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How does _URL_0_ work, and has a petition ever succeeded making a change? | I made a petition a while ago on changing the laws for school music lessons, and within a few weeks it had had nearly 10'000 signatures, and had been mentioned by many famous musicians. The council then found the petition and decided to postpone the changing of the law. Edit: Here's the link _URL_1_ |
How do power companies sense and locate a power outage? | In my small town it's still necessary to report outages, the electric company has limited capabilities to monitor them. When they know the general area of the outage, they disconnect power lines to the area one by one to see which one is damaged and then fix it. It's pretty much deduction work. And this is in a really ... |
How did Venezuela go from seemingly normal to in dire straits and starving so quickly? | Venezuela's economy primarily resides on their exports of oil. Oil prices started to decline around the world due to lots of countries over-producing oil as well as a glut of oil sources being used in the U.S. With this increase in supply above and beyond the demand for oil, this causes a price drop. So for countries l... |
Why does life on other planets need to depend on water? Could it not have evolved to depend on another substance? | On Earth, in any environment where there is water, there will be life. It's amazing how life can adapt to any environment with water, no matter how acidic or how hot or how cold or how remote. So, in our experience, life and water are always together. There's no life without water, and no water without life. It's possi... |
with children often indoctrinated from birth into the beliefs and politics of their parents, how do so many individuals end up with the ooposite views of those who raised them? | I'd like to know the figures on how many stay with the parents beliefs, how many reject those beliefs completely, and how many stay with thier parents ideology but only loosely. |
ELI12: What should a person look out for when buying headphones? | The built, the brand, and possible after-sales-support. I'd recommend Grado products, especially Grado SR-60i. |
If camouflage is a crucial aspect to hunting and surviving in the wild, why aren't more animals green, or sky colored? | Because green and blue are colors that stand out very much in all situations except a few. A sky-colored animal would only be camouflaged from someone looking at it from below, at certain weathers. Whenever someone looks at it from above or when it's down on the ground, [it will stand out like a sore thumb.] A green-co... |
Why is Facebook pushing messenger so far as to prevent mobile users from accessing their messages on their website? | I've been really annoyed with this. They are doing this because nearly everyone these days uses a smartphone, and that means access to the App Store or the Google Play Store. The Messenger app provides both more features as compared to the messaging engine in the mobile website, and also brings FB additional revenue. |
Who are the "Kurdish"? And why are their female fighters such a big deal in USA media? | They are a group of people that inhabit connected regions of Syria, Iraq and Iran. They are very pro-western and have long been persecuted in their countries. The reason they don't have their own country is because the British drew the lines in the middle east and they did so quite arbitrarily . I think the women fight... |
Why do random nosebleeds only come from one nostril? | While I can't give a great explanation for the multiple reasons why nosebleeds start, the reason they only seem to come from one nostril is due to the structure of the nose. The nasal bone/septum is the vertical dividing line for the nostrils. The fleshy bit is just cartilage but it quickly shifts to bone. Your nasal s... |
Why do computers have to restart after installing a program? | Not all programs. When they do, it's because they've added or modified system files that is only read by the OS when it starts up. Often, these files are the kind that are loaded into memory only once per session. In some cases, the programs want to modify a file that is locked by the OS or another program. So the inst... |
What exactly is "architecture" in a CPU and how can it make two CPUs with identical specs have different gaming performance? | CPUs are made of tiny tiny parts called transistors. They are seriously tiny, modern CPU's have transistors that consist of about 100 atoms. And there are tons of them, modern CPUs have a few billion. Architecture just means the layout of these transistors. With these transistors, one can make logic circuits, which ess... |
How do scientists get animals to interbreed? | Interbreeding isn't something that scientists do a great deal of. In conservation terms a hybrid animal is useless so it's far more usual to prevent interbreeding.Where it does happen it's generally because animals of different species or subspecies have been kept in close proximity and testosterone is such a powerful ... |
