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170k people on _URL_0_ want the resignation of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and immediate reelection of the German Government - is that even possible? | Sure, a new government/elections could be called for but 170k people is not enough. You'd need a majority and that may not be achievable. |
(Michelin Stars) Why do we care what a tire company thinks about restaurants? | Michelin got into the business of rating restaurants in order to encourage car travel way back in the day. They are now the authority. /u/ediba's thoughtful comment leads me to add this: Michelin makes car tires. They make money only when people buy tires. People generally buy tires when their old ones wear out. They w... |
What makes the Tour de France the "Super Bowl" of cycling? | Because: 1) It has the biggest prize money, gets the most press and has the best competition, due to the former reasons I mentioned. 2) It's been around the longest and was the first real multi-week bike race. Tradition/age = importance 3) It comes at a really good time of year. Cycling season starts more towards sprin... |
How are crimes seemingly without evidence actually investigated? | Depending on how lazy the police are, they may not bother with a serious investigation. They'll just do the customary sweep for evidence and asking people in the area if they saw anything. If they are more commited to the case they will search every nook and craney for evidence. Allegedly some forensic investigators ca... |
Why do our eyes go black when we stand up after sitting for a while? | You know how when an elevator starts going up, you feel a little heavier for a second or two? That's what happens to your blood when you stand up: your body goes up like an elevator, your blood feels a little heavier, and for a few seconds more of it than usual flows down toward your feet. For those few seconds, until ... |
why is immortality always gained through a means of evil? | Highlander. You can get it just by being an innocent and 'killed'. Now, admittedly, you have to fight to retain it because other people want to kill you for the prize or might be space aliens on hoverboards or something but still. Like /u/Piorn said, you need conflict for a story.Check out "The Immortals" by James Gunn... |
Why does my heart feel heavy when I'm sad or have a major case of "the feels"? | When things run through your mind, cortisol along with blood flow changes towards emotionally dependent organs .. That's the 'emotion' you are feeling.So, to an extent, the heart reflects emotionality |
Why do people drown? | If you don't know proper swimming technique, it is actually very difficult to keep yourself afloat. Once your head starts dipping into the water, your reflexes do the wrong things for what you actually need to do. Eventually you exhaust yourself to the point you cannot keep yourself afloat. |
How come we never follow-through with our pre-sleep thoughts? | While sleeping, it's the subconscious mind that does all the work. When awake, it's the conscious mind. One can't access the data of the other |
Is there an explanation for trigonometric functions which doesn't rely on triangles or circles? Or are these functions solely explanable by unit circles or right triangles? | Trigonometric functions can be understood as the solutions to the simple differential equation y'' + y = 0. Here y is an unknown function of x and y'' is the second derivative of y. Technically there are infinitely many solutions, but only two linearly independent ones. If you add the condition that y = 0, or that y is... |
What are the advantages of Trams over Buses? | * trams are cheaper and cleaner to operate* bus are limited to road, you can put tracks in places you can't have or don't want roads* there are a lot of disused rail lines, and their associated easements, available for trams* when the tracks are not part of the road, trams avoid traffic and can get people to their dest... |
Why I can buy a new TV for $300, new tablet for $500 but a new phone costs $700? | Notice how your prices went from Largest-- Smallest. If I have a TV, I can have it suck up all the electricity I want. I'm plugged into a wall. Too hot? Add a fan. Biggest answer is probably cost to produce != cost of research. |
Grapes grow all over so why is wine only made in very specific regions? | It's not. Wine is produced pretty much everywhere. Those regions are just where a lot of large producers happen to be. Why the specific regions? Tradition, high soil quality, ideal climate. The regions also act as kind of a brand. Do you want wine from Lincoln, Massachusetts or Bordeaux, France? |
Why is it that we personify Animals/Inanimate objects | It's just the human mindset. The very term Personify suggests shaping something we think of in our minds to have human characteristics. The human brain has a tendency to lump things together, and meaningless animals, bugs, parasites etc, don't have any personal value to us. Therefore we lump them together with other th... |
Plastic bottle caps used to have a rubbery seal on the bottom and now they don't. What happened to them? | Holy shit, I never noticed that those things are gone now! Good call OP. I haven't seen one in years and almost forgot that they existed. Now I won't be able to stop thinking about them, thanks again. |
