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I send a text to a phone that's off. Where does my text "go" until the phone turns back on? | The text stays on the servers of the [SMSC], which will wait until the recipient comes back online, and then the message will be delivered. Of course if the phone can't be reached for some time, the message will expire and will be deleted . |
The Difference between Getting high on Edibles vs Smoking. | When you smoke it, the THC enters your blood stream immediately and you start feeling a high within minutes of when you first start smoking. When you eat an edible, your body has to first digest the food and the THC slowly enters your bloodstream. When eating an edible, it typically takes 1-2 hours before feeling a hig... |
What would happen if a US State tried to secede today? | Last time it was tried, we had a war that killed a million Americans. There's no reason to think it would go down any differently this time. There's no peaceful way for it to go down in current law. While, technically, anything is possible if you can pass an amendment, it's highly unlikely that you could get 2/3 of the... |
What does 'turtles all the way down' mean scientifically? | The ideas is that you introduce something to your proposed explanation that does not actually bring you any closer to explaining things. By claiming that the world rests on the back of a turtle you only move the problem a layer down because you now have to explain what the turtle rests on and an infinite number of turt... |
the meaning of that quote: "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame." | Shame generally comes from failing to do something. If you thought "I can do X" and then failed, you feel shame. It was pride that led you to first think "I can do X." While a humble person would think "I think I can do X, I'll try." And if the humble person fails they say, "Oh, I guess I couldn't do that" and don't fe... |
how does the nutritional value of food change as it's cooked? | There are parts of food that cannot be broken down effectively by our digestive system alone. For example, the cell walls of vegetables can't be broken by our stomach or intestines. Chewing helps but because the cells are so small, it doesn't help much. But when you cook it, those cell walls are broken open from the he... |
What's going on inside of a polaroid picture when you shake it? | Nothing. From what I have heard it is a holdover from the days of peel apart film paper, in which a cover was peeled off of the film and the developing chemicals had to dry in order to handle the photograph so waving them may have helped them dry a little faster. Polaroids are covered with a clear plastic film, so shak... |
Why is it that when a mirror is held up to another mirror and the reflections bounce off each other over and over, there's a green tint to the endless reflections? | Mirrors as panes of glass with a silver coating on one side. Most glass has a very slight green tint to it. It's not noticeable unless the light passes through a lot of glass, like when it gets reflected a bunch of times and passes through 1/4 in of glass 20 times.Glass has a green tint to it, so the image "behind" the... |
How do Hummingbirds have the energy to keep moving their wings constantly at such a rapid rate? | By drinking lots of nectar/sugar water and absorbing lots of sunlight. They'll also eat other things, but they're really good at converting sugar to energy. They need to do so constantly to have enough to keep flying. I've seen a number of hummingbirds that didn't get to a food source in time. They just find somewhere ... |
Why is it sometimes so hard to get the first sneeze out but the following ones come so easy? | Sneezing is a process not unlike rebooting a computer; it traps foreign particles in the nostrils and sinuses, and regulates the beating of cilia inside your nose. To start these processes, a sneeze fires a pressurised blast of air through your nose, which leads to a few awkward seconds before the sneeze where the body... |
Why aren't AOL-style chat rooms still a thing? | They are. Most proprietary formats have died out, but many people still user IRC. The Freenode network is the most popular, and many communities have channels there. You might have better luck just logging onto Freenode or looking for IRC directories. There are more ad-hoc sites like Tinychat, or group conversations ho... |
How are total solar eclipses forecast so far in advance in such remarkable detail? | We can predict it using simple orbital mechanics. It can be very accurate. Knowing our distance from the sun, velocity, location of the moon, it's velocity relative to us as well as a few other factors, you can just plug it into an equation for when the sun and moon are in alignment with the earth and then just solve f... |
Why do retail stores have the most uninspiring/generic music playing, and rarely play mainstream songs? | I always thought it had something to do with paying royalties to the artists . Then again, it might be that they choose that music specifically for background noise and nothing more. If I get really bored later, I'll put on my tin foil hat and return with some other theories.Songs are meant to engineer how quickly or s... |
Why do people's noses go red when it's cold? | It's an extremity with a lower number of blood carrying vessels. Your body pushes blood there to help keep it warm so it doesn't suffer from tissue damage from the cold. |
