I think what is meant by "Valhalla" is a place where all the warriors go.
To understand this, you have to consider Norse mythology:
There are two groups of gods in norse mythology: The Æsir and the Vanir. There is a theory that the Vanir represent a local fertility cult who had already lived in Scandinavia, while the Æsir represent a war-mongering cult who invaded the Vanir's land. They later joined into one society, i.e. they mixed up.
What's described here is basically a class society. There's a warmongering part of the population and a peaceful part of the population, which you might akin to right-wing and left-wing politics. The norse mythology says that when you die fiercefully in battle, you go to Valhalla, where you fight and die over and over again, until the Ragnarök - which could be compared to the judgement day from christian mythology - makes them meet in one final battle before they ascent to the heavens for good (IIRC).
after looking it up, i can't find any good sources for the "before they ascent to the heavens for good" part except a single ARTE infotainment documentary here. other sources seem to say they just die for good, but go nowhere after the battle of Ragnarök.
it's not chemical, that much i can tell you. there was a study done in 1800 iirc where they contemplated what gives the sun its enormous power and they figured out that if the sun was a solid ball of coal burning slowly, it wouldn't last longer than 200 years iirc, at the enormous rate of power it emits. it's a nuclear process
these nuclear processes can be very long-running. uranium takes billions of years to decay. it's probable that a lot of planets have uranium in their interior and that heats up the planet from the inside.
i.e. uranium decays into lead and that process releases some heat continuously for a very long time
it also happens on earth, though i don't have any exact number for it. AFAIK, it's what keeps the earth's interior warm. otherwise it would have cooled down a lot more since the earth formed a few billion years ago.
i read two fucking weeks ago that economists around the world are waking up to the idea that people should have fewer children because otherwise the rich and corporations might have to pay taxes to provide income to the people that the wages don't. if there's fewer people, they don't need to pay people subsidies so much. trump should talk to his economists.
edit: context: wages are predicted to drop so low over the next 20 years that people will not be able to feed themselves on wages alone. social unrest is painful and to avoid it, some sort of Universal Basic Income will be unavoidable. That would have to be paid for by taxes that the rich would have to pay, since literally nobody else has any money. You see where this is going: the rich don't like their wealth to be taxed.
US Vice President JD Vance has called on European states to show greater independence, urging them not to be US "vassals." He also said EU governments could have done more to oppose Washington over the Iraq War.
fully agree, couldn't agree more. many died, for what?
I think what is meant by "Valhalla" is a place where all the warriors go.
To understand this, you have to consider Norse mythology:
There are two groups of gods in norse mythology: The Æsir and the Vanir. There is a theory that the Vanir represent a local fertility cult who had already lived in Scandinavia, while the Æsir represent a war-mongering cult who invaded the Vanir's land. They later joined into one society, i.e. they mixed up.
What's described here is basically a class society. There's a warmongering part of the population and a peaceful part of the population, which you might akin to right-wing and left-wing politics. The norse mythology says that when you die fiercefully in battle, you go to Valhalla, where you fight and die over and over again, until the Ragnarök - which could be compared to the judgement day from christian mythology - makes them meet in one final battle before they ascent to the heavens for good (IIRC).
after looking it up, i can't find any good sources for the "before they ascent to the heavens for good" part except a single ARTE infotainment documentary here. other sources seem to say they just die for good, but go nowhere after the battle of Ragnarök.