/u/halfascientist's posts
There are tons of single-celled organisms, and quite a few with billions of cells. Are there any with a handful of cells? Three or four or a few dozen or so? What are they like?
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Haber-Bosch, Phillips' contact process, the cumene process... from the outside, industrial chemistry seems like a history lesson. Have there been any big advances in the production of common chemicals (or smelting/refining metals, for that matter) in the last generation?
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What's with oil and gas well flares? Can't they use those hydrocarbons rather than burning them for nothing?
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[WP] Maya Ruth Obama, Grand Duchess of the Hudson Republic, Duchess of Erie, Duchess of Biddeford, First Tribune of the Champlain Collectivity, Marshal of the Red Legions, claimant and Legitimate Heir to the Federal Throne
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[WP] "OK, main computer is restarted in diagnostic mode. You have about two minutes to do something about that window."
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A car radio seems to fade out fairly abruptly at a certain point in a tunnel rather than fade out slowly. Does this have something to do with how waves of that frequency interact with certain tunnel dimensions, or something similar?
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Would a thruster mounted on the ground (that is, pushing downward) and fired at dawn slow the orbital speed of the earth around the sun?
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The Anglo-Saxons invaded sub-Roman Britain from their homes in the north Germanic/Scandinavian area. Hundreds of years later, they themselves are invaded by people from the same-ish area. Did anyone consider this... ironic?
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