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‘What Is A Scientific Fact That Absolutely Blows Your Mind?’: People Share 35 Incredible Facts About Our World
The world of science has been capturing our imagination for ages. Especially in the current times, when a part of the public is skeptical about the things scientists tell us. While causing a divide, it reminds us just how much (and little) humans know about the world around us, whether it’s Earth, space, living beings and entities that live in them, or our own bodies.
So today we are diving into a mind-blowing science class where facts sound too crazy to be true. And thanks to Redditor analyzeTimes, who asked “What is a scientific fact that absolutely blows your mind?” on the Ask Reddit community, we have a whole lot to uncover. From a Voyager that has been traveling >30,000 mph for 43 years and is only 20 light hours away to our brains simultaneously creating stories and being genuinely shocked by plot twists as we dream, these are some of the best ones to mess with our brains.
Scroll down, upvote your favorites, and share a scientific fact you find hard to wrap your head around in the comments below!
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#1
When you dream, one portion of your brain creates the story, while another part witnesses the events and is really shocked by the plot twists.
SykesDaMan 3 years ago
I think it also happens when awake: "What if this thing happened/I did something?" "How and why are you thinking about this far fetched thing?"
Madcap Caro 3 years ago
Does anyone else have dreams that are a repeat of a previous dream? Yourself in the dream realises it's a repeat; recognizes the story, but instead of that waking you up, yourself in the dream goes 'I must play this out the way I did before and do all the same things as last time to get to the end of this dream'. Kinda like playing an online game.
Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
My repeating dreams are nightmares. In the dream I kind of know what's going to happen next because I've seen it before and every time I am aware of this, the other part of the brain creates a new twist. How cool and creepy at the same time. I know some people have learned to direct their dreams, but I never could.
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Ace Girl 3 years ago
This has definitely happened to me! I had a dream a wolf jumped up onto me so I started freaking out thinking I was being attacked by a wolf! But then I realized the wolf had a note tied to it and it was simply trying to get help. Can't believe my own dreaming brain surprised me with a plot twist only it knew was coming!
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
It's so nice that half the brain plays out stories for the other half.
Mary Peace 3 years ago
Yes, I do that. Then I feel cross because I can't remember much of the plot, and I think it would make a great story if only I could remember.
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I spent some time with Gene Cernan, the Apollo 17 astronaut who was the last guy to walk on the Moon. He told me two things that I couldn’t stop telling people: 1. the Earth is round in space like a ball, not flat looking like the Moon is to us. He said while looking up from the lunar surface, the Earth just hung there, like a grapefruit that he could almost grab if he just jumped high enough. Could see the weather change too. 2. because of the smaller size of the Moon, not only is it’s curve very visible, the apparent horizon is also much closer so he said there were moments where if he ran too fast or jumped too high he felt like he was going to fall off.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
That's what I would be scared of. I understand the moon has its own gravity but looking at the videos of Apollo astronauts it looks like they could just fly off into space if they jump too high. Still I wouldn't pass up that experience if someone offered.
Dennis Mikulus 3 years ago
Escape velocity is 5000 mph so you are safe. But everyone can do slam dunks.
Load More Replies... Bored Panda 3 years ago
I spent a couple of days with Charlie Duke (another Apollo astronaut who walked on the moon). I remember him saying that the dust/dirt on the surface of the moon was like talcum powder and that while traveling between the Earth and Moon, space was just dead-black; they could not pick out stars without their celestial navigation scope.
Bonnie Vannaman 3 years ago
This is probably a dumb question, but why wouldn't they be able to see stars?
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Trophy Husband 3 years ago
I started to write a sarcastic comment from the point of view of a flat Earther, but then I deleted it because I got scared that the sarcasm would get missed and someone would actually think I was that dumb. That's literally one of my worst nightmares...
Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
Sarcasm is often missed in any comments section. I use it a lot in circles where I know I'm understood but here I mostly avoid it or add /s at the end of my comment. Still seems that the whole concept of sarcasm is not familiar to many people. They seem to read everyting as it was meant to be 100 percent fact.
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Referencing the number tells us nothing because the numbers change as people press the up/down arrows. Much better to reference the title (if there is one) or subject matter (if there isn’t).
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Morons abound…I’m sorry that your friend falls into this unfortunate category
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
I think it would be fascinating to watch a video of the earth from the moon and see weather events play out.
Dennis Mikulus 3 years ago
The earth has much more texture, contrast, and familiar continent shapes that make its spherical shape much more apparent. The moon just presents the same face every day and is all a bunch of dim shades of gray with no sharp edges.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
And the moon’s flat gray color makes any topographic variations only show up as light and shadow, while the earth has color to enhance the more 3D appearance of its topography.
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Trees can communicate and cooperate using a network of underground mycelium. They can store excess energy in it for later use, can trade different nutrients with neighbors so their needs are met, take care of their young when they're unwell, and even warn others of a spreading disease or parasite.
A Dasher Panda 3 years ago
And then bipedal macrofauna come by and cut vast holes in that network, dump chemicals on it, or set fire to it.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
In other words, fungi are good. Mycelium is threads, essentially, and it's fascinating. "Entangled Life" was a dense but fascinating read, if anyones interested.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
“Fantastic Fungi” was a GREAT documentary. I saw it twice in the theater and have watched it on Netflix a couple of times as well.
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Earl Grey 3 years ago
Quaking Aspen “trees” are just stems from a single gigantic clone that has a common root system, and which lives for tens of thousands of years. See: https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Plants-and-Fungi/Quaking-Aspen
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Sort of like how Yellowstone’s various thermal spots are just outlets for a massive caldera that extends throughout most of the western U.S. and into the Pacific Ocean. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s eventually found that it’s in charge of the Hawaiian Islands as well.
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René Studer 3 years ago
I read that the tree giraffes like to eat from (don’t know what its called in english) is able to warn other trees in the vicinity about the animal. The giraffe would then have to find a tree that hasn’t received a warning yet for its next meal.
Whatshername 3 years ago (edited)
Cool! So the warned tree will then run and hide? /s
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plantsarecool 3 years ago (edited)
I just left a similar comment on on another bp post about acacia trees but anyway all plants communicate in their own way. Some using chemicals they produce, some using mycelium, some through a form of awareness at a cellular level that we don't understand yet. In the future they will look back in disbelief at how unaware we were and in horror at how we've treated them.
Aisling Raye 3 years ago
These are fun facts to share with the one vegan at the dinner party that won't shut up about being vegan. (Not that I've done that but the specificity of that example makes it pretty clear that I am a snarky a$$hole and definitely have) - TBC I have no problem with vegans but some of them are preachy and a bit "much" much as some religious people are preachy and a bit "much." Like, dude, I respect your life choice but can ya maybe not make it your whole personality and then try to cram it down my throat? /rant
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Wistiti 3 years ago
And yet we do not think of them as sentient beings. Even though some scientist has been pushing the idea since Darwin (even Darwin with his observations didn't push as much - although apes to humans really had him in a pinch).
DC 3 years ago
Reactions and consciousness aren't the same. There is no brain-like structure of any complexity close to being able to be really sentient. Usually, sentient plants are only brought up in discussions with people trying to justify eating meat, which tramples on the interest of well-known and doubtlessly proven sentient beings, which then is countered by a halfheartedly-humorous rant about how we ignore plants' feelings (which, in the end, is even more of a point against meat, as a lot more plants are to be used there than if fed to humans directly). Also, reactions of trees to their surrounding have to work with limited means, compared to beetles and the like ... immobility pretty much prevents them from requiring any neuronalesque processes that are too complex - they can only answer chemically. But, that is besides - it still is fascinating. Plants, trees in particular, are cool anyway.
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Jim Wamsley 3 years ago
Well discussed in the book 'Finding the Mother Tree' by Suzanne Simard
Josy Bannon 3 years ago
Thanks, very interesting! I looked it up and will definitely read it.
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago (edited)
Now this is very interesting. I love to sit and read under trees. I love nature and often wonder what they do other than just survive and be being beautiful. Eye opening. I want to learn more now.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Redwood trees are the oldest and tallest trees on earth.
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#4
The time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast, there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive.
John Baker 3 years ago
There are human fossils while humans still exist, and we haven't been here anywhere near as long as the dinosaurs were. Also, there's more time between Allosaurus and T. rex than between T. rex and humans.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Yeah it is a stupid argument. Your comparison is much better.
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Ozacoter 3 years ago
I have no idea why this was downvoted when it is correct.
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago
I think this refers to the now-obsolete definition of 'fossil' being solely stone replacing bone. The word has been recently defined as pretty much any ancient remnant - including bone for bone. I could be wrong, but that's what this seems to be referring to.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
You forgot to use 🎶🎵🎶 to warn us you were going to make our brains pour over those lyrics on a loop! GRRRR!! 😊
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Grant Barke 3 years ago
Ah-ha, so it was the dinosaurs all along that created all these fossils.
v 3 years ago
A good read to expand the context of this post: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/on-dinosaur-time-65556840/
Piet Puk 3 years ago
And still there are people who believe the whole universe was created for humans.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Just as there are people who can’t think outside of themselves (sociopaths for the most part), there are people who apply this on a universal scale!
