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Why do small reptiles move in short jerky bursts? | [It's called carrier constraint.] Think of how they move, basically folding their body to the left then right to move those front legs forward. This means they are compressing one lung at any given time and expanding the other. Because of this they can't pull in enough fresh air, instead they recycle air in their lungs... |
Why do some people look unattractive in photos, but look attractive when in person? | Cameras distort reality. Usually in subtle ways, but people who take lots of portrait shots will tell you that posture can make a world of difference, not because it changes the way you look in person, but because it strongly affects the way you show up on camera. I think some people instinctively have good camera post... |
What is happening in our bodies when we naturally die? Do you know its coming? When does our body know? | My wife's a nurse that works in ITU, so she sees a lot of very elderly and chronically ill people pass. One thing she told me is that with chronically ill people, blood pressure is elevated, and the heart is working hard to keep blood pumping. If blood pressure goes down, the heartbeat fades to a more normal rate, but ... |
What does it mean for a U.S. company to sponsor someone's VISA? What are the pros and cons? | Firstly, it's not VISA like the credit card. A visa is a travel document, allowing you entry into a country. When you come to the US on a visa, the government is taking the risk that you stay here illegally . A company sponsoring your visa means that the company takes responsibility for your stay; they will act as a co... |
What Calculus is, and what it's used for. | It's advanced math but the concepts are simple. How fast is something changing at a particular point? How much is under a curve? What's the end result of an oscillation that changes? There's a little bit more, but this is how we do radio-carbon dating, missile ballistics, analysis of skid marks, population estimates, e... |
If water ice forming in cells can damage or destroy them, how come frozen meat from my freezer is fine when thawed? | It depends on how you've frozen the meat as well. Slow freezing will ruin meat worse because it takes time for large ice crystals to form. Its really the large ice crystals that cause damage on a cellular level. If something is quick frozen, it maintains its structure much better, for example a flower submerged in liqu... |
What is cancer? (Specifically Leukemia) | Not-so-shameless plug: A gamer acquaintance of mine has leukemia and [we're doing our part to spread word about marrow donation]. If you live within an hour of New Castle, PA, you should go there March 24^th to get swabbed! Or, head over to [_URL_1_], where you can sign up to be mailed a free cheek swab kit. You might ... |
Why aren't car windshields covered with hydrophobic coatings in 2015? | And why don't cars have a horn in the back? So you can honk at tailgaters and assholes. |
How is burning crosses by KKK not considered blasphemy by them if they consider themselves Christian? What is their reasoning? | Because burning a religious symbol isn't automatically blasphemous. There are many religious traditions that see burning as a way of sending something to the gods.They are not burning the christian cross but rather the Saint Andrews cross of Scotland. It is shown as a christian cross due to the 1915 film birth of a nat... |
How airports make money? | Airports rent out various terminals to the different airlines. The Philadelphia International Airport, for example, has terminals A-F. US Airways rents terminals A,B,C, and F. . Other airlines, like Delta, Southwest, and Continental rent a handful of gates each from terminals D and E. |
The Crusades, touching on the point of the Knights Templar and there importance? | The answers preceeding mine give you a little more accuracy and depth. However, it's my understanding that after England banded together to fight off vikings, there were far too many Knights just sitting around with nothing to do. They started to cause more trouble internally than they were worth with infighting, bicke... |
How come SD cards and USBs are advertised as something like "16GB", but that same 16GB storage device will only be like 15.6GB? | giga", etc, already had defined meanings based on powers of ten. So if you're sold a 16GB drive and they use the powers-of-ten scale, but your computer reports things using the powers-of-two scale, you'll get different values. But the main reason is: 2. There are, in the case of a 16GB drive, 16 billion "slots" that th... |
How come many houses in the US are made of wood? | [Wood] is [cheap], [plentiful] in the US, and [tornados] generally are [powerful] enough that much [more expensive construction] materials don't increase likelihood of survival proportionate with cost. |
Why can solids float on liquids, but liquids not float on gas? | Density. You're assuming solids are always denser than liquids which isnt always true. However with ships its all about the V shape of the hull which causes displacement.[Liquids can float on a gas], provided the liquid is less dense than the gas. This is not a common situation - liquids are usually denser than gases b... |
