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There are two types of smoke detectors: optical and ionizing ones. I don't know if ionizing smoke detectors have a harder time detecting weed smoke than sandwich smoke, so I'll focus on optical smoke detectors, which are more common in households anyway. Optical smoke detectors have a light barrier inside of them. If smoke particles enter the detector, they reduce the amount of light that reaches the end of the light barrier. The smoke from your burnt sandwich contains alot of soot, which has lots of big molecules. It's pretty easy for a smoke detector to detect these. Your weed burns relatively cleanly and doesn't contain as much big particles as the sandwich smoke.

There is high evidence they were able to speak because we share a specific gene (FOXP2) that is responsible for language. And because of Neanderthal anatomy we can deduce they had a higher pitched voice than us Homo Sapiens!

I don't know about termites, but with bees, only the Queen lays eggs. If the swarm outgrows the nest, they will separate a female egg, and feed it a very specific type of honey called Royal Jelly, and not fed pollen or regular honey. That will eventually become a queen and lead half of the swarm to find a new nesting site.

you know when you put a ruler on the edge of a table and push it down and let it go and it makes that woioioioinggggg sound? And if you vary the length of it off the table, the sound changes and the speed at which the end of the ruler goes up and back down changes? This is the natural frequency of the ruler when it is that length of the table and thus produces a certain sound. Now certain materials also will have a natural frequency such as wooden or metal tables and that's why they make different sounds. They make different frequencies because they also will only take in set amounts of energies.

It doesn't. But you clearly didn't pay attention in your Galactic History 101. You completely ignored the fact that Jedi are part of the Republic's judicial branch of government, specifically tasked with bringing gangsters, pirates, warlords, and even rebelling worlds to justice. That means Jedi spend a lot of time training in space combat and basic warfare so that they can aid Republic worlds with many types of threats. That's why Jedi were able to decimate the Mandalorians, Kaleesh, and many other highly militaristic species on the battlefield. And that's why they were put in charge of the Grand Army. They actually do know how to run an army. They would just rather not bc of how that's led to autocratic empires in the past.

Annoying tunes are often so annoying because they're too catchy for their own good. Songs are catchy because they have a nice, and recognizable pattern. Our brains love patterns, so when we hear a really good one, they repeat it over, and over and over and over until something else distracts that part of our brains.

Registering for a party, is a prerequisite to vote in the primary in some states. Having say, not just in the election, but also in who even gets nominated, is power. Voting for Bernie (or Warren or whomever) in the primary, has impact. If more Republicans, were registered as such, Trump might not have even made it out of the primary. This is even more true in deep blue or deep red States like NY, where a candidate might only win 52 percent of the primary vote, but win 85 percent of the actual election vote. In entrenched states, one's primary ballet weilds far more power than the actual election ballet.

(In Legends) Palpatine and Luke. They both have insane power in the force, Luke after killing the emperor of course, but they do some insane things. Like Palpatine can create Force storms in space that can consume entire ships or something, that level of power.

A infra red scanner can only look at the outside of the truck. Some trucks will have been out in the sun, others in the shade. Some cargoes will hold the heat more than others. So readings will be all over the place and it won't give any useful information.

> So, that being said, what is the use in creating a reactor that - albeit will generate a net positive power - will only output such a piddling small amount? The fusion output of the sun per given volume doesn't really apply to how it would be performed in a reactor as our designs aren't reliant on what will naturally occur. Consider the difference between a fission bomb and a fusion bomb, the fusion bomb has a far greater output. A practical reactor will be generating far more energy per cubic meter than the Sun does. While fission of uranium releases about 17 times the energy of deuterium and tritium fusion, the key difference is the availability of the fuel. There is enough deuterium in a gallon of sea water to produce an equivalent energy output of about 300 gallons of gasoline. Instead of refining trace isotopes of an already rare mineral into fuel we can just essentially dump water into such a reactor and create huge amounts of energy; that we need 17 times more water than uranium isn't really a problem. Edit: Consider that U-235 has a natural abundance of 0.72% and there is about 40 trillion tons of uranium on Earth. That means there is conceptually about 288 billion tons of U-235 on Earth. On the other hand deuterium has a natural abundance of about 0.015% and there is about 1.36 million trillion tons of water on Earth. That means there is conceptually 204 trillion tons of deuterium on Earth. This means fusion fuel is approximately 708.3 times more commonly available than fission fuel. Oh, and the waste products are far less hazardous.

Adding those kind of security on a weapon is one more thing that can stop you from using it. What happens when you're ambushed, really need to shoot back, and darn it, fingerprint didn't register, hang on, I'll jus- Dead. For weapons you want them to work every single time. Reliability is the name of the game. Any sort of safeguards puts that at risk. (Also, Tony Start *had* restrictions on his suits, he added Rhodes to the approval list of Mk2 and Pepper for at least Mk42)

Alderaan was a core world with a population of billions - there would have been a stream of traffic to and from the system continuously that would have witnessed the destruction. The station then stayed in the system and used its tractor beam to bring in any new arrivals to 'question' the crews and ensure that they knew the Imperial version of the event.

This is known as the Travelling Salesman problem and it is in a very difficult class of problems called NP-hard. To answer this question would take an amount of time, in any units you like, some constant multiple of 2^(number of homes in the world).

>TL;DR If you looked at some point and moment in/after the heat death, could you reverse the clock and reconstruct the universe as it was before? Or, is the heat death a kind of point of no return for information? You could theoretically do this, but you would have to know literally every piece of information in the universe. In practice you never could because you can't measure all of that data without changing it, which is another way of saying that you're part of the universe. Clearly you couldn't store all of the data of the universe in a hard drive, because the hard drive doesn't have enough space to describe itself as well. The information is all still there, it just isn't usable because it's so scrambled. Every bit of energy interacts with everything near it and you'd have to keep track of the entire process in order to reverse the universe to a more usable state.

Tear ducts lubricate the surface of the eyes occasional dust and other minute particles reach the surface of the eye, these are then blink washed away a bit like a windscreen wiper. This material then accumulates at the edges where some of the liquid evaporates leaving behind the solid material.

