whats the scariest science fact that the public knows nothing about

[King_Kamala61]

 

[horizon]

Prions

 

[brickfare]

Prions

read some shyt about them in Yellowstone the other day, super scary

2024 is def time to look into a vasectomy

 

[Deadpool1986]

Antibiotic resistance​

“Antibiotics has been abused and misused for so long, that various bacteria strains have started to get resistance to them. What used to be a treatable infection, might soon become deadly because we are unable to treat it with the antibiotics we have today.

There is research to try and find other ways to treat antibiotic resistant bacteria, but until then, please use prescribed antibiotics until they are finished (not until you feel better), if unsued do not flush them down the toilet or put them in the bin (give it to a pharmacy so they can discard them correctly), and use antibiotics only when necessary (some countries give them willy-nilly while others are more conservative).” — twitchingJay

We’re running out of Helium​

“Helium. Fun for party balloons. Everybody likes a squeaky voice.

Except helium is a vital component of various high tech devices such as MRI’s.

Helium is also lite enough that the earths gravity can not contain it.

And we are running out. Not today, not tomorrow, but we are frivolously wasting it when we should be jealously hoarding it, and eventually we won’t have any left, and a lot of our wonderful technology will suddenly stop working.” — u_Gravida_Vendatur

Coronavirus​

“Coronavirus/Covid-19 was not surprising nor unexpected by people working in Public Health. And it’s not the worst case scenario by any means. Ironically, the success of Public Health has been so dramatic over the past 150 years, that politicians and the general public forget how important it is.” — moxie-maniac

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Antibiotic resistance​

“Antibiotics has been abused and misused for so long, that various bacteria strains have started to get resistance to them. What used to be a treatable infection, might soon become deadly because we are unable to treat it with the antibiotics we have today.

There is research to try and find other ways to treat antibiotic resistant bacteria, but until then, please use prescribed antibiotics until they are finished (not until you feel better), if unsued do not flush them down the toilet or put them in the bin (give it to a pharmacy so they can discard them correctly), and use antibiotics only when necessary (some countries give them willy-nilly while others are more conservative).” — twitchingJay

We’re running out of Helium​

“Helium. Fun for party balloons. Everybody likes a squeaky voice.

Except helium is a vital component of various high tech devices such as MRI’s.

Helium is also lite enough that the earths gravity can not contain it.

And we are running out. Not today, not tomorrow, but we are frivolously wasting it when we should be jealously hoarding it, and eventually we won’t have any left, and a lot of our wonderful technology will suddenly stop working.” — u_Gravida_Vendatur

Coronavirus​

“Coronavirus/Covid-19 was not surprising nor unexpected by people working in Public Health. And it’s not the worst case scenario by any means. Ironically, the success of Public Health has been so dramatic over the past 150 years, that politicians and the general public forget how important it is.” — moxie-maniac

U suck

 

[Bumblebreh]

Interesting thread
Scary thread

More facts please

The US EPA will soon declare PFAS a CIRCLA hazardous material. Then the entire country will shortly become a Superfund site if the letter of the law is followed. They are finding it in Antarctic snow.

I study PFAS for work and this is the first I’ve heard of PFAS in paper straws. Makes total sense. Just surprised I haven’t come across it yet. I think people would be shocked to learn what product PFAS is in. The wax you put on your skis, the antifog spray you put on your glasses, the contacts you put in your eyes, the floss you put in your teeth. It’s everywhere.

• It can take up to 1 000 years to produce just 2-3 cm of soil. 33% of the Earth's soils are already degraded and over 90% could become degraded by 2050 (FAO and ITPS, 2015; IPBES, 2018).
• The equivalent of one soccer pitch of soil is eroded every five seconds. (FAO and ITPS, 2015).
• Estimated rates of accelerated soil erosion on arable or intensively grazed lands are 100-1 000 times higher than natural erosion rates. *;Soil erosion can lead up to 50% loss in crop yields.
• The economic cost of soil degradation for the European Union is estimated to be in the order of tens of billions of euros annually.

Using only two nuclear weapons , which could be fired from civilian ships, if detonated above the atmosphere, would disable every single electronic device in the entirety of the United States that was not hardened or shielded. The EMP would be spread by the atmosphere, this is called The Compton Effect and would lead to world wide famine killing hundreds of millions of people and is completely impossible to stop currently.


