Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2017 November 27

= November 27 =

RE: Need Help with Establishing a Page for a Cryptocurrency
Hello Reference Desk,

I am, An administrator for GoldCoin Cryptocurrency. Please provide the email or phone number for someone I can communicate with at Wikipedia about establishing a page for our group.

Thanks,

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Carolnicole (talk • contribs) 02:48, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * We don't write articles on spec for commercial interests. Please read our notability policy for guidelines about what is and is not a suitable article topic. I have redacted your personally-identifying information. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 03:14, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Articles can be requested here : WP:RA, but the request will probably be ignored. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:09, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

What it takes to pull the tongue out
One scene of the movie Kong: Skull Island where the Kong pulls out the creature's tongue gave me a curiosity for how much force would it take to pull the human tongue out after getting firm grip on the tongue and how the tongue would break away when pulling it out? I believe since the tongue is strongly attached to the back of the mouth real good, it would take a lot of force, maybe at least a hundred pounds of force to pull it out. Planet Star  05:42, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Are you asking us to answer the fictional scenario? (We can't.) Or, if you are asking about humans, I suggest you google "record weight lifted by tongue" to get a lower bound. μηδείς (talk) 16:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Not quite fictional scenario, but an imaginative scenario about how much force would it take to pull the tongue out. Planet  Star  09:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I did have a look at Google, but apart from some fantasy fansites, there wasn't anything. I did find a newspaper report of a psychopath who had "ripped out" his girlfriend's tongue, so it may be possible if you believe what you read in the tabloids. Alansplodge (talk) 14:29, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Wondering how much force he took to pull her's out. Planet  Star  19:29, 2 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Pulling out (as by suction, which your original Q seemed to imply) is different from cutting/ripping. It's much easier to cut a roast in half than it is to pull it apart at the middle by grasping the ends.  Given the unethical nature of the experiment, I don't expect you'll find an answer to the more interesting question. μηδείς (talk) 20:20, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I wasn't talking about suction, talking about pulling or ripping it out by by using just the fingers. But getting grip on the tongue using fingers is difficult as tongue is wet. In the link added by Alansplodge above, a man managed to rip his girlfriend's tongue out with his finger, but the article didn't say exactly how, did he rip her whole tongue out? If he did rip her whole tongue out, he may have required a pulling force of at least a hundred pounds of force (or very least 50 pounds of force) to rip the tongue from the hyoglossal membrane, epiglottis, and other tissues, don't you think? In King Kong: Skull Island, Skullcrawler wrapped its tongue around King Kong's arm then pulled it away by grasping the body with the other hand, therefore ripping the body from the tongue. The Skullcrawler's tongue is attached to the tissue more strongly than human's since that creature is much bigger and required thousands of pounds of force to rip it out, which the Kong did with relative ease. Planet  Star  00:33, 3 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Well, no, I don't think, not in so far as that means speculate baselessly on a paucity of data. Since I see no practical use for this topic, except to fill a lull in the conversation while my roomie bogarts the spliff, I'll pass. μηδείς (talk) 02:35, 3 December 2017 (UTC)