u/graaahh

It seems like it would be extremely easy to mistake a common, stable molecule like salt for something elemental. How did people break down substances to the point of purifying them, and then how did they know they couldn't purify them any further? It seems easy now to theorize what an element of a certain weight would look or act like, but before most of them were known did they have anything to go off of, or was it guesswork?

Here's what I remember:

* I think the movie is black and white. Even if it's not it's quite an old movie.

* A band of musicians is on their way to a gig at a festival or something when they're forced to stay the night at this hotel/cabin/inn/something. The woman who runs it is beautiful but secretive. The musicians are treated well but told not to go in her room.

* At one point, the leader of the band takes out his guitar in the living room to play and sing. I think maybe to prove to the secretive woman that they're really musicians or something.

* If I recall correctly, it turns out the woman is part of a small gang who are planning to do something bad (they're watching the visitors on cameras or something, thinking maybe they're there to spy on the gang and catch them.)

* The vibe isn't comedic I don't think. I remember it as being vaguely threatening, like an old 60's-ish thriller movie kind of.

I clicked on a map linked on reddit that showed thousands of different pins all around the country. Now when I open my regular Maps app I still see all the pins and can't figure out how to turn it off. I tried deleting it from my search history but it didn't help.