*He was doing his best* Pliny Explains it All: The Historia Naturalis Abridged-Sam O'Nella
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""The answer is yes, Great Lakes do have tides that occur twice each day, but they are much smaller in scale and barely noticeable unlike the ocean. The largest “lake tide” that happens is called the Great Lakes spring tide, and is less than 5 centimeters, or 2 inches in height.""
What is 'blood rain'? It's understood that blood rain occurs when relatively high concentrations of red coloured dust or particles get mixed into rain, giving it a red appearance as it falls.
Across Europe red precipitation is caused by dust from the Sahara getting swept into clouds, it can look like blood falling from the sky. To someone who might be particularly religious and/or superstitious, this could appear to be an ill omen, as if someone has angered the gods.
One thing I find important to note; Pliny, on top of being a wacky dude, was actually a VERY good politician during his time. The people, both common and others of similar titles, respected the dude quite a bit. He didn't just get the job and sit on his a$$ all day long, he took the title procurator quite seriously and made sure the people were, to the best of his abilities, taken care of.
Isn’t it speculated that he died in Pompeii while trying to rescue people? I don’t know the validity of that claim but I’ve heard it once or twice in relation to Pliny.
@@briannorman1750 I believe, and I could be wrong, he didn't die in Pompeii, but instead a town that was around 1-2 miles away. I don't believe it was the volcano itself that killed him, but instead some of the poisonous fumes it pumped out.
Genuinely shocked that you knew half the stuff you did but didn't know what thunder is. It's always interesting to find what things I consider common knowledge people just weren't taught
It's worth noting that Eratosthenes was using Roman Miles (from "mile" - literally 1000 paces when marching) which are 4180 feet. With this consideration taken into account, his estimate of 31,500 Roman Miles equates to 24,937.5 miles by modern reckoning. Pretty darned accurate for a guy working with nothing but the shadows of two sticks!
10:28 I believe a "sun dog" is the likeliest explanation for the phenomenon he's describing here where, rarely, on cold days, the sun reflects an apparition of itself off of icy crystals in the air.
10:43 I FIND THIS FAR MORE INTERESTING AS ONE POSSIBLE EXPLANATION IS INCREDIBLE. This phenomenon could be the extraordinarily rare approach of a *comet* as near as 500,000 kilometers (1.3 Lunar distances!!!) from the Earth.
For context, the closest visible comet in recorded history was the observation of Lexell's Comet in 1770, which passed within 5.88 Lunar distances or 2.2 million kilometers of the Earth.
Such an occurrence is extremely rare, and it's chilling to imagine ancient Rome witnessing such a spectacle.
> and it's chilling to imagine ancient Rome witnessing such a spectacle.
It's even more chilling to imagine that humanity was _that_ close to being extinct dinosaur-style.
the shooting star that got closer until it was as bright as the moon, then got further again was probably a bolide, a meteoroid that exploded in the atmosphere. Some larger/denser pieces probably survived a bit longer and continued burning, making it look like it was heading away from the observer.
Lightning super heats the air, which expands. It then collapses into the low pressure void as it rapidly cools. This causes the thunder. Note how it rolls in a way you wouldn't expect from just an explosion.
meat falling has previously been attributed to vultures throwing up, correct
Well atleast Pliny had an urge and drive to try..
And his philosophies in life were sound! All in all he's my favourite historical figure for his friendly nature, drive to try and do the impossible and his eccentricities. When there were many theories on something he generally chose the best one available, but when there was no sound theory to go by all he could do was fall back on base beliefs and hearsay. The world could always use more Plinys!
35:55 He was not really off tho. We have to remember that he is working in the 4 element system, earth, water, air and fire. In this system those words do not mean the literally dirt or h2o or moving oxigen or flames by a chemical reaction, rather they represent the 4 common states of nature, solid, liquid, gas and plasma. fire in this context means plasma. Fires are plasma, and so is lighting or the sun. They just did not have a better word for plasma, so plasma and fire shared the same word.
Later on people started adding more weird shit to the classical elements and it got a bit divorced from them representation the 4 states of matter, but at the age of Pliny they were pretty much still the states of matter.
The funny thing is, when he was about to talk about Ethiopians, it wasn’t even really that bad. He actually had worse things to say about white Europeans.
Essentially what he says in that passage is that black people are boring because it’s so hot so they’re not very active but white people from the north are the opposite, they’re crazy barbarians because it’s so cold.
