Someone Asked “What Are You Certain Of, Right Down To Your Bones, Without Proof?” And 40 Folks Delivered
We perceive reality judging the facts we are given. We know that some things are true because we have proof or logical explanations for them. But there are things that we just know are true that we don't have evidence for. It might be things in your personal life or just about life in general.
Because there is no evidence for such things, everyone can believe what they want. Reddit user UnbentJohnson came up with the question, "What do you KNOW is true without evidence? What are you certain of, right down to your bones, without proof?" The Reddit thread got nearly 100k upvotes and more than 50k people shared what they believe is true but it could be difficult to convince others that it is.
What would you answer to this question? We are curious to know, so leave a comment down below and upvote the answers that you feel might be true!
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Not everyone is meant to raise a child. Just because you can biologically create a child or financially support one does not mean you are meant to raise one.
No matter what happens, no matter what I do or don’t do, no matter what I achieve or fail at: I know my dog will still love me and wag his tail when I get home.
That gardening is the secret to happiness.
Sounds super strange, especially coming from someone like myself - an ex world of Warcraft gamer. I had kids, got busy with work, wanted out of the suburbs, got some land in the country, and started planting stuff. Years later I have what I call a food forest. I have replaced lawns with fruit trees, bushes, vines, flowers, all woven together to mimic a natural forest - except everything in it is edible.
It has changed my life completely.
I just think there's something about being outside in the sun, feet on soil, hands in dirt, planting s***. Watching it grow in the background of your life. Going out and checking on it and watching how much bigger it is getting. Watching life find it, and now you get to live WITH the natural world, not isolated from it.
Birds making nests in your trees, frogs making home in your ponds, seeing bees all around your flowers, butterflies everywhere. Rabbits and squirrels moving in, then owls moving in to eat those. It's this wonderful trophic cascade that you started, and it's incredibly rewarding.
Plus, being able to just walk outside and get chemical-free nutrient-rich dinner is amazing.
I actually think a big reason depression is such a big thing these days is because we have all become so disconnected from the life that we evolved in for the last 6 million years. We evolved walking around savannahs and forests, pulling food off bushes and trees, out in the sun, feet in the soil, hands in the dirt. We couldn't be further from that, living inside our isolated homes, cars and offices. It's no wonder we're all so depressed.
I think gardening is the secret to happiness.
That there is other intelligent life in the universe. We may never encounter it, certainly not within any of our lifetimes, but it's out there somewhere. The universe is too goddamn big for us to be the only ones.
It would be the height of human conceit to think that we're the only ones in such a vast universe.
On the other hand, there's a logical fallacy in assuming that because we are alive, life is likely to occur. If (just as an example) there is a 1:1000000000000000000000000000000 chance for it to happen, and it didn't happen, we would never know. We cannot use our existence as an argument that there should be any others.
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I'm still looking for intelligent life here on earth. Aaah! Got 'em!
I believe there is something else out there. Don't know what or where but I just can't believe that out of the entire universe only one planet has living beings.
Look at all those stupid earthers thinking they are alone in the universe.....
Well, TBF, there are even stupider earthers that think said earth is flat....so there's that...
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That and the fact that what we now witness as the universe has been in progress for billions and billions of years. How many countless civilizations, life forms, planets and even entire solar systems have since come and gone, come and gone, come and gone as we one day will? Our solar system lies at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, so we are relatively the new kids on the block, so to speak. Think about the vastness of time as well as the vastness of the universe.
I was looking for this comment. We don't consider time as well as space when thinking about intelligent life in the universe. It's possible that we are alone at this point in time. That doesn't mean that there has never been or never will be other intelligent life in the universe.
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yes agree. Its like thinking your an only child when you know you have another sibling
Latest estimate is two trillion galaxies. Each galaxy having trillions of planets. If one civilization were to evolve out of every million galaxies just once we would still not be alone. The odds of being alone are something on par with winning the lottery a thousand times.
Either we're alone in the universe or we aren't. Neither is a particularly comforting
To be fair, i'm more comforted by "we are not alone" than "we are alone".
