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What is PIPA and how is it different from SOPA? | There is no significant difference, except that PIPA is currently being considered in the Senate and SOPA is in the House of Representatives . A bill must be passed by both houses before it is sent to the President to be signed into law. I'm sure the wording in the two versions is slightly different, but they have the ... |
Why most of the games show posion as in green colour? Is it true? | It should be added that Mr. Yuck, the face used since the 70's to label poisonous items, is also green. That might have had some influence.Same reason ninjas are depicted as wearing black tights. It is a convention that had some reason to start and has been kept because we, the audience, accept the symbolismThere are c... |
How did early man come across advanced food recipes, like for example bread, when it seems too complicated to guess or figure out on your own? | It's the cumulation of knowledge. One guy tried just flour and water, but his buddy told him that it tastes much better with salt. So he thinks why not add it to the dough so it's salty throughout. This is more or less how I do most of my cooking. |
How did they put photos into the newspapers when there were no computers or scanners | I worked in a newspaper 25 years ago, just before scanners came into use. We'd use a process called photomechanical transfer . Basically, we'd have a big camera that looks something like [this]. The original we'd put in the glass part you see on the right, and the photographic paper would go in the camera on the left, ... |
How is the Pirate Bay still up? | It's not doing anything illegal where it's hosted . It's only providing links to codes which can help you find segments of the illegal files. **Edit**: Removed outdated info.TPB works with Virtualized Servers. What does this means?All the pages, configurations, and links of TBP are on a file .VHD. They rent a private s... |
how did motley crue end up owning all of the rights to their own music when no one else does or has? | The executive that was in charge of Elektra Records at the time, Sylvia Rhone, had a great disdain for Motley, and thought they were going nowhere, fast, and their catalog would not be worth keeping. What was said exactly was never made public, it was a classified arrangement, and Nikki got all of Motley Crue's masters... |
Given how financially lucrative it would be, how come science hasn't yet found a cure for baldness? | It's a genetic condition not like a cure for measles. Same reason why there isn't a cure for microencephalopathy. No hair or small head, pick your parent.First, they have no universal solution yet. The treatments they have created are not permanent and do not work on everyone, unless you are willing to undergo a transp... |
Why is a SSD so much better than a larger, and cheaper, HDD? | ~~SSDs are definitely not cheaper or larger, not even close. I don't even think there's a 2TB SSD out yet - of a standard desktop hard drive size anyway - and if there is you can bet it'll cost hundreds more than a 2TB disk-drive.~~ They're better in that they have no moving parts which makes them much more durable and... |
Why use the term African-American? | I don't use terms like this. If you were born in America, then you are American. Just because your ancestors from hundreds of years ago came from Africa dies not make you an African American. Terms like that keep the races apart. |
If flies are so attracted to bright lights at night, why don't they all fly toward the sun during the day? | It was thought for a long time that insects navigate by the moon, but a careful and somewhat cruel experiment showed that ain't it. The researcher taped moths to Styrofoam pads, put the pads in a small pool of water and put a candle in the middle. What he figured out, aside from the fact that moths are very flammable w... |
Why is AC (current) accepted to be better than DC? | If electricity was water in a pipe going up a hill it is easier to push a little water back and fourth to turn a fan in the pipe than it is to push the water one direction up the hill to turn a fan at the end of the pipe. If you just push it one direction there's a lot of wasted water. This gets even worse for big hill... |
Why don't Americans want National health insurance? | Two major objections: 1. When someone else pays for it, someone else makes the decisions. Americans don't want the government making decisions about their health care. 2. When the government subsidizes something, it becomes much more expensive. A large part of the reason health care costs are what they are is because d... |
Is smoking really as hard a habit to kick as heroin? Why do smokers never need to go to rehab? | Because smoking for the most part does not prevent you from being a functioning member of society. Nicotine doesn't impair you. You can work under the influence of nicotine, you can drive, you operate heavy machine, carry on a conversation, etc. Any while you will likely damage your health in the long run, it is almost... |
