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How can a car detect that a Windows has been broken and sound the alarm? | Most car alarms are vibration sensitive, which is why they go off when someone bumps into the car. Because you will require a significant force to smash a window, the car will register the hit and sound the alarm. |
Why is chloroform not used as a sleeping medication? | Because chloroformed sleep is a sedated, unnatural state of unconsciousness. The compound depresses the central nervous system and too much can easily kill a person.The main components in chloroform, at least the most common way to make chloroform chemically, is with acetone and bleach. Neither of these are exactly saf... |
who decided that vulgar language was vulgar? | This is a bit like asking who decided what is polite and what is kind and what is mean - they are bound to culture, context and they ebb and flow with social norms. While we can talk about how and why words get put on lists that the MPAA uses in ratings, or that are OK or not OK on broadcast televition, it's nearly imp... |
Film: what does a producer and executive producer do? | From Wikipedia: * Executive producer is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or with associated legal issues .[1] In films, the executive producer generally contributes to the film's budg... |
How does forcing car companies to sell through dealers "protect the consumer"? | It's from back in the days where trying to hold an out of state car company liable was pretty much impossible for the average person. The dealer exists partially because in that era it was important to have somebody nearby to hold responsible for the car you bought."Protect the consumer" is just an excuse. The goal is ... |
Why are modern day toys and electronics so flimsy compared to, say 15 years ago? | Consumers would rather pay less and buy devices more often. If there was more profit to be found by charging more and being durable, that's what you would see. The obsolescence curve for many technologies is also getting faster, so manufacturers can more safely assume their product will have a shorter life anyway.1. To... |
Why does time move at the speed it does? | How would you know the difference if it ran at any other speed? It would still be "normal" to you.Time is moving at a speed set by humans. Seconds, mintues and hours are arbitrary. Things don't move in slow or fast motion because we are used to this speed.The word is spacetime, one word. Basically speed through space +... |
what does more damage to the brain, a single KO blow or a flurry of smaller blows that result in a TKO? | With CTE studies and the NFL we are only just beginning to understand head trauma. It appears that its not a single concussion that is the cause but more of repetitive hits to the head. Dont be mistaken, though, both is not healthy brain wise. |
Why are most television shows made to censor curse words and other possible offensive vocabulary, but are allowed to show the visual representation of things along the same lines as the omitted/edited speech? | because children who don't always necessarily understand whats going on under the covers it could go over their heads and they wont realize it was a rude scene but if its swearing or talking about sexual subjects it the kids will definitely realize what the shows trying to convey. |
With the rise of automation in manufacturing and retail, what's next in the line of work for the people who will lost their jobs? | Many of those jobs will go away. But not all will, and other jobs will become necessary because of the change, and those will employ some of the others. A number of workers and jobs will stay directly in transportation. Many transportation workers provide more service than just an act of driving, and because they're hu... |
Why is it assumed to be liquid water on Mars as opposed to some other liquid. | It's not assumed, it's known. They used a spectrometer to analyse the chemical composition of the liquid in the channels. |
Who are the Oath Keepers and what do they do? | The Oathkeepers are a group that is supposed to consist of people who take an oath to defend the Constitution as part of their work---so soldiers, some other government workers, police, and the like. The organization asks its members to swear that they will never follow an unconstitutional order, meant as insurance aga... |
Why do storefronts have two sets of consecutive doors (usually automatic) at the entrance? | This design is particularly common in regions with cold climates , even for relatively small stores, because having a single door system that opens directly to outside where there is heavy foot-traffic is simply not feasible in extreme weather conditions . The fact is, using a single door system in a heavy-traffic area... |
Why does pee foam when it hits the ground outside. | Foamy urine can be caused by rapid urination. At times, when you delay going to the washroom, large amounts of urine gets collected in the bladder. Also, proteinuria or presence of significant amounts of protein in the urine, is one of the most common cause of foamy urineDoes your piss not make bubbles in the toilet?',... |
