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30 Scary And Unsettling Things People Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts
Our universe is absolutely fascinating. Part of the reason why is that no matter how much you learn about it, there is still plenty left to uncover, which includes all sorts of wonderful things, as well as the scary stuff.
The scary stuff is what we’re focusing on today. After combing the internet, we have found an abundance of comments about the creepiest and weirdest science facts netizens have ever heard. So, if you’re curious to learn more about our universe or simply drawn to spine-chilling stories, don’t hesitate to delve deeper and find the fascinating facts on the list below. Happy scrolling!
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#1
Science doesn't scare me. It is the social problems caused by those who deny the oneness of the human family that scare me.
For thousands of years we have been warring tribes arguing over pieces of dirt, each tribe thinking they should be more privileged than the next.
It is time for the human family to unite and celebrate it's diversity. Those who denigrate the cultures of others scare me.
MeMosabe 4 months ago
Uniting and celebrating diversity is an oxymoron. Diversity doesn't unite, it divides, hence the same root word. We should, instead, emphasize and celebrate what we have in common: our humanity, our love for certain others of our species, our weaknesses, our trials, and find ways to help and support each other. Love they neighbor, and the jerk on the other side of the world.
Tim Crowhurst 8 months ago
Any culture that treats some people as inferior to others for reasons of race, gender, disability, or sexuality, or treats such prejudice and bigotry as acceptable, does not deserve respect. Unfortunately that describes virtually all cultures (including my own) to a greater or lesser degree.
Kim Lorton 8 months ago
Out of fear for self, we deny the differences and denigrate what we do not understand. For fear of being ridiculed, some go with the majority, every thought of their own, squashed for fear of being killed for having that single idea going against the majority. The majority? Well, they denigrate, sew hate for fear of losing themselves in the sameness we all have, and the difference we wished we did. The story of humanity will not be denied, no matter how many times or who, tries to rewrite it. Someone who knows the truth…will always survive and sway the masses. Humanity truly is a tide, but we all need to swim together so we all, survive.
Nicole Calling 8 months ago
YES!!! I've been feeling this way for the longest time now, when will everyone wake tf up and realize we are all just freaking human beings?!?
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
You'll be scared forever, or at least till humans exist. Differing and racing with each other, is what made us till now so successful in surviving. However, if you speak with a genetics expert, he/she will be worried. Because although, seemingly we are very different, our genetical diversity is closest to a soon-to-be-extint spieces. It's related to the fact, that in our history there was a period, when the survival of our species was due to a few thousand speciemen. We made it. But a few thousand specieman can't provide a long lasting genetical diversity for millions years of survival.
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Species' genetic diversity increases over time because of mutations to the code. That long ago genetic bottle neck (still debated) did not affect us for long in terms of biological time frames. Our evolution seems to be a history of repeated hybridization with our cousin species. The folks who are most genetically diverse are those from the mother continent, Africa.
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nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Ishmael? From Moby Dic? (The book that dare not speak its name.)
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#2
It's been suggested that the reason we have no evidence of intelligence beyond our planet is not the vast distances, but the brief blip of time intelligence exists before destroying itself isn't long enough for two distinct space-faring cultures to interact.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
It's one theory from dozens. But for sure, we are not alone, as a somewhat intelligent species.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 8 months ago
Struggling to find intelligent life on Earth to be honest
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Robert Millar 8 months ago
We sent out signals of nuclear weapons exploding. Maybe we are classed as "Do Not Disturb" now.
Ace 8 months ago
Don't worry about it. Any possible intelligent life forms out there won't receive the message for a very long time. Speed of light, innit.
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Skogsrået 8 months ago
I read in a science paper once that it could be a dimensional thing, like it they were five dimensional beings we would not be able to perceive them even though they are here with us. Ofc this is just a theory like many others but i find it interesting.
Grm Moore 8 months ago
Theoretically, if an alien living on a planet 200 million light years away had a device by which they could view Earth, due to the 200 light years gap in light reach, instead of seeing humans through the device, aliens would instead see dinosaurs from the Jurrasic Period since that's the era from which the light has reached till that point.
Chicken Nugget 8 months ago
it does seem that way, since it took us around 10k years to destroy ourselves and we haven't even mastered spaceflight yet
XenoMurph 8 months ago
We aren't dead yet. Sadly the best of us will not survive, the worst will.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago (edited)
I have two theories about the lack of alien contact. (1) We haven't been contacted because there are no intelligent civilizations out there. (2) We haven't been contacted because there are.
#3
That 20–25% of people in comas are awake and aware but just can’t move.
Imagine just lying there, trapped in the prison of your own mind. I’d rather not.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
At this point, just please k**l me, after you can find something useful in my body to transplant. I love lettuce, but not being one.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Sorry, but my grandson was in a coma from 2/26-3/3rd or 4th....I disagree. Seeing him wean off morphine was difficult.
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Zophra 8 months ago
found a secondary with agrees with the OP. Maybe I just don't want this to be true. That is one horrible horrible situation. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/comas-conscious-communicate
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Kay Lyn Evans 8 months ago
I wasn't in a coma, but I spent 3 months completely paralyzed, and in absolute *agony*, but entirely awake. It was he!! on earth and I have PTSD
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
I read an article about a man who was in a coma like state. He couldn't speak, move or open his eyes. He heard everything people said around him but had absolutely no way to react. That must have been hell. Later he did wake up.
#4
There are individual stars that are bigger than the distance from the earth to the sun.
axnyslie 8 months ago
The largest known star UY Scuti extends beyond Jupiter's orbit around our sun.
ThatG 8 months ago
And 5 Billion of our Suns would be able to fit inside UY Scuti.
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June 8 months ago
We mostly don't realize how extreme are the distances (and time) scales 487169410_...d58678.jpg 
Lorraine R 8 months ago
And yet, a million Earths could fit inside the Sun.
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#5
COVID has about a 1% mortality rate.
Bubonic plague has a 15% mortality rate, even with modern antibiotics (and the pneumonic version is 100% fatal, even with modern medicine).
Given the number of people in the US who refused to wear masks, who refused to take basic safety precautions, and who denied basic science…an outbreak of plague would k*ll 40 million people here, easily.
Skogsrået 8 months ago
Did anyone else see the documentary about this woman studying different covid strings? They called her the batwoman cause she studied covid in bats, anyways one of these strings had a mortality of 75%. I still think about it sometimes.
David 8 months ago
False! Bubonic Plague has a 95% survival rate, goes to 99% if they go to a doctor to get treated in time with antibiotics. In the US For example, only 15 fatalities since 2000 because we get antibiotics quickly. The CDC has very good data on this
Erin Van Atten 4 months ago
Today I learned that the plague has not been eradicated in the US... The last documented case in the Netherlands was in 1929!
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Emily Ly 8 months ago
It would, yes, but it would be fairly hard to get an outbreak in modern times because of hygiene levels now. Perhaps if it mutated, but currently there's about 7 cases a year in the US, and 2000 worldwide per year. The real fear is if bird flu mutates. Bird flu has a 90-100% mortality rate in most birds, a rate of about 70% for cats, and who knows what it would be if it jumped properly to humans and spread among us like it did birds.