Why do the advertisements on any webpage load up faster than the actual content? | It's partially because advertisements sometimes are hosted on separate servers, not on the same server that the content you're looking for is on. If each advertisement item is just, let's say, 200 kB and there are two of those, that's 400 kB. At the same time, the actual website you're requesting might be over 2 MB wit... |
How does a court transcriptionist get every single word of a court case down so fast? | I was in a court room 3 hours ago, and the person there had a device that she held up to her mouth and presumably spoke into. I imagine it uses a speech to text software to record what she says. ~~I've searched Google, but cannot find a name for this device. I'll update this post if I can find it.~~ Edit: It's called a... |
What is happening when I turn my head too quickly and get that sharp POP in my neck, followed by a painful warm tingle? | I get neck spasms, and that happens when I turn my neck too quickly but they last all day and my I can't move my neck. Is that what you mean? |
Why can insurance only pay out what an item is worth of there is a loan on it? | The job of insurance, contrary to popular belief, is not to make you whole. It isn't their job to fix your problems, it's their job to pay you the value of your damaged property. This is why in most states , you don't get a check to compensate you for your time. When you buy a new car, you buy it knowing that once you ... |
Why do so many people believe the fake stories shared on facebook? | It's easier to believe it than question it. Something that is on paper or on a website doesn't require thought, it requires you to read. Questioning what you see would take common sense and thought. A lot of people just regard it as true because it's on the internet. |
Would the Winchester brothers' rock-salt shotgun actually work? | There's a YouTube channel called taufladermaus. He/they have a segment where they stick all manner of things into shotgun shells and shoot them. Over all what they've found is that as long as it's in front of a decent gas piston, basically anything will actually shoot . But it needs to weight more than a tenth of an ou... |
Why having a high nuclear warheads count is important if 1 nuke is enough to destroy entire cities? | Contrary to popular belief, in a nuclear conflict between two major powers, cities are not the primary targets, they are secondary targets, and collateral damage if they're near primary targets. Any nuclear attack on the United States would begin by targeting American nuclear capabilities both offensive and defensive. ... |
Why are games being developed exclusively for tablets and phones? Wouldn't it make more sense to cater to the PC audience as well? | Mobile games are typically designed for smaller screens and don't always translate well to a pc monitor size. They are also marketed and developed for a specific audience that tends to enjoy more casual free to play style games. They tend not to be hardcore gamers, where as pc gamers often have very different expectati... |
Everyone seems to be concerned about Artificial Intelligence at the moment, but what is wrong with a revokable consent requirement for changes to an AI's method? | The way we currently think AI will be made is by allowing some amount of machine learning. Unlike something programmed line by line, this means we have no idea what inputs will produce what outputs. The machine will be, to us, unpredictable, just like a child can do unpredictable things sometimes. In addition, the idea... |
Why is it that certain countries don't automatically add the tax to their price tags? | It's legal. Canada has a VAT where the seller is responsible for paying the tax. He can't charge customers for the tax itself, so he has to raise the prices of his product to account for this. In the US, they have a sales tax, which means the buyer is responsible for paying the tax, and as a result, the tax and the pro... |
What actually causes my eyesight to deteriorate when watching TV or laptop monitor? | It's not actually the bright light source that is the culprit. It's the fact that you are usually spending hours upon hours of close focusing without taking a break when you use a computer or similar screen. |
What was the cause of people rapidly leaving MySpace for Facebook? | Functionality. From what I remember MySpace had just changed their layout. It was confusing, many features hidden, and just a general shitty design. Every aspect of it was just hard to navigate through. Plus Facebook was a lot simpler. On MySpace you had to browse through a bulletin board, and then click on it. Faceboo... |
why we sometimes laugh when we get hurt | In psychology, it's nothing but [humour] one of the [mature defense mechanisms] which humans use to handle anxious emotions. |
why are legal pads yellow? | I don't know why exactly, but I use them because reading and writing on yellow paper for hours at a time is gentler on my eyes than it is with bleached white paper. Sounds weird, I know. It's something I didn't pick up until I started lawyering. |
Train Simulator 2014 and similar games, why do people play these? | I've enjoyed playing a truck simulator, especially with an Oculus. It's not fun if it's your job, but it's fun to just do things you normally wouldn't do in a relatively realistic manner. Flight simulators especially so. |
