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Everyone has the potential to be a rocket scientist if they work really hard towards it and are motivated enough. But for some people, it requires less effort to understand the more complicated things and others seem to struggle even after having it explained to them several times. Though sometimes you understand how it works and can explain it yourself, but you just don’t comprehend how that makes sense.

It makes the wheels in our brains start turning but doesn’t create a result. People on Reddit shared the things their brains can’t compute when CodeBlackGoonit asked “What's something you still don't understand even after many different people explain it to you?”

Are there any other things that are a mystery to you even after someone laid it out for you? Maybe you never understood a certain concept but then it all clicked? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.

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Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Why women are letting men who claim they cannot control their urges make decisions concerning our bodies. Not their business. And if they have so little self control that a child can "tempt" them, why are they in charge?

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scag$y
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very true. They shouldn't be anywhere near children if that's the case. Any man who claims not to be able to control his urges is pathetic and needs to grow up.

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Well, maybe claiming that everyone can become a rocket scientist and work for NASA if they put their mind to it is a bit optimistic as we found out when we contacted Professor Robin Morris. He is a clinical-academic neuropsychologist at the IoPPN and used to teach neuropsychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience of King’s College London. 

Professor Morris told Bored Panda, “Sadly, I think there are limitations to how far effort can help, but the limitations should not be overestimated.”

You shouldn’t be discouraged as he explained that there is a positive side to this, “One of the successes of the 20th Century has been to recognise that all people have strengths and weaknesses and so individuals can be helped to maximise their capabilities, if properly understood.”

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed The American Healthcare System

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    Nathaniel
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is a simple way to make the rich even richer, to rob the poor, and then kill off the poor when they are of no more use.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed How we keep voting for the same duplicitous corrupt as*hats that rule our countries and somehow, magically, expect things to be different?

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    These strengths and weaknesses depend both on genetics and on the circumstances in which people grow up and what opportunities are open to them. You may have noticed that some people are naturally inclined to humanitarian sciences and will understand what the author wanted to say with his poem but they will struggle with mathematical equations or vice versa.

    Sometimes people think that the humanitarian is less intelligent because they “might rely more on intuitive thought - deep thinking that cannot be rationalised because we do not know the underlying brain or mind processes but may be just as complex as rationale thought. A scientist might think they are more capable than a person in humanities because they can rationalise their thought processes and this leads to hubris.”

    #4

    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Antisemitism, I get that prejudice is always illogical but I don't even know where to begin understand it

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    Well-Dressed Wolf
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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s nothing to “explain”. There’s nothing to “understand”. Antisemitism, like any type of racism, is illogical, blindly selfish and stupid, and inherently awful.

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    But whatever side you are on, you may tune and improve those abilities if you are motivated enough. The way people can make their strengths work for them is by “putting effort in the right place and finding ways around obstacles for understanding. In the past a person with dyslexia might be told they were stupid by their teachers (this happened to my cousin, who ended up doing genetics research at Cambridge University). Now we analyse their disability, recognise it, and find ways to maximise their capabilities and opportunties.”

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed How soccer is any more interesting than watching paint dry

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    #7

    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed HandsomeHeathen said:

    NFT’s

    another user added:

    It's simply a way to separate people from their money.

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    Szirra
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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found a use for NFTs recently. Got send a unsolicited d**k pic? Turn into NFT and send the link to said d***s owner. You’re welcome.

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    Putting effort into studying a difficult concept or theory not only brings us closer to understanding it but it also “over time creates levels of expertise which increase the chance of understanding more complex things specifically. This creates the intellectual structures that support understanding. An experienced doctor will reach the diagnosis more rapidly and intuitively even with a complicated patient because they have engaged in similar thought patterns for many years.”

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Religion

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    Well-Dressed Wolf
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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing to “understand” or “explain” here either. It’s really simple - religion is a tool used to control groups of people and get them to act/do what the religious elite want them to do. Humans fear things like death and the unknown, and they are grateful to be fed reassuring answers like “you’ll go to Heaven as long as you follow these rules!” It’s easy and then they no longer have to think for themselves. And, of course, in the meantime, the religious leaders get them to donate money.

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    Besides, if you don’t understand a concept, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are stupid. Professor Morris believes that it depends.

    The Professor paints us a picture, “I tend to think about human ability as a bit like one of those recording consoles, with huge numbers of buttons and faders. These represent the miriad of different abilities each person has, and the faders determine the level.”

    #10

    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Math. Just anything more than the basics and my brain turns to mash.

