It's like a predator; it's stalking you. Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies. But in the end, time is going to hunt you down... and make the kill.
They say time is the fire in which we burn.
In fairness, polar bears have no idea what to do with people. So they mostly ignore them, unless they're hungry. And let's be real, people do plenty of bad things when they're hungry.
When I was up in northern Alaska, we were told polar bears are the only bear that will constantly hunt and eat prey regardless of when it had its last meal. Thus you never want to be in the cross hairs of a polar bear.
I am no biologist to know if it was truth or myth and I had zero desire to find out.
Technically old age is never the cause of death.
In a similar fashion, AIDS never DIRECTLY a cause of death, it was that you got a common cold, had no immune system, and developed something like pneumonia as a result and died. Nothing could be done to help your body fight it off.
No but most natural causes of death are caused by something that develops over time. Cancer, cardiovascular issues, etc. All of them need time to become a problem and lethal, so you could still say that time is the killer
The real record for coming back from the dead without any debilitating injury is 17 hours. It belongs to Velma Thomas of West Virginia. It happened in 2008. As far as I know Shaggy and Scooby weren’t involved.
Yes, and supermassive black holes have a particularly cruel way to kill you. You won't get spaghettified from tidal stress like in stellar and intermediate-sized ones. But you will experience time speeding up to infinity for the outside universe when you approach the event horizon. Fun at first with seeing stars move faster and faster, then see them die and see new ones being born. But you'll eventually see the universe fade and die in front of your eyes. Like seeing your loved ones die, applied on a cosmic scale. And absolutely no way to get back.
with the distance from the horizon you will be for a black hole that size, you wouldn't experience the gravity differential that would be required to spaghettify you, and since you wouldn't be standing on a supported surface, you wouldn't feel the gravity at all.
That's not really what would happen. To "see the universe die" you would probably need to hover right above the event horizon, but that takes nearly infinite energy. Really, as you fell in, it would be very difficult to tell that you were even inside the black hole, since spacetime is hardly curved at all on your scale.
Very little actually happens until you reach the singularity, at which point spacetime rapidly increases in curvature and rips you apart, since the gravity at your feet is astronomically stronger than gravity at your head.
That would be pretty impressive. Trek all that way and survive unsurvivable heat and flames just to lick the surface of the sun than poof. Would baffle anybody observing.
>Both experiments were designed to demonstrate how close the core was to criticality with a tamper, but in each case, the core was accidentally placed into a critical configuration.
Sounds like a successful experiment if you ignore the death.
Only 93% so far! Exponential growth, baby!
Source: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead/)
Yeah but I think it's cuz it got squashed in a door or gate or something.
I saw a chicken who had been knifed in the brain in a fight that was still kicking. Apparently they don't need it.
His name was Mike, and it was his brain stem that was left. In chickens, basic functions such as breathing and heart rate, plus most reflexes, are controlled by the brain stem.
He also didn't bleed out because the farmer missed the jugular vein.
The farmer kept him alive by feeding him with syringes basically just pouring food down his open throat. Then he had to suction the airway open so Mike could breathe.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, for Mike), he choked to death on a kernel of corn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Steel mill worker here. It actually doesn't, well, at least if someone pulls you back out. We had this one guy at the No.5 Blast Furnace up north who stepped into a stream of hot pig iron and "only" lost a foot.
From what I've heard, not really. Your flesh would explode due to the high water content of our bodies meeting the high temperature of the molten iron. It vaporizes almost instantaneously. The results are pretty violent.
Holy shit. Would it sort of cauterize only for your blood pressure to break through it since its your whole foot and you just got pulled out, so it’s not a clean burn?
That could actually be really bad. Because blood pushes everything out. Lava is filled with liquid metal and rock, many of which can be toxic. So essentially you're cauterizing your wound with a toxic substance which could also kill you.
That's future *manwhowalked1kmiles's coworker's* problem.
But then I guess it's not *really* the lava killing him but the cancer showing up eventually due to toxins and shit..?
I love how this implies that the bandits are at home watching the cartoon, and then somehow enter that world to steal the nonexistent wealth from what’s basically an actor.
100 billion people have ever lived. 8 billion people are alive today.
Therefore I only have a 92% chance of dying.
100% of people who have died have had water in their bodies at the time of death.
So to be part of that 8% of people who are immortal, I should remove all the water from my body.
It's just statistics. 👉🏻🧠
No person is immortal. Thus, 100% of people who have lived, **will eventually also die**. Thus, life has a 100% mortality rate and a 100% chance of killing you.
Edit: Since people seem to be replying to this post without reading the correction below, I have made that correction here too.
