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Why does a broken neck result in instant death? | There are two spots in your spinal chord at your neck that are very important. One of them controls your heart. If it gets damaged, you're not going to last long. Another one is important in higher functioning. If it gets damaged you'll go into a coma instantly. You're not technically dead, but for all intents and purp... |
Why is it that a large number of American students choose the high cost of their University over studying abroad? | It's usually more prestigious to come from an American school, which is why a lot of foreigners come to the U.S. for college. Also, it's much easier for American students just to stay in their own country. |
Why do computers get slow? | The registry on Windows PC, file fragmentation and file system index. Every time you make a change to the system it is written to the registey, every time you execute a command it checks the registry - starting at the top and parsing all the way down until it finds what it needs. Data is written to the disk at the firs... |
Why are racist subreddits hated but /r/fatpeoplehate gets so many subscribers and isn't treated similarly? | I guess it's because there is fat in every color", 'Because its more acceptable to hate on something changeable, such as being fat, and everybody needs a way to feel superior to othersMost people see being fat as somewhat of a choice--or the consequences of bad choices. Being white is just my burden. |
How can anyone survive as an 'out of work actor' in New York City or LA when people with full time degree-required jobs can barely afford to live there? | You can keep your costs pretty low, even in high COL cities, by living in shitty parts of town with a bunch of roommates. From there, just live frugally and work as many hours as you can and you'll probably scrape by. Alternatively, some of them are trust fund babies/saved up to pursue their dreams. |
According to polls most users ignore Internet ads. So why do companies still pay for these online ads? | Actually, having 37% of people actually looking at your ad is pretty good. Internet ads are usually pretty cheap per ad, and you buy them in huge blocks of thousands. This means you're still getting thousands of people actually considering your ad and potentially buying your product. |
How is it possible for people who found companies to later get ousted from them (Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey, etc.)? | Let's say you start a company. You begin by yourself, but eventually you need a little help, so you hire a few employees. You don't have tons of cash to pay them, so you offer them in equity stake in the company. You now own less than 100% of the company. The business does well, but you hit a wall and need cash to expa... |
what does it mean when an independent congressperson "caucuses" with one party or the other? | This mostly determines what committees you're attached to as a part of procedure. The majority party will have a majority in every committee. If you caucus with the majority party, you'll be in the majority side in your committee. Or to make it more generic, let's say the Committee on Foreign Dickbutt relations needs 1... |
My car has automatic windscreen wipers that activate when it rains, how do they work? | I don't know about everyone else, but my car is a 2007 model Volkswagon Golf and has the sensor situated under the rear view mirror at the top center of the windscreen. When it rains, the sensor detects this and feeds the information to the MCU that will then activate and control the wipers. The more rain, the faster t... |
How can Netflix put all kinds of cool TV shows online for less than $10/month with no commercials when cable companies charge people $75/month or more and you do have to watch commercials? | The funny thing is cable first came out and the sale feature of it was that there would be ZERO ads forever. You're paying for it to not get ads. Now we pay for it and get ads. Cable TV was actually one of the biggest scams in history. |
What would happen if everyone defaulted on their student loans? | What you're talking about is known as a debt strike, and they can be very effective if everyone works together. What would happen? Mass chaos. The government and the banks would be scrambling. There'd be literally a trillion dollars they *thought* they had as assets that suddenly disappeared because the debtors collect... |
Suggestion/request: could we slow down a bit on the slightly silly and really obvious questions? | If you think every question could be answered elsewhere, feel free to hide the questions or ignore them. This subreddit is for people to ask people here, if you don't want to be asked things, then don't bother participating. If you don't want to answer a specific question ignore it. Every one of your linked posts seems... |
How does tornado weather affect the colors of everything outside? | I'm not completely certain, but I'd guess it has to do with [Rayleigh scattering,] the same effect that causes the colors in the sunset. |
How magnetism is related to the binding & unloading of oxygen in hemoglobin. | It's not magnetism that causes oxygen to bind to hemoglobin. The basic structure of one hemoglobin structure is 4 hemoglobin subunits surrounding a single iron atom. The way these are all bonded together givers iron a strong positive charge. This is why the oxygen is attached to hemoglobinThis is also why we need iron ... |