Emily Ly 8 months ago
Doing research, current human mortality is 54%, but that's only from a total of 261 infected. But still that's a scary number, and its not that unlikely it'll start spreading among humans soon. As someone with a fear of disease, the plague doesn't scare me much because of modern medicine. Bird flu is what's scary af
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SkippityBoppityBoo 8 months ago (edited)
Just read the profile of the person who wrote this... Hums........... As someone who had Covid, saw a lot of things in hospital including body bags... Someone die right in front of me... Covid has a much higher mortality rate than just "1%"... I don't just mean from Covid itself but the long term complications from it..... Tbh? I want to know when this was posted. During the Global Pandemic and Lockdowns or after?
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
A nice Darwinian reset, especially if they haven't had children yet. I hate stupid.
#6
There is a squid called the bigfin squid that we’ve only seen 3 times. Their tentacles are so long they reach to the seafloor. About 20-26ft long and scientists say the ones we’ve seen are more than likely not adults. They even have elbows. We don’t really know much about them since they are rarely seen. Look on google and you’ll see how scary they are. And yes they are in the deep, deep ocean approx 5000ft deep.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
They are really clever staying so deep from us. Their relatives are eaten ....
Cuppa tea? 8 months ago
Their tentacles can reach seafloor -.what a stupid BS. Off course, if they are 20 cm above seafloor, they can reach. I can reach seafloor too, if I'm In knee-deep water.
Robert Millar 8 months ago
I don't know what other people think, but I would have called this "long tentacled" instead of big fin.
RamiRudolph 8 months ago
Though their tentacles would only reach the seafloor when they're 20-26 ft above it.
Onan Hag All 8 months ago
U mm... "their tentacles are so big that they reach the seafloor"? Think about that for a minute.
#7
Yet one more thing to worry about due to global warming: The defrosting, reviving, and unleashing of viruses trapped in the permafrost when the ice melts and the ground thaws. What this will do to world health is currently unknown, but it won’t be pretty. It will make COVID look like the 24-hour croup.
john doe 8 months ago
Not really how virions work, they need to attach to a specific protein on the cell membrane and they need to have the right code in their RNA to hijack a cell. You can't take a million year old virus and expect it to be able to do anything with a modern animal, it's just not how it works.
Lynda Loyacono 8 months ago (edited)
Humans are a cancer, yet, they freak out when nature attempts to heal itself by culling the cancer. We are literal parasites.
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#8
The exact middle of nowhere is 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W. It's a spot in the Pacific Ocean named [Point Nemo](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nemo.html) that's 2688 km (1451 nautical miles) from nearest land.
It's roughly between New Zealand and South America. More specifically Point Nemo is between the Easter Islands, the Pitcairn Islands, and Antarctica.
Suppose you were in a ship that sank at Point Nemo and you had to climb into a life raft. If you were on your own without a radio, just paddling and collecting rainwater and catching fish, then if you could travel 20 miles a day it would take two and a half months to reach nearest land...
...if you navigated perfectly.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
If you have located 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W., your are finding Nemo. Prepare to hear from the Disney lawyers.
PenguinEmp 8 months ago
And shockingly, trump imposed a 10% tarrifs on the island. Not a joke. Except for the fact that only seals and penguins live there. Your president is a f*****g r****d.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
No he didn't. There isn't an island there, that's the entire point.
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Emily Ly 8 months ago
It always shocks me to remember that space isn't as far away as we think.
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Allen Beloe 8 months ago
It's also a satellite cemetery, and I think the Americans have dropped a bit of waste there.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
It's pretty much the aim point every time and space agency drops anything out of orbit that they don't want.
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It's also where responsible space-faring nations guide most rocket bodies & spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and crash. Reducing Liability. Lookin' directly at you, People's Republic of China.
#9
Super flares happen on every star. Which includes our own sun, but since the sun is a rather old and quiet star, it only happens every other 1000 years or so. But they happen, and it's not a matter if, but when it happens.
A superflare from the sun wouldn't be that deadly and devastating as it sounds, but it would be enough to roast sattelite communication, cause global blackouts and a thick layer of radiation around earth.
Scientists guess the next super flare will occur within the next 100 years.
Anyway, have a nice day.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
A superflare in 1700s wouldn't even be noticed by the ordinary people living on Earth at that time. Wouldn't change anything in their everydays' life. In 1800s would have made some minor annoyance, and after that .. yaeh, you can guess. Anyway, think about how tech-depending is your everyday life.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago (edited)
The Carrington event of 1859 served as a warning.
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john doe 8 months ago
CME's coronal mass ejections (not sure what a super flair is I think the OP means CMEs) are not the doomsday thing people think they are, we would know several days in advance if one was heading right for us, plenty of time to shut down satellites and shut down power grids. People would freak out and be furious that they would have to go max 3 days without power ( remember masking if you think people will be rational) but it won't fry every electronic device like in sci fi it would largely be fine.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
A CME can reach earth in as little as 15 - 18 hours. And while we can see when one is thrown or off the sun, we can't tell their power or even for certain if they will hit us. The first indicator we will have for certain is when it reaches the DSOCVR satellite at the L1 location. That will give us between 15 - 60 minutes and give an indication of its power. It's possible that another Carrington Event level CME won't cause too many problems, even with our greater reliance on electricity. But we have observed CMEs much more powerful than the estimations of the strength of the Carrington CME.
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john doe 8 months ago
They already are, your phone is in a farady cadge, metal box surrounding electronic components, your car already is surrounded by a metal box, almost everything is too small to be effected, the power grid is very large and can be disrupted but they have shut down procedures to prevent damage to transformers and the physical lines themselves if a CME was on its way, the military has been fully hardened for an EMP attack since the 80s. The devastating consequences of an EMP or CME is basically just science fiction
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PenguinEmp 8 months ago
Yes. The solar cycle. Peaks every 11 years. It's not a new thing.
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#10
Deep Sea Giantism.
There are species that live deep underwater that are massive compared to their shallow water counterparts.
The only way we've come across them is when they've washed up on shore or were caught by fisherman because they wandered into more shallow water.
But we really have no idea what the scope or scale of how large these creatures can get because we can't study them at the depth in which they live. For all we know, the found creatures were babies that were separated from their mothers.
#11
Crocodiles can climb trees. While they might not look like a climber, they certainly can climb trees.
In a study conducted by the University of Tennesse, it was confirmed that four different crocodile species, found in Australia, Africa, and the Americas, are all able to climb, some as high as 4m, where they were observed basking in trees. They mostly do this to bask in the sun, or to survey territory for predators, prey, or for other competitor crocodiles.
Imagine that you’ve got a crocodile chasing you and you climb a tree to escape from it. When you reach above, you find one already waiting for you there. He’ll say to you:
Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.
Or imagine that you decided to get some rest under a tree and one of them decides to jump on you from above screaming:
Surprise, motherf**ker!
UKGrandad 8 months ago (edited)
Crocs can easily outrun a human on land but they cannot turn quickly when running, so if you ever find yourself being chased by one do not run in a straight line. Instead, make plenty of sharp turns.
Joe Publique 8 months ago (edited)
If anyone doesn't know the difference between an alligator and a crocodile, it's easy. One will see you later and the other will see you in a while.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 8 months ago
"imagine you decided to get some rest under a tree and one of them jumps on you from above screaming: surprise, motherfücker!" i want to draw this now dang
Daniel Atkins 8 months ago
My question did they try to make them climb or was it a discovery during a different study? I'd imagine it would be hard just get a grant based on trying to make them climb.
