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Why do we sleep elevated above the ground? | You say it's more effort to have a mattress, but consider how easy it is for your bed to be right at around hip level. It is easy to climb into and easy to climb out of. Plus the edge is easy to sit on.I would it started as a way to avoid bugs or other animals on you when you sleep, then someone saw you could put thing... |
Why are there so many failed suicide attempts for each suicide death ? | I tried to kill myself, but since I am a pussy and did not dare to commit suicide by throwing myself of a building or in front of a train, I tried to overdose on prescription drugs. Changes are higher that people find you and 'save' you when you try to overdose, than when you jump to your death. So that is one reason. ... |
Why haven't all oil refineries in Daesh terrority just been bombed? | It isn't refined product being shipped that is the problem. It's crude oil, which is the product which goes to the refineries. So bombing refineries doesn't do anything to reduce the outflow of oil, since refineries take in oil and produce Gasoline, Diesel and other products. |
Evolution and mating with ancestors. | the shortest answer to your question and the clearest way of stating it is no these things don't happen suddenly.. It seems to me your more interested in whats stopping reproduction than whats driving speciation. If so I would suggest you look at some of the barriers that stop succesfull reproduction.. _URL_3_ speciati... |
How come Playstation and Nintendo 64 games look mostly on par with one another even though the former is 32-bit and the latter is 64-bit? | The 64-bit processor is interesting, but not as useful as you might think. It does allow the CPU to work with larger numbers and more data, but doesn't always make it faster to do so. The N64 was technically far more powerful than the Playstation, but it was also harder for developers to use effectively. Many of the ca... |
How, while in heavy traffic, the left lane can be at a dead stop while the middle and right lanes are steadily moving. | The right lane makes my commute so much easier/faster. I drive on Chicago tollways and find that when I get onto the tollway there is a race to get across all lanes to the left. These cars are compressed and only 1-2 car lengths apart going 80. This leaves mostly trucks/slower people/me spaced 1-2 truck lengths apart i... |
When I sleep on my deluxe mattress wrong I get a stiff neck. How did cavemen (and humans before us) sleep on the ground without problems? | I actually get back problems when I sleep on any sort of mattress. I've been experimenting with sleeping on the floor, and once you get used to it , it's *super* comfy. It's as comfy as I've ever been while sleeping. |
Why is freedom of speech disallowed in the U.S. for supporters of ISIS, yet is commonly accepted to be a fundamental right for advocates of other extreme groups? | They were not arrested for their speech nor their opinions. They were arrested because they are suspected of attempting to commit a crime. You can talk as much as you want. You can cry out against ISIS detractors. You can even denounce those who arrest ISIS supporters. You just can't make the leap from verbal supporter... |
At what point does my great great great....great grandmother stop being human? | It may sound a bit pedantic, but the point at which this ancestor could no longer breed with a modern human to produce non-sterile offspring. To answer the spirit of your question, as you went further and further back our ancestors would get more and more apelike so at some point they would become unrecognizable as hum... |
Why isn't dental and vision just a part of health insurance? | The separation for the concepts is mostly traditional. It's because your teeth and vision can decay without affecting your overall physical health, as it is traditionally conceived. |
Mutual Funds vs. ETF's & why one or the other might be superior | low returns over long periods of time but with low risk" "medium returns over short period of time with high risk" etc. Obviously there aren't "high return very low risk" because that's not really feasible, but I think that states the idea. They are similar in that its groups of investors pooling their money into a fun... |
Why do all women in Bollywood movies/music videos have (what seems like) the same singing voice? | Vocal consistency reflects popular trends. They sound alike because that's what the public seems to want to hear. I, for one, don't listen to Top 40 on purpose, but when I hear a lot of female pop singers , they tend to sound alike to me. It takes a bold and reasonably talented singer to make a name for him/herself wit... |
What is ISIS fighting for exactly, and why do they have sympathizers? | Their goal is to establish a Sunni Muslim caliphate, a nation led by a Caliph, a direct descendant of Mohammed who requires the devotion of all devout Muslims worldwide. People want to join them because their message speaks to them. Muslims often struggle in non-Muslim societies and they are hopeful of a Muslim state w... |
