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The compilation process for the 'C' programming language. | Yikes, it's been a long time since I 've used a compiler outside of an IDE where you press one button and everything just kind of magically happens! Here's what I remember, though. And although I'm answering specifically about C, because that's what you asked about, it won't be too different for other languages. * Each... |
Why does google offer services such as Google Photos, how do they benefit from hosting my personal images online for free? | Have you noticed how Google Photos groups your photos by who is in them? Like /u/leonardo_pothead pointed out, this uses Google's facial recognition software, and when you go through and mark results there as being incorrect, Google takes that into account in order to improve the software. And this doesn't just go for ... |
(From my 6 year old Nephew) If mosquitoes suck blood out, why does your skin puff up? | Our body doesn't like mosquito spit - it thinks it's going to make us sick - so it sends things called *antibodies* in our blood to go fight it, and that makes that part of the skin swell up. ) Edit: [Here's another good answer], which goes into why the bites itch, if your nephew gets curious about that. |
How are microchips with millions or billions of transistors designed and validated? | They are designed via VLSI you might use a language like VHDL or Verilog to write down the large-scale architecture and the logic of each part of the chip, and that basically gets compiled into a map of the actual gates on a chip. Once the chip is made, you can use the same Verilog files and a logic analyzer - basicall... |
The pros and cons of drinking coffee daily | Pros: It is comforting, and energizing. Caffeine generally functions by inhibiting the enzyme that deactivates cyclic adenosine monophosphate, or cAMP, which is the second messenger in our cells that allow passage of 'adrenalin,' insulin, and glucagon . And, it also metabolizes lipids for energy. This is why you may re... |
Why do humans have to go out of their way to take care of their teeth compared to animals in nature? | We live much much longer. We can take care of our teeth through knowledge gained. Our primate ancestors did not constantly regrow teeth as other species do. We only get two sets of teeth. Elephants constantly regrow teeth. My teeth are disappearing due to bone loss which is not a dietary issue.Modern humans eat way mor... |
how does a digital camera/phone know it's in focus? | Three main way: contrast detection, laser autofocus, and phase detection. Contrast detection- the camera changes its focus until the object it thinks should be in focus has the greatest amount of contrast, where the biggest difference between black and white occur, this is where the object is its sharpest. Laser- works... |
If a body is interred in concrete, will it mummify or decompose - will it leave a big hole where it was like a fossil? | [This experiment] suggests that partial mummification happens, but yes, bodies still decompose because of the bacteria within our body eating us once our immune system ceases function.The water in the body will eventually be absorbed by the concrete, leaving a mostly empty hole. That's why when a worker falls into wet ... |
- Why do the sounds you make when trying to be quiet sound so much louder than when you aren't trying to be quiet? | Because generally it's very very quiet in a room when you're trying to be quiet, so even small sounds are much louder than the rest of the room. When you aren't trying to be quiet, you aren't really paying attention to how much noise you're making, so you don't notice, and generally the room you're in is already full o... |
Why does adding an 's' to 'http://' suddenly make it more secure? | Adding the 's' makes your browser connect to the server in a totally different way, verifying that they server is the one it says it is, and scrambling all information sent to or from the server.Adding the s makes the connection secure. You are telling your browser that this is how you want to connect to their server. ... |
Why is harder to breathe when my whole body except my head is underwater? | When you breath, your lungs expand like a balloon in your chest. When your torso is submerged, there is a lot of water pressure pushing on your body , so it makes it much harder for the lungs to inflateThe pressure of the water makes it harder to breathe. You are in more pressure in the water than it free air. |
Why Does String Cheese taste better when pulled apart, rather than when just biting into it? | Likely more surface area. Reminds me of Kramer from the meat slicer episode of Seinfeld. 'the flavour has nowhere to hide'", 'Because when you pull it apart it has a chance to warm up. Cheeses taste better "not cold". Try this next time you want a piece of string cheese: take it out of your fridge and put it in your po... |
Why do a majority of women have long hair, and men have short hair? | It used to be that men would cut their hair so it would not be a hindrance in battle, or while working jobs like blacksmithing . It became a cultural normCultural norms. No other reason. I would imagine it started with men working outside where long hair would make them hot and/or be dangerous around tools.Traditional,... |
