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How do game designers fix glitches in their games when the cause of the glitch makes no sense? | Debugging is among the hardest parts of programming. Suppose that you have found a glitch. The first thing to do is to figure out under what circumstances the glitch is triggered. In a video game, a glitch might appear in a certain place, after a period of time, when the player has certain equipment, and so forth. A vi... |
What does each wire in a Cat 5e cable actually represent? | In 10Base-T, each cable is either data receive or data transmit. Signaling is slightly different in 1000Base-T. The unused pins below are used in PoE implementations. Which color is used for which pin isn't super important--they are more or less arbitrary, as long as pins 1/2, 3/6, 4/5, and 7/8 use the same color pairs... |
How do showers get dirty if water and soap run through them all the time? | 1) water drops evaporate and the dissolved minerals are left behind2) soap scum is left behind. It sticks to surfaces and doesn't wash off with just water", 'Soap is highly alkaline and shower mold loves to live in alkaline conditions. Shower mold cannot live in pH neutral conditions. There are body washes and shampoos... |
I have always been told that it is bad to go outside in the cold when your body is warm or after exercising or something. if it is true, what actually happens? | As for general warmth of the body I can't really comment, but based on years of experience with sport it's a huge deal because when you're muscles are warm and fully stretched the cold can shock the muscles and cause them to constrict leading them to be very tight and sore the next day regardless of how well you've str... |
Why is everyone bringing up net neutrality all of a sudden? | To see this response, please pay $19.95 to upgrade to the Web + Social Sites package. For a total of only $99.95 per month you'll have access to all of your favorite standard sites plus the hottest social sites on the web, including Reddit and Myspace. And don't forget about this month's deal on a streaming pass. For a... |
Why does my iPhone say I have 4.4 gigs of memory used in pictures and yet I have no pictures on my phone | It's photos saved in messages, possibly cached photos. Delete some conversations, or jailbreak your phone, install iCleaner and it will clear ALL that crap out. |
Why is there an increase in the number of insects and other critters in my home in the summer, vs in the winter, shouldn't it be the other way around? | Because there are more insects. Most insects will hibernate or simply allow most of the species to die off in the winter and let eggs hatch in the spring. In the summer you have all those insects able to live easily and therefore they are growing and creating new colonies and laying more eggs. |
How do Venus flytraps digest pray? | The head of the flytrap seals itself and essentially becomes a ‘stomach’ of sorts Once the pray is trapped and sealed inside the head, it begins to release enzymes and chemicals which break down the prey and digest the essential nutrients. It can’t always digest everything and often you’ll find parts of insects droppin... |
Since Edward Snowden has been out of the inner circle for so long, how is he still relevant and threatening? | What I have understood from [Citizenfour] documentary, the information he released wasn't nearly everything he had access to. He simply decided to inform public just about the mass surveillance. Imo the argument that he can't do more damage now is false. Another thing is that he hasn't been charged yet thanks to asylum... |
How do celebrity's nude photos get "leaked"? | Modern phones have cloud technology that saves content on servers owned by the provider. Gaining access to an email and password is relatively easy work for a serious hacker and it would be all you need to access those photos on said serversTechnically illiterate people have been conned into believing that "cloud stora... |
You know when you crack open an egg to fry and its a double yoker, if that egg had been kept alive and grown would the chicken(s) have been conjoined or...? | I think this is pretty rare, but it's one possibility for a double-yolked egg.[half-sider parakeet]", 'Correct me if i am wrong:Chickens are constantly laying eggs. Similarly to the way humans reproduce, The eggs first must be fertilized by a Rooster The eggs we eat are unfertilized. So that particular double yolker wo... |
Why do our teeth fall out at such a young age and grow back? Wouldn't it be more beneficial for this process to happen at like age 50? | Evolution doesn't care how long you live; it only cares whether you have children. So no, it would not be more beneficial to wait until age 50 to replace your teeth. |
How can a touchscreen project black in a power saving way (details on the screen inside)? | An LCD element is made so it is transparent unless you apply a voltage. When you apply a voltage to the element it is going black. It does not take much power to do this as you only need a voltage and no current. The electricity does not pass through the elements but still affects it. You can get window sized LCD eleme... |
Does anyone want to explain the Bohr Model of Hydrogen atom to me? | De Broglie, a physicist from France, ~~had just discovered~~ was about to discover that particles can be described as waves. The wavelength of a particle is λ=h/p where p is the momentum and h the Plack constant. Bohr proposed that electrons orbit the nucleus. But he furthermore proposed, that the matter wave of the el... |
