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| Do mosquitos hide in predictable locations? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:18 PM PDT I've noticed that if there's a mosquito in the room, and I swat at it but fail to kill it, it usually seems to disappear for about 30 minutes before it tries to come after me again. I'm curious how programmed or predictable mosquito behaviors are. For example, does it actually have a behavior like "if swatted at, lay low for 30 minutes before trying again?" Or am I just imagining the correlation? Second, if they do have a "hide" behavior, do they choose predictable locations? Do they prefer corners of the room? Areas with less light (do they even use light in making their decisions)? Do they go low to the ground? High on the ceiling? Do they use air currents and calmness to choose a spot? It seems like I usually find mosquitos hiding out in a shadowy corner near the floor of the room, which is infuriating because if it would just hang out in the open against the white, well-lit wall, it would be a lot easier to hunt them down. This correlation could definitely just be my own confirmation bias at play, though, so I'm curious if much is known on this topic. EDIT: Thank you for the lovely replies so far! I just wanted to clarify that I'm not actually that interested in *where* mosquitos hide in a descriptive sense, I'm more interested in how and "why" they make their decisions... like which senses do they use most (vision, smell, touch), and do they actually have different phases like hunting vs. hiding, or are they just sort of always doing the same thing and flying around aimlessly until they detect prey, then go for an attack? [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 20 Aug 2020 01:29 AM PDT Imagine if someone everyone complied with an order to have no contact with anyone else for a month. How would diseases like the cold and the flu (and probably many others I'm not aware of) persist? [link] [comments]  |
| What is the slowest speed the human eye can observe to see its movement? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 05:50 PM PDT For example, a plant is always growing but in most cases we can't observe that growth with our eyes in real time. What is the speed of something before it is impossible for the human eye to recognise that it is moving? I have tried to search this up many times but it has never answered to my liking. Thanks. 🙂 [link] [comments]  |
| Does COVID-19 have long lasting effects even on people who show no symptoms? Posted: 20 Aug 2020 12:32 AM PDT Basically the question, I've been seeing a lot of concern about its long lasting effects on the lungs and was wondering if this was the case [link] [comments]  |
| How do earthquakes and volcanoes prove plate movements? Posted: 20 Aug 2020 02:26 AM PDT Hello, this is for my science trivia (an activity at school) and I'm finding it difficult to understand and find sources. I read that earthquake locations are not just random but I can't really connect how this is evidence to plate movements, though I do know that they move. A little help would be greatly appreciated :D thank you! [link] [comments]  |
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| For any set of points on a graph, is there a polynomial that passes through each point? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:08 AM PDT I was thinking about Brithey Spears rock solid hit "Hit Me Baby (One More Time)", and if it could be described with a mathematical polynomial. It is 210 seconds long. In 16-bit, 44,1KHz audio that means 9261000 points, one at each step of the x-axis, where y would be a vaule from -216 /2 to 216 /2. Is there hypothetically a polynomial that passes through each of these points? Can we estimate how many parameters it would have? [link] [comments]  |
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| Can someone explain the informational interpretation of quantum mechanics? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 07:11 PM PDT I was told today that the "informational interpretation" of quantum mechanics was gaining popularity among the competing foundational theories. Can someone please explain what distinguishes this from other traditional interpretations? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| What are different strains of covid that everyone is talking about? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 12:05 PM PDT I keep reading that some country has a more infectious strain or some country has a more deadly strain. What does that mean? [link] [comments]  |
| What level of damage would the 2020 QG asteroid have done if it made impact? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 09:17 AM PDT A 3-6 meter object traveling 44,400 kph took scientists by surprise - flying by earth only 2,950 km away. If it made impact, what size crater and level of destruction would have resulted from such an event? (US: 10-20 foot object traveling at 27,600 mph and missing earth by 1,830 miles.) [link] [comments]  |
| does more exposure to a virus like COVID make a person sicker? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 08:28 AM PDT I always used to think of a viral infection as all-or-none, like you catch it and get sick or you don't, and maybe the degree to which you get sick depends on individual factors like immunity or where the virus started or etc. But does it matter how much virus you were infected with to start? Like, if person A walks through 10 virus-laden sneeze clouds and inhales a few million virions, and person B has the bad luck to have a single virion land in a sweet spot in their nasal membrane, and if both people are infected from this, is person A probably going to get a lot sicker than person B? What I'm wondering, I guess, is whether viral load is infectious? I figure the answer is yes (I want to know if it's no, though). If so, following from that, does that mean that person A will be spreading a lot more virus (sneezing clouds that contain more virions)? If that's a yes, does that mean you can have different intensities of viral infection spreading in a population? Like, you can have chains of low-level infections or of high-level infections? Sorry if this is a common question, I tried to find it but could not find anything exactly to the point I'm looking for. thanks, [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2020 08:12 AM PDT The news article: https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-outbreak-seattle-fishing-boat-insight-immunity Relevant pieces:
So, what happened? What caused the covid outbreak on the Seattle fishing board if none of the fishermen were positive before the departure? [link] [comments]  |
| Can T-cells with previous SARS exposure beat Covid-19 without producing antibodies? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 08:57 AM PDT Does everyone produce antibodies that is exposed to the virus and recover? I've read that some people were exposed to the virus and tested negative for antibodies. Were the T-cells enough to beat the virus without producing antibodies? [link] [comments]  |
| mRNA vaccine infinite translation? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 07:45 AM PDT Does the foreign mRNA introduced by mRNA vaccines, such as moderna's experimental COVID vaccine, remain in human cells to be translated by the ribosomes forever? Would the body ever stop producing the spike proteins? [link] [comments]  |
| Why/how does Benfords law work? Posted: 19 Aug 2020 06:41 AM PDT Why is it that within almost any data set you can find this law at play? Is there an intuitive explanation as to why this happens? [link] [comments]  |
| Why does the water become white whenever a ship passes by? Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:13 PM PDT |
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