Imponderables

[Kaitlin 22]

What is the speed of dark?

 

Why do I always get the one most insane guy in my post office no matter where I stand in line, i.e. no matter where I stand or how well I calculate how long each person is going to take with their individual packages or letters something always takes place to throw off my calculations... like someone leaving or a mail guy calling one of the cashiers away and into the back... leaving me with the most insane post office cashier every time? The probability of that happening each time is low and yet...

[Iris 0]

*brain cells dying*

 

okay let me try. hmmm...so is this more about imponderables or irony? my imponderable is how does a baby in the womb manage to hang upside for 9 months, or a good part of it, while a people who are born can't do it for more than a few minutes? like how do they tolerate all that blood rushing to their head for almost a year?

[Olivia 26]

@ Kaitlin: There is no speed of dark. Dark does not move, it is stationary. Dark is on everything, everywhere, every moment. It is light that moves. Light moves over to cover up the dark, but the dark remains underneath always, and when the light pulls back like a blanket being lifted, the dark shows itself again. *nods* I should have been a White instead of Brown.

 

@ Liverella: I thought babies don't turn head-down until they are almost ready to come out? Aren't there birthing complications where the baby doesn't turn so it can't come out the right way? o.O Our board needs a Yellow.

 

As for me, I want to know why there are Braille dots on the drive-through ATM.

[Ekho 52]

If a baby doesn't turn around properly, it comes out breach...so either the feet or the bottom comes out first.

 

Whilst there can be complications, there aren't always. I think it was more of a problem in the olden times, when babies were born at home with only a midwife.

[Kaitlin 22]

@ Olivia - Dark is the absence of light, so the speed of dark would only be the shadowed lack of light in a certain area. For there to be no light in a certain area there would need to be a blocking off of light, making the speed of dark the speed that darkness arrives. That would mean that the speed of dark is the same as the speed of light, if you were to think about it that way.

 

If the question was about dark matter that would be different. But the companion of dark matter is not light. It is matter, which exists without always giving off visible light of it's own that human eyes can see except in the case of stars.

 

edit: Another imponderable! Will whales ever grow little feet again and get small enough to walk around on land? I would like to see what a whale would look like living in the forest.

[Brynefan 2]

Whilst there can be complications, there aren't always. I think it was more of a problem in the olden times, when babies were born at home with only a midwife.

 

My brother was born like that at home with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck to boot. It went fine because he came out so fast. It's either a miracle or because I made way for him with my big head a couple of years earlier XD Both? Sure glad Dad was a farmer and could help out instead of fainting. Luckily I wasn't at home at the time.

[Iris 0]

@Olivia, yea they do flip around a lot until about 6-7 mos gestation when they get to big to keep doing it. they still do spend a lot of time upside down though even when they can still flip easily. not to mention they're so contorted too. its wild. but i guess they're not really a true fetus though until like 4 mos gestation so perhaps its more like 5 months upside down or in some other yoga position.

 

My second was in breach for a while until he flipped himself at the very end. I tell you what, having a foot in your cervix for any amount of time is no picnic.

 

@Brynefan, thats really cool that your bro (and perhaps yourself?) was born at home! i would love to have a homebirth, but i have to settle for midwives at the alternative birthing center b/c i have to get 2 rounds of IV antibiotics when my labor first starts (long story) but once it goes though i can take the IV out. its all good because its very homey and they have a nice birthing tub for waterbirth

 

@Kaitlin I've never thought about the speed of dark. its a good question. maybe bc its the absence of something (light) i cant be measured? dark matter ive read about though. its really interesting.

[Brynefan 2]

No, I was born at a hospital. My brother being born at home was an unfortunate accident.

 

@Kaitlin: Dolphins walking on land! Wouldn't that be awesome?

[Ekho 52]

The wierdest place I've ever heard of anyone being born is a yacht, but I always figured it wasn't exactly a brilliant idea to go sailing whilst 8 months pregnant

[Iris 0]

Hey if babies can be born under water than over water shouldn't be too wild, right? I'm trying to think of another imponderable but my bandwidth is being taken up by the more hackneyed elements of my life at the moment *dodges getting knocked in the head by 2 year old's toy broom* (why did i buy him a child's broom made of real wood?!)

[jan 14]

My imponderable... Will I ever be mature enough for a real adult relationship? *glooooom*

 

What irony that the oldest member of MW has maturity issues :-/

[Olivia 26]

My imponderable... Will I ever be mature enough for a real adult relationship? *glooooom*

 

What irony that the oldest member of MW has maturity issues :-/

 

You aren't alone. And you aren't that old yet, so lots of time left.

[jan 14]

Just time won't do. You need people too!