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[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Well, now this is on my list of invisible things that scare me:

Radiation
Methanol fires
Supercritical steam jets

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Carbon monoxide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

The regular ones will kill you as well. Boiling water on a stove is nothing compared to steam under pressure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

It seems you need to learn more about prions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Predators with cloaking devices

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not quite invisible but you could also splash and wade into a pool of strong acid thinking it was water, during what first seemed like a somewhat routine FUBAR maintenance situation...filling your boots etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 minutes ago

At paper mills the fear is caustic pools filled with bases.