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I bet you didnt know that

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Make sure you don't drink it so;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Won't someone please think of the homeopaths?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,662 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    I wouldn't expect to see milk in turf now.

    Butter has been found in it ;)

    Bog Butter

    As have bodies :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Humans have between 2-8,000 taste buds, enough to enjoy a wide variety of culinary delights. Cows, with their varied diet of eh, grass, have on average 25,000 taste buds!

    That's why they taste lovely!

    Not your ornery onager



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Didn’t know the worlds greatest blagger Orson Welles got his start in the Gate theatre in Dublin. He literally blagged his way into the job too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,051 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    david75 wrote: »
    Didn’t know the worlds greatest blagger Orson Welles got his start in the Gate theatre in Dublin. He literally blagged his way into the job too.

    Spent some time selling paintings to farmers in the West too. Somebody may have an original Welles painting on their walls in Clare or thereabouts. :)

    Fascinating man.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Spent some time selling paintings to farmers in the West too. Somebody may have an original Welles painting on their walls in Clare or thereabouts. :)

    Fascinating man.

    Didn’t know that!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Riva10


    david75 wrote: »
    Didn’t know that!!

    Did'nt know you didn't know that. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Riva10 wrote: »
    Did'nt know you didn't know that. :)

    Neither did I! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    And luckily so. Without all those "impurities" such as minerals etc being present in the first place, pure water if consumed, would strip them from your body and slowly but surely kill you! Or at least make you very ill.

    Does rain water have minerals in it? Don't think there would be much in the way of pollutants in the rain over here in the West.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Riva10 wrote: »
    Did'nt know you didn't know that. :)

    As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Oldtree wrote: »
    Does rain water have minerals in it? Don't think there would be much in the way of pollutants in the rain over here in the West.
    Iirc, water vapour condenses around dust to form drops that fall as rain.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Riva10


    As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
    I Knew That ;)


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.

    I know what I know and I know some of what I don't know and I don't know what unknowns I don't know because they're of an unknown quantity.

    If you know what I mean.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Candie wrote: »
    I know what I know and I know some of what I don't know and I don't know what unknowns I don't know because they're of an unknown quantity.

    If you know what I mean.

    I know.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I know.

    And I knew you did.






    This could go on ad infinitum so I'll shut up now. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Candie wrote: »
    And I knew you did.

    you lost me there, what was the question again?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I know.

    I knew too but I didn't know you knew.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oldtree wrote: »
    you lost me there, what was the question again?

    Damned if I know!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Iirc, water vapour condenses around dust to form drops that fall as rain.

    What is that 'Dust'? is it fine sand/nuclear fallout? What i'm trying to get at is the mineral content of the rain water and where it gets it? does it absorb the dust content?

    My reason for asking is that I have been drinking rain water for years and am not dead yet. :D but sbsquarepants has me worried so there must be some mineral content in the rain water if he/she correct.
    And luckily so. Without all those "impurities" such as minerals etc being present in the first place, pure water if consumed, would strip them from your body and slowly but surely kill you! Or at least make you very ill.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Candie wrote: »
    Damned if I know!

    Maby Professor Moriarty will reprhase for us? :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Riva10


    Candie wrote: »
    Damned if I know!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKXHEPXeQXo :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Oldtree wrote: »
    What is that 'Dust'? is it fine sand/nuclear fallout? What i'm trying to get at is the mineral content of the rain water and where it gets it? does it absorb the dust content?

    My reason for asking is that I have been drinking rain water for years and am not dead yet. :D but sbsquarepants has me worried so there must be some mineral content in the rain water if he/she correct.
    Just normal dust and sand, the more microscopic pieces carried aloft as they as smaller and blowing around in the atmosphere.

    An example would be the dust splatters left on a car after a summer shower and the rain left on the car evaporating. The bigger grains left on the car would be atmospheric dust blowing around at ground level but the smaller grains would be from forming rain.

    At least that was the way it was explained to us in school.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,127 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.

    "we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    So if the human body is mostly water, how long would it take to totally evaporate? You’d have to stay still for bloody ages.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭Dufflecoat Fanny


    No one has ever been in an empty room


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Just normal dust and sand, the more microscopic pieces carried aloft as they as smaller and blowing around in the atmosphere.

    An example would be the dust splatters left on a car after a summer shower and the rain left on the car evaporating. The bigger grains left on the car would be atmospheric dust blowing around at ground level but the smaller grains would be from forming rain.

