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Why can other animals eat raw meat from a corpse but humans cannot? | We can! The danger comes form they way the meat is prepared before it is given to us. America is notorious for poor regulation of sanitation standards for butchers and farmers. In America it is just safer to assume your meat was poorly handled and contaminated, because it most likely was/is. |
Relativity (also difference between general and special) as well as string theory | Special relativity: The speed of light is the same in all reference frames. You can't accelerate to the speed of light. You can't travel at the speed of light unless you're massless, in which case you must travel at the speed of light. Time passes differently in different rest frames. General relativity: As above, plus... |
If weight gain/loss is as simple as energy in versus energy out, how do some competitive eaters remain slender? | They are not eating contest level calorie numbers as part of their normal diet. When they train they eat lots of low calorie high volume foods like cabbage and lettuce and drink a lot of water to stretch their stomachs and only eat the contest meals a few times in training for the competition. The occasional massive in... |
Why is there sometimes a slightly enjoyable "shiver" after urinating? | Well, I don't know if I'm doing this right, but since I've wondered myself, here's what I found so far: > According to Sheth, our parasympathetic nervous system lowers the body’s blood pressure “to initiate urination.” One leading theory behind the shudder is that peeing can unleash a reactive response from the body’s ... |
How does motion interpolation work? | There's a million approaches to interpolation. One is: have a good algorithm to find consistent "control points" on the image. Corners on places of high contrast, etc. Notice how those control points move between frame 0 and frame 2. Calculate a new intermediate frame by taking the average of and . Another is : Train a... |
What does Netanyahu want the USA to do with Iran? | In the short run, add more sanctions. In the long run, either engage in or support military action. |
what does an equalizer do? Why do I need it on my computer? | Sound is made of pressure waves. The sound that comes out of your speakers is a combination of waves of all sorts of frequencies. The higher the frequency, the higher pitch, and lower frequency is lower pitch. The equalizer is kind of like a volume control for little bits of the spectrum of frequency that the human ear... |
What is the most immediate thing China can do to eliminate the smog like that of Shanghai today? | Shut down the coal fired power plants. Stop using coal and wood to heat homes and cook food. |
Why do we know very little about sleep/dreams? | Dreams are entirely subjective, usually with no outward signs to gather info from. We've only recently started creating machines that can read our brains to help us learn more about mental processes. To contrast, we've had thousands of years to study the rest of our bodies. |
Why is it that certain toys are hard to find? Why don't they just make enough? | They don't always anticipate the demand and are afraid of making too many. Nobody wants to be stuck with merchandise they can't move. This is why they'd rather err on the side of caution and not make enough than to make too many and lose money that way. |
Why are metals with low melting points (eg mercury and lead) more poisons or harmful? | They're unrelated. Gallium, indium, bismuth, sodium, potassium, rubidium and caesium are all metals with low melting points that aren't particularly toxic. Gallium melts slightly above room temperature. You could have it melt into a puddle in your hand and suffer no ill effects. Indium is a soft metal that melts below ... |
In purely practical terms, what is life like for illegal immigrants in developed western countries? Can they drive? Get married? Have children legally? Get healthcare? Get a job? | I've worked in construction in Toronto for 12 years alongside illegal immigrants from all over the world. Typically there will be an ambitious worker that will take the lead and find a way to get a driver license, SIN or a business number, and start to get work contacts and hire other workers. Those people tend to get ... |
Why do brand new discs have trouble playing? | I've never had this happen with new Blu-ray's, DVD's, CD's. This sounds like a problem with your disc player. |
Why are sites such as Netflix and Youtube able to stream high definition video on relatively slow internet, while other sites struggle to stream that same quality of video on even the best internet? | Compression is a wonderful thing. When you go to Netflix or YouTube, you aren't actually streaming 1080p or 720p. The feed you're getting is highly compressed, and your computer then renders and upscales it once you've received it.* Netflix partners with ISPs and locates their content servers *inside* ISP facilities. T... |
Are there any countries without debt? Is it possible to not have a deficit in a global economy? | The USA had a budget surplus in the Clinton Administration. Note there is a difference between deficit and debt |
