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Why do we explore space more than our oceans here on Earth? | One thing, space is easier. One reason is that space is transparent to electromagnetic waves and light while water is not. One other is the pressure. The pressure is so extremely high that many things would not work like normal. But this is only half of the truth. The other half is, space has been explored for military... |
Why do I only get 1.2 mbps as a download speed whenever I torrent something or download an update for a game on steam when I pay for 15mb down? | The advertised speed that an ISP brags about is typically a maximum speed and not an average. You will never see the advertised speed since there are other users, distance, etc that all slowdown network speed. Go read the fine print in your agreement and I'm sure it will say something along the liens of not guaranteed ... |
Who decides where the actors should sit during the Academy awards? Do the people in the front row sit there for a reason? | The event planners take a few different things into consideration. Bigger stars/top nominees are put in the front row so that they'll be seen more often. Other nominees who are favoured to win usually get aisle seats so that if they win, they don't have to awkwardly climb over a bunch of people. I believe they also try... |
Why don't people use anaesthetics when getting a tattoo? | There is a small variety of topical anesthetics on the market that people use for tattoos. Ive tried several of them and had customers use many more. From my experience there are several reasons why they arent used more. Ive used the tattoo industry sprays, Lidocaine, BLT and even a shot of novacaine 1. the good ones a... |
Would somebody please explain to me the Republicans point of view? | My problem with taxation is that it implies the government owns a portion of your labor. The government gets the first chunk and you get what's left over. This is not voluntary and you are compelled to do so by threat of force. This is known as slavery. They dont actually produce anything: they can only tax, borrow or ... |
How do Himalayan Salt Rocks cleanse air? | Allegedly, they emit negative ions, making a salt lamp function like [one of these doodads]. There is no evidence that they actually *do* emit ions, though. [Oh, and the air purifier is snake oil, anyway]. They're just pretty lamps. |
Why do we require a lawyer for divorce if we don't need one for marriage? | In most places, legal marriage is the merging of all assets and liabilities FROM THIS DAY FORWARD. So, the legalities are pretty much the same with everyone. In other words, there isn't really anything to 'merge' on day 1 of a marriage. Meanwhile, divorce requires the division of all the assets acquired since day 1. So... |
During conversations, do we actually think before we speak or is it just instinct? | I think I always think before I speak. I'm mostly quiet in conversations finding ways to reply to the other person after thinking it thru. Is this not the case with most people? I've seen this question asked before and do not think I understand it. |
Why are cartoon characters often only given 3 or 4 fingers? | It's easier, and thus quicker, to draw less fingers. That's the explanation I once heard. |
Why is refrigeration not required for single use coffee creamer shots? | Dairy product? Don't you see long-term milk in the supermarkets? Almost all the milk sold where I live is like that. It is sold without refrigeration and does not go bad for months. It is sad, I guess. |
How does Mongolia still exist today, how hasn't it's massive yet virtually unpopulated land been taken? | Ok to clear up some misconceptions here. I am a Mongolian living in the United States but have family back in Mongolia and visit often. I'll admit Mongolia doesn't have the best econony, but to say it has no military is completely wrong. They have hundreds of armored vehicles and thousands of military personnel all hig... |
Why do our bodies find certain positions comfortable at night. | Im also very curious about this. Im almost incapable of falling sleep if I'm not laying on my stomach with my face facing my left. I've had girlfriends who thought this was very strange, creepy, annoying or all of the above. Regardless, I have to be either very intoxicated or truly exhausted to fall asleep in any other... |
Why do I sneeze when I comb my hair? | I do this too sometimes, just like you described in your comment to isi75. The only thing I can think is that a lot of the nerves on your head are pretty long, maybe you're triggering one that connects both the hair that's being tugged and your nose.Do you sneeze if someone else brushes it for you? |
What's the point if buying a TV with a refresh rate of more that 60Hz if we cannot perceive it? | You may be confusing perceiving 60 Hz flicker rate and 60 Hz refresh rate of movement. Take a piece of paper with an image on it. If you shine a strobe light on it with increasing frequency, when you reach 60 Hz, it will look like it's constantly lit. We can't perceive this flicker rate with the center of our vision. B... |
