I’m looking out the window to the south and it’s a beautiful, cold winter’s night with a nearly-full moon. The Winter Hexagon is prominently visible despite the light from the moon and, beneath it, Sirius outshines the light pollution from a medium sized Fife town.

Right up above me in the vault of the heavens is a star called Capella which, Stellarium tells me, is 42.2 light years away. The light that I’m seeing from that star was emitted by it a few months after I was born in 1968.

That amazes me. I’m not sure if my amazement is because my Xmas holidays have just started and I’m a wee bit pished or because it is incomprehensible that something can be so far away but still visible.

What do you find amazement in?

Your ability to type….

😀

The fact that Futurama doesn’t get the tv time it deserves. ITS THE BEST SHOW EVER FFS.

What do you find amazement in?

Stuff like that, actually. The mind-bogglingness of the Universe and that. Many’s the time I’ve boggled me own mind thinking about such stuff.

I like looking up at the stars on a clear night, somewhere coastal and rural. And then trying to get me head round the fact that what is visible is something like 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of all the stars in’t Universe, or something crazy like that.

It can get a little too much sometimes. Try doing it on Acid though… 😯

The fact that someone will have a trained professional diagnose their sick child and then prefer to follow the advice of some well-meaning amateurs on the internet.

Actually stu – the Universe is the one thing that does it for me – it’s totally incomprehensible, especially when you consider that it may just be a speck of dust within another universe, and then try to contemplate what existed before the Universe, or whatever the Universe may be contained within. Is there an edge, is it infinite?

This thread is like that lovely time just before closing when everybody has the love for everything and the desire to express it. I think you’re all amazing. No really, I do.

That 31% of Britons believe in angels?

that people seem willing to share the inanity of the everyday lives as well as their ‘dirty laundry’ on a forum to be read by thousands of people they have never met.

MrSmith – Member
that people seem willing to share the inanity of the everyday lives as well as their ‘dirty laundry’ on a forum to be read by thousands of people they have never met.

You don’t “tweet” either then?

mazez amaze me

C’mon MrSmith, we’re trying to transcend that banal ordinariness.

Druidh – only 22% in Scotland.

The mince pies the wife baked earlier taste pretty amazing. She realy should have hidden them though.

After watching my wife birth our wee boy yesterday I’m amazed at the strength that women have, and the miracle that is life itself.

Plus stars and stuff too 🙂

Steam trains
Potatoes – really, boil them, mash them, roast them, they’re amazing
Breasts – female ones, wow
X-ray imaging
TV – amazing technology used deliver drivel into our homes, I mean X-Factor?
High speed motorcycling and being alive at the end of it
Sailing boats
Readers Digest Prize Draws
Keith Richards is still alive
There’s a public observatory near where I live and from there I’ve seen Saturn’s rings and Jupiter’s spot (quadruple amazement in one sentence)
The Royal Mummies in the Egyptian Museum
Salmon jumping at Buchanty Spout

There’s so much more, but I’m tired

20 million people watched the xfactor final

that amazes and saddens me

this country is doomed

20 million people watched the xfactor final

In the UK? I’m sorry I just don’t believe that at all. I know that’s an estimation, but I’m pretty sure it’s a grossly over-exagerated figure.

Well, I’m 54 & still stuff like the OP amazes me (thinking about the cosmos gives me a bad head)
Danny McWotsisname amazes me.
People who volunteer to go to prison amaze me, bar the odd exception.
I amaze myself sometimes!

call me shallow but I still find a nice pair of tits far more amazing than any of that guff! ^^

Yeah, that too GW.

Just wait ’til you get to touch them – it’ll blow your mind.

kimbers – Member
20 million people watched the xfactor final

that amazes and saddens me

this country is doomed

Do you actually believe the crap you write?

What exactly is wrong with sitting down with the family on a Saturday night and watching some light entertainment?

This country may well be double **** with a portion of chips, but blaming Cowell & co is a bit wide of the mark I’d say.

Uh oh. Now it’s like that time just after closing. Oh hang on, did someone just mention chips?

Did you call my pint a puff?

I’m always amazed when people read something unbelievable and instead of thinking “That’s unbelievable! Perhaps it’s not true!” they think “That’s unbelievable! I shall believe it anyway”. Yet if you give them a completely simple explanation for it they’ll refuse to buy it.

That people, with all the scientific knowledge we now have, still believe in god.

Similar to the above; that with strong scientific explanation, or a sound ‘physical’ theory, people still jump to mythical and mystical causes for a lot of events that occur….

Creaking house – ghosts – really??

DrP

I’m the same, space and the universe and all that. I just can’t get my head around the scale of it…

Eals

it amazes me that people don’t believe in God. what other explanation can there be for the creation of this incomprehensible universe

it amazes me that people don’t believe in God. what other explanation can there be for the creation of this incomprehensible universe

Ding ding! Round one!

Hold on a sec, I’ll get the kettle on and rustle up some hobnobs.

Right, I’m sorted. Now where’s woppit? 😀

Recently, it’s been this 😯 8)

God eh?

Well, what was it the Stephen Tompkinson character said in Brassed off?

What’s He doing? He can take John Lennon but allows Thatcher to still walk this earth [or similar]

yup, it’s pretty amazing that anything that is real would allow that to happen 😉

As I get older and bits of me stop working as well as they used to I realise what an awesome creation I used to be. It amazes me what I took for granted back then

It amazes me what I took for granted back then

Yup. Doing a pre Christmas clean and emptied out my (all things are relative!) medal draw. Its a bit saddening when you look back at even mediocre performances and struggle to even reach those speeds never mind sustain them!

is it infinite?

It both has to be and can’t be.

You know what amazes me? The inability of people in their cars, to move their little finger to push the indicator stalk. How I typed that with no swear words I’ll never know

Cheese.

the pale blue dot:

(thankyou Carl)

the hubble deep field image:

every point and smudge of light is a galaxy, each one containing billions of stars, this image is nothing more than what you see when you look into a small patch of darkness between the stars.

how does santa do it?

(we are truly tiny and insignificant, it’s our ability to understand this, and our humble character to accept it with open minded awe that are equal to the awesomenessitude of those images)

The price of Oil being as low as what it is:

Search for it, dig it out if its there using expensive and intensive methods.

Pump it around the world via ships and pipes.

Get it refined, and then driven around the country, put into holds.

Then sell the stuff on forecourts.

How many people are involved/paid in that process – i find it astonishing that petrol is only 1.20 ltr. Bloody Coca-cola is more than that and that’s just some sugar etc.