/u/thefourthchipmunk's posts
Do we have good archaeological evidence of the time(s) when folks in Europe lived roughly in the same was as the Native Americans did (prior to exposure to the West)? Did we do things roughly the same way?
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Why do some people identify as transgender, i.e. not with their birth gender? (Do we know if it's more nature, or nurture? Have we identified the mechanisms responsible? etc...)
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Is there evidence that people become less moral when they know how long they have to live (e.g. because they have a disease with a known life expectancy)? (analogous to how the prisoner's dilemma arises when the last game is known)
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What was the max landing speed that the Apollo lunar lander was designed for, and what (exactly) would have happened if this was exceeded?
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When the forecast is "100% rain" (i.e. it is going to rain), what percentage of a volume air is actually going to consist of rain (by volume)?
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Is there a portion of the sun that is either liquid or solid? (If not, can I reasonably claim that the earth is bigger than the sun "if you don't include their atmospheres"?)
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Taking the popular "tennis ball bouncing off a train" analogy literally (with the satellite as a tennis ball and the planet as a train): are the effects of a gravity assist on the orbits the same as if the satellite had literally bounced off the planet surface at that angle?
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