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Since the earth spins all the time, why cant we just go on a hot air balloon and travel around the world while not moving at all? | When you're standing on the surface of the Earth, you're rotating with it. When you lift off the ground, you maintain that rotational momentum. Now, technically, since you're higher up you need to be moving faster than the ground to stay above the same spot. But this only matters significantly if you go really really h... |
what would happen if Russia declared war on Ukraine? Would any countries get involved? | I forget the exact name of the treaty but a treaty between American, EU, and Russia was made saying that they would respect and not interfere with Ukraine's independence. It also said that if the treaty was breeched that the other two nations would protect Ukraine's independence from the nation that is infringing.I bet... |
The Democratic and Republican attitudes towards school vouchers. | The Democrats believe that offering voucher would mean that people were giving up on the public school system. Also it's legality has been questioned since you would be subsidizing religion with federal money and some have said it violates the separation of church and states. Party politics also factor into the equatio... |
Religion. Honestly I don't understand it. | Personally I don't either. I feel like it causes more problems than it solves. I don't think it was a place in the world any longer. That's just my opinion though. I do understand why some people are drawn to it though. It gives them a sense of belonging and it helps to reassure them about their place I the world. It h... |
Why do some organs come in pairs, like Kidneys and Lungs, but others are singular, such as the Liver or Heart? | I'm no doctor so I don't know if it is correct but from what I know it also has to do with how much energy an organ needs. If we for example had 2 brains it would not be worth it because of how much more energy we had to take in to keep it running same with another heart. |
What are the anti-EU parties across Europe actually objecting to? | The most heard reasons from the Netherlands: 1. By introducing the euro in a lot of countries at the same time the southern Europe countries like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece have a hard time to export goods and it is too expensive to import goods. Just because the Euro is too expressive for those countries. Befor... |
Why are all objects in a game pink when their texture fails to load? | They make it a bright color so it's easily noticed during testing so that it can be fixed. If you didn't have any code to handle a texture mishap though it would just fail and you wouldn't see anything. |
The Communist Manifesto and why it was so influential. | Although cedargrove's explanation is very accurate, it's a little long winded . Here's my dumbed-down explanation: Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto not just as an idea, but as a prediction of the inevitable. He wrote it in the mid-1800's when the western world was experiencing a change in its political climate, ... |
Why do we get a tetanus shot AFTER we get injured? | You are supposed to get one every 10 years. If you get an injury that could give you tetanus, it's a good idea to get another shot to make sure you are within the 10 year window and to kick start your body to fighting this specific disease. |
Why do many archaeological finds in ancient cities/countries such as Rome or Egypt appear to have been "frozen in time"? | What was the link you saw? I'm very interested. I know in Egypt, animals would be sacrificed in funeral rites for the deceased so he would have mummified animals along with his mummified body in the afterlife. Not sure about Romans though. It's very possible that the horses were sacrificed as part of a funeral rite and... |
Why do people like awkward jerks on TV so much but probably wouldn't be able to stand them in real life (Sherlock, House, Sheldon, Will graham etc.) | Other commentors missed the big reason: catharsis. When House is being a bitch to some snobby patient, the viewer is wishing he could be House on that situation. Most of us have to deal with people we would love to chew out but can't, so we get kicks from watching it happen on tv |
Why did contact with the Vikings not have the same effect on Native American population that contact with Europeans at a later date did? | the explaination is in[ this interesting video] from cgpgrey. TL:DW: Native americans didn't get sick from norse people for the same reasons europeans didn't get sick from native americans: We had spread diseases because we HAD the diseases in the first place, which developed in highly dense population areas in XIII/XI... |
Why do we have to go to such great lengths to take care of oral hygiene in ways our evolutionary ancestors never did? | Our ancestors didn't know about the importance of oral hygiene, or have access to it, and consequently died from jaw infections at 35. |
The current state of 3D Printing | From the perspective of an owner: Last summer, I bought a 3D printer kit for about $700. It has really good resolution considering I built it in my living room one weekend. I don't use it as much as I thought it would, but It's really handy when I do use it. An example: I wanted to try knitting, but didn't want to go t... |
