Salamendacious@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years agoAI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first timewww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1147file-textcross-posted to: epicureanism@lemmy.dbzer0.comupliftingnews@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmy.worldhistory@lemmy.worldscience@lemmy.world
arrow-up1147external-linkAI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first timewww.nature.comSalamendacious@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: epicureanism@lemmy.dbzer0.comupliftingnews@lemmit.onlinetechnology@lemmy.worldhistory@lemmy.worldscience@lemmy.world
minus-squareSalamendacious@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoOr maybe “everything is going so well right now. Nothing could go wrong!”
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years ago“I’m on top of the world. Could life get any better than this?”
minus-squareSalamendacious@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 years agoAnd then BOOM! In all seriousness I couldn’t even imagine what that must have been like. Absolutely terrifying.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoAnd there hadn’t been an eruption in so many centuries that they didn’t even know Vesuvius was a volcano.
Or maybe “everything is going so well right now. Nothing could go wrong!”
“I’m on top of the world. Could life get any better than this?”
And then BOOM! In all seriousness I couldn’t even imagine what that must have been like. Absolutely terrifying.
And there hadn’t been an eruption in so many centuries that they didn’t even know Vesuvius was a volcano.