If you see police abuse (ex. beating an unconscious man) what can you legally do to stop it? | If you see the police performing an unlawful act, you can legally intervene, just as when an ordinary person does it. It is probably a really stupid thing to do. Don't be wrong, make sure you come out on top, get all on tape, and have a really good lawyer. Otherwise you will be going to jail if you are lucky. Not being... |
How do cyber criminals get away with transferring money out of a bank account without a trace of where it went? | One way of doing it that I have heard of is they make their own atm cards, transfer the money to accounts they have set up the cards to work for, then have 'middle men' go use the cards and withdraw the money. They get to keep a certain cut, and they somehow get the rest back to the criminals. These middle men will hav... |
How far into outer space have we gone, and why can't we go farther? | Time, fuel, and money are the biggest obstacles to space exploration at this point. Let's ignore the cost aspect for a moment and say that the whole world gets behind space travel. Things in space are still REALLY far apart. If you want to get there using as little fuel as possible, it will take a while. If you want to... |
Why are there no human-eating birds? | If there had been any, we would have murdered them to death by now. It's a miracle lions are still around. It doesn't look like tigers are going to make it. |
How do huge companies bank accounts work, are they literally like the bank accounts we have? also are the bank accounts with Normal banks or specialized banks? | Pretty much -- they have account numbers, routing numbers, etc. just like your personal account. And if you have your account with a big institution like Chase, large companies will be using the same bank. Fun relevant story: I'm a lawyer, and a partner once told us an anecdote about when he was a young lawyer a decade... |
when thieves steal artwork valued at hundreds of millions of dollars by notable artists like Cezanne, Degas, Monet or Van Gogh that are never recovered, how is this profitable? | It is profitable because the art is not recovered. Thieves don't steal the painting and then look for a private collector to buy it. That would be far too risky. Instead a collector with lots of money an fewer scruples hires thieves to steal the object of their desire. There are talent agents that find thieves with the... |
Why do most job postings refuse to put base pay in their listing? | Couple main reasons: 1. The company starts with a known pay range that they're willing to pay for someone who gets that position. They don't want to tip their hand and potentially overpay by including it in the posting. 2. Keep competing companies in the dark. The hiring company doesn't want competitors to know what th... |
Why is it impossible to travel faster than lightspeed? | I really like this explanation from an old /r/askscience thread: [Why exactly can nothing go faster than the speed of light?] It's very worthwhile. tl;dr: Such is the nature of the geometry of spacetime. |
Why do people not like Robert E. Lee | He was the leader of the side of the civil war that broke away from the country in order to preserve slavery . He was a traitor against his nation, and wanted to literally protect the right to own other people. So that's pretty bad. Maybe not Hitler level, but not somebody to be celebrated either. |
Why are contact lenses so thin compared to glasses lenses when they produce the same results? | It's not about the thickness, it's about the *difference* in thickness across the periphery to the body of the lens. Contacts act like really thin glasses lenses that may not have the same thickness, but have similar difference in thickness. |
Why is it that African Americans account for 13% of National Population in the US yet make up over 80% of crime? | * poverty* lack of education* lack of resources* lack of opportunities* don't know any better* random* boredom* gets out of hand* oppressed* no understanding of value of people* no father figures to guide them* drug culture* thug culture* gangs* need money, so drugs, thefts, violence* disenfranchised* peer pressure* la... |
What actually happens to your body when you consume large amounts of calories (5,000+) within 12 hours? | I don't think that science has an answer to this question, but I'm really curious about the answers given here.. |
the anti-abortion movement in America | Some people think that fetuses are cute babies, and that killing them for your own convenience or social/financial station in life is unacceptable. They literally see themselves as protecting innocent cute babies from murderous selfish short-sighted slut monsters. Consider how you would feel if there was a medical proc... |
How do we know what's on the other side of our galaxy? Past the galactic core. | Since high mass objects bend space, we can use them as lenses. We're so good at this that we can take pictures of galaxies behind other galaxies by using the galaxy as a giant lens. As you can see from the responses, there are a ton of ways to get this sort of information. |
