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Why does it feel like I'm going faster the closer I am to the ground? | Because when you're closer to the ground you have reference points in which your eyes can pick up the distance traveling where if you're in the sky you have no reference point to see how fast you're traveling if that makes sense |
How come full siblings share only 50% genetic with each other and not 100% since they both have the same parents? | > > Isn't it true that they're getting 100% of the same amount of DNA from the same genetic source ? no humans have 46 chromosomes , and get 23 from each parent. your parents each have 46 chromosomes. so they give their kids only half of their chromosomes. chances are you aren't going to get the exact same 23 from both... |
Why does the British press hate Jeremy Corbyn so much? | Because he represents a change in politics that the establishment do not like. He cares about people, and not merely a title. I think he's great |
What is the high pitch sound that happens when I turn on an older tv? | It's just a voice in your head telling you to buy a new TV. Unfortunately for you your head voice is high pitched. How annoying.The high frequency Voltage power supply. It uses a "flyback" transformer. Basically the same as your car sparkplugs, it creates high voltage to drive the "electron gun" that works within it. B... |
What do people do when there's 3 or 4 or more feet of snow out? | 1. It generally stays on the ground and slowly melts away. Depends if it's just a cold snap or the middle of winter. Yes it will accumulate, the end of winter melt is usually a really messy and gross time. 2. Yea generally you wake up early if you know a storm is coming in order to shovel out your drive way and whipe t... |
Explain to me like I'm five exactly why gay marriage is illegal in most states? | Some outright banned it due to religious views. Some are due to wording in pre-existing laws that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. The situation varies widely by state, here's a really good map on the topic: _URL_0_ Before somewhat recently, there just weren't enough outspoken gay people objecting to ... |
Why does rock salt make ice colder? | When salt , or or any compound, is dissolved its bonds break separating to molecule into individual ions or exothermic . When salt is dissolved it is an endothermic reaction, energy is absorbed to break the bonds, this energy is it heat of solution . Energy cannot be created or destroyed so the energy required for the ... |
Why does it feel like time slows down when i'm in danger. | when you go into shock, your adrenal gland basically pumps out a ton of adrenaline, so your brain and body can prepare itself for injury. this causes the subjective illusion that time has slowed down. my girlfriend was hit by a car a few years ago, so I'm sort of relaying this from what she's told me about it.I feel th... |
Why don't our "breathing muscles" become tired like any other muscle would if used at the same rate for years? | We get tired because we have less muscle fibres available to relay after continuous muscle contraction. In terms of our diaphragm, there is not enough tension under normal circumstances to cause muscle fatigue; we are constantly breathing when using our diaphragm hence have enough oxygen available, and the tension is s... |
What exactly is Dark Matter? | It's basically a place-holder name to explain gravitational effects that we otherwise can't explain. Observable matter, when modeled, suggests that galaxies should not be able to maintain cohesion with the amount of mass they contain. So we assume that there is simply more matter that we can't see. We call it dark beca... |
online bank card readers. | Wow, this is interesting. It never occurred to me that time would play a part, I assumed it ran the card number though some weird equation to generate a code but couldn't understand how the bank would understand the code. |
Why is scorched Earth policy outlawed by the Geneva Convention? Seems to me that it's a successful strategy for a country being invaded by an aggressor. | The Geneva Convention isn't about successful strategies or tactics. Nobody disagrees with the idea that going scorched Earth can help dissuade invaders and nobody disagrees that dropping napalm and mustard gas on industrial areas helps prevent your enemy creating new vehicles or arms. What it *is* about is decency more... |
Why do most races only have one hair colour (black) but white people have red/blonde/brown etc? | Hair color is based on the amount of two types of [melanin] found in a person's hair follicles, eumelanin and pheomelanin. Eumelanin is either black or brown and determines how dark a person's hair is. Pheomelanin has a reddish color, which is where all those other non-brown/black colors come from. The various amounts ... |
What does clicking your fingers actually do and is it actually bad for you? | Your joints have something called synovial fluid between them, which is contained in the joint capsule. When you crack your joints, you pull apart the bones and cause the volume of the joint capsule to increase. The synovial fluid can't expand so there's a negative pressure within the joint capsule. Gasses which were n... |
