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How do countries with multiple timezones have different TV channels? | > but it's still the same channel? It isn't the same channel. If your name is Pat and another guy you meet is also named Pat, are you the same person? Just because there is a CBS in NYC and a CBS in LA doesn't mean they're the same channel. They're both owned by the same company, but different channels entirely. |
Why do Americans have to pay for an ambulance if someone else called it for them? | Because we don't have socialized health care in the US. Our health care providers aren't paid entirely by tax payer dollars and if someone calls an ambulance for someone, if the person needing the ambulance doesn't have insurance then they would have to pay for it. |
Why is newly appointed Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn so unpopular with his own party? | because the last time there was a labour party that was as left wing as him, they were a mess and the conservatives dominated for that time, before Blair formed the new labour movement, the party was left wing and unelectable. A lot of labour supporters are worried that will repeat itself again, and that people will ei... |
why does it feel so strange when you step onto and off an escalator that is not working, it's like even though you know it's not moving your body still anticipates it's moving | To add onto previous answers I will put in my two cents, as I did a bit of research regarding the phenomenon at hand. What's causing this feeling is A) your mind expecting another movement to be happening and B) more interestingly your body doing something that is called anticipatory postural adjustment. This term desc... |
How are modders able to modify code if it isn't open source? | The developers have allowed for certain segments to be exposed for modders to tinker with, either via addition/editing of files e.g. Factorio, or via the release of a mod development kit, with proper APIs that the developers themselves use to create content for the game e.g. XCOM2. Note: Greatly oversimplifying here, a... |
Why has it taken 9 months for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (one of the Boston bombers) to go to trial even though he was identified and captured just 4 days after the bombings? | There are lots of hoops to jump through for any trial and especially for one of this magnitude where there are so many charges against the defendant and there is such a serious potential penalty . All of the parties involved need to make sure they cross their T's and dot their I's so that they have the best possible ca... |
What do guys do after they use lotion to masturbate? | I usually wrap my johnson in a sarcophagus of toilet paper and then choke the chicken. Once the deed is done, just slide the sarcophagus off and there's no mess. Just toss the toilet paper in the toilet, flush and go on your day. |
Medicare in the United States | It's a government program here in the US for people over 65, or people who are disabled. Everyone pays a separate tax for it, that automatically comes out of your paycheck. It does cover prescriptions, and most healthcare, and it is true that it doesn't cost the individual much, but it's a far cry from universal health... |
How exactly does nuclear radiation work, that it destroy your body? | In particular, it has to be ionizing radiation, which is radiation strong enough to knock an electron off a molecule, such as your DNA. This ionization damages the DNA within your cells, causing them to function improperly. This goes one of two ways: cancerous tumours or cell death. Cell death tends to be widespread, l... |
Why do dental implants always look so odd? They often seem large and unnatural looking. | Mine look bad-ass. You couldn't tell unless you were seriously five inches from my teeth with a good source of light.Implants that are super white look even weirder on old people. Why? |
The AK-47 was invented in 1946. More than 70 years later, in 2016, in what ways are modern guns better than it? | Let's compare the original AK-47 to the latest AK-100 series, going step by step. The AKM improved upon the 47 mostly in terms of manufacturing ability. The most notable change is the switch from a milled to a stamped receiver, which is much faster and cheaper to produce and also results in a lighter gun. Several other... |
Why is Smoking still a thing despite apparent massive health risks and warnings? | The same reason why terrible fast food is still a thing. Humans are notoriously bad at resisting instant gratification in favor of long-term benefits. We're just wired that way, it takes tremendous effort to fight it.The same reason Mc Donalds, beer, unprotected sex, and riding a motorcycle without a helmet are still t... |
Why is 10 degrees celsius not exactly twice as warm as 5 degrees celsius? | Because 0 degrees Celsius isn't the absolute zero, it's just the temperature of fusion of ice. If you compare to the absolute zero of -273.15 degrees celsius. 10 degrees is 283.15 and 5 degress is 278.15. So 10 degrees is 5/278.15 or 1.8% more warm in term of temperature. But not in term of energy because different mat... |
I'm only gonna post this once to avoid sounding like a hypocrite but please read... | I personally hide all submissions to any subreddit I've already read, and thus delve in deep to the newer and up-and-coming submissions. I encourage everyone to do this, as it, for you, always keeps all of reddit fresh, and for everyone else, gives everyone an equal share time. You are basically both a /new/ guy and a ... |