Why do kids need more sleep than adults? | They haven't developed as much as an adult , they also fatigue easily and thus why kids need substances like sugar to give them energy. Leave a kid run around for an hour with no sugar and they'll fall asleep in minutes. They also have a smaller appetite so they don't consume as much calories nor require as much calori... |
why there is no antigravitation as there seems to be an opposite of every other force? | Because gravity may not even be a force. We do not understand as much of it as you would think, and it doesn't fit into our theory of everything. |
why does national debt rise continually? (in literally every country) | It doesn't; at a time of economic upturn some countries actually manage to pay off their debts. However, this means money not spent on more social benefits *et cetera*, hence incentivizing the government to continue rolling over their debt and borrowing more. Since states in general are regarded as relatively reliable ... |
Why did Obama appoint Wheeler, a former cable lobbyist? | This is a pretty common practice by all political parties. _URL_0_ In fact I would be surprised if he didn't a pick a former lobbyist. |
Why do meteors burn when they enter Earth's atmosphere? | Gases get hotter when they are under higher pressure. When an object enters the atmosphere, it's generally going so fast that the air in front of it doesn't have time to flow around it, so it compresses. This puts it under greater pressure, and heats it up. It's usually hot enough to burn up whatever is entering the at... |
Why do people think apple is going to change the way we shop with Apple Pay when NFC payments already existed for a few years? | Pretty much all of these comments are missing the major point. Apple has recently made major push for security and privacy. Yes, the NFC technology had been around for a time, but it had not been used with any new secure software or more importantly, a finger print.NFC technology is actually pretty insecure, you can ma... |
Why when you turn off a light it emits a glow for a bit after? | Depends on the technology. Incandescent bulbs glow white hot because of the current flowing through them. They start to cool very quickly after the current stops, so they stop emitting bright white light. The filament will glow red hot for a brief time afterwards. Fluorescent bulbs glow when the UV light made inside of... |
This commonly thrown around math problem. | The last statement is complete nonsense. You've repaid $2 of debt so what they should have said is 49+49= 98. 98 is two dollars less than youre original debt.Lets say you paid that last dollar of yours back evenly between mom and pops then the equation would be 48.5+ 48.5= 97. Would it now make sense to pose that last ... |
Why Do Divers Have to Decompress Before Surfacing? | When your body is under high pressure more nitrogen gets dissolved in your blood than normal. This nitrogen will move into other part of your body, particularly your joints. When you return to normal pressure, the nitrogen can no longer stay readily dissolved in your blood and joints. If you decompress too rapidly, the... |
How is Jenna Marbles so popular on youtube? | Aside from the internet saying it is just because she is hot or has cute dogs her content and comedy are actually quite clever. Not to mention that the topics she jokes about are usually understood by all people. For example if Smosh makes a great video about real life pokemon it may fly over the heads of people who do... |
Greece is on the brink of leaving the Euro so why is everyone withdrawing their money from ATMs? | There's no assurance than any other country will accept the new currency . There's certainly no assurance that they'll offer an exchange rate that would allow people to make reasonable purchases. At which point, every euro you have in cash is like holding gold bars compared to the drachma. This is why a lot of countrie... |
If police officers are trained in physical combat, why are there so many stories of them just shooting an unarmed suspect instead of trying to hold them down? | There are cases of excessive force for sure. But what you do need to keep in mind is, police can't always know a suspect is unarmed. If a suspect is belligerent and reaches into his waistband, if you wait and see if he pulls out a gun, by the time you identify the gun beyond a reasonable shadow of a doubt, he could hav... |
Why does Hulu play ads for paying members, when Netflix offers TV shows ad free? | I keep getting political attack ads on mine. Nothing pisses me off more than trying to watch Community and having to wait 30 seconds so the Koch brothers can tell me that my congressman is an evil, horrible person bent on destroying the world. I'd complain to Hulu for playing political ads, but meh, I'm lazy. |
Why does Nigeria not have the same kind of safari opportunities and wildlife as countries like Kenya? | Because like you said, it's in West Africa and not Eastern Africa. The environment is radically different there so it's unfavorable to animals such as lions, giraffes, and elephants. East Africa has a lot of open grasslands where animals can get big, West Africa has more woods. There used to be lions much more widespre... |
