What makes you go 'wow'?

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At one time it was that the internet was on all the time but I suppose I've got used to that.

The thing that makes me go 'wow' and I still can't get my head around it are PAR files.
To think you can have 85 x 50 meg RAR files in front of you and one of them can be faulty. I can then download the PAR2 file, all the smaller files and the first 50 meg PAR file and it will know the information in that corrupt or missing RAR file.
This I cannot get my head around no matter how many times I've had it explained and makes me go 'wow'.

What makes you go 'wow'.
 
That guy that can remember pi to 20,000 places.

What makes me go wow is, imagine how hard it would be to know when to stop!
 
tang0 said:
lolz geeks lolz
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Is it wrong that I have an extreme urge to stick an axe in people who type "lolz"?

As for what makes me go 'wow' - hearing a Top Fuel dragster engine fire up. Never get tired of that.
 
dmpoole said:
At one time it was that the internet was on all the time but I suppose I've got used to that.

The thing that makes me go 'wow' and I still can't get my head around it are PAR files.
To think you can have 85 x 50 meg RAR files in front of you and one of them can be faulty. I can then download the PAR2 file, all the smaller files and the first 50 meg PAR file and it will know the information in that corrupt or missing RAR file.
This I cannot get my head around no matter how many times I've had it explained and makes me go 'wow'.

What makes you go 'wow'.
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this also makes me go 'wow' -and i'm not stupid but i've read how it works and still don't get it.

also, really really stupid people - some people are just, 'wow, you actually thought that?'
 
Usually it's scenery or the night sky.

On a clear night looking up, I always think it's incredible. A nice crisp frosty morning just going outside & looking at a spiders web covered in dew or frost. The low warm light and amazing colours on an autumn evening. Love them all, they all make me think "wow."
 
Tachyon said:
Usually it's scenery or the night sky.

On a clear night looking up, I always think it's incredible. A nice crisp frosty morning just going outside & looking at a spiders web covered in dew or frost. The low warm light and amazing colours on an autumn evening. Love them all, they all make me think "wow."
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Likewise :)

Autumn sunrises especially, just stunning.
 
dmpoole said:
At one time it was that the internet was on all the time but I suppose I've got used to that.

The thing that makes me go 'wow' and I still can't get my head around it are PAR files.
To think you can have 85 x 50 meg RAR files in front of you and one of them can be faulty. I can then download the PAR2 file, all the smaller files and the first 50 meg PAR file and it will know the information in that corrupt or missing RAR file.
This I cannot get my head around no matter how many times I've had it explained and makes me go 'wow'.

What makes you go 'wow'.
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I'm with you on this one. How on earth it works is far beyond me. I've had it explained to me by websites such as wikipedia and I still don't understand it. I need a layman's explanation...
 
String theory, and it's proposition of a there being a six dimensional component of our universe that is curled up into Calabi-Yau spaces many orders of magnitude smaller than we're able to probe, like this:

calabi-yau-space3.jpg


"Big Science" also has the ability to make me wet myself. Particle accelerators, experiemental Fusion reactors, large LASERs, manned space misssions. Engineering feats such as the Three Gorges Dam, skyscrapers, artificial islands. All are hallmarks of what we as a civilisation are capable of. Maths, Science & Engineering >*
 
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