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A lot of people are not progressing through the season, like on Netflix, but are glancing it during programmed television. It's important to brand identity and recognition by outsiders of glance-watchers. Quick, attach a category filter, before mod-bot arrives!
No. Your immune system will reject organs it doesn't recognize. Healing factor includes a hyperactive immune system, so Wolverine's blood will fail to recognize you and fight you off. His blood is poisonous. Wade Wilson was given his healing factor, but that was a much more complex process than a blood transfusion.
In the MCU the scientists were most like looking for lost Hydra technology after WWII after discovering a weird signal coming from that location. Shield has been known to be researching Hydra tech before the New York Invasion and was most likely following some leads. Finding Captain America was a byproduct of looking...
The regeneration process for each tissue type in our body is very different. Some types of tissues are able to regrow very fast either because the cells they are composed of are proliferative, or because they have adult stem cell pools associated with the tissue. Skin is an example of a tissue that is composed of highl...
These sites can't police every single post. If one is brought to their attention they deal with it, but sites like Facebook and Tumblr get literally thousands of posts a minute. Users are generally responsible for the content they post, not the hosting site as long as they've got policies in place to handle inappropria...
It’s a bad idea to engage in battle with an opponent who can fight back when you’re living in anarchy and have no medical system. The Humungus wanted the refinery, not a fight where his gang could get depleted.
Imagine a beach with 2 drink stands, one in the middle of the left half of the beach and 1 in the middle of the right half. That would be optimal. Lets say the drink stand from the right half moves to the middle of the whole beach. Now he gets all the customers of the right half and some from the left. Consequently th...
In all likelihood, nothing. Gandalf knew Bilbo had some kind of magical ring for many years before he discovered it was actually the One Ring. In fact, Gandalf was probably more suspicious of the ring's potential influence because Bilbo would never have ordinarily tried to conceal its existence or lie about how he ac...
Any square-jawed male with solid morals can do that. It's very similar to how action movie heroes only take grazes from automatic weapon fire, and when they do take a bullet they can survive and keep fighting with minimal first aid.
More than likely your body is dehydrated from trying to make you not sick, and a shower helps rehydrate you, if only a little bit. Plus, if your ailment has something to do with your sinuses, the hot steam of the shower will help alleviate some of the build up in there.
Well, one thing to keep in mind is that Palpatine completely coaxed Anakin out of his shell only to manipulate the young jedi's vulnerability and fear (which the Jedi's could not help him quell). Right here we see that Sidious does not care about the person the is Anakin, but the tool that is Vader. there is no true re...
There are a couple big things at play here: 1. Even when defending the Earth, Goku usually doesn't start the fight seriously. It's usually implied that Goku spends at least a portion of the battle holding back and testing his opponent to get an idea of their capabilities before seriously attacking. Other fighters tend...
Evolving requirements. The initial launch of clonetroopers came from and were at least in part trained by -- or had their training regimens shaped by -- Jango Fett. Their armor bears many similarities to his own armor, no doubt due in part to the nature of what he was accustomed and trained to do. Fast-forward over t...
The light comes from the upper layers of the sun. They shine because they're hot, just like lightbulbs and toasters do. The sun is so bright because at 5500 °C/ 9900 F, the effect is pretty big, and the sun's photosphere is more than 100 kilometers thick, all of which is shining. That adds up. You may hear people sa...
It works to a degree, because the cloth filters out some of the particulate matter - that's all smoke is at the end of the day - airborne particles as a byproduct of combustion. BUT, there is a diminishing return with them - same reason dust masks are disposable and shouldn't be reused. A filter will block some of wh...
A lot of materials have a yield stress. Including paper. When enough force is applied, the stress in the paper can exceed its yield stress. From that point on the material is plasticly deformed, which means when you stop applying force, the paper will not bend back into its original shape.
Part of life is accepting who you are. This goes double for the professor who regularly is seen in public arenas and by prospective students and their parents. It would not do well to be seen as Robot Xavier. He could switch back and forth between the chair and robotic appendages, but he's found contentment with his ...
A lumen is the total amount of light coming from a source; its "luminous power." It's equivalent to Watts, the measure of power, but weighted for human vision, e.g., an infra red lamp could put out 100 Watts but, if we can't see it it would be producing zero lumens. It's a similar idea to the special A-weighted decib...
