Earlier this year, cave explorers discovered an old secret under a sinkhole in South China’s karst region. An expedition team descended over 200 meters into this deep cave on May 6 and discovered not only darkness but also a lush forest.
More Surprises
Photosynthesis was able to function due to the limited amount of sunlight available from the entry point. This forest is most likely millions of years old. Unknown plant and wildlife species, according to researchers, may actually thrive here.
How It Came to Be
The bedrock within the sinkhole’s three caves was eroded by an underground river called Fugui, according to scientists. The extremely soluble granite was also aided by acid rain from above. Sinkholes are quite common in this area as a result of these processes.
Six researchers ingested the heads of Lego figures to measure the time it takes for them to pass unconscious. To be honest, I’m just pleased that science is now prepared to address the major issues.
The building blocks of the future
Lego is a brand of plastic building toys created by The Lego Group, a privately held business with headquarters in Billund, Denmark.
The company’s signature product, Lego, is made up of plastic interlocking bricks in a variety of colors that come with a variety of gears, minifigure figurines, and other pieces.
Buildings, vehicles, and functional robots can all be created using various combinations of Lego components. Anything built may be disassembled once more and the components utilised to create new things.
The interlocking toy bricks have been produced by the Lego Group since 1949. Under the brand, eight Legoland amusement parks as well as movies and gaming tournaments have been created. 600 billion Lego pieces has been created as of July 2015.
All for science!
Well, despite the fact that it may sound absurd, paediatric medical professionals did intentionally consume the little Lego heads for a research titled Everything is Awesome: Don’t Forget the Lego.
There must not be a chance that you will forget it while you wait for it to return in the toilet bowl, right?
The extremely severe and crucial study used two scoring systems: Finding and Retrieved Time (FART) and Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT), all of which are acronyms for the same thing.
They were referred to as that, in full honesty. The SHAT score was actually divided into two parts: the pre-SHAT score, which recorded the researchers’ regular bowel movements, and the post-SHAT score, which was recorded after the Lego head was ingested. Afterwards, information was acquired by comparing the pre and post SHAT results.
The FART score, on the other hand, was a little more depressing – if you can imagine – and required the participants to search through their feces for a tiny yellow head in the days after ingestion.
The study did have a serious goal, despite the fact that it may have seemed like a joke at first and was probably difficult for the researchers to explain to their loved ones.
Children love to eat things that aren’t meant to be eaten, as any parent of a young child can confirm, often with very severe consequences.
Ingesting Lego by mistake or on purpose normally has no negative effects, but in order to ease parents’ concerns, our brave researchers set out to determine how long it takes for a Lego head to pass through a human digestive system.
What then did our brave scientists learn?
The study’s FART score averaged 1.71 days, which means that the Lego head frequently emerged from the body in less than two days.
The scientists concluded their study by writing: “A toy object swiftly passes through adult individuals without difficulties. The authors argue that no parent should be required to search through their child’s feces to confirm object retrieval. This will reassure parents
As regions of Africa are physically ripping apart and a new ocean is emerging between them, fresh photos have revealed just how severe the damage is.
Kenya is really wonderful
Stunning images depict Africa separating as a new ocean begins to form.
Kenya is a nation in East Africa, formally known as the Republic of Kenya. According to the 2019 census, Kenya had a population of about 47.6 million, making it the seventh most populous country in Africa and the 27th most populous country in the world overall.
In recent years, two portions of land in Kenya have started to separate, and the two masses are now so far apart that a brand-new ocean will eventually pass through the gap.
The African nations of Zambia and Uganda may eventually have their own beaches if the divergence persists.
A new ocean known as the East African Rift will eventually pass across the rift, according to expert studies, millions of years from now.
Experts now understand the precise location where the break first appeared as the boundary of three tectonic plates that have been steadily drifting apart, according to the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The worldwide effort has found that the fracture, which initially appeared in the Ethiopian deserts in 2005, today extends 35 km.
It’s nature’s way
The University of Leeds’ Christopher Moore, a doctoral student pursuing a Ph.D., told NBC News that this is the only location on Earth where it is possible to research how a continental rift develops into an oceanic rift.
Moore used satellite radar technology to track volcanic activity in the East African region most frequently linked to the progressive disintegration of the continent.
The tectonic plate boundaries of the African, Arabian, and Somali plates are where the crack is located.
The Arabian plate has been progressively separating from Africa for the last 30 million years.
The Arabian plate is separating from Africa at a rate of roughly one inch per year, thus the distance is widening but not at a rate where you can detect it by looking at it.
However, it happens more slowly for the African and Somali plates, which are said to be dissolving at a pace of roughly half an inch to 0.2 inches per year.
The gap is predicted to continue to grow and eventually result in East Africa being a separate continent.
Professor emeritus of marine geophysics at the University of California, Ken Macdonald, explained: “You can measure movement rates with GPS down to a few millimeters each year.
“We can have a lot better understanding of what’s happening when we receive more and more measurements from GPS.
“The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden will merge to form a new ocean as they pour across the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, separating that portion of East Africa into a new, tiny continent.
The world is really magnificent, and nature is the best work of art, isn’t it?
The film “Good Burger 2” is now officially approved! The original “Good Burger” performers Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell will return for the sequel, which Nickelodeon Studios and Paramount+ announced on Saturday. According to Paramount+, the focus of “Good Burger 2” is Dexter Reed, played by Thompson, who is “down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails.”
A Surprising Announcement
A sequel to the 1997 movie Good Burger, starring Keenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, has finally been approved by Paramount+ after months of rumors and fans’ hopes. Mitchell eagerly yelled out the catchphrase “Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger” before breaking the news during Friday’s broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Both Thompson and Mitchell broke the news.
A Bit of Expectation
Filming on the project will start in May, with intentions to premiere it on their Paramount+ streaming service at some point in 2023, according to a Variety story. The idea for Good Burger first appeared in the Nickelodeon sketch series All That, in which Mitchell played Ed, a worker at the fast-food establishment known simply as Good Burger. The sketch was so well-liked that it was adapted into a movie in 1997, starring Thompson and Mitchell as employees of the fast food company who become entangled in a massive conspiracy. Despite the movie’s modest box office success, it became a cult favorite.
While the Good Burger 2 storyline is still unknown, Mitchell did have some suggestions for it last year. In an interview with ComingSoon, Mitchell made a joke about the potential of Ed taking over Good Burger right away and hiring “a whole new generation” of staff members. This could be a great angle comedy-wise, but we still have so much to think of since times have changed and comedy has taken a turn for the past year. Hopefully, this movie will come out as good as its announcement!