why my facial hair is red, white blonde, and black, but the hair on my head is brown? | Different hair is controlled by different genes. Different hair can have different thickness, density, color, and coverage. In addition to not knowing what recessive genes your parents carry, there are multiple genes that determine hair color. With your parents having opposing dominant genes, you're already a good cand... |
When building a skyscraper, which parts does the architect do, and which parts does the structural engineer do? | I think it also should be noted that many good architects have a basic understanding of what will and won't work structurally, and a good structural engineer has a basic concept of how to implement engineering that will look good ", 'And all the while, nobody cares about the apparently non glamorous job of the geotechn... |
The 'special relationship' between the UK and US | The United States declared in the Munroe Doctrine of 1823 that colonization of the Western Hemisphere is now over. Existing colonies can remain. We will attack any new colonies. They didn't have the military power to realistically do this. The UK wasn't interested in colonizing the Western Hemisphere further and they a... |
What happens if a polygamous family moves to the US from a country where polygamy is legal? | As others have said, it just wouldn't be recognised. There's also the added fact that some of the wives may not be able to move, as they'd need to apply separately, and may not meet the criteria. |
If "Classic" cars are so desirable/good looking, why don't they make more just like them? | \'04 CL" *"The Gallardo was the most beautiful sports car ever!!! They don't make cars like this anymore :. Design principals change and technology advances but the appeal in collecting vintage pieces be it for nostalgia or to be unique, I'm sure every individual has their own reasons.They do! The Nissan Fiagaro was b... |
How come sometimes when you swallow a pill it gets “caught” in your throat and you can still feel it there after you swallow it? | Already answered but I will add that there is a simple fix. Pop the pill in your mouth but instead of washing it straight down swish it around a bit so it's all wet before you swallow. Works great especially on sticky gel coated ones. |
We make vitamin D in our skin, this is powered by sun energy. I am not a plant. How am I making energy from the sun? | We don't get Vitamin D directly from the sun. Instead, Vitamin D is created when 7-dehydrocholesterol, a type of cholesterol found in our skin, is exposed to ultra-violet radiation.Vitamin D is photochemically produced when a precursor chemical breaks down in the presence of Ultra Violet rays, particularly UV B rays. V... |
How are search engines like DuckDuckGo any more private than Google if your ISP tracks everything you visit anyways? | With a proper encryption setup , the ISP doesn't see the contents of the traffic, only the source and destination. |
How do parody laws work? | In addition to fair use, in the US , [you can only copyright the expression of an idea rather than the idea itself]. If your parody is loose enough, you may not even touch the original's copyright in the first place .A parody counts as \'Fair Use\' in the copyright laws in the united states. The supreme court gave us a... |
Why is everyone freaking out about the Deadpool trailer? I've never even heard about Deadpool until today. | Deadpool is, at his best, not the comic book character anyone imagined a movie being made about. The character curses a lot, constantly breaks a fourth wall and is, all round, insane. However, it's also a series with its own bits of tragedy and a lot, a whole lot of absurdity. That said, part of the freakout is also th... |
Why is it that when we stare at the fan blades long enough, it will suddenly appear to spin in the opposite direction slowly for awhile instead? | It might have to do with a flickering light illuminating a ceiling fan. Imagine you take a picture of a rotating windmill every time the windmill hits the exact position, then make a movie out of these photos. What you would see is that windmill in the movie is stationary even though you know it rotated. Now, if you to... |
my rights when speaking to police officers. | Note the difference that these are Immigration checkpoints which are much more lax than other types. Don't try this if you get pulled over for speeding. |
Why can't spinal discs be "re-hydrated" later in life? | Yeah sure you'd have to expect an explanation for treatment. Sadly I csn offer no bearing of expertise on such a matter but it came across in your question that your doctor disregarded your query about why it can't be done. For anybody unaware if why disks can't be rehydrated then it's important for their doctor to inf... |
Why can't we set the clocks 30 minutes back (or forward in spring) and be done with daylight savings time forever? | Anyone who does a decent amount of work outside in the winter shouldn't have a problem with DST. It's easier to get an early start in the morning with some sunlight than trying to work around in the dark for an extra hour. Start early, go home early.Some places do not observe DST. I know in the USA Arizona and Hawaii d... |
