Fallout conspiracy theory: Most of the skeletons in funny poses were placed like that by bored wastelanders long after the war.

I'd like to think it's a collaborative process. One wanderer puts the skeleton on an old beach chair. Later, another wanderer sees it, chuckles, and gives the skeleton a sunhat. Another one gives it a martini glass with an umbrella. And so on.

Tbh could 100% see this developing as a wasteland folk tradition to respect the dead who their loved ones never got to bury. Long journies that never came home, so we comfort the nameless dead by sitting them upright to be remembered. Decorated, appreciated, spoken to by lonely travelers while they donate a scarf, or a vest, or a threadbare blanket to the unknown soul.

Can also see whatever region it started in having a whole philosphy about remembering those before to learn from their mistakes, and how laughter is the best tool to open a mind to learning. If we can laugh at the dead, we can understand how rediculous it is to Cease. Suddenly or slowly, we laugh cause We Felt That. And now the bones are no longer revolting, they can be studied. Basically acitvely squashing the Corpse Taboo a lot of human cultures develop as a foundational principal of said culture.

And what one group does is observed by others. Sometimes mimicked, sometimes even taught to visitors... but in time, observers get it wrong, different regions didn't get to ask those who started the practice and had to ask themselves; why do we set up dry bones like they're still people? And answer it to their own satisfaction.

... and if they're the Assumptive and Loudmouth sort, start proclaiming their answer to others at every oppertunity. Irreguardless of correction.

And that is how culture drifts from place to place, different localities having different views on the practice and their own particularities on what's okay or not okay to do with bones.

@copy-claim is this anything idk i dont paly fallout

its a really cool and intriguing concept. i could absolutely see this as canon and i’m gonna believe as such now.

I am so honored by the number of folks who have said "Yeah I'm gonna take this with me" or "Yep I Believe This Now" 💚💚💚 when I shared the concept with my brother, he told me he wants a set of gas station sunglasses permanetly glued to his skull. Alien green, ideally

the beatles may be commies, but i love this song!

Guilty as charged, Mr nixion!

u fool! u weren't part of this song. u were so mopey about this song allegedly being "cringe" that u came up with an excuse not to record on this song.

YOU FAILED TO RECOGNIZE @paul-mccartney-real'S TRUE GENIUS!!!!

Mister president I am also a communist

NYAAAAAAAAA!!!!

fuck you

fixed it for u <3

horse divorce

The masculine connotation of a bow tie and the feminine connotation of a bow on the top of the head implies a nonbinary bow style placed directly over the nose

Correct!!!!!!

reverse gatekeeping. I am on my knees begging people to engage with the source material

When you’re on your way home from the club but one of you almost died

this is one of the most iconic posts on this web site. to me

"Wait, humans have culture? Oh, sorry, no, I was just taken aback a bit. I don't mean to insult your species, you just all seem so constantly preoccupied with your warfare and mating rituals that it hadn't occurred to me that you would have time for the arts."

"Oh, no, we have plenty of art. Visual arts, sculpture, music, storytelling... And their combinations in all sorts of way. I actually play an instrument myself, and one of my favourite songs is based on an old folk tale. Would you like to hear it?"

"Absolutely! I was already astonished to only hear that human art exists at all, not to imagine that I could witness it!"

"Alright. So this is a song about a man who starts a war against his brother because they both want the same woman."

foolproof plan

I showed this to a family member that works at NASA. Honestly terrified.

Just to be An Explainer Guy, the mechanism for making a nuclear bomb explode is genuinely just putting the two halves together. The reaction through the material goes up by a factor of about 2.5 every "shake", which is about 10 nanoseconds. Depends on how wide the core is.

So the initial reaction is 200 MeV, or about 1/30th of a nJ, but then 10 nanoseconds later, it's 1/10, then 1/3, then 1, 3, 9, 27...

If the core could just stay together for a full fucking second, the last reaction would give off 3^100,000,000 power more energy than the initial. That's like, (I think?) a 10^47,712,125 multiplier. I cannot emphasize how stupidly large that number is. That is a googolplex, times a googolplex, times a googolplex, times 10^50. I am too lazy to put that kind of number into physical terms, but it would not surprise me if it was trillions of times bigger than the big bang.

But real life has limitations. First, you know, to have a supercritical reaction go on for 1 second would take an absolutely ludicrous amount of uranium, but outside of that kind of bullshit, there's just. Like. It's trying to explode apart very quickly. And we can hold it together shockingly well for a bit, but it really wants to explode apart, and once it explodes apart the nuclear reaction stops. Those two halves must be touching for the magic to keep happening.

There are huge rewards for keeping the core together just a smidge longer. Every ten nanoseconds gives off triple the power of the previous ten, so they're quite motivated. But! Fuck! Is it hard to keep a nuclear explosion small! The "easy" method bombs used to use was to like, fire one half of the core at the other half. Like with a cannon. A cannon inside the bomb. But that just couldn't keep the reaction going long enough, so the better method was detonating a bunch of very precisely timed plastic explosives all around the core, so that the blast waves would squinch it together just a bit longer and that worked out pretty good. Multistage bombs use alternating nuclear blasts to squinch the next blast together, and that works out pretty good because damn near the only thing that can cancel out a nuclear blast for any amount of time is another nuclear blast, to say nothing of how fusion works with all of this.

It's nifty is what I'm saying. I think it's neat.

Wait I fucked up my exponent math. Googol times googol times googol times 10^50 is just 10^350

This is like. A googol, raised to the power of a googol to the googoleth power, raised to the 50th power. Like

((((10^100)^(10^100))^10^100)^50)

It’s a batshit number, is the point.