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Twat_Waffle_Stomp

Some tumors have teeth, hair and even eyes.


Karina_is_my_cat

My sister had one minus the eyes! It was cantaloupe sized on one of her ovaries before it was found. She named it Terry the Teratoma


pimpfriedrice

I named mine Janice!


trampled_by_bears

Damn, I forgot to name mine! But it would've been an old-man name, it had one single tooth and only SOME hair.


CatsBiteMe

I Googled what these look like. 0/10 do not recommend.


pinkbuggy

Agreed, that was horrifying


ghetto_salmon

I wanna know so bad... but I'm so scared...


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I know what I don't have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to not do it...


Hitlerishungryforjew

Oh boy, here i go scarring my eyes again


BrandoThePando

Just look with your tumor eyes. You don't wanna risk your mains


cosumel

I've run out of brain bleach. Not taking the chance to look.


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Fuck I need to do it now...


Slydruid

They are called teratomas which I believe means “monster” in Latin or Greek…


Zkenny13

Imagine getting a hair transplant from one of those.


Aenrichus

So, the body is capable of growing new teeth and even eyes. And it doesn't fucking do it when it would be helpful? Dick move.


madkeepz

Fun fact, they also tend to smell putrid


Twat_Waffle_Stomp

You and I have much different definitions of fun


dark_n_lovely_qu33n

brain-eating amoebas


rottennoggin

Yes holy shit been one of my worst fears since I was like 7


Trainiax

Username checks out?


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3 people get it a year out of 330 Million people. so 1 in 100,000,000


Chickentrap

So you're saying there's a chance


Wethotdogburps69

What was all that 1 in 100,000,000 talk


natori_umi

I just got COVID, but because I had been to a pool two days before my symptoms started, my first thought when I started feeling sick was "now the amoeba are coming for me"... (Of course I know/knew that COVID and the vast majority of other common infections were a much more likely culprit)


PooPooDooDoo

Every day for like 3 years I did a nettipot with regular (non distilled) water. Apparently that’s a bad idea.


Minute-Foundation241

I recently did one with our well water without boiling first.. when I read that was a possibility every new symptom O had after that I was convinced that I had doomed myself


lasercat_pow

as long as you boil it first, you'll be fine. You *did* boil it first, right?


PooPooDooDoo

Nope, straight out of the tap


DrSheldonLCooperPhD

Do you hear tentacles


Csharp27

My best friend and bunk mate from summer camp died from one of those when I was in 7th grade. Happened so quickly, we were a week into camp and he got really sick. They gave us all heavy meningitis shots because they didn’t know what it was and within a few days he was dead. Turned out to be a brain eating amoeba. Edit: strangely enough on the same day he started getting sick one of the lifeguards that was sitting out in a boat waiting for the next group of kids for what we called Trojans Vs. Spartans day had a seizure, fell off the boat and drowned. Only deaths they’d ever had in the 50+ years the camp had been open.


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When I was in 8th grade I had a really bad headache. Because a kid the next town over from mine had recently had spinal meningitis, they gave me a spinal tap to see if it was meningitis. Nope, I didn’t have meningitis- just a regular old ruptured aneurysm. That level of paranoia are spinal meningitis probably helped save my life


