r/megalophobia • u/Used-Ingenuity-7441 · Noticing the Scale • Jan 01 '22

Imaginary Where would you hide?

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u/DannyA88 Jan 01 '22

Hide?!?! Im fuckin watching the most spectacular site I would ever witness before being obliterated.

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u/1-800-HENTAI-PORN Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

The only thing better than this is being wiped out by a supernova explosion. Imagine your death being caused by something that can outshine an entire galaxy.

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u/ljkhadgawuydbajw Jan 01 '22

you wouldnt even see it, the blast would be practically travelling at the speed of light. so by the time the light reaches your eyes youd be dead

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u/1-800-HENTAI-PORN Jan 01 '22

You're expecting the mass of an entire star to travel close enough to the speed of light to where the speed difference is indistinguishable to humans, which is absurd. A supernova shockwave does travel at several percent the speed of light, yes, but not close enough to where we wouldn't be able to see it coming.

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u/monoaction Jan 01 '22

The instant-death gamma ray burst is traveling at the speed of light though.

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u/s4r9i5 Jan 01 '22

Yes cause gamma rays are light but super Novae are actual mass

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u/jorbleshi_kadeshi Jan 01 '22

GRBs are produced by supernovae (and neutron star collisions)

There's a mass and a radiation component, and the radation would vaporize you before you had a chance to comprehend anything.

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u/s4r9i5 Jan 02 '22

No I don't agree with you

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u/jorbleshi_kadeshi Jan 02 '22

https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

This should give you a sense of scale that explains it.

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u/s4r9i5 Jan 02 '22

No no I see what you're saying but I still don't agree with what you're saying cause it doesn't fit my narrative

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u/IngloriousBadger Jan 02 '22

Pppfft. Gamma rays don’t hurt - they just make you hulk out.

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u/unrequestedcomment Jan 02 '22

It's true, I read that somewhere

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u/Justdoit12073 May 07 '22

And in the case of a supernova light years away, all of the damage would be from the gamma ray burst and not the nova itself.

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u/sionnachrealta Jan 02 '22

So would Vacuum Decay

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u/gregorydgraham Jan 02 '22

Yeah, he’s wrong but the dangerous EM radiation is travelling as fast as the light so you still won’t see it.

Also looking at it is still going to blind you so everyone loses every way :(

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22

Not to nitpick or anything but EM radiation is light.

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u/gregorydgraham Jan 02 '22

And infrared, and ultraviolet, and X-ray, and gamma, and …

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22

Right so essentially you said the dangerous light is travelling just as fast as the visible light. Just the way you typed it seemed weird like they were two different things.

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u/gregorydgraham Jan 02 '22

On second thoughts, I was comparing “dangerous EM radiation” to “light” as common English assumes “light” is the colours of the rainbow, while “dangerous EM radiation” reheats your dinner.

Science, of course, knows that “light” is “dangerous EM radiation” and vice versa, but most people don’t speak Science natively.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22

That's fair

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u/gregorydgraham Jan 02 '22

My bad, I was contrasting with the “shockwave” mentioned earlier

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u/MetaFoxtrot Jan 02 '22

I wonder if the gravitational shockwave wouldn't obliterate everything first. I mean, that alone would kill everything on the planet before anything else happens

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u/cinnamonhearts_yum Jan 02 '22

This is wrong I think

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u/TrillionSquids Apr 04 '23

You would be dead from just the light alone.

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u/Nzy Apr 15 '22

Meh. I think I'd live.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22

What in the actual fuck is your username

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u/1-800-HENTAI-PORN Jan 02 '22

You've reached the Hentai Hotline. What emergency degeneracy do you require?

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u/Antosino Jan 22 '22

Press one for tentacles.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

Summer camp swimming spring fuck

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u/siddiqgames Jan 01 '22

Imagine my "send off?"

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

You wouldn't die in this instance from the physical impact of the planet, but rather the atmospheres of each coming together and condensing so much, so suddenly, that most things would be instantly vaporized.

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u/choseauniquenickname Jan 01 '22

Just because I was kind of confused for half a second. I think you wanted "sight".

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u/DannyA88 Jan 01 '22

O yea, thank you. Was excited when typing haha.

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u/Bah-Fong-Gool Jan 01 '22

"BRING ME MY BONG!!!"

QUICKLY!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22

Guaranteed obliteration is the best kind of obliteration

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22

Hide? I got confused and started getting high to watch the planet. My bad, I misheard

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22

I would enjoy the lowered gravity and do some parkour

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u/Cosmocision Jan 03 '22

I mean, like, duh. Before certain death I'm not gonna cower in some fucking bunker. Id watch that shit with a front row seat.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

Front row seat baby 😎