What is a scary fact about our universe?

 This one is actually mighty creepy.

It's a hot day, you and your mate are walking on a road, having an ice cream. Suddenly everything around you turns so bright that you close your eyes because it hurts. Then BAM !!! You, me, everyone and everything else is reduced to ashes.

Wondering what could it be?

Thanos Snap? “I Am, Inevitable”

Could be. But it's not.

It's a force in space that could wipe us all out.

It’s called GRB (Gamma Ray Burst).

When a star goes Hypernova, the black hole left from it starts firing two lines of energy from its poles. To make matter worse, it spins.

If one of those poles is aimed right at us and hits the Earth, then we are toast. Literally.

Bye bye humans and all other living organisms!

A GRB can be powerful enough to vaporise the entire Earth in the blink of an eye.

And we would not get early warning signals as the GRB travels close to the speed of light.

Meaning one day we can all be walking down the street, the sky suddenly turns incredibly bright and BAM. We're all dead.

In the end, with a GRB, it all depends on the timing and the distance to the star that exploded.

At the moment there is no known star that is near that stage.

But the Earth would remain. Even if it's then a dead rock.

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Another thing that could wipe us off is an asteroid named “Colossal God of Chaos” that is going to pass by earth at a distance of 30,577 km(19000 miles). Satellites orbit the earth at 36,000 km. This one is mighty close, a slight change in trajectory could wipe us out. We would all go down in flames.

What are some scary historical photographs?

 

1. Soviet-sized snowmen, late 1960s

2. Centerline established, 1898.

3. In 1905, a kind-hearted Chinese man feeds a prisoner who is in shackles.

4. People sleeping inside a subway station to protect themselves from German air raids during the London Blitz.

5. In 1970, a Viet Cong medic performed surgery on a wounded Cambodian soldier.

6. Finnish cavalry training in the 1930s.

7. In 1974, police officers guarded a pharmacy flooded by a flood in Ontario.

8. In 1935, during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a man stands on the first cable with the Presidio and San Francisco in the background.

9. A house being moved on horseback, San Francisco, 1908.

10. Express train from Granville to Paris, October 22, 1895.

What are some of the best scary films that have been made in recent years? (2010 and onward)

 WARNING: THERE’S PROBABLY A BUNCH OF SPOILERS:

I’ll give a few scary movies from 2010 and on that I adore:

The Babadook (2014):

Some people hate this movie, others love it.

I love it :)

This is one of those modern movies that are actually really scary. There’s a lot of garbage nowadays but this film is scary in several ways. It’s got the scary pop-outs, creepy-looking villains, and ominous music but it’s pretty psychologically damaging. The concept of the movie is that a monster released from a children’s book torments a family (a mother and her young son) and tries to kill them from the inside out. The Babadook’s plan is to possess the mother, murder the dog, and then strangle the son. It’s pretty messed up. I hate mother killing children stories. That f’s my mind up.

How about the fact that the acting is frighteningly accurate too?

The acting in this film is purely amazing!

These actors deserve Oscars for their performances. The amount of screaming, fear, crying, feelings of pure terror, sleeplessness, anger, regret, and different emotions involved in this movie is impressive. They put on a damn good show!

Also, this part is creepy as hell:

The mother has been tormented over and over again by this demon and at this point she just wants to sleep a little bit.

Hell no, she’s not getting that!

At this point, she knows The Babadook’s plan but can’t do anything because it continually possesses her and makes her try and kill her son.

She sits down on the couch to watch some TV and flips to the news channel. There’s a story about a mother who recently murdered her son with a kitchen knife. The camera crew shows the exterior of HER house. They say the mother went crazy and killed her young boy and murdered the dog too, then showing her name on the screen.

If that isn’t creepy enough, the camera zooms into the window, showing her own face creepily staring out:

Seeing a report from the future that you killed your own son is horrifying, then seeing your face looking out the window. What the actual…

Next,

The Conjuring (2013)/ The Conjuring 2 (2016):

I’m not going to go into much detail other than these movies disregard all of the shittiness of modern paranormal movies and make them good again.

