13. Space rocks.
“The sheer amount of space rocks (comets, asteroids etc.) that are undetectable. It’s even more terrifying that we could have a decent program to counter a % of these, but all the kids with the space programs can’t get along and play together.”
14. The ocean’s abyss.
“Ocean abyss. It’s beyond dark and pressure is impossible. Yet there are things down there. Some of them we can’t even comprehend because of how utterly alien their habitat is. If there are gods, they live in that impenetrable darkness.”
15. Rabies.
“Rabies. It’s exceptionally common, but people just don’t run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the
rage stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you’re asleep, and he’s a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don’t even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won’t even tell you if you’ve got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you’ve ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache… Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you’re already dead. There is no cure.”
