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In relation to BitCoin 'mining', what is stopping someone like Google with vast supercomputer supply from making money though this? | For one, Google needs it processing power for lots of other stuff. Stuff that is more profitable and better for Google's reputation. On top of that, there wouldn't be enough market for Google to sell all the bitcoins they could mine if they used all the capacity they had. They would drive the prices down so low that it... |
Why do companies use such low amounts of natural juice in soda, is there a reason for this? And are all the other components really necessary in such amount? | Reading through the comments here about the cost and problems in using real fruit juice from stability of taste to bottles exploding and the seasonal thing . Well I don't know how they do it, but introducing what must be the worlds best all natural fruit juice drink . _URL_2_ It even has a long shelf life, its doesn't ... |
What exactly is a VPN, and how does it work? | You want to send someone a letter but you don't want the mail service to know. So you put the letter inside an envelope and address it were you want it to go. Then you put that envelope inside another envelope and address it to your friend. He opens it up and sends the original envelope from his house, with his return ... |
How does the stock market work and what is the best way for a young person with not that much money to get involved? | It's boring but if you're young, don't have a lot of money and want to invest some of it read up on retirement accounts and open one.Whoa! Read some basics, OP. until then, open a Fidelity mutual fund account. Mutual funds, usually, are far less volatile than investing in a blue chip, a single company. Fidelity will op... |
Why do cuisines incorporate more spices in hotter climates than in cool ones? | It's actually really interesting. Spice isn't just for flavor - like curing something with salt, you can use various spices as a preservative. In fact, there are [documented antimicrobial effects] of spices. [Wikipedia] has a reference to this as well, in its opening few paragraphs: > Many spices have antimicrobial pro... |
What do people mean by "The Republic"? Is it different than a democracy, or a country? | The Commonwealth" or "The Empire"America has a goverment system that is referred to as a "Democratic-Republic". A Republic, is simply a style of government like a Monarchy, an Oligarcy, or true Democracy. re·pub·licrəˈpəblik/nouna state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and... |
Capital Gains tax and Income Tax, why do rich people have lower rates? | Other responses have explained the difference between income and capital gains tax, however it is a misconception that the rich pay a lower effective rate. People forget that the average middle income taxpayer takes a plethora of deductions and credits which significantly lowers their actual rate from the marginal tax ... |
Why is the skin on our lips different than the rest of our body? | If me absent-mindedly playing with my nipples has taught me anything it's that the lips and aereolas are similar ", 'Why is the skin on our lips and butthole different than the rest of our body? FTFYAdditionally, the skin cells of the lips lack the keratin that is present is skin cells elsewhere. Keratinized cells prev... |
Why cant nerve's causing discomfort / constant pain be "killed" | We do it all the time, but as others have mentioned, there are usually consequences that go along with it. For example, a patient that has severe abdominal pain secondary to terminal pancreatic cancer may receive a celiac plexus block to relieve the pain. This causes your digestive system not to function properly, but ... |
What creates that "crunchy" effect on your clothes when you hang them outside to dry? | The crunchy effect from hang-drying outside comes from hanging the clothes immediately after the clothes come out of the washer's spin cycle. The washer has just spun for all it's worth, using gravity to wring water out of the clothes. This means the clothes are stretched, twisted, and wrung-out when they come out of t... |
Why does America need a $58bn increase in the military budget if it's already more than the next 8 countries combined? | Short answer we don't. There are many reasons why we increase military spending and one is the fear of decrease. The military in the US doesn't run the US but it benefits greatly from our current system. Their biggest fear is a new Jefferson who asks why we need a standing military so big with no real enemies. So if yo... |
Could an EMP safely disarm a dead man's switch or would it only activate it? | Presumably, like a lot of military hardware, it would be quite shielded from the effects of such an attack. An EMP could take out electronics, so assuming its electronically operated in a way that would make it unusable if it didn't have them, it could, thats why you would prevent it from being attacked that way. |
Why is it easier to fall asleep for a nap, rather then when you are supposed to go to bed | Could it be that you only decide to take a nap because you're already tired ? Whereas if you have a scheduled bedtime you may be less tired and need more time. |
