need a lotta love to combat the evil

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

afaik, it’s more that there is no indication 1) that the sea peoples were the root cause of the Mycenaean collapse or 2) that the sea peoples were a cultural collective entity that would make sense to share a name. There were likely seafaring/pirate Phoenicians and ‘Greeks’ but it would be like referring to Blackbeard as the king of Piratedom. Nolan continuously refers to “the Sea Peoples” as if they are a united, concerted threat, which is what Maspero and Meyer’s original (and criticized) theories were about. Archaeologists questioned them in the 90s and people now consider Eric Cline’s 2014 book 1177 BC to have been the final nail in the pop-culture understanding of the Sea Peoples.

alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes

Not a marine biologist but biologist enough to weigh in on this. The reason we have iron eating bacteria but not wood eating bacteria at the bottom of the ocean is simple. Hydrothermal vents release a cocktail of different mineral ores into the ocean. And bacteria and other organisms evolved alongside those so they evolved to digest these, like iron or other metal ores

Okay, but I remember reading a magazine stating that the titanic would basically be gone by now because of the rust eating the ship.

So lemme get this straight, the Titanic is a whalefall, the Britannic is a biological mummy, and all the wood ships that sink into the deep ocean are preserved incorrupt because nothing can eat them.

how it feels to drink water out of a mason jar