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are gravitational waves polarized?	[ "A very similar question was asked about photons yesterday [in this thread](_URL_0_?), which has some fairly detailed discussion. It turns out that massless particles with spin can only have two polarizations, so photons can only have +1 and -1, while gravitons can only have +2 and -2." ]	[ "if I might add a question to be answered: I'd like to know if behavioral tendencies would also play a role in their orientation? (e.g. would schooling fish all swim in the same orientation/direction in zero g?)" ]
The removed part of the phrase "4th cousin twice removed."	[ "\"4th cousin\" relates to how many generations back you have to go to have a common ancestor. 1st cousins share a grandparent. 2nd cousins share a great-grandparent. 3rd cousins share a great-great-grandparent. And 4th cousins share a great-great-great-grandparent. \"Twice removed\" refers to the fact that the two...	[ "Yay, I get to be relevant today! Usually these are locates. Before you start digging, you're supposed to call a locate service. The service is completely free for anyone, and is paid for the utility companies. They pay for it because it's in their best interest that you don't accidentally run into it with your equ...
Why do containers form a vacuum when being heated in the microwave with their lid on? Bowls with cling wrap do the same.	[ "Because the microwaves excite the water, causing it to expand as steam, leading to pressure in sealed containers, some steam seeps out, then when the microwaves stop, the water loses the extra energy and begins to cool which causes a retraction in the air. If you had a very well sealed container(like an egg or som...	[ "As a physicist, the thing that really made sense was to realise that lift is due to vortex binding, much like the Magnus effect, which is mathematically the same as a current in a uniform magnetic field. In other words, one should be able to understand this with the same mathematical machinery of potential flow (w...
Friday Free-for-All \| August 03, 2018	[ "Hey everyone! I'm back from conducting two months of fieldwork in Belize. While I cannot discuss the specifics of this season's fieldwork, I can talk a little bit about the area if anyone is interested. I was working in the Xunantunich/Buenavista/Arenal region of Belize near the Guatemala border. Cahal Pech was lo...	[ "Search bar over there ====== > Gets asked about once a week. This isn't a complaint, just a PSA about using the search bar before you ask a question." ]
Why doesnt the earth move from under me while im in the air.	[ "Because of Newton's First Law of Motion: \"In an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force.\" You were moving along with the surface when you jumped or whatever and being in the air doesn't change that." ]	[ "Wait, you can't do this? You must not be kneeing them hard enough. Keep trying. Sometimes it takes several hits. Edit: Just realized this is ELI5 and not shittyaskscience." ]
What in the atmosphere makes beautifully colored sunsets	[ "When the sun is low, light travels through much more particles. More particles means more scattering of the light." ]	[ "[XKCD has a blog called \"What if\" that has answered this very question](_URL_0_). I think they did a really good job. To quickly paraphrase the post, if there is more than one sun, you will have more than one rainbow! Depending on how close the suns appear in the sky, the rainbows may overlap!" ]
- Why are some fuel caps on the left hand side of the car yet some are on the right?	[ "Saturn once explained it this way: Putting the gas cap on the passenger side was a safety issue. If you were to run out of gas and had to use a gas can to put some in then you would be out of the way of traffic. A cap on the drivers side exposes you to possible high speed traffic on a highway. Don't know if it was...	[ "Different types of motorsports have different rules governing them. These rules dictate track type, engine size, type of car, etc. For instance, NASCAR dictates what kind of car can be raced. All of the cars in NASCAR are virtually the same, minus some tweaks here and there, like spoiler angle. Daytona is a race t...
How can people trust a slot machine to give you a win if they can be programmed to rarely do so?	[ "You don't \"trust\" the machine to give you a win, you hope you'll get a win, while the smarter part of your brain tells you that you're just throwing your money away." ]	[ "Because the odds makers are taking other things into consideration. Horse A ran the same distance previously with more weight in X seconds. Horse B runs well in this weight distance but was injured recently. Horse C runs better on a hard dry track and it’s wet this week. Horse D runs this weight distance well but ...
What is actually happening when a car is done "warming up"?	[ "In a modern car it's down to the engine computer making the engine run at a higher idle to increase the speed things warm up at. One of the big ones is the catalyst in the catalytic converter. This is basically a bunch of exotic elements in the catalytic converter that need to be warm before they properly do their...	[ "The same reason you can walk through an airplane isle even though you are unable to move at hundreds of miles an hour (or fly). The same reason you are able to survive walking around outside even though the earth is spinning around at thousands of miles per hour. Ir more precisely, why you can swim in a pool even...
After limbs loose blood circulation for a while, why do they go all tingly and spastic after regaining circulation?	[ "This is actually a misconception. The \"pins and needles\" feeling of a limb \"falling asleep\" isn't due to lack of bloodflow, but due to the mechanical compression of nerves. In this way, its similar to \"hitting your funny bone\" (your ulnar nerve), but less acute because the nerves are squished slowly rather t...	[ "I just explained this in another thread, but essentially it is called the \"Bernoli principle\" and like others have pointed out, it has to do with pressurized air. When you pucker your lips, air is pressurized as it leaves your mouth. When it leaves your mouth, it expands into the air and as it expands it absorbs...
How did the Nazis, obsessed with racial purity, sell their Japanese allies to the public?	[ "This question was asked a few times, here are some past answers: _URL_1_ _URL_0_ _URL_2_ _URL_3_" ]	[ "Everything /u/snarkinturtle said is correct, but it doesn't directly answer your question. > A systematic comparison to other population groups shows that in relation to the population size and in relation to the general bioscientific reference to this group, Jews are over-represented in human genetic literature,...
why do christian radio stations take donations?	[ "Radio stations between 88.1 and 91.9 mHz are reserved by the FCC for [non-commercial radio](_URL_0_), so they aren't allowed to run advertisements. Absent the ad funding model, most stations of this type (including secular public radio stations) use a sponsorship method, though other models are allowed (college ra...	[ "To put simply, infrastructure costs and up keeping requires a huge amount of money. Which cannot be covered by advertisements ." ]
How I can touch a radio and a station with static comes in more clear?	[ "In short, your body is being used as an antenna when you touch it. Bigger antenna = better reception." ]	[ "This is something I would also like to know as I listen to a lot of trade books in the car while travelling and have wondered if its ~~doing anything~~ actually planting the information into my head or I'm a just listening like a song." ]
If the Americas were populated through Alaska, why all the ancient cities and civilizations were in the South?	[ "A. The climate in canada/alaska definitely is worse than you think, like if you look at a map of canada, 87.4% of canada's population live 100 miles from the border and all the towns/cities in the interior are sparsely populated by comparison B. Its a hard question to answer but I think this comment does the best...	[ "Each property owner had his/her own idea of what purpose the building would serve and a different budget to make it happen. They may appear to share walls, but they did not. They are built wall to wall, but they usually did not share a wall. And they were tightly packed like this because most people did not own ho...
