“Confirmation Bias Is A Scary Thing”: People Online Share 35 Scientific Facts That Sound Unbelievable But Are Actually True
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Science is a gift that keeps on giving. It enables us to understand some of the world’s most mind-boggling phenomena and the constant discoveries mean that there’s always something new to learn.
Redditors recently shared some astonishing scientific facts with the 'Ask Reddit' community. Thanks to the user rambojambo11 who started the discussion on this topic, they compiled quite a collection of pieces of information that sound unbelievable. We have combed through it to present to you some of the most fascinating ones, so keep scrolling for your daily dose of science. Also, if you get hooked after reading this list, don’t worry, there’s more here.
Bored Panda has reached out to rambojambo11 and they were kind enough to answer a few of our questions. You will find their thoughts below.
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Infrared light was discovered all the way back in 1800. By accident. With a thermometer.
William Herschel (who also discovered Uranus) was experimenting with a prism. He wanted to see if different colors of light had different temperatures. So he had the room completely dark except a beam of light hitting a prism and casting a rainbow onto the table. He had placed thermometers in each color band to see if there was a difference. As a control, he had an additional thermometer past the ene of the light below the red band.
Except when he compared his readings he got something strange: the control thermometer was reading the highest temperature of all. This didn't make any sense. Was his thermometer faulty? He tried a few more tests with more thermometers in other places and came to an inescapable conclusion: there must be an additional invisible "color" below red that carried more heat than any of the visible colors. He named it infrared, which just literally means "below red".
that the human brain is the only organ in the history of existence that named itself.
There was a period of about 50 Million years when we had trees on earth but nothing to decompose dead ones, so they just piled up, and up, deeper and deeper, they got buried and eventually we got coal!
The Carboniferous period was when trees grew tall, but had shallow roots, and fell over. Trees landed on trees. There was no microbes capable to digesting cellulous of lignin. The trees turned into peat, and then into coal. It wasn't until the lignin and cellulose microbes evolved that trees started becoming compost.
The Reddit user really got the ball rolling when they asked the community members what is a cool scientific fact that they know that sounds unbelievable. “I am always interested in learning about cool new facts and what better place than Reddit to ask this question!” they told Bored Panda.
Their question attracted roughly 3,000 comments, which must have provided plenty of information for them to get acquainted with. The answers from other redditors covered all sorts of fields, from chemistry to geology and everything in between. The OP, who is a mechanical engineer themselves, said that they have always been fascinated by physics and the universe.
They also revealed which scientific fact blew their mind the most: “The fact that I love the most and like sharing with people is that the human brain named itself! Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from!”
30-50% of people don’t have an internal monologue.
I simply cannot fathom this, Even in the most dire of personality disorders. How could one prepare important , well anything or review correct personal behaviour. I'm not doubting, just feeling genuine confusion regarding this
I have no idea how an internal monologue would be necessary for that. I don't have one, and I can still reflect, it just isn't narrated.
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You know those people we're all jealous of who can go to sleep within a minute of shutting their eyes? It's them lol.
Yes 😆 my partner has no internal monologue, doesn’t think too much and can fall asleep within two minutes, it’s mind blowing and baffling to me
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What? How? Who are these people? Don’t mind my comment, just talking to myself.
with everyone it must be different, but for me, it's not actually silence. Usually there's stuff there, a feeling, a song, a few words, just not full blown sentences and arguments. Or maybe I do have an internal monologue and just don't think much lol
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That must be those people who chatter all the time and can't just shut up for a moment
As a chatterbox, I can very well assure you that I have an inner monologue
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I'm one of those people. I only found out this wasn't considered 'normal' until quite late in life. My friends simply don't understand what it must be like. It's hard to describe to other people. You just sort of absorb things and work intuitively. If I wanted to have an internal discussion with myself- for example to weigh up options before making a decision- I actually have to vocalise it. Honestly, I have to pretend I'm talking- out loud- to another person in order to do that. Apparently people have that other voice in their heads all the time!
You just described my experience beautifully!: " If I wanted to have an internal discussion with myself- for example to weigh up options before making a decision- I actually have to vocalise it. Honestly, I have to pretend I'm talking- out loud- to another person in order to do that." It blows my mind that this isn't considered normal. The alternative sounds chaotic and stressful to me, but it does explain why I like to process things out loud with other people.
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As a default, I don't have an internal monologue, but I can turn it on if I want or need it.
I don't buy this. Never have. Can anyone say that they don't or know someone who can the say that?!? I don't!!!
