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Some science facts can be pretty wild. Like this fun fact about grasshoppers. Did you know that their ears are actually on their bellies? And not just one pair of ears. They apparently have six along the sides of their abdomens! This is the kind of fact that I find quite hard to wrap my head around.
So I totally get why one Redditor went to r/AskReddit and posed a similar question to other netizens. The user u/shirofromgame wrote: "What is a scientifically proven fact you refuse to believe?" And the 'refuse to believe' part in this case is not that they actually don't believe it. It's more that the fact is so outlandish or ridiculous that it just blows their mind.
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#1
As a child I could not grasp that groves in a record could make complicated music when a needle ran over them. Now that I'm older and it's all light on metal disks or just math (somehow) I have given up even pretending I believe. It's magic, pure and simple.
The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
Just because we understand it doesn't make it any less impressive. We are dust that got exploded so hard it started thinking about itself. Miraculous
Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago
Oh... welp, time to ponder your statement until 3am!
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Skadi Lifdis 1 year ago
In Lancaster, CA - there's something called the musical road. There's grooves cut into the road that when you drive over it, plays a song.
StretcherBearer 1 year ago (edited)
I used to make paper cones and put a needle through the narrow end and place it in the groove . you get sounds and destroyed records but it fascinated me so much I became interested to music Recording and production. I barely understand how records work😋 analog is awesome tape is also fascinating. It's basically recording sound on a rusty bicycle. Tape is ferrous oxide (rust) stuck to film and magnets basically imprint sound waves by arranging the magnetic properties of the rust. Oversimplification but it's early on a Monday morning and accuracy is blah blah blah..you get it 😁
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
Two per record. One per side. With a few exceptions, such as Monty Python's record "Matching Tie and Handkerchief." It has two parallel grooves on Side 2.
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Brian bell 1 year ago
Not only do I still find this astonishing as an adult, but I am even more amazed that someone back in history actually came up with the whole idea in the first place.
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago (edited)
When I was like... 3 years old, I saw the "lines" on the record at the very end, go "under" the label. So that if I played the record too much, it would all be gone and you'd have to buy a new copy of the record! (3 year old conspiracy theorist LOL!) SO... Imma beat them at their game and spin the record backwards to make the "lines" come back out! Hey, it worked! LOL! - I just turned 66. I own over 10K vinyl records now and have recorded, produced and managed several music acts! (And now I KNOW the "industry" tries to screw us! No conspiracy about it!)
Brian Droste 1 year ago
If I am right,, the grooves have little bumps in them. When The needles pass over them, that is what makes the different notes. I was trying to think of a good example to illustrate it, but could not.
Bored Panda reached out to the curious person who asked the Redditor about the things they couldn't believe. The Redditor u/shirofromgame agreed to have a short chat with us and told us the reason behind this post. The idea for the question came to the Redditor as almost all intrusive thoughts do – just before falling asleep.
"I came up with the Reddit post after trying to go to sleep (and failing), and I was thinking about such facts," u/shirofromgame told Bored Panda. "You see, I was so sleepy that I wrote the question on Reddit and immediately fell asleep after. I actually remembered I wrote it after two days and was surprised to see it had so many replies," the Redditor adds to her whimsical story.
Out of so many interesting replies, u/shirofromgame says that the very top one messed with them the most. It was the one about how our eyes work. "I really can't get my mind wrapped around [that]," the Redditor says, "About how our brains flip the image that we see from our eyes."
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#2
Q-tips do belong in my ears and I refuse to believe any doctor saying otherwise.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
I work with Audiologists. They are 100% against sticking q-tips in your ears. That being said, I am guilty of it myself - but I don't ever go far enough to touch my eardrum. I think that's where a lot of people run in to trouble. And yes, if you have a huge amount of wax you're just pushing it farther down there. Mostly I don't like the inside of my ears feeling wet so I'm drying them off with the q-tip.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
If you are cautious it's such a good feeling, i do this every day after shower, so relaxing.
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
Exactly. I let the hot shower blast my ears, which softens the earwax, and then I use QTips when I get out of the shower. It's such a lovely feeling, and I have never had a problem with impacted earwax.
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marianne eliza 1 year ago
Did you know: The consistency of your ear wax is genetic, with northern climes having more dry, flaky ear wax and southern climes more liquid. This is for the northern hemisphere btw. Mine will actually run in my ear canal, tickling me to distraction until I can mop it up. With a Johnson Swab, which I prefer over Qtips cuz they have more cotton.
#3
I refuse to believe a leopard-moose-camel with a 40ft neck is a real animal and a horse with a horn isn’t.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Giraffe used to be called "camel-leopard". Rhino used to be called "big horse with a single horn".
Marcellus II 1 year ago
No. "Pardus" means "spotted" --- Leopard = leo-pardus = spotted lion which is a very apt description. Latin name "camelopardus" = "spotted camel" looks VERY apt description to me, if a camel is a normal animal to you. And rhinoceros literally means nose-horn, nothing horse (maybe thinking of the hippo, hippo-potamus = river horse?).
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Dan Flo 1 year ago
What about a duck beaked, reptilian legged beaver that lays egg and have a venomous thorn?
Nikki Angulo 1 year ago
love me those little guys. Australia sure has some weird creatures!
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Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
Two unicorns got on Noah's Ark but there was no mention of them afterwards. Guess the lions, tigers, & bears got hungry.
Admittedly, it is quite fascinating – our eyes actually do work like a Camera Obscura. As the specialist in neuro-ophthalmology, Dr. Andrew G. Lee, explains, the image we see is inverted on the retina. It's the retina that sees the world upside down. "Your cortex just turns it upside down," Lee says.
There's also an interesting experiment related to the whole phenomenon. If a person were to wear prism glasses (which do the opposite), they would see the world upside down. But what's interesting is that after they take the glasses off, the whole world would be upside down for them for a few days. How does it go back to normal? "[Your] cortex puts it back in the right orientation," Dr. Lee explains.
#4
The fact that our eyes see everything upside down and back into our brain we have to flip the image. Just crazy.
Pyla 1 year ago
I used to do pinhole photography with oatmeal boxes (the round ones), so cool.
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Jack Burton 1 year ago
The fact that our brain just cancel our nose cause he recreates a nice picture. But if you look with one eye only you see your nose. Brain is cool.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
Interestingly, the brain can be retrained to correct the eye's inversion - an experiment had people wear lenses so everything appeared upside down; after a short time the image became "right" and people dealt with it just like normal. The same happpened after they stopped wearing the lenses - everything upside-down until the brain learned to correct it again. I don't remember how long it took; I think it was a day or so - I remember thinking it was long enough I'd be walking into things and puking from the upside-down image...
Kar Red Roses 1 year ago
Three days. It took 3 days for the world to turn right-side up again. 🙃🙂
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Christophe Beunens 1 year ago
Are you sure?? Maybe we are all walking upside down, without knowing it.
Angie E 1 year ago
Some of us actually are on the Southern most tip of this big blue planet.
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Cactuar Jon 1 year ago
Also the fact that there is a very slight time delay from what our eyes see, to our brains actually processing it.
Bremusa4u 1 year ago
Exactly! So what we think we seeing in the present, it's actually seconds in the past. Hence the fact that so many car-pedestrians accidents happen in intersections.
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Steve Zagieboylo 1 year ago
That's not the crazy part. The crazy part is that if you wear glasses that flip everything upside-down, within 4 days you'll be used to it and you won't even notice that it is odd anymore.
