The Appalachian Mountains are older than trees.
Sharks are older than The North Star
Like the sharks swimming right now
Nah, just the same branch, the generic term like how Homo Neanderthalis is in the generic group of “Human”
Well… some
speciesdivisions live for hundreds of years. So there may be some swimming around older than when some younger countries were founded.
traveling back in time is not mathematically disallowed by the general relativity.
in fact there is a lot of work done on the topic, and lots of potential scenarios proposed (which usually involve describing the space-time warped into weird 4D shapes). what GR does tell you is what kind of matter/energy would produce such spaces (since in GR these two are intertwined), and that’s kind of where common sense works again: most proposed geometries do require either negative energy densities or mathematical singularities (which to be fair are not impossible, but we kinda never seen that, aside from dark energy).
on the other hand – faster-than-light travel is also possible – albeit with similar constraints.
traveling back in time is not mathematically disallowed by the general relativity.
Moving mass backwards through time isn’t strictly mathematically disallowed. Idk what it’s going to look like when it arrives, though.
What does a Tachyon even look like?
i didn’t mean purely mathematically. but from the physics standpoint. in other words, if you provide enough dark energy and shape it into a specific configuration, it will generate space-time where time travel is possible in practice.
if you provide enough dark energy
“How much ya got?”
“Well, it’s a purely theoretical substance. But theoretically we’ve got more of that than all the regular energy in the known universe.”
and shape it into a specific configuration
I want to say that’ll be the easy part, but I guess it really depends how abstract of a shape we’re talking about and how malleable dark energy ends up being.
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.
So full of it. I don’t work on Saturday.
I was thinking about putting a reference to that in, but decided it would be a bit trite.
The average human being has (approximately) one testicle and one ovary.
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.
and less than two arms!
Oh you fucke-
Everything about fecal transplant. Or maybe just the fact that it is even a legitimate medical procedure
You know, as a society we look down on people who are into poo, but they really do be kind important tbh.
Not fun fact: That’s how I became lactose intolerant
“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?”That really is a shitshow, indeed.
Bloodletting is still a legitimate medical treatment, now called therapeutic phlebotomy.
Some medicines, like testosterone, can increase your hemoglobin or blood count, so donating blood is the fix for it.
Hemochromatosis, too. Body doesn’t eliminate iron so it can build up in organs, notably liver and kidneys.
The treatment is bloodletting. My wife wanted to get leeches. I settled for just donating 32 times in the first year after finding out. My ferritin count was 9 times the usual max for a man my age. My gallbladder fluid was carrying iron. I was Iron Man.
A leech tank would be pretty metal though. Like, imagine the medieval lord aura of leeching at a dinner party.
I have loaches, so we’re kinda close, like rhymingly.
And this is our mailbox.
And I do a lot of hardscaping with stone. So pretty medieval around here.
You’re a hero, Iron Man!
Testosterone, even when taken at supraphysiologic dosages, rarely causes erythrocytosis to an extent that therapeutic phlebotomy is necessary.
Other anabolic steroids, particularly Equipoise (aka Boldenone), increase red blood cell count significantly more than testosterone.
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.
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.
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.
Trees are 385 million years old. Sharks are 200 million years old. Trees still out-date sharks.
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.
Sharks preceding trees is 🤯
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?
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?
Sharks have existed long enough as a species to have orbited the entire Milky Way Galaxy - twice.
Now that’s cool.
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 species 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.
Ah okay, I get it now. You explained that perfectly, thanks! That’s a good weird geography fact.
It’s not as impressive because Florida is further east, but the four Michigan counties that border Wisconsin experience the same thing.
Wouldn’t they be aligned twice per year?
I think when it flips the other way they get an extra hour further apart.
They are older than trees. The very concept of trees.
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
Now that you mention it. The dinosaurs have not seen the North Star. Didn’t think of it.
I don’t see it.
If you get methanol poisoning for example from badly made liquor then the remedy for that is to drink ethanol (good liquor).
