What fascinates you?

krudler

Anything that just can't know enough about? doesnt matter how big or small or what it is, mine would be stuff like

Space, its mind boggling how insignifigant we are in the universe, we're nothing, a speck on a speck somewhere in a galaxy, look at this picture:

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html

thats 1% of our galaxy, and it contains over a billion stars. there are approx 300-400 BILLION stars in the galaxy. and thats one galaxy. then this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/HubbleUltraDeepFieldwithScaleComparison.jpg

is the Hubble ultra deep field, which is over 10,000 galaxies, each containing up to billions of stars themselves. mind=blown.


Photographs, such an everyday thing, we all carry phones with cameras now but imagine the world before photohraphs. you carry a small piece of equipment that could capture something that could become an image future generations will look at. the Photos That Shook The World thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055750426

is one of the best threads on boards, there's some stunning images, both haunting and disturbing in there, some were shot off the cuff and have become iconic. its crazy to me how a moment in time can be captured on something tangible and physical.

The sea, only a tiny percentage of it has been explored by man, its inhospitable to our species yet it has the greatest amount of life on the planet in it. from barely visible organisms to something like the blue whale, its a good thing we still dont have massive sea creatures like in prehistoric times, 50 foot sharks? no thanks : http://orangemonk.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/megalodon_scale1.png

obligatory AH answer: bewbs, cos who doesnt find them fascinating.

vicwatson

2012 Bus Eireann Buses with wifi and laptop sockets

SweetCaliber

Women.

flutterflye

krudler wrote: »

Anything that just can't know enough about? doesnt matter how big or small or what it is, mine would be stuff like

Space, its mind boggling how insignifigant we are in the universe, we're nothing, a speck on a speck somewhere in a galaxy, look at this picture:

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html

thats 1% of our galaxy, and it contains over a billion stars. there are approx 300-400 BILLION stars in the galaxy. and thats one galaxy. then this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/HubbleUltraDeepFieldwithScaleComparison.jpg

is the Hubble ultra deep field, which is over 10,000 galaxies, each containing up to billions of stars themselves. mind=blown.


Photographs, such an everyday thing, we all carry phones with cameras now but imagine the world before photohraphs. you carry a small piece of equipment that could capture something that could become an image future generations will look at. the Photos That Shook The World thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055750426

is one of the best threads on boards, there's some stunning images, both haunting and disturbing in there, some were shot off the cuff and have become iconic. its crazy to me how a moment in time can be captured on something tangible and physical.

The sea, only a tiny percentage of it has been explored by man, its inhospitable to our species yet it has the greatest amount of life on the planet in it. from barely visible organisms to something like the blue whale, its a good thing we still dont have massive sea creatures like in prehistoric times, 50 foot sharks? no thanks : http://orangemonk.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/megalodon_scale1.png

obligatory AH answer: bewbs, cos who doesnt find them fascinating.

Yeah, all of that ^^^
Except boobs - they're kind of boring.

Jesus Wept

My balls.

krudler

flutterflye wrote: »

Except boobs - they're kind of boring.

get out.

Jesus Shaves

fig rolls

SafeSurfer

krudler wrote: »

Anything that just can't know enough about? doesnt matter how big or small or what it is, mine would be stuff like

Space, its mind boggling how insignifigant we are in the universe, we're nothing, a speck on a speck somewhere in a galaxy, look at this picture:

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html

thats 1% of our galaxy, and it contains over a billion stars. there are approx 300-400 BILLION stars in the galaxy. and thats one galaxy. then this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/HubbleUltraDeepFieldwithScaleComparison.jpg

is the Hubble ultra deep field, which is over 10,000 galaxies, each containing up to billions of stars themselves. mind=blown.


Photographs, such an everyday thing, we all carry phones with cameras now but imagine the world before photohraphs. you carry a small piece of equipment that could capture something that could become an image future generations will look at. the Photos That Shook The World thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055750426

is one of the best threads on boards, there's some stunning images, both haunting and disturbing in there, some were shot off the cuff and have become iconic. its crazy to me how a moment in time can be captured on something tangible and physical.

