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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So how does cutting an apple in half work? The knife must be touching the apple to cut it, right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can kind of visualize it as wire EDM manufacturing. Although not a fully accurate depiction, but it fractures the connection between the two sides.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That analogy relies on the reader having any idea what wire EDM manufacturing is. ;) Not exactly an everyday topic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The apple was never whole.... it was simply tightly grouped and a subgroup has been severed from another

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And it was severed by a thin slice of atoms that used their force field as a wedge to force them apart.