If there's no oxygen in space and oxygen is required for combustion, how exactly is the sun a "flaming" ball of gases? | For combustion you need a oxidant that is not necessary Oxygen. Oxygen are the most common one because it is available in out atmosphere but Fluorine , Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine works as well. You can use some compound with those chemicals in them for combustion. Gunpowder use Potassium nitrate and the oxidizer and ... |
Why are stimulants like adderall only therapeutic to people with ADHD, and not recommended for normal people improve performance? | I'm surprised no one has mentioned the dopamine hypothesis. ELI5 - People that have ADHD are different than most people because one of the chemicals that helps their brain think is lower than in most people. Taking medication helps that chemical be more like normal people so those people can think like normal people to... |
What use are coaches of top tier athletes like Federer or Tiger Woods? | We all are blinded by our own success. Think of it like a filter. It's worked in the past so it must work again. However, the competition is always adapting to the best players. Your tried and true strategy might falter at times with certain styles of play. Mentally, the coach is better than the player, not because the... |
If circumcision is fairly popular in the US (77% in new borns in 2010). Why, when it comes up in threads, do people express feelings of 'being different'. | > I am circumcised, and I've never felt wrong or different. That's because you've never had the experience of *being* different. That's the principal source of opposition - circumcision is obviously a legitimate medical procedure for certain conditions, but doing permanent bodily modification to underage children who c... |
How are states able to legalize marijuana when it is still against federal law to own, grow or sell it? | States don't necessarily legalize marijuana, they just find a way around the law to decriminalize it. One example of this would be Oregon; the state allows limited use of marijuana such as having as much as 8 ounces of usable marijuana and no more than 4 plants is legal, and you must also be 21 years of age or older to... |
What exactly is net neutrality, and why are some people against it, and some people are for it? | This question concerns one of the more frequently asked topics on ELI5, so it has been removed. Try the searchbar! It's okay to re-post questions, but please indicate that you did a search and that previous questions/answers didn't help you understand. |
Why do spaceships and rockets have to launch vertically instead of taking off like an airplane? | Rockets don't need to generate lift with wings the way an airplane does- they use the brute-force thrust to gain altitude and they take the shortest possible route to get where they need to go, which is the upper atmosphere, and then ultimately space and orbit. An airplane has to have air moving over it's wings to prod... |
Why are the legislative and executive branches of government seen as corrupt and bad, while the judicial branch (especially the Supreme Court) is so revered and respected? | The Judicial Branch has the advantage of being above the fray. They don't get involved in the day to day. Their job isn't to make law or enforce it, but only to ensure that it is Constitutional and carried out properly. So while the Judicial Branch has issues, those issues are rarely public, and rarely the kind of dirt... |
If the placebo effect is proven to work for a certain disease/disorder, why can't the doctor skip the sugar pill and just tell the person they can cure it by positive thinking? | It's not necessarily positive thinking that causes the effect. Sometimes it's the ‘ritual’ of taking medicine.But they do. Meditation, mindfullness, positive visualisation are some things that are advised for patiens with chronical or severe medical / physical conditions. Studies have proven that mental state has impac... |
Why do parks close at night? | It depends on where you live, but in most cases it's because parks provide a secluded area that can be used by drug users and other people that may harm the area. It's to avoid health hazards and criminals. |
How do arduino's work and what are the possibilities? | arduino is a microcontroller. You can program something in your computer and put that code in the arduino and it will make that code run even after you unplug it from your computer. One example is: you can connect the arduino into a protoboard and make LEDS blink creating a program that controls what LED's will be on o... |
How do people who are born blind figure out that they're blind? | It would take a scientific mind essentially, to realize that a) there's a prominently placed organ of no obvious use, b) the human body is ill equipped to survive without it. |
How The hell did Rob Ford get elected Mayor of Toronto, and how is he still Mayor? | Because he is a good mayor, he is fiscally responsible, where he does want to spend, he is interested in investing is serious infrastructure not short sighted half measures. I am a libertarian , and I don't frankly care what he does on his own time, so long as his policy remains consistent with what it has been. Do I t... |
How does paying off a loan early save money? | Your math is wrong. To put it simply you wouldn't be paying 1200 total. Interest is calculated every month . Your monthly payment ASSUMES you aren't paying the loan off early. This means that in the early months you'll be paying more interest and less principle, and in the later months you'll hardly be paying any inter... |
