What is the most fascinating thing you have ever seen or experienced?

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UldranthTonitrum

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Whether it's in gaming/internet, or just in real life...

What is it you find the most fascinating, and continues to fascinate you to this day(and beyond), and why?
 

Toyota making trucks that last 1 million miles. It's fascinating that it takes foreign/Japanese engineering to do that. Toyota 4 Runners holding so much resale value cause they're tanks.

Conversely some GM trucks blow their engine in the first year. Ford and GM, you guys are shitting the bed in reliability.
 
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Metroidz said:

Toyota making trucks that last 1 million miles. It's fascinating that it takes foreign/Japanese engineering to do that. Toyota 4 Runners holding so much resale value cause they're tanks.

Conversely some GM trucks blow their engine in the first year. Ford and GM, you guys are shitting the bed in reliability.
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I have a 2014 ford transit with 175k on it and it still runs like a dream, still a way to go before hitting mileage like that toyota, but it's still a viable purchase in the UK and keeps it resale value, mainly because it's a pre 2015 model. 2015 upward are built on the cheap, and are constantly in for repair. It's also not got a spot of rust, even in this shitty wet island climate
 
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I have a 2014 ford transit with 175k on it and it still runs like a dream, still a way to go before hitting mileage like that toyota, but it's still a viable purchase in the UK and keeps it resale value, mainly because it's a pre 2015 model. 2015 upward are built on the cheap, and are constantly in for repair. It's also not got a spot of rust, even in this shitty wet island climate
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Nice. I heard Ford in UK is quite the different tale from the US.
 
I am never not amazed every day I drive on the 405 in Los Angeles.

How could someone’s lineage survive millions of years of evolution and countless life or death situations to drive at lethal speeds in excess of 80 miles an hour with their eyes firmly planted on their cell phone 2 inches in front of them. I don’t know if anyone else here from Los Angeles or Southern California but if you are on the freeway, you witness dozens and dozens of people every hour or so on their cell phone, which just planted to it, not looking at the road at all.

We survived the dinosaurs by being absolutely amazing at avoiding dangerous situations, while still being fed and reproducing only to purposely put ourselves every day in incredibly dangerous situations on purpose with the damn phone. Most of these cars have Apple CarPlay or android auto so it’s pointless anyways you just use that via voice commands.
 
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I am never not amazed every day I drive on the 405 in Los Angeles.

How could someone’s lineage survive millions of years of evolution and countless life or death situations to drive at lethal speeds in excess of 80 miles an hour with their eyes firmly planted on their cell phone 2 inches in front of them. I don’t know if anyone else here from Los Angeles or Southern California but if you are on the freeway, you witness dozens and dozens of people every hour or so on their cell phone, which just planted to it, not looking at the road at all.

We survived the dinosaurs by being absolutely amazing at avoiding dangerous situations, while still being fed and reproducing only to purposely put ourselves every day in incredibly dangerous situations on purpose with the damn phone. Most of these cars have Apple CarPlay or android auto so it’s pointless anyways you just use that via voice commands.
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instead of people looking at they phone, this is what we have in Wisconsin

 
Metroidz said:
Nice. I heard Ford in UK is quite the different tale from the US.
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A US ford will be built with more bells and whistles, so more to go wrong, which is why the 2015+ in the UK have more issues than older basic models. They added more shit to them, so obviously cut costs elsewhere to try and maintain a price point. They used to be a vehicle with a radio, now they are a computer with wheels.
 
If there is anything I find fascinating myself, is the continued survival of Ozzy Osbourne, despite him having spent many years doing Drugs and Alchohol almost non-stop.

Most rock/heavy metal stars who had been doing drugs and alchohol alot have died, but Ozzy himself kept on living.

How Ozzy has managed to live for so long, despite all the use of drugs and alchohol for most of his life, continues to fascinate me to this day.

The man is a legend in his own right.
 
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If there is anything I find fascinating myself, is the continued survival of Ozzy Osbourne, despite him having spent many years doing Drugs and Alchohol almost non-stop.

Most rock/heavy metal stars who had been doing drugs and alchohol alot have died, but Ozzy himself kept on living.

How Ozzy has managed to live for so long, despite all the use of drugs and alchohol for most of his life, continues to fascinate me to this day.

The man is a legend in his own right.
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Lol, Keith Richards will blow your mind.
 
The neverending and sheer capacity of the human mind and how beautiful and fucked up it can be.
 
Engineering samples/prototypes related to computer hardware. I started collecting them a number of years ago, and at this point I have a decent sized collection of ES CPUs and other hardware, some of which literally don't exist on the internet. No information, no pictures, nothing.

My pride and joy is an Intel Larrabee PCB that I rescued from scrap while working for my previous employer. My particular sample was manufactured by Intel in the middle of them cancelling/shifting gears on the project, so it has empty pads where the display output connectors (HDMI, DP, DVI etc.) would have gone if they were populated. Larabee was eventually cancelled (never released to the public) and spun off into what would become Xeon Phi, which was around for a while in enterprise systems before also being cancelled.

I'd be happy to share some pictures if that interests anyone here.
 
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