo is sporting in that photo.
@@MentalFloss The good news is that the results of the experiment disturbed Zimbardo so much that he dedicated his life to prison reform. So a reformed evil magician/illusionist?
12:40 -- The FDA arrested a guy "trying to smuggle" useless devices "out of the state"? To another state? How is this a crime? I am genuinely confused.
Unregulated technology is always a crime to the ones who want to make profits from someone elsess work. Or silence the truth. The Orgone Theory is not well presented here. And it CAN make a difference... Especially now we're being bombarded with EMF all the time. Others have been hounded to death... Royal Rife, for instance. AND given the number of prominent people who have tin hat theories and belief systems that include Invisible Friends Looking Out for them regardless of what seems rational, Being sprayed by aliens isn't so far fetched.
Pegasus I think it’s defrauding people with a fake medical device. You have to earn by way of clinical trials etc...the right to claim that your therapy: drug or device will medically treat cancer for example.
As someone with a passion for railway history and preservation it should be of note that many historic models of rail vehicles were destroyed for advancements! Many engines we consider iconic (like the one Thomas the Tank Engine was based on) can only be seen in photographs.
12:24 The story behind it, as well as that thing itself looks WAAAAY too much like the contraption from the song “Cloudbusting” from Kate Bush to be a coincidence!
King James II of England threw his Great Seal into the Thames, while he was fleeing to France in 1688. I've always thought that was an interesting lost historical item!
The yellow fever guy: isn't this essentially how vaccinations work? Introduce a weakened (because: heated) sample of the virus in the body, giving the body a chance to fight the infection and become immune?
Immunology is immensely complicated. Sometimes using dead cultures of a pathogen is effective in achieving immunity. Other times (e.g. measles) scientist engineer live viruses that are toned down versions of the real deal and allow your immune system to create memory cells without the threat of serious illness or death.
@@johnyoung4163 Thank you for your reaction. It's true that immunology is extremely complicated. In essence, however, it comes down to one thing: you have to be exposed to it (whether it's through infection or vaccination) to be able to get any form of immunity. This does not count for everything (rabies, HIV, malaria), but it does count for most of the 'common' things people in the Western world run into.
Priceless things that are gone forever? The Avro Arrow, a hyper-advanced Canadian-designed fighter airplane in the 1950s. Despite being decades ahead of it's time the promising program was abruptly scrapped and virtually everything to do with it was completely destroyed.
Mental Floss, love you guys. And because I do, I want to point out one problem in your script--so that you can avoid the same kind of problem in the future. 13:21 -- "He repeated the experiment on dogs and found no difference." This is ambiguous. He found no difference between what and what? Between what happened when weighing dogs and what happened when weighing humans? Or no difference in the weight of the dogs before death and after death? The meanings would be opposite. The subsequent comment (the conclusion that dogs have no soul) does clarify--but at first it confused me. (Though, admittedly, I am easily confused.)
Andrea Morehouse The most important thing lost in my opinion is the 4 part Brady Bunch goes to Hawaii episodes. I still laugh picturing Alice in that bikini 👍🏼
in rome anyone passing through with a text, or manuscript had it taken, copied, and the original kept at the library at Alexandria... i wonder how many priceless things were lost when the library burned.
Coke did experiment with the original vs classic formula, in that they used a different kind of sugar in the USA after they brought the product back. Also, either of Biosphere 2's experiments could have succeeded independently, just not simultaneously. Either try to grow enough food to have 8 people live and breathe for a year, or demonstrate a small-scale version of the planet's various ecosystem types supporting each other like a big terrarium. Doing both at the same time was absurd and destined to fail.
We lost the original FIFA World Cup trophy when it was given to Brazil after the 1970 World Cup and it was then robbed in the 1980s. It was never recovered and it is believed to have been melted... :'(
Guards at Rikers island conspired to steal a Salvador Dali Painting that was in the prison. Not only did they get caught, the painting they were going to steal was a Fake and the original had already been stolen
Not sure if it counts as a "thing" but as far as priceless "things" lost forever, I can't help but think of all the animals that have gone extinct because of humans, such as the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger.
