Your dog understands at least a few human words. We don’t understand any dog barks. They might be smarter than us.
Earth could very well be like one of those uncontacted tribes in South America. The whole galaxy knows we’re here but they’ve agreed to leave us alone until we figure it out for ourselves.
We shouldn’t be scared of a computer passing the Turing Test. We should be scared of a computer intentionally failing it… (note: the Turing Test is a test of intelligence for a computer. If a computer passes it successfully, it basically means that a human would be unable to distinguish the intelligence of the computer from the intelligence of another human)
If you go to jail for tax evasion, you’re living off of taxes for not paying taxes.
You experience life with a delay. Signals take time to reach your brain from your eyes, tongue, and skin. Moreover, light and sound waves already had to take some time to reach you in the first place. Basically, everything you experience already happened.
Most of the adults who told you that Wikipedia was an unreliable source now use viral Facebook posts to get their news.
“DO NOT TOUCH” would probably be a really unsettling thing to read in braille.
Graham’s number is so big that if you memorized it, your brain would collapse into a black hole (this is due to the fact that you would require an effectively infinite number of neurons to be packed into your head. And at that level of density your brain would simply collapse into a black hole).
All of the planets in our solar system would fit between the Earth and Moon…with room to spare.
At one point you were the youngest person on Earth. And you will also be the last person to die in your lifetime
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
After all these years, the pool on the deck of the Titanic is still full of water
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SUMIT MANWAL