Is there actually any link between being funny and being at increased likelihood to be depressed. | You ask a compelling question. It would appear that artists in general tend to be more 'sensitive' to the influences of joy, sadness, and pain. Exactly why this is so remains unclear, and testing for it seems impossible. It's a common belief that many comedians have their own bag of secret sorrow , and making others la... |
Why does letting your phone die permanently affect the life of the battery? | Lithium batteries are subject to damage outside of a certain narrowly defined voltage range. However, modern consumer devices all have 'protection circuits' that monitor the voltage and prevent this from happening, so you don't actually need to worry about this. Your phone will turn itself off before damage to the batt... |
Why don't counterfeiters just print smaller bills? | A few reasons: - Economies of scale. It takes time, money and risk to counterfeit bills that are going to pass both casual inspection and further interrogation. Why take the same risk with $500 in tens, when you have essentially the same risk with $5,000 in Franklins? - For small-scale counterfeiting operations, the ob... |
Why do we feel satisfaction when things fit perfectly into places? | There seem to be two key theories as to why this occurs, and they are pretty loose as this is a very niche feeling to study. The first involves seeing objects places in a novel or different way then our minds comprehend. Similar to how when you experimented with Legos or building blocks as a child and created interesti... |
How did we come to accept extremely marked up prices as the norm? | There is so much available to buy, we have no idea of what costs are involved in producing products.If you dont know how certain things are made you dont know what they are worth.We have to rely competition between companies to keep prices at a reasonable rate.This is why government oversight is important.If a few big ... |
How are there really people that believe that the world is only 2,000 years old? | Most likely for a similar reason that you believe the earth is ~4.5 billion years old. Before people downvote to oblivion, hear me out. A person that they hold as an authority has told them that. Most people don't have the ability to determine the age of the earth on their own. I know that I certainly don't. I know tha... |
How (physically) do processors and RAM work? | The basic mechanism of a processor is the electrical transistor. Basically a transistor is like an electrical pipe. Most have an entrance and an exit . The flow through the pipe is controlled by a type of switch . At a very basic level, all computer processors are built with billions and billions of these little switch... |
Why does more calories mean something is unhealthy? | If you eat more calories than you burn, those calories are stored as fat. Therefore, if you eat a meal with, for example, 800 calories you are more likely to be at a caloric surplus and therefore gain body fat than by eating a meal with 400 calories. Of course, you will gain this weight regardless of whether your calor... |
I've never seen banana seeds. Where do new bananas come from? | There are seeded bananas but they're not exactly edible. The ones we eat were selectively bred to have tiny seeds , but this makes them infertile. IIRC, bananas are grown from cuttings. You can do this yourself with some plants at home. You cut off a branch and stick it in some root growth hormone which can be bought a... |
What is the appeal of The Simpsons? | 1) In the early 90s it was a cartoon that appealed to a wide demographic . The storylines about the misadventures and slapstick of a dysfunctional but loving nuclear family were simple enough for young audiences to follow but the wit, satire, pop culture references and long list of memorable supporting characters gave ... |
why is the "L" sound often mispronounced as "R" by certain Asian people? | L" and "D". It's almost like the rolling of the R in Spanish, but not quite. Because of they actually have no native L sound in their language, everything becomes R, which is comical to native English speakers. Engrish is funny.To expand on the other explanations, Because those languages don't natively have the L sound... |
Why is PBS always asking for money when Sesame Street makes so much in merchandise sales? | The actual organization of this is pretty complicated. Lets start with one aspect. Sesame Street is just a show that airs on PBS, its not PBS. It's made by a company called Sesame Workshop, a non-profit. They make about $50M a year selling Sesame Street merchandise. They have an operating expense of about $150M to run ... |
LI5 | Why do you sometimes wake up with an erection? | this is known as [nocturnal penile tumescence] and we haven't been able to find what actually causes it |
Why, when I'm away from home(where I do most of my pooping) do I never feel the physical need to poop? | The human body likes to work in cycles and must work in cycles, there's no other way. Every event needs a trigger preceding it and that trigger may be any thing or combination of things. A process cannot be started by random events that change each time the process takes place, the body relies on these things happening... |