How correct is the view that we lacked the ability to draw in perspective before the Renaissance?	[ "Ancient Greek theatre used perspective techniques for its backdrop scenes, we know this because Aristotle wrote about them in his poetics under the theme of ['skenographia'](_URL_0_) (play staging) The techniques got more complex and the mathematics underlying them got more sophisticated as the centuries moved on...	[ "Back then people still needed jobs, now they dont and can practice harder for longer. And science helps by showing then methods on improving motions. You cam find cool videos on youtube" ]
Why can't we pump flood water from Texas into tank cars and ship it to California to help alleviate the drought?	[ "Because quite simply, they need a lot of water. Far more than the carrying capacity of a freight train. When dealing with large bodies of water, the water is measured in acre-feet. One acre-foot is approximately 325,000 gallons. California would need tens of thousands of acre-feet of water in order to even make a ...	[ "It would cost a lot of money. That money would have to come from taxpayers. Folks with modest income don't expect Government to start taxing the rich exclusively, given their political power. You can't tax poor people, they have no money. That means the tax would be on middle income people, and they don't want to ...
Difference Between Java and JavaScript	[ "They're entirely separate languages, they just happen to both have 'java' in the name. Java is based on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It uses strictly object-oriented code and is meant largely for producing easily portable applications. JavaScript is interpreted and is mostly used for event-driven software. (And...	[ "I can't speak to the soda part, but people drink almost as much iced coffee as they do hot coffee." ]
Difference between American and Canadian accent?	[ "There's no one single Canadian or American accent. You get all sorts of accents depending on where individuals from these two very large countries come from. I don't really know how to answer 'what's the difference' between the two. There are obviously distinct regional accents, as well as certain phrases and word...	[ "Simply put, both of them. This is due mainly to a geological concept known as the geoid. If you look at [this](_URL_1_) map, you can see that above panama, there is a plate subducting under another plate. Subduction looks like [this](_URL_2_) cross-sectionally. I would wager that the weight of the extra crust is '...
Why does everything in the supermarket have an expiration date?	[ "Not all dates are hard expirations. A lot are \"sell by\" dates and \"best by\" Which ones are safe to ignore? Depends on the product. Milk should pretty much be adhered to. Canned fruit? Not so much" ]	[ "To get your attention. Although a law was passed a while ago regarding this topic. _URL_0_" ]
In the evolution from Bacteria to early vertebrates, did lung size accommodate for oxygen needs of the body, or vise-versa?	[ "Lungs evolved within vertebrates (as a organ for buoyancy), so no groups that had evolved prior to vertebrates have lungs. But your question still stands. [Lung volume increases at the same rate as body mass](_URL_0_) and we see body mass increasing and decreasing for lots of reasons. But lung size seems to follo...	[ "Stacks. The most obvious is whales/dolphins/orcas which went water- > land- > water, but also tortoises made the transition 3 times and went water- > land- > water- > land (i.e land tortoises evolved from sea turtles, which evolved from land reptiles, which evolved from lobe finned fish. The reptile that went back...
Did Rabies already exist in the Americas or was it brought over from Europe?	[ "Great question. [This](_URL_0_) paper attempts to answer this very question. They concluded that there is no definite evidence that rabies was present in humans in pre-Columbian America, but there is circumstantial evidence of bat rabies." ]	[ "Well it all started in 1152 or so when this wee lad from Wexford called Dermot went off with this lassie Dervorgilla, from Co Meath whose husband was horrid upset he was and nobody talks about...... Anyway, I dont know the show but if you put any specific questions to me I will give you a straight answer." ]
What are hashtags and how do they function?	[ "On [Twitter](_URL_0_), you can write very short messages for people to see. If you put a hash, or pound sign (this: #) in front of a word (which means any string of letters with no space), that's a hashtag. Now, anyone searching for that hashtag will be shown all the messages that have that hashtag inside them. So...	[ "This CGP Grey video does a really good job of explaining it all. _URL_3_" ]
Why is a cup of coffee too hot to hold but not too hot to drink?	[ "Your hands are very sensitive in general. And for most people, hands are more sensitive to heat than mouths - our mouths come in contact with heated food on a regular basis which builds up tolerance. It's also really easy to cool things down with the mouth, as there's a ready supply of air to use as a coolant. It ...	[ "As others will point out, black holes can \"evaporate\" due to Hawking radiation. Because of this, they also have an associated \"temperature\". The bigger the black hole, the colder it is. If you put a black hole in a radiation environment that is warmer than the black hole, it will still absorb energy and grow. ...
Why did the New York abortion law that was recently passed include third trimester abortion?	[ "Complications or a fetal anomaly are the really the only reasons for a 3rd trimester/late abortion. If the mother is at risk or if the fetus is dead/dying/no quality of life, then a late term abortion is in order." ]	[ "I fear the graph is still up to date - no new records since them. JT-60U still has the highest triple product. ITER should beat it, but not before 2027. It should release 10 times more fusion power than necessary input power when run with DT plasma (2035+), a huge milestone. After that it is \"just\" making a viab...
How do single pieces of corn survive down the digestive system?	[ "Corn kernels have a protective outer layer composed mainly of cellulose, which is fiber. Your body can't digest cellulose at all, so the corn kernel can make it through intact. Most other high-fiber veggies, as well as the majority of the corn you eat, gets smashed up by chewing and comes out unrecognizable. Only ...	[ "From what I've read they ate a lot more rough course foods. Chewing things that are hard scrape our teeth for us kind of like it does for other animals. The problem for our modern teeth is we eat a lot of soft refined foods and a lot of sugar. That stuff just sits there and gets stuck which causes tooth decay." ]
When you lose weight, where does the fat go and how does it get there?	[ "Fat is processed into CO2 (which you exhale) and waste (which comes out your pooper). If you eat less fat and carbs than you burn, you lose fat (and carbs)." ]	[ "When you delete a file off your hard drive, all that happens is that your computer marks that file as \"overwrite when necessary\". The file is still there until something needs to overwrite it." ]
Why whenever I eat a burger/sandwich the bottom bun always gets way smaller than the top bun.	[ "Because you move your lower jaw and the bite on the bottom part goes \"deeper\" than your upper bite." ]	[ "The structure of an LCD panel [isn't completely flat](_URL_0_). This isn't an accurate analogy in terms of structure, it's just the principle. If you imagine an LCD super zoomed in, think of it as looking down at a cityscape, all skyscrapers and such. If you look down at it directly from above, you can see the st...