Why do you still "see" a bright spot when you close your eyes after you have looked directly into the Sun or any other light source? | There are several contributing factors, but mostly it's the effects of photobleaching. Animals have several different types of receptor cells inside of their eyes. These all have different types of proteins sticking through their cell membranes which change shape if they get hit by the appropriate color photon. This ma... |
Why are mercury compounds more dangerous than elemental mercury? | Many mercury compounds are more readily absorbed by the body. Even if you drink mercury metal, almost all of it will just pass through your digestive system. Inhaling elemental mercury vapor causes problems over time, though. On the other hand, dimethyl mercury will readily pass through even the skin into the blood, an... |
What is planet X, and is it real? | To add, the reasons for why there might be a Planet X aren't too different from the reasons we were fairly sure Pluto and it's moon Charon existed: an observation of odd behaviour of other planetary bodies . So, similar observations have lead to us knowing where to look for other planetary bodies, which means that ther... |
If someone patents an "idea" which I later come up come up with, use, market, and sell that idea (with documentation) am I infringing? How? Why? | You can't really patent an "idea" - patents are for actual *inventions*. A proper patent application requires a detailed description of *how* the invention works. You couldn't walk in and patent the idea of a "flying machine" - you actually have to design & detail how an aeroplane works. A patent only covers things don... |
Why does VLC work when DivX and QuickTime don't? | VLC has a large number of codecs built-in to the program itself. It doesn't rely on your operating system being set up correctly. So, when a codec is missing or misregistered, other players simply fail but VLC uses its own internal copy of the codec. |
How does someone escape from child pornography charges? | If the police had a search warrant to go through his house and get his computers, then the most likely answer is that the search did not turn up enough evidence to satisfy the prosecutors that they would win at trial. Prosecutors really don't like to lose, so they generally don't take on a losing case unless there's a ... |
Why do you need to pee after sex? | Don't know for certain but I always assumed it was to clean out your urethra, all that thrusting probably jams bacteria up there you know? Can someone who actually knows a thing confirm?", 'Yes. It cleans out your urethra in case any bacteria got in thereAgree with the people who say it cleans out the urethra. |
Why are taxi drivers so against Uber? | Because Uber is an incredibly threatening competitor and it's seriously cutting in on cab drivers' business. In general, Uber offers *far* cheaper rides in significantly nicer cars, with the benefit of an online platform that lets you pay, track nearby rides, and check driver reviews. For example, in my city, I can hai... |
Why do power cord prongs have holes in them? | Two main reasons: the outlets themselves contain a mechanism that grasps the plug by the prong holes, making it harder to remove . Also, some manufacturers lockout their devices by putting plastic warning labels threaded through the prongs, in order to get your attention before you remove and use the device. _URL_0_ |
In Oman, why is using Skype against the law, the Facetime not? | The reason it's banned has less to do with encryption and more to with Oman trying to protect local telcos by forcing voice calls to at least go through registered channels. The concern is that VoIP would hurt telco profits. Oman does seem spotty in which VoIP they block and which they don't, I'm not sure if Apple went... |
Why things are louder when I wake up? | I'm just guessing here, but I like to think it's every animals instinct to be more sensitive to sound when being in a vulnerable state. We have this to sense possible danger or quickly perceive what's happening since we are suddenly analyzing are surroundings. Then again I'm just guessing. Some expert should give a bet... |
When we are hot and sweaty after a workout, we want to take a hot shower but want to drink cold liquids | Why would you want to take a hot shower after you work out? Just to be even more hot? I've never heard of that. I've always wanted to take cold showers to cool off. |
What is happening when Sprayer bottles do that stupid thing where you squeeze the trigger and is just stays squeezed instead of releasing back into the squeezable position? | Its created a vacuum. As it pulled the liquid out of the bottle .the bottle became emptier but the spray bottle doesnt have any way to get air in to fill the void created by the missing liquid. If you loosen the cap a tiny bit might be enough to avoid that problem or put a tiny little hole in the bottom. Wont have that... |
Why are some people stupid? | I personally believe that everyone has the same relative amount of mental capacity but somewhere in our lives we subconsciously decide what we're going to use it on and then do so for the rest of our lives. \r\rThe main reason I have this theory is because I'm always amazed at the kinds of things "stupid" people know, ... |
How does _URL_0_ sell their items at such a low price? | The catch is that you have to pay for each bid, whether or not you win the auction. If they get lots of people to bid, the fees add up to much more than the cost of the item, even if an individual person doesn't pay much.Because Beezid charges you money to buy bids unlike ebay where you can bid for free.There's been a ... |