What does it mean when a song/album is remastered and how is it done? | Not trying to be a dick, I actually became curious exactly what goes on so I googled. Rather than c/p wiki, here's the link. I used to think it had to do with re-performing the music, but I suppose that would just be re-recording it. _URL_1_ |
how a subway system is built in an already developed city. | I'd like to find more photos, but in San Francisco it [looked like this], they ripped up the streets. It was quite disruptive, and I've heard some people say that parts of Market street never economically recovered from the project. Hmm, there [a couple of old construction films at the Bart website]. Yeah, check those ... |
Why doesn't reddit have an option to make your comment history private? | Because in this thread I'm a mother of five living in west-virginia, In the last thread I was a roadie for Rammstein and the thread before that I was a navy SEAL who had participated in the mission to kill Osama. Sometimes I want a way to find out if someone is trolling or bullshitting. Comment history might be the onl... |
Why can animals eat things raw, but we have to cook before we can eat? | Avast, it's a repost! Please remember to search before posting. [Here ye go.] Yarr! |
Why is it that so many of us humans have this fascination for violence (at least to some extent) even when we may deem it unethical? | We're an inherently violent species. Historically humans hunted animals for their food, and fought other humans for access to resources . |
If i were to use a random number generator, and then go back in time to just before i used it, would i then get the same number, or a different one? | You would get the same number. Random number generators aren't actually random, but merely appear to be random. They are given an initialization value called a seed, and from the same seed they will always produce the same sequence of numbers. |
Why doesn't clock speed matter anymore? | Comparing computers by clock speed is like comparing cars by how many RPMS their engine can go to. It isn't meaningless, but it does not directly translate to how powerful or fast they are. |
If smartphones are basically small computers, why can't we easily boot up android on lumia? | The thing is we can load Android on any smartphone. You could do it on an iPhone at some point too, but because of limitations in software you can't do it that easily. Technically, any device can sport any OS as long as the processor can understand the instructions it's given and there are drivers for the components in... |
How sharp is paper? | Chef's depend on an edge, an angle of metal that depends on rounding or curling at the edge so that the blade can slide though things easily. The sharper the edge, the easier the cut. Stuff like bread requires a serrated edge, which can skip between the firmer parts and air gap more easily. Paper is made from a fiber m... |
When someone sues for a large sum of money, how does the losing party pay for it? | They often don't. They may pay a small amount of money for the rest of their life though the plaintiff needs to complain about lack of payment in order for there to be any kind of enforcement and the plaintiff may know that the defendant has no chance of paying. Sometimes these suits are just a matter of knowing you ar... |
Why is does it matter that the NFL is no longer tax-exempt? | PR battle. People who don't like the NFL for whatever reason always used the NFL's special tax status as a nonprofit as a way to embarrass the NFL and threaten to take it away. The NFL realized they don't save a lot of money from it anymore, so they voluntarily gave it up. In the U.S., regular corporations are taxed at... |
Besides moralistic arguments and NIMBY, what motivates people to oppose expansion of casino gambling? | Casinos tend to have a destructive effect on their surrounding communities. While the casino itself and the immediate area may be nice to attract gamblers, the surrounding areas tend to become slums. Part of this is due to a shift in the job market, with the new casino generally offering better paying unskilled jobs th... |
Entropy in a biological context | It's time we talked about entropy, Sussy. You know, some people say that life is just a never ending battle against entropy. This is true in many ways, but let's not get so philosophical yet. First, think about your room. When you come home from soccer you throw your cleats on the floor, your jersey beside them, and yo... |
How is the federal budget $3.9 trillion when only $1.25 trillion is in circulation? | Paper money isn't the only money in circulation, most of it is just numbers in an electronic ledger. In the end not all value in the economy needs to earmark the same currency. Let's say you need your house painted: You can pay me $100 to paint your house. I want some chickens and you have chickens, I give you the $100... |
Why does cracking knuckle and other joints only become necessary after a person has started doing it regularly? | It's not necessary. You've conditioned yourself to enjoy it, but could easily go without. source: crack everything |
Explain why we cant just invade North Korea and change or destroy that horrible country and its government? | Many reasons: China doesn't want a US puppet state right on its border. Nobody wants to slaughter the North Korean military. Seoul is in artillery range of the border and would get hit. North Koreans have no applicable skills and nobody wants to deal with the refugees.Because we always respect the borders of sovereign ... |
