'Sin' is how I've pronounced it because I associate cinnabar with cinnamon and 'sin-a-mon' is the general American pronounciation.
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Mike Pence instituted a law to prevent Nemo from using female bathrooms.
Coins that are stamped with the incorrect image are called mules. And they can be worth a lot of money.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Not talking colloquially. Reminds me of the guy I once ran into who considered rabbits to be rodents because that's how they thought of them where he grew up in Tennessee.
As the article says "The sire of the foal is a mystery."
Recall that my fact was: "Mules do not beget baby mules." That means a male mule and a female mule do not beget baby mules. Not a female mule mating with some other equid.
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Mule and Hinny aren't taxonomic terms, rodents are. It's more like the difference between a Cremello and Perlino horse morph. One can say that the difference between the two is an industry, not a taxonomic term, even though there are subtle genetic differences. And lay usage differs on Cremello, Buckskin, Perlino and other horse morphs. This is even more true in newer breeding terminology like with reptiles (Holy cow ball pythons have a lot of ambiguously termed color morphs. ball python color morphs - Google Search )
Anyway, later in the article you'll read:
Thus, a mule had offspring, and specifically according to the article and other instances, the foal is not recombined from the sire so it doesn't matter what the sire is: The foal is a mule. Unless a clone of a mule is not, itself, a mule.
Ekleipsis
Member
The physicist Richard Feynman prevented a major accident at an Oak Ridge nuclear facility that was processing material for the first atomic bombs
He was a hot young new physicist making waves in the community and had made a name for himself as being incredibly smart and analytical, so he was brought into the projects at Oak Ridge
They presented him with some blueprints one day, in front of the group of people he was working with, and asked him to look them over ( Because he was known for spotting things )
The only problem was that he actually didn't know how to read blueprints and his co-workers and bosses had just assumed he did.....
....so what did he do under the pressure ?
Instead of admitting he couldn't read blueprints....which probably would have made him a laughingstock, and got him removed from the project....
He gazed intently at them for a few minutes while everybody breathlessly waited for his verdict
He finally picked a random symbol and put his finger on it and said
" What about this ? "
They all rushed in to to look at what the young genius was pointing out
Turned out, he had somehow managed to put his finger on the one thing that was actually faulty in the design of the structure, it was some sort of venting valve for pressure release, iirc
If ,...they had built the facility with the valve according to the blueprint, it would have caused a major accident on the East coast of the United States, probably polluting most the SE with radioactive material
It also may have also completely changed the outcome of WWII
That's how close we came, and that's how serendipity works behind the scenes all the time
( Paraphrased from the book " Surely You're Joking, Mr Feyman " )
He was a hot young new physicist making waves in the community and had made a name for himself as being incredibly smart and analytical, so he was brought into the projects at Oak Ridge
They presented him with some blueprints one day, in front of the group of people he was working with, and asked him to look them over ( Because he was known for spotting things )
The only problem was that he actually didn't know how to read blueprints and his co-workers and bosses had just assumed he did.....
....so what did he do under the pressure ?
Instead of admitting he couldn't read blueprints....which probably would have made him a laughingstock, and got him removed from the project....
He gazed intently at them for a few minutes while everybody breathlessly waited for his verdict
He finally picked a random symbol and put his finger on it and said
" What about this ? "
They all rushed in to to look at what the young genius was pointing out
Turned out, he had somehow managed to put his finger on the one thing that was actually faulty in the design of the structure, it was some sort of venting valve for pressure release, iirc
If ,...they had built the facility with the valve according to the blueprint, it would have caused a major accident on the East coast of the United States, probably polluting most the SE with radioactive material
It also may have also completely changed the outcome of WWII
That's how close we came, and that's how serendipity works behind the scenes all the time
( Paraphrased from the book " Surely You're Joking, Mr Feyman " )
Skwim
Veteran Member
Not that it makes any difference, but "rodent(s)" is not taxonomic term. Mus lepidoides, the taxonomic name of one of several laboratory "knockout mice" species is a taxonomic term. "Rodent" is the common term for any gnawing mammal of the order Rodentia, which includes rats, mice, squirrels, hamsters, porcupines, and so fourth. "Rodentia" is a taxonomic term. "Rodent" is not.
