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What causes the "8 bit" style sound that old video games had. | Each system had its own dedicated sound processor, and they weren't terribly powerful. The sound processors each had distinctive sounds that we look back on with nostalgia. Nowadays, CPUs are powerful enough to handle the sound without so much as a hiccup and no one really uses sound cards anymore. |
why does Hulu play the same ads over and over, knowing very well we'll hate them more for it? | Because they want you to dislike the ads and get tired of them. That way you'll bed now likely to upgrade to the ad-free subscription version of the service. |
- If PI is infinite then how come it never repeats? | A/B". Irrational numbers are those numbers that can't be expressed as a fraction . BTW, the word rational is actually coming from the word ratio, so irrational doesn't mean the number is insane and illogical like your aunt betty, it just means it can't be expressed as a ratio . So any repeating number will be able to b... |
Why are there dozens of drugs to treat sexual dysfunction in males but zero for females? | There is more of a market for men's sexual dysfunction treatment because there is societal pressure to keep being able to have sex in a society that generally doesn't practice good health habits. Most male sexual dysfunction is either from a physical problem or chemistry , both are reliably easy to fix. Men evolved to ... |
Why does the government give tax incentives to married people and those with kids, but no incentives for single and childless people? | Child poverty! There are three solutions: 1) Watch them die. 2) Give them aid. 3) Help their parents. In the US, tax filers who make less than $3000 in a year receive no tax credit . Tax filers who make more than $150,000 also receive no tax credit. They are assumed to have enough resources to care for any number of ch... |
How will the Tesla Roadster orbiting the sun be affected by being in outer space? What would happen to the tires? Paint? Any liquids inside? | I know this doesn't answer your question, but the car was most likely modified. Wheels locked in place, liquids drained, etc. Possibly the engine taken out for weight. So it's probably not just a regular car in space |
Why are Health Workers coming from Ebola Stricken countries not immediately held in quarantine? | Because: 1) People have rights, so detaining them against their will in quarantine requires *really* strong motivation coming from a region is generally not enough. 2) The vast majority of people coming out aren't sick. Detaining 1000 people to stop a few doesn't really fly. 3) It's not cost effective. Detaining and Qu... |
Why do dogs smell eachothers asses? | Dogs get a lot of information about the other dog by smelling their but. So it is like checking the others dog's Facebook page |
At what point in history was it decided that males will have short hair while females have long hair, and not the other way around? | This will vary depending on what culture you look at, but long hair is distinctly disadvantageous when you're working with your hands or fighting people. |
Why are security cameras recording with such a low quality to the point I can't even recognize a face? | Security camera's either send a live feed to somewhere or they can just record like any other camera and send the footage over somewhere for storage. Thing is, as any youtuber/film downloader knows, movies or camera footage in general is pretty huge. Something as small as a 10 minute video takes up a few gigabytes. You... |
Why does Reddit use "Markdown" rather than the more widely used BBCode for formatting? | BBCode is designed to replace HTML. Markdown is designed to replace HTML but still be legible as plain text. * I *really* don't like BBCode * I prefer MD in plain text is * I *really * don't like BBCode * I prefer MD which isn't pretty but legible and the emphasis is still kind of there. The equivalent in BBCode is an ... |
Why do people think Anne Coulter is a satirist? | It's more accurate to say she's pandering instead of satirizing. Satire would imply that she is poking fun of the conservative position, which she's not. She takes the conservative position and exaggerates it to keep her name in the headlines and to stoke her follower's emotions. |
How come things around my house make random popping noises, usually at night? | Do you have an attic? It's possible someone in the family has pop-pop in the attic. That's my only guess. |
How do space probes such as Vogager 1 and Pioneer 10 operate for such a long period of time in space? | Voyager 1 has three radioisotope thermoelectric generators mounted on a boom. Each MHW-RTG contains 24 pressed plutonium-238 oxide spheres.The RTGs generated about 470 watts of electric power at the time of launch, with the remainder being dissipated as waste heat. The power output of the RTGs declines over time , but ... |
how does the US get into the countries that they're at war with? | its one thing to know there's a big fleet of planes and ships coming. it's another to be able to do something about it. your country has ships to defend your coastline? the US has over 100 submarines to sink your ships, anti ship missiles that are fired from beyond your ship's firing range, satellites that track your s... |
