60 Times People Took A Pic Of Something Very Random They Found Out
What would it look like if bees built a nest in some discarded appliance? How much salt can you actually get from a few jars of saltwater? There are all sorts of questions that people will often idly think about, never hoping to actually get an answer. But, as luck would have it, the universe has a way of making things happen.
So we’ve gathered some of the most interesting examples of people’s wildest hypotheticals actually coming true and someone being around to get a picture of it. Get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments below.
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For The 1st Time In 165 Years, The Aurora Australis Appeared In Patagonia, Chile. And It Happened Right Over Our House
If you saw that in Australia you would probably think it was from a bushfire
Wow, kudos to you for not freaking out! I would have thought the world was ending
Aurora Australis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
The original post is from 2 years ago and was visible in many countries in the southern hemisphere. It was visible here in New Zealand too.
Load More Replies...This Phenomenon Happens When The Ice Freezes Over And Methane Gas Gets Trapped, Creating Amazing Textures & Bubbles
You can poke a hole in them and ignite the gas.
Load More Replies...Also as more ice melts more pockets of methane will be released and it's about 100 tonnes more warming than CO2... Potentially being a tipping point
Yeah. That's the worrying part of this "beauty".
Load More Replies...This Is What Broccoli Looks Like If You Don't Harvest It
artichoke is pretty too if you leave it to bloom. its a super pretty purple
Yes. All parts of the plant are edible at any life stage. Roots, everything.
Load More Replies...There's a special kind of magic that happens when someone aims their camera at a mundane moment and accidentally captures something extraordinary. A bird photobombing a proposal at the exact millisecond it poops. A lightning bolt striking a tree precisely as the shutter clicks. A cat mid-sneeze looking like it's seen the face of God. These are the one-in-a-million photos, and we absolutely cannot get enough of them.
The internet has become a vast museum dedicated to these blessed accidents. Someone's selfie is interrupted by a breaching whale in the background. A baseball captured on camera at the exact instant it collides with a bat, compressed into a ridiculous oval shape that defies physics.
This Is What Happens When You Use Flash On An Owl. I Wasn’t Ready
Oops. So did I. First time I ever heard an owl say, "Hoo boy." They are very good at turning their heads away quickly.
Load More Replies..."puny human, your flash photography is as nothing to my visual accuity"
Sir, That Is Obviously A Beach Demon
If you mean those beautifull glass sculptures seen in “Sweet home Alabama”, then no, those were fake. I was also disappointed when I first saw real fulgurite here on BP and googled the movie only to find those were not naturally occuring results of lightning.
Load More Replies...I have one in my mineral collection, they're not large, mine's about an inch and a half long (3.8cm)
Load More Replies...My Dad Put Food Coloring On Icicles
This comment has a 25% chance of being sent by a clanker.
Load More Replies...My comment is hidden because I posted a pic of my patio with frozen bird bath water with food coloring 🤦🏻♀️
These images rack up tens of thousands of upvotes not because they're professionally composed or artistically meaningful, but because they prove that sometimes the universe has an absolutely ridiculous sense of humor.
Whenever It Freezes This Happens To Our Spare Bedroom Windows
It would! the bottom of our slider frosts over sometimes but it never makes pretty designs.
Load More Replies...That is beautiful plus the windows are not energy efficient otherwise that would not occur.
Yup. That's the result of humid indoor air freezing inside your house, if it's a bedroom window. I've had that happen, but it's on the inside of the storm door on the vestibule.
Load More Replies...Yeah, we used to get this all the time on the windows in our dairy barn in the dead of winter. Means your windows are cr@p, and almost certainly single-pane.
Frozen Steam Coming Out From A Branch Forming Thin Sensitive Strokes Of Ice - A Very Rare Happening At Least Where I Live
Looks like a decoration called "angel hair" that used to be used around Christmas time years ago. Adults had to wear gloves to handle it, kids weren't allowed to touch. I think it was made of fiberglass. (Probably sold next to the asbestos snowflakes....)
Looks like fairy floss! I've never seen real snow but it's amazing.
"I've never seen real snow" is a statement that's always a little jarring to me. Even though I'm fully aware that many (most?) people live in places where it never snows.
Load More Replies...My Venus Flytrap Is Flowering
The gall of eating flying insects and then relying on them to fertilize you!!!
That's why the flowers are so far away - they can't risk eating their pollinators XD
Load More Replies...PSA, it is advised to cut the buds before they flower, because flower g drains more energy than potted venuses can handle - the plant may wither after the flowers fall.
Thank you Rafael! There was me all jealous that my Venus fly trap wasn't flowering and it turns out it could be harmful.
Load More Replies...I didn't know Spider Plants flowered. They put off tiny white flowers sometimes on the shoots the babies grow off of. They're so cute! I've always had cats so not many plants. When our last 2 passed during the pandemic my husband got me a small plant to cheer me up. It has turned into several large hanging women's in 2 years and I am giving away babies constantly! Edit to correct/add lmao hanging plants not women! That would really be strange.
Load More Replies...What makes these photos so irresistible? Part of it is the sheer improbability. We live in an age where everyone has a camera in their pocket at all times, yet somehow capturing that perfect split-second still feels like winning the lottery. There's something deeply satisfying about visual proof that yes, that dog's ears really did form perfect wings mid-jump, and no, it wasn't Photoshopped. It's reality being stranger and more delightful than fiction.
My Uncle Is A Fisherman, Caught This Lobster Off Felix Cove, Nfld Yesterday. Half Male, Half Female
Hello from Alberta!! :) I hope to visit Newfoundland one day!!