How do 501c4 non-profits work and how do they threaten democracy? | They don't in and of themselves. A 501c4 is a tax exempt organization that is allowed to use their money to influence public opinion which includes influencing elections. So people can donate money to the 501c4 and that organization can then spend money to influence the election via TV ads, etc. Some people feel that t... |
What law guides the confessions in a R.Catholic confessional?Suppose a Catholic priest decides to give data on a penitent to the CIA?Or the FBI puts its staff in the seminary? | *Canon law*- the religious law of the Catholic Church - provides for the immediate and automatic excommunication, which can only be lifted by the Pope, of any priest who reveals information obtained through confession. In parallel to that, in the United States, there's a legal principle called *confessional privilege,*... |
Why do the desktop computers (Dell Optiplex 9010) that I get on at my university run so fast and smooth while the 6-month-old netbook laptop I use runs so slowly? | A base model Optiplex 9010 has much better specs than your average netbook. It's actually a very good computer for school/office work, I'm surprised your school has computers that nice. The processor that it has was only released about six months ago and is very much "high-end" for non-computationally intensive applica... |
What the Black-Scholes Model is and how it works. | The Black-Scholes formula works by assuming changes in the stock price are Gaussian distributed/normal distributed around 0. This means a few things: * The expected value at any time in the future is the current value. * The variability around 0 is something we can measure and account for. * Taking those together we ca... |
How do they determine which song hits number 1? | It's the song with the most revenue in that week. They look at sales online, downloads and in stores. |
How are portable powerbanks able to stuff 30,000mAh worth of energy into such a small body as compared to a 28A portable car battery? | You can't compare Lithium-polymere accumulators and the Lead-ones currently used in cars. In your car you need a battery that has no problems with pumping out high currents but you seldom need a long lasting battery since most of the time your engine should be running while in the car. . The LiPo in your powerbank will... |
How does a 'child recovery' operation work? | It's basically a kidnapping. Most countries agree to a certain set of protocols to handle international custody disputes but some countries don't. So with Lebanon, if you are Lebanese and get your kids there, there is little the other party can do. So they hire some professional kidnappers to get the kid back. More gen... |
how can the Hollywood studios acquire so many cars from the 20s - 70s period? | Car clubs. They baby their cars and would like nothing more than to have them on a movie setThey build them. From cheaper materials. They are not fully working vintage cars, but modern replicas. Cars from the 70s are probably still available, but those from the 20s will almost certainly be replicas. [Here is a video] w... |
Why do pain killers like tylenol or paracetamol make flu shots less effective? | Paracetamol works by stopping your body from making chemicals that naturally increase blood flow by dilating blood vessels. When you get a big bruise that's swollen, these drugs reduce the blood flow in that area, which helps reduce swelling. If you've gotten a flu shot after taking a bunch of drugs like this, there's ... |
What is the purpose of a five-star military rank? | Those ranks exist so that during wartime a single supreme commander can be appointed in a given operational area. This simplifies the chain of command by making it totally clear who is the senior officer. Remember that in a large operational setting there may be a large number of very senior flag officers, potentially ... |
What Is Visual Snow, Why Does It Exist & Does Every Human Have It? | It’s considered as a disease, or at least as a symptom of a disease , so no, everyone does not have it. It happens when a part of you cerebral cortex goes into overdrive, causing your ocular nerves to misinterpret information.As for what it is, you can picture it as the visual noise on a broken TV. |
Why insulin is so important. | Insulin is a hormone which regulates sugar levels in the bloodstream. With another hormone called glucagon, it keeps sugar levels in the bloodstream at a nearly constant level by breaking down or building up glycogen stored in the liver or sometimes fat or protein stored elsewhere. Having glucose in the bloodstream is ... |
How does phantom limb syndrome work? | Your nervous system has been sending singles to your brain about how your limbs feel since before your were born. Right now, reach down and touch your pinky toe without looking at it. You can do this because your pinky toe is constantly sending signals to your brain with "status updates". Now if your pinky toe was sudd... |
What happens to ants that a separated from their colony? | If the distance is close enough, they will be able to find their way by scattering to scout and tracking each other via the pheromones they lay on their path. However, 5km might be a little long for them; I think after first scrambling away for a little while, some of them will get lost in their own trail and go around... |
