How was your day?

[Raccoon1010]

I'm having a great day even though I have not been feeling well. I solved a dimensional solution for my physics theory.

 

[DuckieLady]

Today has been great. The ladies have been wonderful as usual at the center.

On the way home I picked up some new photo prints for my scrapbook.

At Goodwill, there was a "Just Married" scrapbook kit. I plan to make a great photo collage with the pretty paper and stickers and send it to my brother and his soon-to-be Bride.

We'll have to see some more of your scrapbook work sometime I know you shared a few a while back that were really awesome

I'm having a great day even though I have not been feeling well. I solved a dimensional solution for my physics theory.

I found the Tesla of the group

Who Edison kind of ripped off (just saying)

 

[Raccoon1010]

I found the Tesla of the group

Who Edison kind of ripped off (just saying)

Yeah that does happen sometimes Tesla died alone going crazy in a hotel room.

 

[DuckieLady]

Yeah that does happen sometimes Tesla died alone going crazy in a hotel room.

What!

Wow. Did he go crazy because of the hotel room?

 

[Raccoon1010]

What!

Wow. Did he go crazy because of the hotel room?

No, he was schizo later in life from the documentary I watched on him.

 

[DuckieLady]

No, he was schizo later in life from the documentary I watched on him.

Sad.

 

[Lambano]

Yeah that does happen sometimes Tesla died alone going crazy in a hotel room.

Then there was the way the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe died:

Tycho Brahe Died From Pee, Not Poison | Live Science

 

[DuckieLady]

Then there was the way the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe died:

Tycho Brahe Died From Pee, Not Poison | Live Science

"Separately, tests revealed that Brahe's famously "silver" prosthetic nose was actually made out of brass."

Could you imagine getting plastic surgery in the 1500s!?

We were impressed by George Washingtons ivory/slave dentures and that was two hundred years later.

 

[Lambano]

"Separately, tests revealed that Brahe's famously "silver" prosthetic nose was actually made out of brass."

Could you imagine getting plastic surgery in the 1500s!?

We were impressed by George Washingtons ivory/slave dentures and that was two hundred years later.

He lost part of his nose in a duel????

 

[Lambano]

"Separately, tests revealed that Brahe's famously "silver" prosthetic nose was actually made out of brass."

Could you imagine getting plastic surgery in the 1500s!?

We were impressed by George Washingtons ivory/slave dentures and that was two hundred years later.

How in the world would they attach a brass nose to somebody's face with 1500's technology? Anesthetics didn't get invented until the 1800s. I guess you'd drink a bottle of whiskey like in the old westerns.

 

[Lambano]

How in the world would they attach a brass nose to somebody's face with 1500's technology?

It says screws were invented in 400 BC, so maybe that's how they attached it.

 

[DuckieLady]

How in the world would they attach a brass nose to somebody's face with 1500's technology? Anesthetics didn't get invented until the 1800s. I guess you'd drink a bottle of whiskey like in the old westerns.

They used to have a antidote for poison, but it was like a bunch of herbs mixed together and they would build up immunity overtime.

Mithridates did this and when he attempted suicide by poison (if I remember right it was a pride thing about not wanting to be killed by his enemies) but his "antidote" worked too well and ironically it didn't work out. He lived.

But for some reason there's two stories of how he died and one is being successfully poisoned at a banquet and the other is by the sword- but all of this is like BC time.

We've been really good at herbs until now.

I looked out of curiosity and it looks like opium was probably used.

History of pain treatment from 1500 to 1900

 

[Raccoon1010]

Then there was the way the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe died:

Tycho Brahe Died From Pee, Not Poison | Live Science

How was that?

 

[Lambano]

How was that?

