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Is the propylene glycol in Fireball Whiskey harmful? | The PG is in antifreeze argument is old. Its used to make animal safe antifreeze. PG is used in eliquid for vaping, and I can tell you from experience there, that I have suffered no ill effects after 1.5 years of vaping. I also saw it in an article that the US standards are still met when it comes to Fireball, and ther... |
How does dust collect on a ceiling fan that is constantly on? | for the same reason that your hand gets wet when you pass it under a shower stream, even if you do it quickly. the reason it stays on is because of frictionDust tends to get electrostatically charged and sticks to the blades as air is blown through. Which is why dusty blade cleaning requires more effort than convention... |
Could somebody explain me the Venturi Effect? | I'm not an expert, but let me try. Imagine you're stopped at a traffic light in a long line of cars, all close together. When the light turns green, first one car takes off, then the next, all the way down the line. Even if they all accelerate the exact same way, there will be a space between them. If they go from a 50... |
underwater welding and how it doesn't kill you | They use a very low positive current through the metal to be welded, and a high negative charge through the welding tool. As seawater leans towards being electronegative, it has a lot of trouble transferring the current through the water. The positive charge is small enough to be not noticable. When the welding tool an... |
Why does a the most well-funded and powerful military on earth outsource to companies like Blackwater? Why don't they just...do it themselves? | Because even if you're funded 100billion, you still ask, is it cheaper to do it myself or find someone that'll do it for CHEAPER |
How is it that our teeth require a diamond to cut into, but for example, if I drop my phone on my face I can chip my tooth? | A precise cut is very different from an impact break', "Hardness is not the same as strength of material. Diamonds are extremely hard, meaning they can SCRATCH other surfaces. They can scratch into metals. However, if you smack a diamond with metal, you'll shatter the diamond. Hardness doesn't mean that it is so hard t... |
how did they consider floyd mayweather such a convincing winner? The fight looked pretty balanced from a non boxer | Mayweather was playing it defensive and dragging out the fight, but he was throwing out and landing a lot more punches. Those punches are what made the win. Pacquiao had his moments, but there was no knockdown to make it convincingI disagree that all the referees were american. Just seems unfair. Do that in the soccer ... |
Why is Christianity mainly found in Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa when the areas around where Jesus actually lived are still dominated by Islam? | Ok, here's a rough and over-simplified version. Christianity was born in Jerusalem but didn't really take off until it became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The Romans then helped spread it around Europe. After the romans dissolved, the middle east was taken by the muslims. Christians tried to take it back ... |
Why, no matter how much brushing or flossing you do, all your teeth fall out as you get older? | No, if you properly brush and floss your teeth, and don't eat too much acidic foods that erode the enamel, your teeth easily last your entire life. Few people do properly floss and brush throughout their lives, so teeth fall victim to decay, one by one. Note that cheap plastic toothbrushes haven't really been around al... |
With increased automation in the workplace, why do we continue to work more hours per week than ever before? | Because the world got more complicated. Sure automation means that a lot of jobs that used to be big employers no longer exist. But that doesn't change the fact that there is also more people, more products and more demand. I'm sure if we all dialed back our lives to some basic level, we could run on 20 hour work weeks... |
Where/How do tv shows/movies find newborn babies for birth scenes? | They don't actually use newborn babies. They take just take infants and put some slime on them . Your typical TV/movie "newborn" doesn't really look much like a newborn, they just hope you're not really paying enough attention to noticeMovie props person here. They are considered props and we usually rent them. They ar... |
Why are most pockets in women's clothing non-functional? | The cut of most women's clothing is designed to slim and minimize any lumps and bulges by skimming over the woman's shape. That's why waistlines are nipped in and trouser fronts are cut flat . A functional pocket has several layers of fabric sewn in, creating a bulge where none is wanted . It ruins the line of the clot... |
Why is my ID not required to vote in the US but is required to get into a bar? | Because going to a bar is a privilege while voting is a right. So there is no super big conflict if bar attendance is mildly discriminatory* the harm of excluding someone from voting is considered greater than excluding them from drinking* people who cannot legally drink try to do it all the time there is little eviden... |
What causes the sudden spur of motivation to change your life in the evening and why is it gone in the morning? | I'm no neuroscientist but I'll try to explain what I think happens:From my own experience I have to say, such motivation does only occur when I can't sleep. And most times when I can't fall asleep there is something wrong in my life or I have fucked up something. For example when tomorrow is a important test I havn't l... |