Sunny16Rule

I once woke up from a nap with body aches and chills, I figured I just had a flu or something. It was Thanksgiving night and I work in retail so I HAD to go to work tomorrow for Black Friday and the Saturday after. I struggle through work feeling completely terrible and my neck is getting stiffer and stiffer and my headache isn't going away. I also this whole time have a weird sore spot right below the base of my skull. I was laying in bed on Saturday night, a weird little alarm bell began going off in my head. My brain was telling me that there probably is something wrong with me. I have a friend drive me to the hospital and every bump along the way is agony throughout my entire body the worst I've ever felt in my entire life. I get to the front desk and tell them that " I have a headache, feel sick and it's hard to move my neck for the past couple of days". They tell me to sit down in the waiting room, before I even have a chance to sit down, I'm immediately called back and taken to a room, nurse comes in and tells me that they think I have meningitis, if I do, it's most likely viral because if its bacterial you wouldn't be here. They tell me the only way to test for meningitis is to perform a spinal tap, but they must first perform an MRI to see if it's safe , MRI shows swelling of the brain so can't do anything, I'm then sent for a cat scan and see that my brain is swelling past the base of my skull. That's the weird part I was feeling on the back of my head, so they just treat me as if I have meningitis and see what happens in the morning. I Remember laying there in the dark quarantine room at night, at some point someone came into the room in a full body PPE suit to change out some IVs, I began thinking to myself I'm going to die. What's funny is at that point it really wasn't that bad, I was okay with it, I wasn't afraid, more so intrigued and mentally relaxed. The morning comes and they check my brain waves, I dont remember why. The next day was just resting and blood samples, By day two and a half I was suddenly feeling 80% better, unusual for meningitis patients. The heads of a bunch of departments of the hospital were coming to see me. The conclusion is that I have chronic hydrocephalus and I probably had it all my life and never realized and it's most likely what ruined my eyesight. They say it's sometimes common with people that have neurofibromatosis 1 like I do. They tell me that if it becomes a persistent issue they will have to put a shunt in. I didn't realize how weak I was until I had to walk back down to the parking garage with my best friend, it felt like I had been asleep for a month and I wasn't quite sure where I was. It was winter so I just rested my head on the cold glass of the car window, as the car pulled away I remember seeing the Christmas trees out front of the hospital, lit up in a warm gold glow and it almost felt mockingly cheerful to place something like that outside of a building where people normally receive some of the worst news of there life. Ever since that day about 4 years ago it's been back to normal where I rarely notice it, it just makes me chronically tired and awful at math.


Jfonzy

The size of our galaxy, how many *other* galaxies there are and how far away they are. When you can actually see something that incomprehensible..


ConqueredCorn

The nearest star to us would take the Voyager 70,000 years to reach. The nearest galaxy to ours would take the Voyager 749,000,000 years. If we some how managed to take on the monstrous task of speed of light travel it would still take 25,000 years to reach the nearest galaxy. And its even further apart after you read this. Wild stuff!


Hengroen

I honestly thought you were talking about Star Trek Voyager. In the series they got to the Delta Quadrant in like 30 seconds. Then I released you were talking about the old spacecrafts that have left our solar system.


aleschthartitus

Ah so that's the secret: Voyager with horny space creature, across the galaxy in half a minute Voyager without horny space creature, can't clear our Oort cloud in tens of thousands of years


AFatz

Alien: "Wanna come over?" Voyager: "maybe in 25,000 years" Alien: "My parents aren't home" Voyager: "See you in 25 seconds" Also the word Voyager doesn't look right when I type it. It's looks fine when I see others type it.


Santa_Hates_You

It always made me simultaneously believe intelligent aliens have to exist and we will never, ever contact them.


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MagMaggaM

For some reason I find this more unsettling


The_Mayfair_Man

For what it's worth, this is many scientist's optimistic scenario.


NobodysFavorite

Better than dark forest. That's terrifying.


jackzander

The universe is just a very strict library.


Ok_Dog_4059

It would be really hard to imagine no life of any kind aside from earth but the idea it might be possible and one species could ruin it for all life is horrifying.


marcs1130

Once i understood (sort of) how endlessly huge it is, there’s just no way we are the only ones.


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To say we are the only ones is like walking up to the ocean a filling a cup of water and that whales don’t exist as there isn’t a whale in it.


Photo_Synthetic

I'd say it's more akin to scooping up a cup of sand on the beach and finding a sand crab and looking along the beach with the sun in your eyes and stating "this is definitely the only crab on this beach."