why you might feel nauseous trying to eat breakfast in the morning? | Since it hasn't eaten or been active for a while while sleeping and most of the systems of the body are functioning slower then usual; your metabolism also slows downand essentially goes into starvation mode. since it thinks it's not going to get food, you find if you do eat something small your metabolism will kick in... |
Why do kids seemingly have endless energy? | Think about how much a kid eats in proportion to their body weight. A single pb & j isn't much to an adult, but to a five year old that's a lot of sugar, carbs, and protein. |
Why aren't we eating insect if they are supposedly a better source of protein? | I'd eat bugs if they were readily available and cheaper than any meat I can find. It isn't the case anywhere in Canada though.Because beef, pork, chicken, fish are all delicious. Bugs not so much. |
How Bill Cosby is not in jail? | Because a lot of people are afraid to accuse a publicly beloved celebrity of drugging and raping them. Imagine if you were raped by Tom Hanks. You go to the police and they would assume you are a crazy person making things up. They might still investigate but what evidence do you really have other than your word. You d... |
why do people choose Intel over AMD? | Where are you getting those prices? In general, AMD has cheaper low-end processors, but if you're looking for more power, Intel processors are better. [This] site does a pretty good job of breaking it down. |
Can coffee damage tooth enamel the way soda this? | I drink a lot of coffee and my dentist said that coffee won't do anything as long as you brush your teeth. |
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Hearing someone's smile as they talk. | Just_be_fwb is on the right tract. What speech is, is just manipulating the air you are pushing out of your lungs. What determines the different sounds in our languages is the shape of the space between your voice box and lips as the air leaves your mouth. To make the 's' in 'sam' your tongue is behind your teeth, when... |
What is "shitredditsays"? Is it a joke/troll-oriented subreddit? | Yeah it's a circle jerk type subreddit where people pretend to be over-the-top SJW's. They lay the sarcasm on pretty thick so it should be pretty obvious that they're not actually serious. |
If nicotine is such a problem, why isn't it banned in cigarettes/etc? | Also interest groups pay the government huge amounts of money to make sure that cigarettes don't get banned. Plus if they were banned there would be jobs lost. America already had a high enough of an unemployment percentage, and we don't need that to increase. |
Why should I care if the CIA has the ability to spy on us? | Because if the CIA can spy on anyone, then those that control that power can blackmail and extort anyone they want, including other politicians, and supreme court judges. Also, take for example, if Martin luther king was trying to liberate black people, and the government didn't want that, they could use this power to ... |
Why is Facebook buying Instagram such big news? | It's a billion dollar deal. If Facebook buys something for people to use for a billion dollars, they're gonna let people know that they bought it for a billion dollars. |
Why do black houseflies rub their legs together like as if they are plotting something? | It's grooming. They have a bunch of hairs all over their legs that they constantly cleaning. I think I heard somewhere that between a roach and a fly, fly's are actually more sanitary and carry less diseases because of all the grooming they do.You are actually right. They are plotting how best to annoy you, when they t... |
Why are so many comments marked as deleted? | As much as it is anonymous from your IRL identity, it can have an online identity of it's own. Just like your IRL identity you tend to take care of how people perceive you. So if you post something in the moment that you thought/felt and it turned out to be very unpopular, you might delete it as people can go back thro... |
Why do people not stutter when they sing? | The way I've always understood it is that we use different parts of our brain for speaking vs. singing, so the condition that causes stuttering originates in the part of our brain that controls speech, leaving the part that controls singing unaffected. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. |
Why do some prisoners have to serve multiple life-sentences even though they're obviously going to die before those sentences are over? | > Wouldn't a single life sentence be just as effective? Of course not. What if one conviction is overturned? With a single sentence, bye bye life imprisonment. Each crime gets its own sentence. |
What is a resonance frequency? | As a follow-up question, how do they specifically build bridges etc. so that they won't be susceptible to this kind of effect? |
