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what makes you go 'how the feck'?

  • 17-06-2009 08:39PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    my laptop is broke so i'm using my itouch for all internet, email and facebook..

    just lookin at it here nd i jus dont get how all the information in the world is in the palm of my hand.. it is crazy like..
    another thing i dont get is how a litre of liquid can make a car travel so far.. some very smart people got us to where we are today


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  • #2
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Yeah and some very smart people will take us to where we end up =p

    Airplanes have always fascinated me, even though I know how it works. It truly is amazing


  • #3
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    My dad had a triple heart bypass, and the idea that they cracked him open, and scooped his insidey bits out and fixed them makes me go WHOOOAAA!!!


  • #4
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Sounds stupid, but CDs/MP3... just the fact that you can record something as individual as someone's voice.. I dunno

    Photographs, the internet, porn... they're all amazing when you think about it


  • #5
    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    Sending an sms to the other side of the world and you get a delivery report almost straight away. WTF :confused:


  • #6
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    every time i eat a fig roll


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  • #7
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    Logging on to Ticketmaster at 9.00am on the spot and still missing out on Faith No More tickets yet people somehow managed to buy 8 tickets in stores as late as 9.15am. What the fcuk:mad:


  • #8
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Nothing, I know all things.


  • #9
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    the science/math behind landing on the moon, or getting a probe to land on Mars etc. , not the engineering so much just the calculations involved

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #10
    Jesus Juice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭Jesus Juice


    What amazes is how ipods and computers play music!
    its all 1's and 0's really:pac:


  • #11
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    phasers wrote: »
    Nothing, I know all things.

    Typical woman


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  • #12
    Jesus Juice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭Jesus Juice


    RonMexico wrote: »
    Logging on to Ticketmaster at 9.00am on the spot and still missing out on Faith No More tickets yet people somehow managed to buy 8 tickets in stores as late as 9.15am. What the fcuk:mad:
    Thats just a pain in the arse!


  • #13
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    computers...... like how the converter binary 10110101000101100 into a picture and letters etc...
    i know how it works but it is amazing


    and the internet.... just crazy like online gaming 32 ppl all in real time doing diffrent things


  • #14
    Pop's Diner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Pop's Diner


    I still find Google maps/earth/streetview endlessly entertaining. The idea that I can get satelite and pov images of all the major cities in the world is quite liberating.

    Air travel is another facinating concept. I like the idea that I can be in New York in in 5 hours where it would have taken anywhere from 40-80 days to achieve the trip by boat 150 years ago.

    Another added value of both of the above is that I believe they are both in their infancy and much further improvement is on the way.


  • #15
    PinkTulips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭PinkTulips


    the thought that baby girls are born with their ovaries full of eggs which means i've had my future grandchildren inside my womb when pregnant with my daughter.... like some freaky russian doll of human biology.

    the internet and tv.... i mean HOW? i mean i know the science but i still can't get my head around how all that information can be flying through the air or down tiny cables all around us.


  • #16
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    Air travel is another facinating concept. I like the idea that I can be in New York in in 5 hours where it would have taken anywhere from 40-80 days to achieve the trip by boat 150 years ago.

    and it takes longer to drive to derry than to fly to south of spain/ north africa


  • #17
    bonkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭bonkers


    the fact that horses can talk but only on their holidays, makes me think, to be honest that anything is possible


  • #18
    Lilyblue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭Lilyblue


    The human body, Conception & Pregnancy just amazes me. Where does your soul go when you die?


  • #19
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Humankind.

    We get a bad rep most of the time; we pollute, we eliminate species, we exhaust the planet's resources. But I see it this way - we conquered a whole bloody planet. What other animal even came close. Dolphins my ass.


  • #20
    ya-ba-da-ba-doo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭ya-ba-da-ba-doo


    I just think how the body works is amazing. The way we get energy from food and drink.. The way chemicals can make us do wierd things.. Like the way helium makes our voices squeaky! And all them tiny little cells in us.. Ah its really fascinating i think.


  • #21
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    When I pick up my dole every week I wonder how the hell this country hasn't been declared bankrupt.


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  • #22
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    I like the idea that I can be in New York in in 5 hours where it would have taken anywhere from 40-80 days to achieve the trip by boat 150 years ago.

    Another added value of both of the above is that I believe they are both in their infancy and much further improvement is on the way.
    Hate to break this to you but apart from the 14 Concorde, trans atlantic passenger aircraft haven't gotten much faster since the 707 back in 1958
    so things have stayed the same for most of the history of heavier than air flight.


    The little dot on your TV screen moves left to right 575 times per frame and there are 25 frames a second and back when we only had RTE then at any one time the little dot was in the same position on every TV in the country.

    How they supressed nearly half of the TV signal to save nearly half the bandwidth without affecting the picture and then How they managed to add colour to the TV signal that was already full, without affecting people with mono tellys and then How they then added NICAM stereo to the TV signal that was already very full.



    Using delay lines in SECAM

    The French having a 737 line TV system in the 1940's - 720 lines is considered HD today !

    Using mercury delay lines in early computers to store data
    bubble memory - used in cruise missiles - don't really get how it works to me it seems like a magnetic delay line


  • #23
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Photographs.
    I love the way I can capture a moment in time & that no one else will get the same picture.
    It leaves an insight behind for future generations to look at. Every photo you take is history on some level.
    I love old photographs, even if it's of people I don't know.

    I know how it happens but I still think it's amazing.


  • #24
    aoibhebree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭aoibhebree


    The Transporter :confused:


  • #25
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    The FLUX CAPACITOR - now, thats some yoke.


  • #26
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    Surprised nobody has mentioned Stone Henge, the pyramids and the big one - the creation of the universe.


  • #27
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »
    Surprised nobody has mentioned Stone Henge, the pyramids and the big one - the creation of the universe.


    Meh....


  • #28
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »
    Surprised nobody has mentioned Stone Henge, the pyramids and the big one - the creation of the universe.

    your entitled to say that and are, if you wish, entitled to lick your own arse and call it chocolate


  • #29
    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭Armin_Tamzarian


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    your entitled to say that and are, if you wish, entitled to lick your own arse and call it chocolate

    What seems to be the officer problem?


  • #30
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »
    Surprised nobody has mentioned Stone Henge, the pyramids and the big one - the creation of the universe.

    What about Newgrange? Older than both of those =p

    Actually, having visited it more than once I must say that it is something that makes me think how the feck did they do that?!


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  • #31
    bobcar61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭bobcar61


    This

    Just how the hell do they do it.


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