When a business, like McDonalds, re-models their building, what happens to the work force? | Some companies do make an effort to send their employees to work at a different store, often for reduced hours. Easy for McDonalds as they have like 50 stores in every city. For salaried employees like a manager, they would continue to be paid during the remodel. For part-time employees, the company does not have an ob... |
Why does eating simple carbs (such as sugar or white bread) make people fat? | It's just not simple carbs, but carbs in general. All carbs are eventually turned into glucose and that is either used by your body as fuel or stored in your liver as glycogen. If there is any excess left in your system, they are moved and actually stored in your adipose cells, which are your fat cells. |
How were the graphics in Donkey Kong Country so much more impressive than the graphics in most other SNES games (like Super Mario World)? | It used pre-rendered graphics. Basically they built the characters and levels in a high resolution in 3D. Then they coverted the 3D animations to 2D. They're just flat pictures of the character, not the actual model. So they were able to capture a lot of subtle detail that would be very difficult to reproduce if they b... |
Why is 70% isoprpyl alcohol better than 99%? | Better for what? A 70% solution of isopropyl alcohol works better as a disinfectant because bacteria close their membranes without any water around them. A bit of water in there opens up the membrames which allows the isopropyl alcohol to enter and kill the bacteriamy ex was a clinical biochemistry lab instructor and t... |
What makes the Trolleybus noise? | The trolley bus has a REALLY big electric motor geared to its rear axle, like a locomotive or streetcar. They draw a lot of power, and they hum and buzz depending on how much throttle is applied. It makes many different, almost musical tones depending on the electric draw, known as hertz . They hum low at low speeds an... |
Why the U.S(or other governments) can pass laws affecting people that are not their citizens. | They aren't passing laws to which foreign people are subject. They are merely spying on them. All spying is an extra-legal practice. Notice that most all governments have very strict laws against spying, yet most of them still have spying programs. |
Why are water drops circular? | The sphere is a special shape because it has the lowest ratio of surface area to volume. Or, in other words, it packs the most amount of "inside" into the least amount of "skin." Imagine you have a cube-shaped beach ball , inflated just enough to hold its shape. Now imagine blowing more air into it, hard. The sides of ... |
Is hypnosis real? How does it work? How can you hypnotize someone into killing themselves? | Hypnosis is helpful for relaxation and changing what people are paying attention to. As such, there has been peer-reviewed research showing that hypnosis can reduce anxiety and provide pain relief. Hypnosis can't force someone to do something that they don't want to do While what the principle did was very unlikely to ... |
LI5: The difference between AMD and Intel Processors | As for the technological differences, they do differ quite a bit. Intel and AMD design their cores and architectures very differently and the same goes for AMD and NVIDIA. For example, AMD's new Bulldozer chips are advertised as having 8 cores, but this is not as simple as it used to be in the Pentium D days . Pentium ... |
Why are so many Americans hooked on opiate pain pills? | First of all, most synthetic opiates are extremely addictive. For reasons I cannot explain, doctors in the USA still tend to prescribe these rather than the less addictive kinds of opiates . In Europe, prescriptions for these kinds of opiates are very tightly controlled - not many european doctors prescribe oxycodone o... |
How come the more 'gain' you put on a microphone the more static filled the input is? | Gain amplifies the signal coming from the mic. While this amplifies the desired sound you are trying to pick up, it also amplifies the noise inherent in the electronics, creating more static. |
What are all of the sketchy sites on which I watch movies and TV shows on the internet for free? Who operates them? What are they getting out of it? | A lot of it is advertising revenue, malware, adware, spyware, etc.The sites are hosted in a foreign country so that it's hard to track down and stop, due to laws and such. This easily explains why most are Chinese, and these sites also run ads for revenue, plus they got different forms of viruses, malware, adware, spyw... |
Could photons (or another particle) be used in place of electrons in computers? What would be the benefits and drawbacks? | They are working on that right now. It looks like it's possible but the field is in it's infancy. One of the main problems is that every electronic device in existence today uses silicon wafer based transistors. With optical computing, all that manufacturing infrastructure becomes useless. Although you could use it to ... |
What is the difference between socialism and state capitalism? | More accurately, socialism is an organization of labor and capital such that *the workers* exercise control over the means of production. The most common view of how to achieve this is for *the state* to appropriate the means from capitalists, and manage them on behalf of the proletariat. In Marx\' ideal, such a "worke... |
