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In 97 CE, the Chinese military ambassador Gan Ying was sent on a mission to Rome, but stopped at an ocean west of Parthia after some sailors told him the ocean was too big to cross. How would he have communicated with these sailors without a common language or interpreter?
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What would it look like near or past the edge of the observable Universe? At what point would it stop looking like the 'normal' Universe?
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[WP] An alternate history where the Allies won World War II from an alternate history where the Axis won World War II
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I've heard from several unsubstantiated sources that until the 1960s, it was believed that Mars harbored some form of life. Was this the actual scientific consensus? How did we know so little about the planet so late into the 20th Century?
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During the Migration Period, tribes moved extensively around Europe and settled in very different places. Would the life of an average Visigoth in Dacia in 376 be noticeably different to that of a Visigoth in Gaul in 418?
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What is the likelihood that most species came from one common ancestor? And can this probability be used to find out whether any aliens would have the same vital organs, limbs, etc.?
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