How does Germany having comparatively low cost of living among developed countries, manages to have a bunch of cities with the highest quality of living? | The only thing that is cheap here is food in supermarkets. Germanies food market is highly competitive. . Most other things are rather expensive. A gallon of fuel is ~8$. Taxes are high. Many electronics are at least 20% more expensive compared to the US ), there's universal health care etc Rent in cities has increasin... |
If my mother is 5'3, and my father is 5'10, then how am I 6'0? | Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? |
Construction workers, please ELI5 why miles and miles of highway are shut down when construction isn't taking place | Depends on the time of day you're going through there, as a landscaper we start early and quit early because of heat/sun so they might be working, but you'll never see them", '"2 lanes of road for miles because of a 200 ft" * they probably moving as they work* do you want to stand immediately behind some pylons when ca... |
Why is fat stored on the belly and not on other parts of the body? | In addition to the reasons already pointed out, I think having the lard closer to your body's center of gravity allows us to be less cripled by the added weight, movement wise.It has to do with where the fat CAN be stored more than anything. Your body stores fat everywhere - it pads joints and cushions organs, for exam... |
Why do so many of us hate the sound of our own voice in recordings? | if you want to hear what your voice sounds like to others, get 2 sheets of paper, and put them IN FRONT of your ears, like the guy in this video. I don't know much about the physics of it, but like others say, its very much the acoustics of your skull that make you sound different. [_URL_0_]", 'Does anyone know of some... |
Why is python most popular language in AI? | The first counter question is: Is it? because most AI is written for videogames and most of them are not written in python. ;) But i'm guessing you are talking about AI in the sense of neural networks and such, AI in this sense is really the domain of mathematicians and researchers, this is also where python was develo... |
What is an "itch," really, and why does scratching it feel good? | Let's allow James May to answer this one: _URL_1_", 'Why does scratching a not-itch feel good too?? I think I would rather pay for a 90 minute back scratch than massage |
How Australia went from being a British prison colony to an independent nation. | I don't think that they are independent. They are still ultimately under the British Crown if my memory serves me correctly. I had this conversation with a couple of the Aussies serving alongside us in Afghanistan a few years ago. |
Will it ever be possible to make electronics out of organic/bacteria/living material with Nano technology? | [They're working on it.] I can't find it any more, but I remember reading another article that talks about how a particular type of bacteria had been developed that incorporates larges amounts of conductive inclusions within the cell. They were induced to grow in certain patterns on a substrate which was then heat trea... |
how I can be dead tired the entire 8 hours I'm at work, but the second I punch out, I'm wide awake? | it's like how when the alarm goes off on a workday, you curse, hit snooze and roll over. alarm goes off on a beach day, you jump out of bed barely needing coffee |
Why are glass cutting boards a thing? | At all the people that are saying it's for people that don't understand how to maintain or clean things in general that's an added benefit. Other end? You don't have to spend as much time taking care of the board or risking substances soaking in and potentially spreading bacteria. Also, it can look a lot nicer than a w... |
MH370 Why would someone commit suicide by crashing a plane and killing 200+ people? | Think of those people who shoot up school and other crowded places as part of a suicide attempt. Some people don't just want to kill themselves. |
How come you will start getting brain damage after 6 minutes with no oxygen, but the world record for holding your breath is 22 minutes? | If the brain doesn't get oxygen then it gets damaged, but when holding your breath there is still oxygen in your body, |
The difference between Depth First Search Algorithm and Breadth First Search Algorithm | Say you lost your keys. You think they're either in your desk or a coat pocket. In a breadth first search you would check the surface of the desk and the coat on the outside of the rack you wore most recently. Then if you don't find it, you would check the first drawer on the desk, then the next coat on the rack. In a ... |
How does throwing cigarette butts out the window on the highway (or other roads) harm the environment? | For one, it's littering. Last year, in my city, [they cleaned up 37 *pounds* of cigarette butts in one day.] There are hundreds of millions of people in this country, and our roads would look like hell if everyone through their shit out of the car window. Also, [it's dangerous]. |