What do bears do while they're hibernating? | They sleep, and that's it. They live off fat stores, just like you've heard, and they also convert that fat in to water. Hibernating mothers can even produce milk for their young from those fat stores. They don't pee, their body converts their urine in to proteins, IIRC. They develop a [natural fecal plug] that keeps t... |
SoFlo vs H3 H3 Productions | H3h3 is a channel that calls people out on their shit, soflo doesn't like getting called out on his shit. Idk the details, and idc. |
Why does shutting your eyes when standing on one leg make you lose balance? | Balance is based on your centre of mass and many senses communicating in the brain. While you might think that your eyes have nothing to do with this, your vision helps the brain understand what position your body is relative to the world around you. When you close your eyes, your brain loses that sense of relativity, ... |
How do some insects survive high velocity impact during flight without immediate fatalities? | A beetle's body does not have too much mass, and the velocity of the beetle is not too high either. Therefore, the momentum of the impact is not enough to cause significant damage to the beetle. Velocity X Mass = Momentum. If the mass or velocity of the beetle was increased, damage to the beetle is more likely to occur... |
How is it possible for the universe to have no starting point or end? | "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." -NDTIt's tricky. So, the best explanation I have is not something you can answer in ELI5 fashion, but I'll try my best. So, this may sound slightly philosophical : What is the opposite of "nothing?" The answer, of course, is "everything." It is fundamentally i... |
Why Valve aren't in trouble over Dota 2 | DOTA doesn't actually belong to blizzard, it was a custom map made by ice frog, this person owns all of it apart form the fact that if blizzard never made warcraft 3 it wouldn't exist. so valve then hired ice frog however, Valve have copyrighted the name "Dota 2" as in the word Dota, not the acronym version that Blizza... |
How time was invented? | Did we invent distances? or did we just invent ways to measure them and units to count them? Same goes with time. Clocks have existed for several thousand years . The passing of seasons has also been observed and measured for about as long.Time wasn't invented, it was observed. Humans devised ways to mark the passage o... |
Why can we get sick of what we're currently eating but able to then eat a bunch of different things until full? | Same reason you like to play more than one game in a day - your taste buds get bored. You like different flavors because it's your brain's way of tricking you into eating a balanced diet. |
Is it true that disproportionally large numbers of Syrian refugees in Europe are young men? If so, why is this? Where are all the women and children? | They are waiting for the man to get asylum/resident permit, so that they can safely travel. Basically the guy risks his life going with human smugglers and once he lands on his feet he can bring the children and wife to the new country through lawful meansYoung men can better handle the rigors of travel, and are better... |
Why is it that, in most major sports leagues, some teams will represent whole states(ex. Utah Jazz) while others will simply represent cities(Ex Cleveland Cavaliers) | It depends on the owner, and it usually done for marketing reasons. The owner chooses a name they think will resonate better with the potential customers . In the case of the Jazz, the Utah Jazz sounds better than the Salt Lake City Jazz . The NFL Panthers and the NHL Hurricanes are from Carolina. Having the team named... |
Why do we heal quicker over a night's sleep than awake? | When you sleep, you're lying in one position pretty much motionless for 5-9 hours. Your body is using very little energy on your muscles or other activities, so it can devote itself to healing. And with no motion, there's no risk of further aggravating your injuries. Theoretically you would get the same healing effect ... |
Why do some cars keep headlights on for a few minutes when the car shuts off? What is the point? | It's to allow you to see your surroundings. For instance, so you can see the inside of your garage garage at night without having to fumble around in the dark for a light switch. |
Do gas pumps really measure dispensed gas to the thousandths? And if so, how? | Gas, fuel, diesel etc is typically measured using a special flowmeter called a turbine meter. Basically, the fuel is pumped through the turbine meter on the way to the nozzle. The turbine meter contains funnily enough a turbine which spins as the fluid passes through it. The spinning spindle of the meter has magnets on... |
Why do 'modern' flags tend to have stars? | First of all, that cross is only for Scandinavian countries. Look at the flags of Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Spain, And many of those flags are more modern than others. The star spangled spangled banner was made in the 1770 or something. The German flag of today was made in 1945 The star... |
