A, yes, quick sand, the bane of my childhood.

Reading all these adventure books and comics made me really fear quicksand as a child... I was living in East Berlins suburbs. The most comparable thing to quicksand would have been a mud puddle!

When I was a kid there was a Norwegian children movie called "The hunt for the kidney stone" where a kid travels into the body of his sick grandpa to find out what's wrong with him (kidney stone). After the movie I asked my mom what kidney stones are, and where they come from. "You can get them if you eat too much salt, for example" she says, and after that I was TERRIFIED every time my parents would put salt on anything.

Sometimes I look at the wide open sky and think "What if gravity suddenly reverses and I fall up into the sky and then space? That would be really dangerous."

Roaming black holes

Don't forget quicksand... I spent all my childhood afraid of falling into it. Somehow it was an unwarranted concern.

I remember freaking out when the last season of Friends aired - what, there are people vacationing in Bermuda? Are they insane? I was in my late teens

My uncle told me he sailed through the Bermuda Triangle all the time. I thought he was full of crap.

I was always worried about perfectly round holes in the ground and falling into them. Looney Tunes really over-represented how common they were.

Chubbyemu made me fear gas station sushi.

Watched a childrens show that showed a snakebite. Was unable to enter my bed for years without searching it for snakes throughoutly.

It's even funnier when you remember that like 99% of all matter is empty space, and electrostatic force is what keeps everything from sliding past everything else.

Every time i was somewhere where i could see a big fall, i would get scared, thinking i would intentionally go there and fall to my death without noticing

Neutrinos: tf is an atom I’ve never seen one

Fun fact: The Bermuda Triangle actually lives in your closet and plans to get you in your sleep.

Just as a reminder that even if you turned an entire atom into pure kenitic energy, you wouldn't even see a flash.

Math stuff:

So E = M c^2

I'll choose a carbon atom because it's a round number (don't think about that statement too hard)

So carbon has an atomic mass of 12 atomic mass units. In grams (divide by Avagadro's number) is 1.992 E-23 grams.

Shove that into E=mc^2 and you get 1.790 nanojoules, which is 4.974 E-16 kilowatt-hours. Or at 12¢ per KWH is 5*E-15 cents of power.

So to power a 500 watt gaming rig, you'd need to burn about 20 nanograms of carbon at 100% efficiency, per hour.

Just stick to elements lighter than iron and you'll be fine.

Reminded me of the Bakers emperor where one of his alchemists is trying to split atom with hammer.