🌿 #NatureLovers, curious about the weirdest natural substance?
Have you ever wondered what the most unusual natural substance is? Let’s dive into the world of nature’s quirkiest creations.
Plant-Based Puzzles
– Did you know that slime molds can behave like animals even though they are technically fungi?
– Have you heard of carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap that feed on insects for survival?
Underwater Oddities
– Explore the depths of the ocean to discover sea creatures with bioluminescent properties that light up the darkness.
– Learn about bizarre marine species like the blobfish, known for its unique appearance.
Geological Marvels
– Uncover the secrets of rare minerals like ununpentium, known for its unusual properties.
– Delve into the world of unique geological formations, including the sparkling beauty of opals.
🌿 Ready to uncover the mysteries of nature’s strangest substances? Keep exploring to feed your curiosity! #WeirdNature #NaturalWonders #CuriousMinds
I’m gonna go with Dimethyltriptamine. It is essentially the basis of chemical structure for all other psychedelics. It’s a crystal that is found in all living things, and if you get enough of it, and make it hot enough to vaporize, and you inhale it, it takes your mind into another fucking dimension for 10 minutes, where you encounter the infinite and experience the sensation of totality and oneness, and then it quickly dissipates into vague mess of concepts, ideas, fragmented memories, and then 10 more minutes later, you can not remember but the vaguest of details. Also, not scientifically provable yet, but while you’re “there”, it makes sense that this “thing” is the reason life exists at all.
solid pure sodium. when mixed with water, it explodes.
The best thing is, we have yet to create a rubber with the same properties as natural rubber.
Totally weird response and probs not at all the answer you intended, but I genuinely think flesh is one of the weirdest things ever. I think that of most of the organic matter that makes up out anatomy tbh but especially skin/flesh. The fact we all retain a shape, the fact it’s so strong and tough but also flimsy af. The way it heals when it’s torn.
It both fascinated me and icks me right out
Water
Synovial Fluid is weird. If I’m not mistaken, it’s the slipperiest substance humans have ever discovered. and we make it in our joints.
When you think about it, lava / magma. I mean this is *rock* and it flows like soup. We humans have only recently even tried to recreate lava artificially, it takes so much heat to produce and maintain. In the natural world, this super-hot liquid stuff coming up to the planet’s surface has led to *land forming.*
Glass is kind of a trip because at it’s raw core it’s literally melted sand. We can also melt it, but then we can shape it into other things, and we’ve been able to do it for centuries. It’s also essentially just melted rock that is re-hardened.
Anything radioactive really. It’s barely 130 years since we were even aware of the phenomenon. Things like pitchblende, radium, radon. We can’t see it, but it does (mostly undesirable) things to living cells none the less. If you carried a hunk of radioactive cobalt on you for a month [you wouldn’t feel anything until you started noticing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Mexico_City_radiation_accident) your flesh burning and peeling and you vomiting a lot and possibly just dying.
Aflatoxins are naturally made by fungi and are some of the most carcinogenic and mutagenic substances known. It blows my mind that a fungi can make something that can corrupt my DNA and kill me. I have a lot of questions about how it developed in a evolutionary sense.
Fossil fuels are just fermented dinosaurs
Black holes.
An object so massive it breaks reality.
Datura/Jimsonweed/Devils (or Angels)Trumpets. Where do I even begin with this one? It’s awful in so many different ways. It’s basically schizophrenia injected into the seeds of the flower. It throws you into a waking nightmare where you see things that aren’t real, talk to people who don’t exist, and get attacked by shadow demons all while you fully believe that everything happening to you is real.
Plus, the alkaloids that cause the hallucinations can be extremely deadly depending on the potency of the seeds. You can either take 100 of one batch and feel nothing, or take 100 of another and be dead on the ground. The effects last for HOURS, sometimes even longer. It can cause damage to your brain, cause dementia, and can render you completely disabled for days if you’re unlucky.
Most people who take Datura have been out of weed and heard there was an alternative way to get high. They then suffer the consequences by either being scared out of their minds, in the hospital, or both. Don’t take Datura. There are few drugs I very explicitly tell people to never use, and this is number one.
Cum certainly tastes the weirdest.
DMT and it’s not even close
Water
It was weird when I found out asbestos is a natural mineral that is mined out of the ground. It is fibrous in its natural state as a mineral among the rock layers.
San Pedro cactus – what that mescaline can do to you. Holy moly. Tried it for the first time a few weeks ago. Took me to another place. Also managed to resolve some long running issues I was thinking about mentally for a while.
DMT
my bf showed me gallium once. that was pretty weird. i loved holding liquid metal like that. better than slime asmr.
Ambergris… Anything for nice perfume I guess!
Scaly foot gastropod armour.
Sodium is kinda weird.
Diarrhea
Dog Vomit Slime Mold
Magnesium. Just toss a nugget into water and kaboom.
Sue me for this opinion. but water is fucking insane. First so many of out measurements are based around it. Second it has numerous forms and is interesting in each of them. Especially super fluid…so cool. Third, have you ever seen hypersalunated lakes in the ocean. What the fuuudules, noodles that shit is wild and will kill you.
Non-Newtonian fluids
Gallium. It’s a metal, shiny, hard, but it will melt in your hand on a warm day (29 C / 89 F)
Asbestos. I always thought it was a man made substance, but no, its mined! So, if you ever see a neat looking tiger striped piece of rock laying on the ground (dark and almost white bands)….just leave it there, it could be raw asbestos.
Photons.
DMT
There’s some stuff out in the Universe that is weirder than anything we have on Earth. Like neutronium. It’s so dense that a spoonful of it weighs more than the Pyramid of Khufu, and (if it didn’t immediately explode) would fall through solid rock as easily as a rock falls through air. And then there’s dark matter, which we literally don’t even know what it is.
In terms of natural substances on Earth, icosahedrite is pretty interesting. It’s the first known naturally occurring quasicrystal, which means it has a crystalline structure that doesn’t repeat. You could in theory have a ‘perfect’ infinite icosahedrite crystal, but no part of it would be arranged the same as any other part.
Dmt
Any highly radioactive materials.
It’s a freaking rock that evaporates into energy.
Little bits of energy that can penetrate your body and whack into your genetic code and mess it up, or just straight cook you depending on how much is around.
Dude what?
Foxfire. Glow in the dark fungus.
Water, unironically
Wood (perfect ring structure)
Magic mushrooms…man.
If you think rubber tree is the weirdest thing you saw on the Amazon Forest, take a breath and search for the guaraná fruit. Don’t be afraid.
Now, about your question, if you think at it, wood is probably more rare and valuable than gold or diamonds or almost anything in the entire universe
A lot of children lost hands or feet when rubber harvesting quotas were not met.
Water is kinda weird. It gets less dense when it solidifies, it has a large heat capacity and high boiling point for such a small molecule, it has properties of both acid and base, it’s polar…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water
Botulinum toxin. The lethal dose of it is less than 200 nanograms (200 bilionths of a gram) for an average human, if it gets into the bloodstream. It’s a protein produced by bacteria, and a single molecule is made up of around 20 000 atoms. Humans have made neurotoxins that kill faster, but as far as I know, we haven’t made anything that has a lower LD50.
It’s also known as botox and we use it to reduce wrinkles… *sigh*
[Hagfish Slime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish)
Ambergris
Apparently opium is a hell of a time
Nature’s slime: proving reality is stranger than sci-fi.
Mercury
Jizz