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Posts by Pastychomper‭

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Q&A If this earth were cube shaped would it be possible during Magellanic era using a float ship to figure out that the earth is cube shaped?

The shape of the Earth is mostly a result of its gravity pulling its mass into the most efficient shape available. The oceans are also pulled towards the centre of mass, and collect on the lowest ...

posted 2y ago by Pastychomper‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Pastychomper‭

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Q&A Could a high-pressure, low oxygen atmosphere reduce fire risk while still being breathable?

Years ago I read a letter in a magazine suggesting a method for reducing the fire risk in an enclosed environment such as a space shuttle. The idea was to reduce the oxygen concentration to the po...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Pastychomper‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A How do you establish identity when people can change their appearance at will?

Short, easy-to-read gene tags. Since all modifications are reliably policed, you can require that every modification includes a short, non-coding DNA sequence containing the recipient's legal iden...

posted 3y ago by Pastychomper‭

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

Small islands have been built in inland waters since prehistoric times, but using sea floor material to build an offshore island is a much larger project. As Peter Taylor and JBH have pointed out,...

posted 2y ago by Pastychomper‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Pastychomper‭

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Q&A Repetitive head-hair removal and lab-grown head-hair planting

I assume proper hygiene to prevent post-implant infections, which would otherwise be the biggest risk. Presumably the lab-grown hair needed some hormone(s) to stimulate its growth. There's a chanc...

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

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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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Rigorous Science Do plants need ambient oxygen?

Yes. All plants require free oxygen, and any (part of a) plant that is not actively photosynthesising has to obtain its oxygen from its environment. We owe our oxygen supply to the fact that, on a...

posted 1y ago by Pastychomper‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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

For the cells to act exactly as described would require cooperation between different metastasising cell lines, both during infection and when growing structures in the new host. That implies a ki...

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

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