why did humans start cooking food? | Humans that cooked would have discovered and used fire first. Fire would be warmth and protection. They would have protected and maintained their fires and stayed next to them as often as they could unless they needed food. Humans would scavenge for food. Berries, nuts, small animals. The discovery of a dead animal wou... |
why parties in the US can redraw district borders? | The power to redraw the districts isn't inherently given to the party, it's given to the legislature. Then one party or another gets enough of a majority of legislators to vote on a district redrawing plan that benefits them in future elections, which allows them to keep the majority and re-adjust the gerrymandering as... |
Why do we forget dreams so quickly? | Think of your brain like a computer. It has different types of memory like a computer. When you are dreaming, the dreams are using the part of your brain that is like RAM to a computer. It is only stored there temporarily until you wake up. Your brain basically shuts off all memory parts of your brain while it is sleep... |
the moon and it goes through phases and it's relevance to the sun and earth. | The bit of the moon you can see at night is the bit the sun is shining on. The moon goes about the Earth, and the sun illuminates different parts as it orbits. The moon's own spin and its orbit go at the same speed, so we only actually see one side of the moon from Earth. When there is a *solar* eclipse, the moon passe... |
What PTSD is and how it develops in soldiers. | Some deal with the issue rather than burying the pain. Some also have a different mindset going into war. I can't really get into the psychology of it because I don't know. Anyone can have PTSD though, rape victims have it, car crash victims have it, and so forth. Some people can just handle the emotions better. Usuall... |
Why is President Putin so hated? | He's a thinly veiled autocrat. He's killed dozens of Russian opposition leaders and journalists. He's the US's single biggest geopolitical enemy. He embezzles billions from the Russian people and supports a Putin friendly oligarchy that does the same. He's a KGB era spy hell bent on reviving Russia's USSR era glory. Ma... |
Programmers. Why does a semi-colon mean "new line" in some scripting langauges? | In the early days of compilers, they needed some way to signal to the compiler to stop parsing the line and to start over. They chose the semicolon because it isn't a math symbol and not commonly used in texts. It could've been anything though. That is largely left over by convention, though more advanced parsing metho... |
Why don't those infomercial machines that move your muscles for you so you lose weight work? | I will try to answer this, let me pretext it by saying I am only a medical student so I'm sure there are others here that can provide more accurate information. A device that only moves your body passively without engaging any muscles will not have any effect, assuming it does not overextend it which obviously could gi... |
Does your body become less efficient at converting food into energy as you get older? | I don't know if the actual amount of energy gained from food slows down with age, but the *rate* at which food is converted to energy certainly slows down with age. In fact, it begins slowing in your mid-20s! |
Why do people spit? | Maybe they have something in their mouth they don't want to swallow, or they're spitting up phlegm. |
How can Apple get away with mandating Safari to be the default browser on iOS when Microsoft was convicted of antitrust with IE? | I've often wondered this myself. Not just the browser ruling, but also some of the rulings on java bundling. At the time Microsoft was huge, and was at risk of becoming a monopoly. Things have changed since then, and there are browser alternatives in iOS. |
What is the "singularity event" that is referred to in Transhumanism. I keep reading about this event but nothing specific is ever stated. | The singularity is a theory that eventually artificial intelligence will surpass the intelligence of the human brain. There are many schools of thought on what would happen when that occurs but that is the underlying concept. Some believe that AI beings could [design an even more capable machine, or re-write its own so... |
Why does America have so many people in jail? | Some people say that the underlying social causes behind crime are due to inequality and the lack of opportunity. The U.S. celebrates 'material success' perhaps more than any other country in the world. The idea that 'Material success' = respect = your personal worth seems to be a powerful idea that is spread widely. I... |
if atoms slow down by lowering temperature, does this mean you age a little slower if youre cold? | I would suspect there is a difference, but it is so negligible that it couldn't even be measured |