Mix of: 1. All science is always "...to the best of our knowledge". Thus, Challenge Deep is the deepest point in the ocean *to the best of our knowledge*. If we find out that we're wrong, then we'll have learned something new. 2. We don't need to *explore* the ocean floor to *map* the ocean floor. For example, radar can do the work for us.

In the comics, Anissa (a high ranking legbreaker for the Viltrumites) justifies the idea of Viltrumite occupation by saying that the people of Earth would be kept fat and happy for as long as it took the Viltrumites to strip mine everything of value from the planet. While she admits that humanity would inevitably go extinct after that, she believes that humanity would last longer as a species under Viltrumite supervision than they would if left to manage their own ecosystem. In the comics we see a few worlds under Viltrumite rule, and the main tangible benefit is that there's a Viltrumite living on your planet defending it from spaceborne threats. The big downside is that the Viltrumites tend to press-gang tributes of slave-soldiers from any planet that's at all good at military stuff, to the point that most Viltrumite invasion forces consist of one or two Viltrumites and a zerg rush of expendable slaves in power-armor. Complicating matters is the specific resource they were hoping to extract from Earth: >!People. Mark was proof of concept for breeding an army of nearly-genetically pure viltrumites to rebuild their numbers after a number of devastating setbacks.!< This might mean that they have a higher-than-average incentive to keep the planet livable than they otherwise might have.

Plenty of things would last billions of years. We have preserved bacteria mounds that are almost 4 billion years old. Tons of them. We have preserved raindrops and dinosaur poop that are hundreds of millions of years old. We have preserved leafs, footprints, insects, worm tunnels, jelleyfish, and so on. Now look at what humans have done: We have carved through mountains all over the globe to build roads and mines. We have strip mines which can actually decapitate entire mountains, or create gigantic pits in the ground. We have collected many common and rare minerals (and elements) into solid refined chunks unlike anything found naturally. We have spread our trash throughout the oceans and through much of planet's landmasses too. We have diverted rivers, built dams, spread radioactive isotopes around the soil layers of the planet - we create a new-endless stream of junk that we collect and bury into massive dumps which will leave unmistakable evidence behind. Until the planet is obliterated, strong evidence humans were here will be present to anyone that looks hard.

Because as example the US customs does not have access to the "British citizen passport database". The data on the passport is the same as the written one, including error correction keys and nowadays some biological data as well (such as fingerprint). It also depend on the issuing country and how old your passport is. All they can do is check that it's correct and matches you as a person. And cross reference with their own data of persons denied entry etc. TL;DR; there is no secret world wide database with everyone's information for them to connect to.

Other fields don’t necessarily want Marx for the same things that economists might use him for. (Although obviously there are some in non-economics fields who read Marx’s economics uncritically and without knowledge of modern work, but such is the nature of disciplinary boundaries) In sociology, for example, so much work is on stratification, and Marx introduces class as a unit of analysis. In contrast, economics doesn’t often consider class except insofar as that income is a constraint on behavior, rather than having any notion of class consciousness. (For better or for worse) Marx also for them introduced a lot of ideas about how economic constraints interact with social life, e.g. his concept of “alienation.” This is obviously exactly the domain of a sociologist! Obviously these things are very different from using Marx’s ideas on price theory or economic growth! Those are more relevant to economics, and they’ve largely not been deemed useful, which is why you don’t see Marx much in economics.

General anaesthesia has five components, required in various combinations. 1. The patient should be unconscious - hypnosis. This is usually achieved by inducing anaesthesia using an intravenous induction agent such as propofol and maintaining anaesthesia during the procedure using an infusion of propofol or an inhalational agent such as isoflurane or sevoflurane. 2. The patient should not recall what happened during the surgery - amnesia. This is usually achieved by using benzodiazepines such as midazolam. 3. The patient should not suffer pain - analgesia. Intraoperatively this is achieved by giving opioids such as morphine, meperidine, fentanyl, or remifentanil, or by administering a neural block using a local anaesthetic such as lidocaine, bupivacaine, or ropivacaine. 4. Unnecessary or exaggerated autonomic reflexes should be suppressed to prevent harm to the patient. There are multiple ways of doing this based own at reflexes you are targeting. 5. Sometimes the patients need to be paralysed with neuromuscular blocking drugs. This usually the case when a body cavity needs to be opened or when absolute immobility is required. When we do this, we need to take over the patient's respiration too. Multiple effects needed, multiple pathways. If on the other hand you are looking to find how any anaesthetic acts on the central nervous system, go to Pubmed and search for "molecular mechanisms of general anaesthesia".

Spidey webs up Cap's arms earlier in the fight, so he's well aware that Spider-Man has super-strength. With that in mind even if he wasn't able to lift it, the jet bridge falling on him wouldn't have killed him.

Imagine your body is a city that you have to protect from invaders. You have the city walls (the innate immune system) and the city guards (the adaptive immune system). Each of these city guards has been trained to look for a particular characteristic that no normal person in your city has, say brown hair with a ponytail (this could be something like the spike protein in COVID-19). Now suppose this guard arrests an intruder with brown hair and a ponytail. They are now on much higher alert than before, so much higher that they start arresting anyone with brown hair, or anyone with a ponytail, even if they are innocent citizens. This is how an infection in your body can cause autoimmune disorders. The T-cells in your body are sensitive to particular antigens but are also mildly sensitive to many other antigens, sometimes even self-antigens i.e. your body's own cells. What can happen is that during an infection like chickenpox, the T cell that is specific to a chickenpox antigen will be activated making it much more sensitive overall. It can then react to self-antigens that it was only mildly sensitive to before and begin attacking the body's own cells.

An initial email over the weekend is fine because they can just do it Monday, but a reminder over the weekend can be both 1) annoying because it implies they should be working on the weekend and 2) counter-productive because if they are offline for the weekend, your email could be buried by Monday morning and they may actually get to it later than if you had just emailed on Monday.

I think it would be like how skills in EVE Online work. Base skills like How To Fly a Frigate are quick (like an hour), but as you increase the complexity (in EVE there are 5 levels for every skill) so that How To Fly a Frigate Designed for Interception at level 5 is 14 days. So basic math would be easy, but advanced statistics would be longer to learn and integrate.

