What If Huge Spiders Occupied All Streets And Other Spine-Chilling What-If Stories

good morning you wake up and switch on the tv it's yakking in the background while you go on with your morning routine a news program's on and you hear the presenter talking about spiders city authorities and invasion while you burn your toast huh it sounds too sci-fi and you don't pay too much attention they're probably talking about a new action movie an hour later you get into your car and switch on the radio the reception is surprisingly weak and you can only catch separate words spiders caution unprecedented be careful at home until oh you start to feel nervous what danger are they warning about you're driving through your neighborhood heading for the downtown but just as you're about to turn onto the main road your foot hits the brakes while your mind goes blank the creature is huge eight thick hairy legs eight huge spherical eyes arranged in two rows several of them as big as footballs well there's no denying it the car-sized monster is a giant spider unfortunately this discovery doesn't make your brain spring back into action you're still rooted to the spot watching the creature get closer and closer you aren't particularly afraid of spiders even used to have one as a child that's why you know a lot about them but dang it wasn't this big as if under a spell you're staring at the spider's body it's divided into two parts joined by a slim waist you notice silk spinning organs on its abdomen and can't help but wonder is its web going to be as thick and strong as a nylon rope the spider gets even closer and you can see its two massive jaws with terrifying fangs they must be positively perfect for piercing prey and that's a lot of peas this last thought helps you snap out of your stupor you frantically change gear and slowly back up trying not to provoke the monster as soon as the distance is safe enough you somehow manage to make a u-turn and hit the gas your car tires are screeching your heart's racing and your palms are sweaty once back in the safety of your home you start to calm down but only a bit you dash to the living room and switch on the tv that's when you find out that it's not some super elaborate nightmare you're having the big bug is the reality the first creature sneaked into the city during the night experts scientists and authorities have no idea where they've come from and why they're so giant right now the whole city is paralyzed you stare at cars abandoned right in the middle of the road and panicky people screaming and running for shelter looks like an alien invasion sci-fi movie you think but wait it is an invasion the picture changes you see a colossal spider climbing one of the few skyscrapers in the business district it reminds you of the time when your pet spider escaped from its terrarium and set off on a journey around the house your sister's screams are still ringing in your ears anyway that accident made you curious after searching the internet you finally learned how come spiders could walk upside down and on vertical surfaces the secret of their sticky success lies in thousands of tiny hairs at the tips of their legs that's what helps the creature from the tv conquer the glass tower great the power's out guess i'll just sit here and play on my phone until they turn it back on yeah good luck with that a person can go without food for a couple of weeks water for a few days air for mere minutes but without electricity it's hard to say it all depends on where you live what survival skills you have and how much you depend on the conveniences of living on the grid like the supermarkets that store and sell your food which they got thanks to factories that mass produce it or even farmers that grow it themselves but let's see what would happen to humanity if electricity disappeared for say a year let the games begin just not on your smartphone day one late afternoon there's a bit of charge left on the phone but your mobile data isn't working nobody suspects that communication towers have shut down which means no calls not even emergencies for now all you know is the internet is gone how long do you think you'd make it let me know down in the comments you don't have any offline games either your phone is nothing more than an overpriced calculator now guess i'll go for a walk before the sun goes down you head to your favorite cafe hey why not grab a latte to pass the time the barista cuts you off as soon as you walk in the door sorry all our machines are down from the power outage okay there goes that idea you walk around aimlessly still trying to catch a signal on your phone you and everyone else standing around looking at their screens in confusion and frustration you overhear a group of people talking about a nasty crash on a busy intersection oh yeah traffic lights don't work now and the cars will soon go along with them once the gas in their tanks run out it's not like you can fill up at stations they like the cafe need electricity too on that note you decide you're better off heading back home evening first things first a nice hot shower to wash this crazy situation away no tap the toilet doesn't flush either yes public services like plumbing heating and cooling go too an outage like this is a lot more serious than just losing your lights especially