The universe is majestic. It's also quite terrifying.
Think about it: At the end of the day, does any of this even matter? We just so happen to be the "lucky ones" to exist on a floating rock that revolves around a fiery orb situated in a vast ocean of stillness and nothingness.
Wild, huh? Just wait until we tell you how deadly asteroids can be...
Of course, space is far more scary than that. We haven't even begun to scratch the surface.
People shared their thoughts with us after Redditor zjaf asked the online community:
"What's the scariest space fact/mystery in your opinion?"
"The potential for complete and immediate annihilation by vacuum decay."
WhenTardigradesFly
Why did I decide to read about this right now? There goes my day.
"There could be..."
"There could be a planet-sterilizing gamma-ray burst heading our way right now. There's no way to stop it, and we wouldn't even know it's coming until it arrives."
gofunk1
No way to stop it and no escape.
What a lovely existential crisis we're all having.
"The universe outside of Earth..."
"The universe outside of Earth is completely silent. Sound on Earth travels through vibrations in the air. But in outer space, there is no air for sound to travel. Basically saying, nobody will hear you scream."
Iloveicecream
Time to rewatch Alien. This is getting me into the mood.
"That, in the space between the stars and planets..."
"That, in the space between the stars and planets, there is just the endless void.
It's the most "nothing" that there ever will be yet at the same time we can traverse this sea of infinity."
NoCalorieWater
Disconcerting and disorienting, isn't it?
"That far away..."
"A few people have said this but just the size of space is creepy to me. That far away.... but what almost depresses me more that unlike in Stargate I will never be able to travel to any of it. Would love to see whats out there."
[deleted]
Admittedly, I don't have a desire to see space. There is so much on this planet I have yet to see.
"There is a full stop to humanity..."
"There is a full stop to humanity. We will cease to exist, every single atom that is and has been earth will ultimately be destroyed, by our own sun.
Won't be for billions of years, but unless humans can successfully colonise other planets our entire existence will be inevitably wiped."
Ummar64
Have you seen how we treat our own planet? It might be in the best interest of the universe at large if we do stop.
"A... thing..."
"A... thing... that affects the motion of galaxies for hundreds of millions of light years."
[deleted]
It’s thought to just be a bigger bunch of galaxies!
"It won't be humans..."
"It won't be humans that colonize space but it will be our creation. We will have to give birth to a species that colonize space. Unfortunately, humans are not meant for space travel. If we wanted though we could reintroduce humanity at the destinations."
40Oztofreedomtoday
I'll pass, thanks. Have you dealt with humans?
"It's possible..."
"It's possible that the entire universe could have started collapsing from the center and we would not know about it (at least from Earth) for about 13.8 billion years."
R34LHooman
Imagine that. You're just chilling... watching RuPaul's Drag Race. And then, all of a sudden... darkness. You go to your death never knowing who won the Snatch Game.
"Voyager 1..."
"Voyager 1 will outlive Planet Earth."
skakodler
Who knows how long that thing will last. Maybe it'll never be found, and live for eons until its atoms begin to decay..
Okay... it's safe to say that I won't be sleeping tonight. But I can't help but be super fascinated (despite the terror), so if you'll excuse me, I'll be busy reading creepy space facts on Wikipedia until about 4 a.m. I never learn.
Have some space facts you'd like to horrify us with? Feel free to tell us about them in the comments below!
Science is fun!
You might have had a bad time in your early schooling days, learning how the mitochondria was the powerhouse of the cell. While that's certainly important for certain biologists to know, we want the spicy stuff. The facts and info that makes our hair stand on end and our brain cells ignite with the possibilities of the universe.
Stuff like this.
Reddit user, analyzeTimes, wanted to learn some fun stuff when they asked:
"What is a scientific fact that absolutely blows your mind?"
Let's start with some crazy numbers! Everyone likes numbers, especially when those numbers are all about making us lack any real understanding of probability and the passing of time.
Time Is Longer Than We Think
"The time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast, there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive."
daric
"Yes, Tyrannosaurus Rex is closer to the iPad in timeline than it is to the Stegosaurus, by tens of millions of years."
