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Posts by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A What if the Planck constant was exactly zero?

This question really has no answer because it is phrased in a way which doesn't actually have much meaning. As phrased, it appears as though the universe is governed by these constants, which can ...

posted 9y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  edited 4y ago by HDE 226868‭

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

I don't think things would change as much as you think they might. Looks would still play a part. Just because someone has great genes doesn't mean they take the time to maintain their body - sel...

posted 9y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A In space, do "shipping lanes" make sense?

Whether shipping lanes will appear depends almost 100% on whether it is profitable to shipping companies to use shipping lanes. Shipping companies, due to their slim margins, are very dependent on...

posted 10y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A How expressive is a color-based language?

We actually use images to capture our speech for analysis To make a spectrogram like one of these, we split out the higher frequencies from the lower frequencies. With this, we can see the way ...

posted 8y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A What to do with all the heat in a Dyson Sphere?

I think the best solution would be a Matrioshka Brain. This is effectively a layered set of Dyson spheres. Once it reaches equilibrium, each shell has a particular temperature differential across...

posted 8y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A How would organic EM transmitters/recievers be different than our mechanical ones

Modern mechanical EM transmitters, like radio towers and radar guns, rely on finely tuned mechanical structures. If these structures do not have the right shapes, the device fails to function. Or...

1 answer  ·  posted 10y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A The Matrix: How to drag it out for as long as possible

In an unfortunate miscommunication between a director and the special-effects company, a request for a prop version of The Matrix got mistaken for a request for the real thing. The director's goin...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Cort Ammon - Reinstate Monica‭