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Has anyone ever come across any studies as to the impact the 6-sided die's introduction had on preexisting games and/or cultures? Became curious after looking into Senet with its uneven probability distribution(throwing sticks).

Ok, this is a question that has been bugging me for quite some time. We all know there really is NO sound in space, because obviously there is no air in space and such. But we do know of radio waves that can be converted into sound, right? And because of this, there has been some peculiar and somewhat creepy sounds produced by NASA. They do this by interpreting the best that they can the waves into sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO9hx0x68lk - this video explains some things and also shows examples of freaky sounds in space. But here's the question that the video failed to ask. If radiowaves can be converted into sound - does this mean there really is sou…

Making it successful at first attempt... whereas other agencies attempted many time to make it successful.... does it implies that application of science is also a science , It made me think... that application of science is science or art ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission

Hey! This is kind of off topic but I need some help from an established blog. Is it very difficult to set up your own blog? I'm not very techincal but I can figure things out pretty quick. I'm thinking about creating my own but I'm not sure where to start. Do you have any points or suggestions? Thank you.

If on May 18 the H, M, Dec, Deg. are 2h 30m and 20 degrees, and on JUNE 22nd it's 6h and 25 degrees, what does that tell me exactly?

This issue can arise when engaging in many different kinds of intellectual activity such as solving mathematical problems or doing puzzles. I was woeking on a crossword puzzle and I got stuck. I was working on it for about 45 minutes and could not finish it because I could not think of words that matched the clues. So I stopped working on it, went outside, took a walk, ate lunch, and then returned to work on it. NOW after this break the words that I could not think of that matched the clues come to me and I finished the puzzle. I believe that the same phenomenon can occur when one is doing math problems. So what is going on here? What cured the "brain fatigue" that preve…

Most science fiction artwork I've come across seems to revolve around one idea when it comes to how cities will look in the near future: Tall buildings, with round parts and funky designs, an exterior layer consisting mostly of glass, and parks / farms with trees and solar / eolian panels on the rooftops. Cars are also portrayed as having a much rounder and modern design, funky discrete headlights / taillights, larger wheels, and so on. For some reason, this stereotypical and realistic view of the recent future is appealing. So appealing, that I'm starting to wonder if and when we are going to see such cities for real. Which is my question for this thread; When will w…

Mankind has come a long way in understanding the universe around it. Do you think there are things out there that we will never grasp - not because we will never discover it - but because it is far beyond our mental capacity to understand? Think of a little mouse. The mouse can easily figure out that it will get food by pressing the little lever within its cage. However, the same mouse will never be able to figure out how to build a nuclear reactor. Also, trying to explain to the mouse - in every feasible way - what a nuclear reactor does will be completely pointless. The mouse will know nothing more about the reactor regardless of how many days you spent trying t…

A cople of days ago i was in my sciense class and my teacher put his phone inivertaintly nexed to a specker that was connected to his computer. It started to make static noies he could not figer out why. I went up to the specker and put my phone nexed to it and it did notheing.I called someone and it started making noises with my phone. we tried it with a few other phones and got the same results.I was wondering why. I know that phones use microwaves but vary small amounts. I know that a specker works by a elctromagnet geting a elcterical signal from your pnone or computer or whatever and it pushes a nother magnet with the same polarity away to move a bowl shaped thing to…

I would like to know how much climate influences agricultural output - as we know, places with temperate climate (such as my country - Poland) have a growing season lasting roughly from April to October but places located in the tropics or the equator have a year-round growing season. How much does it influence the productivity of agriculture and, hence, population density?

What makes music music? Why is it that regular audio (as in speech) can never quality as music? How close to music can regular speech get? And is an instrumental accompaniment a requirement for music to be defined as such?

How come they and other heavy sleeping pills dont work and actually harm you? I swear, there is little to no help in society

How would one change a male species into a female of the same species through either gene splicing or gene therapy or would it be more plausible to use another genetic method? im an armature self taught geneticist and would like receive more information on the subject I am researching please no rude comments. If you do post rude comments i will have them taken off by admin.

New Runway Design for Airplane Landing and Take-Off - I Have an idea to use Gravitational force in take-off and landing of aircraft, I have posted the idea at below link http://www.scribd.com/doc/235525418/New-Runway-Design-for-Airplane-Landing-and-Take-Off it is an innovative way to redesign runway to save much needed fuel. please comment how I can take up this to appropriate authorities, it will help mankind in long run.

