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5’6” at 16. Can I grow taller? | Sorry, but probably not. My whole family is pushing 6 feet tall. I am 5\'6". I was that height at 13 years old. I'm 49 now .it's not that big of a deal. God gave you what he gave you. Size is not an impediment to happiness. If I have learned one thing in life, it's this, you can't control what you are born with. You ca... |
How do shops during the week still attract so many customers. | There will always be: - people with weekdays off that work a weekend day- part time workers- retirees- people who work flexible hours- housewives/husbands- people using their breaks- people on annual leave/holiday Naturally they generally add up to less than the usual weekend numbers, but it is evidently enough to have... |
What is going on in this gif? | This is probably in a curve of the river. The water flows faster on one side than the other, so the disk they cut out will start to spin. The push is stronger on the side that flows fastest, so that side will move with the flow and the other against the flowThey are standing on ice. The ice is floating on water, likely... |
"Hypothetically" what could happen in a legal sense to a Judge of the Supreme Court who is put into office by a President who is convicted of treason? | Not much. Individuals are weighed on their own merits. After all, congress is also involved in the appointment of Supreme Court justices. |
Whats worse for you, a Coke or a beer? | Beer has a lot more variability than coke so this question is hard to answer. But I'm going to say a beer is better. With coke you're ingesting sugar, with beer the sugar has been converted to co2 and alcohol. But again, beer is a very wide open area. For example, an unfiltered ale is better for you than a filtered bee... |
ADTs and how they work | An ADT is simply an abstracted form of a data structure. It allows you to worry less about the semantics of the implementation that makes it work, and focus more on the usage and analysis portions. "For example, an abstract stack could be defined by three operations: push, that inserts some data item onto the structure... |
Why can you sometimes still feel the surge of the tides when you close your eyes after a day of swimming at the beach? | During the day as you were swimming, your brain was slowly learning to acclimate itself to the swells and began to anticipate the repetitive forces. So your brain starts to make pre-adjustments for those expected forces, with regard to your balance, muscles, etc Once you get out of the water for the day, you are no lon... |
How did Beethoven compose music when he was deaf? | There's more ways to "hear" music than to perceive the sound through your ear. Some musicians can sight read, which means they can look at a chord or series of notes and "hear" it in their head. You don't need an external photograph to know what your mom looks like, you can "see" her in your head. Similarly a musician ... |
Why are school buses out and about at the most random times of the day? | They can also be chartered by other organizations, and when they are done dropping off kids they need to be parked somewhere - the drivers don't take their schoolbus home with them ;) |
Why do sweet drinks not taste sweet after a sweet thing was eaten? | Because the taste buds that taste sweet have already adapted to a high concentration of glucose, so the input threshold needed to generate new signals to your brain is heightened. It's the same thing with eyes adapting to the dark or why you don't notice your clothing much a few minutes after putting it on. Most nerve ... |
Why is the vatican and the pope in italy? Wouldn't it be more logical for the head of the church to be in the country jesus was active in? | It's because that's where Simon Peter founded the Christian Church. Peter is seen by Christians as Jesus\' primary disciple. When Jesus met Simon, he said Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this ... |
Why are freckles or 'beauty marks' next to eye and on upper lip so common compared to others? | If you were to sample all people you would probably find that moles occur in equal amounts all over the body. Ones around the eyes and mouth are considered pretty, so people with them are overrepresented in art and media', "To be fair, Most of those marks you see our drawn on for beauty or style. I forget specifically ... |
If destroying and defacing United States currency is illegal, why do many parks and attractions have machines that transform copper pennies into souvenirs? | It is only illegal if done with fraudulent intent. souvenir coins or coin rings or art, origami, or whatever else you might do with currency is fine as long as theres no fraudulent intent.Those laws really only apply if the mutilation of the currency is done with intent to defraud someone. E.g. you can't take a $1 bill... |
How does bail and bond work? | BAIL is money deposited with the court as a guarantee that you will appear. You get it back when you show up. BOND is a smaller amount of money paid to a 3rd party - a bail bondsman - who then posts the full amount*. You don't get it back; it's pretty much interest on a short term loan. If you don't show up and your ba... |
How do counterfeit NFL,NBA, and Jordan shoes from overseas get the production so close to the authentic? | Well Jordans are made in china so . its already in china. Its not rocket science for the factory next door to get a pair and reproduce it. |