how do the 1% harm me? | By definition, there will always be the wealthiest 1%. The problem is when the divide between them and the rest of the population is so large, and they have too much power it distorts the economy and the government toward their benefit often to the detriment of society as a whole. Historically, societies have done bett... |
Why aren't cars' front lights neon-powered? | I don't think that neon is bright enough, and it requires high voltages which are dangerous and inconvenient to get in a car. Halogen incandescent lights are bright and white enough I would think.It sounds like me that you're quite confused about a few things. First, Neon won't power any lamp. *All* existing lamps are ... |
How come wine aficionados never talk about the buzz? | Where do you live that you don't see alcohol content on wine bottles? I've always seen it listed. As for why wine reviews don't talk about it getting you drunk, it's two-fold: one, because it's obvious to any reasonable person that enough wine will make you drunk, and pointing this out in every review would be a waste ... |
In maths, what is a "function"? | Imagine a toaster. You put bread in, and get toast out - one toast for each bread you put in. That is, one bread makes one toast, two breads two toasts, and so on for as many bits of bread you can cram in there. Since we know the relationship between the bread and the toasts, we can create a function that describes tha... |
Why can a camera see further in fog than human eyes? | Filters on the lenses filter out different wavelegnths of light. Camera sensors can see different wavelengths that you can't. |
How are knives and other sharp objects dulled by weak, soft materials like paper, etc | Paper is actually not weak. It is very strong for how thin it is. Think about tin foil. Similar thinness but much easier to break and bend and tear, and that's metal!", 'Silca content mostly. Present in woods in varying amounts, teak is notorious for wearing down drill bits for example. |
What would happen if the earth rotated the opposite direction tomorrow? | > Lets say for about 1min, 1hour and 1 day. Would we all die or would nothing happen at all? It would be super concerning whatever the duration but assuming momentum is taken care of even an entire day wouldn't be catastrophic. The big issue would be long-term weather changes from the changed rotation and even a day is... |
What would happen if we didn't remove the air bubble from syringes? | The heart is fundamentally a pump, if you were pumping water out of a ditch and air got mix into the pump with water, the sudden changes in fluid medium would cause various pressure and flow changes that could potentially damage the pump. I guess that's a layman's way of looking at it haha.One thing not mentioned yet i... |
The California drought is leaving rivers and lakes with less and less water, where is that water going? | As you suspected, it is evaporating. And yes it's entering the water cycle again. But if it doesn't rain in one place, there wont be any water there. So a change in weather patterns might mean some areas get more rain wile others get less. |
Why is the fact that the Antimatter atom is 'measured' for first time so important? | It's one thing to know that anti particles exist, it's another knowing that they function together as expected. It would be like knowing that you have all of the pieces to an engine, but they are all lying around independently, then someone comes along and puts them together and they work.Because it would be revolution... |
Who is George Soros? What does he do and why so many people dislike him? | Soros is a billionaire who funds political movements in line with his ideology and business interests. Some dislike him because they disagree with his ideology. Others dislike the idea of wealth being used to influence politics. Others still simply dislike the fact that he is a foreigner who actively influences America... |
The difference between producer, executive producer and director in movies | Well if we relate it to building a house: The Executive Producer is the one who gives the money or some part of the money needed, along with their name, to attract the right builders and contractors to get the job done. It's common to see big names attached as exec producers on projects you would never imagine them wor... |
What's the difference between Gram + and Gram - bacteria? And why are ones + and other -? | Developed by a Hans Christian Gram a Danish bacteriologist a Crystal Violet Stain can be applied to bacteria. Those that retain the stain are Gram positive those that do not are Gram negative. It's used as a first step in identifying bacteria types |
Why can some animals, like dogs and cats, fall asleep so much faster than humans can? | They can't. Some people fall asleep faster than dogs and cats, some don't. But apart from standard variance dogs and cats do not fall asleep faster. |
Why we require license for alcohol but not for cigarettes (when in fact the latter has same bad effects)? | I'm not sure. But in Portugal you need different permissions to sell both. To buy it's a bit different. Usually people dont ask for ID's unless you are obviously younger. They are very strict with drunk people however. |
