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how can we tell the composition of planets/stars/other celestial bodies just by looking at them? | Spectroscopy. You can take the light from an object, and use a prism to break it up into the rainbow. That rainbow will have different gaps in it, called bands, depending on the different materials that emitted or reflected the light, because they absorb some of the light. Comparing the spectrum from an objects light t... |
Why are witches of the occult often portrayed as green-skinned? | The Wizard of Oz movie. It was of course in GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR and they wanted the witch to look weird and otherworldly, so they chose green. It was also a colour that looked really vivid. The look was so iconic and terrifying to children of the day that it became the de facto image for witches. |
Why does eating two individually delicious food items simultaneously often not taste twice as good? | Because the foods probably don't go well together. Our taste buds accept only a relatively small combination of foods that will taste "good" together.Not sure if you were looking for something based in science or fact/etc, but I feel like it's because the flavors the first dish has will be muted out by/ruined by the se... |
ASMR (Autonomous sensory meridian response) | You know that tingly feeling down your spine and the goosebumps you get when someone scratches your back, or plays with your hair, or softly caresses your skin? Or when you hear a really good song, or watch a great movie/tv and you get chills? That is ASMR. There are a multitude of ways to trigger this affect in people... |
How do Wikipedia editors operate as compared to Reddit Moderators? | Very very different. There is no application for or privilege associated with being a Wikipedia editor. In fact, you are a Wikipedia editor right now, you are just not choosing to contribute. That is honestly the truth. Being a Wikipedia editor is comparable to being a Reddit *user* who makes posts/comments. That said,... |
Why do all dumpsters smell the same? | You're not smelling the trash, you are smelling the waste product of micro organisms that are eating the trash. Since all microorganisms have more-or-less the same goal they are going to generate similar waste products in doing so. This is especially true for microorganisms feeding on similar materials, in this case tr... |
Why does the Reddit community in the comment section of Youtube seem so much less likable than the Reddit community on Reddit? | Because the thumbs up/down system on Youtube works differently from the one on Reddit. The Youtube comment system favors comments that are highly controversial by moving them to the topBecause those are the type of people who comment on Youtube videos. Horrible, terrible people', "Because reddit, unlike Youtube, is mod... |
what's the difference between a bomb cyclone and a hurricane? | A bomb is the term for a non-tropical low pressure system that rapidly intensifies. Bombs are a cold-weather fed system often dependent on strong upper level winds, whereas hurricanes are fed by warm, moist air and thrive in weak upper level winds. |
how do they know there are no matching finger prints? | They arent completely unique, mathematically speaking. Testing for prints is based on probability. The odds of someone having the same fingerprints as you that lives in the same area as you is incredibly, *incredibly* small. Fingerprint matching is used to reduce the likelihood of the prints belonging to someone other ... |
What is the use of the pinky toe to the human body (or foot)? Seems that it's only there to be stubbed on something very painfully. | It helps provide balance. It's the outermost digit of the foot and helps stabilize the foot as we move. |
(Male Question)- Why is it hard to pee after ejaculation and should it burn? | Your urethra, is constricted by the recent boner. The burning sensation is normal after ejaculation. God mode challenge: pee with a boner, dont lose boner.to prevent peeing during sex, your body actively tries to turn off your ability to urinate. anatomy is something I suck at so someone else will have to provide the p... |
Why are Emergency Rooms so cold? | when a room is cold, it slows down the spread of sickness and airborne-illness ^^ simple as that :) |
Why can digital cameras shoot video in, say, 60fps, but can't take 60 pictures in one second? What's makes video different? | The way a photo file is compressed is different than a way a video is compressed. Please note that there are many expensive cameras that shoot videos as a "series" of individual photos. These are often referred to as Prores videos, raw videos, or sometimes just a pile of 24 individual pictures per second of video plus ... |
This photo/video reflection removal algorithm | _URL_0_ > Zoran and Yair Weiss of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem created an algorithm that divides images into 8-by-8 blocks of pixels; for each block, it calculates the correlation between each pixel and each of the others. The aggregate statistics for all the 8-by-8 blocks in 50,000 training images proved a relia... |
How do online games run? | Your computer cannot show you anything from the internet without downloading what it wants to show you from it first. Online games run like every other game. The game logic and all accompanying assets such as sounds, models, textures, sprites, whatnot, are downloaded and executed from your computer. Then the computer r... |