Why does the graphics quality of cutscenes in video games oftentimes seem to be worse than that of the actual gameplay? | This will only happen when the cutscene is a video. It's probably an old game so the video is designed to play back on low resolution hardware and its quite heavily compressed to fit on a CD or something like that. The game graphics will be done with your modern PC/console graphics card at the high resolution you have ... |
Why do a lot of businesses not accept certain types of credit cards, but they do others? | Each business will have its own reason, but the majority of those decisions are based on cost. In order for a business to accept a certain credit card, the business has to agree to pay a % of each transaction to that credit card company. For example, Visa may charge 2% of each transaction, Mastercard may require 2.5%, ... |
How do radio waves, cell phone waves or even wifi make it through solid objects? | The short answer is that solid doesn't mean opaque. Just like a piece of glass is solid, but you can see through it. Other materials are solid but let other sorts of light through. Most things let radio waves through. The longer answer has to do with the density and electron structure. A wave, when it encounters an obs... |
Why do mint flavored gum/candy make drinks seem so much colder than they are? | Alright, so auto-mod removed my Eli-5 because it was Too simple? Basically minty stuff have special molecules in them that trigger the temperature receptors on/in your body and make them feel cold. So even if you drink something hot, the minty stuff will still trigger the receptors as cold, so you get a cold sensation ... |
How do passenger trains in the U.S. still exist despite advancement of airline industry over the decades? | Cross-country train trips may be for the birds, but Amtrak is great if you need to go between Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. It's even a reasonable option if you need to get from Washington to Cleveland, Chicago, or Minneapolis. It costs a little bit less , it's more comfortable, and you ... |
Why do banks get to claim entire ownership of a home if a person that has paid mortgage for a significant amount of time suddenly stops paying it? | where i live they can only recover what they are owed on the loan, but they will probably charge too little to sell it quickly since they get the same amount either way so it's better to sell it yourself.When you sign a mortgage you are essentially giving ownership to the back until you pay them the whole amount plus a... |
Can someone explain to me how (and why) the elevators' buttons in my building only respond to bare skin? | I'm going to take a guess here and say they aren't physical buttons you press in, but a flat stationary sensor more like a cell phone touch screen? If not, ignore my answer and I have no clue other than black magic. \r\r\r\rThey buttons aren't responding to force, they responds to capacitance. A normal physical button ... |
Lawyers advise that civilians not speak to police, so why is choosing to remain silent perceived by some as not cooperating? | It is a risk/reward proposition. You are probably more likely to get out of a ticket if you cooperate. But you are also more likely to get arrested for something you didn't do, or be subject to other hassle. Especially if you misspeak and say something that appears untrue. Also, police work is a lot easier when people ... |
Why is John Stewart leaving The Daily Show? | He's been doing it for over 10 years, he's ready to retire and he doesn't need the money. Maybe he wants to direct more movies? |
How does Pluto, which is a fraction the size of Earth, have 5 moons orbiting around it meanwhile Earth only has one moon orbiting around it? | Well, we don't know everything there is to know about Pluto and its moons, but one reason why it might have so many is that some of them may have been captured more recently. Pluto exists in the Kuiper belt, where there are lots of small rocky and icy objects available to be captured by Pluto. the orbit of Earth has be... |
The English Premier League's cups, derbies, and general season structure | Basically these five elements happen simultaneously: - The Premier League itself - 2 games against the other 19 teams. - The League Cup - open only to the 92 top-level pro teams . It's considered the minor cup so big teams don't take it too seriously. - The FA Cup - open to all teams through the 10th level - 700+ teams... |
What is the "quantum" in quantum physics, quantum computers and so on? | You know normal physics right? In classic physics everything is linear. If you punch a tree with more force your hand will hurt more. Or you can put in any amount of energy and you will get a specific outcome. It was common sense that this Principe applied for everywhere. Except for it didn't. This is were quantum phys... |
Sleeping together to save yourselfs from hypothermia? | You lose heat through exposed skin, by removing clothes and pressing together, your exposed skin area is reduced . Once inside the sleeping bag, clothes don't do much to keep you warm. But if it makes you feel better you can use them as an extra layer around the pile of bodies. |
Why are rear wheel drive cars better for racing than front wheel drive cars | All of these are great answers. I'm an automotive engineer, and I've studied this exact question. The major reason is the transfer of effective sprung weight . Basically, as a car accelerates, the centre of mass is effectively shifted backwards. This means there is more weight over the rear wheels, increasing the norma... |
