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Why when on an airplane do they ask parents to put the mask on themselves before their children? | Because if you don't, you will probably pass out before you get the mask on to your child. Your impulse to breathe comes, not from a lack of oxygen in your blood, but from a build up of CO₂. If you are getting rid of the carbon dioxide, then you don't feel anything wrong. This leads to this problem - very low pressure ... |
A curious Australian here. Why do you American's donate your money to political candidates? | Actually, it's far from unheard of. A quick google brings up _URL_0_ From which > Donor\tTotal Amount \tDonated ToMr ENG JOO ANG\t$110,000.00\tALP-NSW YILIN ZHU\t$50,000.00\tAustralian Labor Party Holding Redlich\t$16,295.00\tALP-NSW NATIONAL ROADS & MOTORISTS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED\t$15,000.00\tAustralian Labor Party Re... |
How older movies are "remastered to 1080p" | A movie's film is scanned into a computer and then algorithms are applied to it to brighten and sharpen the picture and to enhance the audio. Sometimes CGI effects are added to replace original effects so that they don't look out of place once restored.Film is resolution independent. So you can take the original film a... |
why do massive tattoos have to be done in multiple parts | There's no way I could've done my entire back piece in one shot. It took ~28 hours .EDIT: Further, I spaced my sessions out over the course of about 10 months. |
Why aren't refrigerators placed against the outdoor wall with a ventilator that just lets in cold air if the temperature is cold enough outside? | It isn't done because it would great increase the complexity and cost of the fridges. Furthermore, having them require houses to have custom-built ventilation holes for fridges would be a maintenance - and standards - nightmare.In addition to the answers already given, in some places, the outside air is never cold enou... |
Does shooting gasoline or other flammable substance's really set them alight, like in the movies? | If it does it's incredibly hard to do. Season 1 Episode 15 of Mythbusters tested this, they shot at a gas tank filled to the brim and nothing happened.Not really, i mean it is possible. Its going to take a spark so it is possible if you shoot and hit something metal but chances are really low. |
What happens if a country is found guilty of a war crime? | You can't charge a country for war crime. International Criminal Court in the Hague can only charge individuals directly responsible for war crimes. It works just like most other courts with a prosecutor responsible for charging against individuals for one of the following: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes... |
Why can't months with 31 days give a couple of days to February so that it's more even between them all? | There's two questions: why is it that way, and why don't we fix it. The first has already been answered by /u/Schnutzel and /u/usul1628. For the rest, consider all the software that runs the world right now. Financial systems, medical systems, inventorying, and manufacturing all rely heavily on dates and calendars that... |
Why does it sometimes take minutes to find what you are looking for on a server at work but we can search the entire internet via google in seconds? | A search engine like Google pre-searches the websites and creates an index, so when you search for something it's searching the index. When you say that looking on a server at work takes a long time, I don't know exactly how you're searching - e.g. are you searching for files by name or content in files? If there isn't... |
What would happen if the earth right now would collide with a black hole? | Stephen Hawking's take on black holes is pretty interesting. It's worth the read, if you're actually wanting to understand them better. The link below goes to the article. _URL_0_", 'Well you see, at the exact time of the collision, everything would probably just |
Did we tap into green energy at the earliest possible opportunity? Or did we delay it, and there was actually a possibility to start exploiting it much earlier? | Currently it is ALL about money. The technology is there and has been for years - Ok it has some downsides, but so did Fossil Fuels - They got ironed out of the years using technology. When I was presenting my dissertation project, the chap who was next to me had a Solar Panel based project, and insipired me to look in... |
If the US is a democracy, why can the majority of people agree on something, and no change happens? | America isn't a democracy, it is a representative democracy. People don't vote on issues, they vote for people to represent them. Because there are fixed election dates, if the people they elect are useless, there is little the people can do about it. |
Why do I sometimes get that it feels like its itching INSIDE my hand, foot etc.. | An itch is actually similar to pain. It's simply nerve endings reacting to some stimulus. When it itches inside, that just means the nerve endings that are reacting to the itch is beneath the skin. |