Do animals like snakes and spiders have personalities like cats and dogs? Do they form bonds with people as well? | I have a snake , and I 'd say his personality is "curious about everything" and "likes to curl up with heat sources like giant human bodies" Other than that, he's pretty cold blooded. |
Why can't we land on the moon again? | During the Apollo program, we used a type of spacecraft designed to land on the moon and return to the earth safely. After that program concluded, we moved to the shuttle program which had no landing module and was really just a spacecraft capable of low orbit and easy re-entry into earth. Since that's been decommissio... |
Why not jump out of the boat if it starts sinking? | As you mentioned the vacuum effect and propellers. There's also the possibility of debris or the ship toppling on top of them. The main issues are hypothermia, exhaustion and the tide. Water is very good at absorbing heat. You lose a lot of body heat being in water even in the Mediterranean where the climate is quite w... |
Why to the license plates in Washington DC say "Taxation without Representation?" | because DC does not get to elect a congressman, an ironic juxtaposition to the fighters of the revolutionary war whose battle cry against England was " No Taxation without Representation."District of Columbia residents are subject to being taxed without having a rep in the house or senate', "A long time ago, the state ... |
Analogy for units of measuring, regarding electricity. | Electricity works in almost the same way as flowing water. Voltage is sort of like how hard water is being pushed. So imagine water flowing down a gentle slope vs. water flowing down a steep slope. The water flowing down the steep slope has more force pushing it, so it has a higher "voltage". In an electrical circuit, ... |
How are banks making big profits if they're just 'covering risk'? | > The only explanation I can come up with is that their fees and interest are fixed to be above what is necessary to cover the risks of lending. Well yeah. They aren't in the business just for the fun of it. > But how do I end up pocketing hundreds of billions of dollars on top of those expenses? You charge a reasonabl... |
Why when going on a low carb diet I start to crave carbs uncontrollably? Is it like a carbohydrate withdrawal? | tl;dr Yes. Your body is very much used to take in carbs as your biggest energy source, in addition to that, carbs are the easiest-to-digest energy source that your body can handle . So the body is used to an easy way out of the need of energy, therefore it wants to get exactly thatI 've fought that feeling with making ... |
What are you supposed to do when an emergency vehicle passes you on the opposite side of the road? | If there is a physical obstruction in the median then you do not need to do anything but if it is just yellow lines or there is a big enough opening for them to cross onto your side of the road then you should pull over until they pass. This is so that if for example traffic is heavy on the other side of the road they ... |
Why has apple never updated their software to allow us to leave group texts? | As a non-apple user, it drives me up a wall when apple users do group textsSo all information that is transferred electronically has to be done over what's called a "protocol". A "protocol" is a rigid set of rules that establishes not only the beginning and end points of communication, but also determines how that info... |
What happens in our brain when we laugh? | We have a part of our brain dedicated to pattern recognition. We tend to expect how things are going to turn out, but when something happens that we weren't anticipating, we find it funny. Dopamine is released, we laugh. |
Why do people consider the Wii U a failure? | It released in 2012 and has shipped a little over 13M units. The PS4 launched 2013 and has shipped > 43M units. Even the Xbox One which launched 2013 has shipped > 20M units. Compare this to the original Wii which from 2006-2016 has sold > 101M units. Besides the fact that of units sold, the Wii U has a magnitude less ... |
Can a cellphone really survive a plane crash like the Germanwings? | The G forces experienced are inversely proportional to how quickly you stop. Stop ten times faster; experience ten times the G forces. You drop your phone from 1 metre high on to concrete without some kind of soft casing and it will stop very quickly and experience 100s, if not 1000s of Gs, albeit for a very short time... |
Why is Marilyn Monroe considered a role model? | She was beautiful and famous. A lot of people want to be beautiful and famous. They are envious of people who are beautiful and famous. They wish they could be someone like Marilyn Monroe, who was beautiful and famous. |
What is the difference between male jeans and female jeans? | Depends on the manufacturer. But, in general, you can tell by the hips. For instance Levi's 501 are unisex cut and shrink to fit. But, holding up a pair of used ones, I could tell probably 95% of the time if the previous owner was male or female based on hips. |
