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David the expat sez: "Stack Exchange Rocks!" so, let Stack Exchange be Stack Exchange.

My goal is to spend less time in my "...snow white cube containing only the bare necessities, a computer, and a large library of treatises, maps, and precise scale models*."

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If a massive object like Jupiter flew past the Earth how close would it need to come to pull people off of the surface?
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Sun constantly converts mass into energy, will this cause its gravity to decrease?
Feb 25, 2020
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Why does the alignment evaluation image from JWST look like this?
Mar 18, 2022
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How does the earth cast straight and reversed shadows on the moon?
Jul 10, 2022
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Why does the Moon appear gray when passing between the Sun and the Earth?
Jul 26, 2016
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Could we carve a large radio dish in the Antarctic ice?
Mar 14, 2021
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Are binary neutron star mergers needed to explain the abundance of gold?
Oct 16, 2017
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When will the number of stars be a maximum?
May 6, 2019
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Is Venus in some way tidally locked to... Earth?
Jun 10, 2020
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Are we really star-stuff from the interior of collapsing stars?
Jan 12, 2019
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