Why is pork so cheap per pound compared to chicken or beef? | On a per-pound basis it's cheaper to process. Chickens cost the least to raise on a per-pound basis, but the labor per pound processed is higher than the same for a hog. A few cuts and some passes through the saws and you have 150+ lbs of meat compared to 2 1/2 lb fillets and some drumsticks. |
How/why do different alcoholic drinks effect you differently if it's just ethanol that makes you drunk? | They don't, people are just idiots who feel they need to blabber on about which drinks REALLY fuck them up. It's 99% placebo, 1% sugar", 'So people who get angry with one liquor and lovey with another and slutty with another is just in their head?', "Apparently they don't affect you differently. [Relevant XKCD] |
Why, in a dream about fighting, do my punches always move so slowly? | I don't think there's any single answer to this, as dreams are not entirely understood and there are many interpretations. Without further knowledge of what's going on in your dream, I might guess a few things: * your dream-senses are heightened, resulting in the world moving more slowly as you are taking everything in... |
Why do some people get loose skin when losing a lot of weight and others don't? | Not a fitness expert per say but my understanding is that skin naturally shrinks around the body, but only if you have sufficient moisture and collagen for it to be elastic enough to change shape. Once you have loose skin it's hard to make it conform to your body shape again as gravity is overcoming it's tendency to sh... |
Why are people more comfortable sleeping with a blanket over them even in warm climates? | I think it's more psychological than physiological. They're just used to the weight of a comforter or blanket over them, and without one it just bothers them so they can't relax and sleep. |
Why aren't we, the outside world, helping North Koreans or invading the country? | China doesn't want anyone in their sphere of influence. neither do they want to deal with the millions of NK refugees that will try to enter. neither does south korea. |
How can TMZ release information about the identity of a minor in an on-going rape case? How in the hell is this legal? | It's an ethical matter, not legal. Traditional media outlets won't release the names of minors unless they are charged as adults. Hell, the New York Times could release that info if they wanted to, and nothing would happen except maybe piss off some readers. Personally, I hate the practice. If the crime is heinous enou... |
Realism (International Relations) & the Cold War | It won't be much help with realism theory, but you might enjoy this series of international relations videos: [International Relations 101: Looking at international relations from a strategic perspective] |
How did Greece get back on it's feet after the economic troubles a few years back? | They're faring better only in the sense that they could hardly be faring worse. They were in the news so much when it was becoming clear how badly off they were but now it's situation normal, so it's not news anymore. There are plenty of countries worse off in the world. |
How is T-Mobile able to afford people top use large ammounts of unlimited data while Sprint and AT & T have been found to throttle speeds. | Very few people actually use very large amounts of data. T-Mobile is willing to let the few that do have it, because they believe that the goodwill they foster with their customer base is worth the traffic on their network. If everyone who had an unlimited plan used hundreds of gigabytes a month, they wouldn't be able ... |
If we lose skin cells very often and get new ones, then why do peoples skin look aged and wrinkly as they get older? | There's actually two connected reasons. The first is to do with hormones. Hormones are required to keep things in order, especially estrogen in women. After our bodies become less capable of producing these hormones, due to the second reason, our bodies begin suffering the effects of aging, and we begin to die since we... |
Whenever a electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is released what does it do to electronics to disable them? | it's not the power supply that burns out. it's the internals of every electrical component. when EMP pulse wave hits metal, it produces a massive electrical potential. all the metal bits in any electrical component will arc, short, and burn out. you know those videos of lightning rooms. that's what'll happen to all the... |
Why is it that you need a permission slip to watch R-rated movies in high school, but can be assigned to read books like A Thousand Acres in English class without anyone batting an eye? | Concerned parents, mainly mothers. The same reason why WalMart sells romance novels that depict things Hustler wouldn't show but Maxim is banned. |
How does chemotherapy feel like? | I was given cytarabine and idarubicin. The first few days of it, I was fine. Nothing major. Eventually, I was getting nauseated and tired. I explained it as imagine the worse hang over you ever had. It's worse than that without the fun the night before. Eventually, the taste in my mouth changed. Everything tasted like ... |
