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If we looked at something 14 billion light years away, something that existed during the time of the big bang, what would we see? | Also, because the universe is expanding, something that's 14 billion light years away is actually much younger. The observable universe is about 90 billion light years across. |
What exactly does insect spray do to bugs? | It's a nerve agent. It stops their nervous system working, and then they die due to their body not being able to keep itself alive. |
If someone who is in a coma gets sick, do they cough? | No, they don't. They probably aren't breathing on their own so the tubes would get in the way anyways. But even those reflexive actions aren't functioning in a coma. |
Why is liberalism and left-leaning correlated with education? | My hat: It's pretty easy to see, when you're educated and paying attention, that the GOP doesn't really care much for people. They only care about business. They cynically use key issues like abortion to wedge people into thinking you MUST vote for me or you are for baby murder. Just don't pay attention to me dismantli... |
Does the U.S. ever "counterattack" after Russia or China hacks into one of their state computer systems, such as today's hack of the Pentagon's computers? | Is it considered a counter attack when you've been doing it for a while now? Can't say I know the US does it with 100% certainty, but come on, really? You don't believe we already do? |
Difference between Law of Segregation vs Law of Independent Assortment | 1) Mendel's law of Segregation states that two alleles for a particular gene segregate from each other during gamete formation and end up in different gametes. 2) Mendel's law of Independent Assortment states that each pair of alleles segregates independently of other pairs of alleles during gamete formation. In other ... |
Why, if I feel full eating one meal, don't I feel full if I eat a different meal that has the same number of calories? | Totally not a doctor or anything but could part of it be density of calories? ie: 400 calories of celery is a lot more food than 400 calories of a steak. Again I'm guessing and have no medical background but that was my initial gut instinct. |
Hey, why you americans throw your shoes on electric lines? | Because that's what you do when you bully someone. You tie their shoes together and throw them on the power line.Three reasons: 1. They are something that you have with you when you are drunk.2. They do this cool "bolo" thing when they wrap around the lines, which is incredibly funny and entertaining when you are drunk... |
Why does water go in a circular motion when going down a drain? | It doesn't have to. Toilets swirl because the jets under the bowl spray water on an angle. Some sinks swirl, depending on the angle of the sink basin. But if you dumped a 5 gallon pail of water into a toilet, it would flush, but it wouldn't swirl. The reason some drains swirl is to increase the flow velocity, thus incr... |
What's stopping large corporations from leaving the country if taxes increase or tax breaks decrease? | Companies located abroad are taxed by the United States on that portion of their income they generate in our country. Although by moving abroad companies might receive more favorable treatment for income generated elsewhere, they wouldn't escape U.S. taxes this way. |
What would someone on the moon see during a lunar eclipse? | A lunar eclipse is where the Earths shadow blocks sunlight from the moon. So I think, if you were on the Earth facing side of the moon, you'd see a 'Solar eclipse'- with the Earth blocking the Sun. If you were on the other side of the moon, it'd just be 'lunar night.' |
How is priority decided for cases in a Court of Law ? | Strategic lawyering. It's primarily based on which case came in first, but the prosecutor has some say: high profile cases can be expedited. Judges deal with certain types of cases- family court, tax court, criminal, etc. Depending on the area of the country, different courts have different case loads. In my city, we h... |
Why is it so hard for someone to change a belief even when there is irrefutable proof against it? | Because the [persecution complex] get stronger with irrefutable proof. The human brain can't handle a change of belief, the amygdala can't distinguish an ideological attack from a physical attack, so basically, inside our head, the risk of losing a dogma is like the risk of losing an extremity, we'll defend it aggressi... |
What about frying otherwise healthy food makes the result unhealthy? | EVOO is healthy-ish. It is 100% fat. A tablespoon of bacon fat and a tablesooon of EVOO both have the same amount of fat and Calories. Don't get me wrong, EVOO is way better for cholesterol and unsaturated fat, etc. The point I am trying to make is that EVOO isn't really a health food. By the time you fry something, yo... |