How is it that China and Russia have so much trouble with controlling their provinces but the similarly sized United States and Canada are completely under government control? | Because for all of our difficulties our country isn't run by a bunch of authoritarian thugs. We can actually vote our government out of power. |
Did humans physically degenerate quicker when our average lifespan was much shorter? | Because it was harder to survive back then, it's likely that people looked more aged and worn. Not to extremes - you could probably compare older people in tribal/nomadic cultures nowadays to those living in first world nations. |
Why the idea of a dual prop 'gunship' like in avatar is impractical and hasn't been built mainstream. | Center of Balance or Mass or Weight. Imagine strapping two giant fans to the side of the family car. It's pretty sketchy, and not so easy to balance. It should be noted, however, that Scorpions are very similar to Bell Boeing V-22 Ospreys. Actually, they're the same thing. |
The Israeli/ Palestinian issue. | Thanks for all this information. But as for deciding sides, I think it's radicals on both sides who have made the situation worse than it should be. |
Why the encryption strength will not increase when an encrypted message gets encrypted again? | Encrypting twice doesn't necessarily make it harder to decrypt. Over 2000 years ago Julius Caesar used what is now known as a [Caesar Cipher] to encrypt messages. In it every letter is replaced with one 3 letters further along in the alphabet. More generally this could rotate any number of letters, but encrypting twice... |
How do programmers account for changes in timekeeping? | To add to /u/1337GameDev's answer: For something like a game it doesn't really matter all that much, the program can just use the built-in system clock managed by the Operating System. However, believe me there are a lot of programs where it's absolutely critical that the program specifically includes its own code/logi... |
How do superchargers make cars go faster? Or why? | I'm not a car guy, but Wiki just confirmed my guess - a supercharger provides / allows for a greater oxygen intake to the engine. This lets it burn more fuel and do more strokes or revolutions or whatever and that makes you go vroom. |
Why has Yemen been target of drone strikes from USA and is it related with the current war right now? | During the final phases of the war in Iraq, most of the resources of Al-Qaeda end up going to the affiliate Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula located in Yemen. AQAP was able to gain a large amount of strength due to the political and economic turmoil in Yemen as well as its close relation to Somalia. To combat AQAP the... |
Why is there a French Canada when Canada is a British colony? | After the Seven Years' War Britain gained French Canada and we've been dealing with it ever since. |
How does 'Coffee on Sand' work? | It's a pretty neat trick. The sand is dry and is heated over a flame. The physics of it are a bit beyond me, but apparently as he pushes the pot through the sand that superheats the liquid, and it foams up rapidly. The fact that the pot is conical seems to matter as well. So it fills up with foam, he pours the foam out... |
If people are innocent until proven guilty, how are they kept detained a few years before their trial? | Basically, when you are arrested you are put in jail pending your trial. This is to ensure you actually show up to court and don't run away. Sometimes, the judge determines that the person can be released pending the trial in exchange for bail or bond - its an amount of cash put up by your or the bondsman that is retur... |
When buddhist monks say prayers, who are they praying to? | Buddhists don't pray like the abrahamic religions pray. Many times they are chants to help hammer home the skillful practices needed to further their development along the path. |
Why are we allowed to view webpage source code? | Because webpage standards for content are transferred in plaintext data. There's no requirement for a browser to allow you to see the source but it's useful for developers. Its also possible for developers to just directly send commands to the server to request the source without using a browser. |
why video game consoles never have keyboard and a mouse as an option? | Because they don't make money off of keyboards and mice. They make money selling controllers.UT3 on ps3 gave you the choice ti use k+m and even install mods, maps, skin, mutators If it was possible for them you must wonder why no other games let you do this ', "Because with console you play from a chair. You can't have... |
The appeal of My Little Pony | There's a lot of pandering to the online following with certain characters. There's also a lot thrown in for the parents, for example, an episode where fluttershy wants to deal with her anxiety, she goes 100% in the opposite direction being overly mean and nasty. She eventually outcasts herself and in a scene is shown ... |
Why isn't Austria absorbed into Germany? | The history is very complicated, but boiling it down to one defining moment, it's because Austria and Prussia disagreed over how to administer Schleswig-Holstein. At least, that was the excuse. At the time, the German-speaking countries had come together in the German Confederacy, but there was a snag: the Austro-Hunga... |