At the end of the day, I feel like I could start a new day, but halfway through the day I just want to sleep. | I don't know what your job is, but don't forget you're in a continuous machine that chews you up and spits you out. Once you're off work, you're not part of that machine. It becomes extremely taxing on your mental health after awhile even when or if you don't realize it. It's scary, but very true.Fix your [circadian rh... |
Why do people prefer Linux? | Linux is used in servers quite commonly. Having some Linux experience from an academic point of view will give you a good rounded experience with another OS. I've used both Linux and osx as my desktop OS. I am currently preferring osx for a desktop environment since it's a slightly lower footprint of effort on my part ... |
Is it really possible for a person or entity to get precise information, such as your street location, from your IP address? | A single IP cannot locate you. However cross reference the IP with other information may be more than enough. Suppose you had hacked Facebook. Or Hotmail or Gmail. You can now look up that IP in Facebook's logs and find any matches for that IP. Chances are thats the same person. If you're a bit less ambitious than hack... |
Why are Americans so obsessed with terrorists? | Fear is a hell of a drug. Propaganda fuels fear. Also, you're talking about a country that voted a rich reality tv start to be its president. |
Why is time in India +0530 GMT and not a round number like +0600 or +0500? | What is more bizarre is that India only has the one official time zone, despite the fact that it crosses several. India's time zone was made as a political statement to show unity in the nation. |
Why haven't airplanes or airline seats gotten slightly larger to accommodate larger customers? | people want luxury in their cars because they own it. people don't want to pay for luxury on their flight because its temporary. here's another example. you would want nice bathroom tiles in your house. but do you want to pay more for gas because the gas station wants nice tiles in theirs? i'm stretching the analogy a ... |
How does sleep paralysis occur and what does it feel like? | Aside from the other comments, the suggested cause of sleep paralysis is thought to be an irregular path through the various stages of sleep. In the case of sleep paralysis you get stuck partially in either a hynpagogic or hypnopompic state while your body has frozen your voluntarily muscle movements . In sleep drunken... |
Why is it preferable to have a handmade car (e.g. Rolls Royce) than one made by robots, when robots are more precise than human hands? | Partly it's that some things cannot be done as well by robots as by a skilled person. Robots can make precise programmed movements, but they're less good at responding to their environment. When working with materials with natural variation like wood and leather, being able to use the individual pieces in the best way ... |
Why do credit cards not require PINs? | Partially because a debit card draws directly from your bank, so the extra security is attractive. Credit cards are effectively a loan, so if something is fraudulently charged, you can choose to contest it before losing your money, making it a bit safer. Technically, anyone in a cashier position should be check for a s... |
Why didn't Jews in WWII abandon (or hide) their faith to avoid capture? | It wasn't just about obeying the Jewish religion. If you had Jewish parents, you were considered Jewish. |
. Why is it that, when you are sick and your nose is stuffed up, does the pressure swap from one nostril to the other at random times? | There are mucosal bodies inside your nose, one on each side. These bodies consist of an epithelium, inner lining and some blood vessels to supply nutrients. Every half hour or so, one of them becomes inflated due to swelling of the blood vessels. This is done for maintenance and replenishment of the tissues there. What... |
Why don't white Americans rise up against police brutality like black communities do? | They do, you just don't hear about it on the news because it doesn't fit their agenda. I've been to numerous police brutality protests where the majority of the crowd was white.It doesn't fit the current narrative of the national media. Popular news subjects are like fads, the news stations cover the current "fad" and ... |
American conservative economic theory, how it works and has worked? | By cutting taxes on companies and higher earners, more capital becomes available for investment in new technologies/equipment/personnel since that money is no longer going to the government. This extra money is supposed to be used to give raises or hire new employees, purchase new/more efficient equipment, expand new b... |
How to start eating healthier and exercising. | Start small and build up. You're more likely to fail if you go in with the attitude that you're going to hit the gym eight days a week then if you just take a ten minute walk once a week. |
how speakers work, and specifically, how they play multiple different sounds simaltaneously | Sound is the rapid vibration of air. We can hear it because we have a membrane in each ear, called the eardrum, that captures the vibration of that air. And we only have one eardrum per ear, which is why a single speaker is enough to produce all audible sounds. How can a single eardrum capture different simultaneous so... |