How does Usain Bolt eat 100 Chicken McNuggets a day for 10 days before the Beijing Olympics and eventually win 3 gold medals? | Well, you're asking two different questions: > Title He's a sprinter, not a distance runner. Those assholes do that kind of stuff just to prove they can. > Is he some kind of sorcerer? Given the difference between his 100 M and mine, he is clearly every kind of sorcerer. |
When someone is considered to be a "slow" person. | I do this thing where i say "what" as if i can't hear what someone had said but then a few seconds after i realise what they 've said and laugh. One day someone asked me why i always did that and i explained truthfully. The person then responded saying "ohhhh you're just slow" i guess you can be physically slow in spee... |
Why do we sometimes, out of the blue, have the urge to breath deeply? | When at long periods of rest your body can start to breath less and less l. After a time your brain goes fuck I need air and tells your lungs to reset themselve l. This can also be the cause of yawning sometimes I believe it's something akin to "stretching" your diaphragm, much like you occasionally have the urge to st... |
what pets and animals think when we're on computers/cell phones/reading and other idle activities | nothing, they have no concept of things we do for our entertainment. Any attempt to say that they do is anthropomorphising them too much', "They don't really have opinions but they can pick up on changes in emotion and changes in your body language fairly well. It isn't totally hidden that we're interacting with our ph... |
How can an elevated shower head drip? | Often times the knobs and connections to shut off the shower aren't working great so a small bit of water gets through which will drip out. |
Why does it seem that beaches up north or more rocky, while in the tropics they are more sandy? | It's largely perception. Sandy beaches in the tropics are a popular reason to go to the tropics, you know "beach holiday". People sunbathe, swim, scuba dive, surf and such on the tropics, and sandy beaches are suitable for these sort of activities. But people don't have that much interest to go sunbathe & swim, scuba d... |
Why do people scream? | Why anything evolves we can't say beyond,, at best, educated guesses, but screaming has a fairly uncontested advantage evolutionarily: it informs everyone around you that there's something to be alarmed of. If I'm out hunting with my people and I hear a scream some 50 metres over there I can quickly figure out that 1) ... |
Why do some CEOs have one dollar salaries? | Those CEOs own a ton of stock. If the company increases in value, their stock increases in value, and they make a ton of money. If you own a couple hundred million in stock, a couple of million in CEO salary doesn't make much of a difference. Plus, salaries are paid whether the company is doing well or not. Stocks only... |
Why I shiver after I pee. (and if it's normal) | Urination causes a vasovagal response. The vagus nerve in the brain is stimulated, lowering your blood pressure by dilating your circulatory system, which decreases the amount of blood nearer your skin, causing you to feel cold.Not sure why, but I'm pretty sure it's entirely normal.I do it all the time I call them "the... |
Why aren't films sold with compression, making bluray quality dvds? | You can only use MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 on a disc if you want most DVD players to understand it. MPEG-4 uses more complicated tricks that wouldn't run on cheap hardware back in 1995. |
Why has broadcasting TV never caused bandwidth problems, whereas streaming movies does? | It does cause a bandwidth problem. That's why there are only a few TV stations in a given area, and they only broadcast a few movies at a time to millions of people. |
Why can't we get high res satellite views of places like Iraq and Afghanistan? | most of the stuff you see on google maps that's really up close isn't satellite images, it's actually low plane flyover images. For obvious reasons we can't take those images there. There are high res satellite images though, of those regions and elsewhere, but those aren't publicly available.United States law prohibit... |
IF I own 100% of a company and i give 49% to someone else, do I still have the same power I had when I was the sole owner? | The answer hinges on the structure of the company, but the short answer is yes. Owning 51% of a corporation with a board of directors would allow you to choose who sits on that board. The board is generally responsible for choosing executive leadership, CEO, CFO, etc. in theory you could elect yourself to the board, el... |
What causes an spinning image to look like it is rotating one direction, stop, then appear to rotate the other direction? | This is called the [wagon wheel effect]. You perceive this because of the interaction between the timing of the spokes on the wheel, and the timing of the frames of the video. You can also see this with your eyes directly if the light source has a lot of flicker . It appears to go backwards because you're actually rece... |