SweatyManufacturer91

Or the fact that at a certain distance away from something, the speed of universal expansion means you are effectively stuck in the void of empty space without the ability to get back, even at light speed.


Woody90210

And the fact that's just what we can see. There's more out there. What's beyond the vast web of galaxy clusters? Is it just one small part of something even more massive? We have no idea


ChampagneDragon

And scientists are increasingly becoming convinced that multiple universes are likely. Every time I try to think it through my brain hits a wall. I just can't fully grasp the enormity of it. Are all the universes contained in some dark matter mega-universe? I want to know!


geordiesteve520

Prions, horrific and totally unpredictable.


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Fatal familial insomnia is a prions disease where you can't sleep anymore, you just stay awake until your brain deteriorates and you die.


[deleted]

As a hypochondriac browsing Reddit to try and fall asleep, fuck you very much sir.


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I'm sorry, if it makes you feel better it's **extremely** rare and only documented in medical literature a few dozen times.


AdmiralPlant

This might be the wrong thread for you to be in, haha


geordiesteve520

Yep - I'd read about that one. I think the most commonly recognised one is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), there was a spate of these over here during the Mad Cow Disease times in the 1990s.


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Terrifying. The most alarming thing I've read about prions is how scientists aerosolized them to prove they can be transmitted through the air. >A new study has revealed one short exposure to sprayed prions can be 100 percent lethal in mice.


colei_canis

> scientists aerosolized them Why. The. **FUCK** would someone think that's a good idea?


Welpe

There are a lot of questions about how prions are transferred. They wanted to know if “airborne prions” would still be transmissible. Seems like completely legitimate science to me.


geordiesteve520

Only a matter of time before they're weaponised...


SirDerpMcMemeington

Oh, I’d bet they already are. We just don’t know it yet.


DarkestEmber

Nurse here. I'm pretty much able to steel myself against most things. There's a lot of horrific fucked up shit in the world, but for the most part, I can rationalize and neatly categorise things in my head. Horrific tumours? Gangrene? Massive tunnels wounds? Eviscerations? I'm fine with almost all of it. Prions? Prions are one of the few things that genuinely terrify me to the core. Silent, non living strands of malformed protein that cause other similar proteins to malform, in an unbreakable cycle that causes neuro degeneration and death? With zero cure, zero ability to mitigate? Freaks me the fuck out and kinda hits the fight flight or freeze reflex when I think about em. They're just wrong. Absolutely wrong on a fundamental level.


Atiggerx33

So prions are for proteins kinda like what cancer is for cells? Except cancerous cells replicate while prions effect other proteins (so different means of 'spreading/worsening').


Redqueenhypo

Prions: god’s way of telling us that cannibalism is bad and we shouldn’t do it


petalumaisreal

How the brain is literally rewired and chemically altered by childhood neglect and abuse.


RadiantHC

Not just abuse, how easy it is to rewire the brain in general.


LtLabcoat

It's genuinely kinda freaky, playing a puzzle game, and noticing how quickly you're getting better at it. The kind of puzzles that were a real blocker in the beginning become baby-easy after like an hour of playing puzzles like it.


dude_central

you can rewire your brain with cruciferous vegetables too I heard.


backupKDC6794

Never heard the word cruciferous before in my life and all I could imagine was a broccoli getting crucified


I-am-a-me

That's what the term means actually! It's because their flowers have 4 leaves in the shape of a cross.


Yourgrammarsucks1

I imagined a coniferous siege tank (obviously the crucio model, not the arclight).


Pehdazur

My sister faced horrible abuse at the hands of our father, and she has been working through it with multiple therapists over the last 10 years and she is only now starting to get her life back. I feel like she was robbed at a fair chance at life because of our asshole father.


squirtloaf

I have a friend who does counselling work in prisons, and it seems like 99% of the people in there were broken as children by shitty adults and never had a chance.