Sometimes, when I start to sneeze, I don't get to finish the sneeze and it's very frustrating - Why does my sneeze not complete sometimes? | A ruined sneezegasm is the worst. I guess it happens when there's not enough stimuli to get over the edge. Get a feather or look at bright light, that often helps. Or makes it even worse. |
- How do catalysts work without being consumed? | They lower how much energy is required for the reaction. Lets say you're trying to get over a wall. It would take a lot of effort to try to climb over it. Now lets introduce a ladder. It would make getting over the wall easier without changing the end result. The ladder never changes throughout the action, but it still... |
Why do you have to sign credit card receipts (and why is it only required some of the time)? | The underlying question with something like a credit card is always about who bears the risk that you don't pay. Signing is about answering that question. When you swipe the card, you are basically saying that you will pay the money for whatever you're buying later, even though you don't have money on you. The way it w... |
Why does meat turn grey as it gets closer to expiration? | > Beef stored in the refrigerator for more than 5 days will start to turn brown due to chemical changes in the myoglobin.[Protein that causes redness in meat] This doesn’t necessarily mean it has gone bad, though with this length of unfrozen storage, it may have. Best to use your nose to tell for sure, not your eyes. _... |
What is the big reason that we NEED a manned Mars mission? | There IS no reason for putting people on Mars, aside from the gee-whiz factor. The science can be done MUCH cheaper by unmanned probes. Whenever you send people into space, some 90% of your money, mass, and fuel budgets have to be blown JUST on keeping the meat alive, which doesn't leave much room for anything else. Th... |
How would charging a battery over wifi work? | It deals with using magnetic fields to generate energy in the remote device, which can then be used to generate electricity inside the device itself. The process is known as electromagnetic induction. Think about having 2 magnets near each other, and how you can push one towards the other, and , the second magnet will ... |
How did the employer-based healthcare system in the United States originate and why did it develop differently in almost all other developed nations? | Before the Great Depression there was no health insurance. People paid for healthcare in cash and it was cheap. Then hospitals started offering care for a tiny monthly payment. During WWII the IRS made employer paid health insurance tax free and we were off to the races. Blue Cross was the first Insurance Company. It b... |
Why do so many frozen yogurt shops go out of business, only to be replaced by another one almost immediately? | I actually own an Orange Leaf Franchise. The buildout on these stores is not cheap. Ours was 112k. Equipment new was not cheap either. All in the store was 250k to get going. You have a loan which gets paid back in 5 years, not 30, FIVE. That's brutal. Meanwhile 3 years in the craze dies and you try to break even. My s... |
Finnish education system compared to the rest of the world. And why it´s more successful than others. | I can't tell you about differences between primary and high school, but I can tell you the difference between tertiary education as I did exchange there whilst at uni. There is a different culture towards higher education there. Its similar in that everyone who wants more education gets it, its just different in how yo... |
If there's enough water in alcoholic beverages to make us urinate so much, then why is is alcohol so dehydrating? | Your liver uses water to flush out the alcohol. That's why you are peeing, and that's why you get dehydrated. |
Why don't we implement v-TOL technology into passenger and commercial planes since it would free up more space for terminals and landing.? | You figure out a way to reliably land a jumbo jet with VTOL engines and people will start doing it. For a jet to take off, or land with VTOL, it has to have engines powerful enough that it can take off from a dead stop. Notice that a harrier jet can take off immediately while something like a 747 needs hundreds upon hu... |
How did people like Adam and Eve, and Noah and his family procreate in the bible? Wouldn't their children be deformed due to the close genetics? | I wouldn't take the story literally. It's a good story with many powerful messages, but there's no evidence of any kind that the world has ever been through a global flood. More than likely, the story of Noah is based on a real event, a great local flood that killed many people. People used to explain acts of nature as... |
Why do grocery stores use huge rows of open refrigerators without doors, while some refrigeration units at the very same grocery store will have doors which would presumably be much more energy efficient? | Most items in the open refrigerated section are things that need to be cold but not necessarily frozen. Like you said, it's easier to see and grab items when there isn't a door in your way. The items in the freezer section are things that, you guessed it, need to be frozen so they are needed. At night when supermarkets... |
