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They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3135/
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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There are places in the solar system where the tide rips new mountains up every go around.
True!
Going further - "tides" actually rip planets & stars fully apart (binary star systems, around black holes, yo mamma casually strolling through a galaxy).
Gasp! I'm telling my mamma you said that about her!!
(because it's gonna make her giggle like an idiot, too, like it did to me!)
Oh nyooo, quickly, someone alert LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)!!!