What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?
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So amazing, the amount of incredible science we've been able to do with the Voyager program.
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Lightning trapped in sand etc. I used to play a kids game called Turing Tower which shows how all logic operations can be replicated with little plastic seesaws and marbles. If you put the bits of plastic on the board in the right way you can see marbles falling by gravity performing binary addition. It blows my mind that that's all that's going on in my PC, just a trillion times the scale. I've worked in IT all my life and it continually surprises me that any of this stuff even works.
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Really makes me wonder what cybernetics will look like in a hundred, a thousand(!) years. No-one can experience someone else's consciousness. But if an artificial brain extension generated consciousness the same way we do and if it could be swapped between people safely. It might be the first time we have something saying, objectively, it has experienced being both of us in each of our brains and we see "red" the same way. The mind boggles...
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The aviation industry can absorb a whole lot of sin before they're on equal danger footing with automotive, if for no other reason than sheer volume. Most people, unless you fly constantly for work, get on a plane once a year or less. Most people drive to work almost every day. Roads have traffic, the skies do not (at least, not nearly to the same extent, midair collisions can happen but they're rare).
I have no doubt the skies are about to become noticeably less safe, but they've got a looooot of catching up to do before they dethrone the automobile as one of the top 3 leading causes of death in America.
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Has anyone ever sent you nudes cause of your name?
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Isn't it still a straight line from the perspective of someone travelling it? It just appears curved because you're looking at it from outside the curved surface.
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Well, hardly ever.
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Alternatively, if sound worked in a vacuum, the way light does, The Sun would be the loudest thing in the solar system.
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I'm fortunate enough to live in a walkable neighborhood. When I moved here walkability didn't really factor in; I have friends here and I liked the apartment.
Man, it is so nice. I definitely appreciate it now and will try to factor it in in the future. I am absolutely convinced that walkability fosters community and cars reinforce social isolation.
I still have my car but I consider it and driving a burden. If I had to replace it I'm pretty sure I wouldn't.
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I'm pretty sure in that case the sound alone would kill us..
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it's the lactose tolerance pyramid scheme
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to be fair, most of the calculations were done on Earth
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Voyager 1 is the antithesis of planned obsolescence¹, with it long outlasting its mission
¹the real kind, no the meme kind liberals often say that things are the result of
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In the staff fridge at work someone used to label their milk as "breast milk" and people would go eeeww. Like it was snot or something. But from a cow's breasts? Fine! So weird.
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Homelessness. But I don't occasionally think about it. I see it every day. In the richest nation in recorded history.
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Well humans do be gross
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It's always been a rich man's country. All for one, none for all.