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
I saw on TV where a woman tried to poison her husband with antifreeze, but since it was mixed with alcohol it took him more than a week to die.
Same with acetaminophen poisoning.
There are more grains of sand on the planet Earth than there are stars in the solar system.
Our solar system? So, more than 1?
Yeah. It’s like saying what weights more, a KG of iron or a KG or feathers.
This only works when you speak 'MURICAN.
I saw a video a while back of a pair of young women in a car. Passenger says to driver how many miles do you drive if you’re driving 60mph, for one hour. She really couldn’t figure it out.
Stops and acceleration time are things.
That’s right, it’s a kilogramme of steel, because steel is heavier than feathers!
At standard temperature and pressure, the iron. You gave a unit of mass but asked which weighs more. The feathers are more buoyant. Both negatively buoyant in air of course, but the feathers less so.
Kg of iron. Iron is heavier than feathers
No, you see, they’re both a kilogram, Limmy.
If you’re not familiar with the flavors of quarks, they probably seem fake.
- Up
- Down
- Top
- Bottom
- Charm
- Strange
Of course they all have antimatter counterparts. But anti-up is not the same as a down quark, anti-top is not the same as a bottom quark, etc.
Top, looking for Strange
I do want to hear the story of the physicist when they got to making up the names for charm and just strange. I imagine many sleepless nights.
The quark flavors were given their names for several reasons. The up and down quarks are named after the up and down components of isospin, which they carry.[60] Strange quarks were given their name because they were discovered to be components of the strange particles discovered in cosmic rays years before the quark model was proposed; these particles were deemed “strange” because they had unusually long lifetimes.[61] Glashow, who co-proposed the charm quark with Bjorken, is quoted as saying, “We called our construct the ‘charmed quark’, for we were fascinated and pleased by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world.”[62] The names “top” and “bottom”, coined by Harari, were chosen because they are “logical partners for up and down quarks”.[41][42][61] Alternative names for top and bottom quarks are “truth” and “beauty”,[nb 4] but these names have somewhat fallen out of use.[66] While “truth” never did catch on, accelerator complexes devoted to massive production of bottom quarks are sometimes called “beauty factories”.
I bet it was a shitty placeholder name
dont they also have a different SPin too, im not a physics geek, but i did take some remedial astronomy/physics courses.
Yep, quarks are spin-1/2 particles. They also have electric charge and color charge (strong nuclear force).
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 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
My favorite geography one: You get on a plane at 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.
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.
It basically just boils down to the earth isn’t flat. So something like this
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.
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
Ethanol can help protect your liver from the damage an acetaminophen overdose causes.
You’d think that doubling up on liver harming substances would have an additive effect, but nope.
Similarly, ethanol can help protect you from the poisonous effects of methanol (wood alcohol). Methanol by itself isn’t actually harmful, but it gets broken down into harmful byproducts that will make you go blind and then kill you.
The enzyme responsible for breaking down methanol is also used to break down ethanol. And enzymes have a limited capacity for work. In other words, they can only break down a certain number of molecules at any given time. And the enzyme is more compatible with ethanol than methanol.
So if you suspect someone drank methanol, (it is a common ingredient in antifreeze), you should have them start taking shots. Pump them full of as much liquor as possible, as quickly as possible. Get them absolutely shitfaced ASAP, and keep them wasted until they get to the hospital. It will prevent the vast majority of the methanol from being broken down, which will prevent the actual poisoning from happening.
It’s ethylene glycol that’s commonly in antifreeze, but ethanol protects against that too. I believe methanol is common in windshield wiper fluid, though.
sounds like the modern automobile is a treasure trove of delicious treats.
Pretty much. Mazda had an issue with spiders attracted to gasoline clogging up fuel systems while being shipped overseas. And soy-based wire sheathing is apparently quite the delicacy to certain animals.
Why do you think so many fluids are juice colors?
I think all my problems could be solved with a nice big glass of Window fluid or Antifreeze.
France is bigger at Christmas than at Easter.
Reason: Pheasant Island.
Frances longest border is with brazil
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!