In fully anonymous surveys of Police officers in the United States, about 4 out of 5 officers admitted to actively suffering from untreated severe mental health issues resulting in PTSD, depression, suicide ideations and attempts, aggressive behavior, domestic violence, and addictions.

Government stats show 20%. Meta analysis of studies shows about 50%. In surveys given to active police officers that were completely anonymous the percentage averaged around 78-80%

This means nearly every officer, supervisor, detective, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, chief, and administrator are mentally and emotionally unfit to effectively perform their duties. This results in increased aggression, use of force violations, police action shootings, and suicide.

I say this as a former police officer and with compassion in my heart for other officers. I’ve lost a lot of friends to suicide. I’ve seen many go to prison, fired, divorced, and more. Please get help. The job is killing you.

If you want to improve law enforcement in the US, at a bare minimum regular mental health evaluation treatment must be mandatory to serve. We can talk about changing laws, training, and other issues but mental health is the root problem.

More police officers die from suicide every year than every other cause of death combined

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

This…

An anthrax outbreak in Siberia that affected dozens of humans and more than 2,000 reindeer between July and August in 2016 has also been linked to the deeper thawing of the permafrost during exceptionally hot summers, allowing old spores of Bacillus anthracis to resurface from old burial grounds or animal carcasses.

Diseases that haven’t been seen in close to 50,000 years

 

[Ozymandeas]

Yall are scaring me

 

[the elastic]

Yall are scaring me

Spoiler

 

[boogers]

Where u see Russians being killed by large human like beings

dont listen to his drunk ass

 

[the elastic]

 

[Blessings]

It's like I said in one of my posts on the topic. The end of the world will resemble the death of a person in old age rather than the dramatic movie like ending that people expect.

It's not going to be a massive nuclear war
It won't be a giant plague
It won't be a series of massive natural disasters all happening everywhere
It won't be a comet.
It won't be robots taking over.

It will be tiny versions of all of this happening constantly and far more aggressively until there's nobody left. You'll have more conflicts popping up like the genocide happening in israel or the war between ukraine and russia. More of these types of conflicts will start showing up left right and center.

There will be a bunch of other pandemics similar to covid, but after the second or third one the governments and press will just make a conscious decision to not talk about it or put any protective measures in place. They'll just let thousands of people keep dying every day. Big companies actually pay people to game these things out and then the leadership decides on what they consdier an acceptable amount of human lives lost until they start losing money. The plan then will be to just fold up and fail as a company whilst giving the executives and shareholders golden parachutes.

Every season the forest fires will get hotter, burn longer, and cause more and more deaths from smoke, accidents from obscured roads and skies, and loss of infrastructure forcing people into tighter and tighter living conditions which is the perfect atmosphere for disease to spread.

We'll get solar flares that fukk up our communications. The ENTIRE backbone of civilization is now built on electricity. If that goes, we are fukked. Especially with silicon valley's race to digitize everything and eliminate all forms of physical media.

The robots will just be more sophisticated AI bots and deepfake technology being deployed to scam people and for propaganda purposes. You think Israeli propaganda is crazy now? wait until they have such sophisticated deepfake videos and images that you'll be convinced that every last arab in the region is brutally murdering white children and raping their women. The video footage will be right there, and with greater concentration of media in private hands--all you'll get is that fake footage flooding your screens. This propaganda will be used to justify more and more genocides as scapegoats are used to deflect from the damage that big capital and corrupt government is doing.

The train has left the station. The elites know what's coming and are investing heavily in technology because what they're hoping to achieve is to have bunkers or private islands with sophisticated automated and self-sustaining systems. For example, Zuckerberg buys an island, builds a compound kitted out with flood detection systems, fire suppression systems, hydroponic gardens, Solar energy and storage system, mini thorium nuclear reactor as a back up, waste filtering and recycling system, 3D printers and a supercomputer with the most sophisticated AI running it. The AI will be able to diagnose and treat illness by using the 3D printer to manufacture precise surgical tools, or to simulate and create new medicines based off the atomic structure of elements. So theoretically it can be a surgeon, doctor, and pharmacist. There would be hospital beds, adaptive equipment(to cope with the frailty that comes in old age) and other things to prepare for aging. For defense, they'd have motion detecting turrets, viruses and ransomware designed to target and redirect any drones attempting to bomb them or ships attempting to get to the island. There would of course be drones used for surveillance and defense if needed. There would be boston-dynamics style robo-dogs with armaments mounted on them patrolling the area as well, and the bunker would be deep underground to resist tsunami flooding, irradiated air, and any other hazards that could threaten him if he were to set foot on the surface.

