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Monday, November 19, 2018

How do obscure/rare sea creatures locate each other to breed?

How do obscure/rare sea creatures locate each other to breed?


How do obscure/rare sea creatures locate each other to breed?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 07:20 PM PST

does flying through clouds have any effect on the speed of an aircraft?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 07:52 PM PST

Title pretty much says it all.

Is there any effect on the speed of an aircraft? Clouds do have mass correct?

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What effect would anti- depressants have on someone who is not depressed?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 11:33 AM PST

What is the critical mass of gas required for it to stick together in deep space due to gravity and not disperse due to diffusion?

Posted: 19 Nov 2018 04:58 AM PST

I just found out that while mars has about 1/10th the mass of earth it has 38% of the gravity. This suggests a non-linear relationship between mass and gravity at the surface. What causes this effect? [Physics]

Posted: 19 Nov 2018 03:03 AM PST

Follow up question: Does this effect mean that the gravity on the surface of planets that are significantly larger than earth would be survivable for humans?

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Why is it when you "haaaa" hot air comes out but when you "huuuuu" cooler air comes out?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 08:52 PM PST

Does the air come out of different places in my body? If so where does the different air come from?

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What's the mechanism allowing our eyes to move in the same direction?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 11:54 AM PST

What happens to the vacuum energy next to mass agglomerations?

Posted: 19 Nov 2018 04:38 AM PST

  1. If gravity changes the space curvature, does that mean anything for the vacuum energy next to big masses like galaxies or black holes?
  2. Does space gets more "compressed" if it gets curved?

  3. Will the vacuum energy be higher per space-unit if space is "compressed" or doesn´t it change at all?

  4. How much vacuum energy is there? Wiki doesn´t know.

Thanks!

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Objects that reflect only non-visible wavelengths?

Posted: 19 Nov 2018 12:31 AM PST

I had a few questions pop into my head last night. Hypothetically let's say there is a material that only reflects wavelengths of non visible light, such as ultra violet or infra red, or maybe they only reflect radiation like microwaves or x-rays. What would those materials look like to the human eye? Would they be completely black if they only reflect non-visible light? Do any of those materials exist? Are there any practical purposes for those kinda of materials. The sooner I get an answer the sooner I can sleep easily.

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What makes Ciliac Disease so hard to cure?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 06:55 PM PST

I happen to have it, though I have done little research into it. I ask this for three reasons:

New daughter (biological), is this a genetic concern? (I was adopted, no genetic history)

Serving in the Army, sometimes tough cookies, literally. Will I become incapable of working at peak performance due to this?

What other factors does this put me or my lineage at risk for?

-Thankful Father and Soldier.

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Substrates Reactions Growth of Graphene?

Posted: 19 Nov 2018 12:53 AM PST

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what is the type of substrate used (elements it is made up of)? It appears to be a solid. What is the reaction of the layer of graphene particles on the copper surface that are from the reaction of the gases after it is broken down? Is there a reaction between the graphene particles and the substrate? If there is, what is the reaction that occurs? Does the layer of graphine react with a chemical which forms a graphene solid (the layer is solidified in the chemical).

If someone could please help, thank you.

Zackhie

This video shows the image (diagram) of the reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6oUgIvBR8E

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Is time exactly symmetrical? If we were to rewind it would it play back as the reverse of it playing forwards?

Posted: 19 Nov 2018 12:38 AM PST

Is this true always?

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Does the body burn more calories in hot or cold temperatures (at rest)?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 09:46 PM PST

How and why does lactose intolerance suddenly happen in adults?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 09:57 AM PST

How does blood "know" where to clot?

Posted: 19 Nov 2018 02:09 AM PST

Like, how does it "know" it needs to clot as soon as a wound is bleedind?

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Will Mount Everest always be the tallest mountain?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 01:42 PM PST

The sunset in Barrow, AK for the final time for 66 days, is there somewhere else in the world that the sun won’t go down for that long?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 08:53 PM PST

Pretty much the title. If the sun is setting in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) until January is there an opposite event happening elsewhere?

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What happens to electron orbitals in plasma?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 04:53 PM PST

My understanding of plasma is a gas that has free flowing/ non localized electrons. Does this mean that their are no orbitals for matter in this state or are only the valence electrons free flowing?