How can rich people maintain their lifestyle after bankruptcy ? | Declaring bankruptcy doesn't mean you have no money, it means you cannot meet all of your financial obligations. There's a difference. Don't think of bankruptcy as a financial state, think of it as a tool -- if declaring bankruptcy meant you would never have money again, nobody would do it. Wealthy people tend to bounc... |
Why not tax imports on goods to spur manufacturing in America. | Well, two immediate problems with that. First, if you tax manufactured goods that are used in further manufacturing, you could drive a lot of domestic industries out of business. For example, lets say you tax imports on a widget that is used for making cars. Suddenly, domestic car manufacturers have a spike in producti... |
Why do people say to breathe while doing anaerobic exercise such as squatting or benching? | It's still using oxygen. You would pass out if you didn't breathe properly. Anaerobic is just a way off saying that you can't continue to do reps due to the burning of oxygen. Your body will use the stores it has and you can't bring in enough to keep up the work. Aerobic exercise is when you can continue to exercise wh... |
Why do people think cows milk is bad for humans to consume? | It is strange for us to drink another species' milk, especially well into adulthood. Mammals in general aren't particularly good with dairy products, I don't think. We can manage them , but it is an odd introduction into our diets. |
Why do some people refuse to talk about who they're going to vote for? | Probably because most people on both sides will just berate and bash someone that doesn't have their opinion, without even listening to why. Sometimes it's just easier to keep your mouth shut rather than risking making someone irrationally angry or even in extreme cases losing your job. |
How come if I put the wire in a certain position, my "broken" headphones will play sounds in both ears rather than just 1? | To elaborate a little bit more on /u/aragorn18's answer: The cable is broken at one point. If your cable is twisting the one way it pulls the breakage point apart, thus breaking the circuit. If it twists the other way, it pushes the two points together thus giving you contact again. |
Why do the Chinese who lost family in MH370 have strong distrust of the Malaysian government? | Because the gov of Malaysia is [racist] against the Chinese and Indian minorities. It's hard to trust a government that actively oppress you. |
Why is it that in some areas both the sun AND the moon can be viewed during the day time? | The rate at which the Moon revolves around the Earth is not the same as the rate of the Earth's rotation. Because of this, the Moon isn't synched up with the Sun in the sky. In order for something to be synced up with the Sun it would have to be in a geostationary orbit. This is when the orbit is just the right speed s... |
How am I genetically related to my grandmother? (Image inside) | You're missing the other 45 chromosomes you have other than your Y chromosome. Yes, you got your Y chromosome from your father who got it from his grand father. But humans have 46 chromosomes. Your father has 23 chromosomes from his mother and 23 from his father. You got a mix of these from your father. It is statistic... |
Why do we not consider population control to improve the world ? | Well, China does it. It's had some issues . The reason it's not considered by the rest of the world is that it's considered a violation of human rights. It's a rather large imposition of government control onto the rights of the individual. This is probably a bigger issue from a political perspective than an ethical on... |
Why the fuck does every app on my phone have to update every single night. Surely the developers can't release a bug fix sheet every single night. | Step 1: Get a Windows Phone. Step 2: You're done! Nobody updates their WP apps, if they even make them in the first place. :'( |
how it's possible that I can hear if a sound is coming from in front of or behind me. | Well look at that. I would have said that it was to do with you not staying still, in order that you have a range of angles and therefore timings. This is why cats and stuff tilt there heads in odd ways sometimes: Wikipedia says it's because of directional filters in the ear, and that we can't work it out if we record ... |
With all the cameras everywhere, how come unsolved murders in big cities are still a thing? | > Can't you follow the suspect and know where he goes almost from the moment he leaves his home? TV crime shows aside, you really can't. Paradoxically, there aren't enough cameras, and there are too many cameras. They aren't enough to ensure full coverage, and they are too many to be able to sort through all the data. ... |
How do lakes retain their water without it all evaporating or going through the ground? | Lakes have many rivers and streams flowing into and out of them so they are constantly being drained and filled quicker than evaporation. The only time they would eventually evaporate is in a place that is experiencing a drought. The reason the water doesn't seep into the ground is because the soil under the lake is al... |