How do poor/third world countries support such high populations? | > Is the standard of living so low that everybody can just barely get by? This. Not only that, but in many places, people DON'T actually get by. People starve to death every day on this earth. The fact is, many of these countries CAN'T sustain the population growth that they have. |
Why do non-hearing people sound "that way" when they speak? | They can see how lips move, but they can't see how throat, tongue, windpipe, etc move. Observing mouth movement is not enough to recreate all the sounds, you need to be able to hear it in order to accurately replicate what others are saying. Not to mention you can't get the tone or pacing correctly either by just looki... |
When we become overly emotional our chests/throats tighten up, why? | We’re not totally sure, but this article gives some suggestions: _URL_0_ But how do emotions trigger physical sensations? Scientists do not know, but recently pain researchers uncovered a possible pathway from mind to body. According to a 2009 study from the University of Arizona and the University of Maryland, activit... |
How come some people claim to only care about personalities and not physical properties yet aren't bisexual? | Because this is a lie mostly, its just more of a statement of Personality > Looks, so even if they look like crap they wont date them its just lower standards than average, no one actually completely doesnt care about looksThere are two basic components. One, they might care less about appearance than personality and b... |
What is the definition of a moral absolute? | Metaethicist here! Moral absolutism the view that certain actions are absolutely, categorically right or wrong regardless of any circumstance - even intentions or consequences. So for example, if I thought murder was absolutely wrong then it would be wrong in any form - capital punishment, euthanasia etc. The existence... |
What actual crimes did the "villians" from Scooby Doo commit? What could they be tried for and what would be their punishment? | Generally harassment, theft, fraud, and trespassing. Realistically you could add attempt at murder and kidnapping to most of the monster charges, because of what they general do to the mystery crew. Also in a lot of places wearing masks for nonreligious or holiday reasons in public is a findable offence, but that is ve... |
The difference between Subvocalization (inner monologue) and "thinking" | They're the same thing from my understanding. I believe it's more commonly referred to as 'inner speech' when we're thinking, and 'subvocalization' when we're reading, but subvocalization is what we do whenever we hear a voice in our head, whether its reading or thinking. Auditory hallucinations actually cause movement... |
Why is backwards video understandable while backwards audio is incomprehensible? | It is because in a video we can see the actions leading up and proceeding from that action, while audio, the sound is laid out in a very specific way. When a small thing is changed, it becomes nearly impossible to understand. |
How can you have a hologram on a spinning surface? Example is in comments. | Ok, so these particular kinds of holograms are called "Scratch holograms" or "abrasion holograph" I believe. And they're made by putting curved scratches in glossy plastic. You can easily make your own with a two needle compass, and some softish glossy plastic.[Here's an example of making a simple one.] The way it work... |
what is the point of the 9/10's of a penny on gas prices? | They are not the same. $4.999 != $5.000 -- even though you don't have a coin to represent the difference, there is a difference. 9/10ths of a cent adds up to some real money over thousands and thousands of gallons of gasoline. |
What did people use before lip balm? | People used goose or other animal fats on their lips and faces, especially in cold areas to protect against windburn and cold, dry air. Also, beeswax and oil. The Burt's Beeswax brand that I use now is essentially just that. |
Why can we make fun of Muslims under freedom of expression but speaking anything against Jews will bring up Anti-Semitism? | i don't know where you live, but in most countries you can easily make jokes about Jews without bringing up antisemitism. from the other hand in many countries you can't make jokes about Holocaust.Jews would have to be the most mocked group of people in the world. |
How come solid butter doesn't taste salty? | It likely isn't salted. Butter is sold in both salted and unsalted forms. The salted form, well, tastes salty. The unsalted form, obviously not. On the other hand, it may be that you consume a high-salt diet and have become less sensitive to salt. In this case, you may not pick up on the salt in salted solid butter. |
Why is it that some people need to adjust their sitting posture every 2 minutes but some people can sit in the same posture for one hour? | I was actually thinking about this the other day because I'm the kind of person seems to never get comfortable. I found out if you stretch and loosen up your muscles you'll have an easier time sitting still or even falling asleep at night. |
What is String Theory? Has it been proved wrong? Whats the current replacement theory/idea? | There are four fundamental forces in the universe, gravity, the electromagnetic force, the strong force, and the weak force. We can describe so of these forces with two models, general relativity can be used to explain gravity, while the standard model explains the three remaining forces. These theories are immensely s... |