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And yet my 23-and-Me showed I had no Neanderthal DNA at all. How does that work?
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Whales will grow up singing a specific song based on where they were born, but they’ll learn verses of other songs from whales they encounter throughout their lives!
LuckyL 3 years ago
Except for this one really lonely whale that's singing on a different frequency
Gëë Bëë 3 years ago
So are we literally talking about a whale accent here!? We have our regional accent but can pick up other accents when we travel?
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I’m really susceptible to picking up accents…I think it’s because I sang in a choir for several decades, and blending with the people around you is so important to a unified sound.
Load More Replies... Earl Grey 3 years ago
I’m good with that, just so long as they don’t also learn to play the banjo.
Sicco Lindsay 3 years ago
And people dare say they aren't sentient. They're probably smarter than 70% of us.
Ramirez rachael 3 years ago
Would there be a way to make a prosthetic to get his pitch to mimic other whales? Or maybe auto tune? Even a whistle? I always feel sorry for this whale
Omi bub 3 years ago
This is a bit like human accents. I've noticed this in people ople move to a different region/country often their accent softens to be more like the new region's.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area but after high school I lived in Washington DC for a year and a little more and I came back with a raging southern accent. While living in DC, I eventually came to tell the different accents apart.
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#6
Hippos sweat sunscreen. They produce "sweat" made of one red and one orange pigment. The red pigment contains an antibiotic, while the orange absorbs UV rays.
Katchen 3 years ago
I knew it! The sun must be the only reason there are no hippos in Ireland.
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Mary Peace 3 years ago
I don't think the hippo would want to share his/her sunscreen with us.
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Laura Mende (Human) 3 years ago
Could you use this information to produce sunscreen? I mean it must be possible to analyte to structure of this hippo sweat and reproduce it chemically... Or not?
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
I kind of envy them for that. I put on sunscreen and sweat most of it off (even the stuff that says it doesn’t sweat off). Wouldn’t be a problem if I sweated like a hippo.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
They kill an average of 500 people a year, more than elephants.
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#7
Some forms of anaesthesia don’t numb you to pain- they make you forget that you felt it.
Jason Pabst 3 years ago
Retrograde amnesia are the words you're looking for. It's fairly common to use an agent like Ketamine to help relax someone, dull the senses, pop a dislocated shoulder back into place, and then let them wake back up. In the ER/Trauma world we would call it moderate sedation and it's fairly routine.
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
I was given Ketamine in the ER for a severe asthma attack. I stayed awake through a weird and intense mini-trip. Totally numb though.
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White Paper Tsuru 3 years ago
Too true. Ex OR nurse here. Surgeons need a specific environment to work. They want the patients to not move (paralytic), not feel(numbing agent), and not remember anything. The combination is anesthesia. Throughout the surgery anesthesiologists (or anaesthetists in some countries) monitor vitals and other signs of patient status to determine the effectiveness of the drugs for maintaining the three and titrate the drugs based on the length of surgery and other factors. What sucks is when the body metabolizes something outside of the norm and you get unusual results. Red heads apparently require way more drugs for whatever reason. Anesthesia is so fascinating and I'm SO glad that was never my responsibility.
A Dasher Panda 3 years ago
Redheads are so wild the brain laughs off standard attempts at any kind of restriction.
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Serial pacifist 3 years ago
There is a true story of an ill man known as George who out of despair shot himself in the head in an attempted suicide, only to cure himself. The .22-caliber 'surgeon' eliminated only the section of the brain responsible for his OCD. He became a straight-A student. In many medical scientific journals in articles related to brain function, there are references to the case
Michael Brown 3 years ago
It’s conscious sedation. Used commonly and successfully in endoscopy all the time. NOT used for major or open surgical procedures.
Mike Beck 3 years ago
Every time I'm on a conscious sedative, I resist it. Every time, I warn them that I'll resist. Every time, I get some version of "it'll be fine, this is the good stuff". Every time, the doctor has to fight me to do the job and barely gets the basics. Found out recently that I also resist general anesthesia but not as successfully.
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May 3 years ago
They used to give this to women during childbirth - after the birth the women thought they'd been asleep for the whole thing, because they couldn't remember it
Annamagelic 3 years ago
Yes, twilight sleep. From most accounts it was horrific. Women gave birth disoriented and restrained. My grandmother talked about waking up at the hospital covered in bruises and not knowing if her baby was even alive.
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Morphine. Last year I went to hospital for emergency appendectomy. I was talking to the doc as he was getting me ready for surgery. I told him Hey doc! I figured out how morphine works! He says oh yeah? I said yea! I said Morphine doesn't make the pain go away. It makes you just not give a s**t about it anymore. He laughed so hard, and said I was right. And then they knocked me out and took out my exploded appendix.
Theoretical Empiricist 3 years ago
I remember giving a woman some pain meds after surgery, then asking her if she was still having pain. She answered, "I think I am, but I don't care."
Patti Vance 3 years ago
after many surgeries, both major and minor, i don't care...as long as i don't feel or remember. the post op pain is enough
#8
The knowledge that the atoms of our bodies contain elements only forged in the center of stars, and that such stars upon death blow the elements via supernova across the universe and into our very existence. We are made of star dust.
Serial pacifist 3 years ago
Scientists know virtually nothing about dark matter and dark energy, which make up about 95% of the universe. So, we basically know nothing about the stuff that makes up 95% of our reality! Talking about being kept in the dark!
Odd Ragnar Deng Lerstøl 3 years ago
True. But we know a lot about what dark matter and energy isn't. That is significantly different than knowing nothing.
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Aimee Lou 3 years ago
my nephew told us this when he was four. he told us that, before he was in his mommy's belly he was in outerspace just spinning and spinning and that we are made of star dust. I know there are a lot of pandas who don't believe kids say these kinds of things, but they do!
Shireen Maher 3 years ago (edited)
there are 6 materials stars and humans are made of (the acronym is CHNOPS: carbon (C), hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), phosphorus (P) and sulphur (S)
#9
I recently read about the Split-Brain experiments. There is a procedure for severe epilepsy that involves cutting the connecting nerves of the two brain hemispheres, resulting in the two hemispheres being unable to communicate with each other. The experiment shows that both halves can answer questions independently of each other, have seperate opinions/preferences, form memories independantly. Basically suggesting that there are two minds in the brain. That just blows my mind(s).
Klingsor 3 years ago
Quite an upbeat description of hemispherectomy. My 10 yo daughter suffers from a rare and severe form of epilepsy. There is no cure and the prognosis is that her condition will gradually worsen. When her quality of life becomes catastrophic enough, the only thing left is to have a hemispherectomy. In almost all cases the procedure will lead to severy cognitive disablility and partial paralysis.
Superninjatiger 3 years ago
I'm so sorry to hear that, it must be so hard on you as a parent. My brother has epilepsy with grand mal seizures that comes without any warning, and its horrible and I worry about him all the time, I dont want to imagine what kind of pain you are going through. I wish you and your daughter all the best and hope that life will be as easy as it possible can for you in the future.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
This is inaccurate. Perception is split, but the consciousness is still "one", and people who have a split brain interact normally. Learning new things is a major hurdle. NOTE: A split brain is usually referring to one in which the brain is intact, but the corpus callosum is partially or entirely severed to prevent continued severe epileptic seizure activity. A hemispherectomy is removal of half the brain, and quite different. Peace out fro the MD.
Purple light 3 years ago (edited)
Does anyone else see an old man with white hair and beard in the picture?
Flopsy 3 years ago
An interesting thing is that they were asking one side of the brain to do something (e.g. to pick up scissors) by visual messages to the opposite eye. Then the other side of the brain was trying to justify the action by saying they needed to cut something. It's so interesting how the 2 hemisphere work together!
Leigh Jones 3 years ago
Split brain experiments focused on people who had their corpus collosum (bridges that connect the two hemispheres) surgically split as a cure for epilepsy. The results found that the differing hemispheres of the brain were responsible for different procedures. Broadly speaking the Left is responsible for verbal, language, coding and the like and the Right is where emotion is processed. On splitting brains the epileptic patients were found to be unable to give language to emotion or emotion to language. And this was replicated in hearing and vision tests that were replicated and peer reviewed. The two hemispheres are utterly dependent on one another for relating sight and hearing to lived emotional experience. Moreover they are connected by many neurotransmitters that we have yet to fully explore. As a very rare experience some people are born with split brain. And these people are so rare it is hard to conduct any worthwhile study on what that means. One mind only (to be blown).
