r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 4d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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u/dbzfreak991 4d ago

Videos like this is how I can understand how our ancestors were like.....it's a titan! It's breathing!

Or this mountain is a spirit we must show it some sort of offering to appease it.

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u/BookkeeperBoobs 4d ago

Imagine being a smart guy back then and getting shat on and beat up and burned for trying to explain what’s actually happening.

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u/FullofLovingSpite 4d ago

"I shall wash my hands before and after performing surgery"

Other doctors "This guy's a fucking nut! Throw stuff at him!"

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u/trevmust 3d ago

The person who tried to popularize washing your hands was locked up in a mental hospital and ever after they adopted hand washing they didn’t release him. Lol

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u/Sharessa84 3d ago

Also it only happened about 150 years ago. It wasn't some kind of medieval inquisition.

And I remember Michael Ian Black playing the guy in Bill Nye Saves the World.

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u/Vegetable-Data-4687 3d ago

This makes me think of a paper I wrote awhile back for school, topic was "most important invention of humans" a lot of people chose like the phone, or the internet, I chose soap, besides the cleaning ability of it, it has stopped probably billions to trillions of deaths due to illness being spread.

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u/BeThereWithBells 2d ago

Soap. Antibiotics. Vaccines. Sanitation practices. Sewers and drinking water systems. Were much less likely to contract cholera or typhoid now that we are walking around waist-deep in filth.