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Did the Biden administration lose almost a trillion dollars to “improper payments”?

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Why machine worlds?

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Could you actually do orbital deployment?

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How does an explorer civilization survive the Dark Forest Scenario?

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Can we get some explanations for the AI answers experiment?

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Would a torchship be legal?

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Why aren’t there advanced computers in an advanced society?

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How did the bugs get all over the place?

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Why do high-orbit space stations fall once destroyed?

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Why bother with planetary battlefields?

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Would weightlessness (i.e. in thrill rides, planes, skydiving, etc.) be different on a Flat Earth?
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Join us for our first community-wide AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Stack Overflow’s CEO (and a few others) on February 26, 2025
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How do we know what's IDEAL if we have never seen it?
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Is it feasible at all to build data centers in space?
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Assuming that production isn't a problem, what would be the easiest antimatter element to store and contain?
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What would be the most optimal way to produce and utilize an army of Pinocchios?
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Is there any reason other than politics why all ideas for nuclear pulse propulsion have been abandoned?
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Black hole the mass of Everest is safe to produce?
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"Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB)" for an image that is exactly 10 MiB
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How is maintenance, repair and refueling done on satellites currently?
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Why don't spaceships get hotter and hotter until they burn up since they are in a near perfect vacuum?
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Could the damaged Columbia have skipped off the atmosphere several times until it just fell straight down and survived?
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Space Princess Space Tours: Black Holes merging - what would you visually see?
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Could a black hole’s photon sphere theoretically act as a "mirror" to observe Earth’s historical light?
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Why is redshift possible if the speed of light is constant?
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Dangerous but efficient future energy source
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Allow high-rep users to post AI answers, as they're skilled enough to vet the output
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Is there a name for the inertial reference frame experienced by something moving at c?
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Did Biden’s Department of Education add rules that imposed 4,239,530 paperwork hours?
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Why is the permeability of the vacuum exact, and why must the permittivity be determined experimentally?
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Star power: How can we understand nuclear chemistry at millions of degrees when we can't do that experiment? Because the math predicts observations?
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Relation between mass and required fuel
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Is a "hot cube" (analogous to an ice cube) a physical possibility?
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Why are asteroid collisions a probability?
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How has the rotation of Earth been accounted for in the theory of gravitational time dilation?
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Why, in philosophy, is there such a deference to ancient books and ancient philosophers?
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Does the SPLC's citation of a quote from Dan Stein in his 1997 interview with Tucker Carlson accurately reflect his full remarks from said interview?
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How do astronomers know that two objects appearing near one another are in fact close?
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How good are these 'verse specific terms?
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How to save a villain that is not working?
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