Why was the US so determined to prevent communism from spreading during the cold war? | Communism was a competing worldview which was a fundamental threat to the American economic worldview - namely, Capitalism. It didn't help that it was also totalitarian and thus opposed to Democracy. The more communism in the world, the less Capitalism in the world. The less capitalism in the world, the weaker the Amer... |
Why is the fluff in my bellybutton always a blue/grey colour, no matter what colour shirt I am wearing? | I always clean mine out daily. I think the blue grey is just the color you get from mixing cloth fibers and belly hair and dead skin. I try to plant it in my fiancé ' s belly button as she doesn't grow any and I don't want her to feel jealous about the fun I get to have digging the lint balls out all the time. Also I h... |
Why can't we just take a picture of Pluto with a powerful telescope such as Hubble, instead of waiting for the New Horizons spacecraft to reach it? | We have, and they look like [this]. They look like that because Pluto is tiny, doesn't emit its own light, and also doesn't reflect much of the Sun's light. Telescopes work by absorbing light, so the more light you have the better picture you can get. That's why you we can get great pictures of other galaxies with bill... |
How are TV companies like ABC, Syfy, and CBS able to pump out so many series that go for one to two seasons then are cancelled (Syfy especially)? | Tax write offs. If a show is a financial failure, the network can write off *all* of the expenses off in their taxes, so large portions of a network's taxes can written away based on failed shows. So there is actually very low risk of just shitting out terrible show after terrible show to see what sticks with audiences... |
Why do people prefer to watch Horror movies or play Survival/Horror video games in the dark? | Try playing fear in the dark with a huge monitor and surround sound. You'll just sit in a corner and refuse to move. |
How come license plates are blurred out on things like Google Street maps or news footage, but they are seemingly public knowledge? | Isn't the primary reason to avoid litigation? I believe Google had faced suits of people who were seen in compromising situations and blurring just solves that problem.Imagine if someone is cheating on his wife/husband and their car is parked outside their lovers home. Let me introduce evidence [#1] and [#2] I rest my ... |
How does white hat hacking work? | White hat hacking is done with the owner's express permission, with the intention of helping the owner find, identify and plug loopholes in security. In contrast, black hat hacking is malicious and done without permission. |
Given the historical close ties between the three nations, why did Australia embrace traditional British sports like Rugby, Football and Cricket but Canada did not? | Australia hadn't really embraced football until very recently, and much of the groundwork for that was done by Croatian, Turkish and Greek immigrants rather than the Aussie Rules/Cricket/Rugby loving descendents of Brits and Irish. The top professional league is only 10 years old . |
Why restaurants give an odd number of items for an even number of people (appetizer pieces or bread) | Could be one of a number of things. Maybe they have data that says people order more if there's an odd number to go around, or they've shown that that's the optimal/average number that people are willing to pay for and/or eat . |
Why can't cell phones and WiFi signals cause cancer or other health problems? I need to be able to explain this to a family member | Well even if it did turning off your cellphones will do dick to help. Broadcasts are omni-directional and the tower is going to keep on beaming out that juicy cell phone signal whether your phone is on or off. The main part of this, though, is that non-ionizing radiation doesn't cause cancer. Some example of non-ionizi... |
how antibodies work with transplanted tissue | The cells on your body have proteins called major histocompatibility complexes . As the name suggests, these molecules play a major role in tissue viability and compatability when transplanted into another person. MHC molecules work by breaking apart and expressing fragments of practically every protein your body produ... |
what is a whistleblower and why do they get in trouble with the government if they're exposing the corruption in the government | A whistleblower is someone who goes public with some sort of issue that some body that they're part of is trying to keep hidden. Sometimes they may have been legally bound to not disclose information, which they defy to tell the public, because they believe the public has a right to know. # For the case of Edward Snowd... |
What is the source behind Christianity's hate of sodomy/anal sex? | Here what I think. Social taboos predated religious taboos. Homosexuality was taboo because you wanted the men to come home from the hunt to their bitchy spouses and annoying offspring. Otherwise the guys just might spend weeks at a time out mammoth hunting and butt fucking whilst the women and kids starved. Not a sust... |
Why can't I see clearly underwater (chlorinated or not) without goggles? | The first Google hit led me to [this Yahoo Answers response] from 3 years ago. That's a pretty good explanation. A lot of these ELI5 questions are easily googleable and lead straight to easy-to-understand answers.I have an additional question to add to this. I have horrible eyesight. The prescription for one lens of my... |
