The metal straw is preserved and remains a famous medical specimen at the Anatomy and Pathology Museum at UC San Francisco.
Pretty sure someone hallucinated this or there is another Phineas Gage I can’t find because this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage had a 3 foot iron tamping rod put through their skull by a powder charge.
I assumed it was a joke playing off of the actual gage?
yeah it read plainly as a reference to me but people also tell me other people don’t know the kinds of things I do a lot of the time.
Yes and no. The rod was actually a metal straw and the powder charge was actually a car traveling down I-80. Pretty common mistake.
The only reason this is documented so inaccurately is because everyone was too busy looking at the Kim Kardashian pic that broke the Internet and couldn’t open their camera app quickly enough to get it for the vine.
And there seems to be no “anatomy and pathology museum” in UCSF
Thank god we have reusable silicone straw, safer than both one-use plastic straw and stainless steel straw.
I dunno… is that surgical-grade silicone?
I’m not planning on doing surgery with it.
Well some of us aren’t cowards
meanwhile in uruguay :
They have to put up signs begging people to not bring mate on the bus, or to vaccinations, or paperwork at government buildings.
then NEXT TIME save my customisations properly.
Why, actually?
It’s more for your safety and to avoid having people with masks off in a congregation place during covid, or to avoid documents getting stuff spilt on them.
TIL mate is to Uruguay what durian is to Thailand.
kinda? It’s more for your safety and to avoid having people with masks off in a congregation place during covid, or to avoid documents getting stuff spilt on them.
Imagine you’re sucking on a metal straw in a bus and it hits a bump, and you slip …
Yeah this didn’t happen.
But people do chip their teeth on metal straws, so it’s still a bad idea to use them in cars without those silicone bumpers.
Why not fully silicone straws?
Sure!
I do suspect silicone straws don’t last that long though. They will eventually crack and leak.
No shit Sherlock … Phineas Gage famously was impaled through the skull by a railroad rod. It’s a joke.
Youre right it was a large metal rod that went though his head. It also wasnt while driving it was an explosion or something, I don’t remember just find his wiki page. Shockingly he lived.
That why they tell you not to drink and drive
but on the other hand
yummy milkshake
pshaw … I can put a plastic straw through a potato
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Didn’t Mythbusters has an episode about if this was possible?
Probably, but myth busters isn’t the best source for scientific fact.
I’m still salty about them calling the bullet drop “myth” confirmed even though their data clearly showed the two bullets hitting the ground at different times. But that was always going to happen because they didn’t do it in a vacuum.
But I digress. A lot of their conclusions are drawn because they’re unable to reproduce a situation in a controlled environment, but that doesn’t mean the situation is impossible.
What was the bullet drop myth?
That if you drop a bullet and shoot a bullet (parallel to the ground) at the same time, they’ll hit the ground at the same time. In their experiment there was a difference in the times, but they said it was confirmed.
It’s not a myth, it just requires a vacuum since air resistance will muck things up.
At least he saved some plants. Guy died a hero😡