How is not fundamentally undemocratic that the entire population of Wyoming (~580,000) has just as much power and representation in the Senate as the entire population of California (38,000,000)? | It is undemocratic. No one is outraged because the Senate isn't designed to be democratic. It's designed to give each state equal power, no matter how large or small they are. So, it's operating exactly as it was designed to in the Constitution, as a counterpart to the proportional House of Representatives. To change t... |
WHy does the US have to have buttons for crosswalks? | Usually there is a sensor in the road that allows the light to gauge the number of cars. It will turn green for one car, but not for long enough to walk across safely. If there are many cars, it stays green longer. If a person walks up and just waits, without pressing the button, they can be short-tripped by the green ... |
Why do we gain weight faster on a daily 500-calorie surplus and lose weight slower on a daily 500-calorie deficit? | Your digestive system is not 100% efficient. If you eat fewer calories, your digestive system increases its efficiency to pull more calories from the food you eat. As a crude example, if your digestive system normally works at 66% efficiency, then it pulls 800 calories out of every 1200 you eat. If you diet and eat onl... |
Why do some people get specific side effects or symptoms and others don't? | If anyone could answer this question accurately and precisely, they'd be the most famous doctor of all time! In the less precise sense, its because we are all slightly different. Exact chemical make ups, and dna makeups are never the same. They vary on so many little factors. Thus someone might have the wrong gut flora... |
Why do we need credit cards, if debit cards can have overdrafts? | Most debit cards have small overdraft protections of a couple hundred dollars, and charge an overdraft fee for using it that kicks in the moment it's used. So you have $99.50 in your account and buy something for $100 then you have to pay the, say, $20 fee for overdraft protection and interest on that money until your ... |
What is a proxy, how do I get one and why do I want to? | Basically it makes so people can't track your IP address and trace downloads or other browsing back to you. |
I've heard it said that one major problem with healthcare in the US is that we pay far more for drugs and procedures. Is this true and if so, why? | It is true. [Here's] a wonderful video that explains the mosaic of issues that is the US healthcare system |
Is mixing amonia ex (dog urine) with bleach actually bad for you?? | Urine and bleach, probably not. Actual ammonia and bleach? You've just made Mustard Gas. That shit will melt your lungs in a matter of minutes. |
Why does awesome food become stale and distasteful when eaten too often? Shouldn't good food logically always be good? | You crave certain foods based off of what your body is needing. You see this in nature with animals licking salt deposits or eating odd things, there's a natural drive to get what you're low on. Eating the same thing often, you are fulfilling what you needed, and when you continue to eat the same thing you no longer ne... |
What is the difference between Xbox One and a Computer if Xbox one is based on x86 architecture? | There's a lot more to a computer than just the CPU architecture. It's hard to come up with good examples today but if we go back to the 1980s we can come up with some good examples. A very popular CPU in the 1980s was the 6502. It was the basis of the Commodore 64, Apple II, Nintendo Entertainment System and the Atari ... |
NASA Engineers just communicated with Voyager 1 which is 21 BILLION kilometers away (and out of our solar system) and it communicated back. How is this possible? | I didn't read all the comments before replying, so I apologize if anyone has already mentioned this, but a key factor in digital communications is the energy in the received signal, not just the power used to transmit it. These two quantities are related by the amount of time it takes to transmit one bit of information... |
When the pilgrims landed in Plymouth Rock and realized it was coldAF, why didn't they sail down the coast to Florida? | The pilgrims had begun their journey in June of 1620, left southern England in September 1620, and arrived in mid-late November 1620. By then, most of their food supplies were gone, water barrels would have gone incredibly stagnant. They didn't have detailed maps to show much further south they'd have to sail to find w... |
what's the difference between "free cash flows" and "earnings" ? | Earnings is when you **earn** your return. Cash flow is when you **receive** your return. Let's a friend just started a business and asks you to pick up a few shifts. They promise to pay you $20/hour, but as a favor, because they are just starting out, you won't get a paycheck for the first few months. You trust your f... |
Why won't a plastic cup with water in it melt? | The energy goes into the Latent energy of phase change. The heat energy goes into breaking the phase bonds of liquid to make the water into a gas. This means the cup isn't getting enough energy to raise the plastic's temp in order to melt. Water is very good at stealing energy and takes over 4000J to raise a single deg... |
