@[email protected] was talking about tornadoes and it was really interesting, figured I’d see what other cool things we all know
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If you split the connection between the left and right brain hemispheres as has been done to some people suffering from seizures you can then by using clever methods interview each side separate from the other and discover that they do not agree about most things.
What’s ever more interesting is that you can give tasks to one side and let the other side observe you do these tasks and when questioned it will come up with lies about why it did this despite this not being the actual reason.
Split brain experiments if you want to google more info.
They’re absolutely incredible and proof that we’re not singular people, but instead basically two people crammed into a single skull together forced to communicate.
My takeaway is not that instead of a single person we’re actually two but rather that self as we think about it doesn’t actually exist. It’s convenient for our lives to think about ourselves that way but I bet if you could actually understand the inner workings of brain and how matter gives rise to subjective experience you’d discover that there actually is no one in control. The only thing that makes us separate from the rest of the universe is that it feels like something to exist.
there are at least two minds in your brain, and they mostly disagree.
Seals can let one half of their brain go to sleep while the other side stays awake.
When projecting a movie, presentation or whatever onto a canvas, anything you see as black (text, etc) is just the pure plain white without light shining on it.
Turn the projector off and the parts that looked black a second ago now look chalk white with no changes done to that part.
In 1990 British Airways 5390 suffered an explosive decompression when a cockpit window blew out due to improper maintenance. The force of the decompression partially pulled the captain out the window pinning him to the fuselage while his feet were caught on the control column. Thanks to the efforts of the first officer and flight attendants the plane was able to land safely around twenty minutes later. There were no fatalities.
Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.
When making the concorde, the engineers couldn’t break the sound barrier until they put the like 6 ft long needle at the front of the plane.
Lego is the largest tire manufacturer (Oddly, even if it’s my favorite fact it’s not related to my SI)
Would that be in number of tires only or in volume too?
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Most electric cars only have 1 gear and it’s always engaged. If you put the car in reverse, it uses the same gear, but the motor spins the other way.
Even in neutral the motor still spins when the wheels are turned, it just doesn’t output any power to the wheels.
The contact patch of a railroad wheel on the rail is only about the size of a dime
I always thought it was cool how the design of the rails and wheels are designed to allow the train to stay on the track around curves.
Black holes slowly evaporate.
They loose energy due to hawking radiation, although this happens so slow, it will take an eternity for them to disappear
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And electric generators are electric motors wired backwards.
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There is no method in our current stock market to reconcile every share issued by the corporation to make sure there are no fake shares.
same thing with gold.
we dont actually know how much gold has been mined and audits have a very wide margin of error.
73% of all bathroom accidents happen outside of a bathroom.
96.4% of all statistics are made up.
