Totally Random Science Facts

[Archer93]

Thalidomide was once taken as a wonder drug.

It's still pretty good, as long as you aren't in the first two trimesters of pregnancy.

The universe is beige.

 

[Blayz]

Electron micrographs of maggots makes baby blayz cry

 

[Naraoia]

Electron micrographs of maggots makes baby blayz cry

May I give you one of a cute chubby tardigrade as consolation?

 

[MorkandMindy]

You mean those 8 leggers, about 1mm long, did 10 days in outer space and survived? Super Yuck.

 

[Naraoia]

You mean those 8 leggers, about 1mm long, did 10 days in outer space and survived? Super Yuck.

They are damn good, aren't they? Not to mention absolutely adorable.

 

[Supreme]

If you chew gum whilst cutting onions, you won't cry.

 

[MorkandMindy]

They are damn good, aren't they? Not to mention absolutely adorable.

Amazing, I thought 8 legger meant 'spider' but thanks to your recommendation I looked it up and found it exists as a parallel to the arthropods, and is also numerically successful though generally smaller so not as easily noticed.

But I still have to give an amazing random fact so here it is:


Single-celled life forms in total on Earth out-weigh all the multi-celled life forms

 

[MorkandMindy]

Before commercial whaling began there were approximately 340,000 Blue Whales in the ocean, a recent count came to 4,727





I guess science should be balanced with scripture:

Gen 9 v2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

 

[LifeToTheFullest!]

Amazing, I thought 8 legger meant 'spider' but thanks to your recommendation I looked it up and found it exists as a parallel to the arthropods, and is also numerically successful though generally smaller so not as easily noticed.

But I still have to give an amazing random fact so here it is:


Single-celled life forms in total on Earth out-weigh all the multi-celled life forms

Looks like bacteria own the earth!

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Before commercial whaling began there were approximately 340,000 Blue Whales in the ocean, a recent count came to 4,727

Blue whales are notoriously hard to track. A figure of 4,727 is suspiciously accurate; where did you get it? I think your source may be exagerrating Or possibly doing dodgy maths.

I guess science should be balanced with scripture:

I find the two mix like oil and water

Gen 9 v2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

So... we should eat whales to extinction?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Looks like bacteria own the earth!

They out-number us 50 to one in our own bodies. Bleh.

 

[Naraoia]

If you chew gum whilst cutting onions, you won't cry.

That one I feel obliged to test. Scientifically. If it works, you have my eternal gratitude.

Looks like bacteria own the earth!

Don't forget archaea! Everyone always forgets them Even though their abundance is comparable to, or even exceeds, that of bacteria in some habitats and ecological roles. (Papers in Nature Say So, HA!)

Also, they are huge contributors to global warming, if cow burp is the planet-destroying threat they say it is

 

[Blayz]

A bit of mouth breathing stops crying from onions, and that is what the gum chewing is doing.

New fact fresh in from last night: I can drink 3 pitchers of margarita and not get a hangover in the morning

Actual fact: A German company plans to sequence 100 000 human genomes by 2014

Ion Torrent, recently bought by Life Tech for $700m+, aims to build a sequencing machine that costs $10, and can sequence the human genome for $10 in 10 minutes.

 

[Naraoia]

A bit of mouth breathing stops crying from onions, and that is what the gum chewing is doing.

Mouth breathing doesn't seem to work for me, and I chew gum with a closed mouth

New fact fresh in from last night: I can drink 3 pitchers of margarita and not get a hangover in the morning

Three pitchers?

Actual fact: A German company plans to sequence 100 000 human genomes by 2014

Ion Torrent, recently bought by Life Tech for $700m+, aims to build a sequencing machine that costs $10, and can sequence the human genome for $10 in 10 minutes.

Hey, they could hurry up. Would make my PhD a lot easier. Not to mention cheaper!

 

[Wiccan_Child]

New fact fresh in from last night: I can drink 3 pitchers of margarita and not get a hangover in the morning

Come to England, we'll show you how to really drink

 

[Naraoia]

Come to England, we'll show you how to really drink

And how to get really hungover, too?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

And how to get really hungover, too?

That's the beauty of it. See, the world-renowned best cure for a hangover is (drum roll please) A FULL ENGLISH . Fried bread, sausages, mushroom, beans, bacon, egg, you'll be right as rain. Plus some hair of the dog helps it go down a treat

 

[pgp_protector]

Electron micrographs of maggots makes baby blayz cry

Just Maggots?

 

[pgp_protector]

They out-number us 50 to one in our own bodies. Bleh.

So I'm not fat

 

[pgp_protector]

And how to get really hungover, too?

Only time I really had a hangover was when I first had Soju