#13
There's millions of black holes that are millions of times bigger than the earth that are just randomly hurdling through space at insane speeds like pinballs in a pinball machine, sleep tight!
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago (edited)
Thia universum, as we know, will convert in so many trillions years as we now can't comprehend in a bunch of black holes. And this will be still not the end. The end will come after another 'so many trillion years...", when there will be absolutely nothing. No space, no matter, no time .... We are living in the rare moments of light. And we are wasting it ...
WindySwede 8 months ago
And the latest data shows that we might be inside of an a event horizon right now. ???
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Tom Hutcherson 5 months ago
The ultimate fate of the universe is currently debated among scientists, but the most likely scenario is a Big Freeze (or Heat Death), where the universe continues expanding and cooling until it reaches a state of maximum entropy and near absolute zero temperature. Other possibilities include a Big Crunch, where gravity reverses the expansion and causes a collapse, or a Big Rip, where the expansion tears the universe apart.
#14
The further away a galaxy is, the smaller it looks to us. That makes sense. However there comes a point beyond which the further away it is the LARGER it looks. That's because when the light left it, the universe was smaller, the galaxy was closer, so it filled a larger area of sky.
Source: The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack.
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
Neat! I love astrophysics facts! Brian Greene has some great books, too.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
D**n, I'm going to have to re-read that. I don't remember that part.
#15
That we didn't even discover 10% of our ocean.
fenixrising1972 8 months ago
People don't understand future perfect. RIP literacy.
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Novlette Williams 8 months ago
We have actually discovered all of our oceans. We have only explored less than 10%.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago (edited)
I saw a factoid that stated more people have walked on the moon than have been to the Challenger Deep
#16
A gamma ray burst (GRB) could wipe all life from the face of the Earth at any time with little to no warning.
GRBs are intense blasts of radiation that stream into space when a star explodes, traveling at 99.99% the speed of light. GRBs are well known to astronomers and have been spotted in different galaxies.
If you're on the side of the planet facing the GRB, it would be like getting caught in a nuclear blast thousands of times stronger than all the nuclear warheads on Earth combined. If you happen to be on the other side of the planet, you'll simply burn to death from radiation as the atmosphere disintegrates and all the gamma-rays liquefy your cells. A near miss GRB, which means the stream of radiation just grazes the Earth, will still be fatal, but the resulting death will be slower as the ozone layer burns up and our ecosystem is destroyed.
It has been calculated that every 5 million years or so, a gamma ray burst goes off close enough to harm life on Earth. GRBs may have caused some of the extinction events that have occurred in the Earth’s past. GRB’s have possibly sterilized the planet before and they could do it again.
john doe 8 months ago
There are no stars large enough to cause a gamma ray burst in our galactic neighborhood, they need to be with in a few hundred light years to have deadly effect, so not an issue for us modern animals, it is hypothesized that a GRB caused the Precambrian mass extinction but there is no way to know for sure.
Alex Kennedy 8 months ago
Since Gamma Rays are light, wouldn’t they travel at 100% of the speed of light?
Noltha 8 months ago
Obviously the OP doesn't know what he is writing about.
Load More Replies... Nichole Harris 8 months ago
Clearly exaggerated.... If the planet were sterile then we'd not be here
NetworkMan 8 months ago
Possibly not, though. Earth is 4.543 billion years old. Who are we to assume we were here first? We could be mankind's Version 5253. We could just be repeating the same 5 million years over and over.
Load More Replies... Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
Khm, may I be on that side of the planet, what faces GRB? Please and thanks.
Tom Hutcherson 5 months ago
Sorry, gamma rays travel at the speed of light, not 99.99% of it. A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from high energy interactions like the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei or astronomical events like solar flares.
Tom Hutcherson 8 months ago (edited)
Gamma rays are electromagnetic in nature. Therefore, they travel at the speed of light, not 99.99%. Gamma rays travel at the speed of light, which is approximately 3 x 108 meters per second (or 299,792,458 m/s) in a vacuum.
PenguinEmp 8 months ago
No worries. Nothing around to generate one. Move along with your fear mongering
#17
This is more interesting than weird, but I'll say it anyway
Theoretically, if an alien living on a planet 200 million light years away had a device by which they could view Earth, due to the 200 light years gap in light reach, instead of seeing humans through the device, aliens would instead see dinosaurs from the Jurrasic Period since that's the era from which the light has reached till that point.
Caffeinated Ape 8 months ago
I get what they were going for, but I can't get past the scale used. 200 million light years is a ludicrous distance! Our galaxy is maybe one hundred thousand light years across. The Local Group of galaxies has a diameter around 10 million light years. The supercluster our galaxy is located within has a diameter of 110 million light years. At that point, counting anything is... well it's just hard to even conceptualize things at that kind of distance. If an alien could resolve images on our pale blue dot from that far away, frankly space and time are probably mere suggestions to a being like that.
Paulina 8 months ago
Just because it's an unimaginably long distance, doesn't mean it's ludicrous 🤷♀️
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Joe Publique 8 months ago
Right, but this is a terrible example. In theory, if you could build a rocket capable of travelling faster than the speed of light, you could launch into space, turn around, and observe past events as they unfolded. However, this idea comes with significant caveats; most notably, that faster-than-light travel is impossible (at least for now).
Kalikima 8 months ago
I read a Christopher Pike novel that used this as a premise for time travel. It was really cool how he made it unfold and happen.
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My kids aren't learning this..... My eldest stepson did but not my youngest age gap is about 20 years
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*there are no baby butterflies*. Think about it, they’re caterpillars, then they’re butterflies so there’s no such thing as a baby butterfly... idk why, that just disturbs me a little.
RamiRudolph 8 months ago
Guess somebody just discovered the evolution of Invertebrates. Seriously, most of them work like that.
Papa 8 months ago
Oddly enough, some shrimp have a larval stage, and other species are hatched as very small fully formed shrimp.
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Leap of Faith 8 months ago
A caterpillar IS a baby butterfly. A pupa is a teenage butterfly. A butterfly is an adult butterfly. Too bad human teenagers don't go into a pupal state and come out fully grown: We wouldn't have to put up with all the troubles teenagers cause themselves and others.
Sean Stimson 8 months ago
A baby caterpillar is a baby butterfly. It's like saying there are no baby frogs, only tadpoles. A tadpole is a baby frog
Kim Lorton 8 months ago
Kinda like the fact that women, carry the DNA from the very first woman in her line, inside her for her entire life as does every other woman on this earth!.
#19
Fact 1) Antipoles are 2 points on the Earths surface that are diametrically opposite. If I stood on the North Pole, the South Pole is my Antipole.
Fact 2) The Pacific Ocean is so big, it contains its own Antipole.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
As mentioned in Fact 1, an antipode is a point on the surface of the earth. The Pacific Oceon is not a point, so it is not an antipode. Each point in the Pacific can be an antipode, however.
Tom Brincefield 8 months ago
And there are points in the Pacific with antipoles that are also in the Pacific.
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The five Oceans recognized by Science & Geographers each have characteristic currents, climates, and interactions with land masses. Addressing them as one single body of water is, at best, oversimplifying.
