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If the holy Quran has references to Jesus, Moses and Noah as other 3 Prophets, then whats the reason for intolerance towards other religions ? | There are plenty of Muslims in the Middle East who are killing other Muslims ATM, Sunnis being intolerant to Shias and vice verse, so it's not like Muslims need reasons to be intolerant towards Christianity and Judaism.Humanity. Crappy people do crappy things to other people. Look how long the Christians blamed Jews fo... |
Why were beanie babies supposed to be worth so much? | It was a crazy fad that happened with a great marketing strategy. People became infatuated with them and started collecting them, creating a major demand for them when there just wasn't enough to go around. This created a scarcity that created a value for them. People who were able to find them and buy them would resel... |
Why do mortgage companies move your mortgage from one lending company to the next? | They are diversifying assets to protect against any possible negative issues. Let's say Mortgage Company A has 100% of theer mortgages in California, and Mortgage Company B has 100% of their mortgages in Texas. If an earthquake happens in CA, A is screwed as people might have trouble paying for their homes while recove... |
why is it so difficult to figure out how life actually started? | Because every living thing turn into petroleum. And even if it's not living they are hard to test. |
How do tabloids get away with printing lies about celebrities? | Short answer: it's just not worth it for the celebrities to try and get them to stop. Libel laws are written such that the burden of proof is really on the one being libeled; you have to prove that it was intentional, that it caused actual damages, etc. Being difficult to prove, the cost and time of lawsuits, not to me... |
How do people make money off stocks? | Buy low, sell high. Also some stocks pay dividends, which means they pay out the owners a certain amount of money from the company's profit. |
the top candidates for the upcoming presidential election. I have no idea who to vote for, because I pretty much disagree with all them on at least one major issue. | Welcome to life. The only way you'll ever have a candidate you agree with on every major issue is if you run yourself. |
How does Music change your mood? | I think it's because the brain releases certain chemicals due to memories and emotions that have been evoked by the music. |
How come the Europeans advanced faster technologically than the Native Americans/ Africans? | Bear in mind it wasn't just the Europeans. Arabs, Jews, Minor Asia, Persia, North Africa all of these contributed to the overall development of the population. Since there was so much contact and exchange between these populations/civilizations, progress took place, since they each improved one another. Those we consid... |
The practical differences between U.S. states and Canadian provinces | Criminal law is exclusively within the jurisdiction of the federal government in Canada, while it's shared by the states and the federal government in the US. For example, that's why individual states have the power to legalize marijuana when the federal government has yet to do so. I believe there's also a difference ... |
Why does water feel much colder/warmer at the same temperatures as air? | Hijacking this thread. While water and air are both terrible conductors of heat, they are both fluids. The molecules are circulating. With each impact of these molecules on your skin, heat is transferred from these collisions via convection. Through random Brownian motion there are currents that ecentually equalize the... |
Why do we bury our dead? Is it a religious thing or was someone one day like, "Uhh, sure this seems nice." | Because we are a social species. Other species such as Elephants won't simply leave the body of their deceased behind because of the social connection. _URL_0_ |
What effect does the curvature of the Earth have on really large buildings, roads and other infrastructure? | Generally, they almost always don't. The variations are incredibly small. However, one exception are some proposed towers in the UK: _URL_0_ They want to use them for high frequency trading with Europe. Turns out over that distance, the curvature does matter, because they want unobstructed line of sight . So they need ... |
What happens when a state passes a law that contradicts with the Constitution in the United States? | You don't have to speak in theoreticals. Chicago passed the handgun ban back in 1982. It stays on the books until 2010. It took a Supreme Court case McDonald v Chicago to be called out as unconstitutional. The federal gov doesnt go around making sure the states and cities only make constitutional laws. Its the lawsuits... |
Why do people actually think it's a good idea not to vaccinate their kids? What reasons do they use, and are they grounded in fact? | With the exception of people who are imuno-compromised, or people who are allergic to parts of a vaccine, there are almost no health reasons not to get vaccinated. Whilst a tiny percentage suffer side effects, only a minuscule number of those are harmful or last more than a day or two, the numbers who suffer any real h... |