When the remote AA batteries are almost dead, why does it breath new life into the remote when open the back and twirl the batteries a bit? | The contacts become corroded which provides a poor connection to the batteries. Spinning the batteries scratches the corrosion off and moves the contact points to a cleaner spot. |
Referencing the "swatting" case, can two people be charged with the same murder? Ignoring personal thoughts on guilt, Legally, can cop and caller both be charged with murder? | More than one person can be charged with murder if more than one committed the act. However, in this case the caller is probably guilty of a different crime.Yes, it happens all the time. Generally, if two people commit a murder, but only one of them pulls the trigger, they are both equally guilty of murder. It doesn't ... |
If population increases, say in the US, is it fair to say that less wealth is available per person? | Not generally, no. Wealth is not a finite resource. Wealth is created through various means, including industry and ingenuity. So the more people you have in an economy, *in general* the more wealth that economy can produce in a given amount of time, simply because there are more people doing things that generate wealt... |
Is fruit juice really any healthier than soda? | The cheap from concentrate shit, like Fruite or the frozen stuff that you mix with water, barely counts as being fruit juice and has *more* sugar than soda in many cases. The nutritional value of these cheap 'fruit drinks' is just as empty. Real juices made with large amounts of juice and pulp directly from actual frui... |
If salt causes water retention, Why people get explosive diarrhea if they drink ocean water? | Ocean water has a MUCH higher content of Salt and the effects are much different. With Ocean water, Salinity is anywhere between 35 and 37 parts per ~~trillion~~ thousand. As quoted: > The average ocean salinity is 35 ppt. This number varies between about 32 and 37 ppt. Rainfall, evaporation, river runoff, and ice form... |
Why is India unhappy about Nepal's constitution? | India has nothing against secularism, infact we ourselves are a secular country with very diverse religions. We want Nepal to be a peaceful country, we have a **1400km open border** with Nepal, there 4 million Indians & napalis living in each other's County. The problem is there are riots all over Nepal, a good chunk o... |
Why does Bing still exist? | People go to get points for searches. I have 800 points right now and can get a variety of awards like gift cards to amazon, gamestop, best buy, I can donate money, enter raffles and other things. I use it to get free Xbox live. This really motivates people. I also enjoy their "hot searches" at the bottom of the page w... |
How do insurance companies afford to pay out such large sums of money when individuals buyers of plans do not pay as much as they receive? Where does this money all come from? | Lets say you like Kool-aid and you want to be able to have Kool-aid when you need it but you don't need it now. So you buy Kool-aid insurance so that when you need Kool-aid you can get some. Now because you're not sure exactly when in the future you want Kool-aid you keep paying a monthly premium. Some of your buddies ... |
what makes a neighborhood turn into the ghetto? Why do some neighborhoods that were once really nice areas decline? | A few things can cause this: - If the source of income for the community dries up, then the community's money is likely to run short, leading to a decrease in the amount of money the community can put into their homes, leading to a decline. - "White Flight": if a number of minorities move into a neighborhood , it can b... |
Why do people donate hundreds to thousands of dollars to streamers on twitch? | Some people derive a great deal of enjoyment from streamers, especially if they are going through a particularly difficult time in their lives. To those people, it's worth supporting their favorite streamers for giving them a way to escape whatever may be happening in their lives. Plus it's probably not something those... |
Why can't I BUY a domain name? | All domains are actually registered by ICANN which maintains a list that basically says who owns what. These services, like GoDaddy, are acting as a middle-man by just taking down the information you give them and registering them with ICANN itself. This is because ICANN is a very small organization for what it does an... |
Why can't they make gum with everlasting flavour? | Because your saliva breaks it down and transports it away from the gum.If it was everlasting you would never break it down and no taste would be sensed. |
Why do we eat some grains, like rice or corn, by themselves, but we almost always grind wheat into flour? | Wheat has been specifically bred over time for grinding. It's generally not used as human food without processing -- not that you can't, we just don't. Wheat flour is also fairly typical of Old World culture -- rice flour dominates in the East, while natives in the New World were using corn flour as they didn't have wh... |
Why do we lose cell phone service on a flight? | your phone's signal isn't all that strong. there has to be a tower nearby that is operated by your service provider which then connects your signal into the rest of the phone network. when you're in a plane the nearest cell tower is several miles below you, too far to connect with your phone. |