How did the U.S manage to (mostly) eliminate the intense corruption common at various points in the 19th century? | Well I'm no expert on it, but my personal theory, derived after a grueling 30 second debate with myself, states that "when democracy works correctly corruption is stamped out by the people". Thomas Jefferson said, and I'm paraphrasing slightly, "There are two boxes with which to change the way a governing body works. T... |
Why do I lose all of my tabs when Chrome crashes even though each tab is a separate process? | I have had issues with the youtube tabs crashing the entire chrome as well. The issue is that while each tab has its own process, they're all tied to the parent "Chrome" window process. Some bugs/crashes are so severe that they cause the main process to crash, which results in every tab going down with it. Thankfully, ... |
How incorrectly typing in a website address takes you to those random proxy sites that advertise random things. | There's two things that can happen. First, someone may have bought the mistyped domain and put up a bunch of ads on the page, just for that case. Second, and far more annoying is that your ISP may be directing you there to get some extra profit. If you ask for a web site that doesn't exist, they're supposed to return a... |
how are competitive eaters able to eat so much? | They typically "train" for 1-2 weeks before a competition by eating a lot of low calorie food to stretch their stomach, they will eat things like oatmeal and watermelon. They also drink a lot of water. This training also helps them get over the sick feeling you get when you're too full and helps them learn to control t... |
Why do people have to wipe their butts but animals don't? | I know the answer to this from the last time I saw it posted.. Animals prolapse their cinnamon star when pooping, which means the poopy part retracts right back in so no mess!', "Other animals don't have butts like ours. Their buttholes aren't hidden between two large globes of muscle and fat. |
How does soap clean stuff? | Soap acts as an emulsifier. An emulsifier is an agent that allows the mixture of oil and water. So the dirty oils on your skin mix with the water and it is washed off.soap binds to things that don't like to bind to water , but soap can also bind to water. So it traps things like oil and then it bind to water. So when y... |
If I lift a pile of book and carry it towards another table, is work being done on the books? | Yes- not from any force in the vertical direction unless you move the pile upwards. The work done comes from the force x the direction of movement- meaning when you move the books horizontally work is doneYes. You lift the bottom book, which lifts the book over it, and so on. Each book has a mass, which requires more f... |
What would happen if the US heavily taxed the wealthy? | The flaw in this logic is that you have to understand what happens with the money of people in the top tax brackets. People in the top tax brackets usually reinvest that money so that they can receive larger gains from that money, instead of sitting it in an account when they have no intentions of spending all of it. S... |
Why is pizza in Northeast USA so much better than the rest of the country? | _URL_0_ If you look at the map, and know that pizza is a dish that originates in a certain boot-shaped country in the south of Europe, I think you'll find it easy to understand. |
Why are the bellies of starving children always heavily swollen? | It's a disease called Kwashiorkor, which is caused by a deficiency in protein intake. Sufferers are getting enough calories, but usually almost entirely in the form of carbohydrates. _URL_0_ |
How does a laser speed gun work to measure a car's speed? | Light moves fast. Really, really, fast. But it still has a measurable speed, so as long as your timer is quick enough all you need to do is fire a laser at something and start counting until the moment the reflected laser light comes back. Because we know the speed of light is a constant, by counting the amount of time... |
If police officers are not required to tell us when they are undercover, what stops all police offers from just wearing normal clothes and always being undercover? | Why would they? Clearly marked police presence is a crime deterrent. Very few police activities involve being sneaky and doing undercover stuff . A lot of what police do, like helping people, really isn't possible if you don't know who they are.A visible police presence generally prevents crime. Police departments inte... |
Does our vision have a limit? | Can you see galaxies however many light years away? Sure. You don't really see distance. You see the light particles contacting the back of your retina. So if there's light bouncing off of the wall on the opposite side of the hallway and its been in existence long enough for the light to reach your retinas, you'll see ... |
why do files when you change their format gets either corrupted or oftentimes changes into a different and oftentimes readable file format. | It's not so much that *changing the format* corrupts it . All changing the extension does is change what program your computer is going to open the file with. If you switch something to .txt, it's going to try and open it in Notepad, which can only read plain-text files. Now if the data within the file is stored in pla... |