Biodome is firmly in the category of films that "I liked it when I first saw, and now I will enjoy it forever, but if I saw it for the first time as an adult I would be hard-pressed to see any appeal whatsoever."
Correction, original formula coke and Coca Cola Classic have one major difference. The original pre New Coke formula used cane sugar, the post New Coke Formula uses high fructose corn syrup. Little trick those of us on the West Woast and South West know, Coca Cola made in Mexico still uses cane sugar, so it's better. You ever wonder why you go into a Taqueria and they have a whole rack of old looking glass Coca Cola bottles? That's why.
The Library of Alexandria is an absolute marvel we lost forever, and I still get angry about it from time to time
Ha! Great minds think alike, you just beat me by 17 minutes :)
@Chang Noi Pretty ironic that almost nothing you said was true.
Between the destruction of the Library itself and the invasion in 642 there are countless works that have been lost such as the triumphs of Imhotep, works by Euclid , Archimedes, Theon, Hypatia, Hyparchus, Eratothoznes and many more. That's not counting the works of art and invention prototypes that were destroyed with the library... while it may be true that the actual knowledge itself gained before that time has since been reclaimed; theres no way to really know that... yes there was alot that has been copied but theres also alot that wasn't copied and preserved or atleast not known to have copies.
Please stop spreading misinformation...
As a scientist, I feel the lost forever item would be Tesla's notes. The man was incredibly innovative. We would pay billions to have total access. Sadly we know some were stolen, others destroyed, and plenty remain unaccounted for.
Wow, how is this the first I'm hearing about this?! Tesla is a Mental Floss favorite, I feel I've somehow been derelict in my duties.
@@MentalFloss Trump's uncle handled the notes apparently.
Trump's uncle apparently filed patents for electrical apparatus afterward. Just saying
@@h2_This a true historical anecdote. It should be given credence. A video on this subject would be likely be quite successful Mental Floss.
@@h2_ This is true, I've heard it before. I believe Simon Whistler on Top Tenz did a video on this subject.
I remember a cartoon at the time of "New Coke".
The executives of Coca Cola were at a conference table discussing the failure of New Coke.
"We have got to get back to the original recipe", says one exec.
"But where are we going to get all that cocaine?" says another.
Coca cola is the one organization with an official way to import parts of the coke plant to the US.
#2 Fun fact: The outside observer was Christina Maslach, Philip Zimbardo's future wife. She was a graduate student in psychology at the time, and was brought in to do interviews.
Apparently, out of the 50+ people who had observed the experiment, she was the first person to question its morality. They were dating at the time, and her passionately pointing out how unethical it all was snapped Zimbardo out of it.
Sadly, I have a feeling that if they hadn't have been dating, she wouldn't have been listened to. The experiment showed not only how easily abuse of power and cruelty happens, but how often people will casually observe it from a distance without questioning it.
Mickelson morely wasnt a failed experiment, just a null result, this is an important distinction in physics especially
Yeah, that was the one that felt like the biggest stretch for an "experiment gone wrong," but we liked the idea of highlighting an experiment that didn't get the expected results, and yet helped lead to so much more discovery.
..the most important null result in the history of physics...:D..
2:20 Why didn't you mention the abuse that the "guards" committed on the "prisoners"?
Excellent improvement in your camera/lens/distance and teleprompter scanning. Was noticeable your first few vids but you’ve nailed it at this point. Well done, home-studio-producer Erin.
Thanks! Although this improvement may have coincided with the arrival of a teleprompter...But still- progress is progress!
The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was a pioneer in understanding of gender and sexuality. Unfortunately the Institut was purged/destroyed in the 1930s and a lot of the research and social progress was lost.
4:24 quinine isn't a tonic water ingredient that happens to fight malaria, tonic water was invented as a vehicle for the quinine.
Priceless things lost forever? I can think of a couple. Like many of the original Dr. Who episodes, parts of Notre Dame, the Russian Gold Room, and that museum fire in Brazil a few years ago that destroyed a ton of artifacts
The BBC recorded over the lost episodes of Doctor Who.
I think I missed the deadline, but my suggestion for priceless things lost forever is the original Emancipation Proclamation, which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. I researched this for Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Illinois years ago, and my memory is that it was kept in the Chicago Library because it was believed to be a fire-proof building...except it had a wooden roof. A librarian tried to save it, but it was bolted to the wall to prevent theft.