Load More Replies...You look at the swimmerets/pleopods (legs) on the underside. The first pair of swimmerets in a male lobster are covered with a hard shell. On females, the swimmerets are thinner and "feathery". A female's tail is also larger and broader than a male's. This one has nothing to do with color in a lobster - blue lobster mutations are a separate rare phenomenon and aren't gender-linked or gender-restricted. So this lobster actually has TWO rare, separate mutations.
Load More Replies...When a Red Lobster in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio found a blue lobster in their delivery, they contacted conversationalists and they got the Akron zoo to set up a display and house it there in the aquarium area outside the food court. I always crave seafood after seeing it!
Square Waves Happen When Two Separate Weather Systems Collide
this is actually a famous beach that this happens too all the time. Icant for the life of me remember where but i want to say portugal but if im wrong pls correct me. if I remember right this part of the land sticks out and to the right is famous for high waves and major surfing
This is Phare des Baleines, a Historical landmark in Saint-Clément-des-Baleines, France
Load More Replies...Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought this had nothing to do with the weather, but rather with undercurrents?
Waves are formed by friction with the wind, not undercurrents. A wave state from one weather system continues, while winds from another creates different waves. So the old waves continue while new waves are made. This means that not only is there no good direction to point your boat (how can you nose into the waves when they're coming at you from two angles), but it means that the wind is all squirrelly and you have bad weather on both sides bearing down on you!
Load More Replies...This Is What Happens When A Cat Touches A Plasma Ball
Then there's the relatability factor. Unlike professional photography with its perfect lighting and composed subjects, these accidental masterpieces could happen to anyone. The person who captured a panorama photo where their friend's face appears twice, stretched and warped into something nightmarish? That could be you.
This Is What Happens When High Voltage Lines Touch The Ground
You need to be touching the power line and the ground at the same time to be shocked, luckily.
Load More Replies...My Phone Has A Wide Selfie Feature Similar To A Panorama. You Need To Sit Still For It To Work. My Girlfriend Sneezed, And This Happened
What was that horrible old science fiction movie from the 50s when the fellow sprouted a second head? The Manster or something like that? Edit: Found it! Posted below, but hidden because, well you know - BP and all, putting in a function allowing you to post pictures and then hiding them when you do.
There's also the 80s film How To Get Ahead in Advertising
Load More Replies...I do not look nearly as attractive as her while sneezing. Good for her!! Stunning!
The Melting Point Of Gallium Metal Is So Low, This Is What Happens When You Hold It In Your Hand
If I ever get any money, I'll have to try this.
Load More Replies...Metallic galium is not considered highly toxic like mercury. Gloves are recommended, and keep it away from aluminum.
Load More Replies...It is as long as you keep it away from aluminium which can turn brittle when in contact with it.
Load More Replies...do not eat. wash hands thoroughly afterwards. do not discard in toilet.
Gallium (\(Ga\)) is a silvery-white metallic element with atomic number 31, discovered in 1875 by Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. It is notable for its low melting point, around 29 degrees Celsius, allowing it to melt in the hand or from a hot drink. Gallium's unique properties make it crucial for electronics, including semiconductors used in LEDs, solar panels, and smartphones, as well as for high-temperature thermometers.
Load More Replies...The dad who took a beach photo and accidentally documented the exact moment a seagull stole his son's sandwich? That probably has been you. These images remind us that we're all just bumbling through life with our thumbs hovering over camera buttons, hoping for the best.
I Found Out This Is What Happens When Your Cell Phone Vibrates While Trying To Take A Picture Of The Chicago Skyline
The end is upon us. Behold, how the very earth is becoming distorted
The Great Devourer has sent us to prepare you for the Harvest!
Load More Replies...Eruption Happening In St. Vincent
The volcano is La Soufrière & there have been 8 recorded eruptions since 1718. The last one occurred between December 2020 & April 2022
Between? Like they aren’t sure exactly when or like it took that long from start to finish?
Load More Replies...This Is What It Looks Like When A Vine Wall Falls Off The Side Of The Wall
Is it just me wondering what noise that made as it came down?
Depends on whether someone was there to hear it
Load More Replies...You really don't want vines on your house because they can cause a lot of damage.
There's also something oddly democratic about celebrating these photos. You don't need expensive equipment, years of training, or even particularly good eyesight. You just need to be holding your phone at precisely the right moment when chaos decides to align itself into something visually spectacular. It's the photographic equivalent of being in the right place at the right time, except the place is your backyard and the time is when your cat decides to have an existential crisis mid-leap.
What Happens When You Blow Bubbles In 15 F
I think this is what happens when you blow bubbles at MINUS 15 F (-26 C)
I tried this once and they floated away. Warm air inside = tiny hot air balloons at -30°C.
I think that means a Fahrenheit temperature, in which case it's close to -10°.
Obviously it means fahrenheit, that's why the F is after the number.
Load More Replies...My brothers and I would do this in the 1970's, in Michigan winters. Never got a photo of it though. This is beautiful!
Probably because we didn’t all carry cameras all the time.
Load More Replies...I have catnip-infused bubbles for the cat and I am now waiting for winter in such anticipation!
I bought some for a gift and the recipient cat was afraid of bubbles so she never got to try them.
Load More Replies...It Was Snowing. But Instead Of Snowflakes There Were Snowsticks
Known as "ice crystals" it's not unusual, quite noticeable if you're out skiing, and if they're hitting your goggles or sunglasses they can be quite abrasive, as I found one day when I'd wiped off half of the mirror coating from my Oakleys. Some people might argue that it's not really "snow", but hey, it's frozen water falling from the air.
