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How long could the infrastructure (gas, water, power, internet) run on auto-pilot in a developed country, and what factors would influence it? | Discovery did an interesting show called "Life After Humans" that discussed this in the event all humans just disappearedThe lynch pin would be power plants. Once the electricity goes down, everything goes down, gas pumps, municipal water plants, natural gas storage facilities, oil pipelines, etc power plants or any la... |
Why did Vietnam invade Cambodia in 1978? | At the time the Khmer Rouge dominated Cambodia and we're led by the ever insane Pol Pot. Pol Pot killed anywhere from a quarter to nearly half of his people in a brutal genocide. Not only that but he also feared the Vietnamese were attempting to dominate Indochina, so he began raiding into Vietnam and massacred their p... |
Why do fingers hurt, when they warm up after being cold? | It's because it's a low level Frostbite. Basically it is quite close to a burn. but because of the low temperature your nervous system is not very active in the first phase. to quote the wikipedia articcle that is pretty good on the subject "At or below 0 °C , blood vessels close to the skin start to constrict, and blo... |
How does the price of gold and petroleum fluctuate in market? | The way a market works is that there's a list of people who want to buy or sell, called the *order book*, along with the amounts and prices they want to buy or sell at. All the prices for the pending buy orders will be below the prices for the pending sell orders, because if they weren't the compatible orders would get... |
Why do puppies tilt their heads so much at like everything? | A dogs ears are symmetrical, which means that while hearing sounds left or right is easy, up or down is more difficult. A humans ear by contrast has a lot of curvatures that bounce sounds around and give us the ability to locate sounds coming from any direction that a dog can't. When they cock their head to the side wh... |
What's the difference between animal fur and animal skin? | Ultimately, there is no real ethical difference between using an animal skin and using animal fur. They both involve killing an animal and skinning it. The major argument I know of is that cowhide - the major animal skin used for fashion, which is converted into leather and suede - is more acceptable because cows are a... |
Why does a PC take so long to boot? Or at least a windows operating system. IT takes So long from button press to desktop arrival. Especially in today's ever-increasing speedy technology. | There are a lot of factors that contribute to startup time * Speed/quality of the drive - SSD provides a huge advantage here* Amount of shit in your startup - the more windows has to do when it starts up, the longer it takes* Memory/CPU - lesser importance, but having a good CPU/RAM helps Usually I find that long start... |
"Nestlé wants to own all the water!" What's really going on? | Nestle has purchased land rights to several water sources in Africa and denied access to the communities that previously relied on them. At one point the CEO of Nestle said water wasn't a [basic human right] |
how do small caves get explored ? | In theory any place you can get inn you could also get out off as the hole is the same size. In practice though there is a reason why cave exploration is considered one of the most dangerous hobbies.> Is there someone who just goes in as first That is the idea. Some crazy person jams themselves into a crack and sees if... |
Why do things make us high? | The chemicals in the drugs bond with receptors in the brain the way a key fits into a lock, causing the fun effects |
Why are there so many programming languages and what do they do. | Each programming language is like a tool. Some languages are very similar, and others are pretty different. . Programming languages are all tools used to accomplish the task of building something, creating behavior, or fixing problems. Learning the core concepts of one language generally serves you quite well in learni... |
Why does 100% acetone nail polish remover feel cold to the touch? | Acetone has a low boiling point so it evaporates easily. When things evaporate they require energy, and they acquire this energy by making whatever surface it used to be on colder. This is also how sweat cools you down. |
How does open sourcing .NET help Microsoft? | 1. Microsoft has by far the best tools for .NET. Those tools are free for individual users, open source developers, and academics, but rather expensive for businesses. The cheapest version is $500 a copy. The expensive version is $13,000. 2. If people write Android apps in Java or iOS apps in Objective-C, they have to ... |
How does the cold weather rob a car battery of its charge? | Chemical reactions typically slow as the temperature decreases. Cold weather, therefore, hampers a battery's ability to produce electricity. I have a hybrid car and I've noticed my mileage decrease in cold weather. It also decreases in hot weather when I use the air conditioning. |
How do piezoelectric sensors convert sound waves into an electric charge? | As sound waves vibrate the body of a wooden instrument, the wood gives off a *tiny* electromagnetic charge as the crystalline structures of the wood bend. These tiny electromagnetic changes cause a tiny magnetic plate in the sensor to move, by being attracted to or repelled by the electromagnetic forces. This tiny plat... |
