My Brother Will loves the TV show, "Modern Marvels." You would think that the show would be about marvelous things that are modern. Then, you might wonder just how long ago the show considers the "modern" era to have started. I pointed out to Will that, apparently, the producers of the show believe that the "modern" era began just after the dawn of time. For every "Modern Marvels: The Transcontinental Railroad," there is a "Modern Marvels: Salt." Salt is not modern. Salt is very, very old.
So then, for your amusement, I give for you an amusing list of "Modern Marvels" episodes which focus on marvels that predate human history. Posit and post your theory as to the most ancient marvel. Be forewarned: many of the modern marvels appear on the periodic table. How much do you know about the creation of the universe? Was carbon around before aluminum? What about renewable energy? Vacuums?
Modern Marvels Episodes:
006: Oil
139: Glass
156: Fire and Ice
169: Gasoline
176: Magnets
228: "Nature Tech: Tornadoes"
234: Metal
320: Poison
366: Coffee
367: Sugar
380: "Nature Tech: Hurricanes"
382: Fire
383: Cotton
406: Nuts
409: Water
410: Copper
413: Renewable Energy
423: Tobacco
429: Snow
454: Balls
458: Ice
476: Aluminum
477: Sticky Stuff
480: Vacuums
486: Acid
490: Corn
491: The Pig
492: Rocks
498: Carbon
508: Rats
513: Lead
522: Iron
523: Wheat
525: Mold and Fungus
527: Corrosion & Decomposition
530: The Horse
531: The Turkey
532: Salt
536: Night
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I'mma go with fire.
454: Balls
Quoi?
Mark, doesn't fire require oxygen? Being a heavier element, it may not have been around in the first few instants after the universe's birth. What was around? Lots of nothing. I vote for "vacuums".
Alex, I don't think you can say that there was lots of vacuums in the early (modern?) universe (the planck epoch.) There was more matter than non-matter by far.
After researching the Big Bang Theory, my personal vote goes to renewable energy. At least until "Modern Marvels: Quantum Foam of 10 Dimensions Containing Planck-Length-Sized Black Holes Continuously Being Created and Annihilated with No Cause or Effect." Now, that shit was a modern marvel.
If they called it by its true name, "Stock Footage", no one would watch it.
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