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Surviving Large Bases on Airless Worlds: Is It Possible?
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Which sub-forum is better suited for questions on robotics theory
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Building a Cheap, Portable Water Level Recorder for Seiche Monitoring
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Old fashioned gas stove with automatic lighting - how?
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When does the calibration uncertainty contribute to a measurement uncertainty?
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Some airplane pilot jargon: "Rotate", "Heavy"
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Are Supercomputers Still Profitable in the Age of Cloud Computing?
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Flood drainage outflow rate from horizontal 1500m drainpipe at sump
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Why Do Physical Systems Seek Minimum Potential Energy?
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Gravity Fed Farm Animal Watering System
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How Do You Calculate Load Inertia for a Lead Screw System?
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Handling brake failure/stuck accelerator in auto transmission cars
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Force on Dam: Height or Amount of Water?
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Discovering Digital Twin: Experiences and Resources
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Unplugged Chest Freezer and It Won't Freeze Anymore - Why?
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Big Data and a Saturation Point
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Deterministic method for cost estimation
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If My Water Heater Doesn't Work, Is Water Still Safe to Drink (if Cold)?
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Question about irradiance from a UV lamp
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How would you build a solar stove that works at night & the next morning?
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COVID Effect of Covid-19 on architecture
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Problem / conflict with gas appliance ventilation standard
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Is it possible to make a "laser" etcher using "piped" sunlight?
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Is it possible to build a laser from a light bulb?
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Can Fiber Optic Cables Create a Custom Shaped LCD Screen?
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Structural Systems: Steel and Reinforced Concrete (RC)
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Building jig for a project, trying to think of the ISO standard that would apply
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Statics and Structural Analysis Question
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Can I Transform Multiple Steel Beams into a Single Piece of Concrete?
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Wind-Induced Bending Stress on Chimney with Rectangular Cross-Section
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Where to find engineering drawings?
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Is Nuclear Engineering a Stress-Free Field?
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Understanding Bending Moments and Moment Equilibrium in Structural Analysis
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Dumb question on attics and vents/airflow
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High temperature (~950 C) heating blanket
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Engine with 432,000 miles is in surprisingly good condition
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First moment of area and second moment of area
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How do you control the dosing of powders?
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Weird (or not) issues in thin-walled cylindrical shell buckling modes
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Australian Open Heat Stress Scale
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How did Galileo manufacture his telescope?
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What's the best software to use when designing 2D floor plans for structures?
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Design loads for wind towers & jackets?
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Why Use the Parallel Axis Theorem with the Second Moment of AREA?
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Max load on inclined interlayer of easel
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Innovative Scientific Uses of GPS
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Marimba bar tuning and temperature
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What is the Safest Rule of Thumb for Designing with a Safety Margin?
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Possibility of turning a threaded rod with spur gears using a motor
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Mounting fire / smoke alarms with magnets
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Can we create science from engineering?
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How Is Error Managed When Measuring the Difference Between Two Values?
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Understanding the Point Of Action of a Force
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Why Are Triangles the Optimal Shape for Bridge Design Over Arches?
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Unit of Velocity from a Random Walk measured by an accelerometer
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Is this officer checking his radar gun calibration incorrectly?
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System to collect a small amount of water from the air
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Does water flowing through a pipe make noise?
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Could Airships Revolutionize Affordable Housing Delivery?
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How to measure a quantity of grains for an instant coffee maker project?
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How to reflect light through a glass like those in holographic sight?
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Engineering Drawing: An Essential Tool for the Egyptian Engineer
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Solar heat gain on a typical solar cell
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How Do Tiny Speakers Produce High-Quality Sound?
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Civil engineering - dike improvement
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Calculate Shock Force with Rope Elongation in Excel
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Trends in Trainings on Engineering Standards
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The history of the home water filter
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Sizing corner reflectors for frequencies in the audible range
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Is Ventilation Necessary for Safe 3D Printing?
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What Is the Shear Strength of a Cut I-Beam in a Cantilevered Structure?
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Nonlinear least squares problem
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Can I readily clamp a pipe with 450 weight without it slipping?
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New technologies that are less "advanced" than old?
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Heat vs Cold Protection/Insulation
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Velocity of unspooling fishing line
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DFA Minimization Marking Step Guide | Zulfi
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Ethical Discussion -- Engineering used to create innovation versus destruction
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Nodes in a decentralised manufacturing system
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How much are wind farms useful to manage wildfires?
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Seeking Thermal Insulator & Electrical Insulator for Peltier Device
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Municipal water lines in cold climates - history of technology?
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What about bombing versus Wildfires?
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Source strangulation for an instant water heater?
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Is Biomass Really Carbon Neutral?
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What Is the Big Round Thing on Top of a Nuclear Reactor?
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Modal Analysis for CE Structures
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Graphical way of sizing a storage tank
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Building a Digital Goniometer with 2 Seven Segment Displays
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How Can 2D Artificial Evolution Systems Be Improved?
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The correlation between AI and C.V. to these automation systems
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How Can I Control Syringe Pressure with Compressed Air and Vacuum Pump?
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Ports versus mileage on the ocean - which cost is most significant?
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Objective+Scientific Differences Between Good Floods and Bad Floods? Need Help
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Operator splitting? What is it in the context of transport modeling?
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Acceptable accuracy spec of an hourmeter.
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Harvesting Load Cell from Food Scale
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Vacuum suspended fishtank: Why would this design work or not?
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Is scope drift always a bad thing in project management?
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