Load More Replies...HellCat used Celsius and Fahrenheit in the same comment angering the MetricDemons and has been hidden forever!
Fallen foul of the link-hiding algorithm recently being applied, even to URLs with BPs own site like that uploaded picture.
Load More Replies...It's ice - instead of being snow falling from the clouds it's water particles in the air freezing and falling as ice
An Ostrich Born Without Feathers
Looks like half a diplodocus. "Monodocus" ? Just "docus"? You decide!
Those little arms! And when you see them with feathers on, it's a wonder they can flap them.
Perhaps most importantly, these photos offer us tiny moments of joy in an increasingly curated world. Social media is drowning in filtered perfection and staged authenticity, but you cannot fake the genuine surprise of a horse photobombing a wedding with what appears to be a knowing smirk. These images are proof that the world still has the capacity to surprise us, delight us, and occasionally make us snort-laugh at our desks.
Lahaina Noon Is When A Subsolar Point Is In Hawaii
During the high noon of that day, all shadows are cast directly downward, causing straight vertical poles such as these to look like they are photoshopped, or are in a cheap indie video game.
Happens everywhere in the tropics, normally twice a year (only once on the actual tropic line)
I always thought I had a great sense of direction until a day like this at the equator. It turns out I'm attentive to tiny shadows and without them, I'm worse than lost because I only -think- I know where I am.
This Is What Happens When You Throw All Your "Worthless" Cuttings In A "Give Up" Pot
This year, any time someone said "what do I do with this?", it went in THE pot. Obviously, they weren't worthless cuttings, and we ended up with this! It sat next to the planting table, and I've been admiring its resilience all summer!
Tradescantia zebrina is basically a weed. In three months I propagated 50 plants, then did it twice more over the school year.
yup I throw these in all my patio pots every summer, they grow like crazy. Just take a few inside for the winter, rinse/repeat. Some of them actually survive freezing too.
Load More Replies...they are renewed by fresh soil which is not overwhelmed by fungus and liquid fertilizer
wow because no one has ever planted a plant species both in an indoor pot AND outside before am I right
Load More Replies...This Is What Happens When The Triple Foam Breaks At The Car Wash
So we keep scrolling, keep sharing, and keep hoping that one day we'll be the lucky soul who glances at their camera roll and realizes they've accidentally documented the exact moment two birds high-fived in mid-air. Because in a world that often feels predictable and controlled, there's something wonderfully reassuring about photographic evidence that sometimes, just sometimes, the universe decides to show off.
The Way The Ice Froze On The Rim After Driving
What Happens When Foam Filler Has A Slow Leak
Replace the can with a plinth & you have a delicate & valuable art installation
But only if you come up with some convoluted and nonsensicle explaination about what it is...
Load More Replies...My New Mug Has A Paw Print On The Bottom, But When I Wash It The Soap Bubbles Make It Look Like It's Covered In Paw Prints
This Is What Happens To Aluminium When A 1/2 Oz Piece Of Plastic Hits It At 15,000 MPH In Space
I prefer it in my bloodstream, lymphatic system and spinal fluids, please.
Load More Replies...It's a miracle that any astronauts have ever returned to Earth alive. Or perhaps there just aren't many half-ounce pieces of plastic out there.
There are a *lot* of pieces out there - but the area involved is really, really big, so the likelihood of being hit by one is relatively low. Also they track the bigger stuff and move out of the way.
Load More Replies...Earth's speed around the Sun is 67,000 MPH. A comet will hit at about twice that speed. So 15,000 MPH is quite conservative.
Because most comets cross the Earth's orbit at roughly a right angle, the speed of an impact would most likely be almost entirely dependent on the speed at which the comet is falling as the moment of impact. The point of the post is to show what kind of damage would be likely if something important is hit by space junk orbiting the earth. 15,000 mph is roughly the closing speed of two objects in geosynchronous orbit and traveling in opposite directions.
Load More Replies...I suspect that the caption could have been worded better. Something like, "A 0.5 ounce (14 grams) piece of plastic was fired at an aluminum block at 15,000 mph (24,000 kph) to *simulate* a debris impact in Earth's orbit".
Load More Replies...There’s so much cast off debris floating around our planet, it’s really sad. Can’t take those humans anywhere.
I Opened A Decade Old Play-Doh Container To Find It Had Grown Crystals
Salt crystals. Play-Doh has a very high salt concentration in order to ward off bacterial and fungal contamination. Water evaporation will cause salt crystals to slowly grow.
Oh wow, I think I may have decade old play-doh on a shelf. Will need to take a look now.
What Happens To Windmills When There's Fog
From OED: Windmill 1.b. - A wind turbine used to generate electricity. 1879–
Load More Replies...And thus a new version of an old conspiracy theory is formed - Wind turbine chemtrails.
Oh please, don’t let Trump hear that! He HATES renewable energy. He never knew about it when he was 5, so he doesn’t believe in it.
Load More Replies...I don't mean to be pedantic, but *nothing* is happening to the wind turbines as a result of the fog. To be pedantic, the only thing that might be happening to the wind turbines as a result of the fog is that they're collecting some condensate.
If You Were Wondering How Far A Bag Of Chips Bought In Indiana Could Be Driven Up Pikes Peak In Colorado Before It Pops, The Answer Is 8 Miles Past The Entrance
Yep, can confirm. My spouse and I drove from Virginia to Utah one year to see my family and were treated to two sealed chip bags popping on the way over. It was unexpected and somewhat startling.