If craters on the moon are caused by meteors crashing into it then why do we not see that ever happen? | Billions of years ago when the moon was first formed, there was a lot more crap in Earth's orbit for it to crash into. The Earth and moon are very old - the vast majority of all things that would crash into the moon already did a billion years ago. |
What a high white blood cell count could possibly mean? | White blood cells are the part of your blood system that handle killing germs in your body. They run around your blood looking for foreign things and eat them. Having a high White Blood count could mean several things. 1.) Your sick so your body is producing more White Blood cells to fight the sickness. This sickness c... |
Why can't I buy a bare bones vehicle new anymore? | No. Why? Emissions and safety. Every new car sold in just about every developed country has an on-board computer The ECU is instrumental in improving fuel efficiency, reducing emissions, etc. Also, in the US, all new cars are required to have Anti-lock Brakes, Electronic Stability Control, SRS Airbags and a few other s... |
why do a lot of redditors not like smoking but advocate smoking marijuana | 1. Reddit is a large and diverse group of people. 2. Just because I don't like it doesn't mean other people can't enjoy it, and it has many beneficial uses. |
Why are people excited about electric vehicles? Aren't they just transferring the problem to the power plant? | On a well-to-wheels basis, electric vehicles emit ~35% less CO2 per mile. This is the scientific reason that substantiates any excitement you see in people about electric vehicles. This information is available by Argonne National Laboratory in something called the GREET Model . It's one of the most badass excel files ... |
Possible descriptions of the universe's finiteness/infiniteness | Physicist believe the universe could have one of 3 shapes, 1 finite and 2 infinite, and they're now leaning towards one of the infinite ones. To simplify things, imagine that the universe is 2 dimensional. A finite world would be like the surface of a 3 dimensional sphere. Its surface is limited, and yes, going in one ... |
Why do celebrities, particularly actors and actresses, make so much money? When did this become a common practice? | I'm not sure that it's anything particularly recent. If you think about an Entertainer in any era they've always had a fair amount of cultural and economic impact. At some point I'm a broke away from religion, but pretty much the oldest records we have show that power money and influence were directed at religious thea... |
What is this house spider doing? | Has it built a web? Is it building a web?I dont think spiders are like puppies, so you can't feed it and depending on the size and species, you may not want to approach it. |
Why do so little words start with the letter x? | X in English and Latin alphabets was closest to Ksi in Greek, which was used to create the consonantal doubling of the unaspirated velar fricative and the unaspirated alveolar fricative of such as in Box, etc. However, the letter itself comes from Greek letter Chi such as in L'chaim. It is a throaty glottal stop or ras... |
Can someone please explain the significance of the USA midterm elections to me? | A presidential election occurs every 4 years, but elections for the House of Representatives and 1/3 of the Senate occur every 2 years, halfway through a presidents term. This means that control of one or both houses of Congress could switch parties. Right now, republicans control both the House of Representatives and ... |
What are the differences between the Ukrainian language and Russian? | They are pretty much completely different languages. The alphabet is the same and there are a fair number of cognates. A person fluent in one might be able to get the general gist of a sentence of the other, but not much more. I believe it's similar to the difference between Spanish and Portuguese. |
Why do large computer programs load faster after the first time they're run? | Can vary some by operating system, but the gist is that when a process dies its memory is deallocated but the OS will attempt to not use that memory up if it doesn't have to so that it already has certain assets loaded if they're needed again soon. Right now, for example, my OS reports it's holding on to just over 3GB ... |
Countries that take siestas? | During the peak of the heat of the day, the sun and heat is so intense that it's uncomfortable to be outside. From about 1 - 4, the sun in many north African countries is so intense, it feels like your arm is inside of an oven. You pretty much have to be indoors, and resting, or you'll get overheated. So most activity ... |
What is the Islamic position on LGBT communities? | It is considered a sin, but sinners aren't shot up in clubs in Islamic Law. One of the most important things in Islam is tolerance of everybody. |
Why doesn't the USA build a pipeline system to carry water from places where it is abundant to places in severe drought, like southern California? | It already has one--California has an extensive aqueduct network, on which especially the city of Los Angeles relies. The problem occurs when California experiences a nearly state-wide drought. If all of the nearby freshwater is nearly depleted, it won't help to have a big network for transporting it--and extending the... |
