rmtodd
2yr ago
Gorillas, cows, etc all digest cellulose. The bacteria in their guts turn that into protein that they absorb.
Um, how can that be? Protein contains nitrogen, and cellulose, being a carbohydrate, doesn't.
rmtodd
2yr ago
Look at a globe. Seriously. The surface of a sphere is one of the classic examples of non-Euclidean geometry, a geometry where Euclid's 5th postulate doesn't hold. The exact description of the 5th postulate is a bit arcane (look it up on Wikipedia if you care), but it turns out to be equivalent to saying that all triangles must have corner angles that sum to 180 degrees. On the globe, if you choose a triangle with these corners: the north pole, 0 degrees E on the equator, 90 degrees W on the equator, that triangle will have all its corner angles 90 degrees, for a total of 270 degrees.
Also consider: we have a Drug War in this country. We have lists of chemicals that are banned because of their psychoactive effects. We have lists of chemicals that are banned because they are too similar to chemicals on the first list and thus might be psychoactive. Florida notoriously passed a drug-control act so wide-ranging it banned one of the amino acids in cheese as a controlled substance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyramine#Status_in_Florida ).
Adrenochrome, as far as I know, is not on any of these lists. If people as notoriously paranoid as the US drug warriors never got around to banning adrenochrome, it probably doesn't do much of anything.
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