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29 Jun 2012, 11:40 pm

Despite the war and poverty, when you look at how far we have come, it's simply fascinating. I've grown to love science more and more each day because of how accessible information is. Our telescopes can see through the far reaches of our solar system, our satellites can take pictures in many different ways (even thermal).

I guess this is why us on the spectrum get so caught up in our own world, we interpret things so differently. Other who are not on the spectrum can't believe the advances in science, but an autistic interested in it experiences it in a completely different dimension. It's like a world that we can go to and feel safe and experience awe.

My special interest is science in general, I look up at the stars and than i'm gone into another world. Why I cannot explain how I feel about science can be frustrating, but at least I can explain how it all works.

Think about this one,

Cole

P.S. Tell me how you feel about experiencing such amazing advances in science and how you feel about it!



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29 Jun 2012, 11:53 pm

Currently I'm enjoying the fact that instead of having to get a hole drilled in my skull to alleviate an infected bicuspid, I had 2 shots of Novacaine, a Dremel and a few little files to put that f-er to rest, and a wonderful mixture of poppy extract and acetaminophen to keep it from barking back at me for the next few days. Not to mention 2 antibiotics

What I like about science is that it's a recipe; follow each step the same way every time and get the same results. Routine


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30 Jun 2012, 12:11 am

Forget telescopes, (not really) every day I marvel at the fact that I can sit on a comfortable couch, enclosed in metal and glass, protected from the elements, that flies through space at 70 mph. with just a little pressure from my foot. Simply amazing.


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30 Jun 2012, 12:14 am

Thank god for that magnetic field of ours.... poor mars.



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30 Jun 2012, 2:38 am

I find reality rather boring. I like to think of impossible things...

"Sometimes I think of as many as six impossible things before breakfast" - Alice Kingsleigh, Alice in Wonderland (2010)



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30 Jun 2012, 4:39 am

I also find reality quite fascinating :o I'm not sure why, a lot of things are just amazing, not only science for me but also things like nature and books and animals, and i love my endless imagination :) Which is also a part of reality because my mind is real xD



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30 Jun 2012, 7:09 am

I also find it fascinating. I find it amazing how much technology has changed over the past 80 years, yet there are still villages in some parts of the world.


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01 Jul 2012, 10:47 pm

Yes, this really is a ground-breaking time for science. It's just simply awesome!



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01 Jul 2012, 11:46 pm

The Universe really is fascinating. It often blows my mind knowing that nature can break our laws of psychics, which just makes me aware of how little we actually know about it.

I often get lost in the thoughts of "what is the universe inside of?" and "if there was nothing one day, how was there enough energy the next day to create the big bang?" Thoughts of how we exist, and how everything exists so perfectly really blow my mind. The scale of the Universe, and all these objects that populate it make me feel insignificant, like a parasite with no real purpose other than to survive and then eventually die.

What purpose is there, if we are all going to diminish from existence? Eventually everything we do and create will become nothing, there will be little or nothing to show for it, which makes me question why life has to be so damn difficult for many.

I would prefer to spend what minute time I have on this planet learning as much as I can so I can at least be able to understand it better.

But then there are these things we'll never learn, I won't ever know for sure what the Universe is inside of, or if the big bang happened out of pure nothing. How does something come from nothing? I would love to recreate that moment, or at least witness it.



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02 Jul 2012, 9:30 am

The vast amount of work that goes into making the most mundane objects is amazing to me. When I worked for an engineer who consulted for the paper-making industry I had to draw and make animations of various parts of the process of making paper, and just the thought that went into not only making the paper, but making the machines that made the paper, and the machines that made the machines that made the paper, and so on and so on. And all of it thought up by human minds.

I especially liked the digester, the machine that separated the pulp from the lignin. It seemed an apt metaphor for modern life.



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02 Jul 2012, 2:34 pm

It is amazing of all the things that human minds have figured out in a relatively short time, especially when it seems that so many are mindless drones incapable of independent thought. I must underestimate people and that is weakness of mine. Just a few months ago I can recall wondering how people ever discovered how to make bread and we've been making it in some form for thousands of years. The number of steps from grain to bread seems insurmountable.



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02 Jul 2012, 9:41 pm

Computers, name one invention that has more quickly wormed it's way into every single facet of life, look around you and count the number of computers around you (this include every thing from calculators to supercomputers (if you happen to be near one that is)). It's staggering, fascinating, and amazing.


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03 Jul 2012, 12:02 am

I agree. Science is incredible. Magic is cool because I see something I can't explain, but for me *knowing* how something works with science makes it even better.

There's also the advancements with technology and medicine. As a species, humans have done pretty cool things.


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