How do you "waste water"? | It's not always going to return to the same location. So if you are in the middle of a drought in California and waste some water by watering your lawn, some of it will evaporate and possibly return to earth thousands of miles away from California. Which doesn't help California much.Imagine if we all reduced our water ... |
Why aren't planes covered in solar panels? | Because solar panels are expensive to install and replace, and they wouldn't produce enough electricity to do much but keep the lights in the plane on. |
If light travels forever, why isn't it always daylight? | There *is* always light , but it's not always daylight because sometimes we aren't facing the sun as we spin around, and so the light coming at us doesn't hit our eyes. |
What makes a person clumsy? | Generally a poor sense if propioception which is basically knowing where your body is in relation to tother things. If you don't fully understand where your hip ends you can't tell that it is going to bash into the corner of the table yet again. This can be improved through activities that require co-ordination and an ... |
How do snakes digest their food when they eat the animal whole? | The snake's metabolism kicks into overdrive with its heart beating faster and its liver sometimes doubling in size, and it breaks down the carcass with the same thing we break down our food: sulfuric acid. It just takes a lot longer for a snake to dissolve a whole aligator or deer than for our bodies to dissolve alread... |
Why aren't ebooks and video game downloads cheaper than regular book and disc video games? | I'll speak about video games because I don't know the book market well enough to say that it's the same situation. While production of digital copies can cost less than physical copies, it makes little sense to sell them at different prices at this point. The vast majority of video games sold are still physical copies ... |
Why is it easier to see objects in the dark if you indirectly look at them instead of directly at them? | You have two types of photo receptors in your eyes: rods and cones. If I remember right, cones sense color, but rods only sense light and dark . The cones are arranged in such a way that they're most accurate at seeing what's straight ahead, rods register better in your peripheral vision. So in the dark you actually se... |
if a property bubble bursts and property prices go lower, why is that not a good thing for people wanting to buy property? | It's a good thing for people buying houses. It's a bad thing for the economy as a whole, which is what people are usually talking about. Before the bubble, we had 10 houses worth $250,000 each. That means there was $2.5 million dollars worth of payments a bank was expecting. That was income it was using to give other p... |
Why is storing a hashed password any better than storing a plain-text password? | You need to use a one-way hash that does *not* allow you to figure out what the original password is. When the user enters their password, you hash it and compare the result to the hash you have stored. If the hashes match then you let them in. But stealing the hashed password doesn't do any good, because you can't use... |
Why don't we let minors decide if they want to be in a relationship with an adult? | Hey nice to see you.Why don't you have a seat right over there?", 'Because minors are generally bad at making decisions and need to be protected from adults who would take advantage of that fact. And because such relationships often have some abusive aspect to themIt can work, one in a how-many? Bit like those countrie... |
why can't people hire you base in just the qualifications? | Because certifications/qualifications tell nothing about whether or not you are idiot and whether or not you can actually do the job well. When looking for someone to work with, last person you want is someone who 'got cert' and thinks that it is enough to get a job. That is clear red flag. Besides, what would you do i... |
How are silverback gorillas naturally so big and strong from basically only eating vegetables? | If eating meat were required to create meat , then no meat would exist. Thus meat-eating is not a prerequisite for building muscle. It might help build muscle faster, but remember that silverbacks are, by definition, relatively old. They've had time to bulk up.Keep in mind elephants do, and brontosaurus used to, only e... |
Seeing through a mantis shrimps eyes. | I think it is like ultraviolet and infrared. The colors that are outside of the visible spectrum. Well the Mantis Shrimp can see some of those. We can't really imagine colors that we don't see, but just try to picture a world more vivid and varied in it's tones. |
How does the Monty Hall statistics problem work ? | It's not independent because they will never open the door you choose and they will never open the correct door. Look at the possibilities after you choose . * You choose 1, they open 2.* You choose 1, they open 3.* You choose 2, they open 3.* You choose 3, they open 2. Even though you had a 33% chance of getting it ri... |
What makes someone allergic to a certain thing? | Okay - my immunology is rusty, but here goes: First part:It's a part of your immune system called the Immunoglobulin-E -mediated inflammatory response. What it's supposed to do is clear out parasites; but it can go awry. Immunoglobulin responses use these clever little protein keys to lock onto proteins in pathogens. T... |
