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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Coincidence? I don't think so.

For nearly 500 years, hundreds of millions of people looked at the most famous painting of God ever made, and none of them noticed what was hiding in plain sight.

Then, in 1990, a doctor looked up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and realized that God is wrapped inside a human brain...

The painting is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, finished around 1512. You know the image even if you don't know its name: God reaching out from the heavens, His finger almost touching Adam's, the spark of life about to leap across the gap.

But look at the shape around God, the swirling red cloak that holds Him and the angels aloft. For five centuries it was seen as just a billowing robe... but in 1990, a physician named Frank Lynn Meshberger published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association arguing that the red shroud is something else entirely: an anatomically precise cross-section of the human brain.

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

The outline of the cloak traces the outer curve of the brain. A fold in the fabric forms the Sylvian fissure, the deep groove that separates the brain's major lobes. The angel curled beneath God is positioned exactly where the brainstem would be, and the green scarf trailing down becomes the vertebral artery. Even the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm, where the nerves from the eyes cross, fall precisely into place.

This was not a man likely to invent such a thing by accident. Michelangelo had spent his youth secretly dissecting human corpses in a monastery in Florence, studying the body from the inside with an obsessiveness that, by one early account, exceeded that of professional anatomists...

So what did he mean by it?

Meshberger argued that the painting has been misnamed. He suggested it should be called not the Creation of Adam, but the Endowment of Adam. In the Bible, God gives Adam life. But in Michelangelo's fresco, Adam is already alive, his eyes open, his body lifted. What God is reaching across that famous gap to give him is not life. It is intellect. The divine spark of human thought itself, delivered, fittingly, from inside the very organ that produces it.

One of the most looked-at images in the history of the world may contain a message that took half a millennium to be read, hidden by a man who understood both the human body and the human soul better than almost anyone who has ever lived, and who seems to have decided to bury his deepest idea about us where only the most careful eye would ever find it...

[HiddenCanada @HiddenCanada369]

The Iowa state capitol is genuinely out of control.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Two months later Trevor "forced himself" off a balcony.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

STREET ADDRESSES & THEIR MEANING
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1. Court: Dead end street.
2. Crescent: Curved road with both ends connecting to the same street.
3. ​Boulevard: Wide street with greenery in the center and along the sides.
4. ​Avenue: Straight street that runs north-south or east-west.
5. ​Drive: A road that follows a natural feature (park, ocean, hills, or lake).
6. ​Alley: Narrow street between, behind, or within buildings.
7. Place: A short street.

[GP Q @argosaki]

JAPAN 🇯🇵: WHY WAS IT BOMBED IN WW2⁉️⁉️⁉️👇👇👇👁️👁️👁️‼️‼️‼️😱😱😱

[Waken Minds 𓂀 @wakenminds]

The Great Wall of Tartaria, not China. And what if, that’s just the top of it..

[₿en Wehrman @benwehrman]

The American "Civil War" Conspiracy - Was It Really Just An Old World Destruction Campaign to Complete the 1800s Reset?

[🎥: @mylunchbreak_]

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

At 1:23 in the morning at Chernobyl, an operator pushed the button that shuts a nuclear reactor down. Seconds later the reactor tore itself apart and threw the roof off the building. The men in that control room spent their final days insisting they had done nothing wrong. The button they pushed was the standard way to shut a reactor down safely.

The button itself was the trap. Pressing it sent all the control rods down into the core at once, the normal way to stop a reactor fast. But those rods were tipped with graphite, which speeds a reaction up rather than slowing it, and the tips slid in first. For a couple of seconds the emergency stop pushed the reactor's power higher instead of lower. The reactor also ran hotter as its cooling water boiled to steam, which left it twitchy and hard to hold steady at low power.

They were running a safety test that night, oddly enough, checking whether a slowing turbine could keep the cooling pumps running for the minute or so before backup generators kicked in after a blackout. It was meant for the day shift. A power plant elsewhere on the grid ran late, so controllers in Kyiv kept Chernobyl feeding the grid through the afternoon and bumped the test to a night crew that had not prepared for it. The power sank far below the planned level, the core turned unstable, and to drag the output back up the operators pulled out nearly all the control rods, well past what the rules allowed.

Soviet scientists had known about the backward-rod effect for years and stamped it secret. The 25-year-old engineer who pushed the button, a few months into the job, had never been told it could do the opposite of what it promised.

The reckoning ran the same way. The operators were tried and sent to labor camps while the reactor's designers were mostly left alone. Firemen who arrived to what they were told was an ordinary electrical fire picked up lumps of glowing graphite with bare hands, and around thirty plant workers and first responders were dead within weeks. A 1992 international review finally pinned the main fault on the reactor design, and every remaining reactor of that type was modified to remove the flaw.

So when the Chernobyl line comes around, the honest version is that no single person went to work and broke a reactor. A machine was built with a hidden fault, the crew running it was kept in the dark, and the one move meant to save them set it off.

[Ricky Berwick @rickyberwick]

I hate engineers

[andi (twocents.com) @Nexuist]

Florida cop in a foot pursuit gets picked up by a random Uber driver in a minivan and does a drive by on the suspect

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

Bro def felt ashamed after 😭

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Everyone’s finally realising that NASA are the greatest frauds in Human History.

Why?

Well you’ve only got to have an open mind & watch 5 minutes of clips filled with obvious NASA flaws & nonsensical inconsistencies.

[truthache @truthache68]

1958 called… it wants its conspiracy theories back 😅😏

‘The First Book of Airplanes’ casually drops cloud seeding with planes for rain and a flat earth map complete with ice wall flight path.

What in the vintage fever dream is this? 📖✈️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

10 tons of cement, one abandoned ant colony, and weeks of digging revealed a mind blowing underground world.

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

so about last night 😏

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

My God.

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Every single World Cup tourist after spending a couple of days in America.

[chaotic memes @memechaotic]

For no reason at all 😭

[Matt From Cultivate Elevate @CultivateElevat]

Einstein: Rothschild Rockefeller puppet

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Always Funny!