The Weirdest Ideas In History That Somehow Came True
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- The outlandish ideas of one era can eventually become predictions that come true at a later date. Something that was seen as unfathomable, implausible, or even ludicrous at one point can end up as a part of everyday life over the years. Inventors, scientists, and writers of yesterday have weirdly predicted things that people laughed at in their time - only for their predictions to become standard, if not indispensable, for later generations.
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All the videos on this channel are wonderful, but - I said it before and I say it again: the script and narrator are priceless.
This narrator to be precise ;)
The narrator. I fell in love with him when I got 1st generation covid and was on the brink of death, I found this channel by chance. I listened to him when I could n I love him since that day
Hearing Tom Blank's voice just makes my day better.
Like to hear him tell his story. That is what I'd really like.
If I don’t hear Toms voice, I immediately click off.
“Something bad will happen in London someday!”
-Nostradamus
Nostradamus was a fraud and an old fart
lol - A five year old could predict that. London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady. What child doesn't learn that rhyme?
Indeed. Nostradamus performed the literary equivalent of cold reading.
"Some day in the future, something really bad is going to happen to some people in this very vague, general area. The populace will not think well of it."
Love the narration on weird history - so much better than the channels that use boring, humourlessand inflectionless AI
❤❤❤ Love your narration!
Obomi as president perhaps is the closest or luckiest prediction
I love weird history and weird history food.
If Tesla ever won the lottery in his life, WW2 would've been using 80s tech
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Love the topic of visionaries!
Auto makers like Honda... (showing photo of a Fiat Panda)
You could order movies on demand at hotels when Ebert made his prediction, so it wasn’t that far-fetched.
Yep
There's still the hope for Flying Cars
So many car accidents
Weird how now most people don’t even hope of flying cars when thinking about the future, now the future means distopia
@@ridureyulike now?
People can't even drive right on land. What makes you think being in the air would improve things?
Dammit, I was *promised* flying cars when I was a kid...
Thanks for this! 📱
Jules Verne wrote a book called "Paris in the 20th Century". It was considered so far fetched that publishers wouldn't touch it. It was finally published in 1994.
But how close was he?
😂
@@y_fam_goeglyden.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century
Read and see, he nailed a lot of stuff.
Being "too far-fetched" to be published is absolute nonsense!
2:36 It would be so awesome to have one of those cars!
loved this one. but Frank Zappa was far from a guitar legend...
I thought he was mostly a singer, anyway
I highly recommend the videos about Tesla at the channel Katie Loves Physics & History. Tesla was a great engineer, but most of what is told about him (including in this video) is misrepresented, aggrandized, or physically impossible. Also, not supported by contemporary documentation. (Guess what, at the time people wrote letters, contracts, and published newspapers.)
Nice
I had to search for the original voice! I’m not even sure what video I clicked on, but I just needed to hear this voice.
More timeline videos please 1940's to 1970 and 2001 to 2023
💚💚💚Melissa From VA Beach VA. Thank you. Much love Weird History and friends!🍀🍀🍀
You misrepresent Tesla's thinking. Having won the ac/dc war with Edison, he was aware the same constraint applied to his ac, that there was a practical limit to power distribution due to line induction. However, his thinking on wireless power transmission using tuned induction was defeated by Edison's political machinations: the experiments undertaken by Harry Grinnell Matthews in WW2 earned him the nickname "Death-Ray" in the Welsh valley he operated from, but at the same time seem to have been partially successful.
BEST NARRATOR IDK.
The creation & use of occult items such as tarrot cards & crystal ball seeing.
I have a high definition tv. It’s placed on top of my dictionary. 😅
I notice the narrator accent when stating the names is impressive 😮😂
I predict something will happen in the future
The one about the Kenyan prophet is 100%true😂
Marconi invented radio before Tesla.
People give him too credit. Inventor of wifi? By tgat mental setting Da Vinci invented planes!😂
I like the Kenya one the best.
Obomi is the prez of Beninia in the book. Close
A better narrator for today there can not be
First off, when you talk about something someone said 100+ years ago, its not farfetched at all that 100 years later, we have the technology to do it. Things that are beyond impossible to ever do, or even conceive today, will be commplace in 2124.
5:06 The film Doom (2005) is excellent!
The style is consistent with the game.
Make a random statement,
Give it enough time,
Prophecy!
Or in the case of the more science and tech-based prophecies, as mentioned extrapolate from the current against what's desired, and voila! The future is now....
Tom Blank rocks ❤❤❤
I'm surprised that as a history channel you guys forgot that it was actually a polish man named cazmir Zeaglen, who invented the Kevlar used in modern day bullet proof vests for the polish military some time in the 1920s or 30s but since he never made a patent in the USA and the polish military kept his invention a secret nobody knew he made it first for the longest time and others took credit for his work because they were in the USA and could more easily get patents and also, due to the security risks nobody knew it already existed. I studied this in both a history class and an engineering class, so I know that it must be true, i also have a historian degree... everyone assumes, including you guys, that because someone in the USA was first to patent something, that means they invented it, but that's simply not true at all...