Why do many R-rated movies only show quick flashes of nudity? | Film rating and classification groups take into account the duration of nudity when establishing an appropriate rating for a movie. Extended nudity may result in a higher film rating classification . Thus the nudity is presented relatively briefly as to keep the rating R or below. Movie studios are very concerned about... |
What are the economics for television networks/shows aimed at kids? | > How does a company like Nickelodeon make money Have you seen the amount of toy commercials they broadcast? Due to the enormous amounts of kids watching, they make lots of money of them. Kids will see a commercial, then want what is in it. Kids are very good at pressuring parents into buying stuff and kids are very im... |
Neither Cheddar Cheese or Butter is naturally Yellow. (In fact they're both white.) Why and when did they start adding food dye? | Grass fed butter is yellow, actually. Grass fed milk has a yellowish tint, too. Cheese made with high quality grass fed milk has an orange tint. Annatto was added to cheddar as both a flavoring and a colorant so that inferior cheese could replicate the color of grass fed milk when using cheaper milk. This started in th... |
Why are red, green and blue the primary light colours; but cyan, yellow and magenta are primary paint and ink colours? | Red + Green + Blue = White light. None of them = black With printing you are using white paper. Which means you don't need to make white. I.E. most modern printers can't actually print white unless it is specialized to be able to do so. Cyan, yellow, magenta, and black are used to do subtractive coloring, where you sub... |
Why can i open Reddit despite having the wrong date on my computer? | Websites get a certificate that proves that they are who they say they are. Basically there's a trusted authority who gives a code to the rightful owner of a website. This way if you try to go to YouTube and someone hijacks your signal then they can't pretend to be YouTube and steal your login info or send you erroneou... |
Does drinking cold water hydrate your body more then warmer water | I don't think warming the cold water takes a significant amount of extra energy to "dehydrate" you at all. However, a simple law of diffusion is that substances with more kinetic energy will flow and diffuse faster than those with less kinetic energy. Think of it like cold syrup vs hot syrup; obviously the hot is more ... |
Why does being scared open up super congested noses? | Being Scared activates our fight-flight response. With the sympathetic nervous system activated it triggers the release of adrenaline. This induces vasoconstriction of the blood vessels in the nose, throat, and paranasal sinuses, which results in reduced inflammation and mucus formation in these areas. Like taking deco... |
Why do electronic items (like headphones or laptops) slowly lose their charge when they're not being used? | These devices are always "waiting" for the cue to turn on and be used, so they never really "power off" completely. Your laptop is waiting for the lid to open or the power button to get pressed, and your headphones are just waiting for a signal, so a tiny bit of power is getting used 100% of the time . |
In the first and second generation Pokemon games, why do players have to save the game whenever they switch boxes? | Basically, it's because of the way the data was stored; it was easy or easier to have each box stored in its own hunk of data of the same size, then to copy the box data into the "current box" save location when switching boxes, which is what is edited by the present play. So, to switch boxes from box X to box Y, it sa... |
How does water sitting at room temperature (or colder) evaporate? | Not all molecules of water in a container have the same energy. The distribution of energy in substances typically looks like [this] . Molecules at the higher end of the distribution have sufficient energy to escape the water and form water vapour. You can see that as you increase temperature, you get more molecules in... |
Why does it feel so good to put my feet up after a long day of work? | it's because your feet swell a little bit due to gravity causing blood/fluid to pool, so putting your feet up lets them drain, reversing the swelling. |
Why is it easier to carry a dead man than the same man alive? | The opposite is true, a living person can actively hold on to you and situate themselves to make it easier for you to carry. A dead person offers you no aid. I suppose if the living person didn't WISH to be carried then a struggling alive person would be more difficult than a dead person. |
How do two tablespoons of pure caffeine kill you? o_O | Too much caffeine over-stimulates the nervous system, which leads to an irregular heart beat or cardiac arrest. Your heart gets too excited and forgets how to do its job. |
In regards to all the talk of Universal Basic Income and Robots taking our jobs. How would the government continue to gather taxes from citizens? | Simple, taxing corporations and producers.Though there would possibly be a "purchase" tax as wellThese are two different issues. One is on the side of government expenditures. The other is on the income side. Robots have to be manufactured. They have to be bought. Companies buy them to make money. Corporations pay a co... |
