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Why doesn't the n-body problem make the rotation curves of disc galaxies unpredictable?

212 upvotes • r/askscience

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The Republic of Venice was the longest lived democratic states in history(par Ancient Sparta), lasting over 500 years. It used a system based on approval voting, a single-winner election model that is capable of avoiding 2-party domination unlike FPTP & IRV. Was this the case in the Venetian Empire?

138 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Can long chains of triple bonds be created? As in Polyacetylene? or Polyalkyne?

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I've heard lots of anti-Malthusian claims that all famines are anthropogenic. Are there no famines that are incontrovertibly beyond human efforts to prevent them?

51 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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The Russian silver fox experiment showed that animals could be rapidly breed for certain traits i.e. docility or aggressiveness, could the same be done for intelligence?

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Are there any studies that compare what people claim are their favourite things and what their actual preferences are?

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Does the event horizon shred matter that passes through it?

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Do we remember everything to some extent?

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String theory says there are extra dimensions, too tiny to detect. Will the accelerating expansion of the universe eventually inflate these dimensions to be big enough to affect anything perceptibly?

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Do each of my chromosomes come from a specific grandparent or are they all a mix of genes from each?

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Why doesn't the n-body problem make the rotation curves of disc galaxies unpredictable?	212	askscience
The Republic of Venice was the longest lived democratic states in history(par Ancient Sparta), lasting over 500 years. It used a system based on approval voting, a single-winner election model that is capable of avoiding 2-party domination unlike FPTP & IRV. Was this the case in the Venetian Empire?	138	AskHistorians
Can long chains of triple bonds be created? As in Polyacetylene? or Polyalkyne?	56	askscience
I've heard lots of anti-Malthusian claims that all famines are anthropogenic. Are there no famines that are incontrovertibly beyond human efforts to prevent them?	51	AskHistorians
The Russian silver fox experiment showed that animals could be rapidly breed for certain traits i.e. docility or aggressiveness, could the same be done for intelligence?	44	askscience
Are there any studies that compare what people claim are their favourite things and what their actual preferences are?	41	askscience
Does the event horizon shred matter that passes through it?	40	askscience
Do we remember everything to some extent?	32	askscience
String theory says there are extra dimensions, too tiny to detect. Will the accelerating expansion of the universe eventually inflate these dimensions to be big enough to affect anything perceptibly?	31	askscience
Do each of my chromosomes come from a specific grandparent or are they all a mix of genes from each?	24	askscience