I don't have an internal monologue. My thoughts are images, feelings, smells, sounds... I can turn the monologue on, mostly, if I want to, but if I don't make a conscious decision to have it, it's not there.
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Serious question for those of y'all who don't: How do you think? In visible words?
It's just there. When I have a thought, I have it as a knowledge, rather than as something I need to hear.
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internal monologue is a Conscience. Internal Dialogue is sometimes the only way to have an Intelligent Conversation
You don't need to have a running commentary in your head to have a conscience. LOL God complex much?
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Seems like people define "internal monologue" in different ways. Seems like a lot of people say they don't have one but go on to describe one. Internal Monologues can be abstract as well
Yes, I think you're right that there's a problem of definition. How are we describing "internal monologue"? I'd be curious to hear different people's accounts of their own interiority.
Load More Replies... Can anyone verify this right now? Cause I don't buy it. I must have been given the other half of the populations internal monilogue unintentionally.
I don't think I usually have an inner monologue, based on how I'm seeing other people describe it. A stream of consciousness, yes, but it's not explicitly verbal. And it's not often "quiet" but a bombardment of different ideas, impressions, imagery, emotions, memory, analysis, relational/spatial processing, words, music, metaphor. I'm extremely reflective and contemplative (to a fault, tbh). But it takes a lot of effort to translate what I'm thinking into the form of a coherent sentence. (reposted from another comment)
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Sometimes when I'm spiralling ideas during a conversation i will have the same random stops and starts as my inner monologue does when I'm problem solving. So the conversation just comes out like "we could try telling so and so, well, no, but if we did, well, okay how about..." Until I stop and "reset" myself so I don't lead the poor person I'm talking to down too much of a random rabbit hole of confusion. Basically every time I realize mid-sentence that something won't work I say "well," or "but" then start a new train of thought without ever finishing the first one.
Ugh. Me too. I'm constantly trying to just get out a single sentence before abandoning it halfway through and moving onto the next thought.
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How is this possible? You mean their brains aren't thinking anything? I don't get it.
I don't think I usually have an inner monologue, based on how I'm seeing other people describe it. A stream of consciousness, yes, but it's not explicitly verbal. And it's not often "quiet" but a bombardment of different ideas, impressions, imagery, emotions, memory, analysis, relational/spatial processing, words, music, metaphor. I'm extremely reflective and contemplative (to a fault, tbh). But it takes a lot of effort to translate what I'm thinking into the form of a coherent sentence. (reposted from another comment)
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Yeah, this is so crazy it's unbelievable. Then again, if you think about it, it makes perfect sense.
It's really interesting how people think. For example, I think almost all in sound, usually voices or instruments, and I have a really limited visual imagination and memory, as I can't think of pictures unless it's something I've seen, and it's not clear, similar to like the reflection on water.
A good part of the remaining 50-70% make up for this by having multiple concurrent ones :)
Huh? So to 30-50% of the world, the other 50-70% of the world is CONSTANTLY TALKING TO THEMSELVES???? (I do.) Do they not hear music in their heads? Do they have no way of relating to "hearing something in your head without hearing it?" If a person without an internal monologue suddenly heard a voice in their head, would they think they were crazy? Do prophets (biblical prophets, not soothsayers) hear anything different from my internal monologue, but simply hear one when the don't usually? So a minority of humans actually DON'T hear thoughts of why they must kill people? (My internal lawyer informs me I should probably claim I'm only joking about that last one.)
So, if you are reading something you don't understand.... You don't think to yourself, "I can't freaking get this!".... Do you just like instead imagine throwing the book?
It's not exactly a monologue; criticisms and differences frequently expressed. Aw shut up. I say that often.
Which means they never stop talking out loud since they can't talk to themselves? Ugh.
For those that do not have an internal dialogue, it is NOT a constant droning that overshadows everything else. It is a bit like having the TV or music on, and simply "ignoring it" while you work, etc. Then you realize you missed a song, a conversation, etc. I would think all people (IM or not), are guilty of toning out children, spouses, preachers, etc from time to time.
Um, no, the original article says that "Psychology professor Russell Hurlburt reports that 30 to 50% of people HAVE an inner voice." [Emphasis mine.]
If I could shut mine off at night I might be able to get a decent night's sleep.
i see this alot on lists, and i am dumbfounded everytime. My guy wont shut it at times, bu ti love my guy
This one is insane.. Are less intelligent people more likely not to have one?... There has to be a reason and that seems like it would be one. Nothing going on in one's head is weird and scary, and so is having too much going on in one's head.
