For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

  • @[email protected]
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    481 year ago

    The sun could’ve gone nova 8 minutes ago and we wouldn’t know for another 20 seconds or so.

    • @Moghul
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      121 year ago

      I might be misremembering but I believe our sun can’t go nova, it’s too small. It will, however, expand and swallow the Earth towards the end of its life.

        • @Moghul
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          21 year ago

          Don’t worry, your calendar doesn’t go that far

    • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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      111 year ago

      The Sun is not a big enough star to ever go nova. Neither are any of our close neighbors. We’re pretty safe from that kind of disaster.

      Earth is just gonna slowly cook to a cinder and probably get swallowed when the Sun starts expanding in a couple billion years.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Fine! Geez.

        Space aliens could teleport in next to sun, fling a bunch of Star Trek red matter at it like Spock did to the Romulan star, destabilize the star, and cause a, I think it was a black hole? where the star was. And we wouldn’t know for 8-ish minutes.