How would someone create an all new programming language? | Damn, good question. I have little experience with codes, much with markups. My understanding is there is little demand or need for a new code at this point in time. I can only see someone simplifying the way codes are written and understood by computers to date in order to make them faster and easier to write or to cr... |
When people unionize, what's to stop their employers from just firing the lot of them and just hiring new workers? | there's a federal law that prevents businesses from punishing employees for supporting a union. It also prevents them from intimidating workers regarding unions. [National Labor Relations Act] |
How do celebrities get away with openly admitting to doing illegal drugs, or having videos out on the internet of them doing illegal drugs (like Miley Cyrus)? | It's probably more due to the fact that they have so much god damn money they can get caught pay bail and no one will hear about it before it's all said and done. |
Why is crossdressing as a sexual fetish rare in women ? | Because a lot of what makes it a fetish for men is the taboo aspect. It's not taboo for a woman to wear pants and a shirt. |
How do undercover police "hitmen" meet their murder for hire suspect? | Pretty sure it's they ask someone to find them a hitman then that person goes to the police. |
Nihilism and it's concepts | The movie Fight Club is pretty Nihilistic. If you've watched it you have probably took grasp of its tone. That is existential nihilism, that behind all this infrastructure, rules, governments, obligations, and events is nothing. It points out we have created all this crap as humans essentially for nothing, and we have ... |
Why is anything to the power of zero equal one? | 1=/=*=a^=a^0 Doesn't work if a=0 and so 0^0 is indeterminate. More specifically lim a^0 =1 but lim 0^x =0 |
If you get exposed from a biological weapon attack, is washing with soap and water a safe measure to take? | It depends on what you've been exposed to specifically. I think an appropriate decision flow chart that assumes you are already out of the area of the attack, and in good enough shape to consider washing your hands . you can probably go ahead and wash your hands. Based on what I've read about biological attacks however... |
How are rings resized? | A [ring stretcher] is a big steel cone, divided into four sections. the metal is heated and allowed to cool to make it less brittle, dropped onto the cone, then a lever forces the sections apart, expanding the ring. It will typically be tumbled with some steel pellets, so those tiny impacts restore the surface hardness... |
What causes the job of being a moderator on reddit to attract such power hungry people? | It's not just Reddit, it's any internet forum. You can pretend to be a tough person, when in reality you are most likely introverted and timid. It's easier to be the person you want to be on the internet, rather than the person you are. |
Why will my phone lose battery even when it's not in use? | Because it's always listening for calls and such, and checking in with the tower. Even when you're not using it, it takes some power just to be ready to use. |
Most people are familiar with how messed up the American prison system is, so why is nothing being done to fix this problem? | Because America is a democracy and prison reform is generally a huge vote loser. It costs a lot, it takes a lot of political capital, and it's expended on people who have typically done things to hurt your actual voters, while felons can't even vote for you. |
Why do so many native speakers of English mess up "your" and "you're"? I know they sound alike, but they're so different! | Probably because they don't care, and the distinction isn't necessary to get the point of the statement across. |
Are food products that say "consume within 7-10 days after opening" basicslly a food poisoning gamble after day 7? | Food spoilage isn't a black-and-white thing. Certain variables like your fridge temperature, how long you let the food sit out at room temperature, or even your stomach could dramatically affect how long it's good for. To give a real-life example: I was having a huge problem with spoiling food in my fridge. Milk was go... |
Sports teams are extremely wealthy. Why don't they build their own stadiums? | It's because voters generally like to have sports teams in their city and politicians like to please voters. And the bonds that a cities take out to pay for the stadiums are generally like 30 years. The cost is so spread out that people don't realize the true cost and there usually is a slight uptick in economic activi... |
Why does the US (and other countries) have wild animal control programs? Do they work? | Over 50 years, the alligator maintenance program in the Southern US has taken them from endangered to a proper population; and it's converted people who would have been illegal poachers to gator-farmers and sort of freelance game wardens. The alligators are now plentiful enough that the skins can be used for leather, a... |