Why do so many poor quality, low budget movies even get made? | Yes, many of them make money. They have much lower production costs than good movies, and some of the time a quirky indie film makes a critical splash. When it doesn't the money is already spent. The choices are: 1) don't release it and **lose all your money**, or 2) spin the lotto wheel and see if audiences will pay t... |
What is wrong with genetically engineered crops? | It's hard to say this and be balanced but the biggest answer is ignorance. There are certainly some GM crop **companies** that have used unethical tactics but that doesn't change the fact that GM crops are not just incredibly safe but have the potential to completely eradicate a large number of third world health issue... |
How does kevlar stop bullets? | Bend", or "Stretch", even just a little bit, is much more effective at resisting an impact. That's what Kevlar does. Kevlar can stretch a little bit, and still absorb enormous impact forces, without breaking. So A vest or jacket made of Kevlar, depending upon its specific construction, can stop a bullet fired from a ha... |
Why is Mussolini taken a lot less seriously in Italy than Hitler is in Germany? | I mean, the Italian Fascist party was never anywhere close to as repressive and, well, insane, as the nazis. Additionally, the occupation of Italy was way less thorough than the process Germany endured after the war, when considerable effort went into rooting out and discrediting basically anyone with ties to the nazis... |
How people are injured by bombs? | When a bomb goes off, you get a wave rippling out from the center. The explosive rapidly combusts and expands. This expanding gas pushes the air around it out and so on and so forth. This concussion wave doesn't just hit you, though. The wave actually goes *through* you, making your internal organs rapidly contract on ... |
how do porn stars get paid when their videos are on free porn sites? | They don't get paid for views, they get paid to do the scene. After that the scene is bought by a company, and they can privatize it for some viewers, or just straight up put it on pornhub, and rack in the ad views |
the physics of how a bong works? | Finally somebody asking good questions. It's a matter of differential pressure. The moment before you hit the bong the pressure on the inside and outside of the bong are equal. What is actually happening is that when you pull on the top you reduce the pressure inside the bong. Since the pressure outside is greater than... |
If the court ruled NSA's spying as illegal, why is there no penalty/ pressed charges against the NSA? | Isn't it sad that things have come to this. The Nazi's could only dream of what our government does everyday yet we blindly do nothing. Our only hope is campaign finance reform yet do we really expect politicians to cut the hand that feeds? Other option is revolt, but let's be honest, the government would turn their gu... |
With the Geneva Convention and the U.S. frowning upon use of chemical warfare, why did the military use napalm in the Vietnam War? | To explain what others already said: A weapon is considered a chemical weapon not because chemicals are involved in its method of action because all weapons necessarily are chemical in nature. A chemical weapon is considered as much because it relies exlusively on its reaction with humans to be dangerous, like how must... |
What are the origins of the conflict between Sunni and Shi'i Islam? | After the death of Muhammad in 632, the successors of the faith were his descendants, called the Caliphate. For a while, although it was hotly debated each time, there was a single Caliph chosen to lead, but after the death of the third Caliph, Othman, in 656, we had the biggest schism in their history. Up to this poin... |
Why do I feel tired the whole day after sleeping "too much"? | When you sleep too much your body and mind goes deeper into hibernation mode, slowing down everything to repair the damages but then you woke up, the system didn't have enough time to adjust to turning back on so you feel more tired. This is probably the wrong answer but in order to get the correct respond you need to ... |
Why is it that Belgium currently has "no government"? | Honestly, you're going to want to get an actual Belgian to explain it all to you , but until one comes along here's my understanding of it: First of all, you need to realize that Belgium isn't a single unified country so much as 2 nations united by a single, much beloved, monarchy . The country is divided between the F... |
What is the difference between the old USB and USB C? | 1) type c will transfer data faster 2) type c can charge electronics better/faster 3) type c is reversible. Meaning, the old usb, you would try to plug it in, see it doesn't fit, flip it over to try again, see it doesn't fit, flip it back to where it was in the first place to see that it fits and plugs in. Edit: clarif... |
