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Why does every newly discovered virus out there always seem to cause the same "flu-like symptoms"? | This is a really interesting question. It turns out that to continue existing, viruses need ways to propagate themselves. Nearly all viruses eventually die when they're out in the environment, they need ways to propagate themselves that tend to go directly from person to person. Viruses are very small and have no way t... |
If a "female" identifies as a male would they be **legally** allowed to be topless on tv? | I'm a trans dude pre surgery. I wouldn't be seen dead topless ever. One, because it's distressing for me to be topless in the first place.And two, because it's not allowed. It doesn't matter how someone identifies, I think if there's large noticeable breasts displayed publicly, unless on a non transgender male with gyn... |
Why don't we point Hubbles and/or all other "magical" telescopes to our closest celestial body and show everyone once and for all, the artifacts of human Lunar landing? | We *have* taken pictures of the lunar landing sites. Half the problem is, most of the equipment that can/has taken pictures of these sites is still NASA equipment, ie the same organization who performed the landings and *of course* they're going to continue to claim the events happened as they claimed they did. What we... |
Why is the human iris so colorful? | i always assumed it had something to do with ancestral geographic location, in which an area's sun exposure would have an impact on not only eye color, but skin color as well. the darker the color of the eye, the less sensitive one would be to sunlight the lighter the eye, the more sensitive. the sun's rays are general... |
Does centrifugal force exist in space? | Centrifugal force is an explanation of conservation of momentum. It's not an actual force that actually exists. It has nothing to do with the Big Bang, which is about expansion of spacetime itself, rather than just changing the distance between objects in space. |
How come the Native Americans never got to their own metal ages. (Bronze, brass, steel, etc)? | Short answer: they didn't have to, to survive. Their climate and other conditions were not taxing in the way to generate the necessity. This is true with most of the difference between evolution/progress in civilizations. Hardship breeds innovation. |
Do Asian people write code in Asian characters? | Asian programmer here. The characters you use in your code depend on the language that you are coding in. This is because there do exist [programming languages that are not based on English]. That said, those languages are not as popular as the ones that are based on English, and I've never had to use a non-English bas... |
Why does the heat in Death Valley C.A. stay only there? | There are other parts of California that get quite hot, California's Central Valley in particular has a basin like Death Valley's that traps heat in, however Death Valley is farther South, below Sea level, and in the middle of a desert. |
How come when saying "woman" and "women", we change the sound of the o? | Originally it was wifman the plural was wifmen. Over time the words became wiman and wimen. In the Middle English period vowels underwent a shift and wiman became woman under the rounding influence of the ''w,'' while the plural retained the original vowel. Wiman > > woman. Wimen > > wimen. Spelling was regularized muc... |
If the sky is blue and sunlight is yellow, why do we not see any green in the sky? | The sky appears to be blue because of the angle at which light from the sun hits the earth's atmosphere. This is why you see reddish hues at sunrise and sunset as the light is hitting at a different angle.[This] is a great article in which Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses the colors of the cosmos. |
How it wasn't immediately obvious that smoking was detrimental to your health | Because the really terrible effects only come with prolonged use. We all know the guy who smokes like a chimney, yet is able to play sports and function perfectly fine. Hundreds of years ago that's all people had to go on. They didn't know shit about chemistry or diseases, all they knew was that their buddy smoked and ... |
Why are bankers blamed for the financial crisis in 2008? | * Banks signed people up to mortgages that the banks knew the people couldn't pay back after the Bill Clinton administration and the republican congress at the time repealed the act that was designed to stop just this kind of behavior. * However, that on its own wasn't enough to cause the collapse of the banking system... |
Why have my dreams become more vivid/realistic since I quit smoking marijuana? | I have no answer for this but I recently quit for probation and noticed the same thing. I'd really like to know an answer to this. I had a problem falling asleep for a week or so but now when I get a decent nights sleep my dreams are ridiclously vivid and actually make some sort of sense to me. Can't wait to hear an an... |