I hate the taste of raisins. My friend on the other hand, loves them. Are we both experiencing the same 'taste'? | There is a certain level where we have to concede that we can never tell if someone else experiences something different than you do. For instance, what if the color I see as red would look blue to you, and vice versa. As long as everything was shifted the same way, there might be no way to tell. These experiences migh... |
Why is albinism such a common mutation in nature? | It isn't. Albinism totally destroys whatever camouflage an animal may have as well as being associated with a host of vision defects. Albino animals have very low survival rates in the wild. However, since it is such a visible mutation, it may appear more common than it is. Albinism is sometimes specifically bred for i... |
What does it feel like to be shot with a gun? | Hasn't happened to me but I would imagine it's a mix of being hit with a hammer and stabbed at the same time |
why weren't tridents popular medieval weapons | Because tridents aren't very good weapons. That Swiss Guard you pictured is not ready to miss with his halberd. He's ready to swing it and chop deep into someone, which you can't do with a trident. Or he could use it like a spear, and if he misses he puts it to the side and pulls it back and pokes you anyway. The tride... |
Why do gums bleed when brushing teeth for the first time in a few days, but do not bleed if you brush daily? | You're developing gingivitis if you're getting that bleeding from not brushing. When you brush every day, you're starting to beat the gingivitis. Just something to remind you of the importance of brushing every day! Losing teeth and gum is way too common in the modern day, and has effects on your overall health . |
How did the first clocks/watches accurately get a second right? | They couldn't, and therefore had to set their clocks and watches on a regular basis. For that purpose, they could simply look at a sundial, which was accurately enough for their needs. The need for accurate and synchronized time measuring only came up with railways and telegraph communications in the mid 19th century. ... |
why do absent fathers supposedly cause girls to become strippers etc? | because fathers present a template for the behavioral aspects of all men. If you are abused, and you never know anything else, then that becomes normal, and you seek out what you understand to be normal in relationships. If you are sexualized by a father, or male father figure, and that becomes your norm, then you seek... |
Why aren't airplane overhead baggage compartments made more secure? | Presumably because the airline industry hasn't asked for it. Their concerns would be: 1. Weight 2. and the need to be able to turn the plane around quickly at the terminal . If they lost a lot of personal injury lawsuits from falling suitcases, then perhaps they would change their minds.Question: Is this assumption bas... |
What exactly happens to the hardware of a CPU when you overclock it? | The CPU completes one line of instructions per clock tick, so the faster the clock cycles the more instructions it can process in a given amount of time. The default clock speed is chosen after engineers spent a lot of time on power / performance tests to find a good speed that doesn't waste too much energy. Some proce... |
is a p value of .53 significant or not? | P values are used when comparing a hypothesis to a null hypothesis. That is, when you want to disprove something, and say it works another way. So, let's say that you aren't sure that they really make as many green M & Ms as the other colors. Your null hypothesis is that they do. Your alternative hypothesis is that the... |
When a business owner sells his/her business, what is the buyer actually paying for? | I don't know specifically about your situation, but businesses still have assets even if they don't have intellectual property. In some cases they may be physical assets like real estate or equipment, intangible assets like a solid brand, or beneficial contracts that the new owner gets to take over. |
how come we have updated data transferring cords like USB, but we haven't updated telephone cords for mainline internet connection? | Plot twist, they have been updated many many times. The only difference is the cables you use for internet are held to a specific standard to be backward compatible which means they all look exactly the same. And those basic phone lines you think have been around for ages, well they've been updated many times too. You ... |
HOW was /u/unidan caught? I completely understand why he was banned. But how he was actually caught remains a mystery to me. | The admins are deliberately mum on this point. If you knew how they caught vote cheaters, you could avoid their tactics. My *hunch* is that, either based on a report or just because of his high popularity, his vote data was analyzed. The admins would have seen that the same 5 accounts kept upvoting his submissions righ... |
