10 Science Facts

[Uriah]

I will fight to the end

With biotech you can have nanobots running around within you, monitoring, repairing, limiting stimuli as you please. A suit isn't so bad for space, because we won't be out in open space much anyways. Robotics, it seems to me, will be an external thing, whereas biotech goes within. I take my ideas from Ray Kurzweil, who hasn't been wrong 'up until now'

Also, what about sex!?

Lol, in any case, im very excited for the future of technology and possible options for immortality. Being a robot is better than being dead, i suppose.

[vezzy]

I take my ideas from Ray Kurzweil, who hasn't been wrong 'up until now'

You look forward to the technological singularity?

[Mordred]

You look forward to the technological singularity?

From my personal point of view it can't come fast enough.



Today's theme: Insects! Yeah baby!


1. For every person on the earth, there are two hundred million insects. More insects can be found in only ten square feet of rainforest than there are people in Manhattan. One square mile of rural land can hold more insects than there are human beings on Earth.

2. Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.

3. Each year, insects eat about a third of the world’s food crops.

4. In contrast, each year the average person will “eat” several insects while they are sleeping. During the average lifetime, a person consumes about seventy insects and ten spiders during their sleep. According to some sources, beetles have a taste that is similar to apples while wasps taste like pine nuts.

5. The Department of Health and Human Services has set standards regarding how many insect parts are food can contain, called the Food Defect Action Levels. Chocolate can have up to eight insect fragments per hundred grams, while peanut butter can have only sixty fragments. Meanwhile, wheat flour can have 150 fragments per hundred grams and paprika can have 300 fragments.

6. The smallest insect in the world, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye on a housefly. The largest insect is the goliath beetle, which can grow up to four and half inches long.

7. Slavery is not strictly a human condition. Amazon ants will steal larvae of other ants to be their slaves. They depend upon these slaves for their survival because Amazon ants are incapable of doing anything other than fight.

8. An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.

9. The most dangerous ant in the world is the black bulldog ant. It lives in Australia and has killed several human beings. When provoked, it stings and bites at the same time.

10. There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000 ants.

[Mordred]

Today's theme: More Insects!


1. A flea can jump about two hundred times the length of their body, which is about thirteen inches. This is the equivalent to a six foot tall human jumping nine hundred feet.

2. A cockroach can live nine days without eating. This is also the same amount of time that the body of a cockroach can live after its head has been cut off before it eventually dies from starvation.

3. Mosquitoes have forty-seven teeth. They do not use these to bite, however. Instead, they have a proboscis, which is a tubular appendage.

4. Mosquitoes are more likely to bite children than adults, blonde-haired people rather than brown-haired people, and people wearing dark clothing. They are also attracted to people who just ate bananas or finished exercising. This is because foods high in potassium and exercising cause your body to release lactic acid, which is attractive to mosquitoes.

5. Citronella does not repel mosquitoes through its smell. Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates its feet.

6. Mosquitoes are responsible causing the most human deaths worldwide than any other animal-almost two million annually. They do this by transmitting diseases such as the West Nile virus, malaria, and Dengue fever. Second to this is the tsetse fly, which kills about 66,000 people annually.

7. Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour, making them one of the fastest insects. This is good since they are in a big hurry, as they only live about twenty-four hours.

8. Flies jump backwards during takeoff.

9. A housefly will regurgitate its food and eat it again.

10. Termites outweigh humans by almost ten to one.

[Mordred]

Today's theme: The Amazing Human Brain: Part I

1. Weight. The weight of the human brain is about 3 lbs.

2. Cerebrum. The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain and makes up 85% of the brain’s weight.

3. Skin. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.

4. Gray matter. The brain’s gray matter is made up of neurons, which gather and transmit signals.

5. White matter. The white matter is made up of dendrites and axons, which create the network by which neurons send their signals.

6. Gray and white. Your brain is 60% white matter and 40% gray matter.

7. Water. The brain is made up of about 75% water.

8. Neurons. Your brain consists of about 100 billion neurons.

9. Synapses. There are anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 synapses for each neuron.

10. No pain. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.

[Mordred]

Today's theme: The Amazing Human Brain: Part II

1. Largest brain. While an elephant’s brain is physically larger than a human brain, the human brain is 2% of total body weight (compared to 0.15% of an elephant’s brain), meaning humans have the largest brain to body size.

2. Blood vessels. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain.

3. Fat. The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consists of at least 60% fat.

4. Neurons. Neurons develop at the rate of 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy.

5. Size at birth. At birth, your brain was almost the same size as an adult brain and contained most of the brain cells for your whole life.

6. Newborn’s growth. A newborn baby’s brain grows about three times its size in the first year.

7. Stopped growing. Your brain stopped growing at age 18.

8. Cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex grows thicker as you learn to use it.

9. Stimulation. A stimulating environment for a child can make the difference between a 25% greater ability to learn or 25% less in an environment with little stimulation.

10. New neurons. Humans continue to make new neurons throughout life in response to mental activity.

[Cyl3er-Ghost]

sorry for reply but..
"dragonflies live for years as larvae, and adults can live for months."