Weird google searches for your novel research

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I looked up How long can a dead body stay in snow without rotting, What would happen if you went into the Puget sound in January and how long could they stay in the water without dying today, which I think is a bit more exciting than what I looked up yesterday.
 

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Tricky one for me was working out how quickly blood gets pumped out of a severed femoral artery (for a dream scene) - not much information on it surprisingly. Had to work it out from the time-till death figures and the amount of blood loss until death-figures.

I was also looking up various stages you go through before bleeding to death... grim.

Actually, most of the things I look up are medical related, either whether you can dislocate an elbow, how to relocate a shoulder/how bones get healed and various osteoporosis-type degenerative bone diseases.

That and I spent a few nights trying to calculate a sensible 100 year - 5 year (on board) space flight, lots of searches involved. I had to give up calculating things eventually, special relativity really doesn't work well with acceleration.
 

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I wanted to learn how to describe an opium high without actually having to, you know, do opium. The website I ended up on was all kinds of sketchy, but it was jam-packed with people's extremely detailed accounts of their experiences while tripping. Good, bad, and everything in between.

My horizons were expanded that day.
 

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1. What are other names for caves?
2. What are motivations for terrorism?
3. People in disguise for infiltration.
4. Prison escape.
5. Blueprints of a specific military base.
 

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It makes you appreciate all the work that went into researching books pre-internet. Can you imagine the difficulty of finding some of this stuff in your typical library?
 

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For my current WIP I've researched:

Effects of various drug overdoses
Typical hospital stay of someone who attempted suicide
Ponte Milvio bridge

In planning for my next WIP, I've also looked into:
Several mythical creatures
Native American beliefs
Gypsies
Wicca
The effects of no human interaction for 3 years
The effects of no human interaction for 30 years
 

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I had to do some Google-fu on whether any scientists have created functioning robotic penises. For the same story, I also researched different religious beliefs about the existence of the human soul.

...It all makes sense in context, I swear.
 

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- Saltwater throw up
- middle eastern faces
- How fast does facial hair grow?
I could've asked my bf but then again I didn't want to explain why I was asking, so onward google.
 

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A couple weeks back I decided I needed to research human reactions after over dosing on a specific vet medication. I was already researching other specific medication reactions and contacted a few European websites that deal with testing new medications. One admin replied with very technical information. Another informed me everyone was too busy to answer and no one else has replied yet. I kinda doubt they believed my inquiries were "purely academic".

The prompt reply from the admin who tried to answer my concerns actually gave me enough confidence to keep searching for the answers on my own...and I did find what I needed (without anyone judging me...besides my 20 year old son. But that's his job so it's OK.)
 

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Palmistry.

Which on its own isn't so weird, but I got deeper and deeper into the links as I realized there's a triangle of lines on my own palm that isn't listed on the standard charts. And this was from a work computer, too.
 

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I got a new one! Years where the 13th of September falls on a Friday.
 

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Oh, I've got some great ones for this novel.

Parks in Detroit
Lots and lots of Street View
What heroin feels like
unfiltered cigarettes (I posted a question about them in the Interviews section, as well)
What song the Peace Carillion on Belle Isle plays
If you check yourself into rehab without any altercations with the law, does the law still get involved? (I haven't found an answer to this just yet, so if any of y'all know....)
How is a 20 week fetal demise handled?
fanged deer
Elysian Fields
Detroit MGM Grand hotel

(as you can tell, my WIP is a happy book >.>)
 

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Congolese accent
Armenian surnames
Military chain of command
What kind of gun does Dirty Harry use
 

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Tyromancy: the divination of the future by reading cheese curds as they coagulate
 

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The name of the poison excreted by the blue ringed octopus, positioning of the legs during homosexual intercourse, and the mechanics of a predator's night vision.
 
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