We've seen this onboard of a plane, when my partner and I were moving from one country to another. Something was off with the pressurisation, my ears were hurting bad through the entire flight. Then at some point I took a small bag of crisps out of my bag, and it was completely swelled up. We observed it for a while to see if eventually it would pop, but then I decided feeding myself was more important than this "science experiment"...
When we moved to Colorado, everything in a tube (shampoo, tooth paste, etc) would just POUR out if you weren’t careful!
Related PSA: When you fly, squeeze out some of the air in things like shampoo and sunscreen, and put them in plastic bags. Otherwise the expanding air can push the contents out.
Load More Replies...I have ALWAYS wondered about this (65 year now). Thanks for the answer.
What Happens When Lightning Strikes A Carbon Fiber Tripod
You see a wrecked tripod, I see the basics of an interesting Halloween costume for 2026
Forbidden goth candy floss. I'd bet inhaling those fibres is going to take 20 years off your life.
Load More Replies...is carbon fiber a natural conductor? what happens if it hits a car made from carbon fiber?
Years ago I picked up my father-in-law at O’Hare. On the way home we were surrounded by heavy rain and lighting. I mused about what would happen if lightning struck the car. Seconds later it struck the front of the car… and kílléd us both. Whoops! Nope. We were fine.
Load More Replies...A Museum Demonstrating What Happens When You Let Visitors Touch Marble
I think the touched side looks far more interesting than the untouched side.
The problem is that constant touching wears away the fine details in the carving, both from rubbing and from the acids in sweat and oil from the skin. You can see how the wrinkles on the first two fingers have far less definition than the others.
Load More Replies...That's why you dont want marble counter tops. Easily stained, difficult to clean.
Cynnydd yn y bleidlais i'r Gymraeg! (that's probably colloquially incorrect - I asked Google to translate "Increased vote for Welsh" since Google can't translate "upvote" into Gymraeg)
Load More Replies...Sooooooo .... That means marble is a terrible choice for bathrooms. Right? Or Ballrooms. Or any kind of room where people go and touch.
Only if you need it to last for hundreds of years without being cleaned
Load More Replies...Considering they used to paint the sculptures in Greco-Roman times...
I Put A Carrot Stub In Water To See What Would Happen And Accidentally Created A Tiny Island
If you plant them they will grow again , same with leeks celery parsnips I do it all the time lol free food
J Steven, because they are absolutely delicious roasted; and an integral part of a British Christmas dinner.
Load More Replies...Petrified Ladder In France
Water full of minerals is dripping down on the ladder for a long time. The minerals stick to the ladder and after some time you have this result.
Which are essentially rock. So petrified, as in turned to rock.
Load More Replies...This image shows a "petrified" iron ladder located near the Dard River in the Jura region of France. The ladder is believed to have been submerged in the river for approximately 100 to 150 years. This phenomenon is a result of calcification, not true petrification.
What It Looks Like When A Cat Licks Cheese
Agfox's comment should not be hidden and we should be able to reply to it! Why are comments being hidden for being edited, posting pics or links? This is making people mis out on interesting comments. I like when people post links to additional or correct info on a post. When I see a hidden comment I assume it's a troll or a disgusting comment. Now I have to click on all comments🤦🏻♀️
It's because of the latest spate of ai spambots. It's too expensive to pay for humans to check every comment as it's posted, so they use filters, which then swing too far in the opposite direction.
Load More Replies...Now I can see what they mean when they say lions can lick the meat off bones......
Yep. Plus their front incisors (the teeth in between the canines) are designed for "nibbling"/scraping the last bits of tissue off of bones as well. XD
Load More Replies...If you think their tongues are alarming check out their boy parts. Cats are induced ovulators and I imagine the spikes have a lot to do with inducing ovulation.
Load More Replies...The big question is why did the cat lick one spot instead of devouring the whole thing?
My cats LOVE ham and many cheeses. No problems yet.
Load More Replies...Accidentally Sat On An Extremely Dusty Ledge
Sioux Falls, SD Turned Green (No Filter) During A Huge Storm Tonight
These yellow and green skies are formed by a combination of blue light (from rain, hail, and suspended water) and yellow light (from the sun low in the sky). This storm is particularly dramatic because it’s forming on the inside of a shelf cloud, which are the leading edges of thunderstorms.
While green/yellow skies aren’t a good tool for forecasting severe weather (such as tornadoes), this coloration in the sky will generally only form with deep convection (read: really big thunderstorms). These are the kinds of storms that are more likely to form tornadoes.
If the clouds are low and the sky is green, my as s is finding a shelter. Experience says find shelter.
For real. If y'all don't know, when you're in the American Midwest at least, green skys mean tornados, and spooky ones at that.
Load More Replies...I saw green skies once when there were F5 tornadoes. Xenia,Ohio - 36 people died. Don't s***w around with severe weather.
I was 2 years old when that happened. We had terrifying tornado drills in elementary schools in NE Ohio. They stopped by middle school. Now kids have shooter drills. Much more terrifying if you ask me. But yeah, a green sky is definitely a bad omen and you need to find shelter ASAP. Even if a tornado doesn't come that hail can be nasty!
Load More Replies...Golf ball sized? Baseball sized? I’ve only seen the marble size but that hurts when it falls. I’ve been camping when it happens so I’ve had to go knock down the tent.
