What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?
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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!
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of course the shortest distance is a straight line, that's literally the definition of a straight line.
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Your comment just reminded me of a sci-fi short story about how humans solve every problem eith explosions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/16fx8tc/humans_solve_problems_with_explosions/
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What if we were able do to travel around in a robot suit that we could fully control. Oh yeah, thats a car.