The oils in mint and other minty plants bind to the nerve receptors that detect cold (similar to the way that the capsaicin in peppers binds to the heat receptors), so your mouth already thinks it's cold. When you add actual cold things, the nerves fire even more, making your brain think that your mouth is colder than it actually is.

It does and they do. Though as others here noted, many things help them defend against it. Leaves are disposable though, and the outer layers of bark are usually dead plant material that protects the rest. Most crucially, most plants don't have cells circulating like animals do, so they can't really get anything like metastatic cancer. They also lack vital organs that can become diseased and kill the whole plant. Plants get tumours of sorts for all kinds of reasons but they can't generally spread and kill the whole organism.

There's only a danger if the nuclear containment is broken. Corvegas are designed to withstand head-on collisions at high speed and coolant completely surrounds the nuclear pile in the engine. They'd have to sit out in the elements without maintenance for a century before they become unstable.

Nurgle is the patron of life and death. The cycle, whereupon the living die and feed new life, which itself dies and feeds new life, which itself... well you get the point. A virus bomb turns a planet into a barren rock. The cycle dies. There is nothing left for new life to feed upon. To Papa Nurgle, this is what he might call 'some class A bullshit'.

It's not an assumption of math but one of philosophical input into our science. We choose to believe that physics doesn't change with location in the universe because to assume otherwise is unnecessary complication. We haven't seen any evidence that the laws of physics vary, and we philosophically choose to keep the scientific theory that takes the fewest number of unnecessary ideas. So working from the idea that physics itself doesn't change, let us assume that the universe could have a "boundary" in any meaningful sense of the term. You've suggested a few. One boundary idea means that space goes on and on and on, but it's empty. So we would have to ask ourselves... why is it empty? What physical process created matter and energy *here* but not *there*? Again this runs into our "unnecessary idea" problem. The assumption brings more problems than it solves (it doesn't really *solve* anything in fact, just says that there's a finite amount of matter/energy in the universe). Another boundary idea may be that there's a "hard" edge to the universe. Not just hard like diamond, but like... space doesn't exist past some point. But that too really is complicated. What if we shine a light on that edge? what happens to it? What if we throw rocks at it? Again, the laws of physics would have to change over location to determine why you couldn't cross that wall. So we don't think this boundary exists either. I can't think of any other boundary cases, but hopefully I've at least demonstrated why physics being universal implies a universe without boundaries. So next we ask ourselves, okay, no boundaries, what "shape" can the universe have. This has a lot of answers actually. But I'll boil the discussion down to the highlights. The error bars on our measurement haven't yet excluded a positive curvature. The universe could be *very slightly* positively curved, but the probability of this case is rather quite small. In this case the universe would curve over very long distances (like 200 some observable universes) until it came back to where it started. No edge, see? But let's take the data for what it seems to be pointing to. Flat curvature. There are several "shapes" of flat curvature that don't have boundaries. Some are things like the 3-Torus. A 2-D example would be a pacman or asteroids screen. Pass through one edge, appear on the other side, but the motion is all straight lines and normal geometry. Another example is a tesselation, suppose the universe had some shape that tiles its edges together, like a pentagonal dodecahedron. This universe is flat in its interior but again, the edges "wrap" back around, but in a more complicated pattern than the 3-Torus. So finally we get to the simplest geometry that fits the flat data, and that's the flat Euclidean plane without boundaries. And so what we mean here, is an infinite amount of matter spread over an infinite volume of space. Go to the edge of our observable universe and you'll find another observable universe that looks very similar to our own. and so on *ad infinitum*. Galaxy clusters and filaments filled with stars and planets. Forever and ever in every direction. --- (also, moderator hat on here for a moment, thank you for asking a model question. You demonstrated that you searched for information and asked for specific details about what you didn't understand in the text area)

Many flowers secrete nectar as part of their biology. They lack the ability to move pollen from the male flowers to the female flowers so they entice bees and insects with nectar with the hope the while the bees collect the nectar they also move the pollen around allowing for the fertilization of the plant species. Honey bees have a special compartment in their body to hold nectar. This compartment (called the crop or honey stomach) is designed to allow the bee nectar storage while it is foraging. When the forager bee returns to the hive she passes the nectar to a receiver bee who puts it in a wax comb cell for ripening. Nectar has a high moisture content, perhaps 40+%, but the bees want to store the honey for future consumption. They regulate the humidity in the hive via wing flapping over fresh stored nectar and move air in and out from the entrances. Once the honey is at 17/18% moisture content it is ready for capping. The bees cap the cell with wax and that honey will stay in storage until they need it. If the season goes well, the colony may collect for example, twice the amount of honey they will need for winter. The beekeeper can take that extra and this harvesting does not harm the bees at all.

Because he knows that if he picks up that hammer, the next thing he'll be doing is using it to fight and possibly kill his brother Loki. Thor still cares for and is somewhat protective of his adoptive brother, all throughout the movie he tries to prevent harm to Loki and wants only to take him back to Asgard where he'll stand trial (and possibly be rehabilitated?). It's the same reason he didn't simply call the hammer to his hand, Thor is considering his options and emotionally preparing himself for the fight to come.

No. Unlike in the comics, where Stane's hardware is distinct and seperate from Tony's gear (to the point of Tony once building himself a "Staneware" suit as a countermeasure in case someone finds a way to undermine his standard "Starktech" gear), in the MCU Stane isn't really contributing much to development. He's a businessman first and foremost, followed immediately by being a ham-fisted goon; his functional yet unelegant solution to the power problems with the Iron Monger was to burgle Stark's house for an arc reactor. Everything about the Iron Monger is plagiarized off Tony's "box of scraps" Afghanistan suit, with the only improvements being in the quality of resources available to build it. There's literally nothing for Tony to learn by studying Iron Monger, except perhaps the dangers of hubris.

The rules that the Good Place operates on aren't fair by our human standards. Such as punishing the French just for being from France. So apparently, by the cosmic standards of Architects and Janets and the Judge and other cosmic beings, cursing is legitimately bad enough to be banned from the Good Place.

