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SmartAss Science Dose #3

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SmartAss Science Dose #2

You Matter To Me.....Literally!

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The Human Thigh Bone Is Stronger Than Concrete.

Light in weight & hollow human bone is even stronger than concrete.The force required to break the bone  is heavily dependent on the angle on which the force is applied. A thigh bone can withstand about a tonne of stress before snapping.

Your thighbone (femur) is the longest and strongest bone in your body. Because the femur is so strong, it usually takes a lot of force to break it, yet it gets fractured.

where the most common reasons for the fracture of thigh bone are:

Car accidents

Falling from a height

The chances of the thigh bone  fracture are very rare if force is applied at 180 degree (in the direction of the length of bone).But only 20 lb. force applied at 90 degree is enough to break it.

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In summary, for a typical human of 70 kg, there are almost 7x1027 atoms (that's a 7 followed by 27 zeros!) Another way of saying this is "seven billion billion billion." Of this, almost 2/3 is hydrogen, 1/4 is oxygen, and about 1/10 is carbon. These three atoms add up to 99% of the total!

Now well that’s a lot!

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SmartAss Science Dose #1

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Now that’s the innovative creations I need, to live in this world.

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Holy Jellyfish!

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Awesome Video on the new Samsung Galaxy S7 egde waterproof test!

 (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg9jjk2rjY)

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A snails habitat usually consists of on land or in water depending on the type of snail. Snails are not usually in need of perfect environments because snails carry their homes and place of safety on their backs.

Desert snails can sense when the air is particularly dry, and will burrow underground in order to retain moisture. Where, they can hibernate up to 3 years, waiting for the temperature to become more suitable for them. The average age of snail is 15 years.

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Check out this amazing TEDTalk: James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email!!

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A cockroach can live for a week without its head. Due to their open circulatory system, and the fact that they breathe through little holes in each of their body segments, they are not dependent on the mouth or head to breathe. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can’t drink water and dies of thirst.

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#1 It Rains Diamonds on Uranus & Neptune!

If experiments at the University of California, Berkeley, are any indication, future explorers of our solar system may well find diamonds hailing down through the atmospheres of Neptune and Uranus.

These planets contain a high proportion of methane, which UC Berkeley researchers have now shown can turn into diamond at the high temperatures and pressures found inside these planets.

“Once these diamonds form, they fall like raindrops or hailstones toward the center of the planet,” said Laura Robin Benedetti, a graduate student in physics at UC Berkeley.