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The bit in the Wikipedia article about all the plants dying off in 500 million years or so is really sad 
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Aug 23, 2021 02:55
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So you're saying Satan is packin?
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Aug 23, 2021 03:02
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how on earth are these people eating corn on the cob
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Aug 23, 2021 03:09
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Bibliotechno Music posted:I used to worry a lot about all of my guts sloshing around inside of my body, because I learned all the basic anatomy before anyone thought to tell me about connective tissue. Aha, yes, I certainly didn't low-key stress about this for years and years and years, haha.
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Aug 23, 2021 03:55
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Detective No. 27 posted:I always wanted to read a story about a vampire or some other immortal person who's outlived everyone on Earth but is stuck there and hosed due to the Sun's slow but eventual end. Not quite the same but there was a manga series a couple of years ago called Fire Punch that took place on a future Earth where sometimes people are born with powers and the main character had the ability to regenerate from any wound, no matter how severe or how often he was injured. The series ends with the main character floating around in space because the Earth eventually blows up after it is hit by a big enough asteroid.
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Aug 23, 2021 04:11
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Biplane posted:Someone told my nephew about black holes when he was like 4 or 5 and he had nightmares about them for over a year. My daughter got a book that casually mentions someone getting bitten on the finger by a clam as like, a joke, and it freaked her the gently caress out. For months she'd ask me to make sure "cuh-lams" don't get her, etc. This had died down for a while by the time she was like 3 and one day at dinner she's just just giving very serious consideration to our front door. She looks at me and says "daddy, it's a good thing the front door is locked. So no cuh-lams can get in."
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Aug 23, 2021 04:27
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my dad once told me that if I got bitten by a cockroach, I'd turn into a cockroach boy I believed this for years
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Aug 23, 2021 04:39
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Baron von Eevl posted:My daughter got a book that casually mentions someone getting bitten on the finger by a clam as like, a joke, and it freaked her the gently caress out. For months she'd ask me to make sure "cuh-lams" don't get her, etc. This had died down for a while by the time she was like 3 and one day at dinner she's just just giving very serious consideration to our front door. She looks at me and says "daddy, it's a good thing the front door is locked. So no cuh-lams can get in." Have you explained to your daughter what a clam is and that it is not capable of terrestrial locomotion?
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Aug 23, 2021 04:42
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OwlFancier posted:Have you explained to your daughter what a clam is and that it is not capable of terrestrial locomotion? I've got some very bad news for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBx0IKBn9vc
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Aug 23, 2021 04:43
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Oh yes, many times. I also explained that clams don't really bite, and that it's just generally a good idea to never stick your finger in an animal's mouth no matter what animal it is. 2-3 year olds are often irrational.
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Aug 23, 2021 04:43
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OwlFancier posted:Have you explained to your daughter what a clam is and that it is not capable of terrestrial locomotion? Ahem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBx0IKBn9vc
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Aug 23, 2021 04:44
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:The bit in the Wikipedia article about all the plants dying off in 500 million years or so is really sad
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Aug 23, 2021 04:46
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Baron von Eevl posted:Oh yes, many times. I also explained that clams don't really bite, and that it's just generally a good idea to never stick your finger in an animal's mouth no matter what animal it is. 2-3 year olds are often irrational. Yeah my little brother was terrified of killer whales after going to sea world. Since we lived near a body of water he was for sure that whale was going to jump out of the water and kill him.
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Aug 23, 2021 04:48
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Acebuckeye13 posted:my dad once told me that if I got bitten by a cockroach, I'd turn into a cockroach boy This can happen, but only under rare circumstances. Check out the educational game "Bad Mojo" for more information
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Aug 23, 2021 05:00
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muscles like this! posted:Not quite the same but there was a manga series a couple of years ago called Fire Punch that took place on a future Earth where sometimes people are born with powers and the main character had the ability to regenerate from any wound, no matter how severe or how often he was injured. The series ends with the main character floating around in space because the Earth eventually blows up after it is hit by a big enough asteroid. There's this Le Guin story too: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-island-of-the-immortals/
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Aug 23, 2021 05:05
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Stexils posted:how on earth are these people eating corn on the cob deep throat it and scrape the kernels off with your teeth
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Aug 23, 2021 05:35
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Acebuckeye13 posted:my dad once told me that if I got bitten by a cockroach, I'd turn into a cockroach boy My dad's go-to when tucking me in was "now go to sleep straight away or the Great Big Screwdriver will come out of the sky and unscrew your belly button and your bum will fall off." Which is as hilarious to me as an adult as it was terrifying to me as a child.
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Aug 23, 2021 05:42
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Breetai posted:My dad's go-to when tucking me in was "now go to sleep straight away or the Great Big Screwdriver will come out of the sky and unscrew your belly button and your bum will fall off." Your dad had to have been high when he said that.
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Aug 23, 2021 05:44
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Zil posted:Your dad had to have been high when he said that. It's the punch line of a long joke about a child born with a golden screw instead of a belly button. His bum falling off is just the bathos at the end.
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Aug 23, 2021 06:04
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Well some of them are built so that the bum doesn't fall off at all.