Why is every planet spherical? | Planets form spheres because of the gravity emitted by their own mass. In space, any mass in space that exceeds about 6x10^20kg, or about 1/10,000 the mass of Earth, will compress itself into a sphere because its gravity pulls all of the mass in. Ideally, this leads to a shape where all the mass is equally distant to t... |
What is Cop Baiting? | It's when you do something in order to provoke a cop into doing something. The most common topical example would be to harass a cop with insults while filming them until they respond inappropriately. You then share the last half of the video where the cop acted inappropriately. |
What are the pros & cons of using a neural network as opposed to a symbol system? | The obvious ones are that neural networks don't have transparency, in the sense that you can't easily tell what they are doing. Typographical/symbolic systems are constructed by humans and have obvious, engineered structure. That lets you figure out how logical structures work and how to construct inferences from deduc... |
Why do most people enjoy potatoes but don't like other vegetables? | Though botanically classified as vegetables, potatoes are nutritionally classified as starchy foods that differ greatly in taste and texture from the traditional leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, and kayle. |
From where does Earth get energy to rotate around itself and revolve around the Sun? | Earth is falling towards the sun, for the same reason that you'd fall to the ground if you jumped - gravity! Why doesn't it hit the sun though? Well, orbits are just when you move sideways fast enough to miss the object you're falling towards. That's we use the term free fall in space, you're always falling, you just k... |
What makes my nose "blocked"? | I just had surgery to fix this sort of thing 2 months ago. There are several reasons this could be happening, it is most commonly caused by inflammation of the sinuses called sinutitus. Sinutitus can be managed with a steroid nasal spray, and it may be caused by continuous and long lasting sinus infections. You could a... |
Why is desertion a serious crime? | I would say that it is a *bit* obsolete, but originally, this is due to morale and discipline. When your army is charged, you don't want them to flee. When you are losing, you don't want them to run, or turn on you. If someone is allowed to just disagree, and leave, discipline breaks down in the ranks as everyone reali... |
Anyone care to explain the axiom of choice? Thanks. | Let's say you want to know why the sky is blue. I could tell you that it's because the light from the sun is mostly blue and that the air makes things seem even more blue than they are and so on, and you would then ask "but why is the sunlight mostly blue?" and so on. Theoretically we could play this game forever, and ... |
How do lips still sync up in slow motion music videos? | One way to do this is to film people moving at normal speed, but the music they're lip syncing to is sped up. That way when they slow the video down and play the song at normal speed, the song is playing normally, the lips still match as long as they sped it up the right amount in the original recording. |
How do MOBA's and MOBA style games make so many different heroes and terrains and make the art style match? | The individual artists aren't working in a vacuum. They will reference the intended look and feel of the game as they work. Also there will generally be a lead designer or artist who instructs the other members of the team on overall style. Process varies from company to company, but typically each character will be dr... |
If energy cannot be created or destroyed, what happens to the energy and matter that gets sucked into black holes? | Black holes do not violate these conservation laws. Think of a penny that you drop into an ocean. For any practical purposes, that penny is gone, but that doesn't mean it just disappeared, it's still somewhere deep in that ocean. Black holes don't destroy energy, they just "trap" it, if that makes senseblack holes are ... |
On a cold day after baking, will leaving the oven door open warm my house any more than leaving it closed? | At the end of the day, the same amount of energy would be released into your household. Opening or closing the door will just allow the release of heat to happen faster or slower. With the door closed, the only effective way for the oven to lose the heat is to just radiate it out. There is a small vent that will allow ... |
Why do we make the sound "Ow!" when we get hurt as opposed to any other noise? | Because that's what we observed our surroundings do when we were babies. It's culture. Like how many cultures have different ways to articulate animal sounds. |
Barbers/beauticians paying for "their chair" | The stylist is an independent contractor, not an employee basically they are their own small business. Imagine a strip mall with 5 storefronts. A landlord owns the whole building, and each business that wants to reach and serve their customers pays rent for the store. Doesn't matter if they make $1/month or $1million/m... |
How do we know we aren't in a simulation? What is the science behind the studies and how do we know that science isn't just programming? | This isn't a theory that is currently testable by science; it's more a philosophical issue than a scientific one. As humans, all our perceptions are filtered through our senses as nerves. Per the [Brain in a Vat] scenario, we have no objective way of proving that our sensory input is 'real\'. As such, science has no re... |