What is the deal with the American blue cross with stars on a red background flag? | Ah. It's the Confederate Flag. In the 1800s, America had a civil war. The southern states left the USA to form their own nation, the Confederate States of America , mainly because they wanted to maintain the rights to keep humans as slaves, which they needed to keep their agricultural economy prosperous. There was a br... |
With photoshop and similar programs being more and more accurate, how do you recognize that a photo or video is original? | image manipulation detection" and similar if you want to learn more. This [quora thread] can also get you started. Edit: on mobile currently, will add more examples and explanation laterPeople with trained eyes can break down videos or photographs and see what was done to it based on their own experiences. Example: The... |
how do taxes work for people whose source of income is coming in from many different countries, such as musicians | If you're asking about US musicians, US Citizens are taxed on their worldwide income. In general, you can take a credit for foreign taxes paid, and in some cases you can exclude foreign earned income if the US has a tax treaty with the country in which the income was earned. In general, the country in which the income ... |
What would happen to the Queen of the common wealth if the countries no longer wanted a monarch? | Fully half of the countries in the commonwealth are already republics. If the rest became republics too, she'd presumably become another rich person who used to be a European monarch. There is no shortage of such families in Europe today. |
As an American with a tenuous grasp of the rules of cricket, what would sandpapering a ball do, and why did those Australian players get into so much trouble? | Some long but good responses here. I'll try a shorter one for you. A bowling ball is made of leather, with two halves split by a raised seam. Certain bowlers bowl the ball so fast that air resistance has a huge effect making the ball curve or dip in the air , using the shape of the ball . This is not to be confused wit... |
When a movie has a $100M budget, and flops and only grosses $30M worldwide, who takes the loss on that? | The studio normally will file a loss if the movie doesn't make up the difference within a given period of time, but the problem is most movies do make their production budget back well before that time passes, thanks to the home video market", 'In addition to other comments. 1) Movies may make money not only from cinem... |
How is flash memory created? And why is some harder to create that others? | Well, the other answer is not really ELI5, so this is mine: 1. First question: the process is mostly the same, but they don't make a 64gb stick in one shot, they made several, let's say 8gb chip, and combine them into 64gb. So more chip = more money.Some products even have a same number of chip then they disable some c... |
Difference between agnostics and atheists. | A theist believes in god. An atheist does not. An agnostic admits they just don't know. |
a question from my 7 yo. If an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? | The asteroid didn't wipe out the dinosaurs. We know it didn't because birds ARE dinosaurs. Not all dinosaurs were big like T-Rex. Some were very small, even smaller than squirrels. The flying dinosaurs we call birds evolved long before the asteroid hit. They shared with world with their larger cousins and with early ma... |
How do smelling salts wake you up after you’ve been unconscious? | When you go into deep sleep stages of your sleep cycle, the sections of the brain responsible for hearing, touch, vision, etc. are suppressed, making it harder for you to wake. The only center that isn't suppressed is your olfactory center, the one responsible for smell. So any smell can wake you up if it's powerful en... |
Why does America hate Communism so much? | A lot have despots and dictators have claimed to be communists making communism look evil. However, communism as outlined by Marx, advocated for things like the 8 hours work day and getting children out of factories. It's not intrinsically evil, but there's more room to abuse the system. |
Why release a grand jury result at 9pm when you are worried about rioting? Aren't people less likely to riot at 8am? | I can comprehend the rioting, but why the looting? It is just further perpetuating a sterotype. I have never been so angry that I want to steal shit. Apparently this bro doesn't even anger. |
Why is it that whenever I am not suppose to or cant touch my face, it always starts to itch? | I don't have an answer for you, but can you imagine being an astronaut with one of those fishbowls on your head for hours at a time? Fuck, I get itchy just thinking about it. |
Why are farms and produce subsidized so heavily? | At the beginning of the Great Depression, consumers cut back on their spending, including grocery spending, focusing a greater amount of their budget on staple crops like wheat, corn, and potatoes. Farmers responded buy planting these crops in massive numbers, because they were the only thing selling. This led to an ov... |