If after serving years in prison someone was found to be 100% innocent, why aren't they automatically given a large monetary compensation and support by the state? | Over here in Germany you will recive a monetary compensation and you don´t even have to sue the state. You'll recive it once you are found innocent. This also applies if you have to stay in custody untill your trail. If you are found innocent later you'll recive a compensation as well. In both cases these are calculate... |
Flooding An Engine? What happens, how does it happen? | Your engine most likely switched to its emergency program. That means it'll still run but there's very limited power. Usually this is done by venting the turbo boost or in your case limiting the revs. The engine cuts the power to avoid more serious damage, if it deems whatever is broken to be non-crucial to engine surv... |
Saudi Arabia and India cover roughly the same latitude -- so why is one mostly sand, while the other gets plenty of rain? | Well India is very mountainous and temperate which is much better for rain. Saudi Arabia is fairly flat and doesn't get a whole lot of protection or precipitation. |
How older operating systems where able to run perfectly on terrible specs and hardware, but more adapted and modern operating systems seem to require higher specs to run as well. | My apple 2 in 1979 had a 'monitor' that was a few thousand lines of code , Linux now is around 26 *million* lines. Even if it has only a few percent as many bugs, there's still gonna be a bunch. . |
Why do lenders prefer people with high credit scores? Won't they make less money? | In short, a credit score is a measure of how likely it is for a person to pay back a loan, and that's why people with high credit scores generally get better rates than those who have bad scores. A lender *could* make more money lending to people with low credit, but then they run a higher risk of loan recipients not p... |
How is Vladimir Putin able to stay in power for so long? | The constitution being the chief reason amongst other. I most countries you cannot be re-elected into a position of power after 2 terms. In Russia however there's a difference. You can be president for 2 terms, then you can be premier minister for 2 term , then again president for 2 terms, then premier minister for 2 t... |
Why don't we like some foods that are beneficial to our health, shouldn't our bodies reward us? | Fatty and/or sugary means dense with calories. More calories means it'll take longer before you *really* need to worry about your next meal. There's a lot less of an incentive to crave food that'll make you live to 80 when you're trying to live to see next month. This is a very primitive perspective, but we're very pri... |
why hasn't the USA declared war since WW2? | President's generally get a Congressional authorization to use force at the time of their choosing, rather than a declaration of war . Also, they are usually through multi-national alliances - like in Vietnam, the US wasn't trying to invade North Vietnam, it all started trying to help South Vietnam defend itself from i... |
Why does child trafficking happen? | People do things to children because their desire is seen as more important to them than the child. Child traffickers exist because there is a market and they want money. So.. they don't care about the kids.. the kids are a commodity to them they just care about money. If there were not people who wanted to pay money t... |
Why does lightning strike in a zig-zag pattern? | What happens to the forks of lightning that don't go anywhere? Does the charge all travel back to whichever fork ends up touching the ground?", 'Ionization occurs at "random" places in the air. Cosmic rays are constantly ionizing small regions throughout our atmosphere. When a charged cloud is about these regions becom... |
Why does the the thermostat need someone to direct it to either heat or cool the room? Why isn't just providing the desired temperature enough for the system to figure it out itself? | If the room is set to cool at 72, but the thermostat reads the air as 68, the system won't kick on, because it knows it is cold. I am not an HVAC tech, so I don't feel qualified to answer the other piece, but maybe because it would be incredibly inefficient to keep switching back and forth around a temperature, and str... |
Why is it so much harder to treat cancer when it comes back after remission? | Cancer by definition grows fast. It is therefore evolving as it is exposed to things poisonous to it, such as chemo and radiation. The healthy cells in your body grow so much more slowly that they can't adapt as quickly. So a few rounds of chemo result in cancers that are resistant to chemo. But chemo is also toxic to ... |
Why is it so difficult to receive an organ transplant? | Organs have to match the recipient otherwise the body can reject the new organ. There are two things to take into consideration and that is blood-type and HLA typing. Blood type is pretty straight forward, ideally the blood type of organ donor and patient will match but blood compatibility is less straight forward . HL... |
What is a ketone and how does it vary from glucose to create the positive effects health benefits claimed to be had of a low-carb or Ketogenic diet? | The brain uses glycogen which is derived from carbs and to fuel it's processes. In the absence of carbs there is no glycogen so the brain will die. Except no because the brain can also be fueled by ketones which is derived from fat cells. As long as you have carbs in your body there will be glucose in your blood to fue... |
