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How is being a Redditor different or any more 'special' (or less so?) than regularly browsing any other forum? (genuine question, I'm not trying to be a bitch) | It really doesn't make you any more special than someone else on another forum. Reddit has its bad subs and their users, just like 4chan has its bad boards and their users. I suppose reddit has a more progressive, liberal stance towards things with a *generally* friendly and welcome user base, which may give it a more ... |
What exactly is zero point energy | Let's say that you have a ball and it behaves like a particle. From physics, we know that the total energy of the ball is the sum of the kinetic energy and its potential energy When the ball isn't moving, it has a minute amount of KE even though it should not have *any* kinetic energy at all. The Heisenberg Uncertainty... |
How do prisoner exchanges during war actually work? | The reasoning for doing a POW swap are worked out in advance. Generally the prisoners are walked to the border and then let loose to walk to the other side. Or they are moved to a mutually agreed location and then let go. It all kinda depends on who they are and the parties. Some times there isn't one. In WW2 in japan ... |
How (or why) is the US Federal Reserve not an actual part of the government? | The Federal Reserve is essentially a government agency that is operated privately. It was created by the government, it's leaders are appointed by the government, but it is independent. This is often referred to as being "independent within the government." By making it independent and quasi-private, the Federal Reserv... |
Why hats used to be so popular in the 1920's and 30's | Hats have been popular articles of men's attire from ancient times until 1960. Most men throughout history wore a cap or hat whenever they went outside. In 1960, President-Elect Kennedy attended his inaguration hatless and thereafter fashion changed rapidly to dispense with headgear except as environmental conditions r... |
why Verizon workers are going on strike? | The Verizon employees who are on strike have not had a contract since August of 2015. Negotiations with the company have not produced the results they felt were appropriate and they have elected to strike based on that. Some of the issues they have raised are wages, pension freezes, Verizon working to make it easier to... |
Why do omelets and scrambled eggs taste differently even though I put the same ingredients into them? | First, texture has a lot to do with food. The sensations of chewing, moving food around in your mouth, and taking a bite-sized solid piece of omelet versus a fluffy bit of scrambled egg with a lot of air in it will add to a difference in flavor. Next, your omelet usually has a big chunk of "other stuff" in its middle w... |
Why aren't independent votes counted in the presidential primary? | Right now the parties are voting to pick who they want to run for president, as private entities. They may want to exclude non-party members, for instance to avoid letting 'guerilla voters' bump up a cataclysmically bad candidate so that the party will nominate him/her, and then lose in the general election. You aren't... |
Why does cereal need to be in a bag in a box when dry pasta doesn’t need a bag before being put into a box? | We want cereal to stay crisp, because we don't intend to cook it before eating it. And because it has loads of rough surface area, it absorbs humidity fast. |
Can Chinese writing be "sounded out?" How would someone read a word that they've never seen before. | No, mandarin and cantonese are not phonetic. If you can't figure out the word, you have to look it up or use context.They're logograms , like hieroglyphs. But yeah, there's often much, much less phonetic information "given" in a character than you 'd get with an English or Korean word. Some words you can guess at their... |
Why do charities build new homes for the homeless/under-privileged when we already have a ridiculous amount of vacant homes in the US that could be fixed/don't need fixing? | You can't really ask the government to just let you take existing but currently uninhabited homes like that, it'd basically amount to stealing from the owner. Some places have laws about letting property be considered properly 'abandoned' in which case any supposed owner that fails to maintain the property can lose it ... |
How is the speed of the ball measured immediately in sports like cricket? | They use a radar gun, just like the ones police use. They use the doppler effect to measure speed of the ball. You can buy one at many sporting goods storesA laser is projected at the ball and the delay before it is reflected back is measured. Compare any two data points and you have velocity. |
In today’s society, why is adopting a child not more encouraged than having your own and adding to an already over-populated planet? | Biological drive to reproduce, and societal drive to pass on a family legacy. It's basically that simple. |
What causes me to have extremely poor facial recognition skills? | You could have some degree of face blindness, _URL_0_ Which is an issue remembering people by their faces. In person, other cues like their voice, stride, context of meeting, and personality will clue you in, but there is no such benefit from photos. |