What's the difference between starting Google Earth in OpenGL Mode as opposed to DirectX Mode? | Like your 5: OpenGL and DirectX both show pictures on screens. OpenGL can show pictures on any screen while DirectX can only show pictures on Microsoft screens. OpenGL shows a better picture when it's on a Linux screen or an Apple screen when compared to DirectX but, on Microsoft screens, OpenGL doesn't look nearly as ... |
Why do spaceships always take off from warm places like Florida? | Temperature is a side effect of where they launch from. They launch closer to the equator, which in USA tends to be florida or 'warmer' climates. |
If radiation can cause cancer how is it used to cure cancer? | Low level backround radiation can cause cell mutations which results in cancer. High level directed radiation kills cells, including cancer cells. People who have undergone radiotherapy often develop another cancer after treatment. Since they're having regular check ups they can often detect and excise these 'incidenta... |
If .wav and .flac are both lossless, and also both mega-huge files, why bother with flac? | FLAC files are compressed and therefore take up less space on your hard disk, media player or phone. FLAC files are typically half the size of their WAV equivalent. Unlike MP3 they use a lossless form of compression that doesn't lose audio fidelity. FLAC files have better support for metadata than WAV. Metadata include... |
With the Earth spinning at roughly 1000mph, how the hell can we see stars and other far away objects? Shouldn't everything just be a blur? | 2 Reason 1- The Earth is fairly big. Even though we're spinning that fast, it still takes 24hours to make one complete spin. 2- Stars are **incredibly** far away. This means that they their parallax is tiny, so tiny that you can't notice it with your own eyes. If you want to see something move noticeably, set up a tele... |
Is the awareness that you will die learned through observation or is it instinctual? | if we ignore the assumption that he is in an enclosed room, but rather say living in a time where population is very small, and thus there was no one that taught him about death. He would still likely know about pain, and wouldn't simply jump off a cliff in fear of extreme pain. But that still doesn't mean he's aware o... |
"The Dow Hit 17,000 For the First Time Ever" - What does this mean? Does it really matter, or is a positive indicator of the country's economic health? | It means that cheap lending provided by the Federal Reserve has provided so much cash to speculative stock buyers that the prices have grown out of control. In other words, it means the stock market has inflated an enormous price bubble. This is not a positive indicator of the economy's health at all. Economic health i... |
Why is overwatched so hyped up? It seems to be just a reskin of TF2. | Its far from a reskin. Overwatch is its own. Its refreshing and fun, and I'm sure once they release competitive it'll be even more fun. |
What is Love and why do people feel different when they are in love? | I'm not sure the internet is the appropriate place to learn about love. Also, love to a 5 year old is a little different than to the average adult. Like, I love ice cream sandwiches! Actually, I do love ice cream sandwiches Is any of this getting through to you? |
How do Indian castes actually work? | People don't do dirtiest jobs because they are from low caste .They do such jobs because they are poor. A poor person will be ready to do any kind of job available to him. Thee are millions of middle class low caste people working private jobs and government jobs.there are thousands of rich low caste people. To give so... |
With the huge information tech we have nowadays, how do movements like anti-vaccination or neo-nazi or conspiracy theorists get any sort of traction? | Because they aren't making decisions based on facts. They're choosing to believe an attractive story, and they'll re-interpret, ignore, or disparage facts that don't agree with it. We all do that to some extent, but the people who go whole hog on conspiracy theories and such do it to the point where they're ignoring a ... |
Why do we feel grossed out? Why do some people tend to puke when they're grossed out? | Not every reaction can be explained that way, I guess, but it mostly comes down to behaviour that is beneficial for your survival . Two examples come to mind: * Vomit: You are grossed out by your own vomit and the vomit of others because in either case it is best to stay away from it. The food you have eaten might have... |
If it's so bad for humans to carry a child at such a young age, then why are we capable of it so young? | I feel it's worth mentioning that that human fetuses have ludicrously large heads . Seriously, it's ridiculous. That's one of the reasons why newborns are so helpless, compared to other apes or mammals in general - they're still really just fetuses, but if they waited any longer to get born we'd be like Bulldogs and be... |
How do nature shows capture footage of wildlife seemingly without disturbing the animals? | I watched David Attenborough talking about filming. He basically said they film hours and hours of footage without capturing too much then get lucky sometimes. Sorry it's not a long winded explanation but that's pretty much all there is to it |
