wannabe
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posted May 27, 2004 03:53 PM
A new physics question for beans....
Can you explain to me why do nose hairs hurt so much when you pull them? OK, so it's more of a biology question, but it's still a question.
What is the evolutionary advantage to keeping people from yanking them out?
I can pull out hairs from my eyebrows or arm or leg (individually, I should specify, any large mass of hair at one time anywhere on your body hurts like a mofo) and it's relatively painless - just a little pinch and it's gone.
I pull out a nose hair and my eyes are spilling over.
What's that all about? Was there a point in human development when people started pulling them out and those people didn't survive as well, but the ones that had some sort of super pain-receptors in their noses survived better and passed along their genes to modern humans?
Why should the nose, that part of the nose, be so sensitive? Is it to keep us from shoving things up there? To keep us from taking things out?
  
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DaveInDaytona
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posted May 27, 2004 08:48 PM
Play with this one for a while beanie
http://personal.baker.edu/web2/cdavis09/roses.html
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phingersniffer
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posted May 27, 2004 09:08 PM
What does it mean if I figure it out after the first try?
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frEEk
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ummm... yeah
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posted May 28, 2004 05:31 PM
it means u have no business being an engineer and need to go back to painting for a living  took me a while to figure it out. if it werent for the "creativity and open mind" comment i prolly never woulda got it.
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DaveInDaytona
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posted May 28, 2004 05:49 PM
Everyone is wired differently.
Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose:
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~lborrett/computing/petals-bg.htm
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wannabe
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posted May 28, 2004 06:18 PM
Damn! It took me about a half hour, but I got it. 
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