How would a person born & raised on the moon physically differ from an earthling? | You might be taller from less gravity. Which would make your skeleton much weaker and prone to fractures upon returning to earth. Your muscles would be weaker because since there is less gravity, stuff doesn't weigh as much as it would on earth. |
Does 'drifting' actually get you anything close to real sleep? | Never the same. If I've been lying there for a while get up for 30 minutes. Do 5 minutes of chores, watch some easy on the brain TV and head to bed. Works most of the time. |
What is the best way to lose weight? | You have to really change your eating habits. Best way to do this is for 2-3 weeks write EVERYTHING you eat or drink down and research the nutrition value or at least the calorie count. Then you get a feeling for what food has what in it. Then it's just calories in vs. calories out Eating less to no carbohydrates in th... |
How does the human ear discern between a quiet noise and a distant noise? | The better question is, why do emergency sirens sound like they're coming from all directions.It’s not so much the ear that has this ability but the brain. The ear serves to transmit the auditory information into a language the brain understands . The Brain is then able to interpret the information the ear has picked u... |
If someone got cut in half, how long would they have? How are people still able to talk and move when they've been cut in half? How much would it hurt? | I doubt they would remain conscious for more than a minute due to massive blood loss , and death would follow pretty much right after for the same reason. But while they were conscious they could still talk or move the upper half since the upper part of the spinal cord would still be intact. |
Why doesn't English have gendered articles when all other languages do? | Old English had three grammatical genders, much like modern German. Turns out grammatical gender is kind of useless , and it fell into disuse through Middle English. And now modern English doesn't have grammatical gender. A corollary question is: why do so many Western languages bother with grammatical gender? Edit: un... |
Why didn't people in the past paint 'hyper real' paintings? | It is pretty hard to paint hyper real stuff. The knowledge of how to paint isn't that old. Golden ratio, vanishing point, shade technique, all the stuff you find in an drawing book had to be discovered first. You can see it in the history of art pretty well when a new discovery was made.The reason for art has not alway... |
How come "you're a peach" is a compliment but "you're bananas" is an insult? Why are we allowing fruit discrimination to tear society apart? | It's not just fruit! Cheesy and Corny can also be used negatively and what's so wrong with those foods?", 'Cuz peaches can be juicy and delicious. Bananas are dry and icky. imo Hate bananas so bias opinionFirst of all, this belongs in /r/shittyconspiracy - where the actual conspiracies belong. This is fruit discriminat... |
Why is it dangerous for one blood type to be given to another person with a different blood type? | The immune system will freak out and kill the person. So blood type is just an indicator of the markers on the blood. If you put blood with the wrong markers on it the immune system assumes its hostile. The resulting allergic reaction can kill the person who is already weak from whatever is causing their need for a tra... |
Why aren't there any conservative news-based comedy shows in the mold of Stewart/Colbert/Oliver? | Although it's not the same thing at Stewart or Colbert I will say I think King of the Hill was a great example of conservative comedy done right. |
Why can't an electric car power itself? | So technically yes. But the out put of energy will always be less than the input. What you are talking is called perpetual motion and has been the goal of many fields of science since the dawn of the modern age. So over all no it's not possible to power a car with itself. |
Is Jupiter a failed star? | No, it doesn't have nearly enough mass to be a star. It would have to be at least 75X more massive if it was to be big enough to fuse hydrogen. |
why is reddit so obsessed with Weird Al? | Obsessed is a strong word but I love Weird Al as I find him genuinely funny and his content unique; very much unlike the generated pop-stars of today. But then there's the human aspect: he's incredibly down to earth, always super nice, and has a great rapport with those he works. |
What were airports like in the 1990s? | Pretty similar to today, the only real difference is amount security. In the 1990s there were only metal detectors . Security was done by private companies contracted by airports instead of the TSA, and you could go past security without a boarding pass . They're also more strict with what can go through security, obvi... |
What a producer/executive producer/director/etc. role is in a movie. | I can't believe we're 60 comments in and nobody has explained what the 'Best Boy' and the 'Key Grip' do! |
