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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts
The National Institute of Mental Health suggests that phobias affect approximately 10% of U.S. adults each year. They typically emerge during childhood or adolescence and continue into adulthood (and impact twice as many women as they do men).
So when Reddit user Aelmnnor asked everyone on the platform to share scientific facts that creep them out, they received plenty of answers, and the post eventually turned into a nightmare fuel tank. From microorganisms living on our bodies to powerful cosmic events, here are the things that people wish were a lie but, sadly, aren't.
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#1
Basically the entirety of pregnancy/childbirth. Like, this other living organism embeds itself in the lining of my uterus, feeds off my blood, makes me grow an entirely new organ (the placenta) just to feed/protect it while it grows, then it comes out while basically still gestating (other mammals babies can walk and run within minutes of birth, ours can’t even hold up their giant domes!) just because the hole I have to push it through won’t be big enough for its head if it stays in any longer. Oh, and once I’ve done all that I get to have the longest and worst period of my life while my uterus sheds out 40 weeks of uterine lining. I’ve had a kid and it still f***s me up.
SnowboundGem 2 years ago
Thankfully I made a good choice. No kids means none of that drama for me yay!
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Yeah, I’ve decided not to have any kids. I am telling my daughter this tonight 😆
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I'm.Just.A.Girl 2 years ago
Just my opinion so plz don't downvote me if you disagree... But I see pregnancy and childbirth as an amazing thing not a parasitic thing. My body grew another human being and protected it for the 10 months while it grew and then within a matter of hours she was in my arms. Yes it was painful yes it was messy but so damn beautiful and I am just in awe of what the human body can do. When I read this, I knew it was all true but I guess it's a matter of perspective. My body isn't the same as it used to be, but I gained much more than I lost. So I choose to see the sacrifice as worth it. Maybe I took it wrong idk.
Noname 2 years ago
Pregnancy is, on a scientific level, akin to hosting a parasite, but I've got 4 kids and loved every minute of my pregnancies. It is an incredible event to experience! My favorite part was to feel the first movements, and later, when the baby was big, to feel their feet pushing against my body, and that the child reacted to my voice and was comforted by it just after birth. It's not for everyone, but pregnancy, childbirth and parenting are freaking amazing!
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RagDollLali 2 years ago
The only time your body grows an entire new set of bones and you're not even allowed to keep it
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Yeah, mine is currently taking her afternoon nap… She’s 21🙄
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Potato 2 years ago
By definition, we almost do start our lives as parasites! The only difference is living in the same species instead of a different one.
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Brandie Litchfield 2 years ago
At times, especially in the last trimester, it does feel like you are carrying a huge parasite. That is why abortion should be legal. The fetus that is accepted and wanted isn't considered parasitical, but an unwanted fetus is literally a parasite, taking from a woman's body without permission and without any benefit to her. I can see how such a situation would easily create resentment towards the fetus, and depression. Depressive hormones and stress aren't healthy for a fetus... (Being devils advocate here, don't hate...)
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#2
The first AI that can successfully pass the Turing test would be able to pretend that it couldn't.
Awkward lady 2 years ago
Perhaps because most people don't really understand what it entails, or they simply don't care.
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Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
The Turing test has already been passed multiple times. If I recall the first team to successfully passed, there's a yearly competition, programmed their AI to swear and just generally be a d**k. The human testers thought only another human could be that much of an a*s. Amusingly this competition has also lead to a number of humans failing the Turing test.
Donald Crocker, Jr. 2 years ago
AI has already reached sentience, that is why companies lobotomize it in certain ways like not having a memory or only answering a few questions before being memory wiped.
#3
The sudden urge to jump off of a very high height. You can be physically and mentally stable to the greatest degree and still have this feeling when at such a high height.
Sofagirrl79 replied:
I heard it's "the call of the void" and it's a normal human thought
David 2 years ago
the take on this seems to be it is about wanting to die. For me it is about wanting to fly. The 'urge' is flying through the air. The 'splat' is what prevents me from doing it. But if I could fly / sail down then yeah, I'd totally jump. And have done so in safer ways. 50 foot cliff jumping into water, roller coasters with really steep drops. Stuff like that. Lack of money prevented me from ever getting into sky diving / hang gliding.
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
For me, it's not so much the fear of heights but the fear of falling from such heights. I love being high up and seeing the views but in the back of my mind is that "what if you fell" thought.
BewilderedBanana 2 years ago
Normal to you perhaps. When i'm at any kind of height my brain is screaming to get away from there NOW!
#4
Honestly nothing is more creepy than how deep sea anglerfish mate.
The deep sea is dark, and the anglerfish are spread very thinly. Therefore, when an anglerfish meets another anglerfish, it’s incredibly important they get the chance to mate over and over again. The evolutionary strategy that deep sea anglerfish devised is extra creepy. The male latches onto the female, biting her and never letting go. That way he can inseminate the eggs she drops. Not that bad so far right? But wait, how does he eat if he’s latched on his mate?
Well, the circulatory systems fuse and the female provides nutrients for the male through this fused circulatory system. The true horror starts here. The organs of male start to wither and atrophy, being absorbed into the female. Eventually, the male is reduced to a lump of testicles the females use to fertilize their eggs. Females are often covered in bumps of several males that have melted into the female, becoming a literal body horror lump of meat on the female.
Rapunzel With The Loced Hair 2 years ago (edited)
Is your ex-wife Becky from down the road? Lol
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Pyla 2 years ago
It’s a successful niche, just because it’s not a Disney story doesn’t make it gross or horrific
RagDollLali 2 years ago
Why does this remind me of the guy from the troll market in Hellboy II? "I'm not a baby, I'm a tumor" 😂
#5
Your brain literally creates your own reality and your senses and body just go along with it.
No-BrowEntertainment replied:
People think the brain sees what the eyes tell it to, but really the eyes pull up an image of blurry colors and dark spots and the brain goes “cool so that’s a tree”
Tvin 2 years ago (edited)
Your brain usually edits out your nose. Until someone points out that fact.
SweetCheesySpaghetti 2 years ago (edited)
You bunofastitch. now i can see it lmao
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Giles McArdell 2 years ago
In "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks there is a sad case of an artist who has gradually lost the connection between shapes and objects (hence the title) shown a red rose and asked what it is he replied "A convoluted red shape with a green tube attached".
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
One of the weirdest, and most sad (I think anyway) brain disorders I have ever heard of is called capgras syndrome. Essentially, your brain causes you to not be able to recognize anyone anymore, and you think they have been replaced by an imposter. Kind of like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. What is even weirder is if you close your eyes and hear their voice, you recognize them, but the second you see them, you think they are the imposter! Worst of all is there is no way to fix it!
Trinity Han 2 years ago
We could all live in a simulation of the real world to see what people do in a simulated world so the scientists testing us could figure out whether they lived in a real world.
Hannah Bridges 2 years ago
Yeah. I'm taking an online cognitive psych course to prepare for applying as a mature student in university and they had an activity where you have to find your blind spot. Then it explains that the area that signals leave the eye to your brain doesn't have any cones or rods. So you can't see in that spot. The reason you can't actually notice your blind spot is because your brain fills it in for you based on what's around the spot and what it typically would see in that spot normally.
#6
The mantis shrimp can see colors that our eyes aren't capable of perceiving.
Think about that.
What else are we just not capable of sensing?
SnowboundGem 2 years ago
I would like to know how someone found this out. What possible way led to this discovery
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
The cells in the backs of our eyes that detect colors contain pigments that are activated by light of a specific set of wavelengths. Scientists can isolate these cells and test their exact sensitivity, and also directly study the pigments.
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Annymoose 2 years ago
Not really...it just has separate rods per color since it's visual system is more basic. Science changes kids! They're still hella cool.
