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What affect does the quantity of injuries have on healing time? For example, would a paper cut take longer to heal if I had a broken Jaw at the same time?

What affect does the quantity of injuries have on healing time? For example, would a paper cut take longer to heal if I had a broken Jaw at the same time?


What affect does the quantity of injuries have on healing time? For example, would a paper cut take longer to heal if I had a broken Jaw at the same time?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 11:44 AM PDT

Edit: First gold, thank you kind stranger.

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Why are airplane propellers generally in the front and boat propellers in the back?

Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:08 AM PDT

How do our bodies develop a resistance to poisons by ingesting small amounts over a long time? Does the body develop antibodies similar to fighting diseases?

Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:33 AM PDT

[Biology/Ecology] How are buildings in Venice able to be half submerged in water, but mold-free and habitable?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 11:19 PM PDT

Houses here get an inch of water from a broken pipe and they get black mold throughout the entire house. How is it possible that houses in Venice, often hundreds of years old, can have water literally lapping up onto the threshold, but you never hear about mold, mildew, or even building material erosion?

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How does a cooling system work?

Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:25 AM PDT

I can comprehend a heating system, it can basically work by giving energy and heating the thing you want to heat. But how does a cooling system work, how can you reduce the energy inside the system by giving energy to it?

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How do satellites stay on their course? Wouldn't the slightes change make them slowly rotate off their path leading them into crashing down on to earth?

Posted: 18 Aug 2017 05:48 AM PDT

How do they stay up there? In my mind satellites need to like a 'perfect speed' just not to be too fast or too slow, but is that even possible?

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How is usable energy extracted from a fusion reactor?

Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:11 AM PDT

A fission reactor ultimately heats water to produce steam to spin a turbine to generate electricity.

I assume a fusion reactor ultimately heats water ....>>.... generate electricity.

But how do we get from a hot plasma in a tokamak to heating water? How do we get from inertial confinement to heating water??

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If you become decapitated, do you die instantly or are you still conscious for a short time before dying?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 05:26 PM PDT

Can bacteria become cancerous?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 07:24 PM PDT

So in this video about some kind of Japanese smoked fish they mentioned how the smoking helps preserve the fish by killing bacteria.

Could it be possible that the carcinogens in the smoke (or generally in nature) could alter the genome of bacteria, becoming similar to cancer in humans? If so would a bacterial cancer cell have the same behaviour as a human one?

Edit: forgot to add the main question, could this lead to a dangerous amount of bacteria growing in smoked foods?

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Is there such a thing as space coordinates?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 04:48 PM PDT

Let's say we wanted to broadcast some message into space, for possible detection by intelligent life anywhere. How could we communicate our location in the universe?

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Is there any substance which is less toxic the more of it you consume?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 12:15 PM PDT

As the title says, is there some form of poison or toxin which becomes less harmful the more of it is in your system?

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Why do phone screens/tvs/monitors always look awful and pixelated when recorded from a phone?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:42 PM PDT

In the detectors at CERN they measure the position and velocity of particles however, the uncertainty principle forbids it, how is it possible? I realize I probably just misunderstand or don't completely understand the principle.

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:10 PM PDT

What's the difference between anti bacterial and anti microbial?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 04:57 PM PDT

I was thinking today about how some things are classified as "anti microbial" whereas others are "anti bacterial". Are these essentially the same thing? It seems like "anti bacterial" is used more medically.

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What's done with the remains from diamond cutting?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 09:42 AM PDT

If someone quits smoking without having contracted cancer, do their odds of getting cancer eventually return to those of non-smoker?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 04:39 PM PDT

Or has some irreparable biological damage been done, which increases the likelihood of cancer over time?

Edit: my bad for typo in title :(

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How is lithium made in stars?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 10:39 PM PDT

As I understand it hydrogen atoms brought together by gravity collide under high temperatures to create helium and release light and other forms of energy. Does this mean helium does the same to create litium? Or is it a mix of hydrogen and helium under great pressure and high temperature colliding to create lithium? If at all possible can you expand upon this and the reactions of the heavier elements that create even heavier elements in say our sun for example?

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Does a fish see clearly when out of the water?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 09:37 AM PDT

Anytime I open my eyes underwater, everything is blurry, but I can see fine otherwise. Is it the same way for a fish? Can they see fine underwater and then have trouble seeing out of the water? Is there even any way to test this?

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Why is carbon so rare compared to oxygen in the inner solar system? Why don't we have tons of carbide minerals on earth?

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:19 PM PDT

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