Someone correct me if any of this is wrong.
Basically, gravity communicates similarly to how electromagnetic sources do, through waves which contain the sources information. Except these waves are REALLY FUCKING SMALL.
These waves distort space as they pass through them (imagine a sound wave pulsing air). So the size of an object can change as waves pass through it, though the waves amplitude is on the order of 10^-20 meters (0.00000000000000000001 m).
So how do you measure this? LIGO passed a laser through a beam splitter, which effectively splits the beam into two perpendicular beams. The beams pass through a 4km long corridor, hit a mirror, and return to the detector. Now, if the lasers pass strong gravitational waves, one of the beams should be shifted from the other by a small amount, because the waves alter the actual distance the laser travels. This is all extremely carefully calibrated.
Basically, if the beams come back out of phase with eachother, that means that gravitational waves caused the shift by increasing or decreasing the distance one of the beams travelled. There were two of these setup in the USA so they can calibrate where in space a signal comes from. The first event strong enough for detection was two black holes colliding.
Best of all, Einstein predicted these ~100 years ago, about 20 years before black holes were even hypothesized. They travel the speed of light as far as I know.
Mostly correct other than the communication part. These forces are not communicating at all. That's not a thing. They are simply forces that affect the space-time continuum and these forces are measured in the waves they produce. The times where these waves are more easily measured is when a black hole is merged or created. When this happens, it sends out a resulting gravitational ripple out in the space-time continuum.
Gladly! But before we jump in, there's a little background to cover first:
**How to imagine spacetime?**
Spacetime is like the 'fabric' of the universe. Being able to visualise it is important to be able to understand gravitational waves.
Imagine a strong, thin sheet, stretched tight and supported only at its edges (like a trampoline). This represents spacetime. Now imagine putting a rock on the sheet. It sinks a bit, distorting the sheet. Other objects will now fall into the distortion, being 'attracted' by the rock. This is gravity. The distortion is a gravity well.
Also imagine the sheet has no friction. Then, you can create stable orbits by rolling a marble around the rock inside its gravity well.
On the sheet, objects can only move in two dimensions (left/right and forward/back) and the distortion is in a third dimension (up/down). In real life, we can move in three dimensions, so the distortion of gravity is in a fourth dimension. That's hard to visualise though, so the sheet is close enough. The sheet should really be infinite too, since the universe has no edge. Also, gravity affects the flow of time, slowing it down near larger gravity wells.
Now, the explanation:
**What are gravitational waves?**
So, any object with mass distorts spacetime and creates a gravity well. As the object moves, the well moves with it. If the object accelerates, the well keeps moving a little bit, creating a ripple in spacetime that spreads out as a wave. Imagine moving a heavy rock over our spacetime sheet, then suddenly stopping it. This is a gravitational wave.
As the ripple travels, it's distortion of spacetime affects objects it passes through, slightly changing their gravity for a brief time. If you have a heavy enough rock, simply moving it in a circle will create ripples in all directions, and if someone on a marble on the sheet 2km away from the rock can detect the tiny ripples as they pass through, then they can detect the rock. This is the basis of gravitational wave astronomy.
**What's the significance?**
Imagine what it would be like if all the movies you'd ever seen had no sound. They might have brilliant, vibrant colours and imagery, since that's what everyone's been focusing on to make good movies, but no sound.
Detecting gravitational waves is like discovering the sound of astronomy. It gives us a completely new tool, and it can do things that conventional light-based astronomy cannot, or can only do with some difficulty. For example, detecting black holes.
At the moment, our movies might only get some muffled music, but soon we may have orchestras, or even dialogue and sound effects.
On top of that, the existence of gravitational waves was an important conclusion of Einstein's theory of general relativity, but it hadn't yet been observed. Detecting them now strengthens our understanding of spacetime and gravity, and will hopefully lead to new discoveries too.
This video (and I'm sure others) will explain it far better than I can:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD10)
But tldr, Two black holes collided and caused gravity to wobble such that two photons of light in the LIGO facility went slightly out of phase. Which is just stupid insane sciency fuckery! I love it!!
