{"id":508,"date":"2020-08-10T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=508"},"modified":"2020-08-10T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:29:57","slug":"thanks-veritasium-for-my-wikipedia-hole-it-dug-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2020\/08\/10\/thanks-veritasium-for-my-wikipedia-hole-it-dug-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Veritasium for my wikipedia hole it dug me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Usually, I get into these Wikipedia holes that I call “wikipaths”, where one article leads to the next article, and as I approach the end I wonder “How did I get there?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here it goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

  1. It started with a Youtube video by Veritasium called “Why Einstein Thought Nuclear Weapons Impossible” [link<\/a>] The one thought that crossed my mind while watching this was “Who was the pilot that dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan?”…<\/li>
  2. A basic google search led to “Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.”, and then we work our way into this wikipath [link<\/a>]<\/li>
  3. In the third paragram it mentions what he did after the war: “After the war, he participated in the\u00a0Operation Crossroads<\/a>\u00a0nuclear weapon<\/a>\u00a0tests at\u00a0Bikini Atoll<\/a>\u00a0in mid-1946,”, and thus we lead on to Bikini Atoll<\/li>
  4. Bikini Atoll<\/a> was a HUGE READ, including the islands, the civilization, and the fact that the indigenous people only cared about the land until the US came in and blew shit up. Afterward, I read how they used tourism to try to bring people to the islands until their only plane crapped out [link]<\/li>
  5. This also led to a film, “Mondo Cane” [link<\/a>], and a reference to Bikini Atoll in that film. When I read about “Mondo Cane” I thought to myself “I have to have this movie”, so I found a torrent [magnet<\/a>] that contains not only that 1962 movie, but 1963, 1966, 1971, and the 2003 movies as well.<\/li>
  6. This also led to the first person who modeled the first Bikini, a lovely Micheline Bernardini [link<\/a>], who not only is still alive but modeled the same bikini 40 years her elder in 1986. [link<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    All in all I was really impressed with being able to backtrack this one. It wasn’t that huge of a path, but it was definitely a deep dive into a wealth of knowledge that I’m glad I went through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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