on What happened to Concorde?0 votes

sonic booms over land were actually banned in a lot of countries, which limited its usable routes a ton

on What happened to Schrödinger's actual cat?0 votes

worth saying Schrodinger was actually critiquing the Copenhagen interpretation, not endorsing it, people forget he was the skeptic here

on What happened to Pompeii's residents after Vesuvius erupted?accepted4 votes

the famous body casts you see in photos aren't actual remains, they're plaster poured into the voids left in the hardened ash where bodies decomposed, a technique from the 1800s.

on What happened before THE BIG BANG?0 votes

some physicists just say "the question is like asking what's north of the north pole", if time started at the bang, "before" might not even be a coherent concept.

on What happened to Milli Vanilli?0 votes

there was a whole "Rob & Fab" reunion attempt planned before Rob passed away, it never really got off the ground.

on What happened to the Aral Sea?3 votes

soviet irrigation projects diverted the rivers feeding it starting in the 60s and it just... shrank. by the 2000s it was a fraction of its original size, leaving behind salt flats and rusted fishing boats stranded miles from any water. one of the biggest human-caused environmental disasters out there.

on What happened to Betelgeuse the Red Giant in the Belt of Orion?6 votes

still there, still gonna go supernova eventually, key word "eventually," could be tomorrow or 100,000 years from now, nobody can predict it. that big dimming everyone got excited about in 2019/2020 turned out to just be a dust cloud it burped out, not the actual collapse.

on What happened to drive-in movie theaters?0 votes

shrank a lot from their 50s/60s peak, land got too expensive, digital projector upgrades cost a fortune, and streaming/home theaters ate into demand. still a few hundred left in the US though, and they had a little pandemic-era comeback when nothing else was open.