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    Well-Dressed Wolf
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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m genuinely dyscalculic. If I try to look at a number that is more than three digits long, it gets all scrambled up. I’m terrible at math in general, too, even simple math. I’ll still count on my fingers to add. I loathe math XD

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    #11

    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed How American Football works and why it's entertaining. I get that the burgers/hot dogs and the sexy cheerleaders are entertaining but I don't get why the game itself is fun to watch.

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    Nathaniel
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the "game" is the break between all the adverts and half time shows, and beverages.

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    So everyone has a different mix of the faders as they are put in different positions. The smarter people have more of them turned up. That has an influence on how they understand things because “the smarter person has greater overall capability to understand things generally.” 

    Certain people seem to have them all up and they are incredible at memorizing and grasping things but “Other people have a particular 'fader profile' and might have gaps in their understanding. For example, we know that there are people who are very intelligent at solving problems but struggle with emotional intelligence. They solve mind blowing problems but just do not get it when dealing with someone's feelings. Conversely some people are not very good at problem solving but seem to have an intuitive understanding of other people.”

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed People who don't make a lot who blow all of their money on stupid things that make it look like they have money, rather than actually getting themselves ahead.

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    DennyS (denzoren)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know about the getting ahead part but don't spend on things to impress OTHER people. If you buy things to make your life easier or things you enjoy go ahead! There is nothing wrong with that. Just don't go into mountains of debt doing it. I've always wanted a gaming console to enjoy some games but always had spending anxiety. I finally got one, not the newest, used but it works great for like 50% the cost. It accomplished what I wanted but within budget.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Money only has value because we agree it does, so why can't we just make inflation not happen?

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    DennyS (denzoren)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money....90% of my problems can be solved with money....which is frigging depressing.

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    This leads to the conclusion that you shouldn’t be too disappointed when you can’t understand a particular concept because it means that you might excel in a different field and that one thing is just a gap.

    What knowledge or understanding would you like to gain but it seems too difficult for you? Have you ever met a very smart person who could understand almost everything but just not one particular thing? Tell us about it in the comments.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed How a dvd works. Or how a record player works, for that matter. Like how does it transfer the little grooves to make… sound and light? Black magic.

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    Kevin Palachik
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In simplest terms...all music is just bumps...bumps that end up moving air. A CD has bumps that change the lasers path to the sensor. The computer turns those bumps(0 and 1s) into bumps in voltage. Your speakers then turn the voltage bumps into physical bumps of the air. The air bumps your ear drum. Your brain turns it into music. A record does the same. Only its physical bumps in the grooves. They are tiny bumps. The needle follows the bumps and turns it into voltage bumps. Or in oldddd phono graphs it bumps air and the big horn amplifies those bumps. Essentially all audio formats are different types of bumps. It all ends with a speaker bumping the air.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed The Krebs Cycle

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed How the state can tax our tax return. I will never understand this.

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    Dave M
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kind of simple. Your refund is money you overpaid. It is still income; you just haven't had access to it.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Heavy_Permission5704 said:

    Monopoly

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    It was supoosed to be an educational tool about how capitalism and private property ownership funnel wealth into the hands of a wealthy few, at the expense of the working class.

    Then a corporation copied it, rebranded that as a good thing and sold it as entertainment.

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    How bitcoin works.

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    LizzieBoredom
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to Sam Bankman-Fried, Bitcoin only works if you live in the Bahamas and spend other people's money.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Ceyram said:

    Fourth dimension

    thinkofanamelater added:

    Think about describing something's location. 3d world is X, Y, and Z. So you could say "my keys are on the table, 10 ft in from the front door, 5 ft to the left, and 3ft off the ground."

    But you go look, and they're not there. So, add a 4th dimension to your description, when were they there? Things move about in space over a period of time; time is that fourth dimension.

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    Stardust she/her
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time is a temporal dimension. There is a fourth spatial dimension which our brains aren’t evolved to visualize yet

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed String theory

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    Well-Dressed Wolf
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My cats understand string theory. The theory is: whenever they see anything stringlike, they pounce.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed How a camera works. And not as in I’m too dumb to use one but as is how the device functions.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Magnets. Black magic f**kery.

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    #25

    How literary anybody thinks/thought crypto was going to be a good investment

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    scag$y
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those people who bought it cheap and sold it for a profit will probably be reflecting on what a terrible idea it was from their mansions overlooking their fleet of sports cars. But yeah, stupid.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Finance. Anything beyond my bank account balance vs what I owe goes over my head. Mention interest and percentage and I’m off to lala land.

