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My goal is to spend less time in my "...snow white cube containing only the bare necessities, a computer, and a large library of treatises, maps, and precise scale models*."

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What's the physics behind XKCD #2027 (time between lightning flash and radio wave burst)?
Aug 1, 2018
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Why do some location on Earth have only one tidal maximum per day instead of two?
May 24, 2016
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What is this wavy light coming through my blinds?
May 20, 2021
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How to "decipher" the symbol for the recently announced doubly-charmed baryon?
Jul 7, 2017
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Parker Solar Probe passing extremely close to the Sun; what relativistic effects will it experience and how large will they be?
May 31, 2017
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How would a passing gravitational wave look or feel?
Jun 12, 2017
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How is light emitted by an incandescent lamp?
May 30, 2021
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Born & Wolf; Alkali metals transparent to UV? Cesium transparent to blue?
Jul 25, 2016
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Are there necessarily always at least two points where the Earth's magnetic field is vertical?
Jul 20, 2017
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Are there published predictions that hydrogen could remain metallic at ambient pressure?
Jan 29, 2017
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Is it rude to answer your own question yourself after other solutions are available?
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Should this question really be marked as duplicate like this? They seem fundamentally different
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How did the Apollo computers evaluate transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log?
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What makes Ada the language of choice for the ISS's safety-critical systems?
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If a massive object like Jupiter flew past the Earth how close would it need to come to pull people off of the surface?
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What aspects of image preparation workflows can lead to accidents like Boris Johnson's No. 10 tweet's 'hidden message'?
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Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits?

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