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
kinda like Hubble. Our eyesight design flaw had to have a software correction
#5
The fact that t.rex and stegosaurus were separated by millions of years and never existed together. I will always have Stegosaurus battle T Rex when given dinosaurs to play with!.
David Paterson 1 year ago
T rex, early primates, and early loons were exact contemporaries. The first true mammals lived about 50 million years before the stegosaurus. The first true birds lived more than 60 million years before T rex.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Was just about to say, trousers certainly hadn't been invented then
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Smiley Rie 1 year ago
Woah - what??? My preschool education really let me down apparently 😳 But hey, what’s 60 million years between bros dinosaur 🦖
Janet Graham 1 year ago
But your dinosaurs and action figures could be right and 'geologic record' could be all fluff and stuff.
Pablo Ramos 1 year ago
When T-Rex roamed the earth, stegosaurus were already fossils. FOSSILS!
#6
The idea that time can bend and stretch depending on gravity and velocity.
David Evans 1 year ago
Time dilation explains this. It's pretty cool and interesting to learn about.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
easy to demonstate it does - just get in a line at the motor-vehicle registry...
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Yaga Bialski 1 year ago
Time can bend and stretch depending on your intentions, but they must be for the highest good,
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
Come on. We have all seen how time can stretch. In waiting rooms or at work on a Friday when are about to go on vacation. Time just drags on.
#7
The solution to the Monty Hall paradox. I can even do the math myself. But it still "feels" intuitively wrong. The scenario: you're on a game show and the host offers you a choice between three doors. Behind one door is a million dollars. Behind the other two doors, you get nothing. You make your choice. But before the host opens the door to reveal what's inside, he opens one of the *other two* doors to reveal nothing behind *that* one. He then offers you a second choice: do you keep the door that you already chose? Or do you switch to the other unopened door? Does it matter? Intuitively, it feels like it shouldn't matter, that you have a 50-50 chance of winning whether you switch to the other door, or keep the one you chose originally. Mathematical reality: you should switch. You have double the chance of winning the money if you switch to the other door, compared with staying put. Close second: in any random group of just 23 people you will have more than 50% chance that at least two of them will share the same birthday. Again, I can do the math to prove this but it still doesn't feel right.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Ask Marilyn (vos Savant) did several columns on this. I agree with OP. It doesn't make sense that switching is better, but it really is. The situation makes me grumpy.
BlackestDawn 1 year ago
Mythbusters tested this and their conclusion was to switch. Their explanation was that it's not actually a choice between the two remaining doors (50/50) but rather a choice between the door you initially chose and the two others (33/66) with one of them being open and thus known. So it's more like choosing between opening one door and opening two doors.
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Charlotte A. 1 year ago
And yet, changing queues in the grocery store will inevitably make you end up in the slowest moving one.
Kristal 1 year ago (edited)
The first one makes my brain hurt. I read the comments but it's still not clicking. Probably cause, knowing my luck, If I switched door choice, I would have had the correct door to begin with
farbenzirkel 1 year ago
Regardless of the math, this is the best way I can get it into my head: I don't just have 3 doors to choose from, but as many as 100 and still only one possible win! Then it suddenly becomes very obvious that I'm probably not guessing correctly with the first tip. If Monty can now open 98 doors for the show, behind which there is no prize, then there must be a prize behind the last door. Of course, this shifts all the probabilities to the extreme - but it just makes it clearer for me and I understand it.
Peter Newman 1 year ago
The issue is whether or not the host is more likely to offer people with correct picks the chance to switch (to save the show money and to create drama) than he is to offer people with incorrect chances the choice to switch. Unless you can account for that the math is incomplete and thus potentially wrong.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
This. Everybody claiming you have a better chance by switching is assuming the game is rigged. If Monty opened the doors randomly there's a 1 in 3 chance the prize is behind the door he opened, and 2/3 of the time you have s 0/3 chance if you switch your door choice
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
When you choose a door, that means there's a 2/3 chance it 's behind one of the other two doors. If you just switched at random, you would still only have a 1/3 change of winning. But Monty tell you which door NOT to switch to by opening it and showing you the goat. Therefore you switch to the other door, but the 2/3 chance is of course still in effect (because the prize doesn't move when he opens that door). If Monty didn't open that door, switching wouldn't affect your chances one way or another.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
But then how come every time I change lines or driving lanes the one I pick automatically gets longer/slower??
#8
That babies' adult teeth are under their eyes (skeletal).
Mark 1 year ago
Never look at a child's skull, it looks so wrong. I expected the teeth to be double layered, but still, it's so far up
Linda Csapo 1 year ago (edited)
I unfortunately have (not now, years ago). Ever since, I'm afraid of kids.
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Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
I still have one of my baby teeth (i'm old). It's kind of strange.
3 Trash Pandas (She/They) 1 year ago
Me too! One of my back molars never had a tooth underneath it, so it never fell out
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I refuse to believe that ALL snowflakes in the entirety of history are unique. You mean to tell me, that ALL snowflakes EVER, across the ENTIRE GLOBE, are COMPLETELY UNIQUE? That can’t be mathematically possible. Like, a single storm that drops 3 inches on my house must be a million flakes. Multiply that by the area of that storm, and the depth of the snow, and that number becomes huge. THEN, add that to every storm in the history of the whole globe. I just can’t believe that we have seen every snowflake and have come to the definite conclusion that they’re all unique. Scientists aren’t at my house cataloging the snowflakes. How do they know?.
Blue 1 year ago
They found an identical snowflake. I can't remember who 'they' are, but that's actually now been disproven now, I belive, as it's now been discovered that there are identical snowflakes. Or, rather, identical patterns formed. And it's also been proven to do with the weather conditions. So basically the weather, the area, altitude, etc, dictates the various shapes of the snowflakes that will fall
HTakeover 1 year ago
Found... maybe. But there's a guy who studied snowflakes so much he cracked the code. He can create them to any shape & any structure he wants (snowflake structure, can't make it into an elephant or something). He has repeated the same snowflakes many times over. Check him out on YouTube, it's pretty fascinating.
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Krd 1 year ago
I think like this with DNA and fingerprints. Like over the course of humanity there must of been two people (maybe not alive at the same time) that had the same fingerprints. Same with DNA, there isn't a infinite number of DNA combinations, and even if it was, true randomness tends to cause repetition (it's part of that same birthday fact someone mentioned in another post). So while massively unlikely, I think it's possible for these things to repeat.
Janet Graham 1 year ago
It goes along with the idea behind the African tribe whose numbers are 'one, two, three, many' and that's it.
#10
That I'm not one living entity; billions of lifeforms all combine to make one of me.
Blue 1 year ago
And then think that you're actually mostly made up of space, and that not one cell of you is actually touching any other because of this "space". You're mostly 'made' of "space". But this "space" isn't just 'nothing'. It has influence, and may even have some control over whatever is around it. So... What is it?... ; ) THEN, realise that that is the same for appsoloutly everything 'solid', living and inanimate... I'm still learning about this, of course (same as the people studying it, of course), but that's a good one to me
keyboardtek 1 year ago
This is all on the microscopic level. This knowledge has no practical purpose for the average human as after a certain size aggregated atoms feel solid.
Load More Replies... no Adhesivness2020 1 year ago
Try this: Yes we are a colony of independently intelligent beings(think white blood cells that seek out and destroy invaders, having memory of previous encounters), then make the jump to the next step that we are cells in a larger organism, Earth. One creature made of billions, like us. I know we all know some 'cancer' cells.