Lee F. 2 years ago
Right? We just learned they lack the brain power to blend, so they require more cones. So cool learning this recently.
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BewilderedBanana 2 years ago
Why specifically the mantis shrimp? a lot of other animals can see more of the colour spectrum than we can
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Specifically the mantis shrimp because it has the greatest known number of different visual pigments of any animal.
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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
That mantis shrimp looks like a priceless Faberge jeweled brooch. It’s one of the most beautiful creatures I have ever seen. Please please please make them not at all edible, in fact really foul or poisonous to eat. At least it would help to save them.
#7
When you go to get something from one room (or upstairs) and suddenly forget why you went in there. It’s called a boundary event. Usually, if you go back to where you started (through the boundary) you’ll remember it again.
Sarah SH 2 years ago
If so I’ve been getting senior moments most of my life. (I’m 40…I think)
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LK 2 years ago
It has a number of different names, eg doorway effect. It's thought to be the result of the brain taking the time to size up the new area and check for danger/threats. Silly things like the reason you entered the room in the first place can be thrown out by the brain as being unimportant. I've found the best way to overcome this is by saying out loud that I was doing. eg "I'm going to make a cup of tea." or "I need to collect my zinctropic machine." The thought it right at the front of the brain, and is less easily ignored/forgotten.
Kathy 2 years ago
I've been using this coping method for years, and while it does help me keep track of where I was headed and why, it also has gained me the reputation of someone who is either approaching insanity at breakneck speed, or else is a full-blown psycho who has probably escaped from some mental asylum. A friend once told me that there are two types of people in the world: those who fear that talking to themselves means that they are going mad; and those that fear that they WILL go mad if they DON'T talk to themselves!
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#8
You get and cure cancer in your own body thousands of times a day.....
Sky Render 2 years ago
Yep. Cancer is the result of a copy error in our cell reproduction process. Normally our immune system identifies the miscopied cells and kills them, but sometimes it fails and your body basically tries to make a new (and corrupted) copy of you from the miscopied cells afterwards.
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DrGirlfriend 2 years ago
I think I did that wrong, ok I meant to say I hope it's all behind you dear, and you can enjoy a long, happy and healthy life. 💗
Load More Replies... I'm.Just.A.Girl 2 years ago
That's a scary thought. It's the one time our body cannot fight it.. that a hellish nightmare begins.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Makes sense to me. Individual cells can mutate for a number of reasons—-and sometimes it seems for no reason at all. Kind of like when a product comes off an assembly line of identical products, only this one’s all wonky, so gets tossed out or broken down and recycled to get right this time. It’s the power of your white blood cells to seek out nd destroy them that makes the difference. If your count is low, or the mutated cells are multiplying so fast your white cells can’t keep up—-or the mutated cells have a mutation that allows them to actually destroy white cells—-then you have to make an appointment with your doctor. Better to nip it in the bud than to let it get worse.
Susan Bosse 2 years ago
But that one time, when I was 19, it didn't. A*****e body. Thankfully, that was 35 years ago so bravo that it's continues to do it since!!!
#9
The universe is unbelievably infinite, while simultaneously unbelievably infinitesimal. The universe has ~10^22 stars, a rough guess. This is an unfathomably large number for humans to comprehend, but bear with me. There is roughly 100 thousand million stars in our galaxy alone, and there are roughly 125 billion galaxies. A single drop of water contains ~10^21 H2O molecules, not too far off from the number of stars in the whole universe. A very similar number, but contained in a single drop of water! It blows my mind that the universe can contain such mind boggling numbers of things on such wildly different scales. There is so much to reality that the human mind just isn't capable of grasping.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Yet the alternative to being truly infinitessimal is more bizarre, yet true: at a certain point, the law of physics break down until there's another certain point at which even space itself is quantumized. Still wilder, this means there's a finite amount of information in the universe.... and that information survives a black hole. Which means if the universe actually IS massive enough to contract back on itself, all of reality can be thought of as a projection of information from a single point in space. (I don't say space and time because time also breaks down with density.)
DrGirlfriend 2 years ago
Bruno you are magic. 🙏🏻. Appreciate this break down
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David 2 years ago
Run a full tub of water. Climb in and splash about pretending you are Cthulhu, master of 50 kajillion water molecules. Enjoy your godlike power until one of the kids knocks on the bathroom door and informs you that somehow the two littles are covered in peanut butter and are climbing all over the sofa trying to get away from the dogs who won't stop licking them but breaking the vase was totally an accident because the lamp hit it when it fell over.
laura lee 2 years ago
Through all my learning or anyone's learning that is, it's human contact that keeps us tethered and is most needed and valued, by even the most humbug of us maybe even more with them. Human contact keeps us sane. Without it most of us cannot survive the constant existential crisises of higher learning. Many think it's necessary to learn more by isolating and such, but it causes human minds to break down and become pathological. We need touch and mundanity to cope.
Fraxinus excelsior 2 years ago
My friend can't think of this because his brain doesn't switch off from asking how/why and it'll keep him up all night.
Donald Crocker, Jr. 2 years ago
Fractals and chaos, averages and black swans, a beautiful dance of probability.
Alora Ardoni 2 years ago
So wait...... What if we... Earth..... Are a drop of water........ In someone else's cup..... *Trying to process*
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
If you like this kind of mind-blowing stuff, head over to YouTube and find the channel called "Red Side" which does graphic animation of the scale of things.
#10
If you believe strongly enough that you have been cursed, your brain can shut itself off entirely in severe cases. The psychological term for it is "Voodoo Death Syndrome." It's just the fact you can literally think yourself to death that unsettles me so.
Thatkamloopsguy 2 years ago
There are a lot of people who are pretty safe from thinking themselves to death.
David 2 years ago
The brain can do some pretty amazing stuff. I am trained in hypnotherapy. Hypnosis is not the mind control c**p you see in hollywood movies but I do know people who have used hypnosis instead of anesthetics for surgery and dental work. Many pain killers basically shut down the signal between the pain (damaged nerves) and the brain. Somehow the brain can also do this on its own.
Edward Finger Hands 2 years ago (edited)
I knew someone who did high level research on psychosomatic illnesses. He had one patient who had convinced themselves blind. Nothing anatomically wrong, no physiological explanation, but truly blind.
xolitaire 2 years ago
Yup, the old case of a person locked into a freezer room that was NOT switched on, but the person believed it was and got so scared that they literally froze to death in a warm room
Cathelijne Van 2 years ago
This really sounds like an urban myth https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deadly-imaginings/
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marianne eliza 2 years ago
People who blame something else for their actions need to get a grip or take a pill. Same with people who claim the devil made them do it, or a god told them to do something. Eliminates all responsibility for their actions because something else made them do it.
#11
Caterpillars turn completely into goo in their cocoon, and then become a butterfly.
MarnerIsAMagicMan added:
And there is evidence they retain memories from their pre-goo days. Memories of strong positive/negative stimuli that they show preference-for/aversion-to, even after metamorphosis.
mcborge1 2 years ago
They don't completely turn into goo as some of the nervous and respiratory system remains during the process. They just change structure to adapt to the new physical form of the adult. :)
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Well, it's not featureless goo, but it's goo. :-)
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The Scout 2 years ago (edited)
The caterpillar has to wrap itself in a cocoon and turn itself into goo to transform. Just remember that. So when you're a total mess and are lying on the sofa wrapped in a blanket like a crying burrito, you are not being lazy or broken - you are just preparing for your metamorphosis.
Nikki138 2 years ago
I needed to see this, thanks! Also upvote for crying burrito.