How do smartphones and computers keep time when they're turned off? | *disclaimer, I did my A+ a long time ago and haven't worked much on PC hardware for about 10 years, but the answer is: There is a CMOS battery and it powers a clock time in the motherboard even when the power is off. *edit here is a link to an article discussing the reason for the CMOS battery. _URL_0_ |
If a camera lens is a circle, then why is the picture a rectangle? | The lens is a circle but bends light so that it hits a rectangular sensor or rectangular film in the desired way |
why my nose gets runny when it's cold | A runny nose from the cold weather, or from any cause other than allergies, falls under the blanket medical term "vasomotor rhinitis." In the cold, a couple of different things are going on that lead to the runny nose. The nose is in charge of warming up air and adding moisture to it as it enters the body so that the a... |
How does traffic work? | Even without signals that stop traffic, there's a limit to how many cars can safely get through a stretch of highway at a given time. There's on/off ramps that don't have unlimited capacity, that *do* have traffic signals at the end of them. Sometimes punks just dart out into a lane and force the motorist behind them t... |
How did toddlers get over ear infections before antibiotics? | Sad reality is, with any kind of infection, before antibiotics you'd probably just die, or in the case of your son, hopefully just lose hearing in that particular ear. It's as simple as that, really, which is why we experienced such a huge population growth since we came up with antibiotics. |
Why is it safe to eat undercooked steak, but not undercooked chicken or fish? | the thing with steak is that it's one solid chunk of meat, and as long as you sear the outside you've killed off the harmful stuff. with chickens, there's much more processing, so higher risk of more bacteria. if the chicken was not exposed to bacteria you totally can eat it raw. same thing with fish. fish is probably ... |
What's the point of 'C' and 'K'? | Most languages are not intelligently designed, but naturally grew out from older languages over time. Standardized spelling and grammar is pretty new, and it's quite extreme to start abolishing entire letters just because you think it's neater. For English, there is no single authority on proper spelling and grammar, w... |
What makes the differences between cells in the human body, even though they have the same DNA but have different functions? | The DNA is the blue print for making an entire functioning human. But just like blue prints for a massive building, each worker might only be working on a small part of the structure and so only used certain pages. Cells don't use ALL of the DNA ALL of the time to know how to work. They only use small parts of the tota... |
"It's in our nature to destroy ourselves." | That quote is based on a Freudian concept. According to Freud, we are driven, at our very core, by two instincts: the life instinct --the need to live, create, procreate, experience pleasure etc; and the death instinct --the need to come to rest, to destroy, and to return to the state whence we came from.It's in our na... |
why can't we print/make more money to solve global problems? | Money is just an abstract representation of the overall "value" of the economy. Printing more money does not make the economy contain more "value" . Thus printing extra money just makes the money itself worth lessMoney represents value. If you just make more of it, an individual unit of money represents less value than... |
What is that "light" left in our vision after something like a camera flash? | Your eyes got a bit over-stimulated and it takes time to adjust the eyes back. If you go out and it's quite bright your pupils get smaller so that less light gets in, and vice versa. The idea is to try and get the best amount of light through to the actual sensors in the back.Light causes chemical changes on the retina... |
What exactly are stomach bugs / viruses and how do they spread? | Stomach flu or stomach bugs are neither flu nor bugs. But, the typical symptoms you get - nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc - are caused by a viral infection. Sometimes, it can be bacterial, but those are typically less communicable between people. So, let's stick with viruses. There are a wide array of viruses that can ... |
Why do women generally prefer warmer temperatures? | They have smaller bodies, smaller mass. When you are just skin and bones it is hard to stay warm.Women, on average, are smaller and less 'dense' than men, meaning they produce less heat within their bodies. They also lose that heat from their bodies at a quicker relative rate . |
Why some applications in Google Play have a high rating ( > 4.0), despite being either a horrible app in general, a scam, or clickbait? | Averages are easy to manipulate, especially given who tends to leave ratings. If my company makes a clickbait app; and has 20 people working for it, it's going to take 5 0-star revies to lower the rating to 4 . If each of us makes 5 accounts to upvote our app; it will take 25 0-star reviews. Which is why it is very wis... |
Why do a lot of Jewish last names have words like silver or gold or stein in them? | According to the Christian bible, usury is a sin. Being a banker was seen as being dirty. Jews had no such qualms and became successful money lenders, working in the finance and jewelry industries. Silver and gold and stein became part of their name, as many professions did These are Ashkenazi Jews, who lived in centra... |
