• don@lemm.eeEnglish
    333·
    24 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.

    • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      24 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.

      • Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        24 days 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.

    • kerrigan778@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      24 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.

    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      24 days ago

      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.

        • credo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          23 days ago

          Because that love was lost. It’s not those who perish that suffer longest, but those who endure after.

          You just wished that something, in addition to this bygone creature, also experienced loss— and, very likely, had no idea what event precipitated the disappearance of their beloved. That something would have been left wondering, to the end of its days, if its would ever return.

          • WrenFeathers@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            23 days ago

            Sorry, but experiencing loss is a necessary part of loving and being loved. It may be that I’m getting older, or it may be that I’ve lost a LOT of loved ones, but I look at it this way:

            Picture everyone you know- as a light in your life. Some of them will be brighter, and some, dimmer. Some will start dim and then brighten with time, some remain constant, and some, sadly will fade away with time.

            And when the lights of these loved ones slowly begin to flicker and then fade out one by one as you age- rather than scream out at the darkness, instead, remember how lucky you were then, and are now- to have had their light in your life at all.

            Love can’t exist without loss. Never deny yourself one just to spite the existence of the other. Doing so flies in the face of one of life’s most precious gifts…

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    24 days ago

    For your crimes against rodentkind, Rat Court sentences you to a handstand in the Chamber of Death.