''The Crystal Palace'' built to house the Great Exhibition in London 1851-1936 (burned down)
Library of Alexandra is a big one.
The original Crown Jewels. Also are you sure the Bio Dome experiment wasn’t ruined because Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin turned up!?
RE: Misters Shore & Baldwin, it could't have helped. If there is footage of this incident, it would be of interest.
Mental Floss there’s a film I’ve seen it, obviously some of the names and places were changed for peoples safety
A candidate for the next list show about things we lost - The Lost Library of the Moscow Tsars, or the Golden Library. It held texts from Greece, Egypt, Rome and China, including works from the Library of Alexandria that were taken before the fire.
Apparently Ivan IV died without telling anyone where the library was, or hiding it away somewhere. It's thought to be somewhere near/under the Kremlin, but no one knows for sure.
Yep. Could’ve gone my entire life without hearing that yellow fever story. Thanks for the nightmares! 🤢😩
Greek Fire, Damascus Steel and flexible glass (vitrum flexile),
3:34 And there’s a clip of that one somewhere on UA-cam in an archive of old aviation experiments.
There's a popular theory that Coca Cola did the New Coke thing as a marketing ploy to increase sales, knowing that it wouldn't succeed and would lead to a reaction which would drive up sales
I worked at Coca-Cola for a few years. A couple of my coworkers subscribed to that idea. Another popular one was that it was the cover for switching from sugar to high fructose corn syrup, but I think that one was debunked.
The Library of Congress states that 75% of all silent films are now lost. Days of footage never to be seen again.
Idea for the next video: I've read that Homer's Odyssey and The Iliad were part of a trilogy and the third story has been lost to time. Oh Brother Where Art Thou is never going to get a sequel now...
3:30 there’s a video somewhere that shows that incident as part of an early aviation archive.
The Amber Room, which was an entire room made of amber and other precious metals and stones. Apparently, it was dazzling. The room (really the panelling) was looted by the Germans when they besieged Leningrad. To this day, no one knows where the contents of the room are.
The "forest" ceiling at Notre Dame is a treasure that's lost forever.
Oh man, now I'm realizing how sad some of these comments are gonna make me...
Or how about El Apostol, the first animated feature length film predating Disney’s Snow White by two decades! The only known copy was destroyed in a fire so we’ll never get to see it.
Wow, I am learning so much in these comments, and I kind of wish I wasn't. (I kid, but also:- what is the German word for getting bad news that actually happened a hundred years ago?)
As a book loving kid, learning the Library of Alexandria was lost broke my little heart!
My 8th grade Science textbook (Mill Valley CA) taught us about subluminipherous (sp?) aether. When I got to High School (1956) I learned about the M-M expedience.
A candidate for the next list show of things list forever the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus that was destroyed by Herostratus.
(1) Flexible Glass: During the reign of Tiberius Caesar (14-37 CE), an unknown inventor bought to Caesar a glass bowl. After Caesar inspected it, the inventor asked the Emperor to attempt to break it, and Tiberius threw it at the floor. The bowl was merely dented, and the inventor repaired it with a small hammer. The bowl was made of flexible glass. Impressed by the invention, Tiberius asked the inventor if he had taught the manufacture of flexible glass to anyone else. The inventor replied in the negative, and the Emperor had him executed on the spot. Tiberius was reportedly worried that this wondrous new material would exceed the value of gold, so had the inventor killed to preserve the current economic structure.
(2) The Amber Room: The Amber Room was built in 1701 in Berlin City Palace using over 450 kg of Baltic amber. In 1716 it was gifted to Tsar Peter the Great who installed it in the Catherine Palace in St. Petersberg.It was expanded of the years to eventually contain more than 6 tonnes of amber. During WW2 it was looted by the German Army Group North, and briefly displayed in Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad). After the war it disappeared, though a reconstruction was displayed in St. Petersberg between 1979 and 2003. Personally I think it is in some Russian oligarch's mansion.
The prison experiment was actually fairly terrible when looked into, and I'm not talking about the moral aspects. It's such a badly done experiment.