How does a movie that is seemingly destined to be awful and fail (e.g. Dumb and Dumber To or Horrible Bosses 2) still get massive budgets and make it to theaters? | Being awful =/= to being unprofitable. Huge movies like that are almost always money makers and studios, directors, actors, theaters, and investors all like to make money.Dumb and Dumber To has already more than paid for it's budget. So it didn't fail in the eyes of the investors. Whether you found it funny or not isn'... |
how scientists know what wavelengths are visible to different species? | Two basic methods. 1. They can directly measure whether the retinal cells respond to different signals.2. They can associate lights in different colors with the presence of food , and see if the animal gets the signal or not. |
why does alcohol burn small cuts | Normally your skin protects you from corrosive substances like alcohol, but when you have a cut, obviously that defense is gone. Alcohol kills cells, your body doesn't like that, so it sends a type of pain signal to your brain, which your brain interprets as an unpleasant burning sensation. |
Why does the Heinz ketchup packets from McDonalds and In N Out taste so much more different than that of bottle you would buy at a supermarket? | Don't know for sure, but it's probable that in order to make the product sterile the manufacturers might have to give the different packaging format different thermal processing or subtly different acidity. Also, it may be that the packaging subtly changes the product taste profile as opposed to the glass or PET plasti... |
How do hip-hop or dance producers sample only the bassline or only the percussion from an existing record? | I used to do this for fun, it's not as difficult as one would think once you know what you're doing. Vocals are usually mixed as a center channel while the instruments are usually mixed as stereo . With a little bit of work, you can extract the information that's the same in each channel and get the vocals out. Once yo... |
Why do we actually laugh? What IS funny? | IT ALLOWS FOR THE STOMACH TO BE STRETCHED TO ENSURE MAXIMUM CAPACITY UPON FEASTING TIME. NEVER TRUST SOMEONE WITH A DEEP LAUGHIt is a signal to others that the thing is being enjoyed by the person laughing. |
What keeps your veins in place? | There are various connective tissues around the veins. The tissue is an elastic fibrous type, which allows your veins to bend and move around with motion, but also keeps them anchored in place so that they don't just flop around under your skin. Specifically, the tissue is called 'fascia'. |
Why do cats not get sick from licking their ass all day long? | Cat saliva has antiseptic properties. Even their asses are no match. This does not mean that anything they find in their asses won't harm them. They're prepared for most things they would find in there.Mine did. He managed to lick a hole in his ass that went through to the inside of his body, "communicating with his an... |
What have we discovered aboard the International Space Station and why should we care? | There are people claiming the ISS hasn't been worth cost given its returns, but I'd argue that's certainly not true. The ISS is a very long-term project and even decades isn't how long it, and similar venture, will take to bear the real fruit The biggest benefit the ISS has had is given real experience in keeping peopl... |
Why do people say that they want to have deep conversations but it turns out they don't? | Nine times out of ten they're probably hoping one specific person will message them as a result of their post and aren't really interested in talking to anyone else. |
EnergyStar Compliance, is it really a representation of a "green/energy friendly" product? Why should I take a product being EnergyStar Compliance into consideration when I am buying equipment? | You would consider it if: you wanted to keep your electric bill lower, if you wanted to help reduce greenhouse gas production, you wanted to ensure the power draw for a building or room remained below a threshold. An energy star model might have simpler installation too as it might have less waste heat or different exh... |
How do radioactive elements and compounds reset their half life? Do they always just decay until they are gone forever? | Depending on the substance in question, you might not. All natural elements as we know them come from three sources: stellar nucleosynthesis, supernova nucleosynthesisand big bang nucleosynthesis. Stars fuse elements upto iron, and then upto nickel when they explode -- but generally, everything above that was already a... |
Why is it so hard to get comfortable and fall asleep at night, and then so difficult to get up in the morning? | Your body and mind need time to slow down, just as a car can't go from 60 mph to an immediate halt. Take time in the evening to establish a wind-down routine in preparation for sleep. This can include some quiet time, perhaps a shower. Anything in anticipation of the coming night's rest. Also, a well-worked body is mor... |
Why do some nuts, like cashews, contain so many calories? | Nuts, like most seeds, exist to provide fuel for a new plant to grow. They're completely packed full of energy. While seeds like wheat are made up of carbohydrates, nuts are packed full of fats. Fats are much more energy dense than carbs so nuts are a high calorie source of food - that's why you routinely see them in t... |
