• don
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    372 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 days ago

      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.

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        21 hours ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        132 days ago

        And most modern cars are less than a second or two away from deadly speeds while driving if not already travelling at deadly speeds 😅

          • @[email protected]
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            131 day ago

            Dying on the toilet, then falling off, is common.

            The poop process is a full body clench and it’s “common” for your “heart to pop” when you’re pooping.

            So that’s fun.

              • @RedditRefugee69
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                115 hours ago

                Vegetables are communist.

                I only eat steak. I’m a carnivore, you see. I know biology says otherwise but that’s of the devil.

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      192 days ago

      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.

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      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.