"We are so used to seeing dinosaurs portrayed in a single timeline (children’s books, museums) that we don’t understand the vastness of time they were around."
fadevelocity
Beetles, Beetles, Everywhere
"If you put 1 of every animal in a bag and then pick one out you have a 1/5 chance in picking a beetle"
ItsStillNagy
"And 1/2 chance of picking an insect of any kind."
"To put it another way: half of all animal species are insects, and 40% of those are beetles."
“If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.”
– evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane
havron
It's A Lot Of Zeroes. Trust Us.
"You are made of 7 Octillion atoms (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)"
Knightofthehouse
Keep Counting
"There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean"
cafeum
"It's the same with sand!"
"There are more atoms in 1 grain of sand than there are sand grains on earth."
KvotheScamander
Try To Picture It
"If the nucleus in any atom from your body was size of a tennis ball. The electrons would be found orbiting it 2 miles away. You are mostly empty space."
ozmanmusa
It's The Greatest Game Of All Time
"There are this many atoms in the universe: There are between 10^78 to 10^82atoms"
tastey_orphans
"there are even more possible variations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe. This is the Shannon Number and represents all of the possible move variations in the game of chess. It is estimated there are between 10111 and 10123 positions. This includes illegal positions. The number not including illegal positions would still be stupid huge as only moves that put your king in check are illegal"
MindlessPut7675
The brain is the most fascinating thing, and we're all just walking around with one inside of our heads. Ever wondered what it was capable of doing?
Even Your Dreams Need To Be Spiced Up
"When you dream, one portion of your brain creates the story, while another part witnesses the events and is really shocked by the plot twists."
Longjumping_Owl9929
"It gets even weirder. There's 2 kinds of dreaming, the watching kind (non-REM) and the doing kind (REM). Each night, you go through 3-4 of these non-REM and REM sleep cycles. The non-REM sleep is the deeper sleep and the REM is the lighter sleep."
"So in the watching kind, it's like you're watching a movie, you're passively observing a character your subconscious created going through a situation, for example, you watch a character you created subconsciously go through their first day of high school. After observing it and drawing some conclusions, or gaining some insight, you then go into REM sleep and now you're the one going through their first day at high school. You make the decisions, you feel the emotional responses to what's going on, and your body will have physical reactions like sweating from fear, increase heart rate from excitement, dopamine release from something good happening, etc. So it's like watching a training movie and then getting a chance to do it in a practice dream scenario."
Enjoying_A_Meal
Ever Feel Like You're Talking To Yourself?
"I recently read about the Split-Brain experiments. There is a procedure for severe epilepsy that involves cutting the connecting nerves of the two brain hemispheres, resulting in the two hemispheres being unable to communicate with each other. The experiment shows that both halves can answer questions independently of each other, have seperate opinions/preferences, form memories independantly. Basically suggesting that there are two minds in the brain. That just blows my mind(s)."
Mlinch
People Afraid Of Spiders Need Not Try
"There are actually blood vessels obstructing light from reaching certain areas in your eye, effectively creating a shadow. Your brain filters this out and essentially fills in the gaps so you don’t actually see this spiderweb-like network of black lines. However, you can visualise them by shining a light at a diagonal into your eye (not directly!) and gently wiggling it about. This means your brain doesn’t have enough time to filter it out and you see this spiderweb like network of blood vessels!"
"Technical instructions to clarify the actions involved. I find it easier to see this effect in a dark environment, so the contrast of the black shadow against the light is higher. You want to be staring straight ahead and shining the light into your pupil at a 45 degree angle from the side directed at your nose at about 10-20 cm away from them. Phone light will do great and have it on the dimmest setting if possible. Then wiggle the light in gentle 1 cm movements side to side. Keep this up for about a second at least and you should see them. Hope this clears it up a bit!"
ANonWhoMouse
"Hey, We Should Be Keeping All This Blood In Our Body, Right?" - Your Body
"Blood is able to turn from liquid to a gel in order to stop bleeding. Basically, when God created us humans, he made our cells (and our bodies themselves) smarter than us. Now obviously it sounds like basic knowledge for blood to clot and stop bleeding. It may sound simple and basic for tissue to do such a thing, but even the most basic things our bodies do can impress us."
