Cosmic horror in a nutshell
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.
How do you actually know instant death is painless? What if every single cell individually experiences the most horrifying pain possible?
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.
Going by that logic, just a meter deep is a crushing death. And right where you are you could smash your head against something… which is at least also something that happens all the time, no need to look at theoretical far-away things when the boring truth is far worse.
That’s just the cat
Just a few days ago, someone I know had to be hospitalized because of somehow slipping and smashing badly into their desk while doing normal, boring office work. From how it was described to me, I cannot help thinking sex was somehow involved, like receiving or giving oral sex from under the table maybe.
EDIT: Typing this, I was reminded of a guy who got smacked in the back of his head. Got X-rayed, everything looked normal. They kept him in the hospital for observation, though. X-ray again after an hour, a huge hematoma had evolved under his skin, pressing on the upper spine. They immediately drained it. Otherwise, it would have killed him very quickly.
You don’t have to get to the karman line to asphyxiate, the karman line is only relevant if you are trying to move faster to generate lift. The Death Zone starts at only 8 km altitude.
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.
That hits
Poor little thing. Hope it was loved by something.
That’s such a mean thing to say.
Care to explain how hoping something is loved is mean?
Because that love was lost. It’s not those who perish that suffer longest, but those who endure after.
You just wished that something, in addition to this bygone creature, also experienced loss— and, very likely, had no idea what event precipitated the disappearance of their beloved. That something would have been left wondering, to the end of its days, if its would ever return.
Sorry, but experiencing loss is a necessary part of loving and being loved. It may be that I’m getting older, or it may be that I’ve lost a LOT of loved ones, but I look at it this way:
Picture everyone you know- as a light in your life. Some of them will be brighter, and some, dimmer. Some will start dim and then brighten with time, some remain constant, and some, sadly will fade away with time.
And when the lights of these loved ones slowly begin to flicker and then fade out one by one as you age- rather than scream out at the darkness, instead, remember how lucky you were then, and are now- to have had their light in your life at all.
Love can’t exist without loss. Never deny yourself one just to spite the existence of the other. Doing so flies in the face of one of life’s most precious gifts…
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.
Oh interesting, it does feel like one of his.
Some say it still smells like roasted hot dogs
“Honey, did you leave the stove on?”
“I don’t think so. It’s probably the pans in the sink.”
For your crimes against rodentkind, Rat Court sentences you to a handstand in the Chamber of Death.
What animal was this?
Mouse
A mouse or rat I think
I’d say mouse, rats are way bigger and too smart to be electrocuted! 😏
MouseRat?
F
I’ve read this in EmpLemon’s voice
Mmmm… Crispy