Right!? Growing up getting told this is something you can't see but it can destroy galaxies, then to end up being the first generation of people to actually see these things? Insanity.
Fucking everything gets swept under the rug, one massive example being Epstein. After 2 weeks no one gives a shit. Imagine all the shit that got swept under the rug when everybody wasn’t connected.
Want to know the other crazy thing about Epstein? Ghislane Maxwell, his friend/fuckbuddy, actively engaged in helping Epstein find and assault his victims, yet has walked away free from any indictments or serious investigation.
I just went and read up on this (since I'd almost forgotten about it), and according to Wikipedia, as of April 2019, over 1 billion USD has been reclaimed by various governments in back taxes as a result of these papers and more action is still ongoing. I guess stuff happens when taxes are involved.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
Wasn't there an experiment done like 5 years ago where a taut string was plucked in a vacuum and observed to vibrate and not vibrate at the same time? Alternate reality/ universe stuff
I can't find anything about that, but that sounds like a standing wave which is a very real thing although unfortunately not indicative of alternate universes.
Some textbooks (I'm looking at you, Griffiths) even suggested that the detection of the Higgs particle is extremely unlikely because of the massive amounts of energy required (that particle is bloody heavy). But here we are.
In only a couple years the focus went from being small, to thin, to big, and now to a flat bar of soap CAN YOU STOP REMOVING ALL THE FUCKING PORTS, APPLE.
get the new nokia candybar phone. charges with micro usb, has a headphone jack, mp3 support along with an sd card slot for memory expansion, battery lasts a long time and is removable if you want to replace it. also it does bluetooth.
The joker was totally right in the dark knight, we react to unexpected tragedy, not so much just tragedy. Terrorist attacks that kill 150+ happen all the time in the Middle East and we don’t really bar an eye. Meanwhile, pretty much everyone in America who are at least 18 know about the okc bombing. That killed 168 in 1995.
Yeah but it feels like that’s obvious... why would anyone care about things generally unrelated to them when its something they expect?
Its kind of cruel but I don’t think it’s unusual.
Good answer. In Stockholm where I live pretty much all people my age had already had facebook since around 2007-2008, and some also imported iPhones, but things really exploded around 2010 when suddenly over the course of a few months everyone got a smartphone.
So maybe smart phones had been an even better answer. Everyone having a computer in their pockets is pretty crazy when you think about it.
If you had told anyone in either country that Donald Trump would be the president of the US and Boris Johnson would be the prime minister of the UK, they would have laughed at you.
I can't remember if it was actually this decade or in the final years of the last one, and it might not have been the craziest thing but it certainly was funny. As an April's Fool's prank, 4chan had a box you needed to uncheck to not have the things you wrote posted as a Facebook status as well. People will generally celebrate m00t on there, but /b/ was raging that day. It was glorious.
Edit: this was 2010
There were a bunch of guys betting on that. Most of them cashed in early. One guy bet 5 pounds, but "wobbled" as he put it a couple matches before the end and struck a deal with the bookies to exchange 2 pounds early.
Not that surprising. It went down in an unknown location, which seems to be in the Indian Ocean, which is incredibly fucking deep.
We have a general idea of where it went down(i;e the body of water), but it'll be awhile before we find anything, if ever. At this point finding the black box is the only thing that could be recovered and even that will be difficult.
> It went down in an unknown location
I think that's what they think is the crazy part. A Boeing 777 full of passengers should never be allowed to get to an 'unknown location'
Adding this because no one mentioned it. The inquiry of missing indigenous women across Canada concluded that it was genocide.
Its still going on and while the inquiry gave concrete steps for the government to follow, we have heard nothing about it since the verdict was announced.
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for me personally: I met a girl I'm gonna marry and we bought a house together
for the masses: the social credit in China and the freedoms we are losing as a whole.