how is Bill Gates the richest Man again when he gave most of his money away to charity? | The thing to remember is that Bill Gates has the highest worth, not the highest amount of loose cash. Much of his wealth is tied up in assets, and those assets fluctuate in value. I would imagine much of his assets include shares in companies and property. As the economy has recovered, those assets have become more val... |
Could stone be forged like Metal is? As in heat it to the required temperature to liquify, then pour that (lava) into molds? | That's not really forging, but yes, that part you could do. The part you couldn't do are the hammering, shaping, and honing. |
How does character movement work in games? Is the character actually moving through an open world, or is the map just moving judged on your control? | Depends on what kind of game you play. The character always has a position which changes inside the game engine. The map's position is usually just 0,0 on player-view games. If you're playing some kind of first person or third person view game, the map moves around the player in the graphical sense due to the player's ... |
What is the big deal with IPv4 addresses being exhausted? | Also, even if you get 95% of the world IPv6 compatible, you've still got 5% that isn't. That potentially means you or your customers won't be able to communicate with that 5%. What if we were talking about postal mail. Would you accept a system that didn't let you send to 5% of your friends? Or would you demand near 10... |
Justin Trudeau's Liberal Tax Plan | We have a federal and provincial tax. Also, he wants to create and shift the tax brackets around a little from what I've gathered. Depending on province, you get taxed more or less. In Ontario, if I recall, it's about 15% income tax. I kind of can't wait for someone who is more knowledgeable and educated to comment. |
Why people keep saying were still in a recession if the DOW is at an all time high | Technical recessions are calculated by the changes of the GDP , not the Dow or any other individual index or exchange market. If you're neighbor's out of work, it's a recession, if you're out of work, it's a depression. Paraphrased that quote. Lot of us have friends of neighbors out of work, under-working, or underpaid... |
Why are the worst positions for your joints/muscles the most comfortable? | Little off topic but personal trainer here: The fastest possible way to correct posture is to skip stretching and instead implement functional strength building moves with proper form. I am not saying stretching isn't beneficial but I myself spent 5+ months stretching to rehab an injury and avoiding what I knew would w... |
How does a box of baking soda keep my fridge fresh? | I've just watched the episode of The Simpsons when a bear is loose in Evergreen Terrace and Homer says he'll be ok locked inside the house as long as he's got beer. He looks inside the fridge and all there is are boxes of baking soda. I didn't understand that until this thread. I had no idea putting baking soda in the ... |
why can't Microsoft build a YouTube app using HTML5? | Nothing really, but from a development standpoint I can see why the Microsoft devs did what the did. If you're a developer from microsoft and you've worked mostly in C++ C#, and C you entire career so you're probably going to develop the app in one of those languages because you know it and it will run faster . |
Why not print MORE money? I understand half of this question. | Why would we *want* to print more money to pay off the national debt? Reducing the national debt isn't really that important; reducing it to 0 would actually be a bad thing. |
- What would happen if you turned on a flashlight while traveling at the speed of light? | Your spaceship cannot fly a the speed of light. It's not possible. It can theoretically fly very close to the speed of light, assuming you figure out a bunch of tough engineering challenges. In that case, the beam of light would fly away from you at the speed of light. Weird stuff happens to time and distance at relati... |
What is Dynamic Braking as why is it always prohibited? | The 'what' has been covered, but the why hasn't been. It's not always prohibited, but it's always prohibited in the areas/neighbourhoods you see those signs. For the most part, they're illegal in any urban/residential area. |
How does increasing the debt in a company increase rate of return earned on stockholder's investment? Why is this a favorable decision for mangers to make? | They borrow the money in order to buy something, like a factory. A company that has a factory to manufacture its products makes more money than a company that doesn't have a factory. |
Self-checkout machines have existed for at least a decade now. Why has the technology not improved at all over that span of time? | The issue is that the people who make the purchasing decisions never actually use the product. So the features that they find attractive have nothing to do with the actual product. At least with the cashier-operated POS, they have to care about efficiency since the cashier's time costs them money - but they don't pay c... |
