So, to make this place a little more mainstream ( :nahnah: ), I’d like to make a thread where everyone deposits a little scientific fact that they found interesting as they were learning science in school (or maybe currently) or working in a science field.
Okay - here I go. I know this is totally basic, but it does well to pull in a crowd that may be intimidated or bored by this part of the GS forums. Its something we all learn in basic biology.
Salmon are born in freshwater rivers and then migrate out to sea as adults. The interesting thing is that as they mate, they migrate back to freshwater…and not just to any freshwater, but their natal home - that is, the exact place where they were born. They swim upstream, which is physically demanding to reach their natal home, where they go to mate.
I’ve always been fascinated by animal behavior. Those critters just keep on surprising ya.
that kind of migratory behavior is not limited to salmon alone - several other species of fish do the same. anadromous fish live in seawater, and migrate to fresh water to spawn. salmons and relatives. catadromous fish live in fresh water and migrate to the sea to spawn. sargasso eel and co.
oh comon! Queer, you must have some interesting fish facts. :-/ this is a good thread...comon people....lets share some interesting scientific facts...the kind that just make you want to run out into an open field and just "feel" a prayer, as Anne of Green Gables puts it.
can u hush about anne? she was precious to me alone damn u, u are stealing her from me.
Anyway, heres a scientific fact. If you are ill and you eat chocolate, you feel better. If accompanied with the chocolate you have a warm hug you feel fine in no time
Ok, OK, here's two science trivia things I like ---
The universe is beige.
Pigeons can see the color orange, one of the few birds that can, therefore the coast guard can train them to locate people lost at sea wearing lifevests.
Last totally useless bit of trivia---
The first man-made object to break the sound barrier???
i think sometimes the scientists just go nuts and they come up with these kinda findings. Now I am not challenging their findings but WHO GIVES A **** what color the universe is?
Is Pluto the ninth planet or the eighth from the sun? The answer is both. For most of its 248 year orbit around the sun it is the ninth planet. But for 20 years of its long orbit, Pluto is actually closer than Neptune. From 1979 to early 1999, Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune and became the eighth planet!
Dogwood, common name for a family of flowering plants distributed mainly in the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere, with a few species occurring in tropical South America and Africa. Of the 14 genera in the family, only the dogwood genus is native to North America. Members of the family are mostly trees or shrubs with simple, opposite leaves. Well-known exceptions, however, are the bunch berry, a perennial herb; and the pagoda dogwood, which has alternate leaves. Dogwood flowers are small and are produced in branched terminal clusters that are sometimes surrounded by showy white bracts. Thus, the so-called petals of the familiar flowering dogwood are actually bracts.