/u/jurble's posts
If you had a device that compressed spatial dimensions such that your arms held straight in front of you appeared to instead cross each other, would it be painful or would the physics of stress operate on your body as if everything was normal?
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Pigs will eat human poop. Historically, outhouses in certain regions were built above pigsties. But how much nutrition do pigs get from poop? How many calories do people leave behind?
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Metals and minerals are clearly distributed unevenly across the Earth's crust in terms of what's on the surface, but, say, if we dug deep enough in a given spot would we find e.g. rare earth elements? Or is the Earth's crust more uniform when mineral depth is discounted?
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Does the James Webb telescope have the ability to optically resolve Tabby's Star and see what's going on there?
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Were there (or are there) any Buddhist traditions that dealt out abuse (physical/verbal/sexual) as a formal part of fostering detachment, as tests of concentration or some other part of achieving enlightenment?
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How and why did the English come to identify with being 'British' and when/how did they adopt King Arthur as a national hero given his mythical opposition to the Anglo-Saxons? That is, why did the English come to see themselves in Arthur and the Britons when their ancestors were his enemies?
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If aliens on a star system 50 light-years away had the ability to instantly teleport anywhere in the universe, and were to teleport 'here', would they arrive 50 years ago or in our 'present'?
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Islam requires Muslims to pray five times a day in a state of cleanliness after performing a ritual ablution usually involving water, though sometimes sand can substitute. Did this cause water use patterns to visibly change across the Middle East as Islam spread
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