How is it possible for Cold Steel swords and knives to be bent at such extreme angles and not shatter/break but also retain their straightness when they are released? | It's not unique to Cold Steel. Craft blacksmiths also make [blades from spring steel]. The surprising part is that spring steel makes such good blades. But if you think about it, it's not surprising. Springs are very good at keeping their shape ; the only difference is a blade must be harder at the edge to resist wear.... |
why is there no medication for a viral infection? | There are viral medications. There is interferon as well as tamiflu, drugs that cure hepatitis C, long-term treatments for HIV. All these medications are virus specific. The doctor can't give you a treatment unless they know exactly what the virus is and then actually have a treatment for that specific virus. Which the... |
Why is ibuprofen always sugar coated but Paracetamol not? | Most medications are very bitter, and many more are sealed up in a bitter capsule specifically to keep them out of the mouths of children. Some brands, however, particularly "easy swallow" varieties, have a sweet/sugary coating so they can be swallowed dry without making you want to vomit. But that's usually just a ver... |
Twitter reported a Q2 loss of $144.6 million. How do they still afford to run a company and attract investors? | Investors think they will be very profitable in the future, so they keep investing money, despite it currently operating at a loss. At some point, it becomes necessary to monetarize Twitter, which means ads.Investing is complicated. There are many different types of companies to invest in. Some companies, like Apple, h... |
Why aren't services with generic domain names more popular? (ex. _URL_2_, _URL_3_, _URL_1_, _URL_0_, etc.) | The answer is trademark law. Sure, you can get the domain "_URL_0_", but you can't name your company "_URL_0_" or "search", because those are *generics*. You cannot trademark a generic word. When you're establishing a business, acquiring a trademark is extremely important, and businesses will go to great lengths to pre... |
Why do people hate unions so much? | There's a widespread perception of people being overpaid for certain types of jobs for protecting incompetent workers from being fired, for goon behavior . United Auto Workers was blamed for Detroit's inability to compete in the auto market, when the real culprit just may have been unreliable, inefficient car designs. ... |
How come accents go away when people sing. | They don't. What you may be hearing is someone imitating a singer with a differing accent. You will note that in certain cultures you'll detect very strong accents in singing. Country music usually has a very Southern United States accent attached. British rock music can sometimes be detected because of how it's common... |
I have seen several reference to an order of magnitude in set theory so big, it implies contradiction. In other words, 0=1. What does this mean? | Any contradiction would imply all statements. This is known as the principle of explosion, _URL_0_ 1=0 is just a pretty simple way to write "some contradiction". Because of principle of explosion, any true, false and undecideable statements can be proven true from it, so it's equally bad no matter what the shape the co... |
Why do retail stores and delivery companies share working hours with other business sectors? | Well, deliveries work that way because the vast VAST majority of truck to door deliveries are business deliveries, and therefore want to occur during business hours. So that's when they do them all Retail stores are a better question, and I think about this a lot - I wish I knew. There's a store downtown that my girlfr... |
how downloading data from the Internet can be faster than internally moving data around within your PC | Some possible contributing factors are: - Your CPU is dedicating more time to the Internet program than the internal copy program. - Your HD is being used excessively by other programs which slows copying, and the Internet download is buffered in RAM and hasn't been written to the HD yet. - You might be moving files to... |
In calculus, what do d, d/dx, dy/dx, etc. each exactly mean? | Since you 've asked for formal understanding I'm going to be a lot less ELI5 than I usually would. ------------- d/dx is an operation on functions f . It takes in a differentiable function, and returns a function. ------- d is an operation on functions f. It takes in a function and returns its *total* derivative, which... |
if millipedes have around 200 legs and are that little then why are they so slow? | If you had to organise 200 legs you'd be slow, too.[1] Actually - some centipedes are very speedy, because that's the niche they've evolved to fit, but millipedes aren't predators and have no need for speed. [1] Actually, they're self-organising - each segment responds in a set way to the movement of the one before, so... |
Why are guitar, bass and drum kit the basic instrumental core of modern music? | They're the simplest method of providing a chord sequence, a harmonic backup, and a rhythm, all while being easy to learn, store, transport, and amplify. The guitar and piano are the most common instruments capable of playing full chords - other lead instruments are only able to play a single note, requiring other band... |
