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Somewhat off topic, but why isn't it possible to get information out by setting up a bunch of orbiting relay satellites? Photons can travel from hop to hop since the distance between them is arbitrarily short so my intuition tells me that you should be able to relay information out even if you can't transmit directly. What is it that I'm missing?

A "pocket" of air would want to dissipate from it's own pressure in a vacuum/near vacuum. If one were to exist long enough to stick a tuning fork into it, it would dissipate faster. Think like a pile of sand on a vibrating table (not a resonating table with high and low energy standing waves, but just a table where the whole thing is vibrating at the same rate).

How do electric eels produce electricity?

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And in clear air - like strikes on the edges of a storm, the lightning looks crisp and cleanly defined

The best available info I could find is here:

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/sex-determination-humans

https://guides.hostos.cuny.edu/bio140/13-44

https://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/41/3/bnaa003/5770947

TLDR: Every fertilized egg would develop into a female without chemical prompting. If a fertilized egg has a “Sex Determining Region Y,” gene it is likely to be male by creating the “SRY” protein. However the SRY proteins do not have all the information necessary to create a male. Some people with the SRY gene are not fully male.

A embryo with the SRY gene will likely create testes, which produce comparatively much greater androgens during puberty than embryos without testes. This results in:

>Marked changes occur in body composition during puberty that lead to boys becoming stronger and more anabolic compared with female counterparts. Androgens alone increase both whole body and muscle protein synthesis, though this is increased further in the presence of GH (236). Similarly, GH works synergistically with testosterone during puberty to reduce adiposity and increase lean muscle mass (236). Muscular strength accelerates rapidly after 13 or 14 years of age in response to rising testosterone and GH . . .

Testosterone also directly increases bone density and increases the effects of Insulin Like Growth Factor-1. All this results in greater muscle and bone growth than if the androgens were not present in the same quantities.

TLDR was TL so the Short, Short answer is:

Testes produce more androgens than Ovaries, especially during puberty, which results in significantly greater muscle and bone anabolic activity.

You're very welcome. Other people have also given some good ideas as well as more detailed explanations.

How is the Rusty Spotted Cat able to survive when most of its diet is comprised of insects?

Hey just think about how long it will take to get there 1,600 light-years away......Then add on how long it will take for the information to get back to us.

One way is long enough but you still need the return trip on the data collected to travel back. That is a long...long, long, long time. I mean...I don't even know how you send that data back from that distance and escape the event horizon anyway.

Edit: Crap I should have read the responses...someone already made much more detailed post saying the same things. Well done /u/Weed_O_Whirler

Nothing would happen.

You can read up on what Quantum Entanglement actually means in this thread.

Sadly, PopSci has completely misrepresented Quantum Entanglement, and it doesn't mean what most articles about the topic says it means.

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One thing I would like to add, the ☀️ sun moves along the ecliptic plane which changes depending on the time of year.

The ecliptic plane is defined as the imaginary plane containing the Earth's orbit around the sun. In the course of a year, the sun's apparent path through the sky lies in this plane. The planetary bodies of our solar system all tend to lie near this plane, since they were formed from the sun's spinning, flattened, proto-planetary disk.

The sun never truly "rises" in the East nor sets in the West.

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_635.html

What are the most intelligent species on earth next to humans? What makes them as intelligent as they are, and what got them to the point of having the intelligence they have?

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Thanks for the reply. Also I've been looking for an answer to my question and haven't found anything on it. Do you happen to know what would create the attraction for sexual dimorphic features such as fat deposition in females? I understand that they survived better in the past but how does actual attraction come into play?

I wonder what would happen if you sent an entangled particle into the event horizon.

Could be an experiment in several thousand years

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I would assume so, but as far as I know on Earth, we tend to find two distinct dip poles roughly equivalent to a north and south pole (i.e., one with a +90 inclination and one with a -90 inclination). You might expect that during a geomagnetic reversal (which is often described as a weakening/temporary collapse of the dipole component and thus a relative strengthening of the higher order field components) you could have more than one pair of dip poles, maybe?

> magnetic dip north is the location where the magnetic field is oriented vertically

Presumably in general magnetic dip poles do not strictly need to some as a single pair and could come in any number of pairs? I am essentially thinking along the lines that there is no strict mechanism to enforce that only two such locations would exist in a general astrophysical dynamo (for example there are many locations with locally vertical field at the surface of the Sun).

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Thank you, that seems rather unique amongst the animal world.

Presumably this behaviour could only evolve relatively recently, possibly with Homo Erectus or later.

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You could use sugar, but if you don't fully rinse it out then the inside of the glass pipe will get sticky and dirty faster. Since salt is not very expensive, there's no reason to use sugar.

Some people use rice, which seems like it absorbs some of the tar and is also abrasive. However rice can get stuck in small openings or even just to the inside walls, so I think salt is still a better option.

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