There are those times in life when you suddenly stop and think just how astonishing some of the seemingly common things around us are. I mean, we can now reach almost anyone in the world in a matter of seconds, while people in the past used to send actual pigeons.And worldwide connectivity is only the tip of a massive iceberg. In this Reddit thread, people share all sorts of things that only seem ordinary until they take a moment and realize just how crazy they really are. Drop down below and check out what they are!More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
There are those times in life when you suddenly stop and think just how astonishing some of the seemingly common things around us are. I mean, we can now reach almost anyone in the world in a matter of seconds, while people in the past used to send actual pigeons.
And worldwide connectivity is only the tip of a massive iceberg. In this Reddit thread, people share all sorts of things that only seem ordinary until they take a moment and realize just how crazy they really are. Drop down below and check out what they are!
More info:Reddit
This post may includeaffiliate links.
I carry a computer in my pocket with more processing power than the one that took us to the moon. It also has a built in camera, telephone, internet connection, and video games.
Being able to chat with someone on the other side of the world any time you like.
Some people can just grow another human inside them and squirt it out and it eventually just starts doing stuff on its own. Absolutely mental.
Modern transportation.We used to walk everywhere or at best, ride a horse and then eventually in a carriage. Traveling took weeks, months, and years; not mere minutes, hours, or days. We can cross oceans and mountain ranges; objects that were barriers completely for a long time.We have cars that drive themselves and train services that operate without drivers. We can now go places without doing anything.It’s amazing.
Google Maps - possibly the most impressive piece of software ever. Requires an entire network of satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
Most people lose consciousness for about 1/3 of the day to hallucinate vividly.
People. Ghosts driving meat covered skeletons made from stardust. What are we.
Life itself really. The fact that chemicals somehow combined at the right time. temperature, and energy level to form the basics of organic life is mind boggling. It’s something we humans take for granted.I think Monty Python very eloquently states it in The Galaxy Song in the movie “The Meaning of Life”:“So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecureHow amazingly unlikely is your birthAnd pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space’Cause it’s bugger all down here on Earth”
Planes. People usually don’t look twice but c’mon. That’s upwards of over 1 million pounds of metal, equipment and cargo just flying through the air like it’s paper. Imagine your car flying. It seems impossible yet there’s aircraft that can carry many many many many models of any car like it’s nothing. It’s one thing they fly in the first place but for example, a Boeing 747 can take off carrying more weight than it itself weighs, which I believe at max load is pushing 1,000,000 pounds. This plane can take off weighing about the same as 312 Nissan Altimas. Is that not crazy to anybody else? Don’t even get me started on the engines they use. The Boeing 777 uses the GE90-115B. ONE of those engines alone produces upward of 115,000 pounds of thrust and it has TWO of them.Edit: just to add to it, the 747 bone dry weighs about 412,000 pounds depending on exact model. It can take off weighing 970,000lbs. It weighs 412,000 and can take off loaded with an ADDITIONAL 558,000 pounds. That is literally unimaginable weight. And it lifts off the ground like a damn feather. If you don’t think that’s crazy idek of anything realistically crazier.
Nearly every night you can go outside, look up, and observe in fine detail an astronomical body that’s larger than Pluto, glowing brightly, floating around us. More than 50 years ago, humans traveled there on a giant bottle rocket, walked around, took some pics, got back on the boom tube, and rode it back to Earth.
U.S. healthcare system.People just spend $100s a month for health insurance so they can..hopefully avoid to ever going to a medical facility.And those are the people that vote AGAINST universal healthcare.It’s legit insane behavior.
Ordering something huge and having at your door the next day.
We let people drive these massive machines that can go high rates of speed and cause enormous damage and don’t really retest their abilities beyond a renewal or minimal testing.
You can go into a store any day of the week year-round and it will be stocked with milk, eggs, meats, fresh produce, breads of all kind, untold varieties of frozen and dry foods, virtually any spice or seasoning you can think of, coffee, tea, etc etc etcTo think that for most of western human civilization people ate bread made from the local staple grain and not much else..
Honestly, an old school answer but mail. The US mail system isn’t perfect but the fact that I can mail a letter to my in-laws that live across the country and they get it in 2-3 days is crazy.
Hearts. How a muscle in your body just keeps repolarizing over and over again to pump blood throughout your body over and over, years on end is just crazy to me. Everyone has one and doesn’t think about it unless there are issues. But, it is really wild to think about.
The concept of HOA. You are basically paying someone every month to tell you what you can and can’t do with your property and if you get tired of them and disobey them, they TAKE your property away from you.
Water is the only common material we know of that expands when it turns solid instead of compressing. Wild stuff. Imagine if ice sank.
Drinking a cow’s breast milk
21% of our planet’s atmosphere is made of plants burps.
The logistics of food delivery.Billions of people rely on food being transported from its sources (farm, abattoir, fishery, etc.) all over the world, to local vendors on a daily basis. It happens so reliably that most people don’t give it a second thought, nor give a thought to what would happen if it stopped.
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We really still don’t 100% know how anesthesia works. We have good theories and practice logs but the root of it is still a mystery.
Mobile phone. You have whole world’s information in ur pocket
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LEDs.And white LEDs are downright bonkers.Those of you that are a bit older also remember when EVERYTHING suddly had blue LEDs, that was due to that was the last primary colour that we figured out how to mass produce cheaply-ish at scale (in the early 1990s, we didn’t even figure out how to make a blue one at all until 1972).
Freezers… dishwashers… washing machines… all the appliances.
The president. It’s amazing hiw we can elect someone to the highest office in the land, then watch them screw up the entire country with absolutely no consequences to themselves.
Toilet paper. If you pick up poo with your hands, you don’t just wipe it of with paper.
Facetime. Its like the Jetsons.
Instead of just buying one home, and living in it, and paying your little mortgage, if you really want to, you can buy a bunch of homes before anyone else gets the chance, and then you can charge people pretty much any amount of money you want to live in those homes temporarily, and then, if you really want to, you can just make them homeless and ruin their life. And then you can post an ad and do the exact same thing to someone else. And people will just keep signing up to let you screw them like that because it’s not like they can buy their own home, you already bought them all!
Government corruption
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