Redshift: How do we know the original emited wavelenght? | Each element has its own light signature. When hydrogen is burning, for example the light it emits [peaks at very specific wavelengths. ] So if you are looking at a star that is burning hydrogen, these peaks will be visible. If you are looking at something that doesn't emit light, such as a big dust cloud, then the lig... |
How does very stressful environments such as military basic training prolong bowel movements. | I'm not sure what the diet is like there, but it's probably high in carbohydrates and limited fiber and there's a lot of physical activity going on. The end result of those carbs is going to be as carbon dioxide and water. Quite a bit of the food you're consuming could very well be exhaled and disposed of in urine. The... |
Why is there an 'X' in permanent marker on my dog's lower belly? | it's a mark showing they have been spayed/neutered! I took my puppy into the Kalamazoo Humane Society when i got her in college cause I was a poor college kid and it was cheap and now she has a cool green tattoo in the shape of a line on her stomach near the incision site.I worked in a vets office, and let me help you ... |
why can the outer most orbit of an atom hold only a maximum of 8 electrons? | Each orbital can hold a maximum of 2 electrons each. For the second row atoms like C, N and O the valence orbitals are one 2s and three 2p which gives a total of 8 valence electrons which is where the octet rule comes from. All the noble gasses have filled *n*s and *n*p orbitals, n is the principal quantum number which... |
What would really happen to an astronaut if they removed their helmet in space? | They would die. Air would escape from the suit and from the astronaut and the astrounat's lungs. So oxygen is going to be an issue in a very short amount of time. The skin is pretty good at keeping your insides inside and the outsides outside and the pressure difference, while not especially healthy is something that i... |
My internet download speed is around 105MB per second but torrent download speed is 6.5MB/s. Why is this? | Your internet download speed is probably 105 mega**bits** per second. You're comparing it to torrent downloads measured in mega**bytes** per second. There are 8 bits in a byte so that 6.5MB/s download is a 52Mbit/s transfer. Why don't you get the full 105? There's a bunch of reasons. |
How does rent to own housing work? | The laws vary by State. Here in Pennsylvania it has been used when buyer doesn't have enough money to qualify for mortgage. Contract states that buyer pay owner rent each month with a % going into escrow toward down payment. If at the end of the contract, 1 or 2 years, the buyer defaults the escrow is given to the owne... |
Why you need to drive in a high gear on ice? | I have literally driven millions of miles on winter roads hauling heavy loads and will never put my truck in a higher gear when driving on ice. Here's my own humble and biased opinion why. Using a higher gear while traveling at a lower speed will make it harder for you to spin your tires and lose traction because it pu... |
How babies "breathe" in the womb, and how they switch to breathing air at birth. | Could we keep baby's attached for like 19 years and then make super underwater soldiers with innocent looking mums floating above water? |
What are the "knots" in people's muscles that you feel during a massage? | In short, they are spasms.In ELI5, you know how you flex your bicep to show it off, right? You can't do that with your arm outstretched, right? At least it's not the same.Well, the way muscles work is that they 'contract' or decrease in length and thereby make another bone move. Your bicep, for instance, connects to yo... |
What is Read-Only Memory (ROM) from both a hardware and software perspective? | Sometimes ROM is actually read-only; it is hard-wired and cannot be changed by any means. This is similar to how you can press a CD; the data is part of the physical structure and can't be changed. Sometimes there is EPROM that can be read easily, but requires a different method for writing. There is a physical limitat... |
How come it appears that roadway maintenance workers are sitting around most of the time? | What's fascinating to me is how often questions like this get asked, especially about road construction and fast food and such.. And is often asked quite likely by people sitting around in a cubicle nine to five on reddit. There's this weird expectation that fast food and construction type jobs must be working 24/7 and... |
How did Donald Trump build hotels/buildings with little to no money? | If someone can't pay back a $10,000 loan, they are screwed. If someone can't pay back a $10,000,000 loan the bank is screwed. Trump was broke on paper, effectively, because his massive total assets were exceeded by his slightly more massive debts. But since banks don't want to take a total loss on massive loans, he bas... |
How does banana peel whiten teeth (or is it just a myth)? | It's lemon, lime or orange peels. The acid can whiten teeth but your only supposed to do it for 3-5 minutes, more than that and you can damage the enamel. Also your only supposed to do it once a day for a week. It's like the whitening strips. If you use them too much you can ruin your teeth. |
