Jumbo jets getting off the ground. Had this fascination since I was a little girl living right near JFK when we’d go to watch the planes take off and land. ✈
@OlderSometimesWiser I find the power of flight, and going against gravity, fascinating too. Big science fiction geek but also science fact. Just how those big, heavy things stay up there. Amazing!
Nature on small scales (as well as huge geological and astronomical processes):
For example...
Where does a spider find all that material and energy to build a complex web and develop a clutch of eggs in its protective silk wrapping, on what seems a very sparse and irregular diet? (It's the females who are the real web-developers.)
Watching an orb-spider build her spiral prey-trap is lovely to see - round and round from the centre outwards, legs used to gauge the space between the turns, one leg gluing the spiral thread to each radial thread... Until deciding the structure is complete, then trotting back either to her chosen shelter off to the side of the web, or to the centre where she turns head-down, to enjoy a well-earned rest.
@HumanEarth I'm afraid my skill with textiles is little more than sewing on a button, but I appreciate that designing and making high-quality tailored clothes is a very highly-skilled trade.
I recall a clothes-designer talking about this, in a radio programme a few years ago, and mentioning such factors I'd never previously realised, including the direction of the weave in the finished garment, and the effect of damp (from perspiration) on the cloth's behaviour.
On the other hand I do understand steam-engines (and other heat-engines)!
Buying and selling things. I don't know why. I'll walk into a convenience store, grab a burrito, pay for it, and the idea just sticks in my brain that I'm the legal owner of that burrito.
The existence of big boobs along with the biological science that comes with staring at boobs to be honest added with the hot naked girls that come with big boobs to be honest, and the notion of perverted guys seeing proudly naked girls to be honest as well as the notion of CMNF and the biological male sexuality of male voyeurism and biological female sexuality of female exhibitionism and how they go hand-to-hand and activate with eachother to be honest!!!! All this fascinates me to be honest!!!!
@NerdyPotato I find certain aspects of them fascinating. Like the fact that they are much larger than you expect. We see them every day, but we really don't have an actual concept of their size until they see them on the ground.
The "Amish" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 they are like the most "Simple people" on earth... But my Dumba** just HAD to get hooked on the show "Amish Mafia" and think it was real and become obsessed with them.. Uggghhh let's NOT talk about it 🤦🤦🤦🤣🤣🤣🤣