Why, when most people orgasm, they instinctively want to vocalize their excitement/expressions? | No scientific answer here, but I can only assume it is like any other "unexpected" rush of emotions or feeling. When you step on a nail, you shriek. When you burn your hand, you shriek. Just like anonoman925 said, it is probably an involuntary reaction to too much stimulus. TL;DR: Too much stimulus = Involuntary reacti... |
Why do we attribute some quotes to characters, while others to the author? | The difference lies in whether or not the quote is representative of the ideals and opinions of the author. Is it something the character just says, or something the character believes , or is it something the character said because the author was deliberately using them as a vehicle for expressing that idea? Also, it ... |
What are the concepts of intrinsic value and instrumental value in philosophy? | Intrinsic value is when I value something for itself. Instrumental value is the "I can use this!" sort of value. This is a tool that lets me better get what I want, so it's valuable to me. I value the well-being of those I care about, for instance. Is this so I can get something else? No, I just want them healthy. I mi... |
What is my cat doing when it's looking at nothing? | Perhaps you have mice or insects in the walls and your cat can hear them?Could be something as simple as dust or a shadow. Mine loves staring at and following/trying to attack sunlight shining through my curtainsAbout "see something I can't?" Yes, cats can see more wave lengths of light than humans, for example UV-ligh... |
What are the advantages of using a Bullpup-Style rifle over a conventional one? | Bullpup rifles provide barrel length of longer rifles, but overall length closer to carbines . The barrel length helps increase bullet energy and long range accuracy, while the shorter overall length makes it more manageable, especially in close-quarter fighting. |
How does our nervous system work in regards to how we feel through the use of neurotransmitters and medication? | Please note that a lot of our information about neurotransmitters is correlative, not causative. We know certain neurotransmitters correspond with certain conditions. We know that the lack of them, or an excess of them can be correlated with certain disorders. For example, dopamine is linked to movement, learning and m... |
Does "nothing" exist? | It depends on what you mean by "something." Considering physical reality, there is a minimum size a 'thing\' has to be in order to be considered 'real\'. We can talk about Planck lengths, quarks, and leptons all day, and we can even toss around numbers like 10^-35 metres until we're blue in the face, and it misses the ... |
How does the finding of 2 new subatomic particles affect our understanding of the universe? | I'm assuming you are referring to this _URL_1_ Particle physicists make their predictions from the Standard Model _URL_0_ It's really the best theory we have to explain the particles and forces we see in the universe. And like any good scientific theory, we can make predictions. These particles were predicted to exist ... |
Musical forms, codas, del signo, Middle 8's (MUSICIANS OF REDDIT) | Let's start by saying that a coda is an ending to a piece or movement of music which doesn't follow linearly. By that I mean you don't play the music measure 1, measure 2 . measure 64, CODA! Instead, the sheet music tells you to repeat a section of the song, and then instructs you to jump to the coda. There are 2 commo... |
Why is the movie Frozen seen as a metaphor for homosexuality? | Elsa has a condition that is shameful, and that her parents want her to hide and never let anyone else see. If they could cure it, they would, but they can't. Elsa suppresses her feelings and lives a sad, unfulfilled life hoping that no one figures out the truth about her. When people do find out, they react poorly, an... |
How the spread on sports teams works when betting? | Team A is playing Team B. If the spread is Team A plus 3.5 then If Team B wins by 3 or less the bettor wins. If Team B wins 4 or more, the house wins. No tie bets, regardless of the rules of the sport. |
why did animals grow larger in the past? Is this because of human development? It seems like sharks, birds, turtles, snakes, etc. used to be a lot bigger | We are a short period since the last mass extinction event. Small animals flourished because of the conditions and have been evolving since. Some of the largest animals you see now are survivors of that mass extinction. There just hasn't been enough time passed to let evolution take it's course and allow for much large... |
Why are products in airports priced so abnormally high when compared to other businesses? | Because they have a monopoly. Once you're past security, you can't leave to shop at their competition. You have to pay their prices or do without. |
why does one get heartburn after eating specific food? | From what I understand, each body, while very similar, contains moderately different ratios of stomach acid. Some things offset certain balances resulting in heart burn. |
Why do companies put so much value into the price of their stock on the secondary market? | A few reasons. 1. They have a legal duty to do their best to deliver a positive return for investors. 2. Issuing more stock to the market is a good way to raise capital. For that to work, you have to have a high stock price at the point at which you sell your stock. 3. Many companies' executives are paid, in part or in... |