Why do we feel more confident after drinking alcohol...and why can't we have the same feeling when not drinking? | I think it's not that you gain confidence, just that you become *less* self-aware. You also become more selfish, in that you don't care as much what other people around you think of your behaviour So you're unstoppable!", 'ASAP Science did a great video on how alcohol affects the brain. _URL_0_ |
How come the F-35 program cost way more to develop than the F-22 despite being generally less technologically advanced? | As well as what's been said, it's worth noting that the F-35 is actually more technologically advanced than the F-22; the reason the F-22 is a better fighter is simply because it's bigger, more powerful and focused specifically on fighting other aircraft. In order to be good at more than one thing, a lot of development... |
What exactly is illegal or unconstitutional about Obama's immigration orders? | Nothing is actually illegal or unconstitutional. If it was, they would have initiated impeachment proceedings. They're just saying it for political brownie points and to continue the narrative that Obama is abusing his power as president . EDIT: If you think this is false explain why. But to the extent of my knowledge ... |
How people can sue for "emotional damages" in the millions of dollars. | Jail time is punishment. Restitution is compensation for damages . How do you calculate damages by being raped by your uncle when you're 8-9 years old? You can't, really -- so she gets tons and tons of money. Most reasonable people would rather have their lives back, but since they can't , they get financial compensati... |
Why are more people dying from a heroin overdose? | We're on the tail end of a massive painkiller epidemic. It was completely ignored for a long time but we've finally started to workon this issue of over prescribing pills to America. However, we only worked on the supply. We've only addressed the drug dealers (ie corrupt doctors and pharmaceutical companies. We haven't... |
How do the hackers who code malware and viruses avoid being infected by the programs they create? | Mostly by testing inside a virtual machine or emulator. This way you don't infect yourself an can test on any system you want. It depends on the application, though. |
Why does some flatulence feel like it comes out as a bubble? | Did you know if you pull your butt cheeks apart when you fart it's changes the pitch if the fart. Kind of like when you pull the mouth piece of a balloon to make it squeak.I have more questions on a similar topic. Why does some farts feel really warm? Why does the ones that feel really warm usually smell so bad?It is a... |
How are school lockdowns effective? | It's put in place to make it more difficult for an intruder to access people. When the kids are in a locked room and hiding from the view of the door, an intruder cannot just walk in and start blasting away people. This will make it very challenging for the shooter to even see people, much less shoot them. It will take... |
Why isn't there a limit for donations from super pacs but there is for personal donations? | There are limits TO campaigns from all sources, and there are not limits on donations to Super Pacs FROM all sources, is that what you're asking? Super pacs don't normally donate, their function is to use their money for political action, not to give money to others to do so. |
If I had $10 trillion and wanted to pay off the U.S.'s national debt, whom do i pay? | > Most important, whats the need for US to be paying back its not that someone is going to come and foreclose. > If the US stops paying its debts as planned, folks are going to stop buying their bonds. Should they ever want to raise cash through debt again, nobody's going to buy their bonds again without some kind of g... |
With everything going automated, how are we supposed to make a living? | I watched the video posted and was thinking about this. In 50 years, what will humans be able to do better than robots? On the massive scale, I'm not sure. Small, custom things, we might be able to do better. Robots will likely always need some humans around for issues, but they will replace most of them. The only job ... |
why are some URL's, like Wikipedia, specific and others just a string of letters and numbers? | Another reason to use random strings is minor security benefits. People much less likely to find unlisted video on YouTube if they don't know for a fact that 100045 is a video. But it's mostly just the massive amount of content. |
why, with air moving from areas of high to low pressure, the atmosphere hasn't sorted itself out yet and wind/air circulation stopped entirely? | Circulation hasn't ceased because energy is constantly being added back into the system. Had the earth formed and then been somehow isloated so no energy was being added or subtracted from the atmospheric system, it eventually would go stagnant, though it's worth noting it would take quite a bit of time. Instead, all t... |
If all of our dreams are jut coming from our brains, how do we not know what is going to happen next and still get surprised, scared, excited, etc.? | Things may be happening in the same brain, but none of the brain has perfect information about another part of the brain. They're all just pieces doing their own thing and may not even be entirely predictable. When riding a bike, do you consciously countersteer all the time? Maybe you know you're doing it, but while ri... |