Why does air conditioning or opening windows in a vehicle help alleviate a person's car sickness? | They don't alleviate my motion sickness Only thing that stops it for me is getting out the car and walking. Air conditioning especially makes it worse for me though I think that's a psychological thing . When I was young, I used to suck boiled sweets/lolypops and that would help. Again, I think that was placebo - Mum s... |
Why do people smile and laugh when being tickled, even if they're genuinely annoyed and unamused? | It's been hypothesized that tickling serves the purpose of teaching us to protect certain vulnerable areas of our bodies - neck, belly, underarms, etc. .) We've evolved to respond with laughter, even though the sensation is uncomfortable, to encourage the tickler to keep tickling us, thus forcing us to learn to defend ... |
Why haven't any other countries landed astronauts on the moon? | It's expensive to put people on the moon, and there are only a few countries in the world who have the technology and economy to do it. |
What is "bridge mode" on a router, and when it is useful? | In bridge mode the bridge router uses it's wireless to connect to the wireless of another router. This forms a wireless link, or bridge, between the two. The network ports on the bridge router are used to connect non wireless clients to your network. Those clients can communicate with the rest of your network due to th... |
How do banks earn money to expand and have interest for us? | They loan money to others and charge interest for it. They sometimes give you interest on your savings to incentivize you to keep your money with them, because the more money you keep with them the more money they're allowed to loan out to others. |
What is the difference between colonization and invasion? | Colonization: Putting up settlements outside your country's borders to spread your influence and do economic activities. Invasion: Putting military units to other countries' settlements to control them. They are nothing alike, really. They aren't even mutually exclusive, colonization can involve invasion and it often d... |
How can I screw a lid on something so tight that I cannot unscrew it as well? | I'd speculate that it has to do with the high coefficient of friction you have to overcome when unscrewing a lid vs the very low coefficient of friction when you are screwing the top on.There are other factors too that have nothing to do with you. Things like a metal lid cooling and shrinking a bit, or some of the food... |
Why do governments spend so much money on nuclear arsenal and maintenance [specifically Israel, Russia and United States] when it only takes less than 30 collectively to destroy Earth? | He doesn't mean that 30 nukes would literally destroy the Earth guys. What he means is that 30 nukes would end the world for us. It was well documented/thought out by scientists that it would take between 20-50 nukes going off in a short period of time to cause nuclear winter, and/or cause enough radiation to basically... |
In cartoons, certain clothing patterns such as checkered or plaid, it seems like it's a static pattern that the characters move around on. Why is this, and how is it done? | In whatever animation software they use, the shirt layer is transparent and above a motionless layer of plaid underneath it. It's done because it's cheap, lazy and easy compared to actually animating a plaid textured shirt. |
India has a privately owned city. If the elite business class in the US wants a free market system where are the privately owned cities in the US? | > If the elite business class in the US wants a free market system where are the privately owned cities in the US? I don't understand the question. |
Why does the US have to go to war if Israel attacks another country? | The US wouldn't have to. A war between Israel and Iran would almost certainly be a huge mess for the US. It would cause a huge spike in oil prices, and could very likely further destabilize the middle east and make an even bigger mess in Iraq and Afghanistan. All that being the case, if a war was to start, it would pro... |
What is it about water that makes it crucial to our survival? | All life on Earth evolved to happen in an aqueous solution . Cells are just bags of water inside which the chemical reactions of life occur. This is why it's so important. Some liquid is important because it allows a medium for molecules to move around freely to where they need to be. Theoretically a different liquid m... |
Why do large corporations and governments consistently host their websites on Windows servers when linux is widely considered to be faster, more robust, and more secure? | It comes down to a lot more than just server operating system. Big companies have tons of development resources doing their thing in the organization. Many of them using Microsoft development technologies. C# and SQL server, with visual studio is a hard combination to best. \r\rIf resources inside the organization are ... |
Why we haven't built a water pipeline to Texas yet? | The problem with water is not the transportation as much as the desalination process I couldn't find price per gallon numbers but a plant in [Israel] does it for 1/5c per gallon. The project cost was $200million and while that may not seem like much in the grand scheme of things the time/cost is investor or tax based. ... |
