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SofaKingI t1_j6ln1zz wrote
Reply to comment by open_door_policy in TIL Dr. Drew's first appearance on television was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. by WalkingDown46
Half of the guy's Wikipedia page is the "Controversies" section.
Really just says it all.
SofaKingI t1_j5wa8kr wrote
Reply to comment by Suspicious_Ad_4768 in What determines whether we can create a vaccine for an illness or not? by ShelfordPrefect
Keep in mind that "hides" is a massive oversimplification.
Anyway, I don't think Rabies "hides" in the same sense as herpes. It doesn't lay dormant in your nerve cells for years until the next chance to cause an outbreak. It just infects nerve cells.
SofaKingI t1_j5bfbdu wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand by krxwe
>The conjunction of three eyelids with an arid sandy environment, seems as illogical
Having an extra translucent eyelid to protect from sand while still being able to see a bit "seems illogical"? What?
It's basically desert goggles.
SofaKingI t1_j5beven wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand by krxwe
>and let nature takes its course.
You mean evolution?
SofaKingI t1_j5be19p wrote
Reply to comment by DiabeticPissingSyrup in TIL Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand by krxwe
>Through repeated effort, however, humans can recover some ability to wiggle their ears.
I can't tell if this is a joke. How would someone do that?
SofaKingI t1_j4lh295 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd Century BCE was the first to present the model of the Sun as the center of our Solar system and also placed the other known planets in correct order of distance from the sun. He also correctly surmised that stars were other far distant suns. by CapnFancyPants
I feel like you're doing what the other comment is cautioning against.
Those are modern concepts and only vaguely similar. Our brains tend to jump to the closest thing we know and there's a lot of mysticism about ancient, forgotten knowledge, but Ancient Greeks had no idea about spacetime or dark energy or any of that.
Their fifth element (or aether) was just a substance a bit like air but with very different properties, that existed outside the Earth's sphere beyond the Moon. It was what gods breathed. They made it up to explain things they didn't understand. For example, they said air naturally moved in a straight line (wind), but aether moved only in circles and that's why planets had a circular orbit. It was what held the stars up in the sky.
SofaKingI t1_j2cw4gl wrote
Reply to comment by jerrycotton in ELI5: Why plates get too hot to touch in the mircrowave but the food can still be cold? by jerrycotton
FYI that comment is full of inaccuracies.
Molecules moving doesn't cause friction, which creates heat and increases temperature . The vibration of molecules IS temperature.
Heat transfer also only works from the hotter object to the colder one. Once the plate is hotter than the food, heat transfer can't possibly be occuring from the food to the plate. It's the other way around.
So the reason the plate is so hot can't possibly be that it's taking heat directly from the food. The plate's material is absorbing the microwaves.
That last paragraph doesn't even make sense.
SofaKingI t1_jckmdtm wrote
Reply to comment by Long-Performer-2993 in Study of 1.65M COVID Vaccine Doses Finds Rare "Myocarditis" Generally Mild—More Than Half of Patients Didn't Need to be Hospitalized by Voices4Vaccines
It was on every label listing side effects...