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I have seen the same effect with foam air filters on electronic devices. The foam deteriorates in to a sticky, black goo that is very difficult to clean up without the use of solvents. It was not accelerated by exposure to sunlight or ozone (from high voltage potentials). I suspect that some of...

Humans have a hard time in conceptualizing what millions or hundreds of millions of years mean; You can build up organic deposits several kilometers deep just with a modest deposition of organic plant matter of a centimeter or so per year. Think of the outflow of river deltas like the Amazon...

I would believe that if there was a monochromatic energy source that was exclusively in the far UV/ X-ray/ gamma end of the spectrum that it would still "glow" from the incandescence it would cause on the particles and gases in the immediate vicinity of the star.

There might be some extremely undesirable side effects of pumping large quantities of water deep into the Yellowstone caldera. Like causing a super-volcano eruption that could depopulate a significant chunk of North America and push the planet into a mini-ice age. There has been quite a bit of...

As a red dwarf star is donating material to a white dwarf until there is a nova. What happens to the red dwarf during the nova? Is there an increase in nucleosynthesis within the red dwarf due to its close proximity? If so, how would that change the periodicity and type of later novas? If you...

Hi, my name is Tish. I am an electrical engineer who works primarily with electric utilities and communications networks. My interests are in physics, astronomy and mathematics