TheBBWLoverGUNNUT
Space. The final frontier.
And one we'll never fully comprehend, at least not in our lifetime.
We're Never Going To Get To Trek The Stars, Are We?
"Voyager 1 has been traveling >30,000 mph for 43 years and it's only 20 light hours away."
ruined-on-the-day
"And the closest star is about 4.3 light year away, so it would only take 80,000 years"
SluggishPrey
"light-years alone are difficult for me to wrap my head around. This is the first I'm hearing of light hours and my brain just imploded."
ThrowRARAw
Being The Right Distance Away Helps A Lot
"To me... The amount of energy that is produced in the sun, and only an infinitesimal fraction is all we need to survive."
TwistLocal4739
Squeeze It On In
"You can fit all the planets (Pluto included) between the Earth & Moon"
AnxiousIndicator
"For reference, the moon is about 30 Earth's away"
abramcpg
Breathe Past The Existential Dread
"Approximately 99.85% of all the mass in the solar system is concentrated in The Sun."
Public_Breath6890
"The mass in our solar system is contained within the sun, Jupiter, and a rounding error."
Past_Ad9675
"Very true, but even jupiter could be a rounding error lol. It's only 0.095330% of the solar system's mass."
_alright_then_
Yeesh, We Know Nothing
"In normal space-time we can freely move about in space, but not time. You are free to travel to the north pole if you so wished, but you can't not go to tomorrow."
"However once you cross the event horizon of a black hole this gets inverted. You can freely move about in time but not space. All possible trajectories will lead you towards the centre of the black hole."
nova_outis
The Doctor And His T.A.R.D.I.S. Would Like A Word
"Dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy from where we are now"
nolesein
"This is what I think about with time travel, if it's not relatively bound to the Earth, you'd travel back in time and 99.999% end up in the vacuum of space"
BrokenRatingScheme
Take a deep breath. Your space in this universe is important, but always remember how amazing the universe you're a part of actually is.
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I'm still on the fence about this whole extraterrestrial situation. I need more proof. Now I'm not naive enough to think that in this vast, endless universe only the human race exists. I just need proof, tangible, solid, didn't see it from my trailer through beer goggles proof.
I also need proof about the afterlife, another out there topic. Truth be told, I've never been that into this whole conversation. I've got enough daily problems on this planet, let alone worrying about making Will Smith's biggest hits into documentaries and not just popcorn/comedy space farce.
But let's compare thoughts...
Redditor u/ValencikHannibal197 wanted to discuss life beyond this planet, what do we really think? They asked:
What's the best theory on UFOs or aliens you've ever heard??
I definitely wouldn't turn down an excursion to AREA 51. I'd like to poke around and get a sense of the place. I've never personally been up close and face to face with a "non-Earther." Not sure I'd like to be...
TV Truth
x files monkey pee GIF by The X-FilesGiphy"UFOs/Aliens are a cover for all of the secret projects that the government is working on. Actually stole that from the X files."
Birth
"How human birth parallels alien abductions:
- Babies are taken from their home (womb)
- They still developing sight, so they see bright lights and grey figures.
- They hear an "alien" language they don't understand.
- They suddenly feel cold after leaving their womb.
- They are in a surgery room being poked with tons of instruments.
Long story short: some people suggest that abductions are just people who had memories of their birth."
In the Mind
"I just don't think anyone will ever see this. But I think that UFO's are the projection of our unconscious collective mind. Everything that exists in reality, also exists, in our immaterial mind. Is it possible that the insides of our mind are also just one drop in the ocean of consciousness... and together we create the material reality were in, simply by experiencing it in a real way, inside-out through our senses."
Flyover...
"My father was an aircraft mechanic and fabricator for test and spy aircraft for the USAF. He spent 75-85 working with test aircraft. He said that when they were going to do a test, that could possibly be seen by the public, they would make a betting pool on how many UFO reports local authorities and flight towers received."
