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How come every meat eater I know SHOULD provide a vegetarian dish for "the vegetarian", but vegetarians NEVER provide meat dishes for "normal" people. | Because us meat eaters do not have a dietary requirement to eat meat. We just have a wider spectrum of foods that we choose to eat. It's easy for us to avoid someting they don't eat . It's much harder for them to include everything we eat. Meat or otherwise.I disagree. I work at a meat counter and vegetarians often ask... |
Why is popping a pimple considered bad? Does it have any long term effects? | Popping a pimple isn't necessarily bad, but if you do it prematurely , and hard enough it can essentially cut your face open which will lead to scars if you do it enough. |
If it isn't "fat" in food that actually makes you fat, what does? | Your body takes unused energy sources, like sugar, carbohydrates, and protein, and stores them in your body. That is what makes you 'fat.' |
How can some parents tell that their child is gay/lesbian at 5 years old when the kid cant grasp what that means? | A five year old is not necessarily too young to understand what gay or lesbian mean. We all believe it is normal for a five year old to understand what straight means and gay/lesbian is no different. That said, usually it is just confirmation bias based on stereotypes. We hear about the parents who 'knew' that their ki... |
Why do I feel so awful after a 4 hour flight, but feel fine after 4 hours at my desk? | Or the population of plane travelers that always fall asleep before take off. I don't know what it is but even during the day I conk out the second I take my seat. Good thing I don't have a desk job.. |
Why is it important to light a cigar with a match? | Actually, a match isn't the recommended source of flame. The best is wood chips Using a lighter means you are potentially getting some of the fluid as well. This can change the flavor of a cigar. Matches with a sulfur tip have a similar issue, but it can be mitigated by waiting until the sulfur has burnt away. The opti... |
How can car dealerships on radio claim they'll accept payment from people with bad/no credit? Doesn't this destroy the idea altogether? | They jack up the interest rates sxtreamly high for anyone who they lend to under such conditions. Even if a large percentage default, the dealership repos the cars, takes a loss and resells them. They make enough money off the higher interest rate customers that they still end up making money. It's a delicate balance b... |
How does having everyone get to the airport 2 hours early fix the TSA global long line waits? | Two hours is just a safe estimate. There are lots of flights leaving a major airport at any given time but everyone goes through the same security line. If I get to security 2 hours early I can pretty much guarantee that I'll have enough time to make it through the line and get to my gate before people start lining up ... |
Why aren't there species of humans? | There were, but we killed them Neanderthals. In evolutionary terms humans spread out from Africa barely yesterday. If we hadn't invented airplanes we probably would have speciated eventually. |
Why we tend to have less friends as we grow older? | In addition to the responsibilities answer, it's also the fact that school puts you in an environment where you're necessarily exposed to many people the same age as you. So you're more likely to find people with whom you have a lot in common. . Once you get to work, your co-workers aren't necessarily in the same stage... |
Why are flies and other insects drawn to rotting/foul smelling things more than any other living thing? | Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why flies and other bugs are attracted to bad smells/foods rather than good ones. ]1. [ELI5: how do flies sense rotting food from long distances? ]1. [ELI5: Why are flies attracted to feces and other nasty things? ]1. [ELI5: Why do flies seem to like... |
Why do most news reporters have that same monotone voice? | When I first started going to school, I wanted to be a radio DJ or TV anchor. So I began to study communications, which included a lot of speech work to achieve the clear, enunciated, non-regional, American accent. Fun observation, non related: If you really listen to people sing, you'll notice that they do not seem to... |
Why are Texas Instruments calculators the most widely used and recommended calculators in a school/University setting? | There are regional variations. In the UK Casio seems to dominate. Whatever the exact brand, it's sometimes the case that a few specific calculator models are approved for use in examinations. For example the University of Cambridge science course approves the Casio fx 115, 570, and 991 models. So while you could use an... |
Why do we still need a bible in the courtrooms? | it isn't. you're not required to be sworn in on a bible. it's provided should you choose to use the bible. if you don't swear on the bible, then you're sworn in under penalty of perjury", 'Most US courts do not use a bible, and those that do give defendants of different faiths alternative ways of swearing to tell the t... |
- Romney's "47 Percent" Video | I believe he was saying that 47% of the population is going to vote for Obama by default, so there's no need in trying to get the support of that group of people. |
