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On Jupiter, will more superstorms the size the Great Red Spot eventually form, or are the positions and types of storms relatively constant?

On Jupiter, will more superstorms the size the Great Red Spot eventually form, or are the positions and types of storms relatively constant?


On Jupiter, will more superstorms the size the Great Red Spot eventually form, or are the positions and types of storms relatively constant?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 02:56 PM PDT

Hurricanes and big storms on Earth move around and change size, but does that happen on Jupiter?

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When humans wanted to first fly to space how did we know that we needed space suits to survive?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 04:10 PM PDT

How probable is it to get a computer error due to quantum effects?

Posted: 03 Jun 2017 04:12 AM PDT

As far as I understand, transistors nowadays are small enough that quantum effects become relevant. I'm hesitant to use words like quantum tunneling or energy wells because I don't fully grasp these concepts, but as I learned it it's possible for a quantum particle to escape its "cage" if the energy level is low enough or something.

Could this effect cause errors, corrupted data, a bluescreen, etc.?

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If 3-phase is more efficient, why isn't everything 3-phase?

Posted: 03 Jun 2017 01:18 AM PDT

I was reading on the difference between 3-phase and 1-phase power, and I got that 3-phase has 3 wires + neutral, and 1-phase has 1 wire + neutral. Some sites I was reading on that 3-phase is more efficient and uses less conducting material, but it's primarily used for industrial purposes. Residences stick to 1-phase. If it's more efficient and uses less materials, why then isn't everything in a 3-phase setup? What's the drawback to 3-phase that keeps 1-phase relevant.

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Why is the environmental community focused so heavily on CO2 emissions when methane is 30 times more effective at trapping heat in our atmosphere?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 08:13 PM PDT

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't cutting the USA's atmospheric methane contribution by 50% offset our CO2 output by more than 100%? If so, why are we focused on carbon footprints rather than methane footprints? https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases

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To a photon, dose it takes a year to travel one "light-year"?

Posted: 03 Jun 2017 01:49 AM PDT

How do we know that gas giants are made of gas?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 05:11 PM PDT

And is it possible for there to be a surface on a planet such as Jupiter?

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Do mirrors reflect all of the EM spectrum? WiFi, IR, UV, radio, etc.

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 07:17 PM PDT

We appreciate ourselves in mirrors, but that's only a small part of the spectrum. Can my bathroom mirror increase my WiFi range in a single direction? Could I make a small area hotter with a concave mirror and candle?

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How does a spacecraft Measure its speed in orbit around a planet?

Posted: 03 Jun 2017 02:20 AM PDT

So I was just watching an episode of sci-show space, where they talked about the Juno probe and the work it is doing while orbiting Jupiter.

They mentioned that one of its jobs is to map the gravity field of the planet, and it does this by detecting speed changes in the orbiter, with higher speeds meaning higher gravity.

How does a probe such as Juno measure its orbital speed to such accuracy that it can accurately map the gravity field around Jupiter? It isn't like it has GPS out there.....

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How much more intelligent are we than our ancestors? I understand we have advanced as a society greatly but how much has the average intelligence of humans changed in the past 20,000 years?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 02:30 PM PDT

If you were to drop a small insect, such as an ant or a grasshopper without the ability to fly, from a high latitude like the Empire State Building, would it die? Why it why not? May be a stupid question but my reasoning below, albeit illogical

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 09:15 PM PDT

For some reason I imagine that due to such small body mass, insects couldn't possibly suffer crucial injuries. It can't be proportional to their size, I just knocked a banana bug off the counter and that thing was tiny as hell, that'd be like knocking me off a three story building. Yes I'm drunk but I'm genuinely curious because I've always wondered this

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How do birds know to make nests? Is it purely instinctual or is it taught?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 10:59 AM PDT

I was watching a gull collect moss for its nest earlier today and began to wonder how they know how to construct their nest. I have seen many birds building their nests but I haven't seen any birds teaching their young. This behaviour seems to be from instinct, but surely this is too complex to be just an instinct.

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If you're traveling 100 mph in one direction and shoot a bullet backwards at some enemy/target, will the momentum of the bullet be affected?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 11:15 PM PDT

Do countries with higher taxes tend to have better quality of life?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 04:41 PM PDT

Here is a list of countries by GDP to government revenue ratio. These numbers show what the government actually gets, rather than what it's asking for. In other words, it doesn't take in to account tax evasion.

I'd like to find out if indexes for development and quality of life and so on are correlated with higher taxes. It may be that countries with higher quality of life have more capable governments which are able to achieve higher GDP to government income ratio by being more effective at fighting tax evasion, despite asking for less in taxes than weaker governments.

Essentially I'd like to know the answer to "Do higher taxes correlate with higher quality of life?", rather than "Does higher government income as a percentage of GDP correlate with higher quality of life?". I'd look to do it by actually have the dataset myself, but if someone has already answered this question for me, I guess that will do.

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How do scissors work?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 06:26 PM PDT

If you cannot split atoms, then are you splitting the bonds between them, if so how come a sharp blade specially can cut it and not a dull blade (you get the point [no pun intended, I'm not sharp {pun intended}])

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Burning fossil fuels also releases a lot of wasted heat. If this is not accounted for in warming projections, where does it all go?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 06:19 PM PDT

Are non-atomic solids possible?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 02:33 PM PDT

What prevents other subatomic particles from grouping together in a way that creates something with solid properties? I suppose that's a bit ambiguous, so here's what I mean by "solid":

  1. The subatomic particles stay together as a group spatially.

  2. These groups are repelled by similar groups, so they can't occupy the same space as another group. This is similar to the van der Waals force.

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How bright a light bulb needs to be to be seen from orbit?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 07:05 PM PDT

How many/much brightness/power/lumens a light bulb needs to be to be seen from orbit? lets say from the ISS?

how a 100W lamp would be seen from the ground?

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Why does hot air blown from a fan feel cold?

Posted: 03 Jun 2017 12:39 AM PDT

How do hive-minded bugs (ants, termites, bees) evolve if the queen is the only one passing on genes? Wouldn't this create in effect a sort of inbreeding?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 02:53 PM PDT

Is it possible for two sounds two cancel each other out?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 09:41 AM PDT

How do bee-eater birds bee-proof themselves?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 03:24 PM PDT

How do bee-eating birds protect themselves from being stung by the bees they eat or other bees avenging their comrade (if bees do that)?

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Why don't we have high resolution video of any of the planets?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 03:10 PM PDT

Unsure if this is the correct place to inquire.

High resolution photos exist, why not video?

My question derives from the "Jupiter fly by" video currently on the front page

Any and all responses appreciated !!

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How much do we know about how endocrine disruptors affect menopause?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 07:32 AM PDT

I have managed to find a few articles: Menopause arriving early

Stronger hot flashes from phthalates

Missing studies on cosmetics

Women have a higher sick leave than men in my country (Norway), and I think all over the world? Some of this is connected to pregnancy, some of it to women being lower down in the hierarchy at work, but is some of it connected to endocrine disruptors affecting women more? Is there a connection between how these substances affect us and the fact that most autoimmune diseases affect women more often than men?

Here is some research (controversial) that shows that it is not only through mouth these chemicals are, but some think that also through touching, such as playing on the floor, can absorb endocrine disruptors.

It seems that in the US women often have menopause symptoms for ten years. That just doesn´t seem very natural. Scientists have been asking for stricter regulation, but I think the knowledge about these things are very little in the regular population, and I also have problems finding relevant research.

Please help me finding research.

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