Advantages of different phenotypes? | A lot of it is just sexual selection, which is often arbitrary. Physical appearance variations may attract the opposite sex even though they have no functional use. Being more attractive means you're more likely to have children or more children, which passes on those physical traits. An exception is skin color, which ... |
How is it determined how many calories (including fat/protein/carbohydrates) are in an item of food? | In practice, very little of the food on the market is calorically measured using a calorimeter of the sort being described by others. Very few companies have the means to measure their food in this way. Instead, most food companies determine the caloric content of their products by using pre-existing databases of calor... |
So we are seeing the Sun as yellow but why are we seeing it's reflection from Moon as white? | Wait, let's stop something right now: **the sun is not yellow** The sun is yellow in kindergarteners' drawings. You know, with the sunglasses and smiley face. The sun is white. It produces all wavelengths of visible light, which means it appears white - kind of like how your monitor appears white when all the tiny RGB ... |
if you carbon date a stone, what year would it have been made? Surely most matter on this earth has been here since the beginning? | First, carbon dating only works on things that used to be living organisms, because it relies on the fact that the thing being measured exchanged carbon with the atmosphere while it was alive and then stopped doing so when it died. So a rock can't be carbon dated. But also, carbon dating can only give you results back ... |
In laboratory experiments that test illegal drugs, like the effects of cocaine on rats, how do scientists legally acquire and store the drugs? | Chemical supply companies can get a license to sell controlled substances for research purposes, so you can just order it from the same companies that you buy your hydrochloric acid or whatever other chemicals from. They won't let just anyone order from them, of course, and your lab has to follow standard handling prot... |
Why did the first 20 years of my life seem to take an eternity while the next ones seem to pass in the blink of an eye? | Of course if you spend monotonous days working, coming home, and playing video games or TV time will seem to blink by. There isn't anything worth remembering. Go out and take a class, start a new sport, go to bars you have never visited before, etc. Deviate from your boring routine. Our pre 20's were pocketed with land... |
Why are coins historically round? Seems like square coins would be more efficient/easier to cut from a sheet of metal. | There's quite a few reasons relating to different time periods, but interestingly there are actually several examples of square-shaped coins. The most obvious reason is ease of use, so to say. It is easy to pick up round coins and scoop them up, put them into tightly packed bags, etc, without any worry of corners causi... |
How can some people pursue love again and again after recently breaking up with a partner, while others do not dare to for awhile? | I think if you're being broken up with and it's a particularly bad breakup, a person can go three ways. Either they do their best to get into a new relationship - a rebound or they have a feeling of denial and bad associations with love so stay away for a while. Or they are the reflective type that hold back for a whil... |
WTF was the Architect was trying to tell Neo in the movie Matrix? | That's it, it's time to rewatch the matrix trilogy and animatrix. This thread is made of fucking win. |
What is the difference between "legalization" and "decriminalization" of marijuana? | criminal charges means you could go to jail for it. get all the parking tickets u want, you could lose your license, but you won't go to jail. |
Why do shows and movies always seem to cast actors/actresses who are older than the characters they play? | Regarding teen characters I would also add the it helps to bolster the intended viewers perception that they are more mature than they are. Same reason NERF commercials use actors who are probably in their late teens to early 20's, when NERF's target audience is young teens. To make their consumer feel justified in the... |
Why is your breath warm when you breath out but cool when you blow? | Pressure difference, same reason deodorant cans get cold when you spray out of them for extended periods. When you exhale you aren't putting the air under pressure and it's warm like you. When you blow hard you put the air under pressure, when it escapes to a lower pressure environment it cools. |
Why do most white professional body builders tan themselves until they look black? | They don't actually tan they use sprays and liquids to look tan for a competition. They use them because of stage lights as others have mentioned. |
Why didn't the US just assassinate Saddam? | Countries, at least modern day ones don't tend to assassinate because it just encourages the other side to do the same to your own leaders. Carter, Ford and Regan all issued [executive orders forbidding assassination] by the U.S. or its agents. This was relaxed to allow for assassinating terrorist connected people, but... |