when it's prolonged no tv no playstation no nothing man why does anything fun have to be plugged in fine i'll read a book you start lighting some candles you check outside the window to see if other homes have gotten their electricity back it's the darkest you've ever seen the city all you notice are dimly lit windows everyone else is lighting candles too you look up at the sky stars without street lights and lit up homes and businesses the night sky looks breathtaking well at least there's that day 365. light appears well that is if the equipment at power stations is operational after a year without maintenance it probably isn't once they fix things up and electricity is back it'll take at least 10 years to fully restore the economy infrastructure and production so in a nutshell we'd go back to living how we did before we ever had electricity but now i can only wonder what happens if natural electricity disappears like lightning around 50 to 100 lightning bolts strike the planet every single second our world needs lightning every time a bull lights up the sky it puts off ozone that word sound familiar yep there's a layer of it in the atmosphere that protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet and cosmic radiation new beginnings let's say some time has passed whatever that means now and electricity returns what will happen then boom big bang the universe will be shocked into life electrons will return to their repelling atoms and molecules will work again but it'll take billions of years to get back to where we are now good thing this is all purely hypothetical a little fantastical thanks to my wandering mind and certainly not possible so here we are if you've ever complained about there not being enough hours in the day well you'll only get a quarter of that time now our whole planet has decided to try and relive its youth by spinning faster we're now back to six hours in a day that's less than we need for a good night's sleep and less than a typical work shift but most importantly how will we adjust will we survive six hours breaks down to two and a half hours for sleep another two and a half for work and just one hour of chill time if there is any because we'll also have to shower eat and clean even the daily commute to work will be a huge waste of our precious time well that won't change unless you work from home or live right by your office and the workplace is just a flight of stairs away those will be the lucky ones the real problems start with the two and a half hours of sleep we'll constantly feel tired and those dark under eye circles would become our species new trademark there won't be enough time to rest or reach rem sleep that usually happens 90 minutes after we've fallen asleep and it is five whole stages lasting 10 to 20 minutes each if the buzzing sound of our alarm clocks interrupts that every day we might lose the ability to dream and two and a half hours to be productive what a challenge we'll have to squeeze our whole schedule into just 150 minutes and work fast but that too will be impossible without enough sleep we'll struggle to concentrate and remember things so overall work performance will likely drop i bet the coffee industry will thrive on these new six hour days we'll be reaching for cup after cup to keep us productive on such little sleep but we'll have to forget about lunch breaks there's no time if we could have one it only lasts 8 minutes and on that note let's talk meals it won't be feasible to fit breakfast lunch and dinner into our one hour chill time so we'll probably need to choose one of the three we'll eat a full meal every six hours which might be difficult but not impossible to get used to our eating schedule will be breakfast on monday lunch on tuesday and dinner on wednesday our weekends will only be 12 hours so we'll have to make a tight schedule will it be a football game what about the movies or running errands you can only choose one of the three this time entertainment will be a luxury maybe the industry will collapse altogether a movie will last as long as our sleep time so for this to work films will need to be cut short the same goes for sporting events and shopping stores will be open for just three to three and a half hours maximum a day i'll bet they'll all be packed we'll work around 50 hours every month sounds like a good deal at first but remember our traditional 30-day month is now down to a little over seven days and good luck remembering to change the date so often but that's a minor inconvenience compared to the real problems we're about to encounter remember the emergency notification we got earlier in real time it'll take days to arrive because we'll also have issues with our satellites they orbit our planet at the same speed to match the earth's rotation that way they can always be at the same position if the earth starts spinning faster satellite communications will be interrupted aviation banking weather forecasting tv radio gps they'll all be thrown out of whack unless we can readjust the satellites but even more serious problems are on the way since the beginning of our existence our internal clock has been on a 24-hour cycle there will be a little less than three hours of night time and more than three hours of daytime that's not enough sunlight for any living being to