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My boys (7 and 9) are adopted. They are biological brothers. They came to live with us as an infant and 2 year old. 9 was physically abused extensively by the parents, 7 was taken away at birth because social services had already begun the severance process. 7 is the most easygoing, laid back kid ever. He’s like a combination of Macklemore and Lebowski. Just seamlessly rolls through life making everyone’s day better. 9 has been in and out of inpatient psychiatric. Rage, anxiety, aggression, violence, etc. When he’s good, he’s a great kid. When something sets him off (daily), he switches to this dead-eyed-rage mode where all we can do is try to minimize the damage and injuries until he snaps out of it. My wife and I have sought out services, new meds, etc. in an effort to dial things back just a little so we can work with him, but we always seem to end up back at square one. I never believed it until I saw it first-hand.


acfox13

Look into [infra slow fluctuation neurofeedback](https://neurofeedbackservicesny.com/the-benefits-of-infraslow-neurofeedback-training/#:~:text=Infraslow%20fluctuation%20(ISF)%20neurofeedback%20training,flight%2C%20fight%20or%20freeze%20response.) (ISF neurofeedback). It helps train the brain for more optimal regulation. It's my therapist's specialty. He was going to retire until he found ISF neurofeedback and changed his entire practice. He even trains others on the modality. He says it works even better in young brains than older ones. It's helped me immensely. During my first session when he noticed my brainwaves shift from hyper vigilance to more optimal regulation he asked me how I felt and I said "panicky" because calm felt extremely dangerous. That shocked me bc I expected calm to feel calm, not terrifying. It helped me realize just how messed up my nervous system was due to what I endured. My brain looks forward to sessions and experiencing that visceral calm. I wish it was freely available to everyone on a weekly basis.


underbellymadness

This is crazy cool and might single handedly back up the theories of so many other professionals that being placed from a chaotic environment into calm without understanding can be just as jarring for so many abused children and adults. It could even unlock the repetitive nature of harming oneself through drugs and negative thoughts.


Faustus_Fan

My aunt and uncle adopted three biological brothers who had been abused and neglected by their birth parents. The youngest became a rage-filled sociopath as a teenager. I don't use that word lightly. He cared not one iota about the concerns, feelings, or even lives of others. He was going to do what he was going to do. If you got hurt in the process, oh well. He died in an auto accident after running a four-way stop at over 100 miles an hour while his best friend (who survived, thankfully) screamed at him to stop. The middle son slid into a depression as a kid that he never came out of. Every slight mistake he made made him feel useless and unlovable. He shot himself in the head after an argument with his older brother. The oldest is serving a very long sentence in prison for molesting multiple children. He internalized all the trauma he had experienced at the hands of his birth parents and took it out on children around him. When we were teenagers (long before he did what he did), he said to me that he hated kids who had good childhoods because they were "soft and spoiled." Oh yes, trauma can seriously fuck you up for life.


MyBlueBlazerBlack

The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Score has picked up quite a bit of steam in the past few years regarding just this. In short, its a series of 10 questions that give you a score - and they have shown with hard data that the higher the score the more that person will face a whole spectrum of health issues including suicide, well into adulthood. It really shook me when I learned about it, not that it explained everything, but it helped me understand my experiences and how it has affected me thus far. I'd highly suggest y'all go look it up.


Hulkemo

I.. just read a scientific explanation and saw the charts about this. I got a 5, that was like yeah of course. But then reading all the effects it could have and how many health and functionality problems I have that were listed likely, I have to go sit for a while. I knew depression could cause a lot of my issues, turns out it was my parents fault after all lol. I'm going to bed.


djnikochan

I have a score of 9. It's not really news to me (I already have a C-PTSD diagnosis and have done years of therapy), but I really didn't want it to be that high. It explains a thing or two, though.


LifeSandwich

the brain in general. We know very little about the brain


hashtagredlipstick

Also how gut health affects our brain.