I took an Astronomy course in college, the only course I ever took just for fun. It was an easy "A" for me because I had read literally, and I mean literally, every Astronomy book in my elementary school, junior high school, and high school libraries. I also had my own telescope, a little 3" refractor, and I'd take the telescope and go up to the amphitheater at the top of Flagstaff Mountain with a friend of mine (a Physics major) and the woman who would later become his wife and do some stargazing. (She tells the story that she found out her boyfriend was serious about astronomy when he offered to take her up to the mountains to look at the stars. She accepted his offer with a knowing smirk - and was dismayed when he actually brought a telescope.) The best part of the course was that the university had its own observatory, so I got to see Jupiter and Saturn and the Orion nebula and the M81 spiral galaxy and other glories with a REAL telescope, not the cheap child's toy I had. The heavens tell of the glory of God; And their expanse declares the work of His hands. (Psalm 19:1)

Anyway, the way our prof told the story, Tycho was at a royal banquet. He had a bladder infection and had to go really, really bad, but it was considered a gross violation of royal protocol to depart from the presence of the king without a proper "by your leave", so he held it... and held it... and held it until his bladder burst and he died in agony and public shame in a puddle of bloody urine.

Okay, the gross bit is pure speculation on my part, but the linked story confirms what the prof told us.

 

[Raccoon1010]

I took an Astronomy course in college, the only course I ever took just for fun. It was an easy "A" for me because I had read literally, and I mean literally, every Astronomy book in my elementary school, junior high school, and high school libraries. I also had my own telescope, a little 3" refractor, and I'd take the telescope and go up to the amphitheater at the top of Flagstaff Mountain with a friend of mine (a Physics major) and the woman who would later become his wife and do some stargazing. (She tells the story that she found out her boyfriend was serious about astronomy when he offered to take her up to the mountains to look at the stars. She accepted his offer with a knowing smirk - and was dismayed when he actually brought a telescope.) The best part of the course was that the university had its own observatory, so I got to see Jupiter and Saturn and the Orion nebula and the M81 spiral galaxy and other glories with a REAL telescope, not the cheap child's toy I had. The heavens tell of the glory of God; And their expanse declares the work of His hands. (Psalm 19:1)

Anyway, the way our prof told the story, Tycho was at a royal banquet. He had a bladder infection and had to go really, really bad, but it was considered a gross violation of royal protocol to depart from the presence of the king without a proper "by your leave", so he held it... and held it... and held it until his bladder burst and he died in agony and public shame in a puddle of bloody urine.

Okay, the gross bit is pure speculation on my part, but the linked story confirms what the prof told us.

I had to ask

 

[Lambano]

I had to ask

Hey, you gave me an opportunity to tell one of my rambling stories. I appreciate that very much! :cool:

 

[Raccoon1010]

Hey, you gave me an opportunity to tell one of my rambling stories. I appreciate that very much! :cool:

Yeah the bladder story gives me chills. I saw on the news a similar story. A guy went to sleep after a drinking spree. He woke up to a burst bladder from holding it while sleeping. He died. End of story

 

[Lambano]

Yeah the bladder story gives me chills. I saw on the news a similar story. A guy went to sleep after a drinking spree. He woke up to a burst bladder from holding it while sleeping. He died. End of story

I guess the lesson-learned should be, always take the opportunity to use the bathroom when you can. Or, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Very important for us older guys with growing prostates.

There's a hymn in the Methodist hymnbook that goes

All hail the power of Jesus' name!
Let angels prostrate fall.

I always hear that line as, Let angels' prostates fall. Splat! Yuck! :

Now I'm free-associating. I'm a mess.

 

[Raccoon1010]

I guess the lesson-learned should be, always take the opportunity to use the bathroom when you can. Or, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Very important for us older guys with growing prostates.

There's a hymn in the Methodist hymnbook that goes

All hail the power of Jesus' name!
Let angels prostrate fall.

I always hear that line as, Let angels' prostates fall. Splat! Yuck! :

Now I'm free-associating. I'm a mess.

Yes, I sometimes drink coffee too late in the day and I wake up or keep sleeping and think my bladder might burst cause of that news story I read. What I found is that investigating medical stories and online medical advice just makes me more paranoid about my own health.

 

[Lambano]

Yes, I sometimes drink coffee too late in the day and I wake up or keep sleeping and think my bladder might burst cause of that news story I read. What I found is that investigating medical stories and online medical advice just makes me more paranoid about my own health.

I've read that first-year medical students have the same problem.