tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post115213078700574619..comments2008-12-19T18:18:41.926-06:00The Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571082583740830927noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152470890834904592006-07-09T13:48:00.000-05:002006-07-09T13:48:00.000-05:002006-07-09T13:48:00.000-05:00I heard sucking helium kills brain cells. I'm not so sure, as I don't think I'm suffering from any drain bramage.The Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571082583740830927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152440050660011232006-07-09T05:14:00.000-05:002006-07-09T05:14:00.000-05:002006-07-09T05:14:00.000-05:00That was very interesting to read! Hellium is my Fav party trick too! Nice Blog :-)NMOTBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11638902279558713137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152299907371430472006-07-07T14:18:00.000-05:002006-07-07T14:18:00.000-05:002006-07-07T14:18:00.000-05:00i am a shameless helium-huffer, myself.<BR/>in fact, there was a time when i was an afficianado of all things huffable.<BR/><BR/>when i first saw the pic of the girl with the balloon, it took me back to my deadshow days.jay lassiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04089952633201957645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152283313382701902006-07-07T09:41:00.000-05:002006-07-07T09:41:00.000-05:002006-07-07T09:41:00.000-05:00You mean the X-Ray glasses that you can order from the back of <I>Boy's Life</I> magazine aren't perfected yet? ;-)Perplexiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09971805688658949769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152282466672696472006-07-07T09:27:00.000-05:002006-07-07T09:27:00.000-05:002006-07-07T09:27:00.000-05:00When will X-Ray glasses finally be perfected though?????The Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571082583740830927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152279907341792272006-07-07T08:45:00.000-05:002006-07-07T08:45:00.000-05:002006-07-07T08:45:00.000-05:00One Friday evening, on November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen worked alone in his laboratory. He had set up his experiment using a Crookes tube fitted with an anode and cathode, separated from each other by a few centimeters in the tube. He used a Rhumkoff induction coil to produce a difference of potential of a few thousand volts, knowing that a stream of charged particles would originate in the cathode and would be attracted to the anode. His laboratory was dark, his tube was covered with a light-proof cardboard jacket and a screen of fluorescent material laid on a table a few feet away from the apparatus. While passing the discharge, he suddenly noticed a shimmering light on the table top. Röntgen spent the next eight weeks in his laboratory repeating his experiments. He ate and even slept in his laboratory as he attempted to determine if the rays could penetrate substances besides the air. He placed various objects between the tube and screen and he found that the screen still fluoresced but with different intensities depending on the material being used. When he placed a lead disk, which he was holding, in the cathode ray path he was astonished to find the shadow of the round circle appeared on the screen along with the outline of his thumb and forefinger and within them the bones of his hand! Röntgen hurriedly prepared his notes so that his first report "On a New Kind of Rays" could be published in the Proceedings of the Physical Medical Society of Wurburg on December 28, 1895. Not knowing what these emanations were he uses the term x-ray to describe the rays he was producing.<BR/>But you know all of that already.<BR/>http://www.lixi.com/xray_history.htmozymandiazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07891897071966903895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152278753172133772006-07-07T08:25:00.000-05:002006-07-07T08:25:00.000-05:002006-07-07T08:25:00.000-05:00andrewe, I bet a lot of stuff is invented out of spite.<BR/><BR/>NWG, You should try it! Make sure to post the results. (No pics necessary).The Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571082583740830927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152278317888637692006-07-07T08:18:00.000-05:002006-07-07T08:18:00.000-05:002006-07-07T08:18:00.000-05:00I have always been curious about the Viagra thing?! <BR/><BR/>I mean, how hard does it get? <BR/><BR/>How long does it last? <BR/><BR/>Perhaps I should slip NW GUy a "mickey"?! ;)Evehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04408544489524626997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152261670279874102006-07-07T03:41:00.000-05:002006-07-07T03:41:00.000-05:002006-07-07T03:41:00.000-05:00I love the one about the French Fries, a food born out of hatred!AndrewEhttp://writerspace.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152242958495795592006-07-06T22:29:00.000-05:002006-07-06T22:29:00.000-05:002006-07-06T22:29:00.000-05:00Thanks for the feedback. I try to find both entertaining and insightful things here. Sometimes, I just look for the entertaining.<BR/><BR/>Scientists are party animals for sure!The Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571082583740830927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152237427434713342006-07-06T20:57:00.000-05:002006-07-06T20:57:00.000-05:002006-07-06T20:57:00.000-05:00Wow that is fantastic, I would love to see them use the helium lung thing on House. Helium and houses sarcastic wit would be super.<BR/><BR/>You know, I never knew the post it story. Very interesting.Fatedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17243514731187103729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152237125416878182006-07-06T20:52:00.000-05:002006-07-06T20:52:00.000-05:002006-07-06T20:52:00.000-05:00I think o ceallaigh is being modest... scientists are party animals and they just don't want us to know!the weirdgirlhttp://weirdgirl.