/u/Derpese_Simplex's posts
If you had 2 people, one on an infinitely large perfectly flat plane and one on a "flat" area of Earth like Kansas, how would the horizon and viewable distance be different if each rose 1000m in the air?
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[Medicine] If placebos need belief to "work," is there a reduction or nullification of effect if a patient actively disbelieves that a given established treatment or medication will work?
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[Medicine] Why are ventricles of the heart not smooth? What are the physiological benefits of having an irregular surface inside the heart?
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[Botany] I have noticed a wide variety of kinds and shapes of bark with some trees being smooth and others having irregular surfaces with deep grooves. Is there an evolutionary/biological benefit to bark shape?
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If a small object like a cat was floating in space and we gave it suddenly enough mass that it had the gravity of a very large black hole would its speed change relative to a second object outside of its gravity well?
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If you were to give a space ship enough thrust to continually accelerate at 1g would the crew feel a change in g force as the rate of acceleration declined as the ship got closer to the speed of light?
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[WP] Based on your life, you suddenly have all sensory information permanently removed. Your body and mind keeps all its current capacity but to you everything is blackness and silence.
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[WP] In 1913 the Czar of Russia got all countries in the world to agree to stop all military research. This leads to a stop to all war until 2030 when Luxembourg reveals its robotic army.
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