What was your last DUH moment.

[imported_Tick]

So I've always wondered why it was called X86 instructions. It never botherd me enough to look it up. Today, it hit me. 286... 386... 486.. 8086... DUH! And then I felt stupid. So list your DUH moment so we can all laugh at you.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I had a flashback to reading a post on a Marathon forum complaining about how you could hear drips of liquid in a vacuum level. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why liquid couldn't exist in a vacuum until years later it dawned on me that space is very cold. Hopefully that conclusion wasn't wrong as well, or I'm really going to look like an idiot.

 

[chorb]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
I had a flashback to reading a post on a Marathon forum complaining about how you could hear drips of liquid in a vacuum level. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why liquid couldn't exist in a vacuum until years later it dawned on me that space is very cold. Hopefully that conclusion wasn't wrong as well, or I'm really going to look like an idiot.

and there is no medium (oxygen) for the sound waves to travel through....

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: chorb
and there is no medium (oxygen) for the sound waves to travel through....

That was mentioned as well but at least it made sense at the time.

 

[imported_Tick]

Well this thread didn't do so well...

 

[Slicedbread]

During finals, stupid questions that were easy and took a long time to figure out.
Liquids don't exist in a vacuum because of the pressure, they would boil away, not freeze.

 

[jagec]

I still think that frequency doublers for lasers are black magic, even if the mathematics are very clear. IR shouldn't just "become" green light...it just isn't normal!