why I can't see the moon landers with my telescope. | A telescope's ability to make out detail is related to the diameter of its objective . Or ELI5: Big telescopes see better. The lunar lander base is very small and quite far away. In order to resolve the lunar lander base from earth, you'd need a telescope with an objective [25 meters in diameter]. That is larger than a... |
why do we get older and die? Why do we not just regenerate cells indefinitely? | Aging and death are products of evolution. If cells can only divide a limited number of times, it acts to limit the growth of cells that may become cancerous. Once an organism has reproduced and raised its young , there is no longer any selective pressure for that organism to continue surviving. Genes that prevent canc... |
Why do I need insurance? Couldn't I just deposit an equivalent amount into an account each week? | You can self-insure by putting up a bond , but your specific approach doesn't fly. You have to have enough to cover the accident on _day one_, whereas it'd take you YEARS to have accumulated enough in your account to cover the accident that could happen at any time. So.. you have to put up a bond that is equivalent to ... |
Why is it so easy to kill a virus with hand soap but so difficult to kill a virus once it has infected us internally? | Once it's inside and replicating itself like a Xerox machine, it's hard to get rid of all the copies. On the outside you can rinse it with soap.A virus is like an ant on your counter soap sicks it together and water flushes it away. A virus inside your body is like an ant in a jelly cube. Sure fire way is to get a hamm... |
Why are British accents considered to sound intelligent and/or charming? | Well although I'm English I'm not posh. I couldn't be any less posh. I think it might be because the upper class are all likely to have received a much better standard of education. Most upper class people would likely have gone to a public school. Public schools being the schools which aren't public and require a lot ... |
Before diapers and the like, how the heck did early man keep babies from ruining everyone's day with their angry baby excretions? | I don't think it's a natural instinct to poop where you sit/sleep and the use of diapers actually 'trains' babies to do this. They can be toilet trained at a much younger age than most people expect, often before 4 months of age. |
Why isn't HTML considered programming? | For the same reason that word processing isn't considered programming. All you are doing is writing text, and controlling how it appears. |
Why do certain foods seem impossible to stop eating once you start? | We evolved years ago as nomadic hunter-gatherers, where certain foods were very rare. Our brains evolved a reward system so that any time we came across fats, salts, and sugars, we were told by instinct to consume as much as we could, since we didn't know when we'd get more of them again. Now we live in a world of food... |
What does it mean for someone to make < $2/day | Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are asking.. but.. Someone makes less than $2 a day? Its a bit unclear what you are interested in? Just the statement < $2? Or lifestyle? Edit: I understand, sorry for my confusion.. I have no input of use to you.One thing other posters forgot to mention is the idea of "Purchasing po... |
How come when some people smoke weed they relax but when others do they get paranoid? | I'll keep this short and sweet and to the point. I'm on my tablet,so typing is difficult. I did a ton of casual research on this about a year ago, mainly due to personal interest. I found that vitamin e and calcium will usually solve the problem. A straight answer as to why is very complicated. But, the information doe... |
What is plastic made of and why do we make so much of it? | The short version: plastic is made from oil. When they take it out of the ground it is a mixture of a LOT of similar compounds. They distill it to separate out the useful ones for making plastic, then the less useful ones go to gasoline if they are liquid, or tar type stuff if they are solid. The plastic ones specifica... |
Where do multi-millionaires and billionaires keep all of their wealth/cash? | No one keeps even a few hundred thousand dollars in cash . That a terrible waste of money. Rich people have their money in various investments , and if you have more than a few thousand dollars cash yours should be too. |
how does going to war make a country richer? | There are really two answers to this question. The first and most obvious is the direct seizure of goods, resources, land, and people by the invading force. This was especially true farther back in history--the Romans, for example, based a massive amount of their economy on the slave labor seized in wars and the seizur... |
Why not launch space probes against the spin of the galaxy? | Voyager 1 is also rotating along with an arm of the milky way at 792,000km/hr. So the direction it goes doesn't matter. |
How do screenshots work from a software perspective? | First we need to accept the fact that computers don't really show us streams of moving objects. They show frame by frame, each stored in memory of the video card. When you play a game or watch a movie, the central processor of the computer is sending data and commands to the graphics processor inside your video card. T... |