Why do everybody yawns after someone else yawned ? | I don't think they have an actual answer yet. I have read that you're more likely to yawn right after someone else did if you're close to that person. Friend/family/s.o. etc. |
How does a military vessel like a destroyer fail to detect a cargo ship heading their way? | It's possible these ships are training for a nuclear attack. A nuclear explosion creates an electromagnetic pulse which knocks out all electronic devises. Maybe these ships are trying to navigate with traditional methods and are failing miserably. |
Why do different races look so distinct from each other? | Circular question based on a false premise. Even people of exactly the same 'race' look distinct from each other. |
How do 24 hour stores count their cash registers? | Every incoming shift does their own cash audit; the registers are counted and left in place, and the manager writes down the total. Then s/he compares the cash total to what the total should be; if they match or are very close all is well, and if not, then s/he looks for the mistake and recounts the tills if necessary.... |
what is fire made of? | You've got it mostly right. The flames you see are the gases being released from a rapid chemical reaction . If it gets hot enough it can become a plasma, but most of the time it's just hot gas. |
What happens if you point a laser or flashlight at an overhead flying plane? | Well, it's illegal. The main worry is that you'll blind the pilot. Shining a laser accidentally is no big deal so long as you don't aim it for more than a second which shouldn't happen anyways if it actually is accidental. |
The process of selecting what face goes on the US Dollar | Treasury department picks the designs including who's on the bill. There was demand for a woman to be put on a bill and Hamilton has had a surge of popularity due to the play while Jackson is disliked my many for ethnic cleansing Native Americans despite supreme court order, also he would have arguably disliked our cur... |
Why can't I be Jewish, Muslim, and Christian at the same time? | You are free to believe whatever you like, but the three have a few contradictory beliefs that you'll have to reconcile. Christianity: Jesus is the Savior Judaism: We are still waiting for the Savior, and it wasn't Jesus Islam: Jesus was just a minor Prophet, and the important stuff happened to Mohammed after Jesus cam... |
Why does it seem like you get the deepest, best sleep right before your alarm goes off? | I think it's because 7/8/9 hours of sleep rarely lines up with a person's REM cycle. Whenever I use one of those apps that time your sleep with REM cycles, it's always like 7 hours and 40 minutes , or like 8 hours and 30 minutes, but never 8 hours.There are apps that wake you when you are in a light sleep phase. They w... |
What's a Raspberry Pi, and what is it used for? | Really small, and cheap computer. Used for doing things a small computer can. It is cheap, and relatively powerful. Has most of the things on it you need to get started; video output , ethernet jack, USB ports, etc Easy to load an OS on. I used one where I worked as a quick and easy bridge between a medical device that... |
What exactly is 'First past the post' voting? | it means even quite popular parties can be unrepresented, or under-represented. for example, you could have something like a parliamentary election in the uk, which uses pure first-past-the-post. one party's candidates might get 25% of votes in every constituency, but if in each constituency someone else gets 26% of th... |
Why does my nose get dry and chafed from being wiped way more easily than my butt does? | Get drunk on tequila and take a tablespoon full of 3 million scovelle unit hot sauce on a dare. You will find that toilet paper hurts your asshole way worse than any tissue has hurt your nose in the next few days. Here is the deal. You wipe your ass what 3-4x a day . Your nose right now you have blown/wiped about 50x+ ... |
If sound is generated by vibrating air molecules, why isn't sound greatly distorted in the presence of strong wind? | I think sound is affected by wind. Hopefully a sound engineer/system engineer who does out door gigs and festivals can chime in as they will have dealt with weather changing the sound of the PA system. You could experiment by blowing a fan across the front of a speaker. You'll need to control for the masking affect of ... |
Why do cats not move like dogs do when they are dreaming/sleeping? | Mine move quite a bit at times. It's not terribly often. I've always attributed it to the fact that waking cats move less than waking dogs. Edit:typo", 'my cat twitches and meows when shes asleep. sometimes her nose starts to whistle. maximum cutenessThey do. Evidence, of the cutest kind: _URL_0_ |
What are some basic concepts of musical theory that will make people better appreciate "good music"? | There are simple music construction points like how the chords are flowing in a bar. Are they always the same chords or do they change? Is the rhythm of the chords equal . For me, I like listening to some alternative rock or classic rock, and some of the more complicated stuff that I like has to do with layering. Modes... |
