[friendociate]

Microsoft Start shares list- & description-of
• that Undercover Cops have to reveal themselves if you ask them
• that We Only Use 10% of Our Brains
• that Mother-Birds will Abandon their Babies if People Touch the Young
• that you have to Wait 24 Hours before you Report a Missing Person
• that Your ATM Code Backwards will Summon the Police
• that the Fetus gets Tangled-up if the Pregnant Woman raises her arms over her head
• that Pregnant Women can tell the Gender of the Fetus by 'whether she carries it High or Low'
• that Alpha Wolves are 'a thing'
• that Carrots give you Good Eyesight
• that MSG is bad for you
• that Greek & Roman sculptures were not painted
• that you Have to Wait an Hour after Eating before you Swim
• that Going Outside with Wet Hair gives you a Cold
• that Blood is Blue

Are there any science-myths that bug you?

[cmoneyspinner]

Can't think of any myths. I have heard of most of them. They don't annoy me because I seldom think of them at all. I never heard the ones about undercover cops and about blood being blue.

[oldbuddy]

Can't think of any myths. I have heard of most of them. They don't annoy me because I seldom think of them at all. I never heard the ones about undercover cops and about blood being blue.

Blood IS blue if it is being currently used for it's intended purpose. It's only when exposed to the air that it turns red. At least if you are Caucasion, you can see this if you know where to look.

[Jem Smith]

Re. the idea that people only use 10% of their brains, have you seen the movie Lucy? It's based on that myth. There are some fun action scenes, but I had to turn 99% of my brain off to enjoy it.

The MSG one is very annoying, and a bit racist.

The myth that lemmings kill themselves is pretty silly.

-- 22 Feb 2023, 15:34 --

Can't think of any myths. I have heard of most of them. They don't annoy me because I seldom think of them at all. I never heard the ones about undercover cops and about blood being blue.

Blood IS blue if it is being currently used for it's intended purpose. It's only when exposed to the air that it turns red. At least if you are Caucasion, you can see this if you know where to look.

No, it's not. De-oxygenated blood is darker (almost purple), but it only looks blue (like when you look at a fair skinned person's veins) through because of the way light travels through skin. Also, veins are often depicted as blue in medical diagrams, which is a bit misleading.

[oldbuddy]

Re. the idea that people only use 10% of their brains, have you seen the movie Lucy? It's based on that myth. There are some fun action scenes, but I had to turn 99% of my brain off to enjoy it.

The MSG one is very annoying, and a bit racist.

The myth that lemmings kill themselves is pretty silly.

-- 22 Feb 2023, 15:34 --

Can't think of any myths. I have heard of most of them. They don't annoy me because I seldom think of them at all. I never heard the ones about undercover cops and about blood being blue.

Blood IS blue if it is being currently used for it's intended purpose. It's only when exposed to the air that it turns red. At least if you are Caucasion, you can see this if you know where to look.

No, it's not. De-oxygenated blood is darker (almost purple), but it only looks blue (like when you look at a fair skinned person's veins) through because of the way light travels through skin. Also, veins are often depicted as blue in medical diagrams, which is a bit misleading.

Since I am a fair skinned person, it's blue to me. However, the real reason I said blue is because my geneology traces back to Mary Queen of Scotts and Lady Godiva (Bluebloods)

[friendociate]

Since I am a fair skinned person, it's blue to me. However, the real reason I said blue is because my geneology traces back to Mary Queen of Scotts and Lady Godiva (Bluebloods)

I wonder why they were called Bluebloods ... and yes, pale-skinned royalty got that nickname because our blood looks blue through our pale skin.