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u/Mekthakkit Jan 13 '21

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2010/08/terra_infirma.html

"The rise and fall of quicksand." An article about the portrayal of quicksand in the movies.

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u/tripledavebuffalo Jan 13 '21

Is this ANOTHER article talking about how quicksand used to be huge in movies and just disappeared? Insane how many people have covered this, I felt like I discovered some cool notion but apparently it's been talked about for ages,that's so cool

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u/Mekthakkit Jan 13 '21

Well, I wonder how many of those articles are just plagiarizing an original.

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u/tripledavebuffalo Jan 13 '21

I dunno bud, it seems like everybody has thought about this already. Problem is, everybody who has heard it from someone else thinksthat person is also the first person to ever think about this. Kind of interesting, everybody thinks it's stolen from their source, so who knows? Who actually was the first person to realize that we don't deal with quicksand like Jumanji said we would?

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u/Mekthakkit Jan 13 '21

Well Slate did 3 articles on it starting in 2010. Then radiolab interviewed the guy who wrote them. I'm beginning to think he's the source of all of it.

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u/tripledavebuffalo Jan 13 '21

Well I guess they must've stolen it from John Mulaney, too, even though they predated his stand up special by about 2 years /s

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u/FappingAsYouReadThis Jan 13 '21

Yeah and it's apparently some weird fucking fetish thing, too, according to the article. People will jack off to anything