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Top stories for Long   What are ICBM crews supposed to do afterwards if they ever really have to launch their missiles? Don McMahon, former Retired Engineer, Lifelong musician • Answered February 17, 2023 I was an Operations Sergeant with Pershing Missiles (tactical, not strategic) in Germany during the Cold War. Pershing missiles had a much smaller payload than ICBMs, and t... Read more » 1K 41   Why are so many PhD degrees earned under the age of 30? Is this positive or adverse? Joshua Gross, Associate Professor of Computer Science at CSUMB • Answered February 20 Average age at granting of the PhD has been steadily increasing. The number of people who continued on directly from undergraduate or master's degrees to the PhD is decreas... Read more » 116 8   Will I regret not having kids when I get older? HandMaiden to Horses, Adult human female with high mileage and education • Answered February 12 I am an adult, childless, widow. Do I have regrets? Holy Moses! There is nothing quite like being totally alone in life. For instance, everytime I go to the cellphone store ... Read more » 328 40   Shayan • Posted Feb 8 🇮🇷BREAKING: Iran's FM just confirmed there are unexploded U.S munitions from the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities He's likely referring to the B-2 GBU-57 bunker busters, or U.S. Tomahawks. Why ... Read more » 737 309   Could a Boeing 777 be a double decker if it didn't need to store checked luggage? Robert Williamson - Upāsaka (Theravada Buddhist) • Answered August 6, 2016 The Triple 7 (777), at least in its long distance configuration, (777–200LR, 777–300ER) is sort of already a double decker. At least for the crew. There are stairs going up... Read more » 317 19   Why is vitamin B12 so dangerous? Saumya Meena, MD Medicine at Sawai Man Singh Medical College (2024-present) • Answered February 15 Hi everyone. Being a DOCTOR, that too of MEDICINE, makes it all the more for me to actually tell the importance of vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 is not dangerous, but low levels ... Read more » 479 59   What's your "never again" car brand? Why? Phil Hodge, lives in The United Kingdom (1973-present) • Answered January 13 Over my 47 years and 1 million+ miles of driving, I've had around 12 different car brands, mostly mainstream, some now defunct. I accept that no car is perfect. I also accep... Read more » 1.1K 241   Why has the three-body problem not been solved? What are the technical obstacles in solving the three-body problem? Are these difficulties theoretical or not? Paul Mainwood, Degrees in Physics and Philosophy, Doctorate in Philosophy of Physics • Answered September 14, 2016 The folklore is that the three-body and higher n-body solution is not only unsolved but unsolvable, and that Poincare and Bruns proved this in 1888. This folklore is wrong. ... Read more » 556 36   Why is C faster than C++? Sid Wanderleaf, knows English • Answered February 9 To the extent it is, it's because of classes. More specifically, dynamic polymorphism (any time "virtual" enters the picture). They were great for the 1980s and '90s; but by ... Read more » 169 13   Why did the Soviet Union never attempt a crewed Moon landing despite being ahead in the early Space Race? Kevin Miller • Answered January 28 Here is the secret that was kept hidden behind the Iron Curtain for twenty years: The Soviet Union did attempt to send a crew to the Moon. They tried desperately. They faile... Read more » 4.3K 242   Rai, studied at Harvard University • Posted Sep 28, 2024 Iranian Officials state that a Group of Officers and Commanders with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG), including Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, the Deputy Commander of Operations... Read more » 4.6K 598   Are highly educated people ever poor? And why or why not? Sean Kernan, Writer at seanjkernan.substack.com • Answered February 10 A man worked at my local gym and was in his late 50s. He seemed pretty calm and happy overall, relaxing in his low stakes job, reading the newspaper, checking people in as w... Read more » 3.9K 153 Read more in your feed

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