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Explain how the scientific method was or might be applied to solve a problem or answer a question within the scenario.
Why are its transcription levels so low? What do you suppose proteins X and Y do? What would you put in a re-animation serum to revive our alien friend?
What sort of events can wipe out life on a planet? How likelihood of extinction for life vary depending upon a star system's distance from center of Milky Way?
How do we know that the universe is expanding, and how do we use the expansion rate to estimate the age of the universe?
What does the Big Bang theory tell us about the beginning of the universe? What evidence is there to support the Big Bang theory?
An astronomer makes a plot of the recessional velocities of a number of galaxies versus their Distances. What does 1/slope of this plot represent?
Now that you have experience with this subject, respond to his thought with a hundred word (minimum) personal reaction.
In massive stars elements heavier than hydrogen, helium, and carbon can be made. Why does it take higher and higher temperature to fuse heavier elements?
How does the amount of dark matter influence the speed of stars near the outer edge of the galaxy? Remove all dark matter from the galaxy. Describe what you see
Visit a science or technology museum and write a page report of your experience. Comment on impacting new information you have learned.
What measurements exist about weather on the Mars surface? Are there significant storms that occur at surface of Mars? If so, how do we know about these storms?
Compare and contrast the following galaxy types: radio, seyfert, quasars, and blazers. Why are quasars the most energetic objects ever discovered?
Where does a majority of star formation occur in spiral galaxies? Why? What the differences between open clusters and globular clusters?
If the planets in our solar system were made in a cloud other than the one. How would the solar system look different from the one we are familiar with?
Did the Universe begin or has it always existed as was believed at that time? Will it again collapse expand to a certain point and then stop, or expand forever.
Consider two stars A and B. If star A is 10 times hotter than star B but radius of star A is half the star B. Which star is more luminous and by what factor?
Draw me a picture of your observations. Make it look like a long bar, with sections representing the different colors.
What maneuvers can your crew perform to arrive at the Space Station quickly and in the most efficient fashion?
Why are the smaller bodies currently less geologically active than Earth? Make sure to clearly explain how your propose reason is related to geological activity
What would happen to their level of geological activity if they were taken away from Jupiter and placed on their own orbits around the sun?
A very rough estimate for the age of universe may be made by taking one galaxy's distance. What age do you get in billions of years if you do this for NGC 3516?
What sorts of engineering projects would we need to complete to make our chosen home more hospitable?
Discuss the identity issues of Hong Kong and Taiwan in relation to the mainland. Explore these issues from historical, political, economic, ideological aspects.
The decade or so of the 1990s has been called Japan's lost decade. What was Japan like in the 1980s that contrasts with the '90s and why the change?
Recount the history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. Evaluate the roles played by the Nationalists, Communists, and Americans in opposing the Japanese.