what does it feel like for an alcoholic or other substance abuser to resist the drug? | Have you had an itch that won't go away no matter what you do? Or do you remember tonguing the spot where a tooth broke off? It's like that. Always there at the back of your mind. Just one little drink. You promise yourself you'll stop after that one. Maybe one more. And then maybe another. You'll definitely be done af... |
If vegetables have so much nutrients we need why did we never evolve to find them as delicious as fat, salt, and sugar | What's to say you haven't? Say you grow up eating food with a lot of salt, sugar and fat and few vegetables. You'll prefer food with lots of those things. That's how most children eat growing up and it changes their tastes. If you grow up eating a ton of vegetables, you'll probably eat a lot of vegetables. |
Why is asset forfeiture allowed despite Fourth Amendment protections against seizures? | there's a big difference between the government raiding your house for no legal reason, and then driving off in your car, which you'll never see back and you telling your bank they can take your house if you don't pay what you owe them, and then you dont pay what you owe them, or them needing a specific item because of... |
Why do some people have the ability to consume extremely spicy food effortlessly while others can't put down something like mild salsa? is it practice? | My wife had no tolerance to spicy food at all when we first met but chillies make up a key ingredient in at least 70% of what I eat. I love to cook and was finding it difficult to constantly eat bland versions of my favourite foods and adding the chilli afterwards just wasn't the same. I started adding incrementally la... |
How do we know that the history we have recorded is accurate? | Basically, we never can be 100% sure. That's why we should compare sources and even then some informations we should take with a grain of salt. Sometimes it's impossible, because there is just one source about particular event, that's why historians sometimes need to be detectives. For example one source can tell you t... |
what rights parents do and don't have over their children. | As for privacy im not that sure. For physical contact it depends. If you mean like spanking/slapping or other forms of physical punishment then as long as they dont leave bruises or blisters and handprints its okay. as for feeding, im not to sure on that one, it differs from location. As for kicking you out, if you,re ... |
With all the stuff happening around YouTube’s policy towards content creators, why can’t they move/create a new alternative to YouTube? | People won't necessarily follow you to a new platform. I used to religiously follow a particular author's weekly ESPN columns. Easy to do since I went to ESPN every day. He moved to another platform. Even though I liked his columns, I never bothered to find out which platform he was at. I went to _URL_0_ all the time, ... |
Why must there always be economic growth? | Because there is population growth, and because people expect their standard of living to improve over time. An economy has only so much wealth in it, and that wealth is distributed amongst everyone in it. If you have new people, you need more stuff, or everyone has to do with less. In addition, we are always coming up... |
Why don't the ELI5 mods let a question be re-asked if it has not been answered in years? | Feel free to [message us] questions like this in the future. We don't bite, really. I always include a link to the search results for key words from the question I remove for being too common, so the question-asker can read the answers . We're not talking about questions being asked every 6 months, we are talking the *... |
Where does google store all the data? | Earth. 1 A. U. from Sol. A rock with a nitrogen oxygen atmosphere and carbon based life forms. It is mostly harmless unless you're a resident. They have massive server farms around the world with petabytes of storage and lots of duplication. Your cat video isn't stored in one harddrive it's in dozens from Shanghai to d... |
Why is there a worry of being "overqualified" for a job? | People are worried about job security. They don't want to hire someone that might replace them in a few years. Also, if you're overqualified you're far more likely to look for a better paying job later down the line, employers don't usually like the idea of hiring someone who might just up and leave in a few months, es... |
Why does air smell different when it's colder? | I've never really noticed the air smelling much different but I can think of some reasons. They're not evidenced so don't assume that they're true at all. If you can detail more precisely what you mean by the air smelling different, that'd be useful. One reason could be that chemical species vaporize at different amoun... |
Why do countries like China and Japan own so much of the United States Debt? | Well, it's worth mentioning first that a plurality of US debt is owned by institutions within the US itself. As for why those two continue in particular own as much US debt as they do, it's not because they're just buying up loads of US treasury bonds or whatever . It's actually mostly a function of trade, combined wit... |
Is Moore's law really over? what are the implications of this? | Yes and no. Transistor density continues to rise, but it hasn't been the limiting factor for about a decade. Heat and interference are the limiting factors and they've essentially 'capped' computer speed. As a result, we're increasingly reliant on clever tricks to distribute processing and memory access loads - and the... |
