The myths we believe in №5

Hello everyone! The myths we believe in. Probably my favorite section, because when I look for information, sometimes my jaw drops. What is it like? Why didn’t I know? Why didn’t anyone tell me? There will be many myths in this issue that we believe in since childhood. And the fault is children's books, cartoons, family films, as well as, of course, amazing stories of parents. Yes, perhaps in time you learned the truth about them, and you could simply know a lot from what will be said today. But I didn’t know. Plus, you will hear a lot of new things, even if you were in the know. Let's do it cheerfully, funny and exciting. Well, how funny, remember, I already talked about the fact that dolphins are not so cute, as we used to think? What about pandas? No, no, you say, turn off the computer and throw the computer out the window, just to not get upset. Yes Yes. These cute fluffy animals, which only do what they eat shoots and bring people happiness, can sometimes bring unhappiness. Pandas actually have huge fangs and a fantastically strong bite. And it is not surprising that in a panic they could attack a person in the wild. But they can also attack a person even in a zoo. In the links you will find reports of the three victims from 2006 to 2009. Of course, they themselves were to blame, climbed into the aviary and tried to stroke the cute panda, because they thought she was cute. The result is very sad. I unfortunately can not add photos. YouTube will ban me. There is complete tin, believe me. And in a Chinese newspaper it was reported that the wild panda otmutuzila and ate a goat. Kungfu panda in real life. Though sad. And I always said that any animal can be dangerous. So always keep this in mind before doing any action even with the most harmless animal. For example, you definitely will not want to joke with an ostrich. Although the video was not an ostrich, but a rheum. Their appearance is very easy to confuse. And I needed an eyeliner for the next myth. An amazing story happened with ostriches. From time immemorial, they attributed those skills that they do not need and which they do not possess. Yes, I'm talking about the fact that ostriches allegedly hide their heads in the sand. We saw it well, where a lot. Why um show this if it's not true? When I said that they have long been credited with, I meant that it was straight from time immemorial. About 22 year of our era. The ancient Roman writer Pliny the Elder writes his main creation, natural history. And what do we find there? If they hide their head or neck in a bush, then they consider themselves completely hidden.

"We missed him."

Firstly, it is very stupid, and secondly, the actions of the ostrich really likely made me think so. See for yourself, they often tilt their heads to the ground to eat or swallow small stones. This is for them to digest. Its own atmosphere. Plus, ostrich masonry is often found in a small depression and it is not surprising that from the outside it seems like this. In general, no, they do not. Yes, and why. They can hit and then run away. Have you ever seen how these crazy rush? Although on the other hand, this does not always save. Here a big cat would catch an ostrich if she tried. You know, in childhood, after watching the cartoon “The Jungle Book”, I always wanted to see a live panther. Such a graceful cat. What was my surprise when I found out that I had already seen her, but I did not attach any importance to this, and you too. Panthers are not a separate species, unfortunately. Panther is a lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar. Who would have thought. And black panthers are most often black jaguars and leopards with an interesting feature, melanism. This is such a genetic feature in animals, a darker color in contrast to other individuals. Sometimes it is stained, and sometimes completely. Well, this is exactly like and revision of a cartoon or a movie for anyone.

"Yes, you were not born a wolf, but at least act like a wolf."

By the way, as you can see from these comments, Russian-speaking people are difficult to accept Bagheera as a male. Indeed, in that very Soviet cartoon Bagheera is a girl.

"Man, where did he come from?"

It turned out that in Bagir’s original book this is a male, and when in the Soviet time they made a female out of him, they actually created a plot hole. And here I am glad that I actually have a Disney version. Another good cartoon, which I remembered, "Dunno on the Moon." Remember the plot? Some say we are flying to the moon, and the scientist says, are you stupid? There is no life there, why? In the end, it turns out that there is. So the turn doesn’t resemble anything? This was told to us by many films and cartoons. And not surprisingly, we remember. There is something on the dark side of the moon. The album “Pink Floyd”, one of the parts of “Transformers”. In general, a whole bunch of everything. The point is that no dark side exists. It is already conceived that only one side of the moon can be seen from Earth, the other is closed from us. And conspiracy theorists are puzzling, but what is there? How to look there? Probably there is an alien base. Although in 1959, the spacecraft was able to take pictures of the dark side of the moon and it was not at all dark. Now there are a lot of pictures and there is nothing unusual there, and why the cinema is still parasitizing on this is not entirely clear. Again I justify the aliens. It's funny that many of you say that I'm an undercover reptilian. I constantly say that there are no aliens, thereby sweeping their tracks. Funny theory, what if? If we are talking about reptilians, then we can talk about toads. How did I do the eyeliner? I remember how in childhood I picked up a toad in the village and she wrote to me, as I thought, as I felt. I had some kind of tubercle on my arm literally in 1-2 hours. So, I thought. And my friend’s grandmother said: “Well, clearly, I probably touched the toad. So the wart appeared. ” Do you know what she did? I took some crumbs of bread, put it on the doorstep of the house and began to read some spells in my hand, and as a result this tubercle passed.