It boils down to “black people are boring, white people are crazy, but us brown people are just right”.
Still kinda racist but it weird to see white Europeans be the “savages” for once.
Although it would be an exaggeration to attribute heat as being the primary cause of population characteristics, it is observable that hotter cultures do value rest as an essential part of the day not to be underestimated whereas cold cultures prefer to take the stance of "do it if you have to but get back to work as soon as possible", with the only exception being cultures from one climate that have only very recently been transplanted into the other.
You can't get the puritan work ethic if working hard gets you killed by the heat, and you can't get away with having an afternoon nap everyday when you'd be just fine without it and the harvest is less bountiful due to that part of the world having less optimal conditions for grain, thus you need to work more land to produce the same amount of food.
Temperature is just as essential to culture formation as warfare, religion, or technology. If you live in a place with no real winter (and thus year-round food) and a blazing sun, relative laziness is the only option that makes sense. And if you live in a place where winter is 3-4 months long and kills crops, animals, and the elderly and you are only as hot as your clothes allow you to be, being a workaholic to the detriment of everything else is the only option that makes sense.
@ that’s a cultural thing. Living somewhere hot or cold does make you fundamentally lazy or active.
Erastosthenes was actually even closer than that, but Sam forgot to translate Roman miles into modern Englisch miles. In the Original text you can see the measurement of 252000 stadia, meaning 25200 modern miles. He is off by about 300 miles.
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It just occurred to me that the tide in the UK being 120 feet sounds crazy, but he might’ve been accounting for elevation.
The elevation of the UK is roughly 160 feet and their tides max at about 40-50 feet and min at about 1-2 feet. Assuming that their value for the tidal height was slightly different I could see him just basically being like “Elevation + Tide = 120 ft” which would be a bit strange/erroneous but not unreasonable.
Note: the Earth isn’t technically a sphere but an oblate spheroid. Basically this means that the Earth is wider than it is tall (because of the Sun’s gravity)
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10:28 There was probably a star or two that went supernova which explains what he's talking about imo
Or sundogs.
I haven't thought about the glow cloud ALL HAIL since like 2018
34:38 Nah, the river is also a real river, in fact most mythological rivers have a real river counterpart. Usually this is because a myth is born from real river, and this myth starts getting bigger and bigger until the point that it is not credible that the real river that you can visit can have such magical properties, so the myth of the river get "rellocated" to different "dimensions" like the underworld in this case, this way the myth can continue describing a super weird river without the real river disproving it. Same stuff happens with things like mountains and the like. Small myths about real places get overblown by mouth to mouth until it is not believable that the real place that you can visit(and confirm is a normal place) has such a myth, so you end up with a real version and a magical version with the same name, same with mount olympus, that is a real mount, but it is also a mythological mount that is the same but not really.
For an example with Christianity, this is how heaven is in "the clouds" but if you go to the sky with a plane there is no heaven, this is because as we now can go to the clouds and see there is no heaven, heaven has to get rellocated to a different dimension in the religion for it to make sense, in antiquity it was not a different dimension but believed to be literally in the clouds in the sky.
Great reaction!
Not all lakes are created equall maybe the great lakes have tides but some small lakes will not have tides in other words you are somewhat mistaken.
great lakes are big enough to have its own weather system, superior is at least.. of course they have tides.
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Pliny MUST have meant Indians…from India! There was zero knowledge of any land in the western hemisphere at that time. Indians from you know, the proper place, could have been blown off course…though I don’t know how they would end up in the roman empire unless they were blown through…ok still doesn’t make sense.
31:03 maybe he's thinking of q bog or tussocks
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He was not wrong about anything till he was proved wrong by later scientists which is the basic principle for modern scientific logic to this day basically it’s true till something truer comes along
18:09 HOW the actual fuck did you not know that? That is like... common sense?
Like... I knew that since I was little, it is a common fact, usually accompanied with an explanation that if you count the seconds between the light and the sound you know how near or far away the lighting is falling, the more seconds, the more distant, the less seconds the closer it is.
you didn't know where thunder came from? what?
Great Video !
8:30 Missed the "!" for the thumb.
Did you edit out the phiny bit about gods for some reason?
i think she just accidentally skipped forward past it? idk though
@@endernightblade1958 oh no! I did not mean to skip that! My bad
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I think they have 3 total.
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