9mo ago

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Cosmic horror in a nutshell
- Cosmic horror works because we really are as powerless as it tells us.
I would argue that "instantly killed in a horrifying way" is oxymoronic. I don't care that I'll be torn to pieces by rabid centipedes while being boiled alive in a vat of acid, as long as it's an instantaneous death. Horrifying, maybe, to observers, but any instantaneous death makes the means irrelevant to the killed.
- Not instantaneous; just too fast for you to see the trouser snake.
- Maybe he's not the only one who is horrified by it?
- They do form social bonds so there is a chance a friend of his saw it happen.
- Of course the meaning is horrifying to the observers and to those contemplating it.
- First, I don't think this was instantaneous. Depends on how high the voltage was.
  Regardless of that, I wanted to point out that I once had a third-degree burn next to my ankle made by the escape pipe from a motorbike. It barely hurt at all, and it smelled like steaks. Thing is, the nerve terminals burn, and so you don't feel any pain. But it was ugly, following days I had to keep it clean... And the mark lasted a few years.
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No matter where you are on the planet, you’re never much more than 100 km away from the Kármán line. Death is (generally speaking) always just overhead.
- For your body to stay alive, a lot of things have to go right for the “engines” to keep running.
  On the other hand, just a few things going wrong is all it takes to take down the overly complex Rube Goldberg machine that is your body; all being inevitable due to how entropy and randomness work in our universe.
Looks fake.
The voltage difference between the two terminals would be minimal so no current flow, the back plate should be non-conductive. The other reason is there are no scorch marks or other signs of burning.
Now if the mouse had gone between the green and yellow (where the terminal separator is); then we would see a big voltage difference.
- Lmao, what make you so sure there would be minimal voltage difference???
  
  Generally same coloured wires are at the same potential.
  It is extremely bad practice to have different potentials on the same wire colours. Especially since they are in same terminal block.
  I don't know which country this picture is from, but yellow/red would be safe to assume line voltage, green would usually be earth potential.
- That’s such a mean thing to say.
That hits
Wow, I'm officially at the "Abyss staring back" part of my life now. Serves me right I guess.
Is that a Douglas Adams quote? That feels like Douglas Adams to me.
- feels more like Lovecraft than Douglas Adams, tbh
- Oh interesting, it does feel like one of his.
Some say it still smells like roasted hot dogs
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What animal was this?
- Mouse
- A mouse or rat I think
  
  MouseRat?
Related: Pandora's Box
Rat gyang
RIP in peace, Electrovole
Mmmm... Crispy
I've read this in EmpLemon's voice

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