What happened on Y2K? | Honestly, I feel like this all happened just 3 or 4 years ago. God I'm old.people are making this entirely too complicated. instead of "2014" for years coders used just "14"so in 1999 all of the programs that used this method said "99"in the year 2000 the year would be interpreted as 1900 instead of 2000 tl;dr 1900 ≠ 2... |
Why is mixing different oil types/viscosity bad for an engine? Exa. mixing 5W30 with 10W30 oil | Synthetic blends are a thing and mixing viscosity will just give you a different overall viscosity. The legitimate reason is your engine is designed to operate with a specific oil type and viscosity. If you combine oils you can likely end up with something outside your proper operating range that can cause damage to yo... |
How painting valuations work? | Usually they are done by looking at what similar pieces went for at auction or private sale. If I have a Picasso and the last similar Picasso sold for $80,000, then that is what I will appraise your painting at. |
If trees need carbon dioxide to survive, how did they exist before land animals spawned | You've got it backwards, CO2 existed in the earth's original atmosphere. It's O2 which did not exist, and was created by plants, who came first. Animals were only able to evolve into existence because of the O2 created by plants. |
How come when we have a fever, our body temperature is hotter than usual but we shiver and feel freezing cold? | Our temperature rises in order to kill whatever is causing the illness. The shivering is to generate more heat in order to keep the process up.Agreed with these other guys. When you have a fever your body temperature rises from either a few points of a degree to almost five and half degrees . Because your body temperat... |
why does, in some circumstances, one radio station’s signal overwhelm another’s? | Your receiver has a preamplifier which is designed to handle very weak or very strong signals. The preamp is wideband and does not filter out undesired signals. You could add a [preselector] to filter out the undesired station, but it probably isn't worth the trouble and cost. What the preamp can't do is handle a weake... |
In accounting, why is revenue considered "credit" and not "debit", if customers pay for goods and services with money? | The short answer is that "Credit" is not referring to how you received the money. Debits and Credits are what is used to record entries and balance your books. For every Debit there must be a Credit or a number of Credits that equal the amount of your Debit. If you receive cash, You Debit your bank account and you Cred... |
what are the minimum steps required for the United States to launch a nuclear missile at another country? | 1. President issues order.2. 2-person execution of launch required First, the President or his or her successor gives the launch order, which must be seconded by the Secretary of Defense . Then the launch codes are verified and transmitted to the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon, or alternate site, and ... |
why does an air raid siren from WW2 make people feel uneasy and sometimes some slight panic just by hearing it? | I think the Air Raid Post -1945 has very different meaning to most of us because we now associate it with a Nuclear attackTheir sounds were designed to be hard to ignore and unsettling. |
The difference between method and methodology (in scientific research). | I think that it is a very fine distinction, as the words are almost interchangeable. When you describe a *method* of conducting an experiment, you usually do it at a moderately high level. When you describe the *methodology*, your description should be fairly detailed. For example: In this experiment, we will follow th... |
When my antivirus software scans a file, what is it looking for exactly? | Patterns. Imagine that each part of a program had a fingerprint. The antivirus has a large database filled with program patterns or fingerprints of programs that it deems "unsafe" . The antivirus looks through the program, picks up any and all fingerprints it can find, compares it, and if a fingerprint it finds matches... |
In the US, how is an ambulance ride so expensive when the average paramedic salary is so low? | When you consider what you're getting, the cost of riding in an ambulance is quite low. It can even be the cheapest part of your medical care. You get 2 well trained medical professionals with *immediate* access to an array of medical tools and medicines in a portable hospital that focuses on you and only you. As for w... |
Why does tuna have to come "in water" or "in vegetable oil?" Why can't I just get some tuna? | Because it's seafood. Seafood does not last for long, and if you want to eat some tuna in Nebraska, you'll have to accept the current systems that we have for keeping it fresh enough to eat. |
Why are eggs sometimes considered dairy? | they arent considered to be dairy products. they are grouped in with dairy though, but its not because there similar. dairy is common in breakfasts, and so are eggs. many people when scrambling eggs add milk. they're both farm goods too, and keep well when refrigerated, so its easy to group them together |
New changes in immigration laws. | You're in the US I take it? The executive branch only has the resources to deport 50,000 people a year. There are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. President Obama has issued an order saying that certain groups of illegals, such as those who have been here for more than 5 years, haven't committed any ... |
