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35 votes
6 answers
7k views

What's the smallest patch of land a single person could be food-sufficient on indefinitely, in a temperate climate?

25 votes
6 answers
9k views

Can one nuke reliably shoot another out of the sky?

16 votes
10 answers
4k views

How do you keep clean on long, pre-industrial journeys?

15 votes
14 answers
4k views

How might you hack this voting protocol?

11 votes
13 answers
16k views

Which businesses/industries can easily and efficiently launder money? [closed]

10 votes
10 answers
2k views

Can a mountain range form with a very loose surface?

6 votes
5 answers
535 views

How fast can heat be carried away from a small source?

5 votes
2 answers
813 views

Could a non-relativistic universe be logically consistent?

5 votes
3 answers
252 views

How quickly will water displace if an object levitates above it?

4 votes
4 answers
17k views

What's the stealthiest way to knock someone out? [closed]

3 votes
1 answer
60 views

What are short-term defenses against massive elegtromagnetic disruption?

3 votes
1 answer
90 views

What physical and medical problems do wild horse twins suffer from? [closed]

2 votes
2 answers
163 views

How quickly can a swarm of insects eat 1kg of meat? [closed]

2 votes
2 answers
271 views

What would happen to an indestructible meteorite?

2 votes
3 answers
264 views

Unicellular organisms evolving extremely rapidly in tiny forest ecosystems

0 votes
2 answers
136 views

What life forms would appear around decaying animal carcasses in a temperate, rocky desert?

0 votes
2 answers
159 views

How could you improvise a local anaesthetic? [closed]