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Why is it that some metals or minerals are shaped like cubes or have relatively perfect edges?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 06:38 PM PST

Do large reptiles like gators have to “Roost” on their eggs the way birds do?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 03:06 PM PST

Does fog absorb or reflect light?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 08:58 PM PST

I've always wondered this. When there's snow on the ground, my small town is illuminated during a foggy night. Is the light from town being absorbed by the fog, making it seem brighter? Also relevant to driving at night; during intense fog I can't see lights that are a mile or more away. What is happening?

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How did allergies (specifically anaphylaxis) evolve in humans? I just don’t get how closing off the airway in response to a “pathogen” helps at all.

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 12:05 PM PST

What’s the current status of Zika? The news hasn’t been reporting it as threatening as it was before- is this because the news is bored of it and it is just as bad as it was a year or ya ago or is it actually subsiding? Do we have a vaccine available?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 08:39 PM PST

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Is a cure for tinnitus actively being worked on by anyone? And if so, what progress has been made?

Is a cure for tinnitus actively being worked on by anyone? And if so, what progress has been made?


Is a cure for tinnitus actively being worked on by anyone? And if so, what progress has been made?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 01:43 AM PST

What state of matter would something like peanut butter or thick syrup be?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 05:07 PM PST

Is it theoretically possible to change electromagnetic waves? Ex: Manipulating radio waves into x-ray, or visible light into microwaves, etc.

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 01:48 PM PST

edit A few things to look up. Thank you for the in depth responses.

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Radiation from Nuclear Bombs?

Posted: 18 Nov 2018 01:29 AM PST

With FO76 just being launched I've seen some talk about people that would not be able to survive due to radiation poisoning, when they would have to leave the vault after 25 years.

How long after a Nuclear detonation would you have to hide in a vault before you could go out and live a relatively long life? And how big a difference would there be between Little Boy and Tsar Bomba if detonate at the same height?

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What's the advantage for a telescope with a smaller number of bigger mirrors vs. a larger number of smaller ones?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 01:55 PM PST

The Giant Magellan Telescope will have 7 mirror segments, each 8.4 meters across.

The Extremely Large Telescope will have 798 mirror segments, each 1.4 meters across, (plus a bunch of large auxilliary mirrors)

What advantage will the GMT's mirrors have over the ELT's due to their massive size?

What advantage will the ELT have compared to the GMT due to it's massive number of mirrors?

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When sending a probe to the sun, does the suns gravity assist in how fast the probe arrives?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 06:18 PM PST

How does a body detect that an organ is not its own?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 03:04 PM PST

Not sure about grammar, English isn't my 1st language

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Do submarines generate underwater wakes, similar to that of boats & ships?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 06:03 PM PST

Can you have too little epinephrine?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 12:26 PM PST

Most of my research I did focuses on too much epinephrine. What happens if you don't have enough?

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What happens to the wavefunction if we know that a particle must be at a specific point in space?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 06:10 PM PST

I'm just thinking that inside a black hole, for example, where degeneracy pressure breaks down and all matter is compressed down to a single point in space, what would the wavefunction look like? I understand that the act of observation collapses the wavefunction under normal circumstances and forces the particle to assume a position in space, but for a black hole, we know that the particle must be at that single point in space.

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Can trees repair themselves/their branches?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 02:23 PM PST

How does a GPS receive and transmit signals?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 02:00 PM PST

What is the science behind crucibles and foundry rocks? How are they able to withstand much higher temperatures than most common metals and lava rocks can without breaking(mostly)? How did ancient people make theirs? How do they retain so much heat?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 04:31 PM PST

I've seen YouTubers melt pretty much everything but steel in their backyards and I'm just wondering how the crucible survives all the punishment. I also saw a video of a man picking up a space age material with his bare hands after pulling it out of the forge at >2000°f. I'm sure that's a totally separate science, but I'm just curious how these materials can withstand so much heat. I suppose the better question would be, what causes certain materials to handle more heat than others? Is there a specific trait metals, rocks, and dirt can have that makes them more resistant to higher temperatures?