How did FDR hide his disability?	[ "To \"walk\" in public, Roosevelt would wear braces to keep his legs stiff and straight. He would lean heavily on another person and swing his legs forward to give the illusion of walking. People at the time knew that he had polio when he was younger, so it was not strange that he would need assistance to walk. The...	[ "By using advertising disclaimers like \"limited quantities\" or \"while supplies last\", which in many states exempts those items from raincheck laws." ]
Is there a reason why silica gel says "Do not eat", while lots of other things that you shouldn't eat don't have that label?	[ "Silica gel isn't really bad for you. The \"Do Not Eat\" is because those silica gel packets are often packaged with water-sensitive food, and humans aren't always smart enough to understand that not everything in a food package is food. To make sure humans who open the packaging understand the difference, they ma...	[ "The adhesive material on the sticker or tape simply hardens over time as it is exposed to the elements and temperature changes. Duct tape left alone as a roll will harden and expire as well if left unused. For a more complex answer, polymers (adhesives in this case) undergo degradation when exposed to heat. _URL_1...
Can the weight of electrons cause power lines to sag noticeably during periods of peak demand?	[ "That would not happen at all. The lines always have the same amount of electrons in them, it's just the rate at which the electrons flow that determines how much current is passing through them. If the wires had even 1% more electrons than normal, they would probably explode (at any rate the electrons would have t...	[ "To answer a little more specific from the perspective of a Californian and answering directly about PG & E: They’re simply going to have to pay a fine. Maybe someone higher up in the company gets a sentence. That’s really it. This isn’t the 1st, and it certainly won’t be the last, time that PG & E is responsible ...
Confused by this video by Leonard Susskind on all symmetries in physics being approximations. How can this be right?	[ "I think space translation and rotational symmetry fall under the category of \"gauge symmetry\" that he wasn't including in his statement. edit: In other words: picking up the universe, rotating it by 10^(o), then setting it down again doesn't actually change anything about the physical state of the universe. It'...	[ "Before I answer, may I ask who the speaker is for this particular lecture? Or if you have a link for me to listen to? I would like to know where they are coming from in their argument." ]
How does compound interest work?	[ "If you start with $100, and earn 10% interest per year, you earn $10 in interest the first year. But the second year, you earn interest on the interest, so you earn $11 in interest the second year. And $12.10 the third year, and $13.31 the fourth year, and $14.64 the fifth year, and so on." ]	[ "This CGP Grey video does a really good job of explaining it all. _URL_3_" ]
Nuclear reactors/power plants, how do they work and what do they actually do to create power?	[ "When radioactive material splits, it generates heat. Nuclear power plants use the heat generated by this reaction to heat up water into steam, which drives massive turbines. Most nuclear power plants work basically like gas power plants in that regard, just using nuclear reactions instead of combustion reactions."...	[ "To supplement what My_Empty_Wallet [said](_URL_0_): it's worth noting that the satellites aren't complicated flying space computers and don't tell you when to turn. They're just atomic clocks with radios and a bit of laser rangefinding gear. Your satnav/phone/whatever has a radio receiver that picks up the clock s...
How was it decided whether it would be the Pope in Rome or the Patriarch in Constantinople who appointed bishops?	[ "What is your evidence that either the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch (or any other patriarch) appointed any bishop before the schism? I'm not familiar with details of Orthodoxy, but a Web search suggests that even today, bishops may be elected by various means." ]	[ "They make an agreement with a salesman for the local distributor. Usually they pick whoever will make them the better deal." ]
Why is that n-Butyllithium is a better reagent than Lithium Hydroxide to synthesize lithium cyclohexylamide from Cyclohexylamine?	[ "Butyllithium is a much, much stronger base than lithium hydroxide. The primary amine group of cyclohexyl amine is not very acidic, as the nitrogen is not very able to stabilize the negative charge, and there is no possibility of resonance to delocalize it. Thus, the equilibrium in a mixture of LiOH and cyclohexyl ...	[ "Rockets are complicated. Saturn V is a three-stage rocket with 7.8 Mlbs, 1.2 Mlbs, and 0.2 Mlbs thrust. All three stages are used to insert into earth orbit with a significant amount of fuel left over for injecting into a trans-lunar orbit. The SpaceX mars spacecraft is a two stage rocket with 29 to 31 Mlbs for th...
why are there so many conspiracy theories, speculations and covert rumors surrounding the Order of the Knights Templar?	[ "Because the Knights Templar were dissolved due to political aspirations. They were always a secretive group, and when they broke away from the control of the Hospitalers (another order that founded the Templars; early Templar leaders were all Hospitalers) they lost the implicit protection the Hospitalers' high sta...	[ "From /u/fe-addict: Someone on Reddit saw MTGHQ got a preview, criticized WotC for supporting him. Trick responded that they don't support him and that him getting a preview was a mistake and that they will double down on removing him from every last list/promotional offer he was on from WotC. HQ exploded about al...
How much radiation am I exposing myself to when I reach into a microwave after it's finished heating my food?	[ "As /u/rupert1920 said, microwaves dissipates very quickly, as quickly as visible light. By the time the \"pling\" or \"beep\" indicating that the microwave oven is done reaches your ears, the energy in the microwaves will have dissipated. If you by radiation mean \"nasty radioactive stuff\", the answer is simply ...	[ "By screens? As in LCD displays? As a millennial you are probably safe. Us old people who were raised around CRT TVs and displays have more to worry about. LCD displays are pretty safe as far as radition and other harmful effects are concerned." ]
Why do incredibly wealthy individuals continually pursue more wealth? What good does that do?	[ "A lot of people who become rich become so because they like the thrill of investing in new things, trying out new ways to exploit their wealth and make more wealth from it. It can also not work, but that's part of the fun for them." ]	[ "to build publicity. reporters aren't following them all the time. in order to get reporters to show up, the person has to announce that they're going to make a major announcement that'll make news." ]
Why do flies always land on my monitor?	[ "Confirmation bias. They may well land on your light bulb. But you're not staring at your light bulb for hours and hours on end, so you wouldn't notice it as much." ]	[ "\"One of the most common ingredients used was dihydrogenated tallow dimethyl ammonium chloride (DHTDMAC), which belongs to a class of materials known as quaternary ammonium compounds, or quats. This kind of ingredient is useful because part of the molecule has a positive charge that attracts and binds it to negati...
