Current Events > I'm so bored, tell me about something interesting CE. Teach me something new

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Anything science related in any way is good.

Has to be something I logically wouldn't know. Like something you would generally have to take classes for or look into out of curiosity, hobby, whatever.

News about old subjects, new information, findings and everything like that are usually cool.

I'll grade you on it or something like that and declare a winner at the end.
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can i post something interesting about me?
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Pluto's not a planet anymore.

Trent Reznor wanted to include a short "humorous" song on The Downward Spiral, called "Just Do It". Apparently the lyrics were

just do it
Nobody cares at all

One of the people he was working with told him he shouldn't release it so he didn't.
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I have a belly button.
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You've may have seen this short video on the size of black holes but if not it can be astonishing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNDao7m41M
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Chicken posted...

I have a belly button.

Instead of an umbilical cord scar, birds have yolk sac scars at hatching. This is where the chick embryo is attached to the yolk sac. But don't look for any bird belly button rings. The scars usually heal and become virtually invisible
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Parappa09 posted...

can i post something interesting about me?

Ehh maybe. Give me a sample. Maybe if you add in things like what your thoughts are on what you post, why you wanted to post it, how you feel about it on different levels, and just things like that. Put some sort of psychological aspect into, let me see into your head.
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There's a type of cheese out there where a goat kid is allowed to suckle on its mother until full. Once full the kid is slaughtered and its stomach, still full of milk, is removed and used as the vessel for fermentation.
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There is a species of beetle that shoots a boiling hot chemical mixture at its enemies by mixing hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide together, which are stored separately in the beetle's abdomen until needed. It literally farts fire at you. They live on every continent except Antarctica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle
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Scientists believe that we might be able to detect earthquakes in advance by looking at fluctuations in the ionosphere.
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iClockwork posted...

You've may have seen this short video on the size of black holes but if not it can be astonishing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNDao7m41M

I've seen a lot of videos with the same information but not this specific one. Either way, I've always found black holes extremely fascinating and love hearing about them. Every aspect of them is crazy. just the idea that black holes can warp spacetime to the extent they do, is crazy. Infinite stretching to a singularity, that may or may not be a rip in spacetime itself. Something that can't or shouldn't be able to rip. One even putting a stable dent in spacetime . I really need to learn more about black holes, but I can never seem to find anything more in-depth than the basics and some news and theories.

The idea of the schwarzschild radius also really peaks my curiosity. If anything can become a black how would you ever be able compress the atoms to that level without either having significant mass or adding mass once you get to the point where degeneracy pressure becomes an issue

I need to learn more about physics more in general.
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It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Fishy posted...

There's a type of cheese out there where a goat kid is allowed to suckle on its mother until full. Once full the kid is slaughtered and its stomach, still full of milk, is removed and used as the vessel for fermentation.

That's just brutal. Is any part of it not influenced by man? Like would the goat kid normally or even sometimes drink that much without any human interference? >.>

WilliamPorygon posted...

There is a species of beetle that shoots a boiling hot chemical mixture at its enemies by mixing hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide together, which are stored separately in the beetle's abdomen until needed. It literally farts fire at you. They live on every continent except Antarctica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle

Thats weird. Does the mixture actually ignite to any degree? It doesn't seem like it would. It honestly seems like the chemical burns would be the worst part.

scar the 1 posted...

Scientists believe that we might be able to detect earthquakes in advance by looking at fluctuations in the ionosphere.

This is interesting, do you have an article or any more details?
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Do you want to learn about the menstrual cycle, the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and all of the hormones involved?
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Trent Reznor wanted to include a short "humorous" song on The Downward Spiral, called "Just Do It". Apparently the lyrics were

just do it
Nobody cares at all

One of the people he was working with told him he shouldn't release it so he didn't.

I could see that being an issue after the Judas Priest trial a few years before where they were accused of subliminally planting "Do it" to make those kids kill themselves.
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Well if you drop trou and take your hand and place it on your
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"Nimrod" only means "idiot" because audiences didn't catch a sarcastic Biblical reference in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

Nimrod was a hunter.
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MrPeppers posted...

Do you want to learn about the menstrual cycle, the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and all of the hormones involved?

I've had multiple pituitary tumors so I know quite a bit about the pituitary and hormones, and am always interested in learning more about it and that whole area.

So yes please, the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and all of the hormones definitely sounds like a good one
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SpiralDrift posted...

DocileOrangeCup posted...

Trent Reznor wanted to include a short "humorous" song on The Downward Spiral, called "Just Do It". Apparently the lyrics were

just do it
Nobody cares at all

One of the people he was working with told him he shouldn't release it so he didn't.

I could see that being an issue after the Judas Priest trial a few years before where they were accused of subliminally planting "Do it" to make those kids kill themselves.

Huh I never heard of that.

Was it true?
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Sneaker history? Lmao
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