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

http://www.wickedlasers.com/arctic

Периодическая стена элементов

Таблица на с. 9 (страница в печатном варианте 15, pdf-файле 15)

http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/aegl/pubs/arsenictrioxide_p01_tsddelete.pdf

Прыг-скок!

What if everyone jumped? // Dot Physics

http://scienceblogs.com/dotphysics/2010/08/26/what-if-everyone-jumped/

If everyone in China jumped off chairs at once, would the earth be thrown out of its orbit? // Straight Dope

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/142/if-all-chinese-jumped-at-once-would-cataclysm-result

Моль кротов

How many habitable planets are there in the galaxy? // Disсover http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/10/29/how-many-habitable-planets-are-there-in-the-galaxy

Фен в ящике

Determination of Skin Burn Temperature Limits for Insulative Coatings Used for Personnel Protection

http://www.mascoat.com/assets/files/Insulative_Coating_Evaluation_NACE.pdf

The Nuclear Potato Cannon Part 2

http://nfttu.blogspot.com/2006/01/nuclear-potato-cannon-part-2.html

Последний свет человечества

Wind Turbine Lubrication and Maintenance: Protecting Investments in Renewable Energy

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/05/wind-turbine-lubrication-and-maintenance-protecting-investments-in-renewable-energy

McComas, D. J., J. P. Carrico, B. Hautamaki, M. Intelisano, R. Lebois, M. Loucks, L. Policastri, M. Reno, J. Scherrer, N. A. Schwadron, M. Tapley, and R. Tyler. A new class of long – term stable lunar resonance orbits: Space weather applications and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer// Space Weather, 9, S11002, doi: 10.1029/2011SW000704, 2011.

Swift, G. M., et al. In-flight annealing of displacement damage in GaAs LEDs: A Galileo story // IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 50, Issue 6 (2003).

Geothermal Binary Plant Operation and Maintenance Systems with Svartsengi Power Plant as a Case Study

http://www.os.is/gogn/unu-gtp-report/UNU-GTP-2002-15.pdf

Пулеметный ракетный ранец

Lecture L14-Variable Mass Systems: The Rocket Equation

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-07-dy-namics-fall-2009/lecture-notes/MIT16_07F09_Lec14.pdf

[2.4] Attack Flogger in Service

http://www.airvectors.net/avmig23_2.html#m4

Равномерно вверх

Otis: About Elevators

http://www.otisworldwide.com/pdf/AboutElevators.pdf

National Weather Service: Wind Chill Temperature Index

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/windchill/images/wind-chill-brochure.pdf

Prediction of Survival Time in Cold Air: см. таблицы на с. 24

http://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/zba6/p144967.pdf

Linda D. Pendleton. When Humans Fly High: What Pilots Should Know About High-Altitude Physiology, Hypoxia, and Rapid Decompression.

Раздел коротких ответов

Currency in Circulation: Volume

http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircvolume.htm

Subject: C5c, Why don’t we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them? // NOAA

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

Stagnation Temperature // NASA

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/BGH/stagtmp.html

Молния

Lightning Captured @ 7,207 Fps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQt8ivUGWQ

Lightning: Expert Q&A // NOVA

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/dwyer-lightning.html

Computation of the diameter of a lightning return stroke // JGR

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/JB073i006p01889/abstract

Мозг и компьютер

Moore’s Law at 40

http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~strukov/ece15bSpring2011/others/Moore-sLawat40.pdf

Маленькая планета

Чтобы освежить в своей памяти «Маленького принца», прокрутите к последнему разделу чудесной страницы Мэллори Ортберга

http://the-toast.net/2013/08/02/texts-from-peter-pan-et-al/

Rugescu, Radu D., and Daniele Mortari. Ultra Long Orbital Tethers Behave Highly Non-Keplerian and Unstable // WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 3, March 2008. P. 87–94.

http://www.academia.edu/3453325/Ultra_Long_Orbital_Tethers_Be-have_Highly_Non-Keplerian_and_Unstable

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