Ask the Zot!

[Wesley]

Carbs and cardio. Caffeine helps, but only temporarily. Also, if you can grab a mini nap, that helps. Hope this is not all too late....

[Eff]

Smart phones dumb ppl or dumb phones smart ppl?

[Wesley]

I have a dumb phone, if that helps answer your question.

[Eff]

How dumb? I want to google your phone

[Wesley]

LG Octane.

[Moe]

My first phone was a Verizon flip phone,
Then o had the Motorola Razr flip phone
Then I inherited my dad's Motorola Risr, a slider phone
Then I bought an iPhone 3, then the 4s, then the Nexus 4, then the HTC M7, then the HTC M9

[Clarence]

Can mosquitoes have strokes?

[nich]

I can't believe you made me google that. Squirrels too.

[Clarence]

I can't believe you made me google that. Squirrels too.

LMAO

I ask the best questions, don't I?

[Beany]

How would it have helped if you had known the answer? And I know this is Ask the Zot, not Chip in if you know the Answer, but why wouldn't they? Strokes are caused by lack of blood to the brain, and mosquitos and squirrels both have brains and blood.

[Wesley]

With a mosquito it is different because of the primitive circulatory system. Same with houseflies. I've frozen and drowned house flies only to revive them minutes later.

So no, a mosquito cannot have a stroke. At least not in the sense that higher mammals do.

[nich]

GreatZot > Google

[Beany]

I've frozen and drowned house flies only to revive them minutes later.

Was this some kind of experiment or just for fun?

Also, how does the different circulatory system get past a mosquito still needing oxygen to the brain? I know they're devious little smurf, but I don't see how they could survive that.

And lesson duly noted on trying to guess the answer.

[Moe]

I think he just meant that because of how their circulatory system works, their bloodflow happens differently. And he did clarify that "They don't get strokes in the same sense as higher mammals"

Mosquitos have an open circulatory system, so with them, their heart pumps blood into the body cavaties and their tissue is just surrounded by blood, whereas with humans, the blood is contained in a loop, per se.

When a human gets a stroke, it's because there is an issue with that loop, causing the brain to not get what it needs.
Mosquitos, having an open system, would be harder to deprive the brain of it's blood nutrients

[Wesley]

I can answer for myself, moe. Thanks.

As a teenager, you see an experiment done and you want to do it for yourself. Drowned a house fly in a ziploc bag filled with water. Placed in on a paper plate and poured salt on it. The salt wicked the moisture away, and gaseous Oxygen could once again circulate, and the little bugger walked around, then flew off.

The circulatory and organ systems of flies and bees and mosquitoes is so simple that a little oxygen deprivation does not cause any serious damage.

In humans and other larger and more complicated life forms, both temperature and pH are maintained through the circulation of breath, blood and other fluids. Shut down one or more of these systems, and you have a problem.

[Moe]

We typically use base10 for numbers.
Binary is base2.

What types of things would use other bases? (Like base5 or base8/

[Wesley]

Hexadecimal is used for certain branches of geometry. Same with Octal. A base 4 system is being theorized for a computer derived from DNA. (At least in the Godzilla universe.) I think Quantum computers will be base 4 as well.

[Moe]

As I suspected, mostly in niche markets.
I want to develop something that uses base nine or something

[Beany]

How many messages did you have when you came back from work?

[Wesley]

167, of which I read every single one. As I was doing so, 6 more popped up.