They’re both extremely scary and really good films with tons of twists, great characters, and interesting adaptations of ghost stories.

Check them out if you want modern scary.

Next,

You’re Next (2011):

I wouldn’t say this is very scary but it is a great modern horror movie.

It involves a family at a cottage/house for a reunion/vacation when a group of masked hitmen start picking them off and terrorizing them.

It seems like a typical modern movie but these filmmakers are geniuses as they include many twists and deny the modern horror trope of foolish, hopeless victims. The main protagonist is a very intelligent woman who actually takes the bull by the horns in this situation and fights back smart.

This is a great modern horror movie.

Lastly,

Hush (2016):

I saw this on Netflix one night and became extremely intrigued.

This film is about a deaf writer living alone in a house in the woods while a masked killer terrorizes her in her home.

I wouldn’t say this film is too scary either but the concept of being hunted by a killer and not being able to hear is pretty cool.
I will say, you won’t see a movie like this any time soon. It is creative in its concept, interesting, and very fast-moving.

The best part of the movie is that it brings up many more questions than answers and creates hope in the horror genre.

What are some scary psychological tricks?

1. When you're talking to someone, suddenly look behind them. They'll immediately turn to see what you're looking at. If you do this 3-4 times, the person you're talking to will feel uncomfortable and will shift their position so they can also see what's behind them. This works best in situations where there's something behind them. This trick is truly creepy because, in the right setting, people will sense there's someone they can't see, and they'll immediately become afraid.
2. When you're talking to someone, spontaneously glance at your watch. The person you're talking to will feel very uncomfortable, like they're wasting your time, and will try to leave you alone. They might even ask you if you're in a hurry. (Somehow, this trick doesn't work if you're looking at the time on your phone, but it does work if you're looking at a clock.)
3. When you're talking to someone, try silencing them mid-conversation and pretending you're listening to something they can't quite hear. You can also add special effects like, "Hey, did you hear that?" It's really scary! Do this a few times and they'll be really annoyed.
4. When you're talking to someone, if you lower your voice or whisper, they'll automatically lower their voice to match your tone or whisper, even if they don't know why you're whispering. This trick works well when arguing, explaining, lecturing, or advising someone when they're speaking louder than you. You lower your voice, and they'll follow suit.

(Many people believe that speaking loudly will give them more power. This is not always true. In some arguments or situations when we want to keep control in our hands, lowering our voice always helps. We automatically gain power and control over the person or people who speak loudly. Most of the time, the loud person can only speak loudly and will feel confused if he has to lower his voice. (He uses his loud voice as his power). This will make him lose and that's when you will have a reason to defeat him.)

1. When you are in a room with 1 or more people, in conversation or in silence, tap 2-3 times on your desk, your laptop, a book, or any other surface that can make a knocking sound. No matter what they are doing, even if they are 200% sure that no one is knocking, they will jump towards the sound to confirm it. The human mind is wired to think of knocking as an action that demands an immediate response from them, (like opening a door when someone knocks). This trick is great fun to scare friends and distract them, and is generally very, very annoying. It keeps people losing their focus and concentration.

What are some scary facts about our universe?

 How big is it?

Nobody really understands how vast the universe is. People throw words like “infinity” around as if they actually know what it means. They don’t. Nobody does. Because they can’t. There’s not enough substance in the human brain to contain a true understanding of how vast the universe is. And I haven’t even talked about infinity yet. That’s just the observable universe, which is the 92 billion light-year-wide hole we happen to live in, far beyond our comprehension. But I’ll try to explain it to you:

Everything, everyone, and every event you've ever experienced lies on the surface of a rock flying through space around a star. Most people know that the Sun is much, much bigger than Earth. It looks like this:

That little blue ball bearing? That's your life. That's all that matters to you. That's your dreams, ambitions, and hopes. And that's what they are; a pill flicked by a blaze of sunlight.

