In an interview with Dick Cavett, Richard Burton described a coal seam called "the Great Atlantic fault," that goes from Spain through Wales under the Atlantic to Pennsylvania. Was he full of it? |
- In an interview with Dick Cavett, Richard Burton described a coal seam called "the Great Atlantic fault," that goes from Spain through Wales under the Atlantic to Pennsylvania. Was he full of it?
- Is HIV-1 present in Skene's gland fluid?
- During a solar maximum is it only the frequency of storms or does the average power of said events also increase?
- is a container of compressed air more bouyant in water, than the same container filled with normal air at sea level pressure, assuming both containers are the same volume? if not, what determines how bouyant a sealed air filled container is?
- Why do we gag and sometimes vomit in response to disgusting things?
- Does the fusion of tritium and deuterium end up creating hydrogen as a byproduct?
- What does warm blooded really mean? How do we create our own heat when reptiles can’t?
- Do fish gills separate hydrogen from oxygen molecularly or just take dissolved oxygen from the water?
- Is there a forensic method for sampling the smell of something?
- What animal hybrid (either existing or theoretically possible) has/can have the most distantly related parents?
- If each cutaneous nerve on the body supplies a particular area (a 'dermatome'), then how can we feel point contacts on our skin?
- Do dowsers actually work? If they do work, is there any scientific reason behind it? If they dont, is there any scientific reason why it could, even under extremely special and rare circumstances, theoretically work in the slightest?
- Is there any indication that there is a corrolation between mass shootings and hotter climates within the United States?
- is Sagittarius A a new black hole or just discovered?
- what is the current consensus on T-rex and feathers?
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 06:26 PM PDT Here is the interview. He says
It's a beautiful interview and it seems believable enough. But I can't find any references to the "Great Atlantic Fault," outside of quotes of the interview or from the 2014 movie "Pride" where Bill Nighy's character closely paraphrase's Burton's speech. Granted Burton says, "I believe it's called the Great Atlantic Fault" so maybe he just got the name wrong. But is this a real geological feature? [link] [comments] |
| Is HIV-1 present in Skene's gland fluid? Posted: 06 Jun 2022 07:00 PM PDT My background is in molecular virology of lentiviruses such as HIV, SIV and FIV. However, my clinical background is rather lacking. While I understand that HIV can be present in vaginal fluids, and perhaps the main contributor of this may be the Bartholin glands, I have not found any information on the presence of HIV in Skene's glands. Is HIV absent in this fluid? If so, is that due to certain factors within the fluid that make the virus unstable as with the case of saliva? Any publications or links would be greatly appreciated as I don't want to go down a long Pubmed rabbit hole. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 06:51 PM PDT Is the power of each solar storm more likely to be stronger? Or is it simply that there are more solar events likely to occur during that period? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 08:21 PM PDT additionally, if you sucked all of the air out of something like a metal or glass bottle (that floats if it is filled with air and sealed) so that it contained a near or complete vacuum, would it still be buoyant and would it still float? [link] [comments] |
| Why do we gag and sometimes vomit in response to disgusting things? Posted: 06 Jun 2022 09:04 PM PDT I can probably understand why eating or smelling something nasty would provoke a gag reflex and induce vomiting. I guess when there is something in your body that couldn't be accepted, gagging and vomiting act as ways to expel it. I could be misinformed so pardon my ignorance. However it dawned on me that even without taste or smell, we can experience the same physical reactions. For instance, I find spit, pee, vomit, certain kinds of food to be disgusting. Looking at these things can make me gag, tear up, and make me feel like I need to vomit. Even thinking about them alone can sometimes provoke such reactions. Why does that happen? Why does the body resort to a gag reflex and vomiting when the disgusting things aren't directly affecting the body, especially internally? Is it because the brain already associates smell, texture, and taste with these objects we've come to experience so merely looking or thinking about these objects is similar to us being directly impacted by it? [link] [comments] |
| Does the fusion of tritium and deuterium end up creating hydrogen as a byproduct? Posted: 06 Jun 2022 08:18 PM PDT I know that if Tritium and Deuterium fuse to form Helium, and that a side product is a neutron. Does this neutron decay into hydrogen, or does it join another atom? where does it go? [link] [comments] |
| What does warm blooded really mean? How do we create our own heat when reptiles can’t? Posted: 06 Jun 2022 12:55 PM PDT |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 01:18 PM PDT And if it's the latter doesn't that mean deep sea fish have less oxygen because presumably its harder for oxygen to get way down there from the churning waves on the surface? Are there pockets of ocean that are oxygen deserts for fish because of lack of plants? How do deep sea creatures compensate for the reduced oxygen? Is bit comparable to land animals living on really tall mountains? [link] [comments] |
| Is there a forensic method for sampling the smell of something? Posted: 06 Jun 2022 03:04 PM PDT If Police turn up at a crime scene and there is a particular smell present, is there any way to sample that smell for forensic purposes, or is the smell simply noted as being present (ie. what the smell smells like) by a number of the people at the scene? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 12:24 PM PDT If I recall correctly, the most distantly animals can be related to still be able to reproduce is being from different genera, but still in the same family. I'm wondering, though, which two specific animals that can be bred together are the least related? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 08:34 PM PDT So I've found out that each peripheral nerve in our body supplies a patch of area, and organ failure radiates out to these areas called 'referred pain'. So if each area is supplied by only one nerve, how can we feel specific point contacts as there is no change in the signal produced? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 07:08 PM PDT I'm talking about these guys who claim they can find undeground water sources using sticks, metal rods and/or pendulums. They start walking and wait for the selected item to react in any way to indicate direction of the water or the exact spot of the water source. It sounds like a pseudoscience but there are testimonies of people who claim they work. Like a guy who said their parents digged out lots of holes at their land, but never found water until they hired a dowser. Also, please excuse my english, not my native language. And forgive me if I used the wrong tag, I didn't know which one fitted the best. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 06:59 PM PDT it would be interesting to see if during hotter times of the year per state (when people are more irritable and DV goes up, if it also affected the absurd amount of shootings) [link] [comments] |
| is Sagittarius A a new black hole or just discovered? Posted: 06 Jun 2022 02:36 AM PDT |
| what is the current consensus on T-rex and feathers? Posted: 05 Jun 2022 09:56 PM PDT I just got done watching prehistoric planet by apple tv. It depicted trex with a scaley body, with what looked like slight hair, like an elephant would have. What is the current consensus on whether or not trex had feathers and why would the show depict them the way they did? [link] [comments] |
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