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Why does the Covid Nasal Test have to be so invasive? How is it necessary to dig that deep?

Why does the Covid Nasal Test have to be so invasive? How is it necessary to dig that deep?


Why does the Covid Nasal Test have to be so invasive? How is it necessary to dig that deep?

Posted: 29 Aug 2020 12:17 AM PDT

Ouch! Why?! I don't get it, if the germs are in the air, living on objects for days, just everywhere and insanely contagious why dig so deep to test us? If I was infected and picked my nose and wiped it on you, wouldn't you be pretty certain to contract it? Wouldnt the boogers in the front of my nose have covid bacteria too? So why torture us and make this whole experience that much worse???

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Why aren't tape worms digested if they live in the digestive track?

Posted: 28 Aug 2020 04:54 PM PDT

Meant to say tract instead of track as has been noted in the comments

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Why do Pangea breakup animations/images show the Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan peninsula and Florida peninsula? Didn't they form due to the astroid 66 million years ago?

Posted: 29 Aug 2020 07:02 AM PDT

Maybe I just haven't found an accurate animation or image, but all the ones I have seen already have the beginnings of the Gulf of Mexico shortly after Pangea started breaking up which was about 200 million years ago.

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How do the temperature receptors in our skin work?

Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:18 PM PDT

How do robins find the worms?

Posted: 28 Aug 2020 11:57 AM PDT

My yard frequently has robins hunting in it, and they always have the same basic method.

They scurry around, then stop for a while, looking at the ground occasionally tilting their head from side to side.

Then they either scurry to a new place, or rapidly pounce and pull a worm out of the ground.

How do they do it? Sight? Sound? Some sort of arcane worm summoning ritual to bring Shai-hulud to the surface?

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Is the research going into a vaccine against Covid19 likely to help us against other diseases?

Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:36 AM PDT

I've read that there is being developed vaccines against Covid19 using technology which is new for vaccine used in humans, and that made me wonder if all the research going into finding a vaccine against Covid19 is likely going to lead to significant improvements in the search for vaccines for other diseases - or if two diseases have to be extremely similar for that to be possible, so the influence of the Covid19 vaccine on other vaccine research will be negligible.

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Can natural elements be created the same way that man-made element are?

Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:43 PM PDT

Its my understanding that man-made elements (such as Californium and Einsteinium) are created using a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, or the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Can naturally occurring elements also be created in the same way? For example, iron or gold?

I've heard that all the natural elements beyond lithium were all created in supernovas and such. But could they also be created in a particle accelerator, for example?

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Is there a hard limit to Radio Carbon dating/Carbon dating? How old dose an object need to be, to where you say "it's X old or more?

Posted: 28 Aug 2020 01:21 PM PDT

What causes diurnal temperature variation on the south pole during its polar winter?

Posted: 28 Aug 2020 10:10 AM PDT

I see that there is a 8C (15F) temperature difference between the daily highs and lows on the south pole during the winter months. Considering that the sun would be far below the horizon, what causes this?

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Why did they have to put the Large Hadron Collider right next to Geneva?

Posted: 28 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT

Bad things aren't supposed to happen, but we have been wrong before! Why take the risk? What if something does go wrong, why risk the lives of civilians rather than doing it under some mountain?

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How do scientists determine whether an animal is a different species or just a different individual in the same species?

Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:54 PM PDT

Apologies for the possibly confusing title. I'm wondering how many differences do there have to be for two animals to be considered a separate species?

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Can fish of different species school/shoal together?

Posted: 27 Aug 2020 10:00 PM PDT

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