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JimmiC
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
On August 20 2017 16:36 Shiragaku wrote: What makes tea healthy? Is it the leaves or is hot water just better for your health? Antioxidants. | ||
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Uldridge
Belgium4969 Posts
On August 20 2017 16:36 Shiragaku wrote: What makes tea healthy? Is it the leaves or is hot water just better for your health? I think tea is part of the long time practice/tradition of consuming plant material. It's known that many plants contain a vast array of different molecules that are able to change physiology. Tea leaves contain aromatics (polyphenols) and caffeine, which may have health benefits (flavonoids, EGCG, cathechins) and is a stimulant agent respectively. It also contains several dietary minerals and manganese. Chemical composition of tea It's hard to say how healthy exactly tea is and what the infusions (extracts from other plants/herbs) actually contribute to (some have specific effects like mild laxative, calming, ..), but it sure as hell won't hurt you to drink it. Hot water also has a great deal of physiological effects, the most obvious being (local) vasodilation (widening of the blood vessels). You might want to ask a physiologist about this if you can lol. | ||
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Zambrah
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11645 Posts
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AbouSV
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Ghostcom
Denmark4782 Posts
Now go look and report back with your findings  | ||
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Plansix
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Zambrah
United States7384 Posts
I think it comes filled with tiny German men that operate the engine, so I guess the maintenance cost to replace the little German men would be where they make up the money | ||
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Artisreal
Germany9235 Posts
So basically you buy the cat in the sac? Sounds rather shady, you should go and verify the integrity of that offer for all of us | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
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Ghostcom
Denmark4782 Posts
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Sent.
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Ghostcom
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AbouSV
Germany1278 Posts
On August 22 2017 09:33 Epishade wrote: I'm really psyched about the solar eclipse tomorrow. Already got my glasses and made a pinhole projector out of a cereal box. Anybody know what time it's supposed to start in North Carolina? Soon. Get ready, grab a long chair, and a cold drink, and be patient. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Fecalfeast
Canada11355 Posts
Also, what would happen if exactly half of the moon spontaneously disappeared? | ||
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Simberto
Germany11645 Posts
On August 23 2017 07:59 Fecalfeast wrote: What would happen if the moon was sliced perfectly in half? Also, what would happen if exactly half of the moon spontaneously disappeared? If it is just a cut through the middle, nothing at all. What holds the moon together is not its material strength, but gravity. So if you just cut through it, it sticks together nonetheless, and really nothing happens. If half of the moon disappears however, stuff gets interesting. Firstly, i am almost certain that the remaining half of the moon would collapse into a sphere again rather quickly. The moon doesn't have the strength to keep itself non-spherical against the force of its own gravity. So the moon is a bit smaller now. There will probably also be a lot of fragments flying away in this process. Some might hit earth. The reduced mass of the moon might impact the orbits of some satellites, but i doubt that it has a big influence there, simply because they are so much closer to earth than to the moon. The small moon fragments flying about might have a larger impact though. Possible Kessler Syndrome? The really fun stuff happens on earth. Because tides change now. Smaller moon means less tidal differences. So high water gets lower, and low water gets higher. This will probably freak out a lot of sea life, especially those used to living in the areas that are sometimes flooded and sometimes not. It will also make holland safer against a flood. My guess is, however, that the largest effect will be that humans just freak out. If half the moon disappears without any explanation and there are now shitloads of meteor showers that take out satellites all the time, you are going to have weird cults, militaries that freak out over who blew up half the moon, and how can WE do that? People that are scared of aliens. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
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