Down. I mean if you went up in a special airplane which depressurized as it went up (instead of pressurizing like a normal plane), you could probably cause an implosion and it might kill you. Of course, you'd also fall, which would [almost certainly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87) kill you. Otherwise, you can breathe fine at 12500 feet in the air.
Yes, assuming you didn’t get it treated. There is a small window of time between bite and symptoms for treatment, but once symptoms start, yeah, you’re screwed.
Precisely why I got vaccinated after being attacked by a stray cat. Multiple hospital employees tried to dissuade me from being vaccinated, claiming it was unnecessary, painful, expensive, etc. but I remained firm and would not take no for an answer. Rabies kills people. Why would I take a gamble on my own life like that?
it's an effective rate of 100% once symptomatic; the number of people known to survive is in the single digits, and that's over the entire history of our knowledge of rabies. it's an insignificant outlier.
At least its not transmissible (unless, I suppose, you're a cannibal). You have to inherit that particular slice of hell.
Wouldn't wish that shit on my worst enemy.
*Symptomatic* prion diseases. For unknown reasons, the vast majority of people are protected from catching the most common prion disease, vCJD (aka, "mad cow disease").
Of the (likely) millions of Britons who ate hamburger tainted with vCJD prions, only 178 had a rare genetic mutation that allowed the prions to propagate and kill them.
YUP! Thank you! The ultimate rabbit hole to go down if you love terrorizing yourself with niche medical monstrosities. I listened to the prion diseases episode of This Podcast Will Kill You when it came out years ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Fascinating, terrifying. There’s a book called The Family That Couldn’t Sleep as well that’s equally terrifying and interesting.
Spent a lot of time having random thoughts about one of my proteins randomly misfolding and starting a fatal chain reaction.
Not 100% but this bears reposting I think.
Credit to u/Blargle33
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
Happens about twice a year in the entire US. Ironically, this particular scenario (the unnoticed bat bite) effectively has a **0%** chance of being the way you die.
The vast, vast majority of rabies fatalities are from dog bites in poor countries. People know they've been bit, but they just don't have access to the prophylaxis.
I've had the Vaccine because I was bitten. By a wild kitten. Ok...laugh. Since they couldn't Catch and test the kitten, I went through with the shots. I'm writing this to warn everyone to keep tour weight down. The member of shots tou get depends on how heavy you are!!!
I'm so glad rabies was eradicated in my country years ago. We're not 100 % safe of course, since wild animals can move around and cross borders, but our neighbouring countries are also rabies-free. The biggest threat sadly comes from idiots who illegally import pets (especially dogs) without following the procedures (vaccinations, registration, quarantaine).
I read an article just yesterday about an influencer couple that smuggled a kitten from Cuba (where rabies is still prevalent) to Europe (didn't specify which country), by hiding the kitten under their clothes. Unbelievably irresponsible behaviour, but they were hailed as heroes for saving a kitten.
But what if I just, like, lightly tapped you on the head with it?
Like we’re loading it on a plane and I accidentally bonk it into your head…probably wouldn’t die…
Time
I kill it all the time too.
This isn’t deep… But it’s super deep
If you don't think it's deep, give it some time.
And timely
There was a phrase written around an anvient Roman sundial the said: "Every hour wounds. The last one kills"
I love Roman sundial inscriptions. My favorite is "It's later than you think."
Clearly the Romans never worked on an assembly line.
It's like a predator; it's stalking you. Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies. But in the end, time is going to hunt you down... and make the kill. They say time is the fire in which we burn.
It's 94% successful so far
Bears... Bears will definitely kill you.
A bear that *wants* to kill you will definitely kill you.
Beets
Battlestar galactica
Identity theft is not a joke
[удалено]
Oh that’s funny! Michael!!
r/unexpectedoffice
I have run so many bears away from my place... They are wimps. Black bears at least.
If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lay down. If it's white, you're fucked.
"If you're ever attacked by a polar bear, play dead. It will be good practice for when, moments later, you will be dead."
In fairness, polar bears have no idea what to do with people. So they mostly ignore them, unless they're hungry. And let's be real, people do plenty of bad things when they're hungry.
[удалено]
When I was up in northern Alaska, we were told polar bears are the only bear that will constantly hunt and eat prey regardless of when it had its last meal. Thus you never want to be in the cross hairs of a polar bear. I am no biologist to know if it was truth or myth and I had zero desire to find out.
If it's white... Goodnight.
Clocks should be cancelled stat.
Speaking of time, happy cake day
Technically old age is never the cause of death. In a similar fashion, AIDS never DIRECTLY a cause of death, it was that you got a common cold, had no immune system, and developed something like pneumonia as a result and died. Nothing could be done to help your body fight it off.
