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 9:38 AM ^
here are some videos on it
Doki Doki liturature club
Petscop
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6 men in the village people is just the start...
January 21st, 2018 at 9:49 AM ^
it leads to sinbad and the movie kazam
January 21st, 2018 at 9:54 AM ^
it leads to shaquille o'neal and the movie Steel
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Username concerningly checks out....
January 21st, 2018 at 10:19 AM ^
Plane crashes or plane emergencies.
Fascinating how a simple little nut, bolt, piece of wire failing can bring planes down, even with all of the backup systems. Simple little mistakes, pilot error, made that cause crashes.
You would think with some of the emergencies, that the plane would never land, but they do. Side of plane blown off at 25k feet and they make it.
I've developed a fear of flying after having flown for work(back in the day) and used to actually enjoy it. Will most likely never fly again.
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drugs
edit: think i remeber they found no traces. Ill go with schizo
January 21st, 2018 at 11:37 AM ^
Have you watched season one of True Detective? If so, google "the yellow king". If not, then watch season one first, then google "the yellow king."
Shall take you down all kinds of interesting paths. You have been warned.
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January 21st, 2018 at 12:06 PM ^
and somehow ended up deep in a Watergate wormhole this weekend. It went something like:
Slapshot vid with the Hanson brothers debut--> clip with Dr. Hook and Ogie Oglethorpe--> interview with the REAL Oglethorpe, who I had no idea was a real guy--> NHL goon Mike Milbury going into stands to beat some fan with his own shoe in 1979--> = ???wormhole??? ---> some clip from 1976 movie "All The President's Men" (I've seen the whole movie probably 15 times) --> some poking around to find out whatever happened to some of the burglars after --> podcast called "Slow Burn" about how the scandal unfolded to a largely indifferent public.
What a great discovery this podcast is. I binged all morning taking the dog for a hike longer than usual so I could just keep rolling to the next episode (there are 8 total, 30 min or less each). Highly recommend it... I thought I knew everything about Watergate, but there are some fascinating stories about lower-level characters that history has largely forgotten over time (e.g., Senator Sam Ervin, the folksy southern "country lawyer" and avowed segregationist who headed the committee and Martha Mitchell, the gosspy, lush wife of former AG and CREEP head John Mitchell who actually tried to tell the world something was up before anyone, including WaPo, got on the story).
Add that to cameos by characters who became more famous later (future Law and Order actor, Senator, and short-lived presidential candidate Fred Thompson, CBS cub reporter Lesley Stahl on her first assignment covering the break-in, George HW Bush, many others).
Some takeaways: (1) it's hard to believe how trusting and naive the public used to be about politicians (2) how damn close the cover-up came to succeeding, and probably would have, but for an extraordinarily lucky break (or unlucky if you're Nixon) in discovering the tapes (3) the cultural impact on things like belief in conspiracies theories, which took off after WG riveted the country.
It's a great, fun listen regardless of political orientation (I think). LINK
tl;dr: Hanson Brothers. LOL.
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and his work with the leprosy (Hansen's disease) patients in Molokai. A few years ago anyway, you could go on a tour, on mules, down the mountainside to see the site. Bucket list item if still in existence. Tripadvisor reviews said the mules are very sure footed.
other distractions:
People living in tunnels underneath Las Vegas
Brian Wilson (led there after BBT)
something different every day really, when I should be working
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The first time I went to imdb.com was a giant time-suck, and it was awesome.
January 21st, 2018 at 2:22 PM ^
This thread might be the beginning of the biggest wormhole...
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is how I found MgoBlog
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