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Has the invention of the light bulb lead to any measurable evolutionary changes among moths or other night light-obsessed insects?
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What is the rate of acceleration of a launch vehicle like Falcon Heavy? Are they moving as slow as they appear for the first 5-10 seconds?
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If a spaceship as massive as the mother ship in the movie Independence Day were to enter our atmosphere, what would be the effect on the air and earth below it as it descended?
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If we were to fly through the Asteroid Belt beyond Mars, or the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, how frequently would we see orbiting objects passing by? Would it mostly be empty space, or would there be bodies spinning everywhere like the movies? Would all of the objects be illuminated by the sun?
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Neptune has the most severe weather in the solar system with wind speeds exceeding 1,200 mph (breaking the sound barrier). What might this sound like?
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