How and why do accents develop, even within countries that speak the exact same language? | Short answer is that all you need for an accent is space and time. Space from surrounding language influences and time for the 'quirks' - your dialect - to develop. The longer it stands alone, the more unique it becomes. |
How do deaf people learn speech? | Deaf people are not always born without hearing. It's often a result of an accident or an infection that spread too far. |
How can we tell what colors other animals can see and can't see | It's a surprisingly easy experiment. You train the animals that there will be food released by pressing only the button marked with some color pattern. If they are unable to tell which has the food -- they just push a random button and are not right more often than random -- you know they can't see it. If the reliably ... |
How did women deal with their period in the Middles Ages? | This would probably be a good question to ask over at /r/askhistorians. Just be mindful of the rules, they're very strict. |
Why are all these security laws passing in the UK and how are they not considered an invasion of privacy? | They **are** an invasion of privacy - that's why you're hearing about them. There isn't a guaranteed & absolute right to privacy in British law, so that doesn't really stop anything. |
Why do games cap frame rates? | Depends on game design really. In the past building everything around the fps is the most useful thing you can do. In fact I did just that when I coded my graduation game project. Capping frame rate and building physics around it is easy, it's fast, it's a rock solid foundation. There are examples of many games where f... |
What makes us interested in something? | I don't know, but I read something a while back that talked about how kids are essentially primed to go through school to college without an understanding of what they want because that's life.What the author said was that part of the way we like something is because we experience it and learn about it and like that as... |
Is there any truth to the claim that fluoride calcifies the pineal gland? | The pineal gland is a real thing - a small gland near the center of your brain. It regulates sleep cycles. It doesn't have any magical properties like some new-age crackpots seem to think. The pineal gland calcifies as a normal part of ageing. It's not unhealthy and there's no reason to think fluoride has anything to d... |
Why is it that when you spin around in a swivel chair with your legs out you can gain a quick burst of speed by pulling your legs in towards yourself? | Conservation of angular momentum. A large wheel spinning slowly and a small wheel spinning quickly have the same momentum. If you go from large to small, you'll speed up. You can see a truly extreme example of this when large stars collapse. The remnant can spin hundreds of times a second to conserve the momentum of a ... |
How do some websites offer free returns on unwanted goods? | It's a cost retailers bake into their business model, and it's a trade off for customers not having physical ability to try on or examine a product. So they might pay shipping on a returned good 1/10 of time but that's still cheaper than maintaining a physical network of stores, or more stores, or stores with much more... |
What would happen to the world population if Bill Gates succeeded in wiping out TB, Malaria, and polio? | Probably the number of children per women will go down in many African and other third-world countries. Aside from the fact there's a lack of access to contraception methods women in those countries tend to have many children because of the hi-risk of child mortality and they will need a child to support them in their ... |
How does Grand Theft Auto get away with blatantly mimicking the design of top auto manufacturers? | I doubt the manufacturers mind that much - it's free advertizing That being said, as someone from the UK I could 100% not identify any of the cars real life counterparts. I could identify the cars based on what they looked like in previous installmants - but not their real counterparts. |
How our telescopes can see such amazing distances (e.g. light years), and how we can such accurate information (sometimes) | Just FYI, your eyes can also see light years. Go outside on a dark, clear night and look for the fuzzy thing between the constellations Cassiopeia and Andromeda. You won't need binoculars if it's a clear enough night. You are now looking at M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy, and it's 2.5 *million* light years away. |
How do women leave pee on Toilet seats? And why do they always criticize guys for doing it when they do it too? | It's squatters. If women kicked up the seat, squatted, and kicked it back down, the issue would be resolved. Sitters could sit, squatters could hover, and poor c-store clerks could get through a shift without throwing up in their mouths. |
Why is the middle part of our upper lip indented? | It's where the two halves of your face meet and knit together. Think of it as like the seams in a piece of clothing. If the two halves of the face don't meld properly, cleft lip and/or cleft palate can result. |