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When the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide, the solar system will likely remain unaffected due to the extreme distances between stars.
It'll be one hell of a view at night though.
john doe 8 months ago
Not if their super massive black holes colide, the gamma burst off of that would likely wipe out all life in the whole galaxy over the course of 50 thousand years as the wave of gamma rays disperse from their center. It would have to be a perfect shot for the two black holes to collide violently like that but it's possible .
General Anaesthesia 8 months ago
Like the billions of neutrinos that pass through our bodies every second without us noticing.
#21
The distance between the deepest part of the ocean and the top of Mount Everest is only about 12 miles (~20 Km).
NetworkMan 8 months ago
For the arguments in the comments. Bottom of the Mariana Trench is 10,911 meters below sea level, and Everest is 8,848 meters above. Add the two, you get 19,759 meters. 19759 / 1609, the formula for converting meters to miles, gives you 12.280 miles.
Verena 8 months ago
Vertically. 11km bottom of the Mariana trench plus 9km top of Mount Everest
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It seems like most things in here about space but really the depth and amount unknown about the ocean is insane. The Mariana Trench is 6 miles deep.
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago (edited)
Guys, when taking about science...why use the imperial system? Please use bananas for scale, so everybody understands what you're saying.
Sven Grammersdorf 8 months ago
How could we be uncertain about the depth when people have been to the bottom?
Load More Replies... Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
We know shít about 70% of our own Earth. If I would be an alien shipwrecked civilization reaching Earth somehow, for sure I would have directly lead to the oceans to keep those weirdos (us) away from me.
PenguinEmp 8 months ago (edited)
The trench itself is 11 km deep. It's located under 35000 ft of water.
#23
I always thought it was cool that, throughout all human history, there are still parts of the world where no one has stepped foot.
Take a hiking trail for instance. If I walk even thirty feet off the trail, I could potentially be standing somewhere no one else has stood before. I could have been the first person to walk in that area.
I don’t have any evidence that this is the case but idk I had the thought one day so I figured I’d put that out there lol.
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
When I was a young man, the phrase was 'set foot'. After the birth of the internet, the phrase 'stepped foot' entered the language. I see it as another sign of the coming apocalypse. Well, that and the antichrist in the Whitehouse.
SpiderWoman13 8 months ago
Quite literally, "The Abomination of Desolation."
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BookFanatic 8 months ago
I do the opposite. I'll stand somewhere new-to-me and think about all the thousands of people past and present who've stood where I am now, and I'll wonder about all those who--centuries from now--will do the same.
john doe 8 months ago
I remember thinking this when I was hiking in glacier national park, my brother and I spend a few days off trail and we're really in the wild, we took a pic of a mountain side and I said maybe we are the first people to ever be here, an hour later I found some cigarette butts and a beer can by some rocks. Someone has been everywhere already
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 8 months ago
It's Johnny Cash, he's the one you're thinking about.
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me McG 8 months ago
With the compounding of motions (continental drift, rotating earth orbiting a sun swirling in a galaxy in an expanding local region of a presently undefined universe) coupled with what boundary actually defines a "you" when are you not in a "place" that no-one has been before? REJOICE IN WONDER YOU EXPLORER
#24
That objects don’t actually have color. Our eyes just assign a color to the wavelength of light an object reflects.
john doe 8 months ago
Ya if you want to get down to it everything you see is a more or less accurate hallucination or what sensory inputs your brain is interpreting, things are real color is real, your brain simply interprets it.
Zaach 8 months ago
And it is upside down (inverted) but our brain adjusts
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We don't. We just call the same thing by the same, socially agreed upon, name. Think about various colorblind people: when they're kids they might not even realize they see things differently - they see tree and everyone says trees are green, so they call what they see green. Only by comparing colors with each other, we can diagnose colorblindness, because it reveals that, for example, what a person calls green looks the same to them as what we call blue - hence they call that shade green regardless of whether it's actually green or blue. And that's only what we can test for! If we take people without any anomalies in vision, we have no way of knowing if what you see and call red appears in my mind as the same color/shade. But I still call it red and have no idea if it looks different in your eyes. We were both taught that this looking thing is red.
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#25
There's no reason in physics why time has to flow forwards. It's just how our brains observe it.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
Time is made up by our 3D brains and exisiting form. We had to measure something, that doesn't fit in our physical world, so we made up the concept of time. Which in fact is non-existent.
Marla Singer 8 months ago
Time isn't non-existent. It's an immutable law of physics, like a lot of other intangible things. The part we made up is how we decided to measure it.
Load More Replies... john doe 8 months ago
There is a reason in physics why time flows forward it's why it only flows forward it has nothing to do with your perception of it, why do isotopes decay at specific time intervals why is the solar system the age it is and not some random place in time?what about special relativity and reference of time dilation. Time is real, how we measure it is made up.
Ace 8 months ago
Thank you john doe, I'm glad somebody said this better than I could have.
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Isla Lill 5 months ago
That's not time that's the body condition and decay
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 8 months ago
It's just nomenclature. The direction that time takes is what we call forward.
#26
The surface of Mercury can reach lows of -290F -180C despite being so close to the sun.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
"When you're hot, you're hot. When you're not, you're not." - Jerry Reed
UKGrandad 8 months ago (edited)
Yes, but the side facing the sun ('daylight' side) reaches 420°C/790°F. Its slow axial rotation gives it a sunrise-to-sunrise time of 176 Earth days, so 'night' lasts for 88 Earth days. Because it has no heat-retaining atmosphere, when the sun sets the planet rapidly loses all of its surface heat to space so it quickly cools to -180°C and stays that way until the next sunrise when it quickly reheats.
#27
I know I'm late to this but what really freaks me out about space is that so much of what we see is from millions of years ago. If we can only see what that star looked like millions of years ago, what does it actually look like today?
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
It may be not even existing. You are just looking at the past, at a potentionally star-graveyard. But hey, you are a time-traveller. Okay, only seeing the past, only just a few millions years ago, not really understanding. But hey! You are seeing the millions years before past, every time you are looking up to the sky on a starry night!
Tom Hutcherson 8 months ago (edited)
The radius of the observable universe is estimated to be about 46.5 billion light-years. Notice the "observable."
Load More Replies... UKGrandad 8 months ago (edited)
The distance between stars is so vast, and the distance between galaxies vaster still, that if you were to be transported to a random spot within the Universe the chance of you being anywhere even close to a star is practically nil. On top of that, there is so little matter compared to the volume of the Universe that to all intents and purposes the Universe is empty. And further yet, because there is - to best estimates - equal amounts of positively- and negatively charged matter, the nett amount of energy in the Universe is zero.
#28
Spherically, the earth is about as smooth as a billiard ball. Even with Everest and the deepest parts of the oceans, they barely even register on the grand scene.
UKGrandad 8 months ago
This one is wrong. The Earth's surface is far smoother than the surface of a billiard ball. If a billiard ball were inflated to the size of the Earth it would be covered in peaks and troughs many tens of times higher/deeper than Everest and the Mariana trench.
Dr Jimmy 03 8 months ago
Which I might claim as an excuse for my c**p billiard skills...but no. I'm just not any good.