Why do our voices sound so odd/weird to us when we hear it? | When you talk, you're not just hearing your voice through the air. The vibrations in your throat, which is what makes your voice, travel through your neck, into your ears. Since vibrations spread out and slow down as they pass through the solids of your body, the sound lowers in pitch, so we hear our voices as deeper t... |
During hostage crises, why don't police just use sleeping gas to knock the perpetrators (and hostages) out? | The Russians [tried that once]. The gas resulted in killing over a hundred of the hostages. There's a reason why there is a high-priced doctor to administer and monitor the use of anesthetics during medical procedures--because it requires precise amounts to avoid overdosing, otherwise it winds up suppressing the body's... |
How do guitar amps amplify the sound? | A transistor! To answer the follow-up question of "okay and what the hell is a transistor" . A transistor is a lil\' electronics part made of silicon. Silicon has some funny properties: it's a semiconductor, and different stuff can influence how well it carries electricity. So a transistor has 3 connections on it: an i... |
What would it take for American and British English to actually be considered separate languages? | A certain percentage of the vernacular must be distinct and not mutually intelligible between the 2 languages', "I can't answer that, but I can say that's not going to happen. The reason languages evolved down separate paths in the past is because groups of people were isolated from one another. These days, all English... |
Why and how is it that when we continually spin around for a while, we develop the "dizziness feeling" after? | Your ears contain the vestibular system which is basically semicircular tunnels filled with a liquid with hairlike receptors on the walls of these tunnels. Those hairs notice the resistance of the liquid due to its inertia when you move your head/body, and signal to the brain accordingly. When you spin yourself for a w... |
How do we control our bladder? | There are two muscles called urethral sphincters that control the release of urine from the bladder, similar to those in the anus. The internal sphincter is involuntarily controlled by the body and the external sphincter is voluntary controlled. |
What actually happens when we "die of old age"? | That's a euphemism. There's always some underlying cause, but it's a cause that's associated with old age |
What is the difference between irony and poetic justice? | Irony has been mangled so badly you can't really get it wrong as the definitions these days include what would be considered wrong use In a nutshell though irony is something that has the opposite effect as intended. Example I'm in a car accident and my airbag deploys and breaks my neck killing me. A thing designed to ... |
Why do your eyes tear up when laying on your side? | I'm going to guess that because your tears are reabsorbed from the inner corner, when you're laying on your side gravity pulls the tears to the outer corner and they accumulate.Your eyes tear up when laying on your side? Wtf?', "Mine have done this for as long as I can remember. I thought it was a family thing because ... |
Why do websites and videos that are loading slow appear to play or load right after you click the refresh button | The website is loading into a buffer, and won't be displayed until it's fully loaded when you click refresh or back it dumps the buffer to the screen before wiping it |
Why do you see individual pixels in small droplets of water on an LED screen? | The droplets form a kind of lens which magnifies the screen under them, showing the colored segments which make up the pixels of the screen. |
How do companies like walmart clearly breach contracts and then are able to hold up the court process for years to bankrupt the person who is suing them | [They're not supposed to be able to]. > Also why do we not have laws in place like most other developed countries where the losing party in a lawsuit pays for the other sides legal fees as well? Because what ends up happening is people with legitimate complaints choose not to sue because the risk is too high. I might h... |
Why do we tend to get headaches while reading in a moving vehicle? | You get sensory information from your eyes but you also get them from your inner ears - that's where you also get a sense of balance and movement. When the input from your eyes doesn't match up to the inner ear . Normally this kind of non-matching input only happens when you are sick so your body kind of gets confused. |
The school voucher system in America that the GOP is pushing for | Parents of school-age children would have a choice between sending their kids to public school, or getting a "voucher" that they could use towards the tuition of a private school or religious school. It's controversial for a few reasons: -Many people worry that a voucher system would lead the better public school stude... |
Why does a lighter not explode when lit? | There are two things at play: First: The butane which burns is pressurized inside the lighter, it is expelled at such a rate that it only mixes with enough oxygen that it can ignite a few milometers above the nozzle. Second: There is not enough oxygen inside the lighter for combustion to occur inside. Think about it li... |
