Weird moments of Overthinking things !

[D Moness]

A while ago i was watching a show where people were floating in a bubble, they were heading towards a sharp object and by hyperventilating they inflated the bubble, it lifted up and away from danger.
Now my mind went like : Wait a minute they are all inside the bubble breathing the air , so since the volume of gases would stay more or less the same the size of the bubble can not increase. Even worse by exhaling a lot the bubble would keep going down due to the fact the carbondioxide is heaver then oxygen.

After that i was like I am watching an animation where a platypus is a secret agent(Phineas and Ferb) and the bubble thing is the bit that bothered me >.<

Anyone else had moment like that

 

[Giles Margerum]

Yes. Well, a friend. I was showing my friend 'The Mighty Boosh' for the first time (if you haven't seen it go watch it now) And the Vince had just gone to rescue howard from monkey hell because howard had to take over from the monkey while he was ill and was dressed as a monkey when death arrived for him. After escaping the Ape Of Death by perming his hair the duo escaped in one of the many taxi cabs driven by death during a musical number. the show ends with them contemplating their journey over some tea. I turned to my friend and asked her what she thought. "One of the death taxi drivers was drinking form the same mug that the zookeepers had at the zoo in the beginning... Highly unrealistic."

God help me I love that insane idiot.

 

[JaceArveduin]

That Ahri champion on LoL. I looked at her and immdediately thought "Does she have human ears under her hair too?"

 

[tigermilk]

Not me but all the people complaining about Idris Elba (black actor) being in Thor. Yup, a black character is not "authentic" in a story about a man with a magic hammer.

p.s. Yes I am oversimplifying a lot of complex issues.

OT: Will add something when I think of it.

 

[Giles Margerum]

Not me but all the people complaining about Idris Elba (black actor) being in Thor. Yup, a black character is not "authentic" in a story about a man with a magic hammer.

p.s. Yes I am oversimplifying a lot of complex issues.

OT: Will add something when I think of it.

I would also like to add. Idris Elba is a stupendous actor and was great in that movie. Watch Luther.

 

[tigermilk]

Not me but all the people complaining about Idris Elba (black actor) being in Thor. Yup, a black character is not "authentic" in a story about a man with a magic hammer.

p.s. Yes I am oversimplifying a lot of complex issues.

OT: Will add something when I think of it.

I would also like to add. Idris Elba is a stupendous actor and was great in that movie. Watch Luther.

I watched the first episode of Luther but couldn't get in to it. He is a great actor though [if there is a cliche equivalent of a flame shield insert here] he was awesome in The Wire.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Most of my spontaneous overthinking moments involve the English language.

This is generally how it goes:

"You know, when you think about it, 'super' is a weird word. Now that I think about it, so is 'food'. And so is 'supper' and 'dog' and.... My god! What kind of monstrous language is this?!"

Then I fall down and have a seizure. True story.

 

[Esotera]

I spent about 4 hours thinking of the perfect reply to this thread, so there we go...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (which actually had a vaguely scientific plot) just annoyed me to no end. As if it's that easy to get a perfect drug, to get approval for animal trials, to know immediately after injection that something's been infected. Don't even get me started on 2012...

But I'm fairly sure most sciency people are like this around films.

 

[FalloutJack]

"Just repeat to yourself 'It's just a show! I should really just relax!'."

Oh, Mystery Science Theater Three-Thousand...

*Strums guitar*

 

[Melon Hunter]

I spent about 4 hours thinking of the perfect reply to this thread, so there we go...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (which actually had a vaguely scientific plot) just annoyed me to no end. As if it's that easy to get a perfect drug, to get approval for animal trials, to know immediately after injection that something's been infected. Don't even get me started on 2012...

But I'm fairly sure most sciency people are like this around films.

The neutrinos... HAVE MUTATED! Seriously, whatever they were smoking when they came up with the pseudo-science behind that movie, I want some.

I sometimes have moments of massive overthinking with language. I once convinced myself that there should be a word like onomatopoeia, but for words that sound like the thing they're describing, like orb. Orb sounds round, like an actual orb, but there's no word to describe its roundnes in comparison to the roundness of the object. There should be!

