/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

It's funny. Maria's ASMR reminded me of how ancient syphilis was actually very similar to Ebola. It made you bleed uncontrollably from every orifice as your insides literally liquified, and then you died like 3 days later. It's native to Mexico and the Spanish talked about it like we talk about Montezuma's Revenge today, if Montezuma's Revenge had a 50%+ fatality rate and made you die in excruciating agony. It turning into a slow-acting STD was an evolutionary response to the fact that it killed people too quickly and spectacularly to efficiently spread among large populations. Though syphilis still kills you if it's untreated. People throughout the Enlightenment treated it like we treat AIDS today: a fatal disease that kills you over the course of many decades, but which you won't know about until youve already passed it to many many others because of how long it stays asymptomatic, and is primarily spread among prostitutes and the extremely sexually promiscuous. It's theorized that King George II suffered from it, which is why he suddenly started making tons of insane decisions during the American Revolutionary War, since going schizo is one of the symptoms. Aren't ancient diseases fun?

Did you guys know that astronauts have to undergo special training before they go on ISS missions that's basically just stuffing them in an ISS mockup for weeks, solely to acclimate them to an existence where they don't ever bathe for like 6 months in a row, because otherwise the body odor literally drives them insane? Also did you know that while studying this NASA learned that your skin cells stop producing new oils about a week after your last bath, because your skin is calibrated to coat itself in a 7-layer sheath of oil that acts as a moisturizing and protection agent? And that, furthermore, after that same amount of time you go completely noiseblind to the smell and are basically incapable of registering human BO until you go back to civilization and have your smell receptors "reset" by regular bathing? I just thought that was interesting.