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What are you fascinated by?

Flashlights.

I don't know why, I just like flashlights of all kinds. My latest acquisition I found at Brookstone last week.
 

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Iscariot said:
Then you would be the first, and your expertise is probably needed in the world of biology.
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It's a shame I am such an underachiever LOL--besides the expertise already existed in in a couple fellows named Asimov and Sagan, their deaths were a great loss to science.
 
Scientific explanations or even theories of how things work, the universe as a whole...the whole who are we and why are we here thing and human behaviour. Never gets old.
 
this thread went much faster than i thought it would :)

Its fascination to see everyone's fascinations
 
Watches are at the top of my list but anything with gears, axles, bearings, belts, chains, springs, all things mechanical, fascinate me. My fascination started and a very young age. My rearend was tanned many times as a child for dismantling everything within my reach just to see what made it work.
 
Hayduke60 said:
Watches are at the top of my list but anything with gears, axles, bearings, belts, chains, springs, all things mechanical, fascinate me. My fascination started and a very young age. My rearend was tanned many times as a child for dismantling everything within my reach just to see what made it work.
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Well that is just wrong; you should have been encouraged, not punished!.
 
I'm fascinated by--among many other things--how technology affects culture: the way the printing press undermined the power of the ruling institutions of the day when it was introduced, by democratizing knowledge; the way you don't have as many casual, serendipitous conversations with strangers when you travel these days b/c everyone is busy talking on cell phones (don't mean to bash cell phones here--I have one and love it, I'm just saying ... ); how Facebook and other new social networking media are changing how people and businesses form and inform communities ...

Also fascinated by animals and nature, particularly interspecies "friendships,"--for instance, how my cats and dogs interact w/ each other, and me. :rolleyes:
 
Fascinated how certain people can just eyeball something and make it happen. Case in point was watching my carpenter friend cut the lumber perfectly from start to finish to help build our patio. Watching my father in law, an ex body mechanic, go zip zip, ad take off a bumper, pull out a seat, all the while not making one trip to the tool box as he had the exact tools needed for the job.
 
These are the things that i find fascinating.

Space- Planets,Possibility of other lifeforms,exploration,ect.

Music- Playing,Listening,exploring differnt types,emotional expression.

Porn- It just leaves me Speechless :eek: and alot of the time breathless.

monkeys-There just amazing i just cant seem to stop wanting to know more about them.

Dogs-working,gun-I just love em there just kick ass

Reptiles-I just find them amazing if my gf wasnt so scared of them id get a snake.

Next gen Gaming-The endless fun I have with them and the new tech that being used and the variety of game play they have to offer is just brilliant.

The Paranormal and Unexplained-I just like the idea of thing we cant explain.

Cryptozoology
 
Political thought, applied philosophy.

Existentialism, pragmatism.

Psychology, sociology, demographics.

The idea of religion.

The concept of time.

World travel.

Cars.

Music.

Women.

Beer.
 
Technology, old and new. Especially older and newer Macs :D
I also find old cars fascinating as well as architecturally striking buildings, nature and documentaries.
 
Iscariot said:
Neither of whom are biologists…
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Incorrect, Asimov had a PHD in biology and wrote many papers on the subject outside his fictional work and was considered the foremost expert on robotics (though his entire life he bothered to see a robot), Sagan studied cosmology and had a PHD too but did study biology and its evolutionary links to cosmology--Sagans Pale Blue Dot is an interesting read on the subject among others. Many scientists in current fields owe credit for their research to these guys not just in biology alone these two were considered among the masters of the field of science. Sagan and Asimov wrote plenty of science fiction over their lives but most of the technical matters of the stories were based on theories involving actual scientific method.

Sagan spent more time working in the field and writing technical papers than Asimov did, he was involved with NASA early in the space program as a technical adviser on engineering projects. Asimov as a biologist did not stick strictly to that discipline either besides his fiction his theories in the mechanics of robotics are actively being applied to biology(think of artificial hearts and limbs much of their inspiration is due to him in part), psychology(artificial inteligence, and the mob mentality have roots in Asimovs writings on robot brains and a concept called psychohistory used in a number of his novels), and computers (the concept existed before certainly and credit could be shared with other scientists like Clarke in this instance). He also wrote papers on a number of other subjects including cosmology, and history--a good read on the matter of theology and history written by him I liked particularly was Tradgedy of the Moon.
 
Mathematics-I love doing math and finding out why things are the way they are and why it works.

Science

Medicine-I love the science behind medicine.

And...my love affair with..

Biomedical engineering
 
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