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 Discussion on question by The_Kaptain…

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Gary Walker
Sep 13, 2023 10:17
@ErikHall abundant life without abundant fossil fuels is possible. The conditions for fossilization are such that it is rare that organic material get preserved, usually requiring rapid burial (flood, volcano, etc.) to prevent the organic material from being eaten by scavengers.
 

 Discussion on question by Matthew: Al…

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Gary Walker
Mar 25, 2020 06:41
You handwave physics, does this include chemistry? Normal air molecules won't have the same bonding character with hemoglobin, etc. if all of her atoms are shrunk proportionally.
 

 Discussion on question by Miles Means…

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Gary Walker
Mar 7, 2020 17:09
Related Question. How could a galactic empire work
 

 Discussion on answer by Halfthawed: W…

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Gary Walker
Nov 28, 2019 12:34
Wind power is already likely to be the cheapest power source at night because winds typically are stronger and demand is lower - nighttime wholesale is already less than 10 USD per MWH
 

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Gary Walker
Aug 3, 2019 09:24
If you add the required shielding, anti-matter made not be a viable fuel for this small fighter either.
 

 Discussion on answer by Mori: If Swed…

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Gary Walker
May 30, 2019 13:03
I was hinting at the fact that say Pretoria SA is at 25.75 S lattitude and will not be hidden from a sufficiently high Sweden, because it is closer to the equator than Sweden.
Gary Walker
May 30, 2019 13:03
If standing just south of the equator, you are in the southern hemisphere. Certainly Sweden would be visible at sufficient altitude in this interpretation.
 

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Gary Walker
Jan 26, 2019 05:54
There is a big difference between blocking short-wave communications, wifi, cell towers, and satellites - the EM-spectrum is very wide and useful at many frequencies. Are you expecting to block all of these, or just specific cases.
 

 Discussion on question by chasly from…

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Gary Walker
Nov 30, 2018 02:15
Exodus 15:8, "The waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea". -- Some have interpreted this congealing passage as walls of ice preventing the sea from flowing back into the gap. A low tech (miracle) force field.
 

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Gary Walker
Jul 18, 2018 04:40
When you're that good looking, clothes just make you look worse.
 

 Discussion on question by Aric Fowler…

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Gary Walker
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
Just the KE of 1 kg travelling at 7700 m/s. Your actual damage will depend up to velocity relative to the target at impact, so if you had a head on collision the impact energy would be 4 times as much (1/2 m v^2)
Gary Walker
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
30 KJ of energy of 1 kg at LEO, stupid typo.
Gary Walker
Aug 23, 2017 03:09
On Earth, At LEO velocity 1 kg will have abou 30 KM of kinetic energy. I.e., about 7 kg TNT equivalent worth of kinetic energy. The KE component is 7 times powerful as equivalent mass of TNT
 

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Gary Walker
Sep 2, 2016 14:52
You really have to work at it, but this CPU would make a supernova look like a dim bulb.
 

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Gary Walker
Dec 21, 2015 19:42
I suppose I could say that Joe should go into politics, but that somehow seems hauntingly familiar.
 

 Discussion on question by Lord of Ede…

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Gary Walker
Oct 20, 2015 19:37
The mass of water far exceeds water stored in the air, the Bible explains this as God opening the fountains of the deep, so not even the Bible has all of the water coming from normal rain. Some creationists argue an ice canopy, e.g. ice in orbit and this is where a large energy change is sometimes figured and this would be high term from de-orbiting perhaps what JimB is referring to. But total quantity falling does not change temperature rise as mass to heat also rises. Don't know if the ice canopy theory is still popular, but to me it appears contrary to the language fountains of the deep.
Gary Walker
Oct 20, 2015 19:37
A lot of creationistist assume Earth was a single continent as this simplifies the collection of animals considerably. Are you ruling single continent or essentially the curent continental and animal distributions.