Why are Steve Carell, John Krasinski and other main casts of the Office never at the show's conventions? | What kind of sad sack goes to a convention for the Office? Is it a room full of Tobys, lined up to get Toby's autography? |
If your heart randomly stopped beating, would you be able to recognize that it stopped beating before you die? | Yes. From my own experience Heart stopped beating, my lungs were working like mad without changing the oxygen level in the blood. For me, it was an eternity, but the doctors later said it was somewhere between three and five seconds until the heart started beating again - there are several mechanisms that keep the hear... |
Why does it feel cold to enter the pool, but then once you're adjusted, it's fine, but then it feels cold to get out? | Water actually absorbs heat. This is the most basic principle behind refrigeration. When water evaporates it cools the atmosphere. The area around a pool is actually cooler than the ambient environment. After your body adjusts using homeostasis: a process where it gets used to it's environment, you don't notice the col... |
How does MIT's new ARC reactor work? | Basically it generates energy by forcing hydrogren atoms to fuse together. This is the same process by which the sun or a hydrogen bomb generates energy. It forces the hydrogen to fuse by pushing it together in just the right way with powerful magnets. Previous attempts to build similar reactors weren't able to get to ... |
with the inevitability of octocore processors and os utilization of 10's of gigs of ram, why are gpus still nnecessary? | Adam and Jamie did an awesome job demonstrating the difference between CPU's and GPU's computation. [NVIDIA: Adam and Jamie explain parallel processing on GPU's] |
Is pedophilia caused by biology or culture? | It's a mental disease most likely, however pedophilia hasn't been researched enough to have that much information on it. Hundreds of years ago, older men could have sex with young girls and it wasn't taboo, however today it remains one of the sickest crimes. It's really tough to say what causes it because it's such a t... |
Why do we have to buy non-refundable coupon in order to buy food and drink at county fair? | With all of the stalls, booths, rides, etc, there would just be too many people handling money, with no way to account for whether or not each person was honest about how many people rode the ferris wheel/threw the ball at the milk tin/bought a slice of pizza, etc. > It's annoying when I don't have enough coupon to buy... |
As a kid I was taught in school that weed is bad for our health .Is weed as bad as they teach it in elementary school? | Smoking literally anything can give you lung cancer, so there's that; however, it's less addictive than tobacco, so it's easier to quit. And because it increases appetite, there's more risk of eating badly and becoming overweight or getting heart disease or whatever. And it does cost money. Not to mention that if you g... |
why is Mexico poor? | For accuracy, I'd like to point out that it is categorized as a middle-income country ) – *much* less poor than much of the world. |
If you can afford it, why can it be good to borrow money? | It's all about the cost of borrowing money. If you put everything on your credit card but pay off your balance in full, you're borrowing money , but never paying a cent of interest. This also builds your credit and provides rewards from the credit card company. This is responsible borrowing. It can also be good to borr... |
What is 5g and how is it different from former 4g lte etc? | This is kind of hard to ELI5, but I'll give it a shot. A 5g internet connection is the combination of a bunch of 4g internet connections. Let's say John's computer is connected to Sally's computer through one wire called 4g. 5g is a bunch of 4g wires merged into one wire. This makes 5g a lot faster than 4g. |
Why is workers control of production and earning the benefits from that production bad (comminism)? | It isn't bad. It just never works out that way. In most real-world applications, Communism has devolved into government control of both the means and rewards of production. |
What happens to your car if you die while on vacation? | Assuming that none of your friends or relatives was able to go and move it, it would be towed after a certain amount of time has passed. Then after more time has passed with no one coming to claim the vehicle, the tow/lot owners would scrap the car to make up for costs that would've came out of your pocket. |
Who is rioting and what is the cause of the riots in Stockholm? | There are no riots, just some bored kids running around setting stuff on fire. If you go to these suburbs you wont see massive groups or people charging against riot police. My guess is that its maybe 50-100 kids in the whole country that's done all of the burning and rock throwing. |
Why do we need sleep to survive? | It's not only for the body. Dreaming is an important part of sleep and though I can't quote the study or give a reference I remember learning somewhere that if a person doesn't get enough REM sleep then they will begin to dream while awake - in other words they'll hallucinate. There was a Star Trek: the Next Generation... |
