General Science Discussion Thread!

[DragonFreak]

has the lhc blown up the world yet?

here's an anwser

http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Ok why is there a website like this?

 

[Iggy Koopa Jr]

how does an egg boil?

 

[Xiahou Ba]

has the lhc blown up the world yet?

here's an anwser

http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Ok why is there a website like this?

Is today tuesday?

http://istodaytuesday.heroku.com/

how does an egg boil?

When the state of matter in the yolk reaches its boiling point of course

 

[Xiahou Dun]

And chemical reactions take place.

 

[Stargatedalek]

the water in the egg boils before the yolk
and how long it takes depends on how hot your pot is

 

[Kong Rong]

oh dear god my parents still think vaccines might give you autism

i mean, they would never hold me or my sister back from getting a vaccine, but wow

i'm not even usually one to criticize my parents, i just wish that they'd listen to me when i tell them it's from a medical journal in 98 that was discredited with fraud

i was finally able to convince a coworker that vaccines don't cause autism

 

[Toad Eightyfive]

even if vaccines did cause autism, which they clearly don't, why would people care? it's isn't a harmful condition by itself, and i'd rather be stuck with autism than tuberculosis or something

 

[banjonator1]

no, i'd rather have tb then never be able to express myself to other people

 

[DragonFreak]

it's isn't a harmful condition by itself

Yeah no. I am going to disagree with you. For one thing, it sort of makes a difference on what kind of autism you get. High functioning autism is not as bad, because the person who has it usually has a high IQ. But for those who get the short stick in life and have low function autism, that freaking sucks. I have been around a lot of low functioning autistic kids, and having that particular disorder on that side of the spectrum sucks. Most of them, their life is doomed to not amounting to anything because their disorder prevents it.

 

[Toad Eightyfive]

ok, sorry, i retract that statement.

i meant to imply is that it's not an illness, not in the same way most vaccinated diseases are. yes, it sucks, yes it hinders your capability to function in normal society, but ultimately it's just a way your brain is wired incorrectly. you can't get sick or die from autism.

if i fucked up the wording of that and made it sound like there's no negatives with the condition at all, as a person who has also worked with low-functioning autistic kids i'm sincerely sorry about that.

 

[Stargatedalek]

as someone with high functioning autism I can say that I don't feel it has negatively affected me, if I don't want to socialize than I don't mind that because its what I want