On July 23, 2012, a giant explosion occurred on the Sun that, had it occurred 9 days earlier, would have destroyed every electronic device on the planet and set humanity back to the 19th century.

Welcome to level one.

Now here is level two.

This is Betelgeuse (say that three times), a beautiful bright red star in the constellation Orion:

This is what astronomers believe Betelgeuse looks like, compared to the sun:

If you look closely, you might see it.

If Betelgeuse replaced the Sun in our Solar System, it would nearly swallow Jupiter. This would change the daytime sky on Saturn's moon Titan, which is also the furthest we've ever sent a lander.

One day, soon, Betelgeuse will go supernova. When it does, it will light up our sky for a few months, then disappear forever. Whatever companions, planets, or anything else, it has managed to accumulate during its short life will not only vanish, but leave no evidence that they ever existed. That's the universe.

Welcome to level two.

Now to level three.

This is Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star located, as its name suggests, in the constellation Centaurus.

Proxima Centauri is a truly unremarkable star. In fact, the only thing remarkable about it is how unremarkable it is. Even by our standards, it's small and dim: our Sun is 6.5 times as massive and 40,000 times as bright.

But, as the name suggests, it is the closest star to our Solar System, only 1.3 parsecs away.

What's a parsec, you ask? It's about 30 trillion km.

Thirty trillion kilometers. One kilometer is one million millimeters. One millimeter is about the width of a grain of sand. That means that even if you made one kilometer the width of a grain of sand, the distance from Earth to Alpha Centauri would still be about the same as the distance from Earth to Venus.

And what's in that 30 trillion km? Nothing. Nothing. There might be the occasional interstellar rock, a speck of cosmic dust, or a cosmic ray, but measured in terms of the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, it's nothing. Just nothing. That's essentially the universe. Matter is an afterthought, and we are afterthoughts of matter.

Welcome to level three.

Now to level four.

In themselves, stars are lonely islands in a black ocean. But as you zoom out, they begin to coalesce, like particles slowly forming into smoke. Eventually, they blur and become part of a larger structure.

This, the best we can make of it, is the Milky Way Galaxy. This is our home, not the one that will be noticed. This is what happens when the parsecs of emptiness between the stars grow and grow. It's 50,000 parsecs wide, and contains up to 400 billion stars, or about the number of grains of sand in a medium-sized sand dune.

See that mound in the center of the picture? Imagine being a grain of sand in that mound, contemplating the wonder of your own existence, all your great news, your fears, and your hopes for the future. Well, that grain of sand isn't you. It's every human being on this planet.

One day, a gamma-ray burst, a massive hypernova, will occur somewhere in the galaxy, and it will be so parallel to Earth that its energy will burn through our planet's ozone layer, destroying most life on the planet. Still, the Galaxy will continue as usual.

Welcome to level four.

Now to level five.

Our galaxy is not alone. It is part of a small cluster of galaxies that are gradually merging to form one giant galaxy:

Despite their closer proximity, they are still about 20 times larger than our Galaxy. And our small local group is just the tip of the iceberg to our true home:

This is the Virgo Supercluster, a cloud of galaxies centered on the Virgo Cluster, a dense cluster of galaxies four quadrillion times the mass of our Sun. The cluster is 16.5 million parsecs away, yet its gravity still pulls our local group toward it. Within the Virgo Cluster, its immense gravitational pull pushes galaxies to near-relativistic speeds, destroying their free hydrogen and leaving them bereft of new stars. Imagine, entire galaxies, slowly dying, unable to renew themselves, simply because of their location.

But that's not the end of it. It was recently discovered that the Virgo Supercluster is just a small component of an even larger structure, dubbed Laniakea:

What's a scary thing that happens at sea?

 There is an amazing fact about the sea.

