Things that just blow you mind.

[abominable_scouse_monster]

This is a thread dedicated to various things that blow your mind,

I'll start off with, Air pressure effects bread baking. A loaf baked on a day with high pressure will not rise as much (significantly so depending on the bread) than it will on a day with low pressure. Even if the dough was proven then frozen on a low pressure day.

And follow up with, 0.2% salinity can result in bass feeding on the surface or mid water.

Whats yours?

 

[British Red]

Bees will visit two million flowers to make one pound of honey. Nuts huh?

 

[Goatboy]

Ants can survive in a microwave: they are small enough to dodge the rays.

Please don't microwave ants though.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

The variety of life forms, past, present & ? on this planet

 

[leedsbrew]

Every atom in your body was created in a star billions of years ago.........except for the hydrogen......which was formed shortly after the Big Bang!

 

[Mesquite]

The generosity and friendship of the members on this forum

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

ants can survive in a microwave: They are small enough to dodge the rays.

Please don't microwave ants though.

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[Man of Tanith]

At the sake of sounding soppy.
My son. Two n bit yrs ago I held him for first time and gave this little mucus covered wrinkle his first bottle. Just watching him develop every day blows my mind.

The ants thing is amazing

 

[leedsbrew]

MoT! With you on that fella! Not soppy mate! Takes a real man to say stuff like that! My son is 16 months and amazes me every single day! Best job in the world eh!

 

[Man of Tanith]

MoT! With you on that fella! Not soppy mate! Takes a real man to say stuff like that! My son is 16 months and amazes me every single day! Best job in the world eh!

Longest hours any job I've done

 

[British Red]

It gets better - my daughter is in her twenties and can drive me to the pub and buy me beer!



...and she's coming for a visit tomorrow

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

Having a child is mind blowing, I dont know how or if I could deal with that.

Another one that blows my mind is, Lobsters never die of old age there is know upper limit known to there life span, they can also regenerate all lost limbs throughout there lifespan.

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

It gets better - my daughter is in her twenties and can drive me to the pub and buy me beer!



...and she's coming for a visit tomorrow

Hugh, what should blow your mind is your one heall of a mate to me and your daughter can drive us BOTH to the pub

 

[sandbender]

I watched some crows fishing once. They would rake through the local park bins to find bits of discarded McDonalds bun, break them up and place them at the edge of the pond, then wait, and wait and when a fish came to nibble they'd eat the fish.

Add to that, I recently read about the 'Oh-My-God particle', who and what is firing those I don't want to know.

"...The Oh-My-God particle was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (most likely a proton) detected on the evening of 15 October 1991 over Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Its observation was a shock to astrophysicists, who estimated its energy to be approximately 3×1020 eV (3×108 TeV, about 20 million times more energetic than the highest energy measured in radiation emitted by an extragalactic object);[1] in other words, a subatomic particle with kinetic energy equal to that of 50 Joule, or a 5-ounce (142 g) baseball traveling at about 100 kilometers per hour (60 mph)..."

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

I watched some crows fishing once. They would rake through the local park bins to find bits of discarded McDonalds bun, break them up and place them at the edge of the pond, then wait, and wait and when a fish came to nibble they'd eat the fish.

Add to that, I recently read about the 'Oh-My-God particle', who and what is firing those I don't want to know.

"...The Oh-My-God particle was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (most likely a proton) detected on the evening of 15 October 1991 over Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Its observation was a shock to astrophysicists, who estimated its energy to be approximately 3×1020 eV (3×108 TeV, about 20 million times more energetic than the highest energy measured in radiation emitted by an extragalactic object);[1] in other words, a subatomic particle with kinetic energy equal to that of 50 Joule, or a 5-ounce (142 g) baseball traveling at about 100 kilometers per hour (60 mph)..."

I have seen that happen with ducks though, I have seen them eat a bit then use it as bait for Roach fry.

Also if you want a Oh-My God particle I can give you a chilli sauce that makes you scream OH MY GOD, the morning after.

 

[joejoe]

the pleasure your ids give you , squared by the pleasure the grandkids give you

 

[Man of Tanith]

Is that because you can give the grandkids back?

 

[joejoe]

no just because they are there

 

[Harvestman]

I was at a moth trap the other night. So many different types of moth, each one using a slightly different variation of a similar strategy (being a moth) to survive. And the patterns were amazing too

Black arches moth (picture from internet) was my favourite from that night

 

[rik_uk3]

the pleasure your kids give you , squared by the pleasure the grandkids give you

Spot on there chap, absolutely right. As a parent you are busy with the full time parenting duty but as a grandparent your allowed to step back and notice the changes in the grand children...its a wonderful experience