I’m pretty sure that the reason the ice fractured into six slices is the same reason snowflakes are often six sided and it has to do with the shape of a molecule of water and I just think that’s so freaking cool.
How would it even stay lit though?
!!!!! it IS actually because of the structure of water molecules! Water molecules are fuckin weird, as are lots of other liquid substance molecules, because theyre shaped like fuckin HEXAGONS! hexagons are those weird, six-sided shapes that re very sturdy, but they dont tend to sit very well when stacked together. thats why, when you fill up a glass of water to its full capacity, it can go OVER the brim a little and not spill over. It’s also why water beads.
anyway, so since water is essentially made up of a gazillion little hexagons, it tends to gather into larger hexagons as it shapes together. this is not visible unless the water is in a solid form, aka ice. when the water is split, it tends to crack around the established hexagons. that bottle rocket exploded in the PERFECT place to show this phenomenon and its geeking me out.
ALSO! the bottle rocket stays lit because the fuse was definitely waterproof and made with magnesium and an oxidizer of some sort. this means that they will burn underwater because they dont need the oxygen from the air to stay lit. thats so fucking weird isnt it. im tipsy and its the 4th of july. sorry for the science haha
Don’t you dare apologize for science
Small correction: water molecules themselves aren’t hexagonal, but the most common form of ice is ice Ih, and that’s hexagonal.
Water has a tetrahedral geometry:
and here is that hexagonal ice:
So it’s not the shape of the water that’s hexagonal but the pattern they make when they all come together.
1. Lungs don’t just facilitate respiration – they also make blood. Mammalian lungs produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, which equates to the majority of platelets circulating the body.
2. It is mathematically possible to build an actual time machine – what’s holding us back is finding materials that can physically bend the fabric of space-time.
3. Siberia has a colossal crater called the ‘doorway to the underworld’, and its permafrost is melting so fast, ancient forests are being exposed for the first time in 200,000 years.
4. The world’s first semi-synthetic organisms are living among us – scientists have given rise to new lifeforms using an expanded, six-letter genetic code.
5. Vantablack – the blackest material known to science – now comes in a handy ‘spray-on’ form and it’s the weirdest thing we’ve seen so far this year.
7. A brand new human organ has been classified, and it’s been hiding in plain sight this whole time. Everyone, meet your mesentery.
8. Carl Sagan was freakishly good at predicting the future – his disturbingly accurate description of a world where pseudoscience and scientific illiteracy reigns gave us all moment for pause.
9. A single giant neuron that wraps around the entire circumference of a mouse’s brain has been identified, and it appears to be linked to mammalian consciousness.
10. The world’s rarest and most ancient dog isn’t extinct after all – in fact, the outrageously handsome New Guinea highland wild dog appears to be thriving.
11. Your appendix might not be the useless evolutionary byproduct after all. Unlike your wisdom teeth, your appendix might actually be serving an important biological function – and one that our species isn’t ready to give up just yet.
12. After 130 years, we might have to completely redraw the dinosaur family tree, thanks to a previously unimportant cat-sized fossil from Scotland.
14. Earth appears to have a whole new continent called Zealandia, which would wreak havoc on all those textbooks and atlases we’ve got lying around.
15. Humans have had a bigger impact on Earth’s geology than the infamous Great Oxidation Event 2.3 billion years ago, and now scientists are calling for a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – to be officially recognised.
16. Turns out, narwhals – the precious unicorns of the sea – use their horns for hunting. But not how you’d think.
17. Human activity has literally changed the space surrounding our planet – decades of Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio communications have accidentally formed a protective, human-made bubble around Earth.
As we see in the anime Pikachu, especially Ash’s Pikachu, love ketchup. In fact this gag appears at least once every generation of Pokemon if I’m not mistaken, the most clear memory I have of a non-Kanto occurance was during the Hoenn anime Pikachu in the background of a shot dumping a plethora of ketchup onto a pile of fries. But why would, hypothetically, Pikachu like ketchup so much?
Let’s break ketchup down to its essential ingredients: vinegar, sugar (usually corn syrup), and Tomatoes.
Let’s start with sugar; sugar is a source of energy, and the most common kind found in ketchup is fructose, a simple sugar or monosaccharide. In nature. fructose is considered to be (relatively) the sweetest sugar and therefor the one that tastes the best. So from the sweetener, Pikachu get energy and taste, simple enough, yet the least relevant to my theory.
Next let’s examine the health benefits of vinegar (you’re having fun, I know it). Vinegar is able to help fight microbes in the body (like germs and stuff), reduce unhealthy cholesterol, keep in check diabetes, and promote healthy heart function. Now we hit the gold mine. Pikachu is a rodent, and as most probably know, rodent’s have a very fast beating heart and need it to pumping optimally. Keeping a Pikachu’s cardiovascular system in check would be a good idea for a trainer. because as the heart beats using a form of bio-electricity there is most likely a connection between its heart’s strength and the strength of it’s bio-electric attacks (or maybe not, who knows I’m just spit balling here).
Vinegar’s ability to fight disease is also a great help, as the anime points out, Pikachu tend to have some health problems like colds, electrical backups, short outs, and other weird bio-electric-flu-type-stuff.
Finally the anticlimactic tomato reinforces the same stuff the vinegar does. Lycopene in tomatoes, especially cooked tomatoes, helps to reduce cancer and is a big boost to heart health. Lycopene is also a very powerful antioxidant, helping with healthy cell growth and longevity. On a side note, tomatoes are one of the few plants that actually gain health benefits when they are cooked.*insert rainbow*The More You Know*insert rainbow*.
Enjoying these pokemon science things? like it or reblog it or completely ignore it because it’s a big block of text. Next time I’m going to look into the real life inspiration for another pokemon, haven’t decided which one yet, but that’s what’s up next. till then.
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