What is the difference between Shower Gel & Shampoo, and why should I use two different products that both 'clean'? | Hair is more delicate than skin, because it is dead. Also, hair needs to be slightly acid of to stay health and manageable. The hair shaft is covered in tiny scales, like shingles and running the same way. That's why a log strand of hair feels smooth when you rub it downwards and rough when you rub upwards. If ph is to... |
Since Jupiter is composed of mostly hydrogen, would it be possible to ignite it? | Only if there was enough oxygen to allow for combustion. I don't believe that it is mixed that way through most of the planet.Fun Fact. The Mass that makes up Jupiter's inner layer is believed to be "Metallic Hydrogen". This is not actually a solid metal that you would think of on earth though. The hydrogen within Jupi... |
What happened to the rest of the hair on our body? | Various theories abound. One is that it just came along with other advantages . Another is that we did better without hair because less hairy people had fewer parasites. Another is that all of the running humans did meant that heat shedding during running was better without a heavy coat of hairAs we started to live on ... |
How can a region or a country go 100% renewable? | In the short term, they do it by providing more renewable power than they use on sunny/windy days producing around 125%, and then using some non-renewable to supplement on the weak days. So *on average* they are 100% renewable. In the future, they can do it using energy storage systems -- using excess power on the stro... |
Why do so many companies "track" you? | Even if the company has no use for the data on its own, it can sell the information to others. There are corporations whose entire line of business is purchasing information and then selling it on. The endgame is to use that data either to generate aggregate information about some group of users , or to connect it to i... |
why does your brain subconsciously synchronise your foot steps with the footsteps of people who are walking next to you? | I don't believe anyone completely understands it. But what I have read is that this a subconscious behavior that encourages social bonding. We subconsciously attempt to feel in-step with those around us in order to feel we are part of the group, and perhaps to signal that we aren't a threat to the group. "It's okay, I'... |
How did the British pronunciation of "saw" become "sawr"? | This is what's known as an intrusive-R. Many dialects of English are non-rhotic, which means that the letter R after a vowel is not pronounced. So whereas an American speaker would say "hard" with a clear "R", a British speaker would say it similar to "hahd" or "hawd". When a word ending with a vowel is followed by ano... |
Electrical current. when would you use a neutral/ground with a negative | Ground is used to shunt excess voltage to the earth rather than thru the circuits of the device you have plugged in. Ground also acts as as a drain for noise as well.In the case of surge, meltdown, or other interruption in the usual flow of electricity, the ground/neutral gives the electricity the easiest path into the... |
How do dumb people get into such positions of power? | _URL_0_ People are promoted to their level of incompetence.Managers and government officials aren't dumb. It's fun to portray them that way, but they're generally pretty bright people, at least in their area of expertise.**Managers:** Who gets promoted? For generalities sake, we will assume it is someone who has decent... |
Why do celebrities, politicians, police officers, and other "connected" people always get sentenced differently for crimes that should be felonies? | Part of the reason is that they have better lawyers. They can afford to hire lawyers that carefully poke holes at the evidence the prosecution has. In the end, it becomes easier to just have them plead out to a lesser punishmentLawyer here. Celebs aren't treated any differently; it's just the perception created by sele... |
Why aren't there more power outlets in airport terminals? | Most airport terminals in the world were built before everyone carried a laptop, tablet and a phone with them on every flight, so outlets were never added to account for people charging them. 20 years ago, no one had stuff they wanted to charge before boarding so many outlets weren't needed. Adding an outlet isn't exac... |
Why does Reddit often fail to deliver pages, evne though it uses AWS? | AWS is very scalable. If it detects that it needs some more servers it automatically makes them. The problem is that making more servers takes time. To be able to send you a webpage, a server needs to have that information on it. To make a new server Amazon has to create a new image with the right info on it and boot i... |
Why does orange juice and mint toothpaste taste so bad? | Kind of a compound answer. I'm assuming you mean you just brushed your teeth and now are about to chug a glass of OJ. Toothpaste is an emulsion and contains surfactants. The surfactants allow the toothpaste to become foamy when some water/spit is mixed in. Those surfactants effect one particular taste sensor, sweetness... |
The differences of a business trust versus an llc. | Both are entities under state law, so the answer will depend upon the state where they're organized as well as the state or states where they'd doing business. If this is something you need to know for decision making, you need to see a lawyer. Business trusts are a much older concept. They're both more complicated and... |