#10
Caterpillars basically dissolve into liquid in the cocoon. The only thing left are the so called ‘imaginal discs’, groups of cells that contain all the information and the mechanism to turn that soup into the various body parts of a butterfly (the same applies for other insects).
kate h 3 years ago
Nearly correct. The gut, tracheal system, and part of the central nervous system also remain.
zububonsai 3 years ago
I always wondered what exactly happens inside a caterpillar until a butterfly pops out. Thanks for enlighten us (I had a wild imagination as a child and am really relieved now.)
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Starfish are even weirder. The eggs hatch, a larva comes out, that in one, liquid-filled segment already has a complete and mature, but tiny, starfish, that eventually starts to grow and bursts out of the larva, which subsequently dies. Or so, just wrote that from memory without any checkery.
Mauricio Trivelin 3 years ago
So the caterpillar doesn't turn into a butterfly, but actually it commits suicide in the form of a soup that forms another individual, a butterfly? Jesus, Evolution! Don't play with the earthlings like that!!!
Mathew Aaberg 3 years ago
Well s**t. If I do dissolve into a puddle of goo to become an adult I would want to stay a kid forever...
Michał Osiecki 3 years ago
so its a completely different being even the conscience is not of the caterpillar?
theflyingcicero 3 years ago
Butterflies still have memories from their caterpillar time. When a caterpillar learns something the adult insect still knows.
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First Last 3 years ago
One study I read suggests butterflies and moths retain memories from before metamorphosis. If true, that would make it even more mind-blowing.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
How would someone even go about finding that out, I wonder?
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If the entirety of the Earth’s history were compressed down to a single day, humans of any sort wouldn’t appear until the last second before midnight.
DUN DUN 3 years ago
The extent of destruction we puny hoomans have caused in such a short span of time is unbelievable
Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
The earth will sort us out and either eliminate or cull us, in one way or another.
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That nerd Zoe 3 years ago
Imagine all time is your arm starting at your elbow. Human history is about as much time as the light part at the end of your fingernail.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Does that means we all live in different places in history because of nail-biters vs. non-biters? 🙃
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Julieandthephatones 3 years ago
and look at what horrors' our disgusting race has managed to achieve
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
This has been discussed so many, many times over the last several decades, I'm pretty sure you can't be a functioning adult without having already heard this
Robin Hawn 3 years ago
Imagine time is a shoe string, the time that humans have been a part of it is that little frayed bit at the end where the little plastic part starts to splinter and break, making it impossible, no matter how many times you try to twist it, force it, even wet it with spit, it's not going through that shoe lace hole again. Not with out melting it back into submission and burning the hell out of your fringes. And until you take fire to the end of that string, your shoe situation is f*cked.
#12
That there is a species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii, that can become young again when damaged or stressed. So they become young again. So they are immortal. Just an addition, the tardigrades. They can survive the vacuum of space.
Kanuli 3 years ago
Immortal is not invincible though ;) There are sponges aswell, which just don’t age.
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
Which might be why Spongebob appears to be very childlike, despite being portrayed as an adult with a job and living on his own.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
I have often thought about what it would be like to be immortal—-with the added benefit of not aging, of course. I mean, who wants to look like they’re “forever” years old? Cripes. Anyway, imagine being the only immortal person in the world. Constantly reinventing yourself, securing all the necessary new identity paperwork, and avoiding people who knew you in your previous life. Meeting and falling in love with a succession of people, only to watch them, and your children, grow old and die, while trying to make yourself look like you’re also aging. Deciding when to fake your own death so you could start again as someone else. A vicious cycle of love and loss. And lies. Because you have to. Humans are such assholes. If your secret got out, they’d turn you into a f*****g zoo animal, then experiment on you because some rich a*****e covets your immortality. Immortality sounds great, until you consider the mechanics of secretly pulling it off in a world where everyone else grows old and dies.
AW 3 years ago
you're thinking in a romantic sense of immortality. considering how many people go missing and never found again on a daily basis, you could easily pull off having no documents, banking, fixed home (not like you need a driving license or health insurance). regarding social/emotinal ties, you would have to keep it low key, making moving on easier. you pack up and cut ties or you can become a loner. so many elderly die in their homes and having no family or friends left alive it takes authorities sometimes years to find their corpses! also, just take a look at Keanu Reeves, immortality is a thing :)
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Who Panda 420 3 years ago
If only they could unlock that formula. Of course if humans stopped dieing the planet would soon be overrun
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
The problem isnt lots of people, its the super-rich
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CbusResident 3 years ago
This is also true of us Millennials: damaged by the economy, we revert to childlike attitudes and behaviors.
Jar of Pickles 3 years ago
With the amount of stress at work right now I woulf get back to infancy within days
#13
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
Rai Grant 3 years ago
Which is why billionaires are ridiculous. Simply can not spend that money, hence their messing around with rockets, I suppose.
Wistiti 3 years ago (edited)
So, a billionaire could give 1000 dollars to every stranger IT meets everyday and IT will still die with too much money. Even if IT paid ITS tax.
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ToGo 3 years ago
Wow. I've never quite grasped just how much of a difference there was between a million, billion and trillion. This just makes me angry in all honesty. 2 of the Kardashians are billionaires and it's all because of normies watching their shows and buying their merchandise. Most of whom will never see 1 million if they worked for 50 years.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Bill and Melinda Gates gave away a considerable hunk of theirs. They mostly focused on organizations working on clean water projects and making water available in the parts of Africa that are barely limping along.
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Stephen Smith 3 years ago
you really should get a clock with a hour and minute hand, much easier to tell the time.
Steve Fischer 3 years ago
When a billionaire has more money than the entire age of the universe in years
Andy Hinds 3 years ago
A millionaire is very rich. A billionaire is just greedy and has an addiction to money like a drug addict has to money. A trillionaire is just downright criminal - as is being a billionaire.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
And he did this by treating his employees like slaves. He’s a disgusting human being…assuming he actually is!
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Jennifer Doscher 3 years ago
Now think of that in dollars...anyone else feel poor and out of time?
#14
The size of animals still blows my mind. You can read about how a manta ray is 23 feet long and 3 tons but it doesn’t really hit you until you realize that’s heavier than most cars.
New Prometheus 3 years ago
Humans have hunted most of the megafauna into extinction. We have hard time coexisting with big animals.
Quentin ingulfumble 3 years ago
And small animals and other people. We just have a hard time existing.
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Jim Ellington 3 years ago
When I was 8 in the Bahamas I saw a manta ray come into a bay, under boats it was at least time the size of, and then shimmy around to leave the way he came, boats swaying in his wake. Might have been a 30-foot(9-meter)-wingspan.
Marek Čtrnáct 3 years ago
I've seen whale sharks in Japanese aquariums, and I wonder... Are there bigger animals in captivity anywhere? Maybe orcas, whale sharks are bigger, but maybe not heavier?
Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
Depends on the category of manta, the ones I swam with in Ningaloo were about 10ft long.
Amy Pauley 3 years ago
A ton is 2000 pounds, so you are saying a manta ray is 6000 pounds? Our Prius is a little over 3000 pounds.
Amy Pauley 3 years ago
1 ton is 2000 pounds, so you are saying it weighs 6000 pounds? A Prius is a little over 3000 pounds.
sirfryingpan 3 years ago
Me: reads this Me the seconds later when I process the information: WAIT WHATDAFUK?
#15
When you lose weight it leaves on your breath.
So when people lose 100 lbs/ 50 kg, they have exhaled that much carbon.
Rachknits 3 years ago
So weight loss increases your carbon footprint. That's the best reason ever for not loosing weight!
Rachknits 3 years ago
Although, by the same logic, when you die the heavier you are the more carbon your body will produce. Ho hum
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Sami AlTafi 3 years ago
Losing weight causes global warming, please do not encourage the Americans to lose wight.
Tequila Mockingbird 3 years ago
So tic-tacs are basically weight loss helpers and should be covered by my insurance?
#16
An object has every color except the one you think it has, because its the only color that doesn't get absorbed.
AmmoniteCat 3 years ago
Great. Now I'm suspiciously staring at everything on my desk and telling those inanimate objects, "Reveal your true forms, you chameleons!"
C. Wade 3 years ago
"Betty, I'm pretty sure it's pronounced 'Chama-lee-on' so..."
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago
In simplified terms, 'red paint' absorbs all light colours except 'red' - which it reflects and you see it. I learned this about 45 years ago in high school.
Odd Ragnar Deng Lerstøl 3 years ago
No. An object's color is the light that doesn't get absorbed, which is the color we perceive. The other colors gets absorbed and are no more.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago
This is colour theory 101 but explained so simplistic it's confusing. Basically, what you're trying to convey is when you look at an object, you're paying attention to shadows and light, but also how colour is reflected to our eyes at different angles and frequencies. There could have been a better picture as an example used. Realism artists will study an object and pay attention to all the different colours gradients, tints, saturations, hues, and look at how the light reflects or absorbs, and shifts. An easier way would be to take a picture of that object, upload it to a paint/photoshop program and using the colour selector click on different areas in a small space and you'll see several or dozens of different colours be picked up. Or zoom in to observe every pixel. Zoom out and it just looks like one of the same colour because we can't see those small inflections. There are entire courses on this topic but this is the best I can do with the space BP allots us.