Why can't we use ATP to power limb prosthetics or other types of kinetic devices? | The problem here is ATP is not some kind of battery that you can just use to power anything. It provides energy by reacting with proteins allowing them to change their shape into a more energetically demanding configuration. In this reaction ATP is turned into ADP and a remaining phosphate which is bound to the protein... |
Why do so many world mythologies associate the sky with heaven? | The sky changes literally every day. It's changing faster than pretty much any other environmental factor. When it's dark out, you're seeing into infinity. The whole universe is above you. Kind of a terrifying feeling If you don't know anything. So it makes sense that if their are Gods, they're coming from the mysterio... |
What makes genetically modified foods so harmful to humans? | Nothing There has never been anything to suggest it. The question that should be asked here is why the modifiers get away with being such fraudulent dicks. They patent their modifications and relentlessly sue anyone who is found with it without a license, even if it blew onto their land from the highway alongside the c... |
Why Singapore is doing better (economically) than its neighboring countries | Not sure why this hasn't been brought up yet plain and simple, Singapore has one the freest economies in the world. _URL_0_ There are lots of former British colonial ports and lots of small trade dependent nations in the world, but Singapore's economy excels for the same reason Hong Kong's does; a very deregulated mark... |
Why do things itch, how is scratching supposed to help? | too cold!" and "ouch!". They also seem to handle "godamnit I need to scratch". Histamine can set these off and tell you to itch that spot. That's why an insect bite can be itchy. Why is this so? Probably because the itch is designed to brush off whatever animal/substance was on your skin that's causing it so much grief... |
why is it that when roaches die, you always fond them on their backs? | Look at how a live roach normally holds their legs-- sprawled outward and flattened very close to the ground, parallel to the body. Now look at a dead roach's legs-- curled up and sticking out somewhat perpendicular to the body.When they die, the legs curl up and stiffen, elevating the body more than normal. You end up... |
What does it mean in movies when someone asks "do you validate parking?" | In downtown areas of large cities, there's not a lot of parking. On-street parking is *nowhere* near enough to handle all the people in an office building. You could build parking lots but it's a really wasteful use of land, just parking a single car on top of a spot of earth. Multistory parking garages become needed. ... |
Given the high cost of postage, how can businesses afford to sell cheap goods with free postage? | If you are using USPS, anything under 13 oz qualifies for 1st class, which is pretty cheap. As an example .shipping a package from my place on the East Coast to California that is 5oz is on $2.09. That's pretty cheap so 1st Class is easy to offer for free if your packages are light. For heavier packages, they are in mo... |
Why are there immigration laws? | There is also a lot of 'nationalist' pressure in several countries around the world. A nationalist is someone who puts a ton of value in their country. Whether or not their concerns are valid and fair, some countries have a large body of these people and so their government may make laws accordingly with them in mind. ... |
Is it normal to wear shoes inside your house in some countries? | In Canada, it's just plain boorish behavior not to take your shoes off. Not sure about my neighbors to the south. Hi Norway! Been to Trondheim and Bergen, awesome cities in every way. Loved Norway!", 'I live in Phoenix, Arizona. 99.9% of the time theres no snow and theres rarely any rain, so theres really no reason to ... |
How can some countries have territory in Antarctica when the Antarctic Treaty says no state can have territory? | The territorial claims were made prior to the Antarctic Treaty. The Antarctic treaty doesn't necessarily care about the claims, it simply cares that the continent remain an undeveloped natural/scientific refuge. |
John Boner says that 40 ultra right members of congress are controlling it. How is this even possible? | Because of the Hastert Rule the party has adopted.It essentially says that the speaker of the house will not bring up a bill to a vote unless it has the majority of his own party's approval. That means you need a much smaller number than half the house to control it, you only need half the majority . That makes 40 a pr... |
When babies get their first teeth, how do they not constantly bite into their gums? | The top and bottom fronts come in first, usually very close together in time, so the issue doesn't exist for long - but babies are also pretty miserable as those teeth are making their way through - I'd guess that the pain of biting the gums above just melds in with the rest of it. Source: 2 kids, one of whom just went... |
Why do some people require significantly less sleep than others? | > all the way up to some people requiring no sleep at all Those people still sleep but don't notice it. Sleep deprivation leads to certain death. |