Why do so many people support Bernie Sanders? What makes him different from all those presidents that said one thing before they were elected and did the opposite when they were elected? | Look, it's simple. He makes the best-tasting chicken for the money, no one can argue with that", 'Sanders is a real, honest-to-God socialist, the only one in Congress who openly admits it . As such, many liberals see him as a "legit" guy in a sea of people who talk the talk but don't walk the walk. Would he actually tu... |
Will there be any sort of energy deficit caused by the Solar Eclipse next week? | Technically yes, as blocking the sun will inevitably block some solar cells and the theoretical power they would have produced. However the duration of the eclipse in any given location, the relatively small amount of reliance on solar power, and the high variability of solar power in the first place will make this irr... |
Tony Abbott's political views and why his video got banned. | His vid is back up. He posted a vid outlining what a brilliant job he's doing following through with his election promises. The vid was flagged by a lot of viewers for containing deceptive claims and it, and his account, were autobanned by Youtube. YT has since reinstated both the vid and his account. Basically Tony Ab... |
Why the most common amount of lives is 3 in video games? | Old games were often arcade ports. One quarter would get you your initial 3 lives while each extra life after was generally one quarter. The idea being if your initial start up was just one life and you die early on you'd leave the game for a less frustrating one. But if you're a skilled player giving you too many star... |
Why is Greenpeace so vehemently against nuclear power? | Because it uses potentially dangerous materials and because it obviates the need for more "preferred" forms of power like solar and wind. The problem is, of course, nuclear power is one of the cleanest and safest forms of power that exist. Even if you take into account the number of accidents and deaths from nuclear po... |
Why is seafood safe to eat raw (ex: sushi, sashimi) while chicken and other farm animal produce can harm us when raw? | Seafood can harm you too, it can have parasites. People do eat raw chicken, in Japan it's eaten like beef tartare. I imagine it's mostly about probabilities and how that food type is raised/cleaned/prepared in that country. Plus cultural history, hard to tell people they can't eat something their ancestors have been ea... |
What happens to our bodies when we faint? | There are a lot of reasons people faint. If you get hit hard enough, your brain may knock against the inside your skull and may shut down as a defense mechanism. You may have low blood pressure, which will caused oxygen supply to lower to the brain. Your brain responds by shutting down. You may be hyperventiliating, wh... |
How can we tell the chemical compositions of far off planets, stars and other cosmic bodies simply by looking at them? | When you shine a light through a gas or bounce it off an object, certain wavelengths are absorbed. By analyzing the spectrum of light coming from an object, we can match it against known spectrums from Hydrogen, Helium, Argon, etc, etc to figure out what it's made of. It's sort of like listening to a song and being abl... |
What is an RSS feed and how does one make use of it? | RSS is a type of webpage that makes a very brief summary of each Blog or News article put up by the Website owner. RSS Readers will check this summary every now and then to see if it changed, and will download the little summary, sort of like an Email. It can also be used to automate downloads, such as torrenting your ... |
Can there be a law that prevent a bias/discrimination in the way criminal and victim are treated in our justice system based on their genders? Like a “No Gender Courtroom/reporting”? | This would be really practically difficult. What about in a case where the gender is really relevant to the crime, or will become obvious through evidence- like medical evidence for a sexual assault could be instantly telling .In a criminal trial in an adversarial system, the point is to question the evidence. Trials a... |
Why do many people in Russia (as seen in dashcam footage) cross streets on such a dangerous way? | The short answer is that Russians don't give a fuck. The slightly less short answer is that it's a byproduct of having an extremely huge and dispersed country. Crossing the road dangerously is just one of the countless ways that Russia breaks the social mold that other, mainly Western countries have established. Since ... |
Why are the words "how come" used to ask why? | It is a shortened form of "**how** did that **come** about?" Just like when you ask *what's up*, you mean "what is up with you?" |
Why are the atmospheres in Doha/Dubai always hazy and no clouds? | It's all about dryness. Clouds are caused by moisture, which this area usually lacks. The haze is caused by particles of dust in the air: the ground is so dry, bits of sand and dry dirt are blown into the air. Smoke adds to it. |
When someone "smacks" some kind of electronics device, what happens inside of them that sometimes makes them start working again? | Lots of chips have tens to hundreds of little pins that have to be soldered to the board. Any flexing can cause one or more of those pins to break loose. Now sometimes this won't cause it to stop working if pressure is still keeping the pin and the pad in contact. But sometimes, it doesn't, and when you hit the device,... |
