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What to do if a giant meteor is coming at you
questionposter replied to questionposter's topic in Speculations
Lol, "there's a very high chance one will happen eventually". So between now an infinity, one is bound to happen. But, think about how much energy the sun releases and how life has been thriving for 3.8 billion years, how would a meteor that's not even a considerable fraction of the Earth's size carry that much energy even if broken up? I think the potential energy would still be pretty great, but it would release that energy in the form of kinetic energy as it ran into the air and caused friction, but it's still a lot of energy so there's a good chance it may heat up the Earth's atmosphere considerably, but probably wouldn't wipe anything out if it's mostly just small pieces. In fact, if it is in small pieces, then it's basically the sunlight analogy, it's many little bundles of energy contributing to many little areas of heat at a time. I suppose a nuclear bomb could vaporize parts of an asteroid, but the way a nuclear bomb packs such a powerful punch is because of the plating design in directing a powerful shockwave, so not only could that angle be off, but there's no air for it to be directed in, so the "shockwave" if it can even be called that in outer-space with nothing around will likely disperse at a much greater rate and render it less effective. -
What to do if a giant meteor is coming at you
questionposter replied to questionposter's topic in Speculations
Lol, "there's a very high chance one will happen eventually". So between now an infinity, one is bound to happen. But, think about how much energy the sun releases and how life has been thriving for 3.8 billion years, how would a meteor that's not even a considerable fraction of the Earth's size carry that much energy even if broken up? I think the potential energy would still be pretty great, but it would release that energy in the form of kinetic energy as it ran into the air and caused friction, but it's still a lot of energy so there's a good chance it may heat up the Earth's atmosphere considerably. I suppose a nuclear bomb "could" vaporize parts of an asteroid,d which would likely cool down very quickly anyway, but the way a nuclear bomb packs such a powerful punch is because of the plating design in directing a powerful shockwave, so not only could that angle be off, but there's no air for it to be directed in, so the "shockwave" if it can even be called that in outer-space with nothing around will likely disperse at a much greater rate. -
I don't see how anyone in that time period could have known about nuclear decay, and "alpha and omega" are Greek letters, which also existed a long time ago. It's completely possible that the bible was altered throughout ages. In fact, it was definitely altered if you just look at "King Henry's Bible". If you take that reference seriously, he was more likely talking about the heavens and constellations. The age of the Earth is also approximately 4.5 billion years. Coincidence? Yeah, there's even more coincidental things that happen, like two neutron stars randomly colliding into each other? The universe could be infinitely large, and the closest star is 4 light years away, and in that 4 light years of distance, you could pack every star in the visible universe into a sphere that would fit between here and there, and yet two random little neutron balls in-comprehensibly small compared to the universe just happen to run into each other like that. 1+2=3, three has five letters, Jesus has five letters, the sum of 1+2 is Jesus.
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I don't think a lot of the bible's magical instances are true, but I don't think it all get's pulled out of thin air either. There was in fact recordings of a giant flood, but evidence shows it didn't engulf the world (unless your talking about right after the Hadean era over 3 billion years ago), nor was it necessarily dramatic. The black sea did not use to exist at least as large as it is now a few thousand years ago, so it's likely there was either a lot of rain over a short period and the constant rain accelerated the erosion, or someone noticed a dramatic increase in the water level from what was previously described by maybe local people or a map and made up a story to fit it. Jesus was probably also a real person to, especially considering he wasn't the only one around claiming to be born from a virgin.
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A time traveler travels exactly 3 seconds to into the past from where he was standing, however when he arrives in the past and waits 3 seconds, he sees himself, but he does not see himself traveling into the future. How is this possible?
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Explorer encounters an isolated tribe
questionposter replied to questionposter's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
looks good to me. -
Explorer encounters an isolated tribe
questionposter replied to questionposter's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
yep, but do you know why? -
But you still haven't explained what exactly is different about entanglement and the state that the atoms in liquid helium are in. In both instances, the particles act as one particle, so...
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Or, I should say it's one of the hardest puzzles to have any confidence that your answering it correctly if you don't already know the answer, and here it goes... Why?
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There were sons and daughters of immigrants who I think were born I think where New Mexico is, but the children were born citizens, but the parents broke no laws my immigrating there. How is this possible if legally anyone born in the US is suppose to be a citizen of the US?
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Valley of the green glass doors
questionposter replied to questionposter's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
yep This should throw people off though: "There is rich but no impoverished" There is also asking but no answering -
Valley of the green glass doors
questionposter replied to questionposter's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
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Why light can't escape a Black Hole's gravity?
questionposter replied to morgsboi's topic in Modern and Theoretical Physics
No it has to do with how the "distance" between you and the photon decreases, like dilation, only it's more to do with the frame-rate of events. -
Explorer encounters an isolated tribe
questionposter replied to questionposter's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Sorry, second to last "is" should be "us". -
You get a metaphoric cookie that makes you seem smarter when you eat it. .
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It's almost the answer, it sounds better out-loud than on text, and it goes like this
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Valley of the green glass doors
questionposter replied to questionposter's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Yes Nope Yes -
Distances of deep space objects
questionposter replied to UncleJoe's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
Ok, I just got confused because you said But I guess you were talking about the acceleration vs speed. -
If there are apples and no oranges, what else are there and none of?
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Nope, rectangular. There's no light source but you can still look at things. What if the walls are too thick or strong?
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Phi got it right
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Why light can't escape a Black Hole's gravity?
questionposter replied to morgsboi's topic in Modern and Theoretical Physics
So what's the point of saying that if light is still "c" for all observers? -
Distances of deep space objects
questionposter replied to UncleJoe's topic in Astronomy and Cosmology
If the expansion is not consistant throughout most if not all of the 3-dimensional coordinates of the universe, how can scientists model how the universe has changed? Without a consistency, the universe would expand at random rates and random amounts everywhere. -
So is superfluidity existing as entangled particles and more? Kind of like how a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't a square? Because it seems like if I have entangled particles, you say they occupy the same state as to not be able to pinpoint which individual atoms is which, which is also how superfluids are describe. Could this same phenomena happen in degenerate matter due to proximity?