What law police are using to prosecute people recording them. | It's clear you mean America in the comments, but come on, reddit has a global audience and you can't just talk of 'the police'. Different laws in different countries. Different police! |
If bacteria can't survive in the cold, then why do we get sick when it's winter? | People stay indoors more often and are in more contact with one another. Cold temperature-induced runny noses and sneezes help the spread of disease as well. |
How exactly does a military coup work? | You're a top general in your country. Your country has a powerful military relative to the rest of society, so you're a big and powerful guy around town. You're living the life. Then the president/prime minister/executive starts making some group angry. These groups can be populist/economic/foreign interest groups, wha... |
Why does everyone hate EA? | EA is getting a lot of bad posts right now because they are making a lot of decisions that are angering gamers. In general, they are making decisions that make money now, but drive customers away. Most recently, the Sim City debacle. It was clear early on that the game wasn't what gamers wanted and had many technical i... |
The difference in taste or texture, if any, when one orders their drink shaken, not stirred. | Whenever I order a drink and ask them for specifics, I make sure I know what it tastes like before hand. Something smooth and strong like a shot of vodka with a chaser is usually better stirred in my opinion because it distributes the flavours more evenly except each flavour is strong. Shaken isn't one of my favourites... |
[LI5] Explain how shorting stocks can make money | You borrow a Nintendo 64 from a buddy the first day it comes out, and promise to return it as soon as possible. You sell it immediately to a kid on your street, who gives you a ton of cash plus some pogs because of how new and awesome the system is. A year later, you trade those pogs for a brand new Nintendo, and give ... |
How is tipping not considered subsidizing a restaurant's labor costs? | If you want the US to tip like other countries , food prices will go up. In Australia, a decent steak costs like $36 USD, where in America they cost $22-$28. In America, waiters are usually paid $2.13/hr , and the tips count towards their salary, if they don't make enough tips to equal regular minimum wage , their empl... |
If the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen why did life develop to use carbon dioxide and oxygen rather than nitrogen? | Carbon lends itself to far more varied compounds than nitrogen. Carbon is tetravalent, whereas nitrogen is generally trivalent. That means carbon likes to have four bonds per atom and nitrogen likes three . As such, carbon is the basis for all life that we know of. Its tetravalent nature makes it perfect to form large ... |
How does using a revolving door "save energy" as compared to a normal door? | Revolving doors are designed in such a way that airflow is reduced compared to normal doors, so less energy is spent trying to offset the temperature differential from cold or hot air coming in. In moderate climates where a building doesn't necessarily need to run air conditioning/heating, it can be negligible at best.... |
Where does the extra go during a recession? | > I don't buy a car. Does that mean there is less people mining minerals? Do they lose their jobs? Why? Yes, they get laid off and the auto industry produces less cars. Why? Because people aren't buying as many cars. Why aren't people buying as many cars? Because there aren't as many jobs around. It's a vicious cycle. ... |
How come politicians in the US always reference God in speeches, isn't that a little contrary to freedom of religion (or lack of religion) if God is written everywhere? | Religion is a big factor in politics because politicians are elected and a large segment of the electing body is religious, and at least marginally swayed by displays of faith. For good or ill, displaying convincing religiosity results in votes, and votes result in election victories. At any rate, the separation of chu... |
Why is a day 24 hours as opposed to any other number? | Sumerians I thought, every thing is divisible by 6 unlike our decimal maths 10. time was their construct, that's why 60 minutes in an hour and not 100 which would make more sense to me. Their maths was based on 6, leftovers I suppose", '[Numberphile] has a great explanation for why base 12 is used for things like time ... |
why Youtube videos have to re-load when I go full screen, when the vast majority of video players I see online do not do this? | I would have to venture to say that most of the other players you've been using have been providing you with low quality content. Youtube, bt default now, I think, changes quality on fullscreen from whatever the default on your computer is, to the maximum allowed. When you fullscreen specifically, it has to immediately... |
Why don't we just use two or more different antibiotics, with different ingredients to kill off 100% of bacteria | Not trolling, but your question is too general. Bacteria exists in so many different places, inside your body and outside your body. Not all bacteria are harmful to humans, in fact some are beneficial. If you killed off all the bacteria in or on the human body, then fungus would take over the surface area inside and ou... |
