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Re: misnomers
aRAKY:
Who thinks this shit up?
Lucy in the sky with wonderment
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> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 9:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: misnomers
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> 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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