Why do fans always have controls that go: off, 3, 2, 1 instead of off, 1, 2, 3? | because when you turn on a electric motor, you want it on it's max setting as having it on it's lowest setting may not be enough power to start the fan so then it will burnout. |
What is a realistic way to get rid of the drug cartels in Mexico? | I am sure I won't be the first person to suggest this, but legalization seems like the only answer to me. Legalization would make drug prices plummet, and create of flood of legitimate businesses into the market. This cuts off their money, and thus their power. |
How are presidential polls considered to be representative of public opinion when I've never met someone who has actually sat through a phone interview for one? | Your typical professionally-conducted presidential poll talks to around 1000 people; in the presidential election season, there might be two dozen major polls conducted in a month for two years. That's roughly ~576,000 people polled per presidential election, or about 1 person in 600. And by the way, I am one of those ... |
Why are people so against wind farms? | Apart from the wildlife issues and the fact that a lot of people don't like looking at them, the real problem is the pay-off time is often longer than the service life of the hardware and the energy cost to produce them is huge. |
Are transgenders allowed in the sports? | Your question brings up a couple of issues that can be easily conflated. I read your question to be: "Are transgendered persons allowed to compete as the sex they have transitioned to? " The answer to that is that it depends. On the international level, the IOC recently released new guidelines on the issue: _URL_0_ TL;... |
Why do we feel the weird banging in our body when listening to loud live music | Sound is pressure waves moving through the air that vibrate your eardrums. Your ribcage doesn't have much that is solid behind it to stop it vibrating to large, low frquency pressure waves. |
Why a humidifier doesn't use as much energy as an electric kettle? | A kettle's job is to boil a whole lot of water very fast. A humidifer's job is basically boil a small amounts of water slowly. The amount of energy used to boil 1L of water in a kettle dry is the same as the amount used by a humidifer to use up 1L, however a kettle will use all that energy in like a minute, whereas the... |
How do bare-knuckle boxers not/rarely break their own fists? | Bare knuckles boxers don't hit as hard as ones with gloves. It may seem counter-intuitive, but a fighter with gloves is actually far more dangerous than a fighter without them. The fighter with gloves can launch full-force attacks that create a huge impact wave in their target. In contrast, the fighter without gloves w... |
Why do old broken bones and injuries hurt when there are extreme highs or lows in the weather. | Weather is caused by pressure differences. Like when you see on the weather channel the and converging. [here] you can see a great visualization of that. All our joints have fluid in them and we're used to the fluid expanding and contracting normally under different atmospheric pressures, but after an injury it changes... |
How come people who are crossing Europe illegally are considered migrants and not illegal immigrants? | Well a migrant is just somebody who travels, could be an immigrant or an emigrant. As for the North African and Middle Eastern immigrants, they're refugees of a war zone so referring to them as "illegal immigrants" creates a certain stereotype which they don't deserve.Immigrant means a person who goes to a country with... |
With so much advancement in communications. Why are we still not able to find the missing flight Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370? | I think many people that believe MH370 can be discovered easily is mislead by how enormous the area of search is, and how minute the plane is compared to it. I made an image to show how much this plane can cover in an hour. : [_URL_2_]. Note that the graduation is one per 200 kilometres, and each graduation is 84 pixel... |
Why are some people not immune to Hepatitis B? | Like anything else 1. Maybe they did not receive the vaccine 2. Maybe the vaccine they received was ineffective 3. Maybe their body did not properly react to the vaccine and therefore never built the right anti-bodies 4. Maybe they are immunosuppressed due to transplant or disease |
Why do tickets dispensed by arcade machines always seem to arrange themselves into neat piles? | One of the ways tickets can come from the factory is in accordion-folded stacks. After they're fed out of the machine, the tend to fold back the way they were. |
Why don't we, instead of filling tires with air, just make them out of solid rubber? | Solid rubber weighs way too much. Edit: they are experimenting with airless tires though. Imagine a hollow honeycomb in a circle. I think they're plastic. I've looked into this, and will post a link as soon as I find it. Edit edit: [Link] this is some pretty cool stuff. I last looked into it a few years ago and there w... |