Why only cheaper phones have dual sim | Because the majority of more expensive high end phones are marketed and sold in countries with better mobile network infrastructures. I believe one of the selling points for dual sim is the flexibility to use multiple networks to make up for poor coverage', "Expensive and highend phones are mostly sold by cell service ... |
Do we all originate from Africa? Why is it said that we do? | Our Last Common Ancestor is based on irrefutable genetic similarities from fossil records that are scientifically dated to the dawn of humanity, and have only been found in Africa.Yes, we do. Because all humans have common ancestors, and those ancestors originated in Africa. That's where all the fossils of our ancestor... |
Why do our mouths tolerate temperature (hot or cold) much more than our skin. | I believe your premise is false. The same temperature of soup that would burn your skin, would burn your mouth. And you can hold about the same amount of ice in either your hands or your mouth. However, your mouth has glands that put out saliva at body temperature, which dilutes any hot or cold thing you put in your mo... |
Why does spraying on aftershave stop little cuts from bleeding? | Alcohol irritates open blood vessels and causes them to constrict. It also causes your skin to contract and pinch off the bleeders.My best guess would be something like the alcohol causes the blood to clot near the surface. Alcohol dehydrates substances due to its low enthalpy of vaporization . Also though on a small s... |
Each technical specification of HDTVs? LED vs LCD vs plasma, contrast ratio, dynamic contrast ratio, refresh rate frequency, etc. | LCD- LCD panels use electronically controlled polarizing filters and color filters to change the light level coming through them, which is projected using a flat fluorescent tube behind the screen. LED- Actually LED-LCD, they're the same as a standard LCD, but use light-emitting diodes to light the screen. They can be ... |
Why do we struggle to draw straight lines naturally by hand ? | Well your hand doesn't naturally move in a straight line. Just move it left to right and observe the arc. It's pivoting at your shoulder . So you have to work to counter that movement. But more than that, our hands are moving freely in space. Without something to guide it into that straight line, there's tons of variab... |
Why do I physically feel horrible immediately when seeing gory photos? | This is an evolutionary "trait" of sorts. Similar to how some people faint after seeing blood. My guess would be that humans subconsciously see blood and gore as 'something that's gone terribly wrong\' and should be heeded as a warning. After all, if you saw someone suddenly shot and bleeding, wouldn't you be somewhat ... |
Why does google misreport the number of hits for a term until you get to the last page of results? | Chances are, you are only going to look at the first page, so Google doesn't build 100 pages of search results all at once. It will build a smaller number, and only make the deeper pages if you ask for them. That means the numbers on earlier pages is just an estimate. |
the Great Vowel Shift in the English language. | Are you wondering what it is? Or why it happened? The great vowel shift occurred around the 15th/16th century, and is one of the reasons Middle English is so different from Modern English Vowel sounds in Middle English sounded slightly different. For instance, the double "o" sound in Modern English has an "ooh" sound, ... |
How do our bodies hold in our urine during the time we are sleeping? | There are areas of your brain called subconscious somatic motor control centers. These areas of the brain control various things when you are not actively focusing on them. Some examples are breathing, blinking, muscle tone and many other things as well. When you sleep, these ares of the brain keep you from urinating a... |
- why is water most dense at 4 degrees Celsius? | Because the crystal structure of solid water is less dense than liquid water would be if it didn't crystallize. As you cool water, the reduced kinetic energy of the water molecules allow them to settle in closer and closer. At some point they lose enough energy to start bonding into a crystal but the distance between t... |
Is it better to run 10 minutes every day, or 70 minutes once a week? | As an experienced runner, I'n just going to simply say that you should run for 10 minutes per day. I personally feel terrible when running after having not run for more than two or three days. It's sort of like setting yourself back by not running consistently. Also, I recommend trying to run a certain distance rather ... |
; Why does my pee turn bright yellow after I take multivitamins? | Multivitamins usually have an excess of certain water-soluble vitamins, since your body will just expel any excess that it doesn't use, which means that they can throw tons of that vitamin at your system just in case you have a deficiency. In this case, you're probably peeing out excess vitamin B2. |
how can space time be illustrated as a plane if space is 3 dimensional | It's represented as 2D embedded in 3D because humans stink at imagining 4D. You can probably imagine the basics of a 4-Sphere , but as soon as you introduce anything more complex it's baffling. Hence the math. You don't need to have a mental image of 4, 5, n+1 dimensions you have math and models which help you work wit... |