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152227219071017592006-07-06T18:06:00.000-05:002006-07-06T18:06:00.000-05:002006-07-06T18:06:00.000-05:00Hmm I am glad I am not the only one who likes to suck helium!<BR/><BR/>Potato chips mmmmmPhatshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11114392448002493307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152215338171148902006-07-06T14:48:00.000-05:002006-07-06T14:48:00.000-05:002006-07-06T14:48:00.000-05:00I love your blog for just this kind of information! Fascinating facts about things I've always wondered and never found an answer to.Sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755782533836813282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152214340858893462006-07-06T14:32:00.000-05:002006-07-06T14:32:00.000-05:002006-07-06T14:32:00.000-05:00My first visit...over from Sar's place. Fascinating stuff!!Joelhttp://bobobanjoey.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152213289951744812006-07-06T14:14:00.000-05:002006-07-06T14:14:00.000-05:002006-07-06T14:14:00.000-05:00Gotta love serendipity!cubehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519056673051804304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152210663652008742006-07-06T13:31:00.000-05:002006-07-06T13:31:00.000-05:002006-07-06T13:31:00.000-05:00Yo, Phoenix! Get yer blasted spycams outa my lab! That stuff's supposed ta be a <I>secret</I>, dammit!<BR/><BR/>:)<BR/><BR/>No. Seriously. It's usually more sophisticated than "messing around", but as often as not it's the experiment that did <I>not</I> work, or the one that somebody dreamed up on the spur of the moment, that yields the big discovery. After all, if we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be <I>research</I>. <BR/><BR/>Now. Think of creativity. And a buch of bureaucrats in Washington who demand every outcome spelled out in black and white for 15 years in advance before they'll part with a dime. Actually, in my field anyway, 2 grants awarded for every 10 submitted (5 out of 10 are worthy), $1 granted for every $10 asked. And the whole NSF annual budget might cover our expenses in Iraq for a week.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, I got carried away ...<BR/><BR/>Oh, the Ivory soap bit? The "mistake" led not to its being super pure, but to its ability to float. Proctor and Gamble now claims <A HREF="http://www.ivory.com/PureFun_SoapLegend.htm" REL="nofollow">it might not have been a mistake after all</A>.O Ceallaighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11582031896495122108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152206957344436132006-07-06T12:29:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:29:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:29:00.000-05:00Don't the best scientific discoveries happen by accident?Willhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00057315208474545482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152206074979108742006-07-06T12:14:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:14:00.000-05:002006-07-06T12:14:00.000-05:00in regrards to phred's comment above. If I had an erection for 4 hours, the hell with the doctor... I'd be running up and down the street hollering, "hey look at this 4 hours and going!" lolDenny Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01808112489615625061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152204113701908042006-07-06T11:41:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:41:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:41:00.000-05:00I think the blog was accidentally invented when nerds were trying to find a way to talk to girls over the internet.<BR/><BR/>-- davidDavid Amulethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600824721922130389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152204039427379552006-07-06T11:40:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:40:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:40:00.000-05:00As always dearest phoenix my hats off to you.<BR/><BR/>Fun stuff.FantasticAlicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02352128442420092563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152202948344172912006-07-06T11:22:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:22:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:22:00.000-05:00Very interesting!<BR/><BR/>But the thing I would hate after sucking in helium is to try to seriously say, "you mean I'm going to die?? How much longer do I have, doc?" in a chipmunk voice. just doesn't quite capture the drama of the moment. :)OnMyWatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03596696073997934432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152202181737817002006-07-06T11:09:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:09:00.000-05:002006-07-06T11:09:00.000-05:00I think many times, you make your own luck. Right time...right place. <BR/><BR/>I'd never heard about the hypercolor shirts, but those were cool in middle school!<BR/><BR/>KC, as far as Dove soap goes - it's been around since the 50s and claims to be ph neutral. So it's easy on the facial skin.<BR/><BR/>Dove soap is owned by Unilever, which also owns Lifebuoy soap.The Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11571082583740830927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152199073693101132006-07-06T10:17:00.000-05:002006-07-06T10:17:00.000-05:002006-07-06T10:17:00.000-05:00Another very interesting post! I used Ivory soap for years because I liked the fact that it floated. Now I'm a Dove girl. Any unknown facts about Dove?KChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10300302671699284234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206171.post-1152196615915940252006-07-06T09:36:00.000-05:002006-07-06T09:36:00.000-05:002006-07-06T09:36:00.000-05:00LOL - the thought of scientists doing that and climbing into an MRI scanner! <BR/><BR/>I think most discoveries are purely accidental.<BR/><BR/>C'mon, I was hoping for a Rush Limbaugh joke there at the end ;-)Lauriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11653885614781210722noreply@blogger.com