There is no such thing as a pineapple tree. That’s an AI image.

Pineapples grow in an even more ridiculous way.

They’re made that way so you don’t accidentally connect a gas cylinder to a water line.

Simon Sebastian - Into The Atmosphere

Dread it, run from it…

I understand the saliva has a benefit for mosquitoes, but not the swelling and the itching (the “unpleasantness” in the title). In essence, our bodies hung this not-otherwise-useful allergic response on something the mosquitoes couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t give up and which was firmly specific to their bites, to single them out.

If there was no saliva our bodies would be pressured by natural selection to pick some other mechanism to make their bites unpleasant. An allergy to their chitin or a phobia to the sound of their wings, etc.

Evolutionary pressure from mosquitoes has probably been no small thing.

Citing measurements made at the 1926 Iowa State Fair, they reported that the peak power over a few seconds has been measured to be as high as 14.88 hp (11.10 kW) and also observed that for sustained activity, a work rate of about 1 hp (0.75 kW) per horse is consistent with agricultural advice from both the 19th and 20th centuries […]

Sounds to me like the 1 hp unit is fair, after all.

I’m missing this one. What’s the joke here?

I met someone named McCool once. I thought that was pretty cool.

The one time when “swamp gas” is the answer, and you miss it. For shame…

Oh yeah, LockpickingCaveman, great channel. :-P (it’s actually LockpickingLawyer.)

Are these decay rates specified for isolated atoms?

I believe they would decay faster when bombarded by particles from fellow atoms, no? So we’d have to account for the mass, shape and density of the samples to get true rates. I don’t think that would change the rankings, but it might increase Simon’s troubles if the radon was frozen or otherwise really compressed, for example.

Tiny (and some of them are absolutely minuscule) flying daredevils that can zoom in three dimensions through wild air currents to avoid your hand every time and land wherever they please? Nah, I respect flies. They’re… perfected.

Awesome, thank you!

What extensions would you recommend?

It also feels like they intentionally picked that photo for contrast value: smiling so broadly when that is something “the original Spock” never did. They were going for the outrage factor, truth be damned.