Drop some Scientific Knowledge, Say whats on your mind. Options

[*nightmare4taki*]

cuz we icey, so icey, we icey, so icey

[*basick*]

All these girls excited
Oooo ya know they like it
I'm so icy, so icy
Girl don't try to fight it
All yo friends invited
I'm so icy, so icy

[*nightmare4taki*]

I forgot the last verse so im going to go hop off in the shower
And get myself together I going to need about a hour

[*basick*]

cause I got real clientele
We ain't breaking shit down, we don't need no scales

[Aestuarium]

1+2=76

[DaTru KataLYST]

Scientists discovered that if you hand is bigger than your face, you have a high risk of having cancer.

[ag3nt_sm17h]

Schientific Sheet, eh? Let me see here.
Does anyone know that when the human body dies it loses 21 grams.
Just gone. 21 grams of weight, dissapeared. Is it the gas we expel from our lungs, no. It's not any of that. It's a mystery.

Now for the article
"The origin of the 21g figure can be traced to Duncan MacDougall, a doctor working in Haverhill, Massachusetts in the early 1900s. MacDougall had a keen fascination with death and spent part of his career on an almost obsessive hunt for evidence of the soul. He thought that if humans had a soul, it must exist in the body as some kind of material. And that material must weigh something.

MacDougall set out to test his theory with what was an excruciatingly bad experiment. In 1907, the year Einstein applied the laws of gravity to his special theory of relativity, MacDougall published his findings in American Medicine.

MacDougall's paper reveals as much about the author as it does about the quality of work that could get into medical journals at the time. MacDougall describes how he set about converting a hospital bed into a rudimentary balance so he could measure a patient's weight change as they died. The bed balance was sensitive, so to prevent his soon-to-be-dead patients from messing up his data, MacDougall hunted around for people who were dying of tuberculosis. As he noted: "It seemed to me best to select a patient dying with a disease that produces great exhaustion, the death occurring with little or no muscular movement, because in such a case, the beam could be kept more perfectly at balance and any loss occurring readily noted." In other words, there was to be no flailing around that could upset the scales.

In all, MacDougall managed to recruit a mere six dying people for his study, four of whom had tuberculosis. In turn, each was tucked up in his modified bed and their weight monitored until some minutes after their death. Any bowel movements or urination at death were fine, at least so far as the experiment was concerned, as it all stayed on the bed.

With a nod to best scientific practice, MacDougall then repeated the study with 15 dogs, which according to his religious beliefs, were not blessed with souls. It's not clear how MacDougall managed to get his dogs to die without rocking the bed, but some scientists suspect a nasty cocktail of drugs was used.

At the end of his foray into science, MacDougall declared that humans lost up to three-fourths of an ounce upon death, a figure that doesn't have quite the same ring as 21g, the metric equivalent. The dogs, he said, lost nothing. What else might it be if not the weight of the soul departing, he asked.

Before going public with his findings, MacDougall wanted to make sure that his patients' last breaths were not skewing his data, so he clambered on to the bed, (presumably once the last patient was removed and the sheets had been changed) and spent a few minutes exhaling. He then got a colleague to do the same thing. Neither managed to shift the balance enough to account for the weight loss MacDougall reported.

Despite the poor accuracy of his scales, the huge variability in his data, and the all-too-few people studied, MacDougall's experiment was also frustrated by the tricky skill of pinpointing the exact time of death. He was repeatedly challenged as to why the weight change on death appeared to take longer in some patients than others. To rebut the doubters, MacDougall wrote: "The soul's weight is removed from the body virtually at the instant of the last breath, though in persons of sluggish temperament, it may remain in the body for a full minute." He declared later in the paper: "Here we have experimental demonstration that a substance capable of being weighed does leave the body at death."

MacDougall's work was written up in the New York Times, which also covered his hope, some years later, to take a photo of the soul using x-rays. Despite being recorded in the paper that gives us all the news that's fit to print, his work is viewed with palpable embarrassment now. "It's simply not taken seriously," says Stern. "

THe end..
sorry to stretch it

[DaTru KataLYST]

Scientists discovered that 0% of cB actually bothered with that^

[ag3nt_sm17h]

Dayum... you should read it, it'll make you think...

something you don't do very often

[DaTru KataLYST]

^ For that I applaud! Undoubtly, yes, I don't read much. My bro reads like crazy tho! Freekin wha?!! Guess he got all the love-to-read genes.

BUT I READ HARRY POTTER 6 IN 2 DAYS!!



Axe is called Lynx in Europe.

[warriors1035]

the negative nebula is really a man in a giant condom?

[*nightmare4taki*]

B2K + J5(Jackson 5) = B5 = Carbon Copied

[Im So Vain]

Staring at the sun gives you AIDs.

[jeSs1cA]

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[toodlepops.]

Acid+Alkali=Salt+Water.
Duhh

[*RiC3xBoy*]

100% of people die.

[antix10_kos]

Being able to exhale a straight line of smoke means that you've effectively gotten a good hit on a ciggie or other smokable substance....

And drinking something really cold, sucking on a piece of ice, or sucking on a mint or altoid can all heighten the effects of smoking i.e. it gives you a nice tingly feeling....

Cigarettes can kill you.

Kretek are worse than cigarettes when it comes down to the speed with which it kills...Ketrek have herbs in them that open more capilaries in your lungs, clog them with tar, numb them, and then make your body crave more.....

.......

eh, it's just stuff I know. I'm legal, so what does it matter??

[DaTru KataLYST]

marshmellows don't really melt, they die. They have feelings.

[toodlepops.]

Cadbury chocolate are yummy. And fattening.