What's the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read in your life?

Post by Yzupnick » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 3:38 AM UTC

sage_joch wrote: post #25

dkuchar wrote: post #4

besides "you and everyone you know are going to die" at age 3, or "there is no santa claus" which logically led to "God is an imaginary friend for grown ups" at age 10. The fact that we're all akin to lumbering flesh robots designed to help our genetic material persist. That was kind of humbling. http://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Anniversary----Introducti...

I considered the stories of Santa Clause and God to be pretty mind-blowing when they were presented as fact. So the realization that both were made up was kind of a return to sanity.

Post by davethewave » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 3:51 AM UTC

Post by gaoshan » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 3:55 AM UTC

Jupe wrote: post #36

Logic paradoxes always did (and still do) blow my mind: 1: The farther out in space you look, the farther back in time you are seeing. If you could look back all the way to the big bang, you would be looking (billions of miles away) at the inside of a universe about the size of a grape fruit (or whenever super-inflation was supposed to start). 2. You cannot move. In order to move between A and B, you must first move…

Post by jackowayed » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 4:00 AM UTC

allengoodman wrote: post #32

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Post by danielrm26 » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 4:03 AM UTC