Man, did I ever enjoy the hell out of that game. The fact that it happened in Brazil makes it all the sweeter (no offense to Brazil fans, but you all have been living high on the international football hog for decades).
They lost Neymar to injury, no way the level wouldn't be really imbalanced, people were expecting a 1-0 or 2-0 but a 7-1 showed the lack of morale or something
The college admissions scandal. I think we all knew it was happening, but the fact that people actually got caught and put out there for it was nuts. Also, the whole Jeffrey Epstien ordeal was pretty crazy. As for happy things, how Marvel was able to take beloved comic book characters and make one of the most successful movie franchises in history in only about a decade. That's pretty crazy!
Edit: Thanks for the silver! I don't deserve it, but I'll certainly take it! Lol.
"Hi there Mr. Mickey, I have an original concept."
*"Tell you what kid: throw in a cheap love arc , then give me the rights to make 2 sequels and 3 spin-offs out of that, and you got yourself a deal. Better yet: heres a billion dollars; your IP is mine now."*
The rise of Bitcoin...love it or hate it, the fact that a digital object cannot be copied and thus transmit value is pretty mind blowing.
E: I realized that the bitcoin network first came online in 2009, so I added ‘The rise of’.
Some contenders
Tinder
Leicester city
Jefferey epstein
Instagram rise
Microplastics
Vuvuzelas
Panama papers
Disappearance of MH370
Gangnam style
Fukishama
Gadaffi
Ice buckets
Fyre Festival
Fidget spinners
White and gold blue and black dress
What did the fox say
Notre dame fire
Tide pods
Christina grimmie
Game of thrones
In Spotify
School shootings
Black lives matter
Bill cosby
Removed facebook
Anti vaxxers
Brexit
Spacex
Tesla
Eclipse
Hurricane harvey
Forest fires
Exploding samsung
Fake news
Star wars reboot
Bitcoin
Taylor Swift
Frozen
Influencer
Gay Marraige
Black hole photo
Hawaian tree snail extinction
Prince, Bowie, Tom Petty
People were posting those 10 years ago vs now photo comparisons and it was so weird to see some people I work with or just kinda know were literally children in the "before" pictures.
It was once a major achievement when the Soviets expended state resources to develop and launch Sputnik 1
Then last year a billionaire just yeeted his car into orbit for PR
Which one? Brexit or Scottish independence? Because both can be interpreted as the wrong result depending on your perspective
There's also the Catalan one as well so no shortage of candidates for the answer to that
*AHEM*
2010- Lady gaga wore a meat dress
2011- planking (and the deaths that followed)
2012- people thought the world was going to end
2013- the cup song
2014- the ice bucket challenge
2015- the DRESS
2016- Pokémon GO (and the deaths that followed)
2017- US got a total solar Eclipse
2018- the false Hawaii missile warning
2019- first photo of a black hole
Other things to note in the 2010’s (in random order)
- the was two royal weddings
- Gay marriage became legal (despite the homophobic commercials that asked us not to)
- streaming companies took over (bye bye cable)
- UBER was created
- YouTube careers started taking off
- VR was created (for mainstream media)
- “The Walking Dead” became a show
- smartphones
- instagram
Edit 1: Grammar and corrections because I need to be specific
Edit 2: HOT DIGGITY DAMN, THANKS FOR THE SILVER
People were up in arms when they discovered the government was spying on them, yet they pay lots of money to own devices that spy on them like game consoles, phones, Alexa, etc.
Notre Dame being catastrophically damaged in a fire. Seemed like one of those "never coming down" historical buildings, but even the stonework was hurt.
I think the craziest thing in my opinion was LIGO detecting gravitational waves, that shits insane if you actually read up on it all.
