/u/serenity78's posts

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[WP] Earth starts to receive messages from an alien race on the other side of the galaxy. It is evident they were sent thousands of years ago. The messages begin friendly, but soon turn into pleas for help. Earth's people are captivated by this drama, listening as a long-dead civilization collapses.	774	WritingPrompts
[WP] Transhuman prosthetics take off in the late 2050s. A man with terminal brain cancer becomes the first person to have their brain fully replaced with a synthetic one. After the surgeries' success, an international public debate begins: are we speaking to a machine with a dead man's memories?	341	WritingPrompts
Why does Oda Nobunaga get depicted so often in Japanese popular culture? (movies, video games, etc.) Is he seen in a positive way, or as more of a villainous figure?	65	AskHistorians
I grew up writing English left-handed, which causes you to unintentionally smear the ink of whatever you've just written. How did Hebrew catch on as being written right-to-left if the same exact problem would be mirrored with their right hand?	60	AskHistorians
I had heard about an infamous serial killer from Colombia, and Wikipedia browsing eventually brought me to "serial killers by number of victims". Weirdly, the top four are all from South America. I don't mean to disparage, but is there a particular reason for this, or is it purely a coincidence?	36	AskHistorians
I'd never thought about it til recently, but horse archers must have had greater range because the speed of the horse was added to the arrow's forward momentum. Did arrows fired from horseback also have a greater capacity to penetrate armor?	28	AskHistorians
[WP] A mad industrialist rigs a satellite to explode in high orbit, creating a cloud of space junk so huge as to prevent humanity from leaving Earth for 1000 years. They explain: "This is to give humanity time to mature: to ensure we can't run away from the problems we've created on this planet."	13	WritingPrompts
In medieval warfare, was it possible to destroy a wooden castle gate by dousing it with a flammable substance and then setting it burning?	11	AskHistorians
The Large Hadron Collider is 27km long in order to stably accelerate particles, but is there any hope of miniaturization in the future?	11	askscience
If there is energy coming to Earth from the sun's radiation, and leaving it from heat that radiates out from the planet into space, what is the net change over time? Is it perfectly balanced, or does the Earth cool down/heat up over a long enough timeline?	9	askscience

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