Not at all. But interesting as this is, I'm cutting our discussion short so as to not take my thread off track any further.
Thanks for your input.
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DuBrie marine engines were designed to use Model T engine parts.
Yes, you call animals in the rodentia family 'rodents.' And you call the offspring of donkeys and horses 'mule,' and mules have also had mule children in the past. Glad we've cleared that up. Continuing on!Not that it makes any difference, but "rodent(s)" is not taxonomic term. Mus lepidoides, the taxonomic name of one of several laboratory "knockout mice" species is a taxonomic term. "Rodent" is the common term for any gnawing mammal of the order Rodentia, which includes rats, mice, squirrels, hamsters, porcupines, and their relatives. "Rodentia" is a taxonomic term. "Rodent" is not.
Not at all. But interesting as this is, I'm cutting our discussion short so as to not take my thread off track any further.
Thanks for your input.
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Ekleipsis
Member
The blue-ringed octopus [ Octopus maculosus ], does not produce it's own venom
Instead there are several different kinds of bacteria that live in the salivary glands of the octopus that produce a tetrodotoxin , [ neurotoxin ] similar to what is produced by pufferfish, porcupinefish, etc
A Philippine specimen contained TTX and anhydrotetrodotoxin, the Japanese specimen TTX, 4-epitetrodotoxin, and an unknown toxin
" The posterior salivary gland, intestine and other parts were excised from the Philippine specimens and examined for bacterial flora. Twenty-two dominant strains were isolated and cultured in a 2xORI medium (Ocean Research Institute, Simidu and Tsukamoto 1985) at 20°C for 20 to 48 h. Cells were harvested by centrifugation, and disrupted by ultrasonication. The toxins were partially purified from the cell lyzate by ultrafiltration and Bio-Gel P-2 column-chromatography. Instrumental analyses disclosed that 16 of the 22 strains produced TTX and/or related substances. Six strains which clearly exhibited TTX productivity were identified as Alteromonas (2 strains), Bacillus (2), Pseudomonas (1) and Vibrio (1), based on biochemical and biological characteristics "
This essentially shows that not only do different bacteria colonize the salivary glands, they are different bacterial colonies at different geographical locations producing different mixes of toxins within the same octopus
pretty crafty, evolution
Instead there are several different kinds of bacteria that live in the salivary glands of the octopus that produce a tetrodotoxin , [ neurotoxin ] similar to what is produced by pufferfish, porcupinefish, etc
A Philippine specimen contained TTX and anhydrotetrodotoxin, the Japanese specimen TTX, 4-epitetrodotoxin, and an unknown toxin
" The posterior salivary gland, intestine and other parts were excised from the Philippine specimens and examined for bacterial flora. Twenty-two dominant strains were isolated and cultured in a 2xORI medium (Ocean Research Institute, Simidu and Tsukamoto 1985) at 20°C for 20 to 48 h. Cells were harvested by centrifugation, and disrupted by ultrasonication. The toxins were partially purified from the cell lyzate by ultrafiltration and Bio-Gel P-2 column-chromatography. Instrumental analyses disclosed that 16 of the 22 strains produced TTX and/or related substances. Six strains which clearly exhibited TTX productivity were identified as Alteromonas (2 strains), Bacillus (2), Pseudomonas (1) and Vibrio (1), based on biochemical and biological characteristics "
This essentially shows that not only do different bacteria colonize the salivary glands, they are different bacterial colonies at different geographical locations producing different mixes of toxins within the same octopus
pretty crafty, evolution
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
The first one, especially rice, is interesting. I did not know that. Mules are hybrid horse-donkeys and are sterile, I figured that for common knowledge. The poles are always shifting, but I didn't know it was actually 300 miles off. That's surprising.
Here's one for you, did you know Hitler was time magazines man of the year for 1938?