Tesla was so ahead of his time, shame he died in poverty, he should've been celebrated like Edison was.
I never predicted this video
7:33 Mello Smello makes the scratch & sniff stickers that are so popular for the 80s culture.
On the YT Channel Our 80s Life, The Millers show their sticker books which include those.
Definitely wouldn't say electric cars are THE norm currently. The engineers will have to come up with a few significant technological advancements that have a more efficient, less polluting power source than lithium ion batteries and make them affordable to the average person and have the World Economic Forum types cease to exist before that happens
The world's largest auto manufacturer does not believe in electric cars at all. Who are we to doubt Toyota? Also, a very honest conversation Hass to be had about the batteries and all of the material that will be needed for the increased electrical infrastructure. All of these places say that by 2035 you won't be able to buy an internal combustion engine anymore but I'll bet you my whole bank account that decision gets overturned
Nice Iron Maiden reference ❤
There was no reference to Iron Maiden
8:52 Iron Maiden composed part of the soundtrack for the film Phenomena (1985) with Jennifer Connelly.
Just watched it for the first time last night, awesome film and great recommendation from The Cobwebs Channel (YT)!
2:43 When Peter Griffin was reading Peterotica, there was a character named Captain Leroy Hot Dog Zanzibar.
Excuse you Bowie is a Tesla lookalike
Do a video with more about the Kenyan prophet.
8:01 "Yeah, you know MEEEE"!
Marconi looks like James Woods.
Obomi 😅
6:56 my name is skyler white yow
Who is the narrator for this ep?
They tried to trick us with the opening line lol
yeah these are ideas and people later are later like yeah that's a good idea let's make it! flying cars, not to feasible though, it would have to be self flying but if something breaks down or malfunctions your dead, then what's it falling on, oh Billy was just walking his dog and a flying car fell on him
For the algorithm!
5:34 That looks like the alien in the Chili's commercials that says "Fajitas!" (in a draw-out way).
lol I love it,. Nostradamus "Tons of vague scenarios easily fit into a 1000 things" Dumb people "PROPHET!!!!"
I had a different idea from the title, i was expecting something like asimov or julio verne effect.. i guess some of the mentioned fit the category
The lines get blurred when it comes to science fiction writers because a lot of inventions directly get their inspiration from what the science fiction writers said, so they weren't so much predictors as they were instigators.
I guess did they ever predict an electric vehicles would catch on fire? Or charging stations wouldn't run during the cold and the snow?
0:11 James Bond films are the best!
Sometimes when I am writing or typing out my birthday...instead of putting 12/07 I put 12/007.
3:35 When I was in elementary school, students caught daydreaming when others were trying to talk to them were called "space cadets."
9:51 There needs to be a more vast and functional railroad system in the US.
Would love to take an overnight train like in the Agatha Christie film The Orient Express!
it's been my dream to go on a luxury overnight/multi day train ride. Maybe I'll cross it off the list before I die 😊
@@aprilmeowmeow It would be such a great time!
Funny thing about your username...I just watched the film The Batman (2022) which had catwoman.
Only impressive because they were all time traveling
3:47 There is a film that retells the story of Cyrano de Bergerac called Roxanne (1987) starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah.
There are multiple films about that, lol
Is this the actor james woods narrating???
4:19 Speaking of audio books and innovation...Kelly Rowland and Sara Bareilles host the show Breakthrough, which is Audible's first ever singing contest.
😂 iron maiden
Tesla could either see the future or more likely he was taken to the future for a brief visit
Wrong and even more wrong, lol.
Please do a video on life as a jew/Christian in rome and life as a jew/muslim in Byzantine Empire (/ being different episodes)
……time travel
My prediction is that you will wake up, get out of bet, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to bed. I can't say exactly when.
On a more troubling note, many have predicted world peace, universal understanding, and a brotherhood of all mankind. Hasn't happened yet though. Of course many others have predicted total catastrophe and destruction, which also hasn't happened at least on a grand scale. So maybe there's hope? Or maybe it's just as I predicted above...
6:46 Sean Parker was born on December 3, 1979 (four days before I was born).
Tiffany Haddish shares a birthdate with him.
I could have sworn you were a small child! I guess just mentally, then... You are ruining the comment section with your spam!
The Fig tree was the most uncanny of all the stories.
What a wonderful world we could live in if we worked for the Greater Good instead of the almighty dollar 😢
a channel popped up that looks suspiciously like someone ran this channel's videos through AI and then had them recreate them with the same narrator's voice, same weird history concepts, but weird AI generated artwork instead. czcams.com/video/oEhslpKk_js/video.html
I am going to watch the videos:
x How 'Kilroy Was Here' Was the First Meme Ever (first recommendation, second time watching)
x History's First Nose Job (second recommendation)
x The Unbelievable Rise and Fall of The DeLorean (second time watching)
x Joan of Arc Was Far From The Holy Figure She's Portrayed As
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating POP-TARTS* (frosted Strawberry)...while watching this Weird History video!