If I hurt my dog on accident, do they know it was unintentional? | Dogs are very good at picking up on human's body language. I'm sure he could tell by your body language that you are not a threat. |
Why do people say that America ranks #1 in confidence like its a bad thing? | People hate hypocrisy. Like seriously, it's a very guttural feeling of loathing that everyone has, even though almost no one sees it in themselves. This phenomenon can be seen as a form of hypocrisy: 'Muricans act like they are the shit but can't walk the talk. But I generally agree with you. I don't see much wrong wit... |
Why the hell is gas so cheap right now? | I have a friend who works as an oil analyst, and his take is that the oil price is always utterly irrational due to the fact that there is always way more production capacity online or nearly online than actual consumption . This has been true for decades, and is not something which has recently changed. So in actual f... |
how do illegal drug prices remain more or less constant while everything else increases in price? | They don't? Sure the amount of $ you hand over may have stayed consistent over the years but the amount you get should vary |
Why Russia will not join NATO? | Because both Russia and NATO distrust each other. Russia sees NATO as a threat to Russian power and influence, and NATO sees Russia as the major destabilizing force in Europe. NATO and Russia worked together after the fall of the Soviet Union as part of NATO's Partnership for Peace until Crimea and the Ukrainian Civil ... |
Why does a photo taken with any type of camera look different than when we look at that scene with our eyes? | There's also the issue of focal length. Your eyes work about the same way as a 50 mm lens on a full frame camera. A < 50 mm lens is going to take in more than your eyes, and can distort the scene by making the foreground and background look farther apart. A lens > 50 mm does the opposite. |
Why semis make wide right turns but not wide left turns. | Roads in the US are designed so that left turns are naturally wider than right turns. A semi can manage the normal left turn curvature, but they're too large to manage the normal right turn curvature. Thus, you get warned about semis making wide right turns, even though the actual curvature of the right turn is no wide... |
Why do we allow the president to pardon people? | It's part of checks and balances. The executive has the power to pardon or commute sentences that he feels are unjust. Yes, there are many examples of politically oriented pardons. But there are even more examples of pardons in the name of justice, especially where strict sentencing guidelines resulted in an unjust sen... |
Why is it seemingly impossible to hold your breath until you die? | Holding your breath is a conscious effort. When you hold your breath long enough, you will fall unconscious. Your unconscious brain will default to resume breathing, so you'll wake up some time later. |
Why do we have the urge to spit (and feel better after doing it) while we are running or doing some sort of physical exercise? | When you exercise your body prioritizes the muscles you're using during the exercise and you also lose a significant amount through sweating, to the point where you are so dehydrated your body stops contributing water to make saliva . This is what gives you the urge to spit, and is also why when you spit after a run it... |
Is there some sort of system in-place that is to be used when the creation / construction of something is so vital that money and budgets cannot be a restricting factor? | In the US, the system is set up such that, while not designed to, it can pay any necessary amount, given compelling enough reasons. How, you might ask? One way is that the president can order the minting of a $100,000,000,000,000 bill or coin and simply spend it. The US Federal Reserve would then institute a high inter... |
Why is having the higher ground so important in battle? | If you hold the high ground, you can determine the tempo of the battle. If the enemy wants to attack you, he'll be tired by the time he gets to the top to start fighting. If you want to attack, you can charge faster down the hill into the enemy positions. Also, it contributes to the effectiveness of ranged weapons. Sho... |
How is it sanitary for doctors and nurses to wear scrubs on their commute to and from work? | Scrubs were originally designed for use in sterile environments such as surgery. Now they are just an unclean underlayer before the surgeon puts on the real sterile equipment on top. Sterility here is taken very seriously. Also, in a clinical or hospital setting, if you actually see an infectious patient, there's gowns... |
How does a monocle stay in your eye? | FYI: some people have much more deep eye sockets than others. Men typically have deeper sockets because they have a heavy brow ridge. So wearing a monocle is easier for certain people than others. It may seem impossible for most people because their eye sockets aren't deep enough.Monocles should come back into fashion.... |
What's the big deal about the Leicester City soccer team? | Leicester City were promoted to the EPL in 2014. They've generally been considered a lesser team, having been relegated several times and rarely have competed with the more established teams of the EPL. Also, the EPL has traditionally been dominated by the likes of the big spending clubs such as Manchester United, Manc... |