California wildfires happen every year. Why? And why cant we prevent them when we know they are coming? | You can't completely prevent them because there are too many things that can cause them that are not under our control. Lightning, for example. |
Caucusing and why it was ok to decide a winner by a simple coin toss. | Each coinflip decides the allocation of a single county delegate to the state convention. This isn't going to decide the nomination. At some point, both sides agreed long before the primary, that after enough tiebreaker options have been attempted, the result is truly tied, and the delegate should be awarded by chance.... |
Why hasn't the Catholic Church reported all of the Priests with alleged child abuse charges to their local authorities? | Same reason why college campuses try to downplay and hide rape cases and why school districts try to hide molestation charges and why the Army tries to hide sexual abuse and well, I think you get the picture. It becomes a bigger deal when it's a group you don't like or are not affiliated with and can judge freely. |
Why is the "follow through" in sports like golf or basketball so important? | The follow through is more like a thought thing. Think of it more like fully committing to the motion and only thinking about it. Like said previously, if you're thinking you're going to stop after the impact, then not only is your attention divided, but you're also already slowing down, or at least stopped acceleratin... |
What makes a "professional" photographer? Can't anyone buy an expensive camera and take high quality photos? | A good camera doesn't automatically make good photos. Sure, the technical quality may be good, but it takes a lot more to get a really good photograph. Light, composition, colours, contrasts, a good motive, DoF, exposure, post-processing there are so many things you need to master in order to be a successful photograph... |
Why praying to the Ka'ba isn't considered idolatry? | Muslims don't pray to the ka'baa they pray toward it. It is a focal point so that they all face the same way. They do not believe it to have any power. |
Why does "the house always win?" (Casinos, etc.) | There would be absolutely no incentive to run a casino if it didn't make money. Preferably lots and lots of money. Note that this is a *general* statement. The house always wins *in general*, but that doesn't mean that *individuals* can't sometimes win. They're just never going to win enough for the house to lose, on b... |
Why do Brits and Commonwealth nations have such a deep passion for national pride and the Royal Family? | We don't. We have no pledge of allegiance. No hand over the heart. No crying at the flag. No national anthems before regular sports games. There is FAR more interest in our royals in the US than at home, and the US is FAR more jingoistic than any other nation I've ever seen. |
Does "air" have a weight? | Everything has a weight, but that's only because we're measuring it on earth. This ''stuff'' has mass, and hydrogen atom 'weighs' 1.00794 u. Because you're asking for oxygen, which is number 8 on the periodic table, it has 8 protons and electrons. Do 8 times 1.00794 u ~~because Oxygen is a diatomic molecule ~~ and add ... |
Why do we refrigerate mustard, if the base ingredients are all non-perishables like vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, and paprika? | It's not necessary. I never refrigerate mustard and it doesn't spoil. However, it makes sense to keep mustard in the fridge for these reasons: * it tastes better cold* it's a convenient place to keep it * exercising an abundance of caution |
Why are people in favor of putting a camera on every cop, but opposed to cctv cameras on every street corner? | A CCTV isn't likely to pull a gun and shoot me. A CCTV isn't likely to beat the shit out of me and lie about it later. A cop, on the other hand, ", 'Cameras on cops are for making sure a cop behaves appropriately, and if they fuck up then they have evidence other than a cell phone video. CCTV cameras are for cops to wa... |
Why does writing have stricter rules for grammar than speaking? | It doesn't. There's no rule against writing exactly the way you speak, in general. When you use formal writing, you are trying to make your message as clear as possible to the audience the writing is directed towards, so that they understand it. When you use casual writing, it's usually because your message is better u... |
Why does grilled cheese taste so much better than a plain cheese sandwich? | When the bread becomes toasted, the sugars in it are caramelized. Caramelization on many foods makes them tastier. It even works on meats and veggies. That's why grilled meats and veggies are tastier.Also, warming up cheese brings out its flavor. Cheese connoisseurs always allow their cheese to warm up to room temperat... |
If Israel is where Jewish people originated, why do the majority of them appear European in genetic origin? | Sephardic" and "Mizrahi" means because it's already been explained in this thread. That being said, it shouldn't come as any surprise that Jewish populations who dwelt in European regions for thousands of years might 've incorporated some amount of genetic traits from the surrounding populace through interbreeding--tho... |