Why do ants carry away injured/dead ants? | Because having your home full of rotting corpses is a good way to breed bacteria and get the others sick. Also they're in the way. |
Why did the Dreamcast lose the Console War against PS2? | A lot of people are mentioning piracy but the Dreamcast lost the race before that became an issue. Sega *really* fucked up with their previous console, the Saturn. This left the public reluctant to invest in the Dreamcast. This also didn't leave them with much money to do marketing. Sony, OTOH, was able to hype the fuc... |
Why does it seem that most movies have a "happy" ending? | Most movies the writer has a specific story to tell and the ending is determined by the story. Take a movie like Fever Pitch. It doesn't matter that the Red Sox won the Series the year the movie was made. It only matters that the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-wins-girl story be told. The movie re-shot and added a... |
What is the pay-off for those that deny the holocaust? | Tl;dr anti-semitism Many people and nations - particularly in the Middle East - are against the existence of the jewish state of Israel, to the point that many organizations and governments have a publicly stated goal of Israel's annihilation. Given that the holocaust was the big reason for Israel's creation after ww2,... |
What Americans mean when they say their infrastructure is crumbling. Which parts of US infrastructure are broken, and why were they allowed to go defunct? | Currently 1 in 4 bridges in the US are either functionally obsolete or structurally deficient. That places people that travel over them at an unacceptable risk of injury / death should an event like the I-35 Bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Bridges typically have a design life of 50 years. Government has ignored the fac... |
Why do I never get the full storage amount advertised on any storage device. | The advertised space is based on the idea that '1,000,000,000 bytes = 1 gigabyte' , when in reality, ~1 073 741 824 bytes = 1 gigabyte. They round down for simplicity, I guess. So the more GB of space on a drive, the farther the actual capacity will be from the advertised amount. |
why are hippos so deadly if they are mostly herbivores? | Well for one, the bulls are intensely territorial creatures. But why are they so deadly to humans specifically? - They remain submerged in the murky water for considerable amounts of time. Meaning it's not always clear there's a [hippo near your boat until it's too late]. - On land, despite their lethargic appearance, ... |
What does an officer from UK do, when someone draws a gun? | Guns in general are rare. If there is a crime reported with a high risk then there are armed units that respond. I would imagine if an officer has a gun pointed at them they back the hell away. As for why they don't have guns, it's just not deemed necessary and would be against public opinion. |
Why do divorces take so long? | Many divorces usually devolve into a drawn out slugging match between the spouses over property and children and with the emotional aspect coming into play, it's rare that both parties will agree on terms. It's not uncommon for a bitter spouse try to do as much as they can to exact vengeance on the other. Anything invo... |
If people can surgically have half their brain removed, then how come, if shot through one half of the brain, we die instantly? | A bullet doesn't make a nice, long, bullet-sized tunnel through your skull. It causes a powerful shockwave along its way and shatters the skull in two locations. Your brain is pretty mushy to begin with, and it doesn't take rough handling well. |
How come, when eating spicy foods, the spice doesn't kick in right away? | Spice works differently to taste, since it's not affecting the taste receptors. With taste, you have chemical receptors on the surface of your tongue and mouth that react with food, and send information to your brain about its chemical composition. We percieve this as taste. With spices, capsaicin isn't being detected ... |
The multiverse, and how there can be every possible occurrence involving every possible thing. | A theory in science is different than a theory as most people understand it, so there really isn't much in the way of science to support this. As some other people have said this mainly exists in metaphysics and Philosophy. Philosophy loves those questions with a million answers. As you've said, where would the multive... |
Why isnt data that can identify an individual, more protected? | Have to remember that there is a constant 'Arms Race' going on. The digital security industry is always trying to come up with more secure methods of data storage, while there are those out there who, for whatever reason, want to break that security and access that data. However, many believe that we've hit a point of ... |
Why haven't domesticated cats been bred to be the size of larger dogs? | Because unlike wolves, wildcats were never that large to begin with. There also isn't much of a reason, since cats were domesticated mostly for killing rodents than for hunting or guarding. A larger cat would probably actually be worse at catching mice.It would be counterproductive to their main reason for being domest... |
