The Sound of Her Wings

I don’t want to go back and rewatch three different videos because I spent all day not having enough time to actually blog about them in a coherent way because I was chasing after basset hounds and not having support to do my homework from the one other available person at all.

This is a very petulant and rather spoiled reason to not want to go back and do it, but c’est la vie for you, that’s what I’m doing.

So the original video I watched was about the mechanics of water, and that was rather fascinating although I’d have more fun combining science and crazy and ranting about homoeopathy than anything else, but instead, I’m going to talk about the physics of futon wrestling.

If you have two lanky-legged teenage siblings wrestling for use of the futon on the futon in couch position, there is going to be much potential for feet ending up in the wrong places, re, someone’s gut or nose in this case. This can be explained by the science of hormones and limbs that seem longer than you expect; leading to something that while initially not aimed to cause any pain, still ends up doing so because those heels go farther than you meant them to.

Conclusion, sudden growth spurts and teenagers do not mix.

Next up, let’s say that these two lanky-legged teenagers are siblings. Theoretically, they should know, if they grew up with each other, where the other’s weak points in futon wrestling are. This has a massive failure rate though, because not all teenagers have had a futon and so concluding that because they are siblings, that they would know where the other’s futon wrestling weak points are is a false statement because there are many many many siblings in this world and not as many who have access to futons to wrestle on.

Conclusion, teenage siblings can not claim that siblingdom leads to successful use of the futon wrestling.

In the action of aforementioned use of the futon wrestling, the smaller of the two continually ends up trapped under the larger due to having more limb length to get in the way. Is this always something that would happen in futon wrestling? Not necessarily. While the smaller is at a disadvantage in height, they are also at an advantage. A smaller body and smaller frame does lead to less room to be able to steal, but at the same time, escaping from the clutches of others is much easier. Also, body type has an effect on this. Tall lanky rail-thin teenager versus stocky short teenager is not necessarily a height victory. In this case, it was tall stocky teenagers versus shorter rail-thin teenager, but that’s not the point. The point is that there are variables within variables to consider.

I could keep going, but I don’t feel like it, so I’ll sum up my point.

Shorter rail-thin teenager versus tall stocky teenager + newly long legs + inconclusive evidence + science + futon = I win.

So there.

I went back and tried to edit it so it sounded far less incestuous, at least I hope I got all of the vaguely incestuous implications out. I am disgusted by the idea of incest any closer than cousins, let it be heard now.

Today’s science lesson was about genetics, or more specifically, genetic traits that are passed down family lines.

Much of this was explained through talking about dominant and recessive traits via ear wax. I spent much of the video trying not to laugh.

But it was interesting to learn about how recessive traits passed down on the 23rd chromosome via the mother are going to be a dominant trait in a boy, because they don’t have a X chromosome from their father, so they will exhibit things like balding.

Interesting science is interesting.