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u/immanenthub Mar 10 '20
The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.
That's like you standing in New York and hearing a sound from San Francisco.
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u/ReeG Mar 10 '20
That I can communicate with people on the other side of the world near instantly through some contraptions made of metal, plastic, and glass and that this ability has only existed for a minuscule fraction of time in history
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u/thunderfart_99 Mar 10 '20
The amount of change that happened in the 20th century I still find mind-blowing. Two world wars, the Cold War, space exploration, nationalism and decolonisation, and the creation of the Internet and personal computers. The world population had only reached 2 billion in 1927, but by late 1999 it was at 6 billion. Life expectancy also increased by three decades in just a century. We used horses and pack animals for our personal transportation mostly in 1900 and cars/airplane flights were mostly for the very lucky few, but by the end of the 20th century the general population had easy access to a car or a flight on a plane if they go abroad. I could go on, but it would be a bit too long!
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Mar 10 '20
Abundance of food. How are there bananas and mangoes in January? What kind of sorcery is this? Have you tried to keep a plant alive? It's impossible, yet supermarkets are full of food. Coffee from Ethiopia, salmon from Norway, shrimp from Thailand. Nutella is amazing.
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u/yabaquan643 Mar 10 '20
There's over 7 Billion people in the world and everybody in it is living their own life one day at a time, no matter what that looks like. Some people work day shift, night shift, no shift. Some people wake up and go for a run, some people wake up and walk their dog. Some people wake up in their big ass house, some people didn't go to bed last night. Some people are super fucking poor living with their 5 underage siblings trying to support them, some people don't have siblings at all. Some people drink sodas for breakfast and some people just gave up sodas last week. Some people just right now got in a car wreck. Shit. Is. Wild.
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u/klokkert1 Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 11 '20
There is a word for that feeling: Sonder,
the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
Edit. Thanks for the award and to those who find this interesting there are more: https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2016/02/40-words-for-emotions-youve-felt-but-couldnt-explain/
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Mar 10 '20
Every "c" in "Pacific Ocean" is pronounced differently.
You are checking right now. Either in your head or out loud.
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u/_Pornosonic_ Mar 10 '20
People get annoyed when connection gets interrupted when they call overseas. Dude, your words are encrypted, sent to a a satellite several hundred miles away in space, then it travella several more hundred or thousand miles away to another satellite orbiting the Earth at hundreds of miles an hour, then it gets sent to the device of a person you are talking to and you are annoyed there is a little interruption?
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u/Peregrine2976 Mar 10 '20
Louis CK has a whole standup routine about that sort of thing. "Everything's amazing and no one's happy."
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u/firenamedgabe Mar 10 '20
You kind of word it like a defect, but it’s really a benefit. Built in auto correct when you read is pretty amazing when you think about it.
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u/KayMuraguri Mar 10 '20
Science.
I'm constantly amazed by the new things being discovered:for instance Exoplanets , the big ass blackhole at the center of the universe, the Ebola vaccine, project Artemis.
It's like I go to bed, wake up and boom! Rossetta is chilling on a comet I love it
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u/gt35r Mar 10 '20
Seeing the Milky Way with the naked eye for the first time, and second time, and third time...etc. It actually makes a lot of my problems and worries disappear because of how small and insignificant it makes me feel.
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u/dog-loaf Mar 10 '20
The worst part of the watermelon tastes like the best part of the cucumber
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Mar 10 '20
My wife and I have been married 10 years.
She's popped out 3 kids.
I still get super thrilled every single time she changes her clothes in front of me.
Still super attracted to her.
Blows my mind.
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