Why is anal sex called anal sex and not rectal sex? (NSFW) | For the same reason oral sex is not called throat sexKnowledge is knowing the difference between the anus & the rectum. Wisdom is not caring that people are going to constantly get them confused. |
Why don't babies have morning breath? | I'm guessing it has to do with teeth. Before babies have teeth, there's less surface area for bad breath causing bacteria to cling to, hence no morning breath. Being on a liquid diet probably has something to do with it too. |
Why does it hurt so much to get kicked in the balls? | Evolutionarily, our whole purpose in life is to live long enough to raise children, our genes don’t really care what happens after that. Our entire pain/reward system has been tweaked to this purpose. You ate? Good job, here is some dopamine. You skinned your knee? Bad job, that could get infected and kill you have som... |
What happens to medicines beyond their expiry date that they turn unsafe for consumption? | Most everything has chemical reactions as they age. Some medications get weaker so the medicine simply stops working correctly. Some become more powerful so you risk overdose. And some completely change and can either lose their effect or become toxic.They don't become unsafe for consumption at their expiration date, t... |
how are people in many societies expected to find love and marry by their early 20s? | Basically, when everyone is aware they must be married by 21, people compromise and settle quickly. Some of the prettiest or most socially dominant people in highschool would have first pick, then their friends would feel the need to catch up, and so on, until very nearly everyone had someone just because it's not fash... |
Why is Ellen Pao hated? | Since the subreddit ban wave reddit decided she was satan, and never really came back from that. Some people believe she's commercializing reddit and steering it away from its roots. Personally I don't think we have the information to read her character one way or the other. |
Grafite and diamond are made of the same thing. Why one is transparent and other not? | In a diamond, the carbon atoms are all neatly lined up in a crystaline structure. Photons entering the lattice work from the right angles will pass right through it virtually unimpeded. In graphite and other forms of carbon, the lattice work isn't there, and the atoms are in what you'd call a pile. So photons encounter... |
How can you identify musical meter? | Other repetitive patterns, such as loudness of notes, in pop music, bass and snare drum hits are closely synced to the meter. Listen for arpeggios on bass, guitars or pianos that are multiples of the meter. If music is less rhythmic, like just long slow legato notes on violins or synth pads, it will be harder to recogn... |
How do bees make such perfect hexagons? | That is just what happens when you cram a bunch of circles together. Bees make circular/cylindrical containers for their honey and eggs, since those have the most volume to wall material ratio. When these are all smushed together you get hexagons. |
Why have I never heard of someone getting heart cancer? | It's just a very, very rare form of cancer so it's not heavily talked about. _URL_0_ Apparently the drummer of Kiss died from it, though. |
Where does the energy go to when you have a fully charged device and it is still plugged into the wall? | This is how I've been told to think about it: it's not that the power plug is PUSHING power out to the device, it's that the device battery is PULLING power from the plug. When the battery is 'full', it stops PULLING thereby eliminating any further flow of electrons. Can anyone confirm? |
What causes a mob mentality? | It is herd mentality. I nature it goes like "everyone else is terrified and running away so I should also be terrified and running away". There for in an angry mob everyone around you is angry, shouting and swearing ect so subconsciously you also feel you should be doing just this. Such mentality, as you called it, cau... |
Why Mexico did not become a powerful nation just like Canada or the US? | As a Canadian, I think the word you're looking for is *affluent,* not powerful. |
Why can't we freeze food twice? | This is a myth. You can freeze and re-freeze food as much as you 'd like, because the freezing process kills bacteria. The optimum temperature for bacterial growth is close to body temperature or higher for many bacteria . This is the "danger zone". What you don't want to do is refrigerate food over and over again. Or ... |
How do some foods make you gassy? Where is the gas coming from? | Some types of sugar consist of a bunch of different sugar molecules chained together. For example, starch consists of long chains of glucose molecules, and has to be split into single glucose molecules by an enzyme. However, different types of sugar require different enzymes for this job, for example lactose requires a... |
The Duluth Model in relation or application to domestic violence | Basically the Deluth model states that if a domestic violence call occurs then the man gets arrested to ensure safety for the woman. This generally occurs irrespective of who called the police or what the story is when the police get there. The men's lib movement sees this as a very bad thing and in areas where it occu... |
