OT- Wormholes
Since it's the weekend and there's not much in the way of significant sporting events until this afternoon, I took it upon myself to help you pass your time until your upcoming camping trip.
My question to the board is this: What is the best internet wormhole you have ever fallen into?
For those that don't know...an internet wormhole is basically when you mindlessly surf the web and find yourself either balls-deep in something super intriguing or when one web search leads to a string of endless web searches that leaves you wondering where you are and how you got there.
Mine: After hearing about the Bhopal-Union Carbide disaster, my googling led me to the Johnstown Dam disaster, which led me to the Three Mile Island accident. After spending too much time on that, I was then led to Chernobyl; which is where I found a pretty cool video by Discovery Channel called Zero Hour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITEXGdht3y8). Before I knew it I had too much time invested in this journey and am now pretty much a self-proclaimed man-made disaster expert.
January 21st, 2018 at 7:54 AM ^
The flat Earth theory for entertainment only. They take the stuff seriously lolz
January 21st, 2018 at 8:14 AM ^
Their devotion is remarkable
January 21st, 2018 at 10:04 AM ^
What do you mean “theory”?
January 21st, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
Has also found herself there, and now follows a few Flat Earthers on Instagram. Now we get some really good entertainment from the outlandish posts.
January 21st, 2018 at 7:55 AM ^
Anything about life in North Korea. Fascinating and terrifying.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:20 AM ^
Yep--I remember a couple of years ago when someone (the daughter of someone at Google or apple or something) went to North Korea as part of some business group. She posted her photos on a personal blog. It was pretty fascinating.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:40 AM ^
Vice did a really cool documentary about life in North Korea recently too.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:06 AM ^
Last summer/ early fall I found myself watching a ton of you tube videos of people breaking into and exploring the silver dome. It was interesting to see it at various stages of decline. I would have like to have been able to go inside before it was blown up. I have a lot of childhood memories there. Also, urban exploration is kind of intriguing to me although I haven’t done any myself.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:15 AM ^
I remember awhile ago I was looking at stuff on abandoned malls and what they looked like now. Pretty impressive...and yes depressing.
January 21st, 2018 at 10:06 AM ^
There has been a few picture essays about abandoned malls here in Northeast Ohio and they’re really eerie. In many cases there’s still signage, kiosks, etc. Just a snapshot of rampant expansionism and capitalism frozen in time.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:32 AM ^
Wouldn't that be Erie? Ha. Wasn't the north randall mall the 2nd biggest in the country at one point.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:08 AM ^
Will be the event of the year no doubt. This board will be full of threads from said event. THE mgoblog camping trip wormhole many will fall into.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:10 AM ^
I was wondering how long it was going to be until someone replied with "the mgoblog camping trip"
January 21st, 2018 at 9:08 AM ^
and scares off a bald-headed bear in order to save my children.
January 21st, 2018 at 9:20 AM ^
How long til FauxMo comments with something about "candy and camping".....
January 21st, 2018 at 9:26 AM ^
The most balls deep I’ve ever been in a wormhole via a Google search was when I searched, “holes to put my worm in so I can get balls deep AND teen AND clown”
January 21st, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^
Right on cue!
Somehow even more strange of a comment than I expected...
January 21st, 2018 at 8:09 AM ^
Quantum physics, my own Ancestry, or baseball statistics-especially historical WAR
January 21st, 2018 at 8:13 AM ^
Ancestry is a good one. Especially when you start getting back 100-200+ years. The furthest I can go back is to about 1600 when my many-greats-grandfather came over from Northern France. Was even able to figure out the name of the ship he came over on, and how much he got paid upfront to guarantee labor once he landed in Canada. Pretty cool stuff
January 21st, 2018 at 8:27 AM ^
Mine was very easy to trace to mid 1500s through church records, then it got tricky. Getting stuck in the Middle Ages 1330s
January 21st, 2018 at 8:28 AM ^
Almost 800 years?! That's impressive.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:37 AM ^
parents from same small Island that has been 100 percent Catholic since the 12th Century. Marriage records are well kept. Not that hard.
Its tracing back before that that is virtually impossible except through DNA.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:39 AM ^
Any good sites that don’t cost anything to trace ancestry?
January 21st, 2018 at 8:49 AM ^
Depends how much work and time you want to put in. I started with Ancestry, which lets you build your tree for free as long as it's domestic information (like dates and locations from American cities, church records, etc). You can take some of that information and try googling those names and see what foreign records sites come up. Mine came up with a church records site from France that had to be translated. Gave me a little more information but prior to 1700s-ish paper records can be "translated" differently, or miswritten (is that a word?) such as adding or removing a letter or two from a name. Can add some difficulty to searching if your name is changed thru the years. Mine ends in a "d" but some records have it ending in a "t".
