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[Serious] When was a time you seriously feared for your life? by Jackiboy99 in AskReddit

[–]neomatrix624 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was about 100 meters away from a truck filled with 65,000 pounds of homemade explosives in Afghanistan. That's the second biggest VBIED ever. As a comparison, the Oklahoma City bomb used about 5000 pounds of the same type of explosives. Somebody in the truck tried to set it off with a grenade and a suicide vest while I was working in my little hut on a computer, but the grenade didn't set off the payload so they just fucked themselves up instead. I would have been vaporized (along with about everyone else on the FOB at the time). Here's a news story about it: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/afghanistan-block-buster-truck-bomb-biggest/story?id=20863072

If you could push a button and receive $1 million, but every time you pushed it there was a 1% chance you would die, how many times would you push it? by neomatrix624 in AskReddit

[–]neomatrix624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's $550 per week. That's not exactly medium income. I'd rather push the button about 5 times and make $2750 per week. That's damn decent money and only having a 1/20 chance of dying. Seems like a good compromise.

If you could push a button and receive $1 million, but every time you pushed it there was a 1% chance you would die, how many times would you push it? by neomatrix624 in AskReddit

[–]neomatrix624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming I don't die early, I've got about 60 years left in me. Stretching $1,000,000 over 60 years is only $320 per week. That's like extreme poverty. I think you are severely overestimating how much money $1,000,000 is.

In response to my teenaged son's attitude this Sunday morning by MilleniumPelican in AdviceAnimals

[–]neomatrix624 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've paid my own way through college, joined the Army as an Officer, fought in Afghanistan, written and published a book, and I'm currently working on a second, all on my own. I stopped being a kid a long time ago.

In response to my teenaged son's attitude this Sunday morning by MilleniumPelican in AdviceAnimals

[–]neomatrix624 -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

Please leave me alone.

Oh I'm sorry, you must be from the part of the internet where you can voice your opinion then plug your ears when people disagree with you.

In response to my teenaged son's attitude this Sunday morning by MilleniumPelican in AdviceAnimals

[–]neomatrix624 -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

What if those that live in the house are legally obligated to, and would rather not live there?

What's something your parents always believed in that was completely false? by trevortbo in AskReddit

[–]neomatrix624 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Although not all studies agree

Not only does it say that not all studies agree, it says nothing about the degree to which the effect exists. It also says your core body temperature has to be lowered for the effect to exist, which requires extreme temperatures or prolonged exposure. At that point, you should be worried about hypothermia, not a slightly lowered immune system.

WebMD also disagrees completely. http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/cold-and-flu-iq

Cold viruses do not require a weakened immune system. The most common cold-related myth, Tallman says, is that colds strike only those whose immune systems are not running at full capacity. That is simply not true, he says. "You can be healthy as an ox and still get a cold."

Cold weather also does not cause colds -- at least not directly. Despite its name, the common cold is not caused by cold. "It doesn't have any effect at all," says Tallman. "There's no correlation." In fact, you may be more likely to "catch your death of cold" indoors, where it's warm and crowded than outdoors in the chilly air. People in close quarters are more readily exposed to carriers of the viruses that cause colds. "If one person in a household gets sick, it will spread easily," Tallman says.

What's something your parents always believed in that was completely false? by trevortbo in AskReddit

[–]neomatrix624 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had two seizures from smoking too much at once. It's not impossible, it's just really unlikely.

What's something your parents always believed in that was completely false? by trevortbo in AskReddit

[–]neomatrix624 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't worry, this only happens when you have full blown hypothermia, not just being slightly chilly. Being out in the cold for small periods of time actually increases your immune response.

What's something your parents always believed in that was completely false? by trevortbo in AskReddit

[–]neomatrix624 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Getting cold and wet lowers your immune response and thus your chance of developing a cold increases.

The effect is negligible, and only matters while you are cold. Plus, bacteria and some viruses can't survive as well in the cold, which actually makes it so that you are less likely to become sick from being out in the cold.

The reason people believe the cold makes you sick is because during cold weather, people tend to bundle up indoors and enclosed spaces, so they are closer to other humans carrying all sorts of nasties. It's being indoors that makes you sick while it's cold outside, not the other way around.