Things you understand but don't accept

Potential-Monke · 13-08-2019 06:14PM #1

Bit of pointless conversation of a Tuesday. Having a chat at work, and specifically about flying vs taking a boat. I'm lucky enough to understand how both of these methods of transport work, but I'm far more accepting of planes working, but I don't accept the buoyancy of boats. I understand the theory behind it, but my brain won't let me accept that displacement and buoyancy keep 60000+ tonnes of metal floating!

I'm not denying that's how it works, people way more learned than me researched, conceived and put into practice how they work, but my brain is like nope, can't happen, you can't float 60000 tonnes of metal in water.

Another at work is the opposite, completely understanding of boats but won't accept how planes work.

So, is there anything that you know makes sense but you (your brain) just won't accept it?

Salary Negotiator · 13-08-2019 06:21PM

Cranes, I understand the physics and the law of the lever but I’m still surprised that they don’t fall over more often.

the beer revolu · 13-08-2019 06:23PM

The Gulf Stream.
Water is fecking freezing around Ireland.
Gulf Stream me b0llix

Tammy! · 13-08-2019 06:24PM

The existence of Stonehenge.

careless sherpa · 13-08-2019 06:25PM

Storybots will explain all of the important stuff

maudgonner · 13-08-2019 06:26PM

The Monty Hall problem. Feckin' head melter.

vintagecosmos · 13-08-2019 06:27PM

Schrodinger's Cat...

Water John · 13-08-2019 06:30PM

Oh, you brought it back to life, again!!!

13-08-2019 06:34PM

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

Cranes, I understand the physics and the law of the lever but I’m still surprised that they don’t fall over more often.

I think a crane collapsed on the Kevin Street Library (in town, yaknow?) when it was being refurb'd.

I can't understand that, because an undergraduate engineering student should easily be easily able to calculate capacity etc. It's strange that it happens at all

Salary Negotiator · 13-08-2019 06:38PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think a crane collapsed on the Kevin Street Library (in town, yaknow?) when it was being refurb'd.

I can't understand that, because an undergraduate engineering student should easily be easily able to calculate capacity etc. It's strange that it happens at all

I remember that, pretty much what I expect to happen with every crane.

the beer revolu · 13-08-2019 06:40PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think a crane collapsed on the Kevin Street Library (in town, yaknow?) when it was being refurb'd.

I can't understand that, because an undergraduate engineering student should easily be easily able to calculate capacity etc. It's strange that it happens at all

Crane came down in Cork, in a storm some years ago.

Potential-Monke · 13-08-2019 07:20PM

Tammy! wrote: »

The existence of Stonehenge.

stratowide · 13-08-2019 07:24PM

vintagecosmos wrote: »

Schrodinger's Cat...

It's still alive or maybe not..

jaxxx · 13-08-2019 07:50PM

Humanity.

Oh wait that should be the opposite actually, i.e. accept but don't understand.

Arghus · 13-08-2019 08:09PM

maudgonner wrote: »

The Monty Hall problem. Feckin' head melter.

Jesus, why did you have to bring this into my life.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 13-08-2019 08:13PM

How we ended up with a gay taoiseach negotiating a backstop.

mickdw · 13-08-2019 08:54PM

The easiest way I can explain metal floating is this.
Take a piece of wood. Example 1m x 225mm x 75mm
It will float as it's less dense than water. Everyone gets that.
Now take a piece of steel exactly the same dimensions. It will sink straight to the bottom. Now go to work on that piece of steel keeping the bottom and sides intact but hollow it out from the top. Hollow it all out until the piece weighs the same as the timber mentioned earlier. It will now float the same as the timber.
The timber floats cause it displaces more water in terms of weight than it weighs. The steel will m float as it too now displaces more than it weighs.
Alot of people seem to think the whole theory of steel boats floating is down to the shape of the hull.

TheValeyard · 13-08-2019 08:57PM

Footballers make more than scientists and Doctors

Upforthematch · 13-08-2019 09:04PM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

So, is there anything that you know makes sense but you (your brain) just won't accept it?

Maths concepts such as infinity, zero, limits, matrices, complex numbers.

Take infinity. Like what is infinity? Why is a finite world understood better using the concept of infinity?

It's really cool that the world can be figured mathematically. No wonder Pythagoras and his buddies treated numbers with awe.

Upforthematch · 13-08-2019 09:05PM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

So, is there anything that you know makes sense but you (your brain) just won't accept it?

Other things:
Market economics
Why advertising works
Healthy eating, why is all the tasty stuff bad!

jaxxx · 13-08-2019 09:07PM

Upforthematch wrote: »

Maths concepts such as infinity, zero, limits, matrices, complex numbers.

