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Monday, January 6, 2020

Can we ever know the exact area of a circle if the decimal part of pi is infinite?

Can we ever know the exact area of a circle if the decimal part of pi is infinite?


Can we ever know the exact area of a circle if the decimal part of pi is infinite?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 05:45 PM PST

Are pigeons considered isolated in their respective cities?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 01:39 PM PST

Or do populations fly between different cities and breed with each other?

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When people lose an arm or leg, how do their veins and arteries re-route their blood?

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 05:00 AM PST

I am a kid from Sri Lanka, and I want to know. I want to follow up from this question here:

"https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ekpn5q/eli5_when_people_lose_an_arm_or_leg_how_do_their/"

If someone loses an arm, even if the wound heals over, it seems like there would be a problem with their blood suddenly having no route to or from their heart.

Do doctors have to create a temporary channel for the blood to flow? People lost limbs before modern medicine, so I assume the body has a way to deal with it on it's own.

[MY QUESTION]

It sounds like you might use cauterization or some other such procedure. (I just learned what cauterization is. Thank you. Now, I need to remember how to spell it.)

it sounds like the arteries will just take the blood to the end of the artery. And the veins will take the blood back. So, where do the arteries meet the veins? Is there some particular set of points?

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Other than lightning strikes and lava, how do fires occur naturally?

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 03:08 AM PST

Why does oil shine in all rainbows colours when it is in contact with water like rain?

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 05:50 AM PST

I have seen it plenty of times when I have filled my car with gas.

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Why bones in X-ray images are white but not black?

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 04:00 AM PST

as a med student, i must be able to differentiate between Images that were taken by different imaging techniques. When X-ray imaging was first invented, the images of the bones were black and the background was white. why has this changed? Do they invert the color nowadays?

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Does the rate of gravity change from place to place? For example at higher altitudes does gravity get weaker?

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 05:09 AM PST

And if it does, does NASA use a localized rate of gravity for their equations, or is the difference so negligible that it doesn't matter?

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How long does it take for a magnetised solenoid core to return to residual magnetization?

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 04:36 AM PST

So I've been researching about magnetic hysteresis and I can't seem to find out how to calculate the time it takes for a magnetised material to return to residual magnetization when the magnetic field is removed.

Take a coil with an iron core for example. Is the magnetization of the core independent of time and only a function of the applied field? Is it even possible to remove the magnetic field in an instant, or does it cause voltage spikes?

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I know Blue Whales primary diet is krill because of their teeth, but if a larger fish ended up in their mouth would they be able to eat it?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 10:51 AM PST

Why is it that there are many small earthquakes in one area?

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 03:40 AM PST

Hey science reddit! Wanted to ask because here in Puerto Rico these past few days (maybe about a week or so?), a sudden increase in earthquakes have been happening to around the southwest portions of the island. There have been, according to the news, 732 earthquakes with about 14 of them being 3.5 or higher on the scale; this morning we had one of 5.8 magnitude. This is super rare here, so I was curious!

What causes that? What causes sudden spikes in earthquakes in a concentrade portion of an area? What causes there to be a ton of smaller magnitude ones and then one that's very intense?

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Alternative to electricity for power transfer (no wires)?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 10:36 PM PST

Is there anything that could potentially be an analog to electricity? Our whole society is built upon electricity but are there any other physical phenomena that could be used to readily transfer power? I understand this could be done with steam or air pressure as an alternative, but is there anything else?

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Why shouldn’t you take pills on an empty stomache?

Posted: 06 Jan 2020 05:46 AM PST

Growing up my parents always told me never to take pills on an empty stomache as it could damage your stomache. Is this actually true? And if so, what negative effects are there to taking pills on an empty stomache.

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How are we able to see the Milky Way from inside of it? (Middle school student here)

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 07:34 AM PST

Why high concentration of smoke makes sky red?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 05:28 AM PST

When the earth rotates, do the clouds move with it? Or do clouds only move based on something else?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 06:48 AM PST

Two containers containing different amounts of gasses are allowed to intermix. How quickly will they equalize?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 01:37 PM PST

Take, for example, a house with a CO2 concentration higher than that of Earth's atmosphere. I open a window and the two atmospheres start to mix. How can I figure out the rate of gas exchange? I'd imagine you'd have to know the area of the window and the ratio of pressures.