It was one of the first in-depth cases we took on in college, it really is a minefield of atrocities. I would not have lasted one day.
power corrupts...absolute power corrupts absolutely...
Didn't they find in 2019 the instructions given to the participants and it was basically an theatrical production? I don't remember if the text was released. But if the supervisor basically asked the guards to be cruel and then "found out" the guards become cruel... i guess it is a failed experiments on technical grounds :)
I was attempting to eat breakfast while watching this. Thanks for that yellow fever bit.
Things we lost forever: Tribes, languages and cultures lost to history.
"The Secret of NIHM" is the darkest animated children's movie. It's about rats that were experimented on and go to bloody war. There's also cancer in it. There's another movie I haven't seen that have some vicious rabbits too... Anyone know the name?
Watership Down
Monty Python had killer rabbits.
1973 National Personal Records Center (NPRC) Fire, that destroyed 16-18 million personnel files and service history of veterans that served their country and were discharged between 1912 and 1964. The cultural, historical and genealogical lose of about 80% of personnel files that included two world wars. It also made it extremely difficult for veterans and their families to prove prior service to get veteran beneifts.
Great, thanks for posting. Have subscribed
I love these video's just recently discovered them and I'm hooked great work guys
Missed one of the more interesting bits of biosphere 2 and it's lack of atmosphere and that is why.
It's concrete foundation absorbed the CO2 as it cured. As much as you might want to get rid of CO2 from the atmosphere, you don't really want to do this too long because you are locking up Oxygen in the process as well as the Carbon. End result was people climbing stairs and nearly passing out.
However, as one of the ideas of the experiment is building these things on Mars as an example, finding out about these problems here is where you want to do it.
"Feeling Deflated" hahahaha
Interesting fact: the Library of Alexandria wasn't destroyed by a single large conflagration but rather by the slow ebb and change of monarchs and political priorities.
This was my favorite episode in the longest time!
What about Troy? The archaeologist Schliemann who excavated the site we believe to be Troy kept removing sediment looking for the Troy from Homer’s Iliad and other myths, and accidentally dug too far instead discovering an Early Bronze Age phase of the site. We’ll never know what the layers of soil he threw away might have told us!
My goodness #8 is a WILD RIDE.
Doing something new and it ending badly is not an experiment.
Experiment: "Let's study what happens under these conditions."
Winging it: "Let's do this to try to get a specific result."
Her: bubble gum broccoli
Me: 🥴
Her: the face you just made is-
Me: how did you know 🤣
Oh, I finally have something to contribute! The Old Man In The Mountain of New Hampshire. We drove up every summer as a kid. Now he's just a coin.
I have a question: how do we spit?
And why i am so bad at it?????
The spit always lands on my shoes !!!
If I may point out one thing that was valuable and now sadly lost forever, the library at Alexandria. It had over 400,000 scrolls of knowledge, art, writing, etc. Several scholars such as Hipparchus and Eratosthenes used the library for references and had supplied the library with several findings. The sheer amount of historical knowledge lost due to war can't be quantified.
Now I get it. “WR: Mysteries of the Orgasm.” wasn’t just a super odd film to watch in my RTF 111 class in college. 😝
Priceless thing lost to history........ the bank for the pork chop party.
Mental Floss: "All Dogs Go to Heaven, the darkest children's animated movie ever."
Watership Down: "Hold my carrot."
Before the Biodome movie came out, I had a guided tour of the Biosphere- we weren’t allow in, so the tour was walking around the outside of the dome while our guide told us interesting facts about the experiment - the oxygen depletion was caused by the concrete curing. Concrete can take up to 10 years to cure and any general contractor could have told the dome builders this was going to be a problem in a sealed environment but nobody asked them
The biodome inhabitants also ‘discovered’ that when they planted the same crops in the same place over and over again, the crop yield was reducing each cycle - so they had to move things around - imagine that - they ‘discovered’ something any farmer or avid gardener could have told them, something humankind has known about for thousands of years, crop rotation!
This experiment would have worked much better if those with practical experience and skills had been included
Things lost forever: recently I've been really sad at the Ancient sites destroyed by terrorists groups, like the city of Palmyra in Syria or the Bamiyan Buddhas
Wasn't the Stanford Prison Experiment debunked beyond doubt? If someone has the latest update on this, I'm interested.
