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• February 5th, 2008

  What is the best way to light a living room with a high ceiling?

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• February 5th, 2008

  Is there a to automatically use a proxy server when connecting to a network?

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• January 21st, 2008

  What should I do about the static electricity in my apartment?

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• April 24th, 2008

  Best way to memorize graphs of circular functions? ex. sin?

  for sin and cos you know the general shape, just remember where the y-intercept is and which way it goes from there tan you might just have to memorize, but intercepts and asymptotes are helpful once you know these three, the inverses are just 1/f(x) and if you know amplitudes, you can do that also, you can always fall back on plugging in numbers to the function to generate y-values
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• April 24th, 2008

  How do towels (or anything) dry?

  evaporation
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• March 4th, 2008

  how do airplanes fly?

  @syz, links to said science stories? planes stay in the sky because of magic fairies? Bernoulli explains why planes fly, lift created by the pressure difference has been measured…why the doubt?
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• March 4th, 2008

  If I were in a space ship traveling at the speed of light and turned on my headlights what would happen?

  cwilbur is right, speed depends on a frame of reference, from your reference point in the spaceship, the light would appear to be moving at the speed of light @rogy, the speed of light is a constant (given that the constant is different based on what the light is moving through, like 8lightminutesaway points out)...but its way more complicated than that this is one of Einsteins fundamental postulates of special relativity, that light propogates at the same constant speed regardless of any motion of its source or motion of the observer. Light travels at c relative to the observer. Always. It has to do with the relative stretching or contracting of the time and space dimensions that occur when you move. You will observe space and time differently than an observer moving relative to your frame of reference. An example of this, if you hold two clocks in your hands and they show the exact same time, then your friend takes one clock up in a plane and flies around the world while you hold the other clock in your hand, when your friend lands back in the same spot, comes out of the plane and puts the clock back in your hand, they will read different times. Decent explanation @brownlemur, Brian Greene is a good explanation also, if you like math, look up Lorentz transforms
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• March 4th, 2008

  Does a cop have to read you your rights at the spot of the arrest?

  Law and Order = not a source for law related questions there’s so many things wrong about that show… its entertainment, not legal advice
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