Recent content by arabianights

hi guys I have a switch mounted on the wall in my living room that doesn't control anything, it's on the opposite side of stairwell to the basement and below the HVAC vent. the light switch to stairwell is in the same space of stairs. and the living room ceiling light is controlled on the far...

i'm wondering whether it's possible to send a probe to intercept or even hitch a ride with such interstellar objects, that way human can map space outside our solar system much faster than current probe does (voyager 1 &2).

greetings I replaced my bedroom toilet due to water leak and unable to replace water tank bolt with new ones. so now i have old toilet in the yard and i took a closer look at the seized bolt, it seems that the bottom part (a butterfly fastener) holds onto the bolt really tight, when i turned...

I'm pondering on why Fukushima site continues pumping millions of tonnes of water every day into the destroyed reactor thus creating waste water daily? Can they seal the site with concrete like soviet did at Chernobyl?

thank you! I didn't know what type of valve it was since it's different from regular flapper type of toilet flushing system. it seems it's also being called canister valve with outlet harnesses.

My mom lives in an old apartment building and her toilet is constantly leaking. I opened the cover and took a took. I couldn’t tell which part is causing the leak. Here’s a couple pictures of it

hi guys, My banker's lamp glass shade was broken. I'm trying to replace with a new one but stuck at loosen the screw opposite of bulb fixture. the screw needs to be taken off in order to put the lamp shade on. but i couldn't loose the end screw by hand, with pliers it doesn't grip tight...

I found an article about the Great Lakes drainage area, it's easier to understand than size of ecosystems. 'The Great Lakes have an area of 244,000 square kilometres, with a total drainage area of 745,600 square kilometres.'...

hi, I was watching PBS's Nature program last night, latest episode is about Niagara Falls. at the beginning, it claimed that Great lakes ecosystem is bigger than state of Texas. I had to check the fact after hearing this statement: it certainly doesn't mean the total area, given Great lakes...

hi guys, I did some reading into dioxin in light of recent incident in Ohio. I'm not sure how to count the carbon in this compound, if i start counting from top left or top right, I comes with carbon 2, 3, 8, 9 that bounds with Chlorine atom. https://www.epa.gov/dioxin/learn-about-dioxin

I observed the eclipse from Washington DC area yesterday. I have a few questions. from the eclipse map and youtube clips ppl uploaded, the eclipse starts in Oregon and sweep across states. questions: 1. I know Earth rotate around itself from west towards east every 24 hrs, is this the main...

i just realized that i need a pair of solar eclipse glasses to view the sun, and it's nowhere to be found, all sold out...online and stores

my local weather forecast (Washington DC) says partly sunny on 8/21 eclipses day, will keep finger crossed

i think it's time to bring in dark matter/dark energy to explain the strange behavior of distant stars.

how far is it from our solar system?