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In the Russian segment of the internet, a question that is, in fact, painfully simple has been sparking heated debates for about eight... -
An example: "A few people have mentioned the Coriolis Effect and the Eötvös Effect as reasons the eastbound and westbound...
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Regarding the available resources, I found an estimate that 12.33 billion tennis balls have been produced since they were invented. By...
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256bits reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread High School Tennis Balls in the Ocean with
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border effects goes like L, area goes as L^2 so the inperfect packing error is negligible on ocean scale -
I hypothesise that with the majority of the ocean being non-coastal, it would benefit most from the balls being arranged in a hexagonal...
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Déjà vu.
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256bits reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread High School Tennis Balls in the Ocean with Like.
My previous answer may have been too short. The coastline effect gives a correction that scales with coastline length (L), whereas the...
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256bits replied to the thread Collection of Science Jokes P2.That is frigin hilarious! No doubt I will still be chuckling several days from now. May we have found the actual reason for tinnitus...
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256bits reacted to Borek's post in the thread Affordable way to remove potassium from off-grid water? with Like.
Rains that fall lately in russia (after oil refinery fires) are an extreme example.
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256bits replied to the thread High School Tennis Balls in the Ocean.Previous answer was more to the point for a realistic earth, with the error given here of correct magnitude. This answer here though is...
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256bits replied to the thread Affordable way to remove potassium from off-grid water?.The water cycle includes atmospheric evaporation and condensation, so I suppose that can be called a natural distillation. The adjective...
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256bits replied to the thread High School Tennis Balls in the Ocean.The problem is the circle packing problem. How many circles can fit is a specific area? For a circle of radius r, 1 circle will fit in...
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Not so fast. Consider e.g. if instead they were almost the same density as the water, also hexagonal in section and 1m tall. (Btw, not...
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Hello all, I indulged myself a curiosity today on the question of how much the sea levels would rise if we covered them with tennis...