1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World
2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times
3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”
4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”
5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”
SCIENCE: IT WORKS
Update:
“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.
I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:
1. Hypothesis
2. Experiment
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)
was this like… done in cooperation with disney management or did some random scientist go through bag check with a 3d printed kidney and a bottle of piss and start looking for big thunder mountain fastpasses
Of course, the researchers had to get permission from Disney World before bringing the model kidney onto the rides. “It was a little bit of luck,” Wartinger recalls. “We went to guest services, and we didn’t want them to wonder what was going on—two adult men riding the same ride again and again, carrying a backpack. We told them what our intent was, and it turned out that the manager that day was a guy who recently had a kidney stone. He called the ride manager and said, do whatever you can to help these guys, they’re trying to help people with kidney stones.”
that is beautiful.
I love this
Science makes your look really fucking weird sometimes, but by hell you’re helping
I’ll be checking out pillowfort in a couple of days when things have calmed down and you can find me on instagram and ao3 as apicturewithasmile. Mutuals can ask for my Facebook name as well.
UPDATE: I created a dreamwidth account as apicturewithasmile…. just in case.
UPDATE 2: I remembered I also have a twitter account that I never use because I hate twitter. It’s Bluesology.
I have had 3 mineral posts flagged as adult content today. They contained a tourmaline, a muscovite, and a galena. On Friday I had 3 fossil posts flagged as adult content, including a fossil fish, a fossil tooth from a mastodon, and a Tyrannosaur vertebrae. I’ve submitted appeals for each. This has been getting worse over the past month, apparently most of geology content is now only for adults.
Apparently you can’t get your rocks off on Tumblr anymore.
i am contractually obligated to congratulate you on this reply
It’s that malachite dildo post out there giving geology a naughty reputation.
This is legit the best thing I’ve reposted since this entire affair began.
Hopefully, this post isn’t the first you’re hearing about the adult content ban on Tumblr. Just in case, though, here’s what we know right now.
First, on Dec. 3rd, Tumblr’s staff blog announced all adult content would be banned. They had criteria to define adult content. They stated this ban would begin Dec. 17th. Almost immediately, however, people began to see their content being flagged. Once it is flagged, it will not be visible to anyone but the original poster and those that reblogged.
Second thing that was noticed was that there appeared to be no rhyme or reason for the content being flagged, or the vast majority of it. It if was visual in nature, it was coming down. The bot had been let loose by late afternoon with no end in sight.
Everything after that happened in rapid succession. People were deleted without warning if enough of their content was flagged, even if they were in the middle of appeals on things that were legitimately NOT adult content.
Now, onto the ‘who is safe and who isn’t’ section. In short, no one is safe. We know what the post says, in full, backward and forward. We also know what is happening is not matching up with that post. If you are a fanfiction writer, whether you write about adult content or not, YOU ARE NOT SAFE FROM THIS PURGE!
Again, we know what it says and we know what is happening. People are being deleted, whole blogs gone, with no warning. Don’t let this happen to you. Rumors and misinformation will abound in these situations. If you reblog a post from someone saying it’s not true and doesn’t have anything to do with fanfic writers, or writers in general, know that they’re wrong. Unless they work at Tumblr, they have no way of knowing what’s really happening. End of story.
What can you do?
Back up your stuff. Download your content. Find a new home. We can help with this. Come talk to us. We have a ton of posts on our blog. Tags aren’t working right now for a lot of people, so if you can’t find it shoot us a message or an ask and we’ll link you as fast as possible.
Put your name on our fanfic author masterlist. In the horrible event that you get deleted, we will be able to post information for your readers and followers on where else they might find you and support you. There’s a separate one for fan artists with the same premise.
Refute any flagged content you feel was done so in error. If you know that the gif set, picture, or other visual content clearly goes against their criteria, do not refute it. It’s bogging Tumblr down and not allowing them to reinstate those users who did nothing wrong. Only the original poster of the content can refute the flag. A lot of people have tons of content. Don’t assume they are seeing all of these. There is no notification system for this, despite what Tumblr says. If you see a reblog that’s been flagged, let the original poster know so that they can dispute it.
We have a Discord server set up for fanfic writers and readers. This can include original writers and writblrs as well, but we are a digital magazine about writing fanfiction, so we’re going to concentrate our efforts on that crowd, but everyone is invited. There are sections for news and updates on where people can find your new chapters while we all work through this mess together. If you can’t find us, or need us to add you manually, send us a message or an ask.
Our website will include a blog section when it’s up and we’re going to invite all those that have their own blogs removed or censored heavily to come over to Lemon’s website and contribute. The topics do not have to pertain to writing fanfiction or writing in any way. We know that the LGBTQQIAAP community is being hit harder than most and Tumblr is an outlet for everyone to be able to find support. We will not let that fade away. At this time, we don’t have the capabilities to do GIFsets or pictures in large quantities. We’re going to concentrate on the text post side. We will pull several articles a month to be featured in the magazine as well, with author permission, obviously.
Alternatives for writers and readers:
*If you need more information on these, or other websites, we have it. Come talk to us.
Doesn’t include a MA rating any longer. This means no explicitly sexual chapters are allowed. They also do not allow RPF or reader-insert stories. The other two do allow these things, with AO3 being the most relaxed on that situation.
It’s not a server, like the others. It’s your own private website. There is no directory or search function. There is an easy way to get your content downloaded from Tumblr to WordPress, though. Make sure you check out our reblogs or let us help you find them.
Lemon was founded on the principle that all fanfiction writers deserve a voice and the confidence to succeed, no matter what they want to write. We stand by that now more than ever. We want to help. We want to keep all the content safe, no matter how good you think it is. If you spent any amount of time on it, it deserves to be saved. You are a creator and deserve to be protected. Don’t let anyone tell you fanart and fanfiction aren’t important and a valid creative outlet. It is and we’re not going anywhere. Lemon will be here until the bitter, bitter end. And we’ll go wherever the fanfic writers and fan artists migrate.
deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)
This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects.
The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.
ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers.
Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)
This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.
I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.
Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.
Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.
And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.
So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.
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