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There's a decent chance that one of the many uncontacted tribes has started to worship airplanes
Submitted 10 months ago by Blubber28@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Bwaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
qevlarr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Says someone who will remove belts, shoes, and all metal objects and wait for hours to get the chance to sit inside of one.
hihi24522@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I once had a similar thought: if we were to build stations/cities on the moon, you’d likely be able to see the light from them when they’re in shadow.
This would be kind of cool, but imagine you don’t know about people building cities on the moon and all you see are these glowing lines spreading across the moon. You’d probably think the moon was breaking apart or something. I’d imagine some “uncontacted tribes” would feel like it’s a sign of the end of the world.
On an unrelated note, this will be my last comment from lemm.ee
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Isn’t that what cargo cults are
stoy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
That is not a potential theory, but an observable fact.
Look up cargo cults
Blubber28@lemmy.world 10 months ago
From the comments below, not quite what I had in mind. More of a, they see these planes flying in the sky and maybe interpret it as a sign of whatever deity/deities they worship
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 10 months ago
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Such a fantastic movie! I remember watching it a bunch as a young kid, and saw it more recently as an adult. Love it!
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Our maybe they treat airplanes as mystical objects used for fortune telling and other magical and religious purposes. That’s how stars and planets were treated before we figured out what they really are.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Astrology is still a big mess and shouldn’t deserve a place in a list with real science.
ImageTranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
And so is alchemy. Useful and useless concepts were intertwined at the time, and it took centuries figure out what to keep and what to discard. Well, some individuals still held on to the trash ideas, while the rest of the world moved on.
Blubber28@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is indeed what I had mind
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Especially scheduled flights… They may see the same aeroplanes on the same schedule
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
And when the schedule is off, you get worried. Could it be a sign about the next crop? Should we have planted something else instead? Was it a mistake to marry this lady… So many questions.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I could be wrong but I do remember reading somewhere that after ww2 there have been instances in pacific islands of native people standing on old runways doing the flag stances in hopes it brings in a plane.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hasn’t this been ongoing since airplanes were invented?
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 months ago
Are those VR goggles?
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The opening scene of Star Trek Into Darkness explores this very idea