How about you start with supplying a better cite for the existence of these 10 mysteries than a book of lists?
If you’re going to post obvious errors like “3. Why we have gallbladders. It’s sole function in life, to secrete bile, is handled just fine by the liver alone” and not accept simple evidence that you’re wrong, there’s really little incentive to interact with you.
The gallbladder does not secrete bile, it stores it. It’s sole function in life is to concentrate bile and release it when needed.
…and that’s *really *that different? The point was the same - we don’t need gallbladders, so why do we have em? Storing vs. secreting - so for something that picayune, that’s an invite to nitpick, bitch, & in general be an asshole?
Ok, I guess this particular thread is the wrong place for intelligent discussion, with a few exceptions. Congratulations on a job well done. U got to be snarky, and irritate some1 off the thread. Way to go.
We can survive without our gallbladders, true. We can also survive without our arms and legs, but I wouldn’t say they have no purpose.
We have gallbladders because, for normal digestion, we sometimes need more bile than the liver can produce on demand.
A person can live without a gallbladder, true. But that person cannot eat a “normal” unrestricted diet most of the time. They can eat as many vegetables and grains and protein as they like, but if they eat a large amount of fat at one time, they’re going to get a bad bellyache. They’re probably going to get diarrhea, as the fat will stay in too large globules because there’s not enough bile released by the liver to break all the fat down. They’re going to lose fat soluble vitamins in their poop along with that fat, and if it happens often enough, can become deficient in those vitamins over time.
There are a few very lucky people who have livers which are overachievers in the bile producing department, and they report no need to change their diet after gall bladder removal. There are other people who have a low fat diet before losing their gall bladder, and so don’t need to change their diet. But the *vast *majority of post-gall bladder removal patients need to be very careful about how much fat they ingest at one time, and cannot eat as they did before the surgery.
WhyNot, RN (Registered Nurse, for those on the other side of the pond.)
The book, “13 Things That Don’t Make Sense”, by Michael Brooks, might be just what you’re looking for. It’s an interesting read. 13 Things That Don't Make Sense - Wikipedia
A fluid…with negative pressure? Interesting. I’m assuming that dark energy isn’t directly observable and that we have theorized its existence based on observations of something else that’s affected by it.
“Dark energy” is basically just another name for “cosmological constant” (to the experts: yes, I know there are less popular dark energy candidates such as quintessence). The cosmological constant is a term appearing naturally in Einstein’s field equations (ie General Relativity), which causes space itself to exponentially expand or contract. Astronomical observations affirm that such a constant exists and is positive (the expansion of the universe is accelerating). The “problem” of “dark energy” is just explaining why the cosmological constant has the value it does. In a sense, this is no more a problem than many others in physics: explaining the arbitrary parameters in the Standard Model, for example. The real difficulties begin when we try to explain dark energy by calculating the vacuum energy (which is equivalent to the cosmological constant) using quantum field theory. We get the wrong answer. But this is not at all surprising, because we know that the Standard Model is only a low energy effective theory, and we do not have a theory of quantum gravity. Anyways, my point is that “dark energy” doesn’t deserve to be categorized as a special problem in physics. It’s ultimate origin is not understood, but then again, neither is the mass of the electron or muon, for example. There are many similar examples of number in physics whose ultimate origin is a total mystery.
To say “we get the wrong answer” is quite possibly the biggest understatement in history. It’s not only wrong, it’s wrong by about 120 orders of magnitude. Note: Not a factor of 120, a factor of 10^120. When you get an answer that far wrong, you feel like you actually understand the problem less than if you had no clue at all.
I’m sure you’ll find somewhere. Oh, look, you did:
I didn’t say “exactly”, I said “nowhere near”. Your cites are a bunch of fruitcakes not even worth reading if they consider >3000 miles “a few miles”. I’ve never seen a nit 1/8th the circumference of the planet, let alone picked it. Also, if your idea of a slight departure from perfection and that’s good enough can encompass an error of 1/8th of the whole, then I guess you can justify practically anything as ‘close enough’. Have fun with that.
I didn’t say that. I said it stores bile that the liver produces. Can you even read for comprehension, or did you not even read my post, let alone the Wikipedia article that proved you wrong?
Your claim that I responded to was that science didn’t know what a gallbladder did, not the mere fact that you can live without one. Consequently, since your cites do not support your original claim, but merely where you moved the goalpost in your response to me, we can ignore them.
I did ‘research’, before I bitched about your claims, not that I needed to, but merely to find cites that proved the obvious falsity of them. I Googled and gave pretty much the first thing that came up. That’s how ludicrous those two claims were.
I’ll leave the rest of your post to be disposed of by the people who already disputed it.
Well, nearby to where I live is a place called Kettle Point, Ontario.
The ‘kettles’ are actually, very round hard rocks. They show no signs of tooling, are found in the water (surrounded by square edged, flat sided, easily explained rocks) and buried in the ground. You can see them, in situ, half in, half out of the ground.
They no longer let people take them. And so far, no explanations as to how they came to be there, or how they were formed.
I know you think it cannot be so, but it is. I told me niece this story when she was here getting a masters degree at the uni. Of course she had to see for herself. So off we went for the day. She too was amazed, and could not find any explanation for their appearance or location.
I believe a similar thing has been found in Australia, but again, no real explanation offered.
Meteor impacts that have been taking place over eons create intense heat forming glass beads and other forms of glass from various minerals and elements in the regolith. It’ll also spew and disperse younger and/or older lunar material for hundreds of miles.
Not to mention early volcanic activity when the moon was young or even the heat from solar radiation.
Thank you, Nurse. This is a very thorough and educative answer - for one, I didn’t know about the fat-digestion thing, and it’s not findable via googling if you don’t know to look for it. Every site I checked on gallbladder removal said that the patient can return to a perfectly normal life and eat as before. I had been consulting with some dox about some unresolved issue, and 1 of the possibilities was gallbladder. In the course of testing, it was discovered mine was fine, but it naturally made me curious and I started researching. I’m sure it won’t be a surprise that not once in the process did anyone (doc, his nurse, the study tech) mention anything about this difference when eating a hi-fat meal. So in the end, we don’t necessarily need one, but a purpose has been explained, and I appreciate your contribution.
Would that other repliers on this thread have your common sense and non-abrasive approach. Probably not enough fiber in their diets, and they’re bitchy by not making enough of a shit in the morning - it’s backing up and coming out their fingers when they type (I’m talking to U, Cheshire Human, Jayjay, and Naita). Get out of your mothers’ basements, put down the ‘World of Warcraft’, and read a book on ‘how to interact nicely with people you don’t even know’ (available on Amazon). With your personalities (or lack thereof) as toxic as they are online, I’d be thrilled never to meet in person to see the people behind the legend. Mediocre flaming skills tho.
All that is and was known when the astronauts and NASA brought up these questions. It also wouldn’t explain why the younger rox crumbled before the older, nor why the astronauts saw WHOLE ACRES of glassy surface - by your logic, glassy beads would also be thrown all over, instead of the ‘scorched field’ look the astronauts described. It’s hard, but try googling ‘astronauts glassy surface moon’.
Care to address the pinging [again witnessed by the astronauts and NASA] or is that too much research? Probly just easier to ask if I’m just kidding, huh?