What would happen to a plane that was flying within the Earths atmosphere but suddenly began to experience no force of gravity? | well let's suppose that can happen. who would happen. plane's going at some 500 mph relative to ground at altitude of 30,000ft. God turns off gravity in the entire universe. first thing that'd happen. all the passengers would freak out. next thing that'd happen, the plane would start gaining altitude fast. not just bec... |
how does circumcision not count as illegal genital mutilation? | Simply because it's a socially accepted act that is rooted in religion with Western cultures. If the act were not Westernized, it would be considered mutilation. |
How is Stephen Colbert a character? What is different between Stephen Colbert and "Stephen Colbert"? | Stephen Colbert played a character by the same name on his Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report". The fictional Colbert was a parody of the kind of personality-driven opinion shows common on nighttime cable news networks. While that was a very popular character that was appropriate for his cable show, it wouldn't be... |
Why do black tattoos turn blue eventually? | Cheap ink and Sun Exposure.Not all black inks fade to blue.My grandfather's 35yr old tattoo is still black, mind you it's blurry due to 30 years of aging. |
How does a jail broken phone work? Do they create a whole new OS or just add stuff on to the old OS? | Jailbreaking , is the same operating system it was before, you're just modifying the system to allow you to do things that were previously not allowed. It's called jailbreaking because normally apps run in a jail or a sandbox that keeps them contained and limited. So once you've modified the system you've literally jai... |
How can the Department of Homeland Security actually run out of money? (since the House just failed to extend funding) A | Congress doesn't budget for departments to build reserves like that, so when they stop cutting checks that's all she wrote", 'Government money for "non-essential" things can *only* be spent if Congress agrees to a budget, and those budget agreements don't last forever. The last one ran out today, and they couldn't agre... |
Why do we feel like time has passed after sleeping but not after being given general anesthetic? | I had my first experience with general anesthesia this year and felt the same. Waking from a nap or a night's sleep, there a sense of time having passed. After general anesthesia there's just a blank with no sense of duration. |
why is it a bad idea to make hate speech /political incorrectness illegal? | > I can't quite articulate why *and I'd like to read the opinions of others*. Because you wouldn't have the opinions of others if you ban free speech. Some things aren't nice to say/hear, but education is the key. |
How does Grooveshark play whatever song you want for free while Pandora requires you to listen to radio stations with mandatory commercials? | Pandora operates completely legitimately, while Grooveshark technically does not. Grooveshark has been involved in the occasional lawsuit, and more will likely come. Its more a matter of the fact that Grooveshark has remained more under the radar, and with so many different sources of what may be called copyright infri... |
The purpose of the painted spiral on the front of an aircraft engine. | It visualizes the speed at which the turbine spins, since the turbine blades move so fast that you can't distinguish between a slowly idling engine and one which has full power. The spiral can be distinguished even at high speed, since it changes only a little bit each revolution. This is mainly useful for reasons of s... |
Why does pouring beer into a glass of ice make it go flat? | CO2 bubbles usually don't form just at random in the middle of a fluid. Instead, they need to form in cavitation points, which are basically tiny nicks in the surface of something which change the properties of the carbonic acid form of CO2 enough that it turns back into a gas. This is why you usually see a stream of b... |
What are CETA and TTIP, and why are some countries so opposed to it? | [This] is actually a really good article about why people are scared of it. Add on top of that. all the negotiations have been behind closed doors, so our fearless leaders are going to push things that a lot of people are dead against down over their heads. Thus the pushback. Some of us consider ISDS a crime against hu... |
the numbers in the periodic table of elements | It depends on which numbers you are referring to. They all deal with the chemical and physical properties of the element. The most common are: Atomic Number : which essentially defines the element. For example, an oxygen atom is only oxygen if it has 8 protons. Atomic Mass : which says how much the element ways assumin... |
Why do governments not put extra taxes on sugar, salt and fat to make the population healthier? | Take a look at how New York City's ban on large sodas went. Soda lobbies fought it. People didn't like it, they felt that the government was impeding on their freedom to consume how they deem fit.Because taxes are very unpopular not to mention such a tax would hurt the lower class more.than any other. To do such a thin... |
How is it that the Monty Hall problem and the gambler's fallacy don't contradict each other? | The key to the Monty Hall problem is that the door that's removed from play is *never* the door with the prize and *never* the door you initially chose. So if you choose a door at random, you initially have a 1/3 chance of being right and a 2/3 chance of being wrong. One of the doors you didn't choose is then removed f... |
