Книга: А что, если?.. Научные ответы на абсурдные гипотетические вопросы

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Всемирный ураган

Merlis, Timothy M., and Tapio Schneider. Atmospheric dynamics of Earth-like tidally locked aquaplanets // Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 2 (December 2010). DOI:10.3894/ JAMES.2010.2.13.

What Happens Underwater During a Hurricane?

Купание в ядерном бассейне

Behavior of spent nuclear fuel in water pool storage.

Unp lanned Exposure During Diving in the Spent Fuel Pool // SciTech Connect

Лазерна я указка

Mapping the World’s Population by Latitude, Longitude // GOOD

Периодическая стена элементов

Таблица на с. 9 (страница в печатном варианте 15, pdf-файле 15)

Прыг-скок!

What if everyone jumped? // Dot Physics

If everyone in China jumped off chairs at once, would the earth be thrown out of its orbit? // Straight Dope

Моль кротов

How many habitable planets are there in the galaxy? // Disсover

Фен в ящике

Determination of Skin Burn Temperature Limits for Insulative Coatings Used for Personnel Protection

The Nuclear Potato Cannon Part 2

Последний свет человечества

Wind Turbine Lubrication and Maintenance: Protecting Investments in Renewable Energy

McComas, D. J., J. P. Carrico, B. Hautamaki, M. Intelisano, R. Lebois, M. Loucks, L. Policastri, M. Reno, J. Scherrer, N. A. Schwadron, M. Tapley, and R. Tyler. A new class of long – term stable lunar resonance orbits: Space weather applications and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer// Space Weather, 9, S11002, doi: 10.1029/2011SW000704, 2011.

Swift, G. M., et al. In-flight annealing of displacement damage in GaAs LEDs: A Galileo story // IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 50, Issue 6 (2003).

Geothermal Binary Plant Operation and Maintenance Systems with Svartsengi Power Plant as a Case Study

Пулеметный ракетный ранец

Lecture L14-Variable Mass Systems: The Rocket Equation

[2.4] Attack Flogger in Service

Равномерно вверх

Otis: About Elevators

National Weather Service: Wind Chill Temperature Index

Prediction of Survival Time in Cold Air: см. таблицы на с. 24

Linda D. Pendleton. When Humans Fly High: What Pilots Should Know About High-Altitude Physiology, Hypoxia, and Rapid Decompression.

Раздел коротких ответов

Currency in Circulation: Volume

Subject: C5c, Why don’t we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them? // NOAA

Stagnation Temperature // NASA

Молния

Lightning Captured @ 7,207 Fps

Lightning: Expert Q&A // NOVA

Computation of the diameter of a lightning return stroke // JGR

Мозг и компьютер

Moore’s Law at 40

Маленькая планета

Чтобы освежить в своей памяти «Маленького принца», прокрутите к последнему разделу чудесной страницы Мэллори Ортберга

Rugescu, Radu D., and Daniele Mortari. Ultra Long Orbital Tethers Behave Highly Non-Keplerian and Unstable // WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 3, March 2008. P. 87–94.

Падающий стейк

Falling Faster than the Speed of Sound

Stagnation Temperature: Real Gas Effects

Calculation of Reentry-Vehicle Temperature History

Back in the Saddle

How to Cook Pittsburgh-Style Steaks

Хоккейная шайба

KHL’s Alexander Ryazantsev sets new ‘world record’ for hardest shot at 114 mph

Superconduc ting Magnets for Maglifter Launch Assist Sleds

Two-Stage Light Gas Guns

Hockey Vide o: Goalies, Hits, Goals, and Fights

Простуда

P. Stride. The St. Kilda boat cough under the microscope // The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2008; 38. P. 272–279.

L. Kaiser, J. D. Aubert, et al. Chronic Rhinoviral Infection in Lung Transplant Recipients // American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 174. 2006. P. 1392–1399. 10.1164/ rccm.200604-489OC

Oliver, B. G. G., S. Lim, P. Wark, V. Laza-Stanca, N. King, J. L. Black, J. K. Burgess, M. Roth, and S. L. Johnston. Rhinovirus Exposure Impairs Immune Responses To Bacterial Products In Human Alveolar Macrophages // Thorax 63, no. 6 (2008). P. 519–525.

