<p>How many of you guys think about scientifically things during your life, daily?</p>
<p>Like thinking about how gravity works etc. </p>
<p>NOT:
English junk
Basic systematic mathematical process
Chemistry memorization</p>
<p>:P</p>
<p>Yeah lol. A couple of times actually where I would have intense internal dialogue lol</p>
<p>whenever i eat, i think about my GI system</p>
<p>Haha yeah I think about cosmology and the big bang. I could just sit and think about that for hours. I also think about human behavior relative to other beings a lot too. That sounds weird lol, but yeah I think about how science relates to human philosophy. I kind of think about things too much and I question a lot of things. I think about Science to the point where I discover things that I don’t really want to know.</p>
<p>Some of the thoughts that have gone through my head in the past week:</p>
<ul>
<li>How is it that guppies and similar species are livebearing, and yet we assume that egg-laying reptiles evolved from fish?</li>
<li>How can the toxins in certain species of poisonous mushrooms be fatal to any other form of life but not the mushrooms themselves?</li>
<li>What might life on Gliese 581d look like?</li>
<li>Does crossover between sex chromosomes occur more frequently between two X’s than an X and a Y?</li>
<li>Is Bergmann’s rule the reason as to why Northern Europeans tend to be taller than Southern Europeans and Southern Europeans tend to be taller than Latin Americans?</li>
<li>What exactly is a chimera?</li>
<li>Why does toluene in paint and other substances make you high?</li>
<li>Do Caucasians tend to mature at a slower rate than other races?</li>
<li>If the universe is expanding outward from a point, and the stars that we see are light years away, might there be some way of visualizing the past in real time…?</li>
</ul>
<p>This also comes to mind: <a href=“The Science Rap! by Ali G - YouTube”>The Science Rap! by Ali G - YouTube;
<p>Good questions, did you figure out any of the answers? I mean, well for the ones that could be answered by asking someone or looking it up.</p>
<p>Well, yes, I have a basic understanding of what a chimera is now.</p>
<p>Oh haha well good. For your last question what exactly do you mean by past? The past as it occurs on Earth or as in events that have happened throughout the formation of the universe?</p>
<p>I learned about Urine Therapy recently. I wonder about the extent of urine therapy for curing diseases or disorders.</p>
<p>You guys are too awesome.</p>
<p>I got into an argument with my dad two hours ago about whether or not we risk creating an ant infestation problem in a new house if we accidentally carry out a few ants when we move. It doesn’t make any sense that you can start a new colony unless you carry over the queen or some breeding female. …Or maybe you can?</p>
<p>I do all the time. The Big Bang Theory helps in that respect. </p>
<p>Sometimes when I walk on the sidewalk and it is wet outside or raining I think about the effects of water on cement and all that and just think it’s so strange lol…</p>
<p>Yes, a lot of the time.</p>
<p>Wiscongene: for your question about evolution; keep in mind that there are some species of fish that are NOT live bearing, therefore reptiles might have evolved from those fish, despite the fact that I would think there would be some amphibian organism in between fish and reptiles, like frogs or salamanders, but I could be wrong. There was this great chart in my AP Bio book that compared the similarities between select placentals and marsupials. Even though these animals looked alike, they had completely different evolutionary histories. That is why I don’t think we should classify all fish together. Fish that are live-bearing like guppies could have a different evolutionary history than other fish that lay eggs.</p>
<p>Also, I did not know that there were fish that were live bearing other than fish normally classified as mammals (dolphins, some whales). That is a cool piece of information! I never knew that a fish so small as a guppy could be live bearing.</p>
<p>And also, for the record, while I think about many different things, one of the things I think about is: What would a human marsupial look like? Especially when she just had babies…it’s kinda gross to bring that image to mind. And we would have problems dating too, these humans would be a completely different species from us placental humans (I’m sorry, but our love just cannot be…we’re a different species). Unless of course these marsupial humans looked very different from regular humans, to the point that we wouldn’t recognize them as one of our kind.</p>
<p>this thread is amazing :D</p>
<p>I also used to wonder if heat sensitive touchscreens (like the ones used in apple products) were more resistant to damage than touchscreens that only work if you use your fingernail on them (like the ones used on lg phones). This site gave a lot of information on touchscreen and answered my question!</p>
<p>[High-Tech-Post:</a> How Does A TOUCHSCREEN Phone Work?](<a href=“http://hightechpost.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-does-touchscreen-phone-work.html]High-Tech-Post:”>http://hightechpost.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-does-touchscreen-phone-work.html)</p>
<p>When I walk around my house, I think of the physics involved. This also goes especially when I’m pushing a shopping cart. Acceleration, force, momentum, and other stuff. Also, I sometimes imagine moving objects in terms of orbits, and how the “gravity” of nearby objects may affect them.</p>
<p>Sometimes I just sit and stare at my wall, thinking about science projects and engineering designs. Doing so has given me quite a lot of good ideas.</p>
<p>So yeah. Type I nerd, right here.</p>
<p>@joyjoyness23 Yea, guppies, platys swordtails and some other tropical fish species are livebearing. I have always wondered why since I heard this. </p>
<p>Have you guys heard of vsauce (on YouTube) or xkcd. If you like science, you will not regret googling these two things!</p>
<p>?* sorry, shoulda been a question mark there^</p>