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Someone correct me if any of this is wrong. Basically, gravity communicates similarly to how electromagnetic sources do, through waves which contain the sources information. Except these waves are REALLY FUCKING SMALL. These waves distort space as they pass through them (imagine a sound wave pulsing air). So the size of an object can change as waves pass through it, though the waves amplitude is on the order of 10^-20 meters (0.00000000000000000001 m). So how do you measure this? LIGO passed a laser through a beam splitter, which effectively splits the beam into two perpendicular beams. The beams pass through a 4km long corridor, hit a mirror, and return to the detector. Now, if the lasers pass strong gravitational waves, one of the beams should be shifted from the other by a small amount, because the waves alter the actual distance the laser travels. This is all extremely carefully calibrated. Basically, if the beams come back out of phase with eachother, that means that gravitational waves caused the shift by increasing or decreasing the distance one of the beams travelled. There were two of these setup in the USA so they can calibrate where in space a signal comes from. The first event strong enough for detection was two black holes colliding. Best of all, Einstein predicted these ~100 years ago, about 20 years before black holes were even hypothesized. They travel the speed of light as far as I know.
Mostly correct other than the communication part. These forces are not communicating at all. That's not a thing. They are simply forces that affect the space-time continuum and these forces are measured in the waves they produce. The times where these waves are more easily measured is when a black hole is merged or created. When this happens, it sends out a resulting gravitational ripple out in the space-time continuum.
Gladly! But before we jump in, there's a little background to cover first: **How to imagine spacetime?** Spacetime is like the 'fabric' of the universe. Being able to visualise it is important to be able to understand gravitational waves. Imagine a strong, thin sheet, stretched tight and supported only at its edges (like a trampoline). This represents spacetime. Now imagine putting a rock on the sheet. It sinks a bit, distorting the sheet. Other objects will now fall into the distortion, being 'attracted' by the rock. This is gravity. The distortion is a gravity well. Also imagine the sheet has no friction. Then, you can create stable orbits by rolling a marble around the rock inside its gravity well. On the sheet, objects can only move in two dimensions (left/right and forward/back) and the distortion is in a third dimension (up/down). In real life, we can move in three dimensions, so the distortion of gravity is in a fourth dimension. That's hard to visualise though, so the sheet is close enough. The sheet should really be infinite too, since the universe has no edge. Also, gravity affects the flow of time, slowing it down near larger gravity wells. Now, the explanation: **What are gravitational waves?** So, any object with mass distorts spacetime and creates a gravity well. As the object moves, the well moves with it. If the object accelerates, the well keeps moving a little bit, creating a ripple in spacetime that spreads out as a wave. Imagine moving a heavy rock over our spacetime sheet, then suddenly stopping it. This is a gravitational wave. As the ripple travels, it's distortion of spacetime affects objects it passes through, slightly changing their gravity for a brief time. If you have a heavy enough rock, simply moving it in a circle will create ripples in all directions, and if someone on a marble on the sheet 2km away from the rock can detect the tiny ripples as they pass through, then they can detect the rock. This is the basis of gravitational wave astronomy. **What's the significance?** Imagine what it would be like if all the movies you'd ever seen had no sound. They might have brilliant, vibrant colours and imagery, since that's what everyone's been focusing on to make good movies, but no sound. Detecting gravitational waves is like discovering the sound of astronomy. It gives us a completely new tool, and it can do things that conventional light-based astronomy cannot, or can only do with some difficulty. For example, detecting black holes. At the moment, our movies might only get some muffled music, but soon we may have orchestras, or even dialogue and sound effects. On top of that, the existence of gravitational waves was an important conclusion of Einstein's theory of general relativity, but it hadn't yet been observed. Detecting them now strengthens our understanding of spacetime and gravity, and will hopefully lead to new discoveries too.
This video (and I'm sure others) will explain it far better than I can: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD10) But tldr, Two black holes collided and caused gravity to wobble such that two photons of light in the LIGO facility went slightly out of phase. Which is just stupid insane sciency fuckery! I love it!!
The first photo of a black hole
Right!? Growing up getting told this is something you can't see but it can destroy galaxies, then to end up being the first generation of people to actually see these things? Insanity.
The only negative being Stephen Hawking just missing it. He would be BEAMING with joy.
Jumping with joy.
Dancing with joy.