The sea, only a tiny percentage of it has been explored by man, its inhospitable to our species yet it has the greatest amount of life on the planet in it. from barely visible organisms to something like the blue whale, its a good thing we still dont have massive sea creatures like in prehistoric times, 50 foot sharks? no thanks : http://orangemonk.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/megalodon_scale1.png

obligatory AH answer: bewbs, cos who doesnt find them fascinating.

Stoned Again :rolleyes:

Yamanoto

Folks who part with actual real money to see Twink sing songs about the menopause.

Canis Lupus

Got to use a proper telescope the other day and saw Saturn. The fact that I was looking at least 1.2 million km through space and could clearly see it, it's rings and its moons was simply mindblowing. Space definitely fascinates me. It's pretty damn awesome.

Not really sure what else 'fascinates' me though.

Crimbouser

Language, the human mind, nature and towie. Ah na, joking about the last one-swear

Chuck Stone

I wouldn't know anything about that type of thing I'm afraid but I do love little kittens - they're so soft and furry.

a fat guy

How the Internet works and the material make-up of common items.

Monsieur Folie

flutterflye wrote: »

Yeah, all of that ^^^
Except boobs - they're kind of boring.

What? Boring? No they're not! Go get a girlfriend and you'll see (or if you already have one, I'm sure she's very insulted!).

I'm endlessly fascinated by Science in general. Space, as was mentioned, but also just the mass of knowledge we have acquired and are still acquiring throughout our time on the planet. It's mind boggling!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Travelling the world and experiencing different cultures, I love exploring new countries that I visit, walking around the place with a big fascinated head on me gawking at everything I see.

MrJoeSoap

This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sfnQDr1-o

xflyer

Yes all that but not boobs, more of a leg man myself.

What fascinates me is that I'm living in the future I imagined when I was a kid. Smart phones are amazing. I was near something called the 'Small Crane' recently. My son said. 'What that for, Daddy'. Instead of making something up I reached for my 'communicator', sorry smart phone and asked it what it was. There it was complete with pictures.

fonecrusher1

The seaside.

flutterflye

Monsieur Folie wrote: »

What? Boring? No they're not! Go get a girlfriend and you'll see (or if you already have one, I'm sure she's very insulted!).

Flutterflye?
Pink bunny avatar?
Finds boobs boring?
Hmmm.... And you think I'm a guy?!!
I'm neither a guy, or a lesbian.

Sarky

Microbiology is the f*cking bomb.

Diego Maradona

Mirrors

Novella

Airplanes. I actually think they're amazing.

Monsieur Folie

flutterflye wrote: »

Flutterflye?
Pink bunny avatar?
Finds boobs boring?
Hmmm.... And you think I'm a guy?!!
I'm neither a guy, or a lesbian.

My apologies, I jumped to conclusions!

You know, there are many guys with girly names and avatars online these days, 'tis hard to tell..

df1985

them space pics get me too. are will really that ignorant to think we are the only planet with life in all that? not saying theres little green men flying about the place but there has to be bacteria, plant life, water in all of that somewhere.

KKkitty

What fascinates me is my youngest son who's still not saying some words properly trying to say something to me and me wondering what he's trying to say.

Greentopia

Space definitely. It's humbling as you say to think how tiny we are in relation to what's out there. I'm interested in learning more about Physics-I saw a documentary about what's going on in CERN and I found it very interesting.

The beauty and wonder of the natural world and the other species we share our own blue planet with. In particular the most populous insect creatures on earth- ants! I love reading about them and watching documentaries about them. Amazing fascinating creatures with a huge collective intelligence.

The human brain and neurological system, and particularly things that can go wrong with it. Conditions like Tourette's and Alien Hand Syndrome fascinate me. Yes I know, I'm strange :pac:

If I wasn't in my present occupation I would have loved to study neurology.

MrJoeSoap

Frozen Planet, Life and Planet Earth. A perfect blend of the most incredible nature footage, some of the best camerawork and production values ever and David Attenborough. The man is a legend.

Giselle

I have 500 books downloaded on my Kindle.

I routinely carry 500 books around on my fascinating, beloved, little reader.

That blows my mind.