Why does apple juice make me need to piss so quickly after drinking it? | Things get digested faster than others. Fruit and fruit products are digested very quickly Source: Observations and experiments.High acidity. You'll see the same results with orange juice and low quality coffee . |
How do soda companies get the soda in the can and make the poppable tin tab, without letting the soda go flat? | The top of the can with the tab is all one premade piece, and the can is another. The soda is poured into the can, then a machine "folds" the edges of the can and the top together.here's a video that shows part of the process: _URL_0_ |
Why do some memories get stronger with repeated thinking and some weaker? | Typically, accessing a memory will strengthen it. But there's a catch. Research has shown that accessing a memory causes it to be re-written back into our long-term memory. This helps to preserve it. Memories which are rarely accessed tend to slowly "fade" over time, and accessing a memory combats this characteristic. ... |
Why aren't leaves the same color as solar panels? | Of course chlorophyll is the obvious answer, because it reflects green light rather than absorbing it. But the next question is "why isn't chlorophyll black?" Some say it's because the plants would absorb too much heat that way, but that might not be true for all or even most plants. The answer may be because plants ev... |
Why are the URL Addresses for Reddituploads so long? | it guarantees that it's a unique URL. the first section is most likely the asset key. that info identifies the content that needs to be fetched. when you're dealing with hundreds of millions of different files, each one needs to be uniquely identified so it can be fetched. second reason is that it hides the original fi... |
Why would anyone pay money to subscribe to someones stream on Twitch when it's already streaming for free? | Because Viewers know that Twitch Streams are not free. Someone, somewhere, is creating the content and spending time doing so. If they never have any payment for doing so then they will stop doing it. This could be because they are annoyed at not getting paid or because they simply cannot carry on doing whatever it is ... |
How would China devaluing its currency affect dollar denominated debt? | China devaluing their currency would have the benefit of reducing the world market prices for their exports, boosting economic growth, but will make foreign currency denominated debt more expensive to service, since firms will need to spend more RMB to buy the same amount of dollars to service their debt. For an indivi... |
How a website like craigslist still exists after there have been many murders related to it? | Even more murders have been related to the telephone, and yet those are still around. Just because there's a very small subset of people who misuse something, that doesn't mean that the whole needs to be shut down. |
Why can Google search the Internet faster than my computer can search itself? | While many of the answers that include a statement like "They have lots of computers doing parallel computation" are correct to some degree, there are other factors. When your computer searches itself it must visit every file in the computer. However when google gets a search query it generates a search vector. This ve... |
I bought a tabletop weighing scale. Why there is this sign written on it? "Not for commercial use" | because there are different standards for calibration on commercial scales. these would be scales used for deli/grocery checkouts and stuff. so that consumers don't get ripped off. _URL_0_ |
Why console gamers and pc gamers cant play together in matchmaking? | Simply, the console players would get crushed. The amount of finite control a mouse+keyboard offers over a controller is pretty apparenti agree with everyone when it comes to FPS but many other games have no excuse for not being cross platform. racing games and fighters come to mind.Everyone that has posted in this dis... |
How come we don't make Italian Holocaust/Nazi Jokes? | Because when the war turned against them, they overthrew their fascist government and switched sides. Mussolini is not given a free pass. The man is often listed among other monsters of history. But in the popular consciousness, the Italian people redeemed themselves, so they didn't bear the same guilt as the Germans o... |
Exactly why are curse words considered "bad" in modern day society? | Language codifies ideas and brings them into broad daylight in a context that everyone can understand, and there will always be ideas that people tend to find more offensive or disgusting than others. |
Why do viruses kill living things, if they need a living host to continue to exist? | Accidentally. Often, it doesn't actually end up killing enough hosts as to prevent the spread of the disease, which is what makes them continue to exist. For example, if it made a person explode violently into billions of tiny airborne particles which would then be easily inhaled by other people, and it lay dormant in ... |
