Absolutely enamoured by the idea of a real life person seeing like, a hunting dog or a pack mule, or a farm animal or something, and referring to it as “mysterious creature.”
[walking Route 12, sees a swarm of Magikarp, begins shaking] oh god, oh fuck, what….what ARE you…
Well there’s only, like, 6 people studying pokémon in a given region.
there’s about two people in my area studying animal biology but that doesn’t make me think birds are some kind of anomaly
Like remember when the military literally just landed helicopters on top of the ruins of babylon without giving a single shit about the cultural heritage about not just Iraq, but the world.
They caused substantial damage to the Ishtar Gate, one of the most famous monuments from antiquity […] US military vehicles crushed 2,600-year-old brick pavements, archaeological fragments were scattered across the site, more than 12 trenches were driven into ancient deposits and military earth-moving projects contaminated the site for future generations of scientists.[78]
And this was done without actually targeting the site with weapons.
goddamn i hadn’t even heard of this until literally right now. how fucked do you have to be to intentionally cause damage to archaeology from the literal cradle of civilization