How does massive amounts of snow not cause flooding as it all melts? | It sometimes does - acutely so if the snow is melted via additional precipitation like rain. However, often the effect is not accentuated too greatly primarily because snow doesn't all that often melt fast enough to cause any great concern. Certain confluences of factors such as rapid warming with rain can cause floodi... |
How do they transform Fenway Park into a football field with almost no evidence that it usually is a baseball field? | I'd imagine it is something like how Oakland's _URL_0_ Coliseum switches between baseball for the A's and football for the Raiders. Here's a time lapse of how they do it._URL_1_ |
When firing a gun as a warning shot, where does the bullet land? | It depends on where they were aiming, of course, along with cross winds and such. A bullet traveling out of a gun is moving faster than terminal velocity, which means it starts slowing down as soon as it leaves the barrel. For a bullet that is fired horizontally, it will still be going really fast by the time it hits s... |
Why can't scientists just make better antibiotics? | All antibiotics fall under one group or another of mechanisms of action - that is, whole groups work the same way. For example, an entire group of antibiotics may work by disrupting one vital process in bacteria. If the bacteria somehow built resistance, it's likely that the resistance is to that whole mechanism, rathe... |
Why do some drinks taste better hot or cold? | I think some of it is also what you are used to, or expecting. If you drink a cup of coffee that's been sitting out and got cold, you might think it's no good, but for some reason an iced coffee is good. |
Why are we trying to colonize on Mars rather than Venus? | To put it in the simplest way possible: The rovers we sent to Venus have melted, and the rovers sent to Mars have not. To expand: Mars' surface is far less violent than Venus. If we were to colonize Venus, the colony would have to be in the habitable zone in the atmosphere. So because the colony would have to be floati... |
Why is death row a thing in the USA? Why aren't the individuals sentenced to death just put to death the next day? | Appeals, appeals, appeals. The United States Government has jam-packed the court process with so many appeals just so they can say that they gave an individual every single last chance possible to reduce heir sentence or get out. This is based on the idea that a judge or jury alone is not considered the absolute rule o... |
Investing money for the future. | Gold's not a great investment, gold prices can swing wildly. It's more of a volatile stock than a index fund. /r/personalfinance and /r/investing are where you should go for more concrete details. In general, you should first max out your tax-deducted opportunities like your 401k and a Roth IRA. After that, you can con... |
How do cameras "know" they're in focus? | They look for the focus setting that yields the most contrast variation. Like you said, edge finding wouldn't work for situations with no edges. It's also slow because it takes a lot of computing power. But a completely out-of-focus picture is always just a monochromatic blob. The more in focus it becomes the greater t... |
Bacteria become resistant to antibacterial products but why not bleach and alcohol? | It's the mechanism. Antibacterials work internally to disrupt processes and alcohol is external. It's like how you can tolerate my alcohol with repeated exposure but you can't tolerate more fire no matter how much you try", 'There is another aspect to resistance that most replies have neglected. Bacteria can and do bec... |
Weave. What is it? How is it made? How is it attached to a person's head? and How does it look so real? | stumblepretty did a great job answering, but if your still curious I'd suggest checking out [Good Hair]. It’s a good movie that covers a lot about african american hair, including weaves and how they apply them. |
Why it's expected for companies profits to grow for each year forever... | For growth to continue forever, neither demand nor supply can ever reach a maximum level. In other words, if supply increases over time, but still never meets all needs, then more economic activity will always be both possible and required, and therefore growth will continue forever. Let's consider the two assumptions.... |
Why is the bombing of Hiroshima not a war crime? | reason 1) US is the winner of the war. reason 2) US didn't target a civilian city. the bombs were both dropped targeting military industrial centers. civilian casualities were a sidenote. |
If it were possible to build a skyscraper that reached the orbit height of the International Space Station, what would gravity feel like to occupants on the top floor? | The reason the ISS experiences what we call zero g is because it's travelling very fast perpendicular to the pull of gravity. Basically, it is perpetually falling sideways, which gives the effect of no gravity. If the ISS were to suddenly stop, it would plummet to the ground, and if it were to slow down it would spiral... |
Disregarding microscopic life forms, why is it so difficult for us to find intelligent extraterrestrial life when so many planets, stars and universes exist? | You do realize that, for all our talk of space travel, the farthest we've ever gone is to the moon ? Not even to another planet, eh, but just to the moon. Humans going to another planet is decades away. Humans going to another solar system is at least centuries away. Let's not even talk about going to another branch of... |