Why does the fitted sheet always pop off by my head?	[ "Because the bulk of your weight is near the top of your body. Assuming your mattress gives way under you, the greatest pull on any corner is going to be the corner nearest your head. I do understand there's a difference in male/female weight distribution but if I recall correctly, the difference is that males tend...	[ "Evolution. People who didn't get that weird feeling when dangling their limbs from the trees they were sleeping on were killed by cheetahs." ]
How _URL_0_ can handle allocating 50 million GB (so far) to its users for free	[ "Having never heard of _URL_0_ and just looking on their website. Are they like Dropbox or an online hard drive?" ]	[ "The classic memory leak occurs because of a bad memory cleanup routine. An application stores data in RAM by definition, but when it's done with that RAM it has to release it allowing it to be used by something else. So let's make up an example. You have an application that has an undo option, this allows you to u...
Why are roads so much better/ why is there so little road construction in Europe compared to USA?	[ "Where were you in Europe? Any climate that doesn't freeze will have great roads, and climate that freezes will have bad roads, and anyone that has warn and cold snaps during the winter will have horrible roads." ]	[ "Let's say toll roads are run by Wal Mart. They then offer a discount - you can drive to Wal Mart for free, but still have to pay a toll when you go anywhere else. Sounds good, right? But then next year they double or triple the toll. Soon you can't afford to shop anywhere EXCEPT WalMart. Every other store then go...
Why is high-caliber ammunition (such as .45 and up) more common and accessible in handguns and pistols than in rifles?	[ "Long narrow rifle cartridges would not easily fit into a compact handgun. (Picture the depth of a pistol grip with that deep magazine inside.) Preference: shorter and wider. Meanwhile, a rifle barrel is long, so when you make one high-caliber (wider) it gets pretty heavy. And the magazine is not inside the pistol ...	[ "_URL_0_ Reportedly cows tend to feed more around sundown when the nutritional content of plants is higher. > “A series of USDA studies looked at animals’ ability to choose different forages. The researchers cut hay in the morning and in the evening and used this in the choice tests. They’ve done it with cattle, g...
Why do black people always have brown eyes?	[ "Colors other than brown are genetic mutations or lack of pigmentation. Africans generally lack the necessary genes that pass on those mutations, people who of other descents have. There are exceptions to the rule however, as many black people do have green or blue eyes. Especially in northern Africa." ]	[ "Setting aside the terminology of \"race\", it's entirely down to selective pressures of the different environments. In equatorial regions where the sun is plentiful, having a lot of melanin is useful in protecting against cancer. The further north/south you go from there, the less sun there is, so having less mela...
Could a satellite achieve a close but stable orbit around a black hole and derive a significant amount of energy from tidal forces exerted upon it's structure?	[ "It wouldn't really work, as the tidal forces acting on the satellite would also be stealing its angular momentum, eventually pulling the satellite in. A really stable orbit wouldn't experience any tidal forces, by definition. Thermodynamics will always screw you!" ]	[ "Very careful simulation based on testing data. Engineers have experimentally gathered data about all the different materials used to make the telescope. This data includes failure points given applied loads, vibrational frequencies, etc. They can use this along with a computational model of the sattelite to predic...
How much impact did the church have on artists during the Renaissance?	[ "The Church, along with a few wealthy nobles, were the main benefactors of artists during this period. Things like the Sistine Chapel, as well as countless famous paintings, were all sponsored by the Church to decorate chapels and celebrate God." ]	[ "Back then people still needed jobs, now they dont and can practice harder for longer. And science helps by showing then methods on improving motions. You cam find cool videos on youtube" ]
To what degree should Historians be expected to predict future trends?	[ "I think that the \"doomed to repeat it\" is a misrepresentation of history. There are facts, events, people, and lessons to be learned. However we should not stretch what we have learned beyond its scope. If it's applicable in presenting context for a present or future event it could be appropriate, but I don't th...	[ "Part of it is surely guesstimation, but more than anything, the doctor has access to data about the survival rates of a certain disease. Something like this one: [_URL_0_](_URL_0_) In other words, hard numbers about how many people in the past have been cured and how many have not. Of course, real doctors have acc...
Would anything change if company stocks were no longer publically traded?	[ "A huge portion of the world economy and how businesses run rely on the principals that these types of transaction can occur. We don't know what would happen if you couldn't trade stocks anymore. However it pretty reasonable to assume the world economy would be drastically twisted compared to the economy of today, ...	[ "* The building, the land, and all the physical stuff in the prison is owned by a private company. * All the staff are employed by a private company. * The local, state, or federal government contracts this company to hold prisoners. * They do this instead of building their own prison and hiring their own staff." ]
Why are guns legal but switch blade knives are illegal?	[ "Because laws are not necessarily logical or moral, and in fact are often very arbitrary. I have no idea why people don't understand this." ]	[ "Do you wanna be in a country who isn't ready for the apocolypse or the zombie invasion?" ]
Why does cost of living increase faster than our wages? And why do we not simply make them proportional?	[ "Because companies are both trying to get you to pay as much as possible for stuff while also trying to keep your wages as low as possible. As both increases their profits. So the money goes to the already rich business owners." ]	[ "You have a lemonade stand. You sell it for 50 cents a cup. One day you find out it's going to be very hot outside and people are going to want more lemonade. You figure you can get away with selling it for a little more since the demand is there. So you start charging 80 cents. You notice that the number of people...