What causes pain in the body (like a headache) when there is no underlying disease or serious condition to blame? | Disclaimer: not a doctor, just a chronic headache/migraine sufferer. Pain is essential to survival in most animals. It prevents us from doing things or continuing behavior that could be dangerous . However sometimes pain sensors just misfire. They tell the brain they are feeling something that isn't there. There are ma... |
What do people mean when they say "You just dont understand art"? | Assuming it's not just a knee jerk thing to shout, it's more of a shortcut for saying "you don't understand this type of art." And that's fine - different types of art resonate with different people. I don't think the point of art is that ANYONE should be able to view it and have it cause a reaction. The artist might w... |
How does weed killer not kill the other plants around it? | There's a few different ways. Some herbicides are nonspecific and will kill just about any plant. Glyphosphate is pretty well known in this category. One of the things that Monsanto is famous for is developing genetically engineered crops that are resistant to RoundUp so a farmer could just plant them and then spray th... |
please! Why is the Brazilian World Cup being protested? | Hello 007d, i am brazilian and i'll try to explain to you why brazilian ppl is so angry with gov't. First of all, its not because World Cup, brazil has so much other problems, the corruption is stealing our money for other causes. We dont have health service, education or nothing. We pay 36% per product with taxes. It ... |
How did Disney PAY for Lucas Films? | I believe Disney paid in both money and stock. Which means they wrote the owner of LucasArts a very big check, but they also paid in stock which is like owning a bit of the Disney corporation itself. |
The "UFO" over the West Coast tonight and the blue haze it left behind. | > Also why weren't the people there made well aware of the rocket testing taking place. I mean the US military is hardly in the habit of announcing that kind of weapon tests beforehand . Blue clouds are not unheard of for rocket launches, see _URL_0_ This would have been a similar cloud of ionized gas, either just exha... |
How do television torrent scene groups (2HD, EZTV, LOL, KILLERS) capture, encode, and release so many shows in such a timely fashion? | Well, the main reason they do this is actually mostly for bragging rights. "We got it faster." or "Ours looks better." or "Ours has the best sound." Scene rules are very strict, dictating minimum / maximum bitrates, audio codec type, naming convention, and so on. How they actually do it is usually the same way we would... |
What would happen to a live fish if I flushed it down a toilet? | It will die, either from the physical trauma of being flushed or from ending up in an environment that is certainly not one most fish can live in. Sewer water is disgusting to fish as well. |
Why do I want to turn my music up? | It's a psychological phenomenon much like addiction. Turning your music up sometimes makes you hear sounds that you didn't hear before. That bassist really does some crazy stuff in the background during the guitar solo! The violinist ends the movement with a subtle twist you never heard before! This gives you a boost o... |
the "show your papers law" and why its so bad. | I'm presuming you refer to Arizona's Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act - and laws like it from around the nation. It works like this: Arizona state legislators, by and large Republicans, perceive a vast problem with Illegal Immigration in the state. They also feel like the US Federal Government is ... |
How do things like a Home Owners Association work? | Part of the arrangement when you buy the house is that you must sign a legally binding contract to join the Home Owner's Association and follow their regulations. If you refuse to sign the contract, the seller will not sell the house to you. If you do sign the contract, then you have to follow the HOA's rules since you... |
If we regenerate new skin cells, why/how does our skin wrinkle? | ELI5: As you age your skin becomes deficient of natural molecules that help your skin look young . The combination of these compounds cause your skin to fold and dry out, also known as, wrinkling. Bonus Note: Skin cells that aren't wrinkled and skin cells that are look identical under a microscope. |
What does my dog dream about when he's dreaming? | I dream about stuff in my life- I would imagine my dog would dream about stuff in his life too. He seems to chase things and smell things and be happy and sad. it's seriously fun to put something good smelling in front of his nose and let him wake up suddenly to "OMG that's food!" and then be so happy and eat itA more ... |
If the sun is at zenith at noon, why is it not just as bright/dark out at 8PM (4 hours before midnight) as it is at 4AM (4 hours after)? | Every meridian experiences solar noon at a different time. It's pretty impractical to keep track of time that way if you have to synchronize with people across moderate distances, who would be using a slightly different time value. This is why we invented time zones, where we've decided to use the same time value acros... |