What is the difference between candour and honesty? | Candour is when you openly and honestly speak your mind. You can be honest but still hold your tongueIn the US, and I gather from your spelling that you are not in the US, honesty means that you tell the truth, you don't lie by omission, but you will fudge the truth or keep your mouth shut to avoid offending people. Al... |
ELIM5: Why do some people get sea sick more than others? | The reason people get sea sick is because your eyes and your senses are giving you conflicting information: inside a ship, your eyes are telling your brain that you are in a solid structure that is not moving, but the equilibrium in your ear is telling your brain that you are moving. So, because your brain is getting m... |
How is it legal to outlaw the sale of Tesla motors? | Please search. This gets asked like every half hour. **No one is outlawing Tesla or their sale.** But, most states require that car manufacturers sell their cars through dealerships rather than directly to people. In other words, you can't go to Chevy and buy a car directly from them. You would have to go to a dealersh... |
Why are certain animals' fecal matters better for the environment than others? | "The Environment" such as it is, doesn't really express a preference; dung is dung. Issues that can arise however, which are largely to do with how humans use animals and their feces , are agricultural runoff, and fertilizer. Runoff is an issue because of the scale of human farming and fertilizing activity, and isn't r... |
How could old tvs (and Home appliances in general) be fixed with just a hit? Why this doesn't work anymore? | Home appliances used to have a lot of "discrete", i.e. separate and relatively large, components. Lots of problems were due to loose connections and other similar mechanical issues. By hitting the TV/home appliance, you could reconnect the components and fix it. Nowadays, home appliances are smaller . Because the compo... |
Why does hand sanitizer give the illusion of cold air when it's rubbed into hands and waved to dry? | It evaporates. When fluids evaporate the absorb energy, and it takes that energy from your skin. This makes it colder. This is also how air conditioners work by the way. |
If Antarctica still has an average temperature that is below freezing, how does a couple decimal point change in temperature cause such severe melting? | Average means some higher, some lower. -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 +0 +1 +0 -.1 -.2 -.3 -.4 There's 12 months. Average is below zero . There is only one month of melting Now watch when the average increases by 2 tenths of a degree -.5 -.4 -.3 -.2 -.1 +0.1 +1 +0.1 -.1 -.2 -.3 -.4 Suddenly, THREE months of melting! Averaging als... |
Why do we feel less need to pee when we are walking? | The urge to pee is something which can be suppressed by the sympathetic nervous system activity, or becomes more obvious when parasympathetic nervous system activity predominates. Physical activity shifts the balance towards the sympathetic nervous system. |
In Movies, How do they film in Governmental Areas (ex. The Capitol and The White House)? | I'm not sure, but I think it's either with a green screen or a custom built movie set Edit: here's an example of what amazing things you can achieve with a chroma key and some talented artists: _URL_0_", 'As someone who has worked in a government building and done film work, I can say you dont want to film in a governm... |
How does your fat storage work in a starving situation? Would you use all of it for energy, some of it, or none? Why? | During times in which your blood glucose is low, your pancreas releases a hormone called glucagon. This initiates a cascade of enzymes all attempting to push nutrients out of storage and into the blood. The liver releases glucose, your fat cells release fats in multiple ways, your liver turns amino acids into sugar, an... |
How come I find it difficult to fall asleep when I'm anxious for something for the next day? | Anxiety is stressful. When you're stressing, your body interprets that as a sign that there's danger around. Now, sleeping is something that puts you in a vulnerable state. So your body is all like "woah woah woah, sleep might not be such a great idea if there's dangerous things about." |
The new Facebook privacy policies going into effect on January 1 | [Here's a quick link I found] Looks like it says they can pretty much use anything on your profile/identity in any advertising way they want. |
Why do tongues "burn" when drinking carbonized drinks and keeping the liquid inside the mouth? | Carbonated drinks are basically flavored carbonic acid. It's a mild acid but its pH is low enough to cause a slight burning sensation, plus the tingling caused by the bubbles. EDIT: It's not PURE carbonic acid, but carbonic acid mixed with water and flavoring. When you carbonate water you're basically turning part of i... |
I know that oil is from plants and animal bones, but how do it actually become oil? What happens with the bones and plants? | Most plants contain oils and waxes. Olives, sunflower seeds, rapeseed plants, amongst others, have enough to press out and sell in supermarkets. When they die and get buried, bacteria digest the material and split large molecules into smaller fragments that collect in the right sort of rock formations. Some marker mole... |
The north Carolina gay rights laws. | [This is actually a great article on the subject] , but in short, the law does two things: * It requires sex-segregated bathrooms to be used by the gender listed on their birth certificate.* It prohibits any anti-discrimination law from being enacted on a local level, reserving that right to the state. This sleight of ... |
