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.

I think I know why all foods were initially tried.

Starvation.

when someone we love dies, where does all the love go? where does all their quirks, feelings, identity go? when someone who is as much a part of us as our right arm dies, where does all our feelings for them go?

I dont mean it goes on in our hearts, that's too simple, I mean where does our love for them go if they aren't here anymore?

That around 1million people are flying over the earth at any one time

That people can translate complex language. I mean it’s easy to translate ‘dog’ or ‘cow’ but how on earth do people translate words like ‘sublety’ and ‘discombobulated’ ?

When we walk around and wear out our shoes where do the bits of the shoe soles go? When you think of all the millions of shoes about and all the millions of steps taken and the worn out soles, you'd think you'd see some evidence of the soles still on the ground wouldn't you? Or is that just me 🤔

the meat thing would have been it being on a rock somewhere being prepper in the sun one day and started cooking.
or someone dropped a egg on the floor one day and it started coiking o nthe floor.
or did people mix remedies with plants and did it over a fire one day and then thought ooh what if we cook food to eat?

that im sat here typing this right now.if I think on this for too long I feel sick with how its happening!

I mean im real!

Communication flips my mind.
How morse code & telegraph involved into the vast expense of telecommunications that we have today?
How did the very first person come up with the notion of radio waves?
I mean you can't see them, so how did the person who discovered radio waves come up with the idea that they might exist?
It tickles me that my parents generation still had to book a call to Australia/NZ with the operator when they wanted to speak to friends & family over there.
And now I can just chat via messenger in real time to friends all over the world (even though we are in different time zones.)
Time zones that's another amazing thing!

Also the evolution of the aviation industry is mind blowing when you think how far it has come in the last 115 or so years.
My Gran was a small child in WW1 & she would tell me how she would look at the moon & wonder what the people who lived up there would be like. (Obviously in years to come we found out that the moon is uninhabited)
Space all of it is amazing to think that somewhere out there, there could be a planet or planets with a civilisation thats either at the same stage as us or more enhanced or less developed. And what do these life forms look like? What do they speak or how do they communicate?

See I told you communication blows my mind

@PomBearWithoutHerOFRS

I'm loving this! Mine is: we can see a certain range of colours. But there are other colours/light frequencies we can't see. They're around us, we just aren't aware of them. Maybe some people can see more than others but they don't know it. Maybe (possibly stretching it too far) if aliens come to earth, they can see the other colours??!

Also, very sad about Andy from Toy Story playing with a corpse

The thought that one day in your life your mum/dad/caregiver/guardian put you down and no one ever picked you back up again.

Whenever I'm sat in my car waiting to drive onto a ferry, and I see all the vehicles coming off it I'm always totally amazed how the ferry doesn't sink under the weight of it all.
Likewise with those big ocean liners.
I know it's all to do with ballast and stuff like that, but it still fries my brain.

Where do photos go when you delete them? How can they just not be there anymore?

Another one is the passage of time, and our view of it. I find it amazing.

I remember watching Back To The Future and thinking 1955 was "the olden days". And yet now 1985 is 34 years ago, longer than the time between 1955 and 1985 when the movie was set, and 1985 doesn't seem that long ago!

And when I was growing up in the 80s, my mum used to listen to "golden oldies" FM and it had songs like Tell Laura I Love Her, and California Dreaming and Elvis and Rolling Stones.

But now do young kids listen to Pearl Jam and think they're golden oldies? Or soundgarden? Or even Early Black Eyed Peas?

That blows my mind. I mean 20 years ago this month, the number one song was Hit Me Baby One More Time by Britney Spears... BRITNEY! That was yesterday, not two decades ago...

Nobody on earth has ever seen what's inside this banana. [Peels banana] I AM THE ONLY PERSON ON EARTH WHO HAS SEEN INSIDE THIS BANANA.

@Justwanttotravel

They didn't know. Somewhere along the line one fish was born (I know fish aren't born) with a proto version of that. It was more successful so the genes got passed on. The next fish along was a bit better adapted and so on...

Humans can't walk at birth because of the pelvis/brain ratio (human brains are so big relatively that if they stayed in the womb until the body was big enough to support them, they'd never be able to be born and it would probably kill the mother.

Early humans probably imitated other animals when it came to finding food. So early man probably saw a fox or something eating eggs and thought to try them. Plus in lean times, anything even vaguely edible was eaten.

@WoahBodyforrrm once I'm on my laptop I'll post an explanation of that.

The thing that mostly boggles my mind is what happens to clothes that aren't tumble dried. So much fluff comes out of mine. Every. Single. Cycle LOADS of fluff is in the trap. Where is the fluff coming from? Will they eventually just disintegrate if I keep tumble drying them forever? And do people who don't tumble dry their clothes have much fluffier garments?

Nevermind Andy playing with the corpse of his toys, what about when he started masturbating and they had to listen/watch?

Space always blows my mind. You can look up and see thousands of stars, and in fact there are billions of them, isn't there? And they all have potential to be suns, with planets revolving around them like in our solar system. And we can't even reach our nearest star as it is too far away.

Tattybear16 Dh and I were talking about this at lunchtime (layers of soil) watching Timeteam.
This definitely boggles him

What do we think is absolute fact right now, that some point in the future will be debunked?

lightlypoached a lot of second language learning is actually very like first language learning. We aren't born knowing words like sublety and discombobulated or even words like 'dog' 'and cow' even in our mother tongues. We build up vocabularies over the entire course of our language learning years, our entire lives.

Same with a second or third language. We learn new words from reading them, hearing them around us and there are 'rules' to any language, word patterns, words that have the same root and derivation as a word in our own language so often we can make an educated guess.

And then there are dictionaries. Dictionaries are awesome anyway, but the bilingual kind are super-awesome. Of course there are some words in one language have no exact translation in the target language so translators translate the 'sense' of words and phrases into the closest equivalent 'sense'.

You're right though, language is very clever stuff

I’ve often wondered when you lose weight, where does it go? It can’t evaporate can it ? Does it?