Every single one of us is travelling through space on a tiny speck of dirt, circling a permanent explosion that doesn’t know how to stop itself at 30km/s.
That explosion and multiple specks of dirt besides our own dance around the center of the galaxy in a complex ballet with 200 billion other permanently exploding balls of fire and plasma, many of which are sizeably larger than ours and also have collected pieces of dirt circling around them, at a speed of 200km/s. The center of this agglomeration of giant balls of fire and dirt is a… thing… that is in itself so massive it can’t help eating everything that comes near including suns, light, and the concept of time.And there, travelling around the center of the galaxy at 200km/s, spiraling around your sun at 30km/s, there is you. And somehow you have to work tomorrow.
I was thinking about putting a reference to that in, but decided it would be a bit trite.
So full of it. I don’t work on Saturday.
How does get grants for this type of research? Asking for a friend.
wait they should make special ones that are like a squeaky toy and squeak when you squeeze them i would get those that would be really funny
Could be risky. My dog loves tearing out the squeaker things from anything that has one.
That would be like having sex with Wimp Lo from Kung Pow.
Except nobody’s gonna bang Wimp Lo.
And yet… He’s still the winner
You could fuck him wrong… As a joke.
basically what i did right after making that comment except i used a rubber duck
I like the cut of your jib.
Right, just like bags of sand
Some fun geography one’s.
Maine is the closest US state to Africa.
Alaska is the northern most, Western most, and Eastern most state in the US.My favorite geography one: You get on a plane on Tampa Bay, Florida and fly due south. Which South American countries do you fly over?
Answer is none of them. You miss the entire continent because you are too far west.
It’s close, though. IIRC, you can’t say the same thing about Miami.
My favorite geography fact is that, if you’re on the northern edge of Brazil, you’re actually closer to Canada than you are to the southern border of Brazil.
My favourite geography fact is that when traveling along the Panama canal from the Caribbean sea to the Pacific, you’re further east when you exit than when you entered.
That’s a great one.
Makes me think of Texas. Only 1/3 of my trip is getting to Texas. 2/3 is trying to get to where my family is at lol
Explain plz 😧
For the Alaska one, the Aleutian Islands extend beyond the 180° line of longitude, placing the tip of them within the eastern hemisphere.
The Alaska one North and West are obvious, but there are some islands that cross the date line, making them technically east.
Someone else posted a graphic, but basically Maine is significantly farther east which cancels out the North/South difference of other states.
It basically just boils down to the earth isn’t flat. So something like this
You can see where the pacific ocean meets the atlanic ocean
In Panama?
Nope. Out in the open ocean
You can also see where the Baltic Sea meets the North Sea. Waves are rolling in from two directions.
EDIT: Looking further into this, the Kiel Canal which connects Baltic and North Sea is by some metric the world’s busiest canal. TIL!
The word “exosphere” was proposed by Lyman Spitzer to designate the outer part of a planetary atmosphere, defined as the region where the density is low enough to describe it as a collisionless region. Since the beginning of the space era, it was discovered that the major neutral constituent of Earth’s exosphere is atomic hydrogen, and Shklovsky (1959) coined the word “geocorona” to designate the H component of the exosphere.
I didn’t read the whole paper obviously but this part makes it sound like you’re talking about the exosphere in which, by definition, there might be more gas molecules than elsewhere but few enough that they’re unlikely to run into them, or they’re unlikely to run into each other maybe IDK.
Obviously, if there was a significant atmosphere the moon would experience atmospheric drag and would fall to earth.
Obviously, if there was a significant atmosphere the moon would experience atmospheric drag and would fall to earth.
Would it?
The Moon is slowly drifting further away because Earth’s rotation is significantly faster than the lunar orbit. Some of Earth’s rotational energy is bled into the lunar orbit, causing it to increase in height, which in turn lowers its orbital period.
If there was a significant atmosphere for Earth at that height, you’d think it would actually give the Moon a boost
Everything about fecal transplant. Or maybe just the fact that it is even a legitimate medical procedure
“You want my thesis? I hate college!! My thesis is going to be about taking a SHIT up your ASS!”
(Four years later)
“Wow, Mr. Blake! The results of your medical trial were astounding! These are excellent results!”