Dante McBride 1 year ago
Exactly! Here’s a summary: you are the brain, and you are in a very articulated bone mech wearing fleshy armour
Ray Perkins 1 year ago
Don't we have as many bacteria in our bodies than we have cells?
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Janet Graham 1 year ago
And I may be one entity making up a tiny part of another entity. From our perspective, Mars is so far away. From another perspective, it is just part of an atom.
#11
Skyscrapers sway a lot. I refuse to believe a building like the burj khalifa moves 6-7 feet in the wind without issue.
Anna Lewoc 1 year ago
yep, same. The noticeable proof was the level of water in the toilet - it was slightly lower or higher depending on where the wind was coming from (not like, moving before your eyes, but there was a noticeable difference over time)
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Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago
Yep, can confirm! When I experienced it for the first time I just about s**t my pants
KombatBunni 1 year ago
I was starting to feel a bit ill.. had to go lie down for a while
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They sway a lot. I was staying on the the 23rd floor of a hotel in Kobe during a typhoon. There was also an earthquake, but only a little one. My phone's emergency alert system was going crazy there!
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
For a second, I thought it said they swear a lot. I really should go to bed.
Bored something 1 year ago
The people on the top floors swear a lot of the windy days
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Ephemera Image 1 year ago
I lived next to a skyscraper in Cyprus at one time, watched the tower sway about ten - fiftieen feet from side to side during a small earthquake.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
This is Pre-Scientific knowledge. Medieval cathedrals had to be intelligently reinforced to withstand the winds that high up- and the unstoppable movement. Ergo all them "flying buttresses". Science did not exist - but highly skilled artisans, taught by grandparents- did. They built our cities, no science needed.
KombatBunni 1 year ago
Lived in an 8th floor apartment for a while and I can tell you they really do sway! Had a nasty storm come through a few years ago and at first I thought I was imagining things, but when bedroom doors started to creak as the place moved I knew I wasn’t! My flatmate even told me he’s felt it move, was not something I cared to repeat as I’m scared of heights!
Rob Williams 1 year ago
Oh yes they sway! I had to do some training on the 15th floor and we, the training staff, had all got used to it. The looks on the faces of the people coming in for the classes though…
#12
That the average time to sleep is 7 minutes. WHO???.
Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
It's me. I'm bringing the average down. If I'm not asleep within a couple of minutes of closing my eyes, then something is wrong. Sorry everyone. I'm the freak.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
oh, my, I'm envious! chronic insomnia my entire life. I've often laid in bed for hours without falling asleep - usually now after 20-30 minutes I just get up and do something; read, watch tv or a movie, laundry, clean the house, anything... (and yeah, I know I'm not supposed to watch videos or play electonic games). In my 20s I'd read a science-fiction book cover-to-cover almost every night because of my insomnia. Fortunately, I can function on just a few hours of sleep a night - I've friends who are zombies on less than 8-10 hours... Btw, CBD gummies help; they don't make me *go* to sleep, they quiet my brain so I can *fall* asleep (just CBD; not THC, although I've friends who swear by those, too)
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Jo Davies 1 year ago
The lump laying next to me snoring 4 minutes after climbing in next to me. Every night.
Angie E 1 year ago
Haha and then once they start snoring it's hard to fall asleep from the noise.
Load More Replies... Lene 1 year ago
Had a bf once who'd fall asleep within seconds. Since he was a kid he'd simply done 3 deep breaths and fallen asleep by the third breath. So f***ing provoking! I have always had sleep problems and there he was, falling asleep so fast and staying asleep. No wonder that relationship didn't last long. Lol
Rob Williams 1 year ago
My wife brings that number down! She can be fast asleep within a couple of minutes while I take anything up to an hour.
LadyRougarou 1 year ago
Once my bf is comfortable he is out in 30 secs and I'm like how?!? Me it takes around 30 mins to fall asleep ugh
#13
That the speed of light can’t be broken. They said flight was physically impossible with a machine, then they said breaking the sound barrier was impossible. I just don’t believe that we’re right this time either.
SCP 4666 1 year ago
And then switch to ridiculous speed and then to ludicrous speed
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SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
There's a difference between "can't because we're too stupid to engineer it" and "violates general relativity." People on this site talking about physics are going to give me a headache.
mrxavia 1 year ago
We've got the math to bypass it, it's just an engineering problem now....
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Knitting Panda 1 year ago
Don't get me started about the two parallel lines going on forever and never crossing. I knew that was wrong when I was 12 and I almost got sent to detention for it.
#14
I know it's true but I still find it hard to believe that viruses are not considered living organisms.
There are a lot of factors but the two biggest ones I think are the fact that they are inert and do not use energy when not in a host. And that they cannot self replicate without said host.
Hard to believe something capable of so much death and destruction is probably not even conscious.
David Albro 1 year ago
To me prions are just an interesting chemical process. It doesn't have to scent of life that viruses do.
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DRMAGDN 1 year ago
I learned that every couple of years they go back and forth with Viruses being living and then not in the scientific community
SM 1 year ago
I'm not sure that there has ever been a back and forth in modern times. You first define life, and then see if a virus fit that. Here are the ways we distinguish living and nonliving "Does it have its own biological ‘machinery’ to replicate? Does it multiply through cellular division? Does it have a metabolism?" Viruses fail on all of these. You have to define life differently to consider a virus alive.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Okay, but hear me out. We know that viruses mutate over time. Flu viruses, for example, mutate quickly so a flu vaccine only lasts one season (and even then you might still get sick with a type that wasn't in the vaccine). Even Covid has mutated over time so that now it doesn't kill its host anymore (or not like it used to at the start of the pandemic). This makes sense because a virus that kills its host too quickly (or at all) is not going to spread. BUT HOW DOES IT KNOW IF IT'S NOT ALIVE?
SM 1 year ago (edited)
It doesn't "know", viruses can certainly kill of enough hosts that it will no longer exist either. But remember, there are millions if not billions of virus types, so "they" as in viruses go on. We as humans want to believe there is a purpose, life doesn't care about "purposes". Life doesn't reproduce for a given purpose; it just does what it is programmed to do.
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#15
That computers work by using combinations of 0 and 1!.
John George 1 year ago (edited)
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary notation, & those that do not.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
No, there are 10 kinds of people in the world. There are people who understand tertiary, people who don't understand tertiary, and people who think I f****d up the old joke.
Load More Replies... Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago (edited)
oh, and just as binary computers use "bits" (binary digits), trinary computers use "trits" (trinary digits) - I think if they used "tits" we'd never have developed binary computers... :)
Ace 1 year ago
It's more accurate to say that they use combinations of on and off, and perhaps as a more understandable analogy think about it as black or white. Now think about patterns made up of black and white dots. Anything you print from your computer is just dots. Pictures are just dots. The text you're reading right now is just dots on your screen. Suddenly you can literally see how on/off, 1/0 or black/white can be used to represent information.
Krd 1 year ago
I like to think of it as yes electricity =1, no electricity =0.of course this technically only applies to analog signals (if I remember correctly).
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Patricia Smith 1 year ago
I think that computers are just little magic boxes that give you stuff.
pep Ito 1 year ago
Actually works with voltage levels 0 is 0 V to 0.8 V and 1 is 2 V to 5 V in TTL.