Isn't there *anything* the general public can do to stop bills like CISA from passing? | Stop voting for the dirtbags who put this stuff into the bills is one way to stop it. At some point, they were the majority winner in some election. Writing and calling can be completely ignored. Watch how it works! I just won't read the replies to this comment! |
Why do the Great Lakes never form hurricanes? Is it simply because they are small compared to the ocean or is there something more to it? | The water isn't tropical. You need tropical currents/warmth of water to generate enough storm action to create hurricanes. |
FCC and net neutrality megathread. | What IS net neutrality and is it a US thing? Or worldwide?Everything I hear about it seems to be from the US so I haven't been paying much attention to it. Does it mean ISPs can block certain sites like they've done to pirating sites here in Australia? |
Why does the 72 hour hold for a voluntary psychiatric commitment exclude weekends and holidays? | It coincides with court days/business days. Some states require a judges signature some don't. Even individual counties within a state may have its own policies in place. Most laws don't include weekends or holidays. |
Why are antibiotic resistant bacteria such a big deal? Shouldn't the immune system be able to fight bacteria without the aid of antibiotics? | It seems like you could make that argument about all medicine. Shouldn't we just be able to heal or fight stuff off? Our immune system and healing processes are good, but medicine has always worked by aiding those processes or doing stuff they can't do. Take a look at this graph of historical death rates, along with ma... |
How do cousins work? Is my dad's uncle's child my first cousin once removed or my second cousin? | First cousin once removed. Generation gaps do not add to a degree of 'cousindry' but instead add a removal degree. So your grandfather's cousin would be your first cousin twice removed. And your father's second cousin would be your second cousin once removed. |
Why do police use only two types of dogs for their work? | Greyhounds are sight hounds. They were breed to run fast after small quarry. They couldn't take a man down at all. |
Why is Norton hated so much? What makes an antivirus/antimalware program good or bad anyway? | I would also recommend RansomFree by Cybereason, it protects you from a large majority of ransomware attacks. The guys over at /r/security and /r/Information_Security brought it up at well. The link for it is below, . Also, it runs in parallel to your current antiVirus so you don't have to worry about conflictions. Be ... |
Why don't the police punish cops who do the wrong thing? What do they get out of transparent corruption? | Cops who do the wrong thing are punished so I'm not sure what your question refers to. Could you clarify? |
the current eurozone 'crisis' and the situation with Greece. | Greece used to be run by rich people and the army. Then some other people took over, and basically gave everyone money. The rich people don't like paying taxes, so the country ran out of money. The friends of the rich people are asking for things to go back to the way it was before, except maybe without the army.Also: ... |
Can you own land on the moon? Could a nation form on Mars? | Treaties are nice as statements of intent, but the truth is that questions like this are ultimately be settled by guns, if it comes to that. A signed paper, by itself, stops no one. [How said guns would work given the moon's gravity is a question beyond my ken, but has probably been ELI5'd in the past.] |
how do businesses that provide a donation for every purchase (e.g., Toms) make financial sense without being a non-profit organization? | The total cost of the product includes the donation. Tom's toothpaste may cost $3 while Crest costs $2. With that extra dollar, Tom's may donate $1 to charity while using the publicity of their charity to get more people to but it. In reality both toothpastes cost $0.10 to make, so there's still profit to be had. |
the psychology behind foot fetishes | Some people are attracted to different parts of the body. Feet are usually covered, something you don't usually get close to in other people, and may be ticklish, so there's the intimacy/vulnerability thing, plus the potential for footjobs. Which are exactly what it sounds like. Some people also like the whole submissi... |
How does a Foucault Pendulum work? | Earth's rotation causes the trajectory of the pendulum to change over time. The novelty of a foucault pendulum is NOT the part about swinging, but instead about how the massive bob completes a circular rotation, or cycle related to your degree of latitude, while swinging. At the north and south poles, you will get 1 cy... |
How do seemingly uneducated people come up with very complicated recipes of household products to create recreational drugs? | Just because someone doesn't have an education doesn't make them dumb/unintelligent. Some of the smartest people don't have traditional educations. |
When it comes to satelites, what is geosynchronous transfer orbit? What is it useful for? | Geosynchronous orbit means that you have synchronised up the satellite's orbit with the earth's rotation. This results that that the satellite will be at the exact same spot over the earth at the same time every day. |