Наполовину пустой стакан

Shatter beer bottles: Bare-handed bottle smash

Инопланетные астрономы

Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. (Книга неоднократно издавалась на русском языке: Адамс Д. Автостопом по Галактике. – Прим. ред.)

A Failure of Serendipity: The Square Kilometre Array will struggle to eavesdrop on Human-like ETI

Eavesdropping on Radio Broadcasts from Galactic Civilizations with Upcoming Observatories for Redshifted 21cm Radiation

The Earth as a Distant Planet a Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds

SETI on the SKA

Gemini Planet Imager

Больше никакой ДНК

Enjalbert, Françoise, Sylvie Rapior, Janine Nouguier-Soulé, Sophie Guillon, Noël Amouroux, and Claudine Cabot. Treatmen t of Amatoxin Poisoning: 20-Year Retrospective Analysis // Clinical Toxicology 40, no. 6 (2002). P. 715–757.

Richard Eshelman. I nearly died after eating wild mushrooms // The Guardian (2010).

Amatoxin: A review

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Всепланетный самолет

The Martian Chronicles

Aerial Regional-Scale Environmental Survey of Mars

Panoramic Views and Landscape Mosaics of Titan Stitched from Huygens Raw Images

New images from Titan

Да пребудет с вами Сила!

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

‘Beethoven Virus’–Musical Tesla Coils // Youtube

Beast. The 15Kw 7’ tall DR (DRSSTC 5)

Падение с помощью гелия

De Haven, H. Mechanical analysis of survival in falls from heights of fifty to one hundred and fifty feet // Injury Prevention, 6(1). P. 62–68.

Armchair Airman Says Flight Fulfilled His Lifelong Dream // New York Times, July 4, 1982.

Jason Martinez. Falling Faster than the Speed of Sound // Wolfram Blog, October 24, 2012.

Все на выход!

Project Orion: The Tr ue Story of the Atomic Spaceship

dp/0805059857

Самооплодотворение

Sperm Cells Created From Human Bone Marrow

Nayernia, Karim, Tom Strachan, Majlinda Lako, Jae Ho Lee, Xin Zhang, Alison Murdoch, John Parrington, Miodrag Stojkovic, David Elliott, Wolfgang Engel, Manyu Li, Mary Herbert, and Lyle Armstrong. RETRACTION-In Vitro Derivation Of Human Sperm From Embryonic Stem Cells // Stem Cells and Development (2009): 0908w75909069.

Подробнее об этом см.: F. M. Lancaster. Genetic and Quantitative Aspects of Genealogy

Бросок вверх

A Prehis tory of Throwing Things

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Chapter 9. Stone tool s and the evolution of hominin and human cognition

The unitary hypothesi s: A common neural circuitry for novel manipulations, language, plan-ahead, and throwing?

Evolution of the human hand: The role of throwing and clubbing

Errors in the control of joint rotations associated with inaccuracies in overarm throws

Speed of Nerve Impulses

Farthest Distance to Throw a Golf Ball

Смертоносные нейтрино

Karam, P. Andrew. Gamma and Neutrino Radiation Dose from Gamma Ray Bursts and Nearby Supernovae // Health Physics 82, no. 4 (2002). P. 491–99.

Лежачий полицейский

Speed bump-induced spinal column injury

Speed hump spine fractures: Injury mechanism and case series

The 2nd American Conference on Human Vibration

Speed bump in Dubai + flying Gallardo

Parker, Barry R. Aerodynamic Design // The Isaac Newton School of Driving: Physics and your car. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. P. 155.

The Myth of the 200-mp h “Lift-Off Speed”

Mercedes CLR-GTR Le Mans Flip

National Highway Transportation NHTSA. Summary of State Speed Laws. 2007.

Пропускная способность FedEx

FedEx still faster than the Internet

Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2012– 2017

Intel® Solid-State Driv e 520 Series

Trinity test press releases (May 1945)

NEC and Corning achieve petabit optical transmission

Свободное падение

Super Mario Bros. – Speedrun level 1–1 [370]

Sprint ring cycle

Glide data

Jump. Fly. Land // Air & Space

Prof. Dr. Herrligkoffer. The East Pillar of Nanga Parbat // The Alpine Journal (1984).