What do the reduced salt signs on highways and roads mean? | Highways are sprayed with a salt solution in winter to prevent the formation of ice. Certain sections of highway are near water supplies and protected wilderness areas however. These sections are salted less in order not to contaminate the surrounding ecosystems. They put the signs up to warn you that because there's l... |
How did Lou reed's Liver fail on him caused by years of drug use and drinking if he has been sober for many years already? | I am, of course, not Lou Reed's doctor but I'd imagine it's because livers, although very miraculous in their regenerative capabilities in some ways, aren't perfect. As we age our organs, and all of us really, degrades. If it didn't we'd never get old. It's easily possible that he damaged it to a certain threshold way ... |
Why does travel in a bus/train make me feel tired? | I believe it's from the constant adjustments your body has to make from being bumped around. You never get the opportunity to sit still like you would on a couch.Stress may also be a factor, in addition to the physiological impacts the others stated. Feeling tired may be as much a mental situation in some cases based u... |
If women's cycles sync up when they spend some time together, wouldn't every women be theoretically on the same monthly cycle? | I think they would have to spend a lot more time together than you imagine, like maybe live together and spend a lot of time outside work/college with each other also. |
Why can't they make space elevators with propellers on them to reduce tension forces? | That would only work in the atmosphere, where the propellers have something to push: air. But the cable will experience the same amount of tension above the atmosphere, where there is no air for the propellers to push. The only real solution is to find a way to manufacture, in large quantity at reasonable cost, a mater... |
How did gold, silver, and bronze specifically become the iconic symbols of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in competitions. | Being both common and given value. Bronze is a mix of copper and On mobile, but I want to say iron. Looks nice, but isnt all that valuable. Silver is more valuable, but tarnishes. Gold is a symbol of wealth and purity, and is the most valuable of the three. Other materials are not as common, harder to work with, or eit... |
Why does clips of American news seem such poor quality on UK TV? | The UK and the US have two different systems for broadcast TV signals. The US uses a system called NTSC, and the UK uses a system called PAL. PAL is slightly better than NTSC to start with, but converting an NTSC signal to PAL degrades it even further. All the major US networks now broadcast an HDTV signal as well. Tha... |
How is topsoil formed and why does it take so long? | Soil is formed as leaves and stuff fall, also ferns, but once they fall, detritivores will break down material. Eventually it lets it’s nutrients go down to lower levels of soil O is the organic matter, C is bedrock IIRC.So first off, how many leaves do you think fall in a square foot of land at any given year, because... |
Why can't we flush toilets with saltwater? | That would necessitate two different water sources coming to your house and an additional plumbing system to keep your toilet separate from your sinks, showers, etc.It's perfectly possible, however as someone else said a separate piping system is required. Most toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with salt water.We could,... |
Why is the Universal Basic Income in Switzerland a bad thing ? | Switzerland is one of the wealthiest nations per capita on Earth. It achieved this feat in spite of being a landlocked country with pretty but mediocre land by offering an extremely business-friendly environment with low taxes. Thanks to this, even the poor of Switzerland are better off than the poor of most other coun... |
How did we get metal to think? How does it know what the 1's and 0's are? Is it at it's core mechanical? | You might be referring to [this quote] about computers "thinking". [Here is a really good video] where people build a computer out of domino pieces. You can clearly see that those dominoes perform calculation, but they do not "think", it just happens because of the way they are arranged. Metal does not think either. A ... |
Why is soda a soothing chaser for alcohol? | The carbonation helps to disperse remaining alcohol from the palate and tongue. Plus, it has a sugary taste.Alcohol is hard like a brick. So it's like you lick a brick and want to get that taste out of your mouth. So you want something soft like a sponge or soda to wash that taste from your mouth.Soda has a lot of suga... |
Why does America have such a weird voting system? | By comparison, Americans would think it weird that in parliamentary systems, you literally have no say in who becomes the head of your government. Our system is a first-past-the-post system, in which case there is mathematically no reason not to have just two big-tent parties that cover a wide amount of the electorate.... |
How did herbivorous dinosaurs get so large while have so little protein in their diet? | Part of what allows Herbivores to grow as large as they do is that the Digestive Systems in Herbivores are optimized for extracting every bit of protein available from the food they eat. Their digestive tracts can also make some proteins from food that lack proteins. A good example is a a cow's Digestive Tract: It has ... |