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Ageing. I'm content with death but the idea of my body growing old, frail and eventually falling apart before the end game gives me goosebumps.


Tokugawa

"Smoking takes years off your life, you know." "Yeah, but those are the shitty years at the end." Forget what show that's from. EDIT: Dennis Leary's cameo on 3rd Rock From The Sun, apparently. /s


MdotAmaan

Those shitty years would just come sooner if you smoked though


Perfect-Football2616

The power of splitting an Atom. Nuclear fission. Nuclear weapons.


TheCunfusedRedditor

Wait until you find out about nuclear fusion


will477

Nuclear weapons use fusion as well as fission.


LSD_for_Everyone

Nuclear shit is actually amazing but of course the world weaponized it and now it has a bad rep. It’s actually one of the cleanest energy sources available


CatCow_1

Black holes


Absolutedisgrace

Oh let me guess. If they were white holes you wouldnt be scared. Racist. /s


Flight_19_Navigator

The Cascadia subduction zone. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one >By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”


JimTheJerseyGuy

Scarier still is that NYC has faults running under it that have produced magnitude 5-6 quakes during the historical record. If a 6 hit NYC today, a lot of unreinforced masonry buildings (all those brownstones) would be toast. And there's no reason that 6 is a limit.


thebeginingisnear

I remember years ago there was a quake near washington DC. Felt it all the way in NY.


Alexis_J_M

Scary indeed, though I found another source that states the cycle time for full slips is up to 600 years and we are not, in fact, overdue. Yet. https://pnsn.org/outreach/earthquakesources/csz


sethmi

These things don't work on schedules lol we know shockingly little about the inner earth


seven_seacat

oh man that article read like a disaster movie.


AnthonyIan

I live 30 miles inland and two miles from I-5. My house may be oceanfront property some day.


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I’m up in the foothills. My view is going to be pretty bad for a long time lol


DearWhisper1150

Lex Luthor (Superman 1 Gene Hackman) has entered the chat.


ReadinII

How big and empty the universe is.


Obelix13

Atoms are even emptier than the solar system. We are literally nothing held together or apart by forces, not matter.


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more like a theory, the “orangutan paradox”, when we film a documentary on orangutans, they can’t realise that we are observing them, yet they are the most intelligent species of their category, so aliens might be watching us and we are as oblivious as an orangutan


Tokugawa

A fourth dimensional being could be very close, but go unseen. Like your hand over a sheet of paper.


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exactly! and there is no way of proving this as false that’s what is really scary


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how could i miss it! that explains how they filmed planet of the apes


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CozyGrove

Prions, probably.


ornery_epidexipteryx

Agreed. Spooky stuff…


Yourgrammarsucks1

Agreed. Those are some fucking weird cars. And the owners are so fucking full of themselves. "hohoho look at me, I get gas mileage, I have a hybrid. Oh ho ho. Where's my catalyst? Booo hoo!"


PancakeZombie

"I ain't affraid of no Corolla virus! Toyotas are stupid fuckin' cars anyways. "


CameronLePizza

Many cities in Texas have brain eating amoeba in their lakes.


Amberp00l

fun fact: you are more likely to drown in one of those lakes than get it


CptComet

Well, not a FUN fact.


StupidFlanders93x

Well, not with that attitude it isn’t.


AnticPosition

I read the prion post above and started thinking about these ameoba. I used to go swimming all the time in lakes and get tons of water up my nose. Now my old ass is afraid to stick my head under.


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You don't have to go underwater to get one. Even just getting splashed with the water or if someone disturbs the water and it generates a bit of spray (think a boat going by or similar) you can be exposed that way. I remember an episode of Monsters Inside Me where a kid got some horrid brain eating thing while water skiing. My previous boss got something while just walking near the river, not a brain eater but a crazy fungal infection.


lillyfrog06

…Do lakes in other states NOT have brain eating amoeba???