Under the Sea
sci-fi ufo GIFGiphy"I like the idea that some UFOs aren't machines. Instead they are some sort of Upper-Atmosphere Jellyfish. I found the issue of Fortean Times that had this article. Here's the cover: https://ft.gjovaag.com/q/images/a/ae/FT291.jpg"
- BigD1970
Interesting. There are some ideas we can look into. None of it proof, but possibilities. There are certainly plenty of future film ideas.
Like 2012...
"We are like that un contacted tribe and everyone agrees not to bother us."
"I've heard it explained from a channel (idk if you know what channeling is) kinda like this. First of all, we as a species tend to freak out, shoot first and ask questions later. Most humans would have a literal psychotic break. You have to believe in vibrational energy as it relates to our consciousness."
"The aliens (certain ones) are at such a higher level that it would be jarring for us to come in close contact with. We are slowly getting there but it's a process. Like 2012, end of the Mayan calendar, wasn't the end of the world it was the end of an energy cycle that we as the human race had never made it past before."
"Previous civilizations have been destroyed or destroyed themselves before they got this far. We passed a point where we are very unlike to destroy ourselves anymore. This doesn't mean we won't see some real bad hardships yet but we will keep progressing."
- falecf4
"train your eyes"
Dancing GIFGiphy"I was a firm believer in t em when I was in high school and kept googling theories and info in my spare time and during my study halls. They said their bodies were so lightweight or something that the reason why you can't see the evidence is that they disintegrate before hitting the ground."
"And then LOL it was so funny, some people would swear you could "train your eyes" to see rods... HhhahAHAHAHA. Like there were these experts. Video showed him walking around with a serious face, then pointing. And he's like, "that was one just there." "You can't see them, you have to be used to them... like me."
"I've spent many years immersed into hunting them finding them. That's why I can see them." And then one day China, who loves occult stuff, had like a lab that set up a nighttime camera to capture footage of rods at night... then realized they were normal bugs at overexposure. lol"
Lurking
"The Dark Forest theory. Basically the theory that the reason we haven't made contact is because all the other civilized life in the universe/galaxy knows not to broadcast their location. They've learned that there's something awful or predatory lurking in the dark forest of our galaxy, and that it's better if they keep to themselves."
Unknowns...
"That the universe is so vast that we haven't been discovered yet."
- neoastic
"This makes sense to me because traversing the distance to or from even our our stellar neighbors would require technology that is not known to us now or likely to be known by us anytime soon if it's even possible at all. To assume without evidence that aliens could possess this technology and have visited us does not meet my skeptical standards."
- KZED73
Back and Forth
back to the future great scott GIFGiphy"Time travel exists, and UFO sightings are actually future humans coming back to our time. That is why they are so discreet, and never openly make contact."
I hope time travel exists. Now that I'm onboard for. If aliens do exist... just come on out guys. We could probably use your help.
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The universe is a big place. It is boundless and it is infinite, which means more things exist inside of it than we could ever comprehend.
That means there are some really scary, outlandish things going on in deep space. Humankind is such a small percentage of the universe, and yet we seek to understand it.
u/ZenitsuCrybaby asked:
What is the most terrifying fact about our universe/world?
Here were some of those answers.
We Just Get So Close To Death
Every once in a while, our sun just emits a solar flare big enough to end civilization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
In 1859 we had one hit the Earth powerful enough that the telegraph system became self powered for a while before burning itself out. Fortunately at that time, that was pretty much the extent of our electrical infrastructure, so the damage didn't do too much to civilization.
If one hit today without any warning, every system on long spans of wire would be fried. We'd lose a massive amount of infrastructure. No refrigeration for food distribution, large chunks of communication infrastructure gone, massive amounts of manufacturing capacity gone. Pretty much every aspect of life would be affected. And without that infrastructure, we almost certainly don't have the capacity to rebuild the infrastructure before people start starving to death. And once people start starving, things are likely to go downhill pretty quickly.