How does Square Cash instantly send money to your card, where as a deposit or check from your company can take days? | You're comparing two different cash methods. Payroll uses ACH transfers, while Square Cash uses the debit card network. Square cash works by instantly debiting the sender's bank account, just like if they used their debit card at a store. The sender instantly receives the money, as it is treated like a debit card refun... |
What is Murphy's Law. How did it come about. And in what everyday concept these laws can be applied. | Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. It's not really a law of nature, just a saying. It's not named after anyone specific, just check the wiki page for it. It's not so much applied as a law, just a thing to keep in mind. If you design something that works 99% of the time but that 1% of the time it kills someone, ... |
How is lucid dreaming possible if dreams are simply a construction of the mind created in a matter of seconds? | Because your subconscious moves and thinks at a much faster rate than your conscious mind. If a dream that only lasts for a few seconds in reality can seem like it lasts hours in your dream state then it's quite obvious your subconscious can keep up with the speed of its own creation. |
How does light transfer data in optical fibers? | When data is transmitted over a wire, the wire is turned on and off very quickly. Thousands of times per second, it checks if the wire is currently on. If the signal is off, that is interpreted as a 0. If it's on, that's a 1. Light travels through fiber optic cables. It's basically done the same way, but instead of ele... |
Can anyone launch a satellite? Or are there laws claiming space territory? | Per the [Outer Space Treaty] of 1967, governments cannot stake a claim to territory in space—so yes, space is indeed borderless. However, to get to outer space, Spacex's rockets first have to pass through the airspace directly above the US, which the Federal Aviation Administration *does* have jurisdiction over, thus r... |
Why do people relate their feelings and decisions with heart when they are completely related to brain? | In ancient times people believed the seed of your emotions was in your chest because whenever you are angry, stressed, scared, excited, etc. you can physically feel something happening in your chest that correlates to that emotion . |
How is child pornography taken down so efficiently from all over the web while it's so easy to find for instance pirate movies & TV series? | Police actively enforce the Child Pornography issues so its forced to go much much more underground and its generally illegal everywhere. Piracy is a copyright issue. A police officer cant arrest you for just being in possession of a digital copy of a movie. The owner of the copyright has to put a claim against you etc... |
what do the different temperatures on a washing machine do to my clothes? | Hot water generally cleans better but ages the clothes faster. Unless it's stained, I wash cold/cold and hang all my good shirts, shorts, and pants to dry. Warm *should* wash fastest, since it should fill the washer faster. YMMV. If you follow the care labels on your clothing they will last a lot longer than if you war... |
Google hasn't helped, what are the true reasons a cat hisses? | To threaten an imposing or suspected danger, to make it clear it means business and will attack or defend whatever is being contested with aggression, to notify others it is angry, and signal others to stay the hell away and scare off potential enemies. They hiss when they are angry, territorial, startled, in pain or i... |
When a court orders an individual to pay restitution in the millions of dollars, how much does that person actually pay? | The person collecting will go through a process where they seize the person's assets. There are restrictions to what they can seize, like I think they have to leave you one vehicle and after they've done that, potentially garnish wages. For the most part though, everyone involved knows you're not going to get three mil... |
What is the margin of error? | in statistics, its very hard to get an exact number. Most of the calculations for certain statistics come with that factor, a margin of error. Its basically the amount of possible variance in the answer. so 20% with a margin of error of 5% means the actual answer could be from 15%-25% but its definitely somewhere in th... |
how do silencers on guns work? | The bullet is launched out of the gun by an explosion that superheats the air and produces a loud BAM sound. The gas/air that carries that sound wave doesn't have anywhere to go except out with the bullet. A silencer basically extends the barrel and helps that "explosion air" diffuse in other directions so that the res... |
why aren't all toilets tankless (like the ones in commercial buildings)? | Homes generally do not have access to the high flow water sources required to make one of those toilets work_URL_0_ TL;DR Insufficient flow in residential water systems to trigger the siphon effect to clear the bowl. |
Why do Republicans want to repeal The Affordable Health Care Act so badly? | It's not really a giant health insurance plan, it's a bunch of reforms to the health care system, one of which being an online marketplace where you can buy private health insurance. The main issue that Republicans have is that one of the reforms is that having health insurance is now mandatory, and there will be a tax... |
