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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing, very interesting. Although i was thinking of events in prehistoric times. But this sounds like a light version of what I believe to have seen in some documentary one day. Imagine getting a letter with the following, and you don't know what could've caused it:

In 538, the Roman statesman Cassiodorus described the following to one of his subordinates in letter 25:

The sun's rays were weak, and they appeared a "bluish" colour.

At noon, no shadows from people were visible on the ground.

The heat from the sun was feeble.

The moon, even when full, was "empty of splendour"

"A winter without storms, a spring without mildness, and a summer without heat"

Prolonged frost and unseasonable drought

The seasons "seem to be all jumbled up together"

The sky is described as "blended with alien elements" just like cloudy weather, except prolonged. It was "stretched like a hide across the sky" and prevented the "true colours" of the sun and moon from being seen, along with the sun's warmth.

Frosts during harvest, which made apples harden and grapes sour.

The need to use stored food to last through the situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I'm working on a scifi story with the premise of something that caused the collapse of civilization. The concept of post-collapse fascinates me, and it could easily happen to us in reality. Just the simple thought experiment of something that we've all experienced, a power outage. What does everyone do? You wait a few minutes to see if it's just temporary. If you still have a way to communicate, you call or text someone maybe. You get a flashlight, or some candles to prepare for a longer wait. Let's say it's not a known cause like a storm, but just went out for some unknown reason. How long before people start to get restless and go past the conditioned training of letting someone bring their technology back? What if it never comes back? Seems a ridiculous stretch, but is it? And the problem with collapse is that the higher you are, the longer and harder the fall.