What is happening biologically when we are watching someone else embarrass themselves and we have to "cringe" or look away. | It is referred to as "vicarious embarrassment", and seems to have to do with your capacity for empathy. Not a good ELI5 but here's a study [Linking Empathy to Vicarious Embarrassment] Although this is still very much being experimented on, there is a hypothesis that explains why we feel this way sometimes. In general, ... |
What exactly is Déjà Vu and what causes it? | It's when images that are occurring now get misfiled or accidentally put into the long term memory part of the brain, so even though it's happening it feels like it's happened before. Don't know what causes the mishap or even if that's scientifically correct but what I've always thought it was.Vsauce explains it all in... |
How are the Popes named? | They choose their own name upon being elected pope. It's actually the first thing the Pope does, immediately after being elected.When a cardinal is elected Pope, he traditionally takes on a new name called his papal name, which is used from that point forward. Every pope for the last 500 years or so has taken on a new ... |
Why do I yawn when I'm nervous? | Yawning is usually caused by breathing irregularly. Depending on the type of person you are, when you're nervous you might breathe shallower and quicker, causing your body to realize this irregular pattern and attempt to correct it. |
We are sending an animated gif to a distant planet, IF there were an intelligent species of aliens up there how would they know binary? | Figuring out binary would nee easy. Figuring out the file format and compression would take a lot more work on their part.Binary is one of the billions of ways to *count* . We use 10-nary, or decimal. But of all these different systems, binary is the simplest. It only has 2 different digits, 0 and 1, which can be used ... |
Why does smoking cannabis give people "the munchies"? | As I believe it, like drinking alcohol, after smoking weed, your body's glucose level gets low. Your brain makes you eat food to get the sugar levels to normal. Edit: Spelling |
Why is the heart symbol associated with love, and why does this symbol not look like a real human heart? | It represents a woman's ass. Not even kidding", 'I thought that it had something to do with the highly effective contraceptive herb Silphium used by the, I think, RomansThe heart symbol was originally a symbolic representation of human testicles. |
Since I assume hacking/DDoS attacks are illegal, how have groups such as Anonymous and Our mine not been discovered and arrested? | It helps that Anonymous isn't a group. It's just a name that some hackers and a lot of neckbeards operate under whenever they're doing things. Individuals definitely get arrested but you can't arrest everyone who calls themselves Anonymous, only the ones who do something illegal and get caught. |
Why aren't we coughing or sneezing while we sleep? | *basically* it's because the part of your brain that causes the reflex of sneezing isn't very active. It also doesn't respond to stimulation of dust etc", 'Your brain puts your body into a state of semi - paralysis while you sleep to make sure you stay at rest. People who sleep walk have a chemical dysfunction in this ... |
Wouldn't producing cultured meat increase the chances of producing cancer cells? | Even if it did, it doesn't really pose a risk to humans--you don't incorporate cells from food into yourself, but thoroughly destroy them, and absorb some of the component chemicals. |
How does genetics prove there's no such thing as race? | Being Black/White/Asian isn't a species. Your professor is trying get that across. Your skin color or hair type is no different then your family lineage having big ears or a beak like nose. The CFTR gene, Sickle Cell, Tay-Sachs are common in groups of people yes. But that's just a simple case of those people in that ar... |
Why aren't urinals marketed for home use? | You can buy and install a urinal for your home. I know people who have done this, and I've considered doing this too. Most people don't do this because you'll still need a toilet to poop. In most homes where space is at a premium, it's much more efficient to install a toilet that can handle both poop and pee. Also, wom... |
why UK doesn't want an European Federation? | Your friends suggest that it would be in everyone's interest to group together and rent a large house. Your friends are mostly good people, but Bill is known to leave his shit everywhere and rarely does dishes, he's a slob and you don't "fit" with his lifestyle. Furthermore, Joe has a gambling problem. You know that Jo... |
Why does bamboo grow so fast? | It's actually pretty simple and remarkable. The first thing to understand is that it's a grass. The second thing is that if you look at the base of a bamboo plant there's a cone-shaped bud where it grows from. When this bud is growing, it contains all of the cells it will have through it's lifetime. So as it's growing,... |
If I wear a magnetic suit and enter a room with a magnetic floor, and that repelling thing happens, would I float? | If the magnet was strong enough, and oriented the correct way, then you'd briefly float, but then you'd spin around and stick to the floor. You cannot stably levitate an object against gravity using static magnetic fields. This is a consequence of [Earnshaw's theorem]. If you want to acheive stable magnetic levitation,... |
