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How did dinosaurs have sex?

How did dinosaurs have sex?


How did dinosaurs have sex?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 02:03 AM PDT

I've seen a lot of conflicting articles on this, particularly regarding the large theropods and sauropods... is there any recent insight on it. —— Edit, big thank you to the mods for keeping the comments on topic and the shitposting away.

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Does lemons prevent the binding of caffeine & tannin in tea?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 01:44 AM PDT

Hey,

I've read that caffeine is more water-soluble than tannin. So short brewed tea has more free caffeine than long brewed. Long brewed has more caffeine in total but a lot of it has bond to tannin. Gastric acid is capable of splitting the bond so the caffeine will be bio available over a longer time span.

This morning I put pure citric acid in my tea and I noticed that the tea looks a lot clearer and much lighter than my normal long brewed tea.

Questions:

  1. Does the citric acid prevent the solution of tannin?
  2. Can citric acid prevent the binding of caffeine to tannin in the first place?
  3. How many slices of lemons would be needed to achieve that in a 200ml cup? -> Cultural reason for lemons in tea?

Thanks for your answers :)

[EDIT] after nearly 8k views (haha I love the internet) I decided to make a short timelapse, because many of the auto deleted comments didn't believe that the tea looks different with citric acid. of course I missed the sweet-spot with the acid but trust me I can't drink anymore tea today. I'm nervous AF and I've got heartburn.

https://youtu.be/YbnZabBx_Eo

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How do sea creatures react to tropical storms?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 10:41 PM PDT

I read this week that helicopters are detecting 80ft waves from the storms brewing this week! Isn't this disruptive for the beings swimming in that mess? Do they just swim somewhere else when they sense stuff is getting crazy or if they hang out deep enough in the water can they avoid being affected? Also, do tropical storms negatively affect any other sea life, like reefs or sea plants?

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How much did the Chicxulub crater affect the plate tectonics of North America?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 01:59 AM PDT

Recently I've been curious about Pangea and how our current map was formed. When I watch videos or see drawings of the transformation of earth I don't ever seem to see any change due to the massive crater that wiped out the dinosaurs. However, we know there is a massive crater, so I'm just wondering if it caused any change in the drift of the plates.

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Is the large curve of coastline between Florida and the Carolinas in any way related to erosion from centuries of hurricanes?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 05:26 PM PDT

Every time I see a pic of a hurricane approaching the east coast, ot just looks like it would erode out more land int hat area.

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Why do most test tubes lack a base that lets them stand on their own in favor of racks where they’re put into?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 06:29 AM PDT

I've always thought this is weird, because it would probably be easier to work with if you didn't have to always put it back on the rack and could set it down wherever you are and would be in reach whenever needed instead of having to go back to a rack on the other side of the room. Is there a particular reason for this?

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Why doesn't neutron scattering cause fission/neutron capture?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 11:16 PM PDT

Would solar panels on Mars produce less energy per panel compared to if they were on Earth?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 11:33 PM PDT

How can we tell the difference between volcanic CO2 and man-made CO2?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 02:40 AM PDT

On "Cosmos" NDT just told me that one is "heavier" than the other.

On the face of it, that makes no sense: CO2 is CO2. Can I get an explanation?

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How much energy is expended to deliver 1kW of power to a home from where it is generated?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 05:14 AM PDT

Basically the title,but to add a few more thoughts: What's the energy loss in transfer? Can we calculate the energy used to produce the transport cabling, transformers, etc? What's the overall efficiency in supplying power from a plant far away versus one near by or perhaps even on site power(ie solar panels)? Thanks,

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Would approaching the event horizon of a black effectively make you immortal due to time dilation effects?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 07:31 AM PDT

What is the probability of getting two individual photons to collide and how drastic are the effects of the collision?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 10:43 PM PDT

How is planetary rotation measured on gas giants?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 10:15 PM PDT

I read that Jupiter rotates very quickly, but isn't its visible surface a roiling gas cloud? How do we decide how quickly Jupiter is rotating if there are no fixed features on its surface?

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Could you ride a bike down a really steep incline faster than you could free fall at terminal velocity?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 11:49 PM PDT

Would it be theoretically possible for Earth to generate a permanent hurricane, similar to the red spot on Jupiter?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 12:44 PM PDT

Florence's trajectories had me wondering. I'm assuming climate change would be the biggest factor in creating an environment that hostile but I don't have any facts on the topic.

Edit to elaborate after clarification below: I guess my question is if climate change could get bad enough where we would start seeing these long form hurricanes lasting 1+ years?

What types of conditions would be necessary for that to occur? 'Earth sciences'

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How are artificial scents created?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 04:15 AM PDT

Bonus question, if someone wanted to replicate the smell of their significant other, is it possible and how would it be done?

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What is the nearest planet that would cause the same time dilation of that experienced in the film ‘Interstellar’?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 03:43 AM PDT

What's wrong with this argument against evolution?

Posted: 12 Sep 2018 04:17 PM PDT

From a young-earth creationist's blog:

The critical factor in evolutionary change is not actually time. Instead, it's population size and generational turnover. This is because the requirement is that substantial variability be provided (by population size) and many opportunities for selection to whittle down a generation and act on that variation. This is very important, because it means that what Darwinists claim we can't see, we actually can see. We can examine what occurs, given a certain amount of evolutionary resources. Malaria has existed on this planet for several millennia, and operates by invading hemoglobin, eating it from the inside out, and destroying it. Its structure is such that it can only survive in very warm climates, however.

Given the enormous population of malaria across the planet and the rapid generational turnover- each infected person has billions of malarial organisms that multiply exponentially- malaria has the same evolutionary resources that any mammalian lineage has had since its descent from sponges in the Precambrian. Think about that.

Malaria has never adapted to be able to live in a slightly cooler climate. Never.

This is what is supposed to have created the human brain?

I suspect there are some fallacies here, or misconceptions about evolution. How would you respond to this person?

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How do thermophiles survive temperatures that would quickly cook animal tissue?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 03:29 AM PDT

What makes currencies strong and what impact does it have?

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 03:21 AM PDT

As the title says what are the factors that makes a currency strong or weak and how does this impact the population in that country?

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