Why does the United Kingdom continue to spend so much on its nuclear weapon stockpile, given the US and Russia have so many more? | The object in regards to a nuclear stockpile isn't to be able to blow up more stuff than everyone else, it's just to have enough capabilities to convince everyone else that if they attack you, they're going to pay dearly for it. Sure, the UK is almost certainly never going to have more nukes than Russia, but they can h... |
What was Hitler's explanation for his black hair and average height when he claimed the perfect race was Aryan? | I read a biography of Hitler a few years ago, and I've just tried to discover which one but unfortunately there are so many I'm not certain which one it was. It was written in the 70s by an American and as I recall it was well over 1000 pages long though. It went into a lot of detail, but basically what I recall from i... |
What causes us to have different tastes? | Forever the concept of nature vs. nurture. You could take two people with the exact same genetic code, physical appearance, etc, stick one in the throws of New York City and the other in war-torn Iran and they will grow up leading completely different lives, filled with varying cultural tastes and personal lenses throu... |
Why do dogs always want to be with you and play fetch etc. while cats just lay around all the time and don't respond to commands? | Cats can be trained. How do you think they are taight to use a litterbox? Most owners just don't bother past that because an untrained cat can't kill humans or other peoples pets. |
How come GM faced smaller fines than Volkswagen, despite GM's cars having killed consumers, while Volkswagen's polluted the environment? | Couple things-Legally, the General Motors that sold the vast majority of those bad ignitions no longer exists to fine. The Federal Government put them though a pre-packaged bankruptcy that ended up in the original GM selling all their assets and production capacity to a new company . Most of the liabilities were left w... |
Why do airplanes have more windows than seat rows? | It also has to do with how the planes are built. Airliners are traditionally built with a true semi-monocoque structure. They have a lightweight aluminium skeleton made of ring-shaped frames that give the fuselage it's roundness and stringers called longerons that run from nose to tail, supporting and supported by the ... |
Reddit, can you explain to me the relationship between megapixels, resolution, and screen size? | Now an addition with megapixels, this is something introduced by the camera industry when digital camera's where still a new thing. When you're talking about megapixels you're talking about the total sum of the pixels in an image.So 1920x1080 gives you about 2 million or 2 megapixels.A high quality print on a sheet of ... |
Why do we always hear about how amazing and smart Nazi scientists were? Why were they so intelligent? | I'm not so certain they were any smarter then scientists in other nations at the time. I think the difference was in they had access to resources that others didn't. |
Why does the extra oxygen molecule make Hydrogen Peroxide more dangerous than water? | This is ELI5 so let's talk VERY basic chemistry. So, the Compounds ) have a sort of force that pulls them together. Compounds like to have balance of charge which means the out-most electron ring usually likes to be divisible by 8. In order to reach that state of balance, it will either give up or share electrons with ... |
why does it take so long to start bleeding after an injury? | It's mostly due to vasoconstriction. The blood vessels constrict to reduce blood loss, and with any muscle they have a limited time to stay so tense. After they run out of energy they loosen up which allows the clotting factors to then take over where they weren't able to before. |
Why is it called alcoholics anonymous if every meeting starts by introducing yourself? | Yeah, some people say their first and last names. Some use their first only. Some give fake names. I've was a groomsmen in an AA friend's wedding, and I didn't know his last name until I saw it on the program. |
Why do we need time zones? Why can't we all be on one time zone? | Well it's 950pm here Friday night on the Gold Coast, Australia. I'm relaxing having a beer. The sun went down at about 6pm. It would be a bit strange if the sun went down at 10am local time. So the time zones are artificially created to allow the time of day to seem normal wherever you may be, based on the earth's move... |
What is DirectX And Why do we need it | DirectX does have a competitor, called OpenGL. It's used on the PS3, as well as OSX, Linux, and Windows. It has it's pros and cons vs. DirectX. Some examples of OpenGL games include Quake, Angry Birds, Amnesia, Minecraft, Unreal Tournament, KOTOR, and the Mac versions of games like Call of Duty, Team Fortress 2, and St... |
How does Instant Messaging differ from e-mail? | AOL Instant Messenger , MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC are all real-time instant messengers. With the advent of text messaging you don't really see them much anymore outside of offices. It's really just computer to computer messaging through a variety of platforms. There were third party programs like Trillian an... |