How do spiders get their strands of silk sometimes 20 feet connecting high structures? Do they really walk one end that far across the ground? | If it's a small spider, it can float across using the thermals to stay up. I'm not so sure about a larger spider, but the smaller ones will make a loop of web and use it as a parachute to get enough drag to be lifted by the small currents caused by sunlight |
how an erupted vulcano can create new fertile soils | Volcanos basically erupt new earth. Lava and magma are molten rock. This soil is rich in minerals from inside the earth, where no plants can reach, and where they can't be weathered away. It's like taking a big handful of moist, nutrient rich soil and plopping it down on top of the sandy, depleted soil that was on top ... |
Why is water necessary for life to be found? | This depends on your definition of life. Water is quite unique. It can solve, and thus transport, many things like nutrients or minerals which is very important for cellular life. Also it's liquid at a temperature where there is a good mixture of reactive elements in solid, liquid and gaseous form. If we are expecting ... |
Are U.S. military members outside of federal jursidiction? Are they only accountable to military jurisdiction? | Military members aren't out of the jurisdiction of anything. They are subject to state law, federal law, local ordinance, whatever. Much of the time when they do military stuff it will be in a foreign country outside of local jurisdiction though.Military personnel are subject to all state, local and federal laws as wel... |
What would've happened to the guys from "Office Space" if they had gotten caught stealing that money? | The crimes that were committed in the film are very serious. It's not only the charge of the embezzlement of the 300,000 dollars, but also the crimes against the computer fraud and abuse act of 1986. There are a number of stacked charges to the extent of every section of the act, that would easily land them in federal ... |
Why does is my penis sometimes bigger and smaller with an erection? | The lvl of arousal, as well as anything that changes the dilation of blood vessels. An example would be alcohol. It's my understanding that the combination of thinned blood and dilated blood vessels means the blood doesn't stay inside the penis as easily. Take a balloon, blow it up all the way and hold the end, it stay... |
Who pays for credit card discounts, and how/why? | There are a few different cases here. I've never seen a discount for using a specific credit card, so I'm going to specifically address credit card rewards - likely, discounts for using a specific credit card are similar, but have a smaller cost to the credit card company because it's also advertising/ a sale for the c... |
Why does you tongue get "stuck" to things that are frozen? | The thing you are licking has to be so cold that it freezes the water on your tongue. If your spit freezes it freezes onto your tongue, and whatever you licked. Hence they are now connected forever, or dump warm water on it. |
What caused the genetic makeup of people across different countries and cultures to be so different? (eg. average asians being shorter, europeans being of larger build, etc.) | Isolation and adaptation to new environments mainly. As humans spread throughout the world they encountered all sorts of ecosystems that varied in everything . Therefore they developed all sorts of unique traits to face these challenges. Those early humans were very isolated from other human communities, so their adapt... |
Why do doctors use analog scales (like manual adjusting) and blood pressure cuffs vs. digital, perhaps more precise ways of measuring? | Analog scales are cheaper and tend to last longer than their digital counterparts, despite not being as accurate. Furthermore, most analog scales can be calibrated over-time whereas calibrating digital scales is only available on more expensive models that allow for it, not to mention if one of the sensors breaks down ... |
Why do employees who are exceedingly good at their job get promoted into management? | It's true that management requires a skillset that not everyone has. But at the same time, managing a group of people also requires that you understand the work that they do. Hiring a manager with "management" skills but no domain knowledge can be just as bad than promoting a domain expert without good management skill... |
Why do we brace before a hit ,even though it doesn’t seem to lessen injury. | It does lessen injury though, and that's why we do it. When we flex our muscles in anticipation of an impact, they act as a kind of armor protecting our organs and bones and joints and stuff. |
Why is cancer research so expensive? | Cancer is not one disease, it is a huge variety of different diseases. People who study cancer and develop treatments are doctors who require a lot of expensive education. They are assisted by technicians that also have expensive educations. The lab equipment they use is very expensive. Tests of new treatments and drug... |
Why is it socially acceptable to boil lobsters alive? | Because when they are dead and left uncooked, they become poisonous and make humans sick', "It's socially accepted mainly because it's tradition, and partly because when people want to eat lobster they want it to be as fresh as possible because they know that a spoiled lobster will make them *very* sick. One reason for... |