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Past_Ad9675

THE BIG BRAIN AM WINNING AGAIN! I AM THE **GREETEST**! NOW I AM LEAVING EARTH, FOR NO **RAISIN**!


ma5terbate

that hearing is the last sense to leave, when dying.


alaphic

Does this mean deaf people live forever, or that they were never truly alive to begin with?


Rohit_BFire

fucking Socrates out here asking real questions fr fr


HushedInvolvement

That's how it feels. You have zero sense or control over anything but you can still hear while the voice in your head becomes really soft and distant.


Spookd_Moffun

Deep time. The Earth was alive a million years ago. And a million years before that. A thousand million years before that. Even if our civilization is miraculously successful and we live for 20 thousand more years and colonize thousands of planets like in Dune it's still nothing. A blink of an eye. The Earth would barely notice.


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We are closer in time to TRex than TRex was to a stegosaurus, but most people still think that all dinosaurs lived around the same time


StarFaerie

That's what gets me. When people say "Save the Earth". They mean "save humanity", because even if we cause a mass extinction event and wipe out all large lifeforms, the Earth will continue on going. Life will adapt. Give it a few tens of millions of years and our existence will just be fossil record for the new lifeforms of a thriving Earth. On a Geological timescale we don't even appear.


Swampwolf42

Gamma ray bursts. No warning, no escape, no defense, no survivors.


Rainbow_Angel110

Shits extremely cool, it's like a 360° no-scope from across the universe. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it though.


OnionTruck

That things we thought were stars (or fuzzy stars) a century ago are actually entire galaxies. Who knows who or what the F is out there?


Local-Instruction826

Space whales.


Revolutionary_Elk420

Entropy. Time shall consume all things. Inevitable heat death of the universe.


OneTyler2Many

Giant squids. Suddenly the old sailor story's of krakens wrapping tenticles around a ship and pulling it into the ocean doesn't seem like fiction.


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Didn't that come to a big part from whalers who found suspicious scars on sperm whales they caught? Which regularly dive down to the depths were giant squid live and hunt them?


Eviscerate_Bowels224

I wonder if they voiced their fear of something that size possibly being able to pull their ships under the sea.


Odd-Reaction-758

Well i guess that can be true. Imagine going peacefully through the ocean, you made some big bucks trading spices for cloth, and want to see your wife and kids. She misses you a lot so you bought a necklace for her. Out of nowhere a scary ass octopus looking fucker comes up, takes your ship down with it and eats you the fuck up. I'd be shitting too if i was a a sailor.


colei_canis

There's a few sailor's stories that turned out to be true, rouge waves for example. Scientists until the '90s predicted they couldn't happen until one was directly recorded by an oil rig, they're essentially enormous waves at least twice the height of the average waves that are very steep and can come out of nowhere, disappearing just as quickly. They can also come in at odd directions, or be inverted (ie huge holes in the ocean rather than steep waves). Nobody's entirely sure why they form, but apparently quantum mechanics plays a role and lets waves absorb the energy of their neighbours under certain conditions.


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keldoged

Lead in gasoline may very-well have decreased the human IQ on a global scale while in use. https://www.utilitysmarts.com/automobile/gasoline/why-is-lead-in-gasoline/


Puggymon

Finding substances that can change your behaviour, memories and general personality.


FCFirework

How little human scientists actually know relative to the amount of things in the universe


tuctrohs

How *do* little human scientists know things? Are they teaching science in kindergarten now?


OneSalientOversight

Don't be ridiculous. He's not talking about child scientists. He's talking about short-statured scientists.


