@Mattr I was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Awesome!
I went to a party at a friend’s house (I had never been to his house before, we were just friends from college) and a bunch of people are in his hot tub. It was dark out. I decided to get in, and assumed the deck his hot tub was sitting on continued on behind the hot tub. It did not, and there was a roughly 6 foot drop on the back side. I walk over to get in, step off the deck accidentally, do a complete front flip and land on my feet. They all yell “Are you ok?” and then I get back on the deck completely unscathed.
No one that wasn’t there ever believes this story.
That’s a crazy story. I whish you good fortune in the future too.
When I was a senior in high school, we were having a “fun” senior assembly where we were watching people play a family feud style of game. The category was popular dog names or something, and my friend next to me and someone else in the row before us both yell out “onomatopoeia!” at the exact same time.
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What’s your chess elo?
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Do you know what your rating would approximately be in chess? I’m wondering just how good you are with no memory of learning it.
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Ah alright, fair enough. I was wondering how you knew you were exceptionally good and that’d be a pretty surefire way to know how good you are lol
A girl sexually assaulted me in middle school.
It is absolutely insane that people believe any woman about any sexual assault, but a man being sexually assaulted? That’s not a real thing!
To be clear, I’m not saying “believe women” is incorrect. I’m saying that disregarding any male focused SA while believing all female focused is a very troubling double standard in my eyes.
Back when I was in high school, a student a couple years before me bit off a bite of an apple and pretended that it was a grenade and threw it, but the apple hit an alarm bell, and then the fire alarm went off and the school had to be evacuated which resulting in them sending two firetrucks to clear the school. I don’t know if it was a coordinated move where he would throw it and his friend manually set off the alarm, or if the apple hitting the alarm bell damaged the alarm somehow which triggered the fire alarm to go off.
I know, it doesn’t sound believable to me either, but I’ll never forget it because I saw it lol
Also I was sitting eating lunch with one of my friends in high school, and someone randomly walked by and threw a piece of bread at me. None of us even knew that person or ever saw them before, but we referred to that event as “drive by bread”. There was also “drive by rat” but that’s a story for another day lmao
It’s already another day now. Tell us the “drive by rat” story.
Now that it’s my birthday, I’ll tell the “drive by rat” story. I was eating lunch with my friends (there’s a pattern here) and we saw a giant rat run by while we were eating. A couple days later, we noticed a pest control vehicle while we were in class. There were always rumours that the school had rats, but that basically confirmed it for us.
There was also a student and his girlfriend who pushed another student through a glass window and I got to see them being taken away in handcuffs also during lunch.
I also made a time capsule with one of my friends during chemistry class because there was a broken desk where the wooden top of the desk would come off, so we wrote on some papers (I think we wrote something like “yeah yeah yeah GSL” etc because we were very into StarCraft at the time lol) and pushed them into the desk legs. I wonder if they are still there or if anyone found them lol
Apparently I have a lot of stories from when I was in high school. lol
Thanks for keeping your promise! Wow, you saw a lot of stuff just by having lunch with your friends!
Yeah it was quite the experience lmao I used to always have lunch at home in elementary school but staying for lunch at high school definitely made some memorable experiences over 4 years lol
I definitely believe you as one time, playing cricket in a common room at school, my friend hit a tennis ball and it smashed a break glass fire call point (mcp?) setting there fire alarm off.
A few of my friends refuse to believe that a mutual friend who was my neighbour at uni was and is black and had family members visit from Jamaica. He was very white passing though.
“Alien sighting”
Was watching a plane go along the night sky, blinking away as they do. Then it stopped moving but kept blinking for about 5 seconds. Then shot straight down to the horizon leaving a little trail of light behind like a comet or something.
Some star wars hyperspace bollocks or something
I always wondered why Alien UFOs wouldn’t hide in plain sight as an airplane except for the fact that the blinking lights would surely alert air control that an unregistered plane was in air space right? But I dunno its an interesting idea and your story kind of aligns with the concept
Easy, just slap an ADS transmitter on your UFO and mask as a cessna
that was cock aliens they piss me off
Aircraft turned away from you while climbing away, making it appear stationary. Kick on some afterburners, and it’ll take off like a bat out of hell in front of a 200’ flame.
