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harley_Husky
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...
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porphyro
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...
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sqad617
What is, or more to the point, the function of the nipple in the male.
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flobadob
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...
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dannyday5821
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...
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homiepops77
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,...
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skilliyay
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
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flobadob
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...
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Gilderoy
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...
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squarebear
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...
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claymore
If the universe was a singularity at the moment of the Big bang , did gravity exist and if it did was it infinite?
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dannyday5821
what is this in simple terms? is it something to do with dating stuff? abit like carbon dating?
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tali1
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?
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unigirl
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...
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sammmo
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...
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sexpot2006
in what year was an eeg-based brain computer interface first used
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ll_billym
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.
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Diamond Life
33 a colourless alkene. Thanks just in case.
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roborough
The specific latent heat of water evaporation is 2300 kJ/Kg. Does this figure equally apply to water vapour condensation?
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borthwick
colourless alkene with a sweet odour made from petroleum and natural gas

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