What about the year TREE(3)?
niktemadur
joined 2 years ago
Step on it Rocky, they're right behind us!
You'll never catch me alive, copper!
It's curtains for you, Rocky, you hear me? Curtains!
Don't shoot, g-men, don't shoot!
Ah... the good ole days!
What about rickettsia, then?
Or how about stealth covid, never any of the full-blown symptoms, never came out positive on any test, but something somewhere along the way subtly flipped and now things ain't the way they used to be, these damn kids nowadays with their Ohio and skibidi and GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
I mean this in the best possible way, with utmost admiration:
This feels like a classic Tintin cartoon panel.
But they were the ones that prayed, if it wasn't for them bringing it up to the storm god of the desert's attention, he would have done NOTHING, you see? The narcissism behind the veil of piety?
... and then confidently declare that they made it happen?
Ah yes... the ol' Planck approach, I like it!
peanut rubber for WWII
Ok, it sounds like you're making shit up, although I know it's true.
There was also hemp oil and hemp rope, used extensively in planes and ships. Then it got criminalized (or re-criminalized, I forget) right after the war ended. Gotta keep those Dupont execs rolling in the patents money, amirite!
Still, this is some gourmet Willy Wonka fantasy material.
Has a comic/manga made GWC into a steampunk superhero scientist yet?
Ok, sure, why not, but wait, hear me out:
A.I.-powered toilet, on the blockchain, and call it Shitcoin!
Phong shue!
No, Frodo did not, in fact, destroy the ring.
It was Gollum that done did the deed!
The people who built the stone towns of Gobekli Tepe and Carahan Tepe in Anatolia in Turkey, built and lived their villages so long ago, that the very first historical civilization recognized as such, with cities and writing - the ancient Sumerians - are closer to us in time than to those hunter/gatherer people, who lived near the ~~Atlas~~ Taurus Mountains foothills and the rivers and tributaries that eventually merge into the Eufrates further downstream.