Load More Replies...I'm in the Southern US and if we see green skies, it means big hail and tornadoes are about to hit you. The greener the sky, the worse it's going to be in size of hail and stronger Tornadoes. I went through 2 EF-5 Tornados on May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek/Moore, May 20, 2013 Moore/Oklahoma City and watched the May 31, 2013 El Reno tornado form on TV from my home in OKC. All 3 are historical and record setting Tornados, look them up on YouTube if you want to see them. Oklahoma is in Tornado Alley, so this is something that we live with all year round now. People who think "Climate Change" is BS, has never experienced a Tornado in December.
NE Ohio here and climate change is real. 4 years ago we went through so much salt, the pet and plant safe stuff. then the next year the only thing we used the snow shovel for was my husband scooping a dead squirrel. last winter the snow shovel was used once to clear a path to the mail box that is shaded all day. I remember hours and hours of taking turns digging out ours and the neighbors cars just 10 years ago. Our neighbors were mostly elderly.So yeah, tornados and hail all year long now.
Load More Replies...I Boiled Down 5 Gallons Of Seawater And This All The Salt
At 3.5 % salt in seawater times 8.34 lbs/gallon times 5 gallons = approx 1.5 lbs salt
Please do not use this in your food - it contains concentrated heavy metals, toxins, microplastics, and other pollutants - commercial sea salt processing plants remove these impurities... .
Entirely depends on the producer, and where it is produced. In places which still makes salt via sun evaporation and sea water salt pans, there is little processing beyond the evaporation
Load More Replies...Do not use directly on chips. It contains bitter salts as well as the normal salty NaCl.
How Interesting!!! Is that salt used for like soaking your feet purposes? Or is is sterilized by the boiling and can be used for cooking?
Generally people use epsom salts which are magnesium sulphate. Table salt, or the stuff we think of as “salt” is sodium chloride with the formula NaCl. The formula for epsom salt is MgSO4. I don’t know if NaCl is used as bath soak but it is used as a facial, body, or hand scrub in the same way as sugar scrubs. I needed epsom salt soaks for awhile and learned a couple things. First off- the cheapest store was Big Lots. Like everything from places like that you should know the price elsewhere so you don’t get screwed by thinking it’s a deal when it isn’t. Second- you can scent it with essential oils. Buy real oils, not fake fabricated oils because they just don’t smell right. I add the oils straight to the bag, shaking to mix it and checking the fragrance after giving your olfactory bulbs a break. You become attenuated to smells and need to clear the receptors. (It’s the same mechanism that makes people think their perfume is gone so they apply more and end up with too much.)
Load More Replies...Why? And how much did it cost you, not to mention the planet, in Energy consumption?
maybe the person just lives close to the sea and decided to test it out, doesnt have to be deeper than that
Load More Replies...What Happens When A Small Space Debris Object Hits A Spacecraft
This image shows the results of a lab test impact between a small sphere of aluminum traveling at approximately 6.8 km/second and a block of aluminum 18 cm thick. This test simulates what can happen when a small space debris object hits a spacecraft.
Physics is all about weight and velocity. Make some small thing fast enough and it hits like a truck. Even small splinters a few mm thick can cause serious damage in space where velocities are often so incredibly high
Physics is all about mass and velocity. If weight mattered then so would location.
Load More Replies...Now imagine this on a langer scale and you have an idea of the destructieve power of a 1m wilde spacerock
Force = mass x acceleration, so even a very small object going very fast can inflict a great deal of force.
In this case the object was moving at constant velocity not accelerating. I would rely on the amount of kinetic energy (KE = 1/2mv2) delivery.
Load More Replies...please do not fire your rifle at the international space station as it orbits overhead.
When You Leave Your Books In Your Garage For 20 Years, The Termites That Eat Them Make Rorschach Tests
My family had cardboard boxes containing greeting cards from a failed business venture stacked in a room of a wood frame house. Happened to open a box and it looked like this. All of them did. Very expensive, frustrating discovery for our parents.
Those termites were just trying to show us their depiction of 'Jesus after two thousand years'
This Apple Was Damaged At Some Point And Then Healed Itself. It Isn't Squishy Or Mushy At All, Completely Firm And Normal
My Phone Glitched While Taking A Picture Of The Sunset And This Happened
My Mom Microwaved Some Birdseed To Disinfect It Before Putting It In A Beanbag And Accidentally Made Tiny Popcorn
As opposed to kernels of corn, which are ... er ... 'seeds'.
Load More Replies...Just put it in the freezer for a couple of days, that helps as well
A friend destroyed her microwave oven making popcorn. Be sure to follow the instructions!
What is with the downvoters on this site? Unless someone says something cruel, rude, offensive etc, why downvote them? If you disagree with what they're saying, maybe try using your words like big boys and girls and start a discussion. Anyway, here's an upvote from me just to counter the downvotes.
Load More Replies...You can do this with amaranth seeds in a small pot like you would regular popcorn and then use them to make rice krispy type treats. :) They're good!
You can pop a variety of seeds and grains. I have done buckwheat and quinoa so far.
What Happens When You Park Atop MT Washington
Apparently this mountain "is located in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, in Coös County, New Hampshire."
The Presidential Range is known to have some of the worst weather in North America, and it can turn very fast. Many hikers have died in the area. EDIT: Apparently it's mostly just Mt. Washington itself that has this reputation.
Load More Replies...Gonna need a few extra minutes to warm that truck up for the morning commute.