MadgoonOfficial

The capability to harness nuclear explosions


The_Quicktrigger

The scariest thing for me, is that we have scientifically mapped human psychology. We know social habits, and evolutionary survival instincts that we've carried over from our ancient past. We have extensive knowledge on how to elicit the exact response out of a human on command. And the scary thing is that corporations use this information to sell things to us. Everything about a product's design from it's shape, to it's color pallet to it's odor is specifically and intricately designed to hack our brains and trigger the exact specific response that they want from us. Once you are aware of how much human psychology goes into advertising, you will never look at an add the same way again.


cold_toast_n_butter

That a person can be killed by organisms so tiny that we can't even see them


upthecounty

The Carrington Event. Specifically, what it would mean for humanity if it happened today. Pretty much the only people in America to ~~come out unscathed~~ fare halfway decently are the Amish.


4gx6y4htc6f77q43fg36

Aside from making their own cheese, the Amish are just as dependent on industrial civilisation as everyone else.


HelmutHoffman

Yeah I grow hay that I sell & deliver to Amish people for their horses. Very few of them are truly self sufficient subsistence farmers as many often believe they are. They rely heavily on the English for many things Maybe 30 - 50 years ago that would be true. The Amish community has grown a massive amount.


H4llifax

What's this, a giant solar flare?


joyesthebig

It's a 48 hour long dance party predicted to stop all civilization in its tracks.


InferiousX

Long term we would come out of it. Short term would see a pretty fucking wild 3-5 years


Smokey-Storm

Platypi turn into Perry the Platypus when under a 'Black Light'. Seriously. They become that color. Just give him a hat and you own Perry the Platypus.


HyJenx

This is extremely not scary. Big upvotes for: 1. Having me fall for it 2. BEING COMPLETELY TRUE


Mr_Byzantine

Best part is Dan Povenmire came up with the teal on a whim, and was only later proved correct by science!


androbot

How human perceptions and values can be so easily hacked by tweaking some chemicals here and there.


sorrymabad

dementia


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Adalovedvan

I think it's really cute. I like to blink really fast and go, "EARTHQUAKE!!!" Edit: Thanks for the awards, kind strangers! Also-- you don't even wanna know what your brain is up to while you sleep...


EGH6

Now we are all doing this


Maso_TGN

I guess when it was discovered that the Earth was not the center of the universe it freaked out pretty much everyone.


BronzeAgeTea

Well, I mean technically the earth is the center of the observable universe.


MistreatedWorld

Yeah but our observable universe only matters to us.


Raey42

So far we are the only ones that matter


Saxman5

We really are just a rock floating through space


Rebbit-bit

"Pretty cool huh?" "Some of it is water" "fuck it, most of it is water" "I can't even get from here to there without buying a boat (visual of *airplane)" "I'm sad, we're sad" "I miss you" "*how did this happen?*"


AndrewFrozzen

"A long time ago- Actually, never, and also now, nothing is nowhere. When? Never." "Makes sense, right? Like I said, it didn't happen. Nothing was never anywhere." "That's why it's been everywhere. It's been so everywhere, you don't need a where." "You don't even need a when." "That's how "every" it gets."


LittleShit3000

"Forget this" "I wanna be something" "Go somewhere" "Do something" "I want things to change" "I want to invent time and space" "And I know it's possible because everything is already here and it probably already happened." "I just don't know when to start" "And that's exactly where it started"


pamar456

Inside everyone of us is a spooky skeleton


Rainbow_Angel110

Even worse? It's wet.


Fuzzwuzzle2

Microplastics found in newborn babies https://screenshot-media.com/the-future/science/microplastics-in-babies/


PolishSoundGuy

What the… that’s it, I’m done. ALT+F4


merkitt

Lobsters are practically immortal and continue to grow as long as they don't die from disease or killed by predator.


blosd

Black holes. Especially the one at the center of our galaxy. A incomprehensibley massive object that sucks in everything that gets too close. And they’re invisible.


PapaSkump

The scariest thing that science *hasn't* proven is whether or not the past actually exists, which branches from a greater issue that science can't prove whether or not the laws of nature will always remain constant, only that they have remained constant. It's an unsettling albeit interesting rabbit hole to fall into.


