Amazing scientific facts most people will find hard to believe
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January 10, 2021 at 7:09 pm #35959
Give a fact and some article in support of it. Not something only a PhD or a person with specialized knowledge could comprehend, but an article or, better, a brief video in support.
Of course, I’ll start. It literally rains diamonds on Saturn. And Neptune and possibly on the other gas giants as well.
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January 10, 2021 at 7:35 pm #35961I think it’s particularly interesting just how difficult it would be to “mine” those diamonds. Considering the amount of pressure it takes for those diamonds to form so quickly we would need some space ship made out of a near indestructible material just to get down there (and survive air compression on the way) AND the ability to reach Jupiter’s escape velocity when leaving. You’d also need some interesting aerodynamics to navigate the near tornado currents in the atmosphere. Since it would be beyond impracticable to bring the fuel required to escape it would need some exotic propulsion technology. Also, that near indestructible material that makes up the ship would also have to shield people from the insane amount of radiation the planet emits. I would imagine one day if we developed transporter technology that we could just transport them but perhaps by then we would also have developed replicator technology making it pointless?
January 10, 2021 at 8:08 pm #35962Apologies for starting off topic but you just reminded me of this short story, The Diamond Maker, that I read over 45 years ago.
January 10, 2021 at 8:47 pm #35963The whites around our eyes may be there to help humans communicate and cooperate, by showing directions of things to others.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150808-gorillas-with-human-eyes
January 10, 2021 at 9:46 pm #35964I think it’s particularly interesting just how difficult it would be to “mine” those diamonds. Considering the amount of pressure it takes for those diamonds to form so quickly we would need some space ship made out of a near indestructible material just to get down there (and survive air compression on the way) AND the ability to reach Jupiter’s escape velocity when leaving. You’d also need some interesting aerodynamics to navigate the near tornado currents in the atmosphere. Since it would be beyond impracticable to bring the fuel required to escape it would need some exotic propulsion technology. Also, that near indestructible material that makes up the ship would also have to shield people from the insane amount of radiation the planet emits. I would imagine one day if we developed transporter technology that we could just transport them but perhaps by then we would also have developed replicator technology making it pointless?
Despite the increased supply, the costs involved and the time commitment would likely make those diamonds far more expensive than paying poor Africans a pittance to mine them. In Russia and elsewhere they are mined just like other minerals with heavy machinery.
The satellite technology that allows companies to locate likely places to look for oil is now doing the same for diamond-mining companies.
Much of the expense of diamonds comes from an artificial scarcity managed by the friendly folks at deBeers and Russia, among others, who sit on vast holdings of unmined as well as mined diamonds to keep prices inflated.
Read more here.
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January 10, 2021 at 9:50 pm #35966The whites around our eyes may be there to help humans communicate and cooperate, by showing directions of things to others. http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150808-gorillas-with-human-eyes
I’ll have to try that sometime. LOL
Also, when you do an eyeroll because someone is doing or saying something stupid.
January 10, 2021 at 10:05 pm #35967It sure looks like birds were hip to quantum mechanics long before genius human scientists.
January 10, 2021 at 10:26 pm #35968That is amazing how birds navigate. I swear we get the same painted buntings to our feeder every year…
Sunfish (Mola Mola) dive to depths of up to 650 feet to snack on jellyfish and are the largest bony fish (5,000 lbs). I have seen them floating at the surface, but never had I imagined they could go that deep.
https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/11/27/meet-the-magnificently-weird-mola-mola/
January 10, 2021 at 11:26 pm #35969Maybe this one isn’t astounding, but I bet most people think of a large wolf as being about the same mass as a German Shepherd, which, for a large male is around 90 lb according to most kennel club standards. Incredibly, that’s about half the weight of a large Timber Wolf which could weigh 175 lb. Look at how big the head of this Canadian Timber Wolf is compared the woman’s. Basically, just his face is about as big as her entire head.
(BTW, Timber Wolf is aka Gray Wolf.)
January 10, 2021 at 11:44 pm #35972Hippos are now an invasive species in Colombia.
January 11, 2021 at 1:01 am #35973I was actually thinking of some case in the future where we relied on diamonds for some form of technology and needed an abundance which would make diamond mining so essential. In fact scientists believe there are even diamond planets. I suppose we could even make our entire wardrobes out of diamonds couldn’t we? What would the new status symbol be for the insanely rich? Dark-matter earings?
January 11, 2021 at 2:44 am #35974I was actually thinking of some case in the future where we relied on diamonds for some form of technology and needed an abundance which would make diamond mining so essential. In fact scientists believe there are even diamond planets. I suppose we could even make our entire wardrobes out of diamonds couldn’t we? What would the new status symbol be for the insanely rich? Dark-matter earings?
The price of diamonds is artificially high due to the market manipulation of the de Beers Company, the Russians, and a few others. It’s like the oil cartel.
January 12, 2021 at 6:34 pm #36004What color is a zebra? Because they often have a large white belly patch, many would say that they are white with black stripes. However, science says the opposite.
And why are zebras striped at all? It’s all about an insect.
January 12, 2021 at 8:57 pm #36005January 12, 2021 at 11:19 pm #36008Since _Roger_ didn’t explain, I’ll say that during WW2 they used to camouflage ships this way. This doesn’t appear to be a warship (I could be wrong) but from a distance, a ship painted like this especially with terrain in the background would make it very hard for a submarine commander to identify it.
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