Science facts that amaze you?

Egginacup

The Dagda wrote: »

Did you even read your own link? Because it clearly says;



Glass is NOT a liquid.

Calm down, FFS. The article states that it is and it isn't a liquid. Liquids and gases are fluids in that they flow. So maybe it would be more accurate to describe glass as a fluid since it flows albeit infinitessimally slowly.

This is not a myth as another poster stated.

The Dagda

Egginacup wrote: »

Calm down, FFS. The article states that it is and it isn't a liquid. Liquids and gases are fluids in that they flow. So maybe it would be more accurate to describe glass as a fluid since it flows albeit infinitessimally slowly.

This is not a myth as another poster stated.

Calm down?

It is a myth that glass is a liquid.

Read your own link, it doesn't say "it is and it isn't a liquid", it says;

Glass, however, is actually neither a liquid—supercooled or otherwise—nor a solid

Glass is NOT a liquid.

Putin

ScumLord wrote: »

The fact is humans are the nicest animal the plant has ever seen.

Said no animal/plant that was made extinct by humans ever.

ScumLord

Putin wrote: »

Said no animal/plant that was made extinct by humans ever.

We're not the only creature to cause the extinction of other creatures, it happens all the time in nature.

somuj

There is no such thing as color just different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.

endacl

somuj wrote: »

There is no such thing as color just different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Careful now! They didn't like the 'sun is dark' thing earlier.

"Whatchoo mean there's no colour?!? I've a blue jumper!!!" :mad:

somuj

That's why I made the post

endacl

somuj wrote: »

That's why I made the post

B'b'but I have a blue juuuuummmmmppppppeeeeerrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

somuj

Your brain precieves it as blue. Has no color at all. Just electromagnetic waves bouncing into your eyeballs.

somuj

somuj wrote: »

There is no such thing as color just different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.

"Rudolph the perspective specific electromagnetic spectrum wavelength proboscis reindeer, had a very reflective snout.."

endacl

somuj wrote: »

Your brain precieves it as blue. Has no color at all. Just electromagnetic waves bouncing into your eyeballs.

There's no such thing as eyeballs.

GerB40

Colour blind people can see through camouflage easier than normal sighted people. From personal experience I know this to be true.

Apparently night vision is supposed to increase with colour blindness too but I've never noticed this.

somuj

GerB40 wrote: »

Colour blind people can see through camouflage easier than normal sighted people. From personal experience I know this to be true.

Apparently night vision is supposed to increase with colour blindness too but I've never noticed this.

I definitely have. I can cycle a bike in the dead of night on a country road with no moonlight and still even see the potholes.

Maximus Alexander

There's no such thing as science, it's just a collection of experimental results and hypotheses conducted over a long period of time and a wide geographical area. Your mind just perceives it as one large, thematically related body of work.

The Dagda

There's no such thing as anything.

We're all in The Matrix...

endacl

The Dagda wrote: »

There's no such thing as anything.

We're all in The Matrix...

There's no such thing as The Matrix.

/thread.

Actually, The Matrix we're in is only one of an infinite possibility of Potential Matrices. Discuss.

\thread again.

retalivity

Plastic toy dinosaurs are made from real dinosaurs...

Rucking_Fetard

retalivity wrote: »

Plastic toy dinosaurs are made from real dinosaurs...

Due to where alot of those Dinos and other stuff made by Dinos end up, people eat Dinos.

Yummy Dinos.

catallus

Rucking_Fetard wrote: »

Yummy Dinos.

The sad thing is that all the dinos were hunted to extinction by hungry humans

Maximus Alexander

catallus wrote: »

The sad thing is that all the dinos were hunted to extinction by hungry humans

Yeah but that's better than spending all eternity being farmed like those pitiful cows. Dinos were too cool for that.

Jesus Wept

catallus wrote: »

The sad thing is that all the dinos were hunted to extinction by hungry humans

I doubt it.

Maximus Alexander

i heart chewy louie wrote: »

I doubt it.