Why is a CPU so small? | You've heard people talk about how many gigahertz their processor has, right? That's a measure of how many times per second the clock in the processor ticks. Each tick, your processor can move data one step down its internal assembly line. A one gigahertz processor ticks one billion times per second. In 1 billionth of ... |
Why do people get addicted to drugs but not to stuff like work and studying? | Funnily enough, there are people who get addicted to work and studying. Addiction has something to do with dopamin release in your brain, as in, when something you do or take makes you feel good, you subliminally want to do/take it again and your response to being able to do/take that thing or not changes over time, ma... |
Why are border cities almost always bigger on the Mexican side? | There are a couple reasons. As for Mexico:1) climate - it's the farthest north from the equator within Mexico2) commerce - there are a number of factories used by US factories positioned near the border 3) commerce - drug running. :) As for the US: 1) climate - no incentive2) commerce - no incentive3) drugs - disincent... |
What is a VPN? Should I use one? Which one? | You are wired in to the internet 24/7 and you love the way it feels. If you have ever been online and felt that somebody is watching you, then you are not mistaken. That is the NSA listening to your phone calls, reading your emails and watching your posts on Facebook. The NSA's Prism program is NSA's international data... |
What would happen if a body were lost in space? | Assuming the body is far enough from the Sun, it would eventually freeze. Space is a vacuum, and a vacuum has no temperature, but an object in space, unless it is heated by a star or can heat itself will eventually cool and freeze as heat radiates away from it. Whether the process would take enough time for the body to... |
How do so many people deny climate change? | Some people are stupid, some people are greedy, and some people take a stance opposite of what certain people are saying because of partisanship and an instinctive reaction. Don't forget the people that say something about climate change are by and large also the people that say things about gun rights, gay marriage, p... |
Why don't our bodies cope well with cold weather? | Your body is basically a maintained chemical reaction. Million of different chemical reactions are taking place in your body right now and they all have a ideal temperature range. If your bodies goes below a certain temperature these reaction can't continue and you die usually because your heart ceases to beat. |
what happens if a man were to swallow a contraceptive pill, once or for multiple weeks? | Well, you wouldn't have to worry about getting pregnant More seriously, it would result in elevated female hormone levels but probably the effects would not be that high. |
My mom keeps sending chain emails about how the Affordable Care Act will cause a doctor shortage. Can someone ELI5 how valid this argument is? | It's kind of like saying there will be a lifeboat shortage if we let poor people get off the titanic. and that the lifeboats they do get on will sink because they're too heavy. So letting them onto the boat is bad. The system is already broken. |
So out of no where when you get the horrible stomach ache that lasts for 10 seconds and goes away like nothing happened, what happened? | According to my doc, intestines are very sensitive to being stretched in one direction, and gas tends to bloat it that way. Most likely, you're just moving some gas from one area to another. |
Why can you only keep chicken in a fridge for 1-2 days? | 3-4 days isn't going to hurt you. The 1-2 is just the recommended amount of time set by the FDA. As long as it doesn't smell, look and/or feel funky you're good. |
The laws of physics allow for donut-shaped planet. | Well, the good thing is that donut shaped planets allow for rectangular maps a lot better than spheres do! As for physics, anything with weight has a gravity. To simplify things, usually only the center of mass is used for calculation but in reality that's not the case of course. The gravity comes from every bit that h... |
Why does it hurt our eyes to look at the extremes of our vision? | It's because the eye is a ball connected by a thread of nerves to the brain.I'm fairly sure that it's because stretching the nerve thread that causes the pain |
Baby boomers? people keep saying therell be a boom in deaths but when will we notice this? | The Boomers are currently in their late 50's into their late 60's. So, not really peak dying age. Wait about 30 years and you'll probably change your mind. |
What is "4th Wave" Feminism and how is it different than "3rd Wave" Feminism | From my admittedly scarce research, [it's a troll]. 4th-Wave feminism was the 'force' behind recent attempts to frame 'bikini bridges' and self-cutting as feminist acts. |
Why do we give criminals who committed horrific murders a choice of last meal? | Basic humanity. Extending kindness to those who don't necessarily deserve it is a part of that. It's also the same reason why we don't steal things just because we can't afford them, or shoot people who aren't trying to kill us. |
