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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

I'll upvote a Suzy Izzard bit any day.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Images conjured by the utterly deranged:

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

To be fair, have you ever read anything Feynman wrote about his personal life? Like the time he peed off a a balcony while doing a handstand (to prove that peeing isnt just due to gravity making the pee fall out)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

For anyone that hasn't read it, the book Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman is a delightful read. Especially the bits about him fucking with security during the Manhattan project.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think I've found love.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Couldn't the same thing be proven by simply aiming (slightly, I hope) upward?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the point is that the bladder is above where the pee comes out so gravity could be pulling it out of the body. Aiming upwards wouldn't change this relationship because the pee is outside the body at that point. By being upside down the bladder is now below where the pee comes out and gravity would be keeping it in. By being able to pee upside down, he demonstrates that gravity is not a necessary component.

I think it can be demonstrated by aiming upwards with some extra pressure though. If gravity were the only thing pulling pee out, i wouldn't be able to shoot over someone's head for instance as the pee wouldn't have enough kinetic energy. Thus gravity is not the only component.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ok people who pee must feel that they are using muscles, don't they?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It was the 1800's, science hadn't discovered muscles yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Muscles could just be opening and closing the valve I guess?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

They have played us for absolute fools.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

mods nsfw this and op you keep your kama sutra to yourself some of us would like to remain innocent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I mean the combinatorics and the imagery is nice.