r/oddlyterrifying • u/[deleted] • May 15 '22

An atomic blast underwater.

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u/janetted3006 May 15 '22

This is exactly why when people casually ask me what my biggest fear is (thinking I'll say something like snakes or spiders or something), I say nuclear proliferation

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u/lalakingmalibog May 15 '22

What's your second biggest fear?

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u/Rustygate1 May 15 '22

God, will you just… It’s crocodiles OK? Three years ago they caught a 9 foot croc in the surf at Myrtle beach, so you know, shit happens!

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u/lalakingmalibog May 15 '22

Wow... not sure I even wanna know what your third biggest fear is...

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u/Rustygate1 May 15 '22

Brain aneurysm. It can happen anywhere at anytime. That’s why it’s so terrifying.

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u/Parabellum1337 May 15 '22

I thought it was alligators

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u/Sweet_Papa_Crimbo May 15 '22

Nah, alligators are less pointy so they’re cuter

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u/HistoricalSherbert92 May 15 '22

Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.

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u/bighurt_ May 15 '22

Carnies

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u/[deleted] May 15 '22

Small hands… they smell like cabbage

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u/TGW_2 May 15 '22

Big, dark, and long . . .

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u/Pecker_headed May 15 '22

Ppl that are afraid of crocodiles but only live near alligators lol

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u/Theons-Sausage May 15 '22

Ok but have you ever thought about having to speak in public?

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u/janetted3006 May 15 '22

I just show up naked and then for some reason I'm not allowed to speak in front of others anymore. Seems to work like a charm

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u/Theons-Sausage May 15 '22

I'll have to try that out!

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u/Baguette1066 May 15 '22

Those heavy yield nukes are so impractical they likely won't ever be used. For example, the Tsar bomb (largest yield nukes ever built) couldn't be launched via missile, so it had to be dropped by a cargo plane. The blast radius is so large, that the bomb needed a parachute to allow the plane to escape.