Theoretically over time and if the night lasts forever yes. But keep in mind that he has been absorbing sunlight for decades so he has more than enough power inside him to last an entire night fighting.
This is actually a major reason for both Wolverine's strength and athleticism, since the adamantium coating his skeleton happens to add just over a hundred pounds onto his frame; he'd weigh 195 without it. Because he's hauling that extra weight, his body is constantly healing his muscles to make him strong enough to c...
Because he isn't taking something tangible doesn't mean he isn't taking something that belongs to someone else. Intellectual property has value, and it has an ownership, and that owner should have the full to do with it what they want. Is it ok the NSA takes people's information? They're not taking anything physical ...
Servicing captured equipment is annoying at best and impossible at worst. Part of the Germans' logistical problems in World War 2 was that their trucks were scavenged and stolen from so many places that nothing was interoperable and they lacked the ability to source spare parts for many vehicles. This led to absurd att...
Depends on how hypoglycemic you were and for how long. Severe hypoglycemia causes the same type of brain injury that hypoxia does. Brain cells need oxygen and glucose to function take away one or the other it’s the same result. Even a single hypoglycemic episode can cause severe brain damage (or death). Having repeated...
Curiosity found clay minerals on Mars a few years back. We've gone back and forth about whether they could have formed without water, though other evidence for water on Mars does point to it once being a much wetter planet, probably with a global ocean early on its history.
Mentally, elves actually develop more quickly than humans; for example, elves learn to walk and speak before they're a year old. Physically, they age at the same rate as humans until around the age of 3, after which their growth slows greatly. Elves only finish growing between the ages of 50 and 100.
Genetically, they don't. In practice, a twin is a birth defect that causes one fertilized egg to grow into two people, and a clone would be a person grown from an already-born person's DNA, probably not taken from their reproductive organs.
He’s still a cop, and a sergeant, so keep that in mind up top. “Desk duty” could mean any number of things, and as a sergeant, Al’s scope of responsibilities could entail stuff that is mostly desk-adjacent, sure. But he’s still a cop with a radio that has to leave the station sometimes. In most major American cities li...
Given that Cell is an amalgamation of the Z fighters DNA, he's inherited a lot of their strengths, but also weaknesses. His major fatal flaw was his pride/confidence in his own superiority (Thanks Vegeta). Despite his minor curiosity, he just didn't care enough to really look into it. In his mind, he's the perfect bei...
Kal-El is not the last descendant of Rao - he may however be the last pure-blood descendant, whatever that means in Kryptonian culture. If it's anything like Egyptian pure-blood descendants of Ra, Kara probably doesn't qualify due to her mother not being a close enough relative of the house of El - IOW she's insuf...
In some cases it's considered a SYMPTOM of an eating disorder, but remember, not all obesity is caused by over eating. even if ALL obesity were caused by overeating, obesity itself would still not be an eating disorder. it would be a symptom of an eating disorder.
In the early 19th century, intellectuals and those well-traveled would often drop French words into the conversation to show how clever they were. They would then point out that the word they had just used was French, often to embarrass someone nearby who was less fluent in the language. To counter this, the less well...
Profanity comes from the assumption that something upheld is being debased. Curse words can come from a few places, but using words with deep seated cultural connotations force you to see it as vulgar when used in certain situations. This is because it crosses a boundary, it's taboo, it shows disrespect and people find...
A person who truly wants to die will just do it. They won't threaten to do it or tell a bunch of people. They'll just get it done. Saying that you want to die is a cry for help. If they are telling you it's very likely that they want you to try to help them change their mind. Even if they don't realize that's what's h...
Are we in space or on earth? The sun transmits heat via radiation (vs convection or conduction). The amount of energy transmitted follows an inverse square law (1/x^2) so if you are twice as close to the sun, you experience 4 times the energy transfer. You have a LOT of variables to consider if you are in space. What...
Pretty quickly IMO. It's his word against Scar's, who was never popular to begin with, and only had an alliance with the hyenas on the promise they'd have prime access to food when he's king. Mufasa has the whole of the pride on his side. Knowing Mufasa, he probably wouldn't have Scar killed even after a murder attempt...