Anyone know of a good simulator that let's you use dust and gas to create stars and solar systems. I already have universe sandbox, and while that's a pretty neat program, I'd like to be able to see things form from scratch. Also a program to simulate a planet that you can create life and all that good stuff would be awesome as well.

I was thinking and I came up with this odd vision. In this vision, it was stated, to me that the stars in the universe, including our sun, are stationary, based on experimental measurements. Example, a photograph of the celestial universe, in the last ten years, there have not been a measureable change in the positions of the stars. Probably in the last 100 years, since photograph, there hasn't been any changes of position, of the stars, and 1000 years there is no evidence (photography) and theres the time problem (no clocks). Isn't the assumed motion of the stars in the universe caused by the earth's daily and yearly rotational motions? Can someone explain to me how the…

Hi, Have you seen this shape? It is the intersection between a sphere and a cube. It has many performance advantages and one disadvantage over the traditional circular wheel. I wanted to hear thoughts about it before I elaborated further, thanks.

Alright I made a quick account and I didn't know what category this would fall in. I'm 14 year old male, I do pretty good in school so I'm not a complete idiot. But first off I've been using binaural beats. I've been using them to help me lucid dream, so far I've only lucid dreamt once. When I listen to the beats I close my eyes and I'm able to get vivid imaginations and visuals. Tonight I didn't listen to any beats, therefore my mind was going blank. I didn't get any random abstract visuals and imaginations. So I decided that I'd try to force them, well I didn't exactly think that, but it was more intentional. I started thinking, just basically forcing my mind, to do wha…

It seems that fundamental physical laws like energy and mometum conservation hold for every time. Even biological phenomena (that are basing on a couple of physical processes like ion transport, etc.) are present every time. It seems that an organism is preprogrammed by its DNA and circulating hormones. (The environment can affect also the organism because the organism is an open system.) What are the reasons that laws of nature doesn't change (every process in the universe is reproducable)?

According to caveman principle, we opt for sensation if given a choice between sensation and technology. For example, if you are given a live concert ticket and the artist`s CD record, you opt for the ticket. This principle explains: 1. Why paperless/zero-paper office won`t exist Because we always seek for prooves like receipts and thus papers are always needed. 2. Why non-human civilised cities won`t exist Because we always want we ourselves to get sensation, so instead of letting cities to be resided by robots and computers, we human will stay there too. My question is: What would be the impact of Caveman Principle to our technological devel…

I know that i could buy a stop watch that had milliseconds and i know that you could divied a seconed by 1000 but i really want to know how you can tell how long a milliseconed is not in reference to smaller units of time but physicly

Is it true that dogs, or perhaps certain kinds of dogs, have such sensitive sense of smell, that they can find their way home, over many miles distance, by sniffing for the wind from their neighborhood? The theory is that every area has a peculiar mix of smells that dogs can distinguish. When the wind carries the mix of smells from their neighborhood towards them, they head into the wind as long as they can smell that and when the wind shifts, they have to go around in circles sniffing for that wind again, so they can head into that direction.

Rail Length = 50 Inches Projectile Weight 800 long-rod penetrator + 400 grain armature discarding sabot Here is the question: How much power does it take to send a 1200 grain projectile through the railgun, at a muzzle-velocity of 6000 feet per second? Please show your formula. Assuming zero friction by the use of plasma armature for railgun.

What exactly does the haarp program do? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program Somebody on facebook said a crazy person on the bus was talking about some weather control device. Could somebody clarify what it actually does. I read the wiki but it went straight over my head because I had never even heard of it before.

Hello, I am learning about depolarization in A&P, and there is a part about it that has me stumped. My teacher writes: "At the point of stimulation, mechanical gated or chemical (ligand) gated ion channels open to threshold voltage, then voltage gated Na+ channels open and Na+ rush in..." I am confused. Why do mechanical/ligand gates open to voltage? Chemical gates open to chemical stimulus, mechanical to vibration or pressure, and voltage to voltage. Why does this threshold voltage open up these other gates, if they aren't "supposed" to be able to open to anything else? Your clarification would be MUCH appreciated!!!