slinger301
slinger301 t1_j63u41m wrote
Reply to comment by gregory_rorschach in ELI5: How is donating equipment to participate in war, not considered going to war? by lloyd705
Also, we're not giving Ukraine weapons. It's a "special logistical operation".
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slinger301 t1_j5lw6bd wrote
Reply to comment by TactlessTortoise in ELI5 the tardigrade quantum entanglement experiment by night_trotter
Personally, I was getting Star Trek: Discovery vibes here.
slinger301 t1_j5bl7uy wrote
Reply to comment by clichesaurus in TIL The writer for "Die Hard with a Vengeance" was investigated by the FBI after they revealed that his story's plan of robbing the Federal Reserve through a breached subway wall would have worked by fortifier22
The Italian Job switched from "Fiction" to "Documentary" about a third of the way in.
slinger301 t1_j3e8g3g wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Colorado is actually a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon, meaning it has 697 sides. by Dearfield
Researchers are close to developing a 4-dimensional hypercolorado.
slinger301 t1_iuk7g2r wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why does MSG make food taste so irresistible? And why is everyone against it? by theinvincible-dosa
Here's another tidbit for consideration. MSG is the salt form of Glutamic Acid, which is a nonessential amino acid. In this case "nonessential" means that we don't need to eat it because our bodies can make it by itself. it is essential to the production of every part of our body. That's why it tastes good: a good flavor is how our tongue tells our brain that "yes, we should eat this" (some exceptions apply).
So eating MSG is eating something that naturally occurs in your body anyways, which makes it very hard to pose a case that it's harmful.
slinger301 t1_iui0sdh wrote
Nitrogen atoms really, really like to be stuck to one other Nitrogen atom. So much so that it is very difficult to get atmospheric nitrogen (which is 2 nitrogen atoms stuck together) to do anything else, like form an amino acid.
Some plants pull it off by making friends with specific soil bacteria that can break apart Nitrogen-Nitrogen bonds.
slinger301 t1_j6ad1hk wrote
Reply to My niece’s “Art” her daycare gave to my sister for the fridge. by tarotcardsandbacon
Is your niece's daycare located in a children's hospital?