Why doesn't the U.S. just buy all the opium from Afghan farmers rather than trying to force them to grow crops that are less profitable? | The US government would at that point be artificially propping up the Afghan economy. Essentially this only a viable solution for as long as the Americans are willing to stay there, which isn't much longer. The second the Americans decided to leave the economy would collapse. The chief issue for Afghanistan is simply s... |
Why can't we use Coca-Cola's global distribution system to end world hunger? | Because it belongs to coke, and it costs money to run. Money which isn't earned by giving food to people who don't have money. It's not that we are unaware how to bring products to Ethiopia, of course we know how to do that, just fly a plane in.Mostly because, even "bad guys" like Coke. Food is used as a weapon in many... |
Why do news anchors and politicians say "an history" instead of a history? | o" is a vowel so "an" is used. In "a historic" historic is pronounced "historic |
How does simply observing a particle (like in the double slit experiment) change the way the particle interacts? | By the many worlds interpretation it's an illusion. It's not the particle that reacts to your observation. It's your consciousness that splits for the many possible results of that observation. Before you observe there's only one consciousness of yours even though there are many results, when you observe there will be ... |
Why do shows like Parks and Recreation use seemingly shaky cameras? | Like *The Office*, I believe Parks and Rec is a 'documentary' so that camera shakiness adds a slightly more authentic feel |
Is there anyway, shape or form in which communism and/or socialism (or even some combination of the two) could work in the real world? | Don't mix Communism and socialism. Many European countries are socialist, and they seems to work well", 'Of course. If there was no scarcity. If we had an unlimited or abundance of resources. And also if people evolved past greed. Think Star Trek universeSure. There are active, functional communes right now; the twin o... |
Do radio stations receive feedback from my car so they know when I listen to their station? | No. AM/FM radios are receive-only. It is also my understanding that subscription Satellite radio services are receive-only too. The only type of radio service that allows the radio 'station' to monitor what you're listening to is an internet-based radio service. Apart from that, all listener/audience measures are estim... |
a bullet dropped from your left hand and fired from a gun in your right hand both hit the floor at the same time. HOW!? | Shit, I though you meant dropping the bullet and shooting the ground with a gun were equal, took me while to realise that's not what you were saying.The forward movement is completely independent from the downward movement. As long as there is no upward force on the shot bullet it will drop at the same speed as the dro... |
Why when you get really drunk, you begin to see "double"? | Alcohol has a couple major effects on the body. One of them is altering function of the vestibular system. The vestibular system comprises one of the three main systems for your body identifying where it is located in space, the other two being your visual input and your proprioceptive input. When you skew one of these... |
Why did most people hate emo during it's prime? | When actual emo was actually in its prime not too many people were into it then. It had nothing to do with makeup, hairdye, piercings, cutting yourself or any of the other countless things the 'emo' of recent days is supposed to be.Because emo was narcissism disguised as depth. |
Why do most sunglasses have plastic instead of glass lenses? | A lot of actual 'glasses' have plastic lenses these days as well. Not only is it cheaper, but it's also lighter, safer , and some plastics have a higher [refractive index] than glass, which means for a given prescription strength, the lenses can be thinner. The last of these doesn't apply to non-prescription sunglasses... |
With 125 million people working in the USA, why do we get huge amounts of national news coverage concerning a factory that will provide 130 jobs? | So a factory opens, and it hires Alex, Aaron, Amy, Abby, and Ashandra. They're all making decent middle-class money, and they buy houses and major appliances. They go out to eat every now and then. They employ a lawn service. Now all the guys they buy that stuff from, Bob, Betty, Brian, Boadicea They're all suddenly in... |
Why was Inside (the game) so critically acclaimed? | unique puzzles and mechanics made it an objectively good game if you're into that genre. the atmosphere and the artwork was what made it special to many others who dont usually enjoy puzzle platformers though |
How exactly does human regurgitation (vomiting) work? | There are several causes of vomiting, all with their own input systems, including: * Vestibular system that sends input to the brain to induce motion sickness* Cranial Nerve X stimulates the brain called the gag reflex* Irritation of the stomach lining sent signals to the brain via the vagal nerve and enteral nervous s... |
How is the universe a hologram and what does that mean for me as a person? | My personal interpretation is that reality at its most basic level cannot be 'truly seen/understood' because we are a part of this 'hologram' - its analogous to a video game character. I mix this with my very basic and simplistic understanding of the Tao te Ching - we are at our core a bunch of vibrations and we 'tune'... |