Why does Spotify make you listen to its own ads? | It either: a) keeps it fresh in the listener's mind that there is an alternative or b) annoys some people enough that they'll just end up paying the fee for an ad-free session. |
How do programs that are not for commercial use detect that they are in fact being used for commercial purposes? | TeamViewer has a limit on the number of different computers you connect to - above a certain limit they claim it's no longer personal use. Most other programs don't know, but if their lobby group audits a company and finds their software running, or their lobby group's advertising convinces an employee to dob in their ... |
Why does working a injured muscle through the same range of motion that injured it in the first place result in faster recovery? | I'm going to put my two cents out there and disagree with /u/StarchCraft. I am not a physiotherapist and they would have more practical experience than I would, but purely on textbook pathophysiology it makes zero sense to me for you to intentionally work an injured area. It seems to me that the 'recovery' you would ca... |
Why are there "Morning People" and "Night People?" What makes somebody operate better in the morning as opposed to in the evening? | I operate better when I am awake, regardless of what time I wake up Edit: 'Straya just chimed in |
Bernie Sanders wants to 'break up' the big 6 corporations on Wall Street.... What does this actually mean? | It would basically force the company to dissolve, and become several different companies, each focused on something different from the rest. This has happened before, with AT & T, disrupting their monopoly and allowing competition to grow. edit: _URL_0_ Here's a link to the article about the Bell breakup if you want mo... |
What will change if Scotland votes for independence | Follow up questions: As an American, I'm very interested to know the mindset of the Scottish citizenry on independence. How did Scotland come under British rule? Was it an agreement or was it conquered? How is England perceived by the average Scottish person? Sovereign ruler or hated oppressor? Does the average Scotsma... |
If people with ADD/ADHD are always hyperactive and they are treated with Ritalin etc. | Ritalin is a stimulant. For people with ADD/ADHD stimulants have the opposite affect. I have student's parents who feed their kid coffee all day because it calms them down. |
Is there a 'limit' to outer space? | Does the earth have an edge? Or, if you walk far enough will you end up back where you started. Some people think space is like that: finite but unbound. A little more detail. You can think of the surface of the earth as a flat, 2-dimensional surface curved in a three dimensional space. Similarly, you can think of what... |
How was bread stored throughout most of history without it going bad? Was stale bread just the norm? | Bread keeps a while without going stale. Put it in a breadbin and it'll keep for a few days. Putting bread in a fridge makes it go stale faster, so we've not really improved on bread storage in that regards anyway. |
If marijuana isn't addictive, and it has no long term effects on the brain, why do people I know who smoke regularly act different and seem to need to smoke it daily? | Because neither of those claims are true. It is not physically addictive like cigarettes or heroine. But it can be mentally addicting, like food, or sex. And his has been shown to increase the chances of certain psychological conditions in people with a family history of mental problems. Such as depression, schizophren... |
Why is black associated with evil? | Dark is the opposite of light, light is required for most things to live, therefore black is associated with a lack of life, which is generally one of the intentions of 'classic' evil. |
Why is "40 hours a week" considered a full time job? | It used to be higher - well, technically there used to be no standard - and labor right's activists got it lowered to that amount. It's a compromise between employers and workers . But it's pretty arbitrary.During the industrial revolution people were being worked like slaves and had no free time with crappy pay. Along... |
If you touch something so hot that it vaporizes your finger would you feel the pain? | You wouldn't feel the pain on the part you vaporized, just whatever is left of is. Anywhere with intact nerves would probably feel a lot of pain |
Why are minorities likely to see the majority(read: white people) attractive but no so much the other way around? | I am a white guy, I don't feel the same, in many cases I find people of color more attractive. Out of the my top five local crushes, 3 of them are black, one is latino, and the other is a white girl. |
Why, when you get a "oh crap I have to pee now moment", does the feeling get worse the closer you get to the toilet? | I have no idea, but I would believe that your brain begins to weaken the muscles in your bladder because it's near bursting and you are near the device you usually go in. |
Why can planes fly upside down? | That's absolutely correct. It's a common myth that Bernoulli's principle is the primary thing creating lift in planes. It's actually just a small factor - it's real, it does make flying more efficient, but it's absolutely not necessary. Not only is it possible for planes to fly upside-down, but you can have a plane wit... |