Why are prescribed drugs like adderall safe for patients but harmful to general public? | They're addictive. Someone who has a condition they need the medication for will still get the side effects, But in some cases, It's the lesser of two evils. Also, If a member of the public is taking drugs like these recreationally they are generally going to be taking much higher doses than what would be prescribed. T... |
by the act of taking honey are we not killing the bees? I mean the reason why they make honey is to survive the periods of the year that flowers are not available. | Not necessarily. Buying honey from local independent beekeepers is way more beneficial, though. Small-time beekeepers protect and cultivate a colony of bees, keeping them safe from predators and illnesses, and sell a minute amount of their honey to help cover the costs. Bees kept in this fashion often make way, *way* m... |
Why can my phone load and play 1080p videos seamlessly but when it comes to some .gif/.gifv it takes minutes to load/stutters like King George VI? | If you have an animation that's just a black and white stick figure moving around in a white background, A Gif would download the data for each pixel, white or black, individually, resulting in a lot of data being downloading and causing it to be slow. A good video codec will basically say: This whole area is white, an... |
What was the point of the weigh in for the Mayweather/McGregor fight if it's already confirmed they're fighting? | To ensure they're fighting at the same weight class on fight night. If a fighter is heavy they usually forfeit a portion of their purse to their opponent or they fight is called off entirely. |
it's 2015 why don't window wipers wipe the whole windshield? | Engineering something to wipe the entire windshield would introduce more joints in the wiper system and make for larger wiper blades, all for the privilege of avoiding some areas which aren't in your line of sight anyway. Why reduce reliability and increase cost for no significant benefit? |
If all of the gold in the federal reserve bank of NY disappeared, what would happen to the economy? | Not much would happen. The price of gold would probably spike, since there's some magic thing which makes gold disappear, but the world economy isn't based on how much gold people have in vaults. |
If male seahorses are the ones that get pregnant, why are they still considered the males? | The females are the ones that produce the eggs; they just dump the eggs into the male for protection. ", 'The male of any species is the one with the smaller sex gametes, the female is the one the bigger ones. |
Why are Gary Johnson's economic proposals not viable? | The best, non-political way I put this is that everyone has different ideas of what needs to be cut. And cut you must if we aren't going to run a bailout. Everyone seems to believe that the spending they are in favor of is the most important and that the spending that somebody else is in favor of is a waste. |
Why are socialists considered "left" and extremism "right"? Why not the other way around? | Fundamentalists are right wing, and can tend to be extreme. There have been plenty of left extremists . No one has a monopoly on extremism. If you want to diagram it, it's easier to add a Y axis and make a [Political Compass] There's left and right, and then on the Y axis, there are Authoritarian and Libertarian. Commu... |
Why does Norway (as well as most land bordering the North Atlantic) have such a rough and jagged coastline? | Norway's coastline is jaggy because of fjords. A fjord is a long, narrow, steep-sided inlet. They're formed by glacial erosion. You typically only see fjords in the north and the south, because that's where there was significant glaciation. Norway isn't unique in having fjords - Canada and the USA have them so do New Z... |
How does soaking a piece of clothing in milk remove red wine stains? | Potassium metabisulfite it's in the wine anyway.. and you won't believe your eyes. Repeatedly using will eventually cause color fading in colors other than white. Mix with a little water and away you go. |
Why isn't the United States a true democracy where all citizens are able to vote on every issue? | On top of what others have said 1- You'd have massive security concerns. With all the Voter-ID drama , it would pale in comparison to the fear of being vulnerable to hacking and manipulation. 2- The internet is still a product in the US. There are many people without access . Some may argue it is discriminatory against... |
Why aren't other animals as freaked out by bugs and creepy crawlies as humans? | Because humans have hands to swat with. Other aninals either have to shake or bite. Humans also see more colors than most mammals so bugs stand out even more to us. Humans also don't eat bugs typically, like many birds and reptiles do. So to us they look like weird creepy crawlies that stand out from their environment,... |
