I just recently remembered how big of a deal cryptozoology was for me as a kid. A part of me today wishes the Loch Ness Monster was real.
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I used to think that Nuclear Power Plants had something to do with some sort of an unique plant type.
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I used to think it was possible to âsplit,â as in sounding like a group of people, oneâs voice.
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I used to think it was possible to talk and think at the same time (as in comic(except manga))
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I used to think that if you made as many good deeds as sins in your life, youâd become a ghost haunting the world.
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it is though?? are you not able to? i do that like, several times a week? sure, it takes more effort than one at a time, and a bit of planning out what youâre going to say, to speak and think at the same time, but itâs still possible.
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How many people here too thought as children that SCP was real?
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Imagine being so young that SCP was a thing in your childhoodâŚ
crumbles to dust
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Well atleast I when I joined it was"legal"
Looks at that yellow smiley face
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I thought astronauts on the ISS had to hold their breath the whole time
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Not sure why but I used to think that GTA was some sort of a âlife simulatorâ like the Sims or something.
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i mean technically it can be a life simulator
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Oh, hereâs one I remember which many of you may think too: while they can absorb oxygen underwater, a lot of amphibians actually do âneedâ to breathe air. Frogs can stay underwater a long time, but especially if they are very active, it wonât suffice to just absorb oxygen through their skin.
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i thought forests provided most of the worldâs oxygen, not remotely true, the ocean produces somewhere between 50% and 85%, tho i feel this one is common
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Yeah, I believed in this for a long time too
I thought that animals with gills split the hydrogen and oxygen out of water molecules to breathe. You know, people say thereâs oxygen in water, and people say water is made out of oxygen, probably talking about the same thing. I always wondered where the hydrogen went.
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i thought that was how it worked until 3 months ago
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I have a hard time imagining sizes. I knew that the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was near the Yucatan peninsula. For some reason, I thought the Gulf of Mexico was the crater that it left behind[1]. Its not perfectly spherical[2], but I though the continents must have moved a bit since then.
I had heard in a documentry that the meteor was as big as Mount Everest, and I confused the Everest with the Himalayas. The Everest is too small to see on the map, whereas the Himalayan Plateau is as big as the dwarf planet Ceres[3][4].
I also imagined T-rex to be a kaiju that is as big as buildings[5]. But its height is basically the same as a giraffe[6]. If you stayed below it, its abdomen would be right above your head. It would be a very low ceiling. Only the herbivorous quadropedal dinosaurs reached extreme sizes[7]. The biggest dinosaur is 1.2 giraffes tall, but thats only the height at its shoulders, and depending on how vertical you assume they hold their necks, you can add a few more giraffes to that.
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Pretty sure it was larger since Everest is mostly considered the rock of the highest peak, sitting atop the mountain chain, not in itself extending to the sea level.
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They must have said âlarger thanâ. I found the same comparison in wikipedia*. âThe impactor [meteor or comet] was around 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in diameterâlarge enough that, if set at sea level, it would have reached taller than Mount Everestâ. Everest is 8.8 kilometers and the asteroid is 10 kilometers. Even when considering it from the sea to the top, the meteorite is a little bit longer. But I guess length doesnât mean much for objects that arenât big enough to become spherical.
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