Today I Learned #3: There's a wiki for everything!

[r16]

if there is a fight over some battlefield , ı can always join and say it never happened , even if ı learned it just today . Bezos satisfies his ego , Musk is a bigger danger to the safety of orbit and whatnot , but then that's why we havd turbolazers and phaserbanks for ...

 

[Hrothbern]

My best school friend had some talents to become a piano player.
His father was teacher at the music conservatory of Amsterdam.

And then came Star Trek as TV series.

There was a collision between the time schedules and then also between father and son

And then piano playing was out of the window.

 

[PhroX]

The ship still looks like a dick when rising into space .

There was a rather good headline in one of the British tabloid newspapers (I forget which, but I don't think it was the S*n) when the ship first launched: "One small step for man, one giant leap for manhood"

 

[amadeus]

Bowzer from Sha-Na-Na is now an activist for the Democrats and appeared at Hillary Clinton campaign rallies.

I guess Marilu Henner and Dirk Benedict had their schedules full.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Today I learned that Marilu Henner has an eidetic memory. Must have made studying her lines very easy.

 

[AmazonQueen]

TIL about the massacres of French Algerians carried out by the French police in Paris in 1961 and 1962.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961#8_February_1962_Charonne_massacre

 

[Birdjaguar]

Today I learned that Marilu Henner has an eidetic memory. Must have made studying her lines very easy.

That also might explain 3 marriages....

 

[Takhisis]

Spoken like a true married man, Birdjaguar.

TIL about the massacres of French Algerians carried out by the French police in Paris in 1961 and 1962.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961#8_February_1962_Charonne_massacre

The war actually was sparked by a possibly accidental massacre that happened on the same day as Victory-in-Europe Day.

 

[The_J]

So there's a well known wine here, called Chateauneuf-du-pape. Never thought about the name itself. Until I learned yesterday that it comes from close to Avignon. That's when the penny dropped , should have figured that out before.

 

[Zkribbler]

So there's a well known wine here, called Chateauneuf-du-pape. Never thought about the name itself. Until I learned yesterday that it comes from close to Avignon.

I'm befuddled. Does this refer to when there were two popes, one of them in Avignon (IIRC).

 

[The_J]

Yep, it does .
Chateauneuf is literally new castle, du-pape is from the pope. This place was apparently called Chateauneuf before the pope though, so the funniness is only partial due to him.
The pope resided for a time normally in Avignon (so no pope in Rome), the situation with the antipope came later.
Now the place is called itself Chateauneuf-du-pape, and they make wine there.

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL why Martians are green.

They adapted to the decreasing amount of oxygen (percentage and pressure) on Mars and started a symbiosis with algae.

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01126-3

Summary
Neuronal activity in the brain depends on mostly aerobic generation of energy equivalents and thus on a constant O2 supply. Oxygenation of the vertebrate brain has been optimized during evolution by species-specific uptake and transport of O2 that originally derives from the phototrophic activity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms in the environment. Here, we employed a concept that exploits transcardial injection and vascular distribution of unicellular green algae or cyanobacteria in the brain of Xenopus laevis tadpoles. Using oxygen measurements in the brain ventricle, we found that these microorganisms robustly produce sizable amounts of O2 upon illumination. In a severe hypoxic environment, when neuronal activity has completely ceased, the photosynthetic O2 reliably provoked a restart and rescue of neuronal activity. In the future, phototrophic microorganisms might provide a novel means to directly increase oxygen levels in the brain in a controlled manner under particular eco-physiological conditions or following pathological impairments.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

TIL why Martians are green.

They adapted to the decreasing amount of oxygen (percentage and pressure) on Mars and started a symbiosis with algae.

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01126-3

I assume you're talking about TV Martians, and not real ones, since we don't know yet if there are any real ones (or were, as may apply).

 

[Hrothbern]

I assume you're talking about TV Martians, and not real ones, since we don't know yet if there are any real ones (or were, as may apply).

ofc
This post was with only two sips of my morning coffee

 

[Hrothbern]

On the serious side
This could be interesting for keeping in vitro tissue in better condition for tests or even to be transplanted tissue.

 

[Hrothbern]

I assume you're talking about TV Martians, and not real ones, since we don't know yet if there are any real ones (or were, as may apply).

You know why Martians say roughly 4096 ?

Spoiler :

Because they have 4 fingers and 4 toes and use a hexadecimal number system.
16 to the power 3 is 4096, and similar to our 10 to the power 3 (the roughly 1000)

And now I stop

 

[The_J]

TIL why Martians are green.

They adapted to the decreasing amount of oxygen (percentage and pressure) on Mars and started a symbiosis with algae.

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01126-3

While very interesting, this is a very bizarre experiment to get through the medical-ethical committee.

 

[Hrothbern]

While very interesting, this is a very bizarre experiment to get through the medical-ethical committee.

It sure is !
The amount of posssible unforeseeable interactions with our complicated metabolic system of (local behind barriers) balances is innumerable.
Even more complicated than the current symbiosis with intestinal bacteria and more close to the eukariotic revolution.

Also the reason I embarked on less serious side remarks

Still... our mitochondria are like chloroplasts and embedded and simplified long time ago in our cells as symbionts.

 

[Kyriakos]

It sure is !
The amount of posssible unforeseeable interactions with our complicated metabolic system of (local behind barriers) balances is innumerable.
Even more complicated than the current symbiosis with intestinal bacteria and more close to the eukariotic revolution.

Also the reason I embarked on less serious side remarks

Still... our mitochondria are like chloroplasts and embedded and simplified long time ago in our cells as symbionts.

Trying to consciously (through thought etc) affect your metabolism is a staple of hypochondria. F. Kafka did that, of course.

 

[Hrothbern]

Trying to consciously (through thought etc) affect your metabolism is a staple of hypochondria. F. Kafka did that, of course.

My father was also a real hypochondriac.
And my older brother "inherited" that AND started studying medicin. Bad combi. He stopped after a year.
I got opposite genes