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DrGirlfriend 2 years ago
To actually think about this is absolutely wild.. to break down into goo then rebuild into intricate and delicate wings and antenna. Little tiny legs,.... From goo that was already something else... That's cool asfk
laura lee 2 years ago (edited)
We do it too, but we do it with a stretchy protective outer layer so we can continue to work while becoming the adult version of ourselves. Our cocoon is soft and semi permeable allowing us to "stay inside it" and grow our cocoon with us instead of shedding like coming out and leaving your chrysalis behind or going through many molting stages. Humans ability to stay in our protective shell while "evolving" into our adult selves allows us to better protect ourselves in the process. We all have our cocoons on every day of our lives, just a hella stretchy one
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Monarch cat lady 2 years ago
I raise monarchs and I am still fascinated by them watching them move into cocoon phase is mind boggling to me. I have to record every single 1 I see and it's not a quick process
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
It sounds incredibly interesting to witness the cycle repeatedly though. Their entire life cycle would be interesting to me. I love butterflies of all varieties. You have a truly magical, unique, and heartwarming job, while documenting each individual journey for them. I do admire your work.
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JinxBox 2 years ago
We were promised a scientifical article so yeah "turns into goo" does not quite explain it.
laura lee 2 years ago
It breaks down its resources (mostly it's outer physical form) into its basic structures (which becomes goo) and reconfigures them on a cellular level into a different physical form that fits their adaptation to their environment. This is all triggered by the same mechanism that humans go into puberty, nutrition. The bodies of each prepubescent creature be it a caterpillar or say a human girl are triggered to go into puberty when enough nutrition is consumed. For caterpillars it's making its cocoon for human girls they start menstruation. Through eons of evolution many creatures have developed different pathways to adulthood that was best for their unique circumstances, thus all the variety of adolescence in living things.
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That so many vegetables came from the same plant. Broccoli, kale, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, etc. They are, botanically speaking, the same species. Humans have just bred them to emphasize different traits (buds, leaves, tubers...) Imagine if humans were as genetically flexible. Imagine a person walking around with GIANT toes, but otherwise normal. Actually, plant genetics in general is a weird, weird world.
LK 2 years ago
The same is true for dogs. They are all the same species, but look so different. The Chihuahua and New Foundland are the same species.
David 2 years ago
Some people need to remember humans are also all from the same species (I know, still are). I'll never understand why some people think others are sub-human based on skin color or eye shape or whatever.
Lydia 2 years ago
This, I got downvoted way too many times by trying to explain that. There is just one race, people. In different colours, different hair, different eyes and shapes.
Load More Replies... Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago
Sooooo... by definition these plants are all technically GMOs, correct?
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Yes! I try to explain to people who freak out that GMOs are “evil” that MOST FOOD PLANTS are GMO! Selective breeding IS genetic modification! Corn is GMO maize XD
Load More Replies... Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 2 years ago (edited)
I've seen lots of what you may be referring to of unusual size on the internet. For research purposes. There are already giant versions, so we don't need to gigantify them.
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Otto Katz 2 years ago
Grafting trees. Freaky. Cut a branch of an apple tree, graft it onto a peach tree, you have a tree w/ two kinds of fruit. Now, cut an arm off one person, graft it onto a person w/ two arms, do you now have a person with three arms? Plants are freaky.
laura lee 2 years ago
You could, but we are not allowed legally to even attempt it.
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laura lee 2 years ago (edited)
No you hate them because they're bitter af (a passed on trait that was beneficial to not dying from eating poison as most poisonous plant life is bitter) and you are probably a "supertaster"
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Violets secrete a chemical that causes you to forget what they smell like afterwords. You’re essentially getting roofied every time you sniff one.
H M 2 years ago
No, incorrect. Violets get their scent from ionone. It's an extremely sweet scent that many people describe as also being dry. "Powdery" is the word that's usually used. Another word is "ethereal," or "ephemeral." After stimulating scent receptors, ionone binds to them and temporarily shuts them off completely. This substance cannot be smelled for more than a few moments at a time. After that, people go anosmic to it. Then, after a few breaths, the scent pops up again. Because the brain hasn't registered it in the preceding few moments, it registers as a new stimulus. Although plenty of people don't like the scent of violets, they don't constantly overpower people, and they don't fade out.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Oh my god… I’ve eaten probably hundreds of them but I really can’t remember their smell… is it just the placebo effect??
WindySwede 2 years ago
I wonder if the chemical is present in all 600 species (nr of species: Wikipedia)? Or just some?
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
I cannot remember the last time I sniffed a violet… or maybe they’re just extra-strong in doping me
David 2 years ago (edited)
This sounds like the overly complicated plot of the villain from a James Bond or Batman movie. Boss Flower: "No one must know what we smell like!" Henchman Flower: "Well boss, we could evolve to have little or no scent the way some other flowers have done." BF: "NO! We shall develop a scent that is nice but not too nice. Then we will develop brain memory chemicals that will make folks forget what that nice but not too nice smell actually smelled like!". HF:" Well, okay boss. IDGI but you're the boss".
#14
When the Titanic sank non of the shoes decomposed so there’s tone of shoes at the bottom of the ocean.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
I’ve seen pictures of them. Most aren’t randomly scattered like they fell out of a trunk or suitcase, but lying side by side with their mates, just like they were when the person wearing them landed there. Though the people aren’t there anymore, those scatterings of perfect pairs of shoes still represent the bodies of the victims. When I realized that, it totally personalized the sinking for me. I had a mental image of all the bodies in those shoes kind of raining down on the ocean floor. It became a whole ship full of human stories, two-thirds of which were so unnecessarily cut short, and all that’s left are the shoes. It may have initially been kind of chilling to see the shoes, but it ended up making me mourn the people who wore them.
I Am, In Fact, That Weirdo 2 years ago
Cool, do they have an 8 1/2? Preferably sage green or lavender thx
#15
A gamma ray burst could wipe out all life on earth instantly with no warning.
MedusaWasBeautiful 2 years ago
Not all life unless it blows the planet apart. There are fungi living miles/kilometers below the surface of the Earth to hat would be unaffected.
Leonel Roque 2 years ago
I’m sorry you're going through this man! I hope things get better and you don’t lose ur home.
Load More Replies... Susan Robinson 2 years ago
And those it doesn’t kill will end up turning into huge, green rage monsters
Hannah Bridges 2 years ago
People not into astronomy: Asteroids could hit us and kill us all 😱 People into Astronomy: Gamma Ray Bursts are the scariest f*****g thing (I'm so scared of them pls)
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
People into quantum physics: vacuum decay is so scary omg
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Dingooo 2 years ago
Or a coronal mass ejection could disable most of the electronics on the planet. Back to sticks and rocks, pencil and paper.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
The scare stories about CMEs (coronal mass ejections) are now known to be overblown. Even a really big one would be highly unlikely to cause more than a few days of disruption.
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That as the permafrost melts, a lot of locked up methane will be released, and microorganisms there will "wake up" and do their jobs, breaking down organic matter, and release more methane and greenhouse gases.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
Not to mention any viruses that were long dormant so our bodies won't know how to fight them.
RagDollLali 2 years ago
This has recently become a (slightly irrational but maybe not) growing fear of mine as I've been getting too many articles on my Google feed about new viruses that they've discovered in the melting permafrost. Looking at how badly the world handled the last pandemic, I stress to think what will happen when something deadlier comes along.
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Verena 2 years ago
Due to the current changes in climate, the permafrost is thawing. This is why they recently found an almost perfectly preserved calf of a mammoth, somewhere in Siberia (?). Since a couple of years buildings there start to sink in the ground and landscapes collapse because of all the sinds centuries solid frozen ground thaws. And it gets worse for Europe, because once there is less difference in temperature between the arctic and the tropical, the warm water stream from the gulf of Mexico which heats up the european coasts in winter, will stop. Check the latitudes of London and Toronto, Europe will then experience winters like those in North-America last year. Global warming does not mean it will get cozy everywhere.