How did species evolve from living in the sea to living on land?	[ "Gradually. Imagine an early fish species, who swim towards the shore to escape predators, and occasionally beaches itself. Members of that species who can survive long enough on land to flop back into the water are going to be better able to survive, and pass those genes onto their offspring. At first, it will be...	[ "I believe the suffocate. They weigh so much that they are unable to properly breathe out of water. Something similar to you being unable to breath if someone is sitting on your diaphragm. Also, I would imagine the vast difference in temperature between water and atmosphere would do them harm." ]
Soaps and conditioner	[ "Basic soap is a fatty acid and an alkali mixed together, like animal fat and lye. The fat and the lye bond together. The fat hates water but loves just about everything else. The lye loves water and will attach to it. So, the dirt/grease on your skin or clothes sticks to the fat and the lye attaches to the water s...	[ "Now that you mention it...Coconut oil will absorb on my upper body but just sits on my legs. It doesn't even help with the ash. You can see the ash under the oil if you look closely." ]
The "cooling" sensation when eating a powdered-sugar donut.	[ "The process of sugar dissolving in saliva is endothermic (absorbs heat). Since it's such a fine powder, it happens quickly and the effect is noticeable." ]	[ "Generalising, but it's because the body has two broad drivers of feeding: * direct nutrient deficit (ie, you need energy - or at least, your body thinks you need energy!) * pleasurable food consumption - also known as [hedonic hunger](_URL_1_). Hedonic hunger probably primarily evolved to promote the consumption o...
How does Little Caesars make money by selling pizzas for only $5?	[ "Pizzas cost about 2 bucks to make... Add a buck for overhead and you have 40% margins. I'm sure a pizza guy will comment. I saw a similar tread a while back that I'm sourcing info from." ]	[ "You may have a flag on your account that says you qualify for the promotion while he doesn't. If you've had your account longer, have better credit/payment history, or if he's locked into another kind of contract he may get different offers. Basically the computer looks at all the accounts and says \"Accounts with...
Could the earthquake in Mexico have affected a sensitive digital scale in Northern Ohio?	[ "It's not impossible. Here is a [visualization of the seismic waves from the M8 Mexico earthquake impacting the US array](_URL_1_). Peak shaking (as recorded by a seismometer, not felt by humans) occurs across the US between 4:56 and 5:09 UTC (-4 to get to EST) so around 1 am would have been when the P and S waves ...	[ "No. Tornados don't really care much about the topography of the landscape. My town is at the intersection of two rivers and was hit by a large tornado back in the 50's that devastated the [city](_URL_0_). I grew up in Kansas City, which is at the intersection of the Missouri and Kansas rivers and recall as a kid t...
why does electricity want to go into the ground?	[ "Electricity flows from high potential to low. The Earth as a whole is big enough that it can generally always be considered the low potential." ]	[ "Water, sewer, drainage and cable are typically under the new roads. The developer has to find the nearest existing connection points that are sufficient to service the new homes and they connect there and construct new lines under the road." ]
What's up with glass? Is it a liquid? Is it a solid? Is it a soquid?	[ "[See this thread](_URL_0_). You can find more by doing a search." ]	[ "IBM has pretty much done that with the molecule pentacene. _URL_1_ and _URL_0_ Liquids and gases under the electron microscope are tricky to image. To do so usually involves adsorption or freezing. On a surface, we can even move atoms around a surface one-at-a-time _URL_2_." ]
why is the national anthem played before sporting events? How did this become tradition?	[ "This is almost exclusively a US thing. For European (and commonwealth +other) nations, national anthems are only played for meetings between national teams. It's considered a bit over the top to play it for non-national-team meetings in all the countries I've lived. The almost ubiquitous adoption at US sporting e...	[ "The ELI5 answer is simplicity. Stuff gets loaded when opening a program. If I don't want to code a way for that stuff to change while the game is open, I force a reboot. This sacrifices usability for code simplicity (or development speed)." ]
If you heat something, the particles in it move faster, why can't we heat something to go faster then light?	[ "Heat is basically a form of energy. The problem with making any particle move close to and trying to reach the speed of light, is that the energy required to hit the speed of light increases \"exponentially\" to infinity. Even increasing the speed of one atom with a heat, it would require infinite energy. Acceler...	[ "There are several contributors to this effect. First, oil has a higher specific heat than air. The average specific heat of a continuous medium (air, vegetable oil, etc) is what we use to describe the amount of energy it takes to raise that medium's temperature compared to a different medium. Air in an oven might...
What causes time dilation ?	[ "A difference in relative velocity, or gravity (which the STR/GTR tells us are equivalent to each other). As to what this looks like, and how it works, it's not really ELI5 territory. The bottom line is that it's derived from the two postulates: The laws of physics are everywhere the same, and lightspeed represent...	[ "The size of the iris is controlled by a sphincter muscle, those eye drops are muscle relaxant, which blocks the nerve signals that control the muscles, so that they can't contract." ]
Why is the civil war, the outcome of the 1860 US election, considered a peaceful transfer of power on Wikipedia's "List of Countries date of uninterrupted peaceful transfer of power"	[ "It sounds like the criteria used by the Wikipedia page is something along the lines of \"one leader or ruling party voluntarily relinquishing power in deference to a new leader or ruling party.\" That certainly occurred in the election of 1860." ]	[ "All chairs are furniture, but not all furniture are chairs. Because furniture might include sofas and tables, the second statement follows from the first. In formal logic, this is called a contrapositive. When a KKK member says that \"all blacks are niggers, but not all niggers are black,\" *he means that a \"ni...
Why hasn't the situation in the USA blown into riots and full anarchy yet?	[ "The US standard of living, even for the poor, is so high that nobody really cares with the 1% are doing." ]	[ "Put simply; this election isn't one to use as a judge of what the system normally brings to the table. Watch the Obama-McCain and Obama-Romney debates for a better idea of what it typically is." ]
Why do highly trained, rich, strong national armies have such a hard time defeating guerillas?	[ "ELI5: guerilla fighters aren't playing by the same rules as other armies. It's like playing tag and you're it. You have to find the person and tag them BUT you don't know what they look like and they are hiding in a mall. You can tag whoever you want but if they aren't the other person playing tag with you then th...	[ "Suppose you, as a lawyer, have successfully put away hundreds of criminals. Within the boundaries of the law. Now, you're caught doing it illegally once (e.g. bribing a jury). Every criminal you ever put away can now appeal their original sentencing, claiming that they fell victim to the same jury bribing th...
How, in movies, they fake an actor losing a limb. Eg - Lieutenant Dan losing his legs in "Forrest Gump."	[ "In the case of Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump, he wore blue neoprene 'socks' over his legs and they chroma keyed them out. In the old days they used to just strap the leg up (foot to ass)." ]	[ "Well, obviously you already know how you can overlay graphics on top of a still image. Creating an arrow or label on top of a photo isn't so hard, from that perspective. It's the movement and real-time camera sync that's hard. So how do you do it when the image moves and changes constantly? Well, the cameras posit...