How does putting black charcoal marks below your eyes help you see better in sunlight? | It reduces glare from light reflected under your eye and then into the eye.It's like standing in the sand, the glare from the sand makes it harder to see.Myth Busters did a segment on this. It does not work without a hat with cover over the eyes. But when you are wearing a ball cap the light that would bounce off of yo... |
How do people in India know who the Dalits (untouchables) are and why can’t this group do anything to change their status like change their name or profession? | In cities and towns for most practical purposes like in your school, work, shops or while doing business you don't actually know the person's caste and neither you care. But I'm villages it is quite different. Your social circle is quite small and everyone knows everyome else. Here your caste is part of your identity. ... |
Does keeping a magnet further away on a metallic object decrease its magnetic attraction to other metallic objects? | Magnetic fields are distance dependent yes. The further from the objects it is attracting the weaker the attractive force will be. |
How, why and when is inflation good for us and the economy? | its all in the article.the benefit of inflation is just psychological. economically, there is not benefit for inflation, the opposite is true:it devalues uninvested capital. if you 5000 $ on your bank account are worth less after a year, you're less inclined to not spend it.while spending in general is good, bigger amo... |
Why is South Korea disbanding their Coast Guard because of one incident? | It is a political move that has a relatively low cost. The Korean people have been very disappointed with Park's handling of the ferry disaster, so she looks strong, and less responsible, for disbanding the coast guard. She essentially shifts the blame, looks like a tough guy; and doesn't really lose anything, because ... |
Why do cold drinks "sweat" in hot weather? | Air has water vapor in it, which is what we call humidity. The amount of water that air can hold depends on the temperature; hot air can hold more water than cold air, so if its 80 degrees and 50% relative humidity and you suddenly cool the temperature to 60 degrees , the relative humidity would jump up to 100% because... |
is human decency a new invention? | What makes you think that people in this century are suddenly decent when nobody else was? We may not be burning holes through people's tongues, but we're putting teenagers in prison for life because they were selling marijuana, we're laughing while we terrorize hard working family men because they crossed a border wit... |
Why is it that typically we cannot remember anything from when we are were very young, like when we were infants? | We simply don't record memories at that age in the same way we do as an adult. As adults We don't remember everything we see, think, feel and experience. It's just way too much data. But as a young child our hardware isn't set up to record memories in the way we do as an adult. The experiences we have as a child are st... |
The difference between upper business management positions such as president, vice president, board of directors, owner, chairman, CEO, ect. | There are some standard positions, but most titles are a matter of negotiations - people like nice titles - policy, marketing and such. The big ones are owners - in a private company, they own the company. They may hire others to help run it, and give those people titles, but that is their choice. When a company issues... |
Why do typical spray pump bottles of cologne or perfume evaporate quickly when left on their side or "tipped over" but not upright? | I don't have data to back this up but my hypothesis is that us has to do with the seal on the bottle. These seals aren't perfect which is why you get evaporation in the first place. When the bottle is on its side this allows liquid to contact the opening. Since liquid is 100s to 1000s of times more dense then vapors th... |
If I were able to attain enough money to hire a team capable of sending me into space, and buy the spacecraft itself, would anyone be legally allowed to stop me? | Goodness no! In fact, you'd probably get a prize, if you were able to do something novel up there. We're actively encouraging civilian spaceflight through a number of initiatives, including SpaceX Prizes and general tax breaks for corporations even attempting it. Mind you you'd have to schedule your launch past air tra... |
what are the odds of eye color? | Short answer: Can't tell you without more information. There are two genes which control eye color: Herc2 and Gey. Herc2: In order for you to have green eyes, you MUST have two recessive alleles. For your kids to have green eyes, your wife MUST have a dominant and recessive allele. The chance that each of your kids wou... |
Why would a business person buy a money-losing sports team like the Phoenix Coyotes? | For many people simply owning a professional sports team is worth $20 million a year. But really that's the downside but there is plenty of upside. If the Coyotes lose a combined $50 million in the next 5 years they can move the team to a more profitable city where they can recoup their losses. Or they can turn the tea... |
