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I flew for the first time on a plane last week and I've seen planes take off at the airport. It looks crazy. But being on one is totally different like holy shit. The thing just FLIES. It just.... Soars... Through the sky! Like whoa man. Wtf... It's crazy. With how much these things weigh, it's insane to me the thing can just go up and bam, there we are, we're flying now. Like wow... Dude crazy.

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[โ€“] db2@lemmy.world 89 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Wait until you find out about electricity! ๐Ÿคฏ

[โ€“] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Computers is teachibg rocks to think

[โ€“] LostXOR@fedia.io 44 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

We grow flawless crystals, slice them into perfect disks, engrave billions of arcane runes onto them with magical potions and rays of light, animate them with lightning, and make them do our bidding.

And then we give them an "intelligence" that can't even count the Rs in strawberry...

[โ€“] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I think we're doing pretty fucking well, all things considered.

[โ€“] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

engrave billions of arcane runes

Omg, you just made me love my job more.

[โ€“] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you work in a fab? If so would love to know more about your work

[โ€“] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Design, close to tape out now, but also post-silicon and bringup.

It's fun as all fuck, never thought about it as incantations or runes, then the rock comes back and we cast spells to bring it to life I guess.

Takes a while but is just incredible.

[โ€“] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Saw this the other day, seems relevant to your comment

[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago

Try looking at a die under a microscope

By filling them with lightning

[โ€“] rockerface@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does anyone actually know? We have laws and math that predict and model behavior but last time I checked know one knew why.

[โ€“] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, big magnets work because they are made of electrons that have their magnetic fields aligned so they don't cancel each other out. Now, as for why electrons have magnetic fields in the first place, that we don't know

[โ€“] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Considering how we use it. It is absolutely fascinating. Same for magnetism

[โ€“] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

tomato tomato =P

[โ€“] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And telephones! Even en old-school analogue phone is pretty amazing how sound becomes an electrical signal and then is converted back to sound at the other end.

Modern digital phones are just pure magic compared to analogue phones.

[โ€“] blibla@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago