/u/vannucker's posts in /r/askscience
Earth is said to be an oblate spheroid due to the rotation pushing the equator out with centrifugal force. Does that mean if the earth stopped rotating it would return to a sphere or has it solidified in it's oblate spheroid shape?
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If a terrorist has a gun to a hostage's head and a sniper shoots him in the head with a high powered rifle, will the terrorist pull the trigger and kill the hostage as an involuntary response or will his body shut off the millisecond his brain explodes, allowing the hostage to live?
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How high could a high level athlete like Lebron James jump on Ceres, the largest asteroid in the belt? Would the landing feel the same as the landing on earth?
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I heard an old radio sci-fi where the earth was so cold, they'd collect oxygen snow from outside, melt it inside. They had to melt the snow to get the oxygen to keep the fire going to melt the snow. Plausible?
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What would a super nova look like from different light-year distances and star sizes and what would the effects be.
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Why does only one side of the moon face us and is that common with planets and moons inside and outside of our solar system?
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How do scientists know Earth and the moon were once a single planet until a giant collisions sheared off and formed the moon?
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