Regarding the constitution, how far are public school teachers allowed to go when exercising their freedom of religion? | Schools that receive government funding cannot require students to learn religion. That's the extent of it. Students can pray in school, if they do so by their own volition. The school cannot require they pray. Students can wear crosses to school. The school cannot require they kneel before a cross. They can't teach re... |
What's the point of the UN if the US can conduct strikes without the UN's support | The UN is like the Registry of Motor Vehicles for the world. It handles all sorts of boring trade and treaty crap. It will never solve the world's problems, but it helps the world function a little better. |
Why do some people get bit by mosquitoes more than others? | I like to think I never really get bit because I'm ridiculously anemic and they're not interested in my shitty blood. |
Does the Zika virus survive in a dormant state, putting future pregnancies at risk if the patient is not pregnant when she contracts the virus? | I haven't seen that specifically reported but, it seems like a possibility. They found high concentrations in the women's [male partners' testicles] |
What was the appendix used for? | It functions as a safe haven for gut flora. If you suffer from diarrhea you lose a lot of beneficial bacteria. If everyone is sick then it's impossible to regain the lost microbes with your usual everyday interaction. |
Why is there no resistance when spacecraft leave earth (besides gravity), but when they reenter it is so violent? | There's plenty of air resistance when spacecraft launch. However, they avoid spending too long in the atmosphere by going more-or-less straight up out of the atmosphere, and *then* reorienting sideways to get the lateral velocity needed to enter orbit. By contrast, when reentering the atmosphere, they come in at a very... |
What exactly is happening when you see jets at extremely high altitudes leaving a trail of "clouds"? What is the actual trail, just exhaust? | < Pretending > It's the government, pumping out mind control chemicals using planes. They spray out the chemicals from planes that look like passenger jets so people don't get suspicious. Here, you can see the inside of one of these plains, and can see the tanks holding the chemicals. - _URL_0_ < /Pretending > Really, ... |
Why doesn't the US establish paid college education like several other countries? | Because it isn't free - someone is still paying for it, through taxes most likely. The other problem is that in a lot of countries, your entrance exam, often taken at/near the end of high school, determines what level of university/college - if any - you get into. In a lot of countries, like Taiwan for instance, a lot ... |
Why do I feel tired all day but when I get into bed I'm wide awake? | Download f.lux, a free program at sunset, it automatically dims your computer monitor to warmer, slightly less bright colors. This way your brain doesn't think it's staring at the sun when you work on your computer at night. |
How a body detox works? | Most marketed detox diets don't work. But the body can and does detox itself and there are things you can do to encourage such a thing. One of the best ways to help your body detox itself is to drink alot fluids and sauna. Sweat is your body's main form of detox. |
Why do cold beverages quench your thirst more than warm ones? | I have heard that the temperature doesn't matter, water is water. But, for me a lot of the time when I'm thirsty, it's due to hot weather. So, in that situation a cold glass of water will be much more refreshing. |
How do fish eat if they're also ingesting water? | I don't quite follow. A human can throw all his food into a glass of water and drink it down without problem either. Food and water both go into the same digestive track. A fish is also able to expel water more quickly from its body to compensate for the increased water intake. |
What exactly causes the feeling of being "dizzy" when getting up quickly? | When you stand up, the blood vessels in your legs open up, and blood more easily flows to your lower body. This results in a decrease in blood pressure, and less blood to the brain. In most cases, this shouldn't be too serious. If it happens frequently or severely, I'd ask about it.As stated already orthostatic hypoten... |
When doctors/paramedics shine a torchlight into your eyes, what are they searching for? | It's part of a neuro check. Medical teams use the acronym PERRLA which stands for Pupils Equal, Round, Reactive to Light, Accommodation. Absence if any of those might indicate an issue with the brain. |
How come water expands when it freezes if the molecules become more tightly packed together when a liquid becomes a solid? | Because it's water. This is a phenomenon almost unique to water and ice, freezing into solids as you rightly said, doesn't usually make them expand. [Water freezes in a hexagonal pattern.] The gaps in these hexagonal ice crystals contain empty space, so this makes up some of the volume of the ice. It's also the reason ... |
Why is the EU freedom of movement policy so rejected by the British, but so pushed by other EU member states? | Britain = Island. Rest of EU† = Continent. This simple fact of geography given the two groups vastly different experiences with migrants. Their policies are reflections of the past success/lack thereof of border control systems. † OK, Ireland is an island. ELI5 isn't always the whole answer. |