survive on earth for starters plants will struggle to photosynthesize properly some of them will flourish others will grow but they'll be weak and yellow and the rest will cease to exist that will affect the whole food chain remember learning about time distance and speed back in school here's a refresher speed equals distance divided by time let's take our time measure of zero uh oh it's on the bottom of that equation can you still hear your teacher saying you can never ever divide by zero it's like if you have no pieces of gum yet all your friends are asking for some can't divide or distribute nothing fine then let's move that zero to another part of the equation so that the universe doesn't implode time is also distance over speed so zero equals zero right zero time zero speed zero distance in other words if you stop time nothing would move yeah just like in the movies you can walk around and touch stuff as if it's frozen in mid-air oh no my friend not even close when i say nothing moves i mean nothing nada yet zippo there would be no light because photons that is the most basic unit of light and theoretically the fastest moving objects in the entire universe can't move either since the photons aren't moving and going into your eyes you wouldn't be able to see anything at all and that's just the beginning air wouldn't move either since it's also made up of molecules so say goodbye to breathing not that your blood needs that oxygen because it wouldn't be pumping through your veins with all molecules at a standstill there'd be no heat either so it's also about to get very cold basically without time you'd be blind unable to breathe and frozen solid sorry beyond earth the stopping of time would also mean the basic forces of the universe would also cease to be you know like gravity also in einstein's theory of relativity space and time are interconnected and interdependent so without time space can exist if you stipe time you stop everything as we know it no universe no nothing well that was a letdown bummer fine let's change the rules because the reality of the hypothetic is no fun in my book let's say i've been gifted a sort of supernatural pause button the world around me just stops when i press it but all that laws of physics stuff stays the way it is the only catch i can use it just once one pause one resume oh let's do this oh wait wait wait wait wait i first need to consider when i'm going to hit pause right i mean if i temporarily stop time during rush hour on a holiday weekend traffic is going to be impossible if i do it in the middle of the night nothing will be open and what fun is that hmm how about i don't know 10 30 on a tuesday morning just before lunch everyone's at work but all my favorite stores are still open sweet here we go and stop whoa neato look at all the people frozen in place i stopped everything just as that guy over there was tripping on the curb that's gonna hurt when i start time back up later i'm getting distracted okay first things first i'm loading up on ice cream and video games i mean what good is this time stopping thing if i'm not able to indulge my inner kid for at least a week or three hey yeah still me i finally beat that 200 hour fantasy rpg i never used to have time to play i'm well rested but i've gone up two pant sizes now what hmm time to hit the gym how do i know how long i've been on the treadmill in this scenario and never mind i'll just run laps then hit the weights oh man i'm gonna be so buff when i unpause i may just have to consider a new career as a professional bodybuilder hey maybe that cutie that lives in the apartment across the hall will notice my ripped bod well if i'm taking advantage of this time to get my body in shape maybe i should work on my mind too instead of just watching reruns of my favorite sitcom at the gym i'll listen to a few audio books i'll check out some documentaries while i'm at it hit me up with your recommendations on what to watch and listen to down in the comments i've got all the time in the world i'm starting to feel a little guilty about taking all those video games earlier maybe i should return them to the store before unpausing yeah that'd be the right thing to do i can't quite return the ice cream though i'll leave some money on the counter there now my conscience can rest assured now hang on i'll just lay this mattress here for when this poor guy finally hits the ground there you go buddy okay i've gotten in shape looking good feeling fantastic sworn off any more borrowing if you know what i mean now what i'd love to visit the zoo but i can't imagine the monkeys will be much fun to watch when they're paused so that's out i would watch a ball game but it's still 10 30 am and everybody's paused wait that's right all the people are frozen in time i've been maneuvering around them all this time and never even considered how my boss would look better if he finally got rid of that cheesy mustache of his let me pop into the barber shop and borrow this electric razor here i know i swore off borrowing this is the last time promise just my boss's mustache and that's it oh and a clown wig actually that one isn't just for my boss clown wigs for everybody

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Length: 17min 57sec (1077 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020