Why do I function less when I get more hours of sleep than usual? | There are two main factors at play here: 1) Your body likes consistency. If it's used to getting 6 hours of sleep, it expects to get 6 hours of sleep that night, and will regulate its daily hormonal cycle accordingly. Messing with that in any way, even if it provides more rest, will make your body confused and stressed... |
How can congress sneak CISA into the NASA bill? | Congress makes its own rules. There are very few rules for Congress in the Constitution. The rest they write themselves. They can even ignore rules they write if no one in Congress objects.It's called a rider, and it's actually a fairly standard operation that happens all the time. It's just that it only makes the news... |
Why do different countries drive on different sides of the street and choose to have the wheel on a different side of the car? | The side of the road people drive on is due to most people being right handed and the most common form of transportation at the time the rules were decided upon. A horse drawn cart would have the owner walking on the left side of the horse holding the reins with their dominant right hand. When passing another cart, you... |
Why do conspiracy theorists often claim that there is significance to words/phrases being spelled/played in reverse? | Conspiracy theorists, almost by definition, find patterns in things that are not patterns, or logic in things that are not logical.It stems from a belief that was popularized by Christian fundamentalists during the Satanic Panic in the 80s, that if you say something backwards it will subliminally implant itself in thei... |
Why do you feel full faster if you eat slower? | It takes some time for the chemicals responsible for fullness to be released and move from the stomach to the brain. When you eat slowly, these chemicals are released gradually and so your brain's levels of them rise gently. When you eat quickly, you suddenly shift from no fullness to tons of fullness, but it's delayed... |
Why is tomato a fruit but not a chili? | It depends if you are talking about cooking or if you're looking at it from the scientific perspective. Here's the scientific view: A fruit in general is the vehicle that angiosperms use to distribute their seeds. That applies for tomatoes as well as for chili. Apart from the "obvious" fruits like apples and bananas, a... |
Why is it colder inside a plastic bin than the surrounding room? | I assume the bin has a lid to keep the pretzels fresh? So 1) you have air trapped inside there that doesn’t circulate. It would pick up the ambient temperature very slowly —warming up slower than the office all day and cooling down slower than the office all night. So inside the bin it would be the same as the average ... |
Why does tapping on the top of a shaken up can stop it from fizzing when you open it? | This is actually a myth. The only things that affect the level of "fizziness" when you open a soda is temperature and pressure. Since you can't really alter the pressure in a can, the only thing you can do is change the temperature. Gasses dissolve more readily in colder temperature, so your best bet if you don't want ... |
If you pour water in front of a light, how does it have a shadow if it's clear? | It's not completely clear, if it were you wouldn't be able to see it. So the part that is deflecting light and hitting your eye allowing you to see it also blocks/absorbs the light and creates a shadow", 'The water still does absorb some of the light, which creates a shadow. Most glass does the same.Water being poured ... |
Why do people feel the urge to shake their leg, jiggle their foot, etc.? | Muscle contraction is the only way to squeeze blood back up from the lower legs. When sitting still, contracting the calf muscles allows the blood to be squeezed up and avoids pooling. |
What is the difference between shower gel and body wash? | The primary difference between the two is texture, Gels are firmer and more gel like while body wash is more like liquid soap. Gels also often have more fragrance and "go farther" |
Why is a production possibility frontier displayed as a curve, rather than a straight line? | Because usually the marginal product cost increases as your output for that product goes up. In other words going from catching 5 rabbits to 6 rabbits is harder than going from catching 0 rabbits to 1 rabbit. |
Why don't "large", sluggish animals like Crane Flies and naked snails have more enemies? | Slugs, at least, are eaten by a wide varity of species of all types and classes. However, like many prey species, slugs have evolved to produce huge numbers of offspring--and for slugs in particular, being hermaphrodites means both halves of a mating pair can and will bear young. I believe the average litter is around ... |
How can game programming be so amazing? | > it can't be a bunch of "if" and "elses", Actually, yes kind of is. Modern languages have ways to allow you to write a lot of machine code in fewer hand-written lines of code, but essentially it all gets converted back into a set of instructions which all basically get and set register values, test comparisons, and ch... |
