On Dumb Questions I’ve Had For Science
Whee, science!
• If you drilled a hole nearly to the core of the earth, and did it in the ocean, what would happen? Would the ocean start draining into the hole, and could you go deep enough to rid the earth of the ocean once and for all?
You could hide the ocean in a really big underground hole. It's what, 14 km at its deepest? The radius of the earth is about 6400 km, so lots of space underground. There's also enough heat in the core to turn of all the water into steam, although I don't know how you'd get it to stay as steam.
• When will scientists engineer a cow that doesn't fart? It would end global warming.
Australian scientists are working on it. They're trying to put kangaroo gut bacteria into cows.
• Would it radically alter the sun's chemistry if we gathered up all our garbage and rocketed it into the sun?
I can't imagine it would. The garbage would be toasted into its constituent atoms (hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc) all
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This show is too good for Canada, apparently.
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I guess there's no hope for a second location called Fuku 2.
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@breccia Aw man I'll never get to be cool
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@Bus Driver Stu Benedict The fact that the operating principle behind its movement seems to be to flail in a forward direction makes it kind of adorable.
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On How To Make Hard Apple Cider
If you're worried about the carbonation turning your glass bottles into grenades, perhaps you should try plastic bottles. As vanick points out above, it's not totally foolproof, and it still might be messy when you open them, but plastic bottles are a lot stronger and have less shrapnel potential.
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@barnhouse Technically, the first Rep mentioned is a Blue Dog democrat, but he's in the same position as the moderate Republicans.
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On How To Make Weeknight Pasta Sauce
@ls For the people that find this concerning, Eden Foods has BPA free cans, and this may be true of the organic/"natural" tomatoes carried by your supermarkets.
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On Dumb Questions I’ve Had For Science
@Odm My link got eaten. http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/quest-to-make-cattle-fart-like-marsupials/2007/12/06/1196812922326.html