Can I make a homemade solar panel which will supply one lightbulb with electricity 24/7? | 'Home-made solar panels' are panels made from purchased components. Generally this isn't worth the trouble, as purchased panels are cheaper than purchasing backing, edging, glass and solar cells. That said, a solar cell and a battery can be put together to run a light 24/7. You just need to calculate how much battery a... |
Why does better quality music( 320 Kbps, and so on) occupy more digital memory? | Just like with an image, higher resolution = bigger file size. The bit rate of an audio file is essentially the resolution of the song. Higher bit rates = more bits of data per second of music. It has absolutely nothing to do with musical notes like one of the previous answers suggests.The bit is a unit of digital stor... |
What causes computer bugs? | Computers are dumb. In general they will do exactly what you tell them repetitively, over and over again, and will produce the same result with the same data. Sometimes though it doesn't look like they are behaving this way and some "randomness" is seen. One example might be something called a "race condition". A race ... |
How do potatoes power things? | Potatoes act only as a medium for [electrolysis] between the two zinc and copper rods. Replacing the potato with many other mediums will also work to varying degrees. Lemons, saltwater, other solutions should work. Unfortunately I'm physics instead of chemistry, so I'm not quite sure what makes a solution better or wor... |
How come cameras need to focus? Why can't they I guess "focus on everything" | It's impossible to focus on everything. That's just how optics works; there's a specific distance called the *focal point* at which things are most focused, and at any other distance things are blurry. You don't notice this normally because your eyes are good at automatically adjusting their focus. But try focusing on ... |
- What is Steven Colbert's SuperPAC all about, and what is he trying to prove/do with the money? | _URL_0_ Here's an example of one of the ads he's bought and run in Iowa.I think this was one of the first questions asked in the subreddit. Edit: Affirmative, searching for "PAC" comes up with [this]. |
If you get sued and have no money to defend/litigate, do you automatically lose? | You'll lose because they have a lawyer and you don't. You can show up to court and plead your case to the judge, but without a lawyer the opposing lawyer will rip you to shreds.A guy once threatened to sue me and I was very poor. I scoffed, "Ok, I 've got a dog and a riding lawn mower. If you come here right now, you c... |
Can someone explain why/how Starship Troopers is a parody/satire? | Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers after the Korean War ended. We were neck-deep in the Cold War and the themes in the book and film are allegorical to real life events, through Heinlein's eyes. Just concentrating on the film, the bugs are the bad guys because the government says they are. They are a collective conscious... |
If hot air rises and cold air descends, why does it get colder the higher we climb up? | The first one is that the energy from the sun basically passes through the air without heating it. It then shines on the ground and sea, warming the earth, and it is that that heats the air. So the further you are from the source of heat - the ground - the cooler the air is. In addition, temperature is the amount of he... |
How is it that a video game can render frames 60 times per second, but it takes hours for extremely powerful computers to render one frame of a Pixar film? | An adequate answer would very quickly diverge from "ELI5", but to summarize, video games make lots of approximations and sometimes use "fake" effects for things like [fog] and [leaves on trees] to only name a few. Instead of calculating exactly how objects should appear when viewed through fog, the game engine will app... |
Vacation days, sick days and PTO in USA | PTO is personal time off. basically its a special catch all category for anytime an employee is requesting to not work. PTO the employee gets paid. In the US some employers can cut costs by giving PTO and then not having to give sick+vacation time. |
Why is the Thai government overthrown by the military so often? | Basically, the Thai military's charter is to serve the King of Thailand and the people, the later as expressed in a constitution. Thus, if the military decides that the current government is either usurping the authority the King or not obeying the will of the people, then they can and will overthrow the government. An... |
How do thermal imaging cameras "see" heat? | Everything above −273.15° Celsius in temperature emits some form of light radiation naturally as a function of its temperature. This could be radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light waves, ultra-violet waves, x-rays and/or gamma rays. We only see visible light-waves but every object on Earth naturally em... |
When we hit ourselves on something why does rubbing it relieve the pain? | Think of those hard massages: when you rub it, you systemically deprive blood from the area with pressure, and then it comes rushing back in when you release it and the sudden blood innervates the nerves in a soothing mechanism. |
