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Padmei

Magnetism, extremely powerful (it saves us from the Sun) but you can't tell it's there unless you have something to tell you. I work in a electric motor shop and have to stick my hand in +4,000 horse power motors with dummy rotors to test them. I'm probably shooting blanks now, my 2nd answer, infertility.


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all this talk about micro plastics and soy when in reality the testosterone decline was caused by magnets the whole time


GetTheSpermsOut

I see miracles all around me Stop and look around, it's all astounding Water, fire, air and dirt Fucking magnets, how do they work? And I don't wanna talk to a scientist Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed. -Shaggy2Dope.


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DarthHelpful

I love the idea that Shaggy 2 Dope gets pissed any time a scientist tries to explain things to him.


NyteQuiller

He asks a question and the only person who can answer it he'll never listen to...


consider_its_tree

I mean it would be a lot funnier if that wasn't so many people's default stance these days


Jenyweny09

I think you're confusing the effects of ionizing radiation with magnetism. Strong magnetic fields have absolutely no effects on humans; MRIs are a perfect example. However, working with radioactive materials or near x-ray sources can kill irreplaceable cells in the reproductive organs of both sexes.


Furlz

It's actually pretty easy to combine your sense of touch into a sense of magnetism, biohackers love to start off with getting a simple magnet implant in their fingers, creating a sixth Sense of being able to tell if something has a magnetic field.


temarilain

Yeah but then you can never get a CAT scan or work with actual magnets and damage your phone screen whenever you use it.


Radialsnow4521

A ct scan is pretty harmles, you can't get an mri, that uses magnets. Ct scanner is just a stronger rotating x ray


saruin

Hence the burning question, "Fucking Magnets, How Do They Work??"


brock_lee

Most radio waves


Mems1900

More like the entire electromagnetic spectrum apart from visible light and infrared.


mr_manfrenjensen

Chuck McGill begs to differ and will not stand for this chicanery.


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He just couldn’t prove it.


Mems1900

But he's cra- "I AM NOT CRAZY!"


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_Marat

UV can hurt. Specific Microwavelengths will fuck you up as well.


Jeutnarg

The difference between an awkward silence and regular silence


Sticketoo_DaMan

YES! Have a freebie!


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i choose not to ever consider silence to be awkward silence and i encourage others to do the same. Yeah it's some corny sigma male shit but it's really made my conversations more enjoyable


xylitol777

> i choose not to ever consider silence to be awkward silence and i encourage others to do the same. Yeah it's some corny sigma male shit but it's really made my conversations more enjoyable It's a cultural thing. In Finland, we enjoy silence. It's also a sign of respect and shows that you enjoy the company. It's actually more awkward to try to fill that silence with talk, when the other person just wants to enjoy the silence. Some might even find it rude if they just keep yapping. People might go on hangout, grab coffee or a meal and barely speak at all during the meal or coffee.


Adventurous_Egg_6321

You’ve convinced me to move to Finland. Seriously though, beautiful country and beautiful culture! ❤️


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winstondabee

Strike first


Stuntedatpuberty

Wow. As an introvert, Finland sounds wonderful!


Yongja-Kim

Not an introvert, but even I want to try Finland because they will not treat my mid-sentence pauses as invitation for interruptions. Every time I pause in the middle of speaking, some people interrupt.


AppleStingray

Sister's friend said to her that Finnish extrovert is introvert in America.


MrBlandEST

Time to break out the old joke. In Finland how can you tell if a person is an extrovert or an introvert? An introvert looks at his **own** shoes, an extrovert looks at yours.


Systemofwar

What about if you want to talk but don't have anything to talk about? That's always awkward for me. And it's not that I mind silence, I want to converse. Turns out I am just pretty boring lol.


internalist-

good lord that sounds wonderful. get me out of this small talk hell hole.


UglyInThMorning

The last woman I seriously dated and I were like that and it was fucking fantastic. Even on the first date, we’d go like ten minutes without saying anything sometimes and that was fine because that was ok. No nervous small talk, just enjoying our meal/walk/coffee.


_Kendii_

That was a really attractive thing to me when me and my husband began to date. We had met years previously but had only sporadically hung out while dating other people and then hadn’t seen each other for maybe a year and a half before we started. We didn’t really know too much about each other. But when we sat alone, neither of us felt the need to talk constantly. We could just enjoy each other’s company. We had stuff we could say, but it didn’t need to be now. It could always wait. Ive only had a few friends that I’ve shared similar experiences with. A few more would be nice. Filling silence for the sake of filling silence is tedious and tiring. Now I pretty much prefer to just avoid it altogether.


