Basic recording/playback technology from the phonograph age is still basically magic to me. It will never make sense, in my mind, how micro-bumps on a record convert to audio-information. It's magic and if you say otherwise you're probably a wizard and in on it.
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Sound is basically bumps in the air, but air doesn't stay still and has low density, so we copy those bumps to vinyl, which stays still and has high density, meaning it can have really small bumps, which can be turned back into big air bumps.
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Nice try wizard.
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Automatic doors didn't exist when Star Trek had them on the Enterprise, that shit must have blown their mind back in the 60s
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The sliding ones we see today were made in the 50s and commercially available by the 60s
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The ones on the actual ship were operated by guys with ropes standing behind the set.
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Yes they faked it, but it was supposed to conceptualize a motion detector activated mechanism, which didn't become standard until the 1980s
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I’m referring to the ones made by black and decker, not the ones on the set.
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Cameras are still magical to me. You merely press a button and some tiny magical elf draws reality on a paper for you. What the hell??
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Modern capitalism is built on the conspiracy of hot pocket makers.
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if someone had told me that the same gizmo powers microwave ovens, radar, and particle accelerators, i wouldn't believe it. smoke on that, scifi writers
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I feel this way about fax machines. Like it sends paper flying through a wire that birds sit on, then comes out the other end. What.
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Yeah if one thing was magic it would be fax machines.
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Fax machines are evil magick and must be purged.
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Consider: no?
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I refuse your heresy. The fax machines will be eliminated.
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Fine then. Enjoy your crusade through shabby dental clinics, copyshops and electronics landfills.
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Teaching people how to scan to PDF on pain of death sounds like an awesome career actually
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popcorn is over the top bonkers
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