People would start religions around The Hand. Obviously only sinners would get crushed by The Hand.
look, if I could see an actual giant hand crushing people, I’d sign up to that religion really fast
Or only the blessed get crushed by The Hand. The crushing transports you straight to the heavenly hand realm. You will get worshipped as a god for generations in your village after getting crushed.
Blasphemy! Only the wicked are punished by The Hand! Crush the heretic!
We would have killed it thousands of years ago along with all the other megafauna
Damn, we’re the scary ones, aren’t we?
At least since we figured out ranged weapons, yeah. We went from being mid tier to apex overnight and have been wrecking shit ever since.
The hand spend 1/3 of the year in China + India alone.
A significant portion of the population would deny The Hands existance despite overwhelming evidence and blame all hand related crushings on the Jews or brown people.
One extra death a day wouldn’t even move the needle, it sounds terrifying but there’s lots more likely ways to die.
Humans are awful at probability, so yeah - there would be an entire highly-profitable industry centred on hand detection and protection products.
But knowing humanity it would be a spectacle
It would be the single most active gambling economy.
Only 1 per day? I think that would make the hand one of the safer things on Earth
Presumably the odds of getting squished by the hand is 1 in 8 billion-ish, if it’s properly random. The odds of winning the Powerball lottery is apparently 1 in 292 million, so it’s probably not something to really worry about lol.
Anyone else remember an eighties or nineties cartoon like batman or something that had an episode with a flying hand like this? IIRC it looked like a mouse cursor… I can’t remember anything else about it.
Holy shit yes and Batman had to tear it open and rip out wires to… take control of how it flew? Was it in a Minotaur maze maybe and they cheated by flying on the hand instead of going through the maze properly?
Edit: found it maybe
“I linked it to my palm top computer”
There’s even a scene where they show how he pulled out two leads and presumably connected over I2C or UART. A lot of detail for a kids cartoon
Some people would deny its existence.
“It’s probably just a freak weather accident caused by microclimates, Susan. A giant hand isn’t just going to come down and -”
*smush*That smush didn’t even come from the hand. Susan just had enough of the bullshit
Why at random? I’d prefer it crush the wealthiest person on the planet. No way to stop it, doesn’t care if you try to conceal your wealth, it’s omnipotent. Hoarding wealth would be something feared instead of coveted.