Smiley Rie 1 year ago
Ironically that is something I was pondering just the other day. I still don’t get how it can all come down to basically an on/off switch. Personally, I wonder if maybe computers are one of those “we actually got it from aliens but need you to believe they don’t exist so came up with this 0/1 story instead” things
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
Guys I changed my mind. It is not people talking about physics that is going to give me a headache, it is people talking about computers.
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Michael None 1 year ago (edited)
Think of it as two base math. We normally work in ten base math. That is we don't add a place until we get to 10. So 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. It takes two characters to represent 10. There's also hexadecimal which is 15 based math 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10 11.... You can have any base you want binary (1s and 0s) is just the simplest way to represent numbers with the least amount of characters.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago (edited)
it's much weirder than just that - there are trinary (aka ternary) computers that work with 0, 1, and 2 or with -1, 0, and +1, and even with binary computers there have been some that use one's-complement binary arithmetic that have both a positive *and* a negative zero! (and yes, negative zero is less than positive zero) Just wait until we get more into quantum computing! That'll *really* make your brain melt!
#16
That fruits and vegetables do not decay faster when I’m the one paying for them.
Smiley Rie 1 year ago
Lol 😂 Well I can guarantee that even if you buying them personally curses them, they’ll last way longer (& have more nutrients from being riper) if you buy from local growers than the big supermarkets.
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Our "local growers" are available for a grand total of 5 hours on Sunday when the farmers market is open, and they charge as much as - if not more than - the big supermarket. YMMV of course, but it's just not a practical solution for everyone.
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StretcherBearer 1 year ago (edited)
It's the laser scanner at the check out that activates the 5g chips that let demons and Democrats into your leafy greens wake up sheeple! /s
Verena 1 year ago
The moment strawberries are in your house, one of them alerts the others: "Hey guys, we are sold, start to rot in 3-2-1-now".
Gabby M 1 year ago
LOL but seriously try this. Rinse, dry, spray with vinegar, store in a glass sealed jar. They seem to last much longer for me that way.
Load More Replies... Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Nothing ever really goes bad. It's just that something else starts eating it before you do!
Sean Martin 1 year ago
Depends on who's buying. Read about a guy who couldn't figure out why his bananas were ripening so quickly. He charged his phone in his bowl of bananas for some reason. Turns out the radiation from his phone was causing it.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
Frozen fruits and veggies keep more of their nutrients because they are frozen right away and don't sit around decaying
#17
Women are born with all the eggs already in them and don't produce those through the lifetime.
It is so ridiculous that I still can't believe it, even though I tell it to the others. Hope for a paper suggesting an alternative to "The egg from which you were born was actually created by your grandma".
Michal Haško 1 year ago
It wasn’t created by your grandma. It was created by your mother, which happened to be inside your grandma. Not the same thing.
Astro 1 year ago
But your mother was created by your grandma, so wouldn’t everything INSIDE her be technically created by grandma’s body as well before she’s born? Including her eggs? It makes my brain hurt to think too hard about it lol
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Cosmikid 1 year ago
Be doubly wary of "newer research questioning" - it's a cheap way to get a paper published -
Load More Replies... StretcherBearer 1 year ago
So eggs are like baby teeth? You're welcome for this mornings horrifying mental image. Sorry for ruining your day.
EarthGrowl 1 year ago
They are immature eggs. Egg cells that have not finished growing. And what's even more mind boggling, that line of eggs reaches back billions of years in an unbroken line.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
So as the last born child, my DNA is a old as my brother who was 11 years older than me?
BarBeeGirl 1 year ago
I learned this when I was pregnant with my youngest and that’s why later in life births are a higher risk
DRMAGDN 1 year ago
Which makes sense on why the intensity and stress of multi-generational trauma might be linked in our actual genetic code. There was an example with rats that ringing a bell and giving the rat trauma and separating the baby rats at birth. Ringing that bell would cause a trauma response in something like 7 generations (could be wrong on the details, been a while)
#18
The double-slit experiments and all their variations still weird me out. As someone who hasn't studied the necessary fundamentals, it just seems like the Light particles know whether or not you're watching and will change their behavior depending on what you're expecting them to do.
User# 6 1 year ago
It's quantum etanglement that gets me. I swear quantum physicists make it it all up as they go along.
Mark 1 year ago
I still find it amazing that a couple of physicists just looked at centuries of scientific knowledge and all the laws gathered from it and just went 'what about... no?' But this also means that we still don't have a theory of everything, so if it works...
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Brandy Gray 1 year ago
I'll pretend like I know what this post is talking about and agree, so weird!
StretcherBearer 1 year ago
🤣so basically doing my entire approach to life and everything.
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Nick Triantafyllidis 1 year ago
They don't "KNOW". Observation is an active process (most people think it's passive). When you observe something, you interact with it thus changing its behavior. Very simplistic explanation, don't jump on me physicists. :P
StretcherBearer 1 year ago
This one annoys me as well. C'mon science make up your mind. Yes is not an answer to the question of whether or not you are a wave or particle.
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
I’m going to be honest unlike many op’s and say err wot?
#19
Narwhals. Ain't no way.
AlienatedCheeseStick 1 year ago
Yeah how can they exist but a unicorn can’t???? If we have the genetic material to grow feathers why can’t a horse have the genetic material to grow a horn?!
Bored something 1 year ago
A narwal's 'horn' is actually a tooth. Can you imagine a horse with one overly long tooth? It wouldn't look anywhere as nice as a Unicorn.
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Tammilee Truitt 1 year ago
Right! I thought it was some fantasy animal until I looked it up. Lots of videos of these strange creatures..and t-shirts
Cosmikid 1 year ago
exactly IT's the T-shirts! The only reliable proof! :-)
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Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago (edited)
Actually yes, human DNA has all the necessary genes to produce feathers, but it has never happened.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
One of my favorite random facts: Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. You're welcome.
B Jean the Jelly Bean 1 year ago
🎶Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean. Causing a commotion, cause they are so awesome! 🎶
#20
In a lottery, having a string of consecutive numbers (say 1,2,3,4,5,6) being drawn is equally likely as a string of random numbers being drawn.
Marianne 1 year ago
Also that using the same numbers every week won't increase your changces to win.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
No, it just won't increase your chances compared to using different numbers each time. Playing for 10 weeks, regardless of the numbers you use will make you 10 times as likely to win as playing only 1 week.
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DRMAGDN 1 year ago
And there's also a slight chance the coin will land sideways each time on a coin flip
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I did that while flipping coins during a math class on probability. Unfortunately it rolled off of the table.
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Robert Davis 1 year ago
This is the same thing in a poker game. The odds of getting a Royal Flush is the same odds as any random hand. It is just a " pattern " we recognize. For example if the highest poker hand is a 2 of clubs, 5 of hearts, 7 of spades, 10 of diamonds and an ace of clubs then to get dealt this is the same as a Royal Flush.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
This rests on formulation ---- there's sooooo many more random strings than consecutive ones. Any specific sequence, random or consecutive, is equally likely. But given the first "1", the chance of the next being consecutive is 1/10; the chance that next two are both consecutive is 1/100; and so on. It's like number plates, "I saw a car with number plate DOG follow one with plate CAT, what is the chance?!" Well, exactly the same chance as seeing PBQ follow ASD, or KES follow SLZ, but you're not going to tell us about those.
pep Ito 1 year ago
The point is that the draws are independent so the order in which the balls are drawn does not affect the final result.
Load More Replies... Janet Graham 1 year ago
There was a lottery that was won by 18 persons in Colorado back in the early days of the lottery. It turns out that they had all picked the 4 corner numbers and the 2 center ones. Hahahaha
Thomas Blackwell 1 year ago
Never play the same numbers every week. If you forget to play one week and they hit, you will never forget it.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
Getting quick pick numbers has actually been shown to favor winning by something like 2% over choosing your own numbers.