What you're saying they just built a space ship and all flew away to Mars or something?

catallus

i heart chewy louie wrote: »

I doubt it.

You doubt what?

Well, maybe some of them died when they couldn't swim, with the flood and everything. Maybe.

endacl

catallus wrote: »

You doubt what?

Well, maybe some of them died when they couldn't swim, with the flood and everything. Maybe.

No. That was the unicorns. The dinosaurs died out for lack of a brucewillisaurus. And a space program. And a dinosaur Aerosmith.

somuj

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

What you're saying they just built a space ship and all flew away to Mars or something?

Their in the delta quadrant

The Dagda

somuj wrote: »

Their in the delta quadrant

They're.

It's a science thread.

bnt

A "one-way" mirror ... isn't, actually. It's half-silvered, meaning it allows a fraction of the light that hits it to pass through, but it does that in both directions. You only get the apparent one-way effect by keeping one side bright and the other side dark. so the reflection from the bright side dominates what you see.

Into The Blue

The Dagda wrote: »

They're.

It's a science thread.

Not a linguistics won.

sbsquarepants

somuj wrote: »

There is no such thing as color just different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.

There is no specific wavelength for pink - it is entirely concocted by your brain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9dqJRyk0YM

Into The Blue

The core concept for The Last of Us was inspired by a segment of a BBC nature documentary Planet Earth (2006), which featured the Cordyceps fungi. These fungi can infect and grow from an ant's head, take control of the ant's motor functions, forcing it to help cultivate said fungus.



It has begun!!!!

Into The Blue

Into The Blue wrote: »

The core concept for The Last of Us was inspired by a segment of a BBC nature documentary Planet Earth (2006), which featured the Cordyceps fungi. These fungi can infect and grow from an ant's head, take control of the ant's motor functions, forcing it to help cultivate said fungus.



It has begun!!!!

Asimov came up with this very scenario in The Puppet Masters! Is there nothing the man didn't predict?

Into The Blue

Candie wrote: »

Asimov came up with this very scenario in The Puppet Masters! Is there nothing the man didn't predict?

Nothing.

Rucking_Fetard

Newly-discovered waste-eating bacteria could help in nuclear waste disposal

Call Me Jimmy

One of the best threads on boards, only seeing it for the first time.

The most interesting to me is the how the fundamental patterns seem to reflect away from us in terms of as things get bigger, a certain pattern emerges, as things get smaller the same pattern emerges. For example, is it the atom nucleus that looks like a galaxy? If we could see deeper into that somehow im sure the next pattern we'd see is one similar to clusters and superclusters etc.

What I take from all this information is that I am as objectively significant as I am insignificant and that there are amazing things to be unearthed in the human experience. In the future we'll be like 'how the **** did they spend one second watching tv, being distracted from the wonder they were inhabiting'.

Capt'n Midnight

i heart chewy louie wrote: »

I doubt it.

Dinosaurs are still with us

Joe Doe

Indeed super-global recurring patterns e.g. 1.618033988749895 are just one indication of a higher order and supreme intelligence, over all else.

mayobumblebee

steddyeddy wrote: »

Anyone got any facts about how the world works? Here's one of my favourite:

The honey bee, apis mellifera is one of the most interesting animals. A colony of honey bees can contain tens of thousands of bees. Amongst the bees are workers (females), a few males and a queen. The queen can live up to twenty times longer than the workers, she has no sting, no wax gland or no pollen baskets. She is near to double the size of a worker bee. Worker bees live for weeks yet the queen lives fo years. The interesting thing is she is genetically identical to thousands of her sisters since birth yet develops completely differently to them.

The queen might mate with several males and as a result not all bees will be genetically identical to each other but the hive will contain tens of thousands of genetical identical bees. All of these genetically identical larvae will be fed royal jelly from the nurse bees up to their third day of life. Then something mysterious happens, for some reason as of yet unknown to scientists, the nurse bees select some of the larvae (for reasons as yet unknown) which are indentical to their sisters and continue to feed them royal jelly after the third day. The rest of the larvae are fed pollen and nectar and develop into worker bees. The larvae fed on royal jelly develop into queen bees.

