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mapadofu t1_j9b51s5 wrote
Reply to comment by frodegar in Touch wood: luck, protection, power or pleasure? A wooden phallus from Vindolanda Roman fort by akskigirl
You know all those Paleolithic naked female “fertility” figurines…
So a long time ago I was on a fly-in fishing trip to northern Ontario. One day we went exploring up one of the streams and found a hunting/trapping cabin. It was unoccupied since they’re only used in the fall and winter. Poked our head in and the only interior decorations were pages from porn magazines racked up on the walls.
Diarygirl t1_j9b4r05 wrote
Reply to comment by simplyorangeandblue in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
It's just a little bit too cold.
Diarygirl t1_j9b4neb wrote
Reply to comment by big_duo3674 in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
My youngest just turned 29. I feel very old.
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eljefino t1_j9b3e9d wrote
Reply to comment by CrasVox in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
We know the Thresher and Scorpion are gone. It would be nice to occasionally monitor their resting sites, making sure the reactors are intact, etc.
eljefino t1_j9b39ak wrote
Reply to comment by nondescriptzombie in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
Glomar was supposedly "mining manganese nodules."
notgoblin1 t1_j9b0gyq wrote
Reply to Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator
How many 800mm Railway Guns did Germany build in WW2?
I’ve been looking around for a while and I can’t find two sources that agree on anything, I’ve already posted in the ask subreddits. Hoping someone can point me in the direction of any useful information!
Vince_stormbane t1_j9azx5k wrote
Reply to comment by ManOfDiscovery in 'The wound hasn't healed': Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents by janjinx
I taught the Tulsa race riot and Waco horror last week spent a whole day on the 2 was a pretty depressing class period
cksc51 t1_j9az0f4 wrote
Reply to comment by KawaiiPotato15 in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
Shipwrecks are also underwater tombs for those that were trapped inside. Though they don't always get footage of bodies, when they do the more ethical crews won't make that footage public. Either out of respect for surviving family or because they don't want to make a spectacle out of a person's remains. Also there is most likely a large amount of boring footage that just isn't interesting to most.
Mugwumpen t1_j9awxx0 wrote
Reply to comment by Fireantstirfry in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
Yeah, there seems to be a significant disagreement in the academia how fast she's deteriorating - I just remembered how Ballard (or Cameron, but I believe it was Ballard) made a new documentary a while back, possibly for the 100 year anniversary for her sinking, where he observed how much or fast she had deteriorated compared to when he first discovered her. That while she's not in an immediate danger of turning into a heap of rust, she's deteriorating much faster now than 50 years ago and these damages or changes can easily be documented with each new dive.
PredictBaseballBot t1_j9arj3s wrote
Reply to comment by Working_Rip6436 in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
Top comment right here you psycho
simplyorangeandblue t1_j9argqj wrote
Reply to comment by Working_Rip6436 in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
It's a salt water pool too, not chlorine. Really nice!
DC-DE t1_j9ar39r wrote
Reply to comment by Fireantstirfry in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
How would you feel about being locked in a small closet of a state room or trapped in a small space between steel structures in the boiler room... while the Titanic sank.
Noncoldbeef t1_j9apthc wrote
Reply to comment by ifhysm in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
Tbf, it's just an article I read recently. Nothing scholarly and there's a lot of guessing.
Shalamarr t1_j9anpr7 wrote
Reply to comment by GabeDef in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
The closest they came to finding bodies was pairs of shoes on the ocean floor, side by side, as if the owners were still wearing them.
TheBatAmongUs t1_j9anlxo wrote
Reply to comment by Certain-Recover1075 in Bookclub and Sources Wednesday! by AutoModerator
I would suggest this book. It's about 250 pages, but a broken down digestible read and you can relate the stories within to your 8 year old. It's only about $15 in paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-Piracy-Behind-Pirate/dp/1510738754/ref=asc_df_1510738754/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=552882832481&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5278765483288104314&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1018511&hvtargid=pla-976949717642&psc=1
ifhysm t1_j9alanj wrote
Reply to comment by Noncoldbeef in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
Do you have a source? I’d love to read more about that
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frodegar t1_j9ajw1d wrote
Reply to Touch wood: luck, protection, power or pleasure? A wooden phallus from Vindolanda Roman fort by akskigirl
I've always figured that people are people whether they live in an apartment and drive a bus or they live in a grass hut and hunt with stone tipped spears.
Imagine a bunch of guys chilling around a fire after a long hunt:
"Hey, you know that anthropologist that's been hanging around? He showed up at my hut the other day. Anyway, I hadn't had a chance to clean up first. You know those dirty statues Poco carves in his spare time? My wife left hers out and he saw it. I didn't know what to say until he asked me if it was my fertility god. Of course I said yes. I'm not gonna tell him what it's really for! I asked Poco to make one as big as my arm. I'm gonna give it to that annoying grad student he's always staring at."
janjinx OP t1_j9aj41a wrote
Reply to comment by MistressofTechDeath in 'The wound hasn't healed': Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents by janjinx
That's an interesting tidbit about the street sign. Thanks.
janjinx OP t1_j9aidg6 wrote
Reply to comment by MeowMeowCollyer in 'The wound hasn't healed': Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents by janjinx
Thanks!
amehatrekkie t1_j9agz3r wrote
Reply to comment by martinborgen in Previously unreleased footage from first submersible dives in July 1986 to the RMS Titanic shipwreck — British passenger liner that sank 14-15 April 1912 remains about 4,000 metres undersea in the Atlantic Ocean by marketrent
Oh ok. I read the article 2 years ago.
[deleted] t1_j9agghw wrote
Reply to comment by Individual_Ad2579 in 'The wound hasn't healed': Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents by janjinx
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ricottapie t1_j9b5j3k wrote
Reply to comment by wilde_man in 'The wound hasn't healed': Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents by janjinx
Yeah, but with our exposure to American and international media and history being as high as it is, you'd think that it would've come up before. At the same time, a lot of Canadians were, and remain, woefully (maybe wilfully!) unaware of some our own history, so...
But I know now.