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In movies like Star Wars, when ships come out of (or go into) hyperspace, wouldn't the difference in momentum between above light-speed to essentially 0 kill everyone inside? Knowing this, how long would a safe deceleration from ~99.99% light-speed to 0 take?	1
Why is anger an emotion that wasn't removed through evolution? What purpose does it have? Fear is supposed to protect you from the unknown/dangerous, and pain tells you that something is wrong with your body, etc.	1
I have oily fingers, and they sometimes smudge my phone screen. Why do these smudges look purple and green when illuminated from behind by the screen?	1
Wouldn't universal basic income just constantly increase the amount of money in circulation and lead to inflation?	1
Why is the hair on one of my armpits thicker and longer than the hair on the other one?	1
Why do finer details in pictures with low or ultra low resolution appear 'clearer' when I unfocus my eyes or am looking at the image from farther away?	1
If I were between a very rigid screen door and a solid wall that was slowly moving in towards the door, would I just get flattened and smushed against the screen door or would I get cleanly diced and come out the other side?	1
The angular velocity of the center of mass of a spinning object is supposed to be zero by the definition of angular velocity, but does that mean that this point is not moving at all? How is other stuff spinning around it then?	1
In the case of an itchy bug bite, why is the itch sometimes mitigated by scratching around the site of the bite instead of the bite or swelling itself?	1
If the Big Bang theorizes that the all the matter in the universe originally existed as something the size of a balloon, and the speed of light is constant, how is it possible that there is stuff that is farther away than 13.8 billion light years from us?	1

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