Post things you are in awe of

I also see RVA replied with a "like" to my BIG WAVE surfers,,,,,,,,,,, now this has triggered another thing I have come up with that I am in awe of.

It goes along the lines of Teachers and how they shape the minds of children etc. I also am incredibly in awe of the MIND itself.
The older I get, the more I learn, albeit slowly and with what usually is a lot of luck involved. Both kinds of luck mind you. GOOD and BAD. Also awe inspiring to me is how we use and retain info once we do learn it. I also get amazed at the study of how and why people excel or lag in learning particular things, concepts, activities. The time I watched a program explaining various autistic individuals who were unbelievably incapable in one area, but hyper to almost impossible to occur in another aspect just threw open the doors to me seeing how a brain works. The scientist experts in this show did a good job explaining or showing this through their testing of the brains of these Autistic people vs quote " normal " brained people. I still can't reckon in my feeble mind how a person cannot even dress themselves, yet without any music teaching can sit down a play a Mozart, Bach, Beethoven etc pieces on a piano, or even crazier the guy who if you tell him your birth date, within seconds he can tell you the day you were born because he has some aspect of his brain that knows every day of every calendar at a blink of an eye speed.
 
Go out at night, and find the darkest piece of sky you can. Now hold up a grain of rice at arms length and take a photo of that tiny piece of sky with the Hubble telescope. The result - 13,000 galaxies in one picture. And each of them contains 100,000,000,000 stars.

Kind of puts us and our notion that this might have been made for us into perspective.

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I will say the Human body, How everything works, the Brain , the vessels that deliver blood to the heart and entire body. How the body has its own electrical system to control Heart pumping sending currents to the brain in order to move body parts Etc. To me there is nothing more of awe than this. The Body is a Masterpiece! which nobody can deny.
 
Session 5 said:
I will say the Human body, How everything works, the Brain , the vessels that deliver blood to the heart and entire body. How the body has its own electrical system to control Heart pumping sending currents to the brain in order to move body parts Etc. To me there is nothing more of awe than this. The Body is a Masterpiece! which nobody can deny.
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I can think of a few useful improvements. Like not sharing the breathing tube with the eating tube, Choking to death is less than fun. And bone cancer in children. I'd probably do without that too.
 
DonP said:
Go out at night, and find the darkest piece of sky you can. Now hold up a grain of rice at arms length and take a photo of that tiny piece of sky with the Hubble telescope. The result - 13,000 galaxies in one picture. And each of them contains 100,000,000,000 stars.

Kind of puts us and our notion that this might have been made for us into perspective.

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What I find crazy about a pic like this is when I heard some people have never seen stars at night. I live in the countryside where clear bright skies like the pic are common, but apparently folks who live in the city have so much buildings/ street etc lights that it clouds out the sky's star lights.
 
Any cancer in anyone, and ummm that thing men get that makes em have to wake up and pee in the night. That would be nice to "eliminate."
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
What I find crazy about a pic like this is when I heard some people have never seen stars at night. I live in the countryside where clear bright skies like the pic are common, but apparently folks who live in the city have so much buildings/ street etc lights that it clouds out the sky's star lights.
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Try it from a yacht at sea.

London went through a phase of almost total wipeout of stars, but it is slowly starting to improve. New street lighting is much more directed downwards. I know this is partly in response to the "dark skies" project, but I suspect it is mostly to do with reducing electricity consumption. Either way it gets my vote.
 
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