TIL: Today I Learned

[Berzerker]

but is the doc in conjunction or opposition?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

but is the doc in conjunction or opposition?

That's irrelevant.

 

[Arakhor]

It was Carl Sagan, in the original Cosmos episode "Harmony of the Worlds", who explained that astrology has no scientific basis. One of the things he mentioned was that when a baby is born, the obstetrician exerts a greater gravitational influence than the planet Mars.

Thank you.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

See. Planets

 

[Kyriakos]

Well...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Oh I feel so bad for people who get warts like that. I think the damage to the digits is too advance for them to be saved but I wonder if there are immunotherapies they could benefit from? My hands and feet used to be covered with 100+ warts about a decade ago and I had a doctor slather them with concentrated bee venom which caused my immune system go nuts and they all fell off about two weeks later.

There was one 'tree man' that they tried to grow skin grafts for by putting balloons in his back to stretch the skin. The grafts ended up getting warts and the American doctors that were helping (he was in Thailand IIRC) ended up backing out as they said the procedure wasn't going to work. Not only was the skin they harvested from his back unusable, the damage to his fingers and toes was so bad that they ended up amputating them.

 

[Kyriakos]

Oh I feel so bad for people who get warts like that. I think the damage to the digits is too advance for them to be saved but I wonder if there are immunotherapies they could benefit from? My hands and feet used to be covered with 100+ warts about a decade ago and I had a doctor slather them with concentrated bee venom which caused my immune system go nuts and they all fell off about two weeks later.

There was one 'tree man' that they tried to grow skin grafts for by putting balloons in his back to stretch the skin. The grafts ended up getting warts and the American doctors that were helping (he was in Thailand IIRC) ended up backing out as they said the procedure wasn't going to work. Not only was the skin they harvested from his back unusable, the damage to his fingers and toes was so bad that they ended up amputating them.

That sounds terrible.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That sounds terrible.

The bee venom part sounded kinda cool though. The environment of a submarine is very conducive to warts so almost everyone grew a few over the course of events, and we always burned them off with a soldering iron.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I tried freezing them and using acid but there came a point where there were too many to treat with those methods. The freezing never actually worked for me but the acid did so long as I stuck with it for 6-9 months per wart. The bee venom treatment was like magic. I woke up one morning and could just feel they were dead lumps of skin and I clipped them off painlessly with trimmers. Never had a wart since, either.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

TIL we're probably never going to get a Star Trek Voyager HD release. They recorded the live action scenes on film but then did all of the editing, post-processing and special effects on tape which are limited to 480i resolution. Unless someone goes back and recreates all the special effects and editing and slices that into the original film stock (which may not exist at this point), it will always be in standard definition.

On The Next Generation they recorded and edited everything directly in the film media so even though it's only in 24 fps (which is as fast as most film systems record), it is still available in HD if they just re-scan the film.

 

[Synobun]

Same with DS9. It's sad.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

On The Next Generation they recorded and edited everything directly in the film media so even though it's only in 24 fps (which is as fast as most film systems record), it is still available in HD if they just re-scan the film.

They did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation#Blu-ray

 

[Takhisis]

If Chaplin's works can survive even the lack of dialogue, surely even Voyager and DS9 remain watchable.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

original film stock (which may not exist at this point)

A warehouse containing a lot of music master tapes burned down years ago and nobody was told about it until a few months ago.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned about frission, where listening to music can cause your skin to tingle. (I think. I couldn't really understand the article.)

 

[Lemon Merchant]

You understood the article, Aimee. Frission is a real thing.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I tried freezing them and using acid but there came a point where there were too many to treat with those methods. The freezing never actually worked for me but the acid did so long as I stuck with it for 6-9 months per wart. The bee venom treatment was like magic. I woke up one morning and could just feel they were dead lumps of skin and I clipped them off painlessly with trimmers. Never had a wart since, either.

It is unfair to use the word 'painlessly' in a conversation with someone who took off warts with a soldering iron.

 

[The_J]

Today I learned about frission, where listening to music can cause your skin to tingle. (I think. I couldn't really understand the article.)

Oh, I didn't know there's a word for it, or that it's special. I have that rarely with only a few songs (none which I could remember right now :/ ).

 

[Berzerker]

It is unfair to use the word 'painlessly' in a conversation with someone who took off warts with a soldering iron.

Did that work? I mean did they come back and if not how did the skin heal up? I assume warts come back but I dont know much about them.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Did that work? I mean did they come back and if not how did the skin heal up? I assume warts come back but I dont know much about them.

You have to get to the root, which is below flush with the skin. It worked for people who were willing to go deep, and left a round burn scar the size of the wart. If you don't get it all it does come back.

Unless you are stuck on a submarine or otherwise isolated from less barbaric methods I don't recommend it, but it was effective. If you get a wart and you just feel compelled to try it, the key is ice. Hold an ice cube against the wart and surrounding skin until you absolutely can't stand it any more and it will take the edge off when the iron hits. The edge comes back pretty quick and you may have to alternate ice and iron several times to get it all. The debate over whether it was better to stand up to the iron longer to take fewer passes or just get back to the ice before it got terrible went on endlessly and I don't have an answer. It was awful either way, and I couldn't say which is worse.