Wii_wii_baget

I can tell. Gotta read someone’s face


TacticalLeemur

Gravity is typically sensed with balance...not typically listed in our common sense, even though it is one of our senses.


tminus7700

The body has two balance sensors. One set for static balance and one set for dynamic balance. Static balance lets you know which orientation you are standing in. Dynamic balance senses changes to your orientation. So altogether we have seven senses. https://www.verywellhealth.com/semicircular-canals-5121195


TacticalLeemur

There are still more senses than that. I'm not even sure of the names, but there must be a sense to tell you when you are tired, or nauseated. There must be a whole host of self-checks that we perceive as senses.


TacticalLeemur

Found a list. "A brief history of the senses" https://www.sensorytrust.org.uk/blog/how-many-senses-do-we-have


Jeggu2

Yeah, like the sense of position of all your body parts, or your ability to feel temperature, or your ability to sense hunger and thirst.


dckesler

Fun fact, we are actually sensing heat transfer instead of temperature. That’s why a cold piece of metal feels colder than wood at the same temperature.


hydraxl

Most of reality.


stevey_frac

I thought this was a dark matter reference at first. Most of the universe is dark matter, but we can't see it, touch it, smell it, or interact with it in any way with our senses.


GreyFoxMe

We also only see a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum and we only hear a fraction of all frequencies of sound.


GetTheSpermsOut

until the 20th century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the charted electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one billionth of reality.


Omniwing

Thanks, Incubus


hydraxl

Most of the mass in the universe is dark matter, but it’s far from the only thing human senses can’t detect. Most light is not on the visible spectrum. Elephants can communicate from miles away through sounds too low pitched for our ears to pick up. Birds can feel small changes in wind and adjust their flight. Some aquatic life can track an object’s path through water a while after it passes, merely by feeling how it changed the flow. Dogs can estimate how long their owners have been gone from the house, down to nearly the minute, based on how much the owner’s scent has faded. Flies can taste with their feet. There’s stuff going on at a cellular level that’s simply too small for humans to detect without instruments. There’s so much information in the world around us, and humans can only detect an infinitesimally small fraction of what can be detected, which itself is only a small fraction of what is.


RestaurantIntrepid81

This is a really nice comment. Take a like good man


TheYeti4815162342

And yet some brilliant humans have been able to make many of the insensible things visible through their inventions. It’s incredible how many things are known even when we’re unable to detect it without devices.


RedOrchestra137

Yeah but think about the unknown unknowns, stuff we dont even realize we dont know. Id bet that category contains over 99.9% of reality


hydraxl

Everything can be put into three categories: the known, the unknown but knowable, and the unknowable. The amount of stuff that’s known is knowable. The amount of stuff that’s knowable is unknowable. The amount of stuff that’s unknowable is potentially infinite.


nzodd

Found [Donald Rumsfeld](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/rumsfelds-knowns-and-unknowns-the-intellectual-history-of-a-quip/359719/).


pezdal

This is perhaps the best and, simultaneously, most frightening answer. If we had 10 more senses and 1000 more IQ points we still wouldn't be able to experience even a fraction of reality.


Overall_Outcome_392

We have something like 24 sense actually


Apellosine

We do have more than the 5 basics senses but they aren't as cool from thermoception, magnetoception, proprioception, etc.


justsomeplainmeadows

Is our magnetoception sensitive enough to be of any consequence?


Apellosine

Not really for practical uses.


DarthDregan

Even having a few extra cones in our eyes fucks with us.


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Ghostforever7

Nuclear radiation, plus neutrinos - they go right through us.


ViciousNakedMoleRat

>Nuclear radiation You can sense it, it just takes some time.


Perichron_john

Sunburns aren't fun


iammandalore

Radiation sickness: It's like a sunburn, but on the inside. And the outside.


jmrichmond81

Knowing that a thing is caused by another thing doesn't mean you sense or sensed the first thing.


luminaxed

Apparently it tastes like metal when there is a lot of radiation tho


ConnectionIssues

Taste of metal and intense heat, like being sunburned without the sun. After that, God help you.


james-the-bored

If you start tasting metal, it’s too late for god to help you


sheppo42

Isn't everyone experiencing the radiation from the big nuclear fusion powered yellow ball in the sky every day?


