23 Terrifying Things Science Has Proven Real

‘Microplastics found in newborn babies’
23 Terrifying Things Science Has Proven Real

If you’re looking to scare an audience, a spooky story would do the trick. A tale of some hook-handed spree killer scratching at car windows is enough to make people nervous in parking lots for the foreseeable future. Of course, their brain will eventually rationalize the fear by reminding them it was only a story. 

What if, on the other hand, the frightening tale was plucked straight from the real world? Cold, hard, incontrovertible fact, confirmed by our smartest humans? Redditors provided a collection of just that — knowledge that’s, unfortunately, hard to brush off, given that it’s very much real. 

Read on to ruin your sleep schedule… with science!

dark_n_lovely_qu33n Зу ago brain-eating amoebas 3.4K ...
Jfonzy Зу ago The size of our galaxy, how many other galaxies there are and how far away they are. When you can actually see something that incomprehensible... - 6K ...
geordiesteve520 Зу ago Prions, horrific and totally unpredictable. - 2.1K ...  Зу ago Fatal familial insomnia is a prions disease where you can't sleep anymore, you just stay awake until your brain deteriorates and you die. 1.2K ...
petalumaisreal Зу ago How the brain is literally rewired and chemically altered by childhood neglect and abuse. 5.5K ...
Flight_19_Navigator Зу ago The Cascadia subduction zone. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA's Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast. 1.3K ...
CatCow_1 . Зу ago Black holes 1.4K ...
 Зу ago more like a theory, the orangutan paradox, when we film a documentary on orangutans, they can't realise that we are observing them, yet they are the most intelligent species of their category, so aliens might be watching us and we are as oblivious as an orangutan - 1.8K ...
ma5terbate Зу ago that hearing is the last sense to leave, when dying. 670 ...
Spookd_Moffun Зу ago Edited Зу ago Deep time. The Earth was alive a million years ago. And a million years before that. A thousand million years before that. Even if our civilization is miraculously successful and we live for 20 thousand more years and colonize thousands of planets like in Dune it's still nothing. A blink of an eye. The Earth would barely notice. 509 ...
Swampwolf42 Зу ago Gamma ray bursts. No warning, no escape, no defense, no survivors. 139 ... Rainbow_Angel110 Зу ago Shits extremely cool, it's like a 360° no-scope from across the universe. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it though. 74 ...
OneTyler2Many Зу ago Giant squids. Suddenly the old sailor story's of krakens wrapping tenticles around a ship and pulling it into the ocean doesn't seem like fiction. 754 ...  Зу ago Didn't that come to a big part from whalers who found suspicious scars on sperm whales they caught? Which regularly dive down to the depths were giant squid live and hunt them? 183 ...
 Зу ago The scariest thing for me, is that we have scientifically mapped human psychology. We know social habits, and evolutionary survival instincts that we've carried over from our ancient past. We have extensive knowledge on how to elicit the exact response out of a human on command. And the scary thing is that corporations use this information to sell things to us. Everything about a product's design from it's shape, to it's color pallet to it's odor is specifically and intricately designed to hack our brains and trigger the exact specific response that they want from us. Once
cold_toast_n_butter Зу ago That a person can be killed by organisms so tiny that we can't even see them 334 ... + 10 more replies
upthecounty Зу ago Edited Зу ago The Carrington Event. Specifically, what it would mean for humanity if it happened today. Pretty much the only people in America to come out unscathed fare halfway decently are the Amish. - 324 ...
sorrymabad Зу ago dementia 308 ... + 24 more replies
 Зу ago The scariest thing that science hasn't proven is whether or not the past actually exists, which branches from a greater issue that science can't prove whether or not the laws of nature will always remain constant, only that they have remained constant. It's an unsettling albeit interesting rabbit hole to fall into. 606 ...
Fuzzwuzzle2 Зу ago Microplastics found in newborn babies https://screenshot-media.com/the-future/science/microplastics-in-babies/ 304 ...
Desperate-Exit692 Зу ago How scarce drinking water is and how high the chances of having WW3 over water are 231 ...
 Зу ago cracking your neck could cause you to have a stroke but its rare 101 ...
HaydenBlair22 Зу ago that serial killers brains are wired differently 77 ...
FastLiterature6075 Зу ago Biotechnology. No doubt it has a lot of benefits but if not used ethically, it can really destroy the world. 57 ...
 Зу ago Entropy. No matter what we do, no matter what happens in the universe, and no matter for how long, it will all eventually decay into nothingness. It's all one gigantic race towards a cold dark end. 36 ...
Twat_Waffle_Stomp Зу ago Some tumors have teeth, hair and even eyes. 4.9K ...

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