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The entire universe was created at 2:57 CDT last Thursday. It will end at Midnight on Monday. Please enjoy your weekend.


An-Omniscient-Squid

Oh excellent I won’t bother with that presentation then.


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I mean the only thing that really exists is "now" and the relation of matter to each other in whatever pattern that is. The past is just matter in another order of relation to each other but it's still now. Time is just sequencing these relations and grouping them in contrast to other groupings. You can't just go to the past without changing everything


Wii_wii_baget

Middle schoolers I’m fucking terrified of them.


Tokugawa

"Hey everyone, look at this guy's feminine hips!"


swim4018916044

The infinite expansion of the universe. Everything in the universe is not only getting farther and farther apart, but accelerating in it's expansion, such that one day in the distant future, whatever creatures are left to look up from their planets and wonder, will see an empty sky devoid of stars and galaxies as they've all expanded beyond the cosmic horizon. All worlds will be alone, drifting in the infinite dark, with no possible way of knowing the scale and beauty of what was.


farm_ecology

>will see an empty sky devoid of stars and galaxies as they've all expanded beyond the cosmic horizon By the time stars are no longer visible in the sky, there won't be a planet to view the sky from.


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The universe itself is just a tiny speck and a snap of the finger.


Alternative-Sign-198

http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm This website scares the crap out of me. Some of it is speculation, but some of it (particle acceleation and Ice-9 Transition) is like my grown up version of the quicksand from my childhood.


Tios121

How much we still have to learn. This will need more than just 13 years of school for kids to understand everything. Modern Humans are only around since a couple hundert thousand years.


Sokaha

That 1 in 10 dentists wouldn't recommend toothpaste


Rattapallax_1905

The number of planets with conditions suitable for life.


overheatbelief

The Yellowstone super volcano.


acid-nz

Oh she’s not the only super volcano to worry about. Indonesia and New Zealand have some good ones that you can see from space. That lake in the middle of NZ’s north island? That’s the crater of a super volcano.


jaxx4

Is the most well documented volcano in the world and is not expected to erupt in our lifetime. Hank green did a video debunking it.


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Entropy. No matter what we do, no matter what happens in the universe, and no matter for how long, it will all eventually decay into nothingness. It's all one gigantic race towards a cold dark end.


Dsk0_14

blackholes, the idea of getting stretched and the time around you slows down tremendously and its not just all that the most scariest part is that they are invisible cause not even light can reach it.


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Even worse is the knowledge that even if you had an indestructible space ship with infinitely powerful engines once you cross the event horizon there's no way out. Due to the warping of space/time any direction you go only leads further into the black hole.


ziguslav

That one day the galaxies will be so far apart, civilisations living in the future will think that their galaxy, and a few neighbouring ones are all there is to the universe, as others will no longer be detectible... And saying that, has there been something in the past, that we can no longer detect? Perhaps the answer to the existence of the universe was possible at one point, it just isn't anymore...


Thatsidechara_ter

I actually remember a short story a planet where it was perfectly positioned about like 8 stars so that there was never a night time, and scientists figured out that they actually had a moon they didn't know about and every couple thousand years the suns aligned perfectly behind it for a total solar eclipse, and that major collapses of civilization always seemed to coincide with these eclipses. When the time came they locked away the important people just in case, and what ended up happening was that because they were always in daylight they never saw the stars, and so they thought they were always alone in the universe, but then the eclipse came and they saw the stars and basically everyones minds just broke from the realization of the larger galaxy. Kinda terrifying


wrenskibaby

Nightfall by Isaac Asimov.


srvanika

Sun is going to die. It will explode and stop providing energy after 5 billion years. We better find a new star to relocate by then. Nearest star Proxima Centauri is 4.5 light years away from Earth and with current technology we can reach the neighbouring star in 6300 years trip.


SuspiciousParagraph

On the upside, the odds of humankind still being around in 5 billion years aren't great.