How is it that something conceptual can make you feel something physical? ie: butterflies at something romantic, or feeling sick at the realisation of a mistake. | The short answer is, the same way thinking to move your arm causes something physical to happen: your arm moving. Your brain is connected to your body by nerves and also produces hormones. When you're in love or very excited, the brain triggers the production of hormones that, as a side effect, make you feel butterflie... |
How can someone find me on Reddit without my username? | Clarification. Given your verb tense, are we to understand that you've been ID'd in some way? That this happened? |
[Math] Can any of you explain Logarithms with detail from scratch? | Logarithms are basically [what you get when you count with multiplication rather than adding].ln is the natural logarithm . It is essantially the logarithm to the base of e. Logarithms can have any base, and most often e or 10 is used. e is a mathematical constant and is roughly 2.71 - it is exactly the sum of 1/fac wh... |
If a nuclear war broke out between two countries how would the rest of the planet be effected? | If you are talking about the planet in general and not the populous living in the other places nothing will happen. The Earth will keep on spinning and producing life as it had before and will after. Now if you are talking about the populous in the rest of the world it gets complicated some what. On a nuclear fallout l... |
How do Super Nintendo game save batteries last so long? | The save game data is stored in Static Random Access Memory if I remember correctly. The semiconductors in this memory are fairly stable but still volatile . Basically the SNES tells the semiconductors in that cartridge to "latch" in a certain configuration that represents your save data and then the CR2032 battery is ... |
How do nightmares work? | All i know about dreams ia that they make 0 sense. Today i dreamed me and snoop dogg were sellers of trash in thailand. We sold plastic trash that glew in the dark. In the dream, nothing was weird about the situationTo be honest, we don't fully even comprehend sleeping in general in a physiological sense. Of course we ... |
How and why do Sega genesis controllers work on Atari 2600? | And on Commodores! The reason *is* inexpensive and simple parts. The four directions of the joystick were all basically on/off switches , and the joystick buttons were too! The 9 pin D-shell connector basically supplied voltage on one pin, and the other pins were used to sense return voltage corresponding to joystick/b... |
What is the point of tilling the soil for crops? | It aerates the soil. It buries the vegetation on to of the soil or cover under the soil which then composts into the soil. It makes planting a new crop in the loose, moist soil underneath easier. |
How are bus routes decided? | Lots of research into population density and economics. Most bus routes are in two parts. The pickup locations where lots of people are anticipated to jump on and drop off locations that lots of people get off . Where and how many buses are used entirely depends on the company and/or city. Like in my college town the b... |
How does oxygen poisoning work? | Paramedic here. I think you're referring to a condition known as hyperoxia . Many things can go wrong when you get too much oxygen. Atmospheric air is about 21-22% oxygen and ~79% nitrogen. The sacs in your lungs use nitrogen to produce chemicals that keep those sacs from collapsing on themselves. A normal oxygen satur... |
Why can't the human eye see clearly underwater, but with swimming goggles we can? | Wait, people can't see clearly under water? This is a serious question, because under water I see as well as I do normally with my glasses. |
Why do people have trouble comprehending large numbers? | It's because most people have no frame of reference when it comes to very large numbers. People know that a million is a big number, and that a billion is bigger, but people have never seen a million OF anything, nor a billion, so it's hard to put into perspective. It's easy for a person to imagine a thousand of someth... |
Why can't my computer just sacrifice and transfer a part of it's own battery to my phone to charge it in seconds? | Trying to push an instant charge to your phone would be like trying to instantly fill up an inflatable swimming pool with a garden hose that is hooked up to the equivalent of a fire hydrant on full blast's worth of water pressure. It *might* get the job done, but would cause a lot of damage. 1. Your garden hose can not... |
Why is calculus important in the medical field? | When you take any medication, someone has to have calculated how long the drug lasts at each dosage level. They have determined the correct dose for each body weight. They know how that medication is affected by other drugs, including how the duration or decay rate changes. To do these types of calculations, scientists... |
Why do the controls on most fans go "Off, High, Medium, Low" instead of gradually going from Off to High? | The reason I have repeatedly seen on Reddit is that some fans need to start in "high" to overcome the resistance from not moving. In other words, the power output from the motor in "low" might not be enough to get the fan moving. Going from "high" to "low" however, doesnt require any additional workIt takes more energy... |
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