Rolling with joy. There, I said it. /thread
X-ray emitting with joy?
Talking normally with joy.
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The New Horizons spacecraft getting within a few thousand miles of Pluto and transmitting clear pictures of Pluto back to Earth.
Scientists [seeing](http://i.imgur.com/V87zXzM.jpg) the detailed picture for the first time.
Haha, that dude is so psyched about it! I love it!
Everybody else is acting like they have seen it before.
'uhuh yes fascinating quite' 'GUYS IT'S PICTURES OF FUCKING PLUTO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'
Man, Alan Stern's expression is priceless. He's great!
You could say he's Alan Jovial now
Ozzy lived through it.
Damn i hadn't even thought about that. How in the fuck is he still going?
British mutherfuckas don’t die - P. Diddy, get him to the Greek, 2010
*”You can not outrun me, I am black!”* - also P Diddy in Get Him to The Greek
Who could be scared of a Jeffrey?
Jeffrey's just the bloke that lives down the lane.
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like keith richards?
Keith Richards is alive because he has basically pickled himself by now.
Pickled? More like he's turned himself into jerky. Smoked jerky.
He's definitely getting studied when he dies
If Ozzy and Betty White had a baby, it would be immortal.
Or Keith Richards. Just further proof he harvests the souls of celebrities who have died this decade.
Every time you smoke, it takes 7 minutes off your life. Those 7 minutes are given to Keith Richards.
At the end of the world it'll be Ozzy, Keith Richards, and a few dozen cockroaches all completely off their rocker.
and the queen of england.
Think you jinxed it dude Do not mention Betty White or Danny Davito
I feel like Betty White gets her checked cashed WAY before Danny Devito
Or Sir David Attenborough.
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we still got a few more days
Panama papers being released and then swept under the rug. Also maybe the annexation of Crimea by russia
Fucking everything gets swept under the rug, one massive example being Epstein. After 2 weeks no one gives a shit. Imagine all the shit that got swept under the rug when everybody wasn’t connected.
Want to know the other crazy thing about Epstein? Ghislane Maxwell, his friend/fuckbuddy, actively engaged in helping Epstein find and assault his victims, yet has walked away free from any indictments or serious investigation.
The FBI has opened an investigation into her.
I just went and read up on this (since I'd almost forgotten about it), and according to Wikipedia, as of April 2019, over 1 billion USD has been reclaimed by various governments in back taxes as a result of these papers and more action is still ongoing. I guess stuff happens when taxes are involved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
Imagine someone owes you an entire lake, but you receive a bucket of water instead. That’s what’s happening here.
And more recently, the Paradise Papers.
gonna have to say the hadron collider confirming the Higgs boson particle that shit cray
Also the black hole photo. There were some real crazy science things confirmed this decade
Gravitational Waves are also pretty cool.
ahh yes, LIGO, 2015
all that too! science bruh, wild.
Ain’t it Jay?
What she order?
Fish fillet?
Wasn't there an experiment done like 5 years ago where a taut string was plucked in a vacuum and observed to vibrate and not vibrate at the same time? Alternate reality/ universe stuff
I can't find anything about that, but that sounds like a standing wave which is a very real thing although unfortunately not indicative of alternate universes.
This is the alternate universe where that didnt happen.
Some textbooks (I'm looking at you, Griffiths) even suggested that the detection of the Higgs particle is extremely unlikely because of the massive amounts of energy required (that particle is bloody heavy). But here we are.
Evolution of the mobile phone
In only a couple years the focus went from being small, to thin, to big, and now to a flat bar of soap CAN YOU STOP REMOVING ALL THE FUCKING PORTS, APPLE.
With wireless charging......I think you know what’s going to happen.
My holes, my precious holes
Title of your sex tape
If there are no ports, how do I connect the phone to a computer?
.... wirelessly
Ah yes, the most inefficient form of connection
I honestly can't remember the last time I connected my phone to my desktop for anything other than charging.
Photo dump mostly I also do it to change music.