If I have an electrical circuit, run a current through it, and then suddenly interrupt the circuit, what happens to the electricity still within the circuit? | Some great answers, but what I feel you have to realize is that the 'electricity' or electrons are present whether or not you're running a current. It's not like an empty channel; the electrons were present before the current and never changed appreciably. Some moved in at one end and some moved out at the other. That'... |
How big budget movies are made, from start to finish? | I'll touch another aspect of big budget films since others have answered the other parts. How can Return of the Jedi never make a profit having a $32 million budget and making over 200 million? That 32 million could have paid crew for $19 million, location $1 million, marketing $10 million, distribution $2 million. Ins... |
Why is it that when viewing a cartoon, it's clear, based on color shading, that we know what object the character is going to interact with? | I'm presuming you're talking about the older cartoons, like Looney Tunes and the like. It's because they'd draw and reuse the background to make shots . The action stuff was drawn on clear overlays, so a moving object showed up sharper than the background. Doing it this way saved time and money, because they didn't hav... |
How do hospitals actually deal with the blood shortage? | Usually they call a shortage early enough to prevent an actual shortage. So when they declare a shortage they usually still have a good amount left, but have reason to believe they're going to need more. Source:EMT and asked an RN |
The finances of power grids | there is one grid that all plants give their power to. you sign a contract with a plant to pay them depending on how much you use, regardless of whose power you actually end up using. meanwhile the plants sign contracts with each other to compare how much they produced and how much they were paid for if Plant A produce... |
how are serotonin and dopamine the only things we actually enjoy? | Within your head and inside your brain inside your head, there are tiny tiny pathways, too small to see which have messages running along them, like a mail man taking his mail to a house. But these pathways have gaps between them, imagine a stream being in the way with no bridge, which means the mail man can't get pass... |
The fad/use/popularity of hydraulic jumping cars. | It started like this. In the fifties, guys lowered their cars to make them look sleeker, often as part of a customizing process that involved other body modifications. But, if the car was too low, you got a ticket. Around 1958 some guy got the idea to put hydraulic jacks on the springs of his car. That way he could cru... |
If reddit has millions of visitors per day, how come the front page post only have around 2 to 3 thousand up votes? | * Some percentage of users are members* Some percentage of members are subscribed to any given sub* Some percentage of subscribers see any given article* Some percentage of viewers read any given article* Some percentage of readers upvote any given article So if you create a [Drake equation]-style model for this and st... |
When Archaeologists dig up stuff, why is it so far underground when it's only a couple of thousand years old? Where did that dirt come from? | I choose Other because I'm not sure where this would go. This is a serious question and I've always wondered. Dig sites sometimes find items buried for so long, but it's so far underground. |
Feelings/ urges experienced during menstrual period | Having a period every month is literally like give birth to a microscopic egg. The uterus needs to expel the egg so it squeezes the crap out of itself to push everything out. During this time a girl's hormones are going crazy. All women have a different experience, but these hormones can affect a woman's mood and emoti... |
What happens if/when we develop AI advanced and cheap enough to feasibly do all jobs that typically require human finesse? | Well a few points: * Even a massive breakthrough in AI wouldn't necessarily have economic impact. If you could program a billion dollar supercomputer to emulate the abilities of an average high school graduate, that would be *huge*, but it would also be much more expensive than hiring an actual high school graduate.* L... |
How do you shop online? | I have removed this submission because it's not asking about layman accessible explanations for a concept, but rather for computer support. Please read the rules carefully. |
What is the difference between being declared clinically dead, and being actually dead? | So what is dead? Medically it's the cessation of brain function, ie. Brain dead. There are few examinations Physicians can use - Apnea test , oculovestibular reflex , Vestibulocochlear reflex etc etc. Essentially, they're all reflexes our brains actively do subconsciously without any direct input. No reflex = no direct... |
Why is it that what's considered "good nutrition" seem to change so much? | One part of the reason might be that it works just like fashion. Lots of magazines, newspapers, TV shows etc. rely on presenting something new and modern every season. Nobody would consume these publications if they didn't come up with the newest and latest and most modern diets and nutritional tips and exercise routin... |
Lavabit and whats going on with it | The government requested private data because Snowden was using it.. and the owner didn't even have access to his users data.. so he decided to close it down. |
How did Japan go from being the U.S's worst enemy to one of it's greatest allies? | We rebuilt the country following their defeat in World War II after we dropped atomic bombs on two of their cities. In addition, Japan agreed to be subjected to U.S. military occupation and our reforms of their country's policies after they accepted the conditions laid down by the [Potsdam Declaration], therefore marki... |
Could you, in theory, build a giant artillery gun with the range of an ICBM? | Sort of? To get a cross-continental shot off you'll need a sub-orbital trajectory that intersects space at least the majority of the time. This means your shell needs to be able to reach an obscenely high muzzle velocity and it'll need to survive re-entry It's not at all practical. At this time there's probably not eve... |
If enzymes are catalysts and catalysts don't get used up, how do people become lactose intolerant? | Enzymes are catalysts and don't get used up during the reaction they are catalyzing. But, they are biological molecules and do degrade at a certain rate. Thus they have to be re-made continuously. And it's the systems that make the correct amount of enzyme that can change with age. Thus, some people may become lactose ... |
Why do plastic milk jugs always have gross little dried flakes of milk crust around the edge of the cap? No other containers of liquid (including milk-based ones) seem to have this problem. | Milk is full of protein. The casein protein dries as a milky translucent crust that will stick to the substrate it dried on. They use casein as a binder in paint used for scenic painting for theatre. It smells but it's cheap and easy to use. |
Why can't we predict the properties of a new molecule in a fusion reaction? | Are you talking about drugs? We can and do predict the shape of new molecules that we create. In fact, we intentionally create them to be a specific shape. This is called medicinal chemistry. It generally consists of modifying existing molecules with some known drug action or property to try to make that better or diff... |
why is it that long distance shooters tend to use bolt action rifles? Can a magazine fed semi-auto not do the same job? | Semi-auto rifle have several downside over bolt-action. - The reloading action of the next bullet is done during the firing in a semi-auto and can make the gun move slighty, decreasing accuracy. The bolt action reload the after the shot so it doesn't have that problem. - Because how a bolt action operate you usually ca... |
What was Bill Gates' business strategy that made people give him bad looks? | The two people who commented may be shadow banned as the thread says 2 comments and there isn't any when you click into the thread. |
Why is it said that Florida, Arizona, and Nevada could only grow with air conditioning when many of history's great cities flourished in similar climates long before the invention of A/C? | It's because of expectations. Going from a high standard of living to a low standard of living will psychologically/emotionally affect a person worse than someone who has always had a low of standard of living. Many of your examples are of cities in developing countries or cities that developed while their countries we... |
How come humans are born with only two sets of teeth and sharks have, like, eight? What factors determine how many teeth a creature can produce in its lifetime? | Mammals produce only two sets of teeth: milk teeth and adult teeth. Most other vertebrates constantly lose and replace teeth. Sharks use teeth just for grabbing prey and tearing off chunks. Precise arrangement isn't important, what's important is to always have enough sharp teeth. So constantly growing new teeth to rep... |
How did people decide on seconds/minutes/hours? How the heck do we even know how long a 'second' is? | > And how the heck do we even measure how long a 'second' is?? Originally it was 1/86400 of the length of the day. But the problem with this definition is that the length of the day is not very stable. It can change [by an earthquake] and gets a little slower on average every year by the ocean tides. The length of the ... |
Why does it cost upwards of $50 to ship from USA to Australia, yet I can get the same thing from Amazon with $10 shipping. | Almost none of the information below is correct. I've worked in logistics for almost 5 years. It's really simple. If something is shipped domestically then you don't pay duties and taxes on it other than sales tax depending on the state. If it's shipped internationally then you're paying duties and taxes, sometimes for... |
What happened in America to end racism against the Irish? | The Germans happened. Then the Italians. Then the Polish and other eastern Europeans. The most recent wave of immigrants were always the one who got the most grief. That's part of the reason Polish jokes stuck around so long, because they were the last big group of European immigrants. |
