TychaBrahe
TychaBrahe OP t1_j0egmk2 wrote
Reply to comment by hurryupand_wait in TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent. by TychaBrahe
No one knows.
TychaBrahe OP t1_j0aju03 wrote
Reply to comment by jaymae77 in TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent. by TychaBrahe
No one knows.
TychaBrahe t1_ix979sg wrote
Reply to AskScience AMA Series: I'm a wildlife filmmaker who's spent years tracking and filming the endangered ocelot population in Texas. Ask me anything! by AskScienceModerator
I just watched your video last week! It was fascinating and beautiful.
Can citizens, especially non-Texans, exert any pressure to help you in your goals to strengthen the breeding population? Your film discusses several things that could be done, but none have been, after years of watching the population decline.
TychaBrahe t1_j29hevp wrote
Reply to comment by T1N7 in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus
To expand on this, Aristotle believed that all matter was made up of a mix of four different elements: fire, air, water, and earth; in that order. Things wanted to return to their natural place.
The Sun was above the air of the sky because fire was naturally above air. If you created a fire here on Earth, one of the effects was that sparks would rise, and this was seen as the element fire naturally seeking its place above the air.
Rain was element water that got above element air, and wanted to be beneath it. That's why rain fell. Your average objects, like a rock or a piece of metal, would fall because they were made of element earth. Thus they were naturally attracted to earth, and if they find themselves unsupported in element air, they will naturally fall.