Why/How is it that Koreans consistently dominate most of the competitive gaming scene? | Uh. In Dota 2, there are 2 active Koreans teams, and only one of them has reached any sort of standing in major tournaments. That's not really domination. Korea has a couple of games they take seriously due to various factors, and they excel at them. Dota 2 is not one of those games, at least, not yet. Fans of Dota 2 a... |
30's - 60's fascination with the future (à la Retrofuturism) and how it disappeared | I honestly don't think that society's fascination with the future has disappeared. It's mostly just not as in your face because the things that we imagine about the future look a whole lot like the technologies we use currently. Which is the same reason all of the past projections of the future look so retro to begin w... |
What are hiccups, why do I get them and how do I get rid of them? | I've tried everything and sometimes one will work but usually I just get angry and leave where ever I'm at and by the time I get home they are gone.If I get them at home and just think of ways I could punch a baby and get away with it. |
why do lightbulbs unscrew themselves over time? | Thanks for the answers given. I've always wondered why screws come loose in my cupboards, etc. Answers here make sense. |
What happens when you eat a deficit of junk food calories every day? | You'd lose weight thanks to the calorie deficit. You'd also start exhibiting subtle signs of malnutrition if all you are having is empty calorie food without healthy nutrients. |
How can/do animals "smell" fear? | I've never heard of animals actually being able to smell any kind of emotion. However, it is completely within reason to believe that some animals can sense fear. Think of how we can tell if someone is afraid: their posture, gestures, body language, vocal inflections, and other physiological things that occur in a terr... |
Why do diabetics often lose their feet? | Think of the sugar in your blood as syrup. When diabetics allow their blood sugar to spike their blood is syrupy. Now picture the tiny capillaries this thick blood is forcing itself through. This damages the nerves and causes neuropathy. This leads to diabetics having pain or numbness esp in their lower extremities. Di... |
With the current movement to take down racist and bigoted statues, why is there no movement to take down the Egyptian pyramid's that were built by actual slaves? | They weren't built by slaves for one. They were build 4500 years ago as well, so people are kind of over any injustices done by a nation that hasn't existed since before Jesus was born. |
Why do I sleep like shit when my alarm is set to wake me up, but sleep great when no alarm is set at all? | If you're referring to how you feel when you wake up, it's about the stage of sleep you're in when you wake up. When you wake up naturally, it's because you're at the lightest stage of sleep, and you're more likely to feel rested when you wake up. If you wake up to an alarm, you could be at any sleep stage, and if you ... |
Why isn't oganesson inert? | It falls apart because it's nucleus is unstable, not it's electron cloud. The nucleus requires very particular ratios of protons and neutrons in order to be stable, and without that ratio, the bigger the nucleus, the faster is falls apart. |
Fingerprint scanner (Touch ID) hashing | Your fingerprints contain a lot of little details that make them unique, that's how we're able to consistently identify different people using them. These details are called minutiae. When the scanner picks up your print, it identifies the various minutiae and can use those to create a consistent hash. Most computer fi... |
If a lot of items at chain restaurants come frozen, why can't I buy the same quality frozen food at the grocery store? | You're shopping at the wrong grocery store, then. You can easily get frozen Applebees-quality food at an upscale grocery store. |
Why old film clips, like ones of WW2 almost always seems sped up faster than 1x? | Simple old handheld film cameras didn't have electric motors as there was no sufficiently dense or light portable electric power supply. so what you're seeing is the speed of the person hand cranking the mechanism or the variable speed of the clockwork motor used in handheld cameras such as the Bolex 16 mm. Battery tec... |
How do thieves find buyers for multimillion dollar works of stolen art? | Very interesting. Do these multimillionaires just hide their paintings then? I am assuming they can't hang it up in their living rooms to enjoy . So then what would be the point for them in buying the stolen art? They can't have it out and enjoy it, they have to hide it away somewhere and can't even tell anyone that th... |
Why don't MMA Fighters go for take downs straight after their opponent does a round house / spinning kick whilst their still getting balanced. | Because if they haven't lost their balance, you've opened yourself to be hit by a follow-up attack with some momentum behind it.Genki Sudo used to do big spinning kicks or punches that left a really obvious opening afterwards for his opponents to exploit. It was intentional, and he got more than a few knockouts or knoc... |