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If religions can have a god, then i can have aliens. anyone think God and the Devil are aliens? because omnipotence certainly isn't a human power.
Well duh. I don't understand people who don't believe in aliens, maybe not aliens like the ones in the picture, with the big head and giant pointed black eyes, but alien means life from another planet, not just the stereotypical alien. I can 100% guarantee there is at least some other life in the universe.
Ever thought of the possibility that our planet is just a very small part of creation and our lives on this planet are just a very small part of our eternal existance and that in some of our lives we lived on other planets too?
Probability that there is intelligent life somewhere else: Pretty damn high. Probability of them existing at the same time and close enough to learn about the others' existence: Miniscule.
Yes! Friends/family always look at me like I am mad when I say I believe there must be some sort of other life out there. It just seems hugely arrogant to me to believe that there is nothing out there besides us.
Biochemist here. There are a lot of hypotheses about the beginning of life, but in truth we do not know how really life began. We don't know if the circumstances for life to begin, are unique, as we don't know what they are exactly. There is no point in starting to make up statistics of 1 out of 1 billion. As far as we know, it is possible that other life is in the universe, but I is at the same time impossible. Let me say something that a lot of people won't admit: We don't know it and maybe science will never know.
If there is no life out there in the vastness of the Universe then it's an awful waste of space.
I honestly don't believe that there is other intelligent life in the universe. But I don't discredit those who do. :)
A cool standpoint. I say the same but with the opposing view.
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There is substantial evidence we have indeed encountered them, they have been here a long time, before us probably
I welcome our new Extra Terrestrial overlords! Unless they're like Roger from American Dad. Please don't let them be like Roger!
I believe this. I mean.... okay - currently we define the size of the universe as 'infinite'. Meaning... it **has no end that we can even imagine**. Infinite, forever, eternity, no measurement. Sure, there's a possibility of no repeats (ie: sentient life) ever - however, I lean towards the idea that it's far more probable that some sort of repeat to have life 'happen' occurred somewhere else *infinitely* far away. I mean, we're talking about all of reality as far as we understand time and space. I-N-F-I-N-I-T-E.
There are times I would dispute the "other" part in that statement. Mainly because our own species so often demonstrates idiocy as opposed to intelligence. But yeah, I agree with the post.
I’ve always had the same philosophy on this younger, if we exist, there’s others out there too
I'm still waiting for evidence of widespread intelligent life on this planet, much less others.
There is intelligent life out there. They pass by Earth and tell their offspring that Earthlings are a perfect example of what not to do. Plunder and rape the planet, indeed.
It better be inside our local group of galaxies, or poof, we're never gonna reach it
Humans were never going to fly either. We just don’t know what will be possible down the line.
Load More Replies... just because something could be, or might be doesn't mean it is. The time to believe something, is when there is evidence for it, not because it sounds good. Nothign wrong with saying, that's an interesting idea, i like it, it might be the case, but that is NOT the same thing as evidence.
There things that are true, and are impossible to prove. Doesn't stop them from being true.
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Frankly I think the aliens are out there and they've taken a look at the world we've created and chosen not to contact us.
I believe that theres other life out there, atleast bacterias and organisms. But I dont think they would be the same as us in any way, we wont be able to collect DNA or other things that we can from humans. But I also believe that we shouldnt look for it or try to get it to come here. We have no idea what dangers we might bring here.
We would be far too arrogant to assume we’re the I only ones in this universe. I fear we are perhaps an embarrassment to other planets. We’re destroying our planet, killing each other and dealing with a pandemic. I’m sure they look at us and go “they’re nuts, let’s not go there”
If other life exists, and it’s intelligent enough to travel here, I feel it would have zero interest in communing with us. Study us, sure, but actually interact? I doubt that. It feels the same as me travelling to Australia, finding an ant hill and attempting a conversation. Apologies for the diss to any ant stans.
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one analogy i saw was scooping bucket in the pacific ocean and not seeing any life in the bucket, when we know the pacific is teaming with life, the universe can be imagined as the pacific and the current searches as that bucket scooping
There is an interesting theory that humans are originally not from the earth.