Well the Triassic was immediately following the Great Dying, 90% of life was gone, so you wouldn’t see much of anything at first. Then you’d see more Lystrasauros (sp?) which weren’t dinosaurs but rather some of the last of the Mammal like Reptiles. They were really the first animals to recover and were everywhere. ...
A magnetic field is like waves hitting the beach. A normal hard drive is like drawing your data into the sand. The data is washed away by the waves, because they move the sand. A solid state drive is like drawing your data with little stones. They aren't moved by the waves, so they wont be affected by the waves.
Your gut just lacks the enzymes to process the lactose, the bacteria that then meet the undigested lactose produce a bunch of nasty byproducts as they make efforts to devour the sugar. They produce lots of gas and the bacteria for the most part can't really handle it so the material just kinda gets shoved along the dig...
"Alcohol" is a general term for a group of organic substances. There are a lot of them and almost all alcohols are poison for the human body. However, at some point in time people found out that beer tastes well, and over the course of many generations a pretty good resistance to a single alcohol that is called ethanol...
Well not all stars die out through supernovae and we think that only one star in the milky way goes supernova every 50 years or so. It's not all that common. Given the number of stars visible from Earth, we're probably capable of detecting supernovae pretty often, but most just occur too far from Earth to be seen witho...
The planets conserve their initial angular momentum. Uranus and Venus have opposite rotation from the rest of the planets. This is due to the impacts by asteroids in the early years of their formation. These impacts have probably reversed their rotational direction.
Credit card companies make money in 2 main ways; 1) If you do not pay of the balance at the end of every payment period (usually a month, but there might be cards with other terms), they can charge interest. Usually this is a rather high rate. 2) Companies that want to accept payments from credit cards must pay the ...
Eye movement is one of the most complicated aspects of the nervous system. There are 6 main muscles and 3 main nerves that control each eye around 3 axes. As others are saying it's very common for the left eye to look right and the right eye to look left at the same time (i.e. cross-eyed)—this happens when we look at s...
The best answer to this question for me is simply that those things are considered to be more important because people who enjoy both type of things, recognize that intelectual pursuits are more meaningful to their lives than masturbating. They also masturbate and enjoy themselves doing it, but recognize that it is a f...
Postdoc was fine -largely like an extended PhD although this depends mostly on what your PhD was like and how much academic freedom you're used to. Tenure track is an unending hell, where you switch from grant deadlines, to brief moments of research, to service and to teaching. The pressure continues to be large...
From the perspective of an evolutionary psychologist these different behaviours from men and women with regard to finding sexual partners are cognitive biases and adaptive behaviours. They aren't rules created by humans that are unique in humans. Many other species have similar behaviours where the male pursues the fem...
There's a few factors. Cotton went to war at 14 and isn't very well adjusted emotionally. He doesn't just struggle with emotional intimacy, he has contempt for it. Cotton dragged his ready-to-pop pregnant wife to a Yankees game as camouflage for an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro. Hank ended up being born in N...
Heimdall was probably monitoring the situation and telling Odin that everything was cool. Keep in mind that up until Ronan arrived Earth wasn't really in too much danger, and when he did appear Captain Marvel already had everything under control.
Wireless charging is done through induction. When you run and electrical current through a coiled wire, you generate a magnetic field around it. Conversely, when a coiled wire experiences a change in the local magnetic field, it generates a current. So your charger runs an alternating current (AC) through a coiled wir...
He can use them, but everything is set how he likes it. Remember how mad you dad got when you messed with his car seat, adjusted his wheel, or fucked with the radio levels? Now, Imagine your dad was burn to a crisp, and able to kill with a thought. Needless to say, his buttons don't get messed with often.
The Ghost Rider can ride anything to get from point A to point B. A previous one even had a horse as a mode of transportation. It's perfectly reasonable to use a Yugo, a pogo stick, a spaceship, or a ford pinto as the Ghost Rider and have it undergo the expected transformations.
Learned helplessness is esentially when you try something and either fail or are told you failed so many times that you stop trying. A great example from the animal world is that young elephants are often chained with an ankle restraint to a pole. They learn that that ankle restraint is strong enough to stop them from ...