...Aether...and good job the bangs! :D
That kid was not the only Donald raised by apes
The Aston Martin DB5 used by James Bond in Goldfinger seems to be missing as well.. the one they used for the films, with the turning number plates!! How can you “”lose”” a car that awesome??😢
We don't talk about Biosphere 1.
The re-introduced "Classic" Coke didn't taste like the Old Coke I remembered from before 1985. For one thing, Classic Coke had a stronger anise component to its flavor.
My favorite conspiracy theory is that New Coke was never intended to last. The whole thing was a smokescreen to keep people from noticing their shift from sugar to corn syrup.
'Zimbardo' definitely sounds like an evil magician/illusionist.
First of all, I like the idea of anyone being an evil magician/illusionist. Second of all, even though I've never seen an evil magician, I know that if one exists he would be rocking the dyed black goatee Zimbardo is sporting in that photo.
@@MentalFloss The good news is that the results of the experiment disturbed Zimbardo so much that he dedicated his life to prison reform. So a reformed evil magician/illusionist?
12:40 -- The FDA arrested a guy "trying to smuggle" useless devices "out of the state"? To another state?
How is this a crime? I am genuinely confused.
Unregulated technology is always a crime to the ones who want to make profits from someone elsess work. Or silence the truth. The Orgone Theory is not well presented here. And it CAN make a difference... Especially now we're being bombarded with EMF all the time.
Others have been hounded to death... Royal Rife, for instance.
AND given the number of prominent people who have tin hat theories and belief systems that include Invisible Friends Looking Out for them regardless of what seems rational, Being sprayed by aliens isn't so far fetched.
Pegasus I think it’s defrauding people with a fake medical device. You have to earn by way of clinical trials etc...the right to claim that your therapy: drug or device will medically treat cancer for example.
@@drinkycrow4248 Right. Makes sense.
Thanks!
You didn't mention the concrete issue with Biosphere 2.
0:24 The answer is to send him to be raised by ocelots
Lost languages around the world from stuff we can’t translate to spoken traditional languages of the Native Americans...
Oo we hadn't been thinking along those lines, but that's a super-interesting angle, too.
LOL, so the Chimp couldn't learn to speak Human, but the Human could learn to speak Chimpanzee
I don't like cutting my own bangs cause I almost always nearly stab my eye.
Shauna Lennon I do the same thing to my parasitic twin when I shave my back hair😢
Good to see Chrissie Amphlett back on our screens.
All Dogs Go to Heaven?
Plague Dogs says “Hold my beer”.
As someone with a passion for railway history and preservation it should be of note that many historic models of rail vehicles were destroyed for advancements! Many engines we consider iconic (like the one Thomas the Tank Engine was based on) can only be seen in photographs.
One of the priceless treasures lost would have to be the two giant Buda statues which were purposely destroyed
That video is actually already out now, but we did include the Buddhas of Bamyan: ua-cam.com/video/ATZDtNMH-YA/v-deo.html
12:24 The story behind it, as well as that thing itself looks WAAAAY too much like the contraption from the song “Cloudbusting” from Kate Bush to be a coincidence!
The stanford prison experiment was very much manipulated by the researchers. Very problematic.
The Mayans had centuries' worth of their sacred books burned by the Spanish.
Ralfff!!! Yellow fever guy...
My local lost treasure: the pink and white terraces that were lost during the mt Tarawera eruption
Jacinta Hopkins For me it was my Jessica Hahn Playboy that was lost when our house burned down.
Lost forever. Colossus of Rhodes. Library of Alexandria is a good one. Greek fire recipe would be nice to have.
@14:40: wait, did I just win the pool?
The Biosphere had "scientists," not scientists.
You forgot to do that thing.
With your fingers.
King James II of England threw his Great Seal into the Thames, while he was fleeing to France in 1688. I've always thought that was an interesting lost historical item!
I love Erin
looks much better with the reading this go nice!
The yellow fever guy: isn't this essentially how vaccinations work? Introduce a weakened (because: heated) sample of the virus in the body, giving the body a chance to fight the infection and become immune?
