/u/dpitch40's posts
At the height of the Wisconsin Glaciation, ice sheets extended down to modern-day Missouri, while parts of Alaska and Siberia were ice-free. How was the world so much colder than today, and seemingly only in certain places?
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If the Solar System were close enough to an active stellar mass black hole (a few light years), what would it look like?
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Why are there so many mosquitos in the arctic when biological productivity is less (i.e. fewer things to bite) than at lower latitudes?
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What is the difference between dew point and wet-bulb temperature? Which represents the lowest temperature that can be reached via evaporative cooling?
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Why don't power lines have safeguards to automatically shut them off if the current suddenly drops/circuit is broken, to prevent fires caused by downed lines?
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At sunrise this morning, the illuminated part of the waning gibbous moon "pointed" up away from the horizon, even though it was higher in the sky than the sun. What is happening here? Shouldn't it point directly at the sun?
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