But do you get hookworm through your shoes? The unsanitary part is not entirely just about what you leave behind from your (attested to) clean feet, but also what you can pick up from the decidedly unclean environment.

No one wants to see your feet.

And it's unsanitary for you.

Also if this is about indoors it's to protect you from stuff on the floor. If s small shard of glass is on the floor you might cut your foot and then it's super unsanitary for everyone including you.

Just don't be barefoot outside areas you should be barefoot.

And of course we have our own sub /r/earrumblersassemble

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It's kinda weird because you think of carbon as a lump of coal, but the reality is that the ("outside") look and properties of a material depend on the molecules it's made of AND on how they are arranged / linked together. A ruby is aluminium rust. So you can arrange carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen and get all sorts of materials: flour, sugar, wood, amber, ivory, fat, cellophane, gasoline, vodka, and so on.

Because gas fireplaces are not intended to be an efficient source of heat, they are made to replicate the appearance of a wood fire.

A blue flame means the gas is being burned efficiently with the correct fuel-to-oxygen ratio. A yellow flame means there is too much fuel and not enough oxygen, so the fuel does not burn completely. Some particles of carbon remain, which incandesce, glow yellow, and are released as soot and smoke.

Weak, I can do...10 seconds (I just timed it), now my ears feel tired.

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But why cant uranium ( random element for example) be this construction worker ?

I've been foreperson on a couple of juries, one criminal, one civil.

In my state, jury decisions must be unanimous. Criminal trials require "beyond a reasonable doubt", and civil trails require "with a preponderance of evidence".

One of the interesting things about being on a jury is that jury members are forbidden to discuss anything about the trial during the trial and only talk about it when they are in deliberations.

The jury will get very specific instructions from the judge as to the specific legal requirements for finding guilt, and the jury will spend a lot of time discussing what those mean. If they have questions, they can ask the judge for clarification.

For criminal cases, it's difficult to convict because of the high standard. The case I was on was fairly easy as the prosecution witnesses were not deemed to be credible.

Our civil case was a bit easier to come to agreement on because a) it's not about putting somebody in jail and b) the jury gets to decide the monetary awards, which gives them a lot of flexibility. In the civil case I did 11 of us converged quickly but we had one holdout - we were able to reach an agreement by changing the award structure so that the person who won didn't get much in the way of damages.

I had surgery recently and I kept my grippy socks.

I don't imagine they would be comfortable inside of shoes, but I don't wear shoes on the house.

"For all i know i am not made of carbon"

If this is your argument: "I can't see it, so how do I know if it's true?" then modern science might not be for you.

If you'd actually like to know: there is a reason; it has to do with the commonality of certain atoms in the universe, but almost more to do with their valence electrons.

Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen bond very easily with each other into long polymers, that have unique properties, because they easily share electron and they are very common. These polymers - some of them - form the foundations of life as we so far know it. Though there is an easy argument for Silicon based life, for the same reasons.

I'D LIKE TO EDIT MY STATEMENT, because it was originally arrogant, but I'll leave the original arrogance: If this is your argument: "I can't see it, so how do I know if it's true?" then modern science MIGHT ACTUALLY be for you.

You should question things. THAT is modern science. Modern science, as it happens, has already been down the rabbit hole of "what are we made of?" and Carbon most definitely lies at it's center.

I'm glad you're asking questions, and I apologize for my initial reaction.

This might be the answer i was looking for

Most of the skin on you're body fluctuates how much blood is near the surface to regulate temperature. The bottom of your feet doesn't do that so much so blood stays relatively close the the skin surface so your feet are great out sending out heat.

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Here's the chemical formula of fat.

The planet's gravity holds the soil, water, and air around the planet so nothing "drains out" into space. So everything gets recycled.

You've heard of plants photosynthesis? That's this reaction, carbon dioxide + water -> sugar + oxygen (released). The plant then chains the sugar together into cellulose which forms the body of the plant.

Animals eat plants and they digest the cellulose back to the individual sugars. Then they breathe in oxygen, and do the reaction in reverse: oxygen + sugar -> water + carbon dioxide + energy. The animal then pees the water and exhales the carbon dioxide.

So water (hydrogen and oxygen) and carbon dioxide (carbon and oxygen) get recycled around and around the Earth, for billions of years, between plants and animals and plants again and animals again.

Your body is made mostly of long chains of carbon + hydrogen and some oxygen here and there, like that fat linked above.

The term "carbon-based" is used as a contrast to "silicon-based". Carbon has this property of being able to link to itself in arbitrarily long chains, and thus form complex organic molecules. The (only) other element that can do this is silicon. Here's an article that discusses silicon-based life.

Same! Was just doing it now reading this post lol

It is a muscle that we tympani rumblers must hone. Do your daily tympani lifts, you can rumble out the droning if that person who you’ve already hit with “wow that’s crazy” twice but they keep going.

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LOL. No. My folks bought Corelle in the 70s when it was first introduced. When I got married I bought it for my household. So I guess that after almost 50 years that kind of makes me an expert.

I think I'm one of those who can contract it voluntarily. I do it by like, tensing up my skull although I can only make it last barely a second.

The one trial I ever sat on a jury for, the crime was obvious and the defendant definitely did it. There was video footage in addition to the usual evidence. There was no reasonable doubt from a juror’s perspective. We had a fantastic foreman so we did our due diligence in talking over the evidence, but there were no holdouts. It took a lot longer to discuss the sentence than it did whether or not he was guilty.