r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Dexter_Naman • 1d ago

Rare Devil Sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth

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u/Jibber_Fight 1d ago

I always think of how utterly terrifying a total eclipse would’ve been for primitive people. No wonder religion was invented.

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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/TheWhaleAndPetunia 19h ago

Columbus was an idiot and thought he was 12,000 miles from where he was. Even if he had known about an eclipse and could predict it to the day, thay eclipse would have had to have been seen equally in China and in San Salvador.

Ita a White Victory Over The Savages myth

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u/3rdShiftSecurity 14h ago

Found the source:

https://youtube.com/shorts/5cXdIx98LsU?si=j5BZSZGODt6GeHKf

It was Joe Rogan podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson. So that's where I heard it.

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u/TheWhaleAndPetunia 10h ago

See there's your problem, listening to rogan.