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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Do bugs have muscles?

Do bugs have muscles?


Do bugs have muscles?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 08:17 AM PDT

Little tiny bugs must have muscles right? Like a spider? When they die their legs curl up. Is this the muscles tightening or something? They must have muscle tissue because how else would they move? Is there another way for an ant or spider to move their legs?

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Can shock waves from a major explosion exit the earth’s atmosphere? If so, what happens to them in vacuum?

Posted: 14 Oct 2018 01:25 AM PDT

Does this property hold for the Hamiltonian?

Posted: 14 Oct 2018 01:01 AM PDT

I know that for a system of n particles, we can express it in general coordinates, and this equation holds: d/dt(dL/(dq/dt)) = dL/dq, if q is a generalized coordinate and L is the Lagrangian. Does this hold also if we replace L with H, the Hamiltonian?

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Which animal can communicate over the greatest distance?

Posted: 14 Oct 2018 12:35 AM PDT

Sonic/electric/visual or any other possible mode of communication.

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So Earth has layers and layers of dirt and rock that we are able to check and see from different periods in the history of Earth. How? Like how does layers of Earth keep getting added, wouldn’t it stay the same? Clearly not but why not?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 08:00 AM PDT

How does Poincare Recurrence work if particles aren't random?

Posted: 14 Oct 2018 03:21 AM PDT

The idea of a Poincare Recurrence in the universe makes some sense, but to a Layman, it seems like it requires the particles (or whatever makes up the universe) to simply be randomly moving around. The universe doesn't seem to be particles randomly moving around, so it would seem like there would be certain potential arrangements of particles that it would just never reach or never reach more than once. Is Poincare Recurrence a matter of quantum mechanics or something different? Or is it perhaps not supposed to be applied that literally?

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Why is 8 a magic number for electrons in a valence shell? What’s so special about 8?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 03:01 PM PDT

Are there microorganisms that live in space?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 07:10 AM PDT

I was wondering if there has been any solid evidence that any form of microorganism has ever been found in space, or any small life form for that matter.

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What is the smallest black hole possible?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 07:48 AM PDT

How much mass would you have to magically pack into a sphere with diameter equal to the planck length, to make a black hole?

Assuming that a planck sphere(?) would be the smallest area possible

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Do we know if there were any mountains bigger than Mt Everest that have since eroded?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:59 AM PDT

What do bees do when it's stormy?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 04:37 AM PDT

Like do they just not eat/hunt for the day? Or do they spend the night somewhere other than their nest? If they get blown away from their nest, how far can they get until the can't find it again?

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Are the muscles on animals like gorillas biologically similar to the muscle on people? ie would 100kg or gorilla muscle be more or less powerful than 100kg of human muscle?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 02:46 AM PDT

Why is it way more common for men to go bald compared to women?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:49 AM PDT

Does reducing a fever with medicine slow how long it takes to get better?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:02 AM PDT

This thought occurred to me as i'm sitting here miserable with a cold. If a fever is one of our bodies methods to help get rid of illness does suppressing that slow how quickly our body is able to deal with that sickness?

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Earth is made up of tectonic plates, will the number of these plates ever change over time?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 06:40 AM PDT

Earth conists of a number of tectonic plates that, as far as I know, seem rather stable. However, will some plates subdivide into new plates over time? Will current plates combine into larger "superplates"? Or is Earth just not geologically active enough for the tectonic plates of Earth to change?

On a slightly related question, the tectonic plates present on Earth seem to be identical to the ones of Pangea, so is it possible that the number of tectonic plates has been stable for quite some time?

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Why do annual colds affect people so differently? (Ex. She gets stuffy head, chills, and runny nose while I get sore throat and a bad cough)

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 03:08 AM PDT

Does climate change have any effect on geologic processes like volcanism and earthquakes?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:26 AM PDT

I'd assume not, but lately I've seen more and more people adding earthquakes and volcanoes to the increasing number of natural disasters caused by climate change.

