Stuff that 'boggles' your mind.

PermaBanned said:
Actually, as i remember Voyager 1 has already left the heliosphere... then entered it again. That's how we know it fluctuates, which is why the data we get from it now is some of the most interesting it's given us.
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It's formed of bubbles 100million miles wide. It's going in and out of these bubbles. The NASA link explains it.
 
Why I'm not you?


I hate how people are content with just knowing how to use things and not knowing how and/or why it works. Fine some people can't fathom how some things work but at least try.


How some people idolise reality TV stars.
 
The concept of being. How my consciousness, what I perceive and the 'place' I'm in even when I'm not using any of my bodies input devices other than my brain (such as dreaming). How that 'being' is connected to my physical body, how I came to consciously control this physical brain and being and not anyone else's, and how all those other beings are still functioning and coordinating presumably in the same way as my own. It can really keep me up at night thinking.

Also odds. Life is like a constant battle of odds, yet it was conceived in the way it was with some of the largest odds possible. Who you are was dictated by a chance so great it's almost incomprehensible, and on the back of my previous statement, would you still be the same person had those odds not worked? Your parents had to be alive, be together at that time, their parents had to be alive when they were born all the way back through your lineage. That sperm had to get to the egg, that egg had to be the fertilised one. On top of that, what then were your chances that that family was one living in a first world country with all the potential you have at your disposal? To be born avoiding all kinds of birth defects, diseases, disabilities. Life is what you make of it, sure, but look what life has made for you. People say 'oh well it just happened that way, there's no point dwelling on it'. But they probably wouldn't say the same if they won the lottery, yet your odds of winning the lottery are but a minute fraction of the odds for you being here today. Odds are a funny thing.
 
The Halk said:
I understand how computers work..from start to finish, from the 1s and 0s to VLC.
I suspect that I'm part of the last generation of people who will.
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I suspect that there will continue be a lot of people who know everything about computers until quantum computers come along (which probably wont be too long).
CPUs are always getting faster and RAM/HDDs can hold loads more, but the basics of how they work has remained pretty much the same.


Reminds me of another appropriate quote for this thread:
"The last person who knew everything known to humans at the time died almost 2500 years ago"
 
The Halk said:
I understand how computers work..from start to finish, from the 1s and 0s to VLC.

I suspect that I'm part of the last generation of people who will. Everybody younger than me has so much technology around them that they can't hope to understand how it works. I'm old enough that microwaves, CDs, the internet, PCs etc all hit mass market in my memory.
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So you're a CS/Physics/EE graduate?
It's a pretty bold claim to be honest, but I bet you are just talking about the programming side.
 
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