Where did the "S" rating originate and why is it better than "A+"? | It originates in Japan, the land of all the crazy things. Because it's known that if you get less than a C you have failed there would only be 3 grades you could get if you finished a level , S class was introduce something difficult to give people a sense of achievement and something to work towards getting. Then came... |
How much of the price of gold is perceived value (as an alternate currency) vs it's value as an industrial metal? Are other "precious" metals similarly valued? | Can't find my source now but ~10% of gold is used for industrial use the rest is in jewellery and financial use(~40% jewellery 60% financial. So A huge chunk of it's value is as you call it perceived. |
Why do some countries wash their eggs and some don't? | The US washes eggs due to the belief that the coatings and dirt on eggs carry disease Everywhere else does not wash eggs because they like to leave the egg's natural coating which keeps any bacteria outside the shell Unwashed eggs can be kept at room temperature, washed eggs must be refrigerated People in places where ... |
The end of Fight Club | You are right op, Tyler could not be tricked. By saying "my eyes are open" the Narrator is indicating that he now fully understands that what happens to him will happen to Tyler. So he kills himself, thus killing Tyler. Of course he doesn't die - but that's not for lack of trying. If you go frame by frame you can actua... |
why as different races live in the same society will aren't starting to become more physically similar? | Mexicans, whites, blacks, asians in America tend to have different social norms which keeps them from being interchangeable as relationship material. You need some common ground for political views, world views, economic status to relate on that level. So to answer your question, the melting pot isn't so hot as you wou... |
How would the suicide net planned to be implemented on the Golden Gate Bridge and other similar structures work? | A very large majority of people who jump off of structures like the Golden Gate Bridge and survive say that they immediately regretted taking the jump, and if they were to land in the net it would be unlikely that they were to try again. However, if you block off the sides of the bridge, someone's just going to find so... |
Why is it easier to be angry and upset than to be happy and polite when you’re tired? | The short simplified answer is that politeness and such things require more energy and computing power to generate than just being aggressive and defensive, which are more basic instincts. So when you're tired less energy is devoted to keeping up pretenses, so to speak. |
What is the point of bail? | > but if thsy were kept in jail wouldn't that havw better chances of stopping them from escaping? Sure, but the point of bail is that you pay some sum in order to leave jail, and are incentivized to return at the appropriate time in order to receive those funds back. If you do not, you forfeit the money. If you are con... |
What's the difference between a car with a "2016 plate" and another with a 2015 plate? | People like new things. In 5 years that 2015 car will be 6 years old. The 2016 will be 5 years old. Why would you buy the 2015 if they were the same price? Obviously you'd get a 2016. |
How can a single radio frequency carry two audio signals (for stereo left and right)? | A radio station is not 1 signal, it's 3. Since you are even asking the question, I assume you have a notion of the concept of frequency. Now, let us say that you have a radio station around 100MHz. What you will do is transmit a strong signal on the 100MHz wavelength. Not an audio signal, just a strong signal. Don't fo... |
How does your body figure out when it's full? | Your brain receives many different types of signals that tell you you're full including nutrient concentrations, glucose levels, external signals , and physical signals from your digestive tract telling you that it's full of food. These same signals go into hunger. |
What do the laws recently passed in Montana, Texas, Utah, and Oklahoma about being Sovereign States free from the government actually mean? | What laws? I'm not seeing any evidence of laws passed in those states that made them Sovereign States free from the government. There have been a few attempts by states to pass laws saying "You know Federal Government, we're still in charge!" but those laws aren't really binding in any shape or form. The real issue is ... |
Broadband Pricing Tiers — Business vs. Home | One reason that business is more than home is because it usually comes with higher uptime guarantees, different technical support and issue response times, and less restrictions In regards to the difference between 8x1 and 10x2 you're not just paying for increased download speed, you're also getting double the upload s... |
If some humans have Neanderthal DNA while others don't, does that mean some humans are at least somewhat of a different species than others. | The definition of species is indeed somewhat loose but most agree on the basic that successfully interbreeding and having fertile offspring means that you are part of the the same species. This is why many people now think that Neanderthals should be considered a different subspecies of humans not a different species a... |