If I was dehydrated and there was only alcohol to drink, would drinking it make me even more dehydrated? | It's a catch-22. The answer is both yes and no. The answer is yes since most alcoholic beverages are mostly water. Especially light beers which contain a very high ratio of water to alcohol.The answer is no because alcohol is a toxin. As such, it does a bunch against your body as your body tries to get rid of it. The m... |
Why is there much talk about building human colonies in space (i.e. Moon, Mars), but no talk about building in earth's oceans, which is seemingly easier? | Well, we already have access to the resources of the ocean while living on land, so building an undersea colony, other than being really cool and giving us more of an opportunity to study the depths of the ocean, wouldn't do much. A colony on another world would be autonomous, could survive an event that destroyed eart... |
Why do cable providers start their channels at 2 but not 1? | Many TVs couldn't handle a channel 1 because there hasn't been an over the air channel 1 for 60 years. When the government allocated channels, they originally assigned a Channels 1-19 and then almost immediately took back 1 and 14-19 and assigned them to other uses. |
Why do commercial airline engines have the twirly spiral thing on the turbine? | It's there so you have an idea how fast the turbine is spinning. The turbine blades will become blurry fairly quickly, but you'll be able to see the spiral even if it's spinning quickly.It allows ground crews to see if the engine is running. |
So how do I get rid of bed bugs? | The cheap method: You have to be very serious about it. Put everything that is a fabric and you're not absolutely in need of in plastic bag. If you can't afford a new mattress wrap the one you have in plastic and seal it with tape. If you have rugs cover them with plastic and seal to the edges of your room. Wash all of... |
Why is it so hard in the US to execute people fast and painless? | Pharmaceutical companies no longer want to be affiliated with capital punishment, so they are refusing to sell their medications to prisons. Prisons are now having to kind of cobble together medications that are made available to them to try to find a suitable replacement. The drugs must meet fairly stringent standards... |
How do animals know not to breed with their own siblings? | Some animals don't. Certain species, when kept in captivity, have to be kept apart from their siblings or you risk inbreeding. Box turtles are one example, and I believe that's the case for a few other reptiles as well.In nature if offspring come out with genetic deformities they usually just die soon. Either unable to... |
Gravity aids us in our digestion. However, in space, how is food digested? Does it float around in your digestive system? | To add to what others have said, remember that waste travels upward in the large intestine prior to being excreted. That's a sign that our digestive system isn't *reliant* on gravity, merely *aided* by it.The muscular contractions in the gastro-intestinal tract are called peristalsis. Post cancer surgery I developed il... |
How are small businesses allowed to sell shirts based on popular shows/movies | They are not allowed to. However, it takes time and money to go after these really small time sellers, both in terms of tracking them down and it is not always worth it. Furthermore, cracking down too harshly on fan stuff can sometimes create bad PR which companies want to avoid. Even if it is illegal, lots of people w... |
Why do so many people have trypophobia? | As others have mentioned they probably don't suffer from it as a true phobia However the fact some people are uncomfortable with imagery such as the classic beehive / lotus / whatever is not bullshit and probably has something to do with our ability to recognize illness such as This _URL_4_ or _URL_4_ or _URL_4_", 'It ... |
Why do some jobs regularly drug test? | Its actually very simple. Any legitimately functioning business needs business insurance. If the business has employees then insurance companies will offer lower rates for requiring drug testing as a company policy. Some will even require it. This mostly depends on the type of services the business will provide The ide... |
Why can you be tired all day long, every day of your life, but as soon as 8pm roles around you're (I'm) awake | I'm the same way. We might just have to live with it. One thing I never tried was altering my eating habits. I eat most of my calories for my final meal of the day. The next thing I will try is to eat more calories for breakfast and have a much smaller supper. |
Why you wake up when you get close to dying in a dream | Damn. I had the second scariest dream ever last night. Chasing a traitor, then I become the traitor in the story. I'm captured, then brain-wiped in a government car. Now my crew and me can see the actual landscape of wasteland. Once the government realized they can't use us any more they try to disrupt our composition.... |
