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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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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