Рэндалл Манро - А что, если?.. Научные ответы на абсурдные гипотетические вопросы

Подробнее об этом см.: F. M. Lancaster. Genetic and Quantitative Aspects of Genealogy

http://www.genetic-genealogy.co.uk/Toc115570144.html

A Prehis tory of Throwing Things

http://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2009/10/prehistory-of-throwing-things.html

Chapter 9. Stone tool s and the evolution of hominin and human cognition

http://www.academia.edu/235788/Chapter_9._Stone_tools_and_the_evolution_of_hominin_and_human_cognition

The unitary hypothesi s: A common neural circuitry for novel manipulations, language, plan-ahead, and throwing?

http://www.williamcalvin.com/1990s/1993Unitary.htm

Evolution of the human hand: The role of throwing and clubbing

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1571064

Errors in the control of joint rotations associated with inaccuracies in overarm throws

http://jn.physiology.org/content/75/3/1013.abstract

Speed of Nerve Impulses

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/DavidParizh.shtml

Farthest Distance to Throw a Golf Ball

http://recordsetter.com/world-record/world-record-for-throwing-golf-ball/7349#contentsection

Karam, P. Andrew. Gamma and Neutrino Radiation Dose from Gamma Ray Bursts and Nearby Supernovae // Health Physics 82, no. 4 (2002). P. 491–99.

Speed bump-induced spinal column injury

http://akademikpersonel.duzce.edu.tr/hayatikandis/sci/hayatikandis12.01.2012_08.54.59sci.pdf

Speed hump spine fractures: Injury mechanism and case series

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21150664

The 2nd American Conference on Human Vibration

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/UserFiles/works/pdfs/2009-145.pdf

Speed bump in Dubai + flying Gallardo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg79_mM2CNY

Parker, Barry R. Aerodynamic Design // The Isaac Newton School of Driving: Physics and your car. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. P. 155.

The Myth of the 200-mp h “Lift-Off Speed”

http://www.buildingspeed.org/blog/2012/06/the-myth-of-the-200-mph-lift-off-speed/

Mercedes CLR-GTR Le Mans Flip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQbgSe9S54I

National Highway Transportation NHTSA. Summary of State Speed Laws. 2007.

FedEx still faster than the Internet

http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/04/11/fedex-still-faster-than-the-internet

Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2012– 2017

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html

Intel® Solid-State Driv e 520 Series

http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/ssd/pdfs/intel_ssd_520_product_spec_325968.pdf

Trinity test press releases (May 1945)

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2011/11/10/weekly-document-01

NEC and Corning achieve petabit optical transmission

http://optics.org/news/4/1/29

Super Mario Bros. – Speedrun level 1–1 [370]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGQGvAwqpbE

Sprint ring cycle

http://www1.sprintpcs.com/support/HelpCenter.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1531979#4

Glide data

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=577711#577711

Jump. Fly. Land // Air & Space

http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/Jump-Fly-Land.html

Prof. Dr. Herrligkoffer. The East Pillar of Nanga Parbat // The Alpine Journal (1984).

The Guestroom – Dr. Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan

http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2010/08/24/2991588.htm

Highest BASE jump: Valery Rozov breaks Guinness world record

http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/sports/highest_BASE_jump_Valery_Rozov_breaks_Guinness_world_record_213415.html

Dean Potter. Above It All

http://www.tonywingsuits.com/deanpotter.html

Если верить парню из Интернета, Энди Любенски: Andy Lubien-ski. The Longbow

http://www.pomian.demon.co.uk/longbow.htm

Если экстраполировать максимальное давление, которое выдерживает обшивка корпуса ледокола

http://www.iacs.org.uk/document/public/Publications/Unified_requirements/PDF/UR_I_pdf410.pdf

An experimental study of critical submergence to avoid free-surface vortices at vertical intakes

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/docs/pre2003/other/840235.pdf

D. L. Santiago et al. Mar s climate and outflow events

http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov

D. L. Santiago et al. Cloud formation and water transport on Mars after major outflow events // 43rd Planetary Science Conference (2012).