"Hash stories."

So it comes out, frog warts is not a myth? No, it turned out that I was an idiot and probably did not betray the significance of other factors. But frogs do not have warts. Stop slandering them. Warts are a consequence of infection with the papilloma virus, a benign formation and toads are not a carrier, although at first glance they are covered with dumb, vile little bumps. But the main question remained. How did this sorceress cure me? Speaking of abominations. I clearly remember in childhood, as I was told, that cockroaches are vile creatures and scavengers that spoil everything. Not only are they bad, they will also survive a nuclear explosion, they say they have nothing to radiation. They will enrage everyone even after our death. Is there any proof that they will survive at all, or that they don’t react to radiation in any way? Of course there is, the game “Fallout” with its glad cockroaches. Why not proof? Most likely, all this rumor went after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where they found unscathed cockroaches after the bombing and have since spread by word of mouth. The truth is that we will die, and the cockroaches will live. At least 10% of cockroaches when it comes to a bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This is somewhere around 10,000 glad, the unit of measure is this. And a person is enough 400-1000 for a sudden death. And the truth is that cockroaches are very weak in this regard. They also react to radiation and die at such values ​​that other insects may not even notice. For example, a Drosophila fly can withstand more than 60,000 rad. Scorpions get hurt too. And the braconids survive at a whopping 180,000 rad. Why did they ignore them, I don’t know? But if we are not talking about insects, only 1,500,000 are happy to kill this bacterium. That’s exactly who will survive any nuclear apocalypse. And the result is simple, cockroaches will simply die if the charge is more powerful than in Hiroshima. A charge equal to one slipper. The probability of survival is about the same as the probability of not stepping on the worm after rain. No really. Surely all of you have seen this dumb picture. Earthworms crawl out onto the asphalt, there are many of them, half have already been crushed, but they crawl further to their target even without legs. Johnny is you, where is your other half? Johnny? I call it wormy Vietnam. Yes, from childhood we were aware that if you cut a worm in half, then you should not suffer morally, because two will appear, so you even help the population to some extent. But really worth it. You see, including ordinary earthworms, which we see on the street, have both a mouth and an ass, although at first glance you can’t say so. And if you cut off the back of it, then yes, most likely it will grow back, only at the tail there will be no vital organs and he will not be able to eat, so he will definitely die after some time. The fact that he wriggles on does not mean anything. Yes, it's time to apologize for all those attempts in childhood to separate them. Run guys, now there are two of you. And they do not run, because there are not two of them, and not even one now. All thanks to you. Why then were we aware of this myth? And because dung worms, those that are often used as fishing bait, still have a small chance to grow their head and tail, that is, two worms will turn out. But it is necessary to try very hard. Do not practice, I beg, they are sorry. Even when I step on the worm, I’m almost ready to arrange a funeral for him. But if you think this is cool, then look at these little creatures. What lovely eyes, I can’t. These are planar flatworms and you can take one of them and start chopping finely and finely. Suppose you cut one into 100 parts. Do you have nothing to do? Come in 2 weeks and see at this place 100 identical worms. They can restore themselves even from a tiny piece. And all because of the stem cells that dotted their body. I wish I had the same.

"Drop your weapon."

"Do you know how it hurts?"

"Did you bring any worms? Have you taken one?"

By the way, the planarium is found where we go fishing, where the reeds grow, which we set on fire and thereby frightened off insects while it smolders. Do you remember?

"Oh, I remember."