What is internet throttling? | Internet throttling is when an Internet Service Provider actively restricts your download speed. That is why sometimes you can do a speed test and achieve high speeds, but when you torrent or download something, it is a lot slower. It's a mechanism designed to prevent the overall network from being too slow. To answer ... |
With $1,000,000 for a medallion how can TLC drivers ever profit? | The medallion is an asset, and honestly, an amazing asset to own. It never expires. It requires no maintenence. It appreciates over time. So, it might cost $1M to buy one today, but you can use it for your entire life and sell it for far more when you're done with it. Over the past 75 years, there's been about a 15% re... |
How can someone increase their IQ? | There's many varying answers to this question. Some of the most regularly offered up options are: * Reading* Learning new skills * Brain games Personally, I listen to classical and read for 30 minutes every night where possible. I can't say with certainty that it's helped my IQ but I'm definitely a lot sharper at work ... |
Why does Call of Duty have so many NAT issues while other games don't? | Honestly, It's cause cods trash nowadays. They don't put in the time to fix all these isues cause they're too concerned with trying to push the next money grab of a game out. There's that, and the fact that on top of it there's so many noobs from all over the world trying to play at once that the servers just say fuck ... |
How did being a "romance language" skip the area between Eastern Italy and Western Romania? | It didn't really "skip" that area; in the past other Romance languages were spoken between eastern Italy and Romania, as well as in much of the Balkans, so it was all a "connected" area. These regions were Romanised during the Roman Empire, so they had their own Romance languages, like Dalmatian , Pannonian , and even ... |
How is pressure on a hot water line maintained after travelling through a water heater? | Putting the water through a tank doesn't change the fact that it's under pressure. If water coming in is under a certain pressure, water leaving the tank will be under the same pressure. |
why are you always able to remember lyrics even without having heard that song for years? | I agree - human memory is actually a pretty bad system - we misremember many things, even if we fully believe that we are correct, and that's not even taking into account the vast amount of information that we forget on a regular basis. But that being said, you're right. Things like songs often stick with us even thoug... |
Why do we go through a bed wetting phase as children? | Because you have to learn to wake up when you have to pee. Babies don't have that skill. It is something you learn in toddlerhood, after you get out of diapers and wetting the bed means wet sheets. |
How do respected news sites determine that a photo is genuine before they publish it? | *Respected* news sites won't buy photos from a source they have not vetted and is known to be reliable. If they post unverified photos, they will make this clear using words like "Alleged" and "Not independently verified"I remember reading not too long ago about a news agency that was no longer accepting photos shot in... |
Can someone please explain carbon credits? | The government tries to limit the amount of harmful pollution a company makes. If you produce less than a certain amount, you can get a [carbon credit], which they can sell , thus creating a cash incentive for companies to produce less: if they produce less they won't have to spend money to buy credits and if they are ... |
Why do some people's Ubuntu terminal say "root@ubuntu" whereas mine says "root@host"? | try > sudo hostname ubuntu then > /bin/bash this will temporarily change your hostname to ununtu What's going on is, your hostname is set to "host", probably when you were setting it up that was the default. [This Article] will tell you how to use > sudo gedit /etc/hostname /etc/hosts to change it permanently |
Are all biological processes thermodynamically favorable? | Gluconeogenesis he meant. But yes the processes are thermodynamically favorable because these chemical reactions are done inside the body with a specific temperature and pH. If you were to do these chemical reaction in open air, nothing would happen.now to keep these processes running, we eat and breath. to not only su... |
Why do things turn red to eventually white when they get really hot? | Everything we can see emits thermal radiation, and the color of light of that radiation is determined by a frequency, or a mixture of frequencies. As something heats up, it emits the lowest frequency of visible light , and it gets hotter and hotter, it starts to emit higher frequency visible light . The thing is, as an... |
Please someone explain to me the basics of SEO. | I recommend hiring a person/people to do that for you if you have literally zero experience. If you still want to do it yourself, I recommend reading some beginner tutorials, like for example: _URL_1_ _URL_2_ In short, the goal of SEO is to get your page to appear higher in google/bing search results. 1) One of the mai... |
What is the JD Power Award? | JD Power is a marketing research firm. Companies shove piles of cash at Power and tell them, "Find out what our customers really want and what they really think of us." The companies then use that information to find out how to offer more appealing products and services. The awards that JD Power gives out are a marketi... |
