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re: Common science facts that still kinda blow your mind
Posted on 3/22/25 at 1:01 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 3/22/25 at 1:01 pm to Darth_Vader
Stomach Acid Can Dissolve Razor Blades
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Posted on 3/22/25 at 1:02 pm to ClientNumber9
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Boneless wings are actually chicken nuggets.
And they contain very little buffalo
Posted on 3/22/25 at 1:09 pm to Darth_Vader
Boiling water never goes over 212 degrees. A simmer is the same as a rolling
boil ( unless under pressure ).
boil ( unless under pressure ).
Posted on 3/22/25 at 5:04 pm to Lonnie Utah
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With a continuous input of energy, localized decreases in entropy (increased order) can and does happen. For example, how a seed grows into a complex tree or how ice can form in a freezer.
Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it can't happen.
the lipids, proteins, DNA, and RNA required to construct life on this planet require more energy to assemble than to take apart. the principal of chemical equilibrium says that all the limitless energy you're referring to inexorably leads to the destruction of any of these substances outside of a living cell.
the localized energy you're appealing to is the enemy, not the friend of materialistic abiogenesis.
the freezer in your example was unquestionably constructed by a purposeful being to accomplish just the purpose you mentioned (the localized decrease in entropy).
i understand just fine.
This post was edited on 3/22/25 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 3/22/25 at 5:36 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Kinda like how blue balls aren't actually blue.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 5:39 pm to Roaad
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Your nose is always in full view, your brain edits it out
I told my wife her brain must have edited out half my cock.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 5:53 pm to Darth_Vader
A narwhals horn is actually a long tooth.. also.. narwhals exist in real life
Posted on 3/22/25 at 5:58 pm to Darth_Vader
Photons don't experience time or distance because they travel at the speed of light..
Posted on 3/22/25 at 6:04 pm to compscitiger
You are completely misconstruing how natural selection works
The universe doesn’t just meld together an improved (read: more fit to survive) organism deliberately.
The selection is made by the environment.
Take giraffes for example.
Long ago there were giraffes with short necks.
Than RANDOMLY a strand of DNA or RNA breaks or somehow becomes miscoded somewhere along the way for making a short neck giraffe, and that single mutation leads to a little bit longer neck.
That mildly longer neck giraffe now can eat more leaves. And lives longer. And appears more viable to potential mates. Is stronger. So that gene mutation gets passed along because all these things make mating more likely for that animal with that mutation.
It isn’t that the giraffes just saw all the leaves they couldn’t eat and were like “damn we need to grow bigger necks!” It happens randomly.
In fact it probably happens BECAUSE of entropy. The body spends energy making gametes and RNA and DNA etc. so along the way the energy input is insufficient and out comes a mutation.
Please stop trying to say you have a grasp on scientific concepts your intractable Christian faith has issues with so you have the authority to dismiss them. Both can exist at the same time.
The universe doesn’t just meld together an improved (read: more fit to survive) organism deliberately.
The selection is made by the environment.
Take giraffes for example.
Long ago there were giraffes with short necks.
Than RANDOMLY a strand of DNA or RNA breaks or somehow becomes miscoded somewhere along the way for making a short neck giraffe, and that single mutation leads to a little bit longer neck.
That mildly longer neck giraffe now can eat more leaves. And lives longer. And appears more viable to potential mates. Is stronger. So that gene mutation gets passed along because all these things make mating more likely for that animal with that mutation.
It isn’t that the giraffes just saw all the leaves they couldn’t eat and were like “damn we need to grow bigger necks!” It happens randomly.
In fact it probably happens BECAUSE of entropy. The body spends energy making gametes and RNA and DNA etc. so along the way the energy input is insufficient and out comes a mutation.
Please stop trying to say you have a grasp on scientific concepts your intractable Christian faith has issues with so you have the authority to dismiss them. Both can exist at the same time.
This post was edited on 3/22/25 at 6:06 pm
Posted on 3/22/25 at 6:57 pm to Darth_Vader
Why do all the up close pictures of the sun look Orange, yellow, and red then? Those pictures are taken not in earth atmosphere a lot closer.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 6:59 pm to Delacroix22
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You are completely misconstruing how natural selection works
i didn't say anything about natural selection. you've jumped all the way past nature's hostility to the compounds I mentioned (lipids, proteins, RNA, DNA) and are assuming entire organisms (giraffes, in this case) on which to work.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 7:06 pm to compscitiger
Because of the International Date Line, Alaska is both the easternmost and westernmost state.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 8:47 pm to compscitiger
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i understand just fine.
no, you really, REALLY don't....
stick to computers, my dude...
Posted on 3/22/25 at 8:53 pm to chity
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A simmer is the same as a rolling boil ( unless under pressure ).
A rolling boil is 212° a simmer is at a temp less than boiling.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 8:57 pm to PapaPogey
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Is the sky really blue or have we just been taught that it is? Maybe your blue is my red, but we call it the same
I don't know the biology of our eye balls, but I know... dogs for example. They can't see all the colors humans can and humans are able to see only what our eyes allow us to see. If there was some type of living being that has better eye sight than humans, would the colors be different?
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:00 pm to Darth_Vader
We are being pulled towards something called the great attractor. We can't image it because it's on the other side of the milky way. All matter in the universe is lumped together in strings called cosmic filaments. It looks like fiber optic cables. These are the largest known structures in the universe.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:14 pm to Purplehaze
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Because of the International Date Line, Alaska is both the easternmost and westernmost state.
Not quite right.
Alaska is indeed in both the eastern and western hemispheres but not because of the IDL. It is because of the antimeridian. The IDL zigzags along the antimeridian to avoid day/time issues. For that reason, it doesn’t cross through Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. It goes around them. The antimeridian does pass through the Aleutian Islands, though, and it is what separates the hemispheres.
This post was edited on 3/23/25 at 7:54 am
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:18 pm to Globetrotter747
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and it is what separates the hemispheres.
Just like when yo momma plays jump rope.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:21 pm to kywildcatfanone
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There are only 2 genders
So far 7 trannies have downvoted you.
Posted on 3/22/25 at 9:42 pm to Saunson69
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Why do all the up close pictures of the sun look Orange, yellow, and red then? Those pictures are taken not in earth atmosphere a lot closer.
False coloration added in so that we can make out the details. Same for the pics of galaxies by Hubble or James Webb
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