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pielz t1_ix3ihsy wrote

Reply to comment by jhystad in Earth Veins in the East Kimberley, Western Australia. [OC] [4000 x 2662] by VLWphotography

Apparently theres some conspiracy theory that the earth was destroyed by electricity in the ancient past because of these electrical looking fractal patterns lol.

I've seen a few YouTube videos about it. People are bonkers

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lapants t1_ix3mwx0 wrote

One showed up further down in this thread

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pielz t1_ix3ptvs wrote

Jesus dude. These people amaze me. Like obviously actual knowledge and understanding is beyond their grasp so they feel special and smart by parroting these weird conspiracies that every now and then will make some other stupid person go "woah holy shit you're right" and they get that dopamine hit and feel like they mean something. It's sad.

If only they could see how much it reveals about how little they actually understand haha

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ColdPorridge t1_ix4pqun wrote

The funny thing is that the fundamental observation that these are similar makes sense. Both currents follow the easiest paths to lower potential energy states. It turns out that looks pretty similar whether it’s electricity or water. I’m not sure how you take it to “rivers must have been formed by electricity” though.

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budweener t1_ix6zu79 wrote

Rivers are probably observed before electricity by mostly anyone. If anything, electricity would be formed by rivers. Which, I guess?

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TuetchenR t1_ix4i5zk wrote

holy heck, that was a wild ride from the comments alone.

might even check out the youtub video this person says has the answers for a laugh

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chacotoday t1_ix3phvq wrote

these fractal patterns are everywhere. the same pattern can be seen from aerial views of snow, on leaves, snowflakes and crystals, rivers, etc. they're almost universal a characteristic of nature. of course the conspiracy theory minded latch onto anything, even common natural phenomena, to push their insane narratives

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pielz t1_ix3tlgm wrote

And there's the melted structures conspiracy as well. Have you seen that? Lol!

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Agent_023 t1_ix410ly wrote

Ok I'm feeling like rabbit hole diving, go on please..

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TheRealTP2016 t1_ix49ahe wrote

rabbit holes! r/escapingprisonplanet

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Agent_023 t1_ix4bwbk wrote

woah woah woah... so like some kind of modern day catharism?

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ThizzKing t1_ix4d0ng wrote

Holy shit, thank you for this craziness

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TheRealTP2016 t1_ix4zzzb wrote

r/glitch_in_the_matrix r/quantumimmortality r/thetruthishere r/pastlives r/reincarnation

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TheRealTP2016 t1_ix498x4 wrote

it’s literally just physics and math. Everything interacts based on math/physics. it makes sense that the fractals of water look similar to fractals of electricity, given both are energy (all matter is energy)

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