The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread IX

[Eran of Arcadia]

Why is Random Raves in a picture archive category?

That's where OT threads with the turncount removed go when they are finished. If we didn't do this, then Rant and Rave threads would have to be much more strictly moderated for spam than they are.

 

[Brighteye]

No, muscle tears are a bad thing. Muscles grow because straining them releases growth signals. This happens without tearing muscle. The tiredness shows that lactic acid did build up, and that there was oxygen shortage. This is proof that growth signals stimulated by such metabolites and situations will have been generated.

 

[Yared]

Are there any arguments against starting to gym at the age of 16? If not, are there anything one should be careful with?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I went for a blood test this morning and it was really, painful. And the technician said he probably accidentally hit a nerve. Will the pain ever go away?

 

[Yared]

Yeah. A technician did the same thing to me yesterday. I couldn't bend my arm afterwards, but after taking a 20 min shower (and resting for a while) I felt good again.

 

[Brighteye]

Are there any arguments against starting to gym at the age of 16? If not, are there anything one should be careful with?

16 is fine. Any age is fine if it's not too hard-core. Get yourself muscles. Be careful of steroids (don't take them).

 

[Yared]

Thanks.

I'm a good boy

 

[Shekwan]

Whats worse, Meth or Heroin?

 

[holy king]

trips? meth, i hear.

 

[Shekwan]

I meant which does more damage to the human body? Short and long term.

 

[cardgame]

Well, heroin is the most addictive substance on the planet, so I'd go with that.

Meth sucks pretty hard too but I do believe you could get rehab or something.

 

[holy king]

What are the immediate (short-term)
effects of methamphetamine abuse?

As a powerful stimulant, methamphetamine, even in small doses, can increase wakefulness and physical activity and decrease appetite. Methamphetamine can also cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure. Hyperthermia (elevated body temperature) and convulsions may occur with methamphetamine overdose, and if not treated immediately, can result in death.

Most of the pleasurable effects of methamphetamine are believed to result from the release of very high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Dopamine is involved in motivation, the experience of pleasure, and motor function, and is a common mechanism of action for most drugs of abuse. The elevated release of dopamine produced by methamphetamine is also thought to contribute to the drug's deleterious effects on nerve terminals in the brain.

What are the long-term
effects of methamphetamine abuse?

Long-term methamphetamine abuse has many negative consequences, including addiction. Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, accompanied by functional and molecular changes in the brain. In addition to being addicted to methamphetamine, chronic abusers exhibit symptoms that can include anxiety, confusion, insomnia, mood disturbances, and violent behavior. They also can display a number of psychotic features, including paranoia, visual and auditory hallucinations, and delusions (for example, the sensation of insects creeping under the skin). Psychotic symptoms can sometimes last for months or years after methamphetamine abuse has ceased, and stress has been shown to precipitate spontaneous recurrence of methamphetamine psychosis in formerly psychotic methamphetamine abusers.

With chronic abuse, tolerance to methamphetamine's pleasurable effects can develop. In an effort to intensify the desired effects, abusers may take higher doses of the drug, take it more frequently, or change their method of drug intake. Withdrawal from methamphetamine occurs when a chronic abuser stops taking the drug; symptoms of withdrawal include depression, anxiety, fatigue, and an intense craving for the drug.

H:

What are its short-term effects?
The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours.After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria ("rush") accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following this initial euphoria, the user goes "on the nod," an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Other effects included slowed and slurred speech, slow gait, constricted pupils, droopy eyelids, impaired night vision, vomiting, constipation.

H:

What are its long-term effects?

Long-term effects of heroin appear after repeated use for some period of time.Chronic users may develop collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, cellulites, and liver disease. Pulmonary complications, including various types of pneumonia, may result from the poor health condition of the abuser, as well as from heroin's depressing effects on respiration.In addition to the effects of the drug itself, street heroin may have additives that do not really dissolve and result in clogging the blood vessels that lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys, or brain. This can cause infection or even death of small patches of cells in vital organs. With regular heroin use, tolerance develops. This means the abuser must use more heroin to achieve the same intensity or effect.

As higher doses are used over time, physical dependence and addiction develop. With physical dependence, the body has adapted to the presence of the drug and withdrawal symptoms may occur if use is reduced or stopped. Withdrawal, which in regular abusers may occur as early as a few hours after the last administration, produces drug craving, restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), kicking movements ("kicking the habit"), and other symptoms. Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 48 and 72 hours after the last does and subside after about a week. Sudden withdrawal by heavily dependent users who are in poor health can be fatal.

pick one...

 

[Shekwan]

Hmm, Heroin seems slightly worse. I was just wondering because I was watching the TV series Breaking Bad and it portrays Heroin as far worse than Meth.

 

[Quackers]

Should I go see "Edge of Darkness" at the cinema or online?

 

[West 36]

If any one were to find a large, desktop worthy image of that picture of infantry and tanks assaulting the Reichstag, could you kindly send it this way?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

If a terrestrial planet were to get consumed by an external black hole, what would it look like? Would we see pieces coming off the planet, or would it get stretched in a cartoonish manner?

 

[say1988]

Not based on any scientific knowledge whatsoever, but I think it is safe to assume the planet would be ripped apart and drift in.

 

[GinandTonic]

If a terrestrial planet were to get consumed by an external black hole, what would it look like? Would we see pieces coming off the planet, or would it get stretched in a cartoonish manner?

I dont think we would see anything much.

Any external optics would be messed up by the time the gravitational integrity of the planet gave up the ghost.

 

[cardgame]

I don't think this is thread-worthy but it is kind of big.

In a discussion about the morality of eating animals, this came up.

ME: I'd rather have some delicious steak than some disgusting soy bean curd.

And a cow is not a human. It isn't the same.
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Derek: What is the specific difference between cow and human that makes it ok to kill a cow for food and not to kill a human for food.
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ME: No offense at all, but

If you have to ask the difference between a cow and a human you probably won't understand the answer.
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Derek: Try me. I would honestly like to know what it is that makes it ok to eat cows but not humans. But if you aren't articulate enough to explain it then don't bother.

How can I explain this to Derek?

 

[Harvin87]

cows are meant to feed us... as simple as that, we're at the top of the food-chain... jeezz.. I wish people could get over this once and for all.