How does Audi's "diesel from air & water" process work and why isn't it our environmental salvation? | I'm going to voice the dissenting opinion here and say this is a potential godsend, depending on how inefficient it is. The problem with switching over to electric is that the infrastructure isn't there and switching over will be a long, expensive process. This gives us a way to help support the old while we develop th... |
Why is the idea of infinity such a hard concept to fathom? | Because our mathematical intuition is geared toward small, finite quantities. Infinity doesn't fit into our intuition, so we can only reason about it by thinking formally. The same is true for very large finite numbers. Perhaps, if we stretch our minds, we can conceive of seven billion people, or a GDP of 15.7 trillion... |
What happens to money obtained in a drug bust? | Depends on your country! In the UK evidence belongs to the coroner, so they decide what gets done with it. I believe it tends to go 'to the crown'. |
Why do so many subreddits frown upon self promotion/OC, especially those for artistic mediums such as music? | I think most redditors don't like advertisements, or being advertised to via posts. If you post in a way where people PM you if they can buy something, that's what gets you sales. I don't know how to do that because I've never thought about it until now, you seem smart enough, I think you could figure it out easy enoug... |
How does caffeine make me stay awake? | In your brain, there are chemical sensing molecules that react to different hormones, vitamins, and foods to see what your body needs to react to. Drugs like caffeine interact with these molecules to make your body do different things. What Caffeine does is plug up the sensor for a hormone called adenosine, which tells... |
What makes creating your own operating system so complicated? | There is so little need for new operating systems. For almost all practical purposes, it's far easier to modify existing operating system to suit your needs, than it is to build a new one. And don't think it's just Windows either, even outside the Linux and OS X, there are tons of special purpose operating systems whic... |
Why football leagues sell players as opposed to trading players like in American football. | Trades wouldn't make sense for most football transactions since they are in different leagues on totally different tiers. A superstar club like Real Madrid might buy some rising star from a random Mexican team. It makes more sense to take the transfer cash and use it how you see fit. |
why aren't prescription sleep aids acceptable for long-term use when things like antidepressants are? | Sleep aids may make you go unconscious, but they don't result in the much need healthy sleep. Normal sleep is very important therefore it isn't healthy to relay on slleping pills. Furthermore issues with people abusing drugs may arrise. |
How is Japan able to make games for just Japanese people and have it still be profitable? | Development time for those games is often much lower than other games you'll probably end up comparing them with meaning they cost much less to make. Japanese people are the vast majority of their target audience and hence it would be cost prohibitive to translate the game for other markets. |
How do power outages happen when too many people are using electricity? | Electricity is carried by current through wires and transformers. When too much electricity is being used, the parts of the system used to carry that electricity reach their safe limits. More current causes overheating. High voltage lines sag and can short out. Transformers overheat and catch fire. Even if the transmis... |
How does wind power work? It just doesn't seem like there would be enough wind to propel a turbine. | Most of industry used to be run on wind power, and we've gotten massively better at making turbines efficient. Fossil fuels only seem cheaper because most of their costs are paid not by the consumer, but by later costs caused by the pollution. |
What's the difference between DirectX 9 and DirectX 11? | Think of DX9 and 11 as instructions to a calculator, as time passes calculators get better, so you need a new instruction book to work with a new calculator, while you can use the old instruction book it won't tell you how to use the newest best features that new calculator has to offer. |
Why is chemical warfare considered inhumane, and demands international intervention, while other types of weapons that also kill people are allowed? | You can't contain and control chemical weapons. Chemical weapons can spread via water, wind, etc. and have major effects on the environment. Similarly to Nuclear warfare, if we were to continuously use chemical weapons the world would probably be inhabitable by now. |
Why do we sound so different when hearing a recording of ourselves vs hearing ourselves talk normally? | When you talk you're hearing your voice modified through the vibration of your entire skull and ear structure. It's a deeper and more complex sound profile. When you hear a recording you're hearing what you actually sound like . |
