[orbsycli]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Neptune's moon Triton orbits clockwise while Neptune spins counter-clockwise.

It's an automatic feeling,

one and two does not get dizzy.

[Michaelangelica]

"23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them to photocopy their buttocks"
Source:
Why Men Lie & Women Cry Alan and Barbara Pease

[Jay-qu]

More than 99% of the cells in a healthy human body belong to micro-organisms!

[Edella]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

More than 99% of the cells in a healthy human body belong to micro-organisms!

What?Can you elaborate?Do you mean 99% host micro-organisms?Thanks Jay-qu.

[Michaelangelica]

This is quirky
maybe not science
But I didn't know where else to put it!

Snake gulps queen-size electric blanket
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/19/pyt....ap/index.html

Wednesday, July 19, 2006; Posted: 6:10 p.m. EDT (22:10 GMT)

Houdini, a Burmese python, swallowed a queen-size electric blanket.

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) -- It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket -- with the electrical cord and control box.

[Boerseun]

Regarding snakes, I've read that once they bite something they have to eat the whole darn thing because of the design of their teeth and jaws.

So, maybe the snake only took a sample bite of the electric blanket, and, upon finding that it tasted like crap, didn't have much of a choice in the matter - in for a penny, in for a pound!

[dagaz]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

Regarding snakes, I've read that once they bite something they have to eat the whole darn thing because of the design of their teeth and jaws.

That's exactly right, for pythons anyway, but I'm not so sure about other types. I had a friend who used to keep two pythons (a carpet and a diamond) in the same terrarium. He used to feed them rats that he bought. Anyway one day he was in a hurry after work and just threw in a couple of rats and kept going. After a late night he woke the next morning to find that both pythons had gone for the same rat and as they can't regurgitate and have to swallow the meal whole, by the time he got there one snake had the rat plus half the other snake. He says that the two snakes were similar in size and that it took quite a while for the other snake to completely disappear. He made it sound so tragic because these two pythons had lived harmoniously in the same terrarium for quite a while so were probably close mates!

[Jay-qu]

cant really elaborate.. I read it as a quick fact in a science mag, but it was titled something like 'disturbing to know that most of you, isnt you' though I disagree, that is what makes us, us.

[Michaelangelica]

Around 10% of the population hear voices that aren't there.

Some people can live harmoniously with them, but for those whose voices are associated with a psychiatric illness, they can be frightening and menacingly real.
SOURCE:
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1688507.htm

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

More than 99% of the cells in a healthy human body belong to micro-organisms!

For every cell in your body, you support 10 bacterial cells that make vitamins, trigger hormones, and may even influence how fat you are.

SOURCE:
http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-0...otics-killing/

Bacteria, make up ten percent of your dry body weight. ...

Every single cell in your body contains mitochondria, which are self-replicating "organelles" that at one point were parasitic bacteria.. . .

If you could kill every bacteria in your body, you would probably die within a week, definitely within a month.. . .

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=bacteria

Don't know
Maybe its the way you look at it?
99% seems high