Load More Replies... Zaach 8 months ago
But the Earth is an oblate spheroid - would that show up on the billiard ball?
UKGrandad 8 months ago
There is a 0.24% difference between the Earth's diameter at the equator and at the poles. On a billiard ball that difference would be 120 micrometres (0.12mm), so not enough to affect the roll of the ball and certainly not visible to the naked eye.
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In our galaxy, a star goes supernova roughly once every 50 years. That seems to be the universal average rate of galaxies having stars going supernova. There are so many galaxies in the known universe that there are roughly 50 stars turning into supernovas every second.
Rali Meyer 8 months ago
okay, good. The equivalent event on earth is a bag of rice falling over in China? ;-)
#30
Eventually (due to the expansion of the universe) nothing will be visible outside our galaxy
This will take a *very* long time tho.
Chicken Nugget 8 months ago
Well depending on gravity, the expansion of the universe may slow down, or keep speeding up. In scenario 2, the universe will expand so much that eventually, planets won't be able to stay in orbit, and eventually even atoms will be torn apart by the speed of the universe's expansion.
336 8 months ago
Scenario 1 is the Big Crunch and Scenario 2 is the Big Rip, right?
Load More Replies... Ryan Mercer 8 months ago (edited)
People can't predict what the stock market will do tomorrow. No one knows the ultimate fate of the universe. First, there was gravity, and we said "the big crunch is coming!" Then there was dark energy and we said, "we'll be ripped apart!" Expansion accelerated for reasons we don't understand. Now we know the acceleration is tapering off, for reasons we don't understand. And as we peer back in time through the cosmos, the formation of large galaxies, the accumulation of metallicity, and now even the rate of reionization is all being drawn into question. But yes, please tell me again how the universe will end in a trillion years.
#31
232 million years ago it rained for about 1-2 million years non stop.
Edit: my reference https://youtu.be/_1LdMWlNYS4
Edit: few more interesting facts
There have been tsunamis called mega tsunamis as high as hundreds of meters. In 1958 there was one in Lituya Bay over 500m(1700ft). Cowabunga!
The pillars of creation is massive. The height of one of the pillars is 4 light years. An endless road trip for us!
Ace 8 months ago
The 1700ft was not the height of the wave, but the height it travelled up the mountain side. Not the same thing at all.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
Exactly. According to Wikipedia, subsequent modelling showed the wave to be 490' (150m) high. Still pretty scary.
Load More Replies... 336 8 months ago
Please tell me what humans were alive back then. Unless the writers of the Bible found the ancient dinosaur ancestors that lived during that time?
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#32
I am scared that scientific advancements on robotics and automation will put almost all of us out of job. Even now there are so many people that are out of jobs due to overpopulation, and now they are introducing automation which could replace truck drivers, cashiers, bank tellers, construction workers, drivers, factory workers and many more. Yes the life of those corporation will be much easier due to less expense to pay for people and other benefit, but what will happen to all those average people that only get by everyday by working?
You know what the most scary thing in this world is the self destructive tendency of humanity, humans are the one who makes life harder. Who dictates the price of everything? Who spends almost all their resources to thing we can use just to k*ll each other? who told that a piece of printed paper is more valuable than anything? The answer is humans.
The scariest scientific fact in this world is that human beings are self destructive, We lie, cheat and steal, carve ornamentation into our own bodies, stress out and k*ll ourselves, k*ll others and make life harder for other people just to achieve our own personal status, why do rich people do not just share their blessings even though they have more than they need for the lifetime? because of uniqueness and individualism, we struggle to be an individual. Let us all be honest, everyone will not share their blessings to a hobo or homeless person. Why? because he or she will have the same thing like us. We do not want others have the same education like us, so we make it hard for other people to have access to education, by means of tuition fees, grades and other things, now that i think about it maybe death is really a gift to human kind, ending our never ending want for things, human beings will never be satisfied and that is a fact. I apologize for the long answer, i just get carried away sometimes on how stupid we are, I admit it sometimes the only thing that makes me happy is to have something other people do not have, i think we all do, that is why we spend so much for a new cellphones, clothes, gadgets and other worldly things than to help our fellow people.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
One great thing about being a human is, that humans are unpredictable. First of all, all those automatition and robotics developmennt must always require human supervision. Yes, some professions will change, some will disappear. That happened and happening right now in our history. I wanna ask: When were you last time at your typewriter mechanic to fix your machine? Yeaps, it's a profession, what was very common just about 50-60 years ago.
SpiderWoman13 8 months ago
Exactly. At one time typists, book binders, artists, were all needed to put a book together; now it can be done at home with a computer and even be remotely printed on demand. Yet that requires a website - which needed a web developer and programmer to even exist.
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Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
Whatever happens, corporations will always need people with spending power to buy their stuff.
#33
That if the Sun was replaced by a black hole we would not fall in. We would all freeze to death first.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
We wouldn't have time to realizre, what's happening. Earth's atmosphere would be a history in microseconds.
SpiderWoman13 8 months ago
Flash frozen. Where's cryogenics when you need it?
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#34
“Lost” cosmonauts. The idea that the Soviet Union sent up cosmonauts secretly and they got out of orbit and floated away to their death. This is still a theory, since the Soviets/Russians never publicly confirmed it.
Edgar Rops 8 months ago
Given how closely USSR and US monitored each other, it's about as likely as a moon landing conspiracy.
Donna Peluda 8 months ago
I saw a documentary about this bit wasn't conclusive. HAM radio enthusiast picked up radio transmission of both American and Russian space missions. Some HAM operators recall hearing distress signals and screaming in russian This was back in the 60s.bit nothing was proved.
Nichole Harris 8 months ago
The truth is that they sent them up there without adequate fuel or resources..... Sad
#35
Does it not just haunt you guys that (given you're in the right geographical area) a major earthquake could occur at any time without warning, or even Yellowstone in the US. No one can know how devastating it'll be, and for all you know you're just waking up to a regular day, having your morning coffee, feeding the cat, and then boom. You lose everything.
Onan Hag All 8 months ago
"You're in the right geographical area" ? Not all of us are unfortunate enough to live in Trumpistan.
NetworkMan 8 months ago
Using 'given' in this way doesn't mean that 'It is a given'. It means 'if, by chance, you live in the right geographical area'. Also, I don't think, given I'm not an expert, that earthquakes are exclusive to the USA, so what has that got to do with anything?
Load More Replies... Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
If it bothers you so much, it's simple on your personal level. Don't move to, or move away from those known natural-disaster-risk zones.
Susan Reid Smith 8 months ago
As someone who lives in the part of California that people think would fall into the Pacific Ocean, my husband and I live with it by being prepared. This includes having a few days of food and water available for the cat whenever we go more than a few miles from home.
Nichole Harris 8 months ago
NwGeorgia us had an earthquake same day as the recent one in Myanmar... Not the same scale but that's still kinda cool
#36
1) One of Saturn's moons is potentially habitable.
2) There is a planet 9 and there is solid evidence of it existing it just hasn't been observed yet. It is on the outskirts of the solar system (oort cloud region) and the voyager 2 took only 9 years to reach pluto but needs 50 years to reach planet 9 which is wild to me and kinda creepy.
