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?”
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.
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
Same with acetaminophen poisoning.
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.
You’re a hero, 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.
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.
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.
Rabbits must eat special poop straight from their butt as a part of a healthy diet.
What about other rabbits’ poop?
I haven’t seen it happen, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
My girl bun does stick her nose up my boy bun’s butt sometimes. But I think that’s just to nip his thighs and get him to move out of her way lol
Oh! I forgot, mama rabbits feed their special poops to their babies. So the answer is, yes, they do eat other rabbit’s poops.
Hot liquids can freeze faster than colder ones Mpemba effect
Many studies of this are actually ambiguous!.
But ambiguity arraises from the lack of a coherent explanation, because there are so many parameters to consider when doing the experiment (especially when doing this with water). Therefore hot liquids can freeze faster than cold ones. Its not a must. That it can happen is proven. A quite entertaining read about the general phenomenon can be found here
No, it doesn’t. The ambiguity rises from the fact that it’s not that repeatable. There are many experiments that don’t find this phenomenon to exist when they test it. Then there’s some that do. That’s the problem.
My memory is that the majority of them find that it doesn’t exist and that a small minority find that it does.
This is not contradicting. It can happen . but I was talking about liquids in general.
Similarly, hot water for ice cubes, room temperature for thawing. I’ve heard adding white vinegar accelerate thawing but idk?
Looking this up, I just realized that Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon were different people.
Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
Males can lactate apparently.
Still can’t sleep at night.
Am man. Can confirm.
Anyone can lactate with a course of lactation inducing medication (of which there are several iirc)
Or with about 30 days of stimulation training, which basically involves using a pump on your nipples multiple times a day.
Males have all the mammary glands plumbing already built in?
They do, they have breast tissue, even if very little. Which also means that men can get breast cancer.
A male neighbor died from breast cancer in the last decade.
But women have milk ducts, an essential body part to develop & channel milk. Do men have milk ducts?
Milk ducts are just a specialized sweat glands, it’s not the same but it works.
Yes.
Men are fully equipped to lactate. They just typically lack the hormones or stimulation to trigger it naturally.
I thought it was a disorder.
…
So you are telling me I can legit be a hu-cow and have…
…people eat/drink a part of me? 🤩
You can have you-milk on your cereal in the morning.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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”.
Top, looking for Strange
Trigger Warning: Existential Crisis
spoiler
Everything about us is young in the context of the wider universe. Human society, the human species, the planet earth, our solar system, our sun. We live near the dawn of creation, even though our universe feels unimaginably old compared to our brief lives. As the skies darken and all the stars burn out, that will take course over a time period longer than our individual solar system will last. When the last light goes out, time doesn’t stop, no the universe goes on and there’s an even longer period of endless empty inky blackness, the deep void. In the end, the universe may spend significantly more time as an endless dead void than it ever did as a universe with hope of life and at least one planet with confirmed organic life. There is no escaping it, and there is probably no way for our species to even survive and adapt to that era as it is.
One of the possible answers to the Fermi Paradox is simply we’re the first.
We could be the great scourge of this part of the universe. Expanding recklessly through galaxies in the local group, leaving only the dead husks of stars that have been stripped of all usable energy. The exponential nature of scientific discovery means that not only do we have a head start, our head start compounds as time progresses. We become a horrific but very efficient war machine for the sole purpose of controlling and exploiting all available forms of energy for profit. We seem like we’re on that path.
/c/humansarespaceorcs
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
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.
Modern physics is full of assumptions and placeholders for the generally accepted theories to work such the dark matter, dark energy, the inflation field, quantum gravity and gravitons etc… We don’t really know what they are, they are basically mathematical requirements for the currently accepted theories to work.
deleted by creator