What would happen if 9/11 is revealed to be a conspiracy? | It was a conspiracy. Do you mean "a conspiracy within the United States government"? It would depend on who the conspirators were. If it was a rogue cell of CIA agents, they 'd be prosecuted, various hearings would be held to determine how such a thing was possible, and there would be many early retirements and suicide... |
Why do your hands stop working when you laugh? | There's a reflex pathway, the H-reflex that causes muscles to contract. It is a deep tendon reflex measured as the "finger flexor reflex" Massage, tapping and other pressure of the muscle decrease the reflex. Boisterous laughter can make it subside almost completely. Have you ever completely collapsed in laughter? It's... |
What happened in Enron. | Courtesy of BBC News: "Enron lied about its profits and stands accused of a range of shady dealings, including concealing debts so they didn't show up in the company's accounts. As the depth of the deception unfolded, investors and creditors retreated, forcing the firm into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December. More than ... |
How do doctors get away with grossly overbilling insurance companies compared to cash customers? | Medicaid and many insurances generally only give 1/3 of the asking price if they pay at all. This has forced doctors to inflate their prices just to get enough to cover their own expenses.Insurance company worker here. Billed charge to the insurance company at 3 times what they actually want is nothing unusual. They co... |
Why does your skin feel really sensitive when you have a fever? | Fever causes inflammation, which is what causes the tenderness. Fever is your body's "RED ALERT" system designed to sort of burn up the harmful bacteria/virus. Low grade fevers are a great way to heal but anything over 101 F can start to get dangerous. Mostly because your body is using more water. Dehydration is the nu... |
Why did the Romans put olive oil on their bodies after bathing? | Normally it was done before bathing, not after. They would rub on oil then remove dirt with a small hook. They would then rinse the oil off, then they would soak in the baths. |
What qualifies as a religion under the freedom of religion protection laws? | It has less to do with how old/established the religion itself is, but whether the religious practices infringe on someone else's rights. For instance, there have been a number of cases where parents opted to deny their children medical treatment and instead go for Christian faith healing, then were arrested for child ... |
if there are 30 people in a room all making the same noise at 10 decibels what would be the level of noise produced | Decibels are logarithmic - for every 10 dB you go up, you multiply the volume by 10 - going up 20 dB multiplies the volume by 10 twice, or a hundred times the original. So we can see immediately that since you're multiplying the level of sound by 30, which is between 10 and 100, our volume increase must be between 10 a... |
Why are fleas the size of a speck of ground pepper but they can jump so high? | Part of the answer is the relationship between size and mass. If an animal is half the size, it's one-eighth the weight - so the smaller an animal is, the stronger it is in relationship to their weight. This allows very small animals to perform relatively amazing feats of strength. Additionally, fleas have a special ad... |
Why do many people see policing and military as necessary things to support with their tax dollars, but see a more subsidized healthcare system as a form of communism? | Because everyone needs the police and the military. The rich and the upper middle class dont need subsidized health care and dont want to help fund it. |
Why is it that I find my reflection somewhat attractive but dislike how I look in most photographs/videos? | Your face is mirrored. You are accustomed to looking at your face in the mirror and have grown to like that look on the account of you seeing it every day when you look into anything reflective. But as soon as you look at your face in a photograph your brain notices that something is wrong and you don't like it as much... |
If Amphetamine is a relatively cheap and non-difficult drug to produce, why does the Adderall brand cost so much? | A for-profit industry that can set it's price for brand-name medications at any value they feel the market will bear. |
I thought Ebola was totally incurable? | The fact that we do not have a cure for a disease/condition does not mean that the disease itself cannot be overcome. There's no cure for cancer, for example, but people manage to defeat cancer fairly frequently. |
Why are pennies still made when it cost more than 1.8 cents to make one? | The purpose of making a physical currency is not for profit, but to maintain a medium of exchange which will make the economy liquid. The price of each currency unit to produce isn't particularly relevant. |
What exactly is a beer belly and how does alcohol cause it? | Beer, while being an often time refreshing adult beverage, contains an alarmingly high amount of calories and carbohydrates. Beer, on average, has around 13g of carbs. The same roughly as a slice of white bread. A beer , a can lets say, can have 154 calories. That's about 2 slices of white bread. If someone who is pron... |