    At least that was the way it was explained to us in school.

    It also contains dissolved chemicals, carbon dioxide being the main one, plus any pollutants in the air.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    A recent enough book also claims he was more or less openly homosexual in his younger life and had several same sex relationships before going all genocidal and whatnot.

    There's also a strong possibility he had Jewish ancestory. His grandmother worked as a maid in a wealthy Jewish household and it was rumoured that the 19 year old son had a secret affair with her. She became pregnant with Hitler's father and suddenly moved away, after the birth she left the section for the father's name blank on the birth cert. It's alleged that she received regular payments from the boy's father for a number of years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,732 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    There's also a strong possibility he had Jewish ancestory. His grandmother worked as a maid in a wealthy Jewish household and it was rumoured that the 19 year old son had a secret affair with her. She became pregnant with Hitler's father and suddenly moved away, after the birth she left the section for the father's name blank on the birth cert. It's alleged that she received regular payments from the boy's father for a number of years.

    Didn’t see that coming at all! :eek:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Didn’t see that coming at all! :eek:
    Well it's not set in stone, some say she was sleeping with another lad (chap A) at the same time as the jewish son and he got her pregnant so they decided to scam the rich Jewish lad by pretending the baby belonged to him. Other people say she was having an affair with chap A's brother behind his back and the baby was actually his (he took Hitler's father in after chap A died). And some people say she was being secretly diddled by the Jewish father as well as the son and the baby could have belonged to either of them.
    It wouldn't be out of place on Jeremy Kyle or Jerry Springer!

    Here's a piece about DNA tests they ran on his ancestors http://www.history.com/news/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-had-jewish-and-african-ancestors


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,861 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    And luckily so. Without all those "impurities" such as minerals etc being present in the first place, pure water if consumed, would strip them from your body and slowly but surely kill you! Or at least make you very ill.

    The minerals we get from water are not needed. We get all the minerals we need from food. There is nothing wrong with drinking purified water. Reverse osmosis manufacturers only supply re-mineralising cartridges because of the above myth and for peace of mind to the consumer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    The minerals we get from water are not needed. We get all the minerals we need from food. There is nothing wrong with drinking purified water. Reverse osmosis manufacturers only supply re-mineralising cartridges because of the above myth and for peace of mind to the consumer

    It's not so much that they are needed by the body, it's that if they weren't there in the first place, the pure water you ingested would absorb them from your body leaving you deficient. I'm talking about pure H20 - I'm not sure how pure the water from a reverse osmosis pump is, but I doubt it's anything approaching actually pure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Well it's not set in stone, some say she was sleeping with another lad (chap A) at the same time as the jewish son and he got her pregnant so they decided to scam the rich Jewish lad by pretending the baby belonged to him. Other people say she was having an affair with chap A's brother behind his back and the baby was actually his (he took Hitler's father in after chap A died). And some people say she was being secretly diddled by the Jewish father as well as the son and the baby could have belonged to either of them.
    It wouldn't be out of place on Jeremy Kyle or Jerry Springer!

    Here's a piece about DNA tests they ran on his ancestors http://www.history.com/news/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-had-jewish-and-african-ancestors


    A result like that doesn't really indicate he was Jewish, the category E1b1 is very broad and the mutation originated 22,000 years ago and has many subgroups.
    Most likely am insular group like Jews would have their own group.
    DNA testing has come a long way in the last 8 years so if his result was run through a public database you could see what ethnic group the matches are from.
    Also, an autosomal result would be a better indicator of any recent Jewish ancestry.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_haplogroups_of_historic_people#Adolf_Hitler


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭VandC


    It's not so much that they are needed by the body, it's that if they weren't there in the first place, the pure water you ingested would absorb them from your body leaving you deficient. I'm talking about pure H20 - I'm not sure how pure the water from a reverse osmosis pump is, but I doubt it's anything approaching actually pure.

    Do you have a source for this? I feel that I am perhaps being pedantic but the water we consume either from tap, bottle, purified or whatever is not already saturated with the minerals contained within our bodies. Given that, surely then drinking any water would leech the minerals from our body, it wouldn't matter how pure it is. Purity would allow for water to absorb more but containing some mineral wouldn't mean that it couldn't dissolve any more. (i.e. if 100ml pure water could dissolve 20mg Ca, then bottled water already containing 1mg/100ml would only be able to absorb 19mg more - I realise other factors at play and these aren't real figures but just to give the jist of what I'm saying).