How did Stalin remove people from pictures before Photoshop? | There is a great book about this subject called [*"The Commissar Vanishes"*]. These techniques were sometimes referred to as "scalpel and airbrush". In the old school Stalin era you are asking about, a typical method was to take the original negative and then print the photograph in large format. Then, an artist could ... |
Why do humans see faces in every day objects? | There's a huge chunk of the brain that's dedicated to facial recognition. Here's a neat experiment to confirm that. Sit down a couple of yards away from someone and look into just one of their eyes. Ask them which one. You'll get an accuracy rate of waaaay more than half, even though the total angle deflection of your ... |
How come Sam's Club can sell gift cards for less than what they are worth? | For the same reason the restaurant or business can offer a coupon. They're giving the club members a discount. It's not available to public, just members. It's essentially an up front coupon. |
How videogames recreate water physics? | Mostly poorly. The best approaches use Macklin's [Position Based Fluid algorithm]. It's computationally expensive, with thousands of splats needed in an area where non-water is handled with a few polygons.Along with what's already been said. Older video games used a mat" of sorts] with many nodes that will shift and pu... |
When it comes to health insurance, what is the difference between PPO, HMO and POS? | The biggest differences: PPO : You aren't required to have a primary care physician and can see a specialist without a referral. The networks are generally larger and you can go out-of-network but will pay substantially more. You generally have higher copays, deductibles, etc. HMO : Everything you do is coordinated by ... |
The silent "gh" sound | Change in pronunciation but the spelling remained. This is why a lot of words have strange spellings that don't make sense to us now. In the past though gh had a certain pronunciation that has since vanished. |
Why isn't T-Mobile violating net neutrality? | It absolutely is a violation of net neutrality. It's a textbook example of how to violate net neutrality. They're giving certain services to customers with different levels of access based on what they pay. I think your real question is, why are they being allowed to violate net neutrality and don't we have any laws or... |
Why can you feel it if someone has their finger between your eyes but they aren't touching you, even if your eyes are closed? | First and foremost, some people have thin blonde hairs running all over their body that you might not see but would still be touched. If the finger is genuinely not touching anything, it's body heat as Jimbobsammy said. The face is impressively sensitive, especially at close range. |
Motion sickness. Why do some people get sick reading books in cars while others do not? | Motion sickness occurs when your eyes, which are fixated on the still book, say you're moving but your vestibular system says you are not, logically because you are sitting still relative to the car. The likely reason why the individual vomits is because the body says 'Since I'm not moving but my eyes think I am I must... |
Why does lightning strike very precise points such as the end of a pole, yet takes a seemingly randomized zig-zag path to that point? | On average, air is air. However, on a very small scale, there are pockets of low/high pressure, and low/high concentrations of all sorts of chemicals. You can see [in this incredible gif] how "tendrils" of electricity are extended first. They travel through as low-resistance a path as they can find, and the first one t... |
Why is fire red? | If you burn boric acid in methanol, the fire will turn green. Burning pure ethanol yields a pale blue flame. Even a fire in your fireplace isn't really red- it's mostly yellow. When you ask "why is fire red?" you really mean to ask "why is fire reddish when burning solid carbon fuels like wood?" The answer to that ques... |
What keeps the government from shutting down websites? (WikiLeaks, etc) | It's very difficult to shut down a web site. The only group that could revoke their domain registration is ICANN, who would have to be given an order to do so which complied with all applicable laws. In cases where a law enforcement group has done so, it is usually after they seize control of some company or group that... |
How do archaeologist determine eating habits of an animal, just from its fossil? | Teeth and the jaw can be used to determine what they ate. Certain types of teeth indicate certain diets. We've found fossils with the stomach content of that particular dinosaur also fossilised. We've also found fossils with bear the marks of being eaten. You can find teeth marks on the bone, for example. And whether o... |
What does frequent urination actually have to do the prostate? | If the prostate gland is enlarged, it can press on the bladder. That pressure can irritate the bladder and result in frequent urination. This is a common issue for older men.Depends on the exact problem. An enlarged prostate will push on your bladder shrinking it's effective size . |
How come animals can sense, or pre-tell of natural disasters, but humans can't? | In a nutshell, their senses are different than ours. A dog can hear sounds at much higher frequencies than humans can. Also, they're more sensitive to pressure changes which are good indicators of bad weather like storms and tornadoes.The truth is we're not really sure. There are several hypotheses that might explain t... |