Ranax 3 years ago
You do not understand the definition of colour do you? this is not insightfull, it is just stupid.
asher walker 3 years ago
Sooo this makes racism even more stupid then it already is? 😄 there's so much joy in science.
Aliquid 3 years ago
Well if you want to get all philosophical and technical, nothing has a color, nothing is a color. Color is not a quality that an object independently possesses. Color is a thing entirely made up in our brain as a way to interpret light wavelengths. So the object isn't absorbing "color" it is absorbing light waves.
Mike Beck 3 years ago
If you want to get *technical*, most colors exist as specific wavelengths regardless of what we percieve. Only a few (mauve, et al) require a human brain to be realized.
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Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Cones and rods. I believe there's apps that will let you "see" what creatures (even some humans) see once UV light observation is added. Very interesting.
#17
If some sort of super-advanced alien species on a planet 80 million light years away from Earth built a high-tech telescope that let them see objects on the Earth's surface, they would be seeing dinosaurs right now.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
And also if there were aliens 5 billion light years away and they detected our signals we would be long gone by then. Those aliens would arrive at a scorched empty planet without any life
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
So how old, really, is the Wow Signal?
Load More Replies... Grant Barke 3 years ago
They could be witnessing Jesus resurrecting from the dead. That'll blow their minds.
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
Looking up into the sky in the country (less light pollution) is essentially looking tens, hundreds, thousands of years into the past.
Mel in Real Life 3 years ago (edited)
That is unless they are using technology that we do not yet understand. Yes our scientists are very smart but it would be very naïve to assume that we alone understand ALL the secrets of the universe.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
You wathed our show without me... noooo
Load More Replies... Timothy Leung 3 years ago
Is that why no aliens visited Earth yet - they have not seen intelligent lifeforms.
Beck 3 years ago
I still cannot wrap my head around this. I guess I looked at it like dinosaurs do not put our a light tobtravel into space. So how would a telescope capture the past? Light rays i understand. But a dinosaur standing there millions of years ago? I believe it, but I cannot understand it.
Vlacas12 3 years ago
It's because all information traveling through space still has the speed of light as limit. So the light/information from earth can only travel at ca. 300.000 km/s, which in astronomical sense is still very slow.
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Sharks are older than trees, also, trees almost destroyed all land life on earth as there use to be nothing that could decompose them, so dead trees covered the ground and killed all other vegetation. Only once fungus evolved did trees start decomposing.
Splash Bach 3 years ago
The trees that couldn't be decomposed turned into coal. No new coal has formed since the fungus evolved to break down the dead trees
Scott Andrews 3 years ago
And it's the coal, or it's use, that's destroying the planet now.
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Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
I guess that they mean until fungus able to decompose trees evolved
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Frau von Düh 3 years ago
So we hopefully get some fungi that decompose plastic soon. (I know there is bacteria that can do that, nur really slow)
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Some worms have been able to digest Styrofoam with no damage for them. Nature is amazing.
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Shannon Ongley 3 years ago
I think that they mean a fungus to eat trees evolved. Kinda like the bacteria that recently evolved to eat plastic.
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Om 3 years ago (edited)
and btw, trees aren't even a thing on itself, like, they're not a separate group from any other kind of plant. Trees or having a woody composition is more of a characteristic of certain plants that has come and gone depending on how species evolved. "Normal" plants have evolved into trees, but also trees have evolved into "normal" plants after losing its woody composition. Like, if you put the evolutionary tree (not pun intended) of all plants, "trees" appeared scattered all over the place at random occurrences. So you can't put all trees into one group, as one tree will be more closely related to a succulent or to sunflowers than another tree.
rosemary locascio 3 years ago (edited)
see, before humans evolved earth was literally the perfect system. the predators hunted in groups so as not to waste anything, and if there was some left, there are scavengers such as hyenas and vultures to finish it. if there was a problem or major misstep, it was fixed. and then humans came along and now everything is off the rails so completely that i dont think it will ever come back.
Grant Barke 3 years ago
If only sharks evolved legs so they could eat all those dead trees before they turned into coal.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago (edited)
Then we came along and taught those trees a lesson ! …….…. :(
#19
If you put 1 of every animal in a bag and then pick one out you have a 1/5 chance in picking a beetle.
Varghese Philip 3 years ago
Imagine what Noah's Ark would have been like.
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Scagsy 3 years ago (edited)
I would contest that the chance would be significantly less. You have more chance of having your hand eaten by a lion than of pulling something out with your limbs intact. But I understand the principle. I suppose you could wait until the lion isn't looking?
Marcellus II 3 years ago
I think chances are you pick a whale. Because they have much much more surface than a million beetles together.
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#20
Voyager 1 has been traveling >30,000 mph for 43 years and it's only 20 light hours away.
Virgil Blue 3 years ago
Farthest anything man made ever got. And it still sends out radio comms.
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Vlacas12 3 years ago
You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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A Dasher Panda 3 years ago
Because the driver always has to get out every few million miles and "ask for directions" so the wife shuts up and the kids stop saying "Are we there yet?".
C. Wade 3 years ago
To have a point of reference, the Sun is only 8 light minutes away.
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#21
The Cathedral Effect. If you work in a room with low ceilings, you will stay a bit more focused and be better at detailed, analytical work. If in a room with high ceilings, you will be more open and creative. This can be simulated by wearing a brimmed hat if you’d want to hammer away at say data entry or data analysis.
Moneythink 3 years ago
Hence hard-working, very grounded (pun intended) dwarves working in caves, and creative elves in magical forests.
Mary Peace 3 years ago
Now you have got my imagination going, Moneythink! (Only average indoor house ceiling here.)
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Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Oh wow! This explains why sometimes if I tie something around my head I get more done .. maybe ?
Clark Snyder 3 years ago
So that’s why miracles happened on that seventh and a half floor Charlie Kaufman wrote about!
Bobbie Meyers 3 years ago
Wasted space drives me bat s**t crazy! All the wasted material and heating...aaarrrggghhh!!!!
#22
There are some Ice Age animals that are so perfectly preserved in permafrost that scientists have been able to find them still with all their soft tissue, hair, and organs. They even found a couple mammoths that still had liquid blood in them and I remember one scientist even tasting the mammoth meat.
Otter 3 years ago
" ... and he awarded himself the title of 'Heroic Slayer of Inedible Monstrosities'."
The Scout 3 years ago
Mammoth tusks found in permafrost actually are a prime source for ivory used in the restauration of historical musical instruments - in the past keys for pianos or organs were often made from ivory, and most countries have banned the trading of ivory (and rightfully so, to prevent poaching). As mammoths are not mentioned in the conventions on endangered species, this often is the only legal way to work with real ivory to replace those parts. Fortunately there are many more preserved mammoth remains than needed for research, so there are many spare sources available. It is crazily expensive, though.
Bob Stuart 3 years ago
One was found with a mouthful of spring flowers. Something happened fast.
Scagsy 3 years ago (edited)
We must never allow John Hammond to have this information. It always ends badly.
Tunder 3 years ago
During the next 6 years they wanna create some baby mammoths again, since they have their hair, organs and soft tissue. A few years back they started ‘copying’ cats, so now it’s time for the mammoths.
Mary Peace 3 years ago
I thought Dolly the sheep was first. Am I wrong there, or is that different science?
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MuddyPuddles 3 years ago
makes you wonder what happened so rapidly to cause them to be preserved so perfectly
Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
Mammoths were still around when the pyramids were built, if I remember correctly.
Mary Peace 3 years ago
That's right, the mammoths have a lot to answer for, starting up the first pyramid scheme.
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Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
I've seen a preserved baby mammoth in a museum in Colorado before! Here's a picture: IMG_202106...ca145f.jpg 
#23
A recently discovered vine can mimic nearby artificial plants, modifying the size, shape and colour of its leaves to match them. The only plausible explanation is that plants can see.
Monday 3 years ago
Boquila trifoliolata. I'd argue that another plausible explanation is that this vine can somehow access and copy the DNA of their mimicry target rather than going by visual data.
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Ben Steinberg 3 years ago
What do vegetarians and vegans think of this, I wonder? Plants sure do seem more "sentient" than they are given credit for...
Vi. B. 3 years ago
Even if we suddently discovered plants can feel pain (which they can't), a vegan diet kills far less plants than an omnivorous one. And no, plants are not sentient at all, it's only a stupid argument made by idiots who can't survive if they don't see a steak in their plate
Load More Replies... C. Wade 3 years ago
Research paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15592324.2021.1977530. "The plant ocelli concept was elaborated by Gottlieb Haberlandt in 1905 and two years later supported by Francis Darwin8 which consists of the upper epidermis cells have a planoconvex or convex shape acting as lenses, allowing the convergence of light radiation into light-sensitive subepidermal cells". So it can't exactly "see", it can see in the same way a chameleon's skin can "see". Source: some good folks on Reddit.
