/u/nueoritic-parents's posts
How did Y2K go from the water coolers of IT basement dwellers to every prime time talking heads’ news desk?
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Florida was the 27th founded, but when did it become settled and urbanized to the point it is today?
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I’m a female of male living in the US during the AIDS crisis. What do I know about the epidemic? Am I even aware? If I’m infected, what am I told to do? How will my family/community react? Specifics about the difference between homo and heterosexual people’s experiences is much appreciated.
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I've always been taught that the Catholic Church silences Galileo because it was afraid his ideas were against scripture. Did the Catholic Church silence Galileo because he argued that his Heliocentric model went against scripture, or because the Catholic Church was against "science?" 📷
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Are there any first-hand accounts of people talking about the moment they learned Darth Vader is Luke’s father? Did the media care, or was this a just nerd thing?
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Pilots say Alpha Charli Tango etc because of how choppy air-to-ground communication sounds. Did NASA use this system with astronauts in space? Why it why not?
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Why is the Holocaust talked about on such a personal level? I of course agree it should be taught this way, but why would an antisemitic world think so too? Is it because there were survivors of this atrocity who made sure people knew their stories?
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“Star Trek IV” (1986, The One With The Whales) has extinct whales as humanity’s only macguffin hope for saving Earth from destruction. Do late 70s environmental groups bringing whaling into public consciousness bring context to a movie that’s 1. Time travel to steal whales, 2. ???, 3. Save Earth?
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How long have people discussed how they got to x place, what roads they took, why that way is always stopped up with traffic but if you turn left before Lagler it’ll shave 10 minutes off your way?
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