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Were fires uncommon phenomena during the early Earth when there wasn't so much oxygen produced from photosynthesis?
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How did we adopt standard rendering settings such as 1080p resolution, 30-60 fps, 60-144 hz refresh rate, etc.?
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What would the interference pattern look like if the "double-slit" were holes arranged in a circle, with multiple layers?
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How was the exact value for the AU chosen if Earth's orbit around the sun isn't a perfect 0 eccentricity?
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If gravity is the effect of space-time being stretched, wouldn't an object's angular momentum generate gravitational effects?
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Why was the flush-deck design discarded in destroyer designs during the interwar period? Did the new designs retain the hull strength of the previous generation?
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How do aircraft carriers stay so high above the water compared to smaller and much less massive ships?
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What is the state of a particle that has collapsed its wavefunction to one observer, but not another?
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If the temperature of a fluid remains constant during a phase change until all of a liquid changes to gas, does that mean there's no point in setting a higher temperature to boil water to cook food?
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