Ekleipsis
Member
There is an ultrapotent analogue of capsaicin called " resiniferatoxin " that is naturally produced in two plants
It has an affinity for the transient vanilloid receptor 1 (TRPV1) that is roughly 500 times that of capsaicin ( capsacin is actually vanilloid - works on the same receptor as vanilla )
1 / 1,000,000 of one gram of resiniferatoxin is enough to cause intense pain
If you thought about the heat of capsaicin VS resiniferatoxin in terms of an analogy using size, say we'll use the Sun and the Earth ( Roughly 1 million earth's fit in the Sun )
The Sun is the resiniferitoxin and the Earth is the capsaicin
Remember that when you see people eating ghost peppers
...they haven't come close to hot
10 grams of resiniferitoxin is enough to kill you
Here's the breakdown
Scoville heat units Examples
16,000,000,000 Resiniferatoxin
5,300,000,000 Tinyatoxin
16,000,000 Capsaicin
15,000,000 Dihydrocapsaicin
9,200,000 Nonivamide
9,100,000 Nordihydrocapsaicin
8,600,000 Homocapsaicin, Homodihydrocapsaicin
160,000 Shogaol
100,000 Piperine
60,000 Gingerol
16,000 Capsiate
The hottest Peppers by comparison:
855,000 – 2,200,000 Komodo Dragon Chili Pepper,Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Naga Viper pepper, Infinity Chilli,Naga Morich, Bhut jolokia (ghost pepper), Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, Bedfordshire Super Naga, Spanish Naga Chili,Carolina Reaper
Additional facts about resiniferitoxin include that it is being researched in connection with a novel pain treatment
It was also described as being used in an ancient medicine " Euphorbia "
It has an affinity for the transient vanilloid receptor 1 (TRPV1) that is roughly 500 times that of capsaicin ( capsacin is actually vanilloid - works on the same receptor as vanilla )
1 / 1,000,000 of one gram of resiniferatoxin is enough to cause intense pain
If you thought about the heat of capsaicin VS resiniferatoxin in terms of an analogy using size, say we'll use the Sun and the Earth ( Roughly 1 million earth's fit in the Sun )
The Sun is the resiniferitoxin and the Earth is the capsaicin
Remember that when you see people eating ghost peppers
...they haven't come close to hot
10 grams of resiniferitoxin is enough to kill you
Here's the breakdown
Scoville heat units Examples
16,000,000,000 Resiniferatoxin
5,300,000,000 Tinyatoxin
16,000,000 Capsaicin
15,000,000 Dihydrocapsaicin
9,200,000 Nonivamide
9,100,000 Nordihydrocapsaicin
8,600,000 Homocapsaicin, Homodihydrocapsaicin
160,000 Shogaol
100,000 Piperine
60,000 Gingerol
16,000 Capsiate
The hottest Peppers by comparison:
855,000 – 2,200,000 Komodo Dragon Chili Pepper,Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Naga Viper pepper, Infinity Chilli,Naga Morich, Bhut jolokia (ghost pepper), Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, Bedfordshire Super Naga, Spanish Naga Chili,Carolina Reaper
Additional facts about resiniferitoxin include that it is being researched in connection with a novel pain treatment
It was also described as being used in an ancient medicine " Euphorbia "
Skwim
Veteran Member
Everyone knows those things!
But how many here know that the first company which eventually became Oldsmobile was PF Olds?
And that their "gasoline engine" was actually external combustion, & not internal?
It's snowing here this very minute.
The flakes are big & floaty.
A body centered cubic crystal structure is associated with infinite fatigue life in steel when fluctuating
stress is below 1/2 ultimate tensile strength. However the hexagonal close packed structure of aluminum
is associated with no level of infinite fatigue life. Don't think of this when flying on an old airliner.
The flakes are big & floaty.
A body centered cubic crystal structure is associated with infinite fatigue life in steel when fluctuating
stress is below 1/2 ultimate tensile strength. However the hexagonal close packed structure of aluminum
is associated with no level of infinite fatigue life. Don't think of this when flying on an old airliner.
Similar to the komodo dragon