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Does rain help conduct lightening?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 04:24 PM PST

Why prescribe different antibiotics for different illnesses?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:51 AM PST

Hello - hope this hasnt been asked before, I did a cursory search and couldn't find it.

But why are different antibiotics prescribed for different illnesses? Example: I typically get prescribed amoxicillin for an ear infection or strep, but just got metronidazole for BV. Are they metabolized differently? Do different meds work better on specific body parts? It seems like an antibiotic would just be an antibiotic, and would work the same throughout the body.

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What shape is the maxwell boltzmann (energy) distribution?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 07:32 PM PST

I'm trying to generate a graph for the maxwell boltzmann (energy) distribution that ACTUALLY has numbers on the x-axis for once - no internet resources show this.

I initially went to the wiki page to find a formula for the distribution and found this - labelled as equation (9), which gives a familiar bell-ish curve to the distribution. It looks kinda like a surge function or a chi squared distribution with this formula. This is also the shape you see in most chemistry text books when they use it to discuss reaction rates and such.

HOWEVER when I try and couple this with my other knowledge of how this distribution works - ie. that the proportion of particles (area under the curve) with energy greater than E should be exp(-E/kT) it simply doesn't check out. A distribution with that property has to cross y = 1 at the x axis, not begin at the origin like all the texts show. Looking further I found this hyperphysics page, and again we see a distribution that's clearly just an exponential decay - no bump in the middle, No beginning at the origin.

This is maddening, because the exp(-E/kT) relation crops up in reaction rates (solving the rate constant using the Arrhenius equation), yet does not check out with any of the graphics of the distribution itself at all.

WHAT is going on here?!? and how could I ever plot a graph of this distribution with numbers on the x-axis like I want? Any clarification would be GREATLY appreciated here.

note: looking to plot (kinetic) energy, not velocity. The reason for this is because in chemistry (where I want to use this), texts use this distribution to contrast with the idea of activation energy. It's easier to compare energy to energy than to switch between energy and velocity in a student's head.

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How does early scientists detect or even theorise the existence of quarks?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 05:59 AM PST

What prompted them to crack open an atom which itself is already a hard thing to observe, and determine whether if there is anything smaller than the subatomic particles?

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Why does soap bond to fats instead of bonding to itself? in a practical sense for doing the dishes, why aren't soaps too busy bonding to remove fat chains?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:15 AM PST

context: I've taken biochemistry at uni. but we didn't cover fats, soaps much at all. Basically if it wasn't a 2-4 atom reaction between Bromine, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulfur, it just wasn't discussed.

And if it was more than a couple of atoms reaction we entered the realm of medicine studies, where we skipped the chemistry of it for a big picture chart where Pyruvate wasn't seen as a sum of its atomic parts, but rather a distinct unit called pyruvate (to give an example).

So yeah. That's the context of why i'm wondering some middle-chemistry between individual atomic reactions and their macromolecule interactions. Namely, Why do Soaps not just bond to eachother in solution, and then when fats are added, they just ignore the fat?

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What is thermal recoil force and how does it work (reference NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11)?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 03:40 PM PST

Saturday, November 17, 2018

How do scientist decide on how to create flu vaccine for each year?

How do scientist decide on how to create flu vaccine for each year?


How do scientist decide on how to create flu vaccine for each year?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:03 AM PST

Is it actually possible to create artificial gravity in a spacecraft through a spinning fuselage?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 04:29 PM PST

Why do we almost never hear the term "global warming" anymore, which seems to be replaced with "climate change"?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 04:32 PM PST

Are these terms interchangeable or did we just focus on something else more important?

Edit: I think this explains it https://open.spotify.com/track/3lAXp2NLVGbZiSVByQDoyP?si=OXZL7qJOSPKG49xdRGxDsw

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Do shorter people have faster reaction speed and reflexes?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 06:10 AM PST

Are there any acids that are solids?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 02:54 AM PST

I'm not asking about freezing acids either. Are there solid objects that can be classified as acids, even corrosive to other materials? I always assumed all acids have to be liquid chemicals. Or maybe I'm phrasing the question wrong...