Why Helium is the second most abundant element in the known Universe but rare on Earth? | Helium is super abundant in stars which make up most of the matter in the universe this makes it the second most abundant element behind hydrogen in the universe. On earth however it is a two fold problem one it is hard to extract and constantly escaping the atmosphere due to its inactive state and low density. Disclai... |
How do you solve a rubix cube? | Search Thesergsb's 3x3 layer by layer tutorial. You don't solve the cube by color ,but by layers The centers of the cube never move, only the 12 edges and 20 corners, so you only need to solves 20 pieces,not 54. You first solve the white cross ,then the corners to finish the first layer. After building the first layer,... |
How do the firms in class action suits find members for settlement payments? | They track purchases through databases, like the rewards cards provide, or if you had purchased with a credit card, that can be tracked. If you paid in cash, you'll have to provide a receipt to be part of the class action stuff. |
Why are some criminals handed numerous life imprisonment charges during their trial? | I think it goes like this. Say you are charged with killing four people, and are given four life sentences. Then it is proven that you did not kill one victim. They then take this life sentence off your sentence, but you still have three to serve. It's basically a way of making sure the worst of the worst stay in priso... |
What advantages do desktops offer over laptops? | Gaming wise: Over heating isn't a problem unless you overclocked and are playing massive games. You have more flexible game sets and it is simple to upgrade .While a laptop can be very good for office work or what ever, it does not allow you to have a lot of gaming options. It just depends on what you are looking for I... |
If the common cold is so common, how come humans have not evolved to be immune to it? | Evolution takes a long, long time. If the cold viruses never changes, it would be very likely we'd evolve to become immune, but they mutate each time someone contracts it. That's why they say that when you get sick, it's never by the same cold virus a second time, it's always a new strain or mutation. It's like buildin... |
Why didn't the Jews who died or survived the Holocaust escape before the war? | Some did. Many tried. Most failed. In the mid 30's Jews were oppressed, but safe from harm. They were confined to their neighbourhoods, but many of them were insular groups . Most didn't think that it could get much worse, and as such they simply abided the law. Some wanted more and moved to more progressive countries ... |
ELII5:Iowa "straw" poll. What is it? How does it work? Why does it matter? | American Presidential primaries are a series of elections. They don't all take place on the same day. If you win the first ones, you are perceived as the front runner, people jump on your bandwagon, donors give you money, you can advertise more, you have a better chance of winning the rest. If you do badly in the first... |
Why does overvolting make overclocking more stable? | This subject is way too complex to ELI5. But here's a source that actually explains how the innards of a processor work. _URL_0_ Essentially the increase in clock speed requires a higher threshold voltage for the tiny digital switches in the processor to keep up. You might want to try one of the EEs over at /r/askelect... |
Why does Japan have so many cool flavours in their snacks? | A LOT of these flavours are actually the same as other specialty flavours and are available in other countries as well, people just don't notice thanks to package design, food colouring, and marketing. For example, different teriyaki flavoured products are the same as the onion flavours in the US, sakura flavours taste... |
Why haven't the worlds governments declared that choosing not to vaccinate your children is a danger to public safety and should be punishable by the courts. | It generally ends badly whenever a government, or anybody, attempts to force a population how to think. It usually results in some form of genocide. That doesn't mean we have to shut up about it, but it does mean we have to allow some amount of freedom of choice. Usually the only time this is violated is in the case of... |
How does a seemingly unknown director get chosen for a huge hollywood film? (ex: Dan Trachtenberg for 10 Cloverfield Lane | They're unknown to the public but Hollywood is a fairly small industry, people know and notice each other. The director may be fairly unknown to the public, but have been noticed by an influential producer, for example. It's also not **that** big of a movie. It's big enough for a relatively inexperienced guy to be prom... |
Why are depictions of little kids used so often in horror films? | I'll put it like this: Scale of Horror Being Lost Being Lost Alone Being Lost Alone in the Woods Being Lost Alone in the Woods at Night Being Lost Alone in the Woods at Night +Animal Noises Being Lost Alone in the Woods at Night +People Noises Being Lost Alone in the Woods at Night +Distressed People Noises Being Lost ... |
ELI85: Twitter. But explain it like I'm 85. | Probably best he *doesn't* get involved in this. If he doesn't understand what they do, doesn't understand how they can make money, it's probably a bad idea for him to get involved. Twitter is a massively hyped, volatile IPO. Just tell him that it's sort of like Facebook & tell him to look at a chart of the first few w... |
