# Things that make you go WOW!

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**Category:** Reasonably serious discussion\
**Created:** [23 November 2015 21:30 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-wow/1685 "2015-11-23T21:30:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2015 17:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-wow/1685/21 "2015-11-24T17:42:08Z")

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Are you sure she’s not up to some secret gusset typing?

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**Author:** ![Halo-Stickman](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/halo-stickman/32/23_2.png) [@Halo-Stickman](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Halo-Stickman)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2015 20:55 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-wow/1685/22 "2015-11-24T20:55:53Z")

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Sfcsim, I’ve watch the starling roost at Westhay Moor on the Somerset Levels a few times. It certainly is an awe-inspiring sight, especially during harsh winters when the cold weather causes more birds to move south from Scandinavia; during these winters the Westhay roast has been estimated at up to 9 million birds. It’s amazing to see so many starlings moving together in such a way that the mind and eye can easily be fooled into believing 9 million individual entities have suddenly become a single living organism.

Another awe-inspiring sight I was fortunate enough to witness whilst walking along a Devon cliff was a peregrine falcon swooping pass my head to take out an unsuspecting pigeon. Its speed was incredible. They’ve been clocked at 242mph, apparently.

[![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/c/b/cb9b288d6a63a8fd773e46406d40dcb24eca3e20.jpeg "High-Velocity Falcon | National Geographic") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mTPEuFcWk)

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**Author:** ![Halo-Stickman](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/halo-stickman/32/23_2.png) [@Halo-Stickman](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Halo-Stickman)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2015 21:10 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-wow/1685/23 "2015-11-24T21:10:38Z")

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The weird quantum world makes me go wow

… or something

[![]( "YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXQjRBLwsQ)

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**Author:** ![CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cb-saint/32/95251_2.png) [@CB-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/CB-Saint)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2015 21:30 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/things-that-make-you-go-wow/1685/24 "2015-11-24T21:30:49Z")

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When I suggested a double slit experiment to my ex-girlfriend and her best friend, it was more of an OW moment not a WOW moment.

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