Why do ladies say they don't want guys staring at their chest but wear tops that show a lot of cleavage (or more?) | There's a difference between guys who glance and guys who stare. Many women who do wear tops that show off cleavage will say that they expect some guys to look, but in a dignified way, not leering, drooling, and making rude gestures. Not every woman who wears a top like that is showing off for men. She could have a sig... |
Are Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth, signals harmful to our health? | No, it's not true at all. They're completely harmless.There has been numerous studies, and the concensus is that radio signals in the WiFi and BT bands are not harmful at the levels output by communication devices. |
Why do dentists recommend giving fluoride to babies when their teeth are going to fall out anyway? | mind control. seriously it's because it helps prevent cavities, which are painful no matter if the tooth is going to fall out or not. |
Why does my ABS get activated if I am braking on a bumpy road with my motorcycle even though the tyres are not locking? | You don't have to lock your tyres for abs to activate. As long as there's a difference between the front and rear tyre ABS knows something is not ok. On a bumpy road the tire looses contact for a split second and the rotational speed drops faster before it grips again and that's when ABS kicks in. It's also why typical... |
Why do people in hotter countries have darker skin than those in colder countries. | Hotter countries tend to be closer to the equator where they get more sun. Sunlight is harmful to us in the sense that UV light can cause burns and mutations, but it is also good for us because we can use it to produce vitamin D. So near the equator, evolutionary, black skin is favored because it protects from the cons... |
Why do mirrors only flip the image horizontally and not vertically as well? | I think this has come up before, but anyways; mirrors don't flip left and right, [they flip front and back]. |
The odds of getting struck by lightening are about 1/1,000,000. How much do those odds change if you stand outside with a metal rod in your hand during a lightening storm? | The general rule of thumb is that lightning follows the path of least resistance . That said, if there are other paths that lightning can take near you in which it reaches the ground with less resistance, then you will not get struck . If there are tall trees or buildings near you, you probably won't change your odds m... |
How does checking out a book from the library support the author or publishing company of a book? | It doesn't, your library subscription does however allow your local library to buy new books, supporting those authors. |
why do workers in America have terrible employment rights? | That's cool that the UK has that. But in the US, ahem, workers will *cough* abuse *cough* the supplemental benefits. And since things like metrics and stuff have come about, a company isn't willing to risk lower productivity and high turnaround. look at the US postal service. look at the us postal service mechanics dep... |
If farmers plant vegetables at the start of planting season and plants take the same time to grow, how are fresh fruits and vegetables available through the year? | Dirty industry secret. Most fruit and produce you buy in the store is not freshly picked from the field. It was most likely picked months ago when it was not ripe, then stored in a nitrogen filled warehouse. When a shipment goes out to the store, it's unpacked from storage, saturated with ethylene gas to accelerate rip... |
Why are people occupying larger cities across the US.. opposed to occupying Washington D.C.? | America is a really freakin big country, and it's hard to travel across it to protest. So everyone goes to the biggest nearby city instead.There is an Occupy DC but not everyone who wants to be involved that lives in San Francisco, Portland, Philly, etc can just pack up and go camp out in DC for the next 3 month. Thus,... |
If China is a communist country, how are there so many rich Chinese people buying expensive property and high end consumer goods? | They've actually allowed for capitalism since the late 1970s reforms, because they are convinced that you need capitalism to eventually reach communism. They perceived it as a necessary passing-through stage that eventually went out of hand, up to the point that they are now not seemingly pursuing communism anymore. Th... |
Why do many animal species have mating seasons? | There's a [few] [topics] on /r/askscience about human mating seasons. Basically the answer is that primates that live in tropical environments don't have mating seasons. |
What is a Coronal mass ejection, and how will it effect us once it reaches us from the sun? | It's a storm of electrically charged particals being ejected from the suns surface. Once it the storm reaches earth it will be deflected around the earth's magnetic feild and stream away into space. The most noticible effect will be incredible Northern lights, from the particles hitting the upper atmosphere. The electr... |