I cannot even imagine a person not having an internal monologue. Beyond my comprehension as to what their minds would be doing in there 🤔🫤.
This one is shocking to me that so many people are without this feature. I mean how do you talk to yourself????
I'm actually 50/50 myself. I think a lot in words while also at the same time I think in thoughts. It's like a chain reaction, with different outcomes each time. And it's fast as snapping fingers. That's s****y, cause this way I have a lot of triggers for my ptbs. Can't stand a certain swatch of colors because the "outcome" of their chain reactions is ALWAYS the same. So looking at a certain swatch I end up thinking about childhood trauma, although the color itself wasn't present nor did it play any role. It just leads to my parents over a loooot of corners. It's s****y. And if I want to explain what I think or summarize a text I've read to tell it someone else I struggle a lot.
Can someone explain this? How is that identified? To me (I'm not trying to sound hyperbolic here), trying to imagine not having an internal monologue is like trying to imagine what's outside the universe. It sounds like a profoundly different way of perceiving. How does one realize thought?
Monologue...? I thought that everyone had internal conversations...?
I have ADHD…all the internal monologues that are missing in that 30-50% of people reside in MY head. They don’t ever shut up. Ever.
I still can't get over this one. 2 of my co-managers are among this group. They can't "see" pictures or descriptions of things in their minds either.
WT F is an "internal monologue"? Must be I don't have one based on the comments. I'd like to see a definition.
Have you ever had a conversation with yourself inside your head? Ranging from “come on, I know this!” on a test to “donuts. Dough nuts. Nuts made of dough? But they’re not nuts. I want a donut. Ooh, donut with nuts? C**p, forgot to phone rhe dentist. Is it Tuesday?”? Some people “hear” their own voice, with others it’s more abstract.
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My internal monologue works very well. My problem is not listening to the advice it gives me.
Probably more like half the people out there aren't even aware of their inner monologue. I only noticed mine while doing a meditation.
I have a strong sense of inner consciousness but it doesn't operate in a primarily verbal way.
Load More Replies... 30 to 50% seems really high. So far no one has commented saying they don’t have one. Unless all Bored Pandas just hear voices in their heads
I don't think I usually have an inner monologue, based on how I'm seeing other people describe it. A stream of consciousness, yes, but it's not explicitly verbal. And it's not often "quiet" but a bombardment of different ideas, impressions, imagery, emotions, memory, analysis, relational/spatial processing, words, music, metaphor. I'm extremely reflective and contemplative (to a fault, tbh). But it takes a lot of effort to translate what I'm thinking into the form of a coherent sentence. (reposted from another comment)
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I couldn't read any of this without my internal voice .... lol.. it's just a normal thing for me I guess.
Still me. Lol. My mind just floods with all the sensory memories and emotions of that moment rather than describing it verbally back to me.
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I struggle with this one. How is that even possible do they just not think? And for the people that say it's images and smells surely your brain puts that into words...
I don't think I usually have an inner monologue, based on how I'm seeing other people describe it. A stream of consciousness, yes, but it's not explicitly verbal. And it's not often "quiet" but a bombardment of different ideas, impressions, imagery, emotions, memory, analysis, relational/spatial processing, words, music, metaphor. I'm extremely reflective and contemplative (to a fault, tbh). But it takes a lot of effort to translate what I'm thinking into the form of a coherent sentence. (reposted from another comment)
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How do they think? How do they read? How do they make decisions? HOW?
I don't think I usually have an inner monologue, based on how I'm seeing other people describe it. A stream of consciousness, yes, but it's not explicitly verbal. And it's not often "quiet" but a bombardment of different ideas, impressions, imagery, emotions, memory, analysis, relational/spatial processing, words, music, metaphor. I'm extremely reflective and contemplative (to a fault, tbh). But it takes a lot of effort to translate what I'm thinking into the form of a coherent sentence. (reposted from another comment)
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Perhaps they do but it starts with an F and rhymes with clock.
What the f**k is the matter with them? With whom do they have intelligent conversations? This one truly baffles me!
You can tell by watching their expressions—many people have blank ones.
I have two. Both named Mara with the same voice. I never get them mixed up, one is an a*s and one is chill. It’s weird though because they really only appear in certain circumstances and as im typing this i only have “physical Mara” monologue in my head
I will never understand this. I have more of an internal monologue than the amount I speak out loud by...miles. A whole lot. I literally can't turn it off. To think some people are just...silence or something. That's really so wild to me.