Why do our eyes 'twitch' randomly and unexpectedly?	[ "You won't get an answer to this - no one really knows! Somehow the motor neuron(s) controlling normal blinking etc. are triggered." ]	[ "Even while doing nothing your body is hard at work doing many things such as: Fighting diseases (which your body has faced before) Contracting Muscles (Eg. Pumping blood around the body) Digesting food Respirating (Processing Oxygen from breathing) Creating Proteins for repairs Conducting Mitosis (How Skin, ...
What is it like to be drunk? Does the feeling differ?	[ "It's like being five. Seriously. The similarities between toddlers and drunk people are astounding." ]	[ "Because the brain wakes up in stages and not all at once. Those stages progress essentially from the back of the brain to the front. The areas in the back are the basics and the ones closer to the front are more complex. That's why we're at first able to stumble around and sort of see things, then maybe mumble a f...
How did we calculate how fast light travels.	[ "You can use something like [this](_URL_0_). If you bounce light off a rotating mirror to a stationary mirror a long way away, then the rotating mirror has moved a bit by the time the light gets back and reflects off it a second time. By measuring the angle between the light source and where you see the reflected l...	[ "Through exposure. Put a camera in a dark room and take a long exposure picture. They do the same thing for seeing things far away in space. The reason it takes satellites so long to get a picture is because they have been taking a long exposure shot the entire time." ]
What is the scientific validity of Epigenetics and the claims in Bruce Lipton's "The Biology of Belief"?	[ "Epigenetics is a real thing -- it's the study of heritable changes in the expression of genes without any change in the actual DNA. Wikipedia has an informative article on the subject here _URL_0_ which, while long, is a lot shorter and a lot better than your bullshit book. Now, speaking of the book, I've never he...	[ "The graph cites a broken link to the US Census Bureau. A few minutes of digging led me to [this table](_URL_0_). As you can see, the only number for 400 BCE is from Biraben, whose numbers are higher than the McEvedy and Jones numbers the table depended on before. Biraben numbers often are the upper limit, but acco...
Why does food taste so much better to people when they're high and/or drunk?	[ "For weed you'll get a satisfying explanation here: _URL_0_ For alcohol: It is rather unclear if it it indeed enhances taste, it definitely makes some people hungry, influencing mainly appetite-regulating proteins and hormones. Overall I doubt many people recognize taste all that well while liquored up, it could be...	[ "When you are driving, your body basically identifies the car as a tool you are manipulating. Your actions have direct effects on your motions and what you are seeing, so even though the kind of motion isn't one we evolved for, the brain is ok with it. When you aren't driving, none of that is true. The brain identi...
How can goats climb near-vertical walls without falling?	[ "Their hooves have rubbery bottoms that help stick and the two halves can move somewhat independently that allow them to grip onto sheer surfaces. Source: [What If You Had Animal Feet!?](_URL_0_)" ]	[ "Here is a link to help. They basically have a tube that is separate from their throat, so they do not choke [click here](_URL_0_)" ]
Does the sun orbit in a subgalactic disk with other stars like the planetary plane or is the stellar neighborhood amorphously dispersed?	[ "The milky way is a spiral galaxy. Our sun orbits in the disk similar to how the planets orbit the sun. There is a 'bulge' in the centre but we aren't in that part. There are also other types of galaxy where they are shaped like an elongated sphere (elliptical galaxies). In these galaxies there is no particular axi...	[ "Some are shaped like a ball. But it depends on a galaxy's rotational speed & energy. It's the rotation of the galaxy that flattens them out into a disc shape. Kind of like how you can place a ball of dough out on a record player, turn the record player on, and in a few short minutes, the dough would spread out an...
Why does a constantly firing rocket not continuously accelerate in space?	[ "> Why does a constantly firing rocket not continuously accelerate in space? Well it does, doesn't it? When you stop firing the rocket, then you stop accelerating and you continue at the same speed that you were going when the rocket stopped." ]	[ "One thing I'd like to add is that railguns produce large amounts of heat, which would be difficult to dissipate in a vacuum." ]
If you transport an ant, bee, or any other colonial insect away from its home, will it seek to return?	[ "Usually ants need to follow a pheromone they produce that leads them back to nest. Thats why when you wipe away at a line of ants they get disoriented." ]	[ "In Niall Ferguson's 'Empire' (I think, the reference is off the top of my head) he mentions that during the period of the East India company's monopoly on trade with West India the traders would often marry local women and would fully integrate with the local culture wearing local dress etc. It was only when they ...
Is a brain transplant theoretically possible? If yes, what would the outcome entail? If no, why not?	[ "I find it a little unpleasant but since there have been 'successful' [head transplants](_URL_1_) then yes, in theory a brain transplant could be done. Challenges are mainly with scarring of nerve tissue such as the spinal cord. - _URL_0_" ]	[ "This has been done before, with animals. Here is a video allegedly showing an old Russian experiment done with a dog. It looks real to me, but, then so did The Wizard of Oz. Warning, it might be disturbing and upsetting to watch. _URL_0_" ]
What gives gems their color?	[ "Only pure carbon diamonds with no impurities are colorless, but diamonds can come in any other color any other stones come in with the right impurities. Rubies are just the red form of corundum. Emeralds the green form of Beryl. A bunch of other gemstones are various colors of those two gems, all causes by differ...	[ "You're asking a question which defines an entire field of study called \"petrology.\" Suffice it to say that a whole host of physical parameters control what kinds of minerals form from a given melt, including temperature, pressure, cooling rate, and yes, slight differences in the composition of the parent melt." ...