What has made marijuana so much stronger today than 10 years ago? | People that wanted to get high re-planted the seeds from the plants that got them the highest. This is called artificial selection. It's used all the time for both crops and livestock. Additionally, plants that are grown better tend to produce more flowers, which is where the THC concentrations are the highest.Along wi... |
Statisticians of Reddit, ELI5: fallacies in the argument for GOP "vote flipping"? | Standard practice for this hypothesis would be to run a regression of Romney's vote share as the dependent variable, with independent variables for precinct size, and a bunch of controls - if precinct size came back significant after controls , there'd be something going on. The fact that the report is based around the... |
How did the crash of the mortgage markets result in people unrelated to the housing industry losing their jobs? | Banking crises can have flow on effects because of how integral banking is to modern business. For example, lots of businesses borrow money on relatively short timescales to have the cashflow to pay employees. When the banks get hit by a crisis and don't have enough money available, they can't lend out money. Borrowers... |
What does the game engine do for a programmer | It provides you a framework for creating the game - encapsulating a bunch of stuff game writers need to do commonly that are not developed robustly in the underlying programming language. For example, C++ is a powerful language, but it has no notion of physics. The physics engine in your game engine creates a whole lay... |
How does Little Caesars stay competitive when they don't deliver/keep their prices low? | Because they have pizza sitting ready to go all the time so you can just show up and take a pizza to go, and they're really, really cheap. I think you're underestimating how cheap they are. Around here, they're about half the price of a pizza chain that delivers even before you consider delivery fee and tip. |
How can someone take your card information and then try to make a purchase, without physically having your card with them? | When you use your card online, do you really need to have the physical card with you? These thieves make purchases online, where all you need is the information held on the face of the card itself. You don't have to swipe or use a PIN when you order a pizza or make an Amazon purchase. |
Why aren't abandoned homes/apartments automatically filled with the homeless? | Legal issues. Such as: How do you evict the homeless person when there is a willing tenanent to rent the place? Some jurisdictions require notice, move out dates, etc. What happens when the homeless person has an accident on the property? Most apartments require the renter to have renter's insurance. Would the homeless... |
How can a court order someone to pay ridiculous sums of money they'll never have? | A person's ability to pay has nothing to do with how much damages they are liable for. In smaller cases, after the dollar amount of the damages are set, the parties involved can then negotiate reasonable payment arrangements; seldom is the full amount actually paid.its the same reason they give people nonsensical priso... |
How can identical twins look different when they grow up? | Life style changes. When twins are growing up, they are living in the same household, eating the same food, engaging in similar activities etc. when they are 40, one could have been a heavy smoker for 20 years, or 1 could have been on a Vegan diet while the other ate McDonald's every day. One could have worked in a pro... |
the Tor project, onions, and the so called deepnet. | Could anyone provide a little more information on the deep web . I've heard a lot about it and tinkered in Tor, on the silk road, etc. but have gotten too nervous and logged out. I've heard horrific things about live torture and stuff. A lot of DDoS attacks originate from coordination on the deep web, am I wrong? I cou... |
Are today's unheard fuel prices hindering progress or funding in alternative energy fields? | It could go both ways, honestly. It could make it so that people don't want to buy a new car, since it isn't overly expensive to keep driving the car they already have. On the other hand, it can help people transition to the less expensive vehicle options, since they'll have more money they can save and put to purchasi... |
so many self-diagnosed autistic people are showing up on tumblr, but how do they know they're autistic without a formal diagnosis? | It's tumblr, what else needs to be said? They go on WebMD pick out a few symptoms hop on good'ol tumblr then boom attention.It's a silly way that some people use to justify their personal situations. Whether they are quick to anger, have a tough time learning something, or have irrational fears, these people are *looki... |
What causes baby booms? | Baby Booms are generally caused by rapid increases in quality of living or when a large number of SO's spouse has been away for a long time . 1. War. After both the first and Second World War baby booms occurred because well, millions of young men were gone for a long time and had just survived a war and came back to t... |
