Stuff that 'boggles' your mind.

The fact one day it will all be over and there's not a damn thing me or anyone else can do about it. Even starting to think about it boils my brain cells.
 
SlyReaper said:
I'm pretty sure you'd run out of paper atoms first.

I'm a mathematician, so I'm long past being impressed by the exponential function. :p
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If you take a chess board, and put one grain of rice on the first square, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, 8 on the fourth and continue, by the time you get to the second row you'll be fed up counting rice.
 
MissChief said:
The fact that we're giving billions of £'s in 'aid' to a country that has plans for it's own space program, is developing nuclear missiles (if it doesn't have them already) and has one of the largest armies in Asia (China excluded!). The mind truly does boggle.
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It's kosher media spin that actually translates to "If we give you £XXXmillion in 'AID' then you agree to invest £XXXbillion in businesses X, Y, Z"
 
Religions of the world and fighting and dying for them.

Politicians being unable to ever give a definitive answer.

Cruelty whether to people or animals.

Small talk.

Liars and blaggers.

What makes atoms decide to form the shape they do, why doesn't my arm move through the desk? I know there is reasoning behind it, I have a vague recollection of my wonderfully brainy engineering missus exasperatedly trying to explain it to me.

Why can't people just get on? Why must neighbours/villages/towns/counties/countries/continents fight? We are all the same.

People who don't seem to be able to think for themselves and blindly follow rules or religion. Especially those who quote religious text as a way of trying to win a debate.

Bile spewed out by tabloid newspapers.

The moment of inspiration some inventors/creators have where they manage to make something new or create a new way of doing things that become indispensable (I realise many of these are evolutions of new ideas).

The phrase "man up"...are men not allowed to have emotions and work through things. Do they all have to just bottle it up and get on with life? (doesn't apply to me thankfully, but I've seen it hundreds of times on just this forum).

Psoriasis.

Text speak.
 
The Halk said:
Yes you can - although I think something like 12 times is the limit.
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Aye, I think it's 12, not 7. Whoops.

Edit: For a while it was believed that it was impossible to fold a piece of paper (no matter size or thickness) in half more than seven times. Many mathematical equations were done to try and prove/disprove this. Currently a girl named Britney Gallivan holds the record for folding a piece of paper 12 times. HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU FOLD IT?

She must have some strong wrists/forearms/hands.
 
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Life, we are just a bunch of atoms yet we are somehow alive and can comprehend the vastness of Universe to some degree, how can a bunch of atoms do that. :confused:
 
Our universe, the idea of multiple universes, what could possibly be happening at the edge of our universe, what other life in is our universe (law of averages says we can't be the only ones here)

That pretty much boggles my mind as much as is possible.
 
Computers still manage to boggle my mind. I mean that chunk of electronics under my desk can count in a whole different numerical system (Binary) and is always right. It can keep aircraft flying at 30,000 feet, never make a wrong calculation (unless we make the mistake) and still we are called geeks for having an interest in the whole thing? Now that boggles my mind!
 
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philtor said:
Computers still manage to boggle my mind. I mean that chunk of electronics under my desk can count in a whole different numerical system (Binary) and is always right. It can keep aircraft flying at 30,000 feet, never make a wrong calculation (unless we make the mistake) and still we are called geeks for having an interest in the whole thing? Now that boggles my mind!
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What boggles my mind more than that is that people who spend the same (or in many many circumstances more) money on their cars, spend their weekends toying and changing tiny parts including internal computers, they simply have a socially accepted hobby, but those of us who like to tweak and build computers are labelled geeks or nerds and are looked down upon by the 'average' man. That boggles my mind.
 
mrbios said:
What boggles my mind more than that is that people who spend the same (or in many many circumstances more) money on their cars, spend their weekends toying and changing tiny parts including internal computers, they simply have a socially accepted hobby, but those of us who like to tweak and build computers are labelled geeks or nerds and are looked down upon by the 'average' man. That boggles my mind.
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I try to hide the inner geek in me tbh as we are frowned upon :(
 
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