I dont understand why people think there are no alien ships in the skies. It must be some kind of psychological self preservation. All observations points towards alien life. They are in cave paintings even.
So we are not alone. Now what? Cant do anything with that knowledge anyway. :)
I don’t think people realize just how big the universe is. Or even just our solar system. The nearest star is multiple light-years away, and as far as physicists can tell, the speed of light is basically the speed limit of all things in the universe, so at minimum they traveled for multiple years at near-light speed (already basically impossible due to the quantity of energy required) just to…??? in our atmosphere?
It took over 50 years for the Voyager probes to travel a single light minute, and Proxima Centauri, the closest star to us is 4.24 light-years away. Which means the Voyager probes will take thousands of years to travel a fraction of the distance of Proxima Centauri.
Another problem is time dialation. Suppose you happened upon a craft that could take you to Proxima Centauri at close enough to the speed of light that you would arrive there within a human lifespan, the time that would have passed on earth is actually thousands of years. So any aliens visiting the earth now would have set off during the ice age at the very latest. They absolutely wouldn’t be popping by for a quick visit then running off every few years, they would either be visiting then leaving again and not returning for many more millenia or they would be arriving and setting up permanent shop in our solar system, which we’d likely have observed by now given how many probes we send around the solar system and how many telescopes we have pointed at the sky all the time
Are we alone in the universe? Almost definitely not, considering the sheer number of planets and stars the random chance that created sentient life on earth is extremely likely to have repeated a few times, but sentient life evolving close enough to us physically and in time that both can become aware of each other and maybe even communicate? Basically impossible, at least certainly not within a timeframe that any of use can truly comprehend
I know how big it is. But aliens are not coming here in their first probes they sent out into space. If they are here, they have had space travel for at least thousands of years, probably much more. So they have found ways to travel that we are not aware of, perhaps light speed travel or possibly wormholes, teleportation, who knows.
I guess the reason people think so different about this is that they assume that aliens would travel with only human knowledge of space travel. But we have been doing it for only 75 years now, and never sent humans anywhere except the moon.
To me, looking at space travel as if others would do it the same way we do, with our limited experience… It doesnt make sense. We are beginners at space travel.
So they have found ways to travel that we are not aware of, perhaps light speed travel or possibly wormholes, teleportation, who knows.
I think you’re missing that you’re hand waving away literally the laws of physics. Light speed travel runs into a relativity problem (and relativity is so well understood at this point your phone’s GPS receiver will make adjustments to the GPS data it receives because the exactness of the data actually exposes some relativistic differences between the satellites and the ground) which I’ve already described (a few years of near-light speed travel is thousands of years on the ground)
The light speed barrier appears to be entirely unbreakable. Conservation of energy is proven in transportation and the energy sector constantly and is why near-light speed travel is highly unlikely is the amount of energy required to propel a vehicle to such speeds is absolutely immensely impossibly big, and therefore breaking the light speed barrier if it is even possible would require orders of magnitude more energy.
Oh and Wormholes and teleportation are literally pure fiction
I guess the reason people think so different about this is that they assume that aliens would travel with only human knowledge of space travel
No no. It’s because we assume aliens would be bound to the same physics as the rest of the universe is
If they are here, they have had space travel for at least thousands of years, probably much more
That is how long they would need to travel to get here from any other solar system. If aliens are coming it ain’t going to be a couple of little green men in a saucer the size of a truck, it’s going to be a generation ship, a cryoship or entirely robotic, and the current alien mythos really doesn’t fit that.
Circling back to the core claim that aliens have been visiting the earth and may or may not be abducting random farmers and probing them, the entire alien mythos is easily explained with previously-classified aircraft that were being built by the US during the cold war, drugs and mental illness, and largely doesn’t exist before the 1950s. If you read some of the very first reports of UFOs before the mythos really received much media attention they entirely don’t match the now classic imagery of little green men with giant bug-like eyes flying a circular ship, because these people didn’t already have that imagery to apply to whatever weather balloon or classified aircraft they happened to get a glance of.