Why is it some people react differently to smoking marijuana | One very knowledgeable friend said it makes you feel more like however you're feeling. If you're feeling a bit anxious in a social situation it can make you feel more anxious. But also smoking too much at once can lead to panicky feelings. I'm not convinced this has as much to do with sativa/indica as people say. |
What is i and how does i^2 = -1? | > How can anything be the square root of -1? Exactly. *i* is a mathematical representation of this concept. This is all just logical mathematics. *i* is for imaginary, and we are imagining some type of value that can be the square root of a negative integer. So we say that the square root of -1 is this imaginary value ... |
Why hasn't there been another "Einstein" yet? | People are doing more complicated things. Take a look at this. He is describing Turbulent flow like he can't even do it. It is just too hard for him. The fact is engineers,physicists, and mathematicians are workings on things such as 2-phase flow. They have been working on things like this for over decades and don't ev... |
Why do people dance around when they are trying to hold in their pee? | I accept the other answers here, but here's some speculation on my part: by dancing your organs shift about your abdominal cavity. This might decrease their pressure on the bladder just a bit. This would have hardly any effect on the holding capacity of the bladder, but it might decrease the experienced pressure.Becaus... |
If deflation increases the purchasing power of consumers, why do financial institutions like the European Central Bank fight it by injecting money into the economy and causing inflation? | Because people believe deflation will lead to entirely negative results. Deflation does lead to a spiral and stagnation, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. People used to call that a correction. For whatever reason people in charge of economic policies, want to artificially extend growth periods and avoid correcti... |
why is it that technology has advanced so far in the past 10 years yet I still can't buy a printer that works? | Planned obsolescence. Printers aren't manufactured to last- the makers plan out the device's life cycle in a few months so you have to continue buying ink jets, cartridges, and even new printers after your old one 'stops' working. Theoretically, we have the technology to make products far better than the ones we have n... |
Why most animals have young in spring but humans have chance to become pregnant every month? | Rabbits and rodents won't have babies during a hard winter, but in warmer months they may have *multiple* litters during a year, and in warmer places they will reproduce all year. Other mammals like foxes, deer, etc tend to have one mating season such that the young are born in spring, just after the less-productive wi... |
_URL_0_ - I don't get it. Can somebody explain the purpose, the incentives, and the benefits? | There is someone streaming a video game, and ads are occasionally shown. Twitch takes a cut and the streamer gets some money. The tournaments are not set up by twitch. Watching is fun for some people. Streaming from a DS is a pain, but not impossible. I however don't know the specifics. To stream on twitch you don't ne... |
Why do places like America have accents in different regions of the country when given a place like Australia, there ie seemingly no different accents between regions? | Since most of the replaces seem to be Americans who have never set foot outside of America - Here is the lowdown, you're asking the wrong question. What you should be asking is How do accents develop? Because it gives us some of an insight as to why there are multiple variations. Accents develop because language develo... |
Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence people | I read this book last summer. It's pretty much a bunch of tips on how make people like you. For instance, some tips remembering and calling people by their names, allowing others to feel important and needed, how and why you should avoid arguments, and knowing not interrupt others while they're talking. Its a great rea... |
why can't we just get a bunch of water and put it on mars? | We could, if we were willing to spend so much money doing it that we bankrupted the economy of the world's richest nations. Water is heavy, and getting to Mars costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per kg.We can: it would just be insanely expensive . If you mean gathering it from the cosmos, well, that would also be i... |
Why do famous people get away with doing all the drugs they want when the average Joe gets in huge trouble for a half ounce of pot? | Let's not forget, there's a phase in most celebrity careers where having gone through rehab is like a fucking badge of honor. As little sense as that makes, it's effected society slightly and that disgusts me. |
Why the castles need to be laid siege or captured at all? | If you don't remove the threat then the castle is eventually make an attempt to break out and stop the siege. |
Why do we get paid by the hour/salary instead of getting paid for how much work you get done? | My company tried paying workers by the piece instead of by the hour at one of our factories. Quality plummeted as workers rushed to make as much as possible as quickly as possible. After a few months they went back to paying an hourly wage with an expectation of completing a certain number of pieces an hour. If you con... |