Exposure, generally speaking, relates to risk in a given investment - ie what proportion of the total money invested do you stand to lose if a given bet you make turns out to be the wrong one; or put another way to what extent are your expected earnings affected by certain factors

Resources are scarce. We have monetary systems in order to allocate those resources to satisfy the most amount of wants according to their utility. Regulated capitalism is simply the most efficient monetary system available. Unless you can demonstrate that technology has somehow eliminated scarcity (it hasn't), then we still require money.

Let's say a gene is responsible for making a certain protein. The gene has two alleles - one that makes the protein and one that doesnt. Producing the protein causes a certain trait to be expressed. This makes the trait dominant - if you have one copy of the allele that can produce the protein, then you will have the trait. On the other hand, let's say there's a trait that is expressed only if you don't have that specific protein. This means that the trait is recessive, because you need both alleles that can't produce the protein in order to have it.

One of the key reasons as to why they have such a devout following is because of blackmail. During the initiation process, applicants are advised to speak their deepest, darkest secrets in order to "free" themselves of the burden of carrying them. These secrets are logged, and if a person ever wants to leave the church, they are threatened to be exposed.

The prime minister in Canada is much less powerful than the president in the United States. The U.S. president holds certain executive power which he has exclusively without oversight from Congress, and he cannot be dismissed by Congress if he loses its support. Prime ministers always have to keep the support of their party and parliament. They are also not the head of state. George Washington retired after two terms, and started a tradition that was followed until Franklin Roosevelt, who was elected to four terms. Roosevelt was very influential and greatly expanded the executive power during the Depression and World War 2. When he died, 8 of 9 justices on the Supreme Court had been appointed by him. Had he served for much longer it would have seriously perverted the separation of powers between the branches of government, an important part of the constitutional scheme in the United States. Term limits were adopted primarily in response to Roosevelt's long service.

It absolutely does not hurt. Will it help in the short term in applying to grad schools? It probably depends how far apart the fields are. If they're, say, biology and physics, I'd say it's still a net plus to have the extra article. If, on the other hand, they're history and chemistry, then the practical benefits are not so clear. It's not something that'll get you into graduate school, but it might break a tie. In the long term, this is surely a good thing. The more different ways you have of looking at the world, the better off you are in any field of study.

I dont have specific examples but found this on wookiepedia: Entertainment was a subdivision of the Corporate Sector Authority's Media Division. Entertainment produced almost all of the Authority's public entertainment programming, including dramas, comedies, music, and theater. Sports leagues were also managed by Entertainment, subtly manipulating inter-Authority competitions

In the US private companies are assessed for the total value of their assets. The land, the building, every single peice of equpiment and furniture has a value assigned to it and they are taxes for it all. The longer that they have had the equipment the less taxes they pay on it, but for companies which have to stay up-to-date with their equipment that can be an issue.

It's hard to say because Covid-19 is still ongoing and we won't know its full impact for years to come. What we can say is that SARS-CoV 2 is moving *fast*. Not only is it very contagious, it also emerged into a world with global mass traffic and supply chains. This speed combined with a relatively high rate of people needing hospitalisation (very roughly 20% of infected) means that Covid-19 overwhelms health systems. 1968, not so much. Far fewer people travelled by plane or between continents. The world's population was roughly half of what it is now, so a lot of places would have seen a lower population density. Also, medicine has moved on. In 1956 or 1968, ventilators were primitive pumps used for theatres. No long term sedation/anaesthesia with ventilator support like now, that only came in the 1980s or so. So maybe the death toll would have been a lot lower then with better medicine. In summary, comparing Covid-19 to other pandemics is sure very interesting from an intellectual standpoint but it doesn't offer much in the way of guidance. It is here *now* and we need to deal with it *now* even though we still don't know all the facts. Edit: Regarding health care, this is a perverse one: Since health care in 2020 is so much better, this also means that people are getting older. Conditions that weren't treated as well fifty, sixty years ago - COPD say, or cancer, or diabetes - now create a population at high risk. Then, people with those conditions were much more likely to die from that directly before a virus could reach them. So Covid-19 is a pandemic threatening to overwhelm our health care systems also partly because our functioning health care systems allow a subset of the population to survive for long enough to be susceptible to it.

Yes. It is a technique used to dedicate cognitive resources to the "thinking" by reducing the cognitive load of processing visual information. Our visual system uses a very large amount of our cognitive resource (brain processing power). You can reduce the resource demand of other functions by reducing the level of that stimuli. By looking up or at the ground. Or even off to the side at a non-moving /simple scene, you can essentially reduce your visual processing need. You can do this with other sensory systems as well. This limitation of cognitive resource is why people drive worse when talking. On the phone or with passengers. Because a lot of resource goes to listening and responding in language. Less to processing the constant changes in the environment. Same as whenever you need the environment to be quite so that you can concentrate better. It's all about reducing demand of other systems and devoting more resources to a specific task. We learn to do this at a very early age.

The issue of abortion from the pro-choice perspective is that of a woman's right to sovereignty over her body. The issue of child support is that of the welfare of a child. They are entirely different discussions, and one has very little to do with the other.

Politics are a lagging indicator of culture. The public changes first, and only when they've changed enough do the politicians start to adopt their positions. The attitudes "flow up" from people to politicians, they don't "flow down" from politicians to the people. I would argue that the gay acceptance you see in Washington now \(even if it's mostly from one team\) is an indicator that there is widespread acceptance in the public. Once an idea take wide root, it very rarely shifts back \(at least in the near term\).