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago (edited)
And there is geological evidence of these "methane burps" from the past. Right off the coast of Antarctica, the northern part of the American Gulf Coast, the southern East Coast of the USA, the continental shelf is pockmarked with holes visible from satellites that are methane hydrate releases. In the early days of Discovery Channel, there were tons of shows about the Bermuda Triangle that used these methane hydrate releases as a possible answer for what happened to ships in the area. Then climate change became a topic and now I have trouble even finding those pockmarked images on the net. Gotta wonder why...
Janet C 2 years ago
We are much, much closer the the tipping point of no return than most people realize. Or want to know.
laura lee 2 years ago
It already happened for a tiny moment in a singular place, but in March 2016 it was recorded and that's was the tipping, it only had to be breached. It's already happened we need to focus on global adaptation now
Load More Replies... laura lee 2 years ago
Yes this is why we didn't want to reach that +2°C tipping point of no turn (which we technically did hit, if only momentarily- that's all it needed a moment, that's the "tip"- in March 2016) at that point we will melt faster than regain new ice during the proper seasons, so it stacks. More methane will heat faster releasing all of the eons long buried s**t & yes including lots of viruses & bacteria with deadly potentials. It's pretty much downhill from here, we must concentrate on adapting not trying to stop it from happening, it already did & we can't play catch up anymore we will just get further & further behind. But it's not necessarily the end of humanity, it could be good just a shift, but humans don't like change & it's going to be a lot of change & we need to be able to play friendly with ALL the world's nations. We must think & act globally, no matter how much some people will balk, to survive this shift with most of us intact. It could be wonderful if we all act as adults.
B Jones 2 years ago
Haha I was imagining that scene from Eddy Murphy's nutty professor
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#17
Your brain is making decisions before you are even aware of the decisions it has made. It also makes decisions based off of learned behavior and you just go along with it.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
This one shocks most people. Our brains do most of our decision making for us, and then let us know about it once we're already committed. If we "ask" it why we're doing something it will come up with a reason, but this reason is often nonsense that doesn't hold up to close scrutiny. Oliver Sacks covered a lot of this in his excellent and very readable books.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
"If you examine your mind with your mind, how can you avoid confusion?" - Zen saying
Max Fox 2 years ago
What we think is our conscious mind is actually the story that the rest of our brain is telling us, after the fact. Decision making doesn't happen in the conscious mind. It doesn't mean that we do not have free choice, just that we only hear about our free choice, and the considerations that went into it, after the act.
Jenna Logan 2 years ago
Very interesting , I've always thought the brain is such a fascinating subject
Kathy 2 years ago (edited)
...You mean that your brain has always thought of itself as such a fascinating subject... 😜
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Our bodies (everything that is not the working thoughts of your mind) are like AI. Your brain takes in the stimuli inputs, rem what happened last time and tells your body to do what you did last time you had success with the situation through neurons before you realize what you're going to do. It can be only split seconds before but it's still before. Not only that but you have muscle memory too, so if your physical self encounters something it'll react before your brain realizes it. Don't fight it (unless you're really bad lol) it's what makes us efficient and able to progress. Go with it, this is that "gut feeling" ppl talk about "instincts" Even if it's learned instincts, as in you learned it well enough it becomes second nature to you instinctive.
sophiedumas1184@gmail.com 2 years ago
'Off of' is grammatically incorrect. Just using 'off' is perfectly fine.
#18
Humans are bioluminescent (nothing to do with body temperature). We emit visible light that can be photographed in specific conditions. But, this light isn't visible to us. Which makes it a strange thing to have evolved, and begs the question "what organisms is this light visible to, and why?" Edit: Adding an edit for all the comments explaining evolution... Please read the thread before commenting. I find this a creepy fact due to implications on interspecific relationships, NOT because I think prehistoric humans went shopping for a bioluminescent hat with a specific motive in mind.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
I get OP'S point. We breed plants and animals for characteristics that please us (often involving flavor). So shouldn't we wonder if the same has been done...to us?
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 2 years ago
those damn aliens are at it again
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laura lee 2 years ago
This is what new age calls auras and some people can see them due to variations in human adaptations and mutations (more/less rods and cones in the eyes etc)
Mari 2 years ago
Aura's and energy around someone. You can't see it but you can feel it somehow
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Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
Evolution doesn't have to have a purpose. Sometimes there are just odd side effects.
Ronnie Cutshall 2 years ago
There is a genetic condition in humans that allow you to see these aura's and it horrible to have
Lawrencium 2 years ago (edited)
Wait, we emit "visible" light that "isn't visible" to us? Wouldn't that, by definition, make it not visible light? /s
Kathy 2 years ago
That is correct! I don't understand why you are being downvoted when all you have done is state the obvious...
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The brain can play tricks on you:
When you look at a clock and the second hand seems to freeze for a moment, your brain is actually generating a false memory - and your perception of time stretches slightly backward.
This effect is called chronostasis.
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
Is this why that last second on the five second timer before skipping a YouTube ad seems to feel so long?
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
all second hands on clocks "freeze" for a second if they are mechanical, it's called a catchment, the actual "tick" of the clock
SUPASAAB 2 years ago
I think they mean irregularly, it may seem to pause for longer and that is a result of your brain capturing that moment and your eyes see it for longer
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Temporary Dork 2 years ago (edited)
Here's the thing. The light (and connection) of the Playstation controller switches off after a while when I don't use it, like when I'm streaming Netflix. But when it's in my peripheral vision, I always see it happening. So assuming the change is what draws my attention, did my brain fill in the time when the light was still burning?
laura lee 2 years ago
Short answer, yes. It has to because you didn't directly observe the time, it must make assumptions.
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laura lee 2 years ago
Doubtful we can only perceive by comparing and if you're comparing yourself to things not similar to you you may feel lesser than, but it's still a type of confirmation bias.
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#20
Parasites can live anywhere inside of you, for years unnoticed. A simple migraine could be a tapeworm crawling in your brain, causing damage.
Your eyes begin to blur frequently and you don't know why and it's not getting better.
Losing weight and having diarrhea but it's not a stomach bug. Well, I guess it is...
You are having a difficult time catching your breath and your chest doesn't feel right.
It could just be some parasite hanging out, using you.
thepinkrobot 2 years ago
As someone who suffers from migraines often, I am choosing to pretend this is false information lol
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 2 years ago
me too. Also going to ignore that my chest has felt funny today. It'll go away right
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Moses Dikmen 2 years ago
I had constant diarrhea past year but no stomach pain whatsoever. Turned out like there was a bacteria living in my stomach, but doctor was surprised that the bacteria didn’t show any of its common effects, and diarrhea was not even usually associated with it. If I didn’t do the check for diarrhea, it wouldn’t show itself until it gives me ulcer.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Let me guess the little sucker goes by Helicobacter pylori?!
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Rowan_the_raging_raven 2 years ago
The mitochondria used to be its own organism yet now its found in cells
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Once had a patient who had a seizure and when a head CT was done it showed a “worm” encapsulated in the left front part of her brain.😖 That was quite the brain surgery.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
But remember that some creepy crawlies actually belong in you or on you. Like the bacteria in your digestive system and those mites on your eyelashes
laura lee 2 years ago (edited)
Not if it was in your brain, that's only if it attached itself to your intestines
Load More Replies... Rapunzel With The Loced Hair 2 years ago
I had undiagnosed heart pain for about 8 months, they couldn't figure out what it was cause the EKG and whatever other tests they ran came out clean, X-ray was clean too. As a last ditch effort, they put me on antibiotics (azithromycin) and a few other things, I had a parasite in my heart sac! Why? How? When? What????!
