Monday, December 7, 2015

/r/askscience report: Sunday, November 29, 2015 - Saturday, December 05, 2015 subredditreports

Totals: 7 days, 428 posts, 10,340 comments.
Included in this report: The top 400 posts, and 6,504 of the top comments, by 3,733 distinct authors.
No posts were gilded, but 1 comment was gilded.


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Most Popular Posts


Score Author Post Title
4115 /u/diminutive_sebastian Why is it that, if you add any sequence of numbers like this (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1), the sum is always the square of the largest number?
3825 /u/Punishtube Why are Nuclear reactors never built in Water or below water?
3436 /u/purplepricklypear I work with identical 4 year old twins - one has severe autism, the other is normally developing. How does this fit into the whole nature/ nurture debate?
3416 /u/MediocrePlayer Why is it that the moons gravity is able to direct masses of water in different directions but yet we, ourselves cannot physically feel the affect of the moon's gravity?
2982 /u/imanatheistsowhat Would it be any dangerous at all to split even one atom?
2618 /u/Atreides27 Do Aquatic Animals Yawn?
2326 /u/ben3128 How is zero resistance possible? Won't the electrons hit the nucleus of the atoms?
2238 /u/AskScienceModerator AskScience AMA Series: We're scientists and entrepreneurs working to build an elevator to space. Ask us anything!
1766 /u/JBain94 Where is the warmest place in the known universe?
1142 /u/MANinnaVAN How is gender (not sex) biologically structured? Why does gender dysphoria exist?
971 /u/Tonda9 Why do we use factorial to get possible combinations in the card deck?
920 /u/joemarzen I had a very cold but totally liquid bottle of water in my refrigerator. When I took it out and chugged it a plug of slush formed in the mouth of the bottle. What were the physics behind that occurrence?
590 /u/panicattackk If you took 100 liters of water at 80 degrees and mixed it with 100 liters of water at 60 degrees, would you get 200 liters of 70 degree water?
479 /u/Person995 Does depression have common stages, which are recognizable through majority of patients? If so what would these be?
470 /u/Haber_Dasher What causes these vertical lines that sometimes come stretching out of the top of a flame?
416 /u/IWishItWouldSnow If a person is deaf does the brain continue to run auditory processing on a "null audio feed" or is that part of the brain shut off or get repurposed for something else?
375 /u/senor--awesome How accurate are these images of brains depicting mental conditions?
298 /u/anadampapadam Can swiming in an open air pool filled with thermal spring water containing radon be dangerous to you?
276 /u/jeffontiv17 How fast do you need to travel to "chase the sunset"?
274 /u/WaitForItTheMongols Can you orbit a torus by moving in a figure-eight, through the center?
214 /u/omgoldrounds How fast could we travel before cosmic microwave background would blueshift enough to fry the spaceship?
201 /u/Gingevere Stars collapse once they start producing iron at their core. How much iron would I need to throw into the sun to kill it?
199 /u/dragonmuse Why can't a human and sheep reproduce?
146 /u/ulville Is there a stationary center of the universe?
131 /u/Xhiril Is time just the way we measure how long gravity is taking to pull us toward whatever it is pulling us towards?
126 /u/Yesters How would a planet having two suns affect the temperature? Could a planet with two sons be habitable by humans?
105 /u/omegasavant Do people who are hypersensitive to, say, sound or touch actually have more acute senses, or are they just more easily upset by them?
80 /u/perezidentt I eat some of the hottest hot sauces and extracts in the world. Why does my mouth build a tolerance but my stomach doesn't? And why does it hurt more than the stringer acid in my stomach?
74 /u/palmerito0 Why does gravity cause all objects (regardless of mass) to accelerate equally?
72 /u/FreudianSocialist Is there a fundamental constant that all other constants are based on?
71 /u/HypnotizedPlatypus [mathematics] Shouldn't any constant raised to the power of an irrational number become an irrational? Ex 5pi. If so, why would epi*i =-1?
70 /u/TheSneakyTruth What changes in someone's brain when they become a hoarder?
64 /u/fluffkomix Do tardigrades have bones? How do they move around?
64 /u/Verebes What makes a person's voice distinct?
63 /u/driveways What is the swartszchild radius of a neutron?
60 /u/mc2222 Does gravitational time dilation impact a star's lifetime?
59 /u/Phynaes If we can ever model many-body quantum systems on a quantum computer, is it possible that we may learn more about where the outcome of a measurement comes from?
59 /u/mlukeman Why have we evolved the ability to smell very specific chemicals we would never have been exposed to during our evolution?
53 /u/SaturnUranus77 Can light cast a shadow?
44 /u/GGLSpidermonkey Is it possible that an elephant stepped on my foot without breaking it?


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