Why, in most US cities, are the poor and rich sides of town, separated by train tracks? | My town is separated by the river But the same theory applies. If you want to appear affluent, you live on the North side. It also is more elevated and doesn't flood, unlike the south side of town that is completely flat. |
Why are radios so complicated? Why can't someone just plug an antenna into a speaker or oscilloscope and catch a frequency? | Just as you hear with your ears when you hear a noise, voice or music, a radio works on the same principle. In order for your ears to hear a sound the vibrations are transferred through a medium, in this case air. Sound you get out of a radio works in a similar fashion. In this case the 'medium' is a radio wave. What a... |
Why do somethings get burned while others melt? | I think things that burn have a combustion point temperature lower that it's melting temperature. Everything has a different melting point … the temperature at which the material begins to melt. Also, I noticed that the items that you listed that burn are made up of a composite of things … wood is made up of water, cel... |
Why are the Star Wars Prequels hated so much? | The original trilogy was ground breaking and captivating, with great characters and storyline etc. The newer films tended to focus more on special effects and less on character. Plus, the actors/characters weren't as cool and in some cases, were a lot more annoying. The original series had a rather simple storyline. Th... |
What is Spacetime and what is Continuum? What are they put together? | Space is the 3 dimentional world in which we move. It's the chair you're sitting in, it's the monitor that sits 3' from your face. It's the couch that's in the living room over there. Time is also a concept with which you're familiar. It's the seconds you're sitting there reading this text, it the 1:30 until your popco... |
Are fish drowning when they die from a lack of oxygen in water? | Fish don't die in air, they become high from the relatively large amount of oxygen. Much like, if a human being has an oxygen mask on their face, they get high. Too much oxygen, though, will kill. Fish don't have lungs, they have gills, which work by taking the oxygen out of the water. Air, has a much higher percentage... |
If a fever is the body's way of fighting viruses and bacteria, why do we treat them with Tylenol or ibuprofen? | Basically, the body cranks up the temperature in order to cook those nasty viruses to death. And if that doesn't work Crank it up some more! But this is kind of like carpet-bombing campaigns against an invading army You're gonna get some collateral damage. In particular, anything over 102 degrees can kill you. Unfortun... |
Seriously LI5: Why does paypal take 3-5 business days to withdraw money to my bank account, but can take money away instantly? | I don't know, but I can answer why they randomly lock accounts, put bullshit limits for the smallest of reasons and have scarce tech support: because it's a fucking shitty service. |
Why don't police in America administer first aid to people they have shot? | I could go with two different lines of answers, and it's up to you to see how far you agree with either. The first is simple, the usual yak-yak about police brutality in the US; a culture of violence in the police forces and fear of the criminal etc. etc. The second, however is to have me dispute your claims; I feel th... |
When Obama was first elected in 2008, everyone was head over heels for him. Now it seems everyone hates him. What happened? | Let me give the unpopular other perspective. I am a republican. I voted for McCain. But I am not a tea-party nut job in the least. The way I see it is that he was supposed to be the Golden Boy of the left. Many people thought he would change the U.S. Dramatically to meet with their political thinking . Then he turns ou... |
Why my computer can be running along fine, and then suddenly slow to a crawl for a few minutes? | With some context, it's impossible to diagnose this to someone technical, let alone in an ELI5 because it can be a variety of different reasons depending on the context . |
Why do all radio stations end with an odd number after the decimal? | I just wanted to add, for fun, that every station ID that starts with a K is West of the Mississippi and everything with a W is East of the Mississippi. I don't know why that is. |
Why is the lowercase 'a' we type different to the 'α' I write by hand? | It's weird because I write a exactly like a computer would type it and I always get made fun of. I just sort of adapted it when I was forced to take calligraphy as a kid. |
How can people get smothered with a pillow? | Go pull a pillow around your face and hold it against yourself with all the force you can. You might still get some air, sure, but you'll quickly notice you're growing short of breath. If someone else were doing that to you and you were unable to get them to let up you would eventually pass out. If they kept going you'... |
