The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell
There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.
It’s called the the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, a really weird and mysterious place. The walls contain hundreds of animals—like the typical Paleolithic horses and bisons—but some of them are not supposed to be there, like lions, panthers, rhinos and hyenas.
A few are not even supposed to exist, like weird butterflyish animals or chimerical figures half bison half woman. These may be linked to the hallucinations. The trip is such that some archeologists think that it had a ritual nature, with people transcending into a new state as they descended into the final room.
In fact, the paintings themselves are of such sophistication—some even have three-dimensional relief—that is hard to believe they were made back then. However, radiocarbon dating shows that these paintings are indeed prehistoric: A group was made around 27,000-26,000 years ago and the other at 32,000-30,000 years ago.
I really shouldn’t find some of these as funny as I do.
Oh no
Jack was employed into service for the East India Trading Company and was given command of the Wicked Wench. However, after he set free a cargo of slaves, his employer, Cutler Beckett, had Jack branded as a pirate and the Wench set aflame and sunk. After failing to rescue the Wench, Sparrow struck a bargain with the ghostly captain of the Flying Dutchman, Davy Jones, to resurrect his beloved vessel. Jones returned the ship to Jack in near perfect condition except for the permanently charred hull. This prompted Jack to rename her the Black Pearl.
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Jack Sparrow just got way cooler.
BABE
Yo, this is why Norrington said he’s the “worst pirate I’ve ever heard of,” and then Jack followed it up with, “But you have heard of me.”
Because Jack was branded a Pirate because he freed people rather than stealing anything. So Norrington, with his sense of duty, knows that Jack has been branded a criminal for actively not being a terrible human being. Norrington is torn between his duty as a naval officer and knowing that Jack is right.
He freed exactly 100 people, that’s why his debt to Jones was 100 souls. Davy has a sick sense of irony after all. Jack freed 100 souls and as a consequence his ship got sunk. Now his ship has been raised and as a consequence, he has to enslave 100 souls. This explains his reluctance to actually pay back the debt.
“People aren’t cargo, mate.”
Jack, I love you.
remember when this thing was number #1 in the uk charts.
WE DON’T TALK ABOUT THAT
IT WAS HERE IN AMERICA TOO OMFG I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST US
AUSTRALIA TOO I DON’T THINK ANYONE ESCAPED
IT WAS EVERYWHERE
IT WAS EVEN IN CANADA
It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn’t make sense.
the only flash in homestuck that made me sob like actual tears streaming down my face
You are not their LEADER, you are their FRIEND.
There is a BIG DIFFERENCE!
made fully rebloggable for anon. Seriously, I think a lot of people need to realise that gender equality means Men and Women are treat exactly the same and you can’t solve discrimination against women by introducing discrimination against men
A M E N
Except it isn’t discrimination against men, it’s a limited arena where women are actually allowed to let off some steam for once. Literally any post you see from a woman claiming to “discriminate” against a man is just a woman responding to the amount of utter bullshit men put us through.
Do you like the way you’re treated on Tumblr? No? Think about what we have to deal with *every day* in the real world.
This is by far the most stupid ass comment on my post to date.
- You completely missed the point about “You don’t solve discrimination by causing more discrimination” well done, u cant read
- I have never ever sexually harassed or in any way discriminated against a woman so why should I be held responsible and suffer for something I didn’t do?
- Are you actually serious?? You’re telling me that if I get sexually harassed on here is totally fine because “women need to let off steam” you are so ignorant it hurts. Sometimes men get a bit frustrated by women, sometimes men need to let off steam, that doesn’t make it ok to go up to a woman and describe in detail how I’d like to have sex with her, which is something I’ve had on here. Just because its women doing the harassing doesn’t make it anymore serious or make me feel any less degraded by it. I am so tired of this shit.
Congratulations to tumblr user ianto-motherfucking-jones for coMPLEATLY MISSING THE GODDAMN POINT