Bonus question: given the temperatures of the two atmospheres, how long will it take for the temperature to equalize?

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Can/do underground animals survive wildfires?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 01:13 AM PST

Sunday, January 5, 2020

What are the effects of the smoke generated by the fires in Australia?

What are the effects of the smoke generated by the fires in Australia?


What are the effects of the smoke generated by the fires in Australia?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 07:39 PM PST

I'd imagine there are many factors- CO2, PAH, soot and carbon, others?

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Does distributed generation (e.g. rooftop solar) on a power grid reduce transmission demand?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 08:22 AM PST

How do ants breathe?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 09:26 PM PST

A friend of mine randomly decided to tell me that ants don't and/or can't sleep but then said even more interestingly that they do not have lungs, so my question was, how do they breathe? She said though their movements but how does that work??

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If a radio antenna broadcasted a signal at a frequency of 430 Terahertz (a frequency of visible light) would you be able to see light emitting from the antenna itself?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 11:28 PM PST

Are all planet's cores made out of iron?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 08:04 AM PST

What makes a soap a "germicidal" soap?

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 01:09 AM PST

I mean, since all soaps are meant to rid surfaces of organic, non-polar molecules, shouldn't they work equally since all bacteria and viruses are made of organic, non-polar molecules?

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If you turn an electromagnet on, does the magnetic field get created instantly, or does it get created gradually?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 08:29 PM PST

Follow up question: if it gets created gradually, how fast is it?

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Why do some substances like soap foam while others do not? What exactly causes it to foam?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 07:59 AM PST

When we say a species is older than dinosaurs what do we mean by that?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 05:45 PM PST

I saw a post today about the lamprey fish, and how it's older than dinosaurs.

What does this mean, it's not that this species has remained genetically the same millions of years that one could reproduce with an individual from that long ago, surely it's evolved so much by now that it would be considered a different species even if it looks similar.

So really all species are older than dinosaurs as they all stem from before dinosaurs?

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If the solar sytem is revolving around the Milky way, is our galaxy revolving around something?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 04:24 PM PST

Can an asteroid (iron or rock) be so old it can't be dated with our current testing methods?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 05:28 PM PST

If an asteroid had been traveling across the Milkyway galaxy from when it first formed and passed through our solar system and we were able to get samples from it, is it possible that it can be so old we can not date it? Oumuamua comes to mind.

What would the oldest date we could determine with current testing methods?

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Why can feathers come in pretty much every color, but fur is always black, gray, white, brown, orange, or yellow?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 02:37 PM PST

Why are the centres of galaxys always so bright in pictures?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 10:19 PM PST

How do auto manufactures avoid RF interference with adaptive cruise control systems?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 06:02 AM PST

Do other radar systems interfere with each other in the allotted band? For example, could Tesla's adaptive cruise system interfere with another car that has a similar system in the same vicinity?

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Why do some people think cilantro tastes like soap?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 09:13 AM PST

According to articles I've found, up to 14% of the population is repulsed by cilantro, claiming it tastes like soap. This apparently has a genetic component, although the specific genes involved seem to be complicated.

My question is about how these genes affect taste receptors or the brain to make the subjective experience of tasting cilantro differ so much between two different groups.

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Do phonons have any meaningful or measurable interaction with photons?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 12:16 PM PST

How do high voltage power lines simultaneously have high voltage and low current?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 12:07 PM PST

It is pretty straight forward that decreasing the current flowing through a transmission line also decreases the loss of power from transmitting through that line due to:

P = I^2*R

P: Power Lost

I: Current

R: Resistance

Every source that I have found states that current is decreased in long distance power transmission by using increasing the voltage. Why doesn't this idea conflict with ohms law?

V = I*R

V: Voltage

If the voltage is increased shouldn't the current also increase, not decrease?

Thanks!

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Why is it that we salivate when thinking about or seeing food we like?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 04:03 PM PST

Without an alarm or other external source for waking us up, what prevents our brains from being asleep forever?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 09:21 PM PST

Do humans sneeze in their sleep? What state or consciousness is required for a sneeze to be triggered?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 02:22 AM PST

Why doesn't the bottom of the ocean freeze? No light reaches it so surely it would be below freezing, right?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 05:13 AM PST

When animals/insects are in their respective mating seasons and find a mate, do they always produce offspring?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 10:45 AM PST

Not like always... but is it more often than not or is it still a random process?

