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Reply to Eli5: Would it be easier or harder for a pregnant woman to give birth in zero gravity? Apart from there being no gravity, would it be any different at all from giving birth while on earth? by The_Guy_Who_Wanders
It is almost certainly much more dangerous. Any bleeding in zero G doesn't drain due to gravity so it just keeps pooling up in the same place. Not so much a problem for little cuts and bruises but anything more serious is going to be bad for the mother. Also being in zero G changes your blood pressure quite a lot and causes swelling in different parts of the body so there could be complications to the mother from that and if the fetus was grown in zero G and not just birthed there it is 100% gonna have issues because of that but we don't know what they are.
You could guess at all kinds of things that would probably be not great too but I guess we don't really know til we try, at the very least you would want a team of doctors present.
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Reply to comment by GovernorSan in ELI5, Why can't STDs be cured/irradicated by isolating the disease through infected people? by AnanomusMan
I want to stop the spread of disease not drain the enjoyment out of life, Jesus fucking christ. You could do it in one generation if we stopped fucking altogether.
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Reply to ELI5, Why can't STDs be cured/irradicated by isolating the disease through infected people? by AnanomusMan
They could. When you get the clap, you go to the doctor and take an antibiotic. That's it, so if everyone in the world could stop fucking for one day and take a pill, no more Chlamydia!
The problem being good fucking luck with that. People tend to be very irresponsible and even more so when the prospect of having sex is on the cards. Hell it's hard enough to get people to wear condoms and go for regular std checks. Some people think it's totally acceptable behaviour to spread disease as revenge for a cheating ex or whatever.
Then you need to ask yourself who is isolating these people and how? Is this some kind of authoritarian regime? Who's gonna pay for the 7 billion antibiotics? Ect. Maybe it could be done in a small population, but it would only take a handful to fuck it up for everyone and make it all a waste of time and if covid has taught us anything it's that people are selfish pricks.
hasdigs t1_j1v99t9 wrote
Functionally it would mean cheap, green, unlimited energy for mankind. Hydrogen is just everywhere and there are no harmful byproducts, unlike fossil fuels or nuclear that are non renewable resources. Granted they use mostly dueterium and tritium currently which are a little more rare and expensive.
Important to note that the reaction didn't really get "more energy out than they put in" in fact they put in about 100 times more energy than they got out. However it is still a massive achievement, but I wouldn't hold my breath and wait for fusion reactors to come online. Probably about ten more years.
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Reply to ELI5, when someone is intoxicated, how does adrenaline bring back motor skills and awareness? Or does it not? by LindenSpruce
Hmm yes it does. Alcohol is a depressant, meaning it gets in the way of your nerves firing so you gonna be less coordinated than you normally would. A big rush of adrenaline is going to act as a stimulant, it helps carry messages from one nerve to another, so in that sense yes, it will mitigate some of the effects of alcohol. It's your fight or flight response kicking in to get you out of a dangerous situation. So yes, in some ways it will boost your motor skills temporarily. It will also boost your heart rate and blood pressure, so you will have more blood passing through your liver and kidneys per minute so it may very mildly help you to filter more alcohol from your system.
But that being said, all that alcohol you drank is still in your system. It has not actually sobred you at all. In five minutes when the adrenaline wears off your gonna be back to your stumbly poor decision making self.
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Reply to ELI5: what is the point of chewing food thoroughly if your stomach will digest everything anyway? by Dacadey
Because it would take to long. Let's say you have a gobstopper and you want to disolve it in acid. You could put it in acid but the acid is only contacting the out side layer. Once the outside layer is dissolved then it can start on the next one, then the next one. But if I smash the gobstopper into dust then put it into acid now the acid is in contact with all of it at the same time. Chewing also mixes saliva through the food which aids in digestion.the stomach also churns the food to help mechanically break it up but it isn't very good compared to chewing so if you didn't chew anything you are making more work for your stomach.
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Reply to ELI5: As an animal what are some advantages of carrying "used" water (sometimes litres) in a bladder opposite of eliminating it constantly? by Itchy-Horror9227
Because some of that water can be reabsorbed in an emergency. Yes the water is heavy and has to be heated to 37 C but it's not wasted. If you constantly leaked water you would have no where to pull extra water from when you become dehydrated due to exercesie/losing blood/getting lost. Evolutionarily it was probably advantages to have more water storage rather than less .
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Reply to ELI5: Why are medical doctors commonly referred to as "doctors" over other types of doctors? by whatwouldultralorddo
Because those are the doctors laymen interact with. Many times in my life I have needed a doctor, and it has never been a doctor of music.