One of the biggest reasons people get bags under their eyes is because their parents have them. It's in your genes, and -- aside from plastic surgery -- there's not much that can be done about it. When you're young, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, a diet full of salty foods and water retention can also lead to bags. Sinus infections can cause them as well, by constantly stretching the skin beneath your eyes. If you notice that you have bags under your eyes early in the morning but they're generally gone by noon, it probably means they're being caused by fluid retention. You might be able to reduce their appearance by simply using an extra pillow to elevate your head while you sleep. As you get older, bags under your eyes will become a more permanent fixture. It's a natural part of aging and something we all have to come to terms with sooner or later. The reason is simple: We all have fat in our faces, and it's held in place by ligaments and muscles. As we get older, those ligaments and muscles weaken, and everything starts to sag -- making the fat more visible. A similar thing happens within our skin: Collagen levels decline with age, causing the skin to lose its elasticity and begin to sag everywhere, including the face. In either case, you may need some type of cosmetic procedure to treat the issue. Source: Discovery Health

I expect that requiring you to have a permit helps them track how often you're having a garage sale Many cities have limits on how often you may have a garage sale because they do not want you having garage sales on a regular basis. You're living in a residential area, not a commercial area. They don't want you having a garage sale on a regular basis because that would be very much like you were running a business. Your garage sale brings more traffic to your neighborhood. The extra traffic can be disruptive to the neighborhood. If you had frequent garage sales then you'd be responsible for bringing a lot of traffic to your neighborhood and causing a lot of disruption. Your neighbors would not appreciate this. This is why cities regulate garage sales.

Assuming no contact with the Empire is a bit of a stretch given that the Empire selected that world for final construction of the second Death Star. More realistically, the Empire picked that world from the Republic archives, which means Republic scientists, and most likely anthropologists, had been to Endor and studies the local life forms in some depth. With over six million forms of communication under his belt, it's not hard to imagine that C-3P0 incorporated the data from the Republic archives concerning Ewokese.

All the stuff in the universe is made of up of little tiny pieces called atoms. Atoms are like little balls of energy wrapped up, and over time they will "pop" and the energy will explode out. Many atoms are "stable" which means that it takes a very long time for the balls to explode, longer than the earth has existed even. But some are "unstable" and explode sooner. This happens all the time all over the universe, even right now in this room. But because atoms are so tiny you never notice the tiny little explosions. These little explosions can hurt you, a little tiny bit, like a very tiny bruise or cut. But just like your body can heal a cut or a bruise over time, it can heal the tiny cuts from these tiny explosions. Some clever people found out how to gather up a lot of "unstable" atoms in one place, and they can use the exploding energy for lots of different things like Nuclear Power, Radiation Therapy, or even make a Bomb with it. Things like Fallout happen because a lot of unstable atoms were gathered together in one place, and these cause a *lot* of tiny cuts and bruises if you get too close to it. More than your body is used to, and that's why you can get sick from it, it's too much for your body to fix all at once.

Probably not. Many of the park's security systems were designed for contemporary animals, not genetically engineered creatures who resembled the public's shared image of dinosaurs. And those meant to contain the most dangerous specimens were experimental at best, which meant there was always a chance for things to go horribly wrong before anyone realized a system had failed. We know the raptor enclosure was woefully inadequate even before the power failed. Something would have happened eventually when the park opened. In the novel, Hammond spared every expense he could (in contrast to his film counterpart who proudly declared he spared no expense) So his cheapskate nature undoubtedly paid for woefully inadequate systems somewhere in the park.

It's the shield vibrations transmitting into the ground which attracts them. Having one on an airborne probe does nothing. As for a reason for not destroying the worms.... what do you think makes spice?

- context for knowing one another - what set her apart - why she was so important to your intellectual growth - discussion of the particulars of her style that you think are special - discussion of your personal achievement or success that can be linked to her influence

Yes, it is far more common than you think. Your cells have dna checking system to make sure the replication goes well and destroys the vast majority of the errors. Then you have abnormal metabolism leading to cell lysis and your T cells coming in to check on surrounding tissue for known markers. Then you have benign and malignant cancers that may never be found or be destroyed on their own after forming. And then you have cancers that need intervention.

The light was a metaphor for Asgard culture. Consider that we now call the European Middle Ages the "Dark Ages", a time before the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Asgard consider the authoritarian, ruthless time before they came to power and ultimately dominion to be a dark time. "Long before the birth of Light, there was Darkness," means that the Dark Elves were the power before the light of Asgard brought about revolutionary change in the realms.

It varies wildly. In some cases, Ork equipment is usable by others (albeit with a lot jamming and malfunctioning) - it only runs smoothly because of the WAAAGH's effect. In others, an Ork 'gun' can consist of a metal pipe with a belt of bullets fed in and a trigger assembly - no firing mechanism required, and the pipe may not remotely fit the bullets. Where it gets confusing is that there's no apparent correlation between size of the WAAAGH involved and how powerful its effect is. Certainly warbosses will pull off crazier stuff the more renown and followers they get, but some quite small (by 40k standards) Ork groups still had quite an effect, while the largest weren't noted as pulling any more overtly spectacular displays of psychic manipulation. A larger WAAAGH may manifest itself in other ways - for instance, more 'advanced' Ork technology being 'invented', rather than 'basic' equipment working in increasingly absurd ways.

Batson (heh) would make a good Robin for a few reasons. If he's really in danger he can turn into Captain Marvel. And he's basically good-hearted, so less reason to worry about him going bad. Captain Marvel is already one contingency against a rogue Superman, but a Batman-trained Marvel would be a contingency against *anything*, even Batman himself. In-universe, Batman doesn't trust magic or technology he doesn't understand, but that's not really a problem. He'd simply insist that Batson remain a kid while operating as Robin. Out-universe, [REDACTED]

It's not so much the altitude as it is proximity to large cities and prevailing wind patterns. There aren't a lot of large cities with manufacturing and chemical processing plants near the French Alps, for example, and the higher you go, the smaller the population is - therefore, the air is much cleaner. In Hawaii, some of "most pure" air in the world is blown in from the Pacific, because although these winds originate in China, they travel over the pacific for approximately 3 weeks before making landfall in Hawaii which allows all the pollution to settle out.

Light tends to interact with molecules whose size are either near its wavelength, or densely packed enough that an integer group is near the size of its wavelength. The visible spectrum covers a large range of molecule sizes, so its convenient for us to see in. Longer and shorter wavelengths only interact with high density or very large molecules. E.g. you'd want lead or thick HDPE between you and a gamma ray.

