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Newton invented gay :O

[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As if you all didn’t have stupid hobbies during COVID lockdowns.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be fair after ~300 years of plague almost every 10 years you get a little numb to it.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The pre-vaccine, pre-public health world was just kind of nuts.

“Have a bunch of kids, because the ones who aren’t strong and lucky aren’t going to make it.”

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What you mean ~300 years? Has there been some interruption since late Rome that I failed to notice?

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As I understand it the period often referred to as The Black Death started in the early 1300s and ended in the late 1600s. Newton I think was mid to late 1600s. So that's about 300 years depending on when people will argue it started and all.

Right!?!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, ok. Yeah there was a worse than normal outbreak during the previous 300 years, but "plague is raging in Europe" applies just as well for the previous 1000 years.

That said, I'm not disagreeing, 300 years should be enough to numb down a population.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

For sure! Turns out open "sewers" and letting wildlife and pigs just do their thing wherever isn't great for health.

My thoughts were Newton didn't see it as anything other than normal so of course he's going on about his day. His life was the "this is fine dog" lol

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Way more entertaining than plague tbqf

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

AfaIk, the novelty was, that the fractions of the rainbow, e.g. yellow, themselves do not split into a rainbow again if they are sent though a prism. That led to the conclusion that white sunlight is actually composed of light of different colours which cannot be decomposed further.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Hmmmm, it appears that the sun is secretly gay"

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Based and rainbow-pilled

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His discoveries kinda helped down the line. Thanks to him we learned how fast the rates of plague progression was going.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 8 points 1 week ago

Besides, it’s not like not studying prisms would have made the plague go away.

There have always been wars, plagues, catastrophes. And now, the hard times are coming again. Somehow we moved forward anyway.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

Imagine how dusty that room would have to be, in order to see that effect.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The Hooke/Newton beef needs an epic rap battle.

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Is this meme referencing the Plague of Marseille?