常识未必正确（Common sense is not correct）.docVIP

常识未必正确（Common sense is not correct） We have a lot of wrong ideas about the world we live in. Despite scientific research to find out the truth, fallacies continue to circulate. Have you ever been fooled by these myths? The elephant is the oldest mammal From all available evidence, no mammal lives longer than humans. There are many people over a hundred years old, but they seldom live to be over seventy years old. The sky is blue The sky had no color. Sunlight contains all the colors of a rainbow, and it passes through the atmosphere and is scattered by hundreds of millions of tiny particles floating in the air. The blue light is shorter, and the longer red or yellow is easier to scatter than the light waves, so the sky appears blue. The andes is the longest mountain in the world The worlds longest mountain range, located between North America and Europe, is the mid-atlantic ridge, which was discovered this century. The huge underwater mountain ranges from northern Greenland to the south of the Antarctic circle, more than 16,000 kilometers long. The andes are just over 6,400 kilometres long. The quicksand will drag people down Quicksand is a mixture of sand and water. It is so buoyant that anyone can escape it. But if you struggle constantly, it will only sink deeper. If accidentally fall into quicksand, had better keep calm, use quicksand buoyancy to support oneself, then slowly swim to solid land. The fish will not drown If drowning means choking to death in the water, then the fish will drown. The fish inhales the oxygen in the water. If the oxygen in the water runs out, it must swim to enough water to supply it, or it will suffocate. In fact, because most of the earths water is polluted with oxygen, it kills millions of fish each year. A spiders web is fragile The spiders silk may seem fragile, but in fact it is stronger than any kind of thick fibre in nature. Spider silk has a strong elastic force that can stretch a fifth and not break, and the tension is greate