Take infinity. Like what is infinity? Why is a finite world understood better using the concept of infinity?

It's really cool that the world can be figured mathematically. No wonder Pythagoras and his buddies treated numbers with awe.

Finite: Earth
Infinite: Universe

Exhibit A:

Don't be ashamed if you sh*t yourself. I do everytime I watch that. Trying to comprehend something on such a scale is mind breaking.

Upforthematch · 13-08-2019 09:23PM

jaxxx wrote: »

Finite: Earth
Infinite: Universe

Exhibit A:

Don't be ashamed if you sh*t yourself. I do everytime I watch that. Trying to comprehend something on such a scale is mind breaking.

That was cool. On that topic, my brain can't accept Pluto is no longer a planet. Mvemjsunp just isn't the same without the P

Your Face · 13-08-2019 09:30PM

Dying.

riclad · 13-08-2019 10:16PM

Advertising is very simple,
if you go to a shop with 50 brands you are likely to buy a brand you have heard of ,rather than brand x.
Also many brands are status symbols ,
carrying an apple iphone indicates you can afford to buy a 500 euro phone rather than a 100 euro phone .
Also adverts are aimed at retailers , shops are more likely to stock
a product if they know it exists and it is widely advertised
so consumers will ask for it instead of a cheaper item.
When the ipod was invented ,apple spent millions on ad,s
,heres a device that plays music , its easy to use .
And it,s designed to work with software on pcs and mac,s .
People spend 200 euro on a sneaker cos it has a brand name on it ,
like nike,
a brand that spends millions of euro,s on adverts .
Not all adverts work,
but people at least know the product is avaidable to buy.
new coke , as in coca cola , was heavily advertised , but no one liked it or bought it.

corner of hells · 13-08-2019 10:20PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think a crane collapsed on the Kevin Street Library (in town, yaknow?) when it was being refurb'd.

I can't understand that, because an undergraduate engineering student should easily be easily able to calculate capacity etc. It's strange that it ha"ppens at all

l was on a building site years ago , when one collapsed.

Pretty certain an Irish 100 metre sprint record was broken by a few of us that morning.

RebelButtMunch · 13-08-2019 10:21PM

Tammy! wrote: »

The existence of Stonehenge.

It was in bits.
They fixed it right up years ago.

mickdw · 13-08-2019 10:26PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Salary Negotiator wrote: »

Cranes, I understand the physics and the law of the lever but I’m still surprised that they don’t fall over more often.

I think a crane collapsed on the Kevin Street Library (in town, yaknow?) when it was being refurb'd.

I can't understand that, because an undergraduate engineering student should easily be easily able to calculate capacity etc. It's strange that it happens at all

The last one I remember falling over was due to it being locked at a certain position overnight instead of being allowed to freely rotate with the wind. Wind then caught it side on and took it down.

Goodshape · 13-08-2019 10:26PM

jaxxx wrote: »

Finite: Earth
Infinite: Universe

Exhibit A:
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Don't be ashamed if you sh*t yourself. I do everytime I watch that. Trying to comprehend something on such a scale is mind breaking.

I'm sleep deprived and stressed about a work thing and just seeing that thumbnail has reminded me of that video and how everything I know is tiny and futile and I don't like it.

You bastard.

the14thwarrior · 13-08-2019 11:04PM

If eating wheat and bran and oats reduces the odds of getting cancer or having a heart attack
and exercising reduces the odds
and not drinking and smoking reduces the odds
and eating five veg and fruit a day reduces the odds
and doing yoga and mindfullness and relaxing and being positive and all that reduces the odds
not to mention wheat grass and the other really really really healthy food that you can put in a smoothie and turns everything green reduces the odds
and not bar b queing and having fresh air
having a pet and don't eat smoked rashers or hot dogs
and doing all this and more reduces the odds

if ya put them together and do it all the time, why do these people get heart attacks and cancer? are they just extremely unlucky?

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 13-08-2019 11:07PM

the14thwarrior wrote: »

If eating wheat and bran and oats reduces the odds of getting cancer or having a heart attack
and exercising reduces the odds
and not drinking and smoking reduces the odds
and eating five veg and fruit a day reduces the odds
and doing yoga and mindfullness and relaxing and being positive and all that reduces the odds
not to mention wheat grass and the other really really really healthy food that you can put in a smoothie and turns everything green reduces the odds
and not bar b queing and having fresh air
having a pet and don't eat smoked rashers or hot dogs
and doing all this and more reduces the odds

if ya put them together and do it all the time, why do these people get heart attacks and cancer? are they just extremely unlucky?

Genetics. Of course a bad lifestyle can overcome good genetics and a good one compensate for it.

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 13-08-2019 11:08PM

I kinda want to explain monty Hall now.

Things you understand but don't accept

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