hakjsdhg this is the best science i've read all day.
here is what the membrane is supposed to look like with all its pumps and heterogenous lipid distribution, including lipid RAFTS that i daydream of floating on one day when i'm shrunk like in that movie from the 80's. inner space? can't remember. anyway it's called the fluid mosaic model, and represents the 'impermeable' barrier that forms every cell in your body.
you know that some crazy actually wrote an article dissing all of those sci-fi movies where people shrink down enough to travel in somebody else's bloodstream. he talked about how it'd be impossible by rules of biology and physics and all that other mumbo jumbo. DENSITY. i think he said it had to do with DENSITY. shrinking things. losing essential things when you scale down so dramatically? how if people were that small that actually have to eat more than their weight every day just to survive. yeah that guy was crazy. i should find the article.
i can't believe that you posted pictures! scientist matt. one whiff of science and you're off and running, is that it? i think you should write textbooks for people like me. forget academia: the real money is in science creative non-fiction. just keep trying to get me to love those lipid bilayers. see if you can do it.
the best part of my day, honestly, in all honesty, was reading about how you daydream of floating on RAFTS of them. sdaflsfjdasfjd
yeah also you can't shrink atoms? you can't i don't think. except i often wonder if we live on the electron of an atom of another universe on a much grander scale. but yes. i would love to write text-books about lipids; you know THC (from marijuana) and many other drugs deposit into the lipid (because they like fatty environments - lipophilic - better than aqueous ones), and when people exercise it's all released from fat being consumed back into the bloodstream. then they get drug tested and return a positive sample. i don't know why i told you this. but it's true. xxx
re: electron of an atom of another universe -- you just blew my mind, man.
so the solution for people/athletes about to be drug-tested is to lay in a state of obesity/sloth from the time of smoking marijuana until the time of said drug test. and then maybe the fat won't be released? I AM A BLUE RIBBON SCIENTIST.
"fatty environments" is such a crass term, can't you all get together and think of something better?!
'Blue Ribbon' in Australia is a term used to define political conservatives. It's like saying GOP. Rich suburbs are called 'Blue Ribbon Seats'. However, in spite of this, absolute sloth, or lots of exercise to turn over fat deposits would in theory lower plasma levels of drugs.
Fatty environments isn't used to much. Really we say lipophilic environments. Like prefers like!
here is what the membrane is supposed to look like with all its pumps and heterogenous lipid distribution, including lipid RAFTS that i daydream of floating on one day when i'm shrunk like in that movie from the 80's. inner space? can't remember. anyway it's called the fluid mosaic model, and represents the 'impermeable' barrier that forms every cell in your body.
and here's what some amateurs think it looks like. they are from beloit?
http://www.beloit.edu/~biology/HHMIsumwork98/groupprojects/tb/resist.html
we are made of shoe boxes?
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i can't believe that you posted pictures! scientist matt. one whiff of science and you're off and running, is that it? i think you should write textbooks for people like me. forget academia: the real money is in science creative non-fiction. just keep trying to get me to love those lipid bilayers. see if you can do it.
the best part of my day, honestly, in all honesty, was reading about how you daydream of floating on RAFTS of them. sdaflsfjdasfjd
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so the solution for people/athletes about to be drug-tested is to lay in a state of obesity/sloth from the time of smoking marijuana until the time of said drug test. and then maybe the fat won't be released? I AM A BLUE RIBBON SCIENTIST.
"fatty environments" is such a crass term, can't you all get together and think of something better?!
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Fatty environments isn't used to much. Really we say lipophilic environments. Like prefers like!
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