Where did people get the idea that flu vaccinations can cause autism? | It's actually not the flu vaccine, but the MMR vaccine that people suspect. More info here: _URL_0_ |
Why Can't We Clone Dinosaurs? | DNA tends not to last very well over tens or hundreds of millions of years. The mosquito preserved in amber idea doesn't work quite as well as it did in the movie. So we don't have that much useful dino-DNA to work with. Filling in the gaps with frog DNA isn't as easy as the movie made it sound either. Filling in a cou... |
Why Does Saying "Mom and Dad" Sound "Better" than Saying "Dad and Mom" | I remember learning something in school about the rhythms in sentences, and it has to do with that, I just can't remember the name. Dad and Mom sounds bad because it's in descending pitch, where as Mom and Dad goes up/down/up higher. You learn it around the time of Shakespeare and stuff .Mostly because it's a common ph... |
How can medical studies with very small sample sizes be deemed as credible? | It's statistics. In any statistical analysis you're looking for validation that a given conclusion would apply to the general population. The more samples you have in your study, the more certain you can be that your conclusions are due to the effect of your independent variable , but after a certain number of samples ... |
Why are rockets not shot from a giant barrel like a bullet? | What makes a bullet fly? A chemical mixture is situated [like so] in the round. The mixture is ignited. This causes a huge expansion, which has nowhere to escape to so it rapidly pushes the bullet out of the round, through the barrel and out to its destination. What makes a rocket fly? A chemical mixture is pumped into... |
How are public libraries still operating when so much information is available online for free. | Libraries have always been free to use, so fewer people using them doesn't mean they have less revenue. Since its not a private business, it's not profit driven and can survive as long as they're funded. |
Looking for some help with starting out in the stock market | Well, the first step is usually to find a broker and open an account with them. I used to use etrade, but I don't know what companies are availible in the UK.First. Don't invest "a small bit". Invest your long term savings. Make a plan to keep on contributing to investment for long term. |
We've had over 2000 nuclear explosions due to testing; Why haven't we had a nuclear winter? | Check out the top of [Wikipedia]: > Nuclear winter is a hypothetical climatic effect of countervalue nuclear war. Models suggest that detonating dozens or more nuclear weapons on cities prone to firestorm, comparable to the Hiroshima of 1945,[1] could have a profound and severe effect on the climate causing cold weathe... |
How/why there is a difference between 4/4 time and 2/2 time in music | There isn't really much difference. It's functionally identical to 4/4, or to 2/4 . So why do it? The advantage over 2/4 is that longer notes are often easier to read. If you have a lot of notes shorter than a quaver you have to start counting the ticks on each note which is not fun to do at speed. By switching to 2/2 ... |
Why root beer goes crazy with fizz when you pour it over ice cream but almost no reaction when you add the ice cream to already poured root beer? | I think Angoth's basically got it. If you drop the ice cream into the pop it's going to immediately form a bubble of CO2 around it which limits the exposed surface area to further react/nucleate new CO2 bubbles. Do it the other way around an you're constantly moving the CO2 away from the reaction area. Though, it's bee... |
how come that one asteroid killed all the dinosaurs all over the planet? and how didn't it destroy the earth with it? | It didn't kill *all* of them. Many species of small, feathered dinosaurs survived and evolved into modern birds. The larger dinosaurs were already badly stressed from climate change and unable to survive the temporary collapse of their ecosystems and the severe food shortages that came with it. The asteroid impact kick... |
Why do Brits use mix between imperial and metric systems, and not just stick to one? | It is an odd mix, but it kind of works. We have kept the ones like miles, pints, yards, inches to be used colloquially. The ones that roll off the tongue and make sense or have been used traditionally. Only a few of these have really remained in official usage, miles on the road networks and pints of beer / milk. Altho... |
Why is going to the cinema considered a social experience? You're expected to sit in silence until it ends. | The cinema experience is a shared dreaming experience. The darkness and mutual silence evokes feelings of sleep and solitude while each viewer is transported to a fantasy world where characters they grow to love, hate, sympathize with, etc. must traverse the emotional turmoils of life that each viewer gets to imagine t... |
How are lottery ticket vending machines legal if they can't ID you? | Most have a means of checking your drivers license. This is actually annoying when you go to college where the machines won't always take your FL drivers license in NC . |
