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Ordinary things that are amazing.

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    #122
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,260 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    A cold pillow.


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    #123
    Duggy747
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    100 years from now Facebook will have the accounts of 500 million dead people.


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    #124
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    slavedave wrote: »
    That even the most intelligent people only use a fraction of their brain power.
    That people still believe this...

    http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-self-illusion/201206/why-you-dont-use-only-use-fraction-your-brain


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    #125
    real_irishken
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭real_irishken


    I was always fascinated about how so much symmetry that can be found in nature...and the universe for that matter.


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    #126
    Nulty
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    ror_74 wrote: »
    You can fit a million earths inside our sun. And if our sun where the size of a grapefruit, canis majoris ( the largest known star ) would be the size of wembley stadium.

    Big Dawg?


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    #127
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    the sensation felt when your clitoris/knob is stimulated. a simple gentle touch can cause so much pleasure


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    #128
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    The internet :). (I don't know if it's ordinary)
    Technology/computers.
    The moon .
    Animals/wildlife in different habitats and how they act such as lions , dolphins or polar bears and many others.


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    #129
    [Deleted User]
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    I am sitting on a bus typing this on a phone that can fit in the palm of my hand. When I press send reply, people around the country can see it in less than a second. On the same device I can open an application that can tell me exactly where I am in the world, precise to a few metres. Something like that was unimaginable a few years ago.


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    #130
    Eathrin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    We didn't know what existed beyond our homes thousands of years ago, now in a few short taps, anybody on Earth can be potentially reading this message I have just typed.


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    #131
    [Deleted User]
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    Nerds , they look so ordinary but give them a PC and they are kings


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    #132
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Nerds , they look so ordinary but give them a PC and they are kings

    In the kingdom of the clicks, the one-button mouse is king..


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    #133
    Mysteriouschic
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    Personalities how you don't know many people who will have the exact same personality, then there's getting to know someone and finding out about them.
    And everyone has a different background/story to tell about their lives. You won't meet someone who has the same.


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    #134
    Sykk
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    Electricity. Flicking a switch lights up the room/building.

    How did someone go from not having it, to harnessing it? Or even thinking about harnessing it. We're absolutely screwed without it.

    Probably the most taken for granted thing in the world.


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    #135
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Mysteriouschic wrote: »
    Personalities how you don't know many people who will have the exact same personality, then there's getting to know someone and finding out about them.
    And everyone has a different background/story to tell about their lives. You won't meet someone who has the same.


    This :D love meting new people, and getting to know there little tick's and novelty's ;)


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    #136
    housetypeb
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    The ingenuity of mankind never ceases to amaze me.


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    #137
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users Posts: 5,199 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    Not sure if it's been mentioned but Music in all forms...
    Utterly amazing how from one persons brain they can create a Symphony or Song that can stir the emotions in millions.

    The songs that birds and other Animals sing to attract mates etc... Sound in general I suppose.


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    #138
    Thud
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    Dandelions after they have gone to seed......imagine trying to make something like that....


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    #139
    eire-kp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭eire-kp


    Being able to swim...mainly because I cant:(


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    #140
    shuridunno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭shuridunno


    Fresh running water out of a tap in the kitchen, no walking miles for a drum of brown water that'll give you the trots. And, it's still free for now.

    Washing machines and dryers, just imagine having to handwash all your laundry. Throw them in and they come out clean.

    Hot baths on a cold day.

    Glasses


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    #141
    Swampy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭Swampy


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    While KY jelly can turn humans into queens.
    Post of the day.

    Edit: just noticed it was posted yesterday.


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    #142
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    I was blocked from most angles in a petrol station today and I could see an open gap by reversing and tried to measure it with my side view mirrors on the car. Thinking I had the bare minimum reversing out and afraid I would either hit a vehicle on either side, a chap outside the door to the garage walked in front of the car and directed me out.

    Not only did he driect me out but he took the time out to fold my near side mirror and the mirror of a car I could have potentially hit because the gap was so narrow. People are amazing if given half the chance


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    #143
    paddyandy
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    A summers' evening on a bog and billions of midges everywhere and they never seem to bump into into each other .....or do they ??


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    #144
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Kxiii wrote: »
    I think the the scale of the universe from the smallest to the biggest is amazing.

    My mind is absolutely blown. Thanks for this. I loved it.:)


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    #145
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Peanuts.
    Not really a pea, sort of a nut. But with bbq type flavouring, it's alright by me.


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    #146
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,227 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Magnets.. And not in the funny way. Invisible forces are amazing.
    Magnets are amazing

    Exhibit A - Levitation
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E

    http://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic/
    A little frog (alive !) and a water ball levitate inside a Ø32mm vertical bore of a Bitter solenoid in a magnetic field of about 16 Tesla at the Nijmegen High Field Magnet Laboratory.


    Exhibit B - Quantum levitation
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA


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    #147
    Capt'n Midnight
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    paddyandy wrote: »
    One raindrop will never touch another on the way down !
    oh dear.

    Clouds and Fog and Mist is what happens when droplets don't coalesce with enough other droplets. Once enough combine they can't be suspended in the air and so fall, and nothing stopping the getting even bigger on the way down.

    Hailstones are frozen raindrops.

    Biggest one was 8 inches :eek:


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    #148
    Capt'n Midnight
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    biko wrote: »
    Coagulation
    Flocculation

    Sublimation

    Combustion

    Degassing

    Total Internal Refraction


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    #149
    Capt'n Midnight
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    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    finding a cold part of the duvet/matress when your really warm in bed
    The other side of the pillow


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    #150
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,227 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    A Convergent Evolution
    Sharks / Ithysaurs / Dolphins


    B Natures freakishly different solutions to living in similar niches.


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    #151
    NIMAN
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    That you can look up into the night sky and see the light from a distant star arriving now to your eye, yet it left when dinosaurs walked the earth.

    Scary just thinking about the distances and time involved.


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