What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?
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If you think driving's weird, think about flying, too. We put several tons of that explode-y liquid, along with a bunch of people, into a big metal tube and shoot it into the sky. And we made that form of transportation several orders of magnitude safer than driving.
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You don't need to worry about crashing. You'll be protected by an unmaintained bomb that can inflate a pillow faster than you can travel 18 inches at 70 mph yet somehow never goes off accidentally.
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Gravity and breathing
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Supply chains. It’s mindblowing how that patch of cabbage got to the produce section at your grocery store. Or how the parts of that gadget you bought at best buy were sourced, assembled, and shipped to the store. Some products that have multiple parts are shipped multiple times across countries, sometimes back and forth, as they get built and assembled by different factories.
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The vastness of time and space.
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Yeah, they even employed weavers to make the memory units, because it was easier than training factory workers to deal with such thin wire.
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We can't even collectively agree on most topics, yet we put our lives in each others' hands every day.
Yeah, someone can do a lot of damage simply by ignoring the double yellow divider on a two-way highway.
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The USA drops approximately 15-20 million sterilized worms on Panama every day. Yes you read that right, it’s The Great American Worm Wall.
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I just looked this up because I didn't believe you, but you aren't spinnin' tales, my friend. This is true, and it's blowing my mind. Thank you for sharing this fact!