Who pays the medical bills for victims of mass shootings, terrorist attacks, etc. | In the UK it is all paid for by the government . The only thing you won't get covered for in the UK is voluntary surgeries |
Why don't cable companies want us to have faster internet? | > Do cable companies actually gain from us having slower internet? Follow the money trail. Afterall, why should cable companies care? They have a monopoly and they're making millions. Those very greedy CEO's want to keep on making millions. If they have to spend any money on improving the service, then those very greed... |
Popular Vote vs Congressional districts | Let's say there's a state with a single large city and a smaller rural population and there's a popular vote for the state's 10 representatives. Under one person one vote, it's likely that all 10 representatives will be elected by the city and the rural areas would have no representation. Congressional districts are in... |
Why do so many basketball games seemingly come down to the final seconds? | The first thing to realize is that there are 30 NBA teams who play 82 games each in a season, not including the playoffs. This means that there are /2 = 1,230 total games played in the season. The average margin of victory in an NBA game is something like 11 points and maybe 10-15% of games are decided by 3 points or l... |
How do youtube channels avoid copyright from images? | It's technically copyright infringement, but it's not policed nearly as much as music or movies. So it's a lot easier getting away with using images. |
Why that nurse died after getting a prak call in the UK after treating the royal family and why the radio DJs are responsible. | She gave away information that she shouldn't have. Then, when everybody was making a big deal of it, she killed herself. The DJ's played a part in it by making the call, but are not responsible . |
How do home routers work and what do the various bands do? | Connect your computer via Ethernet and do a speed test. **Bands:** 2.4GHz: Best penetrating power, maxes out at ~35Mbps. 5GHz: Worse penetrating power, maxes out at 1.3Gbps I believe. **Generation:** 802.11a: Dead slow, not sure anything uses this. 802.11b: Slightly less dead slow, only Panera Bread uses this. 802.11g:... |
If Puerto Rico votes to become a state, how would/could the US proceed? | It would take majority approval in the house, senate and signature from the president. This would almost certainly be opposed simply for the fact that it would change the balance of power in congress, by adding 2 senators who are almost 100% sure to be on the liberal side of things. There are numerous other reasons why... |
Why doesn't the Space Shuttle runway face east/west? | Geostationary orbits go to the east along the equator. The shuttle operated in low earth orbit, which was not equatorial. In any event, that doesn't really matter since the shuttle, by design, was maneuverable in the atmosphere. |
Is it bad for the batteries if I leave my personal electronics plugged in all night? | No, lithium batteries generally need overcharge protection and a smart charging system. They don't have the same memory issues that ni-cad batteries did.Here's a great & simple article that sums up: "How To Take Care of Your Smartphone Battery the Right Way" _URL_0_ |
What is a computer virus and why do people create them? | A computer virus is simply a program - they can do anything a program can do. Difference being is that it is programmed to replicate somehow, e.g. by scanning for attached volumes and copying itself into what it finds. Viruses can sometimes be benign , but can also do a lot of damage - it depends on what they're progra... |
Considering that Kidney Stones are notoriously painful (as well as common), why is it so difficult to develop a painless method of extraction? | Almost everything a doctor does is to decide between the risk of doing something verses doing nothing. As has been mentioned, messing around with the kidney is very risky, far riskier than letting the stone pass naturally. Similarly, anesthesia is far riskier than letting the stone pass naturally. In some cases the sto... |
why does the state of Louisiana have parishes and the rest of the US uses counties? How is a parish different than a county? | It's historical. When the land Louisiana is on was controlled by the French and the Spanish, local government was based on Catholic parishes. Today, they aren't any different than counties except for the name. |
Why do I sometimes hear my name being called when it isn't? | When you hear your name, you respond, right? You look in the direction it came from to see what's happening. Over time, anything you do often becomes automatic in your brain. It's about efficiency, and it's how we're able to become so good at things that we can do them without thinking about it - driving, hitting a 90 ... |
Why is it that kids run to get anywhere, like even in a house, but as you grow up you walk everywhere and really only run for sport or danger. | I guess it depends on where you are. When I was working on my dad's farm, I'd quite often run if I had to go across a field . I'd also do the same if I needed a tool from my truck that was more than 10 or so strides away. My dad, who's still farming at the age of 64 will also do this on occasion. I'd also run home from... |
