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Would you be able to look directly at the Sun if it were a red giant?
The nearest everyday example for the brightness of a 3000K object is a tungsten-halogen lightbulb.
A car headlight variety has a few square mm heated surface and is quite unpleasant if looked at from ...
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Long term viability of a human population with super healing that causes female to male sequential hermaphrotism
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How is this functionally different from Menopause?
(Quickly ducks from all the hormonally thrown objects at my general direction)
Hear me out for a second - Currently Women get their ...
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Exploring the Feasibility of Laser-Based Ram Scoops Powered by Micro Black Holes
Drag is exponential to your velocity
Any mass you absorb at relativistic speeds will have to be accelerated to the speed of your ship to become part of it. So depending on how efficient your engine ...
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Would you be able to look directly at the Sun if it were a red giant?
I see several answers here that I don't think give a properly direct to your first two questions
It seems like you're thinking here that the sun is bigger in the sky (both because it is larger and the ...
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