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  • Question about the speed of light?

    Okay, let's say I can travel faster than light. If I traveled to you, would you see me going in reverse since I would make it to you before the image of me makes it to you?

    1 AnswerPhysics4 years ago
  • What is the youtube?

    9 AnswersYouTube4 years ago
  • Anyone know the name of this show?

    The main character was a short blonde woman who was a sheriff or detective living in a southern state such as Texas near the boarder. In the first season the main "bad guy" tried to drown the son of this man or something like that. In the second season there was this rich lady who helped Mexicans cross the boarder and there was also a killer who buried a girl near a water tower.

    3 AnswersDrama4 years ago
  • Ideas to make a perfect oval mold?

    It's about 10 inches by 8 inches. It's a piece of glass from a picture frame. I need to make a mold that's the exact size of it but I don't know what to use to contain the plaster. The only thing I can think of is a piece of insulating foam but I feel like when I pour the plaster in there it will get soggy or leave a bumpy pattern around the edge. I tried thin cardboard and thick paper it is extremely difficult to get it into the exact shape....possible...but very very very very very difficult.

  • How do apex predators keep from depleting their food supply?

    Humans aside, how do things like killer whales not end up taking over the ocean? If nothing hunts them (besides humans) what keeps them from continuously breeding until they exhaust their food supply? Not just killer whales though, but things like Anacondas and other large snakes, if humans were out of the picture completely, over time wouldn't they just take over their respective environment?

    4 AnswersBiology4 years ago
  • Ideas for heating an ant formicarium?

    They only need to be at like 70-75 F, but my room is always like 65 even in the summer. I have a wooden cabinet that I'm going to completely insulate on of the shelves (about 3ft by 1.5ft) then have their formicarium in there but I don't know if there is a way to heat the area. I was thinking about just getting a heating pad like used for reptiles and hooking it up to a temp. controller, but I feel as though the pad won't be able to heat the area, in which case I'll have to put the thermostat regulator thing inside the formicarium some how and just have the pad right under it. I don't think putting a heat lamp inside there is a good idea just because it's such a small space and even with a temp controller it's kind of risky to leave on unattended.

    2 AnswersReptiles4 years ago
  • Is there an "edge" of the universe?

    Since the universe is always expanding then doesn't that mean theoretically there is an "edge" where stars and galaxies just haven't expanded to yet. It would just be empty space forever right? (at least until the universe expanded that far)

    11 AnswersAstronomy & Space4 years ago
  • How to shift a semi-automatic transmission without damaging it?

    Just got a new car and it has semi-auto trans. Obviously I will pretty much always be using automatic but just in case I do decide to use manual, should I let off the gas before switching gears? I've read different opinions, a person I know switches from drive to manual while driving, others say stop before switching it. Then for switching gears some say let off the gas and others say maintain a constant acceleration while switching gears. It's a 2009 Mazda 6 if that helps at all.

    5 AnswersMaintenance & Repairs4 years ago
  • What book is this?

    I remember reading like 10 years ago. It had an orange cover and I think it had the word Saga in it's title. I vaguely remember it being about a boy who was so far in the future, that it seemed like the past. I remember a specific hint to this in a passage where he had met these tribal people or something and he found a bottle cap in the dirt, kind of like a nuclear war had happened.

    2 AnswersBooks & Authors4 years ago
  • What is the process of Fatty Acids becoming saturated or unsaturated?

    Is it called hydration synthesis when they become unsaturated and hydrolysis when then become saturated?

    2 AnswersChemistry4 years ago
  • Is this sentence grammatically correct?

    For an objective on a job application,

    Objective: To get part-time employment

    I know it sounds weird but is it still okay or no?

    5 AnswersWords & Wordplay4 years ago
  • How did asteroids gain speed?

    Like how did they start moving in the first place? Are they fragments of when objects collide? Are there asteroids that are from out of our solar system that could be fragments of other planets?

    5 AnswersAstronomy & Space4 years ago
  • Would you rather cure cancer or put an end to world hunger?

    Keep in mind these statistics: About the same amount of people die from each every year. However, ending world hunger would raise the overall life expectancy since most people who die of cancer are already older while most people who die of hunger are children.

    Last, if you cure cancer you will most likely be the wealthiest person in the world since the cure will sell for such a large amount of money.

    You can't earn money off ending world hunger.

    5 AnswersPolls & Surveys4 years ago
  • What does all the mathematics shown on whiteboards in movies and shows explaining science mean?

    That's not real is it? Like someone is trying to figure out a complex equation to figure out intergalactic space travel or something like that and someone comes along and plugs in one variable and it "fixes" the equation. That's just a bunch of bull crap right? And how does stuff like general relativity have "mathematics" behind it? Isn't it just a theory on how gravity warps space time? So how are you even supposed to explain or prove that with math?

    2 AnswersMathematics4 years ago
  • If you keep applying thrust in space do you keep gaining speed?

    So theoretically isn't it possible to go faster than the speed of light with a simple fuel engine provided that you don't run out of fuel?

    2 AnswersPhysics4 years ago
  • Something strange happens to my car when it sits idle, help?

    When I'm sitting idle for more that a minute the engine starts to make a weird noise. I don't know how to describe it. It's like it revs for a half a second then idles for half a second. The car also shakes a lot when it does this, like it vibrates WAY more than a normal car would. Its a 2000 Honda Civic

    4 AnswersMaintenance & Repairs4 years ago
  • Are presidents often adept in philosophy or sociology?

    Please don't make this about Trump. I'm just wondering if presidents are supposed to be knowledgeable in those fields. Marcus Aurelius was one of the most successful rulers of all time and he was very proficient in philosophy. I think it would make a ruler much more understanding and able to look at problems through an objective point of view.

    4 AnswersPhilosophy4 years ago
  • Where to find actual court cases?

    I'm trying to write a paper and I need credible sources and I hate using news articles because the news is so sh*tty. Isn't there a website where I can lookup actual court cases like cases of murder or any other crime? Not supreme court cases but just federal cases

    2 AnswersLaw & Ethics4 years ago
  • Would using a handgun as self defense as a 19 year old be illegal?

    I know its an extremely unlikely circumstance. But I'm just wondering, if someone broke into my house with a gun and I was able to retrieve my dads revolver from the gun safe, then the intruder presented himself as a clear threat and I felt as if my life was endanger, would I be prosecuted for shooting him with the pistol, since I'm only 19 and can't own a handgun? Obviously I would do it anyway because I would rather go to jail for a couple years for manslaughter than get shot and die.

    4 AnswersLaw & Ethics4 years ago
  • Why do people believe they have a better understand of the world than everyone else?

    This is not a rant, its a sociology question. Obviously not everyone is like this. But some people believe that they have this knowledge of the world that nobody else knows and that its the key to the universe or something. And these are the people who usually refuse to see the world from other's point of view.

    3 AnswersSociology4 years ago