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135 votes

"fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories)" from git status

git repository clone git-clone git-status asked Aug 14, 2012 at 22:14
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62 votes

How come large herbivores have such thin legs?

anatomy scales asked Oct 10, 2017 at 3:52
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Do cows get blown through the air by tornadoes?

cows tornado asked Jan 24 at 5:55
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Why do disk brakes generate "more stopping power" than rim brakes?

newtonian-mechanics forces friction everyday-life asked Jul 12 at 2:27
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Dental insurance isn't really a type of insurance?

united-states health-insurance asked Apr 24, 2022 at 22:03
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Why is a dedicated compressor more efficient than using bleed air to pressurize the cabin?

efficiency cabin-pressure bleed-air asked Jul 23 at 22:45
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Is stellar ignition all-or-nothing?

star stellar-evolution brown-dwarf fusion asked Jan 5, 2022 at 6:08
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14 votes

Evaporation of large charged black holes

general-relativity black-holes charge hawking-radiation qft-in-curved-spacetime asked Jul 8, 2019 at 21:44
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13 votes

Plot a hyperbolic plane tessellation

code-golf graphical-output asked Sep 1, 2015 at 21:15
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13 votes

Vectors within classes: handling copy constructor and destructor (C++)

c++ class memory-management vector destructor asked Aug 18, 2010 at 9:31
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Why is the harmonic oscillator so important?
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Why are quaternions used for rotations?
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Why does an Alcubierre drive, travelling FTL, violate causality, if the universe expanding FTL doesn't?
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When will a wave function collapse if the observer was only a camera and the video was watched later in time?
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How much does the Earth's rotation affect a golf ball?
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Inertial scrolling in Mac OS X with Tkinter and Python
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Does a universe experiencing "heat death" have a temperature?
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Electric charge neutrality of the Universe: evidences and theories
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Faster than light galaxies/clusters?
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Is it possible to create artificial gravity by magnetizing iron in the blood stream?
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Why do clouds form in lumps?
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Would a nebula cause resistance and disrupt sensors on a space ship?
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Why are gasses difficult to see?
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Balance a coin on a floating lemon
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Does kinetic friction increase as speed increases?
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Why is the blue color of sky darker in high altitude regions?
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Single-mode fibers and ray-theory of light
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"gamma rays can only be detected when they interact with matter"
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On a magnetar, which force would exert a bigger pull on a 10 kg iron chunk?
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Reductive instead of oxidative based metabolism
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Is the EmDrive, or "Relativity Drive" possible?
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Why is causality preserved in special relativity?
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How is energy "stored in an electric field"?
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Will a very long space ship orbiting the Earth appear to have gravity to someone inside?
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