Perks of having money in a Swiss bank account. | Depending on where you live, Switzerland may have advantages of being a neutral country with a generally stable currency so there's a good chance that the bank and your money will still be there when you come back for it. In most cases though the attraction in privacy, either for its own sake or to make tax evasion eas... |
Why don't commercial airplanes have parachutes for passengers in case of something happen? | Why not just build a huge parachute for the airplane itself. One in the front, the middle and the tail. Pilot and co-pilot can control which chute to deploy and a big red button to super deploy all three chutes. 3 hulk sized chute vs approx 300 individual chutes?', "Because there's almost no situation where parachutes ... |
Eurozone not worried about a Greek exit anymore? | When the fear of Greek default hit the papers in 2009, other southern European countries like Italy, Spain and Portugal were in a very similar situation as Greece. People feared that Greece's default would cause domino effect all over a half of Euro zone. The situation today in other countries seem to be a bit better t... |
Why is Jet Lag such a big deal? | It is actually not a big deal until you get older. I have traveled the world and it is not that bad. Staying up late or breaking night to catch up is a simple fix but I am not a great sleeper to begin with. Some react differently. I have been with friends and SOs that were useless after a long flight and had to nap it ... |
How does my body differentiate between food and drink? | The brain has a hard time telling the difference between signals for hunger and thirst. That's why one of the biggest recommendations for people trying to lose weight is to drink a glass of water and wait a bit when you think you're hungry. Because of the amount of liquid in tomato soup, it would probably be pretty goo... |
How refugee screening is done. | [This] article gives a pretty good overview of the process. Basically, people from the United Nations High Council on Refugees go to places where refugees are and they register them. This involves interviews , background checks , and other forms of screening as are appropriate . The UNHCR then refers a small number of ... |
Why are riddles/mysteries that are many years old still not solved? | Why is a raven like a writing desk?', "Some mysteries may not be solvable. Just because a person can think up the problem/mystery/riddle doesn't mean there's a solution. What an example, OP, of an unsolved riddle? |
What determines the number of eggs a woman is born with? | They are born with far more eggs than their body can ever use. About two million actuallyAs others have said, women are born with a huge number of eggs. Running low on eggs in later life is more due to events a woman is exposed to during her lifetime. For example, women who smoke go through menopause earlier than avera... |
Why do baths feel amazing when we're sick? | Besides feeling great. Taking a bath when we have a virusraises our core temperature. Which helps kill the virusI believe that the hot humid air soothes your sinuses.Not sure about the water's function but at work I regularly walk into a 280 C oven and once when I had a cold, I stopped feeling sick when I was in there.... |
Why do small city and big city people seem to be opposed to each other? | Because people will take pride in where they come from and how they were raised and think their way is superiorIt is solely because of pride. Pride in one of worst things on this planet, and it is also the dumbest thing. For some reason, being from this place is *so* much more important than being from *that* place. Th... |
What 911 does when you call and say nothing | Yes, they'll send the cops to verify. It could be a person in distress, like sick, or a hostage situation. A few months ago a friend heard a knock on the doors, it were the cops. It turns out, his son was playing with the phone and somehow dialed 911. He had a looong conversation with a cop while his wife was talking w... |
Why do subreddits need moderators when Reddit's voting system filters bad posts/comments? | Because some redditors are assholes, pedophiles, or break reddit TOS other ways. Also if you're making posts about the inevitable heat death of the universe and dark matter on the One Piece subreddit, there's a good chance you're taking the sub off topic and your posts will be removed by the mods. Even if something get... |
Why can't we capture/use lightparticles in a container? | We can. Use them to do what? Almost all types of laser work in part using exactly this mechanism - light is 'trapped' inside a cavity, allowing its intensity to build and then emitted from one end of the 'bottle'. |
Went to bed later than usual (3am) feeling really hungry. Woke up later than usual (11am) with no hunger at all. | when you fall asleep your body will shut down the digestive process to conserve energy. when you wake up, your stomach is still asleep and tends to remain that way for a few hours. when you breakfast, as in break-the-fast you give your system a bit of a food jolt and get it going sooner.. |
Soil Liquidation in Japan (video in description) | Soil liquefaction happens when the soil loses shear resistance due to an increase in the pore water pressure. If you have a bunch of soil, you also have spaces inbetween it that contain air and water. Now, if you take a loose sandy soil and shake it, the particles can rearrange themselves to better fit into those space... |
