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and Aldous Huxley died while on LSD

Fun day.

Also, I learned that Doctor Who is considered a single TV series that has run for 60 years, not a bunch of remakes. (That might be common knowledge, I've never watched it.)

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Background

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1963#November_22,_1963_(Friday)

Let's explore these events:

  • JFK was assassinated
  • Doctor Who aired
  • Aldous Huxley died whilst on LSD
  • CS Lewis died of kidney failure
  • Disney decides where the Disney World Resort will be located
  • The GANEFO (Olympics alternative) closed after a football game
  • NASA begins testing the emergency parachute system
  • The Detroit Lions get bought by Henry Ford's grandson
  • The Beatles release their second album

Theory

If we take all these events together and look for clues, then we see the following course of events:

  • The Beatles, known for their subliminal lyrics, release a song with the lyrics "all my loving, I will send to you"
  • Aldous Huxley listens to the album whilst under the influence, and immediately pens an inspired letter to to NASA about how to send their astronauts lovingly into space.
  • NASA tests the parachute system, inspired by this letter, using Lewis (a reknown british fighter ace) as a test pilot to successfully parachute onto the BBC studio's telephone box.
  • This new gadgetry draped over their studio's only landline inspired the sci-fi theme for Doctor Who.
  • A photo was taken with the parachute draped over a british stone lion, and Henry Ford's grandson reads it in the paper, and likes the image so much that he buys the Detroit Lions.
  • The GANEFO, upon hearing about this sale, decides that football is dead, and that a world without football is not a world worth living in, and promptly closes.
  • JFK, saddened by the loss of football, orders a hit on Huxley and Lewis, who are all promptly executed by Disney execs masquarading as BBC producers.
  • The Queen, upon hearing about this treachery, blocks Disney from ever setting foot in the UK and orders a hit on JFK.
  • JFK is assasinated by none other than George Harrison himself, and Disney decides to open a park in Florida.
[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11/22/63 – Stephen King wrote a book about a timetraveller who goes back to that day to try prevent Doctor Who from airing (presumably because it spilt the beanbean about timetravel)

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