It is only by preference. Most of the continents are in the North part of the globe. Mapping software can now make maps with any orientation. You can use Google Earth to show you the world oriented in any direction. Producers of maps are taught to include a directional sign, usually North, on the map to help with orie...
Boxers want to box someone their own weight (or smaller). The weigh-in occurs many hours before the fight. What can happen is, a 165-lb boxer can sweat out 13 lbs to make the weigh-in limit of 152 lbs, then eat and drink themselves back to their normal weight of 165 before the actual fight. If his opponent really is...
Someone else can explain the “blame all for one” issue. But I’ll add you’re asking “Islamic scholars — professors and interpreters — and preachers — to condemn how one government that adheres by its definition of the minority sect’s view of Islam enforces its criminal laws. Shiite Islam is massive, but Shia and Sunni M...
Well aside from the whole "O shit that hurt!" part of the brain when you take a massive body shot. It's also a biological reaction. When you receive that kind of trauma to the internal organs. You're body reflexively goes into survival mode. As it's not sure exactly what the hell just happened. So it ramps up blood pro...
[](/rscootaplease) Rowena Ravenclaw didn't care about security so much as keeping the dimwits out. The other founders all played their political games and tried to keep one another from learning their secrets, but Ravenclaw just wanted to create a sanctuary for the clever and the wise. It didn't really matter to her wh...
Because Palpatine's ultimately in charge of both sides, and he doesn't want to win any battles. What he wants to spread chaos and destabilize the republic so he can later swoop in and reform it into the empire. For this to work, obviously, the republic can't win. Then they've stabilized and all is fine. But they can...
It means that a fertilized egg often is not sufficient to be pregnant. Many pregnancies do not get to the stage of an implanted egg and many of those that manage to implant in the uterus still do not get past the 8th week. Basically, there are so many things that can go wrong between intercourse and birth it is a wond...
Basically the ring subjects its wielder too intense subliminal brainwashing. When Sauron and made the One Ring he put a part of himself into it which is why it could only be destroyed in the fires that made it and when it was destroyed it killed Sauron. That bit of Sauron slowly eats away at you compelling you to a...
Easy, he's an early 40k psyker. Before the Age of Strife, most humanoid Psykers were unheard of, but there were dog psykers before since they had been a species for much longer. Using psychic power from the early Warp, he is able to take control of the computer's machine spirit. Yeah, that's how it goes.
You forget they are standing arguing in the jewelry store for a bit. There's probably a fair amount of water left in the air there as that store wasnt on fire. He probably just needed the water to kickstart his powers with a little bit of hydration.
There's nothing directly keeping phones from getting thinner. There's a number of things that will make it unlikely anybody would decide to, though-- the biggest of which is probably the camera. Cameras are effectively setting the phone thickness limit right now, to the point where the common design workaround is to ...
This is correct - a telescope that is currently 100 light-years away from Earth would see Earth as it was 100 years ago...but there are a few caveats: - First, you'd need a big telescope - like, really big. To even see the Earth near the Sun, you'd require a telescope hundreds of times larger than anything that's ev...
Because most American citizens have very little idea of how their government actually works, and how limited the president's power is, domestically and economically. The president is the most well-known governmental figure, and it's a lot simpler to blame him than to go watch C-SPAN or check voting records and see tha...
Before tv series there were movies and before movies there were plays, before plays there was your buddy telling you what was going through his head earlier when you both were at that thing. Its called an "aside". As in taking the audience aside to fill them in on more details. He's not breaking the fourth wall, he...
There is a form of male birth control accomplished through a vasectomy. This is the equivalent to a female having her fallopian tubes tied. If you are referring to hormonal methods of birth control, the reason why none are used for men is about the side effects. In the female menstrual cycle, estrogen and progesterone ...
All orks possess a low level of psychic ability that contributes to the gestalt psychic field. This means that the larger the assembly of orks, the more psychic power there is to create effects that mirror what the orks expect. For example, a small band of a few dozen orks might paint their trukk red because they beli...
Staining isnt the only reason teeth turn yellow. Enamel is white-ish but it's not completely opaque. Dentin, the material underneath your enamel is naturally yellow, aging and natural wear thins your enamel making the dentin more visible. If you brush too hard you could just end up stripping away more enamel resultin...