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In a museum I saw a display about a 8.5 earthquake in Crete on 21 July A.D. 365 - how did geologists find out about the magnitude?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 10:50 AM PDT

Certainly not by counting the numbers of broken amphores, right?

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Why is it that on TV and in cameras the night vision goggles or night vision mode always makes things appear tinted green?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 09:08 AM PDT

Not super complex like other posts I have seen on here but I'm just curious.

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Saturday, October 13, 2018

How does stickyness work?

How does stickyness work?


How does stickyness work?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 03:42 PM PDT

What is the smallest yield possible of a nuke?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 01:13 PM PDT

What if all the planets in our solar system, except for Earth, vanished? Would Earth get closer to the sun or further away?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 03:01 PM PDT

How useful is the mean deviation? Is its disuse more a result of historical accident or mathematical necessity?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 02:50 AM PDT

So the standard deviation (and variance, as a package deal) is the go-to measure of spread in statistics, but there's also the mean deviation - the mean absolute distance from the mean, i.e. sum(abs(x-xbar))/n.

I've read somewhere that there was disagreement in statistics early on over which was the most useful of the two measures. That the standard deviation won out is obvious, but I'd like to know if things could've been different. Is it possible to express, for example, the formula for normal density distribution in terms of the mean deviation? Is it possible (whether or not it's practical) to reconstruct the linear model, or something like it, using mean deviation? What about something akin to Anova?

I'm interested partly because I find mean deviation much more intuitive than standard deviation, and I'd like to know how angry I should be over how the history of statistics turned out.

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Are there any chemicals so deadly a mere drop on skin could kill?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 07:46 AM PDT

My grandpa (a known story stretcher) told me he used to haul tankers full of this chemical. It was supposed to absorb really fast and that it was so deadly a drop on your skin would kill you in a minute or two. It was used in the production of tires. He said it was phenol but phenol doesn't match up with his description. He's told me this story since I was a kid but now at 23 I'm curious as to if there are any chemicals that deadly and what they would possibly be used for.

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Are freckles patterned into your DNA, or if you "replaced" your skin, would freckles appear in a new pattern?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 03:05 PM PDT

As a filthy ginger who is covered in freckles (well, arms and shoulders, anyways), it's something I've always kind of wondered but always seemed too dumb to ask.

If for some reason, you had a patch of skin that was removed and healed naturally, would your freckles appear in the same spots as before? Or would they appear in a new pattern?

I'll suppose I'll take this a step further and ask, is there any legitimate way we might be able to remove freckles? Or at least the appearance of them?

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Why do neutron stars have magnetic fields?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 08:11 AM PDT

Wouldn't they be neutral and not have any charge/magnetic field?

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When building roads through deserts with changing sand dunes, how does the foundation differ from "ordinary" roads?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 03:20 PM PDT

I saw this picture on r/natureisfuckinglit and I'm curious how engineers deal with this kind of environment. https://i.redd.it/wmtgej1zqrr11.jpg

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Why does hot water sound different when it's poured?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 07:58 PM PDT

Can an electron in an atom be exchanged with another lepton? And how does the radius of the atom change afterwards?

Posted: 13 Oct 2018 03:59 AM PDT

What causes someone to be an asymptomatic carrier instead of experiencing diseases full-on?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 07:40 PM PDT

Is it a strong immune system? A genetic or physiological component? Or just plain luck?

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Is there a moon in our solar system that is always visible from some point on its planet?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 04:20 PM PDT

Assuming clear skies on the planet.

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Do hurricanes making landfall bring sea water in as rain? How does this affect soil, crops, infrastructure etc compared to normal rain?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 08:05 AM PDT

Is a virus alive or something that is not alive? What is in a flu shot?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 11:42 AM PDT

Years ago in school, my science class book stated that viruses were smaller than bacteria and not alive. If I remember correctly that is. If it is not alive how do you kill a virus?

I am told that a flu shot is a dead virus given to your body. Is it dead or just a small portion of the virus?