I'm just a regular guy, not famous and nothing to hide. What could happen to someone like me not covering their webcam? | As a security consultant, I've dealt with people who asked this question. The answer is blackmail. You have a life, and a determined individual could make it hell if it discovered personal information to use against you.Further to this question, what about cameras on phones? Is there no similar concern with those?', "A... |
How will Greek/Italian default and possible breakdown of Eurozone affect the US and other countries? | Well lots of banks have lent money to Greece and Italy. While about 3/4 of the money lent was from French and German banks, the remaining 1/4 is from British and American banks. So imagine you put $100 in your US-Bank account, and they lent it to Greece with the hopes Greece would pay them back $110 in a years time. If... |
Why are music notes limited between only A through G with there respective majors and minors? Flat and sharp what's the deal with this standard? | The reason the 12 tone scale sounds good is mathematical. Every octave, the frequency of a note doubles. For example the notes labeled A are 220 hz, 440 hz, 880 hz, etc. This relationship applies to any note, which means that the ratio of frequency between two adjacent notes is the twelfth root of 2, or about 1.06. If ... |
Why is Amsterdam such an important city? | Well, important in what context? As a tourist destination, it's important because of its history, its connections with Rembrandt and Van Gogh , its famously liberal attitudes toward drugs and prostitution, its architecture and its nightlife. Within the Netherlands, it is important as the biggest city and its official c... |
If I were in space and stationary, not orbiting anything, how fast would each planet whoosh by me? | I assume you mean stationary with respect to the sun, in which case they would zip by at their orbital speeds. While quite speedy, they are huge and so it wouldn't seem that fast. You are also so small that the tidal effects of gravity are trivial, so you wouldn't feel anything at all. |
how come people can't get sober on their own? | Some people can, it's just a lot harder. Alcoholism is an addiction, which means it's not just a desire but a physical need, but it still functions in the same way a lot of our short-term wants do. We have a lot of short-term desires that conflict with our long-term desires. I want to lose weight, but I also want to or... |
Why do blisters fill with liquid? | It's to provide a cushion to protect the area under the blister and also to speed up healing which is one of the reasons why popping a blister is bad. Blisters are caused by some sort of irritation to the skin below, such as friction, such as in new shoes. The blister itself is usually filled with plasma. |
how do we get news out of north korea | We get a lot of propaganda. In fact, a lot of what we find out about the country is by dissecting their propaganda. Naturally, NK transmits their propaganda to South Korea, thinking that some people will be swayed into supporting their great leader. I don't think it ever works. |
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami quote explanation | > Kind of ironic that I'm asking for an explanation, but aren't explanations how you understand things? There are a couple of options. He might just be spouting nonsense zen shit and just be wrong. That is an option. Or perhaps he is trying for a more subtle point. Explanations provide information, while the understand... |
What are the arguments FOR the anti-vaxxers? I want to understand how people all over the world could possibly believe it? | There aren't any valid arguments against vaccines in this sense. It's like saying the earth is flat. It's not flat, moron. |
How do dogs know humans are not food? | The big humans bring food. And they seem to care an awful lot about the little humans, so I'm not messing with them either. source: I am dog. |
Why did the dial-up sound have to be played out loud? | In the old days you would dial a phone, wait for the noise indicating a computer was on the other end , and then [put the handset into the modem's cradle]. |
Why is it that most people don't like hearing their own voice when recorded? | bc it always sounds different, i don't have the most manly voice ever, but i swear when i hear it recorded my voice turns 5x times thinner |
Why didn't Europeans also get sick and die in massive numbers when they met new natives? | I can't explain in detail off the top of my head, but the charter groups had already built up an immunity against the particular diseases because they were in more developed societies, with access to better medicines and treatment. The natives, however, did not have an immunity against the diseases and therefore suffer... |
Why is it that there are so many people on reddit (not just visitors, but registered users), yet all top posts seem to plateau around 4 or 5K upvotes? | It used to reach only 2-3k for top posts. Not an answer, but it helps show that as user count increases, vote scores do go up. I just don't know the algorithm they use. |
Is there any particular reason popular radio stations seem to only play the same 10 songs over and over again? | Part of it is the fact that the songs are popular and people want to hear them. Part of it is the fact that record companies will pay radio stations more money to play their songs more. This is an illegal practice called Payola But there are loopholes and such as with anything. They also will play the most popular song... |
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