What scares you the most?

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[–]HibikiBlackThe Easter Bunny 🐰 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Ignorance and people's tendency to escape truth and reality.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

All stem from the nature and origin of thought.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 7 fun6 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 7 fun -  (4 children)

Why are you so afraid of crocodiles?

Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down, I'm afraid of any Apex Predator that lived through the KT Extinction.

Physically unchanged for a hundred million years because it's the perfect killing machine: a half ton of coldblooded fury with the bite force of twenty-thousand newtons and a stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hooves. And now we're surrounded, those snake eyes are watching from the shadows waiting for the night...

[–]hennaojichan[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You're an Archer fan too? I've rewatched it maybe five times all the way through and always find something new.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

My wife and I both love that show but we're not totally caught up on the current season yet. Makes me want to drink when I watch it though.

[–]hennaojichan[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Exactly. Every time Archer or his mother pours one, I want to pour one. No real human can drink like that but I try.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

At my worst drinking I was going through 3 handles of vodka a week, 120 standard drinks. I think I could keep up with Archer's drinking, but definitely not be the world's best spy. I developed a fatty liver from that, the precursor to cirrhosis, and had to dry out for a year (mostly) so it could heal. It's important for drunks to not only get regular liver enzyme tests but also an liver ultrasound since you can have stage 4 cirrhosis and normal enzymes.

I'm not supposed to drink vodka anymore but it's hard getting drunk on beer. The enzyme CYP2E1 is induced by chronic alcohol consumption and allows metabolizing ethanol to acetaldehyde at elevated ethanol concentrations pdf. Once it turns on it doesn't turn off again unfortunately.

Women are shockingly vulnerable to liver damage because they don't metabolize alcohol nearly as well as men. Mallory would almost certainly have died long, long ago.

[–]Vulptex 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

That I probably still have many more decades left in this world.

[–]hennaojichan[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I hope so.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Gee thanks a lot

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (14 children)

I'll add my own personal greatest fear:

What scares me the most is the prospect that the Sun doesn't throw us back into the stone age within the next 15 years and the world keeps on going in the trajectory it has recently adopted.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

I ain't going back to the stone age.

I know how to smelt.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Well, Yeah... But you'll still be living in the stone age until you get your blacksmith setup, unless you already have one.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Please, blacksmithing is such a hipster thing. We have more than enough.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

He who smelt it, dealt it.

[–]TiwakingMy Pronouns are Nigger and Boss Nigger 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I ain't going back to the stone age. Whats wrong with Stone? Stone was all my old dad ever needed to feed a family of as many hands as I have and more than that. That Mitchell & Webb Look - Bronze Orientation

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, that sounds based.

[–]hennaojichan[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Right now we're having a solar event that could cause some outages but I think you know. And there is the 12,800 year cycle that last time caused a horrific flood. We seem to be on the leading edge of it even now.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Yes. The normal timeline seems to be a Carrington level event in one solar cycle, and the next one, 11 years later, give or take a few, you get the micro-nova. I'm hoping the Carrington level event is this cycle, and the Sun explodes in 15 to 16 years maximum.

[–]hennaojichan[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

There are so many solar cycles so I may have 'em scrambled but here's the way I understand it: there's a Carrington Event about every 150 years and it's now been 160 years since the last one that melted telegraph wires so we're overdue. The eleven-year cycle is the Sunspot Cycle and we are now in the doldrums of that cycle so shortwave broadcasts are hard to pick up but only a few care because: the Internet. Chemtrails may also have contributed to the atrocious shortwave reception we're getting right now. Micro-nova? I hope you're pulling my leg on that one.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Not at all. There have been a slew of recent papers that describe various types of novae around the galaxy. A great many of them are RECURRING novae. Basically the galaxy's a very dusty place, only the dust comes in relatively dense sheets that are 10s of light-years apart.

These "waves" of dust reach the Sun every 12,000 years or so. Gravity from the sun accretes this dust, which contains atoms much heavier than the Sun's usual H & He diet. After enough accretion, it forms a sort of shell around the Sun: trapped in by gravity, pushed out by the solar wind.

Except where does the Sun's energy go when there is a shell around it? Nowhere, that's where. Until there's too much pent up and boooooom. The Earth's sediment contains isotopes that are ONLY formed inside a nova. These are relatively short-lived, so they can't come from any supernova many light-years away. Plus they are deposited in the sediment in layers of progressively advanced age. 12,000 years apart.

It's about to happen again.

Also, it seems each time there is a Carrington level event JUST before that.

For more info, study the videos shown by suspicious0bservers on youtube.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

How powerful would the Carrington event be in a global sense if it happened today, or even something that beat the record of that event? And how do we even know how powerful that event was when scientific measuring wasn't as advanced back in the 19th century?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's relatively easy to measure today, looking at the mineral layer just under the layer of ashes from a volcano from just after said event.

If it happened TODAY it might not send us all the way to the stone age, but the worst Carrington style events happen about a decade before the micro-nova, when the Earth's magnetic field is at its weakest. But give it 4-5 years of additional decline, and we'll be close.

Any X 7 flare might do it today, although I don't know the exact classification of the December 16, 1988 flare which was the most disruptive one that I can personally remember, with our grid in Québec going down for over 3 weeks.

Bottom line, there is quite a bit of data.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I rephrase: How do we know how powerful it truly was on electronics if there were very little electronics back then?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, it is known that solar flares can range up to a certain energy level, and the geomagnetic disruption levels are easily calculated per flare energy level. The stronger flares will feel like the EMP from a very strong nuclear weapon... EVERYWHERE.

And once again, it is known that a strong EMP kills everything electrical and of course electronic. It is inescapable and true.

[–]grassfed 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Probably a cornfed kid

[–]MagicMike 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The current dissolution of our culture will lead to someone like Stalin or Mao taking over.

An extremely intelligent leader, like Hitler, would be fine for a while but remember he’d be surrounded by sycophants like Bormann and Himmler.

[–]thefirststone 4 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Niggers.

[–]TiwakingMy Pronouns are Nigger and Boss Nigger 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211028180541/https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=a+nigger+approaching+at+night

[–]forscher 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Hard, well, secretly and thoroughly made plans that snap so well and quickly into reality that they break aspects of your everyday life.

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