Why the British resent Margaret Thatcher. | For those in the Northern Ireland she continued and enhanced policies of interment, propped up paramilitary units and allowed a rightfully elected MP and 9 others to die in a hunger strike because she 'refused to negotiate with terrorists' Tramp the dirt down |
If guns made before 1898 are considered antique and are legal/easy to buy, why do we not see criminals running around with repeating rifles? | Other answers have mentioned maintenance, reliability, weight, and expense, but there's one more factor: availability. There are, by definition, a finite - and shrinking - number of guns made before 1898 that still exist and are either in usable condition or restorable *to* usable condition - and a sizeable proportion ... |
when someone asks a question on reddit, why do they get tons of replies of the same answer? | Serious answer: They are probably using mobile. I use Reddit Now on android, and even with my comment threshold set to show all comments, it won't for some reason. I've went back and looked where I've commented before and seen 5 other people say the same as me, but didn't show up on mobile. Also, They probably all post... |
EL5 the differences in blood types? | This topic has been covered in this sub many times. Surely there are some good explanations to be found in one of those threads. [Quick Reddit Search] This is **not** to say that reposts or re-asked questions are a bad thing. There is some merit in re-asking a question periodically to get new information or responses f... |
Why is Windows 8 used on non-touchscreen devices | Windows 8 has significant performance and security enhancements from Windows 7 that all computers can benefit from. And with 8.1 now, you can pretty much completely eliminate the features that don't make sense on non-touch screens. Windows 8, and 7, and Vista, and XP, and 98, 95, and 3.1 for that matter reserve a certa... |
Why does fresh, natural, and organic food cost so much more than processed crap? | The answer is quite simple: _because many share your attitude_. That is, if you value organic food more than processed food , then they can charge more, regardless of actual production costs - just because you are willing to pay more.1) Because people pay more. 2) Because using the most effective farming techniques mea... |
Why don't China and Taiwan get along? | China had a civil war that ended in approximately 1949. The communists won and the nationalists lost. The nationalists fled to Taiwan, a large island off the coast of mainland China. The situation has been tense and complicated since then. Taiwan's economy boomed to unbelievable extent, and the mainland Chinese want to... |
Is it possible to domesticate any animal? | Theoretically yes, but it would take a long time. Dogs, for example, took millennia to domesticate. In order to domesticate something you have to breed it a special way. Some animals that's harder to do than others. For instance dogs are easier to domesticate than tigers because they have an inborn pack mentality. Howe... |
What do governments gain by spying on their citizens? | Nobody can live without ever breaking a law. With a surveillance system, you can build a portfolio against anyone to be used to apply direct or indirect pressure. It doesn't matter if you have illegally gathered evidence, you can use your data to find enough legal evidence to hide your original source. |
Why do our Stomachs Rumble? | It's called peristalsis. Your intestines/stomach do this to move food through your digestive system. The rumbling happens because peristalsis occurs periodically even when there's no food in you, to make sure your stomach was totally emptied whenever you might eat something |
How do porn companies make money? | They get paid for ads and they also try and refer you to paid sites, you'll find that generally free sites won't have every video by a particular star, they have a couple by each star to act as a teaser and then they funnel you towards paid sites and if you sign up they get some of the money from your subscription", 'M... |
Why are there so many "bad" movies? Don't the people making them see the problems the audience does? | A [similar question] has been asked on ELI5 before, this was the top answer: > Imagine if you put 30 hours into an assignment and read it and you realize that it's shit, but you either fail to turn it in and the teacher gives you a big fat zero and writes you up or you turn in your shitty assignment, maybe get a bit of... |
Why do dogs seem to understand what the humans are feeling and be empathic towards them? | It's because dogs evolved alongside humans. They used act as guard dogs and pest control amongst other things for early human settlements. In return they could chew the animal bones the people left and might get given proper food if they were liked enough. If they werent good at reading peoples emotion and pissed them ... |
If parallel universes exist, how come we are not being visited all the time by people who have figured out interdimensional travel? | Let's agree on a few assumptions, even though these might not actually be true: 1. There are infinite universes. 2. Travel between universes is possible. 3. Some percentage of universes contain humans that learn how to travel. Even given that, it's very likely we would never see a traveler. Not all infinities are equal... |
Why do T.V. shows have