Why do so many websites (especially click-bait sites) organize content as slide-shows, in which you have to keep clicking 'next' instead of showing it on one page? | CPM or money per thousand impressions. Getting you to make more page requests increases their money. I hate those sites and immediately leave unless the content is extremely compelling. I also hate sites where a pop-up flies out covering 80% of the screen asking me to subscribe or buy something. That's an instant back ... |
Girlfriend says she walks slower than I do by her having shorter legs than I do. Is this correct or an excuse? | When people walk together, they tend to subconsciously synchronize their paces . Even a slight difference in leg length means a different stride length, and that translates to different walking speeds if the paces are the same. Psychologically, the shorter person tends to drift back a little, then either quick-step or ... |
why does the IRS make it so difficult to understand how to file personal taxes? | A lot of times the explanations on the IRS site can be legalese, often because they are trying harder to avoid making a mistake with very complicated laws then they are to be clear and understandable. That said, the actual IRS organization will often bend over backward to help clarify issues. You can try [calling], alt... |
Why hasn't the U.S. lowered the drinking age to 18 and what would it take? | I'd be good with lowering the drinking age to 18 and increasing the minimum driving age to 18. |
How do dogs cope with snow and freezing feet? | It very much depend on the dog. Sled dogs never have to be inside, while smaller dogs can't spend much time outside. |
Female worker's 77c for $1 study | If I remember correctly it isn't saying that a man and a woman in the same job with the same experience working the same hours get paid differently. It is saying that women tend to go in to less lucrative careers, work fewer hours, and not advance in their careers as fast ", 'They just took average salary for all US wo... |
How does Google make soo much money? | Ads. They don't even have to make that much per ad, seeing as a ridiculous high amount of the worlds web browsing goes through a google service at some point.Advertising, typically through sponsored links, you may have seen this section when searching through Google. These sponsored links typically work via a pay per c... |
Why do diamonds depreciate after being bought, despite being undamaged? | [Diamonds are bullshit] TLDR, diamonds aren't actually rare, but the industry is more or less dominated by a single monopoly, which has decided what they're worth, and marketed the idea enough to make people accept they are worth that much. |
How come most T.V. shows that involve high school kids almost always has the overused "bully vs main character" trope? | Because it's low-hanging fruit and because there's not much else to create drama/conflict in that specific setting. If you're gonna make a highschool story it's gonna be 90% identical to every other one simply because there's not much to work with.Because high school bullies use to be very common . The trope is useful ... |
The purpose of a $1 salary | In Zuckerberg's case, he's been earning lots of money over the years and now he will only earn money through the increase in value of his stock or dividends paid out by his stock. Basically his interests are aligned with those of the shareholders. The Google owners have been doing it for years. Other CEOs earn $1 in sa... |
difference between Republicians and Democrats | Democrats are worried that there are people who need the government's help who aren't getting it. Republicans are worried that there are people getting the government's help that don't need it. |
Horse + Donkey = Mule | Daddy Donkey+ Mommy Horse = Baby MuleMule can't have babies. There are lots of examples of two related species interbreeding. It's tough to understand as humans because we don't have a living cousin. It is commonly believed that early humans would occasionally interbreed with Neanderthals. |
Why are some people so susceptible to believing in conspiracy theories? | It's about control. they feel they have knowledge that the ordinary sheeple does not that they have more control then others, as if they found the universe's cheat code or God's copy of Nintendo power. 1. This is how the average person is being manipulated by the conspiracy. 2. I know these secrets that others don't an... |
Why does the hormonal IUD cause menstruation to stop? | Another question this question brought me to: If you don't get your period from your birth control, and therefore don't rid of the eggs, will you go into menopause later in life than if you had regular periods? |
I see snails appear when raining, but where do they come from, and where do they disappear to when it gets sunny? | > Just a follow up question, does the salt tactic work on snails as well? Yes, and it's super sad because they literally melt away into a blobby mess. I did it once when I was a little kid and instantly regretted it.as long as we are in this frame of mind. i stopped in Guadalajara for a connecting flight and the plane ... |