I don't think I usually have an inner monologue, based on how I'm seeing other people describe it. A stream of consciousness, yes, but it's not explicitly verbal. And it's not often "quiet" but a bombardment of different ideas, impressions, imagery, emotions, memory, analysis, relational/spatial processing, words, music, metaphor. I'm extremely reflective and contemplative (to a fault, tbh). But it takes a lot of effort to translate what I'm thinking into the form of a coherent sentence. (reposted from another comment)
Load More Replies... Does anyone know, at what age you develop one (assuming you do)? I’m sure my 5-year-old nieces were typical, in that they needed to share every single thought that crossed their minds.
Maybe that's how they determined this stat: observe kids. There's probably an age when external monologues become internalized.
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I discovered this few years back when I have late night talk with my friend about this and he had no idea what I'm talking about bcz he never had internal monologue.. bro's mind must be peace man
I have no internal monologue, but my brain is certainly not peace. It's always busy with thoughts, they just aren't narrated.
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For people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, their Alters can actually sometimes vary there. Sometimes some alters have one while others don't.
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The largest organism in the world is a massive underground network of mushrooms.
Giraffes’ tongues are black and purple to prevent sunburn while they’re feeding up high.
Soap works simply because it makes water **more wet**.
Soap breaks surface tension, easing water's ability to get into cracks and crevices, to wash away dirt deposits.
For dirt, yes. But soap also kills bacteria by disrupting the lipid layer of the cell membranes. This is why you don't need to use "antibacterial soap". Soap is already antibacterial. Antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers kill bacteria with poison, which bacteria can develop resistance to. This is why it's better to use non-antibacterial soap, which bacteria cannot build up resistance to. Antibacterial soap is contributing to the development of "superbugs"--bacteria (and viruses) resistant to antibiotics. Sadface.
There's a small chance that, if you were to slap your hand on a table, all the molecules in your hand would miss the table and go right through it.
The odds are *astronomically* tiny, but not zero.
Magnolias predate bees and were first pollinated by beetles and earlier bug species.
The immune system does not encounter viruses and formulate an antibody that matches its shape. Instead, the immune system pumps out random antibodies that sometimes happen to match a virus it comes into contact with, and then begins to produce more of that specific antibody.
Water IS actually blueish-greenish in color. It's just a very very weak tint, so it usually appears simply transparent (and reflecfing the color of stuff around and inside it). But when it's in very large volume, in a perfectly white room, under perfectlu white light, the water's very own teal colour becomes visible.
Similarily, the sun seems goldish-orange from Earth due to the atmosphere. The light of the Sun itself is mostly white. However, if we were to analise the light very accurately, it's actually a very subtle pale greenish/lime. We still see it as plain white in space, but I just think it's so cool.
GPS tracking is not the satellites tracking the object, but the object tracking the satellites.
That‘s why it is Bulls**t in Movies when they say „Their car has GPS so we can find it“. No, you can‘t. There‘s no feedback.
If you got sucked into a black whole, time would slow down too. Meaning while you are getting Spaghetiified, time is slowing down to the point where you will watch the universe die with you
Blackholes are super weird and interesting. They can literally bend spacetime and light which means that you can see every angle of the blackhole by staring at it and not moving
A serving of movie theater popcorn is equivalent to two Big Macs, in terms of calories, saturated fat, and sodium.
Scientifically:
The odds of my girlfriend having the same key in our city (San Diego) turns out to 1:724,480 but it seems impossible.
After a year of dating, turned out we have the same key to our individual apartments. (Different lock manufacturers)
There are some Ice Age animals that are so perfectly preserved in permafrost that scientists have been able to find them still with all their soft tissue, hair, and organs. They even found a couple mammoths that still had liquid blood in them and I remember one scientist even tasting the mammoth meat.
Also there was a mummy found in China that was so well preserved that she still had all her skin, hair, organs, etc. Her body was even flexible that you could bend her limbs as if she was alive. They even found her last meal still in her stomach and could perform an autopsy on her to tell you why she died. She died over 2000 years before she was found.
Who the **** goes “Oh, I just found this perfectly preserved, marvelous animal from the past - I’m sure I can take a bite!” Sir, respectfully, pack your own lunch.
"The power required to make a 1000 decibel noise for one second is equivalent to the power of the entire sun for 4 billion years"
A family member was talking about a "600 DB" car horn he bought over the holidays, and I was trying to explain to him that 600 DB is enough energy to destroy the planet and then some. Lol
Logarithmic scales are a bit confusing. Like earthquakes – a 7.0 is about 32 times more powerful than a 6.0 quake.
