• Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    both those things used to be my childhood obsessions.

    then i made quicksand in my yard with a hose and nothing sank in it but it was cool how it instantly hardened when the hose turned off. little green army men survived.

    and i was dragged on my one and only cruise straight through the triangle and most that happened as a cool storm where i got to sit in the huge porthole as it repeatedly was lashed with waves. i survived.

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      8 months ago

      I envy you. I have no stories to share of violent battles and treacherous sea voyages. But I did watch a ton of tv and think about quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle with wonder. If I remember correctly in the 70s I watched Spock (I called the actor that too) narrate something about the Bermuda Triangle.

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      I watched a few seconds here or there - In Search of the Bermuda Triangle … With Leonard Nimoy! (1976). - YouTube

      Unfortunately it gave me a sort of negative nostalgia value. Now that I’m an adult it’s clear In Search of… episodes are surely nearly all are piles of shit and pseudo science. Google says there are ~145 episodes. I really wish Nimoy had narrated something else. Something of actual value about science or technology or history anything else that’s real. Oh, well.