Pele's Hair
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Not too much more on Wikipedia except that it occurs naturally worldwide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele%27s_hair
The Navajo, for example.
Civilization "started" pretty soon right after the last ice age - my theory is that's when it actually restarted after earlier attempts at civilization were washed away.
This is because there's always one Age before the current one, the Second Age, the Age of Legends, that is remembered as distorted legends of the truth of what happened.
And then there's the Age before the Age of Legends, the First Age, which is the remnants of the legends the people in the Second Age told about what happened before them, which have now fade to myth that is almost unrecognizable from anything that happened in truth.
Atlantis and the Garden of Eden would be examples of the latter -- stories that people in our distant past told about their distant past.
He's often maligned by various scientists, but repeatedly says he's just a journalist chasing pieces of a puzzle about what was forgotten back then with all the ice age transition climate changes.
There are some interesting concepts in milder religions like Buddhism or Shinto, who are less about punishment and more about peace and harmony.
When the Gospels were written, the known world was fascinated and captivated with what was being preached. Because it was familiar, logical, and somewhat inevitable to them. To Jews it was revolutionary, and to Greeks it was transcendent.
The inspired authors of the New Testament tugged on every heart string, checked every name, and copied every dank meme that mattered. This stuff is fulfillment of every prophecy. Of course it's cliché; that's a good thing!
I've always thought it was funny when people say then don't need religion to know morality-- well yes that's true because the morality of the Abrahamic faiths has become the morality of our times(broad strokes ways). People take for granted that we don't follow the moral rules of Carthage, or ancient Greece. Or else we'd allow child sacrifice in the case of Carthage, or pederasty in the case of Greece.
> They are thin glass fibers known as Pele's hair, named after the volcanic deity Pele.
A relative of mine had one that involved some kind of Bunsen burner, and what we would, today consider a kiddie glass blowing kit. He used to try to make ever longer, and thinner glass strings similar to this.
There was also another one that wasn't glass, but some kind of reactive plasticy chemical that you could similarly blow into spheres, or stretch into strands, and would eventually harden into a glass-like substance that looked like it was tye-died. I don't know what it was called, but I can still remember the chemical smell very well.
So many wonderful things of youth that are now forbidden for our safety.
Back then, some toys not only had lead paint, they were literally made of lead! There were capsules that "walked" down an incline. They were easy to open, and inside they had a lead ball lubricated by metallic dust (which I hope wasn't lead because it stuck everywhere). Crazy to think that was normal.
Some still is. Lookup reports on cheap toys from China that aren’t associated with a real brand.
And not just toys. Many cheap items like ceramic ware has detectable lead in it today. This stuff gets through in the global market, even at mainstream stores that source and brand but don’t oversee manufacturing.
No idea what happened to it, I’m sure it’s heavily polluting a landfill somewhere.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5001828/ Actually eye opening account of a child swallowing mercury and was just fine.
I found lots of articles touting that mercury can vaporize at room temperature and then be absorbed through the lungs but none of them had details of how much exposure this would cause.
I definitely played with glass wool insulation too. How could we not?
And, regardless, you can still buy glass, torches, and tubes of plastic.
> While fragile and brittle, they are also sharp. As tiny pieces of glass, they can become lodged in human skin and much worse, eyes. Caution around the fibers is necessary to avoid injury from the slivers.
https://www.sanded.com.au/blogs/news/interesting-facts-about...
(The island is referred to colloquially as 'The Big Island' - it's also quite sparse)
However, this was not disappointing and is really neat what mother nature is making