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This is probably not the worst possible scenario, but it is pretty bad. There is a factitious form of Ice called Ice 9 in Cat's Cradle(?). I will simplify the science behind it, but (ignoring the real ice 9 in science records) this form of ice is stable as a solid at room temperature. It was developed as a way to turn rough terrain for a military such as swamps, marsh, and the rest into a more solid surface to navigate. Due to science all molecules seek to rest at the lowest energy level possible. Therefore when a molecule encounters another molecule that is the same, but at a lower energy state the higher energy molecule will refold to enter that lower energy state (PRIONS!!!). You can probably guess by this point that room temperature liquid water encountering a stable solid version of room temperature water could be bad. Therefore, in this scenario liquid water upon contact with a solid crystal of ice 9 'refolds' into a solid.
Implications: Most liquid water is in a matter of days turned to a solid undrinkable mass. Animals and plants have the water in their systems harden, expand, and spread. A few vital systems such as weather, oceanic currents, and the biosphere begin to fail.The world quickly and inefficiently moves to secure water from any possible contact with ice 9. Inevitably their systems fail under the test of time. Thankfully actual Ice-IX is less 'evil'. The scenario, however, is still possible. There are a few astronomical theories that various vital pieces to the fabric of the universe may have a lower energy state than their current value, so if one were to ever descend to the lower energy state, it could in theory cause a cascade that would obliterate the universe at the speed of light.
Sweet Dreams :)
The movie adaptation of Children of Men.
I think 1984 would be a pretty bad world to live in
The Giver
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Thanks! For the existential crisis! I didn't need this!
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I remember when I first read about prions and classic Jakob-Cruezfeldt disease, a human prion disease, back in the 90's. I was sitting in Amsterdam's Centraal Station cafe, the one only lost tourists and Dutch people over the age of 70 go to, wolfing down bowl after bowl of green split pea soup with beef sausage chunks cooked right in it. Prions cause a neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic clinical and diagnostic features. The disease is rapidly progressive and always fatal. Infection leads to death usually within 1 year of onset of illness. The UK and The Netherlands had dozens of current cases being diagnosed. I sweated bullets for a year wondering if I was going to go ape and do something crazy and die foaming at the mouth pulling my own eyes out by the stalks. Needless to say I survived.
Panem from The Hunger Games would be a bad place to live if you didn't live in the Capitol or District 1 and 2.
I mean, the Giver's universe really wasn't the worst compared to some others out there.
Take Fantastica from Neverending Story, for example. It's a beautiful, ever changing place...but literally all it takes is people in the outside world deciding not to read nor anyone giving the Empress a new name, and that paradise turns into literal hell for mere moments as it slowly fades into nothing (unless you go by the movie where everything ripped apart as well as if being gradually sucked away by a black hole). Hell, people caught by the Nothing would get affected with the part that touched it disappearing as if it never existed. Painlessly, but good lord that'd still be terrifying.
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Question Of The Day!!
What’s the smartest thing you’ve seen an animal do?
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I saw a video of a small dog driving one of those plastic mini-jeeps for kids.
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Show "love" to another creature.
Unfortunately, Eurovision 2020 was cancelled. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean we have to wait a year for some lovely songs. Enter Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Helmed by the comedian Will Ferrell and the always brilliant Rachel McAdams, this film not only gave a touch of silliness, but several excellent (mostly fictional) songs to assuage the agony of going an entire year without ruthlessly tearing down other nations (“Arcade” should never have won) have been granted to us. The only question now is this: which song reigns supreme?
Anything from antscanada,those ants will reach the space age one day
nerds
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yeah basically xD
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My dog started winking at me after I had been winking at him for a couple years. He had never done it before, then one time I winked at him, and he winked right back. From then on, literally every time he saw me wink at him, he winked back. I still don’t know when or how he learned to wink.
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Humans can be kind? And go to the moon? Impossible
My mother had a Maine Coon, who unfortunately passed away several years ago, who figured out how to get his paw in between the bottom of the front screen door and the doorjamb, pull the door open by several inches, then let go and let the door slam shut. He could've opened it up all the way and come inside, but his preference was to slam that door over and over until someone came to the door and opened it for His Majesty. Since she lived in a partially-winterized summer cottage in coastal Maine, you could feel the vibration from the door slamming shut wherever you were in the house.
This cat was also an idiot. He never got beyond his teenage years: chased blades of grass in the wind, chased butterflies, drank from a tire in the yard, also drank from the toilet at odd hours of the night, wrapped himself around the toilet in the summertime (he figured out it was the coolest thing in the house), and methodically tried to murder/eat the local small bird and small animal population.
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Question Of The Day!!
If you could choose a small, pointless thing to be famous for, what would it be?
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Finding interesting shaped rocks
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Either being able to call any coin flip accurately or being a movie extra with no lines and a frame or two of screen time.
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