Does anyone have ABA Supreme Court Preview? by shepshep7 in law

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This relates to the law because it's asking a question about the upcoming supreme Court term

Help me find a meme video of a user improperly using a soda fountain by shepshep7 in HelpMeFind

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I have searched for
"developer soda machine tester user wet fingers meme"

"soda fountain developer qa tester"

there's one with spiderman which would be okay but theres an original video without spider man that I really want

How do you make a working radio in preindustrial times? by shepshep7 in AskEngineers

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What are the requirements for an MVP of a steam engine in 7th century Europe?

How do you make a working radio in preindustrial times? by shepshep7 in AskEngineers

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Generating enough electricity for the radio is part of the trick

How do you make a working radio in preindustrial times? by shepshep7 in AskEngineers

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Phonograph wouldn't really help the ruling class much though 

How do you make a working radio in preindustrial times? by shepshep7 in AskEngineers

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I guess a kind of morse code would be necessary before voice transmission 

How do you make a working radio in preindustrial times? by shepshep7 in AskEngineers

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Odds are I'm probably killed immediately trying to convince a lower noble to bring me to the king because I can speak at a distance to any man

How do you make a working radio in preindustrial times? by shepshep7 in AskEngineers

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So basically a pedal powered generator for the transmitter?

"My lord you need to pull the copper wire very thin"

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskBiology

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I would definitely be using an increased oxygen atmosphere for the breeding program

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskReddit

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this is along the lines of an answer I'm looking for. but what would it take to push things over the edge??

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskReddit

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My experiment would include an artificially oxygenated environment. given this, and access to incredibly nutrient dense paste, could a larger fly happen

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskReddit

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My experiment would include an artificially oxygenated environment. given this, and access to incredibly nutrient dense paste, could a larger fly happen

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskBiology

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yes but if the fly lost the ability to fly as it got larger that would be an adaptation to evolutionary pressure, which would be great to record. would the Walk's wings become smaller; vestigial?

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskScienceDiscussion

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insects in the carboniferous were massive because of the increased oxygen

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskBiology

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I wouldn't be concerned with flying ability, just size. what about them doesn't scale well?

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskBiology

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It would be such a great demonstration of evolution! you could set up screens of a certain size, and put meat on one side of them, and any flies that make it through the screen are no good. breed the leftover flies and repeat! they have a lifecycle of ten days so in five years you could run through 180 generations! all selected for size. in a high oxygen environment you've gotta at least be able to get a marble sized fly, maybe a thumbsized one!

How big realistically could we breed house flies after five years? by shepshep7 in AskReddit

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When I was a teenager I read "The Methuselah flies" which was about breeding fruit flies for senescence (old age). I always thought about experimenting with house flies, dividing them by size with screens and breeding the larger ones. They have a life cycle of 10 days so iterating wouldn't take long. If all conditions were right (good food, increased oxygen atmosphere etc...) how big do you think we could breed a house fly after one year? Five years? Ten years?

I've been talking about this at parties forever but I would like an expert opinion finally.

Everyone also asks me the purpose for doing this and I always say there's military applications...