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I'm designing a Space Military, and I wanted to answer an age-old military complaint by separating the title of Captain from the rank of Captain. ...

I had not thought that the "Me too" was we too, thus thee too; is it as bad across the pond as here? The news competition to garner viewer...

I am looking for criticism of my theory. May be I can find it in Internet? In scope of the theory, I trying to build unified field theory. For me,...

Say if aliens came along and didn't much like the looks of us. In Independence Day. they seemed to make a pig's ear of it, and go for the boring old...

I was laughing at the new reporter on the RT channel talking about the launch about to happen while the rocket was climbing above his shoulder. Now...

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/genealogy-databases-could-reveal-identity-most-americans?tgt=nr Big "Science News" article on genetic...

it's a funny question that occurred to me just now. Would the laws of the US or Europe recognise an alien's legal ownership of their own space...

I'm looking to start a discussion or an argument over nothing. I believe there's no such thing as nothing when it comes to the cosmos. I should say,...

What would be the best way to armor or otherwise protect the radiators on a combat spaceship? The vessel in question is capable of (Earth)...

Silly question???

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-cats-rats.html Urban rats hide from cats, so cats are no good against them. Also, cats kill off all other urban...

gzhpcu raised an interesting question in another thread. I didn't want to derail that thread, but I wanted to discuss this further. Are humans as...

This story keeps coming up: https://www.newsweek.com/earth-shrunk-tiny-hyperdense-sphere-particle-accelerators-1145940 I thought this story...

The following statement was made in another thread. The horizon of the observable universe corresponds to a recessional velocity of about 3...

I saw the original movie at school, when I must have been around 13..Didn't have much option but to watch it it, as it was a lesson in school time....

If I understand this correctly, yes, just barely, if everything goes right. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.03304.pdf

OK, so here's the idlest question of the day (so far). In the Star Trek universe, one pseudoscience explanation for Warp Speed (FTL) travel, is...

Is it some kind of underlying assumption, that all of reality, and 'laws' of physics spring from the same well, and that everything is...

It must be 25 years since Life Story was first shown, a brilliant dramatisation of Watsons book The Double Helix. With Jeff Goldblum as Watson it...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181003142931.htm The above is a link to the exomoon discovery for Kepler-1625 b, suspected to exist...

Suppose tonight a supernova brighter than Venus lights up the sky. How long would it take to instrumentally observe it? Ten seconds? Five minutes?...

I don't know if I live under an busy area, but there nearly always seem to be a few lines across the sky when I look out my window. It's quite...

My possible explanation for gravity: Gravity is caused by the expansion of space imparting a force on matter. Space naturally expands; even the...

The latest regeneration of Doctor Who premiered Sunday. As is probably very well known, this Doctor is a woman. I had some fears as to how well...

As matter, like that in the Sun, causes space-time curvature, then as it loses mass it loses this space-time curvature(right?). I guess this...

Is it friction or air compression? I've read both versions.

In discussions of relativity theory (special and general), when discussions of proof come up people often point to the GPS as exhibit A. GPS data has...

Let me be perfectly clear: there ain't no gosh darn way I'm gonna live on a planet with FOUR gravities! Forget it. ...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/the-people-who-could-have-done-science-didnt/ Something worth keeping in mind. Broadly speaking,...