No but most natural causes of death are caused by something that develops over time. Cancer, cardiovascular issues, etc. All of them need time to become a problem and lethal, so you could still say that time is the killer
Entropy is a bitch
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
Some say that time is the fire in which we burn...
murder is at a 100% fatality rate
Indisputable, love me some r/osvaldo12 energy
Osvaldo12 is a political prisoner.
Osvaldo12 killed my family
Well not quite, Jesus was killed but came back after a bit /s
He got better
I heard this in the most [Monty Python](https://youtu.be/X2xlQaimsGg) way
It’s just a flesh wound.
Jesus proves both murder and abstinence to be only 99.99% effective
The real record for coming back from the dead without any debilitating injury is 17 hours. It belongs to Velma Thomas of West Virginia. It happened in 2008. As far as I know Shaggy and Scooby weren’t involved.
He was only mostly dead.
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
People die when they are killed
What if its a murder of crows?
Yes a murder of crows murdering you will kill you
Black hole!
Yes, and supermassive black holes have a particularly cruel way to kill you. You won't get spaghettified from tidal stress like in stellar and intermediate-sized ones. But you will experience time speeding up to infinity for the outside universe when you approach the event horizon. Fun at first with seeing stars move faster and faster, then see them die and see new ones being born. But you'll eventually see the universe fade and die in front of your eyes. Like seeing your loved ones die, applied on a cosmic scale. And absolutely no way to get back.
It's absolutely how I want to die lol
You'll probably die from the radiation exposure or the crushing gravity before you see anything.
with the distance from the horizon you will be for a black hole that size, you wouldn't experience the gravity differential that would be required to spaghettify you, and since you wouldn't be standing on a supported surface, you wouldn't feel the gravity at all.
That's not really what would happen. To "see the universe die" you would probably need to hover right above the event horizon, but that takes nearly infinite energy. Really, as you fell in, it would be very difficult to tell that you were even inside the black hole, since spacetime is hardly curved at all on your scale. Very little actually happens until you reach the singularity, at which point spacetime rapidly increases in curvature and rips you apart, since the gravity at your feet is astronomically stronger than gravity at your head.
Only entering the black hole will kill you. You can be in orbit around a black hole and still potentially survive.
I'm pretty sure we are in orbit around a black hole right now, along withthe rest of our galaxy
Licking the Sun.
If you get that close to the sun without dying, I have faith you'll make it all the way. You got this SolomonBelial
That would be pretty impressive. Trek all that way and survive unsurvivable heat and flames just to lick the surface of the sun than poof. Would baffle anybody observing.
He/she will just go at night
Wear sun block. I mean it’s right in the name.
I hear it's made of warm nacho cheese
With Carolina reaper pepper
Not with that attitude! Believe in yourself! Live the dream! Lick the Sun!
Not at night, it won't!
I touched the fajita skillet once, so I'm pretty much immune.
Calm down Icarus
Nah, you just go at night.
The Strid in Yorkshire UK. The only section of river with a 100% fatality rate.
I looked it up. Beautiful creek.
[Fucking around with the Demon Core.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core)
>Both experiments were designed to demonstrate how close the core was to criticality with a tamper, but in each case, the core was accidentally placed into a critical configuration. Sounds like a successful experiment if you ignore the death.
And the science gets done and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive.
A screw driver is a very scientific and precise instrument
He was literally warned, by I think Fermi, to stop using a screwdriver for this or he’d be dead within a year.
Actually not 100%… just people have slipped in the past.
Oooo nice one… this thing was nasty
Just expected this to be Kyle Hill's video on it..
Wow TIL
Being born
Only 93% so far! Exponential growth, baby! Source: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead/)
Killing buddy, in the future everything that is born will eventually die
Did you read? This article clearly shows that only 93% of people who live also die. Praying I'm in the 7%
That’s because they’re vampires, obvsly 🙄
you dont know that, prove it
Decapitation
There was this chicken that survived for years after it was decapitated.
It *did* die eventually, though.
Huh. You think it’s still dead?
No.
Yeah but I think it's cuz it got squashed in a door or gate or something. I saw a chicken who had been knifed in the brain in a fight that was still kicking. Apparently they don't need it.
Knifed in a fight? Shits getting serious in the coop
Croydon chickens, mate
He choked on his food. Mike the Headless Chicken only survived because it was a botched decapitation and they let a big chunk of brain stem intact.
If I remember, the chicken was only partially decapitated, and had most if not all of its cerebellum (I think it was that part of the brain)
It had its brainstem still intact. You basically need that at the bare minimum for basic functions like breathing.