 

[D Moness]

I spent about 4 hours thinking of the perfect reply to this thread, so there we go...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (which actually had a vaguely scientific plot) just annoyed me to no end. As if it's that easy to get a perfect drug, to get approval for animal trials, to know immediately after injection that something's been infected. Don't even get me started on 2012...

But I'm fairly sure most sciency people are like this around films.

The neutrinos... HAVE MUTATED! Seriously, whatever they were smoking when they came up with the pseudo-science behind that movie, I want some.

Did you possibly happen to see Dara O'Briain's stand up routine yesterday(i think) on the bbc. Might be me though but how it is typed just reminded me of it.

 

[Melon Hunter]

I spent about 4 hours thinking of the perfect reply to this thread, so there we go...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (which actually had a vaguely scientific plot) just annoyed me to no end. As if it's that easy to get a perfect drug, to get approval for animal trials, to know immediately after injection that something's been infected. Don't even get me started on 2012...

But I'm fairly sure most sciency people are like this around films.

The neutrinos... HAVE MUTATED! Seriously, whatever they were smoking when they came up with the pseudo-science behind that movie, I want some.

Did you possibly happen to see Dara O'Briain's stand up routine yesterday(i think) on the bbc. Might be me though but how it is typed just reminded me of it.

Not yesterday, but I have seen that stand-up routine before, and yes, it did inspire me to type it out in that way. He makes a good point, though. It really bothers me when filmmakers try to explain the plot with some scientific bullshit that they have no idea about. Like how 'quantum' is a synonym for MAGIC! in some works of fiction. Either explain it properly or leave it to the viewer's imagination!

 

[Xaio30]

I mostly overthink our bodily capabilities. Typical example:
Hold up your hand in front of you, look at it and move a finger of your liking.
Now, as you are moving that finger, try sensing what part of your brain you're using, where the currents go.

I can't sense it. And It drives me crazy to be able to do something without knowing how.

 

[Nightmonger]

The most recent example of this for me was the latest Sherlock Holmes movie where in one scene they demonstrate the loading mechanism of a * brand new machine pistol * this being a broom handle Mauser I then meant over and started explaing to my friend that this was totally incorrect for the period it was set in blah blah blah cut to me realising that I was questionng the loading mechanism of a pistol when in the film there's bullet time thinking action people surveying outrageous things and general action tropes

Great film though ^_^

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

In Mortal Kombat, the first time I hit a character with a freeze-ball in mid-air and it suspended him in midair. I was was thinking "Wait a sec, shouldn't he be falling to the ground?" I didn't spend to much time on it though.

http://youtu.be/D84YZC-Dq2s

Then I saw this quantum levitation thing and figured I'd just go with this.

 

[dystopiaINC]

watching a car insurance commercial and kept thinking wait how is he not hurt? how did he get out of that car?

o had my dad yell at me when i voiced that thought though. "what do you want to see? the guy in traction calling from the hospital?"

Spoiler

 

[Giles Margerum]

Dara O'Brian does a beautiful quote from 2012. "The neutrinos are mutating!" Anyone who knows what a neutrino is is now laughing their asses off.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

I always thought it was weird that Russia tried to start a war with the US almost as soon as WW2 ended. I mean, why then? Think about it. What were the Russians doing when the US was finishing up the war with Japan? I've been toyin with the idea that they were getting ready to invade, per Stalin's orders, when the US dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they saw the bombs and decided to delay invasion plans until they built their own nuclear weapon stockpile. Think about it.

 

[tthor]

watching some TV show, and the guy fires an arrow from his short bow, and all i can think is "theres no way an arrow would fly that straight and fast, for that far of a distance, from that tiny of a bow. he'd need atleast a longbow to get that kind of result"

 

[DPeteD]

The whole light sabers and enegry wepons cauterizing the wound whole thing, if something is really that hot wouldnt it literally boil their blood and what would that do?

And if a weapon is that hot how the hell do they hold it, stop it overheating and concentrate the energy into such a small tight beam? and what colour would they be in real life?