You might be wondering what are the odds that we'll ever see another solar storm that large, and the answer is that we already have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012
On July 23 of 2012, a similarly sized solar flare missed the Earth by 9 days.
In the last few decades we've added in some early warning systems and protocols to give us a chance of surviving. Basically we'll get about 45 minutes warning to disconnect as much of the electrical grid as we can, then hope enough of it survives.
The Void
Well, our solar entire galaxy is only 100,000 light years across. So that is about .0000003% the distance of the void (keep in mind even a galaxy is mostly empty as well) the individual stars we see with our naked eyes end at roughly 100 light years away. Which is only .1% of the galaxy.
Our closest solar neighbour is about 4 light years away, and the effect of our suns gravity is assumed to end about 2 light years out. Earth is only 8 light minutes from the sun. And the moon is about 1 light second away from us. In 1 second light can zip around d the earth's equator about 7.5 times. The equator is about 25,000 miles (since you understand yards) 40,000KM. And each mile is 1760 yards.
So, take a yard
1× 1750x 25,000x 7.5, this the distance to the moon, and 1 light second.
Now, x60x60x24x365x4 is the next star at 4 light years. Now
X25 to is a 100LY,
X1000 is our galaxy, which is approximately.. 0000003 the diameter of the void.
So take that number and times it by 10x10x10 and you get the size of the void.
Or there abouts. I am not good at math or yards, I also didn't check my work.
We Will Go On Forever
If it makes anyone feel better, your matter is going to go on. You'll die, decompose, become nutrients for the world and be utilized again and again in different ways for millions of years. And billions of years from now when the sun scorches the earth and consumes it, we will become part of the sun or cosmic dust floating through the universe, forever.
We've been here long before we became a human and we will be here long after our role of being human ends.
*Existentially Sweats*
It is fundamentally devoid of meaning. Everything around us is governed by impersonal laws of physics. The universe is not oriented toward a goal; it is destined to end in high-entropy nothingness
Theories That Are Incredibly Scary
Not necessarily facts but theories that could be proven fact
- Higher Dimensional Beings: Visualize if there was a 2D person. If you gaze at them in a specific way, they can't see you. All you have to do is look from a top view and they would not know you are there, and they would never know. Living their life as 2D, they would never be capable of comprehending how something could be viewing down on them. Now visualize a 4D person. They could be observing you from a 4 dimensional angle, an angle that you will never comprehend. They could be right alongside you, but you would not know, and you would never know. Just as we could interact with the 2D person, the 4D person could interact with us. But as long as they do not want us to, we could never interrelate with them or not even know of them.
- Fermi Paradox: Let's say we there is an ant hill in the mid of the forest. And right next to the ant hill, we are constructing a ten-lane super-highway. And the question is "Would the ants be capable of comprehending what a ten-lane super-highway is? Would the ants be capable of comprehending the technology and the purposes of the beings constructing the highway next to them? So it is not that we cannot pick up the signals from Planet X using our technology, it is that we cannot even understand what the beings from Planet X are or what they are trying to do. It is so beyond us that even if they actually wanted to educate us, it would be like trying to teach ants about the internet. When Pizarro entered into Peru, did he stop for a while at an anthill to attempt to communicate? Was he generous, trying to help the ants in the anthill? Did he become aggressive and slow his original mission down in order to smash the anthill apart? Or was the anthill of complete and utter and eternal insignificance to Pizarro? That might be our condition here.
- Sixth Mass Extinction: We are at present living through what many biologists consider to be the sixth mass extinction that the world has ever experienced. This is going to be a stimulating puzzle for the species that comes after us. It was not until around the year 1800 that humanity touched a population of 1 billion after thousands and thousands of years. In the 215 years since then, the world population has raised to ~7.2 Billion. That exponential growth has very big and long lasting negative effects on our planet, and will continue to do so until we reach carrying capacity or die off.
The Truth Of Probability
My cousin died in a senseless car accident this summer. He was on his way to work, down a country road not all that well traveled and one he's driven for the better part of half a century. Some a**hat was behind a van in the other lane and didn't care he was in a no passing zone. He broke the speed limit and went to pass, pulled out right in front of my cousin and had a head on collision, killing him instantly.