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Why is there a Monoclinic C lattice but no monocline A lattice?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 08:39 PM PDT

Is it just because of naming convention that we prefer to use C over A (and also B)?

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Is there an upper limit on how massive a rocky astronomical body can be without being spherical?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 04:32 PM PDT

How do horses and other animals see directly in front of them when their eyes are on the side of their head?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 12:23 PM PDT

As the title suggests how do animals with eyes on the side of their head see whats directly in front of them

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Can you graphically display sound fields?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 06:13 PM PDT

Can you convert sound waves into graphic representations based on strength and location?

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Why are the pixels on our screens squares?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 12:03 PM PDT

Why not triangles or hexagons?

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Why is the moon moving away from earth?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 11:52 AM PDT

I understand that moon creating tides on earth is losing its energy and that should slow down the moon orbiting around earth. But shouldn't that result in the moon dropping to a lower orbit as the gravitational force between earth and moon can pool them towards each other easier with the moon slowing down?

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Oil based product that the sulfur has precipitated. What does this mean and why did a normally Viscous liquid turn semi solid?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 05:06 PM PDT

Why not point the most powerful telescope at the moon and look at Armstrong's footprints?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 08:50 AM PDT

Edit: not related to any conspiracy. Just wondering.

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Friday, October 12, 2018

I’ve been perusing Wikipedia pages on hurricanes after Michael and have found detailed accounts of hurricane development for storms back in the late 1800s. How were these accounts recorded and/or constructed?

I’ve been perusing Wikipedia pages on hurricanes after Michael and have found detailed accounts of hurricane development for storms back in the late 1800s. How were these accounts recorded and/or constructed?


I’ve been perusing Wikipedia pages on hurricanes after Michael and have found detailed accounts of hurricane development for storms back in the late 1800s. How were these accounts recorded and/or constructed?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:55 PM PDT

Carbon dioxide poisoning through plants?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 03:54 AM PDT

Someone told me today that it is not safe to sleep in a room that has plants in it because they produce carbon dioxide at night. Is it possible to suffer long-term damages from this?

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How does a zip file work?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:14 PM PDT

Like, how can there be a lot of data and then compressed and THEN decompressed again on another computer?

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Do cuttlefish exhibit social traits which results in them acquiring colours/shapes unique to their local population, like a dialect?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 03:00 PM PDT

What is the "resolution" of our hearing?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:01 PM PDT

Hello! I was thinking that if there is some background noise at some X dB, then what would the sound level have to be in order for a sound to be just barely audible? Also, does this limit depend on the frequency of the sound, and if so, in what way?

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Potiental Energy in Gases? Chem/Phys

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 05:53 AM PDT

As seperation between particles increases, potiental energy increases-this doesnt make sense to me-how is a gas all kinetic energy then?

From what I understand-as material is heated up, particles move further-increasing the total potential energy b/c intermolecular bonds are broken

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Which part of the hurricane has the highest wind speed, is it closer to the eye? Or more towards the edge of the hurricane.

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 09:12 PM PDT

What leads to the figure of trillions of elementary particles that pass through us every second?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 01:16 PM PDT

One square centimeter of mass observed on Earth is ghosted by 64 billion neutrinos a second. How do we conclude from a neutrino detector that observes about 30 neutrinos a day, figure to trillions that pass through us every second?

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Did the proto versions of octopus and bird beaks look similar, or did they come from different looking structures that just happened to converge into a similar looking one?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:04 PM PDT

Is this example of convergent evolution a result of different structures becoming similar? Did the proto bird and the proto octopus have completely different ways of eating than they do now?

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If light has no mass how is it affected by gravity?

