Tag: Mysteries

Why do you believe what you believe? Is it because you’ve been..

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..presented with a series of undeniable facts, or have you naively bought into a fantasy story; a fairytale concocted by others in an attempt to sell you something you’d otherwise reject? This is nothing to be ashamed of as it can happen to the best of us, but with fake news and alternative facts never more popular, it is pertinent to ask why this way of thinking has suddenly become so mainstream. According to psychologists, cases of narcissism have risen across the world, and this is in direct correlation to the increase in popularity of conspiracy theories, with the result being a damaging state of collective narcissism working to make the world more selfish than it has ever been before.

There can be no doubt that stars are all female, because they’re hot,
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Narrated by Jack Daniel www.jackdanielvo.com
Ending trailer by Ben Patrick Johnson

they create life and if they’re anything like my girlfriend they are big angry balls of exploding gas who secretly hate me. But is our Sun an only child, or does it have siblings? According to long-standing research most stars are born in groups, which means that our own solar overlord has family scattered out there in the cosmos. So where are they? How can we find them? And why might a family reunion with our Sun’s relatives lead to the discovery of life on other worlds? Allow me to illuminate you dear viewers, as we explore how finding our sun’s sister stars may be the key to discovering alien life.

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Did you know that we’ve seen planets outside our galaxy?
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Were you aware that we’ve become able to grow human eggs?
And have you noticed that it’s raining viruses right now? No? Then sit back and relax as best you can you virus, slathered ignoramus, as we introduce you to five amazing things science has just discovered.

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The human race is not immune to evolution.
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You could be forgiven for thinking otherwise due to our species’ increasing reliance on technology, but despite the presence of labour-saving devices, mass transportation and on-demand erotica, evolution continues to exert its influence on homo sapiens today. And what’s more is that evolution could be occurring faster than ever before, with the human race currently undergoing a period of Hyper Evolution like nothing we’ve ever seen before.

Is the chance to live forever worth risking your life?
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This question is usually asked of those who perform dangerous stunts which promise to live long in the memory of mankind, like skydiving from space, or being shot out of the world’s largest cannon into a tank of a tiny baby cannons that are actually sharks. But in recent months, incredible claims have been made regarding a brain preservation technique which may enable you to live forever. A startup firm called Nectome believes that by using their super fancy pickling recipe, the human brain can be so well preserved that one day we may be able to restore your mind and memories artificially. Unfortunately, this procedure comes at a heavy cost, because if you want to achieve eternal existence, you must first pay with your life.