3) the oort cloud is about 2-3 light years away from the sun and the closest star is 4 light years away which means the boarder of the solar system is closet to another star system than the sun itself.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
Mars is also potentially habitable, although you don't wanna really try it. (Musk with Bezos although sounds good as first pioneers).
#37
In a way, Vacuum Collapse.
OTOH, that would be the very best way to go. No warning, and no way to tell that it's happening. Just total non-existence at the literal speed of light.
#38
That there are thousands and millions of tons of frozen methane in the deep oceans.
Methane is a greenhouse gas!
Zaach 8 months ago
The only reason that there is life on Earth is 'water is the only material where the solid form floats rather than sinks'. If ice sank, it would accumulate until the world was frozen
OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago
And this is due to the specific hexagonal crystalline structure of water in solid state - facilitated by the unique hydrogen bonds. These hydrogen bonds are also the intricate web that allows life in all of us. The nucleic acids in our DNAs and the double-helix shape of the DNA exists thanks to the hydrogen bonds that form in it
Load More Replies... Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
For humankind to be wiped out woulld be enough the metan trapped till now in the permafrost.
#39
The biggest black hole yet discovered is millions on times bigger than the whole solar system.
#40
In my opinion, The fact that Nature doesn’t give two sh*ts about our existence is pretty terrifying. In reality, Nature doesn’t care what happens to mankind. We are just a miniscule part of this universe living in a water surrounded continent in a drifting rock orbiting a mediumly bright star in a medium-sized galaxy.
What we often fail to realize is that our entire existence is a fluke. Correct distance from a star which is neither too hot and nor too cold positioned in a less dense part of the milky way galaxy is what makes life on earth possible. In this regard, we are no different then the fungi that grows in warm and moist environments if left unchecked. BTW what do you think we can do with all the advance tech we have today If out of all those asteroids flying by just one as big as the one that hit the dinosaurs came hurtling towards us. What can we do today to save us? Nothing. Yes that’s right we can’t do anything about it. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants. Despite our effort to personify Nature and our kinship with it when you come to the realization that Nature simply doesn’t care about us can be frightening.
Now all these thing might make one anxious but to me its quite humbling experience to look at things with this perspective.
Auntriarch 8 months ago
I can live happily with the notion that the universe doesn't give a microshit about me. It's the thought that my conspecifics don't either that troubles me.
SpiderWoman13 8 months ago (edited)
That's one perspective. I like to believe the Universe exists BECAUSE of us; we've only gotten one side of the story due to lack of spiritual perception and growth.
Load More Replies... NetworkMan 8 months ago
If you Google 'nasa dart project', something fun happens.
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Brian Droste 8 months ago
I have to disagree with the idea that the our existence is just a fluke. I believe in God and he created the earth and our earth system for us to able to live. Everything is tied to each other and so finely tuned and everything is so intricately made that our world and us could not come about by Chance.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Me believing a thing does not make it true.
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Even if the moon had a breathable atmosphere the dust in the air would slice the inside of your throat open in seconds.
Richi Weiss 8 months ago
Because moon dust ist incredibly sharp. There is no wind or weather to make it loose ots sharp points.
Load More Replies... Donna Peluda 8 months ago
Yes and no..the dust on the moon hasn't been grounded down like on earth because there's no atmosphere, wind that rubs particles together. Don't has microscopic jagged edges that are ver abrasive. . On the the other hand if there was and atmosphere it would have grounded the particles like sand in a desert.
#42
Theres sharks in a volcano, and they're still alive and swimming.
Doozle bug 8 months ago
Underwater volcano of Solomon Islands home to scalloped hammerhead and silky sharks, please pad posts with a bit of info
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
Sure, inactive volcano-lakes and underwater volcanos are hosting quit a few species of sharks capable to live also in sweet waters.
Pamina 8 months ago
New movie ideas? What about the existing Sharknado films?
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Jellyfish are capable of sinking boats:
The giant jellyfish that you see on your screen is known as Nomura’s Jellyfish, which can grow up to 6 ft in diameter and can weigh 400 pounds. They’ve been documented in the Sea of Japan.
As if their enormous size and venomous tentacles weren’t scary enough, they’re also quite powerful. Powerful enough to capsize boats weighing several tonnes. And no, I’m not making this up.
Back in 2009, a Japanese troller that went by the name Diasan Shinsho-maru had captured these fish. However, their power was so enormous that the boat ended up being capsized. Thankfully, the three crew members were rescued by another troller. And if you’re thinking that the boat must have been a small one, then you’re wrong. It weighed 10 tonnes. It was reported that the weather was clear, which means that it was these fish that turned over the boat. [2]
Medusa in Greece would turn people to stone. These Medusas throw them into water (Fun fact: Jellyfish are called medusas in Spanish)
Upstaged75 8 months ago
The boat capsized because they hauled up a massive net full of the jellyfish and dumped it on one side of the deck. The weight made it tip over.
Hippopotamuses 8 months ago
Yes. That was what was reported. Obviously, OP just read a headline, without reading the article.
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Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
This one https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7800c4a7fdf12e91e907a4751207ff59
#44
When I was younger the idea of a clockwork universe was comforting. One that followed Newton's laws. Steady, predictable, regular. In theory, if you knew the position and momentum of every particle, you could calculate the future with 100% accuracy.
I have been gradually convinced that at the quantum level things are truly random. That if you made an exact clone of the universe, that cloned universe would instantly diverge from ours on a quantum level and eventually on a macro level as well. The universe is fundamentally unpredictable. Not because of chaos theory, but because at some levels the future is not clearly defined and could be one of many different things.
This apparent lack of control took some getting used to.
#45
Less scary and more mind-numbingly depressing" is the Dark Era of the universe. When all the star fuel is gone and all the white dwarves have gone cold and dark and all the black holes have evaporated away into elementary particles, the universe will be a cold, dark place... Forever.
Chicken Nugget 8 months ago
But don't fear! Although this is the leading theory of the end of the universe right now, it COULD be incorrect (since we have absolutely no idea what will happen). Also, you'll be dead for trillions of trillions of years when this may or may not happen, so you won't even be there to despair at the empty nothingness of space
Rali Meyer 8 months ago
"right now" in universe parlance is +/- 1 million years?
Load More Replies... Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
It will be nothing. Forever. So be very thoughtful, if you wish immortality as a superpower.
#46
Do you know that when you eat a pineapple, it’s actually eating you too! Ok! Hold up!
How is this deliciously sweet, sometimes too sweet fruit, eating you? Doesn’t it just poke us with its prickly surface?
Well, scientists have discovered that pineapple is the only fruit in the whole world which contains the enzyme called Bromelain. Bromelain is an enzyme which breaks down protein! Considering that 16% of the human body is made up of protein, mostly in our flesh, it means that Bromelain in pineapples can actually break down protein in our flesh, hence eating us from the inside!
However, as creepy as this sounds, the enzymes are thankfully destroyed by the acid in our stomach, so don’t worry, pineapples won’t actually pose much threat to your life! Although, this is often used as a reason to explain why pineapple farmers have no fingerprints; constant physical interaction with pineapples has worn them off though, this is not scientifically proven yet, just a hypothesis!
Leap of Faith 8 months ago
"Well, scientists have discovered" implies just recently, but bromelain (which is actually a group of several enzymes, not just a single one) was discovered in 1891. Bromelain is used medicinally, and in food additives, as well as in meat tenderizer, and has been for decades. This post is not news.
