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What coordinate system do various space missions use? Are different ones used for different missions (e.g. centered on Earth and rotating, centered on the Sun and stationary, etc)?

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[ASTRONOMY] Do we keep finding tidally-locked exoplanets because being tidally locked is the more common state for planets, or because such planets are easier to detect?

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How do we predict that there will be an "island of stability" higher up in the periodic table? Is there a maximum size for atoms?

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[Physics] Why is it said that infrared light "is" or "carries" heat? Doesn't all light heat up everything it hits? If most things are just particularly bad at reflecting infrared, why?

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Are speakers of languages with larger sound inventories more likely to be diagnosed with speech pathologies (like lisps and such), since there are "more opportunities" for mistakes?

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Will beer or Coke or something else that's 99.9% water ever have all the non-water elements settle to the bottom of the container?

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Will beer or Coke or something else that's 99.9% water ever have all the non-water elements settle to the bottom of the container?

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Do speakers of languages with larger phonemic inventories have higher incidence of speech pathologies (e.g. lisps) because there are "more opportunities" to get things wrong?

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At the density of the Earth, how big would a planet have to be to have the same mass as the Sun? What's the limiting factor for the size of a rocky planet?

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[PHYSICS] Does Mach's principle imply thst inertia is simply the gravitational pull of all the other mass in the Universe?

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What coordinate system do various space missions use? Are different ones used for different missions (e.g. centered on Earth and rotating, centered on the Sun and stationary, etc)?	17
[ASTRONOMY] Do we keep finding tidally-locked exoplanets because being tidally locked is the more common state for planets, or because such planets are easier to detect?	15
How do we predict that there will be an "island of stability" higher up in the periodic table? Is there a maximum size for atoms?	7
[Physics] Why is it said that infrared light "is" or "carries" heat? Doesn't all light heat up everything it hits? If most things are just particularly bad at reflecting infrared, why?	4
Are speakers of languages with larger sound inventories more likely to be diagnosed with speech pathologies (like lisps and such), since there are "more opportunities" for mistakes?	2
Will beer or Coke or something else that's 99.9% water ever have all the non-water elements settle to the bottom of the container?	1
Will beer or Coke or something else that's 99.9% water ever have all the non-water elements settle to the bottom of the container?	1
Do speakers of languages with larger phonemic inventories have higher incidence of speech pathologies (e.g. lisps) because there are "more opportunities" to get things wrong?	1
At the density of the Earth, how big would a planet have to be to have the same mass as the Sun? What's the limiting factor for the size of a rocky planet?	1
[PHYSICS] Does Mach's principle imply thst inertia is simply the gravitational pull of all the other mass in the Universe?	1