How exactly do cells use neurotransmitters to share information? | A neurotranmitter is releasted from a presynaptic nerve cell. It floats acrosss the synapse and binds to a receptor site specific to that neuurotransmitter. In the case of serotonon there are about ten known receptors that are designated 5HTX . Where X could be 1,1A,2,2A etc. Receptor cells pass through the neuronal me... |
Didn't Caitlyn (Bruce at the time) Jenner kill an old lady with her/his car driving on PCH a few months ago? Why was she/he never punished? | The vast majority of people who kill people with motor vehicles are not charged or punished. In North American culture, we believe it's normal to sacrifice people in pursuit of speed. Unless Bruce/Caitlyn was drunk, high or fled the scene, we will all blame the dead old woman and forget about it. _URL_1_ There are sign... |
How does the foodbank feed four people from $1? | If it's a food bank , then they're distributing uncooked food. They have a lot of volunteer workers and get contributed food . Take their actual costs , divide it by the number of meals worth of food distributed, and you get 25 cents. |
I've just watched an experiment on Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox. Can someone please explain it better than in the video? | Short answer: No. It concerns quantum physics, which even a quantum physicist will tell you is so weird, that if you think you 've understood it, you haven't understood it. Basically, something really peculiar happens when you put three polaroid filters in a particular arrangement: they let far more light through than ... |
Why is it, that no matter how much sleep I get, I am always completely exhausted? | Try considering the following First you have to identify the quality of sleep you are getting. It's not about how long but how good it is. Do you have a sleep pattern? Do you wake up in the middle of the night? Do you snore? Do you have sleep apnea? Second, did you intake stimulants or mood affecting food prior to slee... |
If I get $3000 in employee stock options, what does that mean for me? | Basically, on the date specified in the contract, you get that much in company stock. If the company does well, it could turn into big money later on. Just think of companies like Apple or Home Deppot, who gave out stock options in the beginning, and who's employees made millions as the company grew. |
Why do different gas stations set up right next to one another? | There's actually a thought experiment for this. Imagine a mile-long beach. Lots of thirsty customers. You want to set up a drink stand, where do you do it? In the middle, of course. Now a competitor comes in. You realize you can no longer hog the entire beach for yourself. How do you position yourselves fairly? Well, t... |
what happens to the coins/folding money people "return" to the banks before making them ieligble to use? | The banks are allowed to operate under the condition that they take currency . As they become degraded or obsolete, they turn it into a "central bank" . Banks "buy" currency from the central bank as needed . They can do this by turning in old bills or through electronic purchases. So essentially they make no money of "... |
In artist collaborations, what's the difference between featuring, versus, and with? | Versus: is usually a head to head battle. Real time call and response. A guitar head cutting duel or quite simply a mashup remix. Featuring: Usually involves song composed and recorded by one artist and they call out to a friend to do a bit of sessions. If the artist good enough its a feature. Or while giving young one... |
Does the ''dark side'' of the moon actually end up getting more light as the ''light side'' spends so much time in our shadow?. | No. They end up getting the same amount of light. Each part of the moon spends half an orbit in sunlight and half an orbit in dark. The moon is actually almost never in our shadow, that is a lunar eclipse and they happen rarely. The dm physically night side of the moon at any moment is in its own shadow. Just like nigh... |
If the stock market always goes up, then why would anyone sell at a low point? | The stockmarket in general has an upward trend, but that doesn't mean every individual stock will always go up. Plenty of them stagnate, or continuously lower in value until the company goes bankrupt. Additionally, even if a stock is going to go up again, that doesn't mean it will go up in a reasonable time frame, nor ... |
The political situation in Egypt | This is a rather vague question, perhaps you could be more specific? Anyway, to summarize, before the 2011 protests Egyptian elections were always rigged and the "president" was essentially a dictator. The eruption of popular protests forced president Hosni Mubarak to resign. There were fears that the transitional peri... |
Why is the NHS in the UK suddenly failing? | Don't believe Conservative lies and propaganda. The NHS is working very well, it is not "failing". The mission of the NHS is to provide **everyone** in the UK with the right to prompt and quality medical care. So far, in the 66 years of the NHS this mission has succeeded beyond the greatest of expectations. If this Con... |