Cookie_Monster

Railways

humbert

At the moment, the swallows around my house. Of all the birds I've seen, they really make flying look fun.

cheesefiend

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Frozen Planet, Life and Planet Earth. A perfect blend of the most incredible nature footage, some of the best camerawork and production values ever and David Attenborough. The man is a legend.

His new series Kingdom of Plants on Sky Atlantic is brilliant. I think you can watch it in 3D too. My Dad received the Life collection of DVDs for Christmas a couple of years ago - I stole them straight away and he will probably never get them back.

Davidson2k9

Where little tiny parts of products are made, eg, parts of your laptop. Where/who actually makes the keys or the hinge things etc.

Dont get me started on the inside of a TV remote.

Voodoomelon

Precision engineering, how things are made, world war 2.

Dudess

Rural America, history of fashion, Cold War/nuclear strike survival, dystopian/post apocalyptic fiction, film history.

es-cee

the one thing i'm fascinated about, is music. i can't get enough of it, and can't know enough about it. and quite frankly, i can't remember the last time i went through a full day without listening to some sort of music. absolutely love it, and wouldn't be able to cope without it.

RichieC

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Stoned Again :rolleyes:

http://i.imgur.com/a1ZES.gif

Dudess

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Stoned Again :rolleyes:

Yeah Krudler, your post is clearly comprised of the ramblings of a man who has imbibed excessive cannabis.

Paparazzo

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Precision engineering, how things are made, world war 2.

The tv show How It's Made is great. Even if it's something you think you know about. There's always a few things in there where you go "oh yeah, that's how they do that".

Battered Mars Bar

At the moment it would have to be the ever increasing realisation of quantum computers.

Dudess

Time travel. Not in the scientific Hawking sense but the McFly sense.

cocalolaman

I was gonna post your first link before opening the thread. It's really inconcievable just how massive the universe is, and some people think we're the only life out there, even on a microscopic scale..

Paparazzo

Paparazzo wrote: »

The tv show How It's Made is great. Even if it's something you think you know about. There's always a few things in there where you go "oh yeah, that's how they do that".

Love that show, the scale of what's needed to give us everyday crap and pieces of plastic tat is amazing.

Dudess wrote: »

Time travel. Not in the scientific Hawking sense but the McFly sense.

Same here, always worried when I meet a girl that she may be my granddaughter.

The King of Moo

This. That I can press a few buttons on my computer, then press another button, and anyone in the world can read what I typed instantly.

When I wake up five minutes before my alarm on mornings when I need to get up early.

The fact that such a thing as life exists. I'm sure the universe would've got on just fine without it, but it happened.

Goats. They sound just like a person doing an impression of a goat. It's freaky but fascinating.

Turtwig

Life.

BUBBLE WRAP

Your Ma and bubble wrap.

yuppies

Latest estimate I read for the number of stars in the universe is 300,000 million, million, million (3 x 10^23)!

If you got a penny to represent our solar system, the sun would be like a bit of dust in the centre with the planets like smaller bits of dust, and the nearest star would be 2 football pitches away! Space is fairly empty.

Any mind-bending analogies like this to help us comprehend space, I find fascinating..

cheesefiend

People fascinate me - specifically the bonds between people. I find people's behaviours and thought processes so unbelievably baffling but also incredibly interesting.

KKkitty

Davidson2k9 wrote: »

Where little tiny parts of products are made, eg, parts of your laptop. Where/who actually makes the keys or the hinge things etc.

Dont get me started on the inside of a TV remote.

If a remote broke in my homeplace I'd take it apart to see what's inside and I did that to digital watches too.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

What fascinates me?

Fúcking everything on the internet when I'm supposed to be doing something else.

four18

Shaved Pussy

MrJoeSoap

yuppies wrote: »

Latest estimate I read for the number of stars in the universe is 300,000 million, million, million (3 x 10^23)!

If you got a penny to represent our solar system, the sun would be like a bit of dust in the centre with the planets like smaller bits of dust, and the nearest star would be 2 football pitches away! Space is fairly empty.

Any mind-bending analogies like this to help us comprehend space, I find fascinating..

300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 hydrogen atoms in the observable universe, give or take.