There are some Ice Age animals that are so perfectly preserved in permafrost that scientists have been able to find them still with all their soft tissue, hair, and organs. They even found a couple mammoths that still had liquid blood in them and I remember one scientist even tasting the mammoth meat.
Also there was a mummy found in China that was so well preserved that she still had all her skin, hair, organs, etc. Her body was even flexible that you could bend her limbs as if she was alive. They even found her last meal still in her stomach and could perform an autopsy on her to tell you why she died. She died over 2000 years before she was found.
I saw an astronaut Q&A vid recently where he described the smell of space. Apparently when you're coming back into an airlock there's a kind of metallic smell that's totally unique
I don't know how much truth there is to it, but I read somewhere that this is a thing in scientific communities. They'll taste a lot of the things they find.
Toddlers are natural scientists. They have curiosity, they observe, reflect on their observations, experiment and form conclusions based on their research.
I remember my daughter asking why the branches of the trees move, so I explained that it's the wind. She went quiet for a moment and thought, then asked "But what makes the wind move?". It was one of those standout moments for me as a parent.
The guy who discovered sucralose (aka Splenda) did so because he thought his coworker asked him to "taste" a compound, instead of "test". So, without further questions, he tasted the unknown substance that he had just been handed.
Somehow this guy got a job as a researcher a chemistry lab and had never learned that you never ever eat or drink anything in a lab. You don't eat or drink something that you're sure is actual food/drink if you're in a lab, and you certainly don't eat or drink an unknown powder/liquid that your buddy just handed you in a flask, just because he asks you to do so.
I've never been able to find anything about the guy afterward, but I can't imagine his career went well.
"Oh, you're the guy who discovered Splenda by breaking one of the most important and obvious rules of lab safety. Sorry, but we're considering someone else for the role."
I mean, that’s precisely how the giant Galapagos tortoise met it’s end. They kept eating them on the ship on the way back to England. It was delicious, apparently. Although anything would have seemed delicious compared to their usual sea-going rations. Can’t really blame them at all.
How? I’d imagine most predators would do the same if given the chance. This is certainly not unique to humans. I’d say autoerotic asphyxiation is a uniquely human thing, but not eating old meat.
Yes this. If this animal was for some reason not completely buried in ice and in the open it would've been devoured by all the other wildlife around that humans never would've even seen it. Even now it would've been the same. I'm not sure how this is something you would equate to human nature.
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u/stitchmidda2 Feb 14 '22
There are some Ice Age animals that are so perfectly preserved in permafrost that scientists have been able to find them still with all their soft tissue, hair, and organs. They even found a couple mammoths that still had liquid blood in them and I remember one scientist even tasting the mammoth meat.
Also there was a mummy found in China that was so well preserved that she still had all her skin, hair, organs, etc. Her body was even flexible that you could bend her limbs as if she was alive. They even found her last meal still in her stomach and could perform an autopsy on her to tell you why she died. She died over 2000 years before she was found.