What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?
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Last I heard we're still in contact with Voyager 1
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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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And because everyone's glob of neurons is independent from each other, we have no way of conclusively determining if everyone's glob interprets things the same way.
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Airplanes. Like I get that we can make them stay up, but we can steer them?? Across entire continents and oceans? What the entire fuck
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Was kind of mind blowing moment when I was old enough to pay attention to the main underlying plot line of Who Framed Rodger Rabbit being about killing off public transport for cars. Like it is very clearly stated throughout the movie, but as a child it just went over my head. Not like I didn't pay attention to when it was being talked about, just not able to appreciate the meaning. I also am from a more rural area, so things like public transportation were not something I interacted with outside of seeing it on TV shows and movies.
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Even weirder is that the most efficient way to steer them is not in straight lines. Because the most efficient way to traverse a sphere is on a slight curve.
Get a string and pick two points along the equator on a globe. Stretch the string tight. It’ll bend into a slight curve (instead of following the equator) as you pull it, because the shortest distance between two points on a globe is not a straight line.
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And some of those parts cost less than a penny to produce or even purchase when done in bulk!
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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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This is wild. Good share!
This seems like it would make for a good Wikipedia article, but am I could find was this section:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia_hominivorax#Control
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They are made of steel, lmao... how silly do they think we are.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
Is the inspiration behind it, I think.
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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.
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Reminds me of the Asgard from Stargate and how there advanced race was surprised about how we us explosives to propel a bullet and "primitive" things they never really thought of or considered because there dangerous.
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It’s insane how wasteful modern software is. The infinite growth mindset causes companies to pack more useless features into software and load it up with spyware and adware.
Google and Facebook’s tracking and ad software are a big cause of computing waste in most websites and mobile apps.