Why did Western saloons have those strange 'batwing' doors? | I wonder if they were more a convention in 50's movie westerns than a common reality.Lots of traffic. Many restaurant kitchens have similar doorsYou might get a better response on askhistoriansHow else are you going to make a dramatic entrance?probably started as a desire to have a "door" only in spirit. With the door ... |
Why is it so difficult to run a console game on a PC? | Consoles all have the same hardware and operating environments so software can be optimized for a very specific architecture. PCs can be any Frankenstein's abomination of scavenged hardware so software for PCs must be much more generalized. That lack of optimization for the hardware can cause the performance to suffer ... |
That ocean noise when you put a sea shell up to your ear | I always thought that the blood flow thing was false .They said, that it is actually just air rushing through any gaps between the ear and the shell. The shell is very acoustically reflective so the sound would be reflected a lot . I am more tempted to trust this, since we don't hear a pulsing sound when we put a shell... |
If antibacterials don't kill virus', why do we wash our hands or use hand sanitizes to spread an illness to others when we're sick? | Well first of all, diseases are caused by more than just viral infections. Quite often, bacterial infections can be just as deadly and that is why we wash our hands and use sanitizers. Also, the alcohol in a hand sanitizer can kill some viruses, though not all, but for the most part, viruses have a very limited life ou... |
Why is it that students who wants to become doctors need to go through such a rigorous interview process, why is it that good grades and a great score on the mcat aren't enough? | They are looking for more than just brains- they also want someone with good interpersonal relationship skills, someone who works well under pressure, someone that can hold it together in social situations, etc. My sister is currently doing her residency here in Canada, and a couple of her friends who did the same or b... |
How do people curl ribbons by scraping them with scissors? | If you're asking how that happens - you're basically trimming one surface of the ribbon so it's shorter than the surface on the other side. Incidentally, this is also how curly hair works - it's shorter on one side than the other. |
How are magpies, crows and other corvins so damn smart when their brains are so small? | Just to add to what others have said, Corvids have a unique brain structure which mammals don't have, which seems to take the role of our prefrontal cortex. Until that was discovered, it wasn't thought that Corvids had the brain structures to think like we do. Now it seems they do.There are Ravens in the Grand Canyon t... |
How come the Reddit mods can pick and choose to delete threads and comments that do not violate either ToS or Sidebar rules? | Because that's how reddit was designed - each subreddit is its own community that is controlled by a group of moderators with total control over the content, assuming it stays within the site-wide rules. Presumably, moderators who want to build a community will be transparent about the rules they enforce, but they cert... |
Why is cola sold in bottles and cans, but water is only sold in bottles? | I've been in two natural disasters where Budweiser used their canning and transport infrastructure to deliver canned potable water to victims . I was given two 6 packs of water in Katrina and noticed something odd about them. Without carbonation keeping pressure inside aluminum cans even when full are incredibly flimsy... |
Why does the Southern United States react so badly to cold weather? | Infrastructure can play a part. I grew up in New Mexico and when heavy snow hit , we had to borrow plows from Colorado. I'm living in Minnesota now and there are actual fleets of said plows here. If you're living somewhere that only needs plows every so often, chances are good that government resources have been alloca... |
Why do so many have a phobia of spiders? | I don't think many people understand the difference between dangerous and harmless spiders, so fearing all of them is safer. I had a guy in my unit say he'd killed 5 'brown recluses' in a field, and when he showed me the type he's been killing, it was a harmless wolf spider.Maybe you should spend less time lifting weig... |
How do I know I exist? | It is tautological. If you don't exist then you cannot be wrong in saying you don't exist, because you couldn't have said it. |
What are the chances of a couple giving birth to 2 children in different pregnancies but they have the same genetics so they are indentical? | So low as to essentially be impossible I'd say, just based off the fact that there's not that many egg cells released over a woman's life and the chances that two different egg cells released at two different times are the same is incredibly miniscule then you add in the fact that a man can release about 40million sper... |
When a person is "vaporized" by an atomic blast, what actually happens? | On the flip side, [these guys stood at ground zero under a nuclear blast] and all six are either still alive or lived another 40 or 50 years, they kept on not dying of radiation poisoning or cancer from the blast. That was a 2 kiloton nuclear bomb detonated in the atmosphere directly above them, but still some distance... |
