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How do we know pi is never-ending and non-repeating if we're still in the middle of calculating it?

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Is the difficulty in sending manned spacecraft far out into the Solar System due to the problem of keeping the people alive long enough to go very far or the problem of getting them back to Earth?

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If you wrote out a googleplex in numbers the size of the strings in string theory, how big would it be?

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Can the number of eggs per woman or the number of sperm per ejaculate be used to calculate meaningful odds of any given person's existence?

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When you look at a star, has anything with mass traveled from that star to the earth, allowing you to see it?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How do we know pi is never-ending and non-repeating if we're still in the middle of calculating it?	639
Is the difficulty in sending manned spacecraft far out into the Solar System due to the problem of keeping the people alive long enough to go very far or the problem of getting them back to Earth?	1
If you wrote out a googleplex in numbers the size of the strings in string theory, how big would it be?	1
Can the number of eggs per woman or the number of sperm per ejaculate be used to calculate meaningful odds of any given person's existence?	1
When you look at a star, has anything with mass traveled from that star to the earth, allowing you to see it?	0