How come a business will position itself near another business/businesses that offer the same service? | To address your strip mall question specifically, a lease will often grant a business an exclusive right to sell their particular good within that mall that has the same landlord. Typically, this would be specific, ie. a pizza joint or sushi restaurant. But there's no power to keep another sushi restaurant from going i... |
Why has it taken so long for housing developers to start installing CAT5 in new houses? | There's no real reason. It's not like this is regulated in most places, so it just depends if the people who built your house have common sense or not. My parent's house was renovated in the late 90s and they used CAT5 phone cables like in your situation. My previous apartment was built about 5 years ago and they had a... |
how the human body knows not to breath while unconscious under water | It doesn't. Going unconscious after an accident in water is one of the primary ways people drown. Where did you hear that you hold your breath while unconscious in water? |
Does massage really work to get rid of the 'knots'? What are the knots and why do you sometimes feel worse after a deep tissue massage? | There is actually very little scientific knowledge around massage therapy. We know it works but we aren't sure why or even what it is fixing. A lot of sciency words are used but it is mostly bunkum - there is no scientific evidence that these things exist. |
How did people set their clocks before tv or radio | I think this person is asking how was accurate time kept prior to advent of telephone/tv/radio/etc. It's a good question but kind of hard to answer. There were pendulums, which I believe were the most accurate. Also, people would use sun dials to figure out noon. But as to the accurate of pocket watches and how they ke... |
Why does cannibalism have such negative health symptoms? | My old bio teacher used to say that things will hurt you if they grow on the same things you're made of. If you eat yogurt with bacteria and fungus in it, it's less likely that those bacteria thriving in the yogurt can thrive in you. If you eat a person with bacteria and fungus in them, it's more likely that those bact... |
Why auto insurance companies allowed to discriminate? | > I believe there is a law that companies can't discriminate against things like age, sex, race, and in some states, sexual orientation Race is subject to strict scrutiny in discrimination. Age and sex are subject to a rational basis test . |
I don't really understand insurance. Explain? | You are placing a bet that something bad will happen to you . The insurance agency is betting that nothing bad will happen. It's a good deal for both of you because a) the insurance is usually right- nothing bad is going to happen and b) if you don't have insurance and something bad happens, it will financially ruin yo... |
Why does plastic turn white when bent or stretched? | The atomic structure of plastics is long chains all mixed together, like spaghetti on a plate. When you take a fork and pull your pile of spaghetti into 2 piles, the individual strands of spaghetti do two things. 1. They align so they are parallel. 2. They get some space between the parallel spaghetti strands. A craze ... |
Why is it that cats biting people is considered playing or explained with "you annoyed it, what did you expect", while dog bites often lead to the dog being put down? | Apart from freak incidents like you link, there is simply no common measure. Cats have smalls heads, their jaws can't open a lot and won't be able to exert lots of pressure. Unless you are unable to get away, it won't do any serious harm. I mean, they smother people in the worst case.Now, some dogs are positively huge,... |
Why do people applaud and clap with their hands? Who started that? | When someone sees something that excites them, for example an amazing play or movie, they are of course overwhelmed with wait for it Excitement When you're really excited, your biggest smile isn't enough to drain your excitement, so what do you do? You clap. It's a simple, and effective way to drown your excitement. It... |
How does aiming through a scope work since the bullet isn't leaving through the scope itself? | Bullets drop anyway, from the moment they leave the barrel. Scopes are 'sighted' to a range. They're actually tilted down slightly so that at a certain range the bullet will have travelled to that point in space the tilt will of course include the slight difference between scope and barrel. Fixed sights either have thi... |
what is the purpose/use of a reverse mortgage? | If you are old and own a house, and all your children are well-employed and have their own residences, a reverse mortgage allows you to turn your current residence into a source of income. Essentially, you are selling it to the bank in chunks . You still own the house, but at the end of the reverse mortgage's term, the... |
why is charcoal better then just normal wood? | Charcoal can be made to burn hotter than normal wood and can be more easily set alight. It also can impart less flavor into foods cooked over it, which can be desirable if the source wood doesn't have a great flavor. |
