Dysentery is, in short, when you shit yourself to death...
...if you don't get it treated.
So when you can't get to a hospital you can try this...
Furthermore, Lewin (2001) reports that "... consumption of fresh, warm camel feces has been recommended by Bedouins as a remedy for bacterial dysentery; its efficacy (probably attributable to the antibiotic subtilisin from Bacillus subtilis) was confirmed by German soldiers in Africa during World War II." In addition, sheep feces contain the same antibiotic as camel feces. There are numerous reports from German soldiers of the effectiveness of sheep and camel feces being effective cures for dysentery.
I think that's hilarious. You're shitting too much? Eat some shit.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
You are small
I've, for a second time, failed to update this place for over a month. I've had a pretty horrible fucking time during said month and I'll blame that for my poor effort.
So, during this month off I haven't even considered a subject for a new post. With that in mind I'm just going to waffle on about stars and space for a bit and throw in some videos and gifs.
Space is fucking huge. It's pretty ridiculous and just next to impossible to comprehend and it's this that makes it so amazing to me. When you think about the scale of certain celestial bodies and the vast, vast empty space around them it can really put you in your place. It also gets my curiosity going something special.
You tell anyone this they'll more then likely tell you they already knew this. And they probably do. What they probably don't know is how small our planet really is. Even next to something we're all very familiar with. The Sun.
Think about how big, relative to us, the face of our planet is. It's fucking huge. It's diameter is just under 8000 miles.
Our Sun, which looks kind of small to us, is quite a bit bigger then the little rock we live on. In fact it's so much bigger that Earth can fit inside it a million times. Earth, 8000 miles around, can fit into the Sun one million times. That is, in the truest sense of the word, awesome.
In fact, the Sun accounts for over 99.9% of all the matter of our whole solar system.
Our Sun, a Star, is of course one of many. And it is no where near one of the biggest.
The largest known star is VY Canis Majoris, in the constellation Canis Major, located about 5,000 light-years from Earth. It's around 2,100 times bigger then our sun. Light takes more than 8 hours to cross its circumference!
Now, below is a ace little video that puts everything into perspective a lot better then a bunch of numbers. It doesn't include the VY Canis Majoris but does have some other massive stars that. while smaller then VY, our still bigger then anything you've ever known.
It's pretty mad. These huge, huge things exist in this massive, massive universe that's mainly empty space. So, these giant masses that are so much bigger then our Sun which is in turn a million times bigger then our planet, make up - when all put together – a very small percentage of our universe. I think it's around 4% but I'm not sure, I've drank a lot of red wine and I'm not bothered to do any research.
Here's that gif I mentioned before...
(edit - I couldn't get that gif to work, here's another video, it has VY in it.)
Even with pictures trying to gauge the scale breaks your Brain halfway through.
Now, with all this delicious wine in me I best stop for now. Really, this post was just so I could get the blog going again. I'll go back to this again sometime.
So, during this month off I haven't even considered a subject for a new post. With that in mind I'm just going to waffle on about stars and space for a bit and throw in some videos and gifs.
Space is fucking huge. It's pretty ridiculous and just next to impossible to comprehend and it's this that makes it so amazing to me. When you think about the scale of certain celestial bodies and the vast, vast empty space around them it can really put you in your place. It also gets my curiosity going something special.
You tell anyone this they'll more then likely tell you they already knew this. And they probably do. What they probably don't know is how small our planet really is. Even next to something we're all very familiar with. The Sun.
Think about how big, relative to us, the face of our planet is. It's fucking huge. It's diameter is just under 8000 miles.
Our Sun, which looks kind of small to us, is quite a bit bigger then the little rock we live on. In fact it's so much bigger that Earth can fit inside it a million times. Earth, 8000 miles around, can fit into the Sun one million times. That is, in the truest sense of the word, awesome.
In fact, the Sun accounts for over 99.9% of all the matter of our whole solar system.
Our Sun, a Star, is of course one of many. And it is no where near one of the biggest.
The largest known star is VY Canis Majoris, in the constellation Canis Major, located about 5,000 light-years from Earth. It's around 2,100 times bigger then our sun. Light takes more than 8 hours to cross its circumference!
Now, below is a ace little video that puts everything into perspective a lot better then a bunch of numbers. It doesn't include the VY Canis Majoris but does have some other massive stars that. while smaller then VY, our still bigger then anything you've ever known.
It's pretty mad. These huge, huge things exist in this massive, massive universe that's mainly empty space. So, these giant masses that are so much bigger then our Sun which is in turn a million times bigger then our planet, make up - when all put together – a very small percentage of our universe. I think it's around 4% but I'm not sure, I've drank a lot of red wine and I'm not bothered to do any research.
Here's that gif I mentioned before...
(edit - I couldn't get that gif to work, here's another video, it has VY in it.)
Even with pictures trying to gauge the scale breaks your Brain halfway through.
Now, with all this delicious wine in me I best stop for now. Really, this post was just so I could get the blog going again. I'll go back to this again sometime.
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