Please share your mind boggling ponderings.

[Florries]

My baby is 8 months old and I find myself staring at him, thinking 'I GREW that!' I made those tiny fingers and tiny toenails. My human body actually produced another human. It's just amazing when you sit at think about it.

And what's really blown my mind is thinking that I was born with all my eggs, all ready and waiting to go - it's like I carried DS around with me my whole life until one day that particular egg desended and it met that 1 particular sperm which made DS. If it had been any of the other eggs, I could have a completely different baby!

Women's bodies are amazing.

Please share your own equally pointless but also mind bending ponderings.

@Nottheduchessofcambridge I think someone has been pulling your tooth leg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humantoothh_development

At the time we begin developing in the womb from a few cells we, on a whole have pre determined looks, height, colouring. Identical twins are amazing.

Toast, someone made bread then thought I want this but crunchy COOK IT AGAIN BUT IN A DIFFERENT WAY

Dogs having an emotional brain structure similar to ours but they are dogs?! Mind blown.

Teaching non human primates sign language?! You can effectively communicate with a gorilla? Fascinating.

Space. Even the basics about orbiting the sun at just the right distance for our life has me

Our eyebrows are there to stop sweat getting into our eyes. We be clever without even trying!

I've heard my mum's heart from the inside. Gets me every time.

Sperm. Tadpoles. Under a microscops they move in a way which seems characterful yet they are tiny specks of not a lot. What is that about? Just bonkers.

If we're descendent from monkeys, how come we don't have weird part human part monkey cross overs. Also, how come you can't mate a human and a monkey or any other animal together.

I know you can get a mule (donkey+horse) and lion+tiger crosses. Why can't you get a cat/dog? Or a human/monkey?

Why am I in THIS life, this body, etc, at what point was this decided and how? Is there like a queue of souls and it's pot luck? Like, you - human. You - bird. You- ha maggot life for you!

@x2boys - I'm hoping we'll see one of them go supernova in our lifetime- my bet' s on betelgeuse Also - the concept of a universal 'now' across space is a baffling one, especially considering you age slower during travel. It's way too late/early for this

This slim book sized device (ipad mini) I have in my hands fascinates me and fills me with awe. It’s basically a piece of glass fused to a piece of aluminum sandwiching a thin layer of ‘workings’ but it holds a whole library of books, several thousand photos and several thousand songs. I can take more photos with it, I can write books myself on it, create my own music, communicate in real time and face to face with people thousands of miles away, I can explore the stars with it and it gives me access to more sources of knowledge and news than any number of books I could fit in my house. It’s fucking amazing.

Emotions.

Why do we have them? Not all of them are fruitful or required (orgasmic pleasure? Depression? Profound anxiety?)

People who lack them are fascinating.

However, that includes nearly all of us. It’s mind-blowing how uninterested humans can be in each other’s suffering

I'm sure I read about some disturbing attempts at human/monkey hybrids....

Tbh Crimp the whole of physics was a mystery to me I got an F

There was a disturbing fictional series back in the 80,s about a gorilla /human hybrid "first born"(I think) with Charles Dance .

groundcontroltomontydon since you were apparently in 1880 or thereabouts, traffic lights probably weren’t too much of a problem.

@Qcng I don't think your answer about chameleons is right. They have cells and pigments in their skin that get manipulated, they don't shed layers to change colour!

About the monkey ancestor thing - we do have remnants e.g. coccyx and things like the appendix.

My mind boggling thing is about massive trees - it must take so much soil to grow one (plus air and water) how come the soil level doesn't change - you'd think each tree would create a big depression (even more so in our garden where we take up all the leaves and don't leave them to rot down into more soil!)

Time. Passing of time. It makes me feel nauseous when I think about it.

If one of the toys in Toy Story had died, Andy would never have known, and just carried on playing with the corpse.

@Saisong Trees and plants don't consume soil: the soil is merely a place for the plant to be. Big trees do consume a lot of water though: perhaps a few baths' worth on a warm day in spring. Think of weeds growing in odd places, such as doormats: little or no soil needed there.

From what I remember in GCSE biology: the energy to make plants and trees grow comes from the sun: the plant's leaves convert this to food by photosynthesis, as well as using water and carbon dioxide. But it is weird to think of the sunlight and water being grown into actual physical wood.

Language is an amazing thing: I can press buttons on this keyboard in front of me that put these pixels on your screen: a blue giraffe on a skateboard. And even though we have never met and no picture exists of such a thing, you reading this can picture it or at least make logical deductions from it - eg someone could reply: "someone must have painted the giraffe" or "the skateboard would break".

I have remotely created concepts in brain matter inside heads all round this island that I happen to sitting on (and beyond).

I always wondered how the first people knew how to have sex, and how terrified they must have been in childbirth as they would have had no idea what was going on. Imagine being in a huge amount of pain and then a tiny version of you appears

Inglourious - but I guess early self-aware humans would have seen animals mating and would have made the connection. However, that throws up another mind-boggle: a dumb animal goes through the process of giving birth and immediately recognises the thing it has pushed out of its body as its offspring and has the instinct to nurture it.

Trees communicate and interact with their neighbouring trees. There was also a case of two oak trees who kept alive another oak tree who was in the middle of them which had, in effect, died. It was just a stump, but it was found that its neighbours were supplying its roots and stump with nutrients, thus keeping it alive.

@Florries What is even MORE mind boggling re eggs - essentially when you were a babe in the womb, your son was in the womb of your mother too!

Who really runs the world

Gormet Girls. According to Beyonce.

with all that Illuminati symbolgy I guess she'd know

Symbology even