Why are we grossed out by the thought of our family members having sex or masturbating? | For sexually reproducing species, incest is often problematic because closely related family members are likely to share genetic problems with you that are then exacerbated in the children of incestuous couples. For this reason, many species have some sort of control against incest, typically behavioral. In humans, tha... |
Why do sour foods make faces move involuntarily? | Many sour foods are poisonous, we are programmed to reject sour foods with "disgust", same as when you see other unhealthy things like feces and Kanye West. There was a good BBC Horizon show on Disgust years back. I found this article. _URL_0_', "> By a combination of direct intake of hydrogen ions and the inhibition o... |
Why are dreams so much more vivid if you wake up during them? | Your brain actually tries to forget dreams. Most people have more than three per night, and forget most of them. If you wake up during a dream, your brain hasn't had time to try to forget it. Partially forgotten dreams, either by waking up before the memory has faded or by the mind failing to completely forget it, will... |
Why don't people get drunk on rubbing alcohol? | Ethyl alcohol sold as rubbing alcohol is denatured. Meaning it's mixed with poisonous and disgusting tasting substances to make it undrinkable. The additives are also selected to ensure that it's difficult to purify the alcohol with distillation.People do. However, in some locations, such as the United States, it is tr... |
Why is reading so encouraged and preached to be the best thing you can do for your mind? | Your perspective is limited by the thoughts you can think with the knowlege you already have. Think of a spotlight pointed at the ground at night. The main body of light is your current t knowlege. The outside aura of light are new connections you could possibly make with your current knowlege. Books expose you to thin... |
Why Bing is so poor compared to Google search engine and showing no sign of catching up or improving | Bing is actually excellent at certain things. But my interest in it is usually short-livedGoogle has the first to market advantage. During the 90s there were hundreds and hundreds of search engines that were receiving big giant corporate bucks. When it was found that their user base wasn't responding to advertisement m... |
Why does only your own saliva take out your own blood in fabric (like a tshirt)? | Not true at all. Even if saliva can remove blood , whether or not it comes from the same source as the blood makes absolutely no difference.It's not just your own, but saliva in general has a lot of enzymes that will break down molecules in blood. So it's the enzyme action that does it. |
Exactly how is smoking weed different from eating edibles. Not in your mind but chemically. | When you eat it it gets processed by your liver into 11-hydroxy-THC. Which is said to be 5 times more psychoactive than when you smoke or vaporize cannabis.The active ingredients in smoke get absorbed directly into your bloodstream inside your lungs. The active ingredients in edibles have to be digested before they can... |
Is Irish a race or a nationality? | That's ridiculous. Irish is a nationality. They might say those kids aren't Irish because they don't have the right accent it don't follow the traditions, it happens in all closed communities, but they are as Irish as the taoiseach . It has nothing to do with race. |
Why don't highways have designated cruise control sections/lanes? | People still have to enter and exit this section unless they are to stay in it eternally. Traffic speeds and slows from congestion purely from people making adjustments to change lanes. Consider that the range of speeds people travel down a highway doesn't vary that much normally. The thing affecting them is this mergi... |
Where do the newborn babies in television come from? | Most babies you see on TV are actually a lot older than you think. Most are at least a few months old.Casting agencies. Note, that those newborn babies you see on TV generally aren't newborn babies, unless you are watching a show that is putting a lot of focus on a premature baby in which case they often use dolls. Mos... |
What exactly is a leasehold and freehold in UK property? How is it possible for you to buy the leasehold but not the freehold on a house? | It would be unusual to buy a leasehold house. Leasehold properties are usually flats. The freeholder owns the building, and the land on which the building is built. You own a lease on a particular property within that building. Basically, this means you rent your property on a 125 year or 1000 year contract, except tha... |
How do colorblindness correction glasses work? | The website for the company that makes them has a pretty good explanation. Basically what happens is you have four types of light sensors in your eye: red, green, and blue cones plus rods. Their affinity to register light of different frequencies is shown [here], which basically means that a photon at 420 nm is very li... |
if cameras take square photos, why are the apertures round? | You've sort of got it the wrong way round. The camera LENSES are round, because round lenses bend light much better. But the film the image is captured on is rectangular, for the same reason that all pictures are usually rectangles, easier to frame and they are easier to put onto walls. Modern camera sensors have just ... |
What has caused Brazil to become as major of a country as it is? | They have a large area, large exploitable population, lots of natural resources, and are politically stableThey have the single largest land mass in South America, the single largest and most fertile river basin in the world, natural resources of just about every kind, it has been stable for decades without a coup and ... |
Why do they say to "breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth" when exercising? | When you breathe in through your nose you're filtering the air before it goes into your lungs, and pulling it through a smaller opening, forcing you to inhale slower taking deeper breaths. You exhale through your mouth because it's a bigger opening and you want to get the 'bad air' out as fast as you can. Your nose als... |
What would happen if NATO broke up? | Well nothing immediately. But obviously each member state would be more vulnerable to attack, with a particular problem to the Eastern European countries. |
The naming conventions of sea vessels, HMS, SS, RMS etc. | AHT\tAnchor Handling Tug AHTS\tAnchor Handling Tug Supply vessel CRV\tCoastal Research Vessel C/F\tCar Ferry CS\tCable Ship DB\tDerrick Barge DEPV\tDiesel Electric Paddle Vessel DLB\tDerrick Lay Barge DCV\tDeepwater Construction Vessel DSV\tDiving Support Vessel/ Deep Submergence Vehicle DV\tDead vessel[1] ERRV\tEmerge... |
If Republicans are such terrible leaders (responsible for govt shutdown, etc) why are they still elected? | In the US, people tend to think everyone in congress is a bunch of idiots except their guy. The guy they voted for is the one voice of reason trying to find common sense solutions and everyone else is out for themselves.Everyone wants their voters to think the other guy os truely awful when the reality is that everyone... |
How does Medical Residency and Internship work after med school | To be clear, your first year of residency is referred to as 'internship,' and yes, you are paid. You are a doctor, and you are expected to see patients in the hospital and clinic, and do whatever else physicians in your specialty do on a day-to-day basis . You're supervised by older residents and by your staff to help ... |
What is blood type? Why is our blood different? | Not quite 5, but I'll give it a shot. Blood type refers to the type of cell marker that exists on the outside of your red blood cells. There are 3 types- A, B, and O. If you have A, B is considered foreign so you will have anti-B antibodies. The same can be said for A if you have B type blood. If you have O, it is neit... |
why do body parts hurt long after an injury is healed, especially when the weather changes? | Well, I don't know about bone fractures. Most of the Pain - > Weather predictions I've seen have been about joint pain. The most common explanation is that damaged joints respond to changes in atmospheric pressure. Rain, and especially large storms, are accompanied by a drop in pressure. That pressure drop causes damag... |
Why is my graphics card so big compared to my CPU? | Your graphics card has it's own RAM. Your CPU's RAM is on the motherboard. Technically you're counting the GPU, it's board, and RAM, and cooling stuff as one thing. So if you do that with the CPU too, the CPU is much bigger since its board is the motherboard. |
Why are terraced houses in New York and possibly other places elevated? | They have lower levels besides the main entrance, they usually go below street level. Every place is different, but I would assume that the underground pipping as well as water level do not allow for basements of considerable depth, which is why he main level is above street level. These lower levels have their own ext... |
Why does daycare cost so much when the teachers are paid so poorly? | It's for much the same reason that private schools are very expensive: teachers' salaries are only a small portion of the costs of operating the business. Add to this these costs: * Supplies* Rent for the facilities* Administrative costs * Taxes* FICA/Medicare for employees* Training for the teachers* Liability insuran... |
Why do we feel hot when the air is as hot as or colder than our internal body temperature? | Because our bodies don't just sit at our preferred temperature. Humans are warm-blooded; we produce heat constantly as a byproduct of the chemical reactions in our body that maintain our metabolism. That means that we have to constantly get rid of heat at the rate that our body produces it just to stay at the same temp... |
What is the weight of gravity in pounds and how to find it? | Gravity is a force, while weight is the effect of gravity on a given mass. You cannot convert gravity in to weight. It's like asking me to tell you the speed of your car using only the measurement of how much gas you have in the tank. |
Why can't "We the People" petition to have the NSA shut down (and it actually work..)? | That would be a [direct democracy]. The United States of America is a representative democracy, the people's voice is heard by proxy of their representative.That site is a parody of a placebo. |
Why can some humans survive thousands of feet while others die after a short fall? | It all has to do with mechanics and overall health. If you're reasonably healthy, well built, and happen to land the "right" way so that your body can absorb the shock of the landing, you may be bruised or even break something but you should be ok. Meanwhile, a leading cause of death in old people is falls. Older peopl... |
