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How fast would you have to travel to be able to run on water?

Philip Welply,

St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK

Without moonlight (i.e. if our moon was non-reflective or black, but with exactly the same gravity and motion), would life on Earth be any different?

Jakob Kaye,

Auldgirth, Dumfries and Galloway, UK

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