many differecnt directors rather than sticking to one? | In addition to what the two above answers have already I provided I would like to submit this:- The workload of directing an entire season of any given show would simply be too much for any given director, or writer for that matter, which is why the shows usually have a room full of them. Although it's not a quite accu... |
Why can the U.S. have military bases in other countries but no other countries have military bases in the U.S.? | Generally speaking a military base, or access to military bases are given by a weaker country to a stronger to help defend the weaker country from foreign invaders. Add'ly the US has been blessed with no strong relentlessly hostile nations on it's borders. |
Why is audio usually the part of a file that makes it so big? | I'm not sure what you're looking at, but audio is usually compressed and quite a small part of the overall data usage compared to other things. Generally full-motion HD videos are a giant portion of the data contained in a game. |
Why do cars need a gearbox? And how do they work? | Let me ask you a rhetorical question why do bicycles have multiple gears? Long story short, a bicycle and car have a lot more in common than first appears. Most cars are powered by piston engines, bicycles are powered by legs . Both engines and legs have a speed where they're comfortable operating. Use too low of a gea... |
how all the colors mixed make white, but when I do it with water colors they give me black. I know I sound childish. | To summarise other posts your eyes have 3 kinds of colour receptors, how they actually work is quite complex but basically they see either red, green or blue light. That means with light you can make most colours by mixing combinations of red, green and blue , with white being all 3 and black being no light at all. Now... |
How do certain celebrities grow old and still function and look (reasonably) good after so many years of extreme drug abuse? I.e Mick Jagger, Bowie, Ozzy. | The bar set pretty low, especially for Ozzy Some people are active well into their 80's and 90's. Others become senile at 70. It all depends. Look at Christopher Lee. The dood was 80 years old and was still acting in movies. Dick Van Dyke is 90 and still active. |
Why are Human babies so helpless? | A deer, for example, has a much less complex brain process. Run from food, eat, fuck, and live another day. This means that their baby brains don't need to evolve very much to do these tasks. But humans have all of that, plus bettering their lifestyle. This is HUGE. It introduces fashion, society, warmongering, radical... |
Why does water taste so awful if you leave it on your nightstand, and you drink it in the morning? | I'm glad somebody asked this. Now, I know why my fish keep dying, and my water has a nutty flavor.It is very similar to that of carbonated water. What happens in carbonated water is that carbon dioxide gas is forced into water and is dissolved into the liquid water. When carbon dioxide gas reacts with water, it makes a... |
why do we have such disgusts towards insects? | Well, insects and spiders are generally more harmful than useful to humans. Some are annoying, some can carry diseases, some are venomous, some are associated with feces and decay or unhygienic conditions , some are harmful to us or our property . Very few of them are directly useful to humans. So if something is so sm... |
How are nude shots in film and television (specifically western, and more specifically cable and broadcast) accomplished? | For the most part, it's actually the actor in the nude. Of course the actors consent to this, but especially in movies and certain television, it's real nudity. Some actors/directors may not want certain parts of the nude body to appear in shot, so you'll often see clever set design, camera choreography, or actor movem... |
Why Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE but apple doesn't for bundling Safari | Because Apple doesn't have a near-monopoly on desktop PCs. By itself, there's nothing wrong with having a monopoly. And by itself, there's nothing wrong with bundling. The trouble starts when you start putting the two together. If you have a monopoly in one area, and use that monopoly power to drive out competitors in ... |
Why do most popular reddit posts seem to balance out at a score of 2500-3500? | Two reasons: First, reddit fuzzes post scores; it's in the terms of use if you want to read about it. Second, people are unlikely to upvote or downvote something if it already has a very high score and is on the front page since it would be pointless. |
What happened to Detroit and why. | I recommend Detropia on Netflix . great documentary. * Detroit is a perfect example of why you don't build a city around one industry. Detroit was growing exponentially when GM was booming, but when the Asian imports began growing in popularity, GM had to lower manufacturing costs in order to compete. How did they do t... |
Why are the taliban attacking people that are vaccinating against polio? | I heard on Star Talk Radio that it was because of the fear that the health workers were actually CIA operatives. Neil deGrasse Tyson had a well known Virologist on the show and she stated that it is a response to the CIA trying to identify Osama Bin Laden's Children by DNA under the cover of a free vaccination program.... |
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