Questions tagged [hard-science]
This tag should be used for meta questions regarding main site questions and answers tagged [hard-science]. It can also be used for general discussions about the tag.
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Should certain tags automatically require answers to use SI Units rather than other, more traditional, systems of measurement?
SI Units form the official language of international science. As such I want to discuss whether questions that are tagged for either science-based or hard-science should automatically warrant the use ...
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Best Practice for Helping OP's with Science-Based Fantasy Requests
Though a new user to this site, I've run across a couple of questions where the OP is asking "how do I realistically/scientifically achieve X given Y" where Y can't be achieved if X is realistically/...
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Can post notices on the hard-science tag actually do something?
I occasionally browse through the hard-science tag. One of my pet peeves is having to scroll through answers on the hard science tag that have a lot of upvotes, but don't meet the requirements of the ...
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Should this question have the hard-science tag?
I've been looking at the question What brain resources are needed per limb? The OP originally included the hard-science tag, but there's since been some disagreement about its use. Someone removed the ...
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Hard-science answers. Are they always good?
I thought of this whilst reading
Mithrandir's answer to this question*. I have seen a few like this and understand the temptation by those who know more to express this. However if the question has ...
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Hard-science tag, possible approach, changing how to ask these particular types of questions
Wished to write this a long time ago, and the last drop was this question As a time traveler, how would I see quantum randomness change history? really, you are serious this was a hard science ...
