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god damn this is wild

BUNTING1243

BUNTING1243

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Oct 25, 2017
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hey guys I'm watching sone YouTube about dvds and it's fucking crazy how they work, right? like it's a technology they invented it but at the same time they also discovered it? like all scientists are basically invenotors because they are discoveing things that just exist in nature right? Does any of this make sense? There's just a bunch of dots being afffected by light on the screen you are reading this on how fucking crazy is that? Like the data in each dot is basically just a whole thing saved over the internet and displayed on this device? Isn't that crazy. crazy

anyway it's a good youtube video ill post it later
 
Quinton

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are you attempting to awaken weekend era

please add something wilder like idk an unrelated vid featuring asparagus cultivation
 
Starwing

Starwing

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Oct 31, 2018
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I know right? Technology and its discovery can be intoxicatingly fascinating!
 
RadioJoNES

RadioJoNES

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Oct 25, 2017
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I see your point. I can't comprehend any of it at a simple glance. We take a lot of the basic things we have now for granted.
 
Red Comet

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I am 29 years old and still don't understand how cameras work.

Edit: turns out I'm actually 28
 

PieOMy

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When I am not sober I love to fish out concepts that people are interested in and know nothing about.

Usually end up scaring the fuck out of people by telling them about solar flares.
 
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Danby

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Mona said:
was cheese invented or discovered
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So it probably was discovered because they were storing milk in the animal stomachs and the lining of the stomach contains a valuable substance that is necessary for cheese. Invention pressed it towards being something we could reliably produce.

I think that's what happened.
 
Ultimate Bear Cub

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Sande

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Oct 25, 2017
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It is kind of nuts how small we can make things. A CD is already mind blowing and then there are terabyte micro SD cards.
 
mopinks

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optical media is witchcraft but it still makes more sense in the abstract to me than vinyl records and cassette tapes

you run a needle over some grooves and led zeppelin comes out? what the hell is that?
 
Lowblood

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Oct 30, 2017
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Yeah, technology really is crazy.

Like, if you think about it, every video game ever, and that ever will be, are just massive sets of zeros and ones in some specific order. Given infinite time and effort, you would eventually manage to find the right order of 0s and 1s to make, say, Persona 7. You could even come up with the order for games that will never exist, like Metal Gear Solid 6, Silent Hills, or Star Citizen.

Wild, man.
 
Ramala

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Oct 28, 2017
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You know I was just thinking about what technology from today we could take back to like, 1940, that they would legit think would be magic. Their top scientists just couldn't guess how it was done.

And what stuff might someone bring back to us today from 80 years in the future that we would just be like, naw, that ain't real. That's a trick.
 

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mopinks said:
optical media is witchcraft but it still makes more sense in the abstract to me than vinyl records and cassette tapes

you run a needle over some grooves and led zeppelin comes out? what the hell is that?
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I've never understood this either. My perception has always been that you could theoretically accidentally create brilliant songs that won't even be written for another thousand years by… randomly carving a set of grooves that happen to be in the right order? Like, if Led Zeppelin never existed all of their music could still come to fruition exactly as-is because vinyls aren't actually recordings, but just exact copy replicas that perfectly mimic the songs based on how a needle scratches through some indents? And those indents could perfectly match the sound of Robert Plant's voice even if Robert Plant had never been born? Makes no damn sense whatsoever
 
guiloahhhhh

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Oct 29, 2017
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I feel you man. I think we are at peak humanity with this internet shit. We are the middle children of history, having seen before and after times.
 
Rendering...

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Oct 30, 2017
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Wait until you learn about how genes are encoded and how DNA can be used as a data storage medium.

An alternative to hard drives is progressing: DNA-based data storage. DNA—which consists of long chains of the nucleotides A, T, C and G—is life's information-storage material. Data can be stored in the sequence of these letters, turning DNA into a new form of information technology. It is already routinely sequenced (read), synthesized (written to) and accurately copied with ease. DNA is also incredibly stable, as has been demonstrated by the complete genome sequencing of a fossil horse that lived more than 500,000 years ago. And storing it does not require much energy.

But it is the storage capacity that shines. DNA can accurately stow massive amounts of data at a density far exceeding that of electronic devices. The simple bacterium Escherichia coli, for instance, has a storage density of about 1019​ bits per cubic centimeter, according to calculations published in 2016 in Nature Materials by George Church of Harvard University and his colleagues. At that density, all the world's current storage needs for a year could be well met by a cube of DNA measuring about one meter on a side.
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DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think

Life’s information-storage system is being adapted to handle massive amounts of information
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R2RD

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Rhennik said:
I've never understood this either. My perception has always been that you could theoretically accidentally create brilliant songs that won't even be written for another thousand years by… randomly carving a set of grooves that happen to be in the right order? Like, if Led Zeppelin never existed all of their music could still come to fruition exactly as-is because vinyls aren't actually recordings, but just exact copy replicas that perfectly mimic the songs based on how a needle scratches through some indents? And those indents could perfectly match the sound of Robert Plant's voice even if Robert Plant had never been born? Makes no damn sense whatsoever
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Yep, Analog tech like Vinyls destroy my brain whenever i think about it like this. Especially when you get stuff like this by just slowing down the speed at which the disc spins
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Chipmunks on 16 Speed - Walk Like an Egyptian

from "Sludgefest", 2015
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davepoobond

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Rhennik said:
I've never understood this either. My perception has always been that you could theoretically accidentally create brilliant songs that won't even be written for another thousand years by… randomly carving a set of grooves that happen to be in the right order? Like, if Led Zeppelin never existed all of their music could still come to fruition exactly as-is because vinyls aren't actually recordings, but just exact copy replicas that perfectly mimic the songs based on how a needle scratches through some indents? And those indents could perfectly match the sound of Robert Plant's voice even if Robert Plant had never been born? Makes no damn sense whatsoever
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hmmmm
 
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Rhennik said:
I've never understood this either. My perception has always been that you could theoretically accidentally create brilliant songs that won't even be written for another thousand years by… randomly carving a set of grooves that happen to be in the right order? Like, if Led Zeppelin never existed all of their music could still come to fruition exactly as-is because vinyls aren't actually recordings, but just exact copy replicas that perfectly mimic the songs based on how a needle scratches through some indents? And those indents could perfectly match the sound of Robert Plant's voice even if Robert Plant had never been born? Makes no damn sense whatsoever
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That's the world of statistics and probability for you. Perfectly mimicking a full song is absolutely possible, but the odds are so astronomically low that it's effectively impossible in a human lifespan.

You'd need exponentially more time than the full lifespan of the universe to increase the odds of "impossible" things to the realm of "rare" or "likely."

Science leads to all kinds of cool thought experiments that illustrate the weirdness of reality.
 
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