What scientific fact blows your mind the most?
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After you die, the carbon atoms that made you might go on to make another living thing.
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At least is a heavy lifting qualifier in this case.
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I mean... You're not exactly wrong.
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The basic way an airplane works actually is simple and intuitive: it meets the air at an angle and deflects it downward. The equal and opposite reaction to accelerating that mass of air is an upward force on the wing.
There is, of course a whole lot of finesse on top of that with differences in wing design having huge impacts on the performance and handling of aircraft due to various aerodynamic phenomena which are anything but simple or intuitive. A thin, flat wing will fly though, and balsa wood toy airplanes usually use exactly that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#Simplified_physical_explanations_of_lift_on_an_airfoil
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Ahhh I misremembered. It was this "The average carbon atom in our bodies has been used by twenty other organisms before we get to it and will be used by other organisms after we die."
It's been six years since that class.
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Yea, I misremembered it. It was in my book from a while back. Here we go:
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Except bees. Engineers reckon they shouldn’t be able to fly, but bees told them to get fucked and do it anyway
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What I find mind blowing about the scale of the universe, is that on a logarithmic scale from the smallest possible thing to the largest possible thing, humans live at almost the exact centre.
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the implication of einsteins mass-energy equivalence formula is mind-blowing to me. one gram of mass, if perfectly converted to energy, makes 25 GWh. that means half the powerplants in my country could be replaced with this theoretical "mass converter" going through a gram of fuel an hour. that's under 10 kilograms of fuel a year.
a coal plant goes through tons of fuel a day.
energy researchers, get on it
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As you established that is not true, however you can add some of that carbon from some body and add it to the iron from the blood of 400 other human bodies so you can forge one nice sword.
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The fact that there is no discernable difference between an alive body or a dead body when it comes to chemical makeup.
All the pieces are there. All the atoms and molecules are still in the same places. Yet despite this the body is still dead.
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When you say "All the atoms and molecules are still in the same places", I can't say I agree. It is the change of chemical composition that renders our body dead. Or should I say, death is defined to be such a chemical composition.
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Just like my codebase.
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"With a big enough engine you can make a barn door fly."
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Existing nuclear energy, too.