#21
Tomato is a berry.
Dave Van Beurden 1 year ago
neither are blackberries and raspberries. A banana is a berry, though
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Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Or confusing it with it’s cousin belladonna
Load More Replies... Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago
This fact doesn't help my mental health in any way, so I'm going to disregard it.
Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
and they are a fruit - do NOT put them in fruit salad (or on ice cream! ) lol
#22
Black is absolutely a colour, how else would there be a crayon for it?.
Annymoose 1 year ago
White and black are shades. A color with white in it is a tint. They're not technically considered colors because white is a reflection of everything and black is an absorption of everything. ........ but to everyone they're colors. It's just semantics.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
You're not actually supposed to eat them, but they're probably better for you than most junk food.
Load More Replies... John Boy 1 year ago
You're confusing "light" with "color". The "white light" of the visible spectrum contains all of the "colors" that we can see. Black color is simply a part of the visible spectrum. There is really no such thing as "black light", as black, in that sense, is strictly the absence of light, and , therefore, literally, nothing to see.
David Albro 1 year ago
So black color is neither a color nor apart of the visible spectrum. It is a lack of the visible spectrum.
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Paulsible deniability 1 year ago
In pigment, black is the combination of all colors. In light, it is the absence of all colors.
David Albro 1 year ago
Precisely. Thank you. It depends on what you mean by color. Pragmatically, it's a color. In relation to physics, it's not.
Load More Replies... Pensive_Panda 1 year ago
Yes, but, can you do this? Crayola Colors by Any 3 Letters Quiz https://www.sporcle.com/games/sproutcm/crayola-crayon-colors-from-3-letters
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
Color isn't just color. Are we talking light, pigment, color theory?
#23
That cold plunges are good for your health. Can’t do it. Not going to submerse myself if freezing water.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
I once had a ridiculously high temperature and I was hallucinating and raving so the hospital stuck me in a tub full of Ice water...................I was lucid instantly.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
I was packed in ice, my temp was high enough to potentially cause a stroke and the nurses and doctors had tried everything else to get it down.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Trivia fact: Triathletes are more likely to die during the swim part of the competition. And Navy Seal swimmers have a higher death rate due to a heart condition created by long distance swimming in cold water. The cause is named immersion pulmonary edema, or IPE.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
My sister swims in the North Sea on Boxing Day. I can just about manage the Med in summer.
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
They really are, though. Try it in the shower. Have a regular hot shower and then turn it to freezing cold and stand under it for a few minutes. Really invigorating.
Tyranamar 1 year ago
Is it really good for your health just in general though? Just to plunge yourself in freezing water? Why? How? No thank you.
SaneMinotaur 1 year ago
Be careful if you have pre-existing health conditions, but yeah, for a relatively healthy adult, cold plunges are good. Helps with your circulatory system, I believe?
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Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Cold water does have some medical uses. As a voluntary thing, I don’t do cold
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
I’m the irritating person who is equally comfortable in low temperatures and high temperatures. A friend recommended cold showers to help with my anxiety/ depression, I now have a shower as normal in warm water and then progressively turn the temperature down to full cold to end my shower. It seems to have a positive effect for a while, not sure if it’s the cold or the achievement of staying in the cold shower that picks me up, either way it would appear to calm my mind down for a bit.
#24
That many living people have Neanderthal DNA. Mostly in non-African ethnicities. My DNA is apparently more 'Neanderthal' than 93% of the population tested to date by 23andme. WTF? THat many living people have the DNA of another non-modern species (is that the right word?), the Denisovans (mostly certain Asian ethnicities). How many more non-modern species of DNA do humans carry that we just have not identified? How many others did we interbreed with? WHAT ARE WE?
StretcherBearer 1 year ago
We are horny balls of destruction and chaos who are sometimes funny and neat but mostly smell bad and annoy each other.
Paul Pienkowski 1 year ago
Just based on our current behavior, we mated with literally anything that had a hole.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Hey!! What did Neanderthals ever do to YOU?? You're just buying the BS propaganda put out by... Cartoonists. Maybe there were all elegant musicians, hah? Ever think of THAT?
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Paul Brown 1 year ago
I was surprised when mine came back with Neanderthal DNA too. There is a theory that having Neanderthal DNA is what allowed Ozzy Osbourne to survive all the d**g abuse he went thru.
Silly-Rabbit 1 year ago
I have 63 % more neanderthal DNA than other 23&Me users. This makes me more likely to be attracted to sweets and more likely to sprint versus long distance running.
Phineas T 1 year ago
This describes me to a T! No testing yet to confirm though
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Thomas Kroplinski 1 year ago
I'm one of the "more than 93% Neanderthal than humans" and I have a BOATLOAD of autoimmunity problems.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
You're a freak. I'm a purebreed because I'm not from your boonie little planet.
Annie Persson 1 year ago
Our evelution tree is more like a growth of bushes, branches and twigs in all directions, sometimes doubling in on itself, sometimes growing into the neighbouring bushes, sometimes dropping off seeds or shoots that grow up to mix and mingle with the bushes around it, until one single twig develops the ability to choke off all its siblings twigs, parent bushes and so on, and remains today, the only surviving variant, lonely among only copies of itself, trying desperately to fill the family void with more copies of itself, never understanding why we don't feel like family
#25
That jet planes can fly. Come on.
I’ve flown on them many times before.
But come on.
Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago
I watched the airshow where the A380 was presented to the public. It did a very slow fly-by. How that plane just stayed airborne was insane (and a combo of no cargo/passengers, very little fuel, and a tremendous flight crew, but still insane).
Cosmikid 1 year ago
You're not alone in not understand powered flight. Witness - the General who was flying a B-52; the hugest jet bomber - over Washington DC. He had the idea it was "like a jet fighter" - and decided to pull a fast turn. Banked onto his side - it lost all lift, crashed to the ground, and all on board were killed. He. Did Not Understand How It Works. True story; videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6io8Tjv7xk Moral of the story? Pay attention in class.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago (edited)
All you need is enough thrust and lift to overcome drag and gravity. The A-4 (the flying brick) was a perfect example of that.
MP Deco 1 year ago
i absolutely loathe flying, sheer terror but, by god, i LOVE watching airplanes😍😍😍!! extraordinary engineering..
Dak Janiels 1 year ago
Same for me, and I think THAT fear is why we are in so much awe - and belief of how implausible it seems.
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Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
I understand the physics of aircraft staying in the air, but I still comprehend how they stay up
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
Watch an F-22 Raptor go thru it's paces. You will be even more amazed.
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago (edited)
One of tye first things pilots learn is the wing profile and stability. A aircraft can fly very slow nose up or flat and fast. Its not pleasant for passengers to not be flat. A f18 can fly almost nose up and slow. Its not very efficient. Computers can handle the flight controls to limit stalls by matching flaps slats engine power and attitude to a stable flight. Helipcopters also use this principle
#26
Our stomach acid is strong enough to even dissolve metals over time.
Smiley Rie 1 year ago
But not apple & watermelon seeds according to all parents! Still waiting to grow that apple watermelon tree though
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Fun fact: A watermelon is actually a pumpkin and not a bush or tree
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Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
You haven't heard about Michel Lotito, the guy who ATE a whole plane?