Not to us! Our niece and her husband took us on a day trip to Mt. Washington, from Portland, ME. Once we were at the top, I ordered a hot chocolate and wham! it's time to go. Turned out he was eager to go to the LL Bean outlet. We literally spent 20x more time at LL Bean than we did at the top of the mountain. We don't visit often these days. Edited to add: My wife's (before we met lol) boyfriend once spent 3 months in the dead of winter atop Mount Washington; he worked for a TV station and was responsible for maintaining the broadcasting gear. Until 1996, the world record for highest recorded wind speed (231 mph) was from atop Mount Washington.
Second fastest recorded wind speed on land in the world after a spot in Australia.
Load More Replies...My Grandmother Accidentally Put One Of Her Leather Gloves In The Washing Machine
Oh Lord, I just noticed the old lucite rings we used to wear in the 60s! 8`-)
Reminds me when I got a lovely, all wool cardigan as a teenager. It was the perfect fit, and looked very smart. It went into the washing machine by accident, and came out incredibly small. About the size for a newborn. I was very sad to lose it, but at the same time it looked really funny.
I recently did this on accident with a new sweater. While it was still wet, I blocked it and managed to gently pull it back into the correct size.
Load More Replies...I Left This Cup In My Car And After A Couple Days In The Sun, The Lid Flattened Out
Margarine containers are great for doing this with. Heat in an oven or hot oil and they will flatten into a perfect circle, with printing intact.
Had a restaurant that would put warmed maple syrup in plastic to go containers, and this happened every time. What a sticky mess in the bag!
Load More Replies...Tried To Go Magnet Fishing In Volcanic Lake, Sand Was Magnetic
The sand itself isn't magnetic, it just has a huge iron about if iron in it
Agreed. Bodies have been found by magnet fishing. A guy had to go get his magnet unstuck by following the line down to to the bottom to find it stuck to a dead body. Terrifying.
Load More Replies...Yes, black sand tends to be magnetic, something many people who use it in their fishtank learn the hard way when their magnetic scrapers suck it up and scratch the glass.
In the washes (dry riverbeds) in southern AZ, you sometimes see streaks of black sand, which are washed down from the mountains. We called it "iron sand." Some of the grains have tiny garnets attached. We called the garnets "sand rubies." When I was a kid, I collected a whole bunch of iron sand to put in a jar. Key point, wrap your magnet with saran wrap or a plastic baggie, so it's easy to get the iron sand back off the magnet. Once you get some on your magnet, it's impossible to get it all off.
Load More Replies...It's lowering a strong magnet on a line into a river or lake and dragging it across the bottom to try finding interesting metal objects.
Load More Replies...US Steel Corporation would like the GPS coordinates of where you snapped this picture.
LEGO Sent Me A Letter Along With My Missing Part
Put together a 1334 piece Lego set of a Volkswagen camper van and literally the very last piece (black curved trim for the front end) was missing. It was an unreal moment. Luckily, Lego, without hesitation, replaced it. I don't remember if there was an accompanying letter or not.
I have never seen a missing lego piece in many decades. I can't tell what this one is.
"It'll help them make sure this doesn't happen again."? I hope you are happy with yourself. Because of you, their punishment is to walk around the factory - barefoot. Those poor unfortunate souls.
The Flame Coming Out Of My Melting Furnace Looked Like I Was Cremating A Unicorn When I Was Melting Some Aluminum Cans Last Night
NJ P: I suspect it's "flame test" emissions indicating the presence of particular elements - which might well be present in the dyes, but the colour's probably not the colour of the actual dyes or inks involved. More here: en DOT wikipedia DOT org\wiki\Flame_test#Common_elements (I wish I didn't have to obfuscate the link, but there you go.)
Load More Replies...Back when I was a kid our family would have a BBQ and at night after all the food was cooked and we were done with roasting (burning!) marshmallows my uncles would throw scrap copper wire on the fire and it was so pretty! (construction workers, not theft)
Key word: aluminium. Since it's cans, they are probably an alloy, and all the different metals make different colours.
(The dyes don't make a difference unless they have elements in them too btw)
Load More Replies...aluminum melts at 1,220 degrees farenheit. what the heck is your furnace made of?
I Peeled A Passion Fruit
Not me, I refuse to look closely at it, can't trust those facehuggers!
Load More Replies...My Mom Works At The Bank, An Elderly Couple Gave Her Microwaved Money, Thinking It Will Clean It From Viruses
What's all this microwave to desinfect?!?!?! First the seeds and now this.....sure people know a micro is like a little concentrated oven, it cooks things, not cleans them....
Ice Tea Froze In The Fridge And Self-Separated
For some reason, long ago, I froze a plastic bottle of Coca-Cola. That separated into ice and syrup.
Accidental Bleach Spill Lifted Printed Letters From Nikwax Label
A Friend Left A Glass Bowl Outside, And A Wasp Nest Happened To Be Nearby
My Brother-In-Law’s Side Mirror Broke, Allowing Water To Seep Between And Create This Interesting Effect
If You’re Bored In The Winter Time, Go To A Car Wash When It’s Freezing For A Satisfying, Artistic Discovery
Where I live, car washes close when it's far below zero F. You can get frozen into your car.
That's been a foam party! Looks like there are pool noodle floats in it .
Ok. WHO M******D THE UNICORN? (Credit to owner of this comment from a previous post)
I Was Cleaning Out The Fridge When I Discovered Two Hidden Eggs That Must Have Been There For Years. The Whites Dried Out And The Yolks Are Hard As Rock
18 missing minutes? Hoffa? Unmatched socks from the dryer?