How come people in America need $15/hr jobs if people from Asia can apparently live off ridiculous wages like $2/hr? | Part of it is supply and demand. The more popular a place is to live the more expensive it is to live there. In Asia, not every place is cheaper than the US. It's actually more expensive to live in Hong Kong or Tokyo vs some American cities. Similar if you look within the US itself. $15/hr is okay for Los Angeles but t... |
What makes veterinary-use medications, similarly used in human medicine, "not for human consumption"? | Medications for animals aren't held to the same standards of production as human medications. They can have more contaminants and don't require the same level of antiseptic/sterility of production. Therefore they are not approved by the FDA for humans. |
How our voices sound different when people can sing in the same tone and volume. | It's the same as with different instruments striking the same note. The pitch of the note is just determined by the frequency of the sound's vibration whereas the quality of the sound is determined by other things such as the material being vibrated to produce the sound. In the case of our voices, that'd represent the ... |
Why do most of the world maps have Europe/Africa near the center? | Master's degree in Geography here. Essentially there are many prime meridians around the world but a large reason why it is where it is is because of the British Empire and ethnocentrism. The Greenwich Meridian was actually chosen on a vote by numerous countries as the central reference point to main map projections at... |
How did prostitutes prevent getting pregnant before there were any contraceptives? | Based on the ages of Jack the Ripper's victims, many prostitutes were beyond childbearing age -- or at least typical childbearing age today, which would be more pronounced in Victorian times. Add that being prostitutes generally brings about STIs, the odds of them still being fertile would be fairly low. As well, withd... |
How do Christians explain the seeming contradiction between the fact that allegedly God gave man free will, but that God also "has a plan" for us? | The Bible doesn't actually say God has a plan for us. The verse people often use is actually referring to God telling the Israelites he had a plan for them, which was to bring Jesus through them. It doesn't mean God has a plan for who you're going to marry. |
Whats with all the spam on smaller subreddits? | I think this is the third week of the serious spam invaders, and I've noticed it picks up on the week-end. Just report it, downvote, and move on. |
Why did many classic musical acts such as BB King, Elvis and Johnny Cash play concerts at prisons and jails? Why don't we see musicians doing this anymore? | And how were they even able to do it? I can't imagine that would be allowed today. |
Gas prices have been on the decline for a while, but why have food prices not dropped, since they were originally raised (in part) due to high transportation costs? | Diesel fuel prices have **not** been dropping, or at least not as quickly as they have been for unleaded gas. If diesel prices dropped more you could feasibly start to see a drop in prices for consumer goods, like food, but it probably won't be as dramatic as when prices increased. Other reasons you are unlikely to see... |
If you fired a handgun in space, would the bullet casing have to be ejected manually because there isn't any gravity or would the gun still operate normally? | As other people have explained the gun would fire and cycle with no issues, but what many people probably don't know is that you should remove all the lubricant before taking it out of the space ship. Any liquid in a vacuum will evaporate so any oils that you use would dry up and turn into a sticky mess that could caus... |
What happens to my brain after I stop taking my anti-depressants (SSRI)? | All I know is it felt like my brain was wired up to the mains. Don't go cold turkey! |
Can someone explain how high profile people can not pay taxes? How would they not be audited or investigated if they're suspicious? | you pay taxes when you get your paycheck. if you didn't get a paycheck, you wouldn't pay taxes. so how can you live a life without a paycheck? let's see what you use your paycheck on: 1) rent/mortgage 2) food. 3) utilities however .what if you didn't rent an apt or own a house? what if a company rents out hotel rooms f... |
How does a crowd support the weight of someone stage diving? | people aren't moving out of the way because there's nowhere to move to. The only option is to catch them tbh. |
Why do most people audibly scream when scared/surprised? | Imagine some sort of pack animal. There's a mother who gives birth to maybe 5 children.Those children all have the mother's genes. Now if a predator comes along and one child animal sees it, it can do one of two things: scream or not scream. If we assume these animals can't kill the predator, even in numbers, then scre... |
Why do I hate the smell of other people's farts and poops but really kind of appreciate mine? | I kind of like the smell of my farts, but definitely not of my shit, but my shit doesn't usually smell very bad, for whatever reason. |
