 JaLacaob
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
 1793 Posts
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Friday, April 16, 2010 1:34:27 AM
How can I trust an infogram that can't even get the language correct? |
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 bigbangbilly
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
705 Posts
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:29:10 PM
sounds fun |
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 Link364
Male, 18-29, Southern US
442 Posts
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:12:51 PM
the tounge isn't the strongest muscle, your quads are. I don't think some of this is true |
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 omg209
Male, 18-29, Asia
207 Posts
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Monday, April 12, 2010 11:49:00 PM
that 450mile hair growth sounds like bullshiet-_-
even the old asian man with longest hair is not that long..wait unless...they mean every strand of hair combined together in length hmm.. |
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 timbledum
Male, 18-29, Australia
42 Posts
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Monday, April 12, 2010 4:18:57 PM
"At the 20-week mark, the structures that will become the ovaries house roughly 6 to 7 million potential egg cells. From that point on, the number begins to decrease rapidly."
http://bit.ly/bxbRUt
They only have use of around 300-500 because there are many many that fail. Internet research for the win.
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 TheGrag
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
1548 Posts
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Monday, April 12, 2010 1:15:37 PM
One thing: Women don't "produce" egg cells, they are born with all of the ones they are ever going to have, and hit menopause when they run out(they lose one when the have Periods). The average woman has only 400-500 eggs.
Family Life,people, you learn this in school. |
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 yellowsquare
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
1602 Posts
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Monday, April 12, 2010 1:14:26 PM
I want to know where they get their "7 million eggs" statistic. Because women only produce about 500 fully-fledged oocytes in their reproductive lifetime. |
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 lyckosam
Male, 18-29, Europe
193 Posts
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Monday, April 12, 2010 6:42:30 AM
babies havent got kneecaps? what the drat! how come it doesnt hurt them to crawl? i am baffled and amazed! |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9554 Posts
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Monday, April 12, 2010 2:10:42 AM
most bacteria in your body is beneficial, and you would die without it.
Would you necessarily *die*? I know the symbiotic bacteria are very useful, but are they absolutely essential? Off the top of my head, the only two things I know of that bacteria do in humans is break down complex sugars into simpler stuff that the human digestive system can handle and act as security guards to stop other bacteria setting up camp in the vagina (which is why antibiotics often cause thrush - they kill off the "security guard" bacteria). |
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 Skreshavik
Female, 18-29, Western US
1288 Posts
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Monday, April 12, 2010 1:21:40 AM
Lies, 66Stang, because candid yeast overgrowths are the way to go B-| |
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66stang
Male, 18-29, Western US
226 Posts
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Monday, April 12, 2010 12:04:15 AM
most bacteria in your body is beneficial, and you would die without it. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9554 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:44:23 PM
um. Angilion, i think you have your facts wrong. we have about 40,000 hairs on our head
i) Most sources state at least twice that number. For some reason, the average varies a bit depending on hair colour.
ii) Humans have hair over nearly all of their body. It's extremely fine in many places for many people, sometimes too fine to even see, but it's there. If you get enough magnification on an apparently hairless part of your skin, you can see the hair follicles. The only truly hairless parts are eyelids, lips, palms and soles. Unless you have some form of baldness that stops hair growing, of course.
It's not as simple as half an inch per hair, though, because hair grows at different rates on different parts of the body. |
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 laurjendee
Female, 18-29, Canada
203 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:43:41 PM
4.4 pounds of bacteria... gross. |
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crunkadelic
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
17 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 8:27:14 PM
um. Angilion, i think you have your facts wrong. we have about 40,000 hairs on our head |
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broizfam
Male, 50-59, Eastern US
702 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:37:12 PM
To The-Sentinel,
Good point. Maybe it refers to the total daily growth of each hair on the body, added up. I still don't think it'll add up 65 feet per day, though. Maybe on Chewbacca, but not a human. |
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 Spider_sol
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1454 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:32:07 PM
Bill Nye taught me that the surface area of my lungs are the same as a tennis court!
Picture a sponge, it may only be as big as your lungs(ish) but it can hold water because of the holes in it. It's all about surface area! |
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 tangello
Female, 13-17, Western US
898 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:19:45 PM
"every human bends HER finger....." yeah. |
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 Hotubs
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
99 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 5:09:51 PM
wow, from reading the comments half of these people need to go back to school... |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9554 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 5:06:09 PM
The one about hair growing 450 miles is bullsh*t. it grows 1/2 - 1 inch a month = 1ft a year, average = 75ft a lifetime.
Per hair.
Humans average about 5 million hairs. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9554 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 4:55:23 PM
evry human bends HER finger 25 mill times in a lifetime whats up with the her?
If you use what are now male-specific pronouns due to recent changes in English, quite a lot of people will complain.
Because most of those people are sexist hypocrites, they will not complain if you use what are and always have been female-specific pronouns.
It's generally considered to be a good thing to exclude male people from consideration on a social/political scale - that's what feminism is and it's been very successful.
So the common use of language increasingly excludes male people - doing so matches current social norms and thus attracts fewer complaints.
The other options are to make up pronouns, which will result in ridicule, or use plural pronouns (which are sex-neutral), which will result in complaints about grammar.
I think it's better to change grammar than to exclude half of humanity. 'They' can work well enough as both si |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9554 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 4:47:45 PM
I don't get how the area of my lungs is equivalent to a tennis court....
That might be true in terms of total surface area. Lungs aren't just bags of air - there's a lot of complex structure inside.
A quick way to visually illustrate the idea is to get a sheet of paper and fold it like a concertina.
A4 is roughly 8x12 inches, so surface area is roughly 96 inches.
Fold it every inch along the longer side and you end up with a piece of paper that's 8x1 inches. Same piece of paper, same surface area, but the folding makes it seem much smaller. |
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 gorgack2000
Male, 13-17, Europe
4702 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 2:11:13 PM
[Citation needed]. |
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 The-Sentinel
Male, 18-29, Europe
1166 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 1:31:54 PM
@ broizfam
probably is 65 feet a day, considering there are 100,000 - 200,000 hairs on your head alone it's understandable.
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 idiotfilter
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
3934 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 1:30:18 PM
i saw the same thing wolfking and then realize....women bend their finger for...ahem...things men don't.... |
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 Piepig
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
1529 Posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:43:40 AM
I don't get how the area of my lungs is equivalent to a tennis court.... |
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