Why do I remember the lyrics to a song that I haven't heard since 1994, but I can't remember what I did a few days ago? | It's about long and short term memory. The song has been stored in your long term memory, so you have less trouble remembering it. What you did yesterday is most likely not stored in your long term memory, rather your short term memory, which is wiped every now and then. |
How do SSRI's work? | It should also be noted that we still don't know EXACTLY how SSRIs work. Source: PhD in Psychology ", 'Other people are doing a good job of explaining how SSRIs work, but I just wanted to ask you to please make sure your friend knows that they take a long time to start working. It takes about 6 weeks for most people to... |
Are Diplomats completely immune? | Diplomatic immunity is normally more a show of good faith that a host country won't try to deliberately impede a diplomat's duties while he is abroad. If diplomats are accused with serious crimes, diplomatic immunity is typically revoked by the country of origin. |
Why does paralysis occur? Why don't nerve cells regenerate and reconnect like other cells? | Some nerve cells do, its your central nervous system that doesn't. I'm not sure why this is the case, but perhaps from an evolutionary point of view it just wasn't necessary. Most injuries that damage the central nervous system are pretty severe, and even if the nerves repaired themselves the person is going to be para... |
Why do primitive animals/species know how to animal/specie by themselves, while us humans have to be taught since birth almost everything? | Basically no one gave you the real answer The answer is some animals are precocial - meaning they are born relatively mature and self sufficient. _URL_0_ Some animals are born altricial - meaning they are born nearly helpless. They are different means of survival that different species have adopted. Precocial species g... |
Why aren't brain transplants a thing? | Because there's currently no known way to reconnect the nerve connections in the spinal cord. Even if you could remove the original brain and put in a new brain without killing the patient, it couldn't do anything. The patient would still practically lack any brain function to run the body. |
How do I know that what I am reading or transmitting on the Internet is encrypted- if there are no default encryptions how can I assure myself it will be encrypted? | Actually you really can't be sure unless you look at the actual data packages that are transfered. But since that is not very practical to do for every connection, a good indicator is the information your browser displays. It differs from browser to browser so I'm just telling you how you can monitor it within Chrome.I... |
If amber lensed computer glasses reflect the blue light, why aren't they blue? | Amber lenses *absorb* the blue light, blocking it from coming through. They don't reflect it. |
Why has France been targeted so often in terrorist attacks recently? | There is a strong feeling among French Muslims that society is preventing them from having a fair shot at making a living. You take away a man's hope to make it, and he is going to be susceptible to all types of bad influences. |
If nearly all the countries are in debt or in a financial crisis, where is all the money going? | 1. Not all countries are in debt. East asian countries where there is a large amount industrial outsourcing and borrowing like China actually tend to have the opposite problem as industrialized western countries. Their problem is they have a ton of cash sitting around and not much terribly productive to do with it. Tha... |
Why are PDFs so hard to edit? | PDFs are designed to be easily created and read across all platforms. Unfortunately, the ability to edit them suffers as a result of this design. Every PDF file contains a 'cross-reference' table at the end of the file. This table is sort of like an index in a textbook; it enables the PDF file reader to locate and read... |
How can tineye find a single picture amongst billions in a second but a 5000 row VLOOKUP in Excel takes much longer? | Web services use lots and lots of computing power for indexing, processing, and searching. Vlookup is using a single computer and _part_ of the processing power in order to run your search. It's like asking an army to build 100 houses versus asking one guy to build 5. Even though the guy has a lot less work to do. The ... |
Why do vitamin pills smell so awful? | I take multi vitamins and it makes my pee smell funny. I'm not the only one am I? |
How are people able to override self preservation and kill/ sacrifice themselves? | If you experience enough pain for an extended period of time, then you can eventually reach a point in your mind in which not being a live is the fastest solution to end that pain. Most people with suicidal ideation don't truly want to die, that's why there are often red flag posts, or notes. The cry for help and choos... |
How and why is email almost always free? | There's too much competition. Let's suppose all of a sudden google started charging a subscription of $5 a month to use gmail. People that could would start creating a new email somewhere else. Yahoo would love it people began using Yahoo mail again. |
