I'm going to try to keep this thread ongoing and add one article per day. It's going to be about phenomenon the scientific world doesn't fully understand.
[b]Diatomacious communication[/b]
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A big term for a simple thing
Diatoms are one-celled algae that produce glass cell walls encasing themselves. You can find abandoned casings at the bottom of bodies of water in the form of a thick paste and even in certain whitening toothpastes.
Anyways, diatoms are very mysterious. Their medium of movement is quite vaguely defined- they're thought to move by expanding and contracting the silica that makes their cell wall up, but noone is completely sure.
Even more mysterious is how they reproduce, in more than one way. From what we understand, diatoms reproduce both asexually and sexually, being they need sexual reproduction to aid the formation of new silica cell walls.
But that's not the strangest part, right. Scientists have separated diatoms over VAST (microscopically) distances and they manage to go [i]directly[/i] to eachother to reproduce. Why is this interesting? It means the diatoms have to be communicating somehow.
If you have anything you'd like to add, post and I'll add it to the OP. Give me ideas for new articles.
[b]Dark Matter[/b]
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Put forward in the 1900s by Fritz Zwicky, Dark Matter is a theoretical form of matter that stands in for the normal where gravity is too powerful to indicate only NORMAL matter. That is, it would be matter that doesn't interact with the visible wavelength of energy or with "traditional" matter at all, but carry mass (accounting for the gravity it creates).
According to models of the galaxy, Dark Matter makes up enormous amounts of space between galaxies and accounts for more or less all of the galaxy's gravity.
[b]Mystery of the Universe:[/b] Why does farting smell worse if you're in your bathtub?
[release][b]March 23 2010,[/b]
Scientists at the national science center of Bushyville, CA have been studying the effects of water on farts. According to their survey, 90% of 32,000 residents of California think that farting smells much worse if they're in their bathtubs.
Scientists are working on confirming this. When (if) confirmed, says head scientist Milton Ackley, [i]"we will work our hardest to solve this science mystery"[/i]. Some scientists researching on this topic say that they believe it actually has to do with a full moon.
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[QUOTE=KD007;21682593]Why does farting smell worse if you're in your bathtub?[/QUOTE]
Because it reacts with the water and copper remnants in the tub thus creating a deadly neurotoxin which is fortunately counteracted by the sweat of your armpits
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;21682631]Because it reacts with the water and copper remnants in the tub thus creating a deadly neurotoxin which is fortunately counteracted by the sweat of your armpits[/QUOTE]
Do I smell Nobel Peace Prize Nominee?
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I thought that was a speaker at first.
[quote=Yahoo!Answers]H2O, in the form of water vapor, easily attaches to methane molecules by the chlorine atom, or the sulfur released from bacteria, making the foul smell more readily attach to the nostril lining, subsequently sustaining the odor longer than in a dry climate. In addition, warm vapors will cause any crusted mucus to soften and disengage, providing more surface area within the sinuses.[/quote]
Hope that explains it @ KD007.
[QUOTE=Quo Vadi;21682669]Hope that explains it @ KD007.[/QUOTE]
Thanks bro never could have guessed it myself.
Talk about chemistry and stuff.
How come noone loves me? :-(
Why do sandwiches always fall the butter side down
I once made over thirty raspberry jam sandwiches and some of them even clung to the roof, but they still had a 100% butter side down fall rate
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;21682748]How come noone loves me? :-([/QUOTE]
I love you :3:
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;21682754]Why do sandwiches always fall the butter side down
I once made over thirty raspberry jam sandwiches and some of them even clung to the roof, but they still had a 100% butter side down fall rate[/QUOTE]
Actually, you have it backwards. They fall with the buttered side up, because the knife creates an air-catching indention in the bread when it butters.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;21682754]Why do sandwiches always fall the butter side down
I once made over thirty raspberry jam sandwiches and some of them even clung to the roof, but they still had a 100% butter side down fall rate[/QUOTE]
It has to do with why the water only swirls in one direction down the drain. I can never make it go the other way. Someone said that I have to go south of the equator. However, I think it's bullshit. How can being south of the equator reverse this mega-mystery?!?!
Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
[QUOTE=KD007;21682796]It has to do with why the water only swirls in one direction down the drain. I can never make it go the other way. Someone said that I have to go south of the equator. However, I think it's bullshit. How can being south of the equator reverse this mega-mystery?!?![/QUOTE]
I think you're being sarcastic here, but it's because of how the Earth rotates.
I don't understand what you're asking, Zezibash.
[QUOTE=blacksam;21682663]Do I [B]smell[/B] Nobel Peace Prize Nominee?[/QUOTE]
I see wut you did thar.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;21682803]Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?[/QUOTE]
Yeah man, it was on ABC.
Come on, less shitposting.
Incredible stuff.
Another interesting mystery is why the universe has more matter than antimatter.
Almost 100% matter, because most (If not all) of the antimatter is caused by black holes and in planetary magnetospheres etc etc.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21682895]Another interesting mystery is why the universe has more matter than antimatter.
Almost 100% matter, because most (If not all) of the antimatter is caused by black holes and in planetary magnetospheres etc etc.[/QUOTE]
How can we be sure? What if it's not just at very vast expanses?
AFAIK because antimatter is visually identical to normal matter there'd be no way to tell if distant galaxies were entirely made of antimatter.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21682757]I love you :3:[/QUOTE]
:h:
Anyways, does the vermiform appendix have a purpose?
When we meet our first alien race I bet that all their stuff and they themselves are made from antimatter.
Universe's idea of a joke.
inb4 miracles
This is interesting stuff. I remember looking at diatoms under the microscope in science.
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;21682971]:h:
Anyways, does the vermiform appendix have a purpose?[/QUOTE]
That's a good question. Most people think it used to, but nobody's quite sure what it was. I might do some research and add it to the OP.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;21682803]Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?[/QUOTE]
Someones been to 4chan
[QUOTE=Quo Vadi;21682931]AFAIK because antimatter is visually identical to normal matter there'd be no way to tell if distant galaxies were entirely made of antimatter.[/QUOTE]
No! They'd be black; because black is the opposite of white. As you all know, black is 0 0 0 while white is 255 255 255. Since 0 is the opposite of 255, it is obvious that galaxies of antimatter are less visible. The only problem is that the universe is in 32-bit color. Since we also have an alpha channel, this can complicate things a little. What if it's translucent black?!?!? As you can see by now, we have another science mystery coming up!
[QUOTE=KD007;21683054]No! They'd be black; because black is the opposite of white. As you all know, black is 0 0 0 while white is 255 255 255. Since 0 is the opposite of 255, it is obvious that galaxies of antimatter are less visible. The only problem is that the universe is in 32-bit color. Since we also have an alpha channel, this can complicate things a little. What if it's translucent black?!?!? As you can see by now, we have another science mystery coming up![/QUOTE]
I know you're being sarcastic now, but the difference in matter and antimatter is purely the charge of the protons and electrons.
KD007 please stop posting nonsense
How do magnets work?
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