The Guestroom – Dr. Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan

Highest BASE jump: Valery Rozov breaks Guinness world record

Dean Potter. Above It All

Спарта

Если верить парню из Интернета, Энди Любенски: Andy Lubien-ski. The Longbow

Осушить океаны

Если экстраполировать максимальное давление, которое выдерживает обшивка корпуса ледокола

An experimental study of critical submergence to avoid free-surface vortices at vertical intakes

Осушить океаны, часть II

D. L. Santiago et al. Mar s climate and outflow events

D. L. Santiago et al. Cloud formation and water transport on Mars after major outflow events // 43rd Planetary Science Conference (2012).

Maggie Fox. Mars May Not Have Been Warm o r Wet

Уникальные твиты

Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The Story of Mankind

epage&q&f=false Counting Characters

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

LEGO-мост

How tall can a Lego tower get?

Investigation Into the Strength of Lego Technic Beams and Pin Connections

Total value of property in London soars to £1.35 trn

Случайный чих

Cari Nieren berg. The Perils of Sneezing, ABC News. Dec. 22, 2008

Bischoff Werner E., Miche lle L. Wallis, Brian K. Tucker, Beth A. Re-boussin, Michael A. Pfaller, Frederick G. Hayden, and Robert J. Sherertz. ‘Gesundheit!’ Sneezing, Common Colds, Allergies, and Staphylococcus aureus Dispersion // J Infect Dis. (2006), 194 (8). P. 1 119–1126. doi:10.1086/507908.

Annual Rates of Lightning Fatalities by Country

Расширяющаяся Земля

Wu, X., X. Collilieux, Z. Altamimi, B. L. A. Vermeersen, R. S. Gross, and I. Fukumori. Accuracy of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame origin and Earth expansion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38,

L13304. 2011. doi:10.1029/2011GL047450: In conclusion, no statistically significant present expansion rate is detected by our study within the current measurement uncertainty of 0.2 mm yr-1.

Lawrence Grybosky. Thermal Expansion and Contraction

Sasselov, Dimitar D. The life of super-Earths: How the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet. New York: Basic Books, 2012.

Franz, R. M. and P. C. Schutte. Barometric hazards within the context of deep-level mining // The Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Plummer, H. C. Note on the motion about an attracting centre of slowly increasing mass // Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 66. P. 83

Невесомая стрела

Hunting Arrow Selection Guide: Chapter 5

USA Archery Records, 2009

Air flow around the point of an arrow

STS-124: KIBO, NASA

Земля без Солнца

The extreme magnetic storm of 1–2 September 1859

Tsurutani T. B. et al. Geomagnetic Storms // Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 108, № A7, 1268, 2003. doi:10.1029/2002JA009504

Roger A. Pielke Jr. et al. Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005

Impacts of Federal-Aid Highway Investments Modeled by NBIAS

Time zones matter: The impact of distance and time zones on services trade

Baby Fact Sheet

The photic sneeze reflex as a risk factor to combat pilots

Burned by wild parsnip

Правки в распечатанной «Википедии»

Wikipedia as a Printed Book // BrandNew

ToolServer: Edit rate

Закат над Британской империей

Eddie Izzard. Do you have a flag?

This Sceptred Isle: Empire. A 90 part history of the British Empire

A Guide to the British Overseas Territories

William Prochanu and Laura Parker. Trouble in Paradise // Vanity Fair. January 2008.

Long History of Child Abuse Haunts Island ‘Paradise’

JavaScript Solar Eclipse Explorer

Помешивая чай

Brawn Mixer, Inc., Principles of Fluid Mixing. 2003

Cooling a cup of coffee with help of a spoon

Все молнии мира

Introduction to Lightning Safety // National Weather Service, Wilmington, Ohio

Bürgesser Rodrigo E., Maria G. Nicora, and Eldo E. Ávila. Characterization of the lightning activity of Relámpago del Catatumbo // Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 2011

Самый одинокий человек

BBC Future взяло интервью у Эла Уолдена (April 2, 2013)

Капля дождя

SSMI/SSMIS/TMI-derive d Total Precipitable Water-North Atlantic

Structure of Florida Thunderstorm s Using High-Altitude Aircraft Radiometer and Radar

Экзамен наугад

Cooper, Mary Ann, MD. Disability, Not Death Is the Main Problem with Lightning Injury

2008 Lightning Fatalities // National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Нейтронная пуля

Influence of Small Arms Bullet Construction on Terminal Ballistics

McCall, Benjamin. Q & A: Neutron Star Densities // University of Illinois

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