Quirky Science Facts!

[Michaelangelica]

That's a good thought.

 

Although, we could do some genetic engineering on these unpriviliged citizens.

Now that remark is gonna send me to a padded cell.

I am assuming your joking, but maybe not. . .mm

 

I have been told by an orthomolecular specialist, Dr. Chris Reading, that if you take the mother and child off wheat Downs syndrome children will not develop retardation.

Dr. Reading is a pariah of the Psychiatric Establishment here so that view is not accepted.

Though, at the same time, (10-15 years ago) he told me the same thing about Autistic kids and latest thinking is that about10% of Autistic kids can be cured by a wheat free diet.

[Buffy]

If you take a bucket of wine and dump it in the ocean and "mix well" the probability that any bucket sample from ocean water taken anywhere else on earth has at least one molecule of that wine is a virtual certainty!

 

Why? Because there are [math]10^{\small21}[/math] buckets of water in all the oceans and [math]10^{\small 25}[/math] molecules in that bucket, so "mixed well enough" its fer shure!

 

Odds are I'm odd,

Buffy

 

* Source: June 06 Discover Mag

[Michaelangelica]

If you take a bucket of wine and dump it in the ocean and "mix well" the probability that any bucket sample from ocean water taken anywhere else on earth has at least one molecule of that wine is a virtual certainty!

* Source: June 06 Discover Mag

 

Does water from the Northern Hemisphere mix with water from the southern?

 

I don't think air does much. Does it?.:rolleyes:

 

I love Buffy.:shrug:

Such a great script ( I miss the soto voce asides sometimes -bit deaf and the yank accent is sometimes hard- but they are the best bits)

It's wonderfull that the meetings all take place where no-one else visits-the school library, very funny)

I NEED to see the musical episode!!:naughty:

[ronthepon]

There are more nematohelminthes(did I spell that right?) belonging creatures(a.k.a. roundworms) in one square mile of soil (on an average) than there are humans in the entire world!!

 

Now who hates worms?

[Boerseun]

Farting in a wetsuit causes unpredictable buoyancy issues. If the fart travels down your leg, you might start floating with a nose-down attitude, which might be uncomfortable, but maybe better in the grand shceme of things.

[Michaelangelica]

There are more nematohelminthes(did I spell that right?) belonging creatures(a.k.a. roundworms) in one square mile of soil (on an average) than there are humans in the entire world!!

 

Now who hates worms?

 

Fascinating. I mostly like worms but. .

I had nematodes in my first ever garden.

Plants had big knobs on the roots and wouldn't grow.

(The soil was devoid of organic matter).

 

I was told the only solution was to fumigate the soil with chemicals.

Fortunately I found an old Rodale Organic Gardening magazine which suggested heavy mulching and a liberal sprinkling of sugar.

It worked!

 

I later found out that I was creating an environment for a nematode predator. A yeast like organism that lassoed them and ate them. yumo

Gruesome place a garden

 

I have never had problems since with many years of gardening.:rolleyes:

 

I had no idea the little buggers were so numerous.

Now where did I put the sugar. . .

:hihi:

 

http://www.ento.csiro.au/anic/nematoda.html

Nematodes are the most abundant and ubiquitous multicellular organisms on earth. They are found from the bottom of the deepest ocean to near the tops of the highest mountains, from the tropics to polar regions, and from every conceivable habitat. Nematodes are also found in or on most other types of organisms as parasites, commensals or phoretics: everything from earthworms, insects, molluscs, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals to humans. In fact it is said that if everything on the earth were to disappear except the nematodes, an observer in space would see a ghostly shadow of the earth and its inhabitants - the land, mountains, lakes and oceans, the plants and the animals would all be outlined by the nematodes living in great numbers in every habitat. In soils and sediments there are about 1 to 10 million per square metre, but abundance may range from 0 to 50 million. (The only soils with no nematodes are grossly polluted or poisoned, and devoid of all life). Nematodes are so abundant that if all the nematodes on earth were laid end-to-end, they would reach Alpha Centauri - AND BACK. Not bad for animals only 1 mm long!