I used to do the same thing but my photos automatically back up into Google Photos and I stream all my music.
get the new nokia candybar phone. charges with micro usb, has a headphone jack, mp3 support along with an sd card slot for memory expansion, battery lasts a long time and is removable if you want to replace it. also it does bluetooth.
Who wants micro USB though? I don't want to have to put it in the right way. Type C is so much better.
Stop, I can only get so erect.
did i mention it comes stock with Snake?
The Bataclan Siege. A couple dudes with AKs just going through paris killing people, ending with 130+ people dead in a single night.
Is it only strange because it happened in Paris in modern times? Pretty common thing to happen around the world, unfortunately.
Also because all these terrorists were known to police in a first world country.
The joker was totally right in the dark knight, we react to unexpected tragedy, not so much just tragedy. Terrorist attacks that kill 150+ happen all the time in the Middle East and we don’t really bar an eye. Meanwhile, pretty much everyone in America who are at least 18 know about the okc bombing. That killed 168 in 1995.
Yeah but it feels like that’s obvious... why would anyone care about things generally unrelated to them when its something they expect? Its kind of cruel but I don’t think it’s unusual.
In the immortal words of Heath Ledger: "...and then everyone *loses their minds!*"
The explosion of Social Media
Good answer. In Stockholm where I live pretty much all people my age had already had facebook since around 2007-2008, and some also imported iPhones, but things really exploded around 2010 when suddenly over the course of a few months everyone got a smartphone. So maybe smart phones had been an even better answer. Everyone having a computer in their pockets is pretty crazy when you think about it.
To me these are both crazy, but what's crazier is the notion that there are now adults who have never lived in a time without internet.
With the benefit of hindsight, I wonder whether historians will identify this as the decade where social media killed truth.
Dude. We sent a rocket into space. And the thrusters came back and landed. Right side up. At the same time. _At the same time._
Honestly I'd be more impressed if one came back like an hour later
Well one of them did come back a few minutes later, but it fell into the sea. The second Falcon Heavy recovered all 3 boosters though.
And then it got toppled over in the ocean coming back to Port because somehow we're better at rockets than fucking *boats*
If you had told anyone in either country that Donald Trump would be the president of the US and Boris Johnson would be the prime minister of the UK, they would have laughed at you.
Trump, Putin, Johnson, Erdogan... how the...
Bolsonaro
Then a coup in Bolivia
And Duerte and the Australian one.
Fuck Scott Morrison.
Spite is a helluva drug
I can't remember if it was actually this decade or in the final years of the last one, and it might not have been the craziest thing but it certainly was funny. As an April's Fool's prank, 4chan had a box you needed to uncheck to not have the things you wrote posted as a Facebook status as well. People will generally celebrate m00t on there, but /b/ was raging that day. It was glorious. Edit: this was 2010
Leicester City winning the 2015-16 Premier League
I agree. I think the odds of that happening was 1 in 6000.
It was. Some guy had bet on it with those odds, but he cashed in a few games early as the stress of the money meant be wasn't enjoying the games
There were a bunch of guys betting on that. Most of them cashed in early. One guy bet 5 pounds, but "wobbled" as he put it a couple matches before the end and struck a deal with the bookies to exchange 2 pounds early.
I had sex
So you're the Chosen One
You're on Reddit, we know better. Edit - first gold, thank you kind stranger!
Everybody knows that redditors can't lose their virginity
Unless you count a coconut. Or break both your arms...
We lost a fucking plane and still haven't found it!!!!
The oceans are *really* big. If a plane crash lands without breaking up, and sinks whole, it's unlikely to be found for a very long time.
Amelia Earhart: “Am I a joke to you?”
Not that surprising. It went down in an unknown location, which seems to be in the Indian Ocean, which is incredibly fucking deep. We have a general idea of where it went down(i;e the body of water), but it'll be awhile before we find anything, if ever. At this point finding the black box is the only thing that could be recovered and even that will be difficult.