Why are diamond knock-offs (cubic zirconia / moissanite / asha) looked down upon so much? | I'm the fiancee in question. After much searching and research, I think moissanite is my preference. I really don't think it's tacky to buy an 'imitation of a diamond'. To me, I don't feel like I'm buying an imitation of a diamond. I'm buying a stone that is way more sparkly with more fire that just happens to look lik... |
Why are people so condescending of chiropractics as a science? | Because it is not actually science. The guy who came up with it claimed that all physical diseases are caused by mythical subluxations of the spine. No such things exists as far as modern medicine has been able to figure out and other causes for diseases like germs etc have mountains of evidence going for them and are ... |
What is the purpose/meaning of the extra bit of stairs at the top of some British/Irish staircases? | My grandmother's house has something like this towards a bedroom, the bedroom was a new addition and with all the piping this was the cheeper and quicker way in the early 1900's to get around that problem. Made it easier to hire a chippy to do the work rather than a carpenter and a plumber |
- New teacher - what do I care about a union? | I'm an aspiring teacher who's read up on this stuff and talked to a few people in education about it but have no personal experience with it myself. Here's what I've gathered. There are two major ones, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association . The AFT tends to dominate in large cities... |
Why do bathroom stall doors have gaps on both sides? Why are people ok with it? | I thought it was so homeless people or drug users don't use them for nefarious activities. Also perhaps it's easier to clean between stalls with a mop. |
When can fetuses feel pain? | Myelin sheaths are needed for the efficient conduction of pain signals and these don't begin forming around nervous system cells in the spinal cord until about 24 weeks, and not till after birth in most of the cerebral cortex. I do believe though that pain is felt in the late stages of pregnancy though late-term aborti... |
What's the whole deal with Flint, MI? | The powers is group of people. They can't just wave the magic wand and everything is all dandy. They're in process of replacing a million miles of underground pipes. Digging up the ground and laying new pipe costs money and time. And nobody is willing to pay the overtime for it. |
What's the difference between Typical Linux Hosting and "Wordpress Hosting" that hosting companies offer. | an environment where they're optimized for wordpress will be better for wordpress than a general linux environment. you tweak the webserver and application server settings and memory settings to match what best suites how the wordpress application is implemented. because wordpress doesn't run the same as drupal, magent... |
Why do humans have nails instead of claws? | Fingernails aren't useless. They help us with fine motor skills in providing a rigidity to the finger tip so it won't bend back much when grasping small objects and the nail allows us to scrape versus scratch. Since we don't take our prey by force using claws, having nails instead has allowed our fingers to do more and... |
Why are most people able to sense someone is staring at them? | People aren't. When tested in controlled environments, people can't sense if someone is staring at them. Sometimes it just happens that you turn around and a person is looking at you.Either they get lucky and find someone staring at them when they turn around, justifying the belief in their own mind that they "felt" so... |
Why do Americans seem to use plastic cups, plastic cutlery and paper plates on daily baisis? Are there no concerns about the environment ? | I don't know of anyone who uses disposable table wear daily. Here in the South, it's reserved for catered events where a lot of people are going to be present."washing dishes sucks |
If neutering animals lowers their instinct to breed, would that work on humans? | To add to what /u/arzen353 said, sexual desire isn't the only reason why sexual assault happens. So it's not 100% effective.It does. In the 40s/50s we did chemical castration of homosexuals as an alt to jail. Reason Alan turning killed himself. Pedoes in the us get it still. |
When is lineage determined for American born people today/ when do we stop saying we're 25% this and 50% that? | The reason why I hold on to my heritage is because my family was too poor back in the day to keep many traditions. One set of grandparents were farmers and one set were even more poor . My grandma shared a lot of the Cherokee and German traditions with me like food, stories she learned from her Cherokee cousins, and so... |
what are the millions of "cyber attacks" that occur daily? Who is doing it, what are they trying to achieve? | I've seen these maps before, but what's going on [here?]I understand ddosing/dosing and how it works, but why are so many people targetting that place? It's on other maps too. Edit: [Here's another .gif from a different site] |