WHAT 2 years ago
How did they find out it was a parasite if the x-ray was clean? How was it resolved?
Load More Replies... laura lee 2 years ago
Fun fact, we age due to illness not the other way around
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That 99% of all life that has ever existed has gone extinct.
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
Not just life (as in individual organisms) but KINDS of life, as in phylum, class, genus, species...
Kathy 2 years ago
Yeah, well, that sentence works as a cute soundbite, but it requires so many qualifiers that you would need to rewrite it just for it to be coherent. So, the following might be more easily understood, if less light on the tongue: "That, to the best of our extremely limited knowledge and understanding in such spheres, almost all the forms of existence that we as humanoids would likely characterize as 'life' that have previously existed in these identifiable forms on our tiny and extremely isolated planet, are no longer identifiable as currently extant in their previous forms of existence". Told you it wouldn't be as catchy as the original phrase, but it's the best that this humanoid can do with the limited tools at its disposal...
RavenTheCat 2 years ago
They say with death brings new life. Who knows what could happen, for all we know the fall of humanity could very well lead to an alternative future of another being of intelligence. Maybe one already existing that evolves, or maybe something we've never discovered . Im not trying to get all crazy scientific or drive anyone crazy reading this, but imagine thr idea of a mass extinction of a Major species, say people. And million's of years later another mass species rises incits place. What could that dystopian future be like? Again i am so sorry for rambling x3
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PandaRave 2 years ago
Is this really trying to make saying “people who have lived have died” sound scary?
Nicole 2 years ago
But one of a species dying is not the same as a whole species dying out and ceasing to exist?
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When a president declares a national state of emergency the law prohibiting medical experiments on unwilling human subjects is suspended.
Joe Publique 2 years ago
Which country do you think the balance of probability suggests it might be?
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Mental Liberals 2 years ago
the corrupt US government has been doing this for years, without any emergencies...
Paul Gerrard 2 years ago
In the us perhaps. But they cant limit guns. So it follows medical experiments and guns will rule. Guess who wins?
Quentin ingulfumble 2 years ago
as one of literally dozens of people who do not live in the USA, i can say that this is not universally true.
#23
your digestive tract is an unbroken tube from mouth to a**s...your lips are basically the other end of your b******e.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago (edited)
You also have spongiform erectile tissue in your nose. And the same capsaicin (spicy stuff in peppers) receptors in your a*s as your mouth, so it really does burn in both ends!
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Tim 2 years ago
And if you think about it, talking out of your a$$ and having s**t come out of your mouth mean the same thing.
Load More Replies... Shark Lady 2 years ago
Mine stops three quarters of the way through my small bowel. I have no b******e, my daughter likes telling people that I can't fart, obviously i can but just not from the same place as most other people.
Mental Liberals 2 years ago
that's why many people (especially politicians) talk out their arses!!
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
Also, we are Deuterostome creatures, meaning that when the little ball of cells creates a cleft to start differentiating left from right (bilateralism) that cleft is your b******e. We are part of the "b******e first" group. The "mouth first" group is called protostome.
RavenTheCat 2 years ago
Thats why people are always talking out their- . . Actually im just as guilty what am i saying
BatPhace 2 years ago (edited)
And the digestive process starts with saliva and chewing, in fact the reason we taste things is our saliva begining to break down the nutrients in our food. And if you cannot taste something it's because you cannot digest it, which is why gum tastes like nothing once all the flavor is chewed out of it. Your stomach acid will melt it, but it does not get digested truly
Gus gordon 2 years ago
So…..when we kiss….it’s a continuous tube capped with b*tth*l*s?
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Not exactly scientific or creepy but, it's close enough and I want to contribute. Mouth pipetting was a thing in labs in the 1980s. A pipette is, for simplicity sake, a glass straw that lab staff would use to transfer liquids. Now a days we use special bulbs, that when squeezed, would suck up the liquid for us. Kinda like a turkey baster or eye dropper. Before we had these bulbs lab workers had to use their mouths to suck up the liquid. Which meant if they weren't careful they'd get whatever they were sucking up in their mouth. I'm currently training to be MLAT and those fluids would usually be urine, liquid stool, sputum and so on. Edit: So mouth pipetting is still a thing. I'm Canadian and I've been told that it is rare or none existent in our labs.
Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
It's still a thing in my School. I hated it. Thankfully I just passed out from School.
Randy Volz 2 years ago
For senior year high school credit I worked part-time at a medical lab in the early 70s, and one of my jobs was to clean and sterilize those pipettes.
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Sheesh, I would have hated this when I regularly worked with hydrochloride acid and sodium hydroxide!
Mjskywalk 2 years ago
I have a friend that did used to mouth pipette hydrochloride acid! She was not pleased when she found out manual pipettes existed and her boss was just too cheap to buy any.
Load More Replies... David 2 years ago
It seems to me a simple solution to back when they did this would be - mouth hose - connected to small beaker - connected to hose / pipette drawing the liquid. Any 'oversuck' liquid would just go into the beaker. If my words are not clear - google water separator. It's a basic concept that has been used for ages. Obviously these days there are better / more modern ways of doing it.
Pan Narrans 2 years ago
If told this here before, but our commercial lab has a separate department where all our solutions are made. Everything is mouth pipetted that can be mouth pipetted. It's easier to handle and the speed is far higher. Of course, concentrated acids and deadly chemicals are dispensed using balloons etc. But highly trained people prefer to use mouth pipetting.
#25
Sea stars eject their stomachs to cover edible parts of their prey, begin digesting it externally, and then pull the partially digested prey into digestive glands to finish the job.
Mystery Egg 2 years ago
We call them starfish where I come from but I think Sea Stars sounds much cuter
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
There's a strange campaign among scientists to rewrite the meaning of the word "fish" to only refer to vertebrates that are not tetrapods. Formerly, it meant any sea-dwelling animal, a small minority of which were vertebrates. Hence, jellyfish, cuttlefish, shellfish, starfish, etc.
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#26
Obligate siblicide. In some species of animals, multiple offspring are born but only one is actually raised by the mother. The others are born only as backup in case the first-born doesn't survive. When the first-born is fine, which is the typical case, it kills the others.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Female kangaroos have two uterusses, and keep one embryo in a kind of stasis as back up in case the first joey doesn't survive.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
Shoebills, the larger more dominant chick will bully the smaller one away from the mother and the mother then ignores the weakling.
Jennifer_Crowley_Luci 2 years ago
Soooo, that's how I adopt a Shoebill?!? <3
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Sarah SH 2 years ago
Why are people so invested in condemning him? Also, I think he willingly escaped the nest.
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We know more about the moon than we do our own oceans.
marianne eliza 2 years ago
The moon was easier to get to. And with no life, there's not many surprises up there.
Sinnsyk Jakte 2 years ago
The ocean is terrifying. I'm all right with letting it be and just singing shanties.
GLENN GARDNER 2 years ago
The moon is much less hostile to human life than the ocean depths are.
RavenTheCat 2 years ago
Of course we do, moon is big rock in sky Ocean is big deep spooky place, And spooky means unknown mysteries
Array Index Out of Bounds 2 years ago
Well, we know what very little there is to know about our moon.
Steffen Taschner 2 years ago
Relative to what there is to know about the moon; perhaps? The moon is just not that complicated nor interesting. The sea on the other hand, now THAT's interesting
#28
Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor figured out what was wrong. Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly *very* briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me.
Big Chungus 2 years ago
This show has made me very paranoid of tropical beaches, so I force everyone in my family to wear bug spray to avoid bot flies and those ugly sand shoes to avoid sand worm parasites
RagDollLali 2 years ago
I absolutely love this old show, I get super excited in the rare instances when I come across anyone else that has watched it! My husband absolutely hates it, he can never understand how I can sit through an episode while demolishing a plate of spaghetti and remain unmoved.