After his death, I just kept thinking about how specific the scenario had to be...if he'd needed to piss, or had a second bowl of cereal...if he'd dropped his keys, or checked the mail that one last time...he'd have missed being in that spot at that specific time.
SO many things had to go JUST EXACTLY RIGHT for him to die in that scenario, it's improbable as all heck. And yet, they did.
A Combo Of intelligent Life
The fact that conscious and intelligent life exists at all. When you look at the fundamental matter that makes up every object in the universe, everything is made up of atoms, molecules and certain combinations of periodic elements.
These in themselves are not living matter, so at what point did a certain combination of these things become a conscious life form? And what about an actual self aware, intelligent life form like a human as opposed to simpler bacteria? We are still made of the same matter as objects that are not considered alive, so where does consciousness come from? The evolution of our brains, all things considered, is really interesting.
I Fall To Pieces
The Big Rip... someday every matter will simply fall apart. The galaxies will come apart. The stars will come apart. The planets will come apart. Even human (if they survived the next 22 billion years) will simply fall apart. Even the atoms will fall apart.
Empty Space
The idea of "vacuum decay" caused by a false vacuum
It's very complicated but the TL;DR is that the theory suggests that what we call a vacuum is not actually a vacuum. There is an even more stable form BUT it takes a good bit of energy to reach this "true vacuum". If this were to ever occur we don't quite know what would happen but one thing is for sure it would mess up some seriously important stuff.
The effects could be contained and simply mess up cosmic parameters we thought were true for ages. It could also theoretically completely cease the existence of fundamental forces of the universe in an ever expanding bubble of quantum f***ery where the rules of the universe no longer matter. If this were to happen there would be no way to detect it. It could've already happened, there could be multiple. The only way we would know would be when we stopped existing.
It's Imminent In Our Future
According to science, there are three ways in which the universe can end. In each one of them, every trace of our existence is wiped. Not even black holes would exist. The only good news about this, is that it's going to happen in a billion billion billion... years. Personally, this is scary.
We all dream of that big, spacious home or three. We think we need every thing extra... but it's all really excess in the end. If this pandemic has taught us anything it's that appreciating the little things is monumental. How many living rooms are really necessary? Like.... does television feel more special in 20 different rooms?
Redditor u/Interferis_ wanted to discuss why everyone square foot of our homes can be something we never really needed by asking..... What is one feature of your home you never use?Nozzled....
Central vacuum system. It sounded great when we built the house but in reality it's easier to use a regular vacuum. thalos2688
The only useful part of having a central vacuuming system is if they have the.... nozzle...opening.. whatever the thing under the kitchen cabinets that you can sweep stuff off the floor into is called. Those things are super handy. If I redo my kitchen I want to see if I can just get one of those installed. Sipid1377
For the Rabbits....
GiphyThe disgusting unkempt garden with a garage that's falling down that my ex husband insisted was brilliant. I just wanted a small space with a bit of grass my rabbits could run around in and they're both gone now anyway. Now he's moved out and I have this wild disaster out the back of my house that I don't want.
I have zero enjoyment of gardening but cant afford to pay someone to sort it. It makes me miserable every time I look out the back window. I wish I could afford to pay someone to just dig it all up and put a load of fake grass down and some decking that all requires zero maintenance. JustAFluffyTail
Chest to Knees.....
The bathtub as a bathtub. It's one of those ones that you can use as a bathtub or as a shower. PMForDickGraysonPics
I'm 5' 9" but most bathtubs are not designed for grown men. I just want to soak and relax once in a while without having my knees or chest out of the water! firehazelfirehazel
Mooo...
GiphyThe milk delivery door. derf82
I had to look that up, thought you were messing with me. HundredthIdiotTh
3 Years...
I live on the top floor of my apartment building (Floor 3, I know...what a life), and one of the big selling points of the "penthouse" was having a fireplace. Have not used in 3 years. TheBoysSouls
Squirreled.