why or how does mercury kill or harm us? | Pure mercury needs to be inhaled as a vapor to affect you. You can actually, don't try this at home, eat pure mercury without serious side effects as it's not absorbed by your body in a liquid state. Mercury fumes however, incredibly neurotoxic as well as it ends up affecting the organs. The other issue is water solubl... |
What's astrology and can people associate stars or galaxies with the way someone behaves? | They can't. Astrology is pseudoscience and nothing more interesting than a fortune cookie. It's hokum. Bogus. Fake. Nonsense. Not real. Untrue. Garbage. Rubbish. Bullshit, basically. Here are a few links from James Randi which rather quickly make astrology look like a joke : _URL_0_ _URL_1_ |
How to install a car radio | Get yourself a wiring harness. It will plug into the clip coming out of your old stereo and then all you have to do is match color to color. Metra is a larger brand. |
When someone gets sentenced to life in prison, what happens to their assets? | Its still under there control. They can call banks etc and have them do whatever they want with the money. They cant take it until you die though. Also your dependents dont get it just because youre in jail for life. You have to be dead for them to just automatically get it. Its still all yours while you are in prison |
If I use the same chocolate chip cookie recipe, why do the cookies come out fluffy some days, and flat the other. | I bake a lot..creaming different ingredients together for different lengths of time oven preheated differently, baking soda/baking powder old, different brand of flour with different protien content, ect ..MANY different things can affect the outcome of baking . I would say most probably culprit is mixing ingredients d... |
How are we able to tell which time is right or exact? | There's an organization called the International Bureau of Weights and Measures based in France that oversees this. Pretty much they reference a number of highly accurate atomic time keeping methods and set a universal time, which computers from all across the world set themselves to, including you're phone.Before time... |
Why do salt water and fresh water bodies stay seperate | They *do* mix, just *slowly* due to density. Think of it as a crowded mall with people in red and blue shirts. Blue is water, red is salt. If the red and blue shirts are all mingled and walk in random directions but tend to stay clustered and a wave of blue shirted people walk into them there's a very thin slow level a... |
How come most of the cars in the USA are automatics while most in Europe are manuals? | Automatics used to rather fuel and energy inefficient and heavy. With fuel always being cheaper in the US, it was no big deal to put bigger and more powerful engines in to the cars as the price to pay for fuel didn't matter much. Fuel in Europe has always been more expensive and the drive for more fuel efficient vehicl... |
Even though wigs are made of human hair, why do they still look fake when worn? | usually because they are cheaply made and poorly styled, and worn by someone with little understanding of adjusting them correctly. Ive had several ex girlfriends who worked in the entertainment industry that sported wigs. Having been in a few wig shops I can tell you they range from the $10 halloween wig to a decent u... |
This quote by Søren Kierkegaard around Agnostic Theism | The quote continues: > If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith, I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of... |
What causes a rue to thicken a sauce once it starts boiling? | Starch absorbs water and swells up when heated. Normally, these swollen starches would clump together, which is why you coat the individual starch granules in fat first by making a roux.Wheat flour can absorb many times it's own weight in water. Hotter water is more readily absorbed than colder water. Roux is flour and... |
Is the U.s. the only country the Nsa are watching? | The NSA as an organization was founded to watch and intercept communications across the world. The only country they are not supposed to be operating in is the USThis topic has been endlessly discussed before, especially recently. Use the search feature. Also, your question is effectively looking for a yes/no answer. /... |
Why are cups "cup" shaped? As in thinner on the bottom and larger on the top. Wouldn't it be more stable if it were the opposite? | The advantage with this shape is, that you do not have to tilt them as far to get the liquid out of them. Older jugs are actually bigger on the bottom, but you have to lift them high and lean back to drink from themSome are. It would be harder to clean. Instead, why not move the center of gravity down? Add weight to th... |
Why is it when we say a word a bunch of times, is stops sounding like an actual word and more like a jumble or letters? | The phenomenon is called [Jamais vu] or to be more specific, [semantic satiation]Because it is just a jumble of letters. Reality has set in. |
What is the difference between Anthropology and Sociology? | The two disciplines have different roots and scopes.I'm writing from European, continental perspective. Anthropology can be divided into biological and cultural. The cultural anthropology discovers and describes human group behaviour, via analysis and comparison of individual cultures. Early anthropologists, like Franz... |
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