Tostones 8 months ago
It's news to everyone who hasn't heard it yet. Don't try to shame people for not knowing something you know. Pretty sure you had to look up the discovery date at they very least!
Load More Replies... Skara Brae 8 months ago
You can easily counteract this with a light sprinkling of salt. Salt activates the bromelain so that it becomes inactive by the time you eat it. There are many websites that explain this. Here is one: https://www.eatingwell.com/article/7866758/the-weird-reason-why-you-should-always-salt-your-pineapple-bromelain/
#47
1. Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculation before it was actually seen by a telescope.
2. 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
3. There's a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films.
4. "Ganglioneuralgia" is the scientific term from brain freeze. Usually when eating ice cream.
5. A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
6. The sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.
7. Genetic and archaeological evidence suggests there were two distinct dog populations in the world, in the east and one in the west, during the Palaeolithic.
8. Every time a woodpecker's hits a tree, its head is subjected to 1000 times the force of gravity.
9. The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.
10. Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
UKGrandad 8 months ago
"6. The sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans." In case anybody wondered, it means orbits of the galactic centre. In other words, in the ~5 billion years of the sun's existence the Milky Way has rotated approximately 20 times.
OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago
To add to no 10, we share 99% of our DNA with chimps. Now before you hit me with the "I didn't come from a monkey" arguement, do know that we also share 50% of our DNA with a banana.
Hiram's Friend 8 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetranitratoxycarbon#:~:text=Tetranitratoxycarbon%2C%20systematic%20name%20tetra%20(%20nitrato,built%20a%20model%20in%202012.
#48
Neutron stars can emit death beams that travel at the speed of light.
#49
At any moment, anywhere in the known universe, could be a vacuum metastability event.
The results of this event would be a massively exothermic shock propogating at the speed of light, that would tear the entire universe down to a lower energy state. Nothing we know would remain, nothing that could exist in this new universe would be familiar.
This event could happen at any point, anywhere in the universe, and we will someday just be struck by its shockwave and everything we know will be obliterated in an instant.
And there's literally nothing to be done in that case.
SpiderWoman13 8 months ago
We're infinite souls; how many times we've seen this? Perhaps we've merely forgotten...
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Time is just a social construct created by humans. Although according to Einstein's relativity theory, time is apart of the physical make up of our world. There a different theories about space-time. But that's the thing, they are just theories. We don't know for sure how time works. The theory that spooks me out the most is The past, present and future exist simultaneously, so what is going to happen has already happened.
SpiderWoman13 8 months ago
This is where Quantum Physics comes into play. We literally create infinite realitues via our decisions.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
I don't think theory means what you think it means, when it comes to science. "A scientific theory is a well-tested and widely accepted explanation for natural phenomena. Scientific theories begin as hypotheses. Over time, as a hypothesis is tested, verified, and generalized, it may assume the status of being an accepted theory." Which doesn't mean it can't change, because scientists keep testing and learning. Einstein's theory of relativity hasn't been disproved yet but might be in the future, because it isn't scientific law. Disproving a law would be fun.
Belynda Young 8 months ago
I have the hardest time with this idea. I don't know why it feels so weird in my brain, maybe I will get it someday. Onlty time will tell. Sorry
#51
There's something super interesting in science that always gives me goosebumps—it's called Quantum Entanglement. When people talk about it, it feels like exploring space and seeing things that are really hard to understand. Quantum entanglement is when two tiny things, like particles, get connected in a special way. Imagine you have two particles, let's call them A and B. When you look at one particle, the other one automatically changes, no matter how far apart they are. It's like they're talking super fast, even faster than light, which breaks the normal rules of science.
This tricky idea isn't just from recent science. It actually started way back in the early 1900s when scientists studied how tiny particles act. At first, they thought it was just a strange thing that happens with tiny particles. But after lots of tests, they found it's real! It's called quantum entanglement. It's now a big part of how we understand quantum stuff.
Recent advancements in quantum technology have brought quantum entanglement to the forefront of scientific research. Scientists are exploring its potential applications in quantum computing, cryptography, and even teleportation. The prospect of harnessing this mysterious connection for practical purposes is both exciting and unnerving, blurring the lines between science fiction and reality.
However, some people are not sure about quantum entanglement. They say it makes us question what we know about how things work in the world. It makes us wonder about whether things are set in stone or if we have control over what happens. Some even think about what it means for our minds and thoughts. It's like going into a place where what we know doesn't work anymore. It makes us think maybe the world is much weirder than we thought.
Even though it might seem strange, quantum entanglement shows how everything in the universe is connected. It tells us that even tiny things are linked together in a complicated way. This idea is similar to what ancient thinkers and spiritual beliefs have said about how everything is connected.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
Greek philosophers were describing the basics of quantum-mechanics. But in roughly 2000 years the human perception of philosophy changed to the point, that nowadays is considered a "useless" subject. And it was more or less considered such as starting around the Middle Ages. Although in ancient Greek a person with wide and deep knowledge in one or more subjects was called philosopher.
SpiderWoman13 8 months ago
Quantum Entanglement perfectly explains Twin Flames/Soulmates connections.
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The fact that the Yellowstone super-volcano is as huge as it is and is way overdue for a massive eruption.
When it does erupt it will k*ll multiple thousands, take out a big chunk of the Northwest US, make most of the US Pacific coast and the upper tier of states (and southerly parts of Canada) uninhabitable and cause climate change acceleration for the rest of the planet.
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Any of the planet's supervolcanos could have the same effect. The Yellowstone hot spot is relatively calm compared to the one under Naples, Italy.
Hiram's Friend 8 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_Toba_eruption
#53
Trees and plants communicate using their root systems, and they can use chemical signals to spray bugs at you as a defense… and plants know if you have harmed another plant. You can measure their fear response. Scientists have published on this.
Animals can see human intention better than humans can understand their mother tongue. Ask any vet about to k*ll a puppy or dog. Ask farmers, and hunters, and animal experimental scientists who get bit by a rat that knows what happened to his neighbour. Its uncanny.
The planet does not need us/nor do we affect it that much. Sure,we can generate some tsunamis, poison the air and waters, seed clouds, start storms, and frack up some earthquakes, but the earth, it can shake us off like a bad case of fleas Way more easily than our arrogance would have us believe. Do You know what happens before an ice age? The planet warms up in preparation… the ice caps melt away… and BAM! Ice age.
Theres no point trying to terraform the moon or mars. Nor is space travel worthwhile. We will never get very far, and theres nothing of interest in our neighbourhood anyway. However, there Will be a wasteful, corporate sponsored war between the earth and mars, fought in space. The resulting gadgets will make eventual long distance space travel, slightly more interesting. The remaining ‘martians’ just come home. Being born on mars doesnt mean you can survive there for long.
The human race will be obliterated by an ice age, which turns the whole planet into a snow covered popsicle. Even the seas will freeze, nothing can grow, nor survive. We will have a small underground population of 40 people, somewhere in the midwest of the american continent. 20 of whom go into space, and 20 of whom stay on earth. Both sets die out in a few lifetimes. Theres just less and less people in each generation, and thats it. No more humans.