Load More Replies...When I was a kid we used to go up the attic in a side building at me grandparents' house, we liked to play there. They lived in a rural area, mostly living off the land, and this attic was used to keep cured meat, a few kinds of nuts, dried corn etc., plus lots of junk, old furniture, gardening equipment etc. Cats roamed up there to catch the occasional mice, and even the chicken used to sneak up if the door was left open for a bit. One of them laid an egg in a hidden corner, probably decades before we kids found it. It looked normal from the outside, but when we c*****d it, it was completely black inside, like a lump of coal. No smell, just a black "stone" egg.
Traditional Pysanki (Ukrainian eggs) were not blown out, they were left to dry out. With central heating, people started blowing them out as the warmer air would spoil them sooner and they could smell. I let a few of mine dry out naturally when I lived in a colder state and my art supply closet wasn’t heated.
Unintentionally Left A Bottle Of Rice Vinegar With The Cap Off & Became An Accidental Fruit Fly Trap
Handy if you've got an infestation at home you can't get rid of. Pour some vinegar in a container, cover with cling wrap, poke some holes in the cling wrap. All the flies go in to get the vinegar (they really like apple cider vinegar) and can't get out again so drown. Very effective trap. Put a few little bits of fruit in too if you want.
Also adding dish soap to the edges keeps any from crawling out.
Load More Replies...Now I want to see somebody do a test on a jar of honey versus the vinegar
Load More Replies...Used to do this with nearly empty wine bottles at a spa I worked at. Worked great.
Apparently You Can’t Mix Coke Zero And Fanta
What is this abomination? Why were you even trying to mix coke and Fanta in the first place?
Cola + Fanta is a staple in Germany and Austria, it's called Spezi and you can buy it already pre-mixed. The drink in the picture is not as weird as it seems. The green is actually from the green glass (look at the bottom of the glass, it's green too). And the drinks don't mix because the drink that contains sugar, Fanta in this case, has a higher density than the sugarless Cola, so they layer if you pour them slowly. Just stir and they will mix.
Load More Replies...We used to get that kind of concoction at camp. They called it a "sui©idea".
Load More Replies...Mixing coke and fanta was one of my childhood experiments. I’d like to think many people have tried it.
Mixing sodas (or pop, if you prefer) is a real thing. We call them “Joeys”. I’ve never tried it, but know people who do.
You CAN mix it, just have to really mix it. If it went back to being separated if left alone, would it be considered an emulsion when mixed?
Only if it stays mixed. If it re-separates, it wasn't an emulsion.
Load More Replies...My Mom Accidentally Melted A Plastic Plate In Her Oven. When She Pried It Out, It Looked Like Fire
My Sister Accidentally Left Some Salt Water In Her Ceramic Mug Overnight And Salt Crystals Seeped Through
Earthenware is a ceramic. This mug was presumably unglazed.
Load More Replies...Why not? Next she could try home extracted salt and Fanta.
Load More Replies...What Happens When Wood Is Burnt With High Voltage
Don't do this. It's incredibly dangerous. Base jumping levels of dangerous. Many, many, people have D i e d trying it after seeing on some YouTube vid. Even people who've done it many times have suddenly run out of luck.
DON'T TRY THIS!! Every woodworking organisation condemns and recommends against this type of wood burning because, in order to make it, you need to create a voltage equivalent to a high-power transmission line. Problem is, people make this with a disabled and modified microwave and they are 100% not prepared to deal with the consequences. Hell, even experienced electrical engineers and well-practiced experts in the technique have still died from this! DO NOT TRY THIS. NOT AT HOME, NOT ANYWHERE.
My friend blew up his hand trying this. I drove him to the ER and I'll never get the smell out of my head. Please don't do this.
Very quick and nasty way to die if you do this. Occurs naturally after lightning strikes, which tells how much voltage you need for it.
If I didn't know better I thought that was a picture of a Chinese tree.
What Happens When You Forget To Roll Your Window Up Before A Snowstorm
I'm wondering who would park with a car window open when it's cold enough to snow.
Cold enough to snow can arrive after a day of highs in the 50's...
Load More Replies...Or just check everything before you get out. I love having fresh air, especially driving out in the more rural areas.
Load More Replies...I Accidentally Set My Phone Down On Some Acetone At Work, Now It Looks Like This
I'm concerned about your Health and Safety standards if you have puddles of Acetone sitting around like that.
A lot of nail polish removers have acetone in them, same as paint thinners. So its not that difficult to come by
Load More Replies...Here’s What Will Happen To Potato Sprouts After 3 Weeks If You Let Them Grow
If it is spring they can remove the sprouts stick them in water until the roots form then plant it and grow their own potatoes.
A few years ago I had about half a dozen small red potatoes that had started to sprout and go soft. On a whim, I planted them. Come autumn, I harvested 30 pounds of beautiful potatoes. It was so much fun to keep finding more and more as I poked around in the dirt!
Load More Replies...I Froze Some Watermelon Balls, An Hour Later They Looked Like They Had Grown Frosty Curly-Q’s
Yes, please tell the other people they are not worms🤦🏻♀️
Load More Replies...Pepper That Fell Behind The Fridge Dried Perfectly Instead Of Molding
Looks like the kitty would love to use it as a toy! ...I have a feeling he'd be done with it shortly after the first bite.
Chilli Peppers are really easy to dry, they hardly ever go moldy, I think the capsaicin must be a good preservative.