Why don't we sue politicians for broken election promises as breach of verbal contract? | There is a saying that a verbal contract isn't worth the paper its printed on. But beyond that humorous quote, there is a better reason. An elected official can simply say that the situation or information changed in the time between the campaign and the vote, which is a great defense, because that's how we want our re... |
Why can't they make a cheap car that is made of basic parts internally, but looks high end externally? | The look of a Lamborghini does cost lots of money to make. Lots of weird shapes in the metal and plastic. Expensive materials, etc. It's not just the engine that is pricey. What you're describing is basically a kit car, which are available and hobbyists put them together to be exactly this. People who like sports cars ... |
EL 5, How is it that "polar bear" clubs can go swimming in January and not die of hypothermia? | They basically just go in and out of the water, and they're prepared with towels and warm clothes as soon as they're done. Even in near-freezing water, it takes at least 10-15 minutes for hypothermia to happen. Also, at least in the bigger polar bear clubs, there's medical staff around in case of emergencies.Further, t... |
Til Death do us Part. Do religious people believe they are all single in Heaven? | This is coming from a Christian perspective, but marriage is seen as an earthly example of our relationship with Christ, we find fulfillment in caring and loving on our spouse and we get the benefit of them doing the same for us. Now once we get to heaven we are completely and entirely fulfilled by God for He is our ul... |
Vulgar Latin and it's difference between Classical Latin | Vulgar Latin uses more vocabulary that made it into modern Romance languages, and the sentence structure is often more like the modern Romance languages too. So stuff like: occasionally, you'll see the relative pronoun used to mark indirect discourse instead of accusative + infinitive constructions. The pronunciation i... |
I've never seen a fat bird. Is that because flying is vital for them to survive so natural selection kills them or because birds simply don't get fat? | People commenting here don't know what they're talking about. Birds do get fat the closer you get to the cold extremes . You've never seen one because, I assume, you haven't been to these types of places. Furthermore, you wouldn't know how fat the bird is until you kill and butcher it, but I promise, there are fat bird... |
How does paracetomol work? | The mechanism of action for Paracetamol/acetomenophen is not entirely understood. It *probably* inhibits COX, which is an enzyme that is part of the chemical pathway for chemical pain signals in the body. Inhibit the enzyme, the body makes less pain-signalling chemicalsWhen you have a fever or other inflammation going ... |
Why is "I don't like sand" line from Attack of the Clones considered so bad? | It's supposed to be Anakin's smooth line to use on Padme and it's just so derpy and cringeworthy. Lucas has such a tin ear for dialogue that Harrison Ford said to him, "You can type this shit, George, but you can't say it." |
Do you need a computer to create a computer? | Assuming that all humans alive today survived, there's a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience that could be used to quickly bypass lots of steps along the way. As an example of this, check out [the best Commodore 64 games] from the mid 1980's, and compare that to the winners of the [2010's Commodore 64 Demosce... |
What is more environmentally friendly forced air hand dryers or paper towel? | New air dryers are more environmentally friendly than paper towels. Older dryers might not be, because they use more power.For the most part, the air dryers are better in terms of energy. They cost less to run and you don't have to keep putting towels in them. Lots of people don't like them, though, since they take lon... |
why does all music attach me to something thats occuring in my life and make me feel nostalgic even a weel later? | Because that's effectively how your brain functions. Your brain is a collection of neurons that fire in sequence. Your brain is always being adjusted, new connections are formed as you 'learn' new 'information'. Essentially, your brain is correlating an experience of life with the auditory experience of that specific m... |
What is the point of having a complex password? If someone figures out your password what does the complexity change? | It makes it harder for someone to find out your password. It's not difficult to build a computer system which tries your username, with a password that's a word from a dictionary, over and over again. Such a system can go through a whole dictionary in a couple of hours. This method of finding a password is known as a "... |
Why do some downloads not show file size and / or ETAs? | When you make an HTTP connection, there are a bunch of pieces of metadata that are sent before the data. One of those is Content-Length, which tells your client how long the data portion is going to be. If you don't see a file size in a download, it means the server didn't send a Content-Length header, so your client h... |
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