A 4GB Micro-SD card and a 500GB micro-SD card are the same size physically, but what makes the difference in storage capacity? | The actual silicon with the storage in the SD card is different. For a fullsize SD card they can put one or a few memory IC's in it to change storage and different parts. An SD card with 4GB will have 1 IC with 4GB of storage. A 512GB one might have 4 or 8 with 128GB/64GB on each. To reach high numbers like 64GB in a s... |
Why do we wake up from sleep? | It has a lot to do with our Circadian rhythm and our adrenals giving out cortisol in the morning. Cortisol provides energy to do the everyday tasks of life but when you're asleep this hormone causes you to be alert and awake. People with fatigued adrenals depend on caffeine and sugar as a stimulant in the morning which... |
Pre 9/11 involvement in other countries. | > Was it ever questioned if we had any type of black ops in those countries before hand? It wasn't ever really questioned, no. Everyone knew that the US was interfering heavily in Middle Eastern politics. |
What do DJs actually do besides select the next song? | Some DJs are nothing more than a jukebox who selects songs based on how the party's or club's social atmosphere is developing , and use mixing techniques to seamlessly transition from one song to the next without missing a beat. Others delicately layer two, three or four songs together, or mix in other effects and song... |
How do car manufacturers guarantee that my keyless entry remote won't unlock another vehicle? | It's called rolling code technology, basically, you design a thing that generates numbers randomly, but make two of them such that they will both create the same codes put one in the car and one in the fob, fob sends code, if it matches, it unlocks. Theoretically, it is possible to have the same code as another vehicle... |
Why are chimps so much stronger than humans when they are smaller and have less muscle mass? | While you have gotten good answers already, an important factor that hasn't been mentioned is the nervous system. In todays society, your average human CNS isn't optimized for that kind of muscle control. This is why people can achieve great strength gains during their early gym career without putting on much mass. The... |
Why is the underlying algorithm used to calculate credit scores not in the public domain? | ex credit report resale IT guy here I can attest that at least part of the reason is the complexity, not only of each bureau's calculation, but of the interaction among the main 3 as well as resellers and agrigators of the output from the big three even as partners and clients of the bureaus, the best the company I wor... |
is the way we walk genetic? | It's impossible to know this, because presumably your cousin was raised by your uncle. So he saw how his dad walked every day and would probably have subconsciously modeled his way of walking on what he had seen others do, especially close people who he'd be expected to look up to. I have a lot of the same mannerisms a... |
How did Englands royalty go from being in charge to figure heads? | The monarchy saw the writing on the wall and realized that if they didn't give up their power, the commoners and aristocrats would rise up and take it by force. So they made a deal to transfer governmental power to the parliament in exchange for keeping their hereditary titles, massive landholdings, and bomb-ass palace... |
Why, in most governments, does there seem to be no effort in fighting corruption in politics? | On a more micro level than these comments seem to be addressing, in most parts of the world corruption runs rampant on a small scale daily because a lack of accountability has created different societal norms. Example: I'm currently living in Bucharest. Unless you're crashing, it's pretty much impossible to get an offi... |
when cooking meat, why is it ok to use the same utensils at the end when the meat is cooked as you used at the start, when the meat is raw? | > Or put another way, why doesn't using the same utensil from start to finish spread bacteria all over your cooked food? As you've apparently realized, there's certainly no reason to think otherwise. You are potentially contaminating your cooked food every time you touch it with the same utensil. |
Why do some fabrics get softer when they're washed a lot, while others get rougher? | TL;DR: Different materials behave differently when washed and dried. Even things made from the same thing will behave differently because of how they are made. In that case, it's caused by the threads being pulled taut by wear, and then relaxing from having water introduced. Fabrics cone I'm all shapes and sizes and ca... |
If Pandora has so manys ads why do they still limit the amount of skips that I can use? | You are asking, if Pandora already has a way of making money , why they are cutting costs . The answer is simple: they like money, and will pursue it to the point of diminishing returns . |
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