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How to survive a helicopter crash using alien biotechnology?
My father used to be in the Air Force and spoke many times about the safety features and training required in helicopters.
It may be possible to achieve the Aliens goal by not using nano-tech / ...
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Feline rider's position: reclining, seated or Prone?
Best for whom?
Professional jockeys get the best performance out of their mounts while riding like this :
(Image from : https://fitfreaks2.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/athlete-of-the-week-a-jockeys-hard-...
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Feline rider's position: reclining, seated or Prone?
This is a frame challenge.
Give the cats a sled or cart to pull.
We've used sleds in the past to allow us to use animals for transport when such animals wouldn't be able to be properly ridden - dogs ...
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Feline rider's position: reclining, seated or Prone?
I try my best not to be ageist, but the essence of the question leads me to believe we are from different generations. Anyone who had their infancy between the late 1970's to early 90's should ...
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Feline rider's position: reclining, seated or Prone?
I have, over the years, ridden both horses and motorcycles and I would suggest that you stick to horses all the way for this one.
Modern sportsbikes are designed for a very specific environment, ...
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Feline rider's position: reclining, seated or Prone?
The issues of riding any mount or even a vehicle in a supine position (effectively lying on the back) are similar, whether it is a cat, a horse or something else. I also believe that the OP has ...
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Feline rider's position: reclining, seated or Prone?
Motorcyclist here.
Well, Currently between Bikes Motorcyclist. I used to commute daily on a 120km round trip (60 km there, 60 back) - my Bike?
A Suzuki Hayabusa. I put 100,000 Km on that thing and a ...
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How long would it take humans to notice a civilization on Venus?
I like to imagine Venus shrouded in clouds although not to the extent in our world, but enough to obscure some surface features.
If Venus had an atmosphere just like the Earth's, it would need to ...
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How long would it take humans to notice a civilization on Venus?
Your tropical Venus is lush and green, since its flora evolved under the light of the same sun as ours. Like Earth's civilizations, your Venusian civilizations will need to clear a lot of land for ...
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How long would it take humans to notice a civilization on Venus?
I would imagine that some form of radio telescope would be needed to detect the faint radio signals from early Venusians radio. In all likelihood the first signals would be missed as the signals would ...
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How long would it take humans to notice a civilization on Venus?
Martian canals were described in 1877. As we know now, the descriptions were wrong. Over the next century, this was gradually shown. Part of that was showing the lack of water in the spectrographic ...
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How long would it take humans to notice a civilization on Venus?
Assuming your version of Venus is still cloaked in dense cloud cover even though it has a breathable atmosphere?
With the invention of radio, in particular VHF radio. This is because Earth's ...
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How long would it take humans to notice a civilization on Venus?
They would know about us long before we knew about them due to our lesser cloud cover and architecture. If their tech was close to ours, we'd both know via radio waves long before either had ...
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