Quirky Science Facts!

[Racoon]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

The most effective way of living longer is to get castrated.

I think I'd rather forego the last few years of senility and bedpans to keep my nut sack thank you!
But yes, please spay and neuter your pets!

Philadelphia was the first U.S. city to be quarantined, during a 1793 Yellow Fever outbreak.

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

The most effective way of living longer is to get castrated.

The issue comes down to which you'd prefer:

A) Quantity of life, or
1) Quality of life.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

The issue comes down to which you'd prefer:

A) Quantity of life, or
1) Quality of life.

Yes You can also live longer by exercising.
You roughly save the couple of years you spent exercisng.

[ronthepon]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Inmates of a Kansas mental institution who were castrtaed lived almost 14 years longer than did uncastrated inmates.

Something tells me that the guy who did this experiment needs to be locked away in a padded cell...

Thank the lord for my mental stability!

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by ronthepon

Something tells me that the guy who did this experiment needs to be locked away in a padded cell...

You would be locked away now; but apparently it was common in mental institutions in the 30-40s ?.
They didn't want mad genes being perpetuated!
You still hear people arguing that Down's syndrome people should not be allowed to marry and should be sterilised

[ronthepon]

That's a good thought.

Although, we could do some genetic engineering on these unpriviliged citizens.
Now that remark is gonna send me to a padded cell.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by ronthepon

That's a good thought.

Although, we could do some genetic engineering on these unpriviliged citizens.
Now that remark is gonna send me to a padded cell.

I am assuming your joking, but maybe not. . .mm

I have been told by an orthomolecular specialist, Dr. Chris Reading, that if you take the mother and child off wheat Downs syndrome children will not develop retardation.
Dr. Reading is a pariah of the Psychiatric Establishment here so that view is not accepted.
Though, at the same time, (10-15 years ago) he told me the same thing about Autistic kids and latest thinking is that about10% of Autistic kids can be cured by a wheat free diet.

[Buffy]

If you take a bucket of wine and dump it in the ocean and "mix well" the probability that any bucket sample from ocean water taken anywhere else on earth has at least one molecule of that wine is a virtual certainty!

Why? Because there are buckets of water in all the oceans and molecules in that bucket, so "mixed well enough" its fer shure!

Odds are I'm odd,
Buffy

* Source: June 06 Discover Mag

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Buffy

If you take a bucket of wine and dump it in the ocean and "mix well" the probability that any bucket sample from ocean water taken anywhere else on earth has at least one molecule of that wine is a virtual certainty!
* Source: June 06 Discover Mag

Does water from the Northern Hemisphere mix with water from the southern?

I don't think air does much. Does it?.

I love Buffy.
Such a great script ( I miss the soto voce asides sometimes -bit deaf and the yank accent is sometimes hard- but they are the best bits)
It's wonderfull that the meetings all take place where no-one else visits-the school library, very funny)
I NEED to see the musical episode!!

[ronthepon]

There are more nematohelminthes(did I spell that right?) belonging creatures(a.k.a. roundworms) in one square mile of soil (on an average) than there are humans in the entire world!!

Now who hates worms?