How come cargoships don't run on solar– and windpower? | Well, we used to have cargo ships that ran on wind power, but we gave up on them in the late 1800's/early 1900's. [They looked like this]. Seriously, though, take for example the [Maersk Triple E class container ship]. It's propelled by two 32MW engines, and is about 1300 ft long and 200 feet wide. Let's assume that a ... |
How can there be more than three dimensions? | Picture you're a character in a comic book, and you've lived your whole life on a sheet of paper. Everything has to be either to the right or left of you or up and down; there is no third dimension. However, let's say somebody rolls that sheet of paper up, and you throw your 2d football to the right. It travels all the... |
Could we plant millions of trees to counter rising carbon levels? | The problem is where the CO2 is coming from. If we plant a tree today yes it will absorb CO2 largely while growing but when it matures and dies it releases the CO2 back. CO2 we're releasing isn't coming from trees on the surface but deposits below the surface. |
How are we literally made of stardust? | Like you're five: When the Universe was made, it mostly made Hydrogen and Helium, because these are the easiest elements to make. You're made of lots of other elements, so what made those other elements?! Stars are really hot, and really big, so they can squish Hydrogen and Helium together in all sorts of ways in order... |
Why can you switch gears without using the clutch? | In a modern manual transmission the actual gear wheels are in constant contact but freely spin on the output shaft, and the gear selector mechanically connects just one gear wheel at a time to the output shaft. An additional 'synchromesh' allows some slippage. It's only meant to match the gearbox speed to the road spee... |
- How is Costa Rica able to switch to 100% renewable energy and what energy sources in particular are they using? | Mostly they're using hydroelectric energy from huge generators. They still use gasoline powered cars, so it's not like they're actually 100% clean.Most of the energy comes from hydroelectric, the next biggest producer is geothermal energy from volcanoes, they also have a bit of wind and solar. They have good infrastruc... |
Why do beer commercials advertise how cold their beer is as a selling point? Isn't that up to how i store it? | Pro-tip: if the best thing a beer ad can say is that it's cold, it's a shitty beer. Cold dulls flavour. |
The military and it's different branches | I'm no expert, but here some more detail beyond what they do: Countries need militaries to protect themselves from other countries. Without one, another country could just walk over and steal everything, make you and your family slaves and take your land. Modern militaries organize themselves all sorts of ways to get t... |
Why does my eye lid keep twitching? | Had to finally make an account since I may actually be able to help! When I was around 14 I had a problem where one of my eye lids would twitch randomly and make it look like I was winking at people. The doctor told me I had a very mild case of [blepharitis]. It's caused by excess bacteria on your eyelid and around you... |
What makes shit stink? | You make it smell bad, your brain is letting you know to keep away from shit. This happened sometime in our evolution, where specimens who kept away from feces had a higher survival rate. They didn't get sick from the bacteria etc. For some insects the smell of human fecal matter might be the best smell in the world. A... |
If a one time infection by certain viruses (e.g. chicken pox) usually leads to immunity, why can other viruses recur in the same person countless times? | Imagine a burgler going through a neighborhood that doesn't lock their doors. They might be successful until the community decides to lock their doors. Now the same or other burglers might improve their methods by using unlocked windows, or picking locks. Next time, another thief decides to act as a garage door consult... |
How do investigators always seem to find the people responsible for starting huge forest fires? | They don't, for one thing. Many wildfires they believe are arson don't get solved. Investigating the start of a wildfire is mostly about searching for patterns and evidence. Fires burn in patterns, and arson investigators believe they can determine the area where a fire started by looking at burn marks and terrain . On... |
Why are corporations sitting on more cash but still not hiring, and how are they getting stimulus money? | The last remnants of the stimulus money were spent in summer 2011. Up until then, the companies who received stimulus money were the kinds of companies that normally get hired by the government - especially road crews and things like that. Remember, the stimulus spending was about $230 billion a year for two years. Tha... |
Why do a 20 minutes nap is better for your body than simply "20 more minutes of sleep" in the morning? | Think of mobile phone battery. Night sleep = full charge. An extra 20mins on charger doesn't make it 120% charged. 20minute nap sometime later in the day = quick charge when battery is low. It will bump up the battery charge by 20% so the phone doesn't shutdown at 4pm. Sleep-deprived = phone never got time to charge to... |
