I just saw a video of the hundredth woman in space. Honestly just felt so bizzare that there’s humans that have just … left the planet. Thats insane.

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    Harnessing the power of electricity. How in the world do you look at lightning and think: I want have that

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      Electrical circuits are ridiculous. And it’s just interconnected circuits upon circuits spanning the globe. A device in Montana is physically connected to a device in California through an unbroken (ignoring transformers) series of wires.

      The fact that we got materials to move electrons from a hundred miles away to do things like calculate 3d shapes for entertainment is insane.

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      You stack different metals on a frog and accidentally discover a new thing. Don’t ask me what he was originally going for, I don’t know.

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      The other day I had lightning strike super close to my house (about 2 seconds to hear the huge thunder crack). It occurred to me that I didn’t actually know how lightning worked so I looked it up, reminded me that nature is fucking wild. And then, you’re right, we saw that and were like “let’s get it in our house fellas”