Why do we get skin tags when we're older? | At the risk of sounding young, what are skin tags?', "Some people are more likely to have skin tags than others. They are benign tumors, so there is some predisposition. This means that some people are born with some and may or may not be likely to develop more as they grow older. They are more likely to occur in place... |
Why do magazines have pictures that cover their name/title? | Magazines know that people who really care about one particular magazine will get a subscription to it; so the cover is all about trying to influence someone at newsstands to make an impulse purchase of that particular issue and that that decision-making is largely based on who/what is on the cover. The color, the sexi... |
When a device needs multiple batteries, why do they always have to face different directions to each other? | The design of the battery holder is cheaper that way. Ultimately, the batteries always need to be end to end + near the - on the next battery. By requiring that one row faces one way and the other row the other way, one side of the battery holder can be made with a simple metal plate to connect the two halves and the o... |
Why do people fear autism? | No one is afraid of it in a classic sense. It's like any other abnormalities, everyone wants their child to be normal. It can cause serious lasting personal issues unless treated early and properly. I'm not a afraid of sheep but i don't want my son to be born with a sheep's head |
Why is it that when you swat a fly with your hand, it either appears to be completely unharmed or it dies/becomes seriously injured? | So you swat a fly and you're wondering why its either: Unharmed, injured or dead? What the fuck other options are there? What would you expect to happen?", 'It takes very little force for us to damage a fly. You are so big and fast that, if you make contact at all, that is enough force to ruin the fly. So, you either h... |
Why do UK cinemas have advanced screenings instead of just releasing the film? | To get people talking and blogging about it, and gauge the audience response. Advanced screening audiences are generally a mix of reviewers and self-selected fans of the movie franchise who are already excited about it, or at least are in the target audience. That's the two groups of people most likely to tell others a... |
Where does the dead bacteria go once you've sanitized it? | Anything that's dead is very quickly gobbled up by another living thing, such as other bacteria. When you sanitize something and then leave it exposed to the air, other bacteria from the air and the surroundings will start growing on it, using the dead bacteria as food. This is why hand washing is so much more effectiv... |
Why Netflix would have to secure the rights to a certain song on a show they've begun streaming, when they're already paying for the show itself. | You're trying to apply common sense to music licensing. Yes, they got the clearance for the music to be on broadcast TV. Yes, they got the clearance for it to be on the DVDs. But if those rights specifically excluded Internet streaming, then they have to change the song, unless they negotiate that clearance. And, obvio... |
Why does the Greek language still use Greek script? | Greece predated Rome as a center of learning by many centuries. The Romans looked up to Greece as a place of culture. Educated Romans including Julius Caesar learned Greek and spoke it with their educated friends, and young Romans went on tours in the Greek east the same that wealthy young Americans would later take th... |
How does my iPod Touch know what's plugged into it? | There's additional data sent over the headphone jack other than just audio data. A signal identifying the type of device is likely in there. |
How does after-hours stock trading work? How can you trade when the market's not open? | There are smaller trading platforms and you can trade among others on that platform, rather than the whole market as a whole. So if your brokerage uses one particular platform you might only be able to trade with 5 or 10% of potential traders. The smaller supply/demand pool means more volatilityGenerally speaking, the ... |
What's the point of martial law, and when would it be enforced? | Martial Law is, essentially, the suspension of due process. Police are authorized to do whatever is necessary to keep the peace or to address whatever situation is found, and government, specifically the executive branch, would be allowed to basically make up new rules as they see fit. Hopefully martial law is *never* ... |
if picking at scabs and zits is bad, what explains the irresistible urge to do it? | The reason we have such a nagging urge is because our skin's nerves tell our brain that something is attached to us. The brain interprets this stimuli and responds by urging our hand to scratch it or get it off. The benefit to this response is that potentially harmful parasites or insects can latch on to our skin and t... |
How do magnets break harddrives? | Take a piece of iron and rub it across a magnet a couple of times. You'll notice that it becomes magnetic as well. This is called "ferromagnetism." Now imagine that you have billions of pieces of iron, each one tiny. Some are magnetized and some aren't. That's how your hard drive stores data. The 1s and 0s that make up... |
How do supermarket celebrity tabloids work? | So here's the deal, if you're a big time celebrity, basically everywhere you go, photographers are going to follow you around to get pictures of you and then sell these pictures to the tabloids. The courts have ruled this is legal because celebrities are "public figures" and thus don't have the same privacy rights and ... |
