Thread: What has surprised you lately?

I have two. I'm surprised there's no science section here.

What really surprised me, though, is how carbon dating works. A piece of material (be it paper, cloth, bone...) is burned into carbon - just black burnt ash. I forget how the carbon is then dated, but I would've thought that all information in that carbon would've been burned away.

I'm pleasantly surprised Santorum is leading in the polls. The Dark Horse has ridden into the front of the line.

I'm surprised that its already March (feels like it should be late December) and that there's only 65 school days left. This year has gone by fast.

Originally Posted by Glanderence

I'm surprised that its already March (feels like it should be late December) and that there's only 65 school days left. This year has gone by fast.

Get used to it. Time really does go by faster the older you get. Well, each second doesn't actually move faster. I'm thinking that as we get older the more cerebral we get. The more we concentrate on stuff in our minds, the less we notice the time going by. Just a guess though.

I just found out that the Earth has two moons. I never knew that.

I'm surprised daily that life is even real at all. Do you ever get that? I feel like oxygen is just some infinitely-available, extremely potent hallucinogen or something and when we stop breathing we're zapped back to the reality that we call death.

You have no idea how many times I've yelled in my head, 'THIS ISN'T REAL!!!"

But when your head yells back it's time to get skeptical.