the bleeding virgin Mary and the milk drinking Ganesha statue "miracles" from a scientific perspective. | Not familiar with the bleeding virgin Mary; however, the Ganesha drinking milk works basically through capillary action. Basically that means that the surface tension and adhesion combine to lift the liquid. You can test this yourself next time you go to drink with a straw. Don't bother capping off an end, but dip it i... |
If space is a vaccum how does heat travel through it? | Heat is a measurement of how quickly molecules are moving. Hot things have quickly moving molecules, while cold things have slow ones. Since a vacuum is empty , technically heat can't travel through space. Heat is a type of energy. Energy can be transmitted through space in the form of electromagnetic radiation, or pho... |
What exactly is inflammation and why does it contribute so heavily to our demise? | It's actually an immune response. When your cells are damaged, they need your immune system to come in and clear them out. The damaged cells release a chemical that expands the nearby blood vessels to allow your white blood cells better access to do their job. The expanding blood vessels is the inflammation. So the res... |
Do other animals see in different frames per seconds than humans? | Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Sort of. The phrase you're looking for is "temporal resolution". /u/Kitworks explains that unlike cameras, animals have no "set frame rate per se", and that's strictly true. However, what is true is that while you can watch a vintage black-and-white movie at 16 frames per second and per... |
What did Barcelona FCB just win? Does that team play in multiple leagues throughout the year? If so, are these the same players? | Barcelona just won the Champions League . In soccer, each country will have its own league - Barcelona plays in La Liga, which is Spain's national league. However, the top teams in each national league from the previous season will also qualify for a continental league, which runs over the course of the year alongside ... |
Why do light things bounce, while heavier don't? | Heavier things can bounce. A decent counter example to your proposal would be to compare a rubber ball to a crumpled up ball of paper of relatively the same size/volume. The former, while heavier, will bounce quite high; whereas the crumpled up ball of paper won't. The difference is how the energy of the system is diss... |
Will a tattoo remain after a cut or gash on the tattooed skin heals? | Depends how deep the gash is. Tattoos sit really deep in the skin. If the cut reaches that layer, then yes, it can damage the tattoo. If it's just a superficial cut that doesn't go deeper than the epidermis the tattoo should still look the same.From personal experience, I can tell you that if you get road rash, no the ... |
Why Hasn't the U.S. Signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child? | Because in the US, people under 18 can get life sentences in prison, which the Convention would prohibit.There's no appetite in the US on either side of the political spectrum to enter into any treaty that cedes sovereignty to the UN. Ratification requires a majority vote in the Senate, which would require a supermajor... |
Do internet bandwidths really make a difference to ISP's? | The ISP's would much rather simply allow everyone to use all the bandwidth they want. Usage caps and tiered plans are extremely unpopular, and are generally employed when you don't have the capital required to upgrade the whole system, so you're simply trying to make a deterrent to the highest users. I planned a couple... |
Why is Latin not widely used anymore if many languages used today derive from it? | It's not widely used anymore precisely *because* Latin-speaking people branched into separate, new languages instead. It's a bit like asking why your great-grandparents are dead, if they have so many descendants. There's nothing unusual about that, if you think about it--and really, the more generations you get away fr... |
Sonic employees, how can you advertise hand mixed shakes yet tell people the machine is broke when they ask for a shake? | I think you're being a little to literal with the term. It just means that it doesn't go into a shake machine like at Wendy's, McDonalds or BK. |
Saliva, and how the body makes so damn much of it. | Saliva has enzymes that are really useful. salivary amylase is an enzyme that starts the digestion of sugars. Lysozyme is an antibacterial enzyme that helps keep bacteria in our mouths from making us sick or making our teeth rot. Lastly, saliva helps keeps mucus membranes in our mouths and digestive tracts lubricated t... |
Why we prefer the flavor of unhealthy food? Why didn't we evolve to prefer good that makes us healthier/feel better? | It we take, for example, just sugar: it's a very useful way to get energy very quickly. But in the natural world, sugar is very hard to come by, and refined sugar simply doesn't exist. It's only since we've been refining sugar on an industrial scale and putting it into absolutely everything that it has become a health ... |
Why can't a PS4 title be played in PC even though its designed & created in a PC ? | Creating a game *using* a PC isn't the same as creating a game *for* a PC. Its technically possible to use a PC to make a ps4 game without ever having a version that will actually run on a PC. The way it works is you have a ps4 devkit, which is a special ps4 for developers. That connects to a PC and allows the PC to up... |
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