here is your food for thought for the day
the earth, and by extension everything on it, is in constant rotation
though you may feel like you're standing still, you're actually moving constantly in one direction at 800 kilometers an hour
the physics behind car crashes is that though the vehicle suddenly stops, the things inside the vehicle continue to move at the same speed the car was going in the same direction
now imagine that, at any moment, the earth could stop rotating for a single second
edited 5th Jul '14 11:39:41 AM by MacDuffy
another fun fact
you neither explode or instantly freeze to death if you're exposed to vacuum of space
because the human body is actually really fucking tough and is really really good at keeping blood and body heat inside itself
you'll either die of a massive case of the bends, getting fried by all the sun's now non-protected ultraviolet rays if you're in its way, or, of course, suffocation due to lack of oxygen
actually you know what
fuck everything by HP Lovecraft, the Sun is a scary enough cosmic horror as it is
the only reason we're not all dead from it is from a fucking force field the earth projects around itself
and even then, with that force field, when it's millions upon millions of miles away, the sun can still fucking kill you
edited 5th Jul '14 11:55:07 AM by MacDuffy
Nah, these kinds of discussions are actually really fun.
If the sun counts as eldritch, then we actually have some eldritch shit in Chernobyl
. You can't even get a camera close enough to that corium formation to film it without it being destroyed. They had to ease it up, then use mirrors.

Ooh, looks almost like a vidyagaem.
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