Why do muslims consider it a sin to draw/illustrate Muhammed, when it does not clearly say anything about it in the Quran? | The Bible and the Koran are both very strict about idol worshipping -- it's actually one of the Jewish/Christian Ten Commandments and is repeated multiple times in the Koran. Muslims therefore consider it a grave sin to worship Mohammed rather than Allah, and some fear that if anyone were to make images of Mohammed it ... |
Why must Windows always try and check for a solution when killing a program? | Because it is designed to be usable by people that do not understand their computers. If they're running into issues and it is able to find a solution , this is better than someone simply being stuck with a broken program. That being said, like 95% of things in Windows, this can easily be turned off if it annoys you. B... |
Why does Helium make your voice go squeaky? What does it do to your body/voice to have that effect? | Helium is less dense, so it would provide less resistance to your vibrating vocal chords, which in turn would enable them to vibrate more easily, thus faster. Think of it like taking a swim in syrup as opposed to water, or even air. Surely you can move your hands way quicker in air. |
When my phone is shut down, are there still processes running? | Depends on what you mean by 'shut down' and how you define a 'process'. When it's LOCKED and the screen is black because it's folded or in a cradle or put away, yes, absolutely. It is still processing battery power to detect incoming texts and calls and to give audible or vibrating alarms when that happens. Can't do th... |
Why do Americans that get angry about the Government spending money on social services often not care about the massive amounts spent on the military? | Most do care about the massive amnt of money spent onthe military. Your premise is flawedBoth could use reform. But nobody wants to talk reform. You even mention scaling back military spending you must not love your country and the terrorists win. You believe there are millions wasted on entitlements and fraud and sugg... |
Why do my cheeks hurt intensely on the first (and only first) bite of certain foods? | Food that enters the mouth stimulates the salivary glands to produce large amounts of saliva. One of large salivary glands is known as the parotid gland and is located just about where your cheeks are . Sometimes the stimulation when food enters your mouth is so strong that this parotid gland is flooded with lots of bl... |
What happens to events that.. happened.. in the past? | Biologically the finer details of the memory are erased. You remember what you remember. In the future though, with quantum computing we may be able to devise some sort of system to record every aspect of a person's life. Not just visual and audio, but taste, smell, and touch as well. Possibly even emotion. Think "Bein... |
If one were to play the lottery, would your chances be better if you picked the numbers yourself or if you let the machine randomly select them? | No, your chances would be exactly the same. The numbers don't matter. The chances of all of the numbers coming up as 1 are as high as any other combination.As others have noted the chances are exactly the same. However, you can attempt to increase your winnings if you do win by choosing unpopular numbers and thereby mi... |
why is it that transparent materials adopt reflective qualities in the correct light? For instance, looking through a window at night. | The surface of glass always reflects stuff. During the day the light from the outside is so bright that you can't see the dim reflections from the inside. But during the night, the inside of your house is much brighter than the outside. So the reflection will be bright while the outside stays dark. |
Why do TV and film overuse the cheesy 'Wilhelm' scream as opposed to just recording their own scream? | They use plenty of other screams. The Wilhelm scream is overused on purpose, it's an inside joke in the industry. |
Why can't I eat or sleep when going through a really stressful situation | Glucocorticoids. Your body releases these hormones in stressful situations to aid in the ol fight or flight response, (Back from when our stressors required such response .. Being stalked by a large predator, etc. Issue is that we now feel stress in situations that don't require these reactions so these chemicals aren'... |
why aren't all hand/dish soaps antibacterial by this point? | Hand soap has always been anti-bacterial and we 've known that since Dr. Lister started recommending that other doctors wash their hands. Though it was ridiculed by many at the time, Dr. Lister gave us "Germ Theory", that disease is caused and spread by germs to small to be seen by the naked eye.\r\rAny soap kills germ... |
Is heat different in countries? | Humidity can really have an effect on how hot you sense things are because a lot of moisture in the air makes it thicker and prevents your sweat's evaporation process from cooling you down. So you get more heat from the thicker air and lose less heat from the evaporation that's prevented, and that sucks. But a second h... |
What's happening in Syria right now? Who's doing the Chemical attacks and why? | Asshole mods aside, no one really knows who launched the attacks yet. The US claims it was rebels. This is all happening right when the Snowden leaks about the NSA were going full force, and still coming. |
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