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You don't have to be an Astrophysicist. We have color photographs. Nothing in anyone's model of how things work can refute direct evidence, if evidence and the understanding of the…

"Under what conditions does the sun appear blue?" (correct answer, on Mars) If you want to tilt the conversation towards a string of wrong answers, start off with "What color is th…

Qualifications: I tutored math for about 10 years, I used to guarantee an A if you signed up with me, as long as it was still mathematically possible. I think the roles of teacher …

Yes. This. The primary problem with using ChatGPT in mathematics is that by the time you can classify a ChatGPT answer as right or wrong, you are already more than capable of solvi…

They'd call it metallic carbon metal steel if they thought it would sell better. All steel has carbon, if it doesn't it's not steel. It's like saying that pure salt has "no added s…

Not always. You're making the mistake of assuming that drugs and guns are being chosen by the person that's potentially shortening their life. People die all the time due to other …

There's a lot of real diet research, the kind that is peer-reviewed, double-blind, and likely to never make it into a news article. That said, you offered some of the best advice I…

Perhaps the boring explanation is, if you don't start writing in the morning, you're already doing something else when you think you should start writing. I program equally well ea…

One of the laziest submissions of open questions. Most have completely uninteresting well known answers: * Obesity: We are eating more. We are eating higher calorie foods. We are a…

The alternative is to drop the purposeful error in GPS positioning systems. GPS has a built-in error for the civilian use, and a higher-accuracy system for military use. The concer…