How do indoor antennaes work? | > Will they transmit the same channels as the comcast cable that I have? Antennas don't transmit anything. They receive. Will they receive the same channels you receive from your cable? That depends where you are. In the UK, I can receive Freeview through an antenna. Freeview contains many of the same channels that I c... |
Why is Apple so strict with their programs/devices? | In short, it's easier for them. Apple wants you to have a *very specific experience* with their products. The only way they can ensure that experience for all users is to strictly control all the hardware and software that runs on the device. Users who are willing to forego the experience can jailbreak their phones and... |
Is there a reason most people always say they would save an animal over a person in an emergency situation? | Wow, didn't know that. I wouldn't save an animal over a human. It just seems ignorant, impractical? |
How is it that whole seasons of TV series like The Walking Dead can be made faster than some movies, despite being much longer in screen time? | I don't know much about overall production, but I would imagine studios spend much more time on multi million dollar movies than decent budget TV shows. |
What happens if you are 75, can't work, and have no money for retirement? | Once upon a time, the elderly, when no longer able to help and became a burden to society, would walk into the woods and feed a wolf. We don't really have that mechanism today.Sometimes you can get section 8 housing. For instance my grandmother lived in government housing in a small town in Kansas and I think she paid ... |
Cats often "shut down" when clothing, costumes, etc., are put on them, but other animals (e.g. dogs) don't. Why the difference? | I've seen it argued that house-cats that are owned by humans since they are young and who are kept primarily in the house basically go through a permanent state of neotenous behavior. Mentally they are more like kittens compared to feral cats, or non-neutered cats, or pet cats that can roam more freely. Kittens are car... |
Was early musket and gun based warfare really just standing in a line and taking turns shooting at each other? | Guerilla Warfare is a tactic that you usually employ when you don't have much of a choice, like being severely outnumbered. If the numbers are closer to equal then its more effective to bunch up and try to overwhelm the enemy with the power of your arms and discipline. Discipline was the key. Yes it seems suicidal to j... |
why do people have such a strong urge to take a nap when you have a full stomach? | It's been explained to me by medical staff years ago that your body diverts blood from the extremities to the core to power digestion, leaving your brain in a slightly hypoxic state . This causes the feeling of drowsiness.It's called "the itis" around my friends and it's usually a huge insulin spike from ingesting a lo... |
Are there serious hurdles, specifically for Tech companies, that deter employers from facilitating Work From Home options? | If your company does any sort of retail work, having an employee living in State A when the company does not otherwise have any physical operations in that State/City could require them to collect sales tax for any sales made to that State/City. It also makes payroll and benefits more complicated if you have employees ... |
What causes water mirages on roads? | The asphalt heats up the air close to the ground. Hot air has a different refractive index than cold air. This just means light will bend as it travels from cold to hot air. Since there is a gradient of cold to hot air near the asphalt surface, the light from the sky or other cars slowly but continuously refracts until... |
How come when you drive backwards, your car tends to feel like it swerves more when you turn the steering wheel then when you are driving forward? | 2 year car yard valet here, spent more time in reverse than driving. One aspect people haven't mentioned is the way you drive it in reverse. Centre yourself in the car looking back, rather than just looking over your shoulder, keep your hand on The wheel, and know where your pivot points are and you'll be reversing lik... |
How does couponing like in the TV series "Extreme couponing" work? | 1) The right store policies. Must allow coupons, stacking, double offers, etc. 2) Combining store specials/sales with store coupons with manufacturer's coupons. 3) Collecting dozens/hundreds of coupon inserts each week. Snipping, organizing, understanding and remembering what's in the collection. 4) Buying in bulk even... |
Why are eyeglasses so expensive? | Optician here, and I can tell you that it's mark-up for the most part. Frames are usually heavily marked up, but most manufacturers charge obscene prices for some frames. A frame's wholesale can range from 4 to 140 dollars. Then you have lenses. The lowest I've ever seen a lens cost is 74 cents, this was a stock lens. ... |
Why do hamsters enjoy running in wheels while other rodents (like rats and ferrets) do not? | As a rat owner, I can assure you that plenty of rats do enjoy running on wheels! It is just harder to find one that's big enough for a rat. |
Why does my creative ability increase significantly just before falling asleep? | this happens to me too, if the images are somehwat involuntary it's called hypnagogic imagery. They're alarmingly vivid. |