Why with certain neurological diseases do hands/fingers and feet tend tu curl up? | This is caused by lack muscle control, which could mean complete relaxation or over-use of muscles. A neutral/relaxed hand position has the fingers slightly curled . So if your muscles can’t get signals from the brain, curling would be the result of them being relaxed. Also, if the muscles that curl and un-curl the fin... |
How does a Tornado kill you? | As the great sage and eminent drunkard Ron White put it, it's not THAT the wind is blowing, it's WHAT the wind is blowing. Your body will become part of a random, high speed debris field. Something WILL intersect with you. |
Why do some men experience a greater degree of penis shrinkage than others after exercise or due to the (cold) weather? | Genetics. Our bodies adapted to live in some pretty hostile regions over the ages of humanity. Some bodies bear the honor of having genetics where their base penile nerve has a very strong autonomic sensory recoil. It's a protection tactic. Some people's ancestors REALLY had to worry about their penis falling off from ... |
If kids are normally taller than their parents, does that mean the human population is steadily growing in average height? | Yes but no. Children are often taller than their parents because people get shorter as they age due to spinal cartilage wearing down. The average height of the population is increasing over time, but that's because height is seen as an attractive feature and more likely to be passed to future generations. |
Why do news anchors and radio personalities talk with a strange, fake voice? | Someone asked this a while ago and I typed up this epic answer, which I'll copy and paste for you now. Simplest reason: Newscasters have a special voice because if they just talked like everyone else, their broadcasts wouldn't have that distinct "newscasty" feeling. It's a convention. But where does the convention come... |
How does dumping a bucket of water on your head help the ALS cause? | It's a combination awareness/donation drive. "Dude, why the hell did you just dump a bucket of icewater on your head!?" "For ALS." "What's ALS?" "The reason Steven Hawking's paralyzed." "Oh, that thing. Yeah, that sucks." "Yes it does. Wanna donate for a cure? If not, you 've gotta dump a bucket on your head too." "Wel... |
How does something like "one meter," "one foot," or "one second" become precisely standardized around the world? | Metric measurements are defined very specifically by the [International System of Units.] Before they were founded, many countries had organisations for the purpose of managing measurements. They often did this by having an object that would be the basis of that measurement that would be distributed to other countries ... |
Why is internet (a direct connection) only fast enough to stream a few TV shows at once when digital TV antennas can receive hundreds simultaneously? | Just for terminology correction. The antenna does NOT receive and do anything with the channels it hears. IT just funnels the signal into a tuner. The tuner, which is on a set top box or integrated into your TV can generally only deal with processing and figuring out a single tv channel at a time, not hundreds. IT's li... |
Scientifically, what is happening in the body when we experience a "mini heart attack" after missing a step or any other "close call" in avoiding a potential injury? | It's a hormone called adrenaline. Your adrenal glands, which sit on top of your kidneys, release it. It activates your body's fight-or-flight response, which elevates your heart rate, opens up your muscular blood vessels, and in general does a bunch of things to prepare you to fight of a potential enemy or run far, far... |
Why can I exhale for so much longer than I can hold my breath? | The feeling of suffocation doesn't come from lack of oxygen; it actually comes from saturation of carbon dioxide in your blood. Your body needs to breathe *out* as much as it needs to breathe *in*, so a long constant exhale mitigates both the powerful breathing stimulus and more than half of the actual physical effects... |
Why do different parts of my body smell different when I sweat? | If I remember correctly, it depends on the type of sweat duct, most only release sweat, which is mostly water and therefore much less smelly, but others, especially in areas like the armpits, also release pheromones and other things that smell. |
What is the difference between Alternative Rock and "regular" rock music? | IMO, it has to do with how the band is promoted, where they play, and largely what their "message" might be. Counter-culture is a big aspect, and even mainstream bands can be put in this genreOn mobile so not sure if this link will come out correctly _URL_0_Alternative had a basic formula that made it instantly recogni... |
why do we have capsaicin receptors on our buttholes? | > I mean I understand evolving with capsaicin receptors in our mouth because we consume food that orifice You didn't evolve receptors to detect capsaicin. Capsaicin evolved because it irritates existing receptors in your tissues, making mammals less likely to eat the plant or its seeds. That the receptors exist in othe... |
