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I believe I have seen the following unexplained phenomena: (1) I believe I saw a black shadow pulled me off my bed when I was a teenager. (2) I saw the face of a growling can (with bright shinny eyes...
I know freezing water will expand when turning to ice and will break steel concrete etc. But if the water was contained in a vessel that could not expand at all, the water could not be compressed and...
I want to "float" a mooring assembly into position with my boat....
In the centre of a sunflower is a seed pattern similar to the shape of a galaxy seen side-on, or the sparks from a Catherine wheel firework, like the beginning of lots of rotating spirals all starting...
I don't pretend to understand the 'tech' behind this but the fact that two photons have proven to be entangled over such a distance is mind blowing. The possibilities for communications and even the...
I want to make some homemade cold cream which needs borax but I can only find borax substitute!
Will this do?...
Hello everyone. I am going to do an investigation in biology, and I'm very interested in experimenting with bacterias. I thought of investigating how different antibiotica affect bacterial growth or...
In a quiz recently, the question put was this: 'Arsenic is an element that ends in -ic. What other element ends in -ic?' The answer given was 'turmeric', obviously wrong but I would still say a good...
I know evolution is a really, really slow process but I imagine that a generation for most species of fly is, by our standards, really, really short. How many more generations of flies before they...
How much difference does an extension tube make?
How do I make ice cubes clear? The ones I make never seem to be
Should I use pre boiled water
Cheers!...
...it's how we dispose of our waste. NASA scientists have taken samples from all the worlds oceans and every sample contained minute traces of chemicals used in the manufacture of shower gel. Those...
The world's largest plane the Stratolaunch has been rolled out, first flight expected within days http:// www.spa ce.com/ 37046-s tratola unch-wo rlds-la rgest-a irplane -first- rollout .html The Stratolaunch is...
Hello all Not exactly science, I know - sorry! I am looking for a calculation (or calculations if two are needed) to compare two golf courses. Maybe I'm really look for an algorithm? The scenario...
We have a very complex system, highly tuned over the past millennia. Then, along come the modern, 'advanced' medicines for assorted illnesses. I only see this as stuffing [i]foreign[i] chemicals into...
Have you read it? Did it make you question you're very being and short time through life?
Any revelations?...
I just know this will have an obvious explanation and I'll be here with egg all over my face, but there's something I've been pondering for a while, and not thought of the explanation yet, so maybe...
If a chunk of La Palma falling into the sea ( television programme last night) were to cause a supercolossal tsunami, would shoreline skyscrapers ( e.g. in New York) resist the force of the water or...
Did the Apollo 13 astronauts go into space again on later missions?
How is the play Joe Magarac and the hunkietown Contest similar to the short story Joe Magarac Man of steel A. Joe stops the contestant from Johnstown from doing anything harmful B. Pete and Mary smile...