Why snow melts when the temperature is below freezing | Snow doesn't melt if the temperature is below freezing. However, there are several ways in which snow can disappear at temperatures below freezing. Parts of a snowbank which are above freezing will melt while the rest of the snow does not. A layer of dirt can absorb heat and melt the snow beneath it while the air tempe... |
If the law in Germany, Austria and Mexico allows a prisoner to escape because it is considered human instinct, how do legal authorities explain/justify their own action? | public safety outweighs private freedom in the case of criminals. When you commit a crime, especially a violent one, you're infringing on somebody else's rights. Prison serves to protect the rights of the general public from those that would cause them harm of some sort.This video explains it very well: _URL_0_ |
how/why imgur became the defacto image hosting service for reddit. | Quick servers, images load pretty quick and even the non-direct links don't fill your browser will bullshit and lots of distracting ads. Clean and simple UI on the website, drag 'n' drop selection and it's generally a nice website to upload images on. When I see an imgur link I click it, if it's imageshack I'll downvot... |
Why are Cuban cigars considered to be better than other types? | Some people consider Cuban cigars better than other regions, but not everyone. There is of course an aspect of forbidden fruit to US smokers but I know many Canadian smokers who will not smoke anything that isn't of Cuban origin. In the past Cuba might have had the best tobacco in the world, coupled with the most exper... |
How has the Student Loan bubble not popped? | The most profound experience of my undergrad degree was hearing a Marxist economist postulate that by creating the notion that one needs a degree to work, corporations have essentially indentured the middle class to a life of working really hard and sometimes in morally objectionable jobs in order to not get crushed un... |
Why are countires threatening each other with nuclear weapons? If anyone used one wouldn't they just be hurting themselves? | You are on the playground, and you and each of your classmates have a handful of rocks. No one throws because they don't want to suffer the repercussions of being thrown back at. Except little johnny decides to be be good and decides to drop his rocks. You and all of your class mates turn and throw your rocks at him. T... |
Why does the NRA wield so much power? | Because people listen to them, and they're extremely influential in getting people to vote a certain way, or just GOTV in general. They don't have a massive warchest. In our political system, votes are power, and the NRA mobilizes a hell of *a lot* of votes. Not having an NRA endorsement can be extremely damaging to yo... |
If there are such easy ways to boost our economy, why don't we do it? | Couple major things here. Creating more jobs in the US would be helpful, agree. But having someone in America make a shoe is far more expensive than having someone in China do it. The employee costs more , the factory costs more to maintain, etc, etc. This will lead to the shoe being more expensive. Will people be more... |
How can hospitals charge as much as they do? | You know I am really not sure why, legally. Here is the thing: you don't agree to go to the hospital or pay the bill in most cases. Lets say you fall off a ladder, hit your head, get knocked out. You are taken to a hospital and they perform what they need to on you and then you wake up ok. You never agreed to pay anyon... |
Why do people key cars? | This is a good question. Is it jealousy? Or do they do it because a car is a status symbol, and marring it up makes them feel like they're knocking you down to their level? Or is it some sort of thrill maybe? In any case, your a fucking cuntastic twat if you key someone's car. |
Why are some people so prone to cavities? | I've never had a cavity. I'm 24 years old and take decent care of my teeth. I brush twice a day and use mouth wash once a day before bed. And I *never* floss. I went to the dentist recently since I haven't been in 3 or 4 years and the nurse was shocked at the good state my teeth were in. She said I have good saliva and... |
Why bandaids hurt less when you rip them off your skin faster? | Actually, Dan Ariely studied this and found that it actually hurts more. However, nurses would rather get it over with. This was Ariely's experience as a burn victim, and it inspired his career as a behavioral economist._URL_0_ |
the difference between heaps, buffers, and stacks. | The computer's memory is numbered in sequence. Each number refers to a box of eight switches that are either on or off, the box is called a byte. They are *always* either on or off, whether a program has set them or not . If a program asks the operating system to give it sets of these boxes, defined by the starting add... |
Does America Ever Have to Pay off Its Debt? | The US pays off its debt on daily basis. It always pays off its debt, thats why people are so willing to lend money and invest in the US, because the US **always** pays off its debt. If you're asking if the US every has to pay off ALL of its debt, the answer is NO, it just has to pay the bill thats due each day, which ... |