"other intelligent life", by who's standard, we can't even agree on what intelligence is, book smarts, emotional intelligence or physical intelligence. There's also the issue of how collectively intelligent we are, we seem to like to clump is (the human race) in the very intelligent camp due to the accomplishments of the top 5%, while choosing to ignore the truly idiotic, slime mould is more intelligent than some people I know!
Seeing what intelligent life has done to brutalize this planet’s environment and its other inhabitants, I’d rather the universe was full of simple life, and we’re just a cancerous, egomaniacal anomaly.
I think that life may be different from what we have here. its weird to think, but maybe they evolved COMPLEATLY differently. no brains, but intelligence. organs, but the ability to live.
Agree! How egocentric of us to think that life must look like we do. They may be so different that we wouldn’t even recognize them as living.
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Not necessarily. There are other worlds/galaxies that are older (by far) than earth. So, they would be more advanced...just much too far away to ever encounter them/us.
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Some people just want humans to be the dominant species, a stage of grief. DENIAL.
I am always surprised that people believe that there could be life on other planets. The probability that life could occur by random chance makes the likelihood infinitesimal. Of course God may have created it there like he did on Earth.
I think it the height of human conceit to assume that there must be other intelligent life in the universe. It's also a cowardly stance.
Please explain further. I’ve always thought it was conceited to think there isn’t.
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That the near complete absence of financial literacy education in American public schools is 100% on purpose.
I agree with this to a point. We allow politicians who like to boast about how they did poorly in school, were the class clowns, etc dictate what should be taught in school. If you're the rich people who want to keep good education out of reach for the poorer people the best way to do that is to vilify public schools and demand more 'rigorous' testing policies that have little to do with actual student progress. This way the public schools have to spend more time testing than they do teaching so that the poor students get less education than the kids whose parents can afford private schools who aren't subject to those required tests. It's funny how politicians constantly point to public schools' failing standardized test scores, and tout private schools as the answer, yet never talk about how those private schools don't have to offer Special Education, take standardized tests, or even follow the mandated common core standards.
That we would be happier if we returned to a more natural way of living rather than the 9-5 rat race.
Flat earthers are just doing it for attention. They really don't think the earth is flat.
The Flat Earth Society is trolls. They HAVE however gotten OTHERS to believe them.
If I'm stuck in traffic and switch lanes because the other lane looks like it will move faster, the lane I just switched from will automatically go faster.
i'm pretty sure big rig truckers talk on their CB radios to each other to coordinate making sure every time I merge onto an interstate one of them will be there in the right lane just as I am merging on.
Most company CEO's don't really know what they're doing. Whether their business thrives or fails has more to do with luck than anything else. There are exceptions, but most of them have a completely warped sense of their own "brilliance".
I'm quietly convinced I made a bestselling mystery novelist change the way he writes because I criticised him on Reddit.
The novelist in question is Chris Carter; the books are the Robert Hunter series. (Yes, the guy who has built a career on looking for serial killers is named Hunter. He works for the LAPD's Ultra-Violent Crime Unit. It's not a series that's overburdened by subtlety, is what I'm saying.) They are as schlocky a bunch of thrillers as you could ever hope to find, but for some reason I can't get enough of them, despite the fact that they're... very much not great. They lean pretty damn heavy on ridiculous tropes, and I've never seen a more Mary Sue lead than I have in this series, but the biggest complaint I have with them is that the same line appears almost literally word for word in the first nine books ('Hunter’s biggest passion was single malt Scotch whiskey, but unlike most, he knew how to appreciate its flavor and quality instead of simply getting drunk on it.'). I made a comment about it on Reddit on an r/books thread about your favourite terrible authors.
That post was made in January of 2019; in April, his book Hunting Evil came out, and the line was nowhere to be seen. I didn't think much of it until his new book, Written in Blood, came out a few days ago, and also didn't have the line in it. This comment is also one of the top answers if you google his name and the book series via Reddit -- exactly what you'd do if you were looking to see if people on the internet were talking about your books. I also can't find any evidence of anyone else pointing this out in a review or suchlike.