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Music: Why can certain sounds influence our emotion to be anywhere from elated to depresssed? How does music (possibly) enhance intelligence and health? ... How come sound waves are so powerful?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 04:02 PM PST

How come certain sounds make us feel a certain way (i.e. what makes sad music sad)?

How does music give us a high, which is (at least I've heard) comparable to that of cocaine's?

I'm addicted to music and it's effect on my emotions. I would love to know more about it. Thank you to anyone who replies

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Can lenses have two focal points?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 08:28 PM PST

Can there be a lens that can focus light from two distances simultaneously? (Specifically excluding stuff like bifocal glasses which have separate "zones" of focus)

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What is currently humanity's best theory on what exactly The Great Attractor is?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 02:34 PM PST

Is the Darvaza gas crater (The Door to Hell) causing any major effects on the planet? Its been burning since 1971 and I never until recently even knew it existed. A natural gas field collapsed into an underground cavern located in Derweze, Turkmenistan.

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 05:29 AM PST

Geologists set it on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas, and it is thought to have been burning continuously since 1971. The diameter of the crater is 69 metres (226 ft), and its depth is 30 metres (98 ft).

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Does the Mars Rover 'hunker down', turn off instruments, or otherwise prepare if storms are coming?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 08:16 AM PST

What kind of events/circumstances would it take to cause a world-wide winter/another Ice Age?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 04:34 PM PST

I am aware of nuclear winter and gamma ray bursts possibly causing it, but is there other non-nuclear/non-radioactive ways that another Ice Age-like event could occur?

Edit: I'm asking because I'm writing a novel centered around Earth turning into a frozen wasteland.

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If 1 eV equals roughly 12000 K, why are there semiconductors with a band-gap of, say, 2 eV that can achieve conductivity through thermal excitation?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 05:04 AM PST

There is a relationship between eV and Kelvin that is obtained by combining the Boltzmann constant and the elementary charge, from which the relationship 1 eV = roughly 12000 K arises. I read somewhere that this relationship is obtained in the context of assuming that the electron's velocity distribution in a plasma is a temperature distribution. But this should apply to everyday situations, right? Like for example in justifying why Cooper pairs are unable to form at room temperature (because the bond energy is like 0.001 eV, which by the relationship above is about 11.6 K). But if a semiconductor has a bandgap of 2 eV, by the same relationship, you should expect that you need to heat it to like 24000 K in order for it to promote electrons to the conduction band. This is obviously not the case.

What am I missing here?

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What happens after I drink a glass of water?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 01:23 PM PST

How long does the water stay in my stomach?

How does it get to the rest of my body, and how long does it take?

Where does it the water go and what is it used for?

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Why was the Voyager record gold plated vs. using a harder metal?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 01:32 PM PST

Liquor is often used in movies and tv to clean wounds. Is this actually beneficial? Does it need to be a certain proof or abv? Can it be any liquor because it never appears to be gin or tequila but rather vodka or whiskey.

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 03:04 PM PST

Why do some smells stick to clothing (or textiles) for longer than others?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 04:25 PM PST

An example I thought of was Curry lingering on and embedding itself into my clothes, whereas something like the smell of bread from a bakery won't be as potent. Is it to do with the smell particles themselves or our predisposition as humas to notice some smells morr than others (e.g. repulsive smells like garbage).

Apologies for the flair, I am unsure!

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How does it take for platelets to clot a cut?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 10:09 PM PST

Saw a documentary years ago that said it takes up to 90 seconds for platelets to clot a small cut, but I can't seem to fine any evidence of it.

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How did we know how dinosaurs sound like?

Posted: 17 Nov 2018 01:55 AM PST

So how do our bodies actually process sunlight into vitimin D?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 03:07 PM PST

Like, photons are waves. How does that energy become usable to us? Denaturing materials already present that turn into vitimin D? Or is it simpler?

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How do oceans interact with Tectonic plates and fault zones?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 02:22 PM PST

I recently read a news article that mentioned that ocean water gets sucked into the Mantle. I'm curious about how this happens and how water cycles works with relation to it's interaction with the Crust.

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What is impedance ?

Posted: 16 Nov 2018 09:38 AM PST

The concept of impedance is kind of blurry for me. Can you give examples to make me understand both acoustic and electric impedance ?

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