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What's one thing you can't believe actually exists?

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Dockings, Apr 4, 2013.

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  1. bigal3

    bigal3 Active Member Founding Member

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    It may not be as far fetched as you think. I saw a science program that featured a man whose whole body was scaled much like the previously mentioned lizard or snake if you will. If memory serves me there was another article in a well known publication regarding that person. :happy:
     
  2. Sabrehawk

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    On some level, everything. All of existence. It could have just as easily turned out any other way, or not at all, and yet here it is in all its glory.

    I look right in front of me at the things on my desk, and think, "We made that. People made that." Amoebas can't make it. Gorillas can't make it. Cobras can't make it. Parrots can't make it. The fact that we've advanced this far, even to make such trivial objects as plastic cups and nail clippers, is mind-boggling.

    Then I look out into space. We, this tiny little creature on this tiny piece of rock, carved out this existence for ourselves in the midst of that utter vastness. As it is, we're the remnants of stars. The elements that make us once populated other parts of the cosmos, and they happened to coalesce here and combine just so. Now we, made up of that stardust, can look up and gaze at the places from which our fundamental ingredients originated. We can look out at our elemental brethren and our ancestral homes. We are the universe, come to life and looking back on itself.

    That, in many ways, is flat out unbelievable — and it happened. Here we are.
     
  3. R. Paradon

    R. Paradon Active Member Founding Member

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    Very nice concept Sabrehawk!

    When you look a piece of paper on your desk you are actually looking at lot more as well.

    The earth from where the seed took root, the rain and soil that provided its nourishment, the farmer who made sure it was disease free and growing properly, the lumberjack who cut the tree, the factory that took the sawdust and processed it to paper, and the rest of the people involved in that "simple" piece of paper on your desk!
     
  4. Trellum

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    String gardens. Yup, they do exist and some people love them. They look kinda bizarre:

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    I'm into crafts and gardening, but I don't think I will ever give this a try.
     
  5. Rob93FL

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    There is a big difference between people suffering from Ichthyosis and shapeshifting reptilian-humanoids who supposedly rule the world.
     
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    The one thing that I can't actually believe exists is a cloaking device. Just recently someone was informing me that there is such a thing ,which exists in the army. It allows things to appear as if it were invisible. I just can't wrap my head around it, still I am yet to do my own check on it.
     
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    Yeah, unless our army stole Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, I'm not too convinced.
     
  8. dianethare

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    The Bermuda Triangle...does it exist? The Loch Ness Monster and Atlantis!:rolleyes:
     
  9. lamborgini8

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    If I recall I think I remember this turning out to be a hoax. I cant remember who or what it was for though.
     
  10. dianethare

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    ....that's what i call utter disgusting....ewwww! what the heck is that thing?:eek::confused::nailbiting::wideyed:...
     
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    Nope, it's not a hoax. All it is is a colony of tubifex worms mixed in with a lot of sludge.
     
  12. dianethare

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    Are they dangerous...:eek: :yuck:???
     
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    They're scavengers, so they're good for the environment; they help clean up the sewers. They can also be used as fish food because of the protein in them. Most people raise the worms themselves for their fish instead of picking them out of sewers and cleaning them.
     
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    Technically speaking, we never touch anything. What we feel is the electrons in us and what we touch repelling one another. And that just blows my mind.
     
  15. dianethare

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    Thanks for the vital info...fish is off my diet list...oh yeah even the oil :meh:.
     
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    Rob93FL Member Top Contributor 3rd

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    Why is fish oil off of the diet list? If you don't like fish, then there's no problem with you not eating it as long as you get your nutrients elsewhere. Fish oil, however, doesn't have a taste since it's in a capsule. They're good for you and you'll have no idea that it contains fish.
     
  17. dianethare

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    Exactly....well said...contains fish...the fish that's fed tubifex worms....are you getting what am trying to say :eek:...that's why :confused:!..What you don't know won't kill you right?..in this case, you spilt the beans and now i know...:yuck:!
     
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    Oh no, it's not like every fish hatchery uses tubifex worms. Fish eat a variety of other, more nutritious things. Tubifex worms just happen to be a viable form of fish food that can be used if other foods aren't available.
     
  19. levi leans

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    i cant believe there exists people who actually still believe the earth is flat. actually my own friend who i thought would be intelligent actually though the earth was flat and we went back and forth about it lol. i also cant believe we exist! haha. i just think of life sometime and find it so fascinating and wonder if there's more life out there. i think there is. maybe they think of us as well and wonder if we exist lol.
     
  20. dianethare

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    Don't get me wrong, i understand what you saying, its just that the picture and information about those worms is forever etched into my memory so any time the topic of fish ever comes up, i 'll be having those :yuck: :eek: moments! i can't help it...damage is done, the good thing is fish has alternatives ;).
     
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