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Does "l'appel du vide" have an underlying psychological cause, and if so, what is it?

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Why is the launch window for the space shuttle as short as it is (~1 hour)?

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When I sleep after a night of drinking, I wake up every couple of hours. Is this the alcohol impacting my body's handling of the transition between sleep cycles, or something else?

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Is there any factual basis to the phrase "red sky at night, sailor's delight, red sky at morning, sailors take warning"? What meteorological phenomena, if any, are responsible for this occurring?

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What characteristics do we use to estimate the age of a T-Tauri star?

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Why, when I am drunk, do I crave almost exclusively salty foods?

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A woman just gave birth to an embryo she froze 24 years ago. Is that a long enough time for her genes to have diverged noticeably from embryos formed in 2017? If so, which areas of the genome will have changed the most?

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What stops a Shkadov thruster from acting like a Nicoll-Dyson beam, or vice versa? Or is there no way to stop that and they're just the same thing looked at from two different perspectives?

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Do partial solar eclipses in the current time accurately reproduce sunlight levels of past eras?

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Remember the pattern they discovered in the CMB a few months ago? Is there any other possible explanation than "ripples from a previous universe"? Well, besides no reason at all.

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Does "l'appel du vide" have an underlying psychological cause, and if so, what is it?	27
Why is the launch window for the space shuttle as short as it is (~1 hour)?	24
When I sleep after a night of drinking, I wake up every couple of hours. Is this the alcohol impacting my body's handling of the transition between sleep cycles, or something else?	14
Is there any factual basis to the phrase "red sky at night, sailor's delight, red sky at morning, sailors take warning"? What meteorological phenomena, if any, are responsible for this occurring?	11
What characteristics do we use to estimate the age of a T-Tauri star?	3
Why, when I am drunk, do I crave almost exclusively salty foods?	2
A woman just gave birth to an embryo she froze 24 years ago. Is that a long enough time for her genes to have diverged noticeably from embryos formed in 2017? If so, which areas of the genome will have changed the most?	1
What stops a Shkadov thruster from acting like a Nicoll-Dyson beam, or vice versa? Or is there no way to stop that and they're just the same thing looked at from two different perspectives?	1
Do partial solar eclipses in the current time accurately reproduce sunlight levels of past eras?	1
Remember the pattern they discovered in the CMB a few months ago? Is there any other possible explanation than "ripples from a previous universe"? Well, besides no reason at all.	0