The multiverse described by physics is what we visit in our dreams. In the vast multiverse, where the physics are slightly different in each universe, Everything you can imagine exists/happens in at least one of them. There is a ‘you', in each universe too - thats how you get dreams. By visiting 3 other universes each night. The feeling of de ja vu, is another ‘you', visiting This reality, and seeing a warped version of whats going on in your life. Attempts to physically visit other universes will fail, and hilariously so, because the multiverse is not spread out, like a mosaic. Its all right here, right now, in layers, whirling around this very same earth, only whispers away. Anyway, how could you possibly visit other universes so easily in your sleep? You'd need serious, space jumping powers, which, star tv and movies aside, never happens in This reality. Ours is a fairly mundane version of events. And even in space jumping realities, people cannot move beyond the bounds of their version of the universe, because gravity’s reach and light both give out, meaning you are trapped. Or you’ll get sucked into nothing.
I know this is not all current/ contemporary scientific fact, but technically, it all will be soon enough, so i'm going to include all of it under that banner.
Like someone in the dark ages saying: “the earth moves around the sun!”, i will just have to wait. I am telling you all this, in the hopes that i stumble across it in my next lifetime, and it helps me remember…
Skara Brae 8 months ago
I'm quite skeptical that my dream of driving a Beverly Hillbillies car along enormous tree branches to get from a beach to a secret underground chocolate factory under an abandoned building actually happened in a parallel universe.
Random Jackass 8 months ago
Well if it's physically possible, in at least 1 alternate universe it happened.
Load More Replies... Anthony Elmore 8 months ago
They left out the best part about plant fear. You can smell that chemical when you cut grass. The smell of freshly cut grass is the smell of grass screaming in fear.
#54
A gamma-ray burst from a few thousand light years away/ago would set the atmosphere on fire, and we wouldn't even know it was coming until it already happened because the wave front travels at the speed of light.
There could be a black hole hurdling right at us, but we have no clue it's coming.
What would happen if a black hole the size of a nickel were to appear in your pocket? You'd die. If it has the mass of a nickel, it would radiate away in an instant and explode worse than Hiroshima. If it had the radius of a nickel, you'd fall in and the black hole would fall into the Earth's core and consume it from the inside out.
There's a whole section of our galaxy that we can't see: the exact opposite side from us.
The pictures of the Milky Way aren't the Milky Way. They are other galaxies that we think look like us.
Every day millions of stars and galaxies disappear beyond the cosmic horizon, never to be seen again because cosmic inflation means that space is expanding too fast for their light to ever reach us again.
The colors in a nebula picture are representative colors used to distinguish materials/density/light beyond our visible spectrum. They wouldn't be that color up close.
The solar system has a tail.
For half the year the distance to the Voyager probes decreases.
**Edit: Here are some more.**
On all the planets in all the universe, trees are more rare than Gold, yet we do not value trees as we do Gold.
Mercury is the closest planet to all the other planets.
It takes hundreds of years for a photon from the core of the sun to reach the surface, and only minutes to reach the Earth from the surface.
SpiderWoman13 8 months ago
I do value trees more than gold. They are the most unselfish creation.
Load More Replies... Hiram's Friend 8 months ago
You could trip over a crack in the sidewalk (pavement for the Brits), fall and snap your neck and smash your skull...
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
Hurdling: jumping over those thingamabobs while running. Jesus had a tail. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
#55
A friend of mine who builds custom pools and hot tubs told me that despite building them, he would never get into a hot tub because the high water temperature causes your body to release fluids such as sweat AND pee through your pores. Gross, huh?
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada recently developed a rapid test that looks for an artificial sweetener called acesulfame potassium, or ACE, in the pool and hot tub water. The sugar substitute is not destroyed or altered when coursing through our digestive system, meaning if you eat some and then pee it out, it’s going to be fully intact into whatever body of water you let loose in.
To test their new test, they tested 31 active pools and hot tubs in two Canadian cities, along with the tap water used to fill the basins. They found up to 570 times more ACE in the pool and hot tub water than clean tap water, and estimated that over 7 gallons of urine—equivalent to a medium-sized trash can—was in a 110,000-gallon pool, and almost 20 gallons in a large pool filled with 220,000 gallons of water. One hotel hot tub had approximately three times more urine in it than the worst swimming pool tested.
Alex Kennedy 8 months ago
I mean, how would it? It goes from kidneys to bladder through ureters, no? How would it get to the skin?
Load More Replies... OneHappyPuppy 8 months ago
Urea =/= urine, while this post might have the facts right, they've got the terms wrong. Urea - a nitrogen compound found in urine and sweat. Urine - we all know
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago (edited)
Thanks, another reason to say no to my workplace's 'team-building' sh.itshows.
NetworkMan 8 months ago
Urethrocutaneous Fistula: In rare cases, a urethrocutaneous fistula can develop, which is an abnormal opening or tunnel between the urethra and the skin, allowing urine to leak out.
#56
Intelligent civilizations could have existed billions of years ago, currently, or billions of years from now. Also, there could be civilizations who have discovered each-other and developed some sort of interplanetary government which could have bombed or prospered. Idk I just think sometimes what some random individual being is doing currently on another planet and if possible they had the same curiosity..
Chewie Baron 8 months ago
They may have not invented it. When Europeans first came to the Americas, they found extensive road networks, but the Americas never had the wheel.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
I have odd thoughts: So religion posits that there is an intelligent creator, Genesis says that God was concerned Adam and Eve would become "like us" if they ate from the 'tree of knowledge'..plural? A Catholic guy I know posits that is the angels, I don't know tho..
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
I expect "us" is the Imperial 'We' - like when Queen Victoria (allegedly) said "we are not amused." Or it could be a reference to the trinity. Or it could be a sloppy translation.
Load More Replies... 336 8 months ago
It is unlikely that life existed for more than 4, maybe 5 billion years. The universe before that was a hostile place, and had tons of gamma ray bursts to sterilize any life that may have appeared. This phase is believed to have ended about 100 million years before the first life evolved on Earth. This is the basis of the Early Bird hypothesis, which states that we are one of the first intelligent lifeforms to appear in the universe, and I think its the most likely explanation for the Fermi Paradox
#57
We're all gonna die & many of us will die early, tragically, horribly & painfully.
Sources: every historical reference to anyone's death.
Petra Peitsch 8 months ago
When OP clearly needs a loving family/friend group, some buddies online (game or hobby group), a therapist .. or all of the above.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
For now. Under God's rulership no one will die. Promised in the Bible. Revelation 21:4
Lorraine Woollands 8 months ago
What bothers me is I know that I am going to die alone. My father is dead from cancer, my mother is 96 years old and in a home. Both of us have diabetes, my mother I think now has dementia. I have no other family and no friends. I live alone since partner died three years ago. I don't go out because of anxiety and agoraphobia. I also have osteoarthritis and I am not in the best of health. The only people I see are my Carers three days a week for half an hour a time, and at 60 years old I know that one day one of my Carers will come and find me dead. And there be no one to care
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General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
As usual there's a lot of misinformation in this BP factathon.
Auntriarch 8 months ago
Kind of you to say that, I was planning to use the word "drivel".
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 8 months ago (edited)
As usual there's a lot of misinformation in this BP factathon.
Auntriarch 8 months ago
Kind of you to say that, I was planning to use the word "drivel".
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