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Good morning AB'ers and a very happy bank holiday to you all. My question for you brainboxes is this: If my 1:10th scale model Radio controlled car covers 8.8 metres in 0.58 of a second, can anyone...
because of excessive rainfall, much of britain's wheat crop has not been harvested. Could the fields not have been covered with protective plastic sheets or something similair? How does the wet...
I watched the programme about Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution on CH4 and found it interesting. One of the points that Dawkin's (the presenter) was talking about was the fact that all being's on...
why does nature like nice rounded curves so much? why doesnt it like right angles or sharp angles? i mean, if nature caught onto the idea of something like triangulation - then it could grow into huge...
a man got his finger caught in a machine at the factory. The damage was less serious than expected, but nontheless, the entire nail was torn fro his right index finger, The parts lost were the body,...
why is it not possible to break the speed of light using a series of gears. I calculated that a motor spinning at 5k rpm, would need a ration of 1:60K to do it
Is there any possible chance that there was an intelligent race on earth millions of years ago that got wiped out before the dinosaurs even existed. seeing as the earth is billions of years old, I'm...
HI There are plenty of questions on here about whether warp speed is possible, but i have a question on faster than light travel in general. In star trek, when they activate the warp drive the ship...
Has anyone just seen Eggheads? One of the questions in the science round was "What is the S.I. Unit of electrical resistance?" Before the answers were shown, I said "ohm" to the missus. However, the...
Generally speaking will a son end up taller than his father- and by how much (in % terms ?) Have noticed that 6ft dads have sons who are same height - but not taller?
I'm having problems sourcing data on the toxicity levels of ricin in the mammalian body. The species are unimportant as long as they are mammals. Can anyone help please? Also, can I have a detailed...
In an electrical wire is there any electricity actually in the wire if the final circuit is not connected.? IE if you touched a "live" wire you would get a shock because you have...
Why do we sweat after eating a single "hot" chilli but don't sweat when eating whole platefuls of things that really are hot (temperature wise)? Cheers.