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[Ultimuh]

Games are fine, it's just any online videos that tends to be choppy. Not all the time though, but it is noticeable when it happens.
edit: And it's a stationary.

[Kagus]

It stings more, thereby making your body less enthusiastic about damaging a nail like that again.

Actually, I'm not sure why... I'd think it's either something to do with being more acceptable to your body's salinity, or just the salt content drying loose pockets of water more quickly and making it harder for bacterial/fungal infections to take hold... but then you've got staph infections that live in seawater, so fuck if I know.

[Trekkin]

Why would a doctor recommend soaking your feet in saltwater after damaging your toenails?

I've been told to have occasional ones, and I get why you use saltwater as opposed to freshwater, but why soak them?

I've heard several explanations of varying plausibility, the most sensible being that you're trying to draw fluid (and thus infection) out of the entire area via osmotic pressure to prevent bacteria migrating into the wound.

[wierd]

Also, high salinity water has a different pH than body fluids, (since it is MUCH more saline), which impacts bacterial ability to grow and proliferate. (at least for some disease causing microbes anyway.)  The osmotic pressure difference also helps contend with localized swelling associated with an inflammatory reaction from infection, which helps prevent the tissue from being so swollen and inflamed that proper action of the immune system is impacted in the tissue. 

It's also a very common folk remedy, and is usually done as a warm water soak. This is soothing and comforting, and is non-pharmaceutical in nature. 


A better question is how does epsom salt soak help with sore muscles.   (It isn't like an appreciable amount of magnesium ion gets through undamaged skin or anything.)

[Leodanny]

You are relaxing the muscles when chillaxing, right? And warmth helps, probably.

[Yoink]

Is "ninety-pound weakling" a common phrase? I'm pretty sure I've heard it.
Next question, is it actually possible for an adult (or adult-sized) human to weight ninety pounds?! According to google that's just under 41 kilograms.

[Trekkin]

Is "ninety-pound weakling" a common phrase? I'm pretty sure I've heard it.
Next question, is it actually possible for an adult (or adult-sized) human to weight ninety pounds?! According to google that's just under 41 kilograms.

"98-pound weakling" is slightly more common, but yes.

And yes, it is possible, particularly for people with MDP syndrome. Or just lots of missing bits.

[scriver]

My Dittle Pony syndrome?

[Hanslanda]

Is "ninety-pound weakling" a common phrase? I'm pretty sure I've heard it.
Next question, is it actually possible for an adult (or adult-sized) human to weight ninety pounds?! According to google that's just under 41 kilograms.

My wife weighed just under 100 lbs when we met. She's only 5ft though.

[Yoink]

Oh, yeah, I guess height differences could make for some extreme differences in weight.   
Also yesterday in the book I'm reading a guy was described as weighing just 30 kilos at one point, but that was after a prolonged stay in a particularly unpleasant dungeon. Not particularly relevant to the discussion (basically I'd wondered if these 90-pound adults were common enough to base a saying on), but interesting anyway.   

[Maximum Spin]

If the antarctic ice sheet were to melt, would any of the antarctic continent be above the new sea level, and if it would be how much land would that open up?

Yes, most of it would be above sea level. Sea level would only rise some 200 feet, and the Antarctic continental landmass itself would rise considerably due to isostatic rebound from removing the weight of the ice. I can't say exactly how much land it would open up, though.

[hops]

Yeah, wasn't the idea that Antartica has so much ice that the landmass is pushed down? Although I feel like given that ice isn't really that heavy in the grand scheme of thing it'd probably lose surface rather than gain more.

[TD1]

"Ice isn't that heavy"
Are you kidding?

[Arx]

A brief search suggests that whilst the Antarctic's geological composition is largely unknown, it's probably still made of rock, and most types of conventional silicon rocks appear to be in the range of 2.4-3.5 times denser than water. So, relatively speaking? Yeah, the ice is almost certainly lighter than an equivalent volume of surface from any other continent.

[TD1]

Ice is 57.4 pounds per cubic foot
Water is 62.4 pounds per cubic foot.

That's curious. I would have thought ice was heavier, as it's just lazy, contracted water. Then again, how else would we have floating ice bergs?

Edit: Actually, I'm gonna make that my random question for the day: Why is ice lighter than water?