• what the fuck salted frog legs
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shit. didn't realize it was old. my bad! [video=youtube;2YZJt_Bw3eo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZJt_Bw3eo#t=86[/video]
[QUOTE=Chubbles;45268466][video=youtube;2YZJt_Bw3eo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZJt_Bw3eo#t=86[/video][/QUOTE] I think this happens since the nervous system primarily transfers electrical energy to control the expansion and contraction of muscles, and salt being a good conductor with water and moisture causes the faint electric charge to magnify, thus causing this effect. Old, but still kinda neat to watch.
didn't realize it was old!! :( woops.
in the wise and poetic words of weird al, "you're passin round a link to some dumb thing on youtube that everybody else already saw three years ago" it's still nice to see it. it's like seeing somebody you last saw at a boy scout summer camp while getting groceries.
Is it really necessary for this video to be 2 minutes? Anyway, sure looks appetizing.
the thighs look like butts hehe
[QUOTE=Lyonidis;45268508]I think this happens since the nervous system primarily transfers electrical energy to control the expansion and contraction of muscles, and salt being a good conductor with water and moisture causes the faint electric charge to magnify, thus causing this effect. Old, but still kinda neat to watch.[/QUOTE] That's not how it works, electrolytes help carry current, they don't magnify it. Neurons work via action potentials. A neural cell becomes depolarized when sodium enters it, which is what causes the action potential and muscle contraction. Table salt is sodium chloride. That said, there is no intact nervous system in the legs. The sodium is just directly deposited into the cells as opposed to the brain telling the cells to open sodium channels and let internal sodium in. This only works if the legs are fresh though, since there are still unused reserves of ATP left to actually fuel the contraction. It won't work after a while.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;45269074]That's not how it works, electrolytes help carry current, they don't magnify it. Neurons work via action potentials. A neural cell becomes depolarized when sodium enters it, which is what causes the action potential and muscle contraction. Table salt is sodium chloride. That said, there is no intact nervous system in the legs. The sodium is just directly deposited into the cells as opposed to the brain telling the cells to open sodium channels and let internal sodium in. This only works if the legs are fresh though, since there are still unused reserves of ATP left to actually fuel the contraction. It won't work after a while.[/QUOTE] Oops. Oh well, thanks for the corrected version.
[QUOTE=Lyonidis;45269134]Oops. Oh well, thanks for the corrected version.[/QUOTE] Anytime! I'm applying to medical school so I like to take any chance I get to teach someone sciency stuff
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