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Aug 23, 2021 06:11
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When I first heard about cancer (by seeing a movie about a person with it randomly and asking what it was about) my understanding of the explanation was that "if you have cancer, (one of) your inner organs will start duplicating until you die. You know, like "my liver is rapidly becoming multiple livers and I'm swelling up, potentially exploding"; I was certain that night that I had cancer and my parents had to console me about that. I probably also told this to other kids at the kindergarten. Funny pic: 
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Aug 23, 2021 06:13
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Hempuli posted:"my liver is rapidly becoming multiple livers and I'm swelling up, potentially exploding" https://i.imgur.com/xpJ1rp7.mp4
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Aug 23, 2021 06:27
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Acebuckeye13 posted:my dad once told me that if I got bitten by a cockroach, I'd turn into a cockroach boy Is your name Gregor by any chance?
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Aug 23, 2021 07:05
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Existential crisis cockroach boy could have totally been a nineties underground comix.
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Aug 23, 2021 07:17
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Hempuli posted:Funny pic: My grandfather died at the Battle of Horngrad
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Aug 23, 2021 07:50
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Hempuli posted:Funny pic:
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Aug 23, 2021 08:12
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Bibliotechno Music posted:I used to worry a lot about all of my guts sloshing around inside of my body, because I learned all the basic anatomy before anyone thought to tell me about connective tissue. This actually happens to koalas.
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Aug 23, 2021 08:55
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I was maybe 7 or 8 when I first learned about black holes. I don't know if I saw this in a show, or if an adult told it to me and I just believed them, or if I just assumed it was true from what I had been told, but I was amazed and astounded by the idea that a space ship entering it would experience such intense gravitational forces that one end of the ship would be disintegrated before the the other end even knew it was in the black hole. I thought it was kind of awesome and it never caused me any distress.
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Aug 23, 2021 08:56
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Just knowing black holes exist causes me intense dread, space sucks poo poo
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Aug 23, 2021 10:49
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Space is scary as hell to my tiny earthbound mind
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Aug 23, 2021 10:52
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Ultra-massive black holes are the mary sues of astronomical bodies. Oh wow, you're unfathomably denser than any matter I'll ever encounter, and also ten times bigger than my entire solar system? Wooow, I'm so impressed
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Aug 23, 2021 11:09
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Eat my entire supermassive black hole
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Aug 23, 2021 11:40
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Zil posted:Yeah my little brother was terrified of killer whales after going to sea world. Since we lived near a body of water he was for sure that whale was going to jump out of the water and kill him. It probably didn’t help that we call them KILLER whales
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Aug 23, 2021 12:08
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Country Satanists make do
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Aug 23, 2021 12:24
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Hempuli posted:When I first heard about cancer (by seeing a movie about a person with it randomly and asking what it was about) my understanding of the explanation was that "if you have cancer, (one of) your inner organs will start duplicating until you die. You know, like "my liver is rapidly becoming multiple livers and I'm swelling up, potentially exploding"; I was certain that night that I had cancer and my parents had to console me about that. I probably also told this to other kids at the kindergarten. This happened to me too when I saw a video of some kind about heart attacks or arrhythmia or something; it was an internal camera view of a sheep's heart beating all erratically, and the narrator was this deep-voiced guy who I distinctly remember saying "... And that is what will happen to this sheep. The heart has lost its beat." Boy I didn't get a lot of sleep that night, carefully timing my heartbeats which were all weird and fast because I was freaked out muscles like this! posted:Not quite the same but there was a manga series a couple of years ago called Fire Punch that took place on a future Earth where sometimes people are born with powers and the main character had the ability to regenerate from any wound, no matter how severe or how often he was injured. The series ends with the main character floating around in space because the Earth eventually blows up after it is hit by a big enough asteroid. L. Frank Baum in the Oz books kept going into weird obsessive detail about how all the characters in his world were immortal, like truly immortal, like unkillable — to the point where if you cut one of them up into little bitty cubes of meat, then all the individual cubes of meat would still be alive, and you could come back later and stick them all back together again and the person would be good as new. Made me wonder just what kind of things occupied the minds of people in the 1900s. Like one time when I read about inventions by kids from like 1943; they were all about war. One was an "Iron Man", a giant metal hollow man that could carry 1000 soldiers onto the battlefield
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Aug 23, 2021 12:44
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Scratch Monkey posted:It probably didn’t help that we call them KILLER whales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR0Ubck0IRA
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Aug 23, 2021 12:45
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Data Graham posted:Made me wonder just what kind of things occupied the minds of people in the 1900s. Like one time when I read about inventions by kids from like 1943; they were all about war. One was an "Iron Man", a giant metal hollow man that could carry 1000 soldiers onto the battlefield Well there was a world war going on at the time, I'm sure that took up a lot of headspace, especially with kids.
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Aug 23, 2021 12:52
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Data Graham posted:Made me wonder just what kind of things occupied the minds of people in the 1900s. Like one time when I read about inventions by kids from like 1943; they were all about war. One was an "Iron Man", a giant metal hollow man that could carry 1000 soldiers onto the battlefield 
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