Why cities can't rebuild abandoned buildings? | * cities usually don't own the abandoned property* demolition is expensive* building is expensive* having a brand new building in a economically blighted, high crime part of town doesn't do much good |
What would a videogame look like if you could see the world as it was loading? | Every game is different so this is going to have as many answers as there are game engines For the most part though, it's going to look like crap. |
Why can some people feel storms approaching in their hips, knees or other joints? | it happens with migraines too! Migraines are caused by blood pressure changes in the brain, either in the body or atmospheric. I get one before a big storm is coming and I often confirm with friend of mine to see if she's got one too |
When a journalist gets information "off the record", what does that imply? Are they not aloud to use that info, and what would happen if they did? | It doesn't mean it's illegal to use it, it means the person would be a jerk if they use it. In some cases that is fine and they will be a jerk and print it but often they won't want to do that since if they have some actual good source or person they would ever want to talk to again they might be better off respecting ... |
Why do preconfigured PCs (Like Dells, Acers, etc.) come loaded with so much junk software? | The PC manufacturers get paid to include those software packages. It's how they are able to offer PCs so cheaply even with the already razor-thin margins. If PC manufacturers delivered a vanilla Windows installation, it would cost them a lot more money and it would definitely be reflected in the price. If I recall corr... |
Why does depression cause lack of appetite in some and over-eating practices in others? | I'm no psychologist but food induces a dopamine rush in the brain so it's comforting. On the other hand refusing to eat and or drink is a way to control one's emotional state and keep them from a mood swing. The strangest thing about depression is in some people it makes them determined to hold onto that feeling and ma... |
How was World War 1 supposed to be fought? | The system of alliances in place at the time meant that if any one party in Europe declared war, the whole continent would be dragged in. I think many countries didn't fully realize that at the time. A couple of key inventions like very small mobile machine guns had just recently come about, which swung the battle most... |
Why can't you just let a cat be stuck in a tree? Would it die up there or would it eventually figure out how to get down? | You can, and you can't. On the one hand, it will probably figure out how to get down again, and be fine, depending on how smart/old/agile it is. On the other hand, it might take a while which means it'll be crying in the tree for a while, which gets annoying at the very least. Depending on the weather, you may not be a... |
Why is there no measuring unit for darkness? | They're called lumens and they measure light, darkness is just the absence of light; like cold is the absence of heat. |
Why are so many venerable firearms designs out of production? | Part of it is that the guns you're talking about were made in huge numbers, and so it's not all that hard to get an original, and thus not cost effective for anyone to manufacture new reproductions. As opposed to, say, the Colt Single Action Army, or the Sharps Rifle, both of which are pretty expensive in original form... |
Why have there been no supersonic air travel services since the Concorde was decommissioned? | The feats of modern technoogy still haven't changed the laws of physics. The faster you go, the more air resistance you get and the more fuel you have to burn. Fuel costs more than it did back in the 80s |
What are the cards that fast food managers swipe on cash registers for? | They're cards with barcodes that prove their a manager so they can change a price or override a lock . The bar is scanned as a number which the scanner can read as the exact number that defines being a manager. |
What happens to a fly when It gets inhaled it and doesn't get coughed back up? | Almost assuredly it will be blocked before getting too far down any airways. If it doesn't come back out, then it presumably has gotten punted to the esophagus to live its last in your digestive tract. Or it's taken up affordable housing in your nose. |
Why is the KONY 2012 campaign looked upon so negatively? | 1. The video said that Kony was operating in Uganda. This used to be true, but at the time the video was released, the LRA wasn't even in Uganda anymore: it's now in parts of the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and/or South Sudan. 2. The campaign wasn't very effective. It garnered tens of million... |
How do theme parks have fewer accidents than carnivals? | The easier the carnival is to take down, the cheaper it is. If they are easy to take down, they don't have to pay as many people. Therefore, they are less sturdy. They are not properly tested like theme parks. |
Why does the shower get significantly hotter when I turn the dial a little less than a centimeter? | Your cold water is probably around 40F/5C. Your hot water is probably at least 140F/60C. Comfortable warm temperatures are only a tiny fraction of that range. You could try turning your hot water down, if you don't ever need water that hot for any purpose, to about 125 or 120 F , and then just set the shower knob all t... |
