So much of our daily reality is weird, creepy, or mind-bending, but we rarely slow down enough to notice. Take our own bodies, for instance. A chunk of our DNA actually comes from ancient viruses.
Look up at the night sky, and things get even wilder. Some scientists actually hypothesize that our entire universe is sitting inside a massive black hole right now.
If you’ve never looked at human existence from these angles, prepare to have your mind blown. We’ve rounded up some of the most disturbing facts about humans, evolution, and the cosmos shared by people in an online forum.
These aren’t the kind of thoughts that usually pop into your head over morning coffee — but once you read them, you won’t be able to stop thinking about them.
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#41
Life on Earth may have started twice
Which means the radical idea that something so rare as the formation of life from organic compounds is actually twice as likely.
... which means we should be finding life on other celestial objects twice as often...
... which means any of the theories of The Great Filter is twice as scary. .
Which means the radical idea that something so rare as the formation of life from organic compounds is actually twice as likely.
... which means we should be finding life on other celestial objects twice as often...
... which means any of the theories of The Great Filter is twice as scary. .
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#42
We only know less than 1% of what’s actually happening in the solar system.
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#44
Racism is likely to be an evolved trait in humans to fear and to avoid other groups of slightly different looking humans from ancient times when every stranger is an automatic enemy.
If true, this means that every new generation will need to learn to look beyond just race when interacting with other people.
If true, this means that every new generation will need to learn to look beyond just race when interacting with other people.
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#45
Interpersonal violence played a huge role daily and only recently decreased. I have no statistics. Only the horrifying thought that our social evolution put the brakes on violence relatively quickly. But for the previous nearly 200,000 years......yikes.
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