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Could the digital broadcasts from the spaceprobes around Mars and Jupiter be received and decoded by a home hobbyist?

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What are the equations governing the Strong and Weak nuclear forces?

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Assuming homogeneous mixing of Earth's water, how long would it take before we could say 99.9% of Earth's "original" water had been split apart by photosynthesis and replaced with "new" water from other chemical reactions?

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Using equipment that is available/achievable today, at a power level that we could put on a spaceprobe, do we have the technology to transmit/receive an interstellar information-carrying signal, or would the probe have to physically come back first?

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Could a black hole composed of nonbaryonic dark matter effectively transmute its original mass into baryonic matter via Hawking radiation as it evaporates?

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Given some normal nominal oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere and water, is it lungs or gills or skin aspiration (etc) that most efficiently absorb oxygen and release a gaseous waste product?

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Question about Isochron dating

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If a pupils function is to keep the amount of incident light on the retina within some optimal dynamic illumination range, what's the advantage of huge pupils during adrenaline rush?

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For various proposed interstellar engines, what is the farthest distance at which we could observe effects of the engines, if at all? (e.g., could we detect effects of exhaust from a big ion thruster travelling tangentially to us? how far away?)

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Has there ever been a case where a sperm or an egg had a cancerous copy mutation, and then later fertilized or got fertilized, leading to pregnancy?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Could the digital broadcasts from the spaceprobes around Mars and Jupiter be received and decoded by a home hobbyist?	6
What are the equations governing the Strong and Weak nuclear forces?	6
Assuming homogeneous mixing of Earth's water, how long would it take before we could say 99.9% of Earth's "original" water had been split apart by photosynthesis and replaced with "new" water from other chemical reactions?	6
Using equipment that is available/achievable today, at a power level that we could put on a spaceprobe, do we have the technology to transmit/receive an interstellar information-carrying signal, or would the probe have to physically come back first?	5
Could a black hole composed of nonbaryonic dark matter effectively transmute its original mass into baryonic matter via Hawking radiation as it evaporates?	5
Given some normal nominal oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere and water, is it lungs or gills or skin aspiration (etc) that most efficiently absorb oxygen and release a gaseous waste product?	5
Question about Isochron dating	5
If a pupils function is to keep the amount of incident light on the retina within some optimal dynamic illumination range, what's the advantage of huge pupils during adrenaline rush?	5
For various proposed interstellar engines, what is the farthest distance at which we could observe effects of the engines, if at all? (e.g., could we detect effects of exhaust from a big ion thruster travelling tangentially to us? how far away?)	4
Has there ever been a case where a sperm or an egg had a cancerous copy mutation, and then later fertilized or got fertilized, leading to pregnancy?	3