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Saturday, January 4, 2020

If skin from one area of the body is used to repair a wound elsewhere, what happens to the area where the skin was taken from?

If skin from one area of the body is used to repair a wound elsewhere, what happens to the area where the skin was taken from?


If skin from one area of the body is used to repair a wound elsewhere, what happens to the area where the skin was taken from?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:52 PM PST

Sorry for the confusing wording, but I was just reading about a man who had skin cancer removed from his back, and skin from his thigh was used to repair the area on his back. Which made me wonder, then what happens to his thigh? Doesn't that just leave a similar wound in a different place?

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What causes shockwaves to form on an airfoil when the airflow is supersonic? Why does this cause flow separation?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 11:10 PM PST

How does dehydration kill you?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 03:06 PM PST

Particularly dehydration from not drinking water. I'm not asking about hypovolemia due to hemorrhage, burns, diarrhoea, vomitting or other factors.

I'm aware that dehydration disrupts a plethora of biological processes which leads to a variety of things going wrong in our body. But there must be one (or perhaps a few?) factor(s) that eventually lead to death.
Is it the hypovolemic shock? Is it perhaps dyselectrolytemia?

I have a vague memory in my mind that it's because of hyponatremia, but that doesn't make much sense. We only lose sodium through our sweat and can replenish it from food, which means if we avoid an environment that causes us to sweat and eat enough, that'll prolongue our chances of surviving without watter. Sounds ridiculous.

Hypernatremia makes more sense. If we don't drink water, we lose water content while our sodium stays relatively the same (we lose some through sweat, but sweat is quite low in sodium and we would lose more water than sodium anyways). High blood sodium concentrations would obviously dehydrate our cells osmotically as well as disrupt CNS action potentials.

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What is the functional reason as to why some leaves are serrated or have different types of margins?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 04:24 AM PST

Is it possible for plants to survive in continuous light?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 06:14 PM PST

Or do they require a darkness period? If so what is the reason?

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Why are flu vaccines limited to only 3 or 4 strains? Why not compound them from year to year so young people are protected against previous strains?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:40 PM PST

Could enough of something with a low pH dissolve anything?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 08:48 PM PST

Is elastic collision only possible for perfectly rigid bodies?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 06:59 PM PST

My thinking was that during a typical collision between non-rigid objects that occupy some volume, the leading edges remain stuck together and in contact until the information that a collision has occured spreads to the entire object while it deforms and the object returns to its original shape after the information has traveled again from the opposite ends of each object to the colliding edges that the objects have finished exchanging momentum. During that entire timeframe, the objects are stuck together as the information travels and the objects deform.

With that in mind though, I was thinking that maybe the time where the objects are stuck together is avoided in perfectly rigid objects where the entire body instantly reacts to the collision, and thus it's an elastic collision.

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What happens when a Weak D blood transfusion recipient receives RH + blood?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 05:54 PM PST

Why do psychiatric medications take so long to become fully effective (six weeks), while many other medications work within minutes or hours?

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:21 PM PST

Can a planet have a core made of diamond?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 05:29 AM PST

I know that there can be a lot of pressure in the core of a planet, but can that pressure make a diamond? I think that if there was enough carbon in the core that it could compress to make a diamond, but would a planet like this (assuming it is rocky) be able to have life on it or be habitable?

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On the topic of vacuum cleaner's: How does hose diameter affect suction?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 08:54 AM PST

I'm perusing the selection of vacuum hoses and trying to find out the loss of suction that would occur in a 2-1/2" hose over a 1-1/4" hose. Both hoses for this example would be the same length, material, and be utilized with the same vacuum.

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As sea levels are rising, are we recalculating heights of mountains?

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:58 PM PST

Right now the change is not that big, but if a sea level rises, for example, 20 meters, are going to reduce the height of every mountain for 20 meters?

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What is the cause of « natural death »?

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:34 PM PST

Hello to you all! I have always been wondering what do people die of when they are dead of « natural causes »? For example when someone dies in his sleep. Is it that his brain just stops working? Does he have a heart failure? Maybe another organ? Does the brain « forgets » to do something vital? Or maybe your body is just too weak and you die of disease? Or is just a combination of different problems? I really don't know and I would love someone to enlighten me

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Do bugs and other animals with really short life spans evolve faster?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:07 AM PST