Posts by Olin Lathrop
It seems that what is now the earth started as an aggregation of rocky material. Large amounts of water were then added by bombardment of comet-like bodies. These contain a lot of ice.
Tornados and the thunderstorms that often spawn them are driven by rising columns of air. Such "thermals" are stronger and more likely in open terrain, like is prevalent in Tornado Alley. Let the...
Look around the world to see what is possible with our current technology. The Golden Gate bridge has a deck 90 feet wide (27 meters) supporting 6 lanes, and its main span is 4200 feet (1.28 km) l...
The search engines see imported posts as duplicate content, and penalize us accordingly. Scientific-speculation.codidact.com is essentially black-listed, and some of that even seems to be spilling...
There seem to be two separate questions here: Would a moon colony need to be deep underground to get more gravity? No. This is basic physics. Going deeper into the a gravitational body reduces ...
This can't be answered because it depends greatly on the details of some drug/process/whatever that caused them to stop growing You made this up. Only you can say what the long term effects are....
That question was off topic for two reasons: There was no speculation. Paraphrasing loosely, this site is about "what if" questions with a foundation in science. It was about history. This is n...
Your question makes no sense due to its disregard of basic science. The atmosphere consists primarily of carbon dioxide and methane So did the early Earth's, and life was able to start here. This ...
There are two parts to your question. Humans can certainly continue to thrive on earth whether sea level rises or not. We live in quite a variety of climates now. Some climates shifting more tow...
First, moving questions rewards people for asking in the wrong place. That's not something that should be encouraged. Second, that's not a great question because it requires following links to ge...
Some time ago, I wrote a comment to this question. I don't remember the details, but something in the question needed to be fixed. I downvoted and left a comment saying I'd undo the downvote when...
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