January 21st, 2018 at 9:37 AM ^
A lot of times, public libraries have ancesetry departments that allow you free access to ancestry tools. Also, while I haven't done much with my ancestry in the last few years, I used the Church of the Latter Day Saints research database, which is free. Between ancestry.com and the LDS database, that was the majority of my research. Now, if you got serious about it, you can always order microfilm of birth and death records, depending on if they exist from your country of origin. Fascinating stuff.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^
Lou Whitaker should be in the HOF. He has a top-100 WAR IIRC.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:10 AM ^
So the famous line when Vader reveals Lukes lineage (spoiler alert) I always thought he said "Luke, I am your father." Welp, apparently I somehow misremembered that and it actually goes "No, I am your father." Anyways, that got me into the mandela effect which subsequently got me looking up multiverse and conspiracy theories abound. I was wearing a tin foil hat for a good month before I calmed down.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:22 AM ^
I did a quick search for Mandela Effect....this is real good one. Eli Whitney (inventor of the cotton gin) WASN'T black?!?!? I wonder how many other things I was taught that weren't true...
January 21st, 2018 at 9:05 AM ^
Hide your heart.
January 21st, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
Hannibal Lector never ever says 'Hello, Clarice'.
January 21st, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
KRS One kinda missed on that one too.
January 21st, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^
That Sinbad one got me, I swore I remembered him as a genie in a movie from when I was a kid!
January 21st, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
Shazam. I know that fucking movie exists. I remember it clearly.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:15 AM ^
gamergate saga and which still kind of lingers around to some exstent and also how some of the key figures of that saga are at now.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:18 AM ^
i faintly remember hearing about gamergate. I had to do a quick search and once i saw 4chan and Reddit was involved...i knew it had to be a good wormhole. Those are breeding grounds for wormholes!
January 21st, 2018 at 8:33 AM ^
Funny how many of us gravitate toward these conspiracy theories. (We're interested in them, not that we believe them.) A couple of weeks ago I got drawn into QAnon. Very strange and more than a little disconcerting.
January 21st, 2018 at 11:30 AM ^
That QAnon conspiracy stuff is crazy. It's almost made believable but you're pretty sure it's completely bs. This is how a good wormhole starts!
January 21st, 2018 at 9:16 AM ^
is quite fasinating look at and how some gaming media still try to incorpate into games like dark souls and cuphead.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:18 AM ^
I once spent a hefty amount time reading some , what I thought , pretty convincing arguments on why John Wilkes Booth wasn’t actually killed in the surrounding barn (someone else was) and he lived a long life .
January 21st, 2018 at 8:25 AM ^
First thing I thought about was the movie "Young Guns 2" and the rumors that Billy the Kid wasn't actually killed by Pat Garrett
January 21st, 2018 at 9:02 AM ^
http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers-decoded/season-1/episode-4
I loved this series when it was on.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:24 AM ^
The history of radical movements in the 1970s, which then sometimes shade into weird cult-like groups. A few months ago I started reading about the Symbionese Liberation Army. i had heard about it in relation to Patty Hearst, but I really knew nothing else about the group.
January 21st, 2018 at 9:33 AM ^
Quick search of the Symbionese Liberation Army>strange doings in California>Charles Manson...I avoided that slope, for now.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:28 AM ^
TRUST me. Once you start down that hole tinfoil hats wont seem as ridiculous anymore.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:30 AM ^
Your wording alone has me intrigued. Damn you and your Buzzfeed wording.
January 21st, 2018 at 10:03 AM ^
Had a show called conspiracy theory. They did one on the Denver airport. Agreed, some weird government conspiracy stuff going on with that place.
January 21st, 2018 at 10:11 AM ^
I remember that show. I think I only watched one episode, something about the uber-rich people all meeting together in like upstate California or something? They were on a boat trying to gain access up a river or something...I'm scraping the walls of my memory for that one.
EDIT- Quick googling leads me to Bilderberg Group.
EDIT 2- TruTV and Alex Jones are mentioned. This conspiracy must be true.
January 21st, 2018 at 10:49 AM ^
under the Denver Airport connect directly to the underground alien base near Dulce, New Mexico.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:31 AM ^
I have 2.
Geoguessr.com
And the mob killing Kennedy. There is no way the mafia isn’t primarily responsible for shooting JFK. Oswald on his own just didn’t happen but so many history books want it that way.