What simple thing is kind of amazing when you think about it?

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Pictures (and cameras)

Like the fact you can take a picture or video of a certain things in that moment and then look at it forever is amazing to me - I'm not smart enough to know all the science behind it and it might not be all that simple but it's simple to take a photo or video but its genuinely so cool you can keep a snapshot of time.

What other things are they that are "simple" but amazing?

Recorded music is similarly mind-blowing when you think about it. A whole orchestra captured for posterity on something tiny.

Eyes. Ears. The human body generally. I sometimes get a bit overwhelmed when I think about it.

Flying. That a massive plane can get off the ground!

Omg everything!
TV, planes, cars, phones, AI. It all blows my mind.

Growing a baby inside you.
Never gets old

We have tiny machines in our cells. Real little motors. It's incredible.

Electricity. It's basically magic!

I agree, @FourEyesGood . That our eyes are so quick to refocus on different distances. It's all the more obvious how brilliant the design us when we compare it with the clunking if cameras.
And how the human body produces its own electricity supply to keep the heart beating.
And how it produces hormones in the correct and differing amounts to keep your body functioning in tip top form. The human body is just amazing engineering.
Also the different designs of so many flowers. And how perfect they are furling and unfurling.
And how we don't fall off the planet when it whizzes through space.
I just find the thought of how complex our lifeforms are and how we take it all for granted when really we're surrounded by miraculous nature every day.

Being able to go inside historic buildings and touch the same walls, handrails, look out windows and walk on the same floors that people did hundreds of years ago.

Never gets old and blows my mind.

That by pressing buttons which means that you will see dots on your phone screen, I can make you think of whatever I want.

ELEPHANT!

That every atom heavier than lithium was created inside a star millions of years ago.

If it is heavier than iron then it was created from a supernova (or colliding giant/ old stars). So that gold ring (or ear-ring etc…) was created in a massive star going kaboom.

Space. The fact that it's infinite.

And the lighter ones have been around since the Big Bang! (give or take a few seconds)

The quality, complexity and affordability of the machine called The Car and the fact that people can operate them without barely even thinking about it

Immunisations as a baby. You get a bit of the disease or mimic of the disease and your immune system launches and protects you from dying from it in the future. Amazing.

Breathing..
Anything related to creation, nature and our bodies.
We look at a watch and know that never in a million years would it just have evolved by itself. It had someone who designed it and made it.
And I look at a buttercup and know that Someone designed it. Someone made the first one. Absolutely amazing!

Antibiotics. Best. Invention. Ever.

That so much of things we consume or interact with have all been made, either in a factory or by hand. When I think the supply chains required to dress me, feed my family and furnish our house …. We’ll I can’t think of it too much.

also the history thing gets me, particularly ancient routes which you might walk without even realising. Who might have walked this path before and what their thoughts and lives might have been like I genuinely find a bit overwhelming at times. Weird what gets each of us isn’t it.

Cobwebs. So delicate, clever, beautiful and strong. HOW does a spider know what to spin?

What’s your AIBU?

Society.

I’m reading the zombie apocalypse thread and thinking that the counterpart to it is that it’s astounding how we have all banded together and made so many rules to keep each other (mostly) alive and well.

I was meant to put it in chat but there's a few threads in AIBU that aren't asking that so I'll leave it here but if it's a big deal if you report it i think the team can move it to chat :)

Breastfeeding. The way the body makes exactly what the baby needs and passes immunity to the baby. My tiny DS avoided a highly contagious infection his older sister had and her doctors put this down to breastfeeding. That someone so small, delicate and new can essentially borrow the immune system of a fully grown adult blows my mind. Also feeling the letdown when I knew the babies needed to be fed (and when hearing a baby - any baby - cry!) I haven't fed in 4 years but it still amazes me.

Seeds. You sow something that looks like dust and in a year it’s a rosette of leaves and next year it’s a 6 foot tall foxglove. How does it now?

plant a dried pea and in a few weeks time you are picking 100s of peas from one plant.

It really is amazing isn't it! Especially a tiny little cell turning into a fully formed human baby - I was really amazing my children fit inside of me when they were born haha it's amazing women's bodies just do it