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Are Tardigrades susceptible to viral and/or bacterial infection? Can they get ‘sick’?

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With the amount of smoke generated by the massive wildfires in the western United States, would this help slow global temperature increase by effects similar to Nuclear Winter?

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Reverse Rainbow? Today I saw a double rainbow, and the rightmost one was in reverse color order. It was my understanding that the light from all rainbows refracts in the same manner? In other double rainbows I have seen, they were both in 'usual' order.

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How could I️ turn myself into a fossil?

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I recently received a "pneumonia" shot from my doctor. Would this protect me from any pneumonia potentially caused by SARS-CoV-2/2019-nCoV? If not, why not? What does the "pneumonia" shot protect against? Is the pneumonia for COVID-19 worse than 'normal' pneumonia?

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Why don’t they develop a ‘normal’ COVID vaccine (like the yearly flu shot), versus the mRNA one? Is there something about SARS-COV—2 that prevents a non-mRNA vaccine being developed?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Are Tardigrades susceptible to viral and/or bacterial infection? Can they get ‘sick’?	5121
With the amount of smoke generated by the massive wildfires in the western United States, would this help slow global temperature increase by effects similar to Nuclear Winter?	6
Reverse Rainbow? Today I saw a double rainbow, and the rightmost one was in reverse color order. It was my understanding that the light from all rainbows refracts in the same manner? In other double rainbows I have seen, they were both in 'usual' order.	1
How could I️ turn myself into a fossil?	1
I recently received a "pneumonia" shot from my doctor. Would this protect me from any pneumonia potentially caused by SARS-CoV-2/2019-nCoV? If not, why not? What does the "pneumonia" shot protect against? Is the pneumonia for COVID-19 worse than 'normal' pneumonia?	1
Why don’t they develop a ‘normal’ COVID vaccine (like the yearly flu shot), versus the mRNA one? Is there something about SARS-COV—2 that prevents a non-mRNA vaccine being developed?	1