if someone was to melt down pre 1982 pennies for copper?	[ "You would have to melt pennies at a large scale to make it worthwhile for the government to spend time investigating and arresting you. To melt pennies at that scale, you would have to industrialize the process (large amounts of pennies, big smelter, and a reliable customer who will pay cash for the copper). Somew...	[ "Each of the bills have slightly different details the machine can read. As far as coins, it's done by weight and, if you can get a slug the same size/weight as a quarter, you can probably \"fool\" the machine." ]
How are anti-handling landmines disarmed?	[ "The best way to prevent unintentional detonation of landmines is to intentionally detonate them. No seriously, the easiest way to clear a minefield is if you run a remote controlled, landmine proof vehicle over it and trigger all the mines. Or bomb the hell out of it, turn no-man's land back to earth." ]	[ "For preventative measures: -having a donor who is a good HLA match -Depleting the bone marrow of T lymphocytes prior to transplantation -Depleting the patients T lymphocytes To treat GVHD, I have heard of using monoclonal antibody therapy and steroid therapy." ]
What exactly is Entropy?	[ "In statistical physics entropy is just a measure of how many microscopical states (arrengements of every single particle) describe the same macroscopical state (pressure, temperature...). So the increaes of entropy over time can be understood from a probabilistic point of view. The higher entropy states have many ...	[ "Can someone explain the difference between Dementia and Alzheimer's, please?" ]
what causes laminar flow vs turbulent flow?	[ "It’s a question of flow stability. For laminar flow, the flow is relatively viscous and smooth. For turbulent flow, the flow is non-smooth with eddies and such. A flow can transition between laminar and turbulent in different regions, using the handy name transitional flow. No one really knows for certain yet how ...	[ "Well, if you think about the principles of how laser light is created it makes a bit more sense. Lasing is based on stimulated emission, aka electrons moving from one orbital to another. These orbitals have well-defined energies based on bonding interactions within the material (the lasing medium, in this case.) S...
How is photography evaluated as art?	[ "First there's the technical skill involved. Photography doesn't perfectly capture an image exactly as it looks in real life. If you think it does take a picture of a person standing in front of a sunset and notice that they're just a black silhouette in your picture. You've got to use your lighting, frame your su...	[ "Why is a piece of paper in your wallet worth anything? Because people will trade goods and services for it. If people will trade those same goods and services for a Bitcoin, you can determine a value of that BTC in paper." ]
How does attraction work?	[ "You should specify the type of attraction you want explained. Gravity? Weak/Strong Force? Magnetism? Surface Tension? Static Electricity? Sexual/Romantic? Incestual attraction? Homogeneous clustering of people of similar ethnic backgrounds in particular neighborhoods? Why people like Nickleback? Furry fandom?" ]	[ "A lot of it would be smell and pheromones wouldn't it? That's why male dogs go nuts when female dogs are in heat - they can smell the pheromones they're giving off (from some distance away I might add)." ]
Since 1800, what has been the largest area of land conquered and held by another nation?	[ "Well if we allow for colonial conquests it would probably be Britain's seizing of India. But if were just talking about straight up expansion wars since 1800 it would have to be during the Mexican American war of 1846-48 as this map shows, _URL_0_ America increased its contiguous landmass size by about a third and...	[ "Hi, I've approved the post, but just a note to you and potential respondents: this subreddit has a 20-year rule against discussing current events, so any answers will have to cut off at 1997. If you're looking for answers that can include 1998-2012, do consider x-posting elsewhere, eg. a foreign affairs sub like /...
Why weren't there any defensive measures taken during the storming of the beaches of Normandy?	[ "Ok, let's first note that 6000 deaths is not actually \"immense\" for a battle of this size. Second, your question applies with even greater force to attacks across no-man's-land in the Great War. Why weren't the soldiers provided with armour plate to stop them being gunned down by the hundreds? The answer is thr...	[ "It's a time-honored technique. The Viet Cong, for just one example, often used feces to contaminate their booby traps. In a related scatological note, the U.S. military experimented with [scent sensors](_URL_0_) which would pick up humans (avoiding false positives from animals on seismic sensors or tripwires) tra...
This is a really messed up question, but here it goes. Did any of the cruel human experiments during world war 2 yield any positive discoverys? Or was it just pointless cruelty ?	[ "There has been a [great thread in /r/askscience](_URL_2_) about this topic. Similar threads from this sub: _URL_1_ _URL_3_ _URL_0_ _URL_5_ _URL_4_" ]	[ "This Week's Rundown! /u/textandtrowel on [\"How did medieval Islamic historians write about/conceptualise the history of their religion? Please also tell me about who wrote history in the medieval Islamic world, why, and what written history was used for in medieval Islamic society.\"](_URL_0_) /u/prufrock451 on [...
How did Weezer's "Pinkerton," which was voted the 3rd worst album of the year when it was released, go on to be ranked the 16th greatest album of all time several years later by Rolling Stone?	[ "Because critics are full of shit. Most of the art world for example called Jackson Pollock \"Jack the Dripper\" until a wealthy hotel magnate bough one of his works and put it in the lobby. Then Pollock was a genius. Critics hate to be on the wrong side of history so they never have an issue it seems changing thei...	[ "ELI5: have you been browsing my web history?!? There are certain people who enjoy pie. They form an online community of pie lovers and pie makers. The pie makers get rated on their pies, from appearance to quality. If a pie maker hers a bad reputation, pie lovers will avoid in the future. Sometimes, a new pie make...
Did the Strategic Defense Initiative Real aka "Star Wars" really help Bankrupt the Soviet Union ?	[ "No. This is a post-Cold War myth, written largely by people who would like to make SDI not appear to be the boondoggle it was, or to make it look like something that had a positive effect on diplomacy, rather than the more easily-documentable negative effect. Pavel Podvig has [written at length about this here](_U...	[ "To go against the grain of this thread, and from an archaeological perspective: absolutely. Archaeology is something of a zero sum game, and every dollar that goes to one site is one that doesn't go to another; or to put it in concrete terms, every hundred million injection into Pompeii, or more accurately into th...
In the double slit experiment, how are they so sure that it's the act of observing that introduced a collapse and not some other interference ?	[ "'Observing' basically breaks down into interaction with the observed particle. After all, if there were no interaction with the particle, then it couldn't be observed - that's why neutrinos are so hard to observe. Back in the day, people weren't really aware of that, which lead to ideas like Schroedinger's cat bei...	[ "The \"standard model of cosmology\", i.e. [the lambda-CDM model](_URL_0_) treats dark energy as the result of having a non-zero cosmological constant. \"Constant\" being the key word. Ideas like the Big Rip only come about when you imagine a cosmology where the cosmological \"constant\" is actually some elaborate ...
