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Hi Rpbns4ever!

As a happily married guy, but I'm always asked why haven't we had kids.
My constant answer is that I'm perfectly happy and do not want to jeopardize our relationship.
I am a bit... let's call it terrified ;) to have kids, and got pretty sick of this question.
So about a year ago I stumbled upon a scientific research that proved my point!

The American Sociological Association conducted a research for two decades examining the impact of children on marriage,
and found that parents are more likely to be depressed than their childless couples.
In fact, people without kids were happier than any other group, including parents whose children have grown up and left home.
The conclusion was that marital quality often drops after the transition into parenthood, and that there is an increase in marital
happiness after the children leave home.

Having children is:

• Emotionally stressful
• Expensive and time-consuming - it costs about $200,000 (!) to raise a child to the age of 18 and time-wise it takes an average of eight hours a day.
• A couple's together time is never the same once a child enters the home. That includes romantic dates, activities and sex life of course.

If you're leaning towards having kids, make sure you're both fully committed to parenting,
along with all the ups and downs that this will involve. Make sure you have a stable life
and that you're fully prepared financially and otherwise.

Remember that parenting is a choice, not an obligation, and it's not for everyone.

Collectively speaking, humans have spent longer playing World of Warcraft (over 6 million years) than we have existed as a species separate from chimpanzees.

Have you watched Star Trek? If so you are probably aware of the fictional warp drive that is used to travel Faster Than Light. In case you aren't, the idea behind this is that you literally fold the space in front and behind you, therefore travelling the same space in a shorter period of time.
There is a proposed (in real-life) drive, that has been verified as mathematically correct called the "Alcubierre Drive" that does very much the same. However the fuel requirements make its use unfeasible outside a lab environment currently. It is theorized that it would take around 700kg of "negative mass" to create a warp bubble big enough to cover a small spacecraft.

Another cool theoretical drive is called the "EM drive" (Electromagnetic). It's a source of major controversy, as it implies that the law of conservation of momentum is broken. It basically uses a microwave generator to emit microwaves in an enclosed cavity to create thrust, requiring only electricity. The controversy arises from the fact that there is no reaction mass (ie, like the gases released from rockets for an equal and opposite reaction - newtons laws), and also lacks an directional radiation. Despite this, multiple independent teams (including NASA) have built miniature models and tested it showing positive results, within range of error.

Wishlistin, huh?
Here's a nice fact about Venus: There are more volcanoes on Venus than on any other planet in the solar system. Astronomers know of more than 1,600 volcanoes on its surface, but there are likely many more too small for us to see. Scientists think most of these are dormant, though a handful may still be active.

Awesome, huh?

Ruby Falls, in Chattanooga, TN, is a 200 ft waterfall that's located 1000 ft underground. It was discovered almost 100 years ago. People have tried dying the water to determine where it goes, but that has proven fruitless. Drinking the water is a terrible idea because it's rich in some compound (I don't recall right offhand, but I would guess magnesium sulfate) that acts as a laxative.

Math guy here, not sure if this is obvious and/or well-known, but here goes:

Zero and one are the same thing, just defined by different operations on sets of values. How so? Well, zero for addition is a “value, that does not change the result”, so that A + 0 = A. For multiplication the equivalent value is one, so A * 1 = A.

Also, there is no such thing as subtraction — it is simply a reversion of addition. And, you guessed it, there's no division — it's just a reversion of multiplication.

Beer has the same pH as vagina.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. XD

Russia has larger surface area than Pluto.

Bismuth has a half life a billion times longer than the universe. How long? Well, the universe is about 1.38×10^10 years old (time from the big bang to the present), so the half-life of bismuth-209 (henceforth I'll write just “bismuth” as this is the only naturally-occurring isotope) is about a billion (10^9) times the age of the universe. Based upon our understanding of astrophysics and the process of star formation in galaxies, all of the stars in the universe will have burned out in around 10^14 years, so you'll have to wait a time a hundred thousand times longer than the era in which stars shone in the universe for half of the bismuth atoms in your bottle of Pepto-Bismol to decay away

if you look at the back of your hand and extend your thumb and see those two little tendons pop out and form a triangle between your wrist and your first thumb joint, it's called an "anatomical snuff box," because people used to have the habit of sniffing powdered tobacco from this fleshy depression.

In economics, we often accept heat as a factor that decreases productivity, because it causes laziness. Not really a backed fact, just a curiosity on my field.

Astronauts can't burp in space - there's no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

Muchas gracias!

@Stress

☑ Agreed!

The 180º tortion of a gastropod (conch) happens at the end of the larval phase. This tortion makes it's head stand below it's anus, so,, you know what happens when it defecates.

Did you know your heart has it's own electrical impulse which means it can keep on pumping even if it is disconnected from your body.

When you put oxygen in an oxygen tank, you can compress it to different levels of pressure. Even if it is full of oxygen, it's not actually "full" until the tank isn't strong enough to contain the pressure of adding more oxygen. Water, on the other hand, cannot be compressed. If you pour water into the oxygen tank until it reaches the top, there's no way to add any more than that, it's completely full.

You can use the fact that water isn't compressible for some pretty useful stuff. If you want to hammer some nails into something, but you don't have a hammer, but you do have a glass bottle handy and access to water, you can use that as a hammer pretty effectively. All you need to do is fill the bottle completely with water, and make sure that there are no air bubbles in it, and you can use that without much fear of it shattering in your hands. Since the water can't be compressed, it makes the glass much more durable, and spreads force of the blow throughout the entire bottle, instead of the contact point taking the brunt of it and shattering.

Hi,did you know gypsies are half indians and half colonists?

A few i have i read along during my time in the interwebs:

-Days are longer than years in Venus
-Humans share quite a bit of dna with banana(around 50% IIRC)
-Dinosaurs are not "extinct", since birds are considered a "type of dinosaur"
-Penguin colonies can be found in satellite images by looking at dark patches in the ice(their poop, LOL)
-To determine a female giraffe's fertility, the male will taste its pee

Thanks for the giveaways :)

El iridio es un elemento químico de número atómico 77 que se sitúa en el grupo 9 de la tabla periódica. Su símbolo es Ir. Se trata de un metal de transición, del grupo del platino, duro, frágil, pesado, de color blanco plateado. Es el segundo elemento más denso (después del osmio) y es el elemento más resistente a la corrosión, incluso a temperaturas tan altas como 2000 °C. Solo algunos halógenos y sales fundidas son corrosivas para el iridio en estado sólido. El iridio en polvo es mucho más reactivo y puede llegar a ser inflamable.

Did you know that gut bacteria may alter you behavior.
Researchers carried out gut bacteria swapping experiments in mice. Different strains of mice have different behavior patterns. Some are more anxious while others are aggressive and hyperactive. The researchers took mice from both extremes and exchanged their gut bacteria. They saw the behavior flipped as well, the anxious mice became more active and daring and the aggressive mice became more passive.

I find this very interesting.

Well, why just 1? here's some facts i liked :D

• A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
• Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens.
• Four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin and the floor: it's 0.07.
• Every time a woodpecker's beak hits a tree, its head is subject to 1,000 times the force of gravity.
• You can start a fire with ice.
• The Sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.
• The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
• "Science" and "shit" both come from the ancient word "skheid," meaning to "separate" or "divide."
• The "Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" is offered to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. In 40 years, no one ever won.
• There's a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films .

Bismuth (used in Pepto-Bismol) has a half life One Billion times the estimated age of the universe.