#24
Exponential power.
Fold a “big sheet” of paper - that is 0.1 mm thick - 50 times and the height of stack is over 20 times the distance earth to moon. Thank you.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
You can theoretically do this but you cant fold a piece of paper mroe than 7 times. Fun fact: if you were to fold a piece of papper 300 times you will end up with a book that has more pages that atoms in the observable universe
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
Mythbusters. Managed 11 folds. https://youtu.be/65Qzc3_NtGs
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Dennis Mikulus 3 years ago
2^50 = 1.126 quadrillion... If the "big sheet" started out the size of the 48 US states, after folding it would be 3 inches square... I like the one "I can pay you 10,000 dollars now or I can pay you a penny today and double your pay every day for a month, which do you prefer"
Jacob Heusser 3 years ago
It's actually almost 300 times that distance. Source for an in-depth math explanation: https://theactualmaths.blogspot.com/2011/02/if-you-fold-piece-of-paper-50-times.html?m=1
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
Thanks, I was wondering too because I quickly did the math and got to (all but) 293 times!
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 3 years ago
This makes no sense at all. You can't actually do this with any paper. But if you double 0.1mm 50 times, you will end up with a big number.
TrD 3 years ago
You’re right you can’t actually do this, hence the work “if”
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Some Cool Guy 3 years ago
Exponentials, though likely impossible. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/494571-most-times-to-fold-a-piece-of-paper
Dave Chapman 3 years ago
Folding that paper just 100 times will give you a stack that would be almost 46 BILLION Light Years tall! That is the exponential power of Doubling. https://freakymath.blogspot.com/2011/03/exponential-folding.html
#25
There are no photos of the present.
AmmoniteCat 3 years ago
That's a very ominous-looking gift box. I feel like something is going to jump out at me.
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Linnea Jacobson 3 years ago
Reminds me of that old Mitch Hedberg joke: "My friend showed me a picture and said, 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every picture of you is a picture of when you were younger. 'Here's a picture of me when I'm older.' Whoaa man, where'd you get that camera?"
Kim Steffen 3 years ago
There is no such thing as the present. There's only recent past and immediate future.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago (edited)
There is video of the present, and as video is compromised of frames, and a single frame is a photo, technically there are.
Gabi 3 years ago
I wonder if a video would contain past, present AND FUTURE as well. A video is continuous. It begins with the past, melting into the present -this happens constantly - and whatever happens in the present, foretells the possible moments of future. Like, a dog running out of a house towards you. Past; he left the house. Present; he is running. Possible future: he's gonna jump at you/lick your face/bite you/ignore you, etc,
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Travier Chavers 3 years ago
Also there are no photos of the future unless someone could forward me some...or reverse them to me maybe ohhh i hate temporal mechanics
Joseph Kastorff 3 years ago
there is a scene in Space Balls that captures this perfectly. "We're in the now-now..."
#26
Slime molds don’t have brains or nervous systems but some how retain information and use it to make decisions. Even more crazy is that they can fuse with another individual and share the information.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
In fact, they are so intelligent that they can quickly get through mazes. They have a sort of awareness that doesn’t allow them to get stuck at dead-ends.
Heidi Beck 3 years ago
Yes. I had a pet slime mold in college! Yes, I watched PBS slime mold program. Yes, I’m a 66 year old nerd.
My O My 3 years ago
Um, yeah, I really do not want beans on toast now. You can eat the slime molds alone
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
PBS Nova did a show on slime mold. Tell me I wasn’t the only nerd who watched it.
#27
Dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy from where we are now.
Chyppa Homer 3 years ago
No they didn't. The whole galaxy rotates, but we still occupy roughly the same place on that spiral arm as always. We are facing in another direction, true, but in relation to the milky way, we are more or less in the same spot. It's just as much a nonsense as me saying, I was on the other side of the planet 12 hours ago.
Daria B 3 years ago (edited)
Not denying what you said, but that comparison doesn't work... 12 hours is, more or less, how long it takes from Europe to East Asia (or vice versa) by plane, and that's.... kind of the other side of the planet..... ^^" I do understand my rebuttal depends on context, though, but that's the first thing that came across my mind, so it took me a bit.
Load More Replies... Stephen Smith 3 years ago
NO NO we are still on the same side of the galaxy, the whole galaxy has rotated is that what you mean?
Emmett O'Brian 3 years ago
Maybe "when dinosaurs were alive, they lived in, what is now the other side of the galaxy."? Or you could just say "Dinosaurs lived in space! And so do you!"
Load More Replies... Paul Z. 3 years ago
One of the reasons time travel is so difficult. You also have to know exactly where earth was at the moment in time you want to go to. Because if you get it wrong, either earth will hit you like the biggest bowling ball you ever seen or you see it hurdling away from you very, very fast... while you hang in the vacuum of space.
Cheri Aline Sydney 3 years ago
Thanks, Thorfin, for some levity after this intense discussion... The laughter brought me back to the here-and-now!
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Pezor Zass 3 years ago
I had a thought once about ghosts being pinned to the place they were when they died. It's fine if they are pinned relative to the earth, but if not? space ghosts spread throughout the galaxy. horrifying.
Leah Reid 3 years ago
Oh my gosh. What a comment. That would be super sad if ghost were floating in space. Could they talk to other ghost or move about space? You've got the gerbil in my brain on the running wheel lol
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Lonecoolman 3 years ago
It takes 230 million years for our solar system to revolve around the center of our galaxy. We have been in this place in the galaxy in that long of time. We have no clue what cosmic forces play on our system.
#28
Both the absolute hottest and absolute coldest temperatures ever recorded in the known universe were achieved here on Earth. The hottest temperature ever physically recorded in the known universe was when scientists at CERN used the Large Hadron Collider to collide lead ions. This produced a temperature flash of 5.5 trillion degrees celsius. That’s 5,500,000,000,000°C. Convert to Fahrenheit, and you get this: (5.5e+12°C × 9/5) + 32 = 9.9e+12°F For the record, the current temperature at the core of our sun is around 15 million degrees celsius. 15,000,000°C. That’s 350,000x less intense than the flash produced by the lead ion particle collisions. That temperature, even if minuscule and fleeting in size and duration, was actually created here on Earth, in a lab. Let that sink in. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the known universe was achieved relatively recently by a group of German researchers who achieved a nearly incomprehensible feat of 38 trillionths of a degree above -273.15°C, or more commonly known as Absolute 0° Kelvin. They did this by dropping magnetized gas down a nearly 400 foot tower in order to study a 5th state of matter; Bose-Einstein Condensate. For the record, weird s**t starts to happen near absolute 0°K. Example? Light turns into a liquid you can pour into a glass. The coldest place we have recorded data from within our observable universe is the Boomerang Nebula, hovering nearly an entire degree (kelvin) above absolute zero. Still unfathomably cold. So while we are still essentially infinity away from achieving Planck Temperature (the staggeringly high temperature of beyond decillions of degrees celsius in which conventional physics breaks down and we enter a whole new realm of theoretics) we are extremely, extremely close to achieving absolute 0°K here on Earth.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
However due to quantum mechanics we cant go to 0k since when measuring a particle we cant know how fast it is and where it is at the same time. If we get an atom to 0k then we would know how fast it was going= 0 and where it was which isnt allowed in this universe
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
I don't think it's not allowed, just were unable to with our current understanding of science
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Travier Chavers 3 years ago
"Light" the ultimate diet drink and now with 0 degrees as well as 0 calories
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 3 years ago
At 0 Kelvin, atoms 'freeze' in place while they normally vibrate (or so my brain from highschool tries to remember)
User# 6 3 years ago
You're quite right. Which is also why you can't pour liquid light in to a glass, as it would run through it. Also, there is no such thing as °K, it's plain Kelvin, without the °.
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Kevin Corcoran 3 years ago
I do find it strange that we hold up experimental examples that are measured in fractions of a nanosecond, and compare them to massive sustained things like stars. Surely there are particles of iron flying around a blackhole right now at a hefty percentage of lightspeed that will collide/heat up that we'll never be able to detect? Just because we didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen.. like that tree that fell over in the woods! Sure as hell made a sound!
Gabby M 3 years ago
"Light turns into a liquid you can pour into a glass." What? How? So many questions!
Judes 3 years ago
I think this part of the original post is BS. A citation is definitely required.
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Amy Joubert 3 years ago
I fail to understand how 5.5 trillion degrees Celsius can be contained without damaging anything though.... but fascinating none the less !!
M O'Connell 3 years ago
It didn't really need special containment because it was an instantaneous collision, and dissipated almost immediately. If you want to contain a high energy plasma to study it at length, that's done with magnets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
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Eva Vinklarkova 3 years ago
Maybe a stupid question but wouldn’t such temperature (even in a flash) simply melt the surroundings? The Large Hadron Collider should have been destroyed from it, burnt in a moment....? Can someone explain, how come this didn’t happen? Thanks!