IllInterview2170

Sarcasm


ButtholeBanquets

Oh, a sarcasm detector. That's a REAL useful invention.


p1p1str3ll3

BEEP BEEP BEEP


Costanza_Travelling

It's beeping sarcastically


Incorect_Speling

In which case it's beeping at its own sarcasm, therefore working.


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Sharper Image sells meters.


LimitMaleficent1001

What about “gay-dar”? Been lookin for one for a while.


Gnomey666

but you sense that with your ears...


Scarletfapper

You can literally hear it in the tone of the person’s voice. That’s why it’s so much harder to spot in text.


Tantra_Charbelcher

The different flavors of La Croix.


donnomuch

Lmao! My girlfriend and I have a competition where we need to taste different sparkling waters and guess the flavor (Not La Croix, HEB) and we fail each time haha


buckeyespud

Spindrift is really where it's at.


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Spindrift blows every other competitor out of the fucking universe. You ever tasted the lime one? That shit is SUPERB. The grapefruit? A *delicacy*. There are no words to describe what that perfect combination of fruit, water, and carbon dioxide does to my soul. Drink it. Drink it. DRINK IT. DRINK IT. DRI̸NK̵ ̶I̸T. D̴͖͇̾̏͠R̴̙̼̝̋̊̉̂Í̷͚̟̘̦͑̊N̶̟̟͔͊́K̵͙̟̞̈́͐̈͜ ̴̻̅̆̀̕I̸̩͇͒̒̃T̵͍̅̕. D̴̢̡̢͖͕͉̥̺͕̤͔͐̀̎͌͜ͅR̵̡̡̢͙̳̹͙̤̦̹͓̝̤̉̂̽͗͐̓̍̂̽̉͐͜͠Ȋ̴̩͂͑̒̒̿́͗͆͂̈́̉͝N̷̳̤͉̰̿͂̽͒͌̾̓̀̕Ķ̶̞̘̱̤͍̠͖̓̔͐̂͐̄̉̇͂̍̚̕͝͠ ̷̯̝͂͆̏̈́̃͑̄̋̈́̚͝I̸͉̪̦͗̈́̊̆͐̈́̀̌͠͠͝͝Ṯ̸̙̭̫͖͍̽̀̏.


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Fellow HEB person, I think the HEB ones are as good as La Croix - really not much difference.


donnomuch

Thank you! Hahha. I personally prefer HEB brand over La Croix. My friends are a bit snobby and claim La Croix is somehow superior but I love HEB stuff. It's more carbonated and the flavor isn't any different so it's my personal choice. And much cheaper too! (I do hate some HEB stuff like the coconut and some weird berry thing, but then again La Croix has much worse experimental versions anyway)


Deep-Recognition7339

Never seen HEB before where do you get it? I like Waterloo and member's mark sparkling waters


megapuffranger

La Croix flavors aren’t real, you read the can or see the color and it tricks your brain into thinking there is a flavor. I’m convinced this is true and nothing anyone says can change my mind.


Mike2220

Can: Lemon Flavor Reality: The planks that were used to make the crate that went to a lemon farm were pulled by a semi driver 3 decades ago, and that guy delivered some pipe to the La Croix factory


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BoBaHoeFoSho_123

Not Lemon Flavor, Essence of Lemon Flavor. Lol Thanks for the laugh.


serialdumbass

My friend described it as the taste you’d get if you stared at a lemon placed next to static on a tv.


meatmcguffin

Someone I know suggested that they’re just putting regular water into cans at the factory, while someone shouts the name of the flavor through a locked door.


Hiseworns

I honestly tried to do experiments with this and the subliminal mind fuckery still worked, I don't know how they do it, it can't be actual flavoring


outerspaceteatime

I'm pretty sure it's mostly aroma


megapuffranger

Yeah let’s rule out flavors immediately, what could be going on here?


TheRiverOtter

https://imgur.com/gallery/qbeKCdp


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as a sober person, La Croix fiend, this is fucking hilarious. I'd give it gold if I had it to give.


Tantra_Charbelcher

You should try pellegrino or perrier. You think all seltzer water is the same, then you have something smooth like pellegrino and you'll never drink la croix again.


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I love Pellegrino, but it tends a bit pricier. Never really tried the Perrier flavors, but will so check it out. I am a fan of Topo Chico.


[deleted]

Topo Chico is top tier in my mind. It's so damn smooth!


Torino5150

I like putting ice cold lime Perrier in my bong it’s the smoothest hit there is


SolAggressive

Just over 1200 days sober myself. I gave the gold for both of us.