What exactly is laughing/laughter? | _URL_1_ here's 4 minutes of a great explainer, explaining what laughter is.I 've read palaeoanthropologists that defined laughter as a form of "broken crying". The muscles involved are the same. However they obviously have different meanings in human society. People theorize that crying first appeared in infants as a w... |
Why can't we just make the face value of a penny 2.5 cents? | We already have a five cent coin. There's no need for a 2.5 cent coin as well. |
Why is it generally unacceptable to be barefoot in public places? | How many things do you touch with your hands? Like a bajillion. How many things do the soles of your shoes touch? Like a bajillion squared. How much thought do you put into the things your shoes touch? When was the last time you accidentially stepped in dog poop/gum/puddles/bugs/etc? When was the last time you washed y... |
why on maps showing European demographic data Switzerland usually always shows no data. | Actually, Switzerland has one of the most detailed statistics office in the whole world: [Swiss Governmental Office of Statistics Website]. Why not take a look at the website, you'll see that Switzerland has statistics for just about everything. The thing is that statistical maps are usually made with data from EU or E... |
Does birth hurt for other animals as much as it does for humans? | From my own personal experience with cats who've had kittens they certainly sounded like they were in pain so maybe it would depend on the mammal in question? |
If lead is poisonous then why is it sometimes better to leave a lead bullet I'm someone who has been shot rather than remove it | Lead isn't poison in the same way that drinking drain cleaner is poison. Lead collects in your body and causes problems over *years* of slowly picking it up rather than immediately causing you to get ill. |
If people want to make video games as realistic as possible, why are the distances in video games over exaggerated? | > If people want to make video games as realistic as possible They don't. They typically want to make them as fun as possible.The problem is movement, not the actual movement of the character, but the fact that if you make a character move at a "realistic" speed it is perceived as insanely slow, making the gamers go cr... |
request how do American football players keep their pants on | They wear belts, and they have string ties in the front. They are also pretty tight and don't wiggle very easily. |
Does being in the sun for 30 minutes have the same effect as being in the sun for 5 minutes 6 times (with a pause in between)? | So, to ask a follow-up to the top responses that seem to indicate that continued exposure is the same as staggered exposure, what is the threshold? I would think that the implications for skin cancer are different than sunburn. e.g. I may get a sunburn if I'm in the sun for an hour. If I am in the sun for 10 minutes, a... |
Why some MLB fields are allowed to have longer outfields than others thus making it harder to hit a home run | Contrary to a lot of answers here that claim it's so stadiums can have an individual identity, that's not really true, or at least that's not how this trend originated. Home runs were originally just the name to describe when a player hit the ball so far over the outfielders' heads that they couldn't return the ball or... |
Why is the understanding of nutrition so far behind? | aside from vested interests and dogma, it's astoundingly difficult and expensive to perform useful and accurate long term experiments ethically\u200b on humans. |
When launching a rocket into space, why is leaving the atmosphere at an angle more convenient than going straight up the entire way? | This What If' on Orbital Speed] can give some insight. The point is that you have to move fast to *stay* in space. |
Why do companies care about their shareholders? | > They already got paid And the investors can take their money back at any point. Sometimes for a gain sometimes for a loss. It's not like they gave the company the money. You start pissing off the investors and they'll take their money back and depending on how heavily you rely on that money you could go bankrupt.The ... |
If we can create animals like "ligers" and "mules" why haven't we attempted to create a mix of humans and chimps? | Ethical reasons. We still debate over stem cell research and GMOs. The backlash and outcry caused by such a stunt wouldn't be worth the risk to future funding or careers. It's theoretically possible, though, and might happen some day.[Some have tried]. I think there would be some pretty big ethical problems if it succe... |
renting, owning, leasing, apartments and houses | Owning a house is a lot more work and expense than you think. It's not just some magical free equity you build. Here are some things to consider. * Mortgage payment which is probably more than you'd pay renting. * Property taxes * Repairs, some **very expensive**, including **totally unforseen ones** like a window gets... |