Maggie Fox. Mars May Not Have Been Warm o r Wet

http://rense.com/general32/marsmaynothave.htm

Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The Story of Mankind

http://books.google.com/books?id=RskHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Counting Characters

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/counting-characters

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf

How tall can a Lego tower get?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627

Investigation Into the Strength of Lego Technic Beams and Pin Connections

http://eprints.usq.edu.au/20528/1/Lostroh_LegoTesting_2012.pdf

Total value of property in London soars to £1.35 trn

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/total-value-of-property-in-london-soars-to-135trn-8779991.html

Cari Nieren berg. The Perils of Sneezing, ABC News. Dec. 22, 2008

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=6479792&page=1

Bischoff Werner E., Miche lle L. Wallis, Brian K. Tucker, Beth A. Re-boussin, Michael A. Pfaller, Frederick G. Hayden, and Robert J. Sherertz. ‘Gesundheit!’ Sneezing, Common Colds, Allergies, and Staphylococcus aureus Dispersion // J Infect Dis . (2006), 194 (8). P. 1 119–1126. doi:10.1086/507908.

Annual Rates of Lightning Fatalities by Country

http://www.vaisala.com/Vaisala%20Documents/Scientific%20papers/Annual_rates_of_lightning_fatalities_by_country.pdf

Wu, X., X. Collilieux, Z. Altamimi, B. L. A. Vermeersen, R. S. Gross, and I. Fukumori. Accuracy of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame origin and Earth expansion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38,

L13304. 2011. doi:10.1029/2011GL047450: In conclusion, no statistically significant present expansion rate is detected by our study within the current measurement uncertainty of 0.2 mm yr-1.

http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3A72ed93c0-d13e-427c8c5f-f013b737750e/

Lawrence Grybosky. Thermal Expansion and Contraction

http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/courses/ce584/concrete/library/cracking/thermalexpansioncontraction/thermalexpcontr.htm

Sasselov, Dimitar D. The life of super-Earths: How the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet. New York: Basic Books, 2012.

Franz, R. M. and P. C. Schutte. Barometric hazards within the context of deep-level mining // The Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Plummer, H. C. Note on the motion about an attracting centre of slowly increasing mass // Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 66. P. 83

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1906MNRAS..66…83P

Hunting Arrow Selection Guide: Chapter 5

http://www.huntersfriend.com/carbon_arrows/hunting_arrows_selection_guide_chapter_5.htm

USA Archery Records, 2009

http://www.usaarcheryrecords.org/FlightPages/2009/2009%20World%20Regular%20Flight%20Records.pdf

Air flow around the point of an arrow

http://pip.sagepub.com/content/227/1/64.full.pdf

STS-124: KIBO, NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/228145main_sts124_presskit2.pdf

The extreme magnetic storm of 1–2 September 1859

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/8787/1/02-1310.pdf

Tsurutani T. B. et al. Geomagnetic Storms // Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 108, № A7, 1268, 2003. doi:10.1029/2002JA009504

http://www.oecd.org/governance/risk/46891645.pdf

Roger A. Pielke Jr. et al. Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2476-2008.02.pdf

Impacts of Federal-Aid Highway Investments Modeled by NBIAS

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/2010cpr/chap7.htm#9

Time zones matter: The impact of distance and time zones on services trade

http://eeecon.uibk.ac.at/wopec2/repec/inn/wpaper/2012-14.pdf

Baby Fact Sheet

http://www.ndhealth.gov/familyhealth/mch/babyfacts/Sunburn.pdf

The photic sneeze reflex as a risk factor to combat pilots

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8108024

Burned by wild parsnip

http://dnr.wi.gov/wnrmag/html/stories/1999/jun99/parsnip.htm

Wikipedia as a Printed Book // BrandNew

http://www.brandnew.uk.com/wikipedia-as-a-printed-book/

ToolServer: Edit rate

http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wmcharts/wmchart0001.php

Eddie Izzard. Do you have a flag?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEx5G-GOS1k

This Sceptred Isle: Empire. A 90 part history of the British Empire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/empire/map

A Guide to the British Overseas Territories

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/london-wikileaks/8305236/A-GUIDE-TO-THE-BRITISH-OVER-SEAS-TERRITORIES.html

William Prochanu and Laura Parker. Trouble in Paradise // Vanity Fair. January 2008.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/pitcairn200801

Long History of Child Abuse Haunts Island ‘Paradise’

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103569364

JavaScript Solar Eclipse Explorer

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JSEX/JSEX-index.html

Brawn Mixer, Inc., Principles of Fluid Mixing. 2003

http://www.craneengineering.net/products/mixers/documents/craneEngineeringPrinciplesOfFluidMixing.pdf