Why are there 360 degrees? | "The Sumerians watched the Sun, Moon, and the five visible planets , primarily for omens. They did not try to understand the motions physically. They did, however, notice the circular track of the Sun's annual path across the sky and knew that it took about 360 days to complete one year's circuit. Consequently, they di... |
Why do European forests seem to have less underbrush than forests in the Eastern U.S.? | Im no expert but I believe its because they've been left alone to grow longer, when trees get bigger it cuts off sunlight to the floor, over time you get a lot less smaller plants in the underbrush due to that and maybe the bigger trees using up more nutrients. I recall reading that in USA it used to be possible to rid... |
what consequences if any are there from streaming tv shows on your computer? | Hardware like your monitor and the CPU have to be working, and those can only work for very roughly 50 000 hours. Your ISP might bill you if you go over your cap if you go over your cap and have a cap to go over to begin with. Were you thinking there was something special going on here? |
If/Once the Cuban Embargo is lifted, what will change? | It will be easier people in the US to visit Cuba, acquire Cuban goods and do business in Cuba. Vice-versa for people in Cuba dealing with the USCuba will finally be able to buy newer, safer cars. _URL_0_There are two hypotheses about this. Critics of lifting the embargo are afraid that the injection to the Cuban econom... |
After a recent deed, someone told "that was mighty white of ya". What does that phrase mean? | Their intended meaning: that you did something nice that they appreciate. The actual meaning: black people are incapable of goodness or decency.At some point I believe the phrase was used to imply that white people are more virtuous than other people. However, for a while now it's been a sarcastic way of saying that a ... |
Why do the majority of living things, like animals, insects, and bugs, require oxygen to survive? | Living cells need Oxygen to react with the food we eat to get energy - It's basically the same thing as burning, but much less ''violent'', and produces the same waste . Oxygen is used for this due to how easily it reacts, but it's possible to use other gasses as well. There are lots of bacteria that do not need oxygen... |
Explain 4k vs 1080p and other TV display resolutions to me | There are two things to consider : resolution, and pixel size. All "1080p" screens will be 1,920 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels tall. However, you can have a 1080p screen that is pretty small or you can have a 1080p screen that is 50+ inches across the diagonal. The way that is accomplished is with the pixel size . A sma... |
Who/what is the "Chair" of the Senate, and who tells him/her what to do? | The [president pro tempore of the senate], meaning president for a time, is the second highest ranking Senator and a senator who serves as something like acting senate president in absence of the Vice President. The position was created in the Constitution : > The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a Pr... |
Where do creationists say the flood water drained to? | It's in the atmosphere now. Prior to the flood it had never rained. Edit: I inferred this from the Bible. It is my interpretation.Mostly, they don't. The water was supposed to have come from "the firmament,"--whatever that is--which opened up and flooded the world. Some sources say the firmament was a canopy of water i... |
Why do planes disappear in the Bermuda Triangle? | The area actually has no special power to make planes disappear. However, it is prone to storms, and there are wide stretches with no place to land, so from time to time a small plane is lost with no witnessesPlanes and ships disappear everywhere. Not so much any more with modern GPS and tracking, and in line with that... |
How do people move giraffes from one location to another? | In a crate on a truck. [Like this] There was a recent incident in the news where a giraffe was killed when its head hit an overpass, but that sort of incident isn't the accepted standard of care in most facilities. |
What would happen if you filled up a tire with a liquid, say water, instead of air but to the same psi? | It would be much bumpier ride as water doesn't compress like air does. It might also cause the tire to explode if you hit a bump for the same reason. Edit: It would also make your car quite a bit heavier. So you would have slower acceleration and longer stopping distance. |
What do babies dream about? | I have a 12-month-old baby who can say about 10 identifiable words now - meaning they might not sound like the word to someone else, but she says them consistently so I know what she means when she says them. Anyway, I turned on the TV and there was a picture of the ocean, which she had never seen before. It had rollin... |
how do water and sun benefit flowers after they've already been cut from where they grew? | Cut plants don't die immediately -- they're not like animals that need circulating blood to transfer oxygen around constantly. One main purpose of roots is to carry water from the earth up to the leaves -- there's no heart pumping, the water moves through capillary action, which can happen at any point along the plant'... |