Why don't they teach how to do your taxes (on a basic level) in public schools? | Generally speaking, it's because your parents are supposed to be teaching you life skills, while school is supposed to be teaching you academic subjects so you can be a knowledgeable person and as preparation for a future job. |
How do the ridges and bumps on a record translate to the music we hear? | Imagine a speaker playing music. The cone goes in and out to make the sound. Now, imagine attaching a needle to the base of the cone so that it also moved in and out. Now imagine dragging sheet of wax under that needle. You would be left with a bumpy groove that exactly describes where the base of the cone was at each ... |
Many brands for toothpaste and mouthwash claim to be "whitening" what are these doing (if anything) to make my teeth whiter? | Dentist here. Many toothpastes claim this and they will advertise it massively. However, they will use extra ingredients which don't necessarily 'whiten' your teeth but have abrasives which will remove staining. The safest way to whiten your teeth without damage is from low percentage peroxides which also help remove d... |
Why is iPhone 5s's processor faster than other top-of-the-line Android phones when they have more cores and GHz? | I'm no expert, but I think it comes down to optimization. iOS runs on, at most, 20 different hardware specs. You've got the Iphone, Ipod, Ipad - With its various flavors. That means that the developers of iOS know exactly what each device is capable of, and can tweak the performance of the OS for that device. Android, ... |
Why does my box of Pizza Rolls, labeled to contain 15, semi-often contain 16? | Companies generally err on the side of giving too much. As you noted, nobody is going to complain if their box contained 16, but they would probably start suing if the box only had 14. So the machines are designed to make sure at least 15 get in each box and if that means 16 get in often that's not a big deal because t... |
Why are graphing calculators still so expensive? | Texas Instruments has essentially a monopoly on the graphing calculator market. It holds 93% of the market, with Casio holding the other 7%. Plus, it's an educational tool so most people are willing to spend whatever and most of the buyers are kids' parents or college kids . So basically, because people will buy it and... |
Why is Saturn the only planet in our system with rings around it? | Uhhhh. All the gas Giants have rings, Saturn's are just the most visible. It wasn't until the 70s/80s when Voyager 1/2 discovered that all of them did. Saturn in particular gets its rings from moons that have already been ripped apart, and from ones that are slowly ripped apart by Saturn's gravity. The same is true of ... |
How does my phone, computer, tablet, etc. display the correct time without a data connection after being turned off and back on? | And just to add, this is why some older computers don't keep time their battery is dead. |
Why do humans like to sleep with pillows under their heads, and no other animals seem to care? | I had a pekingese who liked to hump pillows but she didn't care to sleep with one under her head. |
If some CAPTCHAs are digitizing books/text, how does the computer know if we got it right? | The computer doesn't know if we properly digitized a book. But it offers the same word-picture to more than one person and uses the most common response that people have typed in. |
How is the fluid limit in airports an effective security measure? | The original reasoning behind it was that everyone was scared of liquid explosives and flamables. In reallity I notice that I have to spend more money while I'm waiting on my flight.People seem to be just guessing here.First the liquid explosives had been a concern for a long time and the Internet as good as it is for ... |
Why to I have to fight off heavy drowsiness 10 minutes into every meeting I attend? | Yeah, I have this issue too. Once I make it over the 10-15min hump, then I'm good-to-go, until then however, I'm living in nod'sville", 'Because most meetings are run and/or structured badly and are therefore boring. Also, there might be an ASMR aspect. |
Why Pandas don't eat meat if they are supposedly carnivores. | All bears are omnivores, not carnivores. And of all the bears Panda's are especially lazy. They will eat meat, but they don't go out of their way to get it.> Pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even **meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion** _URL_0_', "Mostly because there's n... |
Why do cars need fuel tank caps? | Also I guess I'm just trying to reference the Ford capless tank. I just don't understand why that isn't widespread. |
What's the difference between "end task" and "end process" in windows. Why does "end process" seem to work more often? | Imagine it's a tv. End task is pressing a button to turn the tv off. End process is unplugging the tv. End process works because it's a radical solution. With End task, you still have to expect the button to work correctly. |
