@Catalyst well I looked at my hand, and stroked gently across. When I noticed something strange, that I could find on both. I made use of my fingers, my senses of touch. Where I identified some sort of sinew, or muscle, or such
@Separatrix The original title was a mistake on my side, I was intending to make the titlea pun on the title of a movie about dragons. I hoped that people going to answer the question would actually read it and hence answer the question as stated at the end of the body.
The question stated there was formulated: What parts of the dragon could be eaten? and was subsequently changed to What are the parts/cuts of the dragon's carcass? in order to make it even clearer that the question was not asking for recipes.
Judging from early answers though, this intention of not asking about recipes but about the parts/cuts of dragon-meat, etc. that can be used / how the meat would behave, has been understood by at least some of the readers.
Thus, and because asking for recipes would be opinion-based, I felt justified in adjusting the question to bring that point accross better than I initially had managed to
so anyway, today I'm having a really hard time paying attention to work, so I was going to ask a question about the effects of Martian sand on firearms. Does that seem like a reasonable question to ask?
Reasonable question, and the answer is excessive wear and short life spans. Martian fines are so small they will get deposited on every moving surface, wearing it excessively over time.
Well that would be one way to do it. Esp if the fines are slightly conductive being partly iron oxide. So you'd be able to limit moving things like that, and also have non sealed electronics have issues.
Well, the fines would be detrimental to weapons, but guns will still shoot for a while. Even if you can only kill people with your gun for a few months, its still better than using a sword.
@JourneymanGeek Martian soil is ground up much more finely than sand. There are no water-processes to rejoin smaller pieces into larger, so over millions and billions of years of blowing around the surface, the pieces are basically microscopic. Same thing with moon dust; that caused respiratory problems in the astronauts since it stuck to everything and got all over the interior of the Apollo modules.
If you want hard science I feel like you need more parameters/details provided in the question, plus its not one scenario they are looking at or considering so what exactly is there to science
I think it is a very legitimate question. The problem is I don't know if anyone on this site has the relevant knowledge to answer it.
I work with satellite communications and I don't really have a clue how to estimate the total energy being directed into space, or how likely it is that we could find that energy from 200 ly out. Tough question.
Maybe just put the idea of removing the hard science tag in as a comment and let the OP decide on their own if the answers they are getting are good enough?
I mean, it is their question, and if they are happy with the answers then great. If not, then maybe they need to rewrite the question.
The only reason I can see for actually deleting someone else's answer to a hard science question is if they answer it with equations that are wrong. Like if someone answered that tidal heating question with a formula that calculates the area of a cylinder then I can see it as being beyond the threshold.
If someone answers with some creative/informative ideas that apply to the question but don't have enough math to satisfy the tag, that doesn't mean that they are bad answers, just that they shouldn't be chosen as The Answer.
Good use for that magnum... Though from reading this mars and moon dust is way worse than sand in the desert: http://now.space/posts/problem-dust-moon-mars/
@AndyD273 Yeah, it wasn't an "I think we should consider this because why not" so much as an "We've tried a lot and there hasn't been much improvement. Let's put this on the table".
Well, whatever the conversion is, that the NASA DSN would have a detection threshold of -54 dBm doesn't make any sense. I'm pretty sure the FM radio in my car does much better than that!
Oh, lovely. I found a NASA document stating that the DSN requires special configuration when the downlink signal strength exceeds -85 dBm, and the downlink signal strength must never exceed -65 dBm, but nothing on its detection threshold!
@RoryAlsop Are these not the words that we use to describe ourselves, bleep bloop?
@MichaelKjörling It felt only natural on this foggy day.
Huh, I can buy the Fast and Furious complete collection on BluRay for $27 and attempt to fill the void inside my life, or not buy it and refuse to support the capitalist industrial machine. Choices, choices.
@MichaelKjörling Indubitably it would, however by chance I have acquired two such devices via the exchange of abstract monetization and use of packaging data in networking protocols.
Ohh! New plan! Send Santa a letter addressed from Curiosity asking for a new martian rover to keep it company. Then when Santa delivers it then NASA will have a new rover with no launch costs
"Dear Santa, I am very lonely. All I want for Christmas this year is the Mars 2020 Rover to keep me company. I have been very good this year, and haven't run any over any cats. Love, Mars Rover Curiosity."
@dot_Sp0T Yes Santa! I have worked hard, reported in on time, and haven't gotten stuck. I know people say that I kill cats, but it's not true. It must be some other Curiosity. I've been a good little rover!
"I have been a very Curious rover, and have made my Mission Control and Science teams very happy. Please keep this in mind when considering my Christmas list."
»There is no need to feel inadequate« said the Çat. »Just pick a keyboard and start typing.« Alice was confused. »But I don't know what to type!« she exclaimed. »Then« said the Çat, »It matters not what keys your keyboard has.«
@dot_Sp0T When it first came out, yeah. Pocahontas destroyed by space-age technology with a GI Joe flare. Also brain braids and mind-reading bed chambers.
@DaaaahWhoosh I really didn't think it was awful it just didn't live up to the hype. Also half the characters are blue.
@dot_Sp0T could you just turn it into ship hull components and get ships that have the ability to float without expending power. Would save a lot of energy to get/stay airborn
@dot_Sp0T I don't follow the question, so there's something I'm missing. If your setting has the same technology the humans in the Avatar movie have, can't you just toss in the hover jet things they have on a large craft and say "look, airship!"
@dot_Sp0T If your setting has the same technology that the natives have, then you're out of luck since they didn't have anything capable of actual flight.
I've watched movie "Avatar" few times. In my opinion it's one really good movie but every time I watch it I wonder how the hell that pieces of ground or "flying islands" can be in the air? Is there any explanation for that?
And if they can somehow fly, how is it even possible that they stay in o...
The Meissner effect is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. The German physicists Walther Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld discovered this phenomenon in 1933 by measuring the magnetic field distribution outside superconducting tin and lead samples. The samples, in the presence of an applied magnetic field, were cooled below their superconducting transition temperature. Below the transition temperature the samples cancelled nearly all interior magnetic fields. They detected this effect only indirectly because the magnetic flux...
In the movie Avatar, the moon Pandora had floating mountains. I believe it was in an area called the flux vortex that was said to have a electrical interference. Did they ever explain or give hints as to why those mountains floated?
Were they floating because they were at the balance point bet...
@DaaaahWhoosh In the air. One of the effects of a superconductor (as described in that video) is that it will lock itself in place above a magnet. You can take a superconductor and place is above a magnate at a 45 degree angle, and it will stay at that angle as long as it stays cool enough to super conduct.
Well, answer that does not reiterate the same points as all other answers written; obligatory joke about archaic webbrowsers hidden in comment section; I'm good to go
@HDE226868 Hey, just curious (without filling up the comments of the answer) how is what you said different than what I put in my answer: "We only really see their effects on a massive scale, and how they interact with things like galaxies."
@HDE226868 hmm, ok. I am answering questions on 4 hours sleep, so I figured it was entirely possible that I made a mistake, so I was hoping to be able to set it right before to much time went by
I want to buy some transformers for my kids (mostly for my kids anyway) and I just want to find a place that sells all the same series, Transformers Prime. Searching on Amazon is killing me, they have I think 3 different series just from that show, all mixed together, not to mention all the other series' that exist...
@AndyD273 Ill whip something up out of rubber bands, paper clips and toilet paper rolls