Why whistleblowing is dangerous to the whistleblower and in some cases illegal? | > Also, why has there been so much more unified and consistent support for Edward Snowden than there was for say Bradley Manning? Snowden blew the whistle on a specific scheme/pattern of conduct about which he had personal knowledge. While the information was classified to some extent, it potentially effects every U.S.... |
Why do newer versions of GCC not work with code for previous releases ? | Hmm could you give some example of what type of incompatible you're seeing? Only thing I can think of is c++ abi incompatibility between versions, but that can be sorted by recompiling all libraries with the newer version of gcc |
Pat Tillman, I feel like I'm missing something | While you are getting the gist of it there are a few things you seem to be missing. It wasn't just that the U.S. Army tried to cover up his death, its that the military and the Bush administration attempted to use him as a poster child for the Iraq War in order to drum-up support and recruits after his death. He was aw... |
Why does the space shuttle roll after launch? | **Edit: yes, I'm slightly dyslexic** During launch the space shuttle is trying to reach orbit. This requires going up and ~~West~~ East, but mostly ~~West~~ East. Space is not very far away , so the hard part of reaching orbit is not so much getting up as dealing with the falling back down. The space shuttle deals with... |
Why are education and health services so expensive in the US? | Public education is only paid by the state until high school ends. University, college, or trade school are paid for by the student. They cost about as much as a new car per year . Health insurance exists, but not everyone has it. Insurance itself is expensive. Also, insurance doesn't cover ALL health costs - they usua... |
Why do really long exposure photos weigh more MB? Shouldn't every pixel have the same amount of information regardless of how many seconds it was exposed? | The jpeg format we store photos in is designed to store a good photograph efficiently. A good photo has large areas of smooth, even gradients, and Jpeg does a great job of *compressing* these to take up less space. A long exposure photo will have more random 'roughness' in the picture. It will be much more *noisy*, wit... |
Why haven't we been back to the moon if we've already been? Why haven't we been back since then? | It's really expensive, and not incredibly valuable scientifically to send humans to the moon. You are far better off spending those dollars on probes sent to other planets and moons in the solar system. The only justification for sending humans to the moon is to 1.) Prove you can do it, and 2.) One up the Soviet Union. |
How would your programme in a quantum computer? | That depends on the quantum computer model. If it's a **gate based** model, then there will have to be a low-level assembly language that tells you what gates to apply when and to what qubits, when to perform measurements. Those gate based models are still super far away, though, so it's hard to tell how they'll eventu... |
where do rivers start? | Technically, in the sky. Rainfall hits the ground in geographically delineate areas called 'catchment basins'. Basically these areas are divided by high ridges. All the rain falling on one side of a ridge may run down to the east, and all the rain falling on the other side to the west, for example. This rainfall follow... |
Why is Politics not a compulsory course from high school through college? | A "politics" course sounds a lot like government indoctrination. In high school we already have courses that cover the branches of government, how elections work, etc. How much further do you think it should go?', "The better question is why aren't financial classes mandatory. Too many financial illiterate adults in so... |
how do you install something on a hard drive that has nothing to install it onto (eg operating system onto a blank hard drive)? | Computers have tiny computers inside them Caledonia the BIOS. It has just enough smarts to let you move files from some storage device onto the hard drive', "A computer doesn't have to be booted from a hard drive. They can also boot from a disc, or even a flash drive. The media it boots from contains coding to write it... |
What is a choke hold? | Respiratory and vascular chokeholds restrict blood flow to the brain, depriving it of oxygen. In turn, somebody being "choked out" loses consciousness. If the brain is deprived of oxygen for prolonged periods, serious brain damage can occur. Chokeholds are used in a variety of martial arts. Either as a self-defence mec... |
Why is self-harm such a relief? | Sometimes the physical pain blocks out the mental painPain releases chemicals in your brain that make you feel betterThe feeling of having control over something when you have control over nothing can make some feel relieved from the mental pressure of feeling like every things uncontrollable.It *may* have to do with t... |
what we can expect IF Romney was elected. | None really. Most people don't realize that our government is a little more skewed than originally designed. The vast majority of things people blame on the president are a result of Congress making poor/no decisions. |