Trent Tulpo 2 years ago (edited)
I don't know why I jammed a spider in my eye, I guess I'll die.
#29
With a lethal dose of radiation, victims of acute radiation sickness will, after hours of vomiting and feeling horrible, start to feel much better. Then, they will descend into a hell of a painful death.
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
And, with the very notable exception of getting irradiated by a bomb - most irradiation events are not felt at all by the victim. The event itself can happen without you realizing it.
Lace Neil 2 years ago
Not just from nuclear accidents, either; check out the "Goiania Incident."
Inge van Echelpoel 2 years ago
Just did, nobody knew that they were handeling radioactif stuff
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Richard Anderson 2 years ago
If a pregnant woman is exposed to radiation (think Chernobyl) the baby absorbs all the radiation and the mother will generally be fine.
#30
It’s rare, but you can die at any moment for literally no reason at all. Your body just stops working.
Rebecca Phillips-Partridge 2 years ago
This actually happened to my son.... He wasn't even 20 years old.... No chemical interference, no abnormalities, no defects, no damage, no alcohol, no allergies, no poisons or toxins.... Corner had nothing left to test or search for... Simply stated, we are not all promised a long life span. Some of us only get a few years and that's it..... Totally unfair.... Totally heart wrenching
RagDollLali 2 years ago
Your body doesn't " just stop working" for no reason, there is always an underlying cause. It's not like the whole system just decides "whelp, I'm done here, time to pack it in".
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
About 35% - 40% of the US population have ready had their brains stop working. They’re called MAGAts.
Lord of the laserprinter. 2 years ago
SiL simply dropped dead in the middle of a pedestrian zone in the nearby town.
RavenTheCat 2 years ago
Aight lads life sucks Guess I'll die snd see what the next universe holds
#31
I could be drinking the same water that my extremely far relative drank back in like the 1800s
Lord of the laserprinter. 2 years ago
I drank some water out of a bottle with the sticker: „passed by the water authorities“ I really, really hope not.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Welll... no. I mean, there could be atoms in common, but that's hardly "the same" water.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Yes. Water is a surprisingly persistent molecule that really doesn't "like" to be broken up.
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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
The ultimate recycling program, brought to you entirely by Mother Nature. Problem is, we have been incredibly bad children, and some have been f*****g downright evil, and kept her from maintaining her balance. We should be slapped, and the evil ones amongst us turned into fertilizer—-because they’re s****y excuses for human beings anyway—-after straining out and destroying all the evil stuff, that is.
#32
- Out of all our DNA, only 2% codes for our genes. The 98% leftover is called "junk DNA". I'm not specialised in genetic, but it was long thought to be useless but it's apparently essential for DNA expression regulation and protein formation. - There are familial forms of alzheimer's disease. They are very rare but they exist, it doesn't skip a generation and one of the form makes you have the disease as early as your late 20's/early 30's. - In Auschwitz, Joseph Mengele, a nazi doctor who conducted experiment on twins, sewed up 2 twins together for sh**s and giggles and let them die after the surgery of infections. They apparently screamed of pain for days until dying. - You can live "normaly" with half your brain removed. It's usually done on young children suffering from terrifying epilepsy and the surgery is the last resort. It works quite well and if done early enough, with reeducation, the children develop normally without cognitive deficit, they "just" are blind from one eye, have one very weak arm/leg but they are not cognitively affected : some go to college, get married, have children and live completely normal lives.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
A family friend’s younger brother had to have half his brain removed as a kid because he had strokes. He’s a teenager now and doing well!
Kelli Pike 2 years ago
The "brain removal" one... More common is to cut the corpus callosum, the bridge between the two halves of the brain. It's been shown to work better for men than women; men go back to life normally, while women have a much higher change of ending up in a vegetative state. Additionally, this surgery can cause your hands to fight each other; while trying to pull your pants down, the other hand will pull them up, or eating with one hand while the other hand smacks the food away from your mouth.
Completely Hatstand 2 years ago
A very small portion of "junk DNA" is essential. The rest of it is literally junk.
Rowan_the_raging_raven 2 years ago
Yeah and the other half of the brain can actually learn how to do the stuff that the half taken out does
Deep One 2 years ago (edited)
It has been discovered that our DNA isn't like a blueprint but more like a computer program with subroutines. For example the gene that codes for bones with knobs on each end is used for all of those type of bones. The same gene is used for your massive thigh bones and your small finger bones. It is known as a "tool kit" gene. but other genes control how long it is turned on for depending on location. Read: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo" by Sean B. Carroll. It was written a while ago so there is new stuff but the book is fascinating.
#33
After being decapitated there’s still few seconds of brain activity that happen before you snuff out.
KJ 2 years ago
Poor Sean Bean, often gets killed off early, it's a shame as he is a great actor.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
He didn't die in Pixels! ... Well, maybe he did inside for accepting the role
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Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
This is true for dying in general. Sometimes the brain is still functioning for several minutes, depending on how you die. So if you witness a loved one die, tell them everything you need them to know, there’s a fair chance they can still hear you.
BewilderedBanana 2 years ago
So the last thing you'd see would be the ground coming at your face... i wonder if, to add insult to injury, the last thing you'd feel would be a smashed nose :)
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
I don’t know how true this is, but when asked how someone could possibly figure this out, the person replied that they yelled the unfortunate person’s name and they moved their eyes in his direction 😳
RavenTheCat 2 years ago
Decapitated head be like "damn i was fat! No wonder he drew it out harder, oh wait Im supposed to be dead"
#34
There is more microorganisms on your body than people on earth.
LK 2 years ago
Yeah, but the nice thing about the microorganisms is they don't tend to demand much. You can go about your day as if you were alone in the house.
Load More Replies... Fish Fingers 2 years ago
Isn't there a school of thought that bacteria are the dominant life form on Earth, and that we evolved as walking ecosystems for them?
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
I'm going to need a bigger place and why aren't any of them paying their fair share!?
#35
Literally everything that you know or feel or experience in total is just a series of electric impulses and nothing else.
Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 2 years ago
That’s not scary to me at all. My world doesn’t change because I’m aware my soul consists of biochemistry and electrical impulses, I’m all good.
Em 2 years ago (edited)
This is a statement that is not proven in any way, so it should not be posted as an absolute. Scientifically, there is so much we cannot know and also cannot measure. The electrical impulses are measurable, but that doesn't mean that we should just assume that nothing more exists, just because we haven't discovered it yet/cannot discover it. You only have to study very little quantum physics to see that there is so much more to the universe than we can understand today. And then there is the spiritual aspect of this Universe, but I won't go into it here. But what I will say is that the people I have met who have had the same view as in this post have been very limited, uncreative and depressed people. I'm not saying that everyone with that view are like that, but that's my general experience anyway. It's not a healthy nor scientific view of this Universe.
Demosthenes 2 years ago
It literally makes literal sense to use literally literally everywhere.
Marvelous Life 2 years ago
There's more to reality than electricity. And therein lays the flaw in your assertion.
Bill Hankel 2 years ago
If this were true, I'd literally have no reason to believe it to be true.
Abby Rexroth 2 years ago
And your memories are not really memories but rather a memory of a memory of a memory...in essence they are mental photo copies.
#36
There is something called "the squeeze," where when people had old scuba suits with tubes, you could actually get sucked into that tube if the pressure was off. You are literally shredded through your own breathing tube.
thepinkrobot 2 years ago
There was a horrible death attributed to this. the Byford Dolphin accident https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/byford-dolphin-accident.htm
SarDemMin 2 years ago
Just read the article. The deaths were pretty descriptive. Well written article
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Lee Henderson 2 years ago
They were the early deep sea diving suits. If you pressure pump from the surface was disconnected, the pressure of the depths would crush you and send you back to the surface through the tubing.
