Things about science and nature you find interesting

[mikklee]

I'd have to say the big bang, I mean nothing explodes and produces everything. One teeny problem I have with it though, how does nothing at all actually explode?

 

[Dommyboy]

I find heavy water to be quite interesting. Experimenting with it would be quite awesome.

 

[lenin_117]

I forgot about supercooled/heated water. And supersaturated is nice when crystalisation occurs on contact.

 

[Ajna]

Because several people mentioned things about "water":

http://www.cracked.com/article_17276_5-scientific-ways-make-water-do-magic.html

I like the one with the "Instant Snow". I'd have fun with that.

Ah, another cracked reader.

Hail!

heheheh.

Also, anything that makes fire or works similarly to a flamethrower amuses me. And no, I'm not a pyromaniac... or am i?

I loved filling small boxes with heads from matches and then lighting them (obviously, from a distance. I wasn't stupid) in a tin can when I was a preteen. I once got a fire burst 10 inches high with enough match heads.

-_-

I believe that Cracked attracts about the same market segment as The Escapist. They both aim at the "Pasty White Male, age 16-25" area...

 

[Howid]

Basically anything involving space and the creation of the universe and what-not blows my mind.

 

[Sporky111]

I think that fractals are really amazing. Just the fact that a simple irrational equation can keep repeating forever and make those patterns blows me away.

 

[PirateKing]

Biological immortality interests me. Animals that can only be killed through trauma.

 

[Internet Kraken]

The ability for creatures to survive in places we would think impossible.

I love the ocean. It's a massive body of water that a human would never survive in yet millions of organisms live beneath the waves. Plus squids live in the ocean.

 

[VTSK]

I think the Universe is awesome. Shapes of galaxies, the way planets form, everything about it really. Its a place of infinite possibility. Everything you can imagine (and a lot of things you can't) could be out there.

 

[supermaster1337]

the fact that science disproves Creationism. Go Evolution!!!!

 

[VTSK]

The ocean's almost like space on Earth. We havn't explored the large majority of it. There's so many things that could be down there, so many species.

 

[lenin_117]

I find heavy water to be quite interesting. Experimenting with it would be quite awesome.

Call me a n00b but what is heavy water?

 

[VTSK]

the fact that science disproves Creationism. Go Evolution!!!!

Now if we could just figure out how it all started in the first place. Seriously, where'd the first single cell organism come from? It'd be interesting to know.

 

[VTSK]

I find heavy water to be quite interesting. Experimenting with it would be quite awesome.

Call me a n00b but what is heavy water?

I think its water with an extra oxygen particle. Or is it hydrogen? I don't know, its one of those.

 

[Lolcano]

projectile motion. Everything follows same trajectory, I love to laugh at noobs throwing things and failing epicly at it.

 

[Ajna]

the fact that science disproves Creationism. Go Evolution!!!!

Is there a way that statement isn't trolling?

Also: (Please note, I support the Theory of Evolution, so take this with a grain of salt) Evolution is, by definition, a theory. There are several kinks in the theory, such as the evolution of the eye. In order for an eye to work properly, several parts of it must develop simultaneously. Just as an example: The eye itself, rods and cones (not necessarily both, but most likely), the optic nerves, the section of the brain that would interpret these signals, and the eye socket. Alone, none of these give an advantage over the lack of them, so if, say, a creature were born with eye sockets, but nothing in them, it would likely die. It may even be more likely to die, because the socket would be an easily contaminated area. Basically, the idea of the eye evolving, and in probably millions (I say "probably", because I don't want to look for the actual number) of species, is currently ridiculous, because the point where all species that have evolved some form of eye converge... Well, they didn't have eyes back then.

Again, I think evolution is correct, but science hasn't proved it correct yet, and who are you to say what is the correct answer?

It's 42, by the way.

 

[lenin_117]

I was hoping for specifics. Creation of the universe is good, animals and oceans is not (no offence intended)

 

[supermaster1337]

exactly, that would be great but, what would some people do with that discovery, it can be bad.

 

[supermaster1337]

ah but i never said that science had proved evolution. just that it disproved creationism. And you KNOW that is true. correct?