AlienatedCheeseStick 1 year ago
It kinda reminds of how our body temp is hot enough to melt the metal gallium- which can also apparently eat its way through electronics like nothing (unless I’m thinking of something different, in which case feel free to correct me)
Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
It also loves eating aluminum, which is why it's not allowed on planes.
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Ravioli 1 year ago
Hold on, so thing I’ve feared since middle school Chem has been in my stomach this whole time?
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Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Reasons why alkali water is a pointless waste of money. At best you’re gonna end up with burps
#27
Humans are made up of 70% water, just doesn’t make sense. Too many bones and muscle for such a high number.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
To make some scientificky attempt without messing up my kitchen: Ötzi the Iceman was found as a freeze-dried skeleton of a skinny 1m60cm man, weighing 13.8kg... Alive that would have been 50kg or so, and freeze-drying will still leave a % or two of water. So the numbers are looking quite correct.
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Racing Tadpole 1 year ago
Muscles has more water than fat, . When hit by a train or fall off a high drop , you basically explode like a water balloon 🎈
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Muscle water is in a gel like state with glycogen, or in the cell which are similar to thread.
Load More Replies... Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
well, to be perfectly honest. A lot of people, it's not actually water. It's mainly poo-poo.
#28
That dark matter / energy exists. We've yet to directly observe any of it, only the indirect effects via gravity, and even Einstein himself acknowledged that his model of physics was incomplete. We understand gravity now better than Newton did, but there are still gaps. While the body of evidence supporting dark matter theory is extensive, we're one step away from demolishing and reinventing all of modern physics. One day a new Einstein will come along and invent an even more robust model of gravity, and it could reveal that our supposed "dark matter" was really the result of a huge flaw.
Alison Hobbs 1 year ago
I love physics and anything to do with the universe but, when it comes to dark matter, my brain melts down. No, don't understand it, don't want to even start understanding it AARRGGHH!!!
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Dark matter/energy is like wind (not in it's behaviour, but in it's ability to be observed). We can see and feel the effects of wind, but cannot actually see wind itself. Just like we can see the effects of dark matter, but not dark matter itself.
Carla Phillips 1 year ago
What's not to understand? It's the result of the poop of niblonions and mom's friendly robot company has them all in cages in order to mass produce and corner the market. Surely that's common knowledge?
Nirdavo 1 year ago
I read an article not too long ago that attributed the dark enery/dark matter to primordeal black holes. Very small objects with a mass of an asteroid, but of a size smaller than an atom. These black holes would only -very- occasionally devour normal matter, thus being detectable only by their mass/gravitation. The charm of this theory is that we do not need any new physics or strange forms of matter. Just ordinary, ableit very small, black holes.
Ruth F 1 year ago
Look up the electric universe/plasma universe. Gravity may not even be a thing, everything is about light and electrical charge, not about dark this, dark that, black holes and "gravity", a word related to "grave". Dark matter is an invention; many expensive experiments haven't found it - when will they throw in the towel on this one?
#29
Cold water is just as effective as warm water for washing hands.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
Depends on the quality of dish soap you're using. The soap is the key.
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Sonja 1 year ago
That's because it's only true if you limit the settings for the study. If we only look at how water cleans off dirt, especially in combination with soap, this is true. But a second study done where participants touched a petri dish after washing their hands with warm and cold water still showed that people washing with cold water tend to have more pathogens on their hands. That's because we're human and washing your hands with cold water is uncomfortable especially for children and old people even painful. So they hurry to get away from that uncomfortable sensation and won't clean their hands as thoroughly as they would if the water was warm. If we want to determine the effectiveness of any given procedure to fulfil its intent, we can't cut the procedure into pieces and only watch certain parts. We have to look at the final outcome in a realistic setting and take the most common external factors into consideration. If we do so, cold water does lower the effectiveness of hand washing.
Scotira 1 year ago
You also have the other side. When contaminated with radioactive material you should never wash with warm water as the warm water opens the pores of the skin. The contaminated materials then can enter the skin more easily and thus take longer to get rid of. So I agree we should choose the temperature depending on the desired outcome.
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SM 1 year ago
I think this one really came from when talking about washing your hands for prevent diseases. The reason that the water temperature does not matter for this use is because there is no way you can stand hot enough water to kill any germs. For other cleaning purposes, the temperature of the water certainly can matter.
Data1001 1 year ago
When I was a kid, I couldn't stand using hot or even warm water to wash my hands. Had to be cold. Now I'm just the opposite.
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#30
The levels of crazy my kids can reach after having a marshmallow, or any junk food for that matter, makes me not believe that sugar doesn’t cause hyperactivity.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
Expectation bias. The perception of hyperactivity is solely that of the parents & nothing to do with the children’s behaviors. Not to mention the environmental circumstances skewing perceptions.
majandess 1 year ago
My kid turns into a complete idiot if he has too many carbs - of any kind - without the protein and fat to balance it out. OMG. We call it flamingo-ing because he acts just like the flamingo croquet mallet that Alice uses in Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
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Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
As an elementary school teacher, I can confirm that your kids are probably acting crazy with or without sugar.
AlienatedCheeseStick 1 year ago
I think I read somewhere once that it was the excitement of having sugar that them hyper… though I’m probably wrong
Deeelite 1 year ago
You're right - its a treat so it makes them excited as opposed to being forced to eat broccoli or other vegetables
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
While I was in the county jail, all four of five of us in the infirmary had commissary money. After we shopped, we were all chowing down on junk food, and joking about sugar highs. The guards listening to the live feed heard "high" and we all got searched for d***s.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
Dr-u-gs? I hope you weren't being searched for penises! :)
Load More Replies... Kari Panda 1 year ago
What baffles me most about this belief: If it was true, why would it affect only children? Why would children go absolutely crazy from sugar and adults would not? Yes, children and adults are different and children react differently to certain foods, but even then adults should feel SOME affect from too much sugar. Take caffeine for comparison: It affects children negatively while many adults consume it frequently, but it absolutely does affect adults if they have too much of it.
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
Adults DO feel the effects of sugar. Our bodies get an energy spike and then a dip after ingesting sugar. But our bodies are way bigger than kids' bodies, so we would need to eat an entire cake to receive the same energy spike that kids get from a single slice. This is why the whole "sugar doesn't make kids hyper" camp annoys me so much. There is documented evidence that sugar has an effect on adults, so why would kids be immune?
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There are some kids that have faster blood sugar drops than others after eating refined sugar. The resulting bodily response make them hyper. I was one. I ended up with hypoglycemia at age 26 and at age 69 I still have to avoid sugar unless its absorption is slowed down by being with other food.
Spannidandoolar 1 year ago (edited)
I don't believe this one, my kids get we have come to call a "post dinner high", bouncing off the walls like mad things. It makes no difference whether or not there is pudding after
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
My fiance, an adult man, will not sit still anymore after he's eaten chocolate or sweets, and he will become very unfocused. That doesn't happen when he eats other things. I am certain he gets a sugar rush
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
He does, there is lots of evidence showing that energy levels in adults spike after sugar consumption. I don't understand why people think kids are immune to that
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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
It’s also about the event surrounding sugar consumption: birthdays, parties, holidays, etc.
#31
That Kraft Free Singles are even cheese.
Phil 1 year ago
I love all kinds of cheeses. It seems to me that folks who poo-poo American cheese do so because they are trying to look sophisticated. Yes, it isn't cheese. But it isn't cheese in the same way that something made from cheese, like a rarebit sauce, isn't cheese anymore. It is cheddar cheese combined with milk and emulsifiers so that it melts evenly.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Hey picture is no doubt from France, looks like (a part of) a regular cheese section in any french shop. But what the hell is Kraft Free Singles ??
Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
A kind of light "cheese" for burgers. I too noticed the French supermarket pic. American customer would be baffled to see European diet.
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LooseSeal's $10 Banana 1 year ago
They're not free either. That's the last time I try to walk out of the Krogers with cheese in my pocket.
#32
The fact that, in the entire history of humanity, it is likely that the same arrangement of a (fairly) shuffled standard deck of 52 cards has ever come together twice, and probably never will.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
because the odds are 52! (52 factorial) which is 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 ... all the way to ... x 3 x 2 x 1. It comes out to be 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000, which is a very large number... :)
#33
Not really "refuse to believe", more "having a really hard time to wrap my head around it": The survival of the human race (especially in relation to how time- and work intensive our reproduction is.) I know amazing leaps were done in fertility treatment, reproduction medicine and infant care! Yet, at it's core, it's still the same process: the offspring has to be grown for (roughly) 40 weeks, inside a female body. It takes hours, sometimes even days, of heavy pain to birth the offspring. And even when that's done, human babies are 100% helpless and dependant on someone, for a good while. Sometimes, one even just "forgets how to breathe" and dies. Somehow we still managed to grow in population by...a hell of a lot. It boggles my mind, how biology hasn't found a safer, less time and work intensive way for us to reproduce, yet our population exploded.
Wax0nWax0ff 1 year ago
Having clean water annd enough to eat along with modern medicine and hygiene practices helped a lot.
Daniela Lavanza 1 year ago
"human babies are 100% helpless and dependant on someone, for a good while. " There's a reason for that: humans are born earlier than other species because of evolution. If babies were to be delivered at a time they are autonomous like some other species, the head would be too big for the mother's body. Our growing brain caused this phenomenon. BTW there are other species which give birth to fragile and dependent babies: kangaroos, pandas, most birds...
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
Humans have only been around for fewer than a million years. Evolution reacted to our increasing brain size by simply shoving us out of the womb earlier, which is closer to a behavioural change than a physical one. This is why human infants are so useless for so long - we aren't fully developed when we're born. Physical changes take a LOT longer than that, though. This kind of thought come from people thinking we are somehow "done" evolving
Paul Brown 1 year ago
Look how many years a child is dependent on a grown adult to survive as compared to other mammals and other species.
HurlWurk 1 year ago
The other way around. We are as complex as we are because we have taken massive extra risks to develope in this way, while animals have to streamline the birth process to be as fast as possible at making the offspring viable on it's own. If we improved the process as you suggest, we would be less intelligent as a result.
EarthGrowl 1 year ago
That is one of the things that convinced me that the Universe takes an active interest in humanity. Starting from the 250,000 years since Mitochondrial Eve, humans probably could not have survived without divine intervention. Humans are stupid and the really smart ones are rare. This doesn't mean any religion is "The Right" religion. Religion changes and evolves as civilization advances. You can stick a Divine Universal Creator in 13.8 billion years ago. It's also possible the Earth itself and the Universe are both conscious Beings.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
If there *were* a Creator, they'd have to be pretty lousy at it to have created *us*. Personally, i think God is a committee - that explains why nothing ever gets done...
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Pin hole cameras. It just blows my tiny mind.
grumski grumling 1 year ago (edited)
A pinhole camera is a simple type of camera that doesn't use a lens. Instead, it has a small hole, or pinhole, which lets light through onto photosensitive material, like film or digital sensor, to create an image. You can even use a cardboard box to make one
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We made these in grade school. Not realizing it was an assignment, my dad agreed to buy me a real camera after helping me make a pinhole camera.
#35
The area from which the optic nerve leaves the brain is called 'The Blind Spot'. There is no image formed in this area. Yet we see the world accurately beacuse of the brains ability to fill in this accurately. This is mindbowing (pun intended) especially considering the accuracy to which the brain is doing this.
Ace 1 year ago
I remember as a kid doing a simple experiment to show this.. now how did it go again? Oh hey, HEY! it still works! Just close one eye and wave a finger about randomly and suddenly you'll find a spot where the fingertip disappears. About 20 degrees off to the right or left of the respective eye, roughly level. Of course when both eyes are open the brain compensates, so we're not generally aware of it.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
False. The part where the optic nerve leaves the retina, not the brain, is the blind spot. There are no photoreceptors there,
Cathelijne Van 1 year ago (edited)
I always thought you see it accurately because you have two eyes and they are placed 10 cm apart. You can test/find your blind spot though and that's kind of neat. https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/what-to-know-blind-spots-scotoma
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
One minor quibble - our brain doesn't fill this in accurately. It fills it in with an approximation based on what is nearby, but it can (and does) accidentally eliminate small details that are present
#36
Sail boats can go faster than the wind blows. 25 knot winds? The boat can go 30+ knots with just the sail power alone.
Mark 1 year ago
Actually, no. To go faster than the wind you need a centreboard or keel that works as an underwater sail, to intersect with the wind-powered sail. This is why racing boats can go faster than the wind, but 16th century shipping boats couldn't even get close
Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
They cannot go faster than the wind when they get the wind from behind, but they can when they get the wind from side.
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#37
That we, as women don't "sync up" with other females in regular close proximity.
LillieMean 1 year ago
In my opinion, this topic has not been studied sufficiently and widely enough, because in the world of science/medicine, researching women has been perceived as difficult precisely because of hormonal activity. According to research, during the menstrual cycle, a woman secretes two different pheromones. The more recognized one is secreted during ovulation, but another pheromone is secreted after menstruation. Why couldn't these affect the menstrual cycles of women who live together or spend time together closely, if they don't use hormonal contraception.
Ace 1 year ago
Why couldn't they? Well, no reason I know of, but that's what we'd call the null hypotheses. Just because there's no known reason something can't happen doesn't mean that it can or des happen. You need to find some evidence that it does rather than just finding no evidence that it does not.
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Jj321 1 year ago
I am not convinced. My periods were regular, every 29 days. Then my 12 year old started hers. Her 2nd cycle, I started 2 days after her, a whole week early. She had had her period a year now and it has been my most unpredictable year of my life.
Astro 1 year ago
My twin and I always had our periods at the same time in high school until we moved away from each other. Not sure what to believe honestly!
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ChimeraBubbles 1 year ago (edited)
Lived with my sister until we were in our early twenties (six years just the two of us in a flat together) and we never once synced up. Neither of us synced up with our mum either. Maybe it happens to some women but I'm convinced it's confirmation bias and not scientifically real.
#38
That a regulation basketball hoop is 18 inches in diameter and can (almost) fit two NBA basketballs at the same time. I swear the hoops I play at are way smaller and it's not because I suck at basketball.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
You realize how good nba players are when you try by yourself without any opponents and still failed a lot.
#39
I’m not a creationist or deny evolution but where do platypuses fit in the evolutionary trees? Then you add in the idea that birds evolved to fly seems far fetched. Like you’re telling me, an egg laying duck that lactates milk then swims in the water evolved that way? I don’t think so buddy.
Paul Macdonell 1 year ago
Recent scientific breakthroughs have proven that a millennia ago there was a party that an Otter and a Duck were both invited. There was soft music, some slow dancing and lots of alcohol ......well something happened....
