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How can I safely make sparks for a film shoot?

I'm looking for a safe way to generate a lot of sparks for a film. In the shot the character is connecting a large power source to an electronic device, like a computer. When he does it I really want...

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Trial by media?

Have there been any situations (either real or in fiction) where the media interfered enough with a criminal investigation that it actually changed the outcome of the investigation? I am curious about...

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How bad are the roads in Patagonia?

Are the roads in Patagonia really that bad? I'm going on a hiking/camping trip next month in Southern Argentina and Chile. Planning on driving from El Calafate to El Chaten, Puerto Natales, and Torres...

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How to take apart a couch

How can I easily destroy my couch? I've got an old Ikea couch in my apartment that was left my the previous owners. I live in a weird NYC building and apparently to get the couch into the apartment the...

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List of names

Need a list of the top 1000 male and female names, with variants and misspellings. I'm trying to find a list of the 1000 most common male and female names, along with nicknames and spelling variants....

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What are some pop culture references on seeing and being seen?

Looking for pop culture examples of our obsession with seeing and being seen. This can include films, tv/news shows, social experiments, digital platforms/projects, that deal with themes of: *...

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"It's obviously a wormhole due to these scientific recordings that show...xyz"

Let's say you were an astrophysicist who saw a wormhole open up in the sky above you, and you had video of it, magnetometer readings, whatever else you'd need to record it. What kind of recorded...

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Branching-out cosmological models

In the realm of astrophysics, are there any charts, graphs, or models (or even physical examples of star clusters, etc) that somewhat resemble the branches of a tree? Asking for a friend. I've heard of...

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