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Depends what you think of as feminine. There are numerous species in which the female cares for the young and takes care of the nest/den/home. There are also many species in which the female is smaller and less dominant in appearance than the male. When it comes to looks however the males are generally "prettier" than the females in nature. Most noticeably in fish and birds, males tend to have the vibrant colors and otherwise unnecessary adornments that human females use to gain attention from the opposite sex.

Usually due to wear and tear. Toenails are subjected to lots of stress and trauma over the years. Another contributing factor is neglect and fungal infections. To avoid: try maintain good hygiene, cut nails regularly and straight across, dry feet well especially if one is using communal showers or baths or swimming pools and make sure footwear fits properly. Hope this helps

Austria was willing to sign an agreement that said it could never enter a military alliance with either side. This satisfied both the USSR and America and to this day Austria is just as neutral as Sweden. Germany was not given this option.

It was a cause celebre for left-leaning Westerners because there was a democratically elected leftist government overthrown by a military coup. It was a matter of great public attention, kinda like how Kony or Darfur took off in the recent past. So, individuals and governments with sympathetic political leanings had a situation that pitted a like-minded elected government against a coalition of the traditional institutional enemies of the left: royalists, the military and the church. On the opposite side, the elected government was a European traditionalist's worst nightmare. They were opposed to the church and king, socially progressive and were viewed by many as a threat to the fabric of European identity. In essence, an internal Spanish struggle became an ideological proxy war in a very liminal period in history. The old order had just led to WWI and the Great Depression, and people were trying to decide in what direction to chart their future. Communists and Socialists flocked to the Republican cause, Fascists and Nazis to the Nationalists. It became a test by which three new powers, Stalin's USSR, Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, could test both their newly developed military hardware but also their global influence.

Some plot armor is invented within the universe. If the universe says Thor can survive a plane crash because of superpowers, then he can. If it says dinosaurs are slow, then they are. If it says we have artificial gravity, then we do. The problem comes when the show breaks out of the rules of its own universe even if those rules have nothing to do with physics. In The Walking Dead, Daryl was established as the ultimate hunter, the one to fear out in the woods, silent and deadly, unstoppable. And then a couple random dudes manage to catch him by surprise out in the woods and capture him. No, that broke the rules of the show's universe. He should have heard them coming from far away and taken them out.

Cutscenes are just videos, some really powerful computer already did all of the work, gameplay is rendered by your computer in real time, and its way less powerful than the computer that the game producers have

Stratum lucidum There is a fifth histological layer for palms and soles of the feet. Literally thicker skin and greater distance to the melanocytes. Less light stimulation gets through less pigmentation. Yada yada.

Well, ELI5 version, your body doesn’t know how to fix itself so it keeps trying to get everything out. That “chest kicked in by a horse” feeling (or fell-ing, no judge I’m bad at spell check too) is your lack of anything to push out. So all you’re doing is pushing with no substance. Think lifting up a box you thought was going to be heavy, but then is empty. It throws you off and can really hurt, except instead of throwing the box to kingdom come with all your force going out the force goes to you. Which hurts! Sounds like you may be experiencing this now, if you keep getting sick with nothing coming out (or bile coming out) for over 12 hours please go see a doctor.

It comes from old western European cultures, who when trading with Asia referred to it as the far east because, well, it was far away and east of Europe. the middle east was kind of in between, hence the name that has stuck around

Funnily enough Lensherr might not have become the villain we know him as. One of the reasons Xavier has such faith in humanity is because he is constantly hearing the thoughts of those around him, the good and the bad. Erik is naturally distrusting and while he may not change his view on Mutant supremacy, he would probably be more empathetic to the plight of homo sapiens.

This can't explain astronomical observations. There is about 4-5 times as much mass as we can see in star form, and planets typically weigh at most a few tens of a percent of their stars, but often much less. If planets weighed more than stars, we wouldn't see the orbits that we do. There was an idea that the missing mass might be in the form of starless brown dwarf planets or other massive objects (the MACHO hypothesis), but their existence has largely been ruled out by the non-observation of microlensing.

The entire radio spectrum is "noisy"--there's interference in it from both man-made sources and natural ones (e.g. lightning strikes). If you tune the radio to a dead channel then all it will be picking up is that noise, which it amplifies and turns into the static that you hear. You still get the noise on actual radio channels, but it gets drowned out by the radio station you're tuned in to so you tend not to notice unless it's very bad.

Welcome to research! In all seriousness, this is why thesis-based graduate programs don't have specific timescales the way undergrad does. A masters may be "around 2 years" and a PhD may be "around 4.5 years" (less not in the US) but that really means "1.5-3ish" and "4-6ish" based on how your research is actually going

I think this is addressed in the first series with SkullGreymon. If the trainer starts doing stupid and reckless things to fake the necessary emotional response, the digimon will digivolve in extremely aberrant ways. This is a natural warning to the trainer, in case the digimon's protests weren't enough. There's a high chance each time it happens that the trainer will be severely injured or killed, either by the trainer doing something dangerous or the digimon going on a mindless rampage.

When you sleep, your body turns turns off a lot of movement circuits so you don't act out everything you're dreaming. These may take a while to turn back on when you wake up, varying between people and which stage of sleep you woke up from (as others have pointed out, called 'sleep inertia').

Imagine you have a tunnel wide enough for two lanes of cars to drive through. When you have an asthma attack, the walls shrink and then you can only get one lane of cars through. The first line asthma medications will make the walls of the tunnel widen so you can fit three lanes of cars through instead. Lift your arm above your head and let it drop. Muscle go from tense to relaxed really fast - since muscles are making the walls of the tunnel shrink, you just need to make them relax and that can happen really really fast. If you want the ELICollege Student explanation: The first line asthma medications are what are called selective b2 adrenergic agonists (for example albuterol). Adrenergic receptors are receptors that are activated by the fight or flight response. Imagine you see a bear, your body get itself ready to run away from it. So it does things like kicking your heart rate up so you can get more blood to your muscles and it shunts blood from your organs to your muscles. It’s also important to get more air into your lungs so you can get more oxygen into your blood, so it does this by relaxing the tubes that bring air from your trachea to your alveoli. That last part is what b2 adrenergic receptors do. Since it’s a fight or flight response you want it to happen fast so it literally makes the smooth muscle cells in the wall of your lower airways relax, the bronchi/bronchioles widen and wider airways mean you can move more air into your lungs. The other medications that are commonly used: M1 muscarinic antagonists (ex. ipratropium): in your body you have fight or flight system that makes your heart rate go up, your airways dilate, etc. and a system that causes the opposite effects. That’s the role of the muscarinic receptors. So when so you block them muscarinic receptors you’re blocking airway constriction which causes airway dilation, if that makes sense.