David Paterson 1 year ago
It's interesting to look at the fossils of ancient platypuses and fossils of ancient echidnas. The bones of the platypus bill have got wider with time and those of the echidna beak have got narrower with time, and it's pretty obvious that both evolved from the same structure. Keep in mind that ancestral mammals were around before the stegosaurus was, so the real miracle is that they look so similar these days.
Peter H 1 year ago
The mental shift that helped me was understanding that even though we use the WORD "evolve" to mean "improve over time" or "optimize" and the "simple version" of the idea of evolution is that over time involves improvement, the simple fact is that it's really all about "what works well enough." Yes, if an organism isn't well-enough adapted, it's going to die out, or the small percentage with an advantage will be the only ones to survive to breed. But if a species is good enough for the conditions, it's good enough, and isn't going to change, even if it's awkward or funny looking, or whatever. The platypus "fits in" because nothing has caused it (yet) to die out. The incremental changes along the way "worked" in the sense that they didn't make it untenable. No actual scientist is going to claim that they're in any way "ideal" but there the are.
PattyK 1 year ago
Current thinking is that birds did not evolve to fly. The original purpose of wings was temperature control. Then as the wings evolved, flight became possible. I would guess that the first bird to be blown into the air was pretty — er — surprised.
John George 1 year ago
Not as surprised as the first person to hear a parrot speak.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 1 year ago
I don't know why it's so hard to believe. There is evidence of platypus-like animals from about 120 million years ago, showing that it hasn't changed a whole heap in that that time because it's evolutionally sound (like sharks, or dragonfly). Besides, we've got (and had) much weirder looking animals. If it had feathers, nobody would have a problem with it! One evolutionary trait swapped out for fur and now all of a sudden It DoEsNt MaKe SeNsE!! Also DNA analysis shows an avian AND reptilian relation. Where might we see that in history I wonder... It's a freaking dinosaur that developed fur!
Paul Brown 1 year ago
The platypus is one of the strangest mammals ever.! Like, what? How does this even happen. What is the thing that they descended from?
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
Yeah, nah - just shows god has a sense of humor - also got tired of figuring out how to make everything taste different, hence so many things just taste like chicken... :)
#40
That cutting 'young' & soft body hair does not necessarily make them grow back hard. It's usually the tip which is now blunt is what's making it feel rough.
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
As usual there are many "scientifically proven facts" that are absolutely not true in this Bored Panda journalist's copy/paste exercise.
The wee giant 1 year ago
At least we're not the only ones doing it. I saw on reddit yesterday that someone posted a meme from bored panda
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David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
I refuse to believe the Banach-Tarski theorem. That it is possible to cut a sphere of volume V into four pieces that can be reassembled to make two spheres each with volume V. In other words, the mathematical theorem that 3-D volume is not conserved. An extreme example is that it's possible to cut a sphere the size of a pea into a finite number of pieces that can be reassembled to make a solid sphere the size of the Sun. No friggin' way.
DB 1 year ago
I refuse to believe that anything you ever posted here was worth reading.
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T. 1 year ago
The most recent that blew my mind is: There is no truth. It is a concept we all agree upon due to similar perception. Laws of physics may seem "true", but they're a product of human perception, therefore an agreed upon concept.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
So gravity is just an “agreed upon concept”? If we all decided tomorrow that gravity wasn’t “true,” it would cease to exist?
Load More Replies... Mark 1 year ago
For me, the whole fabric of spacetime is completely incomprehensible. So spacetime is a 3d plane that changes time depending on where you are? and this explains gravity somehow?
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
I always liked the explanation that it's like if some people were holding a bedsheet nice and tight, and someone else put a bowling ball in the middle, the flung a marble past the bowling ball. The marble would spiral in toward the ball, and if friction weren't a thing it would just keep going around and around (orbit). And that marble also puts a dent in the sheet (albeit much smaller), and a tiny little ball bearing might orbit that. How time plays into that, though, I have no god damned idea lol
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soro doeth 1 year ago
These posts should have an entirely different title."scientific theories that are hard to believe" or something.This one creates expectations about a list of interesting facts.Misleading.
majandess 1 year ago
Dragons don't exist, but dinosaurs do. Dinosaurs are just scientifically approved dragons.
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
I mean, there are a few key differences between dinosaurs and dragons, one being that dinosaurs didn't breathe fire (because, like, come on), and the other being that dinosaurs didn't fly. Depictions of dragons with wings all have WAY too small a wing span to be able to lift their bodies off the ground. Even bees, which are barely able to fly, have wings that are roughly the size of their bodies, but dragons are depicted with wings significantly smaller than their bodies.
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Duncan Rogers 1 year ago
Its kind of sad the number of people who feel the need to correct any of these posts. So often it doesn't sound like a "hey I think they might have gotten this a bit wrong" but does sound much more like "I know more about this than the writer and by God I'm going to set that idiot straight". The tone of arrogance in some of those posts is gross. Definitely some people I would never want to meet.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
As usual there are many "scientifically proven facts" that are absolutely not true in this Bored Panda journalist's copy/paste exercise.
The wee giant 1 year ago
At least we're not the only ones doing it. I saw on reddit yesterday that someone posted a meme from bored panda
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
I refuse to believe the Banach-Tarski theorem. That it is possible to cut a sphere of volume V into four pieces that can be reassembled to make two spheres each with volume V. In other words, the mathematical theorem that 3-D volume is not conserved. An extreme example is that it's possible to cut a sphere the size of a pea into a finite number of pieces that can be reassembled to make a solid sphere the size of the Sun. No friggin' way.
DB 1 year ago
I refuse to believe that anything you ever posted here was worth reading.
Load More Replies... T. 1 year ago
The most recent that blew my mind is: There is no truth. It is a concept we all agree upon due to similar perception. Laws of physics may seem "true", but they're a product of human perception, therefore an agreed upon concept.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
So gravity is just an “agreed upon concept”? If we all decided tomorrow that gravity wasn’t “true,” it would cease to exist?
Load More Replies... Mark 1 year ago
For me, the whole fabric of spacetime is completely incomprehensible. So spacetime is a 3d plane that changes time depending on where you are? and this explains gravity somehow?
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
I always liked the explanation that it's like if some people were holding a bedsheet nice and tight, and someone else put a bowling ball in the middle, the flung a marble past the bowling ball. The marble would spiral in toward the ball, and if friction weren't a thing it would just keep going around and around (orbit). And that marble also puts a dent in the sheet (albeit much smaller), and a tiny little ball bearing might orbit that. How time plays into that, though, I have no god damned idea lol
Load More Replies... soro doeth 1 year ago
These posts should have an entirely different title."scientific theories that are hard to believe" or something.This one creates expectations about a list of interesting facts.Misleading.
majandess 1 year ago
Dragons don't exist, but dinosaurs do. Dinosaurs are just scientifically approved dragons.
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
I mean, there are a few key differences between dinosaurs and dragons, one being that dinosaurs didn't breathe fire (because, like, come on), and the other being that dinosaurs didn't fly. Depictions of dragons with wings all have WAY too small a wing span to be able to lift their bodies off the ground. Even bees, which are barely able to fly, have wings that are roughly the size of their bodies, but dragons are depicted with wings significantly smaller than their bodies.
Load More Replies... Duncan Rogers 1 year ago
Its kind of sad the number of people who feel the need to correct any of these posts. So often it doesn't sound like a "hey I think they might have gotten this a bit wrong" but does sound much more like "I know more about this than the writer and by God I'm going to set that idiot straight". The tone of arrogance in some of those posts is gross. Definitely some people I would never want to meet.
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