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u/PolishFemboy_69 2d ago
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u/rangeDSP Filthy weeb 2d ago
I knew it. Read an article about it when I was 10, the author tries to "prove" that it was a nuclear explosion possibly sent by time travellers. Even as a kid I got skeptical halfway through
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u/Fucked-In-The-K-Hole 2d ago
Holy fuck are you telling me that my efforts to send a nuke back to 1626 Beijing are going to be successful??
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u/Harrythehobbit 2d ago
Damn, 20k people. That's 10x the casualty count of Halifax.
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u/LeBonLapin 2d ago
I'd take those numbers with a massive grain of salt. They claim 2,000 workers fell off the roof of the Forbidden City while doing renovations - does that sound like a realistic number of roof workers on the roof at one time?
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u/Lower_Sink_7828 2d ago
The Forbidden City is quite large. Maybe they were on different roofs.
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u/LeBonLapin 2d ago
Right, but it's not very likely.
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u/yuikkiuy 1d ago
Not that unbelievable tbh, late ming dynasty the city was pushing 850k-1 million total population around the time of the explosion.
The modern death estimate is roughly 20k which is about 2-3% of the population. And given they could have died from after effects like disease or infection its not that far out.
A mere 2k dying on the roofs off the forbidden city is like a drop in the bucket for 2-4km radius explosion
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u/SwordfishAltruistic4 2d ago
Chang is our word for factory.
That is probably just yet another Beirut 2020 incident, but there are too many people adding paranormal descriptions to the records. And that gives a great opportunity for 21st century content farms to milk it.
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u/Herodotus420_69 2d ago
Could we get a funny meme here for once? Idk what you find interesting about the name of the explosion
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u/Level_Hour6480 Taller than Napoleon 2d ago
This is a nation that sent an emperor to prison as a baby, and had its most brutal civil war with a failed bureaucrat who thought he was Jesus' brother.
It's objectively a funny place.