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!
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Thrife@feddit.org 6 months ago
combatfrog@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
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.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I just found out spinach is crazy high in them too! I love spinach…
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
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.”
VoilaChihuahua@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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…
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is like a non-Christian version of my childhood fear of “The Rapture.”
sbv@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You should anchor yourself to things.
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Just need a tri-solar syzygy!
Discover5164@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Zozano@lemy.lol 6 months ago
Roaming black holes
Birch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Gamma ray bursts
The germans invading
Electrified bodies/puddles of water
Yknow, the usual stuff kids are afraid of…
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 months ago
I don’t think this is the usual stuff mate
Zoidberg@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Don’t forget quicksand… I spent all my childhood afraid of falling into it. Somehow it was an unwarranted concern.
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
And009@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Sand evěrywhere
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I hate sand.
dudinax@programming.dev 6 months ago
My uncle told me he sailed through the Bermuda Triangle all the time. I thought he was full of crap.
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 6 months ago
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
FarFarAway@startrek.website 6 months ago
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.
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Dude I would have shat my pants.
Truth be told I would still shit my pants.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
By now, satellites and GPS can just navigate us around the triangle, kind of like with hurricanes.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
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.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I was always worried about perfectly round holes in the ground and falling into them. Looney Tunes really over-represented how common they were.
BennyInc@feddit.org 6 months ago
Especially since anyone can paint them on the floor anywhere!
Klear@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The part of the brain that goes “we’re doing reflexes now and you don’t get a say” is wild.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 months ago
They also led me to believe that quicksand would be a bigger hazard in everyday life.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 6 months ago
gas station sushi
I didn’t know those 3 words existed in that combination and I’m frankly appalled that they do
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 months 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.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Chubbyemu made me fear a lot of things
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A lot of things make me fear gas station sushi.
essell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And you’d deserve it for saying “on accident”
TheBat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t forget ‘for no reason’. As opposed to reasonable accidents.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Are accidents an accident if it didn’t happened accidentally?
RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 months ago
Isnt “for no reason” referring to why the person feared that, not that the accident had no reason?
Nomad@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Watched a childrens show that showed a snakebite. Was unable to enter my bed for years without searching it for snakes throughoutly.
dudinax@programming.dev 6 months ago
That’s not a bad idea.
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Australian detected
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 months ago
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
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 6 months 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.”
JigglypuffSeenFromAbove@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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?”
don@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Neutrinos: tf is an atom I’ve never seen one
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Fun fact: The Bermuda Triangle actually lives in your closet and plans to get you in your sleep.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But, it told me it lived under my bed?!
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
It’s a triangle, so it’s under your bed, in your closet, and in the attic.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Just as a reminder that even if you turned an entire atom into pure kenitic energy, you wouldn’t even see a bang.
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.
Emi@ani.social 6 months ago
Reminded me of the Bakers emperor where one of his alchemists is trying to split atom with hammer.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 months ago
Just stick to elements lighter than iron and you’ll be fine.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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!
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
And the triangle goes in…
The square hole!
fosho@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I will never not cringe at “on accident” instead of “by accident”
euchhhh.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To imagine you wrote this sentence by purpose.
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
BluesF@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“By intent” doesn’t look right to me, I would’ve said “with intent”.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Tbf kost things a child will cut contain atoms so it’s not as far fetched as it sounds
Senseless@feddit.org 6 months ago
A, yes, quick sand, the bane of my childhood.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
Senseless@feddit.org 6 months ago
Judging by she telling you this story I’d say it went quite okay.
el_abuelo@programming.dev 6 months ago
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.
madjo@feddit.nl 6 months 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.