Why is voltage used as opposed to current to warn people away from electric hazards? | Because the volts are what the transformer provides, if you short it out it will provide an unfathomably large amount of current, but if you attach a large enough load you'll end up with a low current. Unfortunately, where electrocution is a concern, humans on their own aren't enough load to reduce the current to a saf... |
why my pee always smells like Honey Smacks cereal? | You got as my more rural patients would say, is 'the sugar.' Or Diabeetus. Either way you need to see a doctor and get some simple and cheap blood tests. |
Why do pets typically sleep at their owners feet in bed? | You have a considerate pet then. If my cat ever decides to sleep it will just plop it's ass right on my head and then wake up at a random time to meow around just because it got bored of sleeping or something.One of my dogs thinks she has to sleep like a human with her head on a pillow. She also missed the memo. |
Why can i skype across the world with no significant delays, but a news channel can't have a proper conversation with their reporter? | Contrary to the other commenters, satellite communication is in fact very stable. There will of course be a slight perceived delay to the viewer, as the person on camera is listening to their cue via a phone line and responding via satellite, but it's no more than a couple of seconds. The stability and quality offered ... |
How can insects survive such high falls relative to their size? | Edit to add tl;dr version: Imagine dropping a feather and a baseball at the same height and time. The feather catches air and lands slowly; the baseball doesn't and lands fast and hard. Feather = ant, basball = person. It's because of their respective ratios of mass to the area they create against the air: the ant has ... |
What stops people who are being operated on from bleeding out? | I'm not a doctor but they clamp off veins and arteries leading to the area of the body that's being operated on. They also give blood transfusion during surgery. |
- If one is shot underwater do the chances of suffering serious injury greatly lessen? And if so, how? | It's not so much the being underwater as the fact that the water slows the bullet down significantly if it has to travel a long distance through it. |
Many years ago I saw a small bird come down to the ground, dig a hole, and die there a few seconds later. Can someone explain this behavior? | I'm no expert, but the bird didn't have a conscious idea of death . It might have feared death every day of its life, but that has to be something different than planning its final moments. My guess would be that it felt super weak, had to stop doing bird things and tried to find a place to rest. RIP little bird.Edit: ... |
How are celebrities and pro athletes able to attend the top prestigious universities without having the credentials or marks to do so? | You don't need to pass any tests or had any education to receive an honorary degree. It's a degree a school gives to honor a certain individual, hence honorary degree. Honorary degrees don't carry any actual weight it is just for show. |
Do all viruses come from one? In better words, are all viruses offsprings of one that have evolved? | [This might help answer your question] If I'm not wrong, from what I understand, it's difficult to trace viruses origins because of how small they are and how different are to living organisms. There's some theories around their evolution; some might have been genetic waste from parasitic organisms , some might have be... |
¿Why does the Spanish language incorporate two question marks at the beginning and end of their questions when writing? | So that when people read out loud, they can see that they are reading a question, even before they get to the end. It's really a good a idea. The better question might be: why does English not do that?", 'In English and other lenguajes the structure for a question is diferent than the affirmative one. In Spanish there ... |
How does ReadyBoost work when USB thumb drives write so slowly compared to RAM? | The benefit of ReadyBoost is in terms of hard drive access. When you plug in your USB drive and tell Windows to use it with ReadyBoost, Windows uses that part of the flash disk to cache files. It uses it as a 'middleman' between your system and your actual hard drive. So the next time you try to access that file, it's ... |
Why do some people have straight head hair, but nobody (to my knowledge) has straight pubes/beard hair? | Head hair, body hair, and pubic hair are [different sorts of hair]. It's part of why there's a [head louse], [body louse], and [pubic louse] . They can all grasp only certain types of hairs. Studying them all and their genetic differences has actually helped us better understand how [humans became less hairy] compared ... |
Why should corporations pay taxes? | If it can be taxed, it will be taxed. That's really as simple as it is. A lot of small businesses don't incorporate simply due to the double taxation of corporations. Incorporation is a very important decision to a small business because they are double taxed . If a business remains a Sole Proprietorship they are only ... |
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