How does a computer trash can work ? | The Trash Can/Recycle Bin works like another folder until you empty it. When emptied, the computer will make the space on the hard drive taken up by the file be able to be overwritten. The file will stay there until the computer writes something over it. You can secure delete the trash on Mac, which means the computer ... |
What is really going on with North Korea? Should I be worried? | There are many theories about what is really going on with North Korea currently and I can't come up with a definitive answer to what is going on. However, you should not be worried because North Korea and The United States and their allies know that if North Korea strikes another country with their nuclear weapons the... |
cars like VW Beetle proved that a motor can be refrigerated by air. Why this kind of design never succeeded to be the most popular and water/liquid refrigerated won? | Just because somethings possible doesn't mean it's a good idea. Liquid coolants have a *much* higher heat capacity, and so can absorb much higher amounts of heat from the engine. This is good, because the engine generally runs more efficiently as it's operating temperature increases, but this necessitates a better cool... |
Why is pink considered a 'girly' color? | It actually used to be seen as a very masculine colour, before the 20th century. The idea was that it was a shade of red, and red is a strong colour, representing passion, blood, and other such thingsFun fact: Technically, pink is not a real color because there is no such thing as pink light: [NPR: They Did It To Pluto... |
How the women's only screening of Wonder Women is affected by antidiscrimination laws | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination by employers "on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." However, Title II of the same act prohibits discrimination "based on race, color, religion, or national origin in hotels, motels, restaurants, **theaters,** and all other pub... |
Can astronauts masturbate in space? | Why not? If you can recycle paper covered in shit or napkins covered in food I'm pretty sure you can recycle a tissue covered in spooge. |
How can there be any HD videos of WW2, when there wasn't any HD cameras back then? | "HD", today refers to a digital image that is 1920 pixel wide x 1080 pixels high - this is about a 2MP image. Video from WWII is shot on real analog film - silver halide crystals on film. Analog film does have a "theoretical max resolution" that it can be scanned at, and compared to today's HD picture it's very high. 3... |
How does a Frisbee fly? | Bernoulli's principle - Lower air pressure above the Frisbee gives it lift and allows it to stay up. The angle at which its thrown, spin and wind all ad to its direction.If you look at the frisbee, it looks sort of like a wing right? And it functions exactly like a wing - [air will move faster on the frisbee's top and ... |
Why do dogs drink out of the toilet, even though you give them fresh water? | As far as the dog's concerned, a source of water is a source of water. All he'll care about is that there's always water there, it's clean and at a convenient head height for drinking. Dogs are also creatures of habit and will keep going back to the same places for food and water just because that's what they're used t... |
What's preventing us from completely abandoning paper money going 100% cards or credits like in Science fiction? | Because not everyone is on a card and we would need a system that gives away free banking for everyone to be on a card and then we would need a free system to allowing people to trade between each other. Other wise there would be a lot of people and children who would have no way of having money and would make life har... |
There are, for example, 50 clouds with rain in them at the sky. What makes them all release the rain exactly at the same time? | Clouds are so large that generally one cloud covers the immediate vicinity around you. So it appears that rain starts and stops simultaneously in all directions from the perspective of a person on the ground. But if you look at a rainstorm from an airplane, you can often see pockets of rain and non-rain across a fairly... |
On the back of my dove deodorant, it says to ask a doctor before use if I have kidney disease. How is deodorant correlated with kidney disease?? | Deoderants and Antiperspirants contain aluminium. Aluminium is abosrbed by the skin and enters the blood, in healthy people, the level of aluminium found in Antiperspirants is safe as it is rapidly removed from your body via the kidneys in urine. But in people who have kidney problems, aluminium can accumulate in the b... |
Why do so many people in america have peanut allergies where as in here in the uk barely anyone does? | _URL_0_ The UK is one of the top three countries in the world for the highest incident of allergy ', "I haven't seen any source to indicate that prevalence is any lower in the UK than it is in the US or here in Canada, though there is data to indicate that the rate is growing about as fast in the UK as it is over here.... |
How does HD Radio work, and what makes it clearer than non-HD FM radio? | HD radio uses the same type of radio waves as normal radio but the information is digital instead of analog. Analog audio can get warped and distorted as it travels over the air due to interference. Digital audio doesn't have the same problems. A digital receiver only has to tell if the signal is a 1 or a 0 at any mome... |