How Bose QC25 cancels out so much sound using power from a AAA battery. | The QC25 has a tiny microphone that picks up the ambient sound. Then it produces a sound wave that is 180 degrees out of phase with the ambient sound, so they cancel each other out. It doesn't take that much power to produce the wave since it is literally sitting on top of your ears, and all the other ambient sound is ... |
How exactly do model rocket engines work? | > So, how exactly does the electricity coming from the igniter actually ignite the engine? Does the engine conduct electricity, or am I completely wrong? The end of ignitor is nichrome or some other alloy that heats when electric current is passed through it, just like the coils in your toaster. It's also coated with a... |
Why are some people so eager for the Baby Boomer generation to die off? | Baby Boomer generation had the best of everything. They all grew up during a time of prosperity. Their parents helped make life easy for them. Way easy. So now the baby boomers don't understand the importance of working together to overcome hardships. They grew up in a time when everyone had plenty and competition was ... |
Why are we forced to use banks to receive our income? | It's much easier for an employer to keep all of it's money in their bank than to go withdraw whatever they owe you and hand it to you every two weeks. If you use direct deposit, it's a lot easier for you too. |
Why is the inside of my chocolate bar wrapper reflective? | Simply put it's because they are made of Aluminium, which is mainly due to to health and safety and manufacturing costs. _URL_0_ |
Why there are delayed flights on good weather conditions? | That plane has a reserved landing slot, gate etc. at its destination airport. If there's bad weather there, then there's no point in taking off here, the plane will just waste fuel having to circle or divert to another airport. And/or this is just one plane in a many plane, many route snafu: a single plane may make up ... |
Why do competing bodybuilders get such obvious spray tans? | In addition to increasing muscle definition, it also helps cover up skin imperfections and prevents getting washed out by the extremely bright lights. They use spray tan instead of real tanning because they'd mostly all be dead from skin cancer otherwise. :) |
Where did the notion of clockwise and counter-clockwise come from and how would people denote the direction of rotation before mechanical clocks became commonplace? | deiseil" and even "deocil" from the Scottish Gaelic language and from the same root as the Latin "dexter" were used for clockwise. "Widdershins" or "withershins" was used for anticlockwise. > Clocks traditionally follow this sense of rotation because of the clock's predecessor: the sundial. Clocks with hands were first... |
Why does my DVR stop recording slightly earlier than the end of my scheduled show? | The DVR is probably recording the correct time; the show is running a bit long. Some networks do this on purpose. I don't understand the logic of it, though. |
How realistic are modern shooter games? | Real life war is not fun. SO They are very realistic. Getting downvoted, but that's funny right there. |
Why does Microsoft Excel only have the capability of 15 digit precision even with the advancement of modern day computing abilities? | The short answer is that the average user doesn't need that level of precision, so Excel doesn't have it. Most users of Excel are businesses, who rarely have the need to go out beyond a few decimal places, much less 15. The calculations simple don't require that level or precision. What they _do_ need are volume of cal... |
Image vectoring and how it works versus "standard" images | Like youre 5 : See this quarter? Seems round, till you look closely at the edge. There you can see its sorta jaggy. This is like your 'standard' image. See this penny? Seems round. Look closely at the edge. Still smooth, no matter how close you put your eye. This is like your vector image. |
Why do so many Americans hate on France when France is America's biggest ally throughout history and helped America gain independence? | Hey France, thanks for helping us out in the Revolutionary War against them damned red coats. You're cool by me. |
Why is there turkey bacon but no chicken bacon? | They do have it, I don't know why its not more popular. I've had murrays chicken bacon and it was bomb as fuckkk |
. How does Gandalf turn from the grey to the white wizard? What exactly happens to him? | When elves and wizards die, they go back to Valinor. That's where they were sailing to at the end of Return of the King. In the story, Valinor is symbolic of heaven. But in the world of Lord of the Rings, it's an actual, physical place. In Valinor, there are really powerful, magical ~~elves~~ beings called the Valar. T... |
Why do we use rats as test subjects? | Rats and mice, genetically, are actually fairly similar to humans. So, experiments on them translate well into human subjects. Rats and mice have the added advantage of being small, easy to breed, and easy to care for, so it's easy to store and produce them in mass quantity. There are some people out there who protest ... |
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