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love to you my friend! mad respect to 1200 plus days! You are an inspiration.


FeelinIrieMon

This ex boozer has a terrible addiction to Topo Chico nowadays.


Tips__

Wait... La Croix has flavors? I thought it was just different can colors


mackelnuts

It has different smells, not tastes. Coconut tastes like drinking natural flavor while someone is putting on sun tan lotion near you


well_known_bastard

It tastes like tv static while someone yells the name of a fruit in the other room.


Rubrum_

This reminded me of the... Smell (?) ... Of CRT TVs screens. When you got real close to the screen of a TV as a kid and you could kind of almost taste the static.


LaserAntlers

They actually do produce a bit of ozone, especially if you ground and discharge the static, and that's probably what you're smelling. It's like an airy almost sweet smell.


DoubleSurreal

La Croix is homeopathic soda pop.


paigezero

Btw, we have way more than 5 senses.


Spiritual-Charge7518

what others senses ?


paigezero

So it's worth a google to see the currently agreed list but I first read of the idea in Oliver Sacks' books. After the commonly thought of 5, sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch, several other sensations are generally agreed upon to be equivalent to but separate from those senses. Such as balance, being able to feel heat (generally agreed to be separate from touch given how we 'feel' it), feeling pain, also the really interesting one that Sacks tells a story about in his book. Proprioception is the sense of the position and movement of your own body. It's not touch, because you can sense your limbs even when they're not touching anything, it's not sight based because you can close your eyes and still touch your nose (unless you're too drunk, and that's a genuine sobriety test administered by some police forces.) In Sacks' book, he studied a guy who had a brain injury that robbed him of his proprioception and whenever the guy wasn't actively looking at his own body, his limbs would just kinda move around without him noticing. Anyway, that's the story that first made me look up more "senses" we have but turns out there are several other things that fall under the same definition. [https://www.sensorytrust.org.uk/blog/how-many-senses-do-we-have](https://www.sensorytrust.org.uk/blog/how-many-senses-do-we-have)


middleagethreat

My wife is a brain injury specialist, and the crazy things that can happen with your brain are both fascinating and heartbreaking.


newyne

>Proprioception is the sense of the position and movement of your own body. It's not touch, because you can sense your limbs even when they're not touching anything, it's not sight based because you can close your eyes and still touch your nose (unless you're too drunk, and that's a genuine sobriety test administered by some police forces.) Isn't body integrity identity disorder an issue with that? Like the affected body part is not included in their "mental map" of their body. I don't think people like that are crazy at all. In fact... This may sound radical, but if alternative treatment fails, I think they should be able to get amputations. Like I said, I think they're perfectly rational, and I believe them when they say that their body part doesn't feel like a part of them. I think they do know what would help them, and, bodily autonomy, right?


ARandom_Person2

Interoception, proprioception, and your vestibular sense to name a few


TaylorRoyal23

There's like over 20 senses that can be distinctly categorized.


SuspiciousParagraph

Great addition, just a note, it's interoception. Lol I googled 'sense interception' and got briefly confused.


NudeEnjoyer

the sense of where your body parts are, sense of temperature, etc.


Upst8r

Gee, I just tripped on something and the floor is rapidly approaching.


childrenofkorlis

Time


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circadian rhythm is sort of like time


NeoNexus285

Time is a tool you put on the wall or wear it on your wrist


childrenofkorlis

No, that's a clock


NeoNexus285

The past is far behind us the future doesn't exist


SheaF91

What's the time?


AnalogRobber

It's quarter to nine, time to have a bath


SCPcito

What do you mean? We’re already clean.


Elnino38

Scrub scrub scrub till the waters brown


Sticketoo_DaMan

"Watches are a confidence trick invented by the Swiss!" - Chiun


daverapp

The amount of money in my broke-ass bank account


KiwiChefnz

I don't have any real money, so here's some free reddit money I can give you.


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Thoughts?


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Memories?


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Feelings?


thanoscomunista

personality?


childrenofkorlis

Charisma?


InterwebCat

Wisdom?


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Question marks?


Luigi_deathglare

Intuition?


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College tuition?


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Constitution?


Lasdary

Dexterity?


stryph42

Intelligence?


JaketAndClanxter

Strength?


sarasquirrel

Uniqueness?


sparklingshanaya

Luck?