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    Gourdeous
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And when Rishi says he wants to teach maths until 18, what he should actually be proposing is finance, budgeting, adulting life skills

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed The Monty Hall Problem

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    Howard M. Lewis Ship
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are three doors. You pick one. The host, who knows where the prize is, opens another (no prize there). Do you switch to the third door? Most people say don't switch, because it's just 50/50. But it isn't actually 50/50, because the host didn't open the door randomly. They opened a door that did not have the prize. Basically, the open doors "merge" into the result of opening the third door. 1/3 chance of getting it right on your initial guess. 2/3 chance (because it *must* add up to 1) of getting it by changing doors. Imagine there were 1000 doors, you chose one, the host chose 998 empty doors, and you could switch to the last closed door? Would you? 1/1000 chance of getting it right on the first guess, so 999/1000 chance of getting the prize by switching. Same exact logic, but more obvious.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Why are the Aquateen Hungerforce all giant fast food items, and why do they have a superhero team name when they just hang around annoying the neighbors and stuff?

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed The greater than/less than signs, <>. I can't read them and am always confused as to which is what. Honestly don't care anymore, I made it this far this long without understanding them so I don't want to know now. But a lot of people still try to explain it to me, the alligator mouth really confuses me even more

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    Nilsen
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The crocodile always want to eat the bigger thing. I'm a real grownup, but I still have to remind myself

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    #31

    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed The economy

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    GEPowers
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one, especially economists and government understand it either. Why should you be any different.

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Difference between efffect and affect

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    #34

    How sex and gender have nothing to do with each other in regards to trans people.

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    Nathaniel
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sex, is biological, gender is identity. They are both separate for cisgender and transgender people, it is just that sex and gender matches in cisgender people and the match causes no problems.

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    #35

    Torque Vs horsepower

    My dad is a car mechanic and I'm a car enthusiast, but it still confuses me.

    Please don't try to explain, I do actually "get it", it's just very odd to think about as an axle/shaft can just rotate, it has 1 axis to implement force, so saying it is more turn-y in one measurement but less turn-y in another is weird.

    I've seen all the videos like the identical cars where one is geared high horsepower and goes fast on level ground but can't push itself up a hill, and the other high torque geared car never goes very fast but can climb the gradient the high HP car can't, etc.

    My brain still just says "Yes but how much want turn?!"

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    James016
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw a comparison to punches in boxing. Horsepower is how fast a boxer punches and torque is how hard a boxer punches

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    #36

    What the f**k is an ion

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    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed Money laundering

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let me see if I understand it enough to explain lol...so lets say you have 100$ from selling some drugs, because you're a ruffian. You can't deposit it in the bank because you don't have a legal receipt of how you came about that money....that's a no no. So how do you use this 100$? You either spend it on a house because even ruffians need housing (note this has to be a cash purchase) or you open a company selling HDMI cables because you've always liked to say HDMI and you buy your stocks with the $100 (cash purchase). Now you have either a house or some HDMI cables, which are legit purchases that you can sell for legal money. Money which can now be shown to the bank as a legit source of funds, suck it bank! Now you may be wondering but what about the person I bought the house from or the HDMI cables, they have the $100. You're right but they have a legit way that they earned it so it's now legal tender. Now....imagine this with $1,000,000. (Please don't do this).

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    #38

    Black Holes

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    Christof Irran
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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every body of measurable gravity has a specific escape velocity. In the case of our Earth a thing would have to travel at 25,000 miles per hour in order to be able to leave Earth and travel elsewhere in space. If the Earth's mass (and resulting gravity) would increase the required escape velocity would increase, too. Black Holes are bodies so massive that the required escape velocity is GREATER than 671,000,000 mph. And since it so happens that the speed of light is only 670,616,629 mph light cannot escape from these massive bodies and they appear as "holes" in our firmament. But we know that they are there because their gravity fcuks with their surrounding space.

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    #40

    Why Neon Genesis Evangelion is seen as a masterpiece of an anime. I can kinda get its cultural and historical significance within the anime bubble but I don't get what really makes it that great as a piece of media

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    Well-Dressed Wolf
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s about humanity, and the relationships between people. It’s a work that looks at social interactions and expectations. It shows how characters grow and mature as they shoulder the responsibilities of adulthood and growing up. It’s about accepting reality and the fact that we don’t always get what we want. It’s not just about mecha suits and creepy Angel aliens.

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    #41

    The plot of Kingdom Hearts.

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    #42

    How is Cintas not a scam?

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    #43

    Person Asked “What's Something You Still Don't Understand Even After Many Different People Explain It To You?” And 30 People Confessed The hammers surely weigh more than the feathers.

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