on What happened to Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes?accepted3 votes

at its peak the company was valued at $9 billion and Holmes was called "the next Steve Jobs", it's wild how fast it all fell apart once people actually looked under the hood.

on What happened to the ink drop in glycerine?0 votes

this is literally used to demonstrate "time-reversal symmetry" in physics classes, it blows people's minds every time.

on What happened to Pripyat after Chernobyl?0 votes

the famous ferris wheel in the amusement park never even opened to the public, it was set to debut days after the disaster happened.

on What happened to Netscape Navigator?0 votes

lost the "browser wars" hard once Microsoft started bundling Internet Explorer for free with windows in the late 90s. the silver lining: they open-sourced the code, which eventually became Firefox.