Hydraulic Press Exploding Book	[ "Paper is capable of handling a lot of tension. You can see this when folks try and fail to separate two interleaved phone books using powerful trucks: the spines of the books fail before the bulk of the paper. In this new video the paper is stretched, and the tension is all released at once in a sudden failure."...	[ "In exchange for writing that book the publisher gave him money which he was then free to spend on things he likes like fancy clothes, cars and flat screen TVs" ]
How feasible is it that humans will be able to colonise space, and how?	[ "In the near term, not very feasible. But we're already seeing early stages of plans for things that will lead to other things that will make it feasible in the longer term. For example, NASA is talking about capturing an asteroid and inserting it in a Lunar orbit. That leads to the ability to capture and mine aste...	[ "Many years ago going to the moon seemed Imposible, Negativity ain't gonna bring ya nowhere bruh" ]
Did Appalachian "granny women" exist as they're popularly known?	[ "I don't have an academic source for this. But I have my grandmother who is from Appalachian Virginia. The Appalachian Trail crossed her side yard and the land is now part of the Jefferson National Forest. My grandmother is a sane, sensible, intelligent, and well-read woman. She and her whole family are unusually s...	[ "This is kind of a vague question, maybe if you could narrow it down to a specific place and year or decade? Mannerisms and culture change within society on a very quick turnaround (think about the differences in culture between now and 1990 alone) so it would help if you could specify" ]
How is Steam© able to put game sales so low?	[ "[Here's](_URL_1_) an article written about four years ago on this subject, it's worth reading but one quote I'll give you from it is this: Valve co-founder Gabe Newell announced during a DICE keynote today that last weekend's half-price sale of Left 4 Dead resulted in a 3000% increase in sales of the game, posting...	[ "They calculate with what a average person would eat (because jot everyone eats tons just because it's all you can eat) and choose a price after that calculation. There are also person who don't eat much (old people e.g.)." ]
how come lobsters became so expensive? They used to be poor man's food.	[ "Say there are 100 school kids and they all enjoy cheap cheap jello. When 4 of the kids decide they want all the jello (for whatever reason) - It's tasty - It's sexy - It makes them feel rich(er) - religious reasons. Supply and demand kicks in. They buy up all the jello and that drives up the price. Fun fact...	[ "1. The housing bubble collapse/credit crunch hit vacation destinations like the Hamptons extra hard. 2. Anything that isn't beachfront or at least beach-adjacent may as well be on the moon. People don't buy inland homes in the Hamptons." ]
Why does my phone take 5 times as long to load a page as my computer on the same WiFi network?	[ "Processing power. Your IPhone may be good and a marvel of miniaturization, but it isn't nearly as powerful as your laptop. The laptop can process all of the complex images and ads far faster than your phone can because your laptop processes everything faster." ]	[ "TONS and TONS of traffic. Reddit is also highly interactive - each upvote, downvote, post, comment, ANYTHING - requires a request to the server and a transaction to be committed in their database. So, in some ways Reddit has a lot more interactivity than a website like _URL_0_ where you can browse in a \"static\" ...
How come identical twins are similar in things that aren't in their genes?	[ "Sometimes those things ARE genetic similarities. For example, personalities. When they are brought up in the same environment, children are going to be more similar to each other automatically. However, in normal sibling pairs, some may be quicker to anger, more reserved, or more outgoing, and this could all be b...	[ "This sounds like an extreme example of \"Tip of my Tongue\". _URL_0_ I can't really give an overly scientific answer as to what causes it (some interesting articles on that page, though), but I'd imagine that it's just a \"brain fart\", kinda like deja vu. It's a problem with long-term semantic memory recall. (Se...
If jury nullification is a viable option in court cases, why are people arrested and fined just for speaking about it in a court room?	[ "Because speaking about jury nullification places you in contempt of court as you are actively encouraging people to subvert the Justice System (the defendant is on trial, not the law). FYI: Jury nullification is where the jury, despite the fact that the guilt of the defendant has been prove beyond a reasonable dou...	[ "Reddit is not a democracy. Each subreddit is run by the mods according to their wishes. If a mod team thinks that links to certain sites are harming the discussion in their subreddit somehow (false information, biased source, etc.) then they ban it because they think it will make the sub better. The democratic par...
What is at the bottom of a sinkhole?	[ "Nothing, that is why it sinks... Water gradually undercuts a portion of the ground, carrying away the material leaving an empty cavern. Eventually the ground on top gives way, filling in the hole and dropping what is above down into the new pit." ]	[ "Nothing!!! really, there is nothing there. Just the fields - the electromagnetic, gravitational, higgs and probably many that I don't know about and humans have not yet discovered - from which the particles are created and in which they interact." ]
- How do events on Earth’s surface shift Earth’s axis?	[ "Picking up a chair you are sitting on doesn’t work because the force you exert upwards on the stair is cancelled by the force your butt exerts on the chair downwards. Instead, picture jumping out of an airplane. While you are in freefall, you can twist, spin, and flip your body in any direction. The earth itself ...	[ "People who see things happen call up the news and say, \"Hey, you should come down here and cover this.\" Organizations that are having big events issue press releases that say, \"Hey you should come down here and cover this.\" Really big organizations have regular (daily, weekly) press briefings that they don...
Why do some fermented drinks need yeast, and some other drinks need yeast and bacteria (scoby)?	[ "Fermentation with yeast and without bacteria is alcoholic fermentation, with bacteria lacto fermentation. Kombucha (scoby) isn't intended to be an alcoholic drink, although it does contain some alcohol. But if you want an alcoholic drink you would use yeast and not a scoby to ferment the sugar water. If you want a...	[ "Basically the CO2 is in solution, mixed into the liquid. When you shake it you \"bring it out of solution\" which is a fancy way of saying you separated the CO2 gas from the liquid soda. However when you do this it takes up more space than when it was \"in solution\" so this creates a build up of pressure. Thus ex...
Why does water taste different in different places of the world (e.g. Victoria to South Australia)	[ "Water is not pure H20. There are all kinds of other impurities in water. These impurities are minerals that are dissolved in the water. These impurities are what gives water taste. Different water sources have different minerals dissolved in them, so water in different countries tastes a little different." ]	[ "The temperature sensors in your skin can only detect relative changes in temperature. Not absolute temperature. You can show this by doing a simple experiment with three cups of water. one cup of ice water, one cup of room temperature water, and one cup of hot water. Place a finger of your right hand in the ice w...
Were there any die-hard supporters of the Articles of Confederation who tried to keep it alive, any fanatical "hold-outs" after the Constitution replaced it?	[ "Rhode Island initially refused to ratify the Constitution well past every other state. A combination of internal pressure from towns who threatened to secede from the state and join neighboring states coupled with threats of Federal economic pressure finally convinced Rhode Island to ratify the constitution. Edit...	[ "Why pay for the next Star Wars movie when old episodes of Buck Rodgers is available for free. They are pretty much the same, right? While many people see porn as a single use commodity, there is a core of hardcore porn fan (hardcore fans, not the porn). They have performers and series they like and follow, and whe...

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