How the Large Hadron Collider could help scientists understand how something can come from nothing. | In addition to glitcher's comment, the particles they smash together are sped up until they have a MASSIVE amount of energy for their size. Then, when you smash them together, they break apart into pure energy, in the same tiny volume. This lets the scientists get close to the big bang, because at the big bang you had ... |
How can Uber, giving 1bn rides since 2009 be worth $62bn as a company? | Valuation is slightly different to 'worth'. Valuation is determined purely by the funding round. When someone buys a stake in the business the valuation is calculated by how much they paid for a specific percentage of the business. Regardless of the previous valuation of Uber, if someone invests $1 billion for 1% of th... |
Why do Flat Earthers think there is a cover up | It has to be all-in or all-out. Either they accept the Earth is round and there are some odd things they can't explain, or there has to have been a centuries old, all encompassing, constant scientific fraud involving basically all of science, every government, anyone involved in space flight, marine travel - I am strug... |
Why do buisnesses use rebates? | Well, they make a profit either way, just less with the rebate. The rebate encourages people to buy more than they otherwise would, like a sale. Buuuut lots of people probably forget to mail in the rebate. So it's like a sale where half the people forget to take the discount. Sounds good to me! |
- why do I get sick if a driver repeatedly pumps the gas or the brakes? | I'm no scientist but I did always get car sick as a child. I know it has something to do with the fluid in your ears moving conflicting with what your eyes are seeing. This effect is far worse if you are looking at a stationary object in the vehicle and not ahead to the horizon. When accelerating/decelerating the fluid... |
What's the case for voting for the presidential candidate most in line with your values vs one with the most in common with your values and a real chance to win? | Because of the electoral college, there are only a few states that really matter during an election: the swing states. If you live in a swing state and there is one main candidate you absolutely cannot have as your president, then you should vote against him/her because your vote can make a big difference. If, like mos... |
Why are so many people interested in unboxing videos? Doesn't this defeat the element of surprise? | who wants to buy something and not know what you get? that's how things get returned. you didn't buy a mystery box. you bought something specific. |
Why are the Christians and Muslims fighting in Sudan to the point that the country has to be split in two parts. | It has nothing to do with christianity or islam. It's mostly about wealth mixed in with racial/ethnic rivalry. Only morons/news/etc make it about religion. Even if the black sudanese were muslim, we would have the same problem. There is a lot of oil in southern sudan where black/african sudanese live. The northern suda... |
The 108 Billion College Bailout -- are the non-grads getting the short end of the stick? | This isn't a bailout, or even a new program. This is the cost of the existing student loan repayment programs. Federal student loans have several options for repayment. You can get a standard 10 year term. But if the payments would be too high , you can get an alternative plan. The loan term is extended to 20-25 years ... |
When you read that flu has killed otherwise healthy people, what are the symptoms that actually take them out? Are they drowning in lung fluid or exhaustion from coughing, or what? | When a strain of the flu becomes a pandemic , it can apparently trigger an autoimmune response in healthy adults, potentially killing them. AFAIK, the details are not fully understood, but a suspect is what's called a cytokine storm .Child neurologist here - Rarely flu can cause acute necrotizing encephalopathy in kids... |
What is a “knot” and how is it that a person can physically feel it in their back? | [It will help to see the structural make up of a muscle] Tiny fibers bundled together, then those bundles are taken and bundled together and those bundles are then taken and bundled together. The smallest of the fibers are made up of tiny compartments called [sarcomeres] and the sarcomere is what ultimately produces mo... |
Why do computers perform faster when a hard drive is less filled? | Windows and almost all programs running all use some temporary disk space to work with. Windows creates a Pagefile on the Hard Disk which works kind of like an extension to your RAM. This Pagefile grows as is needed by Windows even if you have plenty of RAM to spare it's just part of the whole Memory Management. Withou... |
What affects the price of gold? | Fear. Fear affects the price of gold. Gold is viewed as a 'safe haven', meaning investors hold it because they believe gold will still be desirable as currency in time of war or hyper inflation. This is because it is a physical quantity not something a govt. can 'print'. |
