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Pls make the fireworks stop..I hate them

posting this..as someone with autism

fourth of July is a nightmare for me.

One of my favorite things about our history – that is, humanity’s history – is fireworks. Over a thousand years ago, some Chinese alchemists discovered that they could combine charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate to create explosions.

And the first thing they did with that knowledge was use it to create something spectacular and celebratory – fireworks. It wasn’t immediately used as weaponry. That seems very special to me. So much of our history has been about creating new ways to destroy one another. And yet, one of the most arguably innovative and effective of those weapons, the substance that would later come to be known as gunpowder, was not originally used for that destructive purpose at all.

It rather gives me hope, that we as humanity can create things for the purpose of beauty instead of destruction.

@space-australians