Does a land owner own a three-dimensional, roughly pyramidal chunk of the Earth extending to the center of the planet? | Ahoy, matey! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [How far down does your land ownership go? ] ^1. [If you own land, do you own all the earth below it to the center of the world? or what's the deal with that? ] ^1. [ELI5: If someone has some land, does it belong to them all the way down to the... |
What exactly is causing the mass emigration from Syria, and why are they mainly ending up in developed, first world countries rather than those that border Syria? | As Enfants' answer says, the majority of refugees *do* end up in the neighboring countries. As to why military aged males are over-represented, there are two reasons: 1. they are military aged males, which means that if they stay, they might be forced to fight in a pretty awful civil war.2. Trying to flee to Europe is ... |
How does sunlight contain vitamin D? | It doesn't contain it, your body can use it to make its own vitamin D from scratch. When UV light hits a certain chemical in your skin, the chemical's electrons get excited and the shape of the molecule changes slightly, starting a reaction which ends with vitamin D. |
Why are water towers way up in the air? | As others mentioned, it's to provide water pressure. The towers tend to be recharged overnight, then they gradually drain during the day to meet demand. |
What is 'e' in math? | It's a natural value that comes up often in different equations. Using a very simple summation from k=0 to infinity, e = this means e = 1/1 + 1/1 + 1/2 + 1/6 + 1/24 + Understand that the reason e exists so frequently is just because it is the outcome of that very basic summation. For this reason, it is useful when it c... |
How is it possible for humans to "lose" or destroy the technology that sent men to the moon? | We can do it again whenever we want. But currently the teams are not assembled, the factories are not making the parts that were used in those rockets, the technicians are not trained -- it's just a lot of work to start up again. |
Why do soldiers wear watches with dial underside of wrist instead of over wrist? | Another reason: If you're holding your rifle with your left hand under the barrel , the underside of your wrist is pointed at your face so you can easily glance at the time. Guitarists wear their watches this way for the same reason.For us mechanics I did it because it would get in the way more often if it was on top o... |
Why do our bodies sometimes get sharp pains in random places for a few seconds/minutes and then go away? | LPT: do not consult WebMD regarding any of this because if you do, you'll self diagnose 8 different kinds of terminal cancer.I get it in my ear, like someone just stabbed a knitting needle onto my head. A second later, goneThis is purely anecdotal but the vast majority of my day to day body pain including what op menti... |
What occurs when I end an unresponsive program on a Task Manager. why does it take so long? | When you end a process in task manager, you tell the OS to terminate execution of the process. The OS removes the process from RAM and gives its memory space back to the OS. This takes place outside the scope of the program. That is to say the program has no say in what goes on and doesn't even know it's happening. You... |
If torrenting is illegal then how is a site, such as piratebay, still up and running? | Imagine that you're in your house and someone decides that no one can live there any more, there's still an entire country worth of houses for you to move to. It's the same principle with Ip addresses. The courts spend millions of $ wasting time to block one address, so they just buy the rights to another one and just ... |
How is Steam© able to put game sales so low? | Usually the games on sale are slightly old, a few months or even a few years old. Many people who really wanted the game already bought it at full price when it first came out. So the sale price just encourages people who wouldn't buy the game at full price to buy it discounted. This is good for the publisher, since it... |
Why is there no good ready-made queso? | I'm going to assume that you are referring to Chile con queso It comes down to 2 things. 1) most pre-made foods have to be prepared in a way that allows for long term storage before sale. This means there are preservatives and other additives to make sure it keeps. That changes the flavor and textures a bit 2) and this... |
Why does hiking Mt. Everest continue to be such a deadly challenge with modern equipment? | Ok, try climbing Mt. Everest in a spacesuit. A lot of the problems come from weather, getting lost, physical injury and then you can't move and are stuck in the dead zone. No one will carry you, it will be death for both people.The people that climb are not in the best shape and there are people who are fit. But the on... |
Why is booking a nonstop flight pricier than a multiple-stop flight that includes the nonstop flight? | Let's say United has a route from Denver to Milwaukee, and Milwaukee to NYC. Just about every other airline is going to have some routing that gets you from Denver to NYC, so there is gong to be a lot of competition on that route, regardless of where exactly the layover is. United wants your business, so they are going... |
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