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Medical What caused the sudden loss of breath after a fall?
Some years ago i fell from a height to the ground (around 10 feet), right on my back and stopped breathing for some 10 seconds. A sudden complete cut off. I am curious what stopped the air. Either the windpipe was squashed by the ribcage, or was temporary stifled from the very impact without...- rapidstart
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Can Humans Really Have Superhuman Strength?
A rugby player not long ago lost his life when when the whole thing collapsed on him displacing his spine.- rapidstart
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- Forum: Biology and Medical
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Arctic Ice Instability: Recent Assessment & Effects of GHGs
how high the sea level would rise if all Ice that is left around the poles melted?- rapidstart
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- Forum: Earth Sciences
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Graduate What is time, and can it be changed?
I don't think we could return to the past, even in theory. By past mean historical events known to us. The best that you could do would be to enter a Past parallel to out Present but in a new dimension, possibly open up this new dimension, arriving at Event 0.- rapidstart
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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High School What gives objects their color?
Does it mean that the porosity or bumpiness of a surface gives it its color? What about transparent materials. They soak up Light, let it go through. This is neither scattering nor diffusion. Wait, Black is yet another quality. It also soaks up Light, but does nothing to it less catch it.- rapidstart
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- Forum: Optics