Yeah. I think science fiction is exactly what we are talking about here. Its science that we think is fiction, because of our current knowledge.
Your opinion is based in current science and of course its not possible to do manned space travel across the galaxy using what we know at this point.
Im just saying that i believe its likely and possible that other species have far more advanced knowledge about space and physics then we do. I dont see why humans would have a full grasp of it at this point. Whatever laws we think are unbreakable will most likely not be.
👆 Exactly ! We think as ourselves as an intelligent species when in reality we are nothing more then ants with some tech here and there.
Imagine having a pocket CERN version like we use to have a mobile today (which is kinda a mini computer). 60 years ago we would have never imagined this could be possible.
We will probably never evolve as a “super intelligence”, we are to busy killing each other !
Yeah unless our leaders somehow evolve into decent human beings, we are going straight to the sci fi world of robot surveillance and dystopia.
Even newer tech leaders like sam altman seems completely nuts as human beings.
But its ok. Not every species is smart enough to survive and work together with its environment instead of against it. Its a shame though, because I think humans could have done amazing things. We could have built a very nice world here, with happiness as the priority. We could have explored the universe together and seen the beauty of it all.
What we did wrong was not allowing our heart to be part of decisions. We became mind only, making calculated decisions to benefit ourselves and not others.
Why are there no ghost stories in this thread… Im disappointed.
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Sure, but ghost stories are fun and it’s also fun trying to figure out what it could’ve really been.
You sure about that?
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Alright, I got one.
One night, I was sitting alone in the house playing video games in the middle of the night. There was nobody else in the house besides my cats, who usually spend the night lounging around. Well, out of nowhere, I hear the microwave go off, as if someone pressed three buttons and hit “start” in the same manner and rhythm that I usually do. I was in complete disbelief and walked out of my room. I could see the microwave working from where I was standing, so I walked up to it, goosebumps and all, and manually turned it off. This happened one other time on its own, and I have no idea what could’ve caused it.
I still shudder at the thought that it could’ve started a house fire without us knowing why or how.
I have one too that i cant explain.
I was at a friends house and we were watching tv, sitting completely still and being silent. Suddenly the lid of a metal cup (that was standing on a shelf above the TV) flied straight up, hit the ceiling with a loud bang, then came down again, and hit the floor in front of us. Naturally we were very spooked.
We were looking for some explanation but couldnt find any reason this would happen. It was alot of force coming from nowhere.
Made me open minded when it comes to these things.
Thermal expansion / contraction?
Cup was empty, nothing inside except room temperature air.
Best I can do is when I got off the train at 8:30 to arrive at work the 9:00. The walk from the train station to the office was 15 minutes, I arrived at 10:15. How the hell did that happen?
A clock was wrong. Or you’re bad at reading clocks? Or you’re asleep and this is all a dream?
Obviously, the only rational explanation is that you were abducted by aliens. They beamed you up, experimented on you, wiped your memory, and sent you back down. It’s the only rational explanation. Or maybe it was the devil. The literal devil. The guy with the horns and pitch fork. Again, the only rational explanation!
daylight savings?
DST or you fell asleep and went a whole extra lap
A few years ago I went out drinking with friends. We had a great time, and everything seemed completely normal. We eventually parted ways and I headed home, and somehow there was a creepy atmosphere in the air. I still don’t know what exactly it was. I looked through my apartment and didn’t see anything out of the ordinary, so I basically fell on my bed and passed out.
When I woke up the next morning, a shiver went down my spine as I noticed that during the night, a ghost took a shit in my pants.
When I was around 6-7 years old (I am now 68) I was given money to get something at the store by my parents. All I remember is I no longer had the money when I got home . I did not spend the money. Have no idea what happened. Was razzed about it for years. They said I spent it on candy.
Had a similar thing happen to me, but I believe my dumb ass just lost it
6-7 years old
🤭
Back in my day we had to make do with only shfifty five!
Dammit.
