/u/bitcheslovereptar's posts in /r/askscience
How does something as large as a city affect the crust/mantle below it? Could a city become so large and heavy that it would collapse or compress the earth underneath?
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How do we know how far away extremely distant objects are? How do we know andromeda is 2.5Million LY away if we can't travel there and measure?
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Could a piece of decaying radioactive material, properly contained in lead to make it's rad levels safe for humans, be used to heat eg. a house for many years, if placed in the floor?
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How does suffocation by paint work? When the whole body is covered in thick paint, what changes and causes death? Or is this a myth thanks to Jame Bond ‘golden woman’ scene from Goldfinger?
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What would happen if 16 Psyche crashed into earth? Would our surface be destroyed, half surface, planet broken up, tilt change?
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Why doesn't this work? Please explain to me as though I were as naiive about physics as I actually am :p
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ELI5 - how did we go to the moon if the temperature difference (between shadows and light) was so huge? Why didn't the cameras they took melt?
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