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I had the privilege of visiting Salzburg in Austria. Best known today as the birthplace of Mozart, the city originally got its name for salt mining. I saw a sample of the natural salt straight from the mines. It had a very high concentration of iron oxide, giving it a strong brown color - not nearly so attractive as a gentle pink from Pakistan.Now, THAT one must look like rust.
Also, in what people think of as a typical desert it's hot so you would need to drink a lot- that's a lot of alcohol which would be a problem in its own right. Most people don't realise that bits of antarctica are deserts too.Wait, what is the scientific definition of desert?
Now it's cold there so you wouldn't need to drink so much . I think it's possile that you might get by if the wine was fairly weak and the weather not too hot. Of course, if you are in atntartica you haev a reasonable chance of finding water- you just need to melt it.
The quick answer is "less than 10 inches of water (as rain, snow, whatever) falls in a year"
The long answer is here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert#Classification
Even the carefully-chosen adjectives on the menu will alter the way you perceive the taste of the food.
Some researchers have tweaked the ambient sound in the restaurant - apparently, the sound of waves improves the taste of seafood...
Stories about people ending up dead after using a neti pot, or through some super bug in the shower are a put off!What's a neti pot?
Yes it can. But one doesn't see it much now days, because of automation.Does it have to be cows or other cattle? Can I do it with my wife?
Do you remember Popeye's arms? Those kind of arms come from hand milking.
Hand milk 12 cows every morning and evening for 1 year. Instant(1 year) Popeye.
Boy I hear that and have been there done that.. and sometimes even as an adult, I'll be laughing about something, and all of a sudden feel that wave of joy leave, followed by a memory of something horrible that takes over, bring me to tears. Something in that joy triggers a stored memory of something not quite so joyful.Ah, locked memory. Back then I didn't believe such things exist, but when I tried to recall a traumatic experience I was wondering myself why that particular memory got locked for so many years already.
But Dipterans suck too...By the way, what is the definition of a "bug"? ...True bugs suck ... https://askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/true-bugs
The sting tasted spicy.
I would need to look into bee venom in more detail, but it's certainly true that other insects produce sting venoms with interesting tastes. In Australia on bush walks in Kakadu we had fun licking the rear ends of green tree ants. The formic acid they produce has a lemony taste.
It's also worth highlighting that the Cambridge Distillery are making gin from ants:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/interviews/interview/1001895/
I've tried it and it is quite frankly f-ANT-tastic. No, it really is!
This summer I saw, that here in Austria there were made bathing suits and bathing pants (for men & women) out of straws from Mc Donalds. Bc they wanted to quit the plastic straw production at Mc Donalds. But as this was only a limited edition I guess that not many people got the striped bathing wardrobeAh, so they will get bathing clothes which have been kissed by other people when they were straws...
Haha what a funny video! I guess if a hamster has no much space in its cage and sees the wheel, it automatically thinks of going inside and when it sees, that is spins, it will stay in so that it can do movements for its legs. Bc hamsters need movement, as they are going miles in the wild and therefore they really need to do "sports". For them this is the only possibility in the cage mostly.So a maze will also work?
I'm with Bored Chemist on this. I don't think it will make a huge difference. If you put a fairly heavy spoon in there, then that will absorb some heat initially until it reaches thermal equibrium. I doubt the rest of the spoon will have much of a wicking effect - compare the area of the exposed spoonhandle to the exposed top-surface of the coffee (and the cup/mug).Then should we use a knife instead? Or a sword? Or a lance?
While you stir the drink then it should cool down quicker as you keep mixing/bringing the hottest liquid to the periphery (without stirring you'll get a more gradual thermal gradient which will reduce the rate of cooling).
Re gesture:Which hand gesture is "O.K." and what does that hand gesture mean in other countries?
the same gesture can have completely different in meanings in different countries,
e.g. the "O.K." hand gesture is offensive in most countries.
The closest living relatives of dinosaurs are Archosaurs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchosaurReading the name, I never thought that it was a bird. I thought it was a turtle/tortoise whose body looks like a lizard because I thought that Archosaur = Archelon + Sauros
Takes me back to a book of home chemistry experiments I had a a kid. Clifford is right, the coffee or the milk must have been acidic and what you have got is casein plastic, the casein in the milk has formed a long chain. I suspect that although the milk was ok it might have been close to turning hence more lactic acid.I remember back then when I was a teenager, my parents often asked me to buy milk from the dairy farm. After I boiled it, there's something which looked like a layer of thin plastic covering the surface. I tried to eat it and immediately feeling dizzy afterwards. What was that?
Well, we once had two mini hamsters (those that are approx the size of your first thumb joint). They had a 3 floor cage of approx. 80cm x 40cm. Plenty of room for two such whimsical creatures you'd think yet they still LOVED nothing better than that wheel.Glad to know that the hamsters did having fun with the wheel. I recall some months ago I encountered a video on Facebook showing a cat trying a hamster wheel and gave up after just a few spin with annoyed expression.
There are a few indoor snow ski slopes in the UK. Far better to injure yourself near an NHS hospital than have to be helicoptered to a Swiss clinic and fill in lots of paperwork. As the outdoor ambient can be as high as 40 deg C, you can get sunstroke, frostbite and a broken leg all in one day. It's even better than sailing!That's kinda... ironic. To be able to be damaged by heat and cold at the same day...
Quote from: Monox D. I-FlyBut I live near the equator. Can a lake nearby from my place be used to make snow?The Himalayas are near the equator, and you can make snow there.
But the general condition for a stable snow pack is temperatures less than 0°C, over a period of weeks.
Near the equator, you need to be at high elevation to get temperatures that low (see the Wikipedia link above suggesting that temperatures reduce by about 6.5°C for every kilometre in altitude)..
Cooling things down on the other hand slows down all chemical reactions and if you get it cold enough it virtually stops everything so preserving the body.Just the body, right? If a living person is cooled down to the point that everything stops that means it includes the heart, right?