How can sulfur hexafluoride stay in someone’s lungs, but co2 doesn’t even though they are both more dense than air? | I hope another commenter corrects if I'm mistaken, but I would think that Sulfur hexafluoride CAN stay in your lungs, but doesn't automatically stay there like it's stuck. It takes more effort to get it out because it's very heavy, but I've seen videos of people inhaling it so clearly they're able to get it out too, ma... |
I am near sighted, how come when I look through a scope, or binoculars, without corrective lens', everything is not crystal clear? | Any scope you look through will have a focus adjuster. You can adjust the scope so that your sight will be focused on any specific point. This action will also correct for any vision issues you may have |
Why do we sometimes blank out and stare off into space? | Psych doctoral student here. Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot of understanding around the mechanism of action of daydreaming . But when it comes to the brain, we SUCK at multitasking . Think about reading a book; have you ever found yourself a page or two in without remembering what you read? Or maybe you were on ... |
Why isn't the for-profit business model of hospitals in the US under more fire than the healthcare system? | Even "nonprofit" hospitals are generally out to make a profit, or at least break even. The parent organization needs to be financially stable. |
Why does the order in which you mix things together matter? | as a person who cooks for living, in your case you just hasnt mixed things enough in first case. Adding dry to wet makes mixing easier and faster as opposed way creates dry clumps, that require extra mixing. thats why dry to wet is preferred cause it makes things easier and faster. |
How do shows like DragonBall Z Abridged and Yugioh Abridged stay on Youtube without being copyright claimed? | They're works of parody. As such, if the creators were sued and fought back, they'd probably win under 'fair use,' which allows limited use of copyrighted material for things like commentary, criticism, reviewing, and parody.Well, fair use allows them the ability to make works of parody, furthermore a lot of the users ... |
what kind of applications won't benefit from increased multi-thread performance? | One reason is if the application is primarily I/O bound. Adding more threads won't make your hard drive any faster. |
How do people change their identity? eg. get new social security numbers fake deaths etc. | > Fake deaths That's easy, get someone to think a dead body is yours or disappear for a few years and someone will have you declared dead. Common examples are place a similar sex/gender/aged dead body in your car and set it on fire. If no one is suspicious they won't go through getting a DNA test, or if it's burned eno... |
The IRA, The Real IRA, and why they exist. | Basically. British occupation. We wanted independence. Best we got was a divided Ireland. 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland. 6 in Northern Ireland. Depending on the year, There are many different forms of the IRA. From Wikipedia. Earlier organisations Society of United Irishmen Young Ireland Irish Republican Broth... |
How does a Medical Examiner determine the Cause of Death? | Mostly by autopsy. Cutting the body open, looking for anything that looks wrong. Looking at the heart for signs of a clot, lungs for blockage etc. Blood tests are also taken to test for anything unusual like heart attack signs or drink/ drugs. Everybody dies for the same reason, the heart stops, medical examiners job i... |
Why Do we tend to panic more when running from a scary situation than walking from it? | I think you may have your causality backward. You run because when you can't control your panic, and you walk when you can. If the walking increase your panic, you would already be running.The body has two opposing systems that govern it's response to anything that happens around it: the sympathetic and parasympathetic... |
Why are bugs so good at getting in the house, but so bad at getting out? | If there are a lot of bugs outside only one has to find its way inside for you to notice. If there is one bug inside that bug specifically has to find its way outside for you to noticeThey brute force it. It may take thousands of bugs until one gets inside, but when only one is inside chance might not be on its side. A... |
If I fell through a cloud would I come out soaked or 'misted'? | Neither, when a cloud is on the ground it's fog. When you walk in the fog you don't get that wet. If you fall into a rain cloud you get wet, or a snow cloud you get snow on you, but a non-precipitating cloud won't get you that wet. |
what is it about the structure of vegetables that makes them so nutritious yet contain relatively few calories? | We cannot digest cellulose. That is the physical structural component of plants. Because we cannot digest it we cannot get nutritional value from it. We call it dietary fiber and it passes through our bodies mostly intact. We are able to digest other components of plants and so get many vitamins and such from them, but... |
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