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Re: misnomers



Science Misnomers And Mistakes


Lightning is not actually attracted to metal or water.
 If you are playing golf next to a lake and a storm
moves in, keep playing.

A snake can only strike about half of its length.  If
confronted just grab the tail and sling it carefully
into the bushes.

Some people have a skin pH which renders them
impervious to acid, no matter how strong the acid.

Most poisons are situational and will not harm you
unless the wrong combinations are in your stomach.

With its weight distributed on four friction laden
rubber tires an automobile?s momentum will never
exceed one quarter of its velocity.  If your car is
rolling down the driveway, just step in front of it
and stop it.

Recent studies have shown eggs left out at room
temperature for up to seventy two hours are perfectly
safe to eat.

No one in the U.S. has died of rabies in over 75
years.  So, go ahead, pet that raccoon.

Water must cover the hood of a modern fuel injected
automobile before it will stall.  So if the road is
flooded and you can see the tops of cars you ought to
have no trouble proceeding.

Most medicines lose potency as they age.  A bottle of
aspirin, for example, tends to describe a Holank curve
as regards efficiency.  Three months after you have
opened the bottle you need to take 1.5 times the
suggested dose.  At six months you need thrice the
suggested dose.  At twelve months you need eighteen
times the regularly suggested dose, or 36 aspirin.  Or
you need to buy a new bottle.

A stegnoid wave machine, capable of producing silent
sound (a frequency humans cannot hear)  at decibels of
over 10,000, can set your hair on fire when exposed
for a .003 second duration.

The human genome project has discovered that the
difference between humans and chimpanzees is so slight
that humans and chimps can under correct circumstances
produce viable offspring.  Apparently, no one had
tried before.

Statistically, there is no chance the wobbly pine tree
in your yard will fall and do damage to your house, or
your neighbors.

Based on a ?Pierson Last Chance-Lost Cause Risk
Benefit Analysis,? and given the possible return of
any given investment, investing in the lottery is a
better gamble than investing is stocks.

Most dinosaurs had augmented brain functions and nerve
bundles at the top of each leg and in three (sometimes
two, and rarely, four) places along the spine.  The
so-called small cranial capacity with which so many
paleo-biologists are obsessed,  probably housed a
brain which was used solely for non-automatic movement
systems, and thus those huge warm-blooded beasts were
likely at least as intelligent as modern dogs.


The so-called Hubble Constant (which has, in fact,
never been very constant) has been called into
question by quantum ratio differential analysis.  This
analysis seems to be about to prove that the universe
is much younger than previously thought.  If the earth
is about four billion years old, it appears that the
universe is little more than 5 billion years old.
This work has huge ramifications for cosmology in
general, and in particular argues for an open
universe.





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