Why do african countries have extremely hard Import regulations for medical devices/products? Shouldn't they be eager to receive medical treatment as easy as possible? | All countries everywhere perform their own tests and certifications on medical devices and drugs. Almost all of them make manufacturers pay for these tests, but typically each product only needs to be tested once. As a consumer, you aren't likely to ever notice that the FDA spent $10,000 testing and certifying your med... |
- Why Are Humans' Predominately Right Handed (Or even left handed, have a dominant handed usually?) Wouldn't it Be Advantageous to Be Ambidextrous? | Finally, my time to shine. I did my PhD in Human Motion in computing. Your hands have equally important, but different, functions There's a principle called Guiard's law of bimanual skill. This states that we typically we have one hand dedicated to fine movements, like writing with a pen, and another hand that is dedic... |
How do brands like "Great Value" make such similar products to name brands? | It's called a Private Label. Although there are four ways to do it, much of the time, companies that have these services such as Costco, Wal-Mart and Target or food stores like Trader Joe's and Shoprite do is that they contract with a manufacturer, let's say for out example Coca-Cola and Pepsi, to make the product for ... |
How do scientists figure out the distance between planets and galaxies? | The [Cosmic Distance Ladder]. For things in our solar system, simple triangulation^1 or even radar can tell us how far away they are. For nearby stars, [parallax]^2 can tell us how far away they are. Beyond that things called [standard candles]. These glow at a known luminosity and, by how bright they appear to us, we ... |
Why does the washing machine always say it's 1 minute left, but leave me hanging for at least 10 minutes? | It's just a pre-determined message that whoever wrote the software for your washing machine decided would be printed on screen when the machine reaches a certain late stage in the washing process. Thing is, who wrote the software most probably didn't build the hardware , so he simply had to guesstimate a remaining time... |
Why are our bodies so susceptible to tiny amounts of medicine? | Many of the items you listed affect the nervous system. Your nervous system makes up only a fraction of your body mass. Ontop of that, it's not a high-flow system like your circulatory system. Nerves communicate with each other using really tiny doses of chemical neurotransmitters. A couple of pills worth of painkiller... |
If one is not supposed to mix tylenol and alcohol, why does NyQuil do exactly that? | I think they warn that you should consult your doctor if you're planning on taking acetaminophen while consuming more than three alcoholic drinks per day. So three beers for example would be ~50 mL of alcohol. The larger Nyquil bottles are 354 mL and contain 10% ABV , so there isn't even enough alcohol in the entire bo... |
Why do eye drops make my eyes not red? | It could be because the redness was irritation caused by dryness. If your eyes are too dry, stuff that gets in them isn't washed out as quickly and your eyelids rub more on the eyes themselves. |
How to count time signatures in songs | It's often possible to write the same music with different time signatures. To get close you need to find the beat, and find the accents. In rock/pop music a good rule of thumb is that the snare drum plays beats 2 & 4, and the kick drum plays beats 1 & 3, and it's probably in 4/4. If you want some to try, I've picked a... |
Why do so many people wiggle their feet to fall asleep? What exactly's happening there? | I do it while I'm falling asleep. I have no idea why. I have to actually concentrate to not do it. As soon I stop thinking about not wiggling my foot, I start wiggling it again. If something stops me from wiggling my foot, it's kind of nerve wrecking. |
Why does the pH rise quickly near the equivalence point? Like why wouldn't it just be constant? | H+ and -OH were the reasons. If you have a bunch of places for H+ to go, you can add a lot and not make a change because there are so many spots. But when the spaces start running out some H+ stays and changes the pH. Eventually you reach that magic point where just as many wanna stay floating as they do binding. So yo... |
what it means for science when a new element is created? | Certain proton-neutron ratios are exceptionally stable. We're not sure what happens if we create a gigantic atom with these magic numbers, it might be stable enough to work with. |
How are [most] people able to determine whether a person of the opposite sex is old enough to be sexually attractive? | What turns you on? Those parts tend to develop during puberty. That's how you know the issue is some kids are exposed to things younger that jump starts the process, but for the most part, if she looks old enough she is |
why are good shows like firefly and futurama cancelled, while there are tons bad shows running on so many networks ? | It's a simple cost/benfit analysis. How much does the show cost to produce compared to how much ad revenue it brings in?", 'Futurama bounced around a bit but ended up with 7 seasons. Not sure how much more you could ask for than that.Not everyone thought firefly was good. I myself found it subpar. Maybe that's why it g... |