Must’ve been the wind
Was buying Pokemon cards 14 or so years ago. Was trying to buy a specific booster pack, but for some resaon I felt “dissociated” while my hand grabbed a totally different pack. I was so confused as to why I didn’t pick the booster I initially wanted… When I opened the pack outside the shop, I was surprised to see there was actually a super rare Lvl X holo card inside…
I almost shot myself in the knee with an arrow. I was at an archery taster session and the arrow bounced off a wooden block on the edge of the target. Arrow came flying back at me and cut a few threads on the knee pad of my trousers as it brushed my leg.
Were you almost an adventurer too?
This never gets old.
Shooting yourself in the foot + I took an arrow to the knee
This is gonna be absolutely crazy and coincidental since seemingly everyone here has a moose story, but my freshman year of highschool we had a bit of a lockdown because a moose wandered on campus. Our school was nowhere near a forest or any other area where it could have easily wandered over. Our school was pretty far in our pretty big city.
This is not me playing a bit because of all the moose comments. I thought it was a deer, until I asked my mom because I couldn’t remember whether I was right or not. I only remembered it wasn’t super serious, but we were told we couldn’t go outside because of it and I think we were also told to stay away from the windows as well, as a safety precaution.
I was in the middle of English in the morning when this was happening.
Edit:
I don’t remember how it got onto our campus and might look it up later. Might even leave another edit with how it got on campus.
It was a deer
(Because a moose is a deer)
…are moose dangerous? I am not well-versed on meese.
Moose are about as dangerous as a cow
The bigger ones weigh almost a full tonne. Bulls can take offense to your existence if you get too close or it is mating season, and Cows will protect their calves, but in general moose are docile and normally avoid humans. The fact one was spotted in the middle of a city means it is an outlier for any number of reasons (rabies?) and as such all bets are off.
A møøse once bit my sister.
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by …tøøthbrush
FFS. its spelled “tuuthbrøsh”
Moose are one of those rare animals that might kill you just because they feel like it and are jerks.
IDK how dangerous they are, but given the fact there was a large wild animal on campus, I’d definitely treat it like a dangerous threat considering it probably almost never happens.
Also, last thing I’d want as the principal is to have to explain to parents why their idiotic children went to take pictures with a moose and got hurt because of it.
Ah the liability piece definitely makes sense.
Yes, if only cos of how big they are
Most of the deaths they cause are being hit by cars, but sometimes the males can get aggressive
Just stay away from them and you’re fine, but as rule don’t fuck with something as big as a moose
Extremely
My school went on a soft lockdown and pulled people in gym class from the fields because a bear came on campus and was roaming in the parking lot.
I had a popular youtuber in my hotel room at one point at a convention recrntly but they were in a fursuit and I only recognized them by their voice. I promised them I would not say who they are but even if I said who it was I doubt people would believe it because they are not a furry youtuber.
edit: Someone guessed it but I’m not gonna confirm who.
It was Charborg. I just know it.
Adam Savage. I saw his lion mask video.
No. But damn that would have been sick.
CGP Grey
TheOdd1sOut isnt a furry youtuber, but he is open about being a furry now
Hey all furry Scott here
Scott the Fuzz
“I’m standing in this strangers hotel room to answer one simple question; What is a furry convention?”
They’re doing Scott the Woz, you’re doing Tom Scott.
Just as valid
Someone else do Scott Manley.
Same as Tom Scott, except it starts with “Halluh” and ends with “Fly safe”
I meet a certain famous musician in Wurm Online. The moment I realized who they are, to be honest, I started to distance. My text patterns instantly stiffened.
Pyrocynical?
The guy from Tech Moan?
That moment was very special!
Jerma?
I’ve worked on communication towers for about 25 years now. Back when I first started (like 2 years), a hawk swooped down a hit me in the back of the head.
The one guy on the ground didn’t see. Old hardhat, so hard to till what marks it left. I’m betting it did leave some kind of mark, it kinda rang my bell.
Had a green baklava on over the hardhat, so I don’t think it confused me with something else. No nest on the tower, but it did have a nest somewhat near by.
Edit: “hard to tell” “balaclava”
Maybe the hawk had a sweet tooth?
I’d dive bomb him for those sweet flaky layers.