I often forget about chilli peppers that I have bought and left on the vegetable rack, and they always dry like this
Where I live it's difficult to find fresh chillis in the shops, so sometimes a bulk-buy will be left in a paper bag in the fridge and end up like this. Naturally dried, perfectly good to eat, just remember to wash your hands thoroughly once you've crumbled this into your cooking. IYKYK.😮
And don't touch your eyes or nose before washing your hands.
Load More Replies...Pepper did a normal thing and a person who finds parsley too spicy is scared. Cat can't understand how they ended up with the stupid one. Is disappointed with the CDS blames DOGE.
This Is What Happens When You Leave A Pack Of Gummy Bears In A 105 Degree Car
As I have found to my sorrow. Didn't stop me from eating the resultant blob, however.
Happened many a time to me. They still taste the same though.
Load More Replies...What Happens To Potatoes After A Year In The Cellar
Careful. Old potatoes can have arsenic build up-especially the green parts
I would think the smell would have given them away long before a year.
If they’re growing they probably aren’t rotting. Instead of getting rid of them they can plant them. On occasion I’ve composted things like that, carrots that are old and wrinkly and find them happily growing in my compost bin.
Load More Replies...My Monster Zero Turned Red When I Accidentally Froze It
I refuse to drink them so I think I am safe. I also do not allow anyone to freeze cans. you can take some ice and salt and a bowl but no cans in my freezer or vehicle.
Coconut water is wonderful (in the summer) if you pop a can in the freezer from 30 to 60 minutes. No carbonation so it won't explode.
Load More Replies...What Happens When You Gain 50 Lbs And Don’t Take Your Rings Off
Yup, had to cut my wedding ring off. Cut my husband off too!
Soak your hands in ice water and maybe use a spot of oil.
Load More Replies...I had exactly the same with my wedding ring after 30 years. Easily removed with dental floss, I'm pleased to say.
My Salt Lamp Has Mysteriously Leaked
No mystery: salt pulls water out of the air, which condenses on its surface, which dissolves the salt, which flows as salt water and evaporates, leaving the salt behind. This is why you need the bulb inside to keep the salt warm and thus prevent condensation from forming.
Another advantage of living in a high arid zone. There is no water to pull out of the air here.
Load More Replies...I had one of these salt things out in storage. It "spread" into a metal candelabra, making it very brittle and it won't wash off. I've tried everything! It's like a parasite!
ah I had one that did that. never own a salt lamp if your house uses evap cooling :')
I had this in my room next to my bed and experienced nightmares beyond anything and when i took it away they went away. Found a thread with other people having the same experience. Freaky.
I got my hands on two unused salt lamps. I smashed them to pieces with a hammer, dissolved in hot water, filtered and after evaporating I got enough salt to last until retirement 😄
Just out of curiosity, why did you dissolved and evaporated it instead of just smashing, then grinding it? I'm not familiar with salt lamps apart from knowing they exist, so I don't know if they have anything in them beside salt.
Load More Replies...I Accidentally Froze This Raw Egg By Putting It At The Back Of My Fridge
I have one spot in my fridge that will freeze whatever happens to get placed there. So strange!
Air gets chilled to below freezing by close contact with the freezer compartment, then circulates to a particular spot in the refrigerator section. Maybe raise the temperature in one or both compartments a degree or so.
Load More Replies...I Put My Candle Out With Drops Of Water And This Is What It Looked Like When It Cooled
Because they didn’t want to smell the smoking wick?
Load More Replies...Accidentally Left Salt Water In An Old Mug For Too Long And This Is What Happened
Now there’s two weirdos leaving cups of salt water everywhere. Is this like the movie Signs?
What Happened To This "All Natural Soap" After Sitting In The Shower For A Few Months
Maybe they were out of town with the person who had the very long sweet potato vine in their kitchen?
Load More Replies...It looks perfectly clean. It's just that the soap has dried out
Load More Replies...Let An Onion Go Bad In The Fridge. This Is What Happens Apparently
I have that happened to me to. But not that bad. The onion stil should be good. Just cut those off and cut a very thin slice off the top. You should be good to go.
It's evolving a Seussian-style Onion City. Wait till the towers get their Onion Domes!
Plant it , onions n garlic in a fridge gets the, growing , planted many myself great way to get free food , I grow my own veg,n do this either pretty much all of it ligit just pop in in soil that way up roots will come from the bottom n grow beautifully
Not sure why people are downvoting you, in this situation I'd probably plant it too considering it's growing in such extremes already
Load More Replies...Poured Hot Tea And The Glass Split In The Middle
What Happens When You Don't Trim Your Horse's Shoes
Why wasn't this noticed sooner. I hope they are banned from owning horses and other animals.
I wonder how horses managed before they were domesticated - did the hooves naturally wear down when cantering on rocky slopes? Be interested to know.
Yes, probably. A lot of domesticated horses live in pastures or corrals and are always walking on soft ground, so their hooves don't wear down. Our horses walk on a concrete area a lot in our corral, so they stay pretty worn.
Load More Replies...Special place in hell for animal abusers. Their a***e should be done to them.
That should be the punishment for whoever allowed this horses hooves to look like tha
Load More Replies...This Is What Happens When You Crush A Cake
Agreed! Normally there are one of two that aren’t related or are not so interesting, but this list was very cool!!
Load More Replies...Really loved the natural phenomenon one's. Even with all the information with have about how they o cur; it still looks like magic.
Agreed! Normally there are one of two that aren’t related or are not so interesting, but this list was very cool!!
Load More Replies...Really loved the natural phenomenon one's. Even with all the information with have about how they o cur; it still looks like magic.
