r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Dexter_Naman • 1d ago

Rare Devil Sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth

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u/3rdShiftSecurity 1d ago edited 14h ago

Isn't that how Columbus got the natives to cooperate?

Something like they didn't want to resupply or help him. So he said his God is better than their God and if they don't help him his God would take the sun away. He told them that because he knew there would be a solar eclipse soon so he gave them that long to comply.

So the eclipse happens natives, lose their shit rightfully so, and give him whatever he wanted.

Or something like that.

Edit: found the source. https://youtube.com/shorts/5cXdIx98LsU?si=j5BZSZGODt6GeHKf

Joe Rogan podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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u/Ibushi-gun 1d ago

A solar eclipse happens in 2-5 times a year in America, it did back then, too. I don't see how this could be true, tbh. Even the full ones happen around once every 18 months

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u/RecipeHistorical2013 1d ago

you gotta realize, the NA "natives" didnt have a written language.

humanity is where it is now as we can pass info to the next generation, compiling data over the generations

much harder to do that if your "knowledge" person dies and its all or mostly lost

same in sub saharan africa. its why (IN MY OPINION) they never left the stone age

then look at south americans, they had a written language, and also were at roman-levels of technology (aquaducts, some medicine, advanced maths) etc.

written word is why we have airplanes and satelites

same with egypt, its a pretty obvious causation link

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u/SpottedWobbegong 1d ago

Writing is important but many non writing cultures have complex oral histories sometimes going back hundreds of years so it's not like knowledge is lost.

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u/RecipeHistorical2013 1d ago

while thats well and good, have you ever heard of the children's game "telephone"?

and yah that knowledge is very much lost when one tribe genocides another, which happened a lot