Why is time "relative"? | It's a complex notion, really hard to dumb _URL_0_ suggest to go and look PBS science on YouTube, it's really interesting.Anyhow.Imagine having a massless box . Inside there's a single photon, the light particle.Every second, it goes up and down. So every time it touches the bottom, a second passes.Now imagine that I'm... |
Why does the US use Fahrenheit when the rest of the world uses Celsius? | There is no valid reason why you shouldn't be using it. It does carry a significant cost in both time and resources to change though. I remember when we did it in Canada. It is not a small job to change how you measure pretty much everything. That may be why you still haven't adopted it.There is really no reason to cha... |
Why don't customer service reps in call centers from India and other countries speak perfect English even though they spend a big part of their day conversating with native English speakers? | I speak English daily but I still have a massive accent. I know how words should sound but I just can't pronounce that way. It's probably because in the first 15 years of my life I haven't really spoken English.A VERY simplistic explanation to how we acquire language. -When babies are first born we are in a "Universal ... |
Why do companies/brands, when using a certain word for their name, alter the spelling? | It's branding, and it is so important in the Google age. Spelling things in a unique way helps it to be found by people, and not get lost in a sea of other things using the correct spelling. |
What did Bill Clinton do/What contributed to the prosperous economic state in the 90's? | NAFTA. Cheaper goods meant a better quality of living by in effect deflating the dollar. This allowed people to buy more which sent the economy into overdrive. 23 million net jobs were created in his 8 years. 3 million in the first two years, 20 million in the 6 years after NAFTA was signed. The second area Clinton and... |
Why do some lightbulbs blink several time on and off(and some dont) before finally lighting up? | Traditonal incandescent lamps won't do this. Good quality compact fluorescent lamps won't either. But some cheap CFLs have a starter circuit that requires a few attempts to get the bulb lit. |
Why did the Pilgrims starve their first Winter in Plymouth when there is abundant fishing & shellfish there? | If you've got the mind to decipher old timey English, [*Of Plymouth Plantation*] by William Bradford, is a great read about the struggles they dealt with at the time. Though if you're someone who puts a lot of stock in socialism, you might have some of your ideas challenged. Basically they starved because of collectivi... |
Why do people blur out license plates in photos that they post online? Whats honestly the worst that can happen if a stranger obtains a license number? | Decades ago, there were instances of people being identified based on their license plates and then being subjected to harassment or violence. To prevent these sorts of situations, the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 was passed, limiting the amount of information institutions like the DMV can share. However, th... |
How would Anarcho Capitalism not bring about a return of all powerful monopolies, oligopolies, and/or cartels? | Your friend does not have a clue how the world actually works. Humans have proven time and time again that they will leverage any power advantage they have over one another and increase the disparity. The *only* thing limiting powerful private entities from doing this is the monopoly of force employed by the state. The... |
Lets say I'm observing Ramadan, what exactly do I need to do? | Eat when it's dark. Don't eat when it's light. Use sun for reference. Don't confuse it with a bright moon. |
How does Edward Snowden's protection in Russia work? | Giving Edward Snowden a visa to remain in Russia tickles President Putin. He knows the USA wants him and can't have him so that alone is so much fun for Putin he can't even believe he got that lucky. Ultimately Edward Snowden is a political pawn that likely will be sacrificed when the time comes. At some point Putin's ... |
Does the American president have much power, or are they basically a figure head to focus on? | One substantial power I haven't seen mentioned yet is the veto, which is most effectively wielded in negotiating the annual budget. This is where the president really has his opportunity to achieve his agenda. Congress writes the budget, but the president, unless he's overridden by 2/3 of Congress, has final approval. |
Why do teens-adults enjoy My Little Pony? | I'm an adult, and I genuinely enjoy it. I like the characters and their voices. The stories and animation are also very nice. Additionally, the community is really fun for me to hang out with. Most other adult fans feel similarly to me. []", 'ELU5: Adults like to act like kids some times', "THANK YOU, I realized I'd mi... |