If you ever see squares forming in the sea, I strongly advise you to leave the water immediately as there is a good chance that your life is in danger.

Did you know that there are actually different types of waves? At the beach, we're obviously used to seeing this type of wave hitting the coast.

Instead, this natural phenomenon is known as square waves or cross sea waves, and it is extremely dangerous.

Square waves are created when the wind from one side continues to move in the same direction and collides with the wind moving from the opposite side, causing these waves to flow at an angle, creating a square pattern in the sea.

This wave appears completely harmless on the surface, however, square waves create extremely dangerous, potentially deadly, subsurface currents. Theoretically, square waves have the potential to capsize massive ships: ships are designed and engineered to hit the waves head-on, but they cannot stay afloat and stable if the waves strike the vessel from multiple angles.

The square wave phenomenon occurs most frequently on the island of Ré, located on the west coast of France.

These waves occur rarely, but it's just to let you know, so be careful.

What are some scary psychology facts?

1. People with high social status are more respected than people with low social status.
2. People who suffer from HIV/AIDS and leprosy will be shunned and ostracized.
3. A homeless person on the street will always be judged badly by others.
4. People caught stealing will be looked down upon and killed without mercy.
5. The more you are rejected from something, the more you will pursue it.
6. No matter how good your behavior is, it will always be wrong in the eyes of people who hate you, on the other hand, no matter how bad your behavior is, it will always be good in the eyes of people who like you.
7. Every human being can change over time
8. People who laugh easily are actually people who cry often.
9. The bigger your expectations, the bigger your disappointment will be.
10. The more you trust someone, the easier it is for you to be betrayed.
11. When you expose your achievements on social media, many people will be jealous and suddenly hate you, but when you tell them about your problems, they will laugh at this.
12. The person you love the most is sometimes the person who can destroy your mental state.
13. When you fall in love you lose your mind and logic.
14. When you give people everything they want, that's when they continue to take advantage of you.
15. No one will care about your feelings except yourself.

What are some scary psychological tricks?

1. When you're talking to someone, suddenly look behind them. They'll immediately turn to see what you're looking at. If you do this 3-4 times, the person you're talking to will feel uncomfortable and will shift their position so they can also see what's behind them. This works best in situations where there's something behind them. This trick is truly creepy because, in the right setting, people will sense there's someone they can't see, and they'll immediately become afraid.
2. When you're talking to someone, spontaneously glance at your watch. The person you're talking to will feel very uncomfortable, like they're wasting your time, and will try to leave you alone. They might even ask you if you're in a hurry. (Somehow, this trick doesn't work if you're looking at the time on your phone, but it does work if you're looking at a clock.)
3. When you're talking to someone, try silencing them mid-conversation and pretending you're listening to something they can't quite hear. You can also add special effects like, "Hey, did you hear that?" It's really scary! Do this a few times and they'll be really annoyed.
4. When you're talking to someone, if you lower your voice or whisper, they'll automatically lower their voice to match your tone or whisper, even if they don't know why you're whispering. This trick works well when arguing, explaining, lecturing, or advising someone when they're speaking louder than you. You lower your voice, and they'll follow suit.

(Many people believe that speaking loudly will give them more power. This is not always true. In some arguments or situations when we want to keep control in our hands, lowering our voice always helps. We automatically gain power and control over the person or people who speak loudly. Most of the time, the loud person can only speak loudly and will feel confused if he has to lower his voice. (He uses his loud voice as his power). This will make him lose and that's when you will have a reason to defeat him.)

1. When you are in a room with 1 or more people, in conversation or in silence, tap 2-3 times on your desk, your laptop, a book, or any other surface that can make a knocking sound. No matter what they are doing, even if they are 200% sure that no one is knocking, they will jump towards the sound to confirm it. The human mind is wired to think of knocking as an action that demands an immediate response from them, (like opening a door when someone knocks). This trick is great fun to scare friends and distract them, and is generally very, very annoying. It keeps people losing their focus and concentration.