KerikBalm Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 So far, today, the most interesting thing in my life is seeing a video about an event in someone else's life: Also I learned (if youtube comments are to be believed), you can't get any money from monetizing youtube videos without having 1000 subscribers. Also, I learned that this is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_ambiguus https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/heterotaxy-syndrome https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/heterotaxy-syndrome-isomerism I don't know if that's interesting to others, but I think its weird that there are some people going around with their insides all rearranged.. and apparently living to old age like that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzgy Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 3 hours ago, KerikBalm said: I don't know if that's interesting to others, but I think its weird that there are some people going around with their insides all rearranged.. and apparently living to old age like that... Hey, long as all the bits work well enough, I don't think placement would matter too much. Would probably be a nightmare for surgeons though. Also I think a family friend actually does have her heart on the wrong side. I think, not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, qzgy said: Also I think a family friend actually does have her heart on the wrong side. I think, not sure. My cousin has Situs Inversus. Not only is everything on the wrong side, but it's mirrored. So if she ever needs an organ transplant, the donor would also need to have Situs Inversus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p1t1o Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 (edited) FunFactTM: amino acids (apart from glycine) come in L & D enantiomers, and the vast majority in all biological organisms are the L enantiomer. (there are instances where D-versions are present but there are extreme exception and are often translated in-situ from the L-variant). Things start to go deeply, deeply wrong if D-enantiomers are introduced where they should not be. IIRC some forms of Alzheimers have been linked to D-enantiomer amino acid exposure. Apparently this is just a quirk of evolution on Earth, at some point the L-enantiomers were used and from then on its just what we went with. "We" meaning all protein-forming organisms on the planet with very few exceptions (and none in actual proteins AFAIK, some D-aminos can be found in some bacterial cell walls or used as neurotransmitters in higher organisms ) Edited November 27, 2018 by p1t1o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 3 hours ago, KerikBalm said: Also, I learned that this is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_ambiguus https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/heterotaxy-syndrome https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/heterotaxy-syndrome-isomerism I don't know if that's interesting to others, but I think its weird that there are some people going around with their insides all rearranged.. and apparently living to old age like that... Sort of related: When I went in for my valve replacement they performed a full torso CT scan to make sure that there weren't any surprises for the surgeon. They discovered that I had a pelvic kidney, my right kidney had never lifted out of my pelvis. Works fine, it's just an idiosyncratic anomaly. But it was funny that it had been that way since birth and I had no idea until I was in my late 40s. Fast forward a couple of years. I wound up with pneumonia at one point, and they saw some scarring on my lungs while treating that and referred me to a pulmonologist, and he wanted a hi-res CT of my lungs to look at. So I go to the radiology group, I get all laid out, they zap me. I'm waiting. I wait like two or three minutes. The tech comes out again and resituates me, they zap me again. I wait some more. I'm looking over in the booth and there's three of them in there pouring over my scan. And then they call the radiologist in. And I'm starting to get a little concerned. Finally, after about ten minutes or so, one of he other techs comes out and asks, "So, have you donated a kidney or something?" <facepalm> The tech was freaking out because she was expecting to see two kidneys at the bottom of the scan, and no matter what she did she was only seeing one. She was new and she was all, "What am I doing wrong here!" And I hadn't thought to mention anything about the kidney because, they're looking at my lungs, what do they care about my kidneys! She was very relieved, and we all had a good laugh about my shy kidney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 6 hours ago, KerikBalm said: So far, today, the most interesting thing in my life is seeing a video about an event in someone else's life: Jiminy flarped-up crinklefries, that is some anxiety-inducing scat right there! I think my blood pressure just jumped up higher than that glider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 3 hours ago, p1t1o said: FunFactTM: amino acids (apart from glycine) come in L & D enantiomers, and the vast majority in all biological organisms are the L enantiomer. (there are instances where D-versions are present but there are extreme exception and are often translated in-situ from the L-variant). Things start to go deeply, deeply wrong if D-enantiomers are introduced where they should not be. IIRC some forms of Alzheimers have been linked to D-enantiomer amino acid exposure. Apparently this is just a quirk of evolution on Earth, at some point the L-enantiomers were used and from then on its just what we went with. "We" meaning all protein-forming organisms on the planet with very few exceptions (and none in actual proteins AFAIK, some D-aminos can be found in some bacterial cell walls or used as neurotransmitters in higher organisms ) And so if you got flipped via a four-dimensional excursion, you would run into very big trouble when it came time to eat some food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 11 minutes ago, cubinator said: And so if you got flipped via a four-dimensional excursion, you would run into very big trouble when it came time to eat some food. Extrapolate? This sounds familiar, but I can’t put my finger on the details... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 44 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Extrapolate? This sounds familiar, but I can’t put my finger on the details... Imagine cutting out an irregular polygon from paper (or actually do it, the choice is yours). This is like your proteins. If you rotate it and slide it around, it will always be the same shape. But if you flip it over through a third dimension, it will now be mirrored. And chances are it won't fit into the hole you cut it out of anymore, not without flipping it back. This is what would happen to everything in your body if you were flipped in a fourth dimension and returned to Earth. Your molecules and large structures would now be mirrored, you would see the whole world mirrored through your eyes... I think this phenomenon is referenced in Flatland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0111narwhalz Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 18 minutes ago, cubinator said: Imagine cutting out an irregular polygon from paper (or actually do it, the choice is yours). This is like your proteins. If you rotate it and slide it around, it will always be the same shape. But if you flip it over through a third dimension, it will now be mirrored. And chances are it won't fit into the hole you cut it out of anymore, not without flipping it back. This is what would happen to everything in your body if you were flipped in a fourth dimension and returned to Earth. Your molecules and large structures would now be mirrored, you would see the whole world mirrored through your eyes... I think this phenomenon is referenced in Flatland. I believe there was a Lovecraft story with this as a plot point. I think it was Lovecraft, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 (edited) Number of times I have slipped onto my butt this winter: 0 1 I was alright outside, went into a building, thought I was fine, and the second I went from the carpet to the smooth tile I was on the ground because of the snow that was melting out of my soles. Edited November 29, 2018 by cubinator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkOwl57 Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 Cowboys won, so that was awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 Got news last night that my cousin has been elected as an AAAS Fellow for 2018, and was also reviewed in this month's Chronicle of Higher Education. During discussion of this with my uncle, I learned that he (my uncle) was an AAAS keynote speaker in NYC back in 1965... his paper is archived somewhere within the Journal of Geoscience Education. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 A few months ago I wrote a very, very slimmed down pseudo social media thinger so that my 9 year old could share pictures and whatnot with our family that's 600 miles away without being exposed to the vitriol that is real social media. Since it's running on a server in my basement, it's very easy to allow her unrestricted access to that system while her actual internet usage is strictly limited. Last night, we had a pretty severe storm with the tornado sirens going off from about 1 - 1:30 am. So at 1 I was forced to wake her up and bring her downstairs. At 1:30 we went back upstairs and I put her back to bed. She didn't go back to bed, though. I know this since she pretty much ratted on herself by posting on that system at 1:34 this morning. When I asked her about it, she told me she stayed up until 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDJ Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) Started shovelling snow at 4:30 this morning. Finished about 5 minutes ago (about 5:55 AM). And that's just for the sidewalks and behind the garage. We got dumped on hardcore last night. Edited December 3, 2018 by GDJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSEP Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Tuned into the NASA TV livestream to watch the OSIRIS-REx capture, but was just in time to see the Soyuz MS-11 capture, what a time to be alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 I encountered a space denier in the wild today. They insist that it's all CGI and fakery, hinted at disbelief towards a spherical Earth too. I showed them a few photos from other planets... Spoiler Gale Crater, Mars: Enceladus: Sunset, Gale Crater again: ...and I told them "You can continue ignoring the universe, but I'm going to go there." It doesn't matter much to me, for now I'm going to continue right on making a sounding rocket for a space shot, and soon enough I'll be climbing into a capsule and heading off into orbit for the betterment of all Earthly life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 22 minutes ago, cubinator said: They insist that it's all CGI and fakery, hinted at disbelief towards a spherical Earth too. I showed them a few photos from other planets... But the Sun is flat, don't you see? Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: But the Sun is flat, don't you see? Yes, a perfectly flat sphere. From a certain point of view...it's like a pizza cutter for 4-dimensional pizza. Edited December 3, 2018 by cubinator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 45 minutes ago, cubinator said: Yes, a perfectly flat sphere. From a certain point of view...it's like a pizza cutter for 4-dimensional pizza. Just like Mom used to make.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 39 off-topic posts have been moved to their own thread. Please try to stick to the subject, folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 After a power outage caused some issues at work yesterday, I finally got around to configuring apcupsd on all three servers there to shut down properly in the event of 25% charge of the UPS. Since I just recently got a new APC UPS with a USB port for my KSP computer, I plugged it in last night. Without having to do a thing, I was greeted with a few new toys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFerret Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 3 hours ago, Geonovast said: a new APC UPS I have one backing up the fiber / wifi / tv equipment. My wife has decidedly plugged the Christmas tree lights into it as well. We'll have Christmas lights no matter what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boltzens Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 My coworkers and I went to a restaurant that actually has something called "mystery meat" on the menu. (no, nobody ordered it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 (edited) 7 hours ago, boltzens said: "mystery meat" "Found lying by the side of the road" Best use with "mystery goo" Edited December 5, 2018 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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