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rdtsc on July 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The 1863 edition of the “Dictionnaire Infernal” is...

> Truly terrifying things that may exist in the universe at large may not come across as terrifying to us given that we have had no exposure day to day (GRB's, anti-matter, etc).

Well... I made the mistake of letting my kid watch a few Kurzgesagt videos on Vacuum Decay and GBR and now she is terrified of Vacuum Decay or GBR wiping us out.

bwldrbst on July 14, 2017 [–]

As a kid an episode of Ripley's Believe It Or Not left me convinced I was going to die in a nuclear war before reaching adulthood.

I should see if that episode is on youtube and show it to my kids...

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