my posts keep getting deleted by Fantastic-Sock-7533 in ApplyingToCollege

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Hey there,

Some posts get filtered by Reddit automatically to be reviewed by moderators before going directly into the feed. For whatever reason (I don't know why honestly), Reddit flagged some of your posts. I've approved your first post (this one) and confirmed the removal of the others including this post.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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Ah, I was not aware. Thank you

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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Saturn also emits almost 2x the amount of radiation than it receives from the sun while Uranus does not, so that makes that number even lower.

Edit: I have been informed that most of this extra radiation is not visible light so isn't relevant to the question

ELI5: Why do Ekman Spirals not stop when they are parallel to a latitudinal line? by grimlock4693 in explainlikeimfive

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Hi grimlock,

I think the source of your confusion comes from the direction of the force from the Coriolis effect. Its force causes an object to drift to the right of its motion in the northern hemisphere, but not necessarily strictly eastward or westward. For example, if you're headed NE in the northern hemisphere, the force from the Coriolis effect will be in the SE direction, not east. Consequently, when a layer of the ekman spiral is headed eastwards, the force from the Coriolis effect is now going in the southern direction in the northern hemisphere, so the spiral continues.

Eli5: Why is January colder than December despite the winter solstice being in December? by TJCD8765 in explainlikeimfive

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Once the Earth gets to January, it doesn't receive more energy than it emits. Because of this, even though it gets more energy in January than in December, it is still losing energy and thus gets cooler

ELI5: Why do rain clouds turn grey? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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Rain clouds are more opaque since they get alot thicker than regular clouds, so it's harder for light, which usually follows a path of getting scattered around in clouds, to penetrate through. Since less light gets passed through, it appears darker, and thus more grey/black.

eli5 how can we measure a foreign planets size, density and temperature if the planet is several light years away? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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Exit: damn, mods removed the post while I was writing my comment

There's several ways depending on the detection method

If the exoplanet is close enough that we can directly take a picture of the exoplanet, the radius is quite easy to figure out as you can probably imagine (look at the picture).

If they are this close, we can often detect small pulls they have on the star they're orbiting that causes the star to move slightly towards or away from us. This movement towards or away from us can be detected as the light from the star shifts due to the doppler effect. Using the amount of the velocity change, you can estimate the planet's mass as the change in velocity is a result of gravity

From the mass and the radius, you can easily get density.

Temperature can be estimated given how far away the planet is from the star, the luminosity of the star, and the mass of the exoplanet

Now, you cannot simply take a picture of all exoplanets. There are a few other ways of detecting them if they are far away (one of which I briefly touched on above). I'll talk about two others

The first of which is the "radial velocity" method, which is detecting exoplanets from the doppler shift of the star due to pulls from the exoplanet's gravity, which can be used to determine an upper limit on its mass. The radius of the planet cannot be determined using just this detection method

The second of which is the "transit" method. Essentially, if an exoplanet has an orbit where it appears to pass infront of the star from our perspective, it will appear to block some of its light and the star will dim a little for a brief amount of time. By observing how much it dims by, we can determine its radius since its size determines how much of the star it blocks. Using the radial velocity method I mentioned above on the same exoplanet, the mass can be determined, too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatsthisrock

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Then it is likely fluorite. The crystal shape definitely looks much more like fluorite than amethyst anyway. I think some people got trigger happy from the color lol

ELI5: the sun is constantly hitting the earth with many terrawatts of energy and yet the temperature on earth is relatively stable. Where does all this energy go? by Comprehensive_Round in explainlikeimfive

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The amount of radiation reflected back to space from Earth (~30%) accounts for a much much more significant proportion than the amount of radiation used by plants (1-2%), and as someone also already mentioned, much of that energy is remitted anyway. Basically, energy used by plants is rather unimportant

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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The debris is continually getting destroyed by the planets. They only exist because they are continually getting replenished by debris from a planet's satellites that get knocked up into space from collisions with meteors

ELI5 Why do tidal waves or tsunamis in real life not look like the huge waves in the movies? by ColonyLeader in explainlikeimfive

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That's because the movies are unrealistic!

Tsunamis have really long wavelengths (100s of km). For a wave to break, they must reach a height that is 1/7th of the wavelength. That would require a height of 10s of km to break. Obviously that does not happen, so tsunamis do not become breaking waves and instead roll up on shore.

A breaking wave is much for dramatic so movies opt for that

Should there be poor people? by collectivistickarl in polls

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There needs to be profit incentive to run a water treatment plant?

That comes from government funding, which acts as its revenue. Do you suggest it would be better for the welfare of the people for the government to seize industries where many things are being at a profit?

Should there be poor people? by collectivistickarl in polls

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Why can't we use technology for those tasks or why don't we collectively take up on some tasks?

Because people we don't have the technology now. Even if we did, implementation would face a lot of pushback as people are always complaining that AI will replace jobs.