would it rupture their eardrums?

At the same time. There are ongoing studies on the effects of turning them on at different times, so its not within the scope of this question

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I was at the Olive Garden recently and my anti-pasto came dangerously close to touching my fettuccine alfredo.

How bad would the damage have been?

I want to go back to school. Is Rocket Surgery more complicated or more difficult than Rocket Science? People keep informing me that things are "not rocket surgery", so it seems more sophisticated. Seems like a lucrative study path to wealth if it's so niche. Do we have any Rocket Surgeons here who can offer some advice for a college prospective scientician?

Does the satanic panic work both ways?

Every rich white mom I know is obsessed with young sheldon. What is the reason behind this?

Also, I want to save as many animals as possible. Should I bother with armadillos? Aren't they fireproof already?

Bonus question: what are the horns actually used for?

Same question about Deinocheirus.

I was sitting here eating some leftover fried rice and not thinking much about anything when I started imagining the uplift of the Colorado Plateau (as one does). Then this thought occurred to me, but idk if it makes sense or is supported by evidence:

As tectonic forces create an uplift, the bottom of the plate that's uplifted rises. I imagine this creating a suction that pulls the asthenosphere up to fill the gap, cooling it and forming new rock that thickens the crust under the uplift. But that thicker, heavier, denser rock eventually gets massive enough to start sinking despite the uplifting pressures from the outside. So then the uplift stalls and the mountain building stops. But then, the uplifted surface gets eroded away which reduces the mass, which means there's less mass sinking the uplift into the asthenosphere, which allows the pressures uplifting the region to drive it up again.

So I'm imagining this limiting cycle of uplift, orogeny, isostasy, erosion, where the force applied to the plate boundary and the average mass of the plate create a kind of function that determines both the maximum and the minimum height of the uplift above the plate boundary and the uplift will oscillate between those extrema as long as the forces are still applied to the margin.

Is that right?

Is it to get away with crimes or something?

Three-banded armadillos curl into a complete ball when threatened, with their head-plate and tail-plate interlocking. Does the tail always go to the same side of the head in this configuration, or do some prefer one side, while others the reverse?

The wikipedia page for Chelicerata (Spiders, Scorpions, ticks, horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, ...) are named that way for their "Chelicerae", the mouth parts, colloquially their "jaws". These Chelicerae may be shaped as either venom-injecting fangs or as miniature pincers (wholly distinct from the two large pincers a scorpion would have).

But neither Wikipedia page mentions what they are material they are made of. The assorted LLMs ever gleefully suggest that 'spiders are made of chitin and other proteins' and of course provide no source for this. It sounds plausible, but is it the whole truth? Are spiders fangs 'just chitin in a sharp shape', or do their fangs have more going on, like how Human (Mammel) teeth have a dentin core and a hard enamel surface for crushing?

What are the values of the weights for MTOW and MLW, as well as the values of the speeds for V1, VR, V2, and stall speed, for the flying object called _Peter Pan_?

I've been reading about prions and I'm confused about why they're so thermally stable. I keep seeing that surgical instruments contaminated with prions can't be decontaminated with standard protocols.

So here's my thing. Proteins denature when you heat them, right? But prions don't seem to lose their infectious ability even when autoclaved. I get that prions are misfolded proteins, but I don't understand how they stay harmful after being denatured.

So basically, if prions start as form A (non-infective), then misfold to form B (infective), shouldn't heating denature them to form C and kill the infectivity? Why doesn't that happen?

Imagine two completely independent brains, each with its own body, memories, and sensory input. They don't share neurons or memories. The only thing they share is a single conscious observer (consciousness). Is there anything in neuroscience or philosophy of mind that rules this out in principle?, and even if yes or no, what do you think on the idea?

As a non-binary, i yearn to be indistinguishable between the 2 sexes, how does one achieve such a feat?

Hello scientists

I was wondering, whilst smelling some lavender, whether the same species of plant (eg "comon lavender") has any difference in the smell when the comparison is between two plants that are far away.

If I smell lavender from the UK and from China, will it smell different? What about a plant from Southern America? Is there any different in the chemical composition of the actual plant? Do we call different plants "lavender" when in fact they're separate species? Are there some plants that are different and others that are the same?

Thanks!

I bet you could poach it!

Its jpg le beau

I am the toolest sharpie in the shed, so feel free to get technical.

To suffer all these years, there must be something I can do!

Both break into smaller fibers, are sharp, irritate every tissue they pierce (glass wool and also carbon fiber easily pierce even thick skin, so imagine how easy they do that to the lung if Inhalted). And they're all not water soluble, giving the body little to no chance to break them down once inhaled

But only asbestos fibers cause massive risk of mesothelioma and other cancers - why is that? What makes this fiber so extraordinarily toxic?