Their actions vis-a-vis climate change and fighting any legislation to regulate them only make sense when you understand that they're well aware of the problem and rather than investing vast sums of wealth into fixing it, they'd rather just make as much money as possible in the present in order to invest in their hiding places. You'll start seeing these billionaires quietly resigning from their positions and leaving the public eye. That's how you'll know that shyt is about to get bad. They've already started their retreat.

It's a lot of people on earth. 7 billion is A LOT. Humanity will still survive for at least a few hundred years, but the death toll will be like nothing we've ever witnessed. Right now its probably at least 1 million people dying every day from various things(hunger, disease, war, natural disasters) that number will be in the tens of millions and people will just get comfortable with that number. The population will continue to shrink as the death rates continue to rise, then you'll start seeing a dramatic increase in deaths because there will be more seniors alive than young people, and being a senior carries a higher susceptibility of infection, severe injury, and age related disease. Economies will collapse because there just won't be enough young people to keep the companies running and some people might even actually start physically targeting the old to take their property from them by force.

You bodied this thread...well said brotha!

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

That solar flare one sounds crazy. It’s like, mfers in the 1800s suddenly got WiFi and battery powered everythang for a limited time just because the sun.

It’s crazy to think what that’d look like if that happened again

 

[Regular Developer]

Doesn't it depend on what you point of reference is?

 

[Regular Developer]

The US EPA will soon declare PFAS a CIRCLA hazardous material. Then the entire country will shortly become a Superfund site if the letter of the law is followed. They are finding it in Antarctic snow.

I study PFAS for work and this is the first I’ve heard of PFAS in paper straws. Makes total sense. Just surprised I haven’t come across it yet. I think people would be shocked to learn what product PFAS is in. The wax you put on your skis, the antifog spray you put on your glasses, the contacts you put in your eyes, the floss you put in your teeth. It’s everywhere.

• It can take up to 1 000 years to produce just 2-3 cm of soil. 33% of the Earth's soils are already degraded and over 90% could become degraded by 2050 (FAO and ITPS, 2015; IPBES, 2018).
• The equivalent of one soccer pitch of soil is eroded every five seconds. (FAO and ITPS, 2015).
• Estimated rates of accelerated soil erosion on arable or intensively grazed lands are 100-1 000 times higher than natural erosion rates. *;Soil erosion can lead up to 50% loss in crop yields.
• The economic cost of soil degradation for the European Union is estimated to be in the order of tens of billions of euros annually.

Using only two nuclear weapons , which could be fired from civilian ships, if detonated above the atmosphere, would disable every single electronic device in the entirety of the United States that was not hardened or shielded. The EMP would be spread by the atmosphere, this is called The Compton Effect and would lead to world wide famine killing hundreds of millions of people and is completely impossible to stop currently.


In fully anonymous surveys of Police officers in the United States, about 4 out of 5 officers admitted to actively suffering from untreated severe mental health issues resulting in PTSD, depression, suicide ideations and attempts, aggressive behavior, domestic violence, and addictions.

Government stats show 20%. Meta analysis of studies shows about 50%. In surveys given to active police officers that were completely anonymous the percentage averaged around 78-80%

This means nearly every officer, supervisor, detective, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, chief, and administrator are mentally and emotionally unfit to effectively perform their duties. This results in increased aggression, use of force violations, police action shootings, and suicide.

I say this as a former police officer and with compassion in my heart for other officers. I’ve lost a lot of friends to suicide. I’ve seen many go to prison, fired, divorced, and more. Please get help. The job is killing you.

If you want to improve law enforcement in the US, at a bare minimum regular mental health evaluation treatment must be mandatory to serve. We can talk about changing laws, training, and other issues but mental health is the root problem.

More police officers die from suicide every year than every other cause of death combined

What is pfas?