why do we have a different shoe sizes for men and women? | My best guess is that the scale of a men's 10.5 to 11 is too big of a jump for the scale of women's feet. So they may not fit in a 10.5 or 11 . But that really is just a guess. |
Why are people with amnesia able to remember their language? | Amnesia usually affects more short term things. Like they also know how to eat and go to the restroom and things like that. They just don't know names or relationships to people or places. In most cases", 'Different parts of the brain do different things. Amnesia refers to a condition where a part of the brain responsi... |
How can there be medication that causes both constipation AND diarrhea? | Just a guess but constipation doesn't nescicarly mean not enough water, some drugs like opiates slow down the bowel causing constipation on the other hand, if you have an intolerance to any of the medication inside it could make you go the other way. I'm guessing in clinical trials of the drug some of the patients expe... |
how can a PC game be developed for years? don't the constantly emerging new hardware capabilities far outrun what the game (engine) started out with? | Developers don't design for the cutting edge. The aim for the middle of the market. So they aren't worried if hardware changes because the cutting edge doesn't matter. All that matters is what the average or majority are using. |
why does Maine get so much colder than Oregon? | Maine is north of the Gulf Stream's effects. My guess would be that it's a result of the direction the jet stream generally moves - west to east. So in Oregon, it's pulling in mild maritime air, while in Maine it's pulling down freezing Canadian continental air. |
Why is NPR ad-free? | It's not ad free. Neither is public television in the US. Public broadcasting gets its funding from a variety of sources. This includes money from different levels of governments, donations from individuals, and sponsorship from businesses, which is another way of saying advertising. At the beginnings of radio and tele... |
What happens when someone in a lawsuit is awarded a sum that is vastly more than the other party can pay? | This is the reason that judges of sound mind are so important. The plaintiffs could, if they had the endurance to chase the person for the rest of his life, seek payment even from someone who will never amount to anything other than a burger flipper. But the amount they could possibly get would be very small since the ... |
What is the actual process of the body when you are dying? For instance from blood loss | Extremely simplified version: The reason blood loss kills is because the brain needs oxygen from the blood. Without enough blood, the heart can't pump enough oxygen to the brain to survive. Your brain will likely send signals to the body to alert it that there is a severe issue going on, which causes most of the pain. |
Why is there so much hatred towards Jar-Jar Binks? | - his whole appearance and everything he says is irritating- there is no reason why he should be in the movie; if they would've left him out, nothing would have changed: he doesn't add anything to the story. The C3PO of the first trilogy was annoying too, but he had a purpose: if two nations didn't understan each other... |
Why do dogs bury bones? | I've heard that they do it to help soften the bones for later consumption. I know when my dog digs up a rawhide she's buried a few weeks earlier, it's pretty mushy- less effort for her to chew.my dogs hide bones and toys in our couch, and i think its because they just want to hide it and keep it for later so that we do... |
Why do airplanes not have visible disruptive effects on clouds when they fly through them? | The term you're looking for is [cloud cutting] and it's beautiful.Well, airplanes are designed to disturb the air as little as possible. Disturbing the air is also called drag, and drag slows you down. |
What makes airports (supposedly) so safe, when it would, seemingly, only take one worker to smuggle in an item/weapon? | Airports aren't all that different from any other place. Any location, be it an office building, mall, school, sports stadium, train station, carnival, restaurant, etc. becomes dangerous if someone starts firing a gun or plants an explosive device. Airports also tend to have lots of people going through security screen... |
When a Cinema gets a digital copy of a new movie on hard drives - how come they are not copied and posted online ? | It's decrypted on the projector and played. There is no inbetween, unencrypted file, and no way to create one. They also keep that stuff under tight security. |
Why do your bones "crack" when you stretch in the morning? | It's not your bones. It's the sound of bubbles forming / collapsing in the synovial fluid between your joints. Article about it here - _URL_0_ |
From a psychological point of view, is there a difference between addiction and dependence? | Addiction is the seeking of positive reinforcement, usually good feelings. Dependence is the desire to avoid negative consequences . Someone can have both: For example, imagine an alcoholic who enjoys being drunk, so he drinks. But if he doesn't drink, then he starts to feel sick. Drinking makes that bad feeling go awa... |
