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Post by lonelocust on Sept 23, 2011 16:17:42 GMT -5
Hi guys! What's up! Tell me something amusing.
*eats some crops*
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Post by MaybeNever on Sept 23, 2011 16:32:31 GMT -5
In the mid-nineteenth century, swarms of locusts were so prevalent in the midwest and Great Plains that they rendered the region virtually uninhabitable. Seriously, there was debate about forbidding settlement. Then, without warning, the critters went practically extinct in the span of about ten years, and actually extinct about 1902.
The cause? Irrigation by the farmers disrupted the breeding habitat of the locust.
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Post by ironbite on Sept 23, 2011 16:44:02 GMT -5
Hey there girl with the sexy scars
Ironbite-what up?
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Post by lonelocust on Sept 23, 2011 17:48:13 GMT -5
In the mid-nineteenth century, swarms of locusts were so prevalent in the midwest and Great Plains that they rendered the region virtually uninhabitable. Seriously, there was debate about forbidding settlement. Then, without warning, the critters went practically extinct in the span of about ten years, and actually extinct about 1902. The cause? Irrigation by the farmers disrupted the breeding habitat of the locust. I declare this tidbit iiiiiiinteresting! |
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Sept 23, 2011 18:19:19 GMT -5
...Sexy scars?
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Post by andi on Sept 23, 2011 19:59:49 GMT -5
During REM sleep our bodies are paralyzed, so we wouldn't try to act out our dreams. If we were to wake up before a REM cycle is complete, we would find ourselves in a state called sleep paralysis. The paralysis can last several seconds or minutes, during which time we can experience vivid hallucinations, which can be pretty scary. Like seeing dark figures or sensing an evil presence. It's pretty reasonable to assume that people who think they have been abducted by aliens have just experienced sleep paralysis.
Also, you can't snore and dream at the same time.
Because sleeping is interesting, dammit!
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Post by SimSim on Sept 23, 2011 20:30:09 GMT -5
You can move while dreaming, I've done it before. I was dreaming that I was in a fight, and in my dream I punched. I woke up to my at the time girlfriend yelling, I didn't just dream that I punched, I actually punched and hit my GF in the face.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Sept 23, 2011 20:55:02 GMT -5
I've done that as well. I dreamed once I was fighting off an attacker by biting him and I woke up biting my own arm so hard I left blood bruises.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Sept 23, 2011 21:01:24 GMT -5
I remember once when I was 9 or so I had to share a double bed with my mother due to a bed shortage. I dreamed about riding a bicycle and woke up to find I was doing the pedalling motion with my feet and kicking her in the back repeatedly.
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Post by andi on Sept 23, 2011 21:05:33 GMT -5
Yeah, I've actually done my share of sleepwalking in the past. Doing stuff like that is a sleep order of sorts, it's called parasomnia. |
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Sept 23, 2011 21:26:26 GMT -5
I've had experiences with both.
I've had a minor abduction-style sleep paralysis episode & a much more terrifying shadowperson-style one. Actually, many of the habits I take for granted came out of that, such as always having my door closed (I saw the hallucination in the hallway).
On the other end, I've woken up a few times with a TERRIBLE pain in my calf, which I have concluded is the fault of attempting to run in my sleep while not oriented in a position fit for kicking.
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Post by The_L on Sept 24, 2011 16:38:24 GMT -5
Eeee, Locust! <3
It is impossible to sneeze with one's eyes open.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Sept 24, 2011 17:50:31 GMT -5
Urban myth.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Sept 24, 2011 21:38:10 GMT -5
Unless you hold them open with your fingers, yeah, can't be done. They won't come out of your head but you reflexively close them when sneezing. Biology.
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Post by Vene on Sept 24, 2011 21:43:00 GMT -5
P680 is the most powerful biological oxidizing agent, potent enough to rip water apart, steal its electrons, and initiate photosynthesis.
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