Obtaining a separate Identity legally and without getting diagnosed with dissociative personality disorder. | To lie about who you are would be fraudulent. Even if you did obtain citizenship elsewhere, if it was based on false pretenses it can usually be revoked. But you can openly change things about yourself according to the law of the country you are in. For example, in most U.S. states you don't need to do anything special... |
Why does it take so long to transfer files across hard drives? | I think what the OP meant, is why does the movement of many files take longer than copying their files sequentially. This is due to windows copy scheme, which tries to move the files simultaneously. This causes the source and destination hard drives to go crazy because they're copying small pieces of each file. The nee... |
Why were the torture pics taken? (referring to the ones withheld by Obama's administration) | I don't think anyone can properly answer this besides saying someone is sick or just documenting it.You would not believe the kind of things some people are into. |
Why do critics of the Bush administration tend to put more emphasis on Cheney than Bush? | Because they believe that Bush was just a talking head and didn't even fully understand the politics going on. But Cheney was the one that made the decisions, a real eminence grise. |
What's the difference between Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds (DMS), Degrees and Decimal Minutes (DDM), and Decimal Degrees (DD)? | It's just a notational thing, you can easily convert between the three The Washington monument is located at 38°\xa053′\xa022.09″\xa0N,\xa077°\xa02′\xa06.93″\xa0W or 38.889469,\xa0-77.035258 . Both contain the same information just formatted a bit differently. You can convert the decimal degrees into minutes and second... |
Why does the electric company promote energy conservation when its business is to sell electricity? | Often, that's government mandated or supported. In addition, if the supply of energy is becoming constrained, it might be better for the electric compagny to encourage energy conservation, rather than to have to build or buy expensive generating capacity.If the demand is higher than the capacity, the grid will fail and... |
Could the story from the movie Holes about carrying a pig up the mountain each day be possible? | I don't see why it isn't possible, and it is based on an ancient Greek story about Milo of Croton, who supposedly trained for wrestling by carrying a calf on his shoulders every day until it was a full grown cow. As noted by others, in the past domesticated animals like cows and pigs were not as large as the ones we ar... |
LI5: What are the evolutionary benefits to having homosexuals? (aside from dealing with overpopulation) (pax, not trying to be snarky) | Another explanation I've heard is similar to the explanation for why human women live past their reproductive age; it's evolutionarily useful to have grandparents around because they help raise the grandchildren even though they use resources. Same deal with homosexuals; having a few people who aren't reproducing aroun... |
Why doesnt a benign tumour growth have the same damaging effect as a malignant tumour growth? | Malignant tumors do a few things benign rumors do not do. They create their own blood supply, fueling fast growth and drawing resources to them and away from healthy organs. And they invade other tissue, meaning that they can destroy the organs they invade. And they grow much faster than benign tumors, usually, which e... |
Why is the United States giving so much in foreign aid? | The U.S. doesn't spend much on foreign aid, as a percentage of the budget. [Less than 1 percent.] |
Why are you required to move your car in at night in certain US states/counties? | I assume you mean to ask why you can't park on the street or in certain parking lots. Well, it's because late night/early morning is when they are cleaning the streets, they send the trucks out with the brooms/vacuum/whatever to sweep and blow all the leaves, trash, etc off the streets and into the gutters. Parking lot... |
Why doesn't the 4th Amendment protect people from mass surveillance? | Unfortunately you have people who do not believe in adhering to the Constitution's prohibition on certain governmental actions. The Bill of Rights does not grant people rights. When read for its content, it spells out what the government cannot do to diminish rights that people inherently have. We do not depend on the ... |
How likely is it that World War 3 will actually happen in the nearest future and what could be the outcome of such a war on the entire planet? | not very, basically the country's large enough to start one have nukes, which makes antagonizing them to dangerous, also war needs support , and while ignorance and propaganda could be used in the past in the current climate we can access information way faster meaning support for a war would quickly die out . but that... |
Why is the tap cold after you let it run for a while, even in the summer? | Two reasons: 1. The pipes that supply your tap are underground for most of their length, which means they're colder than they would be if they were on the surface. This keeps the water cool. 2. Water is pretty good at conducting heat away from your skin, so when you come into contact with water that's colder than your ... |
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