/u/plato1123's posts
If a nuclear bomb went off in Boston harbor could scientists tell after the fact who had manufactured it, do they leave distinct radioactive signatures?
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Jupiter is sometimes referred to as a failed star, too small to achieve nuclear fusion. If a Neptune sized planet crashed into Jupiter would it be big enough to be a star then and give us a small second star in our solar system?
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On average does water or land reflect more light/heat back into space? Will this have a heating or cooling effect on the planet as the oceans rise and the land mass shrinks ever so slightly?
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Why is it said that gas giants like Jupiter don't have a real surface? What happens to all the hard elements that get sucked into Jupiter, iron etc, if not to form a hard center?
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[WP] An unknown race of molemen become aware of the planet's surface and resolve to burrow up and attack from below. As luck would have it, the point of attack happens to be N. Korea which can only defend mankind with primitive underground nuclear weapons and its poorly-armed methed-out citizenry.
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Can scientists really not effectively remove tritium from water? The Japanese power company is planning on dumping radioactive tritium contaminated water into the sea claiming it can't really be removed. Some articles claim there's no real way to do it scientifically. Is this true?
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Did the antiquated practice of having kissing booths at fairs and carnivals actually prevent genital herpes to some degree?
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Multiple studies have established that forests create rain down wind by transpiring water into the air that would have otherwise escaped to the water table. If that's the case doesn't that mean that thinning forests to prevent forest fires is counter productive, as it makes forests down-wind dryer?
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