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!
The hand spend 1/3 of the year in China + India alone.
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.
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.
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
One extra death a day wouldn’t even move the needle, it sounds terrifying but there’s lots more likely ways to die.
But knowing humanity it would be a spectacle
It would be the single most active gambling economy.
Humans are awful at probability, so yeah - there would be an entire highly-profitable industry centred on hand detection and protection products.
