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Q&A Creatine supplementation as enhancing the natural production of Carnosine and vice versa

Possibly, but I think it's unlikely, except indirectly. Exercise increases natural carnosine levels, so someone who both takes extra creatine and uses the energy to increase their exercise level p...

posted 3y ago by Pastychomper‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Pastychomper‭

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Q&A PVA glue curing process

Looks like it may just be mechanical. According to this article, if true, you can rehydrate white glue with water and heat. https://simpleglue.com/how-to-revive-elmers-glue/

posted 1y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Digging Depressions in seafloor to create artificial islands in nearby areas

This is already done today The UAE artificial islands use material dredged from the sea bottom to ceate the islands. But is it sustainable? The easy answer is "no." You're not creating islands o...

posted 2y ago by JBH‭  ·  edited 2y ago by JBH‭

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Q&A The more horizontal a building (on planet earth) is, the more years it can survive a collapse?

This is general mechanics: all objects have a center of gravity. On a square-shaped house, this center is right in the middle, at coordinates (width/2, height/2). The wider the building is in relat...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A How fast would strange matter conversion go?

The behavior of strange matter is not well understood - least of all under the conditions we're used to on Earth! Most theoretical treatments focus on places in which strange matter is likely to be...

posted 4y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  edited 4y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A How to Convince Humans to Allow a Machine Take-Over

The roadmap for getting people to accept machine takeover of almost any aspect of our lives is already here to be seen, for example in end-user licences (EULAs) on software people use (update softw...

posted 8y ago by Glen_b‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Glen_b‭

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Q&A Why would merfolk have hair?

If the merpeople's babies are relatively helpless or start as weak swimmers, head hair could remain as a useful point for the young to cling to as the adult swims around, keeping its arms free. Thi...

posted 8y ago by roseannadu‭

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Q&A How do you find a mate when everyone looks amazing?

This already happened. I married my wife, who I met on an MMO, and I am far from being the only person this has happened to. Many, many people meet on the Internet and fall for each other online, w...

posted 8y ago by Dewi Morgan‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Dewi Morgan‭

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Q&A How do seasons work in a binary system (planet orbits one star, not both)?

Update I've updated my CDF to handle eccentric orbits and customization of star brightness, and (more importantly) to show long-term seasonal effects. A few notes: Mousing over any of the par...

posted 8y ago by 2012rcampion‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by 2012rcampion‭

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Q&A Plausibility of "multi-type transmissible animal cell tumor" to form more complex structures.

There's apparently a type of transmissible cancer that came from new world dogs thousands of years ago, the Canine transmissible venereal tumor. As I understand, this self replicating surviving ca...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Cazadorro‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by sox‭

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Q&A Is the Caspian Sea becoming smaller since the industrial revolution?

It might be that between year 0 to the industrial revolution (say 18th to common era), the Caspian sea significantly larger than it is today. If so, is there some graphical illustration as part of...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A What are the Ground Effects of the South Atlantic Anomaly?

I was recently introduced to the South Atlantic Anomaly. As I understand, for satellites and space craft, this is a natural feature that can wreck space craft by taking even computers designed fo...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A How to protect intelligent fluids from heat damage?

So, Second Earth had/has a firearm problem. Since my magic is really just advanced science, I can't create firearm-disabling fields, so instead, I created a spell that should be able to ruin firear...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Mr. Mistoffelees‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Is a genetically modified human with a much higher height plausible?

I've created a genetically modified race of humans with an extreme height. I've taken into account the cube square law, and added some bones and muscles to help cope with that. I'm planning on maki...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Popplio Lover‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Razetime‭

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Q&A What would the sky view be like of a final stage massive merged galaxy?

What will be the view of the sky and the distances between stars, living on a planet or in a habitat in a super galaxy that has merged with all its nearby galaxies in its cluster, at a time in the ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by RandySavage‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A How Could Golf Change in a Low-Gravity Environment?

Low gravity golf was invented by Alan Shepard in 1971 when he hit two golf balls 40 yards on the moon. Surprisingly, this version of the sport with little atmosphere and much lower gravity, is the...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by deleted user

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Q&A Considerations for Recreational Solar Sailing?

I was investigating a few ideas on recreational solar sailing, and came up with some interesting things - The primary equation in solar sailing is $ F = {{2 R S A} \over {c}} \sin^2{\theta} $ Whe...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Does 5th Gas Giant Have a Name?

I recently learned that it's believed that the solar system once had one more gas giant, which was ejected by Jupiter some time in the past. https://thesolarsystem.fandom.com/wiki/Fifth_Giant Doe...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Q&A What are the Names of the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 Regions?

The Earth-Moon Lagrange points have names: L1, L2, and L3 are Libration Points, the L4 and L5 points are the Kordylewski Clouds. The Jupiter-Sun L4 is named the Greeks, and the Jupiter-Sun L5 is n...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by James McLellan‭

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Rigorous Science What good are herbivores in an animal army?

Armies need more than just soldiers that fight. Herbivores can easily be more efficient at these other tasks because they don't carry the extra expense of the fighting apparatus (claws, sharp teet...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Rigorous Science What would a hard boundary mean in physics on the quantum-mechanical level?

I'm a physicist, but an experimental one. This means I don't deal with hypothetical stuff like this very often, and when I do, I feel the need to figure out a real-world example or test for it. Als...

posted 8y ago by PipperChip‭  ·  edited 4y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Meta Renaming Researched Q&A

How about "rigorous-science"? There are lots of ways to apply rigorous logic to a question, this draws focus to the science part.

posted 4y ago by Aliza‭

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Meta I received a notification about a new answer to my question, but there are no answers

Yeah, that's my fault. I wrote up an answer and posted it, but I deleted it shortly afterwards (and later undeleted it . . . and then redeleted it). I did so because I've been extremely active on S...

posted 3y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Meta Is this the right name for the site?

Of the suggestions I've seen, I like 'scientific worldbuilding' the best. However, Mithrandir has raised some concerns that this focuses on the worldbuilding aspect, on a site where we're inviting ...

posted 4y ago by Thomas Myron‭

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Meta Didn't get notified about reply to comment

I was the mod who deleted the comment - thanks for bringing this up. The main reason I deleted it was that I figured that the comment was primarily for the benefit of the poster, rather than the co...

posted 3y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  edited 3y ago by HDE 226868‭

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