Why are planets spherical, is it possible for planets to be Halo or flat edged? | The reason planets appear spherical is because gravity compresses the planet into a shape that most evenly distributes the gravitational force among the planet's mass.Planets are too big to be too far away from spherical - something sticking out too far will get pulled down by gravity over time. A Halo with the mass of... |
If you arrive in a country with some sort of incorrect visa, do they just send you back home? | Well, they will detain you in some holding area in the checkpoint, while they try to ascertain your identity - whether it's a genuine mix-up or error, or if you are someone more sinister - like a drug mule, terrorist, or a refugee who has no actual business in this country you are in. The immigration officials may ask ... |
Why do your ears and nose slowly and continuously grow throughout your life? | Because while bone growth stops in early adulthood, cartilage growth doesn't. Your ears and nose are mostly cartilaginous, so they continue to grow as you age. In addition, aging skin loses elasticity and underlying fat pads, making it sag more and the cartilage more prominent. |
why didn't Bruce Jenner go to jail after the fatal car crash | The investigation determined that it was an accident, not a criminal act. Sometimes shit just happens when people drive cars. |
Why does medical research need so much of donated money when pharmaceutical companies are super rich and can afford to do the research themselves? | Pharmaceutical companies make drugs. They do not invent new surgical techniques, new equipment or new courses of treatment. Even in situations where the solution turns out to be different drugs, the reason pharmaceutical companies are super-rich in the first place is that they spend their money on those avenues best su... |
the evolutionary reasoning/theory behind menopause | If we look at life as a game, we 'win' when we manage to pass on our genes to the next generation. The more we manage to do this, the higher our top score becomes. But, there is no use in passing on your genes if your children will die before they can reproduce. Especially for a species like humanity, where we have tak... |
Are there gradual forms of depression or is it purely binary? | As someone who is very depressed, it's gradual. Never binary. You have good days, you have bad days. |
How were the transatlantic network cables put in place? | With a really big cable laying ship. There's no need for weighing them down. The cables are quite heavy by themselves. If a cable breaks a specialty cable laying an maintenance ship goes out, finds the break, brings up the cable, and repairs it or splices in a new cable section.[Modern Marvels] had a really good episod... |
The difference between "Damnit", "Dammit", and "Damn it" | "Damn it" is the proper spelling. "Dammit" is a colloquialism, showing how people tend to pronounce it as if it were one word. "Damnit" is a compromise between the two. I 've rarely seen it spelled this way. Aside from that, they all have the same meaning. |
When did lobsters become a hot food commodity for the wealthy when it used to be fed to slaves and servants? | From what I understand, they used to be so plentiful that they could be gathered from the shore. When they had to start actually fishing for them their value increased because of the cost of traps, boats, and time. |
I am blind in one eye. Can you explain what 3D movies look like? | In a person with normal sight, your brain can work out how far away something is because your two eyes see a different picture due to being a few inches apart. If you are blind in one eye, I 'd imagine that if you move your head from side to side, you 'd get a similar idea of how far away something is, because your bra... |
Last night I had a deep logical conversation with a character in my dream. How is this possible? | Why would you presume it to be not possible? You are, presumably, capable of logic, and the 'you' and 'character' in your dream are manifested by you, so they are presumably capable of logic as well. The only means to measure the grasp of the logic is your own experience, so even if you have a poor grasp of logic, your... |
Can I just fill up potholes? | You can, but generally you are breaking a law. Or at least an ordinance. Plus, your patch *sucks* and will form another pothole shortly. DIY asphalt patching simply isn't capable of standing up to the sort of abuse that road get -- unless the person doing it themselves is a professional with professional-grade equipmen... |
Why is it when counting numbers teen comes after the number but every other number after that the number comes at the end ? | The suffix [-teen] originally meant "ten more than". So thirteen is 'ten more than three\', fourteen is 'ten more than four\', and so onGermans have it easiest. 15 fünfzehn means literally five-ten 25 fünf und zwanzig five-and-twenty. fünf und neunten is five and nine tens or 95 etc but from 30 to 90 is literally 3 ten... |