Why aren't Gauss guns everywhere? | Silent doesn't matter, and they do make suppressors for conventional guns that cut down a lot of the noise. Fire rapidly? Not as rapid as powder based bullets. They have high current electronic pieces, those will break. They will break a lot. I can fire a modern conventional powder gun thousands and thousands of times ... |
How do wired and wireless devices share bandwidth on my router? | The most likely answer is yes. Unless it's ancient your router probably has gigabit Ethernet ports and you'll get steadier bandwidth. The real problem is most likely everyone sharing the wireless spectrum at the same time, not your actual bandwidth availability on the router. How fast is your ISP connection and what ty... |
Why is Adobe Flash a resource hog and crash all the time? | because thats what happens if you are not careful when programming. you get shitty code which does those things. And as it's a framework its not easy to fix broken behaviour because someone might rely on the brokenness. |
How can Americans find the time and money to afford the lifestyle I witnessed in SoCal? | Hi, I live in [San Diego.] It sounds like you visited the wealthier parts ) of our already wealthier-than-average region. Wealthy people tend to live close to the water. The poorer parts are located farther from the coast, and few tourists go there. Our strong economy, which includes advanced medical and telecom techno... |
If you stuck 1 of every living creature in a very large room (half land half water) to fight to the death, who would be the lone survivor? | Probably one that doesn't need a lot of oxygen to survive. I'd guess a water bear. Those things will survive in space like it ain't no big deal. |
Why not spread a workout across breakfast, lunch and dinner so as to workout more in 1 day? | If you want to, go for it. The best workout is the one you will do. Your idea may not be optimal, but it's certainly better than doing nothing. |
If a mosquito bites someone with AIDS, why doesn't it get passed on to the next person it bites? | Essentially, a mosquito doesn't backwash. Also, a mosquito is eating the blood, not mixing it with his own. being eaten does a pretty good job of killing most stuff. |
How do film director's hire children to act in movies that have a lot of gore or other mature content? | This comes up all the time. The MPAA *is not* legally binding. There's no law stopping children from seeing R rated movies, and for the most part, the only laws which apply to them when making one are the usual group of generic child labor laws. If the parents sign off on it being okay, then it's okay. |
How did Coca Cola become the world's most famous drink brand? | They have constantly had aggressive campaigns to get Coca Cola in remote places. Even now they are in places in Africa most beverage companies aren't. |
Who exactly are the Illuminati? | the Illuminati was started by billionaires who started out as freemasons. It is a secret society. They like to plan how to control the world's resources as well as it's money in order to benefit themselves. |
Can you "store" light? With a box? | If the material inside was infinitely reflective . And one side let's light in but doesn't let it out. It's possible but we don't know any materials that possess these qualities. |
What does the president's chief of staff do? How does he/she influence the presidential agenda | The CoS is the gatekeeper to the president. Anyone who wants the president's times has to go through the CoS. He is also in charge of everyone who works in the White House in governmental capacity . He is often, but not always the most influential person in the White House. VP Cheney, for example, was not the CoS, but ... |
How is it that our bodies can't mimic the effect of certain drugs on its own? | They can do it, it's just that sometimes mechanisms are ineffective or hyperactive, which is why they need modulation to rebalance things. If it were impossible for our bodies to do them naturally, it would be impossible to make it happen with outside influence because the required machinery wouldn't even be there in t... |
My radio antenna is broken, I get a lot of static when I listen to it. However if I, or something metal, touches it it is fine. What's going on? | Radio antennas send out, and receive radio waves, when something metal touches the antenna it's using that metal object to transmit and receive radio waves.The human body or a piece of metal acts as a conductor of sorts which increases the reception to improve the signal. |
- Mitt Romney's Tax Returns | Tax returns are full of detail. Even non-controversial things get blown out of proportion and spun, so why release a bombshell in an otherwise meticulously curated race when you don't have to? I mean, I hope so much that Romney is not elected, but I doubt he's done anything truly illegal - he's very risk averse and has... |
Why did people stand side by side during battles in old wars? | How old are we talking? When it was all swords and shields, you wanted friendly guys to your back and sides, or else you'd just get the fuck stabbed out of you. Early guns? You needed your men close together to give them orders, and the accuracy was such shit if you spread guys out too much there would be many incident... |
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