Graham Hancock "I have no idea how the pyramids were built"
“To be honest, I have no answer to that question. And anybody who tells you that he or she knows how the pyramids were built are not telling the truth, because we don’t know. We don’t know.”
The Great Pyramid is locked into the cardinal dimensions of our planet… its height × 43,200 = Earth’s polar radius, its base perimeter × 43,200 = Earth’s equatorial circumference.
“This is why I’m forced to consider the possibility of a lost civilization in the human story.”
The musty wet-rag smell on damp clothes is bacteria. A bug called Moraxella osloensis lives on your skin, gets onto fabric every time you wash, and once that fabric stays damp past 4 hours, it starts doubling. What you're smelling is the acid it leaves behind as waste.
Japanese researchers at Moriyama University figured this out in 2012. They counted 10 times more of this bug on smelly towels than on clean ones. It survives any wash below 60°C, or 140°F. Most people wash much cooler.
The fungi behind athlete's foot, ringworm, and jock itch also live on damp clothes. A 2010 paper from the Hohenstein Institutes in Germany found that about 10% of the infectious material jumps from a contaminated piece of clothing to a clean one just by sitting in the same laundry basket. And wet fabric passes 200 times more bacteria to your skin than dry fabric.
Then there's the air. One wet load of laundry releases about 2 litres of water, around half a gallon, into the room. The UK's Centre for Sustainable Energy ran the numbers: drying one load in a small bedroom, around 10 by 10 feet, pushes humidity to roughly 96%. A tropical rainforest sits between 77 and 88%. Mould starts growing at 60%.
The fungus that loves these conditions is Aspergillus fumigatus. Professor David Denning at the National Aspergillosis Centre in Manchester has treated patients who developed a chronic lung infection from inhaling spores that grew in bedrooms where wet laundry was drying on the radiator. His team estimates 87% of UK homes dry their clothes indoors during winter.
So a shirt that didn't quite dry has live bacteria still multiplying on it. The air around it is wetter than a rainforest. And the fungi growing in that air are the same ones hospitals treat for invasive lung infections.
Your washing machine cleans the dirt. Your dryer kills the bugs.
Gen. @mkainerugaba is the CDF, First Son, Senior Presidential Adviser on Special Operations, and a four-star General. But despite all these titles and authority, Gen. Muhoozi remains one of the most disciplined road users in our country. He does not violate traffic lights 🚦 and does not chase other road users from the road. I wish other officials could learn from his humble approach.🙏