I just thought of the title and apparently that's what I'm blogging about today.
From a literal level, the correct answer is, "Duh, of course it's possible to drown, why are you even asking that?" That is a good point, but I want to be pedantic about it, so there.
I guess if you really think about it, drowning is still breathing. You are still inhaling a chemical to exhale a different chemical. In normal breathing we take in the chemical slough we call "air" for our bodies to clean up a bit, and then we exhale carbon dioxide. In the case of water, we're still taking in a chemical slough, but this time, all of the chemicals are in a polyamorous marriage. They're all still gases, they're just stuck together a bit. You're still breathing in oxygen, but instead of your body processing it and exhaling carbon dioxide, you exhale bacteria, some enzymes, and death. That's a pretty good deal if you ask me.
Now here's a separate thing: Would we be able to drown if we were organisms that breathed solids instead of gases? I really can't imagine that think about how freaking crazy that is. It's like something just randomly inhaling a bunch of skittles so it doesn't die. What????? Or what about some sort of whale or something that breathes tables??????? That's really funny right now but it won't seem to be at a later date when I read this again. Would it be possible for it to drown?
I'm going to start with something easier. Do fish drown? Not really. They just kind of stop being able to breathe. Humans can still breathe under water, they just can't for very long (Nor can they breathe it very efficiently at that.) Most fish, if taken out of water, just can't. Sure there's air moving through them, but gills are not made to take in air. They run water past their gills. In the open air, they just can't do anything about it because they can't really inhale.
So what about humans? Really, drowning is a pointless word. A good thing to say would be that they, "breathed water" because breathing water kills people. So people do drown but they shouldn't drown because it's pointless to drown when drowning is just breathing water, which means doing something that people just aren't particularly good at.
Sidenote: I found an article about things that breathe solids. It's really disappointing actually because they're just bacteria and that's boring. I guess it's kind of cool that they respirate toxic metals, but still it's not like a whale breathing the solids in tables or whatever.
So there you go think about it because I'm tired of it. Tell me what you think. If you comment something to the effect of, "People drown, stop being dumb," I'm going to delete your kneecaps. Good luck.
Edit:
If you commented something telling me it is possible to drown without even considering the post, I am going to delete half of your teeth. Olivia has posted the only valid comment. You have to consider it on a more existential level. Be prepared for teeth deletion next wednesday and don't try to run.
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
This is just a test to figure out the character limit of the title line. If it doesn't have a limit, then you will receive a very obnoxious blog post that is all title. Lucky You! So far the limit has not been reached, so I'll just start on the post. I wanted to know who decided that standardized testing was a thing. So I looked it up so you don't have to. His name was Alfred Binet, and he made a standard test of intelligence which eventually became the IQ test. That's so stupid. Why would a guy who died in like 1905 decide who is and who isn't smart? Ironically, that's a very dumb thing to do considering the fact that people 100 years ago didn't know stuff that we don't know now. If you were to reverse that situation, it would be similar to Isaac Newton asking Euclid to do calculus. That's really stupid. Why do we continue to let dead people decide the future? It's the same thing with the constitution. There's a part in the constitution that says that it needs to be rewritten to fit the modern people. What happened. A bunch of white guys decided that these dead guys would rule the country, which is exactly the opposite that the old white guys wanted. Wack.
Why is Chemical Synthesis?
I know that if you're reading this you've taken a chemistry class. This is a thing that happened. If you have not taken a chemistry class, I don't know who you are. That would be crazy, so I'm just going to go off of the assumption that we have interacted in person at some point in time
Anyway
Since you've taken a chemistry class, you know that chemical stuff is a lot of figuring out what will not kill you. That's chemical synthesis in a nutshell. Doing some math and figures to try to get the product you want without dying. This is true every time. Even if you're desired product is something that can kill you. Like bromine. Don't synthesize bromine. It will give your lungs and external body chemical burns and has a good chance of exploding if it touches random metals. Overall you would just have a bad time.
Again
Anyway
Recently, a youtube channel showed up in my recommended feed. The guys name is NileRed, and he does these really crazy experiment things. The scary part about it is I don't know if he's actually a chemist? He knows stuff about chemistry and everything, but he never does anything in a lab, and he gets a lot of his chemicals from e-bay. There's a good chance that this guy will just randomly catch on fire someday and I won't know if it was a chemical thing that went wrong or a chemical thing that went right.
He also does kind of questionable things safety wise sometimes. He has a video of pouring various acids of varying strengths on his hands and ??????????????????????? Do you have a death wish? Are you some sort of masochist? I have no doubt that he would do dubious things if given the chance.
On an actual science note, he does some really crazy reactions. There was one video where he showed the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction and it was very odd. That looks like this:
Science is wild. Here's a link to his actual video of it, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to view it, because apparently, the video is not viewable from this specific area. Watch it at home if that's what you're into. I don't know. Live your life.
Anyway
Since you've taken a chemistry class, you know that chemical stuff is a lot of figuring out what will not kill you. That's chemical synthesis in a nutshell. Doing some math and figures to try to get the product you want without dying. This is true every time. Even if you're desired product is something that can kill you. Like bromine. Don't synthesize bromine. It will give your lungs and external body chemical burns and has a good chance of exploding if it touches random metals. Overall you would just have a bad time.
Again
Anyway
Recently, a youtube channel showed up in my recommended feed. The guys name is NileRed, and he does these really crazy experiment things. The scary part about it is I don't know if he's actually a chemist? He knows stuff about chemistry and everything, but he never does anything in a lab, and he gets a lot of his chemicals from e-bay. There's a good chance that this guy will just randomly catch on fire someday and I won't know if it was a chemical thing that went wrong or a chemical thing that went right.
He also does kind of questionable things safety wise sometimes. He has a video of pouring various acids of varying strengths on his hands and ??????????????????????? Do you have a death wish? Are you some sort of masochist? I have no doubt that he would do dubious things if given the chance.
On an actual science note, he does some really crazy reactions. There was one video where he showed the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction and it was very odd. That looks like this:
Science is wild. Here's a link to his actual video of it, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to view it, because apparently, the video is not viewable from this specific area. Watch it at home if that's what you're into. I don't know. Live your life.
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