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    There's always water intoxication. And I suppose, the lower the mineral content, the bigger the likelihood of it occurring.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭Evade


    VandC wrote: »
    Do you have a source for this? I feel that I am perhaps being pedantic but the water we consume either from tap, bottle, purified or whatever is not already saturated with the minerals contained within our bodies. Given that, surely then drinking any water would leech the minerals from our body, it wouldn't matter how pure it is. Purity would allow for water to absorb more but containing some mineral wouldn't mean that it couldn't dissolve any more. (i.e. if 100ml pure water could dissolve 20mg Ca, then bottled water already containing 1mg/100ml would only be able to absorb 19mg more - I realise other factors at play and these aren't real figures but just to give the jist of what I'm saying).

    It has to do with the tonicity of the water relative to your body/cells. If the mineral content of the water is too low your cells will try absorb water in order to balance out the mineral content in your cells to the water. If the cells try to absorb too much water they can burst. The opposite is also bad. If there's too high a mineral content in the water it can leech water out of your cells causing them to not function properly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    VandC wrote: »
    Do you have a source for this?.

    https://curiosity.com/topics/you-should-not-drink-ultra-pure-water-its-dangerous-curiosity/

    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-purest-of-them-all/

    It's not exactly peer reviewed science, but it's what I could find quickly in work!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    New Home wrote: »
    There's always water intoxication. And I suppose, the lower the mineral content, the bigger the likelihood of it occurring.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

    That appears to be from more from extreme circumstances like overdoing the water after popping a pill. I'm not sure if it would happen in a normal circumstances.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    That happened to my aunt when she was a teenager, and she definitely wasn't on drugs.

    It also happened to Anthony Andrews during a play, he was downing 8 litres of water a day and he ended up in ICU, completely unconscious, for three days.

    I'm not saying it's very common, but it's not that unlikely either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    Apparently the Moon orbits us from the west to the east, but we see it move across the sky east to west because of the rate of the Earth’s rotation. The analogy is that it’s like being in a faster car watching a slower car (heading in the same absolute direction) fall further and further behind.

    https://cseligman.com/text/sky/moonmotion.htm


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Ineedaname


    Apparently the Moon orbits us from the west to the east, but we see it move across the sky east to west because of the rate of the Earth’s rotation. The analogy is that it’s like being in a faster car watching a slower car (heading in the same absolute direction) fall further and further behind.

    https://cseligman.com/text/sky/moonmotion.htm

    Mercury's orbit of the sun is even weirder. It has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets and it's day is almost exactly two thirds of it's year. These two things combined lead to a very unusual day.

    If you were standing in the right place you'd see the sun rise from the east, stop, go backwards, rise again and then set in the west.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Army_of_One


    Ineedaname wrote: »
    If you were standing in the right place you'd see the sun rise from the east, stop, go backwards, rise again and then set in the west.
    while getting a lovely tan :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Ineedaname


    while getting a lovely tan :)

    Nights on Mercury can reach -173 degrees so you better pack a warm jacket.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Army_of_One


    Ineedaname wrote: »
    Nights on Mercury can reach -173 degrees so you better pack a warm jacket.

    Ah I'll just hop back in my spaceship :)

    Having said I would love to see that type of environment up close...never gonna happen!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Ineedaname


    Ah I'll just hop back in my spaceship :)

    Having said I would love to see that type of environment up close...never gonna happen!

    Yeah defo. There's some amazing sights all across the solar system that it would be great to see up close.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Which of them is it than when it rains, whatever the atmosphere is made from, it rains diamonds? Is that in our system or elsewhere?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭stop animal cruelty


    There's 5 million cows and 7 million sheep in Ireland. That's the best l can offer !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,384 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    david75 wrote: »
    Which of them is it than when it rains, whatever the atmosphere is made from, it rains diamonds? Is that in our system or elsewhere?

    You're thinking of Kerry.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    You're thinking of Kerry.

    The wild Atlantic rip off? Let’s not :)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,127 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    david75 wrote: »
    Which of them is it than when it rains, whatever the atmosphere is made from, it rains diamonds? Is that in our system or elsewhere?
    Nope, no diamond rain. Diamonds need serious pressure.

    If you heat a diamond up without pressure it will turn into a worthless chunk of carbon.





    Diamonds are found at the heart of very large carbon rich planets and stuff.

    About 50 light years away there's a star called Lucy that's a little heavier than our sun. And depending on who you believe it's mostly diamond.


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