What blows your mind?

[doodlejump1980]

Every now and then, the whole “you are born with every egg you’ll ever ovulate” thing blows my mind. Means that my Mum also made the cells which made my twins, who were born 2 years after she died.

Radio.

There's hundreds of different radio shows all beaming out everywhere but my radio can pick one out of (literal) thin air and play it instantaneously the DJ is saying it.

(That's more relevant to FM. I have even less clue how digital radio works. Or long wave for that matter)

Witchcraft.

How man made things got their names I can understand, but Who decided that on the names for nature made things, because Someone somewhere and at sometime must have done.

That non people type of people end up doing vocations like doctoring, teaching, counselling... You name it an arse does it and they clearly hate people...

T-rex/Stegosaurus fact is awesome

Carl Sagan's the pale blue dot blows my mind.

I often think or rather get fearful that all those around me are just a figment of my imagination, and One day I could wake up and find my dd never actually existed.

Omg, the t-Rex has totally blown it for me. I can't wait to tell ds2 tomorrow. He will lose his mind

When the world will end??

How small we are. I am slightly obsessed with videos like this; and also how we know so freaking much just by looking through curved lenses at the sky above us! The prodigious quantities of knowledge we have is mind blowing, yet there is infinitely more to know!

It's often the little things that catch me out:

I'm currently watching a re-run of "Britain's Greatest Bridges". The tops of the two towers of the Humber Bridge are slightly further apart than the bottoms, yet both are absolutely vertical.

The designers had to take into account the curvature of the Earth!

Oh I completely agree about that amazing fish MrsGrindah! One of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

What blows my mind is that you can get the sound of a magnificent concert orchestra (or any music you care to mention) by running a needle through an incredibly shallow spiral pressed into a disc of plastic.

Love threads like this

@BuzzShitbagBobbly thanks for that, it was fascinating! Things like that make my brain go phhttthhhtttt. Space makes my brain just go WTF.

Also the idea that man invented the Hubble telescope that can take images of deep space. Phenomenal.

The process of conception - and more so IVF.

The needle that puts the sperm into the egg. Like we can’t SEE an egg/sperm with the naked eye, so surely you can’t see the needle that goes into the egg.

Obviously I know there is a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation for this but my mind can’t accept it

Siri/Alexa technology.

Ie. You can talk to a device, it recognises what you are saying, and then will play music, send a text (which you have just dictated), order something as requested. Spooks me out a little.

Who decided that grass was green?

Words I get as they come from the heart and feelings. However how do singers find a tune to suit the words of their song or sing they’re writing for someone. I know what I’m trying to say but I don’t think I’m explaining it very well.

Sageandroses - I think it was ME that ate the most chocolate last night to cram as much in as possible before exercise classes this week

The fact that light takes 8 minutes to get to earth,

So our 'present' time is actually 8 minutes in the past...

That the pyramids were built.
I just can't get my head around the size and precision engineering without the technology,

Also that when I say sky news to my sky q box each night, that my cat knows it's bed time.
Mind blown 🤯

That Nigel Farridge still gets on BBC Newsnight.

@thebeatofthedrum I wonder about colour perception too but when I try to explain it, I get the face...

Time distances - like the TRex one...

Cleopatra lived closer in time to now than to the buidling of the pyramids.

France was still using the Guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out

If you were to compress the entire history of earth into a single year, we would only appear on December the 31st at 11:00pm

Oxford University began teaching before Aztec civilisation.

That there could be another planet in the solar system that contains people like us who do the same things as us and they're trying to find us as much as we're trying to find them 🤯

Or! There could be another planet that is going through the first part of evolution such as dinosaurs! Arghh this is too much 🤣

Borders. How one country exists and moves into another on an artificial construct.

Space.

Time - who decided what time it was and when? Who invented the clock and knew what time it was? How did they know what day it was?

Dinosaurs

Eyes and how we see and process things.

There's so many that I try not to think about because it drives me round the bend!

When they built the pyramids their were still mammoths alive and walking around.