Typical Reductionist Myopia

[NOTE:  I heavily edited the grammar and spelling mistakes in this quote.]  

"Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphorus: 800 g, salt: 250 g, saltpeter:100 g, Sulfur: 80 g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3 g, and 15 other elements in small quantities.... that's the total chemical makeup of the average adult body.

Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single example of successful human transmutation. It's like there's some missing ingredient..... Scientists have been trying to find it for hundreds of years, pouring tons of money into research, but to this day they don't have a theory.

For that matter, the elements found in a human being are all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowance.

Humans are pretty cheaply made."  (Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1) 

Well, now, Hiro, if you bothered to see past your materialist lenses, you'd recognize that (a) man is so much richer than his chemical components (just the fact that you're puzzled by it all testifies to that), and (b) transmutations aren't possible bec. of genetic barriers...amongst other things {snort}.

PS:  the "missing ingredient" you're so flummoxed by is openly identified in this text.  And if you really want to challenge your alchemist mind, get a load of THIS!  

"In Jesus Christ all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

In Case Of Utter Bafflement

...you can always simply revert to the preschool level of basic colors.

I stumbled on this luscious scallop, which looked like it was made of the most scrumptious candy, but it had zero identifier.  I hoped to find its name.

So, dutifully (tho by now skeptically), I clicked on the "search by image" button RIGHT next to it.  Google, flummoxed as ever, quickly attempted a lame CYA in the form of

When In Doubt...

...simply default to imagination.  Even if you're Google.

I was hoping to find some more photographs along this line (it's some abalone nacre)

so I consulted good old Artificial "Intelligence" (perhaps not the most intelligent thing to do, considering A."I."s stellar record {snort}).  Since it evidently couldn't figure out what this was, it resorted to next best guess:

Hilarity & Amazement, All In One

Ever since I first set foot on barnacles, I've hated the darned things:  they puncture & slash your feet like you were their most egregious enemy.  But recently, I found Siamese twin ones attached to a sand dollar 

(which in itself is new this year:  in all my decades of life, I've NEVER seen barnacles choose sand dollars as a squatting spot; not sure what that signifies), with an obvious divorce having taken place, so I wanted to understand barnacle anatomy better.  

I've always viewed barnacles as perhaps 1mm up the totem pole from rocks.  But then I found this schematic, which totally blew me away...and at the same time, caused a massive abs workout from guffawing.  Notice how complex this creature in fact is!  He's even got certain {ahem} appendages and cavities!

Here's a magnificent view of a live one:

And for a bit more mirth, watch this unbelievable snippet.

Maybe Sand's Doubly Elusive?

I again clicked on the "search by image" button right next to this picture (which is again a sand design):

Google could only figure it out as:

But hey, at least Google got the rhyme right!

It Fails On This Count, Too.

If I have worked with a picture file in MSPaint which is later closed, but where the MSPaint screen is still up,  A."I." afterwards can't tell that the file has been "tucked away." Against all reason, it stubbornly continues to insist that the file is still "in use," and then refuses to allow me to do anything with that file in the way of moving it.

Dumb artificial "intelligence" is bad enough, but rebellious dumb artificial "intelligence"?!?  That really takes the cake.

I'm voting for renaming artificial "intelligence."

Artificial "Intelligence" Is Lousy At Guessing Games

Struck out twice within an hour, no less!

I wanted to find more pictures like this, so I clicked on the "search by image" function RIGHT next to the image in question (which usually gives Google a clue as to what kind of image is involved).

Now, most folks would recognize this as a water and sand pattern.  Not Google!  Even tho the pattern is NOT pointing upward (which would make the mistake slightly more understandable), Google came up with this result:

With this picture, I did the exact same thing:

This is another water-carved sand pattern (albeit no longer underwater).  Google couldn't make it out, so just tossed it into this "bin":

Yes, Google, in the broadest sense, sand is indeed a "material," but not the type you've selected here, aka "fabric."

And in the face of this kind of incompetence, there're folks who worry that computers'll take over the world?!?