Why is the Book of Enoch not considered biblical canon? | When the proto-orthodox Christians who eventually won out and became mainstream and voted on what books were to become part of the Bible the book of Enoch, like many other books that were floating around just simply didn't make the cut. The reason why any given book got culled may vary, but often times books which indi... |
Why humans love music? | Music is a great form of communication and allows you to bond with other people . If you imagine ancient tribes huddled around a camp fire, it's useful for keeping everyone in a good mood, and makes you feel 'connected' without actually doing much . It's also very closely linked with our gift for speech , so there's so... |
Why was Bill O'Reilly upset in his infamous, "we'll do it live" clip? | Bill was asked to read, 'To play us out ' at the end, at which point a song would play. Bill didn't understand what this would mean. We can understand what it means, because we've seen a hundred times, a presenter say, 'To play us out ', and then it cuts to whatever is playing us out. Presumably this is because he can'... |
why is Nicotine bad. Cigarettes get a bad wrap, but surely pure nicotine (no tar, no tobacco) isn't any worse than caffeine or sugar. | Well, Nicotine is an alkaloid with a rather low LD50 dosage .Compare this to caffeine you can see nicotine is, as a poison, worse for mammals. That all being said, yes, you are healthier if you buy 150mL bottles of nicotine and drop it on your skin than smoking. I'm not a biologist, so I can't tell you which of the alk... |
Woodstock, and why people keep making references of it even today | Part of the allure was the film made about the festival. It was groundbreaking in its narrative and special effects, like multi-screen tiling. It was a shitstorm but many attendees became volunteers to help keep things under control and everyone was sharing and helping others. There was a great spirit of brotherhood be... |
Why don't modern fighter aircraft have weapons systems that lock and shoot backwards to destroy a tailing enemy? | If you were travling at mach 2, it would be hard for a rocket engine to fight the dynamic pressure being shoved into its nozzle. It has to start off traveling at the speed of the aircraft, but it's pointing backwards with the nozzle to the wind. It's likely doable, but much harder to accomplish. |
Why do I feel so exhausted whenever I go shopping? I'm a guy and my girlfriend seems to not get nearly as tired as I do when we shop together. | TL;DR - Information overload There are some interesting answers here that don't seem to address an important point of shopping. I would also argue physical fatigue from short periods of shopping are more of a mental affliction. Being surrounded by a sea of information in the form of **visual** cues like colours and lig... |
Why are phones so more expensive than tablets? | Because everyone NEEDS a phone in our society. Tablets aren't a necessity so why not charge more for the product that is in higher demand?", 'The true price of the phone is obfuscated in most markets. Most people purchase a phone under a contract with the carrier which provides the phone at a "discount". You pay the $2... |
As a pedestrian, if a vehicle collision with you is imminent, what is the best way to "brace yourself for impact"? | jumping on the hood is ideal, I've had the chance to do that once. the other time I got hit, I was on a bike about to turn into a road. a large van came out too fast, wasnt looking where he was going and rammed right into the front of my bike. I kept my bike upright for as long as I could, while the van was still pushi... |
Why would two countries sign an agreement promising to end to a war, rather than just signing an agreement that actually ends it? | There are a *lot* of issues to be sorted out. This isn't like a 19th-century battle where everyone just stops fighting and goes home. Any deal is probably going to have to include: * Nuclear disarmament: North Korea has been developing and testing nuclear weapons of late. Presumably they will have to agree to stop that... |
What determines the noise or visual pattern of TV static? | All I can tell you a about static is that it's background radiation. I think in the '60s or '70s, these guys with a microwave scanner kept getting background noise and couldn't figure out what it was. They were looking for microwave radiation to make the Big Bang Theory a *theory* and not just an idea. At the same time... |
How do computers handle infinitely repeating numbers? | Simple, it only stores a finite number of those repeating digits, rounding it off at the end. You can see this with cheap calculators by creating a repeating decimal and them multiplying it back and you won't get your original answer. For example 1 divided by 3 and then multiplying it back by 3 might give you 0.999999 |
Why do people rub their nose or face when irritated or mad? | I think it's pacifying, soothing. People rub themselves to offset the uncomfortable feelings that come with stress or anger.Source= What Everybody is Saying. Its a good read |
when using cellular data (3G,4G), are we essentialy using a modem with a huge range? | All cellphones in use today are digital networking devices. The bandwidth available to the phone is used for both voice and data streams. As another user noted, the cellphone is, at its basic level, a full-duplex digital radio. The range of the phone itself is not 'huge' but the cellular system's cluster of nodes in a ... |
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