So yeah... in short, three months after I made that comment, he broke the habit of a decade of writing and finally decided that after nine stories that used this as a crutch for Hunter's personality, it was too much.
I know you're reading this, Chris. I know.
100 years from now only a handful of kids and grandkids will have any memory of my life.
200 years from now, at most I'll be a photo in an old family scrap book with my name in the margin space.
300 years from now no one in my family will know I existed outside of a half finished family tree.
Yet ultimately all of their hopes and pains, successes and failures, dreams and depressions will be the direct result of my having existed. So it isn't that bad.
The average middle class person of today has luxuries and a standard of living that far surpasses that of Kings and Queens from centuries ago.
1 in every 3 or 4 people is not capable of critical thinking. And I'm not making some kind of point about politics or anything - I mean those people are literally incapable of taking in information and synthesizing it with other information and coming to their own conclusions. They're basically robots programmed by whatever source is most convincing to them.
Everyone is capable of critical thinking, it's just that people compartmentalize that which they think critically about, and that which is off limits to questioning or skeptical inquiry.
My phone is listening to me, it’s simply not a coincidence any more how my targeted ads change directly related to and after a conversation. People say we are just more predictable than we think but I mention something I haven’t even thought about for years and there it is on Instagram.
How's this for freaky. I was hanging out with my brother and we were talking about inflatable spas. At that time my phone had no internet access AT ALL, it was completely disabled from the actual phone provider. Anyway, I get home later and go on the ipad. As soon as I open facebook there is an ad for an inflatable spa. Like wtf, how does that even happen.
I don't care who you are or what you think, or even what the science says - Geese are evil creatures.
That a LOT more famous actors than we realize are secretly the children of other famous actors from the previous generation. I call it the Hollywood Bastard Theory.
Back when I was 10 there was a competition for schoolkids to write a treatment for an episode of Doctor Who, with the best one being developed into an full episode in the next series and the winner receiving a writing credit. I was a huge fan of DW at the time and the competition was actually run through schools, so my teacher made the entire class do it, but I was very excited.
I began writing a story about the Doctor landing on a planet full of defective cybermen, who's programming had gone a wry and had been left on this asylum planet to rot. The Doctor lands there in response to a mysterious distress call from a woman and attempts to find and save her while avoiding the dangerous dysfunctional cybermen and the looming threat of planetary destruction at the hands of the normal cybermen. I finished my short treatment and gave it to my teacher to submit. Unfortunately it turned out the competition was very strict about the formatting of submissions and mine was returned because I had used the wrong formatting in some way, it seemed like a weird reason. I was a bit disappointed and that was the end of that.
But then, a year or two later, there was an episode of DW called Asylum of the Daleks, which seemed incredibly similar to my story except with Daleks. So incredibly, eerily, similar in fact, that to this day I am absolutely convinced that Steven Moffat saw my script and came up with a formatting excuse so that he could remove me from the competition, steal my story, change the bad guys and claim it as his own. I have zero evidence, I don't even still have the treatment I wrote, or any letter from the BBC about my submission, and yet I know in my bones that Steven Moffat stole his script from 10 yr old me.
My wife's school was doing a production of Grease. (As faculty, she had a bit part she totally hammed up.) Colin Ferguson was supposed to be in town doing a standup show that got cancelled. The next night his stand-up kept referencing Grease. Everyone his age has seen Grease... from America. But why suddenly make jokes about a 40+ year-old play?
That alien lifeforms will be nothing like we have ever imagined
There’s a travel agency that’s been around in my town for as long as I can remember. I wholeheartedly believe it’s a front for the mob.
Epstein didn’t kill himself
That the entire U.S. mattress industry is a front for criminal organizations. Virtually every city has more mattress stores than it needs. When was the last time you bought a mattress? So then why does a city of 80,000 have like 7 separate mattress retail places within like six blocks?
They rent the showrooms out to prostitution. (That's a joke. I hope.)
There is some godzilla s*** at the bottom of our oceans. Deep Sea gigantism will not fail me.
I am essentially a good, decent person. I may not act this out successfully, it’s the fact that I keep trying to act it out relentlessly that makes it true.
