What can't you wrap your head around?

[RosieLemonade]

For me it's how colour works. The whole part with reflecting light. Just how can that be true? (I know it is)

@Love2cycle I'm not a fan of that thought. I am a child of the 70s the 80s were not that long ago... (yes I know they are really, but my brain refuses to agree)

How deceptive the human ego is. Given that we are very very insignificant, only live for an infinitesimal amount of time and have no real power beyond the natural ability to reproduce it's a wonder that we spend the majority of our lives slaving away to our egos, which are so massively out of proportion to the reality of the human condition that they do us more damage than good.

I once read this on MN and can't quite remember the exact details....... but the average person is only known/remembered for about 3 generations or so, then forgotten by the world, disappearing into oblivion.
I'm compiling my family tree, so doing my bit to remember some of these forgotten people.

Love. Real heart breaking love.
Think I've just been hurt too much in the past :(

[quote Cam77]@SpikeDearheart
Yep. Folks living in our nearest neighbouring galaxy would see, if they had a powerful enough telescope, daily life on Earth 2.5 million years ago. Space is Big.[/quote]
Wait what? I can't wrap my head around this 😂

How 'light years' works.

The fact that we can’t be sure that history/historical ‘facts’ are real and happened the way it was written.
Even today, perhaps even more so, things can be manipulated so easily and unless you are watching something in real time with your own eyes, you can’t actually be sure it happened as reported.

@Tupperwarelid

How do fax machines work?

Why do we speak different languages? If humans are one species why do we have different languages?

Why is an orange called an orange but a lemon isn’t called a yellow?

I always thought a fax was just the same as an email but it got printed automatically? Or is it more like a physical copy is photocopied, then someone else’s printer prints it out at their end? Hah 😄 not something we need to worry about at least, given they died out before I was born haha.

How the 90s was over 3 decades ago

Physics. The laws of the universe are baffling. I remember the first lesson I had about atoms - I thought but how do you know? It’s almost easier to believe in a big man with a beard in the sky. Only who made him?

Yeah and the sky. Light years. Stars.

On a more mundane level, how people can get Oxbridge firsts or have brains the sizes of planets and then seem not to be terribly clever or wise, just to have a really ordinary blundering sort of intelligence of the sort we all have. Like David Cameron or Dominic Cummings.

How running a needle through a shallow spiral on a disc of plastic can give you the full sound of a symphony orchestra. More baffling than radio or wi fi to me.

Micro decisions
They are the things you do unconsciously that contribute to proper decisions. I got up this morning put slippers on went down stairs.
Micro decisions that I didn't think about which slipper first, then which foot first to step down the stairs, did I hold on to bannister or not.I did all these things without thinking about them.
We make millions of these each day and never think about them

Hahaha @JaneJeffer muslin squares and muslims lol

The ending of Trading Places.

@HotHointheavo

How someone can hate someone simply because they have a different faith, sexual preference or skin colour

This.

I always wonder what language people who are fluent in multiple tongues think in. I tried asking someone once who was raised trilingually and she looked at me like this

My inner monologue is very wordy so maybe it's that hers wasn't? So it didn't make sense?

HOw a needle works in a sewing machine. It goes up and down but still catches the thread like magic.

Another one, how someone knows where Madeleine McCann is, yet it's just a complete mystery to the world.

@BoredNewsOfTheWorld

Perhaps because thinking is wordless a lot of the time? Or is that feelings?

Anyway, someone asked my trilingual friend from school once and she seemed to understand and said that it depended where she was. If she was in France she thought in french, in England in English. Her first language was Swahili, but I only ever heard her speak this in dreams (apart from when she spoke to her parents).

The olden days! Like the Vikings and Tudors etc, how do we know it's real? No one on the planet was here to remember it!

The internet, electricity, colours, how are brains work, growing a baby!

The list is very long

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult 🤣🤣🤣

Making a home nice. I see stuff I like but can't make it work at home. How do people do it?
I'm 57 and still live in a shabby house and I hate it.

The vastness of space for me too. The Brian Cox documentary at the weekend said the milky way, our disk shaped galaxy takes 250 MILLION YEARS to go around once. Humankind as we know it has not existed for one tenth of one percent of a single rotation of our home galaxy.

That the year 2000 was over 20 years ago.
That’s 2 decades !

@PopsicleHustler

Hahaha *@JaneJeffer* muslin squares and muslims lol

I once went to buy cleansing cloths at M&S and they didn’t have any. The shop assistant suggested I ‘cut a baby Muslim in half.’

Bit harsh, I thought.

(I didn’t have the heart to tell her, I just made sure I said ‘muslin’ very clearly about three times before I left the store).