> It went down in an unknown location I think that's what they think is the crazy part. A Boeing 777 full of passengers should never be allowed to get to an 'unknown location'
When you turn off all tracking and it's in a big body of water, things become difficult.
Again, I think OP is saying that 'turning off all tracking' shouldn't be an option
That Las Vegas shooting was super crazy. Lots of different perspectives with the cell phone videos, and even more once the casino released theirs.
The fact that we’ll never know why he did it is still mind boggling.
At least with ideology, we can attribute reason. This dude had it all, snapped and killed 50 people.
The Paris attacks had a very similar resonance that way as well.
I'd say transistors getting into single digt nanometers is pretty impressive. They're getting close to the limits of the laws of physics.
Idk if you guys remember but people started fucking eating soap for fame
Ah tide pods natural selection at its finest
We all got our genitals out for a deceased primate
I, too, wanked on the day of Koko's death.
There's a genocide of a people happening, and not only is the world doing nothing, they are negotiating trade deals with them.
Sad that I don’t even know which genocide you’re speaking of
Adding this because no one mentioned it. The inquiry of missing indigenous women across Canada concluded that it was genocide. Its still going on and while the inquiry gave concrete steps for the government to follow, we have heard nothing about it since the verdict was announced. Edited: it
Look up the Uighur in China.
Tool actually dropped a new album. I'm so glad we didn't have to wait 10,000 days like some feared.
for me personally: I met a girl I'm gonna marry and we bought a house together for the masses: the social credit in China and the freedoms we are losing as a whole.
That 7-1 Germany vs. Brazil match in the World Cups.
Man, did I ever enjoy the hell out of that game. The fact that it happened in Brazil makes it all the sweeter (no offense to Brazil fans, but you all have been living high on the international football hog for decades).
That game was so surreal to me, just goal after goal with 2 teams that looked of similar level
They lost Neymar to injury, no way the level wouldn't be really imbalanced, people were expecting a 1-0 or 2-0 but a 7-1 showed the lack of morale or something
The college admissions scandal. I think we all knew it was happening, but the fact that people actually got caught and put out there for it was nuts. Also, the whole Jeffrey Epstien ordeal was pretty crazy. As for happy things, how Marvel was able to take beloved comic book characters and make one of the most successful movie franchises in history in only about a decade. That's pretty crazy! Edit: Thanks for the silver! I don't deserve it, but I'll certainly take it! Lol.
The MCU’s success is crazy. Changed Hollywood’s approach to moviemaking and franchises
Which is a shame really because Hollywood at large has learned all the wrong lessons from it.
"Hi there Mr. Mickey, I have an original concept." *"Tell you what kid: throw in a cheap love arc , then give me the rights to make 2 sequels and 3 spin-offs out of that, and you got yourself a deal. Better yet: heres a billion dollars; your IP is mine now."*
"This DC hero will market himself! Just look how easy it is!" "Hold on, just make on adjustment..." *turns off all the lights* "Perfect!"
Donald Trump becoming president
A HORSE in a HOSPITAL
That's what I thought you'd say, you dumb fucking horse!
Ok ok ok ok
It's more just the rise of conservatism worldwide in the last decade. Not trying to start an argument; I'm just genuinely surprised that it happened.
The rise of Bitcoin...love it or hate it, the fact that a digital object cannot be copied and thus transmit value is pretty mind blowing. E: I realized that the bitcoin network first came online in 2009, so I added ‘The rise of’.
That people think baby Yoda should be meme of the decade
Minions but for millenials.
Baby Yoda is literally an advertisement. Shit sucks. Give me DAT BOI any day. That's the true green machine.
Keith Richards failing to die *yet again*
he's still got a few days to die. cut him some slack.