How do Emulators like Dolphin make old GameCube games look almost like they are in 4K? | It's the same as playing any other 3D PC game. You set it to 360p and it's gonna be blurry and tiny, but set it to 1080p and it looks better. The emulator just isn't limited to rendering the 3D graphics at the lower resolution the console does. This doesn't work with 2D elements as well though, at least not without spe... |
What is actually happening when a perfectly comfortable sleeping position eventually stops feeling comfortable and we must re-position ourselves? | I've got a summer job working in a mattress store right now. The way I explain it to customers is that whatever weight you're putting on the bed, it is putting an equal amount of pressure on you . This is the bed supporting your weight. If any part of your back is not being supported by the mattress, those muscles have... |
How can airline carriers get away with overbooking flights? | On the airlines I've been bumped on, the use of compensation tickets are also controlled. There are restrictions which force you to use them on non-peak travel, which would normally be flights with empty seats. So bumping you to a later flight and giving you a voucher costs less than 2 full flights. |
If the body rejects foreign bodies/objects how come the body doesn't reject metal plates, pins and screws? | It kind of does. I had metal pins put in my knee because it was shattered in an accident. Eventually after a year or two the pins started to get pushed out and you could see them as bumps in the skin on my knee. So I had to have surgery to take them out. It's fairly common from what my surgeon said. |
how do poor people live in expensive cities without being homeless? | One way they do is that the government pays for them to, at least in NYC. There are about 180k units in conventional public housing, and another 92k apartments paid for by housing vouchers. Folks in these programs pay 30% of their income in rent, the rest is paid for by the taxpayer. There are 225k people living in hou... |
Why do people need to pee really bad at the movies but can play video games for hours without needing to go to the toilet at all. | Every time your heart beats your body produces a tiny amount of urine. If you drink a lot the amount of urine increases because of all the extra fluid in your system. The only activity things that factor this are things that raise your heartbeat and activity that makes you sweat off excess water instead of converting i... |
What constitutes a hate crime? | It becomes a hate crime when you assault a man with a different colour skin than you *because* he has a different colour skin. If you assault him for another reason that is unrelated to his skin colour and you can prove that , it wouldn't be a hate crime. |
Why does chewing gum curb my appetite? | It basically tricks your brain into thinking you're eating something. Sucking on something like a lollipop does the same. |
What happens to a complex material (a jelly donut) under extreme pressures? | TL;DR, the donut flattens into a sandwich-like object with the jelly hardened and spread out into an oval-ish shape.Long version: the big problem regarding your question is that a typical jelly donut would explode if the pressure was to be added on incrementally. Even if the pressure is changed quickly, the donut would... |
What would happen if you hooked up camera's with feeds outside the eye's visible spectrum to your optic nerve? Would your brain be able to make sense of it? | It is possible to have devices which translate light into data your optic nerve can understand, and we have experimented with devices that allow blind people to see a limited amount. We have the capability to detect IR and UV already, and presently display them on a screen with different colors to show different intens... |
If the human race as a whole decided for whatever reason that we wanted to destroy the entire planet, how easily would we be able to do it? | [Here's one of the greatest pieces of the internet, and might be just slightly above ELI5 level, but only just.] |
If you don't get married in a church or some other religious building, who does the ceremony and pronounces the marriage legitimate? | No matter where you have your little promenade ceremony for family and friends, **the state** legitimizes the marriage, and that's done in a court house. Church officials have nothing to do with it.Depends on the state. A justice of the Peace, a notary public, and a licensed sea captain can all perform marriages where ... |
How are mosquitoes beneficial to the ecosystem in any way? | Keep in mind, lifeforms don't necessarily exist because they are beneficial to an ecosystem. For life to continue most will be beneficial, but some just aren't because evolution doesn't have any 'goals'. It just so happens that those that don't put anything into the system generally die off through various natural mech... |