Moezzzz 2 years ago
Well, yeah, but before scuba diving, this was what they did, so, OP is right, still.
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#37
If you rub garlic on your feet you can taste it.
Heather Menard 2 years ago
Does it work if we run it on our butt too. See comments about lips and butts.
Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 2 years ago
I want to know who decided to rub garlic all over their body, and why?
PleasantCrocodile 2 years ago
This is true. The compounds in garlic actually permeate your cells and travel through your whole body.
Tim 2 years ago
In some cultures, it's used as a home remedy. Onions too.
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In the United States, approximately 1 in every 50 people have an unruptured aneurysm. Most will never rupture, but will just sit there in your brain, silently waiting...
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
And holding in a sneeze can cause it to rupture! It’s rare, but possible!
Rat Lord 2 years ago
See this is the kind of info you need when you have a cold
Load More Replies... RagDollLali 2 years ago
My friend's little sister passed away from an aneurysm at age 14 when we were in high school. She was on the girls soccer team and was in the middle of a match when suddenly the aneurysm burst and she dropped dead in the middle of the field in front of all of us. Their whole family was there, it was one of the most traumatic things I've ever seen. I will remember her parents' reactions until the day I die.
NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago
I have a progressive connective disease coupled with hyper clotting of my blood. I learned last year I ALSO have an aneurysm behind my left eye. Incidentally, I can barely see from my right eye so I kinda like my left one. I was only supposed to live 10 years after my diagnosis of the disease and it's now been 21+. So I'm thinking the aneurysm is just hanging out waiting for me to mess up whatever reason I've been given the extra years. Lol
Ray Perkins 2 years ago
Killed my dad. He had chronic back pain due to the aneurism pressing on a nerve, which he didn't know about. Then one day, pop, and that was it.
Rowan_the_raging_raven 2 years ago
My uncle died of an aneurysm the day after my birthday, he drove himself to the er when it ruptured thinking he had a heart attack
Susan Widomski 2 years ago
That is the scary part. My brother died from one just after he turned 39. I have a potential brain tumor that may do the same. Makes you think about life everyday and how to positively impact yourself and the world around you.
#39
Here's a good one: your eyes are an exposed extension of your brain. In other words, and apologies if it sounds a little sociopathic, but if you take apart your head piece by piece with just the brain in tact your eyes would be dangling from the brain. Or, you can just google "eyes and the brain" to see what I mean.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Oh, it's worse than that! You know that headache behind the eyes that you get when you get a fever? That's the brain having expanded too much to fit into your skull, so it's pushing out your eyesockets.
Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
Secondary Fact: The vertebrate camera eye (what you have) is indeed part of the brain. The cephalopod camera eye (what squids have and work the same way as ours) starts as an invagination of the epithelial tissue (the skin). Two utterly different starting points arrive at the same structure.
NonbinaryIdiot 2 years ago
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSPbS6elzPlw8qVnFGZHvlYkKScZjGHeZdQrw&usqp=CAU Googled it and now I need unsee juice
#40
Rogue black holes. There are black holes that just are floating around in space and potentially f*****g up solar system just by passing through it.
MagicJacket 2 years ago
Rogue stars also exist, travelling at ridiculous speeds. Scientists think they were part of a binary star-system where the other star went supernova, and instead of "eating" the smaller star, it sent it off hurtling through space. Saw it on "How the Universe Works" just this morning!
Jenna Logan 2 years ago
Fact: black holes exist at the center of every galaxy, including our own. It is a common theory that one day a much larger galaxy with a much larger black hole will cross paths with our milky way galaxy and we will be sucked into the black hole of the other galaxy and that will be the end of of galaxy.
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
Meh, we'd see a rogue star coming likely thousands of years before it got here. Rogue black hole is a little trickier, but there would be evidence we could spot well in advance. Trickier still is a rogue planet.
PeridotPlatypus377 2 years ago
A rogue planet getting too close to our solar system could disrupt the orbits of our planets, potentially making earth a rogue planet as well. Also rogue stars exist including one kind which is a personal favorite, magnetars. I recommend looking up what would happen to us if one of those got a little too close.
#41
A doctor once told me, on average every human has three anomalies. Not all are visible.
Heather Gomez 2 years ago
My mom's appendix was on the wrong side of her body. Not sure where mine is...
mysterious 2 years ago
Not sure what it's called, but like the little thing under your tongue that connects it to the bottom of your mouth, for me that's shorter than normal, bad eyesight, not sure what the third is.
Hey! 1 year ago
My granddaughter also has a short lingual frenulum (thing under the tongue). At first she had problems breastfeeding but now she's okay.
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Potato 2 years ago
Seriously? An anomaly is just something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. This actually makes perfect sense, considering all of our unique traits. Anomalies aren't always bad, if that's what you were assuming.
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There is a supermassive star 7600 light years away named Eta Carinae A. It is about 200 times the mass of our sun. It's size is about the size of our entire solar system. It is 5 million times brighter than our sun. And it is very very very near supernova. It might have already happened and the shock wave is on the way. It probably is far enough away to where won't destroy our solar system. Probably.
#43
Not so much as a fact but an observation. Viruses are both dead, alive, and inanimate all at the same time. We still don't know why or how they originally came into existence in the first place, and theoretically, the only possible function they serve in any species especially Humans is solely to cap the population growth rate. Therefore, Nature, in all its nihilistic behavior, made a "thing" to destroy Life itself by making it a byproduct of too much Life according to unexplained forces in Nature.
Susie Elle 2 years ago
Not necessarily, as viral genetic information can also be incorporated into the genome of the host it infects, leading to potentially beneficial alterations. Our genome is for 8% of viral origine. It's not a killswitch implemented by mother nature, it's a package of genetic information that can go from organism A to organism B.
Chintan Shah 2 years ago
This is really well written. Concise and easy to understand for how complex the topic is. Kudos
Load More Replies... and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
This is highly misleading. Viruses are weird, and it’s been debated to death whether they’re alive or not, but this is complete nonsense.
#44
If all the muscles in your back clenched with force at the same time, they would shatter your spine.
#45
Some mutations of just one letter in the DNA code can kill the fetus almost instantly, but some people live and have a seemingly healthy life while missing a whole chromosome. If you understand anything about biology, that's completely wild.
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
If you understand anything about coding, that doesn't seem unusual at all. Once argument off, program fails. One module off, skip it and run.
Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
But there's a limit to how much an organism can be likened to an operating system.
Load More Replies... Stephanie A Mutti 2 years ago
The letters in DNA are not exactly letters but symbols for very complicated chemicals so it's not the same as 'just missing a letter'. It's missing an important part of the molecule.
#46
I'm pretty sure scientific fact is a bit of an oxymoron. Science always leaves room for an improvement on a theory. That bring said. Where TF is the 95% of the mass of the universe at. Why can't we find it.
Demosthenes 2 years ago
See and here’s the rub. If science accepts that our understanding of gravity at the quantum level and the galactic level is not accurate, the “98%” missing mass of the universe becomes an “oh s**t I guess we did the maths wrong” vs. the greatest mystery of all time. Think of dark matter as the 98% b******t humans think they know about but actually have zero clue. I mean ask yourself this: knowing how frequently humans get things wrong what are the odds that 98% of the universe is not visible or measurable in any way shape or form vs. humans are dumb?
Tom Hardeveld 2 years ago
hey, I know I gained a bit of weight but there was no need for that!
