• Thrife@feddit.org
    36·
    2 months 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!

  • combatfrog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    26·
    2 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.

  • RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz
    25·
    2 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.”

  • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
    15·
    2 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.websiteEnglish
      5·
      2 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.

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    2 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.

  • Zoidberg@lemm.ee
    12·
    2 months ago

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

    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
      8·
      2 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
        5·
        2 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.

  • RandomVideos@programming.dev
    5·
    2 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·
      2 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.”

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    4·
    2 months 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.