 

Estimates of the number of species range from 100 000 to over 1 000 000. In Australia, about 1 000 named species are known, but this represents only a few percent of the total.

 

Some nematodes attack plants, the roots, the stem, the leaves, mostly using a hypodermic-like stylet to pierce the plant cells. Some of these transmit plant viruses, while others cause galls on the plant, and others burrow into the plant, and often carry pathogenic fungi. Examples include the Root Knot Nematodes and Stubby Root Nematodes whose names indicate their effects on plants. These and other plant-parasitic nematodes cause annual crop losses estimated at $400 million in Australia and over $2 billion in the world.

[ronthepon]

Farting in a wetsuit causes unpredictable buoyancy issues. If the fart travels down your leg, you might start floating with a nose-down attitude, which might be uncomfortable, but maybe better in the grand shceme of things.

 

What?!

 

And what if we have big bubbles coming up?:)

[Michaelangelica]

Farting in a wetsuit causes unpredictable buoyancy issues. If the fart travels down your leg, you might start floating with a nose-down attitude, which might be uncomfortable, but maybe better in the grand shceme of things.

You have to be pulling my leg.:shade:

[Michaelangelica]

I love this thread.

I have that sort of mind.:):eek2:

 

"The first known appearance of noodles was about 4,000 years, in north-western China, on a terrace on the upper reaches of the Yellow River. The archaeologists call it the Lajia Neolithic settlement. The evidence seems to show that a huge earthquake, and later catastrophic flooding, destroyed the settlement. In the debris, the archaeologists found a prehistoric bowl of noodles, upside down, under three metres of clay sediment. The noodles were sitting in the small air gap on top of the clay that almost filled the upside down bowl. Dr. Houyuan Lu, from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, writes, "The noodles were thin (about 0.3 cm diameter), delicate, more than 50 cm in length and yellow in colour. They resemble the La-Mian noodle, a traditional noodle that is made by repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand."

 

His team found that the noodles were made from the cereal, millet."

Source:-

http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1631654.htm

[Michaelangelica]

Farting in a wetsuit causes unpredictable buoyancy issues. If the fart travels down your leg, you might start floating with a nose-down attitude, which might be uncomfortable, but maybe better in the grand shceme of things.

 

Remember YOU started it !:ebaskbal:

 

The Great Fart Survey!

http://www.abc.net.au/spark/smelly/fartsurvey/default.htm

 

Aussie kids fart about 24 times a day – which is about twice as often as the books say, and that's not counting when they’re asleep! Shame it’s not an Olympic event.

 

The most common farts were the aptly named Common Fart (25%), followed by our old friend the Silent but Deadly (23%). The least common fart was the Squirter – but that still happened a scary 7% of the time.

 

And then there is the fart game

http://www.abc.net.au/spark/smelly/fartgame/default.htm

[Racoon]

What fiberous mineral is found naturally in amosite, crocidolite, and tremolite??

 

A: Asbestos.

[Queso]

Everything is balanced.

[ronthepon]

Some tires of cars running through the roads of thar desert have been temperature measured to discover that they were practically melting hot, at a 125 degrees centigrade!

 

Now that's an easy way of cooking your food on the move...

[Michaelangelica]

Some tires of cars running through the roads of thar desert have been temperature measured to discover that they were practically melting hot, at a 125 degrees centigrade!

 

Now that's an easy way of cooking your food on the move...

In Outback Australia you just fry your eggs on the bonnet:)

[Michaelangelica]

One of the many remakable things about the penis is that it contains no fat.

No mater how much weight he gains, a man cannot make his penis one millimeter larger.!

Wishful thinking doesn't help either.

:)

Source

"The Wisdom of The Body" Sherwin B. Nuland

[Turtle]

One of the many remakable things about the penis is that it contains no fat.

Another remarkable phallic phack is that people never tire of talking about the penis.

Source

Phallacies of the Penis

by

Thelonious Templeton George

[Michaelangelica]

The Orchid family - Orchidaceae - is the most numerous family of the flower plants . It stands for more than 25000 species worldwide.

 

The scientific noun of the family derives from the Greek term Orchis, which means testicle.