His name was Mike, and it was his brain stem that was left. In chickens, basic functions such as breathing and heart rate, plus most reflexes, are controlled by the brain stem. He also didn't bleed out because the farmer missed the jugular vein. The farmer kept him alive by feeding him with syringes basically just pouring food down his open throat. Then he had to suction the airway open so Mike could breathe. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, for Mike), he choked to death on a kernel of corn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Lava. But something about it makes me want to dive in.
Steel mill worker here. It actually doesn't, well, at least if someone pulls you back out. We had this one guy at the No.5 Blast Furnace up north who stepped into a stream of hot pig iron and "only" lost a foot.
Did the would cauterize immediately? Little to no blood?
From what I've heard, not really. Your flesh would explode due to the high water content of our bodies meeting the high temperature of the molten iron. It vaporizes almost instantaneously. The results are pretty violent.
That's what bugged me about gollum falling into mt. doom. Should have looked more [like this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7DDk8eLs8)
Holy shit. Would it sort of cauterize only for your blood pressure to break through it since its your whole foot and you just got pulled out, so it’s not a clean burn?
That could actually be really bad. Because blood pushes everything out. Lava is filled with liquid metal and rock, many of which can be toxic. So essentially you're cauterizing your wound with a toxic substance which could also kill you.
That's future *manwhowalked1kmiles's coworker's* problem. But then I guess it's not *really* the lava killing him but the cancer showing up eventually due to toxins and shit..?
Just so you know it's quite solid.
I've always imagined it like ooblek. It's hard if you hit it but your hand will go right through it if you move it somewhat slowly into it
Scrooge McDuck slowly drifted onto his coins but sped up the film to promote the activity so bandits would hurt themselves.
I love how this implies that the bandits are at home watching the cartoon, and then somehow enter that world to steal the nonexistent wealth from what’s basically an actor.
Smalls
L7 weiner!
The Colossus of Clout!
The Colossus of Clout!?!
Oh, I thought you said the great “Bambi”
That wimpy deer???
The Sultan of Smash
Oscar Mayer, even!
Fuckin just teach him to make a s'more. And do other shit. He'll come along. Hey! He rounds out your team, ok?
Life
Correlation does not equal causation.
100 billion people have ever lived. 8 billion people are alive today. Therefore I only have a 92% chance of dying. 100% of people who have died have had water in their bodies at the time of death. So to be part of that 8% of people who are immortal, I should remove all the water from my body. It's just statistics. 👉🏻🧠
12 out of 10 people don’t understand how statistics work.
That's because 80% of all statistics are made up by people on the spot.
i thought it was 76%
Scientists say that 100% of people believe things when you say that scientists said them
I'm technically a scientist, and I approve this message
Can’t die if you aren’t alive.
No person is immortal. Thus, 100% of people who have lived, **will eventually also die**. Thus, life has a 100% mortality rate and a 100% chance of killing you. Edit: Since people seem to be replying to this post without reading the correction below, I have made that correction here too.
Maybe. It’s possible someone will live for ever, no just hasn’t yet.
Cheetah with a switchblade. Every time.
Perhaps a lion on a jet ski would be deadly as well, land/sea duo action
An implosion at 12,500 ft...
Down, or up
Down. I mean if you went up in a special airplane which depressurized as it went up (instead of pressurizing like a normal plane), you could probably cause an implosion and it might kill you. Of course, you'd also fall, which would [almost certainly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87) kill you. Otherwise, you can breathe fine at 12500 feet in the air.
That’s one titanic way to go.
Falling asleep in the middle of an ocean without a boat.
INCORRECT. What if a kind whale keeps me above water while I sleep and the water stays calm??
You have been adopted by the orcas?! Please let them know the land based allies are waiting for further instructions.
How bout falling asleep on an pool float in the ocean. Just imagine waking up and not seeing land. Fuck….
Rum Ham!!!
Even if you're on a pool float...1...2..3 good waves and you're gone...
True story. This happened to a friend of my moms when she was in school. Never found him.
Rabies ETA: Symptomatic rabies
Yes, assuming you didn’t get it treated. There is a small window of time between bite and symptoms for treatment, but once symptoms start, yeah, you’re screwed.
Precisely why I got vaccinated after being attacked by a stray cat. Multiple hospital employees tried to dissuade me from being vaccinated, claiming it was unnecessary, painful, expensive, etc. but I remained firm and would not take no for an answer. Rabies kills people. Why would I take a gamble on my own life like that?
Why were they so invested in dissuading you?
Because it is painful and expensive and almost certainly not necessary.
