GroinShotz

GroinShotz t1_jd9uj6s wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in (Biology) How far down your spine can you break before respiratory impairment? by Anomaly-Friend

As long as it was fed oxygen... Yes. I think that's where you're being confused... The brain does play a role in the heart pumping... by keeping the other organs supplying the heart with what it needs.

It's why people that are "brain dead" can be kept "alive" for a while, with a machine that breathes for them. The brains not sending the signals to the lungs to get oxygen in the blood stream to supply the heart with the energy it needs to beat.

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GroinShotz t1_ja164kx wrote

Reply to comment by GrizzledFart in Amazon faces a lawsuit over products that fuel the donkey skin trade. by tandemuis365

This is the best tl;dr I could make, The US Center for Contemporary Equine Studies is suing Amazon for selling products containing a donkey derivative, despite efforts from advocacy groups to halt the practice.

The lawsuit claims the e-commerce giant is illegally selling products that contain "Ejiao" a gelatin made from the skin of donkeys and used in various products like health supplements - in violation of California animal welfare law.**

According to the Brooke USA Foundation, a group fighting against Amazon in support of donkey welfare, ejiao acts as "a hard gel that can be dissolved in hot water or alcohol to be used in food or drink, or in beauty products such as face creams." Some advocacy groups and consumers claim companies are deceptively using the substance, contributing to the slaughter and skinning of millions of donkeys a year.

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GroinShotz t1_ja0yr18 wrote

Reply to comment by fleranon in Today I Learned that the moon distances itself from the Earth by about 3,78 cm(1.49 inches) every year. by LucasOIntoxicado

One theory states that the moon will eventually slowly creep back towards us eventually becoming a ring (like Saturn's rings)... If the Sun doesn't engulf us by then.

>Eventually, Earth’s rotation will slow until it, too, is locked to the moon’s orbital period. At this point, Earth will still be rotating faster than it orbits the sun and the smaller tidal bulge due to the sun’s gravity will continue to slow Earth’s rotation.

>Earth’s tidal bulge will then begin to lag the moon’s orbital motion, the pull will be acting in reverse and the moon will slowly start to spiral back towards the Earth.

>The moon will move ever closer until it reaches 18,470 km (11,470 miles) above the Earth, a point known as the Roche limit. This is the radius inside which the tidal forces pulling objects apart exceed their mutual attraction due to gravity.

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GroinShotz t1_itm855z wrote

Reply to comment by redsoxfan_goboston in This new farming robot uses lasers to kill 200,000 weeds per hour by diacewrb

Unfortunately, you probably can't buy it to own it... It probably comes with a subscription plan to unlock the guided weed killing lasers, and a separate subscription if you want it's wheels to turn... Throw in another subscription if you want it to ignore your pets/children when targeting with lasers.

It's subscriptions all the way down.

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