Immunology is immensely complicated. Sometimes using dead cultures of a pathogen is effective in achieving immunity. Other times (e.g. measles) scientist engineer live viruses that are toned down versions of the real deal and allow your immune system to create memory cells without the threat of serious illness or death.
@@johnyoung4163 Thank you for your reaction. It's true that immunology is extremely complicated. In essence, however, it comes down to one thing: you have to be exposed to it (whether it's through infection or vaccination) to be able to get any form of immunity. This does not count for everything (rabies, HIV, malaria), but it does count for most of the 'common' things people in the Western world run into.
Bubble gum flavored broccoli? Stupid! Ridiculous! ......However, had it been brussel sprouts, it would have made sense :-)
Priceless things that are gone forever? The Avro Arrow, a hyper-advanced Canadian-designed fighter airplane in the 1950s. Despite being decades ahead of it's time the promising program was abruptly scrapped and virtually everything to do with it was completely destroyed.
I feel like the Dodo & the Carolina should be considered lost treasures; birds being smarter than we generally give them credit for
"Mahhve"? I've always said "mohve"
You've always been wrong.
@@Darxide23 huh. Okay! I learned a thing today!
@@kayisfish For what it's worth, I think "mohve" is perfectly acceptable!
@@MentalFloss I'm Canadian, maybe that makes a difference?
@@kayisfish It definitely makes a difference! (I mean, not in this situation per se, but generally speaking, for sure.)
Mental Floss, love you guys. And because I do, I want to point out one problem in your script--so that you can avoid the same kind of problem in the future.
13:21 -- "He repeated the experiment on dogs and found no difference."
This is ambiguous. He found no difference between what and what? Between what happened when weighing dogs and what happened when weighing humans? Or no difference in the weight of the dogs before death and after death?
The meanings would be opposite.
The subsequent comment (the conclusion that dogs have no soul) does clarify--but at first it confused me. (Though, admittedly, I am easily confused.)
Things lost forever: the man in the mountain in New Hampshire.
Andrea Morehouse The most important thing lost in my opinion is the 4 part Brady Bunch goes to Hawaii episodes. I still laugh picturing Alice in that bikini 👍🏼
in rome anyone passing through with a text, or manuscript had it taken, copied, and the original kept at the library at Alexandria... i wonder how many priceless things were lost when the library burned.
The Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt - destroyed by fire
the little albert experiment & the mouse utopia experiments should be on here
They used new coke as a smoke screen to get rid of sugar cane as the sweetener. And the lost treasure is doggerland.
Coke did experiment with the original vs classic formula, in that they used a different kind of sugar in the USA after they brought the product back.
Also, either of Biosphere 2's experiments could have succeeded independently, just not simultaneously. Either try to grow enough food to have 8 people live and breathe for a year, or demonstrate a small-scale version of the planet's various ecosystem types supporting each other like a big terrarium. Doing both at the same time was absurd and destined to fail.
We lost the original FIFA World Cup trophy when it was given to Brazil after the 1970 World Cup and it was then robbed in the 1980s. It was never recovered and it is believed to have been melted... :'(
Guards at Rikers island conspired to steal a Salvador Dali Painting that was in the prison. Not only did they get caught, the painting they were going to steal was a Fake and the original had already been stolen
Mohammed Ali's Olympic gold medal is a lost treasure and a bit of a mystery.
Not sure if it counts as a "thing" but as far as priceless "things" lost forever, I can't help but think of all the animals that have gone extinct because of humans, such as the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger.
Biosphere II also served as the inspiration for Biodome which I personally loved.
I was about to ask if they were connected in some way. I love that movie :)
Biodome is firmly in the category of films that "I liked it when I first saw, and now I will enjoy it forever, but if I saw it for the first time as an adult I would be hard-pressed to see any appeal whatsoever."
Correction, original formula coke and Coca Cola Classic have one major difference. The original pre New Coke formula used cane sugar, the post New Coke Formula uses high fructose corn syrup. Little trick those of us on the West Woast and South West know, Coca Cola made in Mexico still uses cane sugar, so it's better. You ever wonder why you go into a Taqueria and they have a whole rack of old looking glass Coca Cola bottles? That's why.
Did anybody already mention the Azure Window in Malta as one of the things we lost forever?