Why do so many African Americans have Welsh surnames? | That former slaves took on their previous owners\' surnames is a widespread myth: the one thing they didn't often do was to assume the names of their former oppressors. They usually named themselves after other famous Americans, especially those they regarded as heroes of the anti-slavery movement: thus African America... |
Net Vertical Impulse with a drop jump AND a counter movement jump | When the athlete drops 0.3m, he will land with a velocity. When the athlete jumps 0.45m, he has an initial velocity. We seek the change in velocity first. We know that position = velocity × time. We know that position = acceleration × time × time An athlete falling 0.3m will fall for: 0.3 = 1/2 × 9.8 × time × time 0.6 ... |
The economics of C.H. Douglas' theory of Social Credit | I 've always struggled to understand social credit theory as well. Here in Alberta, Canada the social credit party formed the government for 34 years straight. They were a highly socially conservative christian party which left much of the social credit reforms unaddressed. For a time they issued "prosperity credits". ... |
how does free shipping and handling work? | There's still shipping and handling costs that are part of getting the product to your doorstop, but the company that's selling them pays for them and buries their costs in your product price. Here's the four cases for a $10-price product that costs the company $7 to make, with an extra $2 of cost for paying the delive... |
Why doesn't AAA kill all their useless perks and just make membership cheaper? | Those discount deals don't cost AAA anything. In fact, they probably get paid by the partner companies: it's marketing for the companies. AAA is essentially selling their customer list, and advertising directly to them. And of course, AAA gets a benefit as well, since their members feel they are getting something more ... |
When astronauts are in space and they use trusters what are they trusting against to move forward? | Thrusters don't work by thrusting "against" anything. They work based on the conservation of momentum. When you throw something in one direction, what remains has to move in the opposite direction for the momentum of the entire system to remain the same. Imagine standing on a skating rink wearing ice skates and holding... |
why does an analog clock's second hand continue to move, but stay in the same position, when the batteries are low? | It's not a feature, it's that the second hand requires a certain amount of force to be moved. If the motor running the clockwork doesn't have enough power to move the second hand all the way, it just keeps chugging ticking half seconds and falling back to its initial spot. The reason it doesn't stop entirely is because... |
Why is there a lot of ruckus over how America is moving from an industrial economy to a service economy? | Industrial jobs, due to their more skilled nature, are more likely to have higher wages and worker's rights, where as in a service oriented economy, workers are unskilled and easily replaced, allowing them to be paid as little as possible with fewer rights. Since workers in an industrial economy have more money and rig... |
Why are so many video/computer games not available in Australia? | Cost. Not just physical costs like shipping, which can be mitigated with digital distribution, but international trade/licensing agreements come into play. For many non AAA titles, it may just not be financially viable to distribute there. |
What is the difference between a nightmare, a night terror and sleep paralysis? | Nightmare = a scary dream you have while asleep. Night terror = a scary feeling you have that remains equally terrifying even after you wake up. Sleep paralysis = a side effect of being asleep , in which your body doesn't respond to signals from your brain telling it to move. |
Why is the human tongue so strong? Evolutionarily, how did it develop that way? | The tongue is something that often gets taken for granted. When you think about it, it is incredibly important for eating. It's main job is to move food around in your mouth to the optimal teeth for chewing. Moving a piece of food from one side of your mouth to the other is not in itself very difficult, but when you ar... |
Where did the idea of people becoming angels when we die come from, considering that bibically angels are another species altogether? | Its just misunderstanding. Because the origins of the angels is rarely discussed. Honestly most people never talk about those early parts of the bible that explain the angels place in things because its kind of embarrassing.. Like how angels would rape human women because seeing their hair made them super horny. It led... |
Why does hot water set stains in cloth? Why does cold water help get them out? | When cloth fibers get hot they expand, thus allowing the contents of the stain to get deeper into the cloth. The the cloth fibers are cold they constrict, thus pushing the stain out of the fibers. |
How is all of our poop disposed of when it is flushed down the toilet? | When I was about 16 I worked on a private school campus where they had their own little waste treatment place. There was a swimming pool sized pool that had three or four sections. The first section had the raw sewage water in it and was constantly churning. There were plastic things that separated the sections and wer... |
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