#29
You can fit all the planets (Pluto included) between the Earth & Moon.
coraline jones 3 years ago (edited)
Planets are actually really far from each other! Here is what they look like to-scale: https://bit.ly/3BGl5Hr
That nerd Zoe 3 years ago
Thank you, I will share this with my science teacher. We aren't learning about planets anymore but it's fine lol.
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Julieandthephatones 3 years ago
i dont know why but even tho im sure it true i cant believe it
Wesley Lucas 3 years ago
And yet humans made that journey in the 60s, with less computing power than we carry in our pockets these days. Never underestimate human ingenuity.
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
When you realize just how small Pluto is compared to the rest. I thought the image of Pluto on my screen was a little speck of dust on my screen and tried to wipe ot off.
#30
Giraffe necks are actually too short to reach the ground, so they have to splay their legs in order to drink water.
José Velásquez 3 years ago
It's not that their neck is too short, it's that their neck has only seven vertebrae, same as almost all mammals
Asta453 3 years ago
What do you mean almost? Show me a mammal with 6 or 8 vertebrae. I'm waiting...
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MamaPanda11 3 years ago
Not really there is a giant rubber band like tendon that doesn't allow them to Bend their necks right down, hence the splay
Brandy Grote 3 years ago
Giraffes have 6 neck vertebrae just like most mammals. The bones are VERY big though.
#31
The astronauts on the ISS aren't floating around because of lack of gravity, far from it. They are in constant free fall, falling over the horizon of earth. Being pulled by gravity towards the earth.
C. Wade 3 years ago
And if you were to oversimplify: things orbit a planet because they go around the planet at the same speed as they fall towards it.
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
That's not really oversimplifying it, it's a pretty neat description.
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Jerry Mathers 3 years ago
The earth is doing the same thing as the moon. The sun has a gravitational pull that affects objects well beyond our solar system. The Kuiper Belt is affected by our sun's gravity. If you were to take trip out there, you would see our sun as just another star, and not even the brightest. All mass has gravity. What gets me is that every time to take a step, the ground literally does rise to meet your foot, albeit on a very small scale.
Jerry Mathers 3 years ago
Sorry for the lack of context. I meant this in reply to Mohammad Ammar's comment.
Load More Replies... oktopus 3 years ago
I didn't understand this until well into my 20s and I started trying to work out how gravity suddenly "disappears" just a 100km or so upwards.
Mohammad Ammar 3 years ago
Yes because we're kind of wrongly taught that gravity is a force like some type of magnetism. What I don't get is how earth is influenced by the suns gravity? Are we falling towards it? And if no other celestial object was aorund us would earth fall down in space or something?
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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago (edited)
I don't know why... maybe too many times watching Interstellar and Gravity but this gives me horrible anxiety.
Clark Snyder 3 years ago
An object orbiting a gravitational body leeches a tiny amount of gravity from it.
#32
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the great pyramids.
Serial pacifist 3 years ago
The oldest known beer jug is over 5400 years old. Archeologists discovered ceramic vessels from 3400 B.C. still sticky with beer residue. 1800 B.C.’s “Hymn to Ninkasi" is an ode to the Sumerian beer goddess. No warrior/beer helmets have been unearthed yet.
Quentin ingulfumble 3 years ago
The hymn to ninmasi is more than just an ode. Its a recipe. Literally the whole process of making beer from grain laid out in the form of a nice memorable song to sing whilst brewing. Many a true word said in jest, but beer is proof that god exists and wants us to be happy!
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#33
If 2 pieces of the same type of metal touch in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck together. Space welding (cold welding).
Monday 3 years ago
Yes. Apparently it's impossible to break the bond without damaging the metal.
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Stephen Smith 3 years ago
so all the space junk one day will weld together and crash in to the earth destroying it.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 3 years ago
Not quite right. Most metals form a passivation layer in air so that would need to be removed by abrasion within the vacuum to make that work.
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
Just imagine if the same thing happened when two humans touch in space without gloves!
Virgil Blue 3 years ago
That explains how you could get nickle iron asteroids without exploding a planet or something.
Emmett O'Brian 3 years ago (edited)
I believe this is only true for metals that have not formed oxides on their surface, which happens immediately on earth. Which is why it doesn't happen on earth. To vacuum weld in space, you would need to grind away the surface. It can happen if you cut a piece of metal and then stuck the pieces back together.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Because metals share electrons. If 2 pieces of metals touch on earth they don’t weld because the air particles are still seperating them. In space there is hardly any atmosphere so the metals share electrons causing them to weld
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Kathleen Winters 3 years ago
Well that sounds like the next doomsday movie... with all the space garbage floating around
#34
If all the DNA in the average person was stretched out in a single line, it could reach from Earth to the Sun and back 248 times.
Piper Meadow 3 years ago
Me, an empath, sensing that the person might be in trouble. :)
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
We should test this, but it would be better to wait till night when the sun's not so hot...
Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
That’s quite a boast! I’m imagining it as a chat up line!
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IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago (edited)
So did you know... A single nucleus contains six feet of dna?
Mike Beck 3 years ago
Which is why the other poster said we need to do it at night when the sun's off. Duh.
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#35
With the help of quantum tunneling, there is a 1 in 5.2^61 chance that the molecules in your hand and table would miss each other when slamming it, making your hand go through the table.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
1:520,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (hope I did the zeros right)
Stimpy 3 years ago
Well, yes. They look round enough to me, like little eggs. Just right.
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Xottel 3 years ago
So there's also a chance of 1 in 5.2^61 that I don't hit my toe on the dresser.
Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago
Nah, dressers are evil. It'll get you every time
Load More Replies... Stephen Smith 3 years ago
so somewhere sometime someone's hand went through the table ,and no one would ever believe them.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
And with the help of quantum tunneling the universe has a chance of ending at this very moment
That nerd Zoe 3 years ago
That could happen at any moment. If not the universe than your body could just decide to go "time to die" and stop working.
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#36
Cold or coldness doesn't really exist, as in, it is not a thing. But hot or hotness does exist and is a thing.. Cold is merely the word we use to describe the absence of heat. While heat is actually an energy that is present.
ToGo 3 years ago (edited)
"Oh my, better pop on a scarf, the absence of heat is very present today!". "Don't use the hot tap when brushing your teeth - use the absence of heat tap!".
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
TBH, I think I’ll use that name for cold when I’m around a science denier (translation MAGAt) whose head would explode trying to understand what I said.
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Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
Ummm, no? Coldness and heat are simply the measure or the molecular speed of the object.
#37
Most other planets cannot experience a full solar eclipse. The ratio of the size of the moon and sun just happens to be the same as the ratio of the distance of the moon and sun from earth.
Chich 3 years ago
The moon is slowly moving away from Earth so one day solar eclispes will no longer be possible
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Can you blame the moon tho ? I’m sure it’s heard what we’re planning on doing to it !
Load More Replies... Art 3 years ago
Nothing to do with this planet is random. God planned this world perfectly to suit human beings and if anything was changed in the least little bit life on this planet would cease to exist. This is the only planet suited for life which is why the search for aliens in space is a waste of time but people would rather accept anything other than agreeing to the existence of God and acknowledging His power and giving Him the thanks that we owe to Him for our life.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
You know that the odds of someone else not being there is low right?
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#38
When the pyramids were built, there were still some Woolly Mammoths roaming the earth.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
So that's how they got the stones up there they used mammoths. I knew it wasn't aliens. (Sarcasm)
The Scout 3 years ago
Also the pyramids were not built in the desert, but there were probably green plains surrounding them, as the climate was different. There are some Egyptologists who blame the decline of the Old Kingdom (2700 to 2200 BC)on early climate change (in this case, desertification).
#39
Ice doesn't cool your water, the water heats up your ice. Energy transfers one way.
M 3 years ago
Because in the process of heating up the ice the heat is transferred from the water to the ice which means water gets colder and the ice gets warmer.
Load More Replies... Dillon Hughes 3 years ago
Did they just imply water with ice is just as cold without? Yes the water heats up the ice but the ice still cools the water. 60f and 30f balance to say 40f
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
No, that's not what they said at all. Energy only flows from a high energy system to a low energy one. Heat is a form of energy but 'cold' is not. So when you out ice i to water, energy flows from the hotter water into the colder ice, which makes the water colder. There is no 'cold' energy flowing from the ice into the water.
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Approximately 99.85% of all the mass in the solar system is concentrated in The Sun.
#41
There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Who else says “ I’m going to make a water “ like when they are getting a glass of water ?
#42
Without the development of genuinely sci-fi travel technology like wormholes or hyperspace (which may not even be possible) 99.99+% of the universe will be forever locked off from us. Because of cosmic expansion, the various galactic clusters are moving away from our local cluster faster than we could ever catch up to them.
