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Dec 20 |
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Is it illegal in any U.S. jurisdiction to be in neutral at a red light? in Belgium (article 8.6) it is forbidden to rev the engine repeatedly in neutral, and you can't leave the engine running in neutral except when needed (which includes traffic lights and traffic jams) |
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Dec 19 |
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Can every grain of sand be addressed in IPv6? added 165 characters in body |
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Dec 7 |
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Do peoples' names affect their choice of career? you mean are meaningful names more common than randomness can account for? seems to me like a confirmation bias plays a large role here |
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Dec 6 |
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Is spider silk stronger than steel? note that most of the time the comparison is either pound for pound or size for size, which puts steel at a bit of a disadvantage |
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Dec 4 |
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If you fall onto the subway tracks, is this really the best way to survive? if the train needs to stop at that station then running further than it will go see you survive |
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Nov 29 |
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Does a UN Treaty force gun control in the USA? only if USA ratifies the treaty otherwise the treaty is not worth the paper is was printed on |
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Nov 28 |
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Does chlorophyll have any health benefits for humans? actually only greens contain chlorophyll, it's what makes them green |
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Nov 22 |
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Does a gene predict the time of day one dies? reading the article I can see that it is about natural deaths |
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Nov 22 |
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Does a gene predict the time of day one dies? the how is better for biology.SE, the dispute of the claim itself is a good fit here |
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Nov 15 |
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Is it possible to recover data on a zeroed hard drive? unless you know chich exact sectors you are writing to it can be the disk controller leaves some blocks unaltered |
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Nov 14 |
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Is it possible to stop a hurricane by nuking it? that happens on the rim of the hurricane, that's kinda hard to heat up all at once |
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Nov 14 |
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Can a bullet ricochet back at the shooter? most target ranges are designed to prevent that... |
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Nov 14 |
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Is it possible to stop a hurricane by nuking it? a hurricane is fed by (rising) hot air in the first place see the wiki on that, what you can do with a nuke is disrupt the rotation but that won't last |
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Nov 14 |
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Is it possible to dodge the fire of matchlock muskets? when you see the muzzle flash the bullet is already on its way and it's too late to try and dodge |
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Oct 30 |
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Do women who live together get synchronized menstrual cycles? @Soute birth control would invalidate the data as that has it's own influence on the cycle |
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Oct 11 |
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In the case of memory loss due to a blunt force impact, can memory later be restored by means of another blunt force impact? tvtropes calls it Easy Amnesia and the wiki has a big page on the most common hollywood amnesia (treatment put repeated blunt force trauma as a non-option) |
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Oct 10 |
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Are baby snakes as venomous as adult ones? some venoms will be potent enough to kill you with just a drop, sometimes enough is enough |
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Oct 6 |
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Can a man fall faster than the speed of sound? the pure theoretical might belong better on physics.SE |
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Oct 1 |
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More stars visible from the Australian outback than anywhere else on earth? antartica would also be very good for star gazing |
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Sep 21 |
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Can you harvest energy from radio transmissions? he says himself that it's not really profitable and can barely run a calculator. I'd guess that it would work on the RF signals in the air which will charge the capacitors |