Why is El Chapo (Joaquín Guzmán) being extradited to America? | > Is the Mexican government afraid of him escaping again and are therefore sending him to a place where his criminal network can't help him escape? Exactly. He's already got out of the most secure prison they have once. So now he gets to go on trial in the US where he can be locked up someplace *really* secure. |
That Weird Apple Christmas Commercial's Meaning/Point. | From what I gathered from it is how much of a social outcast he appearently was, and you can see people obviously struck back that he appeared there. Only in the beginning to use an Apple iphone to record a music box playing. I suppose it is just a play on emotions in order to leave us remembering it after, like how ma... |
Polling companies like yougov - how do they make money? | Best I can tell, YouGov simply collects groups of people and makes them available to other people who want to do some market research. So, a soda manufacturer might come to YouGov and say "I want to survey a thousand people 18-35 about the brands of soda they like." YouGov and the soda company work together to produce ... |
Why do muscles get tired if holding a position too long but something like keeping our eyes open yields no fatigue? | Muscles like the heart, in your diaphragm, or opening your eyelids have evolved to be used constantly. It does not make sense, form a resource perspective, to have all your muscles be that hardy and invulnerable to fatigue. |
What is the difference between Democracy and Communism? What are the pro's and con's of the two? | These two aren't really mutually exclusive. Democracy is a political system, and holds, essentially, that the majority of people should get the policies they desire. Communism, on the other hand, is an economic system, and essentially says that no individual should be allowed to own property, and that it should be held... |
Why do vitamins have a percentage of daily value in the thousands? Ex. 1000mg of Vitamin C is 1,666%. Aren't we wasting most of it? | They don't stay in your system for just a day, but probably not for over 16 days. Also, those are just recommended daily values, your body may benefit from having more than the recommended daily dose of vitamin C.Because some people believe that "the more the better", so it's an incentive for them to buy way way more t... |
Why on earth do I always have herpes breakouts after drinking orange juice or eating oranges? | Citrus fruits in general are bad for herpes. Although they contain citric acid they actually alkalize your blood which makes it easier for herpes simplex virus cells to replicate. Arginine-rich foods are the biggest things to avoid. Arginine is a necessary amino acid for the herpes virus to replicate. Arginine also des... |
How do social networking sites earn money? | We’re the product, not the customer. Facebook is providing us to the companies that pay to advertise on it. |
Why don't penguins feet freeze? | Short answer: They pump just enough blood into their feet to keep them 1-2 degrees above freezing, which is enough to avoid frostbite. Warm blood flows around a penguin as it does in your body. The bigger problem is to keep their feet just above freezing while maintaining temperatures in the rest of their body. It does... |
Why is it considered immature to celebrate your birthday as an adult? | Who says it is immature? No-one I know frowns on celebrating birthdays, and we're into our 40's/50's. Of course, they parties are not quite as boisterous as they used to be |
If you could get past the event horizon and survive, would it be really bright? | X rays do not escape from within the event horizon either. The ones we see were never inside, but emitted from near the surface. To answer your question though, no, it would be pitch black. All the photons inside would be traveling towards the singularity, none would be traveling towards your eyes. |
What is a constitution and why do some countries (such as the USA) have one, where as others (such as the UK) don't? | A constitution is the top rule book in the land. What it does is lays out how the government will work and what it is allowed to do. e.g. the USA has a provission for free speech so the government can't make a law that goes aginst that. Generally constitutions are established when the country is. Australia and the USA ... |
Will body implants (breast implants, lip fillers etc...) cause the skin in that area to be slightly looser/stretched than before? | It depends on the size of the implant/filler. Skin is somewhat elastic and over time will grow to accommodate the implant but if you go too big too quickly then it can damage the connective tissue and leave stretch marksYes. That’s why women get stretch marks when pregnant. Usually it’s not that severe, though. It will... |
When a new currency enters the global market, how is it decided how much it's worth? | Yes, they could. What you're describing is called "pegging", which is when a country "pegs" their currency to another at a fixed rate. Many countries do this for various reasons, they usually peg to the American Dollar, Euro, Pound, or another major currency. The other way to do this is through the free market. Currenc... |
