Teach me something new today, or random trivia......

[Butler]

Fear of spiders is called arachnophobia,

fear of Chuck Norris is called logic.

[blackhawkimpact]

Learn this a few days ago from Animal Planet.

"The pressure of the crocodile's bite is more than 5,000 pounds per square inch"

[george graves]

A polar bear's skin is actually black. It's black so it can soak up as much of the sun's rays as possible. Polar bears have almost transparent fur over black skin. Reflection of the sunlight from the densely packed transparent hairs makes polar bears seem to be white. The bears' black skin absorbs heat from the sun. The seemingly-transparent fur is made up of hollow hairs called guard hairs. These air-filled guard hairs help transmit heat from the sunlight to the polar bear's black skin as a solar heat collector.

[TwoJ's]

The photon doesn't "Know" it's being watched.
The very fact that it's being recorded or viewed alters the universe, and the photon's outcome. It changes it from being a wave and a particle at the same time and in many places, back to a particle in a single plane of the universal existence..

Very, very interesting stuff. I usually go to bed watching stuff like that. The very fact that it's being viewed changes it's properties.
Put's a WHOLE new meaning to "If a tree falls in the woods"..

Of course it doesn't know anything... that's not what I meant. And since the detectors they are using don't interfere with the photon at all, then the fact that it is being "watched" doesn't change its behavior, but rather it changes what we think are the laws of physics. Either that, or there is some type of force that exists that we do not know of (i.e. not electromagnetic, gravitational or nuclear... all of the forces that we know of are based on those three) or that is too complex for our brains to comprehend.

That latter point is another interesting topic. It is entirely possible that there are things going on in the universe (possibly a fourth or nth dimension) that should be very apparent to anyone on Earth, yet we cannot comprehend or even observe them because of the limitations of our brains.

I forget the example used, but there are animals on Earth that cannot observe or know of three dimensions. So what makes us think that we would be able to know of a fourth dimension if it were right in front of our faces?

[TwoJ's]

The color that you see on an object is because that object is every color except the color that you see.

For example, if you see a red car, that car is red because that car is every color except red.

I believe this to be fabricated nonsense. Where did you hear/read this little piece of info?




By the way, great idea for a thread Buddy.

[george graves]

He just poorly worded it(for dramatic effect perhaps? People like to do that...It's like when people talk about how the earth has a "frequency" non-sense. Drives me bonkers)

Warning - this is overly simplified...but...for reflective objects...

When white light(containing all the colors of the rainbow) hits, lets say, a "red" flower, all the colors of the rainbow are adsorbed except red. So green's and blue's, etc, are adsorbed, and the red is reflected back to us. So we see the flower as red. Is it really red? Well....That's is more of a philosophical question.

[DTM190]

If laid out in a straight line the average adults circulatory system would be long enought to circle the earth two and a half times

Children born in May are, on average, 200 grams heavier at bith than babies born in any other month.

Plain vanilla makes up 29% of total icecream sales (Archie?) lol

A camel can shut its nostrils during a sand storm

Facial hair is the fastest growing hair on the body (my mother in law is living proof of this)

A new born crocodile is 3 times the size of the egg it hatched from

[Conki]

A new born crocodile is 3 times the size of the egg it hatched from

Not in volume I suppose. Would it be length?

[Fusion]

You can't explain colors to people, who are born blind.

[z31maniac]

So we see the flower as red. Is it really red? Well....That's is more of a philosophical question.

Yeah, we discussed this at great length in my "Philosophy of Mind" class.

IIRC, I remember something about how there is not a physical mechanism anywhere between the eye/brain that should "decode" color from our environment.

Wild stuff. Easily the best class I took in college.

I just wish I could find the outline for "Buddyism" that I developed as a new religion for an argumentative paper.

[DTM190]

Not in volume I suppose. Would it be length?

I would say it would be length

[Stevie30]

Opossums are born dead on the side of the road.

[Farbin Kaiber]

^Roadkill tastes better as leftovers?

[slammin.e28]

I would say it would be length

Mass.

[TurboJake]

yet we cannot comprehend or even observe them because of the limitations of our brains.

Another fun observation of the scientific world, that is entirely related to the double slit experiment.
Our brains, can directly affect the universe and random selection. There have been studies that have proven that the intention of our mind can lean it towards that event.

Random number generators have been swayed away from randomization by people just focusing on one of the outcomes by the generator.

ALSO!
To tie into that... Buddhist monks have put 100% Pure distilled water, Depending on the Chi's that they were exposed to (All sealed), the water itself had it's molecular structure altered and created different frozen crystals with replicable outcomes depending on which chi is was exposed to.

ALSO!
To tie into THAT!
The brain, can alter an electrical device. 4 Monks around a table with an "Intention Imprinted electrical devices" in the middle of all them would meditate, "cleanse the environment", and 1 would speak the intention they desired the device to do..
This experiment, could replicate results of altering the PH of sealed, purified water up to one full point.

And, alter that water after being mailed 2000 miles.

ALONG WITH THAT! (Last one, I promise)
A tape recording. Recorded on two tapes at the same time, of alternating clicks on the left and right sides.
One tape was handed to a person, while the other tape was kept in a faraday cage. That person would focus on either one of sides having more clicks.
Both tapes were popped into tape players.
And the tape that was handed to the person, that they focused on the outcome, altered the tape recording to the outcome that they desired.

This experiment showed that the brain could actually affect the outcome of something that had already taken place. Effectively transcending the laws of physics, and the space time continuum.


I fully believe our brain (The collection of cells and multiple organisms) understands most of the mysteries of universe, if not all of them.

It's our conscious that cannot.

That's a WHOLE different ballgame and conversation that's a mix of science, philosophy, and psychology. But, that's just what I think.