Why do I find myself bouncing my leg up and down when on a chair?? | Shaking one's leg up and down while sitting is incredibly common. It doesn't have to be your leg, some people want to fidget with something in their hands, but in general it comes off as a nervous habit. I believe it has to do with energy that is pent up and not being used. I 've found that if I am truly tired or exhau... |
Why are the Greek and Roman Gods, legends and myths so similar | They are the same stories. The Romans adopted the Greek gods and myths because Greece was the most prestigious culture in the northern med.Basically the Romans ripped off the Greeks' gods. The Roman Pantheon was originally different, presumably, but sometime when Greece was integrated into the Roman Empire the Romans d... |
During exercise, why is is better to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth? | I don't think there's a consensus that in through the nose, out through the mouth is the best way to breathe while exercising. Breathing in through your nose has some advantages. It warms and moistens the air before it gets to your lungs and your nose hairs also filter out some of the crap in the air. Breathing out thr... |
Why are Teslas super fast off the line and yet at a certain point a non-electric super car will catch up to it? | It's pretty simple, they have instant full torque at any RPM , however, they are not powerful motors, at least not as powerful as a Lambo, meaning their horsepower isn't enough, plus, Tesla's are damn heavy, over 1000lb heavier. |
Are AP's (Assistant Principals) at my school really allowed to search me whenever they feel? | No, they can't search you whenever they feel like. But they can search you if they have a reasonable suspicion you are carrying contraband. > Although the underlying command of the Fourth Amendment is always that searches and seizures be reasonable, what is reasonable depends on the context within which a search takes ... |
Why is there a split second between feeling an impact (eg, stubbing your toe) and feeling the pain? | The time it takes for the feelings to reach your brain and your brain to process that as "painful"Physical sensations like pain travel from nerve endings to the brain via electrical signals within the nervous system. The transmission of these signals, while very fast, is not instantaneousNerve impulses do not travel at... |
why many malls are closing across us? | Because no one goes to them anymore. Why would we? We can get the best stuff online and not have to deal with a damn mall. |
How can Hooters hire strictly female servers without getting into some kind of legal trouble concerning discrimination? | There's a provision in the law which says > Notwithstanding any other provision it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees on the basis of his religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupationa... |
I grew up thinking that turning off your engine for a short stop only uses more fuel. How are the current start-stop functions a good idea if this is true? | This is still true. Cars with automatic start-stop function won't stop again if the last start was not long enough ago. |
Why isn't the insurance industry lobbying heavily to stop climate change? | First a brief review about how the insurance industry works: * If I'm an insurance company, and you are purchasing property insurance from me, then I need to calculate how much I'm going to charge you for this insurance.* This calculation involves certain variables, but it basically boils down to this: How likely is it... |
Why are houses in older communities so spaced out in age, compared to newer neighborhoods?(US) | Most neighborhoods built after the 1950s, ie subdivisions in the suburbs, are built all at once. Meaning they will all be built within a year of each other and use 1-5 building plans. Homes built in cities or on privately owned lots outside the city limits that are not a part of a subdivision are built as the owner wan... |
If every other human was immediately killed, how long would it take for me to lose electricity, water, internet, cell signal etc. | Electricity cell and internet very quickly. Electrical plants require a lot of human intervention to function and many have failsafes that will automatically shut them down. So days, and electricity takes the internet and cell phones down with it. Water depends on location. Water pressure comes from a large water tank ... |
What is stopping any one from dropping another A bomb? | The knowledge that if they do, an A-bomb will be dropped on them. It's called MAD and it's actually kind of worked so far. When many of the world's largest countries can fire within a few minutes, there's no guarantee that the person who orders a nuke won't be nuked themselves before they can get to safety.Mutually ass... |
why are ad videos shown without problem on my phone but when the video starts the internet becomes slow? | Because ads are cached, because they are smaller and loaded more frequently than videos. Moreover, they doesn't come from the targeted site but from an API that is [probably geographically closer to you than the site server]. |
why does being upset mentally cause physical symptoms of sickness? | Mental upset causes your body to release stress hormone. Prolonged presence of stress hormone triggers shut down of digestive functions which causes the diarrhoea, loss of appetite, inappropriate reaction to certain foods, ect. It also alters brain functions which can cause headaches, brain fog, ect. The immune system ... |
