Neutrinos: tf is an atom I’ve never seen one
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.
Crew of Soyuz 11: “Well, screw you too!”
Haha, I was worried there were some obscure deaths I didn’t know about.
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.
My understanding is there’s a lot of coral reefs in the Bermuda triangle and, like you say a lot of shipping with through there. So it makes sense a lot of ships went missing in that area.
Sailors are a superstitious lot so there were stories about it being cursed. Kinda like how it’s bad luck to carry bananas on a sailboat.
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.
Tbf kost things a child will cut contain atoms so it’s not as far fetched as it sounds
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
I had the exact same fear when I was a kid, and crossing bridges was always very stressful for me. Even today, as an adult, it still bothers me a little, and when I’m driving I keep having these intrusive thoughts like: “What if I accidentally drive off this bridge?”
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.”
A, yes, quick sand, the bane of my childhood.
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.
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.
You know, seeing you in the wild I think is kinda like seeing quicksand. Very rare, usually fatal, but if you live - probably a great story.
Let’s see if I get out alive.
Judging by she telling you this story I’d say it went quite okay.
Yeah, I just mean I don’t remember how she got out.
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.”
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.
The dangers of dieting.
Dude wasn’t even dieting what was crazy is for all intense 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.
Same mass, less weight. So he was gravity resistant.
Yes and also should tell you the title Elevation by Stephen King.
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.”
It’s a pity you have to preface it that way.
Just need a tri-solar syzygy!
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…
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.
This is like a non-Christian version of my childhood fear of “The Rapture.”
You should anchor yourself to things.
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.
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”.
To imagine you wrote this sentence by purpose.
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.
Watched a childrens show that showed a snakebite. Was unable to enter my bed for years without searching it for snakes throughoutly.
That’s not a bad idea.
Australian detected
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
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.
Sand evěrywhere
I hate sand.
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.
