Tag: science

shadybitchcraft:

heir-to-the-diamond-throne:

heir-to-the-diamond-throne:

heir-to-the-diamond-throne:

Me: *falling asleep to an audiobook on the science of the gut*

Book: saliva is actually filtered blood!

Me: ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

Me: ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

Book: saliva also contains a painkiller that is stronger than morphine, but we don’t produce a lot of it otherwise we’d be constantly high

Me: ʕʘ Д ʘʔ

Opiorphin is 6x stronger than morphine and actually contains an anti-depressant compound which is why some doctors believe it’s linked to comfort eating

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20610867/

Everyone spit on me so I won’t be depressed

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

overloadextravaganza:

argumate:

argumate:

greynasdire:

halfsquaretriangles-deactivated:

@KathleenMRooney Most mind-blowing fact I’ve encountered all month, scurvy-related or otherwise.

O____O

jesus christ this was a fact I could have happily gone to the grave not knowing

certainly gives me more enthusiasm for eating oranges, knowing that my body could just up and explode if I don’t

This really helps me reinforce my theory that healing magic is really localized time travel magic

WELP.

theboringprincess:

kaleighbytheway:

tilthat:

TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished—which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour

via reddit.com

I’m reblogging myself because I read the source. The lead scientist involved theorized that it was going fast enough that A) it would not have burnt up in our atmosphere, and B) it would not have been caught in Earth’s orbit. Essentially meaning, the first man made object launched into space was a manhole cover that’s still traveling the cosmic abyss.

  • YEET