How did early societies first think of making bread? | This isn't a particularly easy question to answer in ELI5. No one can say what early man was thinking because they didn't exactly write down their thought processes as we often do today. I mean, we have pictorial evidence from Ancient Egypt that shows they ate bread, but not their thought process in creating it. |
Why Does Jenny McCarthy Have Any Sort Of Relevance to Vaccination? | Because she's a celebrity, and she speaks to people's fears. Not because she's right or because she's an expert but because parents are afraid, and frustrated, and they want someone to blame, and she offers someone up. |
How come Adobe does not support flash for mobile phones, tablets, and ipads? | They tried. They couldn't make it work very well. It was slow and used a lot of battery. That didn't make Apple, who makes iPhones, happy so Apple told them they couldn't do it. Most smart phones were made by Apple when they said that, so Adobe stopped making flash for phones and tablets. Since then, most people who ma... |
The reason WHY the NSA is targeting mass data instead if tracking individuals. | > unusable amounts of data What makes you think it's unusable? How many people do you talk to on a regular basis? 10? 20? 30? Most of them probably know each other too. Most normal communications between people is going to form small 'clusters' - a group of friends at school, a church group or people inside a company. ... |
How did id Software's Quake engine lose ground in the '90s to where the Unreal engine became the game engine of choice? | Ohh I can actually answer this with quite a bit of detail. Now bare in mind I've not read the other responses here so I may be repeating myself. Back then both the Quake engine powered a surprising number of games such as American McGee's Alice, Kingpin, Medal of Honor and even the earlier Call of Duty games, then alon... |
How a vending machine knows when you insert counterfeit money? | They use a [currency detector]. GMR sensor proximity detection uses the magnetic field of the bill to determine it's authenticity. Optical scanners are also used, and they are extremely sensitive. |
Why do things like the D.A.R.E. program, and abstinence education have the opposite effect of its purpose? | I don't know, but when DARE told me NOT TO DO ACID because it'll make my stuffed animals come to life, and that I'd SEE MUSIC acid was the first drug I ever wanted to do. |
Is the reinstatement of the U.S. Draft a real possibility? | I was 18 when 9/11 happened and everyone was crazy over this possibility. If it didn't happen then, I feel confident it won't happen now. Not to say that if situations get worse, particularly with the possibility of having a new president soon, and World War III breaks out I mean, who fucking knows. But, for now, I'd s... |
What do robbers do with stolen objects from museums? Why would anyone buy these stolen objects other than keeping them for their private collection? | It's almost always for a private collection and the black market for museum pieces is huge."Why would anyone buy these stolen objects other than keeping them for their private collection?" Greed Ego Spite Fame Selfishness Boredom Stupidity Get even with someone Wanting to get caught Wanting something that originally be... |
How is it that with all our technical advances, we still have trouble getting a robot to walk up a flight of stairs? | If somebody wanted to make a robot designed to go up stairs there would be no problem, it could be done within a week, the problem is, we're not designing robots specifically to go upstairs, they're being designed for manufacturing, so going upstairs is not of utmost importance. |
How do we know oil comes from plants and animals? | Beyond theoretical or chemical analysis, there is the actual evidence of where we find hydrocarbons. We look for hydrocarbon deposits where there would logically be a large deposition of organic material millions of years ago. So, geologist look for things like ancient river beds or lakes where, millions of years ago, ... |
Why did Muslim countries stop secularizing and embraced Islamic fundamentalism | I'm going to agree with /u/lord_hoot in that there is not a good eli5 answer. However, it is extremely important to note that there are over a billion Muslims on the planet and we, in the West, do a very bad job of not thinking of them as one, big, monolithic group. Many, many Muslims still want secular government toda... |
Why can't a surgeon replace one's herniated disc with some sort of silicone disc? | Trying to clear up some questions in the comments, not necessarily answering OP question. Artificial discs have been around since the 1970's. They have been used in the US, starting with trials, since the early 1990's. There are many FDA approved artificial discs for use by US surgeons. There are currently 2 artificial... |
Why the male suicide rate is about four times that of the female. | In addition to the social pressure, it's worth noting that although the rate of *successful* suicides is much higher for men, the rate of *attempted* suicides is higher for women, particularly young women. That rate drops with age, while male suicide drops after the teens but goes back up in the forties. Research indic... |
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