Most of this is just busy work
Most jobs can be done with 6 hour days 4 days a week. This insanity about working 8-6 Monday to Friday is just to keep people busy so they don't have time to look at the way the world is being steered by the super rich.
That 1-2 generations down the line, our use of technology will lead to extreme mental health issues. My brain feels deep fried from time to time and I haven't seriously started using a smart phone before I was already an adult
I’m really, really f*****g lucky. But like in a subtle way like if there’s a 95% chance I’ll get hurt doing something stupid I’ll come out unscathed. Sometimes I think there’s a guardian angel watching over me making sure I don’t kill myself by being an idiot.
I seem to be really lucky/blessed and 'land on my feet'. Get my sister who's a really good person seems to be cursed
Life on other planets. Not green one eyes aliens but even insect's and things like that
Again, there has to be other life somewhere in the universe. It's 100% out there somewhere.
As an Asian, I can safely say without a doubt that you don't need cups to measure the water when cooking rice.
Not that it is something I believe to be true, but something that I often think about is the Butterfly Effect. Like little things I do during the day could affect the total outcome of my day.
My brother deleted my game save on purpose. He was old enough to read, he knew what he was doing.
Dogs go to doggy heaven
All pets go to the sunny fields outside the gates of Heaven and wait for us. When we die, they’ll be there and will walk through the gates with us.
Dejavu comes from previous dreams
My ex-boss used Covid as an excuse to make me redundant because I was the only member of his team to be hired by someone else and not him.
That my last boss secretly hated me even though we had, on the surface, a very positive relationship.
Nothing wrong with this, so long as they didn't hinder you or affect you emotionally. ( You don't have to like anyone so long as you do no harm).
That my cousin stole my holographic 1st edition Charizard Pokemon card back in the early 2000's.
That the funeral home by my house is run by some sort of criminal organization.
I always see the same gangster looking guys hanging out in front of it smoking cigars and drinking beers.
I watched flight 93 go down. I would never share that in real life because it’s f****n grim and no one would believe you (the geography of the reports are off ). I saw it clear as day from Kent state’s main campus (Ohio). I didn’t know what I was seeing other than I remember thinking “that plane is way way too low (we had a aviation college so planes were common) and too big and it’s jerking around like how a toddler drives a power wheels truck....”. Continued on to class. You don’t wanna be late even at a liberal college.
I'm not sure what you saw, but you didn't see a plane that crashed around 200 miles away from you. There were enough ordinary people who WERE in that part of Pennsylvania that DID see it crash and then there were all the reporters who went out to that place, who are not part of a conspiracy to pretend that the plane crashed around Canton, Ohio just because. Like you said, you're next to an aviation college. That would be the most likely explanation for it.
Reddit supermods have the ability to give unlimited free awards on reddit. This allows them to make certain opinions more visible and normalizes paying real money for reddit emojis.
ah, back when Reddit had no subs, there were no 'awards', no ads, no trolls, back before the great digg migration. Back when it was this small site few knew about and when we saw mention of it anywhere else we were like, quick! hide! we've been spotted! Those were the good old days.
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Same thing if you steal the snacks form a family member
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I am now off to explore the surrounding town centres to see which local businesses are a front for organised crime, secret government agencies and other life forms living here under cover
I nominate our local thai restaurant. Not once has there been a customer inside.
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Very interesting post. I hope to see more like this in the future. I do agree with the alien theories for sure, simply from a mathematical perspective.
I think we share earth with life forms that our 3 dimensional senses cannot conceive . Sometimes we mistake them for ghosts or aliens if we catch a glimpse. Why? Because I know that there are hundreds of life forms right now that cannot conceive of us for instance creatures who know the world only by taste or smell or touch. I often wonder as well what ants recognise, is human distinct to them from DOG or are we all strange blobs that they don't differentiate between from their tiny little perspectives.
That reincarnation is real and time does not go in a line but a circle
Similarly to the Dr Who text, I remember once drawing fan art for a game and sending it to this publishers fan art email address. Later when the game was released, there was a vehicle that suspicously looked a lot like my fan art. I'm glad if they really used the art to make something, even though the game turned out to be quite awful.