Why can't the world agree on one universal language? | On a practical point- think of the stress of teaching the world this universal language. Remember that most people dont learn languages from classes- but from their family and social peers. In order to impose this one language- you would have to teach the entire current generation this language and force them to teach ... |
How does a new moon work, without being a lunar eclipse? | I think the problem you're having may be that you're imagining the orbit of the moon as being in the same plane as the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, when it's not. Its orbital plane about the Earth is tilted a bit and it wobbles too. When the Moon happens to eclipse the Sun, it's because during that particular orb... |
When television shows do the "last time on..." flashbacks, why is the dialogue manipulated? | Each scene requires multiple takes so it's possible that they used a segment from a take that didn't make it to the final aired episode but nonetheless conveys the same message. But if you're referring to truncated dialogue, then perhaps the original dialogue had a lot of background and filler information that didn't n... |
Why are e-cigarette commercials allowed when regular cigarettes commercials are illegal? | Because e-cigarettes are not cigarettes, and therefore aren't subject to the same laws. Whether they should be is debatable. But that's not what is being asked. I feel like this answer should be self evident. Man, there's been some really stupid shit on ELI5 lately.Same reason they don't say , "Smoking causes cancer" a... |
What do mosquitos do for us exactly? | Mosquitoes exist because blood is a nutritious enough resource to support them. Life evolves because there's a niche to support it, not because it has any greater purpose. |
What is Montessori education and is it more effective than traditional schooling? | I have been working as an assistant teacher in an upper elementary Montessori school and find some of these answers disheartening. I think it's important to look into any specific school. There are countless horror stories from public schools, we certainly cannot judge all public schools by these horror stories; nor ca... |
Why is there so many website that requires me to accept cookies? | If you're asking why websites are now asking you to accept cookies; > The EU e-Privacy Directive, otherwise known as the EU Cookie Law, originally came into place on the 26th of May 2012 and means you, as the site owner/administrator, have to get your visitors’ informed consent before placing a cookie on their machine.... |
What does it mean for a song to be in major/minor key? | D" etc. - the name of a chord is taken from the name of its root note. Some of them are major chords and some are minor chords - it depends on the interval between the notes. As always in music, these chords can be 'decorated\', for example G-B-D-F is common . Saying that a song is "in a key" means that the song primar... |
Why did the US drop two atomic bombs in Japan? | A war specifically in Japan was a front we didn't have ground troops established in. Due to the unique geographic and cultural characteristics of Japan and it's culture, an actual war across the islands would have caused an absolutely devastating loss of life on both sides. The nuke came a little late to the European f... |
Why do western countries "scramble" Fighter jets when russia flies close? | They scramble to escort any unidentified aircraft which is approaching UK airspace. They may be pretty sure that it'll just be another Russian bomber that stays carefully just inside international airspace, but the fighters exist to go and check that it really is.The Russians try flying into U.S. airspace as well. This... |
Why do minor songs/scales sound "sad" and major "happy"? | Cultural conditioning over many centuries. There has always been drama set to music and over time people came to associate minor with sad and major with happy. It is culturally specific though. Some Japanese friends of mine laugh at Puccini's Madame Butterfly because he uses modes that sound sad to western ears for the... |
How are old video games "digitally remastered"? | In some games, cutscenes are rendered as video, they cannot be edited that easily, because they are independent from the source code. Gameplay in the other hand, works with real time graphics, processed by the power of the console or computer and with a source code available to edit assets in order to improve the game ... |
How can India launch a mission to Mars, yet have so much poverty etc | What kind of fucking question is this? Look around in America, we're just better at hiding the poor. |
How do nature documentaries get such good sound? Do they use foley artists? | I can't remember where I saw it but I remember reading that the sounds are usually recorded using captive animals and played on top of the footage. Can't be sure how accurate that is though. |
How do Graveyards make money after all the plots are full? | Well when it's full they start taking away Graves from deceast who have no family left. Or family that doesn't take care of the grave. Atleast that's how it works in Sweden", 'Generally takes a while to fill them. A lot of grave yards now dig up the old plots and reoffer them. |
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