How does C14 dating work? | Carbon 14 is an unstable isotope of carbon that has 2 extra neutrons. This special form of carbon is the result of bombardment from cosmic radiation. It combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to for carbon dioxide And plants and animals breathe this stuff and as a result have a certain amount of carbon 14 in their syst... |
What happens to insects like bees getting carried away by vehicles? Do they die because they can't find their colony anymore? | Follow up question: what about the common fly? They're not part of colonies, do they just go on in their merry way looking for food and stuff? |
Why can't we put solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbines on top of a Tesla to allow it to run indefinitely? | > Wouldn't a turbine tilted at about 20 degrees on the roof of the car generate substantial electricity? Nope. Not compared to the electricity used to move the car in the first place. > I get that maybe with all this you might not get enough power to drive forever, but at least if you got stranded your car would be abl... |
why do cars depreciate and houses appreciate? | We can't mass produce more land for houses. What we have is all we'll ever have, at least on this planet. On the other hand, we are *really good* at producing more humans who need land with houses. |
How do enemies not hear an apache (or similar heli)? | Shooting missiles? The hellfire missiles they carry has a range up to about five miles. They can fly as high as about 20,000 feet or just under four miles up. But when firing missiles you want to be far enough away that the missile has a nice gentle slope to it's flight rather then just being really high up directly ov... |
Why is puplic speaking such a problem for so many people? | Not a psychologist here, but I think it just comes down to humans being such social creatures. For many people, social consequences are just as bad as physical ones, and they have just as much impact on our lives. Combo that with a fear of the unknown , the personal investment nature of speaking , and then the pressure... |
Why military forces use standard-capacity magazines for their rifles if there are magazines with much higher capacity? | It had a lot to do with reliability. There are larger magazines out there, but they can lead to jams. As technology improves they expand the capacity. During Vietnam soldiers carried 20-round magazines. There is also the logistics of fielding higher capacity magazines. You can't just consider the magazines, but also th... |
What do Americans traditionally eat for Christmas dinner? | America is too multicultural to have a set Christmas dinner. I've been to Xmas dinners in Italian American homes where they served 21 courses of seafood based on the traditional Feast of the 7 Fishes in parts of Italy. People eat what their ancestors ate. Thanksgiving has the traditional dishes because it was a harvest... |
why are board games so popular on kickstarter? | everyone has game ideas, board games are easy to prototype, and with their low material costs, the product has a good chance of making it to the market. compare this to something like a videogame. high production costs, they dont really come together until the very end, and with years of development, it's easy for them... |
Why does the use of medicines increase bacterium mutation? Surely they would mutate and change regardless of our medicines? | The use of medicine does not increase the number of bacteria's dna mutation. And they change, mutate and share dna regardless of our medicines. They can even fuck a corpse of another bacteria and get their dna. Bacteria are fucked up. |
Why do people hate Edward Snowden if he blew the whistle on NSA surveillance? | He blew the whistle on NSA surveillance which was a collective win for the world.BUT. He stole thousands of files, many of which were not relevant to the PRISM program, and handed them over to journalists. Among the files were information dealing with how tabs were kept on terrorists in foreign countries as well as cou... |
How does the Voyager not run into anything? | On the one hand, there's practically nothing out there for it to run into aside from some bits of hydrogen. It's passing thousands or millions of miles away from anything it could conceivably run into. Some very smart people launched it in a trajectory that would keep it away from the planets, as that's really the only... |
Why shouldn't I use q-tips to clean my ears? | a) you can poke yourself in the eardrum, which you really don't want to do. b) your ears are supposed to be self-cleaning - just wipe away and excess from the outside c) however hard you try you'll be pushing a wall of earwax ahead of the tip, which eventually forms a wall, which makes you deaf until you get it washed ... |
Why would a youtube video only be blocked in Canada, Australia, and Japan? | Could be automated, IP laws work different in different countries. Could be the uploader just doesn't like those countries. Could be that it was reported as inappropriate in those countries. Could be that idiots don't know how VPNs work and make futile attempts to region lock things. |
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