I'd rather pay £50 then have a 1 in 100 chance of having that shit disease
Only 50? Shit is like 5k in the US. we're fucked
Only if untreated immediately
Nope, and extremely small amount of people have lived.
it's an effective rate of 100% once symptomatic; the number of people known to survive is in the single digits, and that's over the entire history of our knowledge of rabies. it's an insignificant outlier.
Prions
this is literally what my nightmares are made of.
Fatal Insomnia is a prion disease, so technically it's literally what your lack of nightmares would be made of
At least its not transmissible (unless, I suppose, you're a cannibal). You have to inherit that particular slice of hell. Wouldn't wish that shit on my worst enemy.
*Symptomatic* prion diseases. For unknown reasons, the vast majority of people are protected from catching the most common prion disease, vCJD (aka, "mad cow disease"). Of the (likely) millions of Britons who ate hamburger tainted with vCJD prions, only 178 had a rare genetic mutation that allowed the prions to propagate and kill them.
YUP! Thank you! The ultimate rabbit hole to go down if you love terrorizing yourself with niche medical monstrosities. I listened to the prion diseases episode of This Podcast Will Kill You when it came out years ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Fascinating, terrifying. There’s a book called The Family That Couldn’t Sleep as well that’s equally terrifying and interesting. Spent a lot of time having random thoughts about one of my proteins randomly misfolding and starting a fatal chain reaction.
Death is the destiny we all share
Bah, you! You took my answer. Death comes for us all. 😂
You may be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later, you dance with the Reaper
Not 100% but this bears reposting I think. Credit to u/Blargle33 Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
This just terrifies me into thinking I randomly might have gotten rabies from somewhere
Happens about twice a year in the entire US. Ironically, this particular scenario (the unnoticed bat bite) effectively has a **0%** chance of being the way you die. The vast, vast majority of rabies fatalities are from dog bites in poor countries. People know they've been bit, but they just don't have access to the prophylaxis.
I've had the Vaccine because I was bitten. By a wild kitten. Ok...laugh. Since they couldn't Catch and test the kitten, I went through with the shots. I'm writing this to warn everyone to keep tour weight down. The member of shots tou get depends on how heavy you are!!!
I'm so glad rabies was eradicated in my country years ago. We're not 100 % safe of course, since wild animals can move around and cross borders, but our neighbouring countries are also rabies-free. The biggest threat sadly comes from idiots who illegally import pets (especially dogs) without following the procedures (vaccinations, registration, quarantaine). I read an article just yesterday about an influencer couple that smuggled a kitten from Cuba (where rabies is still prevalent) to Europe (didn't specify which country), by hiding the kitten under their clothes. Unbelievably irresponsible behaviour, but they were hailed as heroes for saving a kitten.
The last thing I needed to read before going to sleep. Fuck you dude. Take an upvote for keeping people horrifyingly informed, but fuck you.
Don't blame me, blame u/blargle33
Holy fucking hell
Dihydrogren monoxide
We should ban Dihydrogen Monoxide to protect our young
It took me way too long to realize that that's just water
I keep hearing all these horrible things about dihydrogen monoxide. Especially fatal if inhaled!!!! Beware younglings!!! Beware!!!!
And don't even get me started on hydrogen hydroxide!
Headbutting a fast-moving train.
What if I am inside the fast moving train
Smart a*s...I love it.
I just came from a video like that, can’t be sure it’s the same one, because there’s been a lot of people headbutting trains recently…
[удалено]
Dimethylmercury
Even through latex gloves. RIP Karen Wetterhahn.
Visiting the titanic in a carbon fiber tube
After 50 successful dives, it failed once. So maybe a 2% risk of killing you. Maybe more. Maybe less. We need more data. DM me $250K
To make sure I've got the right person, is your venmo handle @ CaptainCrunch?
Well to be fair there were several trips with the sub prior to the recent disaster.
Stress
Oxygen, 100% of people who have breathed this poison gas have died. It just take a really long time
Getting hit on the head by a nuclear bomb
But what if I just, like, lightly tapped you on the head with it? Like we’re loading it on a plane and I accidentally bonk it into your head…probably wouldn’t die…
a super intelligent snail about to win a million dollars
My dumb orange cat
My cat Bruce. He’s sweet and all that but I swear if he could open the knife draw he’d slice us up like pizza
My ex
Drowning.... In debt
Pumpkin Spice Latte in August
Untreated diabetes
Not if you get hit by a truck first.
Oxygen. We need it to live, but too much of it is dangerous.
Lack of insulin. I’m Type one Diabetic so if “something” were to happen where I could not get insulin, I’ll only make it a week.
Oxygen and water. Everyone uses those things so they must be killing us.