# Great science facts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-facts/657272>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 1, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-facts/657272 "2013-05-01T23:50:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-facts/657272/161 "2013-05-09T19:15:11Z")

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> [@JWT\_Kottekoe](#):
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> I looked for a cite and couldn’t find it. As I recall, and this is something I read \>40 years ago, the victim was using this as an “autoerotic device.”

My nipples explode with delight.

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**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-facts/657272/162 "2013-05-12T22:25:34Z")

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An 8lb superposed cat scores a 57 on a [new logarithmic scale](http://phys.org/news/2013-04-physicists-macroscopicity-schrdinger-cat-scores.html) proposed to measure ‘macroscopicity’ of quantum states. IOW:

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> The physicists explain that this situation is equivalent to an electron existing in a superposition for 10^57 seconds, which is about 10^39 times the age of the universe.

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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-facts/657272/163 "2013-05-13T02:44:33Z")

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> [@what\_do\_I\_type\_here](#):
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> The average person swallows 8 spiders only because I swallowed 56,000,000,000 spiders once.

This was one of the most laugh out loud funniest things I’ve read on here in a while, and I can’t really explain why. But thank you for a great belly laugh.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-science-facts/657272/164 "2013-05-13T04:14:22Z")

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> [@TimeWinder](#):
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> I’m normally a big fan of cites and the pursuit of knowledge, but in this case that may be for the best.

The police said it was a crime that best went unsolved.

If you took all of the arteries, veins and capillaries out of a man and laid them end to end, that man would die.

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