Two neutrons can have the same spatial wavefunction as long as they have opposite spin projections. The nucleus is not a single point. Rather, it’s more like a liquid drop of approximately constant matter and charge densities. The spatial size of a nucleus is on the order of a few femtometers.

The blades, like the rest of the adamantium he carries, were bonded to his existing bone structure. The exact means that they came out razor sharp instead of jagged is unknown. As they are adamantium, once they were set they could not be sharpened further, so perhaps they had been molded with a very finely crafted mold, but frankly we don't have a solid answer beyond speculation.

No. Each of the binary operators (+, -, \*, /) is a function from R^(2) to R (in the case of division, some subset of R^(2)). Furthermore, each of the operators is *continuous* on its domain. So any *finite* combination of them would also be continuous on its domain. However, the ceiling and floor functions are not continuous on their domain. (If we allowed *infinite* combinations of the basic operators, then there are ways to write the floor and ceiling functions, e.g. by Fourier series.)

If you mean "technological progression" as in the development of new designs for technological devices, there have of course been a great many. Most of the ships, tools, etc. that are built in the modern era are quite different in many ways from those built in ancient times. If you mean "technological progression" as in the discovery of new *atoms* of design, there haven't been many. The exploration of the galaxy has been slow and almost every new civilization that's been discovered has had the same basic elements of technology already known. So there's really no way for such radically new game-changers to come along. It's a well-known theory that we've discovered pretty much all of the basic building blocks of technology that are possible, it's a waste of time to tinker with such fundamental things in the hopes of stumbling across something new. Just have the droids build you the parts and plug them together. The real creativity comes from the artisans who assemble those building blocks in new ways. Take the Death Star, for example. It was an unprecedented machine, but the basic building blocks are all very familiar. A hypermatter reactor, standard hyperdrive system, and a turbolaser with external focusing dish. They were just scaled up to unprecedented size.

A few key differences between the genetic sequence and a computer sequence: 1. Computers run in binary. Genes run in quaternary (4 types of nucleic acids). That immediately increases the amount of data you can store exponentially. One step further, gene sequences build amino acids. There are 21 total amino acids that can form thousands of different proteins. 2. People are made of matter. Matter is comprised of 120-something (the number keeps changing) different elements, each with unique interaction with each other and interactions with groups of other elements, which is even more information than a simple quaternary system. Electricity, on the other hand, is not matter. There are various theories about coding data in different voltages or currents or whatever to allow electricity to provide more than a binary system, but we don't have the technology yet (and it may not even be possible).

Each customer pays whatever he feels like, lets say 10 <insert currency here>. That amount is distributed among all of the game creators + some charities and and some money go to huble bundle itself. For the most part it's a win-win-win-win situation. First win : you. You win by getting a butload of games for fraction of the cost. Second win : the developers. This is sometimes not such a big win, but some bundles could generate 10's of thousands of (~65% of total sales divided by the number of developers in the current bundle) <currency goes here> for each developer for games which otherwise may not sell so well or to serve as a sort of a kickstarter to an upcoming game. Third win : the charities. Charities like "Charity Water", get ~15% out of every purchase . Fourth win : Humble Bundle by default they seem to get ~20% of each purchase you make. N.B. Please take into consideration that all the estimates above might differ as you are able to change which party gets what amount of <currrency>

You individually will probably not have a significant impact, but if you convince a large number of other people to do it, that will make a difference, and taking part yourself would certainly help with that.

We don't really know his teaching style. People assume that he would allow Anakin to be less pressured to follow the rigid Jedi rules, but his two know pupils are the opposite of what people aspect. So he might have made the same mistakes.

Presumably, any food inside Ant-Man changes size along with him. Otherwise, he would explode if he were to shrink after eating a full meal So we can assume that when he reverts to normal size in your scenario, the cake crumbs, digested or otherwise, would grow proportionately. His blood sugar levels should be the same as they were when he was small.

Money printing is bad assuming there's no productive place for the money to go. The money you're referencing was created in response to a very unique situation in which a large portion of the economy was, by law, prevented from continuing production, but this had a cascading effect where they couldn't pay their bills and their workers couldn't maintain their consumption or pay their bills because they were laid off. However, a lot of the downside effects of this shutdown were mitigated because of the quantitative easing by the fed which encouraged credit to continue to be extended and the fiscal bailouts of companies and people so they can continue their consumption. This means there's not a lot of reason to expect an incredible amount of inflation or devaluation of currency because, for the most part, that money had a place to go in so far as it brought the economy closer to its productive capacity during a downturn.

'Trickle-down' is a slur used to refer to Supply-side economics. All of economics is determined by the meeting pints of various supply and demand curves, and Supply-side economics is based on policies that make it easier to increase the supply of goods. Supply-side policies are a good idea *if* supply is insufficient or overly limited in relation to demand, especially if that limited supply is due to market failures or inefficiencies that can be easily corrected with economic or monetary policy. This situation *has* been true in the past, especially during and after the Great Depression; supply side policies were instrumental in bring the country back to the relative bounty and higher standards of living we now enjoy. However, supply side policies are only appropriate when supply is too low. Right now, and probably for the last 30-40 years, and moeny has flowed away from consumers and into the financial sector and to the rich, and we have been suffering instead from low aggregate demand. Demand-side policies (like minimum wage hikes or UBI or higher corporate taxes or etc) would thus be more appropriate, and supply-side policies are likely to only make things worse. So, while supply-side policies are a bad idea now and have been for a while, it would be wrong to think that they're *never* a goo idea, and can *never* raise the standard of living for the average person.

