Stuff that Blows Your Mind
 

Like, how the hell do artificial flavors work ya know? When you've got yourself a beverage that doesn't have juice or anything, it's gotta be some mad science to get to all these different proportions of whatever the **** to make different flavors. Like, you got an orange soda and a grape soda both with no juice, all the same ingredients, these guys are wizards, man.

Don't even get me started in video games, IMO one if the most outrageous inventions of humanity

Why do bears like tents so much? I wish I knew.

I dunno why, but it's no help to me that they also like the food inside the tents, maybe even more so

****in bears man.

I live on a floor

It doesn't exactly blow my mind, but bears tree climbing ability is sick

Why do bears lie in caves? Cause if they lie on the witness stand it would be perjury.

Lol

There are more juggalos than polar bears left on this planet.

There are more juggalos than a lot of really awesome things. The list could go on forever.

We should send them to the arctic.

****.

There are juggalos.

I thought this thread was suppose to blow my mind. Not be painfully ovbvious.

1blankmind is still an active user of MusicBanter.

String theory.

Still no where near as big as Graham's number - not easy to explain how to even describe Graham's number but this blog post does a good job:

From 1,000,000 to Graham's Number - Wait But Why

wait now I'm actually concerned about artificial flavors.

but also what about calorie-free artificial sweeteners? WHERE DOES THE SUGAR COME FROM ANd why do we think it's okay to be putting all these chemicals in our bodies wat

Most diet drinks use aspartame. Which is actually way more dangerous then sugar.

i can't even read this.

yeah, i know. i mean plus think of like ****ing white bread. i know it has high fructose corn syrup in it and i can only gamble that there's more chemicals in it.
it's just.. how many things do we consume daily and don't even think about what's REALLY in it and what it does?

and not just eat but like our shampoos and soaps and ****. wtf. almost makes me wanna go full hippie living in the woods running around naked and eating plants and ****. but of course i'm too used to my modern luxuries to actually do that.

It's a bit annoying, at the same time, people are living the longest life's they've ever lived. And that fact goes against the theory. But at the same time you could make an argument that if we cut off the chemicals we'd increase the living rate even higher. So who knows?

People are living longer because we are more advanced medically and scientifically.

So if you were to combine both elements, advanced medicine and chemical-free solutions, people would probably live for two centuries.
Assuming, of course, that the medical advancements are made without prescription drugs.

It's been theorized that we can't live longer then 123 years.

Hell no son.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org...th-vs-fiction/

Also chemicals are in everything. You are made of chemicals. Organic food has chemicals. Pesticides have chemicals. Air in space has goddamned chemicals. Your stupid face is made of chemicals. Chemical is not a four letter word.

You're right. The oldest living person was 122 years 64 days. I got ahead of myself.

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so what about sucralose or sacchrin?

What about them?

She wants to know about the "dangers"

there's a difference between man-made chemicals and the scientific elements, lol.

Ja and there's a difference between buzzwords and chemicals that are legitimately dangerous. "Man made chemicals" are neither inherently good nor bad, you're just using the naturalist fallacy that's so popular among yuppies and people who can afford to be scientifically illiterate.

Did I say all man-made chemicals were bad?

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You also romanticized "chemical free treatments" as if that were a meaningful term.

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It's your post, not mine.

Did I?
Or did you misunderstand me?

I know logically that some chemicals are necessary. I was merely referring to the types of medicine that actually end up doing more harm when they are trying to do good, and maybe we should use natural treatments instead when available.

There it is again.

So; medical marijuana or herbal remedies or ****ing flower petal oils. What's the problem?