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przyssawka t1_j1izih5 wrote
Reply to comment by everything_in_sync in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
yes. For the first question at least. Never skydived in winter.
*Subjective* nasal patency (the perception of airflow) and nasal airflow are two completely different things. The study I posted compares effects of different air conditions on the perception of airflow. Cold air (or rather "heat loss by mucosa") was consistently the best way to evoke the feeling of decongestion. None of the conditions improved the actual flow.
This direpacy between the flow and perception can also cause the adverse effect for patients who underwent concha reduction surgery (conchoplasty) or Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, to suffer from "empty nose syndrome", which is the subjective feeling of low nasal patency with optimal airflow.
jesselu123 t1_j1izhgq wrote
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Black holes event horizon we would talk millions of years for keeping it there for few hours. Its really hard to think tho..
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everything_in_sync t1_j1ixzqr wrote
Reply to comment by przyssawka in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
Is that why I feel like I can take deeper fresh breathes walking outside on a cold morning after a snowfall?
Would that also mean that the sense5 commercials were accurate and I should skydive during an alaskan winter for optimal freshness?
mrchaotica t1_j1iwpod wrote
Reply to comment by quintinza in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
Watching that made me a little bit inspired to go start a wasabi farm up in the North Georgia mountains. 99% chance I won't, though.
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EGP22 t1_j1iv024 wrote
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I’ve always struggled to get this concept and I find your explanation very good. I think what still gets me is that if a second is a second, I still don’t get why someone moving at .5c appears to have lived “300 years” when the same amount of actual time has elapsed, “80 years.” I am dense though so this isn’t a lack of teaching rather learning.
Captain_Kuhl t1_j1iuyfq wrote
Reply to comment by girhen in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
There's a Business Insider series on YouTube called So Expensive, and they cover wasabi in one of the episodes. It's pretty good for a filler show while you're not doing anything, sort of like How It's Made, and they'll condense an entire season into a couple hours for one continuous watch.
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quintinza t1_j1irt5v wrote
Reply to comment by Licentiousalsatian in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
Jeremy Clarkson managed to fail his way to a semi successful mini crop of Wasabi by planting them next to a stream on his farm. They show it in Season One of Clarksons Farm.
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Licentiousalsatian t1_j1iqmiv wrote
Reply to comment by mtfellie in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
There's a farm in England too. They're very few and far between but wasabi isn't like balsamic of Modena or cornish pasties. You absolutely can produce wasabi outside of Japan, it's just extremely rare.
bacondota t1_j1iq8tu wrote
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The experience is the same. Say you cut 2 potatos a minute on Earth. You go embark on some spaceship. You still cut 2 potatos a minute there.
It is not that " time is moving slower, I can do more stuff" like in movies, where some speedster see stuff in slow motion but can still act on normal speed.
It is time is moving slower, it also affects me, im also moving slower. In the end whoever is on the spaceship will experience the same time.
In another way, if someone is born, lives and die on a ship that is moving half the speed of light, for earthlings it may appear to them he lived like 300 years, but for the person that lived on that spaceship, he lived only 80 years just like everybody else.
XediDC t1_j1ipmhf wrote
Reply to comment by gaboandro in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
And IMO it's actually milder in intensity, although more complex. I love them both.
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Squidocto t1_j1ilxg6 wrote
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However, the question is about their experience of time, in which case the answer is no
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mtfellie t1_j1ijkm7 wrote
Reply to comment by girhen in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
Vidalia only grow in that one spot because Vidalia onions are regular sweet onions grown in a sulfur poor environment. The sandy soil of Vidalia, Georgia causes sulfur to run down through the soil into the water table instead of settling near the surface to be used by plant life. This results in low VOSC content in the onions reducing the burn from them. The most notable of these VOSCs is Allicin ,a compound which when exposed to oxygen, acts basically like tear gas to us humans.
Edit: de-shatnerized
walterpeck1 t1_j1ij2bz wrote
Reply to comment by oldmangrow in What specifically about ginger/menthol/wasabi causes one's sinuses to open? by Bartendiesthrowaway
Wasabi in Japan is often colored horseradish too. It's just way easier to get the real thing there.
PatrickKieliszek t1_j1j3wii wrote
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Gravity causes time to run more slowly. Speed also causes time to run more slowly.
On the surface of the Earth, we have higher gravity. This causes our clocks to run slower.
The ISS is moving much faster than we are. This causes their clocks to run slower.
The ISS is not that high up and it it moving VERY fast. The slowing effect from their high speed is greater than the slowing effect from our higher gravity.
Their clocks run ever so slightly slower than ours.