A Sith Lord is trained as a Sith Lord. He or she learns not only the Force, but a certain code of ethics as well, questionable as they may be. Someone who uses the Dark Side of the Force is just someone who has figured out how to use the Dark Side of the Force. Most likely, they were trained, at least to some degr...
Machine-made generally means something that's designed for mass manufacturing. There are shortcuts in the design, because it has to be efficient to manufacture in quantity. The materials involved also have to be suitable for mass manufacturing and, ideally, inexpensive. A good craftsman can do much better work. This i...
Insulin levels rise and fall depending on your sleep schedule. Leading to hunger and fasting. In fact recent research in mice showed those mice that only ate during "mouse day time" for a set amount of time. 8 to 12 hrs. Maintained weight better then those who forged anytime.
simplest straight lines are a taut string or a flat water surface. early surfaces were just created by hand. our precision has increased over time. we never hit perfectly straight, just straight enough to suffice.
It takes a lot of work. Consoles tend to have less power than PCs and each of the major consoles uses a different operating system. PC and Xbox share a lot of internal code, but PCs have thousands of combinations of parts, compared to the consoles all using the same processors. For a small studio this is a lot of work....
It depends on the game. Minecraft will draw frames as often as your GPU and your monitor can handle, but the physics system only "ticks" once every 1/20th of a second. Time happens in 50 ms slices. If you and a friend both hit two buttons to start two redstone clocks at the same time to within a few milliseconds then ...
Fire powers. Like... yeah, if you had Human Torch level immunity or Pyro's manipulation, it could be awesome! But if you had Avatar level fire bending, you're more than likely going to end up burning everything and everyone around you. Also, power copying or cancelling... not only is it lame for stories, but if no on...
Well, even a really great mirror isn't 100% reflective, so it will always absorb some of the light. If you pump strong enough, yes, you'll start to heat up the mirror faster than it can dissipate the heat and eventually it will melt. Another thing to consider is that the reflectivity of a surface depends heavily on...
Some of them (the nice, expensive ones) do have a single LED, such as Mag-Lite. Low-output LEDs are much less expensive to produce, so cheap flashlights often will have 25-50 of them (a dead giveaway is their very bluish tint); their overall light output is typically less than those with a single LED. When purchasing...
Fear is generally a learned response in humans rather than being present from birth. Whenever a human is observing another human as being a role model, the observer sees the response taken by the role model, and is more likely to recreate that response in the future. Because of this, it's easy to pass on your fear of b...
The imbalance came about because, through Palpatine's machinations, the Dark side had grown incredibly powerful, blinding the Jedi and other servants of the Light to his intentions, and even some of his actions. The Light was crippled by bureaucracy, negligence, tradition, politics, and a slew of other things. The Dark...
Something that is not brought up in many of the comments here is that life did not develop using molecular oxygen (O2) at all. The large concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere is actually the result of biological activity (carbon fixation from CO2 and reduction of iron oxide before that) and not a prerequisite for i...
If you can actually contact Galactus, you're pretty much halfway there. He's been known to force Heraldry onto various people, causing them to lose their memory and only want to serve him. If you simply ask, it's very possible he'll say yes if he doesn't currently have a Herald or has one that's openly defying him.
Humidity plays a big part in temp perception. In the winter, outside colder air cannot hold the same amount of humidity as hotter summer air, so typically your house, while the same temp, has less humidity. Even if you have a humidifier, it's tough to match the potentional summer air humidity. That difference eventu...
Eating or drinking something kick your digestive tract into motion. Lots of enzymes start squirting into your intestines. Lots of muscle contractions from your stomach to your butthole getting things moving along. Some chemicals in food (caffeine in particular) are really stimulating to your intestinal muscles. Wh...
The Title IX office should eat the first department alive for their egregious behavior. Given the loss of publications, you have material damages. Are you sure everyone in the first department agreed with the decisions pushed by the chair? You may come out fine if it's just the old misogynistic bullies that are agains...
the other three fundamental forces are gauge theories, meaning that they also admit a "geometrical" formulation similar to, but not equal, that for gravity given by general relativity. There are immense similarities between the other three interactions and gravity. Moreover, the geometric picture and the field picture...

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