Why is there such a lack of the color blue in nature? | Simply put:It's quite expensive, biologically speaking. This will probably get removed for not being specific enough or something, but that sums it up.Are all the oceans, and the entire sky not included in this nature you speak of?Part of the explanation\xa0for this is how most plants convert sunlight into energy for g... |
Why insane persons cannot be executed via capital punishment when the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) prohibits discrimination? | That's a hell of a cross-connection! The ADA prohibits _situational_ discrimination. It is not a thing that says "you can't treat people differently". So..thats part of it. There are five titled areas of the ADA, each covering these specific circumstances. The application of criminal justice isn't one of them. Even fur... |
How do gas turbine engines work? | All internal combustion engines work on a very simple principle. Suck, squeeze, bang, blow. Turbine engines suck in air, squeeze it between spinning blades, ignite fuel, and then blow it out of the back. The spinning blades compress the air between stationary blades. When air is compressed, it gets hot. With enough com... |
What is this whole trend about bashing game developers for "unfinished games"? | Traditionally, this is for console games . Basically, console games nearly always enter a pre-order phase well in advance of release. This is to give the developers more money, so they can give you more content than you would have normally gotten had you been one of the unfortunates who actually wait until the game is ... |
What is an RPG (role-playing game)? | No, Call of Duty isn't seen as a role playing game. The big reason is because those playing a role playing game have at least some decision making in the direction the game takes even if it has a predefined end point. In Call of Duty you just have separate missions to take part in and the games are basically on rails. ... |
How does a choke on a carburetor work, and why is it necessary? | A carburetor is a calibrated device that delivers a set amount of fuel per unit of air passing through it. Cold engines need a richer mix to start up. The choke closes to block some of the air from entering the engine to richen the mix and allow the engine to startYour carburetor mixes fuel with air to form a vapor tha... |
What are the legal/tax differences between civil unions and marriage? | Some states have civil unions that are marriages in all but name; others have differences that vary by state, and still others have limited domestic partner benefits/protections. The main constant is that - because of DOMA - all federal taxes are assessed as a non-married couple. You can live in a state where your civi... |
Why do critic reviews and fan reviews tend to differ so greatly in media such as TV, movies, and games? | Because they're reviewing different things. It's basically the difference between a professional and a layperson. This *is* simplified, but you can apply it to, say, cars. A regular person will see a car and go "Wow, that thing's so sleek and shiny and goes fast!" and a professional mechanic will say "That car has junk... |
If Android is just an OS on the Hardware that is my phone, how is it possible to 'brick' it? | In your PC, you have two operating systems; the one you are familiar with and work with every day , and then there is the BIOS. The BIOS handles computing before your main OS loads. It shows the boot screen and tells you if a hard drive is unplugged or something. If you want to load a different OS from a different disk... |
Why does it feel faster traveling home then traveling to a certain location? | I'm from Long Island NY. A month ago I went to visit my friend at American University . The ride there felt pretty long. The ride back didn't seem nearly as time consuming. I think it's because on the way there I didn't know any of the places we were passing. On the way back I would see something and think, "Oh we're g... |
Why do movie studios opt for CGI when it seems like practical affects would be cheaper, easier for actors to work with, and preferred by audiences? | Because CGI generally does look better the reason alot of people think practical effects are better is because we only notice bad CGIPractical effects are generally not cheaper. At least not in modernity. They are also very difficult on the actors. You are looking at hours of time applying the practical and hours of ti... |
Why does acupuncture work? | There is no sound evidence suggesting that acupuncture works for anything other than as a placeboBecause when the needles are removed, you no longer have hundreds of tiny swords stabbing you all over your naked body, which tends to feel pretty nice. I joke, I joke. |
How come we can multiply by zero, but we can't divide by it? | It helps to think about what division actually means. If I write, say, 6 ÷ 3 = 2, what do I mean by that? Well, I mean that, if you multiply 2 by 3, you'll get 6. In other words, 6 ÷ 3 represents "the number that, when multiplied by 3, gives you 6". Obviously there is only one such number. But with zero, you run into t... |
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