When I buy a domain, who am I buying it from? | When you buy a domain name that doesn't previously exist, you're not buying it *from* anyone. You're paying a registrar for the right to create the domain name and have it registered to you as an individual or company. It's not like all the possible domains are sitting in a server just waiting for someone to choose the... |
Why are penises and vaginas considered more taboo in movies then boobs? | Sex is taboo. Penises and vaginas are actual sex organs. Just like butts, which aren't censored either, nipples/boobs are only sexual objects according to circumstance and culture.The question is, why are boobs even taboo?Some like penises, some like vaginas, but everyone loves boobs everyone. |
If heat rises, why does it get colder the higher up you go? | The atmosphere thins out and cannot hold the heat in. In your house, your roof acts like an impermeable atmosphere. That rule would apply even if your house was in the sky, so long as you had the heat on. |
Is it legal to take someone off of life support? | It is important to understand that when a person is on life support, it is usually because they are unconscious, in a coma, and will probably never wake up. When that happens, a guardian is appointed that makes decisions as if they were the person who was on life support. When that guardian decides to end life support,... |
Why has the number of scientific breakthroughs and discoveries seemingly decreased compared to the recent past where they were made every several years or so and credited to individuals? | There is only so much out there to be discovered, and the easy things already have been discovered. It's relatively easy to point a telescope at the sky and discover that Jupiter has moons. It's relatively hard to send probes to the moons and discover what exactly they are all made of. Projects like this nowadays requi... |
why it’s good for your heart to get pumping while exercising but it’s not good when your heart beats fast from anxiety or stress. | It IS good when your heart beats faster from anxiety or stress. That is your body’s way of trying to help you prepare for and respond to stressful situations. Now PROLONGED stress and anxiety can have negative effects on all sorts of body functions . An interesting topic related to this is adverse childhood experiences... |
The difference between isosmotic and isotonic. | Isotonic is the value in which a solution must have the same values as the system it is being placed in so as to not cause a ph or salinity change. For instance isotonic water has a 0.09% salinity so that it can be administered to human bodies without adverse reactions, swelling or dehydration. A solution that is isomo... |
Why do people face the DJ? | "Raves" have changed drastically in the last few years. With EDM being as big as it is, they have changed from the DJ just being there for music to where the DJ is now like the lead singer of a band. All the focus is on him/her. When I first got into the scene it was like you're describing it. Everybody just danced whe... |
Why do certain things "grow on you"? | Well, when you have more time to consider all the qualities of something, you have time to pick out the things you do like. And if you are mostly focused on the things you dislike about something, eventually you will learn to grow accustomed to these qualities and even reason them into being able to deal with them. Thi... |
Why have dentists never told me to use mouthwash? | The concern is that since mouthwash is easier to use, you will use it *instead* of brushing and flossing. With good brushing and flossing, mouthwash isn't that necessary, and mouthwash without brushing and flossing doesn't help much. |
why a helicopter can’t drop me on the top of Mount Everest | Because it's too high, at those altitudes the helicopters engine just cannot produce enough power , the blades also just cannot produce enough thrust , the higher the plane or helicopter flies the less thrust and power it has its called density altitude, and it's due to the fact that the higher you go the more spred ou... |
Why do corn ears grow silk on them, and what is the purpose of it? | Corn silks are the silky tassels running the length of an ear of corn. They serve as styles or tubes for collecting the pollen that fertilizes each seed. |
Why is Linux not very popular? | It is *extremely* popular. The Reddit server that sent you this block of text is a linux machine. Linux utterly dominates every market in the computer world *except for desktops*. And that is only because linux wasn't totally usable as a desktop until fairly recently, Ubuntu wasn't 100% usable and stable until around 2... |
Why is the blue ink very common for writing, but when it comes to printing, black ink is extremely common? | Blue ink is common for writing, at least partially to differentiate wet ink signatures from photocopies. Black ink is very low cost, because everybody wants the same color. Blue ink is problematic, as Dodger Blue isn't the same as Prussian Blue. |
How do passwords obtained from iBanking tokens have a timeout, when they are not wirelessly connected to the internet in real time? | They are based on an algorithm that uses a secret pre agreed key and the clock in the device. After some time has elapsed the code you have no longer matches the current time.All *two factor authentication* devices work on a similar principle. You have a *very secret number* that both you and the other side of a transa... |
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