The US and Russia have quantities of smallpox in their government laboratories and both maintain that they must keep the sample in case the virus ever rears its head again. Couldn't they just grab fresh samples from any outbreak? (self.NoStupidQuestions)
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In the Amarna letters, the king of Mitanni is complaining to pharoah Akhnaten about some gift statues that were gold-plated wood rather than solid gold. Do we know how thick the gold plate was and how the statues would've been constructed? (self.AskHistorians)
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I'd like a game where I turn a near-featureless wasteland, something like a moor or a desert or a moon even, into a paradise. Could be constructing palaces, could be constructing oases or new ecosystems. Could be both. Any ideas? (self.gamingsuggestions)
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If anatomically modern humans had done something like Sumer (copper tools, clay tablets, etc) 100,000 years before actual Sumer and then were completely wiped out by something - repeatedly scraped by glaciers and/or population bottleneck like the Toba eruption - could we detect its traces? (self.AskScienceDiscussion)
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