“Wait…huh?”Not fun fact: That’s how I became lactose intolerant
That really is a shitshow, indeed.
If you rub two creatures together just right you get another creature of mostly the same type a little bit later.
What is this Pokemon shit doing in my science?? /s
What is this shit science doing in my pokemon!?
Hey you got your Pokemon in my science!
Time being a physical dimension in spacetime that can stretch and squish and ‘now’ isn’t the same for every observer is probably the least intuitive one I know
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey
For one hour each year, part of Florida and part of Oregon have the exact same time on their clocks.
Sharks have existed long enough as a species to have orbited the entire Milky Way Galaxy - twice.
Sharks have existed long enough as a species to have orbited the entire Milky Way Galaxy - twice.
Now that’s cool.
Worth pointing out that this is the shark lineage and not modern sharks. Sharks have evolved a lot over the last several hundred million years
In the same sense, jellyfish are older than sharks, and sponges are the oldest still-extant animal lineage. Or just sounds cooler to say sharks
no it’s this one named gary and he’s a dick. you know, mean shark gary?
I don’t understand the clock one.
The shark fact is impressive though. I like to tell folks that the galaxy is so big that the solar system hasn’t even made 1/4 of an orbit since the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Might add some perspective.
Nitpick: there are many speciea of shark so maybe you meant taxonomic genus or family.
Well the specifics are the lineage which includes sharks, we found stuff that might be sharks but hard to prove are definitely sharks that’s 450 million years old (fossil sharklike scales)
And, this is copypaste from Snopes:
The earliest known fossil evidence of sharks (or their ancestors) are “shark-like scales” that date back to 450 million years ago, according to the National History Museum in London. However, whether these scales adorned “true sharks” or “shark-like animals” is an issue debated by the scientific community.
Nonetheless, scientists largely agree that, according to DNA evidence, living sharks, rays, and deep-sea fish called chimeras likely began evolving around 420 million years ago.
I don’t understand the clock one.
Part of the western Florida panhandle (WFP) is on Central time. Part of southeastern Oregon (SEO) is on Mountain time. That puts them one hour apart.
In the fall, when we go back into Standard Time, when the clock hits 2am, you flip the clock back to 1am.
So, during a normal night, WFP would be at 2am and SEO would be 1am. But on the night the time changes, WFP hits 2am and immediately flips their clocks back to 1am - which means that, for one hour a year (until SEO hits 2am and flips their clocks back), part of Florida and part of Oregon’s clocks are showing the exact same time.
I kinda struggled over how to word this - they’re not in the same time zone, but for this one hour they might as well be.
Wouldn’t they be aligned twice per year?
I think when it flips the other way they get an extra hour further apart.
Ah okay, I get it now. You explained that perfectly, thanks! That’s a good weird geography fact.
Sharks are so old that I’ve seen other comparisons, had never seen the milky way one before, that’s very interesting, the other ones I knew is that sharks are older than:
- The rings of Saturn
- Trees
So when sharks first evolved Saturn had no rings and trees didn’t exist yet.
Sharks also predate basically all big recognizable surface geology features on earth. They’re way older than the Grand Canyon or the Himalayas. It kind of makes sense once you realize they date back to the Pangea supercontinent.
Also, biologically modern humans are much older than Niagara Falls.
Also, biologically modern humans are much older than Niagara Falls.
To be fair, that’s only about 140 years.
when sharks first evolved Saturn had no rings
Or at least, didn’t have its current rings. I could be wrong but couldn’t it have torn apart other moons to create a different set of rings that then degraded over time?
Trees are 385 million years old. Sharks are 200 million years old. Trees still out-date sharks.
Sharks preceding trees is 🤯
CORRECTION!!
“Shark” is not a species. A whaleshark is a species. A tigershark is a species. “Shark”, representing multiple species of shark, is a division, specifically the Selachii division.
The Selachii division is 200 million years old. One galactic year for Sol is 225 million years old. This means that sharks, as we know them, have not existed as a division for two galactic years, barely even for one! Horshoe crabs have been around for 250 million years nearly completely unchanged by evolution, so they have been around for one galactic year… But nobody ever seems to talk about them…
Officially, what came before sharks are classified as a different division with “shark-like morphology”, but they aren’t sharks.
