Random Post Friday

November 3^rd, 2011

            Well here is the second “Random Post Friday,” I think the first post was a resounding success and I think everyone, including myself learned a little bit. In case you did not see the comment that Jobro posted after doing some quick googling I will summarize it quickly. The basic question last week if you remember was how are clocks on computers and cell phones always correct even when they have been turned off for a long time. The answer that Jobro gave to us was that computers and cell phones have a very tiny battery, like a watch battery, that is continually charged by the larger battery that both electronics have. Since this small battery is only running a clock it can run for incredibly long periods of time just like any watch battery. So that is the basic answer, did I get it all right Jobro?

            That now leads us to this week’s new post and this week has to do with hair, and no it does not have to do with the lack of hair on my head, at least not blatantly. So I have been thinking that there must be multiple different types of hair on your body because it seems to me that there are only two places on the body where the hair never stops growing and that is a beard and the hair on top of your head. What I mean by never stops growing is there is no limit as to how long it can grow. As far as I am concerned all the rest of the hair on your body reaches a certain limit where it does not really grow anymore such as your leg, arm, chest, back, or anywhere else you might have hair. I am certain that there is this limit because I have never had to get an arm hair cut or a leg hair cut it just seems to stop growing at a certain point. So, I am interested in how does this hair know that it needs to stop growing. I mean really how does it do that? That is some intelligent hair if you ask me. What also interests me is this limit the same for all people or are there different lengths for every person and if there are different lengths for every person are there people out there that have to cut their arm and leg hair because their personal limit is just too long and they look like a werewolf (think Robin Williams). I would like to meet someone who has to cut their body hair every 2 months or so, do they exist?

            Besides all of those questions, I am also wondering if there are different types of hair, ones that have a growth limit and ones that do not have a growth limit. If there are these two different types of hair couldn’t you theoretically get a hair transplant of all growth limit hairs on your head and then never have to get a haircut (I think science has progressed this far...), saving you what I calculate to be thousands of dollars over a lifetime? And with that, couldn’t it also go the other way and you could have hair transplants of non-growth limit hair all over your body? Now why you would want that, I am not sure but I think that there are some weird people out there so you never know. The real benefit of this would be to get a beard transplant of growth limit hair that you would then never have to trim or shave as long as you wanted a beard that looked like arm or leg hair. I think there are some interesting routes of hair science that could be studied here and so to those hair scientists out there at Rogaine, Just for Men Hair club, and whatever other company employs hair scientists I just want to say “You are welcome for this brilliant idea and good luck!”