What scientific fact blows your mind the most?
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Like someone flipped a bathtub over and made it fly.
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I'm terrified of going into lakes and rivers because of what might find its way into my skin.
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thanks! love me some science pedantry.
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Engineers never really claimed that. Motivational speakers did.
Scientists admitted that their models don't show how bumblebees can generate enough lift to fly. By now, they've improved their models, taking into account that at an insect's scale, air behaves much more like water. It "appears" to be thicker because the air molecules are larger in relation to an insect than to a human. -
Exactly! If it was just magic, things seem underwhelming all of a sudden - like why couldn't you give zebras wings or laser vision? Why not have a grizzly bear with chainsaw arms on wheels? Makes nature seem arbitrarily limited and uncreative in comparison to what unlimited magic could accomplish.
(Just to be clear, this is not an argument against God btw, you could always just say "god did evolution and has reasons for not going all out with creativity)
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alien planets could be purple
So the prophecies are true...
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This fact blows my mind the most.
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Actually, there's some contradicting evidence that came up recently-sh. If you factor in the challenge of not being fried by the very incoming light you need, every photosynthesiser is about the right colour for it's environment.
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I saw that recently too. There's some bug somewhere.
If you downvote it it goes back up to zero and everything.
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I mean, you'd have to be right near a neutron star or black hole for it to add up to much AFAIK.
Even being on the moon is enough to mess up clocks, though.
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There's a possibility of using the plasma directly for inducing electrical current, actually.
But then yeah, probably steam with whatever's left.
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now that would be revolutionary!
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I mean, it's not something for nothing. You still get drag at least matching lift to conserve energy.
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Yes, we understood what you were saying.
But your IF is followed by a nonsensical statement.
It's a precondition that can't be true.
