Minus-Celsius t1_jdct9w1 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 2:06 PM

Reply to comment by CocksuckOfDouchebag in (Biology) How far down your spine can you break before respiratory impairment? by Anomaly-Friend

There are 12 cranial nerves (basically nerves that come directly out of the brain, not through the spinal cord).

Some of them receive signals only ("somatosensory", S). Some of them send signals only (motor, M) and some do both (B).

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There's also the wrist bones one, "Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle" but I don't remember what they all stand for anymore, haha.

Minus-Celsius t1_jdcs256 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 1:57 PM

Reply to comment by Jfrog1 in (Biology) How far down your spine can you break before respiratory impairment? by Anomaly-Friend

Wait you googled SA node and you still think you're not wrong?

Damn, dude.

The brain controls the SA node, but the SA node can function without the brain. There's also a ventricular pacemaker. There's backups to the backups. The heart is an important organ.

Minus-Celsius t1_j86hc71 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Reply to comment by Stalinbaum in TIL the Pacific island nation of Nauru has been so damaged by phosphate mining that in 1964 Australia offered to repopulate the entire nation to Curtis Island near the Australian Coast. Nauru refused the offer in order to maintain their sovereignty and not become part of Australia. by triviafrenzy

The author wrote it that way deliberately for American audiences.

Nauru's economy collapsed because it relied solely on mining phosphate, and then it ran out of phosphate.

The reactionary policies were a result of the economic crisis. Arguably they exacerbated it, but the author is describing events taking place in 2015 as though they caused the crisis. Phosphate mining had ceased by 2005 and Nauru has no other exports or industries and an uneducated workforce that isn't competitive internationally.