Roaming black holes
Gamma ray bursts
The germans invading
Electrified bodies/puddles of water
Yknow, the usual stuff kids are afraid of…
I don’t think this is the usual stuff mate
Reading all these adventure books and comics made me really fear quicksand as a child… I was living in East Berlins suburbs. The most comparable thing to quicksand would have been a mud puddle!
When I was a kid there was a Norwegian children movie called “The hunt for the kidney stone” where a kid travels into the body of his sick grandpa to find out what’s wrong with him (kidney stone). After the movie I asked my mom what kidney stones are, and where they come from. “You can get them if you eat too much salt, for example” she says, and after that I was TERRIFIED every time my parents would put salt on anything.
I read a story somewhere of someone getting them from the oxalates in peanut butter.
They were eating like 1 kg a week for a month or two though.
I just found out spinach is crazy high in them too! I love spinach…
I was always worried about perfectly round holes in the ground and falling into them. Looney Tunes really over-represented how common they were.
Happened to me once. I was super drunk walking home and didn’t see an open manhole in front of me. I got super lucky, though.
From my drunk perspective, I’m just walking along when suddenly the ground is nearly at my eye level. Then I realised I’m dangling there, with just my head and elbows outside. I just dragged myself out and continued on home.
I have no idea how I managed to fall inside with both my legs at the same time and why my arms didn’t hurt like hell, not even in the morning.
The part of the brain that goes “we’re doing reflexes now and you don’t get a say” is wild.
I don’t think reflexes were involved here, more likely it was lucky arm positioning at the right time. But what do I know? I wasn’t quite there to witness it.
They also led me to believe that quicksand would be a bigger hazard in everyday life.
Especially since anyone can paint them on the floor anywhere!
And you’d deserve it for saying “on accident”
Don’t forget ‘for no reason’. As opposed to reasonable accidents.
Isnt “for no reason” referring to why the person feared that, not that the accident had no reason?
Are accidents an accident if it didn’t happened accidentally?
Then they’re incidents.
Just as a reminder that even if you turned an entire atom into pure kenitic energy, you wouldn’t even see a flash.
Math stuff:
So E = M c^2
I’ll choose a carbon atom because it’s a round number (don’t think about that statement too hard)
So carbon has an atomic mass of 12 atomic mass units. In grams (divide by Avagadro’s number) is 1.992 E-23 grams.
Shove that into E=mc^2 and you get 1.790 nanojoules, which is 4.974 E-16 kilowatt-hours. Or at 12¢ per KWH is 5*E-15 cents of power.
So to power a 500 watt gaming rig, you’d need to burn about 20 nanograms of carbon at 100% efficiency, per hour.
Chubbyemu made me fear gas station sushi.
Chubbyemu made me fear a lot of things
gas station sushi
I didn’t know those 3 words existed in that combination and I’m frankly appalled that they do
For every time someone eats gas station sushi, someone has to eat a PB&J from a 5-Star restaurant to maintain the balance of the universe; otherwise you get weird things happening like The Fruit of the Loom logo losing the cornucopia, or Donald Trump becoming president.
My childhood fear was getting the vaccine shot for the swine flu which was a big issue in the mid 70’s. My 5th grade class received new text books and there was a photo of a kid getting the vaccine shot. Instead of a needle it was delivered by a big device that looked like an uzi machine gun and I was terrified of it. Time passed and I never got the shot. That’s when I learned how the news works.
I have nothing to worry about while I’m in bermuda. I mean I’m not exactly triangle-shaped. Didn’t these people ever have toys as kids? Sheesh!
And the triangle goes in…
The square hole!
I will never not cringe at “on accident” instead of “by accident”
euchhhh.
To imagine you wrote this sentence by purpose.
Where does this this linguistically phenomenon come from?
Is it a mistaken use of “an accident” with the preposition to reflect the personal involvement?
Mistakes like “Could of” make sense to me because in my accent “could of” and “could’ve” are identically voiced.
I can also completly understand where we get “alot” because alot is just the beginning of an acorn, minus a few hundred years of lazy pronunciation behind it (an oak corn =acorn)
Google is telling me it’s because younger people will use “on accident” as an antonym for “on purpose”. That sounds feesible as an origin. Now I’m questioning if “by intent” is grammatically correct, I’ve been staring at words too long.
“By intent” doesn’t look right to me, I would’ve said “with intent”.
It’s even funnier when you remember that like 99% of all matter is empty space, and electrostatic force is what keeps everything from sliding past everything else.
Fun fact: The Bermuda Triangle actually lives in your closet and plans to get you in your sleep.
But, it told me it lived under my bed?!
It’s a triangle, so it’s under your bed, in your closet, and in the attic.
Something under the bed is drooling.
Don’t forget quicksand… I spent all my childhood afraid of falling into it. Somehow it was an unwarranted concern.
See I always knew it was fine because I was never in as jungle or swamp, because that’s where it always is in movies and cartoons.
Sand evěrywhere
I hate sand.
Reminded me of the Bakers emperor where one of his alchemists is trying to split atom with hammer.
I remember freaking out when the last season of Friends aired - what, there are people vacationing in Bermuda? Are they insane? I was in my late teens
By now, satellites and GPS can just navigate us around the triangle, kind of like with hurricanes.
The triangle is HUGE, and due to where it covers, a lot of shipping went through it, and still does iirc… Saying its dangerous because ships wrecked there often isn’t that far off from calling Earth dangerous since every human has died there. It’s a true statement, I suppose, but the context helps understand it’s not a very reasonable one.
Yeah the mystery of the triangle was puffed up by disingenuous authors who lied and fudged details to pretend ships went missing all the time. Things like reporting ships missing but not their eventual returns, claiming there were no storms when records showed otherwise, including sinkings and crashes that happened well outside the triangle, and a bunch more.
When the the data is analysed; the number of incidents is the same as anywhere else on the planet.
Crew of Soyuz 11: “Well, screw you too!”
Haha, I was worried there were some obscure deaths I didn’t know about.
When I was in my late teens, I ended up on a boat from Ft Lauderdale to the Bahamas. Theres no way no to go through just a little bit of the Burmuda Triangle. I remember freaking out / being super excited, wondering what crazy stuff things would happen on our journey. Of course, nothing happened. I was so disillusioned.
Dude I would have shat my pants.
Truth be told I would still shit my pants.
That’s the true danger of the Bermuda Triangle.
