#22

The first thing you do is send someone a message saying “I’m on the plane!”. Novelty hasn’t worn off yet.

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#23

my sister has a baby and he seems like practically a grown up from pictures but I think it’s only his 1st birthday at christmas. Will he be able to talk when i see him at christmas? imagine.

#24

I think he knows sign language too. he’s more advanced than me

#25

how can we go from no concept of language and words to speaking within a year. Insane supercomputer brain

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#26

Not sure it’s all that amazing, tbh.

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#27

Loads of mundane stuff is amazing. Your body takes in a variety of completely separate substances, performs a bunch of crazy processes without you having to do anything, and then you’re able to type on a computer which someone else’s weird poo synthesis factory invented, using the internet designed by another one, to express your thoughts on the ability of another weird chemical bag producing a further, separate weird chemical bag inside itself who one day could also use sugars, air, and water to come up with inventions. It’s insane.

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#28

Yeah, but that complexity has evolved over 3.8 billion years or so. The timeframe is more mindboggling to me than the level of complexity organisms on earth have attained.

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#29

The 12 hour clock history thing proper freaks my nut

#30

It’s kinda why lots of people have faith in mankind’s ability to technologically develop our way out of anything. The exponential curve is astounding.

#32

what’s this? sounds cool?

#33

If the earth’s history was 24 hours long humans would only exist for the last 2 seconds

#34

ah yeah that is crazy.

I thought you might have been on about the origins of time in a 12/24 hour format.

Made me think about how have an inbuilt fascination with interrelationships.

I think music is this expressed in it’s most primal format. We can feel emotions based on the interrelationships between chords for example :slight_smile:

#36

that’s total blown my mind!

Is that why like old medieval choral stuff has a kind of melancholic sombre tone when it’s meant to be praising god etc?

Maybe it literally sounded different to people back then

#37

You should read How Music Works by David Byrne, Bam. Think you’d really dig it.

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#39

I’m scared it might teach me too much though!

#40

Nah

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#41

when I make music I often still think there’s a perfect way a track should sound or a perfect way to achieve the goal I’m after, it’s hard to remember that the listener’s relationship with the track is more important than what I put into it.

It’s like how when an artist you love or with lots of prestige releases something new, you listen to it in a different way with a different grandeur to your own/peers stuff

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#42

Yeah, but that’s just layers of mad stuff on more mad stuff. Like, that evolution is a short span of time comparably, and think about all the other INSANE things that have happened in the universe during that time, the sheer mindboggling size of it all, all those atoms and planets and stars and sheer distance and force involved, and then think about the fact that you can even begin to comprehend it. It’s like matryoshka of crazy, crazy stuff.

#43

Growing inside another person is indeed amazing, but not as amazing as the fact that the egg you grew from grew inside your maternal grandmother.

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#44

Let’s not forget the epic journey we all took from our dads’ balls

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