People used to take arsenic, mercury, and all other types of poison like strychnine to treat certain ailments. Just because scientists thought something was "the best" at one time doesn't mean it will never be improved!!
People used to take arsenic, mercury, and all other types of poison like strychnine to treat certain ailments. Just because scientists thought something was "the best" at one time doesn't mean it will never be improved!!
Shit man, a marathon runner in the 1904 Olympics was given strychnine and brandy.
Hicks, one of the early American favorites, came under the care of a two-man support crew at the 10-mile mark. He begged them for a drink but they refused, instead sponging out his mouth with warm distilled water. Seven miles from the finish, his handlers fed him a concoction of strychnine and egg whites—the first recorded instance of drug use in the modern Olympics. Strychnine, in small doses, was commonly used a stimulant, and at the time there were no rules about performance-enhancing drugs. Hicks’ team also carried a flask of French brandy but decided to withhold it until they could gauge the runner’s condition.
There was also the whole 'Radithor' debacle . . . radium infused water as a health drink.
Within two years, Eben Byers was dead. His jaw had rotted off, and he had anemia and a brain abscess to boot. He was so radioactive, he was buried in a lead-lined coffin.
There's some pictures of Eben Byers floating around . . . they're more graphic than the Radium Girls.
To be fair, supposedly it did work for that... more insufficient clinical trials. Clearly society doesn’t learn from the past. But we already knew that.
it's more to do with definitions and semantics. a planet was redefined as (among other things) a body that clears a path around its star. pluto's in the middle of the kuiper belt which is chock full of bodies. therefore pluto was demoted to a 'planetoid'.
I went the other way, and I include Ceres, Eros, and the rest of those little bastards as Planets too.
And since my Science Credentials are at least as legit as Bill Nye the Bachelor of Engineering's, Earth now has over one dozen brothers and sisters orbiting Sol.
I thought of was "dwarf planet". In any case, its a stupid definition (clearing its orbit) because imagine a Neptune sized planet out in the keiper belt. Hasn't cleared out its orbit, but its huge. Is it not a planet? What would you call it?
I prefer basing it on size and roundness. Round enough? Planet. Round but smaller than X size/mass? Minor planet. Larger? Major planet, or just planet.
planetoid, plutoid, dwarf planet. i think they all mean the same thing.
a quick websearch shows that neptune does not orbit within the kuiper belt
The Kuiper Belt is a ring of icy bodies just outside of Neptune's orbit. Pluto is the most famous Kuiper Belt Object. The Sun is at the center of our solar system. It is orbited by eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
edit: i noticed you said 'imagine' neptune is in the kuiper belt. if an object of that mass were in an asteroid belt for millions of years it would have captured or ejected all the smaller bodies over time.
Science told me that Pluto was a planet.
Science told us to eat trans fats in the 80’s and 90’s to prevent heart disease.
That worked out pretty well....
Science told my mom to take Thalidomide for her morning sickness when pregnant.
Now I have no arms and legs and have to type this with my nose.
People used to take arsenic, mercury, and all other types of poison like strychnine to treat certain ailments. Just because scientists thought something was "the best" at one time doesn't mean it will never be improved!!
Shit man, a marathon runner in the 1904 Olympics was given strychnine and brandy.
There was also the whole 'Radithor' debacle . . . radium infused water as a health drink.
There's some pictures of Eben Byers floating around . . . they're more graphic than the Radium Girls.
bUt iTs tHe BeSt We GoT!!!!
No. God is. And our own experience.
Scientists also recommended pouring acid on women’s genitals as a way to prevent masturbation
So, according to Neil, I should go douse my pussy in some battery acid because science™️ said it was good
Science also told us that that HCQ was dangerous and had 0 potential to help with COVID in any regard... I remember that...
Science also told us that Remdesivir worked on COVID. Funny how it was only found not to work after the company pumping it had made billions 🤔
To be fair, supposedly it did work for that... more insufficient clinical trials. Clearly society doesn’t learn from the past. But we already knew that.
They also told us to eat 'heart-healthy' oils which actually rose cardiac issues. They also simultaneously tell us to eat and to not eat eggs.
Food-science is by far the most bipolar especially when you see how much it is skewed by corporations.
It’s not even that. It’s some things are healthy for you at certain stages of life and current conditions compared to other things.
DDT and asbestos have entered the chat.
Pluto is infrastructure.
inb4 Democrats put "foreign aid to Pluto" in next spending bill
I'd rather send money to Pluto than some muslim shit-hole-a-stan
relevant trump tweet https://i.imgur.com/dIpN56r.jpg
It's how to watch Bannon
And then science said it wasn’t a planet. Then we went there and found that it is in fact a planet. Pluto is a planet.
NdGT's ego is a planet.
it's more to do with definitions and semantics. a planet was redefined as (among other things) a body that clears a path around its star. pluto's in the middle of the kuiper belt which is chock full of bodies. therefore pluto was demoted to a 'planetoid'.
I went the other way, and I include Ceres, Eros, and the rest of those little bastards as Planets too.
And since my Science Credentials are at least as legit as Bill Nye the Bachelor of Engineering's, Earth now has over one dozen brothers and sisters orbiting Sol.
Dopes that redefined that didn’t think of comets
And I know not all comets do but some do. And there’s man made satellites and whatever else law I can’t think of that would fit this definition.
I thought of was "dwarf planet". In any case, its a stupid definition (clearing its orbit) because imagine a Neptune sized planet out in the keiper belt. Hasn't cleared out its orbit, but its huge. Is it not a planet? What would you call it?
I prefer basing it on size and roundness. Round enough? Planet. Round but smaller than X size/mass? Minor planet. Larger? Major planet, or just planet.
planetoid, plutoid, dwarf planet. i think they all mean the same thing.
a quick websearch shows that neptune does not orbit within the kuiper belt
edit: i noticed you said 'imagine' neptune is in the kuiper belt. if an object of that mass were in an asteroid belt for millions of years it would have captured or ejected all the smaller bodies over time.
Ha!
He's Mickey's dog
Pluto's a good boy.
He dindu nuffin
No, he's the Roman god of the underworld.
PLUTO IS A FUCKING PLANET! YEAH BITCH!!
Poor Pluto got cancelled before getting cancelled was cool