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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A, yes, quick sand, the bane of my childhood.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

My mom once actually stepped in quicksand (thankfully only up to the top of her boot). It was in Canada. Yes, Canada has quicksand! She was visiting my uncle in Saskatchewan.

Unlike the movies, it fits its name. One minute she was walking, then suddenly it was like she fell into a pit, but couldn't get her boot out. I can't remember how the story ended. This was like 35 years ago that she told me about it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Judging by she telling you this story I'd say it went quite okay.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I just mean I don't remember how she got out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Couple of years ago, I walked through a forest somewhere in the middle of The Netherlands, called the Waterloopbos, and I came across a blocked off area with quicksand warnings.

I kinda wish I had lost my shoes there, because the shoes I was wearing weren't good for forest walking.

That was the first and so far only time I had seen quicksand in my 44 years of existing on this blue marble.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Sometimes I look at the wide open sky and think "What if gravity suddenly reverses and I fall up into the sky and then space? That would be really dangerous."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had a clear childhood memory of when gravity temporarily vanished and we all had to duck and cover under our desks. Years later I learned how gravity worked. A few years after that I realized my memory was impossible though it felt very real. This may be the root of my trust issues...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Human memory is wild. We’re extremely good at inventing things that never happened, or adjusting memories over time as we recall them into something completely different than what actually happened. And it can feel so real.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Stephen King wrote a story of just that happening to a guy. Except gravity didn't reverse he just kind of lost mass, but the result was the same.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Dude wasn't even dieting what was crazy is for all intents in purposes no one could tell he was losing weight. He looked the same weight but when he get on a scale it show him losing weight. You really should read it. For some reason its a stand alone novel, but its actually really short for a Stephen King novel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I swear to God I'm not trying to be a dick, but just so you know the phrase is "for all Intents and purposes."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's a pity you have to preface it that way.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

This is like a non-Christian version of my childhood fear of "The Rapture."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You should anchor yourself to things.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gamma ray bursts

The germans invading

Electrified bodies/puddles of water

Yknow, the usual stuff kids are afraid of...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think this is the usual stuff mate

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Don't forget quicksand... I spent all my childhood afraid of falling into it. Somehow it was an unwarranted concern.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

My uncle told me he sailed through the Bermuda Triangle all the time. I thought he was full of crap.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I was always worried about perfectly round holes in the ground and falling into them. Looney Tunes really over-represented how common they were.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Especially since anyone can paint them on the floor anywhere!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 only my head and elbows outside. I 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The part of the brain that goes "we're doing reflexes now and you don't get a say" is wild.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

They also led me to believe that quicksand would be a bigger hazard in everyday life.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Chubbyemu made me fear gas station sushi.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

gas station sushi

I didn't know those 3 words existed in that combination and I'm frankly appalled that they do

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Chubbyemu made me fear a lot of things

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Watched a childrens show that showed a snakebite. Was unable to enter my bed for years without searching it for snakes throughoutly.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Every time i was somewhere where i could see a big fall, i would get scared, thinking i would intentionally go there and fall to my death without noticing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'm mildly scared of railings overlooking lower floors and such, thinking "I would get seriously injured if I somehow accidentally lean over this railing so much that I flip over to the other side and fall down."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Neutrinos: tf is an atom I’ve never seen one

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Fun fact: The Bermuda Triangle actually lives in your closet and plans to get you in your sleep.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Reminded me of the Bakers emperor where one of his alchemists is trying to split atom with hammer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just stick to elements lighter than iron and you'll be fine.

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