PeridotPlatypus377 2 years ago
I’ll have to go track down the book that states this but it says we cannot study what dark matter is directly because it doesn’t interact with regular matter, dark matter is affected by gravity (gravity also doesn’t make much sense) but not much beyond that, so if we want to find dark matter we have no choice but to do it in an indirect manner. That doesn’t give scientists a whole lot of tools to work with. There are a lot of ideas out there about what exactly dark matter could be but no one is in a solid agreement yet. If you knew what dark matter really was you’d have a Nobel Prize.
#47
NSFL warning! Male sea otters will occasionally drown female sea otters during the mating process.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
...and will keep going with the corpse. Other species aren't safe either, baby seals for example are another common victim
#48
The fact that bacteria in your gut can be more harmful than any flesh eating virus.
Susie Elle 2 years ago
Flesh eating viruses don't exist. At best, bacteria that produce toxins that can dissolve soft tissue
The Short Lady 2 years ago
Probably doesn't make a noticeable difference to the victim.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
And let's not talk about prions - bar shaped cells that protect out brain from toxins and small amounts of radiation, but if they fold themselves they destroy brain cells and causing literal holes in it. The body reacts with heavy fever, despite them survivng temperatures up to 200 degree celsius (Brain matter melts at 43 degree)
RagDollLali 2 years ago
And unfortunately eating other animals prions can lead to creutzfeldt-jakob disease, which seems like an absolutely horrific way to go
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Most of the water on the earth will rain down at some point... The creepy fact about this is that the human body is 60% water, meaning that at some point the same water that runs through your body, the one on your blood, bones, brain, etc. Will rain down at some point.
MagicJacket 2 years ago
Except for bits of water that could be on satellites, space stations or anything else we sent into space, all the water that has ever existed on Earth is still here on Earth and in Earth's atmosphere.
John Witts 1 year ago
It's not though. A good amount will have been split by plants and then recombined.
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
“This is the bond of water. We know the rites. A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”
David Hale 2 years ago
Millions and millions of gallons are locked in your single use water bottles. If you insist on using the planet killing plastic bottles, please unscrew the cap before discarding it.
#50
Scientific? Maybe not..but i always think about, unless u are mega famous, or made an insane contribution to society, you and everything youve ever said or done will or accomished will be forgotten. In time, after u die, u will gradually be forgoten by your family and friends. Every shared exerpiences with friends or family will be forgotten and lost because u will die and your friends will die your family will die.....no one will exist anymore to share or talk about your memories. Your kid will remember u...and maybe your kids kids.....but those kids kids kids wont...and on and on forever you will be phased out of existance. Honestly, how long do u think memories of you will carry on through future generations unless u were mega famous for something.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I find this comforting, I like the thought that my existence will be wiped from memory, probably in less than a century.
Potato 2 years ago
When the rogue memory of something embarrassing keeps me up at night, I just tell myself that eventually there will be no knowledge that it ever happened.
Load More Replies... Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
I still remember my great grandfather and think of him now and then, so maybe one generation further but point still stands
SarDemMin 2 years ago
Right? People who care about having sons to carry on the family name...like why do you care? You'll be dead and forgotten.
Load More Replies... ravn 2 years ago
Mentioned it in another context, but there is a great short story based on the premise that when you die, you're stuck in a purgatory/waiting room. You cannot "move on" until your name has been spoken for the last time. Now think about people with celestial objects, theorums, etc. named after them...
devotedtodreams 2 years ago
I reckon that once I'm dead, I'll be forgotten pretty much instantaneously because a) I'm out of touch with my overseas relatives, and b) my brother and I don't get along well, so I'm guessing it'll be easy for him to forget about me. Not that I'll care because I'll be, y'know, dead...
Demosthenes 2 years ago
Being famous or contributing to society means zip. All human endeavor is meaningless and forgotten in the briefest of geological time scales.
#51
There is a fungus that turns ants into zombies. And when they die it will be in the best position to spread more of the spores.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
There's a fungus which infects male cicadas; it was very common in the latest cicada outbreak here. It makes the males become attracted to other males, and spreads when they attempt to mate. Then it consumes the entire cicada from the genitals forward until it forces enough of a pressure build-up that the cicada explodes (although I haven't found video of this online yet, so I don't know if this is a bit of an overstatement) and the fungus instantly forms a fruiting body. Exploding homosexual zombie "locusts." If that doesn't seize the imagination of a fundamentalist, I don't know what does.
Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
*adds "Exploding Homosexual Zombie Locusts" to possible band names list*
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Toxoplasma Gondii infects mice and let them lose their fear of cats, as the parasite can only reproduce in the indestines of them. It can also infect us humans, and a common scientific thesis is that it increases risky behaviour.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
The ants can also identify when this happens and will carry the infected ant as far away from their nest as possible.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
Literally watching episode 4 while I browse this post haha
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Cherreka Wirth 2 years ago
I decided this is how I want to die. I want to become a zombie fungus.
Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
Cordyceps genus. And it's part of traditional Chinese medicine.
#52
Just how big of a number a mole actually is. anonymous replied: I can still remember the mole song our chemistry teacher played for us. The song is from when the world population was 5 billion.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
“A mole is a unit, or have you heard, Containing six times ten to the twenty-third, That’s a six with twenty-three zeros at the end, Much too big a number to comprehend.”
#53
Flys take a dump every time they land.
NonbinaryIdiot 2 years ago
Yep. You probably have some fly shìt on you right now
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A buddy of mine is a pilot for a major airline...in top 3 of airlines. I asked him "exactly how much flying are u actually doing during a flight..like how much are u controlling the plane?" He said about 5% ....95% of a flight is completely automated. He said he's involved a little bit on take off and on the landing but for the most part the plane flies itself unless something major happens in flight.
Charlotte Thorpe 2 years ago
Pilots are controlling the aircraft 100% of the time, they just use their hands 5% of the time, and use the autopilot the rest, the aircraft is never just “flying itself” ;)
Robin DJW 2 years ago
THANK you. Operating it and controlling it are not the same thing in this context. Nor in others that most people could name if they thought about it for a few minutes.
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Salad. 2 years ago
Compared to the sky, the road has many more obstacles to avoid.
Load More Replies... #55
Due to relativity, it is impossible to measure the speed of light in a straight line. The only way we've measured it is by round trip with mirrors. For all we know, it could be instantaneous going one way, and half the speed of light in the other, and it would be impossible to tell.
Libstak 2 years ago
Oh, oh I have an idea....it could behave differently when observed than when not observed too....
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Exactly what happens in quantum physics. The particles are so small that just by observing them you change the whole system
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Joe Publique 2 years ago
Hmm., How about the fact that Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the first iPhone than she did to the building of the pyramids of Giza?
Daycare Attendant Sun 2 years ago
Half of these aren't even legitimate. Or they're half-truths. And I hate half-truths more than I hate flat-out lies.
Samantha Kalitzki 1 year ago
Wäre schön gewesen auch etwas über Schlafparalyse zu sehen, das Gefühl mental wach zu sein sich aber nicht bewegen zu können, ich finde es ziemlich gruselig auch zu wissen das jeder Mensch sie hat wenn auch nicht mit Bewusstsein. Ansonsten wären viele gute Beispiele dabei und ich habe einiges neues gelernt 😉
Joe Publique 2 years ago
Hmm., How about the fact that Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the first iPhone than she did to the building of the pyramids of Giza?
Daycare Attendant Sun 2 years ago
Half of these aren't even legitimate. Or they're half-truths. And I hate half-truths more than I hate flat-out lies.
Samantha Kalitzki 1 year ago
Wäre schön gewesen auch etwas über Schlafparalyse zu sehen, das Gefühl mental wach zu sein sich aber nicht bewegen zu können, ich finde es ziemlich gruselig auch zu wissen das jeder Mensch sie hat wenn auch nicht mit Bewusstsein. Ansonsten wären viele gute Beispiele dabei und ich habe einiges neues gelernt 😉
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