What did Hillary Clinton have to do with the Benghazi attack? | It happened while she was the head diplomat, but not because of any actions she took or didn't take. It was a tragedy that was exploited by the GOP for political gain during an el3ction cycle. Embassy attacks have happened under past administrations and no large scale congressional investigations resulted. It was pure ... |
On what do our eyes focus in pitch dark? | I travelled to Belize in 2006 and we explored a few different caves. Our tour guide told us that the few life forms down there were blind due to no light and their eyes having nothing to focus on. At one point while we were deep in the cave with absolutely no natural light, the tour guide had us all turn off our headla... |
What is an Ethernet cable? | Technically there is no such thing as an Ethernet cable because Ethernet is a protocol for network connections and Ethernet can be used with many different cables and there are even devices that allow you to carry Ethernet connections over a wireless medium. What you're probably thinking of is a Twisted Pair Cable such... |
How did the Birthday Song's melody become the global birthday tune? Even in different languages, the melody is the same. | It's not. Much like a lot of other areas in US culture, it's been adapted to a lot of palces, but it's far from *the* global birthday song. Every culture I'm aware of still has a traditional birthday song of their own, they just also happen to know the American one, too. For example, the traditional Mexican birthday so... |
why is it considered weird to tell your friends that you love them | It's only weird if you're not really that close, or if you say it all doe eyed at an inappropriate moment. Otherwise it's all good.I do it quite a bit -- to male and female friends -- and they often reciprocate. |
How did "Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosy" become a thing? How did we decide to orient almost every knob, cap, lock, etc all the same way? | I don't know the answer to this. The best Wikipedia has is that right hand screws are easier to use for right handed people, and most people happen to be right handed. > By common convention, right-handedness is the default handedness for screw threads. Therefore, most threaded parts and fasteners have right-handed thr... |
Why did Americans used to/still "hate the commies"? Did they hate communism because the Russians were communist or did they just hate what communism stood for? | The US in the early 1900s was already well on it's way to being an industrialized nation. Europe just as far maybe farther ahead. Along with that came the greivances communism was meant to address. Russia was still almost entirely agriarian. They essientially started the industrialization with the communist ideal inste... |
What actually happens when your bare skin is exposed in space? Is the effect instant and/or lethal? | The lack of pressure would make any moisture boil away, on your eyes and tongue for example. You'd have some definite swelling and be very uncomfortable, but you'd almost certainly pass out before Suffocating to death uneventfully. Actually if you ended up back in your spaceship within a minute or so, you'd probably fu... |
What is it like to see with both eyes? | Typically, people with sight in both eyes don't see their nose unless they're focusing on it. The brain just kind of learns to ignore it. Aside from that, depth perception. People with sight in one eye do tend to develop some amount of depth perception just through visual cues like size of objects, atmospheric perspect... |
Can the energy of light be turned into mass? | Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2 basically says energy is mass. It blows my mind because for 32 years I've come to learn that energy like light and mass are two distinct different things, despite knowing this famous equation for nearly that long! It took a YouTube video for me to break down that mental distinction. Do... |
Why people who are executed have their faces covered? | Most methods of killing others result in some kind of physical response by the killed. If we didn't cover the faces, people would probably realize quickly just how fucked up it is that we are doing it and watching with enjoyment.Also too, to relieve the executioner. Think about it, law biding citizen is taking a life. ... |
How are internal bleedings diagnosed and treated? | It's diagnosed by having symptoms, such as large unexplained bruises around the mid section, coughing, vomiting, urinating, or defecating blood, and a distended belly. They treat it by draining the blood out, possibly giving a transfusion and going into surgery to stitch up the source of the bleeding. |
How covering an old tattoo with a new one works? | Generally you just cover the old with the new. Darker colors are harder to cover up, so the artist will have to cover dark colors with dark colors. Of course you can choose a new image it's your body. Since covering dark colors is harder, the new image will be restricted to images that can cover up the old tattoo. |
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