What does the term 'adjusted for inflation' mean when talking about money over a time period? | Inflation is a way to measure how much prices increase by over time. Therefore, if annual inflation is 2%, something that cost you £1 a year ago will cost you £1.02 today. That means that your money won't go as far in the future. 'Adjusted for inflation' figures take it into account, so that you can compare money from ... |
How come when you "delete" something on a computer it's not really gone and people can still find it. | This is why deleting is fast but installing takes forever. When you delete or Uninstall something, very little is actually changing. Your hard drive just marks the section that contained your data as "free space". The actual data still sits there, but when you install something else, it might overwrite part of that dat... |
How come most animals can walk within days of birth, but us humans cant? | Clarifying a bit what another already said: Human brains are large compared to our body size, which makes our heads pretty big as well. If we were born like other animals with brains that were already mostly developed, our heads would be way too big for safe passage through the birth canal--so we are born soft, pliable... |
How do we know there are electrons protons and neutrons? | Well we can see individual atoms and molecules with certain forms of microscopy. _URL_0_ We've also smashed atoms in particle accelerators and measured what atoms are made of when they break up with very complicated detectors. Certain patterns have emerged, which lead to the idea that atoms are composed of three distin... |
since many YouTube ads can be skipped after five seconds, why are advertiser's not tailoring thier ads to this limit? | Many times, ad producers don't make a youtube-specific ad, instead using the same ad across multiple platforms. However, some ad producers have made specific ads for youtube, usually using some strategy to convince the viewer to not press the skip button. GEICO has been one such advertiser.Advertisers only have to pay ... |
Would a drop of water in an infinitely long tube be able to reach terminal velocity? Or would it just keep splitting? | Both! First you would get a drop like, say, a raindrop, which is traveling at terminal velocity. Raindrops falling from the sky are typically hitting the ground at terminal velocity. Then the drop in your magic infinite tube would continue going along at terminal velocity leaving a trail of water vapor behind it -- ver... |
What causes pins and needles? | It's caused by compressing a nerve. When compressed the nerve can no longer communicate with your brain and you'll lose feeling. Search the term: Paresthesia. |
Why are people so unwilling to believe politicians can change their viewpoints on things over time? | It is not unbelievable a person can change their viewpoints. It is not frequent, but it happens. It is far more believable that a politician will cynically adopt whatever viewpoints will get them elected. People don't want their elected officials to change their viewpoint on the things they find important, so historica... |
How anti-plagiarism programs work. | For each paper in the database, numerous hashes are computed based on strings in the text. To analyze your paper, the program will create hashes from it and compare them to all similar sources . A significant amount of matches would warrant further inspectionI think it works as a percentage kinda thing, say you wrote 1... |
Bitcoin and the Byzantine Generals problem | Byzantine Generals problem as it applies to Bitcoin - You have a bitcoin as a digital file. You make a copy of it and give one copy to a friend. Then you do the same with another friend. Both friends do the same with their friends. Now you have the same Bitcoin replicated any number of times, which means it's worthless... |
Does a SSL secured website prevent other computers from reading pages sent to me? Like bank account statements. | If implemented correctly, it prevents someone with access to your data stream from reading those pages, at least with generally available technology. It won't prevent someone who's running a trojan or virus on your machine from accessing the unencrypted version. It also won't prevent you from inadvertently going to a p... |
Why is it so hard for me to remember a lot of my dreams? | Because your brain does not see the use in keeping memories of them. You can train yourself to remember dreams by keeping a dream journal or writing things down as soon as you wake. Many people who lucid dream do this. |
How are all of these big cloud services being hacked so easily? | The hackers likely used brute force password software which guesses10's of thousands of passwords just like what you see in movies and videogames. The catch is that they need the username which they likely got by stealing 1 celeb who had others and they just kept getting usernames and then using the brute force passwor... |
what causes "old people" smell? | The biological explanation for old-person smell isn’t clear, but the researchers note that human body odors “originate from a complex interaction between skin gland secretions and bacterial activity, and skin gland composition and secretion change in an age-dependent manner throughout development.”', "I know that stuck... |
