What are the most scientifically inexplicable points of novelty in history?
In b4 MY DYATLOV PASS! Can we please discuss something else for once? Not only is that non-significant but has been done to death.
Pic related. I still find it hard to believe I grew up only 200 miles from the location where the world came closest to ending, and was at one point only averted because the captain of a Navy cruiser decided to follow his gut and not start a war over a suspicious bogey that showed up on the radar. Hot damn, in a parallel universe where he chose the wrong action, we would all not exist. Can you fathom that?
>>1967874
Well, there are other such instances. I don't think any of them, including yours, is scientifically "inexplicable" tho and i don't know why'd you call it that.
But Stanislav Petrov, a soviet commander in charge of missile defense, correctly deduced that the imminent american missile attack that was reported might be a false alarm and thus ordered no retaliation.
Alexander the great almost died very early in his campaign but was saved at the last moment.
Imagine if he wasn't saved
>>1967889
Ah thanks for the correction. I was mainly referring to the odds that the Cuban Missile Crisis has been given as being equal to playing Russian Roulette 13 times and winning.
>>1967898
The end of the world didn't hinge on the balance of Alexander's life or death though.
>>1967912
The end of the western world did.
>>1967932
So we'd all be Mongols rather than Europeans and Latins. And?
>>1967898
>Alexander the great almost died very early in his campaign but was saved at the last moment.
Well, to be frank, Alexander was always at the head of the charge... No macedonian king before him had died of old age. He would have died from his wounds eventually, which might have been what happened.