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AdSignificant9571 t1_jdoz4g1 wrote
themagicbong t1_jdoyqei wrote
Reply to TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
Damn, all these jokes, but that sounds pretty fuckin serious. Pretty wild to have such an enormous body of water that high above sea level. "at an altitude of approximately 3,700 m (12,100 ft)."
"In 2002 the lake was designated as a site for conservation under the Ramsar Convention. By December 2015, the lake had completely dried up, leaving only a few marshy areas. Although the lake has dried up completely twice in the past, it does not appear that it will recover this time."
cool. cool. cool. this is fine. Was only the SECOND largest lake in the country.
Stevenntrann t1_jdoyb1d wrote
Reply to comment by Mama_Mush in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Yeah I guess, but if you practiced safe sex or protection you wouldnt have birth defects to worry about. So it’s a if-that-then-this kinda of statement. Also I don’t know too much about anatomy but in the womb, if theres a physical connection, in this case, cellular connection, the body would treat it as such. This is not your argument if you believe that its a foreign material. Foreign materials for the most part would get rejected from the body, create abscess and pus to isolate the material and slowly eject it by whatever means.
jimfazio123 t1_jdoxrur wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
The blastocyst builds both the fetus and the placenta, which acts essentially as a parasite, to the point that it secretes chemical compounds and has its own purpose-specific immune cells that allow it to suppress the mother's immune system to avoid being treated as a foreign body. All the instructions come from within the embryo/fetus, all direction comes from within the embryo/fetus. If at any point the embryo/fetus stops providing directions, development stops. The mother doesn't build the fetus, it's just built within her body.
carbonmonoxide5 t1_jdoxkta wrote
Reply to comment by ChillWisdom in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Yeeeeeah…as someone with an autoimmune disorder, I 100% expect that to not work correctly on my person.
88kat t1_jdoxgi5 wrote
Reply to comment by oldmankitty in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Currently pregnant too. I have gestational diabetes, with like no family history of any diabetes, and starting pregnancy at 5’8 and 135 pounds. My doctors assured me the diabetes is because my placenta is causing it. Which makes me wonder because diabetes is rampant in my husbands family.
Since I was diagnosed, I have wondered if his genetics has anything to do with this… 😂
Gamby227 t1_jdoxfnw wrote
Reply to comment by schlitz91 in TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
I need TP for my bunghole
Leuk_Jin t1_jdowgv8 wrote
Reply to TIL That the Hallway (as an architectural feature) was first recorded in 1597 by SalMinellaOnYouTube
I heard old timey castles and mansions having no corridors. Instead, just many rooms connected to eachother. Sounded like concept of privacy was much different since nobles and aristocrats already would have had servants going in and out of their chambers anyway. But it's funny that it reminds me of how I build houses in survival games. Lack of planning, lack of resources, lack of diligence.
michaelvsaucetookdmt t1_jdowf30 wrote
Reply to comment by Xyrus2000 in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Well youre putting your own little slant on it by saying shit like “voracious parasite.” Literally every placental mammal works this way. People learn about this in school. I don’t want you telling middle schoolers in sex ed this shit just because you think its freaky any more than i want super christians to control sex ed.
Librosaurus t1_jdowbra wrote
Reply to comment by Emergency_Mine_4455 in TIL that Chinese Food was introduced into America during the California Gold Rush, starting in 1848. As 30,000 immigrants had arrived from the Canton region of China, the restaurants gave the predominantly male population a connection to home and provided gathering places for the Chinese community. by jdward01
Ah, I see. Thanks!
YesHAHAHAYES99 t1_jdovnqa wrote
Reply to TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
I will remember this fact.
Emergency_Mine_4455 t1_jdoviqj wrote
Reply to comment by Librosaurus in TIL that Chinese Food was introduced into America during the California Gold Rush, starting in 1848. As 30,000 immigrants had arrived from the Canton region of China, the restaurants gave the predominantly male population a connection to home and provided gathering places for the Chinese community. by jdward01
In some cultures men are not taught how to cook, and I believe that some subsets of traditional Chinese culture may have been that way. These men wouldn’t have known how to make their traditional dishes, so the restaurants would have given them that taste of home.
jimfazio123 t1_jdov8v0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Where does the sperm come from, the mother as well?
The placenta has the same genetic makeup as the fetus. The mother doesn't make it; she supplies the nutrients. It's not a difficult distinction, and yet.. it's still a distinction.
Mcginnis t1_jdov05z wrote
Reply to comment by Bonaduce80 in TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
In french titi is sort of slang for small, so it's Lake very small shit
Mama_Mush t1_jdouica wrote
Reply to comment by Stevenntrann in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Lmao. Neither protection or safe sex protect against birth defects or pregnancy issues. The egg may come from the mother but the fetus and its placenta are foreign material to her body.
potatokid07 t1_jdouf7u wrote
Reply to comment by OvidPerl in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl
Sorry I should have had put myself clear, I think it could have written in a less "blame culture"-y way, because "thanks to..." phrase gave me such semantics. Not saying the poor internal comms is not true, it's a valid issue indeed!
Mama_Mush t1_jdouamd wrote
Reply to comment by bluehunger in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Thousands of researchers, millions of doctors and more millions of women.
OvidPerl OP t1_jdotqtk wrote
Reply to comment by potatokid07 in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl
You wrote:
> I don't agree how OP or the article writes "thanks to poor internal comms"
The very first sentence of the article:
> NASA admitted today that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned during his July 16 spacewalk last year because information about a previous water leak didn't make its way up the chain of command.
Mama_Mush t1_jdotddj wrote
Reply to comment by ElizabethHiems in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
That is incorrect. The fetus would grow outside the uterus and labor would start but there would be no way for the baby to be born.
jimfazio123 t1_jdot7ff wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
If you buy a loaf of bread at the store, did the bakery make your sandwich? No, it just supplied the materials needed for you to make it.
With the genetic information from the sperm, the fertilized egg utilizes the nutrients available to divide and construct the placenta from part of itself. Without the sperm, the only thing that (unfertilized) egg is doing is flushing out of the uterus.
sundayontheluna t1_jdosxr4 wrote
Reply to comment by frolicndetour in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl
They hand waved a foam strike that ended up causing the disintegration of the Columbia shuttle 10 years before this, so no
WizziesFirstRule t1_jdoz971 wrote
Reply to TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo by Dotst
I AM CONHOLIO!