The blue whale, at nearly 100 feet long and nearly 200 tons, is the largest animal known to have ever existed.
There was a scientific paper published by a physicist, backed by numerous prominent scientists, that determined that peanut butter has no appreciable effect on the rotation of the Earth...
The key to eternal life is coded into all known DNA cells but so far proven impossible to crack. Every known living thing generates, adds, becomes bigger, better, stronger faster up to a certain point to then suddenly reverse and we don't know why.
When a baby grows it's cells form al sort of usefull things. At around 21 years old the process reverses and science can't figure out why. Technically we should be able to regenerate indefinitely.
Female ferrets die if they don't find a partner to make with. Since they don't leave "Heat" Until they're mated with, the Oestrogen overload leads to Anemia, and death.
A mirror is technically a time machine. When you look at your reflection, you're not looking at your ACTUAL reflection, you're perceiving photons that hit the mirror an immaterially short time before and is just now hitting your eyes. So you're actually seeing a picture of yourself from the past.
That's a vast oversimplification but, yeah.
Hyjacking this fact to say that, because of the same reason as the mirror looking at the past, If an alien race the same distance away as one of the Nebulas Hubble observed were to look at Earth through a telescope, they’d see the dinosaurs
In the entire records of human history, there are only 16 instances of recorded hammerhead shark bites on humans, and not a single fatality.
If you think about it, their mouths aren't really well positioned to bite something as large as a person; it's not what they're evolved for. Hammerheads are generally bottom feeders, sweeping the sand for invertebrates and small buried fish and rays. When Great Whites attack, they can kill because they're evolved to eat large marine mammals like seals, and I know it's not remotely a new idea to point out that a human swimmer or surfer looks a lot like a seal from below, but if you look at it beyond silhouette, it's really not a big jump at all from the size and basic body plan of a seal to a person.
1.3 million earths can fit inside the sun. 5 BILLION suns can fit inside the largest star ever observed, UY Scuti.
We’re actually really tiny when it comes to the universe. The planets and stars are so far apart that it takes years to get there. If the Milky way was the size of the United States, the sun would be the size of a white blood cell
a photon of light doesnt experience any time from the time it is emitted to the time it is absorbed. It was born, it died, all in one instant.
Apart from hosting life, the rarest thing about earth may be its eclipses. It is a complete coincidence that the moon is the same size, and orbits in the path of, our sun.
Wow, talk about oversimplyfying... the moon is in no way the same size as the sun.
Lake Superior can hold all of the water from the rest of the Great Lakes combined with room to spare.
This is more geography, but it always blows my mind when looking at a map that the continent of South America is almost entirely east of the United States.
Also if you could empty the Great Lakes and cover the holes, it would fill the continental US with four or five feet of water. Living in Michigan we were taught all these weird and random facts about Michigan. Also also, you can be anywhere in the lower peninsula (the mitten) and have some sort of water source within 1 mile (river, lake, stream, aqua fir(sp), etc)
In Newtonian physics it was generally accepted that a planet call Vulcan was closer to the sun than Mercury. The math needed some kind of extra planet to explain Mercury's weird orbit. Astronomers around the world for a couple hundred years would confirm a sighting, but it would never be there when you tried to use physics to predict where it would be. Even the famous french scientist that found Neptune with math predicted Vulcan using the same formulas. The idea didn't die until Albert Einstein changes physics with special relativity. Suddenly all the orbits of our planets make sense and Mercury has a weird orbit because it is so close to the sun.
Basically, smart dudes figured a planet existed when it didn't because their system didn't work out. It took changing the system to meet reality. Confirmation bias is a scary thing.
Edit: General Relativity not Special.
« smart dudes figured a planet existed when it didn't because their system didn't work out » No, they made an hypothesis to explain the observations, and that’s exactly how science works. One of the other hypothesis was an incomplete model and that led to the relativity theory. There is no « confirmation bias », op does not know what he’s talking about.
Not super scientific but an animal fact TONS of people refuse to believe. Monkeys are omnivores and they love to eat meat, more so than fruits and vegetables. I mean Monkeys, not apes lots of people group them in the same category
Chimps have known to hunt for meat too, and they also eat insects. I think only gorillas and orangutans are herbivores- they don't hunt but I'm not sure about insects
Some people have extra spleen or liver that are pea sized.