In general, this is not a reed. This is a cattail. Reed is this thing. Very necessary information was now. Now back to Pliny the Elder, what do you know about hedgehogs? Guys with thorns, very shy. In the alphabet, and in general in children's books, hedgehogs are drawn like creatures that carry apples and mushrooms. This was the first time Pliny the Elder began to speak, who also disgraced ostriches. Gad, in general, according to his observations, hedgehogs roll on the floor like Sony and pick apples to eat later. Since then, people have written about this in almost every bestiary. But most likely they simply copied Pliny's observations, since the hedgehogs do not. They are not particularly interested in apples, although they are omnivores. But still prefer small living creatures such as insects or worms. But such photographs are just an ordinary production. This myth is very old and now has long been entrenched in the head, and of course the hedgehog will continue to look like this in children's books. Just like Tom and Jerry immortalized the myth that mice love cheese. No, they do not like. Basically, they feed on grains and all kinds of seeds. Oh no. I swallowed gum. I don’t care. I have done this more than once. Although I always remembered the exact figure, which scared me relatives and peers. Seven years, seven long years, it will lie in my stomach and that’s it. I don’t even remember how it could end for me. Come on, how could this end for me. The rubber base, although it will not be digested, but in the end, of course, it will come out of the right place, although it will take a day or two more. So don’t worry. By the way, I talked about one or two gum. Do not eat them in packs, but you never know. Better not check. After all, there were cases when many chewing gums stuck together and created an obstacle in the intestine. I have a memory, like a fish. This is such a widespread and popular opinion that a goldfish has a memory of 3 seconds, that at some point you even begin to believe. Why not? You look at them. Brainless creatures swim back and forth. Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you, fish. You just have such a reputation.

"Do not eat worms today. There are fishermen."

"Oh food."

But this is no more than just a bike. Aquarium fish stores events in memory for about 3 months. They can be trained, find a way out of the maze, know when you will feed them and even recognize you. They have great potential, so if you have a very small fish tank and you think what difference does it make, they don’t remember anything anyway. So there is a difference. Dr. Pendant Brown says that the more often the environment in the aquarium changes, the more diverse it is, the more active the fish will be. So it goes. So go ahead for shells. I bought such a huge creature, but I don’t have an aquarium, so I’ll listen to the sound of the sea. I wanted to swim, you probably start to guess that there is not a micro portal to the sea inside, through which the sounds of water are heard. Well then what? Everything there, everything around. Just the sounds are concentrated in one place. The same thing will happen with an ordinary hand. Give it a try. But what is heard in the soundproof room. I'm just sure this is such a business. Someone came up with this myth to sell more shells. Do not believe me, open the grandmother’s wardrobe section next to the dumb crystal dishes. I see everything. And the last myth is especially familiar to those who lived or spent some time in the village. Morning earlier, the first rays of the sun will appear soon, which means the rooster is yelling, which means it's time to milk the cows. Everything is cool, isn't it? Only the rooster is not yelling at this. He doesn’t care at all about the rays of the sun and everything like that. He has his own biological clock that tells him when to start yelling. And you will not believe there is even research when roosters screamed at the right time, even in an isolated room. And they do it not for you to wake up like that. In fact, they denote their territory in this way. Something like the time has come. I'm in charge here. So in the end the whole village screams. And also the rooster can scream not only in the morning. There are many different factors. And by the way, there is always one leader on the territory. And let only the subordinate try to start screaming instead of the main thing. Here is what will happen. About the same story with wolves. They do not howl at the moon, but talk in this way. But now I miraculously got out of the village and live in the city. And you know what parents were right after all? You must have an apartment. A lot of problems disappear when you have your own real estate. I honestly denied for a long time, but it's true. Now I am saving up money and everywhere I hear “buy a monolith, panel houses are so-so”. But this is just a myth. In fact, both such and such houses have their pros and cons. But a significant plus of prefabricated houses is that they are built much faster. Is this not the main thing now? Therefore, you see in the city there are so many bright houses of the PIK company. The myth of panel houses is very old, because they were built in the USSR and now we see their condition. We see these huge seams that are already being covered with sealant for the thousandth time. Yes, they were built quickly, but because of imperfect technologies then, now they are not very. Maybe something was better before, but certainly not at home. Modern production of panels for houses is automated. Yes, the robots got to the construction site, and all because the guys from PIK have every millimeter valuable and no mistake can be made. As a result, almost imperceptible seams, no more than 12 millimeters, smooth walls, tiled and high, just a frantic construction speed. Every day, PIK facilities grow a total of 10 floors. This is called the industrial approach, when the house is assembled as a children's designer. PIK, by the way, promises that the house will remain idle for 100 years. Now you know more.