Scagsy 3 years ago
It would appear that, having seen what we have done to our own planet, the entire universe is trying to get as far away from us as possible.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
It's a strange thought to know that a few trillion years in the future, a civilization could arise and look at the night sky, and see nothing but it's own galaxy or local cluster of galaxies. The expansion of the universe will be so great by then anything not bound by local gravity will pass beyond the cosmic horizon. These future civilizations may not even have a way to learn about the Big Bang, and may believe that their galaxy is the only one in existence.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
It’s kind of sad but then we must realise that we have the luck of existing at a time where we know our distant past and our distant future
Load More Replies... Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Yeah, so what? Are we so conceited that we don't think just the earth belongs to us, but the whole universe!?
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
There is no way we can do hyperspace or wormholes. To do hyperspace we will either need matter whose wieght is in negative matter or more mass than the entire observable universe. Wormholes involve blackholes and you will die near blackholes. Wormholes are also so unstable that it might collapse while we use it so we might get stuck in a blackhole forever
Quentin ingulfumble 3 years ago
The current favorite theory is that the casimir effext can be used to generate pockets of negative energy required for an alcubierre drive. Faster than light travel may be easier than we thought. It isnt that many years ago people laughed at the idea of having personal supercomputers in their pockets, but here we are. And a very short period before that someone guffawed at the idea these smelly noisy horseless carriages were ever going to be more popular than reliable old cart horses. Everything is impossible until somebody does it.
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The Wow! signal came from a planet/bit in space 17,000 light years away. It emitted a signal 30x stronger than anything we can make today. It lasted for an entire 71 seconds, was on 1444Hz (frequency of hydrogen, most abundant thing in the universe) and we couldn't find the signal again after pointing to the same spot.
Aqsa Azam 3 years ago
I have read aa theory somewhere that it was just the signal of Earth forming or something like that travelling around the universe and reaching us in some signal form. Basically, it was a past signal from the time Earth was forming. So cool!
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Kind of like our small part of the bang in the Big Bang? It would be cool to hear the sound of out own planet’s birth.
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#44
That you can never physically touch anything. Basically the negative force from the electron cloud around atoms repels every other atom in existence. When we try to touch something, what we’re actually feeling is the resistance from the atoms in that object. For all practical purposes, this is touch, but in reality we can never feel anything but various forms of resistance.
Catpoker88 3 years ago
So when I pet my cats, I'm actually just feeling a lovely fluffy resistance! Which is great because "fluffy resistance " is a perfect description for a cat.
kevin simeon 3 years ago
That’s not what I feel when I hit my little toe against the foot of a chair🥲
BAWK BAWK BAKAW 3 years ago
try it 5.2^61 more times and you'll go right through!
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VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 3 years ago
Am I the only person who immediately touched something after reading this
#45
Reindeer eyes, normally brown, turn bright blue in winter to see in low-light conditions.
That nerd Zoe 3 years ago
Eye color is genetic and caused by melanin so probably not. But I'm a middle schooler so I don't really know lol.
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J.L. Martin 3 years ago
Does that explain why my pupils are absolutely enormous in a dark room? I've freaked coworkers out after having my eyes dilated because my irises just look black.
#46
T-rex lived 66million-ish years ago. Stegosaurus lived 155million-ish years ago. The gap between rex and stego is 16million-ish greater than between rex and present day.
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
I remember pictures of both of these dinosaurs together in the 1970s. I wonder if the artists didn't know T and S didn't exist at the same time, or if they just didn't care.
#47
A speck of dust is halfway between the size of the sun and an atom.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Yeah whoever wrote this hasn’t seen the dust in my house !
Load More Replies... Tequila Mockingbird 3 years ago
Basically, the size of a speck of dust is closer in size to the sun, by comparison, than it is to the size of an atom, because of how small and atom actually is. It’s like saying that you are closer in size to a car than you are to an atom, if that helps.
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#48
When you sleep, your brain is consolidating memories and throwing out duplicate information, which is the reason why time appears to be speeding up. If you want to slow down and enjoy life, feed your brain new information and don’t do the same stuff every day.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Isn't that the same way you keep yourself from getting early onset Alzheimer's?
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Yes, but it’s impossible to do 100% new things every single day, though you could resolve to learn something new every day, even if you learn a new word from the dictionary or make sure you read the news. Maybe audit some college courses, or earn another degree (if you can afford it). Stay interested in the changing world instead of stagnating and living in the past. However, you could shuffle the times you do them. Get up at a different time, eat dinner food for breakfast before brushing your teeth, wear clothes to sleep in and pajamas all day. Same things, different order, so you’d actually have to think to remember to do them all.
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buttonpusher 3 years ago
My mind is like a dumpster that catches fire every night and only a few bits of useless crap are salvageable.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
So I just read the same book every day and time goes by faster!
Tequila Mockingbird 3 years ago
Or your job can do this as well as long as it is not repetitive mindless activity
Load More Replies... #49
Solids and liquids don't burn. Only their vapours and gases. That's why you can't just throw a huge log on the fire and have it burn, you need to haul its temperature up until the surface starts pyrolysis and turning into a gas, which then burns.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
Jihana, there is no need to be rude just because you are lacking a few brain cells.
Tequila Mockingbird 3 years ago (edited)
See the seven characteristics of all living things. https://moosmosis.org/2015/09/01/biology-seven-characteristics-of-living-things-and-the-origin-of-life/ Unfortunately rust does not meet all of them. Neither does fire or even viruses. They are not alive in the technical sense of the definition.
Load More Replies... Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Ali G voice: can you turn a gas into a solid? Once I was at a movie and about to make a gas, but whoops it became a solid."
#50
The human body has at least 150 billion neurons.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
About 40% of the population has apparently either burned them out (hard-living lifestyle), or been born without them (their family trees probably don’t have branches), which is why they’re susceptible to believing lies.
#51
A teratoma is a tumor that can grow hair, teeth and eyes.
coraline jones 3 years ago
My advice: don't look up images of it, unless you want to see teethed feet.
kevin simeon 3 years ago
There’s a 9/10 possibility .. everyone who reads this will definitely do that research... Humans and forbidden things. *hisses
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Maria Hermida 3 years ago
No. The eyes only get the images, but the brain "sees": it forms the images and interprets them. Without a connection with the brain, the eyes are useless. Never apologise for asking what you don't know. Curiosity is what makes us learn! If somebody "hates" you for asking, that person is an idiot, not you.
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Aisling Raye 3 years ago
Have a child that is obsessed with strange or gross stuff? If so, Tommy Teratoma and Betty Bezoar are the perfect gifts! Supplies are limited so order now to ensure holiday delivery.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
So it replicates the DNA (culled from what’s left of the cells it’s destroying?) for those things? I assume the eyes are just dead eyeballs because they lack all the connections that make them work. I also assume we’re studying them to learn how they generate organs. These questions go out to legitimate researchers, btw.
RandomHumanBean 3 years ago
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT GOOGLE IT I DID AND I WILL NOT SLEEP FOR YEARS NOW!!!!!
Maria Hermida 3 years ago
When I was at university I saw one preserved in formaldehyde. There's nothing in a horror film that can rival it. That, and an 8-metre-long tapeworm. Both things gave me nightmares for years. And both can grow inside the human body. Nature can be gloriously beautiful, but it can also be terrifying.
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Jesus Christ 3 years ago
DO NOT GOOGLE IT, CURIOUSTY CAN GIVE YOU A HEART ATTACK IT SEEMS LIKE
#52
How much empty space there is in atoms. Like how the f**k I'm a solid object, I'll never understand.
Beans 3 years ago
That's why radiation messes us up, it goes through the gaps in our atoms, and messes up our DNA. It also goes through the atoms around us like walls and floor. That's why lead can block it better as it has densely packed atoms which prevents radiation from traveling through it as much.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
If you were to take every car in the world and remove the space in the atoms then you would be able to fit the atoms in to a 1 foot by 1 foot box
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
I think I remember reading in my college chemistry book that if your thumb was the size of a given nucleus, the nearest orbiting electron would be 60 miles away.
#53
There are actually blood vessels obstructing light from reaching certain areas in your eye, effectively creating a shadow. Your brain filters this out and essentially fills in the gaps so you don’t actually see this spiderweb-like network of black lines. However, you can visualise them by shining a light at a diagonal into your eye (not directly!) and gently wiggling it about. This means your brain doesn’t have enough time to filter it out and you see this spiderweb like network of blood vessels! echnical instructions to clarify the actions involved. I find it easier to see this effect in a dark environment, so the contrast of the black shadow against the light is higher. You want to be staring straight ahead and shining the light into your pupil at a 45 degree angle from the side directed at your nose at about 10-20 cm away from them. Phone light will do great and have it on the dimmest setting if possible. Then wiggle the light in gentle 1 cm movements side to side. Keep this up for about a second at least and you should see them. Hope this clears it up a bit!
