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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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Antarctic and arctic meltwater is "bad" because it's dark, but why is transparent liquid on white stuff so dark?
Feb 25 '20
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"Five of the Solomon Islands disappeared" due to sea level rise, how is this possible so quickly?
Apr 8 '18
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Is Earth getting heavier or lighter?
Apr 9 '19
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Is this 70km crack in an ice shelf of Antarctica remarkable, or a regular occurrence?
Dec 7 '16
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Does the US National Weather Service use Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Jan 31 '19
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Ways to make a "How hard is it raining?" detector for personal use?
Jul 18
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Why (actually) is the night sky so bright in the city? How far up is that happening?
Sep 30 '16
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Why would India have so much thorium on its beaches?
Oct 18 '18
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Why don't iron meteorites on Mars rust or oxidize? Why are they shiny?
Mar 26 '20
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How are barometric pressure measurements traceable over centuries to 100 parts per million accuracy?
Jan 21 '20
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I am gone. This is not my place
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I've had enough. Let's ban rock id questions
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Do we still need advice how to best describe our rocks?
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How to convincingly ask a serial upvoter to stop doing it when they already know better?
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Fossil identification is not off-topic even on this new, "controversial" rule
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How did the Apollo computers evaluate transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log?
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What makes Ada the language of choice for the ISS's safety-critical systems?
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What aspects of image preparation workflows can lead to accidents like Boris Johnson's No. 10 tweet's 'hidden message'?
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Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits?
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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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