Why is the order of operations in mathematics the order that it is? | It's essentially arbitrary, but what's important is that everyone uses the same one. Let's say that MD and AS swapped places, so you read +/- before * or divide. Then 3* would be the same as 3 * 4+1, or 15. But +1 = 13 would need parentheses to work. When you add in indices as well, the order of operations we use is sl... |
What exactly is happening when I get a brain freeze? | medicine is 99% sure that it's because a sudden cold touch to the roof of your mouth can cause nerves in that area to make your nearby blood vessels suddenly constrict and then swell again just as suddenly. other nerves in the area detect these changed in your blood vessels and interpret it in your brain as pain. in th... |
Why can't whales and dolphins survive for long on land, since both are mammals? | It has to do with their body temperature regulation - the constant water keeps their bodies cool so they don't overheat. sort of like when our bodies produce sweat to cool us down. Also they would dry out and become disgusting really quickly |
Why is there a delay between newcasters using a satellite feed when we have video calling such as Skype or Facetime that is much more instant? | Broadcast Engineer here - The reason for the use of satellite is the ability to broadcast from a remote location which may not be suited to forms like Skype or FaceTime. Satellite transmissions are usually made from SatTrucks, meaning anywhere the truck can go then you can get a satellite uplink, and therefore transmis... |
How is Sony, a Japanese electronics manufacturer, one of the largest film studios in the world? | Sony isn't an electronics manufacturer. It's a conglomerate, which means it has its fingers in a lot of very different pies. The company also offers life insurance and commercial banking . Sony Finance is the company's most profitable unit .They made so much money making good electronics , they branched out. Most big c... |
Why do a majority of people have to wear glasses as they age but a select few don't ? | Optometry student here. Genetics play a major role in near-sightedness and far-sightedness . One of the most important factors in determining your need for correction is your parents' correction. The need for glasses later in life is different, however. The lens in your eye changes shape to focus on objects closer to y... |
Why do people turn down the music when they're close to locating a street or destination? | The same reason it's now illegal to use a mobile phone when driving. It's been [shown] that we can't multi task as well as many of us think we can. Basically, our brain can't divide our attention 2 ways whilst retaining the same level of focus. It's much easier to focus on the visual side of driving when you don't have... |
What makes light so fast? | c is the speed of any massless particle, not just the photon. Darkness doesn't really travel, it is not a thing, simply the lack of light. Other objects cannot travel at the speed of light because they have mass.The faster you go, the shorter distances get and the longer time gets. That means that if I stood on earth a... |
Why do we generally perceive people who are overweight as "less attractive" than people who are slim? | It's associated with virtually every net negative in society. Hundreds of studies have linked high bodyfat and low socioeconomic status. Among the wealthy, being overweight is, to get fiveyearoldish, really rare. That's just on a socioeconomic level. On a physical level, thousands of studies have proven that it's linke... |
Why do we get used to smells? | If I recall correctly, it's so you can pick up on new scents that you are being exposed to. |
What has happened to this subreddit? | It's not literally five-year-old level understanding. They're supposed to be explanations for a layman as per the guidelines on the right. If the explanation is overly complex then a follow up question would be reasonable or even down vote the answer and hope for a better one.What has happened to this subreddit is that... |
Whats the logic behind a honey dipper? | Just a note: check that honey's label. Many of the big brands have been adulterating their honey with corn syrup . Buy local honey if you can. |
Why can I 'hold in' pissing or pooping, but if I am gonna vomit, it's impossible to hold back? | Hold in your puke- Just keep smiling. We do it all the time down here. Like for-real; you cannot vomit if you're cheesing your dick off. |
Why do some countries need a lot of Visa, fees and documentation to visit as a tourist but others are open to almost everyone? | Visas are often required in cases where a country wants to prevent people entering and then never leaving. The visa application process gives the government a chance to verify that you are a legitimate visitor who has a reason for a temporary visit and the clear likelihood of leaving when required. The DR is a fairly n... |
Why is the letter 'w' called double U when it is more like a double v? | It depends on the font. When I learned cursive in school it was taught as two lowers car u's together. |
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