GiphyThe attic. SouthWestDakota
When I Was younger, my family stored Christmas decorations in the attic. I was too young to go up into the attic to get the boxes. We have since moved all the decorations to the basement because a squirrel once got into our attic or something.
I don't remember the reason only that it involves a squirrel. Now I am a teenager and have never been into the attic. I really want too but Im scared I'll get jumped by a squirrel or something. I'm still bothered that there is an entire part of my house I have no idea what looks like. AcebiWriter
Obscure Opinions People Are Fully Committing To | George Takei’s Oh Myyy
We all have a set of beliefs about even the smallest of topics. Like sandwiches should have structural integrity. That's something we can all agree on, right...In the basement...
The water heater or some other machine in the basement will turn on in the middle of the night, and it sounds like someone's stomping up the basement stairs. Poop my pants every time I go downstairs for a 3am meal and it turns on. Oddlydehydratedgurb
6ft x 6ft.....
My apartment's balcony. Can't remember the last time I went out there; plus the door is blocked by my TV stand and speaker stand. I'd rather have the extra sq. ft. inside.
Also Idk why they thought the bedroom needed a huge 6ft x 6ft window (to make matters even worse it's a crappy single pane, aluminum frame model); if I didn't have it covered with a foam insulation panel all of the cool air from the AC would go right through it. tnpeel
Ding-Dong.
GiphyThe doorbell. xszbf
I've got a couple sneaky cats that try to escape when I open the door from the outside. If I ring the doorbell, the dog barks and the cats run away. xsited1
Shelves Away....
There's a set of shelves above the fridge that I can't reach. InkMage94
I bought a step ladder so I could put things in those cabinets then my step ladder broke so I have to do without those things since I'm too cheap to buy another. Old_Classroom
The "I Hear You System."
I have one of those whole house intercom systems. It lets you listen to the radio and talk to people between rooms. I'm sure it was pretty snazzy back in the 1970s when the house was built but I never use it. ilgeo
Oh my god, the house I grew up in was built in the late 70s and had a house-wide intercom system too! Intercoms in every room, even the bathroom (the bathroom also had a landline phone attached to the wall which we never used hahaha).
We used the intercom system a little at first as a novelty, and then stopped, and then one day we tried to use them again and they had stopped working. Which was sad even though we'd stopped using them at that point. LilyKnightMcClellan
Dish It....
GiphyI can turn on my dishwasher using my phone, but anytime I would ever actually need to run the dishwasher would be immediately after I put the last dish in it and filled the little soap thing up with dishwashing detergent. If I just put the soap in, I'm already standing right there and can just turn the dial on the front.
Not really sure why anyone would load the washer, walk to the couch, and then decide to use their phone to run it. firstheir
Hey, Tim.
An old cistern in the basement. We call it the murder pit. bernorma69
Hey, Tim. CordeliaGrace
Useless....
A rotating rooster weathervane on the copula that indicates which way the wind is blowing. Back2Bach
People waste money on those things, but NOBODY i repeat NOBODY thinks they are pretty or useful. Interferis_
Flamed Out.
The fireplace. Mainly because I don't know how to tell if the flue is open or closed and I don't want smoke to back up into my house. Voldemortsawkwardhug
Hire a chimney sweep to inspect your fireplace and then ask them also how to tell. You'll likely need some maintenance. Lagduf
nothing extra....
I have two balconies. The one side is spacious, sunny and relaxed, the other is in the shade, looks out on a bank and doesn't have enough room for a single chair. I haven't opened the door to that balcony in three years. iwtmmhlbsocn
I have two balconies too, but they both face the same way. We sometimes use one of them, the other one is never used at all. Janitako
Shuttered....
Shutters. I never shut any of them. NakedPizzaHutAd
Blinds are SO MUCH BETTER. We used to live in this huge house with blinds and now we moved to a place with shutters. I hate them, they make weird noises at night and sometimes an old grandma passing down the street just comes by and like closes them. Interferis_
in the dark....
GiphyThere's a light switch in our basement that controls the same lights as the switch at the top of the stairs, so unless i choose to walk up the stairs in the dark, it serves no purpose. shutupandtakemyfunny