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
You can actually see the blood cells moving in your capilaries. I figured this out when I was a kid
#54
The strongest known acid is called Fluroantimonic Acid and it is made by combining a solution of two different ions in various quantities. Without going too crazy into the scientific details, the part that blows my mind is that at certain ratios of the two ingredients you can get an acid that is 1 QUADRILLION TIME STRONGER THAN 100% PURE SULFURIC ACID. At acidity levels like this pH fails to even be a useful metric, as the pH of any solution would certainly be less than 0. Additionally, it is so acidic that it can force carbon atoms to have 5 bonds instead of 4, breaking one of the fundamental principles of organic chemistry.
#55
Your head can live for up to 15 seconds without your body.
Monday 3 years ago
Though it's alive it's likely not conscious. Just residual electrical activity pulsing through.
Load More Replies... Katherine Boag 3 years ago
No way, when they cut that guys head off he could only blink once before his head stopped responding
#56
The Cosmic Horizon - there's vast swathes of space we will never be able to see or know anything about as space is expanding faster than the speed of light.
Scagsy 3 years ago
A shower thought I had recently: If space is expanding so fast, and if we can never know the edge of it, perhaps we cannot see that this 'space' is accelerating towards a huge, all-encompassing astral wall. When it arrives at this wall, will it burst through or will it bounce back towards us? And if it does return towards us, is it still expanding or will it be receding like a spent wave and will it affect the passage of time like a black hole does? Note: I have shower thoughts about other less interesting things too, like getting a puppy, and whether it will like my wife or me better. Comments on either are most welcome, of course.
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
My shower thoughts usually consist of " If every love story is a better love story than twilight, and twilight is a love story, is twilight a better love story than twilight?
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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
If it were i believe that we would be dead. But i guess what OP is trying to say is that space is expanding so fast that light from regions far away from the edge of the observable universe will never be able to reach us
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The average cloud weighs about 1 million pounds. It just floats because it is less dense than the air below it.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
I’ve always imagined that touching a cloud would feel like touching intensely damp and freezing cold dense fog.
#58
If the distance between earth and the sun were the thickness of a dime, the next closest star would be ten miles away.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
And also, if the milky way were the size of the united states then the sun would be the size of a white blood cell
#59
There are about four times as many unique ways to shuffle a standard deck of playing cards as there are atoms in the Milky Way.
#60
A hummingbird beats its wings 12 times a second.
Scagsy 3 years ago (edited)
A (gone too soon, aged 44) friend of mine used to play in a football team that I coached. Before each match, I would explain our set pieces; free kicks, corners etc. and give each player a specific role to play during the match. At the end of my 'teamtalk' I would ask if there were any questions and every week, my mate would say; 'What's the average wingspeed of a Hummingbird?' And now I know!
#61
Our galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy and will meet in about 4.5 billion years. Due to the vastness of the space between the contents of these galaxies, it's unlikely any stars/planets will actually hit each other.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
The night sky would glow because of the gas clouds colliding and creating new stars. The name of the galaxy that will form after the collsion is milkdromeda
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Either the sun will boil us or we will end ourselves
Load More Replies... #62
When you look up into the sky everything you see is in the past.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
When you look at the tip of your own nose it's in the past. Everything you can see is.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
We live in the future’s past. If we actually live in linear time, that is.
Load More Replies... #63
When you decide to you move hand (as an example) the signal will already be half way down you arm by the time you have consciously decided to do it. There are two explanations. Something other that your conscious mind decided to move your hand or your conscious mind sent the signal around 20 milliseconds backwards in time.
Rai Grant 3 years ago
I like that when we, for example, touch something hot, our nerves send the signal to our brain that we are burned, but before it reaches our brain, the reaction to pull away has already been sent to our limb to pull away due to the junctions in our spines
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
That’s because your central nervous system is actually a part of your brain, and your peripheral nervous system communicates with your brain. Everything in the human body connects back to the brain. Everything (even though, with some people, it seems like it doesn’t—-and in men, it seems like the “little brain” takes over A LOT).
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 3 years ago
Or there is a difference between conscious decision making and unconscious/involuntary movement, that the brain tries to make up for by going 'I mean to do that'.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
A flys can move out of the way before it's brain even registers the fly swatter
Tequila Mockingbird 3 years ago
Or they are just measuring signals inaccurately with their current technology is a better guess
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Fun experiment: place your fingers at the base of your skull where it meets the neck. Now DON'T move your head but move your eyes around. You can feel the muscles being primed for position changes just from shifting your eyes around. Proprioception!
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
Theres definitely a difference in consciously thinking to move part of your body, and actually moving it
#64
All of life can be tracked back to a (or several depending on who you ask) continuous billion plus year chemical reaction.
Scagsy 3 years ago
I'm fairly sure that it doesn't matter who I ask, I will still not have a clue what they are talking about.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
If you take the time to think it through, including putting aside some of your beliefs, in order to keep your mind open long enough to hear and absorb different possibilities, it actually can make you wonder if linear time is our only time option.
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#65
All matter literally gives off light, but we can only see a sliver of that spectrum (although we do have tools to help us see other spectrums.) Our bodies give off infrared, and are basically glowing in that portion of the spectrum similar to how iron glows to our normal vision when it’s heated. Something that sees a different spectrum than us might not see hot iron as glowing at the same temperatures we see iron glow at.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
The whole universe glows in infrared. If you had infrared vision you would be blinded by the amount of heat in the universe
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Would it be similar to the way we appear in night vision goggles or infrared cameras?
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Who Panda 420 3 years ago (edited)
I actually learn more from the comments by my fellow pandas than I learn from the posting. Thanks for all the tidbits
Susie Elle 3 years ago
I've got an uninteresting scientific fact; jays (that used to be quite uncommon where I live) are excellent sound mimics, which was proven to me by the fact that me and a bunch of neighbours this morning spent an hour looking for the dying cat we could all hear screaming that turned out to be a mf jay sitting in the top of a tree >:(
Chich 3 years ago
In the cold death version of the universe where everything just gets further and further apart and energy ebbs away, this entire 'bright' phase with stars and galaxies etc is so brief as to be almost unmeasurable. "Forever and ever" is actually a nasty curse to wish on someone.
Cheri Aline Sydney 3 years ago
This, Chich, brings passive aggression to a whole other level!
Load More Replies... Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
Aluminum is an excellent heat sink, so putting a piece of frozen meat on a heavy aluminum cookie sheet will cause it to defrost much faster than a piece of meat lying on your counter. It acts like its sucking out the cold, but it's really conducting the heat of the air into the vacant energy of the meat
Jane Doe 3 years ago
I wondered how that "magic defrosting tray" worked. thanks.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Borborygmi. It's a real thing. The noise your abdomen makes (technically, your lower GI tract) as it digests food ---- the noise of gas and liquid and matter moving merrily along. (One hopes, anyway.)
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I am so confused by many of these. My brain hurts! Hell who knows, I may not even have one.
Mary Peace 3 years ago
Obviously you're thinking about stuff, and that's good. Don't worry about feeling confused, lots of us are with you on that. Lots of these facts just boggled my mind as well.
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 3 years ago
Why do I get so distressed by some of these facts? It shouldn't bother me that there are more card shuffles than atoms, or more water atoms in a teaspoon, than teaspoons of water in the ocean, but it does. I think my brain gets troubled by things that are too big or too small for me to actually experience and observe.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago (edited)
I actually learn more from the comments by my fellow pandas than I learn from the posting. Thanks for all the tidbits
Susie Elle 3 years ago
I've got an uninteresting scientific fact; jays (that used to be quite uncommon where I live) are excellent sound mimics, which was proven to me by the fact that me and a bunch of neighbours this morning spent an hour looking for the dying cat we could all hear screaming that turned out to be a mf jay sitting in the top of a tree >:(
Chich 3 years ago
In the cold death version of the universe where everything just gets further and further apart and energy ebbs away, this entire 'bright' phase with stars and galaxies etc is so brief as to be almost unmeasurable. "Forever and ever" is actually a nasty curse to wish on someone.
Cheri Aline Sydney 3 years ago
This, Chich, brings passive aggression to a whole other level!
Load More Replies... Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
Aluminum is an excellent heat sink, so putting a piece of frozen meat on a heavy aluminum cookie sheet will cause it to defrost much faster than a piece of meat lying on your counter. It acts like its sucking out the cold, but it's really conducting the heat of the air into the vacant energy of the meat
Jane Doe 3 years ago
I wondered how that "magic defrosting tray" worked. thanks.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Borborygmi. It's a real thing. The noise your abdomen makes (technically, your lower GI tract) as it digests food ---- the noise of gas and liquid and matter moving merrily along. (One hopes, anyway.)
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I am so confused by many of these. My brain hurts! Hell who knows, I may not even have one.
Mary Peace 3 years ago
Obviously you're thinking about stuff, and that's good. Don't worry about feeling confused, lots of us are with you on that. Lots of these facts just boggled my mind as well.
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 3 years ago
Why do I get so distressed by some of these facts? It shouldn't bother me that there are more card shuffles than atoms, or more water atoms in a teaspoon, than teaspoons of water in the ocean, but it does. I think my brain gets troubled by things that are too big or too small for me to actually experience and observe.
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