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Like when you take a step back and think about it. I was sat in my garden this morning having a coffee, that's probably not that odd. In nature, drinking some ground coffee beans mixed with hot water and a bit of milk, consumed from a ceramic vessel.
Then a plane flies over, RAF. A fricking metal can carrying people through the sky at hundreds of miles per hour. A plane designed for warfare as well. Mad innit, that we even have planes, and that we need to make some to help stop other people killing us. What a world when the concept of a 'defence budget' is so normal.
Inside to my office, open a laptop to count some numbers for a company who sells some stuff. Do that for 40 hours of my week so I can get some money to give to another company who sells some stuff that I want or need. Still feeling slightly annoyed that 11 chumps from my country couldn't kick a ball in a net more times than 11 chumps from another country.
The whole thing is weird innit.
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How weird is society? on 10:40 - Jun 21 with 4106 views
We invented aeroplanes because we saw birds and insects flying and thought 'if they can fly so can we' therefore if there were no birds or flying insects on the planet would the concept of flying ever have been thought about?
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How weird is society? on 10:51 - Jun 21 with 3977 views
How weird is society? on 10:46 - Jun 21 by stainless
We invented aeroplanes because we saw birds and insects flying and thought 'if they can fly so can we' therefore if there were no birds or flying insects on the planet would the concept of flying ever have been thought about?
Yes.
Other factors would have been the inspiration such as crossing an ocean or mountain range but once your science hits a certain level it's almost inevitable you'll invent flight.
For instance, once you isolate hydrogen in a lab you'll notice it's lighter than air and that you can make something float and it would spiral from there. Another more primitive avenue would be kites which have been around for 3000 years and could easily be stumbled on by accident in a wind storm.
SB
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How weird is society? on 10:57 - Jun 21 with 3894 views
How weird is society? on 10:51 - Jun 21 by StokieBlue
Yes.
Other factors would have been the inspiration such as crossing an ocean or mountain range but once your science hits a certain level it's almost inevitable you'll invent flight.
For instance, once you isolate hydrogen in a lab you'll notice it's lighter than air and that you can make something float and it would spiral from there. Another more primitive avenue would be kites which have been around for 3000 years and could easily be stumbled on by accident in a wind storm.
SB
Montgolfier brothers proposed balloon flight but their plans were rejected as "just hot air".
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How weird is society? on 10:46 - Jun 21 by stainless
We invented aeroplanes because we saw birds and insects flying and thought 'if they can fly so can we' therefore if there were no birds or flying insects on the planet would the concept of flying ever have been thought about?
I suppose with no birds (not keen on the pesky prehistoric things, personally), somebody might have fallen off a cliff, survived and decided there’s a better way down. Thus the aeroplane would be born regardless.
I love aeroplanes.
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How weird is society? on 12:28 - Jun 21 with 3583 views
Not wanting to sound too hippy-ish but the concept of nations is bonkers
Just because someone happens to be born on a particular part of a piece of land means that their life experience can differ so much from someone who was born on another part
Yet the concept of nations dictates every single part of our life
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How weird is society? on 12:38 - Jun 21 with 3522 views
How weird is society? on 10:51 - Jun 21 by StokieBlue
Yes.
Other factors would have been the inspiration such as crossing an ocean or mountain range but once your science hits a certain level it's almost inevitable you'll invent flight.
For instance, once you isolate hydrogen in a lab you'll notice it's lighter than air and that you can make something float and it would spiral from there. Another more primitive avenue would be kites which have been around for 3000 years and could easily be stumbled on by accident in a wind storm.
SB
Perhaps one day we'll evolve to the level of cats. They catch birds without flying, catch mice without tunnelling and eat fish without swimming - without cutlery - and still look dignified.
Scientific advancement is for species that need it.
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How weird is society? on 13:18 - Jun 21 with 3375 views
How weird is society? on 12:28 - Jun 21 by NedPlimpton
Not wanting to sound too hippy-ish but the concept of nations is bonkers
Just because someone happens to be born on a particular part of a piece of land means that their life experience can differ so much from someone who was born on another part
Yet the concept of nations dictates every single part of our life
And the fact that people get so annoyed if you want to move from the bit of land you happened by chance to be born on, to another bit where they happened by chance to be born.
Trust the process. Trust Phil.
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How weird is society? on 13:26 - Jun 21 with 3334 views
How weird is society? on 12:46 - Jun 21 by Cafe_Newman
Perhaps one day we'll evolve to the level of cats. They catch birds without flying, catch mice without tunnelling and eat fish without swimming - without cutlery - and still look dignified.
Scientific advancement is for species that need it.
I took your advice, and I've just had a sh!t in my neighbours garden and half-heartedly kicked a bit of soil around near it.
He's just sat there with a vacant look on his face, drinking 'coffee', staring at aeroplanes and not taking a blind bit of notice.
I often think how utterly absurd cavemen would find the whole idea of customer service. The whole fake experience and companies demanding you buy into the act in exchange for peanuts.
I often think how utterly absurd cavemen would find the whole idea of customer service. The whole fake experience and companies demanding you buy into the act in exchange for peanuts.
I often think about how you'd describe things like TVs, lightbulbs, phones, flight, the internet and toasters to Henry VIII.
Trust the process. Trust Phil.
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How weird is society? on 13:48 - Jun 21 with 3242 views
I often think about how you'd describe things like TVs, lightbulbs, phones, flight, the internet and toasters to Henry VIII.
I was having this conversation the other day about telling someone 50 years ago you could carry around pretty much all of the information in the world in your pocket.
I was having this conversation the other day about telling someone 50 years ago you could carry around pretty much all of the information in the world in your pocket.
And yet said device is mostly used to look at pictures of cats and argue with strangers
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I was having this conversation the other day about telling someone 50 years ago you could carry around pretty much all of the information in the world in your pocket.
The speed of that change is what staggers me. Relatively speaking 100 odd years is feck all, but to consider the seismic changes in that period is mind blowing. I guess the life expectancy of humans is probably a big factor in why that isn't always felt more impactfully.
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