Why/ how do extremely hot substances create light? | Temperature is a measure of atomic/molecular kinetic energy. High temperature means the atoms are moving fast and in the case of a metal they're vibrating. To vibrate, the atoms move back and forth and are thus constantly changing directions. Electromagnetic theory tells us that accelerating charges emit electromagneti... |
Why did Android stop supporting flash? Also, for all those reasons, why did it seem like a good idea to support it on iOS devices? | It's not that Android stopped supporting it. Adobe stopped developing Flash for mobile. Once it became obvious that Flash was never, ever coming to iOS Adobe determined it just wasn't worth the development cost to continue working on it for one platform.[Here it is, explained for you.] It just took the rest of the worl... |
Why are employers so anal about "gaps in employment?" | > I really can't figure out why it's any of their damn business , and honestly can't see the big deal. It is their damn business because you are asking them to hire you. You are going to be in their store, handling their merchandise and their money, and representing their image when you interact with their customers. E... |
How do toilets always have the same amount of water floating in them all the time? | this is a cutaway of the bowl: _URL_0_ as you can see there's a bent pipe that rises then falls. You can't fill the bowl above the rise or it just drains. So when you flush it's designed to fill back up and will naturally find that level as long as you put a minimum back in. |
How do Doctors and GPs not get sick after coming into contact with numerous sick people every day? | I asked the same thing to a doctor recently. She said there's extremely low chance to get infected by touching the patient. It's much easier for infection to travel via kissing or sexual intercourse. It's probably because of liquids. |
Determining what is and is not cultural appropriation? | Why should we believe that appropriation is something morally bad, or something that we should avoid? If one culture has a culture of patience, respect, and virtuous living, and I take an interest in that culture and decide to implement their virtuous living, am I appropriating it? Is that bad? Should I avoid living vi... |
Why do invasive species destroy a native environment, but not their own? | Many invasive species don't cause this problem. Like, if you introduce a new rodent into a part of the woods with lots of snakes, then nothing new will happen. You don't hear about these as much because there's no impact. So you're right - there's usually something in place to prevent ecological catastrophe, but someti... |
How are stats like "90% of rape goes unreported" come up with? If they're unreported, surely the date doesn't exist? | The rapes go unreported to the police. The people doing the studies can still ask people who were raped if they reported it or not I suppose. You're misunderstanding the statement. |
how do very young children get diagnosed as needing glasses? | I asked an optometrist that once when my daughter was 2. I was there with my dad who has bad eyes and my son and I both have bad eyes. We didn't realize my son needed glasses until he couldn't see the board in school , and I was curious about my daughter since everyone else in my family needs glasses. Anyway, the optom... |
If you're called before a Congressional Committee for questioning, do you have to go? | Congress like the judicial branch of government has the power to issue subpoenas to appear before them. Failure to comply can result in contempt of congress which carries the same penalties as contempt of court. While you are there, you are put under oath, and lying can result in a perjury charge. Your 5th Amendment ri... |
Why do the majority of Muslims I have known seem to intensely dislike Israel and Jews? | Quran don't have much love for Jews in the first place since Quran claim to hold the truth when it differ from Torah & Bible, which is explained by another claim that Jews & Christian corrupt their own scripture. This wouldn't matter much in modern era if Jews are rare and unimportant. However, with Israel existence, i... |
Why does wine continue to mature once it's bottled, while whiskey stops maturing once it's bottled. | The really simple answer is the value of aging whiskey comes from extra time in the barrel . Wine aging gets its value from large molecules breaking down over longer periods of time. Whiskey is made from simpler molecules and therefore doesn't gain much from aging in a bottle. |
Why doesn't earth have nearly as big craters or nearly as much craters as other planets? | Several reasons: 1. Atmosphere. Anything not extremely massive burns up upon entry. 2. Water. More of the surface of the earth is water than land. 3. The moon. Among other things, it's a guardian of our jewel. 4. Jupiter. Arguably life would not be possible without our solar system's great guardian. It attracts large o... |
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