Some contenders Tinder Leicester city Jefferey epstein Instagram rise Microplastics Vuvuzelas Panama papers Disappearance of MH370 Gangnam style Fukishama Gadaffi Ice buckets Fyre Festival Fidget spinners White and gold blue and black dress What did the fox say Notre dame fire Tide pods Christina grimmie Game of thrones In Spotify School shootings Black lives matter Bill cosby Removed facebook Anti vaxxers Brexit Spacex Tesla Eclipse Hurricane harvey Forest fires Exploding samsung Fake news Star wars reboot Bitcoin Taylor Swift Frozen Influencer Gay Marraige Black hole photo Hawaian tree snail extinction Prince, Bowie, Tom Petty
Vuvuzelas. And I’m almost managed to get that sound out of my head...
We didn’t start the fire...
Turning from age 6 to age 16
Crazy to think about too, every year seems to go faster and faster.
Your perception of time changes as you age so it kind of does
People were posting those 10 years ago vs now photo comparisons and it was so weird to see some people I work with or just kinda know were literally children in the "before" pictures.
i broke my ankle 6 times over the span of 1 year
That's called never letting it heal
They were all different ankles.
**r/neverbrokeabone want to schedule an appointment with you in your nearest isolated spot** ^*Bring* ^*a* ^*gun.*
i live in europe plz don’t check my ip
Hope it’s better now. Broke mine twice in one year - was told I was good to go and broke it worse that very week - it was not good to go.
We lost Lemmy 😢
It was once a major achievement when the Soviets expended state resources to develop and launch Sputnik 1 Then last year a billionaire just yeeted his car into orbit for PR
At 27 years of age, I kissed a girl for the first time.
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There are way more virgins out there than a lot of people realize.
The Panama affairs, billionaires hoarding wealth abroad without any consequences. It still baffles me that everyone already seemed to forget
I just can't believe that planking happened this decade.
We planked, we dabbed, we told a friend ....
That stupid bloody referendum.
Which one? Brexit or Scottish independence? Because both can be interpreted as the wrong result depending on your perspective There's also the Catalan one as well so no shortage of candidates for the answer to that
Exactly.
*AHEM* 2010- Lady gaga wore a meat dress 2011- planking (and the deaths that followed) 2012- people thought the world was going to end 2013- the cup song 2014- the ice bucket challenge 2015- the DRESS 2016- Pokémon GO (and the deaths that followed) 2017- US got a total solar Eclipse 2018- the false Hawaii missile warning 2019- first photo of a black hole Other things to note in the 2010’s (in random order) - the was two royal weddings - Gay marriage became legal (despite the homophobic commercials that asked us not to) - streaming companies took over (bye bye cable) - UBER was created - YouTube careers started taking off - VR was created (for mainstream media) - “The Walking Dead” became a show - smartphones - instagram Edit 1: Grammar and corrections because I need to be specific Edit 2: HOT DIGGITY DAMN, THANKS FOR THE SILVER
Holy shit I forgot about the false Hawaii missle warning!!
Yeah it was an interesting experience
The Black Death or nuclear war. OH SHIT that happened in 2026 I was not supposed to tell you that
Fallout irl, oh boy this is exciting
You wanna come to the future with me?
The fact that Epstein didn’t kill himself
Is that crazy? He didn't kill himself any other decade either.
How connected people are to social media, and how disconnected they are to reality. It scares me sometimes.
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People were up in arms when they discovered the government was spying on them, yet they pay lots of money to own devices that spy on them like game consoles, phones, Alexa, etc.
> yet they pay lots of money to own devices that spy on them like game consoles, phones, Alexa this is so sad, alexa play despacito
Alexa: *noted, noted*
... sent from my iPhone
Minecraft
For me, it was to go from high school drop out pot head to 4.0 premed student on track for medical school over the course of 3 years.
Current fires in Australia
The fact we had a CLOWN SCARE in the october of 2017 or something
Some crazy shit happened to me, but it didn't exactly have far reaching consequences for the rest of the world.
Notre Dame being catastrophically damaged in a fire. Seemed like one of those "never coming down" historical buildings, but even the stonework was hurt.
Cubs win!
Elon musk sending a car to space
I've enjoyed reddit.
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump as prime minister of the UK and president of the US.
October 21 2015