If water conducts electricity so well and dropping a plugged-in appliance in a bathtub is deadly, why wouldn't dropping one in the ocean kill everything in it? | It's the same thing as dropping a rock into a water bucket. If you do that, the water in the bucket will violently splash, and some water may get out of the bucket.Throw the same rock into a swimming pool, and no water will probably get out of the pool. |
How college football conferences like SEC became so insanely popular and consuming of peoples lives, and how it still persists with such magnitude. | I am from the South, and football is a huge part of the culture. Even Friday Night football at the local high schools is a big event, and it gets competitive. There aren't many pro teams close by, so there's more emphasis on high school and college football there Because of the competiton, a lot of good talent is culti... |
What are green olives stuffed with and why do they do it? | Taking the pit out of the olive leaves a big hole. They put in a piece of pimento, a chili pepper. It's all done with machines run by elves. |
Why does uploading slow down my connection so much versus downloading? | As well as the asymmetry in upload and download speeds described by others , there are two main ways of moving data around the internet. One way just blasts data out and hopes it gets there. This is good for stuff where it doesn't matter if bits are missing as long as most stuff gets through quickly, or because it will... |
What's in it for the people who keep uploading movies and software to torrent sites | In some cases, mass uploaders do monetize their activities by hosting preview images or thumbnail panels on click/ad-gated sites. By and large the community of uploaders is driven by the perceived recognition having the best/first/most-downloaded copy brings. Generally, just enthusiasts who make money in other ways - o... |
What does the 11th amendment of the American Constitution mean? | It's really not nearly as complex as someOf the other answers make it seem, although they're not incorrect. The Amendment as generally accepted enacts/enshrines a version of sovreign immunity as to the individual states of the U.S. Sov. Immunity is the widely-accepted concept that you can't sue a country without its co... |
Why don't women's pants have functional pockets? | The stores which sell women's clothing are often the same stores which sell purses. If women's pockets were large enough to carry things then we wouldn't need to buy purses. Stores would like you to buy new pants AND a new purse because then they get to sell more items.I once met a clothes designer for Zara at wedding.... |
How are we able to tell the features of a newly discovered planet without a clear visual? | There's a variety of methods apart from pure imaging that astronomers use to determine what far away things look like. One is spectroscopy. Telescopes that have spectrographs can detect the emission and absorption lines in planets and stars. These tell us what elements the object is composed of, as well as it's redshif... |
why is it we can we send a robot outside of our solar system, and exploring the surface of an entirely different planet, but the deepest oceans are unknown to us? | The pressure difference between the vacuum of space the surface of the earth is about 1000 millibars, also known as 1 standard atmophere. The pressure difference between the surface of the Earth and the deepest part of the ocean is about a thousand times greater than that. It's literally a thousand times easier to buil... |
Do we "see" the real world the same way we "see" television? | I'm not quite sure I understand the question. Your eyes take in the picture in the same way, they don't work any differently. There are some differences though. You don't have any peripheral vision when watching the tv. You see the view the director wants you to see, you can't move your head to see a different view. Yo... |
Why is the statement "Lincoln was a Republican" technically correct, but not historically relevant/accurate? | > But I couldn't make an argument for why the current members of the KKK likely line up with Tea Party, far right Republican ideals. Probably because this argument is retarded. |
Why can't commercial airplanes deploy Parachutes for use in case of emergency landings where all other manoeuvres or options to save the plane have failed? | It likely wouldn't be of much use in most commercial aviation accidents. Parachutes work for small, single-engine aircraft because they are primarily intended for a situation when the single engine dies and you deploy the parachute while still gliding. Most commercial aviation accidents happen either on takeoff or land... |
If we are counting years from the birth of Christ then why is birth of Christ(Christmas) every December 25th instead of last day of the month | Roman emperors tended to choose a date they liked to celebrate their birthdays. The early Church did the same for Jesus. They chose December 25 because it was exactly 9 months from March 25. Why March 25, you ask? Because they'd decided that that was the date of the creation of the universe in Genesis, and therefore wo... |
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