Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

What would stop someone accelerating beyond the speed of light if they had achieved 99.9% of the speed of light? Viktor Toth, IT pro, part-time physicist 249 votes Nothing stops you from accelerating further if you have the means. But... Suppose you are traveling in a spaceship at 299792 km/s (the speed of light is c = 299792.458 km/... Read More »

What is the most dangerous dog in the world? Sizheng Chen, software engineer 789 votes Tibetan Mastiff (Tibetan alphabet: དོ་ཁྱི ) ... Read More »

Who was the laziest person in the history of mankind? Steve Theodore 2.2k votes I was told this story by a former Microsoft employee who claims to know it first hand. If you ever installed Microsoft Windows in the 90's or early 2000's you probably rem... Read More »

What modern weapons would fare well against dinosaurs in a war setting? Jon Davis, Everyone needs a hobby. 507 votes I'm going to limit myself to weapons one person or a team of people could use. No vehicles since of course, a tank or aircraft carrier could take out a dinosaur. My sugge... Read More »

How did you go from understanding algorithms to being able to design them yourself? Alex Deva, programmer, writer, film-maker and he... 48 votes I've been programming for nearly 30 years and still can't make complete sense of Jessica's answer. But I do have the utmost respect for her Stanford PhD. As a trainer, I'v... Read More »

How do I prevent getting depressed? Brandon Lee, Entrepreneur | Investor | Connector |... 742 votes This is an outline of my story: Grew up in Cupertino/Saratoga California Dad was engineer at Intel, Mom was a nurse at Kaiser Junior High and High School I was surrounded by ...  Read More »

What is the best thing you have ever done to achieve inner peace? Tushar Trin, Musafir 24 votes I won't say this is something I have done to achieve inner peace but after this happened, I was really feeling good inside. I am in final year of b.tech ,one day when I was... Read More »

How could Roman legions be defeated in battle? What were the weak spots? Harold Kingsberg, Reader 140 votes Rome had quite a bit of military success over the years, but the legion was not infallible by any stretch of the imagination. Several strategies in particular proved highly... Read More »

What is the exact value of pi? David Joyce, Professor of Mathematics at Clark Uni... 192 votes You ask if π can be expressed simply in surd form. By surd form, you mean an expression in terms of roots along with the arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction, mu... Read More »

Why do dogs always want to eat what you are having instead of eating their own food? Is dog food really that bad? Karen Tiede 31 votes To the extent dogs strategize (and some clearly do), the intent is "more," rather than "different." They know you will not eat their food. So if they can get anything fro... Read More »