/u/thefourthchipmunk's posts
In the near-vacuum of space, what does it mean to refer to a "gas" or "plasma" with a very high "temperature"? (e.g., "warm–hot intergalactic medium")
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What sort of work is being done to improve our knowledge of distances to stars and galaxies? And how do we use this improved distances to answer other questions (i.e., what other questions?)
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As astronomers have built better and better telescopes, how has that affected how we use the old ones?
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When the Titanic hit the iceberg, would it have been realistic for survivors to have pulled themselves out of the water and onto the iceberg/onto shattered iceberg bits?
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If NASA had realized the gravity of the problem with the Columbia shuttle's wing, what efforts might they have taken to save the crew?
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Why has it been so hard to find a (legally acceptable) drug-combo to conduct lethal injections? Wouldn't an overdose of narcotics do the trick?
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WOah, this just hit me -- is EVERY organelle inside a cell made up of proteins? (That's a lot of proteins!!)
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When they play stock footage on TV, why does the image quality always seem to have an "old" look--even when it's just a few years old?
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