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If your car is on a steep hill or towing something heavy and you push on the gas pedal but the car doesn't move, where is the energy going?

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If I try to push something, but it doesn't move, where does the energy go?

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So uhh a cool thing about the internet on earth is that your ping isn't (unless there's weird server problems) longer than a second. If we colonize other planets and solar systems, it'd be quite a noticable delay. Is there any theoretical way to solve this?

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If you got a speaker to vibrate at 540 THz, would green light come out of it instead of sound?

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How can my cpu compute 100 GFLOPS when it's frequency is only 3.5ghz?

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Wouldnt lower speed internet cost ISPs MORE than higher speeds?

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What is a computer actually doing when reading from the hard drive?

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Having an argument with another redditor about if being in a centrifuge would apply forward or backward acceleration to your body. Which one of us is right?

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If Earth were in a globular cluster, would the light from all the stars at night illuminate the earth to say the level that moonlight does?

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Why do we have bladders?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
If your car is on a steep hill or towing something heavy and you push on the gas pedal but the car doesn't move, where is the energy going?	10
If I try to push something, but it doesn't move, where does the energy go?	6
So uhh a cool thing about the internet on earth is that your ping isn't (unless there's weird server problems) longer than a second. If we colonize other planets and solar systems, it'd be quite a noticable delay. Is there any theoretical way to solve this?	6
If you got a speaker to vibrate at 540 THz, would green light come out of it instead of sound?	2
How can my cpu compute 100 GFLOPS when it's frequency is only 3.5ghz?	2
Wouldnt lower speed internet cost ISPs MORE than higher speeds?	1
What is a computer actually doing when reading from the hard drive?	1
Having an argument with another redditor about if being in a centrifuge would apply forward or backward acceleration to your body. Which one of us is right?	1
If Earth were in a globular cluster, would the light from all the stars at night illuminate the earth to say the level that moonlight does?	1
Why do we have bladders?	1