*From the Weird History videos "Facts About 80s Snacks" and "What Was the Most Popular Junk Food From Every Decade In the 20th Century?" (on the thumbnail)
Note: The Pop-tarts came in a Retro-box!
8:01 On the REACT video Snoop Dogg's Underdoggs Plays Moms Vs. Kids: Who Knows More Slang Words?, they have a completely different definition of O.P.P.!
4:36 There are a lot of Jonathon Swift-type elements in the music video "Anti-hero" by Taylor Swift.
ESP - Hey, I'm using ESP32 microcontrollers on a regular basis! How could he have known?!
Nostradamus is given way too much credit. Every single solitary one of his writings is so purposely vague that just about any historiical event could be tied to them. I'll give him credit for only knowng that history repeats itself and then making up rhymes about stuff that repeatedly happened throughout history and predicting they'd - wait for it - repeat themselves. War will happen? Yawn, you don't say. Rulers rise and are overthrown? Yawn, you don't say. Great cities are built and fall to ruin? Yawn, you don't say. Wars and rumors of wars have always existed, folks. Nostradamus was like all "physics" a fake good at showmanship. Neither he nor the book of Revelation in the BuyBull predict anything unusual enough to be remarkable.
4:38 well I find this interesting now 8:18-> 8:31 / 8:34…. 9:43 😮
1:19 “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” - Nikola Tesla
this is crap, yes radios are old, yes battery power cars are old (even older than gas ones), people traveling to and from "the heavens" is older than the bible, there was about 10 CD video formats before DVD,
the years for when EV's went out of favor is way off on this.
grandma duck's car is electric. it's the same jay leno has. before electric starter they were pretty popular in some places.
Once in a while, you just have to accept that time travel is real, and guys like Tesla, Jules Verne and da Vinci just got stuck in the past, lol....
No, lol, not even accidentally!
10:19 Jennifer Connelly was born on December 12th!
Do you like Jennifer Connelly Ben?
@@sarahkatie7497 Yes! She is one of my favorite actresses!
@@sarahkatie7497 He's just mentally ill and obsessed with ruining the comment section of every Weird History video.
Really disheartening to hear the news about Nikolaev’s Tesla.
Makes you wonder where life would have gone if we hadant been so greedy.
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Electric cars are an old concept, so not that weird.
Yo
10:21 One of my friends reads Tarot cards, she is a supergirl at it!
I'd like to bring up one of my favorite writers, JG Ballard...
He predicted so many things he was nicknamed "The Seer of Shepperton." I'd list them but this comment would be TL;DR/NSFW plus I'd like you to find out for yourself and hopefully read his works.
How about a story on the Dairy Farmers Milk Strike in New York in the 1930's? It has, ahem, some relevance today.
How is that relevant today?
@@MatthewTheWanderer I guess you don't pay attention to current events. Are you unaware of the massive farmer protests in the EU? There is comparison.
Large milk coroporations did an end run around NY farmers to undercut their prices by cheaping out with importing from other states. EU is importing wheat from Ukraine today.
Those who tried to fite back then were accused of being eneimies of the state (we can't say the red scare word used) then just as those opposing supporting the Ukraine are now.
Farmers in both situations were, in short, dehumanized and villainized in order to regulate and control them and the food supply - again what's caused the EU protests. And, yes, the NY dairy farmers resorted to having to take defensive actions then same as now.
That enough for ya? See now if they did a video on it. You might have known that.
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@@BlazeDuskdreamer I was indeed unaware of all of that, and I bet the makes of this video were, too.
@@MatthewTheWanderer Yeah, to be honest, i'm aware of it because of my own research. It's hard to find info on the 1930s milk strike.
I predict earth will die in the future.
Once again how could you not mention amongst hte writers, Wreck of the Titan? C'mon, man. You cover the unimpressive Nostradamus but fail to note how smilitar that story was to the later Titantic? Really? I'm starting to get disappointed in this channel and the stuff you leave out. I'm kind of a history buff and thought I'd find some interesting bits here. At this point, I even wonder if you know that Mexico taught us how to ranch and that their vaqueros predate American cowboys by some 400 years - or indeed that the cattle drives in the old west only went on for about 100 years.
Missed all the prophecies from the Bible that came true and are coming true. Trust in Jesus Christ today!
LMAO! I hope you are joking! Not a single "prophecy" from the Bible has EVER come true and only fools "trust" in Jesus!
@@MatthewTheWandererthey've never even read the book they worship, and if they have... they ignore the parts about killing people in the name of God, etc. lol
@@aprilmeowmeow I completely agree! My family are mostly very conservative Christians. I somehow managed to escape them mentally.