exactly awww :)

That was the follow up question I was going to ask actually, about blue whales and how they have more cells which sensically would make you assume its easier for them to get cancer, but as you said, it's not very well researched. I saw a while ago a kurzgesagt video which I can't find which theorised that big animals such as whales get hypertumors often which kill their cancers and create a rate more even with the rest of us. Maybe that's why.

A good way to think of this is that animals all live roughly the same average number of heart beats. Human hearts beat say 60 times a minute and we live say 70years so that is 60•60•24•365.25•70 which is like two billion or so. Now a humming bird only lives like two years so its heart beats 35times faster. Or a tortoise lives 210 years but its heart beats a third of the human rate.

What this is getting at is mostly metabolism. And metabolism has a lot to do with cell division. And cell division has a lot to do with cancer rates.

Edit: A good question to ask is shouldn’t a blue whale have more instances of cancer because it has more cells, but cancer is also tied into the age of cells in a poorly understood way.

Still unlikely.

The landmass isn’t simply floating on the water, waiting to be split and separated to float off into the sunset.

Cute question though. We were asking that in elementary school in the early 1970s.

so i should have asked what are the odds of a chunk of cali falling into the sea? thx!

The venturi effect you're describing is not how spray cans work. It is how (a lot of) spray guns work for airbrishing and stuff. But typical aerosol cans are literally just a substance that's kept liquid by the pressure it's under, with a straw dipped in it leading to a nozzle you can open. That's why once a can gets somewhat empty, you can only get a decent amount of paint/oil/hairspray/etc out if you hold it upright.

if you blow across the top of a straw dipped in water, it creates low pressure in the top part of the straw, which draws up the liquid from below.

>The conspiracy theorists give the government far too much credit.

sure, but that doesn't mean that people within the government using government resources can't do nefarious stuff

Yea you right

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There are no people behind the throne.

There are certainly people above the throne, and beyond the reach of the throne. But that’s it.

Everything is a conspiracy! Do your research sheeple!

Yawn.

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Many gases become liquids at relatively modest pressures. Air, for example, does not. If you were to pressurize an aerosol can simply with air, the pressure would dissipate rather quickly. But something like Butane turns into a liquid at room temperature at a practical 6-10 atmospheres, and if you try to reduce the pressure it will boil and restore the pressure, until all of it has boiled off. This provides a lot more volume. This boiling action requires heat, just like boiling water does. It will absorb heat, and that's why you may have noticed that aerosol bottles become cold when used a lot.

That's also why many aerosols are very flammable. There are alternatives that aren't flammable, but they're often needlessly expensive. Butane is dirt cheap.

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The government cannot manage to keep to a budget, prevent secrets from being leaked, craft sensible laws, collect the taxes owed to it, enforce its own regulations to prevent train derailment disasters, or do a multitude of any other things without seriously cocking it all up most of the time. I refuse to believe they are capable of organizing false flag shootings to further a legislative agenda.

It's more likely they merely politicize and highlight ones that occur for the same purposes.

I think when you put this in the context of how government can’t agree how to put signs on toilets, it will become clear that government isn’t organized enough to do anything about.

One House Rep recently said that the USA should be dissolved into two countries based on the last election’s results, and there was very little criticism from other members of the party.

The conspiracy theorists give the government far too much credit.

this makes a lot more sense, thanks!

The general idea is that mass shootings are conducted by the government so that they have an excuse to pass gun control laws which will force people to give up their guns.

The smaller details (such as why a particular person was chosen to be framed, how the framing was conducted, or what the government will do once its citizens are unarmed) will vary depending on which conspiracy theorist you ask.

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Yes, that's my point. I don't see how melting something turns it into a non-mineral.

Ice has a crystalline structure.

The necessity of a crystalline structure on the definition seems like an unnecessary restriction imo.