My spleen is twisted, doctor found out when I had xrays for a stomach issue. I was a bit worried and asked what does it mean and his answer was "well if it was your nose I'd suggest plastic surgery, but since it's inside just leave it!"
It's almost 20 kilometres from the top of Everest to Challanger Deep at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Scaled down to size of a billiard ball, the earth would be smoother than any billiard ball ever manufactured.
The sound of a crack of a whip breaks the sound barrier.
The tip of a cracking whip breaks the sound barrier, generating a perceptible sound to humans, not the other way around.
On average Mercury is the closest planet to Earth by a considerable margin.
if someone were to scream nonstop for a year it would generate enough energy to heat up a cup of coffe
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Bored Panda, for the love of all that is holy, PLEASE stop randomly reloading the pages. I’ll be on #22, then it will randomly reload and the whole format would have changed as posts move up or down depending on the points.
I think that might be your browser settings, not BP. My BP pages never reload unless I tell them to.
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Fun fact: there’s an exoplanet J107b which has 37 rings. There’s also a planet 55 Cancri e which is made out of diamond and costs 26.9 nonillion dollars
My sister and I are Rainbow Brite fans, so when we learned about the diamond planet, we got all excited. We've called it Spectra ever since.
Load More Replies... If the universe really does collapse into a black hole, that would mean that such a black hole would contain all of the information in the universe throughout time. Now consider that from a photon's "point of view," the universe was formed and dies in an instant. The entire universe, therefore, would be merely the information found in an instant's worth of photons projected throughout time and space by a black hole. What's more, a universe that collapse onto itself would not be oscillating, since time gets lost in that Big Crunch; there is not one universe after another after another. It's just one universe wherein time is a function of volume.
How well do you manage confirmation bias? How regularly do you change your opinion on things that were once emotional matters or important to you and in a direction that does not comfortably line up with other beliefs. If you adopt positions that better line up with some group that you identify with, that doesn't count. If it's in your self-interest or the interest of someone you care about, that doesn't count. If it's the trendy position of comedians or politicians or talking heads or TV shows that "take on tough issues," that doesn't count. In all those cases, you're decreasing cognitive dissonance, not allowing it to change your mind.
Far sadder than that. People decide "truth" based on how it makes them feel.
Load More Replies... Yes the random reloading is super annoying if I move my phone I'm back to number one if that happens more than once I just close it out and don't read it. So think about that bored panda!!
That's an issue with your phone/browser settings, BP works fine for me. My browser of choice is Brave (on all devices, it's great), in case you can't find the setting to change on whatever you use.
Load More Replies... Bored Panda, for the love of all that is holy, PLEASE stop randomly reloading the pages. I’ll be on #22, then it will randomly reload and the whole format would have changed as posts move up or down depending on the points.
I think that might be your browser settings, not BP. My BP pages never reload unless I tell them to.
Load More Replies... Fun fact: there’s an exoplanet J107b which has 37 rings. There’s also a planet 55 Cancri e which is made out of diamond and costs 26.9 nonillion dollars
My sister and I are Rainbow Brite fans, so when we learned about the diamond planet, we got all excited. We've called it Spectra ever since.
Load More Replies... If the universe really does collapse into a black hole, that would mean that such a black hole would contain all of the information in the universe throughout time. Now consider that from a photon's "point of view," the universe was formed and dies in an instant. The entire universe, therefore, would be merely the information found in an instant's worth of photons projected throughout time and space by a black hole. What's more, a universe that collapse onto itself would not be oscillating, since time gets lost in that Big Crunch; there is not one universe after another after another. It's just one universe wherein time is a function of volume.
How well do you manage confirmation bias? How regularly do you change your opinion on things that were once emotional matters or important to you and in a direction that does not comfortably line up with other beliefs. If you adopt positions that better line up with some group that you identify with, that doesn't count. If it's in your self-interest or the interest of someone you care about, that doesn't count. If it's the trendy position of comedians or politicians or talking heads or TV shows that "take on tough issues," that doesn't count. In all those cases, you're decreasing cognitive dissonance, not allowing it to change your mind.
Far sadder than that. People decide "truth" based on how it makes them feel.
Load More Replies... Yes the random reloading is super annoying if I move my phone I'm back to number one if that happens more than once I just close it out and don't read it. So think about that bored panda!!
That's an issue with your phone/browser settings, BP works fine for me. My browser of choice is Brave (on all devices, it's great), in case you can't find the setting to change on whatever you use.
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