Meaning of "Cognition" | The short answer is that it means "thinking". The slightly longer answer is that it means *learning* - the act of taking in, cataloguing and sorting information so that you can use it later. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, for instance, is a pretty common technique for managing things like depression and anxiety disorde... |
Why is currency from certain US Mints worth more than others? | Assuming you're talking about collector's value and not face value, it's because fewer of that specific type of coin were printed in that specific mint.As *currency*, all coins are worth the same amount. As shiny bits of metal people like to collect, some are worth more than others, usually based on scarcity. |
Why do toilets at home have a seat that is completed, but Comercial toilets usually are horseshoe shaped? | For dudes. Guys rarely lift the seat in public bathrooms and that little space that's open is where the majority of piss would dribble onto. |
Why is it so hard to duplicate the taste or resteraunt food? | Not sure, but I know 2 things that might actually impact the dishes: 1 - restaurants often use *way* more fats/sugars than you'd use at home. 2 - the ingredients aren't necessarily the same/the same quality Restaurant suppliers tend to have better quality ingredients for some dairy , meats, and produce than what we get... |
What really happens after I call or write to my Representative and Senators about a bill? | The communications department at your senator/congressman's office tabulates your opinion. The politician sees statistics describing the opinion flow from constituents. Sometimes staff pulls out a couple of representative sample letters on each side for the boss to read. |
What Determines the Path That Veins and Arteries Take Through the Body | The veins and arteries do follow a similar path in every body - at least the main arteries and veins do -, they teach that in med school and med students are supposed to identify them by location. You can find blood vessel maps online. The path that they take is determined by the placement of the organs in your body. B... |
What is the importance of really large prime numbers, what sort of applications do they aid? | *Really* large prime numbers, the ones that set records, have no practical purpose, except perhaps testing computer software and refining distributed computing techniques. Large prime numbers, like in the hundred digit range, are used in a popular encryption scheme called RSA. It takes advantage of the fact that it is ... |
What is the reasoning behind lifetime salaries for congress? | Historically, one tactic to keep the wealthy in control ways to pay no salary for public offices. That way, the poor couldn't afford to serve, and the rich stayed in power. So while we sometimes think of congress as money grubbing scumbags, that might be a better alternative than having the few middle class congressmen... |
What is a muscle knot and what does it look like under the skin? | A muscle knot is a long, involuntary muscle contraction in a region of a muscle. Part of why they hurt is that they are tugging on the muscle fibers on either end of the knot, which are NOT contracting, and so stretching or tearing them . Knots arise for a lot of reasons: they may be caused by an underlying disease or ... |
Why were prehistoric dinosaurs mean and scary looking but animals today are cute and cuddly? | Read [this answer from Quora]. Tl;dr: Most dinosaurs probably didn't look mean and scary. The problem is that we don't have any actual pictures of them, so we have to figure out how they looked from their skeletons, and the way that we do this makes them look as scary as possible. .) |
How does a computer zip files? | Rather than rehash all the basics, read [yesterday's discussion on file compression]. So, now you know that when you "zip" something, you're looking for a pattern, and replacing that with "shorthand".. so, rather than "Explain like I'm five", it gets rewritten as "ELI5". Saves a little space, yes? Lets say the pattern ... |
Why do we feel the movement of a car, such as turning and slowing down, more than we feel the movements and changes of speed in an airplane? | It is the same. Commercial airliners just don't make relatively hard maneuvers in most cases, so it's like someone making gentle turns or more slowly changing speed. Fighter jets, on the other hand, can produce a *lot* more g-forces than cars do.The standard turn rate for an airplane is 3degrees/sec, which is a full 36... |
Why do hands have lines on them? | It's where your palms bend. If the skin was tight, my guess is that it would snap when you made certain movements with your hand. |
If you're terminated from your job, how do you go about collecting unemployment? How do you know if you're eligible for it? (Michigan) | [File an Unemployment Claim Online]. Your employer has the ability to try to deny your claim if they feel you were fired for cause. If they try, you'll have to talk to someone at the UE office on how to proceed. |
Why don't planes (mostly airliners) ever fly in a straight line? The flight path is always an arc be it East/West or North/South | Yeah, it's a map projection issue. When you project a globe onto a flat map, some features will always get distorted. Different projections differ in what gets distorted, more on that here: _URL_0_ More to the point, lets look at [this route from London to Seattle.] Looks like a big arc, right? Well if you look at it f... |
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