You mean on these boards? That's a bit harsh...
Stuff that 'boggles' your mind.
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You mean on these boards? That's a bit harsh...
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The tides come in, the tides go out. You can't explain that.
Gravitational pull from the moon tbf.
I think that's a lyric from Insane Clown Posse which is where the magnets meme came from.
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Electricity. Oh, and I'm an Electrician 
Yeah - I meant to put something in about the figures being based on my memory of the last spaceporn documentary I saw
I don't think it alters my point though.
Voyager is about to break out of our solar system any time now.
Yeah, that's a probe that's been going for a long time. I meant what I said... we may be able to see out of the cell but we're tied to this rock for a long time.
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Dude, no edge.
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Every single thing.
Yeah thanks for thatExactly what i thought, how would bashing a sword kill someone
But yeah, understand now
typically the blunted blows injure the guy enough you can slide the sword or the specialised long thin daggers through a joint and into the person.
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Anything to do with relativity.
I find it absolutely astounding how Einstein came up with his theories which changed the face of physics forever simply by sitting and thinking about it. I urge anyone who's interested in how relativity came about to read 'Why does E=mc^2 and why should we care?' by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. The leaps of deduction Einstein made are truly staggering.
While on physics, the wave particle duality is pretty mindbending too
I find it absolutely astounding how Einstein came up with his theories which changed the face of physics forever simply by sitting and thinking about it. I urge anyone who's interested in how relativity came about to read 'Why does E=mc^2 and why should we care?' by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. The leaps of deduction Einstein made are truly staggering.
While on physics, the wave particle duality is pretty mindbending too
The human body and evolution.
If, for example, the cells in your nasal passages or veins grew too much, or multiplied, or lost their structural integrity and blocked, you would die.
If your neural net of billions of connections lost it's integrity you would pass out or lose consciousness or brain functioning.
There are so many things that could simply go wrong in the body that would result in instant death, but don't.
How a single fertilized egg, knows how to multiply into a perfectly formed multi-trillion celled organism with many different cell types, organs, veins, bones, formed from many different materials, chemicals etc... and the whole time manages to remain alive whilst being built... is amazing.
The fact that life and consciousness came from inorganic matter. That according to universal laws, a bunch of lifeless space dust and chemicals has turned into the human race, is mind-blowing.
To make a man-made machine as complex as the human body, or to make an artificial life form that can do everything a human can do is impossible, and if we made one it would probably go wrong after 10 minutes, whereas most people are fully functioning and live 70+ years without any maintenance from the manufacturer!
How the eye came about. That until a complete and functioning eye had evolved, nothing had ever been seen - the sense of vision did not exist. And nature formed this eye completely by itself without knowing what it was doing, and formed the brain structures that receive and interpret the sense data and send it to consciousness.
If, for example, the cells in your nasal passages or veins grew too much, or multiplied, or lost their structural integrity and blocked, you would die.
If your neural net of billions of connections lost it's integrity you would pass out or lose consciousness or brain functioning.
There are so many things that could simply go wrong in the body that would result in instant death, but don't.
How a single fertilized egg, knows how to multiply into a perfectly formed multi-trillion celled organism with many different cell types, organs, veins, bones, formed from many different materials, chemicals etc... and the whole time manages to remain alive whilst being built... is amazing.
The fact that life and consciousness came from inorganic matter. That according to universal laws, a bunch of lifeless space dust and chemicals has turned into the human race, is mind-blowing.
To make a man-made machine as complex as the human body, or to make an artificial life form that can do everything a human can do is impossible, and if we made one it would probably go wrong after 10 minutes, whereas most people are fully functioning and live 70+ years without any maintenance from the manufacturer!
How the eye came about. That until a complete and functioning eye had evolved, nothing had ever been seen - the sense of vision did not exist. And nature formed this eye completely by itself without knowing what it was doing, and formed the brain structures that receive and interpret the sense data and send it to consciousness.
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