by conductr
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- I spent a lot of time in hospitals and got a lot of exposure to everything they do in my early adulthood, a few smells are permanently burnt into my brain including the smell of the GI wing.
Fast forward a couple decades, and my dilemma right now is a coworker that I share a restroom with. It’s a low traffic restroom so I have seen and know it’s coming from him, but he has some serious GI issues. Likely he’s digesting blood from my memory of the ailments. And so the dilemma is, do I say something to him? He looks like he is in awful health and high probability with an awful diet (based on profiling him). But I don’t interact with him or have any type of relationship and saying something would be incredibly awkward. Surely he knows I tell myself.
by TheAceOfHearts
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- Since we're on the subject of waste removal, most mammals also pee for roughly the same amount of time [0], around 20 seconds. If you look up a video of an elephant urinating, it's quite the spectacle and the flow is voluminous.
[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mammals-p...
- This reminds me of a news story from many years ago about a research study that won the Ig Nobel Prize. The research study was about how almost all mammals weighing over 3 kg take just about the same amount of time to empty their bladders when urinating.
- Elephants should do it quicker as they don't do doomscroll when pooping, though
by anigbrowl
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- Why would you expect anything else? It's also easier for larger people to pick up heavier weights, larger bullets to make larger holes, etc. etc. Of course larger animals are going to have larger muscles in their digestive tracts in approximate proportion to everything else about them being larger.
by jamiechapman392
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- My wife was diagnosed of Parkinsons disease 2 years ago, when she was 62. She had a stooped posture, tremors, right arm does not move and also a pulsating feeling in her body. She was placed on Sinemet for 6 months and then Siferol was introduced and replaced the Sinemet, I took her off the Siferol (with the doctor’s knowledge) and started her on PD-5 protocol we ordered from Uine Health Center, her symptoms totally declined over a 8 weeks use of the PD-5 protocol. She is now almost 63 and doing very well, the disease is totally reversed! We got the treatment from their website, uinehealthcentre. net, or by Googling Uine Health Center
by Smalltalker-80
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- Mostly solid scientific work, this ;)
- Are you trying to say that an elephant with a phone will need 15 minutes as well?
by michaelbuckbee
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- Read to the end of the article to learn about NASA's Space Poop challenge and the award winning astronaut diaper the author created.
by smusamashah
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- This reminds of a research that mammals take same amount of time to pee and it was 40 something seconds.
by anongoosey
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- Something about this with urination too right? Like almost every animal takes the same amount of time?
by lo_zamoyski
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- I was expecting something about Bernoulli's principle.
- But I'm on the clock so..of course I take longer.
by Reason077
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- > "elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog's, at 10 milliliters"
Surely this depends greatly on the size of the dog. I've seen dog poops that are far bigger than that. That 10 ml poop must be from a very small dog!
by danilocesar
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- Are elephants addicted to social media too?
- So the reason it takes a human and an elephant about the same amount of time to poop is, the ratio of our poop lengths is about the same as the ratio of our poop velocity? That sounds more like a tautology than an explanation to me.
- doodie.com was cool back in the day
- Thanks Hacker News
- Poop like an elephant, pee like a bee.
- I mean, I don’t know what I was expecting but I clicked anyway…
- The article says "elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog's, at 10 milliliters." Is 10K nearly 20K?
Regardless, modern dog breeds vary in size wildly, and I'm curious how they standardize the average fecal volume across the sizes. My dogs are most certainly not expelling just 10 milliliters... I can't imagine that number is even accurate for small dogs.
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