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The scientific world isn’t just about inventing new gadgets and discovering new planets and species. Pushing the boundaries of human knowledge can be… very uncomfortable at times. Some of the things that researchers discover can be quite disturbing. Like the fact that human brain organoids can be used to create bioprocessors, which is something almost straight out of a dystopian movie.
The members of the r/AskReddit online community revealed some of the scariest science facts they know. We’ve collected some of the most intriguing ones that you might not have been aware of, Pandas. Scroll down to read up on some things that might make you reevaluate how you see the world. But a word of warning: these might keep you up at night!
We wanted to learn more about pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge, so we got in touch with N. Otre Le Vant, the author of ‘On Progress in Physics and Subjectivity Theory’ and the founder of Inisev. Read on for Bored Panda’s full interview with him.
#1
Trauma can cause structural changes to your brain. PTSD is literally an injury.
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#2
I don’t think this is scary, but some tin-foil-hat types might.
The frequency range that 5G utilizes is the shared with the C-Band frequency range, which commercial satellites have been utilizing for the past 50+ years. If 5G frequencies do anything to humans (They do not) then they have been doing it on a global scale for decades.
Source: I’m a senior engineer at a global satcom company.
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#3
Homeopathy does not work and it's only proven effects derive from the so-called placebo effect.
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#4
Reverting global warming does not unmelt the south pole.
Antarctica is a giant ice mountain (size of US+Canada, average 1km thick) on top of land that is studded by plates of ice in the sea. Think of a very slow moving pudding held in place by a little edge.
All the modeling suggests that once you lose those plates, eventually all the ice will slide into the water.
To refreeze the plates once they are gone, you need an ice age of about -2C to preindustrial, or -3C to current.
There is a 70m of sea level rise of ice on the south pole. The models swing widely on how long it takes to melt on a bunch of factors, but it could be less than 2 centuries for the first 10m.
So either we geoengineer to cool at least the south pole by a tremendous amount, or to hold the ice in place, or in time all coastal regions are lost.
The plates are still in place, but the warmest one is showing signs of stress and thinning. It is linked to 7m of sea level rise if it fails.
To me this is more threatening than any other climate change catastrophe.
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#5
If you’re exposed to rabies and start to show symptoms, your chance of survival is virtually zero percent.
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#6
50% of insects have disappeared since 1970. Insect population is down 27% in the last 30 years. Declining between 1 and 4% each year depending on the genus.
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#7
Microplastics in the food and water supplies are crossing the blood/brain barrier.
Shhh.
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#8
Antimicrobial Resistance
The bacteria are getting resistant to the medicine much faster than the rate at which we are producing new medicine.
Soon we will reach a scenario when antibiotics cannot treat simple yet lethal infections.
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#9
Brain aneurisms can be completely unpredictable and can happen at anytime in your life no matter how healthy you are. A kid who I went to high school with at the age of 16 just did not wake up one morning and his cause of death was a brain aneurism.
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#10
That you should never use bleach to clean cat pee.
The combination creates Chlorine gas that is very toxic.
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#11
The plague is still out there. The Bubonic Plague is endemic in many parts of the world, but cases are very rare because we’ve got it pretty well handled.
If there’s a general breakdown in society like a nuclear war, super volcano eruption or asteroid impact?
It’s out there waiting to come back.
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#12
Microplastics are revealed in the placentas of unborn babies.
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#13
When doing an autopsy they don’t put the organs back where they belong, they are all stored in the belly.
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#14
At any given time the Earth can be hit with a gamma ray burst. We won’t see it coming since it moves at the speed of light and all life apart from deep underground or deep in the ocean will be wiped out in minutes. Although unlikely it can happen at any time.
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#15
Scientists don’t know exactly how Acetaminophen works to relieve pain and reduce fever. They have an idea but nothing for sure. But yet it’s the most commonly used pain reliever in the world.
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