Only recently has the mechanisim behind this been elucidated. Royal jelly is a strange highly nutritious substance containing amino acids, strange fats and some as of yet uknown substances. This substance causes methylation of the bee's DNA (the addition of a carbon and three hydrogens to one of the DNA bases) this causes some of the genes to shut off and other genes to turn off. Hence one substance causes a complete change in the phenotype (the genotype is the actual list genes contained in the organism but the phenotype is the expression of those genes) of that animal.

sorry dont mean to bee an annoyance the queen does have a stinger she uses it to kill other rivals it does not come out like that of the worker she cannot usually sting humans because she cannot bend her tummy to that degree because of her size. the male also dies as soon as he mates as his sex organs explode into the queen who stores the fluid she recieves on her maiting flight in a special sac. she can then fertalise an egg with sperm making a female or not making a male who passes on her genetics to another hive. the male has no sting he develops sex organs instead

McDermotX

Filthy.

the_monkey

There is more coca cola produced in the world each year then there is water on the planet.



true story .

Capt'n Midnight

Joe Doe wrote: »

Indeed super-global recurring patterns e.g. 1.618033988749895 are just one indication of a higher order and supreme intelligence, over all else.

LOL

That number originally came from a model of biological growth.*

So not exactly surprising that it keeps popping up in biological systems.


It's use in design might be related to the width and height of our binocular vision



* Just in like Fr Ted , Dougal had one rabbit, then they wondered how he moved so fast and it was a second rabbit and then they noticed another one on Fr Jacks head and the next day it was like a big rabbit rock festival.

endacl

Joe Doe wrote: »

Indeed super-global recurring patterns e.g. 1.618033988749895 are just one indication of a higher order and supreme intelligence, over all else.

Dafuq?

Maximus Alexander

Joe Doe wrote: »

Indeed super-global recurring patterns e.g. 1.618033988749895 are just one indication of a higher order and supreme intelligence, over all else.

But on the other hand, the fact that we each have to take a dump every day is just one indication that there is no higher order or supreme intelligence.

endacl

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

But on the other hand, the fact that we each have to take a dump every day is just one indication that there is no higher order or supreme intelligence.

I dunno. Could've been every hour...

Dravokivich

endacl wrote: »

I dunno. Could've been every hour...

And if it is, get that checked out!

Call Me Jimmy

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

One of the best threads on boards, only seeing it for the first time.

The most interesting to me is the how the fundamental patterns seem to reflect away from us in terms of as things get bigger, a certain pattern emerges, as things get smaller the same pattern emerges. For example, is it the atom nucleus that looks like a galaxy? If we could see deeper into that somehow im sure the next pattern we'd see is one similar to clusters and superclusters etc.

A bit too simplistic really. Atoms don't really "look like" the shell diagrams.

Joe Doe

Some stuff about 1.618 observed in nanoscale/micro atomic ss quantum mater. Part of the f'sequence is present in the dna helix also.

Anyway off to watch that move called: 23, that's another story...

ScumLord

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Dinosaurs are still with us

Yeah, they just don't look as cool. Luckily science can make them look cool again.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken?language=en

OldNotWIse

Duggy747 wrote: »

Ducks have corkscrew willies and like to dish out a bit of the old rape when mating.

I think cat penises have spikes on them too that come out during sex so that the female cant pull away. Terrible stuff

catallus

Actually they found a dinosaur fossil over in the desert in Africa and they say it could have been a swimmer.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29143096

But how it could have swam in the desert is another question altogether.

It also raises the question of how fast water turns to sand.

endacl

catallus wrote: »

Actually they found a dinosaur fossil over in the desert in Africa and they say it could have been a swimmer.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29143096

But how it could have swam in the desert is another question altogether.

It also raises the question of how fast water turns to sand.

Must have had a rapid evolution after The Flood.