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08 Jan 2008, 11:29 pm

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2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving


sorry,this is only true of the pelagic sharks.

The chemical structure of chlorophyll is identical to that of haemoglobin,
except at the nucleus.

Chlorophyll contains magnesium,
and blood contains iron.

Eat you're green vegetables, children.
Aspies need Magnesium more than anyone.


nope, just has to do with gill structure... some sharks have an anterior "hole" where a gill should be... these sharks don't have so swim all the time, the others do. though perhaps most (or all) pelagic sharks don't have this hole but i'm sure there's some non-pelagic sharks don't have this hole either.... hmm off to go look it up.


lol, ok, ok! Serves me right for getting my science facts from Horrible Science books :P (actually, this is kind of fascinating though)



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09 Jan 2008, 9:54 am

Lene wrote:
Sedaka wrote:
syzygyish wrote:
Lene wrote:
2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving


sorry,this is only true of the pelagic sharks.

The chemical structure of chlorophyll is identical to that of haemoglobin,
except at the nucleus.

Chlorophyll contains magnesium,
and blood contains iron.

Eat you're green vegetables, children.
Aspies need Magnesium more than anyone.


nope, just has to do with gill structure... some sharks have an anterior "hole" where a gill should be... these sharks don't have so swim all the time, the others do. though perhaps most (or all) pelagic sharks don't have this hole but i'm sure there's some non-pelagic sharks don't have this hole either.... hmm off to go look it up.


lol, ok, ok! Serves me right for getting my science facts from Horrible Science books :P (actually, this is kind of fascinating though)


yes,me too!
Do sharks that have a Magnesium deficiency eat more fish that are herbivorous?
and
do sharks that are Iron deficient eat more fish that are carnivorous?


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09 Jan 2008, 10:54 am

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lol, ok, ok! Serves me right for getting my science facts from Horrible Science books :P (actually, this is kind of fascinating though)


hmmmm horabal since thats ended ive got all 80 of them


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09 Jan 2008, 12:43 pm

Glass is not precisely a liquid either; it's an amorphous solid, which means that as it cools below its freezing point, it does not exhibit a first-order phase transition and thus does not develop a crystalline molecular lattice. This is a mode of freezing called vitrification, different from common first-order crystallization, and can happen when you freeze a supercooled liquid under certain conditions (particularly high pressure and/or rapid cooling, which inhibit the generation of crystal nucleation sites).

There is also such a thing as amorphous ice, which is glass made of water. Weird stuff. It is exceedingly rare; producible in the laboratory, it is also postulated to exist on some of the moons of the outer planets.



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09 Jan 2008, 1:15 pm

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Glass is not precisely a liquid either; it's an amorphous solid, which means that as it cools below its freezing point, it does not exhibit a first-order phase transition and thus does not develop a crystalline molecular lattice. This is a mode of freezing called vitrification, different from common first-order crystallization, and can happen when you freeze a supercooled liquid under certain conditions (particularly high pressure and/or rapid cooling, which inhibit the generation of crystal nucleation sites).

There is also such a thing as amorphous ice, which is glass made of water. Weird stuff. It is exceedingly rare; producible in the laboratory, it is also postulated to exist on some of the moons of the outer planets.


I give up! lol, maybe I should start a new thread; 'disprove the above person's statement' :P



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09 Jan 2008, 2:47 pm

The Earth travels in a straight line.



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09 Jan 2008, 6:36 pm

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The Earth travels in a straight line.


yep, it's the sun and all it's shenanigans


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09 Jan 2008, 6:42 pm

Lene wrote:
Sedaka wrote:
syzygyish wrote:
Lene wrote:
2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving


sorry,this is only true of the pelagic sharks.

The chemical structure of chlorophyll is identical to that of haemoglobin,
except at the nucleus.

Chlorophyll contains magnesium,
and blood contains iron.

Eat you're green vegetables, children.
Aspies need Magnesium more than anyone.


nope, just has to do with gill structure... some sharks have an anterior "hole" where a gill should be... these sharks don't have so swim all the time, the others do. though perhaps most (or all) pelagic sharks don't have this hole but i'm sure there's some non-pelagic sharks don't have this hole either.... hmm off to go look it up.


lol, ok, ok! Serves me right for getting my science facts from Horrible Science books :P (actually, this is kind of fascinating though)


eh im sure it's technically right (still haven't dug up all my shark books or bothered to google, lol) but i have loved sharks from way back! one of the first clearly aspie things i remember doing was for an assignment in school... our teacher gave us one month to write 10 pages on a topic we liked and present it to class... she called it "expert's journal"

well... i thought she said 1 week! so, it being friday... i went to the library, checked out all shark books... stayed up all night both fri and saturday reading... picked 10 different sharks and wrote 2 pages on each of them (so i did 20 pgs) and drew pictures of each of them... not to mention my posters i made for the presentation... brought it all in monday morning... and my teacher told me that she was very impressed but that i still had to wait a month to present it (i HATED talking in front of people generally which is why i remember being so sad)

lol was in 4th grade.


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09 Jan 2008, 6:45 pm

prior to his death... napoleon was depicted in more artwork than jesus (this is at the time). napoleon also died less than a year from the invention of the first camera.


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09 Jan 2008, 8:15 pm

William Wallace was slightly happier after his death than just before it.



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09 Jan 2008, 8:26 pm

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09 Jan 2008, 8:35 pm

MPH? damn...


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09 Jan 2008, 10:44 pm

i'm currently listening to Tell Her About It by Billy Joel *dances around with a broom*

okay, now where was i? oh, right...

the lead singer for Queen ,freddie mercury, was born farrokh bulsara in zanzibar, tanzania. his parents were bomi and jer bulsara.


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09 Jan 2008, 10:46 pm

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09 Jan 2008, 11:48 pm

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10 Jan 2008, 2:37 am

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Kuwait once was a part of Iraq.

Not actually correct. What is now Kuwait was once a province of the Persian Empire, then later part of the Ottoman Empire; but when the British took the area over in the wake of WWI, and created the nation of Iraq from three separate sections of the Ottoman Empire, they also created Kuwait as another, separate nation. Nobody cared much until oil was discovered under the sands.

One of the sticking points in negotiations between the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) is the demand of the WGA to double payment to scriptwriters for DVD sales of movies and TV shows - from the current level of four cents per DVD, to eight cents each.


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