We store it in tanks and bleed it off as we need it. We also have special candles that, when burned, generate oxygen, so that if the tanks are empty or the oxygen generator is down we can still make O2.

Are others actually reading his question? Yes when using metres of things they are more likely to weigh kilograms but why define a gram as 1000 times less than what would be used with other base units? The original kilogram was 1 dm^3 of water. So why not define *that* as a gram?

Because all of the standards you choose to measure are just social programs that exist in first world liberal democracies. They have exactly nothing to do with how western white people behave. Western white people are not the same thing as their governments. If you're asking about how people treat each other, then you need to differentiate between our social technologies like freedom of religion, speech and the other tools of sophisticated democracy and white people.

Glycogen is mobilized quickly. Fat needs some extra processing to become available as muscle fuel. Additionally, it's true that most people have ample reserves of "fuel", but their bodies are not prepared to mobilize and burn vast amounts of it quickly. A large part of endurance training involves changes in the body that just increase its ability to process and burn energy reserves. An easy measure of that is the amount of oxygen burned in a given time (or the amount of CO2 released - same thing). An athlete can burn a lot of O2 per minute; a couch potato, not so much.

Saying she witnessed an Alien Hunter fight a convert American Spec Ops would make her look like a lunatic. The Soviet would either think she went crazy after surviving an Enemy Attack or would think she snaped and killed them herself. Her best Bet would be to ask the US for Protection as a Witness to avoid her Supervisors.

I assume you're speaking of the "mirror universe" experienced by the crews of two Enterprises as well as station DS9. If that's the case, the timeline had its primary divergence at First Contact between the humans and the vulcans (the event you referred to as the past event). Instead of having a meeting of peace, the first interaction between Vulcans and humans was tainted by Zefram Cochrane shooting the Vulcan with a shotgun, inciting the humans to raid the Vulcan ship. It was the character of that interaction that would forever taint interactions between humans and every other interstellar race. Humans were propelled forward technologically through the raiding of the technology on the Vulcan scout, but other species would be less willing to share technology, driving the "Terrans" to a hostile campaign of enslavement. The result is that in the 100 years or so between the different first contact and the species you've seen, at least an entire generation of many species you are familiar with was born and died under the yolk of slavery. Their cultures destroyed and their outlooks tainted by being completely dominated by the Terran Empire, many species may look "opposite" to you. But the incident that changed them was the interaction with the humans over an extended period. Peaceful species who survived the first attacks became warlike over a generation, as it was the only way to survive. Species known for their aggression were either destroyed in the first attacks and forced into captivity (and thus the next generation would be one born away from the warlike influence of their previous culture), or learned to fight differently as a way of surviving. So, in conclusion, it isn't that some event changed every species, turning some "evil" and some "nice", it's that the massive spread of the very violent Terrans forced a number of changes over the years. In 100 years of conquest, a lot can happen, and the cultures that one would associate with species in our "prime" timeline became warped or outright destroyed.

In Flashpoint he was skinny from being malnourished by artificial red light (red sun light has more vitamins than the artificial stuff). And that's just it, red sun light is like water for a Kryptonian. It keeps them alive with the minimum nutrients. Think of yellow sun light as being a super steroid. Packed with proteins and vitamins that a red sun just can't get match. Steroids do all sorts of things including healing your body and muscles. Everyone produces steroids naturally and everytime you walk or move your arms there are micro tears on your muscles which take a while to heal. You see these gains very slowly. The extra steroids that Superman gets heals these tears quickly, couple with him always jumping ten stories at a time or lifting airplanes and islands, he's getting a great workout every time he stops pretending those glasses hide anything. Superman is the ultimate powerlifter and because he only "eats" radiation from the Sun, he doesn't take in any carb.

Not in the same way. You see the Quran, as any book, is written in Arabic "Fus'ha", kind of like a proper form of Arabic. It's what you study at school in grammar class and stuff like that. However, each Arabic country tends to have a dialect of Arabic that can be really different than Fus'ha (completely different words and sentence forms sometimes). Now, technically, the Quran is written in "Classical Arabic", but since it is similar to Modern Standard Arabic, and since both of them are dramatically different than each country's dialect, people don't really differentiate between the two and they don't consider Classical Arabic more old fashioned than Standard Arabic, because they both sound the same. Therefore, the Quran sounds as "old fashioned" as any other book, just with some fancier words. And yes, you will get laughed at for speaking Fus'ha in public.

Ever have a 3rd person try to talk over you when you're talking to someone else? Now imagine if they didn't stop, but kept getting louder and louder until neither you nor your conversation partner can hear anything except Guy #3's exceedingly loud voice. You eventually quit trying to hold a conversation because his shouting is so loud nothing is getting through. You and your friend in the example are you and whatever you're trying to connect to. Guy #3 is the drophacker, flooding the connection with a bunch of random shit.

He's generally more capable than anyone else. Definitely a better option than the mentally unstable Hamlet would have been, and less conniving than Claudius was. His reign is probably a good thing, which is why Hamlet named him heir. His accession was also a lot less bloody than things would have been had Claudius remained on the throne (because of the war that would have been pursued).

Everyone is different, but if it's a good school, you're interested in the work, and you're getting a fellowship for it, "location, people I've met from there, and aesthetic" seem like really terrible reasons to turn it down. Very few academics get to pick where they live and being best friends with everyone you work with isn't going to happen. If those things are super important to you, it might be a better idea to go a different route than academia.

The oxygen in the air is burning the fuel in the wood. Imagine the oxygen as a thirsty person, and the wood/charcoal/whatever as a glass of water. If the embers are completely open to the air, the oxygen can just drink it all up quickly. When the fuel is covered up with ashes and soot, it is more like trying to drink through a cocktail straw, as there is a much smaller path for the oxygen to get to the wood. So, the fuel takes longer to burn (and doesn't burn as hot)

You're doomed forever. If you have something to throw, you can change your momentum but it's very, very difficult to do by hand and it would probably lead to nothing or worse. If you're in EVA and you're not attached, you're dead.