Like the Dr Who one, I entered a songwriting competition in 1993 and submitted a cassette demo of a song I'd written, but never made a backup copy. A couple of years I suddenly heard a song almost identical to mine but with different lyrics - it was Kiss From A Rose. Seal claims to have written it in 1987, but I wonder if the competition was a front for a record company to harvest some song ideas.
The lottery is fake. Either it's rigged (only certain types of people win it, let alone those that have won it multiple times), or the money that is won isn't all of it (part of the money gets taken by the government).
Pitying African Americans will never lift the most desperate out of poverty without them being taught behavioral changes. The same for the most desperate impoverished whites. It not the system. It is how you interact with the system. The Asians proved that.
My boyfriend and I believe it's easier to wash someone else's dishes than our own. More often than not, he'll do the dishes and tidy up my kitchen and has a 2 day stack of dishes waiting for him in his flat.
Life. We can create it or remove it. We destroy species and just move on. Eventually we will all be one mixed race of humanity. But for some reason although we are all human we can't get along. We war. We humiliate. We steal an murder. But we all are the same. If people understood that basic fact that we live all the same, we could get rid of war and hunger and poverty an adjust the mean scale to equality for everyone and have utopia on this planet and become a better species. With that we could accomplish great things on our planet an enjoyable harmony with the planet an the universe itself. Also black holes aren't flat like depicted but at 3 dimensional orb intaking at all angles. Thank you.
I believe that we're causing a future water shortage by throwing away glass and plastic bottles with just a bit (or a lot) of liquid closed up in them. One day we will root around in landfills for water.
Same thing if you steal the snacks form a family member
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I nominate our local thai restaurant. Not once has there been a customer inside.
Load More Replies... Very interesting post. I hope to see more like this in the future. I do agree with the alien theories for sure, simply from a mathematical perspective.
I think we share earth with life forms that our 3 dimensional senses cannot conceive . Sometimes we mistake them for ghosts or aliens if we catch a glimpse. Why? Because I know that there are hundreds of life forms right now that cannot conceive of us for instance creatures who know the world only by taste or smell or touch. I often wonder as well what ants recognise, is human distinct to them from DOG or are we all strange blobs that they don't differentiate between from their tiny little perspectives.
That reincarnation is real and time does not go in a line but a circle
Similarly to the Dr Who text, I remember once drawing fan art for a game and sending it to this publishers fan art email address. Later when the game was released, there was a vehicle that suspicously looked a lot like my fan art. I'm glad if they really used the art to make something, even though the game turned out to be quite awful.
Like the Dr Who one, I entered a songwriting competition in 1993 and submitted a cassette demo of a song I'd written, but never made a backup copy. A couple of years I suddenly heard a song almost identical to mine but with different lyrics - it was Kiss From A Rose. Seal claims to have written it in 1987, but I wonder if the competition was a front for a record company to harvest some song ideas.
The lottery is fake. Either it's rigged (only certain types of people win it, let alone those that have won it multiple times), or the money that is won isn't all of it (part of the money gets taken by the government).
Pitying African Americans will never lift the most desperate out of poverty without them being taught behavioral changes. The same for the most desperate impoverished whites. It not the system. It is how you interact with the system. The Asians proved that.
My boyfriend and I believe it's easier to wash someone else's dishes than our own. More often than not, he'll do the dishes and tidy up my kitchen and has a 2 day stack of dishes waiting for him in his flat.
Life. We can create it or remove it. We destroy species and just move on. Eventually we will all be one mixed race of humanity. But for some reason although we are all human we can't get along. We war. We humiliate. We steal an murder. But we all are the same. If people understood that basic fact that we live all the same, we could get rid of war and hunger and poverty an adjust the mean scale to equality for everyone and have utopia on this planet and become a better species. With that we could accomplish great things on our planet an enjoyable harmony with the planet an the universe itself. Also black holes aren't flat like depicted but at 3 dimensional orb intaking at all angles. Thank you.
I believe that we're causing a future water shortage by throwing away glass and plastic bottles with just a bit (or a lot) of liquid closed up in them. One day we will root around in landfills for water.