Posted: 12 Oct 2018 01:57 AM PDT

For example how can light not escape a black hole even though it has no mass

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Even with all the technology we have today and all the current discoveries we make about climate change, what makes telling the weather accurately such a hard feat to accomplish?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:04 PM PDT

Do elementary particles have an event horizon?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 03:36 PM PDT

Elementary particles are defined as infinitely small points in quantum field theory. If particles are infinitely small, and those particles have mass, like an up quark for instance, then why don't they collapse into black holes? All of their mass lies within their schwarzschild radius. Is it because the up quark's electric charge spreads the energy of the particle over a larger amount of space, thusly making some of the particles mass lie outside the schwarzschild radius? If that is why then why do particles without charge not have event horizons?

I'm not really sure if the possible solutions/problems made any sense, but weather or not particles have event horizons interests me and I would appreciate it if someone could direct me to somewhere that could explain it, thanks.

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Why does it take energy to hold you arm up for extended periods of time, but a rigid object can stay standing with no energy input?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:18 PM PDT

What keeps your pants up?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:29 PM PDT

I'm interested in the math that's involved. My limited background in physics and engineering isn't enough for me to understand how. A free body diagram of the problem with my knowledge doesn't add up. What exactly is the physics involved?

Assuming no belt involved.

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Why does our oxygen level control the colour of our atmosphere?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:22 PM PDT

Our oxygen level is at 210,000ppm. This makes our atmosphere blue. If we had less oxygen, our atmosphere would be red. If we had more oxygen , our atmosphere would be yellow.

Why?

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How do scientist take pictures and videos of incredibly microscopic things?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:10 PM PDT

I was going through the Nikon Small World competition and was baffled by how scientist were able to produce their videos. Thing first place video was of a zebrafish embryo growing its elaborate sensory nervous system

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Do we know what criteria ants look for when creating a new hive? What determines hill size and shape?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:43 AM PDT

Also, how many hills does one hive normally have? Does destroying one have any long term effects?

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Why are thermoplastic polymers more easily recycled than thermosetting polymers?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:11 PM PDT

I've read that thermoplastics can be recycled but their properties degrade in the process (why?)

Thermosettings are hard to recycle but I don't get exactly why?

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How can lightning strike the same spot in the same shape multiple times?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:06 PM PDT

Just from observing it seems to me like lightning strikes are chaotic and random (in shape and size) and it bewilders me that lightning can form the exact same shape more than once. I guess what I'm trying to ask is what are the environmental factors that determine the size and shape of a lightning strike and how can it possibly be duplicated?example video (13 seconds in)

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What is the environmental impact of data storage?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:33 AM PDT

With so many people taking many, many awful photographs in an attempt to get that perfect Instagram shot (among many other banal reasons for taking ao many photos)… is there any environmental impact from the huge amount of data that humans upload to servers every single day?

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If you make a nuclear weapon with a small blast wave would it still produce a mushroom cloud ?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:33 AM PDT

How is energy conserved in wave interference?

Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:28 PM PDT

Whilst reading a pop science book on physics and metal, I got to wondering where does the energy go in destructive interference. It had a bit on this in the appendix, which mentioned:

A) you have to consider the energy globally for energy conservation to apply. Fair enough i understand this

But that doesn't explain what if the sources are as close as possible to one another.

B) The oscillators will be coupled in such a way as to require more/less energy.

The book referencing a 2014 paper on it, and says to quote:

The resolution lies in realising what happens when 2 sources get so close together than their separation is lower than the wavelength of the wave... what happens under those is that the two sources are coupled together- one affects the other...

But then consider this:

EDIT: The lasers are just a placeholder here for an ideal wave restricted to a line. I am aware real lasers aren't like this.

We set up 2 identical lasers, their beams have a power 'E', very far away from one another. And these have been placed in such a way as to be aligned and all that jazz so that the light they emit is aimed at the other perfectly (so that their beams will interfere).

Now we get the lasers to fire simultaneously. The laser beams go forth and at the midpoint they meet. They interfere, so the wave has power of 4E (as power is proportional to the square of amplitude, which just adds linearly no?). But because the source of the laser beam is so far away, they are not yet causally connected. So how can they couple to explain the extra energy from 2 laser beams, if there is no non FTL way for the lasers source to communicate that they are on even?

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