/u/mellowmonk's posts
If Germany had won WWII and succeeded in occupying Western Europe, would they have become one of history's most notorious empires?
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How do you analyze bacterial DNA in situations where many, many species are mixed together, as in the ocean or the human gut?
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Is "correct horse battery staple" a more secure password than "Tr0ub4dor&3" because it has more "bits of entropy"? (Link to comic inside.)
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Is the sick, miserable feeling of, say, having the flu partly because our body stops producing endorphins, so that we *will* feel horrible and get rest?
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Do astronauts in orbit float because Earth's gravitational pull there is so weak, or because by orbiting they are continuously "falling"?
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If you added up all the bacteria, viruses, and spores killed by the average person's immune system over a lifetime, how much volume would they take up?
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How much of the increase in cancer rates is attributable to people simply surviving other diseases and accidents, etc., to live longer -- long enough to get cancer?
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