Flo's History

  The story for this week will be a bit different from your usual ”Mythology Fun Fact”. Indeed, instead of covering an official myth, I’ll talk about something less official but deserves to be covered. After all, every myth has its own sense of truth. Even if it is a bit far-fetched or, sometimes, a coincidence. This time we will talk about the most famous snake in Norse mythology, Jörmungandr. In the Norse myths, the Jörmungandr, also known as the Midgard Serpent, is a snake of a titanic size that has been locked in the sea surrounding the realm of the men. What inspired the old Norse to believe such a creature existed is unknown to us. However, we noticed something a while back that strangely resembled the World Serpent.  I am, of course, talking about the great trench that runs across the seafloor. The fact that it stretches around the globe and has somewhat the body of a snake reminds historians and other Norse myths enthusiasts of the great snake from the Norse ...

  In the post-apocalyptic building game Frostpunk, the main “antagonist” is a freezing cold that envelopes the earth, whipping out most of humanity and life on earth, and the goal is to manage a refugee camp. However, such a scenario would never happen in real life. Right? Guys? Well, you’ll be quite surprised about this. The “Great Frost,” as it is called in the game, is actually a real-life event called the Snowball Earth. This is, of course, where the temperature of the planet droops to unbelievable levels, causing thick sheets of ice covering the earth partially or even completely. In other words, the Snowball Earth is like if we had given Hulk steroid during the ice age. More realistically, it is caused by a succession of events that caused the heat of the sun to send to our planet, causing it to freeze, worsening the problem. However, this obviously doesn’t go forever, since today the earth isn't in a Snowball stage. And for such an event to end, we have to tha...