Sharks have existed for longer than the North Star, though. So there’s that.
The oldest fossils known are stromatolite fossils from 3.48 billion years ago. There are living stromatolites today. They predate Earth having significant oxygen in its atmosphere, because the cyanobacteria that formed them created the oxygen gas through photosynthesis from carbon dioxide. They’ve orbited the galaxy over fifteen times.
I don’t see it.
They are older than trees. The very concept of treen.
Trees are 385 million years old. Sharks are 200 million years old. Trees still out-date sharks.
Although… Trees have evolved multiple times in Earth’s history… So sharks are certainly older than certain trees. But not older than the whole tree concept thing.
They’re older than the North Star
Trans people don’t have advantage in sports
also men aren’t inherently stronger than women. the sex segregation in sports is purely sectarian
That is an interesting one.
I recall many years a group arm wrestle competition we all got into.
Men and women, we were all having fun.
Without exception, every single guy beat every single woman. And usually easily.
I’m genuinely surprised by your statement.
I also do pilates regularly. I’m a pretty avg size guy. I’m higher in strength setups (springs, angles, etc) than nearly everyone there, except the other men.
Where are you seeing what you’re describing?
It’s almost like cultural factors discourage most women from growing muscle, but encourages men to gain muscles
But that would be impossible
I would say the women in my class are incredibly strong. They have excellent muscle development, and compared to non fitness folk, are almost intimidating.
But, by and large, they’re not as strong as the men in the class for raw power.
It depends what you mean. Testosterone makes a difference. It improves blood oxygen levels and cardio capacity, and it increases strength (it’s a steroid).
And depending on the context, the difference is larger. Men tend to have stronger hand grip than women for example, to the extent, there is very little overlap. But if you look at leg strength, the distributions are different, but they overlap significantly. And when you start to look at things like long distance endurance events, the distributions are even closer.
However, none of those things align with “men” or “women”. They align with “the dominant sex hormone in your body”, and your capacity shifts as your sex hormones shift.
If you get methanol poisoning for example from badly made liquor then the remedy for that is to drink ethanol (good liquor).
Same with acetaminophen poisoning.
I always keep a bottle of medicinal vodka around.
Also glycol poisoning. Like if you drink antifreeze for your car, one treatment is to drink a bunch of alcohol so the liver processes the alcohol and not the ethelyne glycol.
thanks for the tip, now im less likely to be poisoned by an assassin.
Is this for real? Any links? Not doubting you but it’s always been a dark thought I can’t push away about accidentally drinking that stuff.
This one talks about injecting ethanol straight into the veins for quick absorption. https://scienceinsights.org/treating-ethylene-glycol-poisoning-antidotes-and-dialysis/
Or this one. Skip to “ethanol treatment” https://archive.cdc.gov/www_atsdr_cdc_gov/csem/ethylene-propylene-glycol/treatment.html
The average human being has (approximately) one testicle and one ovary.
and less than two arms!
Oh you fucke-
The average human has more than one brain
Hmmm. I don’t beleive this one. I know a lot more brainless people than I know multi-brain people.
Everything that’s made of atoms is 99.9999999% empty (if it is indeed correct, I don’t have much scientific knowledge)
https://medium.com/illumination/why-solid-matter-is-mostly-empty-space-03f42e95c03f
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Bonus fact. A significant amount of sea level rise due to climate change is caused by thermal expansion of the water.
There are over 100 volcanos on Antarctica
Active or dorment?
Active. Not immediately spewing lava, but they aren’t done.
Also, there’s warm liquid water lakes underneath parts of the antarctic ice as well. And they’re caused by geothermal vents, not global warming
I like this fact and as a geologist I’m a little numb to facts about the Earth. At some level, all land on Earth has a volcanic origin by virtue of us having a molten core, a rigid mantle, and a crusty crust that seeps magma/lava. Time metamorphoses and sediments the rock in different ways. Antarctica just had the misfortune of migrating to the South Pole where millions of years of snow fall lead to its icy encapsulation.
The good news is it’s all melting! Antarctica can be free!