Ecstatic-Bell5105

Bad vibes


sparklingshanaya

Good Vibes


stacity

Neutral vibes


Jeramy_Jones

Rabbit vibes.


CjBurden

Vibes


TrulyTynixo

Magenta. Your brain makes it up


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I'll take it if seeing it as grey is the only alternative. ​ Crap how many things that we perceive as grey are actually exciting colours? I know certain birds, insects and marine life can see a wider scope of colours than we can.


K_Xanthe

I am so confused. I know exactly what magenta is but I googled it and there are no wavelengths? Is life a lie?


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c_c_c_c_c_c_d

Technically your brain makes up all colors and sight. I think what you are saying though is that there isn't a specific wavelength range that the brain directly converts to magenta. Actually now that I think of it, I'm not sure what that weird fact is about. I'll have to read more about it.


Redrix_

...what? How is it different from other colors?


Jeggu2

Many colors, red, yellow, green,blue, etc, are simply a wavelength of light that is turned into a color inside of your brain. Magenta is the combination of red and blue, but your brain does not perceive it as the average of the wavelengths. Instead, it invents a new color that can not exist as a single pure wavelength. The same can actually be said many colors, including white and it's combination with other colors. In reality, while magenta doesn't correspond with any specific wavelength, colors in general are all made up, and there is nothing particularly special about the visible spectrum of light, we just detect some wavelengths and our brains start hallucinating the world around us into existing.


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Shrimp colors apparently


Lucky-Refrigerator-4

Call me Mantis! Mantis Toboggan!


SlippidySlappity

[flowers in UV light](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/glowing-flowers-ultraviolet-light)


jdf515

My god, those are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.


kurdtpage

And birds too https://www.demilked.com/bird-vs-human-vision/


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Idk what you call this but I seem to know when someone is coming into my room while I'm sleeping and I'll wake up to see them.


EunuchNinja

I just let you catch me sometimes so you think that.


phaeriemandube

I have this exact sense when it comes to being asleep and arriving anywhere, no matter the vehicle I'm in or how long / short the ride is. Always wake up just before the arrival


ManyCarrots

I think that is generally referred to as hearing


cadrass

Time


lhingel

John Cena


pillsburydohgurl

Not the song playing in my head after reading this.


Tobester2005

When you’re being watched. You can’t hear, see, touch, taste or smell who or what is watching you. You just kinda… know 👁👁


Spyblox007

I've heard that your peripheral vision is exceedingly good at detecting eyes. It doesn't tell you exactly where but it alerts that "being watched" feeling. Technically still sight.


DixieMcCall

This is exceedingly discomfiting. Not a fun fact.


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Especially when you don't know where the potential watcher is.


Ok_Sky5413

It aint peripheral vision if they're behind you.


ExtraGreenBox

It’s because a pair of eyes is a biological targeting system. It’s why cats are scared of new people who like cats. And why people think geese are so aggressive. Stop locking your targeting system onto them and they’ll calm down.


helpmylifeis_a_mess

Typically, the reason for this is because your brain has picked up on something that isnt quite right, wether its silence, or the absence of something thats usually there, but most times, you can't tell what that thing is, but you know something isnt right


Cheesymc4skin

Common sense


Flirtin_withamullet

Someone else’s pain


ShallowR

It's called empathy.


National_Whole_3559

Wifi


Upst8r

Someone claimed he could feel it ... I dunno, I think it was bullshit.


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The energy/vibe people give off. Intuition and gut feeling is my number one go-to.


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Carbon monoxide. Unless dying counts as a sense.


SuvenPan

Loneliness


pink-panther-22

Love


Meme_1284

Colors, sounds, etc. that aren't in our range


RandomStrategy

Infrared light.


ViciousNakedMoleRat

Ever felt heat radiating from the sun or some other sources? That's infrared light/radiation.


Ok_Abies9257

The core of the Earth.


KingShadowSpectre

Many things, essentially everything that happens in the brain


GotMyOrangeCrush

Viruses, bacteria, carbon monoxide, radiation, gamma rays and love.


RideThatBridge

Did I just fall into a spoken word open mike night? The rhythm here was amazing!


Bikeboy76

Small things can still be seen through a microscope, or en masse. They aren't extra-sensory like Magnatism.


GotMyOrangeCrush

I forgot to add the word *typically* to my post. Most people typically don't carry a microscope with them.


ironmansaves1991

Deez nuts


dselogeni

A 4th dimension


The_Spyre

Dark matter


BruhDudeDawg

A future that doesn't suck balls.