Why is it +1 or +4 degrees in my house is nearly unnoticable yet it can wreak havoc across the entire planet which is much bigger?? | For starters, is *is* still rising, and *will* continue rising for quite some time. Even if we completely stopped all human-driven carbon emissions *right now*, it would take years or decades before the temperature stopped increasing. As for a few degrees of temperature increase, it's not how much we feel it that's the... |
How is the perception of time slowed in lethally dangerous situations? | It's the adrenaline causing your reflexes to increase. Being able to react to things in a shorter amount of time makes them appear slower. I'm a martial artist and I have been in an altercation before. The adrenaline and training kicked in and it was like the matrix. You are able to think clearly very quickly. |
What is "Mid Range Hardware" | It's hardware that's isn't too weak but isn't too strong but gets the job done and is affordable |
Why is it that when I don't have cell service, I can make emergency calls but not normal ones? How do the emergency calls get carried out without service? | Chances are that you don't have 'roaming' on your cell phone plan, meaning you can't use your cell for calls outside your provider's area. However, they'll still let you make emergency calls off of other provider's towers. My cell can still make emergency calls despite the fact that my service was suspended two months ... |
Is Saudi Arabia's rejection of its Security Council seat anything other than symbolic? | > Or is it an attention-getting tactic that ultimately doesn't mean much? It arguably means about as much as having a seat would have meant. Their primary goal, which would have been to persuade the UN to do more to end the conflict in Syria, was simply not going to happen. If there were signs it was, chances are they ... |
Why does the universe "almost certainly not have an edge"? | *This is a slightly less elogant retelling of an episode of Cosmos. Forgive me if I didn't get it quite right, or if my wording is unclear* Imagine going out into space and shooting an arrow in any direction. Assume this arrow will fly straight infinitely, and will not hit something like a planet or asteroid. This arro... |
Why doesn't the Earth's oxygen escape into space? | For the same reason that you don't escape into space: gravity. Some of the light elements like hydrogen and helium does escape from our atmosphere and into space. Every year 95,000,000kg of hydrogen and 1,600,000kg of helium escape. As you said, particles from space can also enter earth like the solar wind creating the... |
Why does some medication need to be taken with food as oppose to other medication? | Some medicines need to be made into a pill form for longer release and some are put in the little capsules that dissolve quickly. Depending on what the medicine does and how it's made, it can give you a really bad stomachache if taken without food, some pills are even powerful enough to eat through your stomach lining ... |
Why do jeans shrink after washing and then go back to normal after being worn? | Cause I see this getting out of control, I'll link to one of several sources. _URL_1_ TL;DR Spot clean or quick rinse in shower/ hand wash. Washer decreases jean life and wasted a lot of water.Why do pretty much all clothes do this? Fucking hate having everything being one size smaller then what they should be |
How did the mob lose control of Las Vegas to the corporations? | Another thing is that Las Vegas was *destined* to grow more, not in just size, but in scope as well, in other words, Vegas needed to step up it's game, from being just a place to play craps and blackjack, into a true *destination*. The mob wouldn't have been able to do that. |
Why do websites request your email twice when signing up? | If your email address is wrong, then you're _fucked_. The email address is often your username, and more importantly the method for a password recovery is via email. So if that email is wrong, then your account is irretrievable. |
How common were eye problems like near-sightedness before computers and TV? | I don't have the information before me, but there is evidence to suggest that myopia was common long before television and computers. Reading becoming common may be linked to an increase historically. As you said, people naturally cultivated distance vision in the past, but in many respects that was much, much longer a... |
why do some games only release on consoles? | In many cases it's because the game is being published by one of the console companies. In Detroit's case it's published by Sony, so it's PS4 only. They could sell more copies of the game if they released it on PC, but the game was made to sell PS4s. Or at least keep people playing, and therefore spending money on the ... |
What is it about the human condition that makes us want to ask simple questions on ELI5 (and other, similar communities) when we could just as easily Google the answer ourselves? | I believe it has to do with the intimacy of human communication and human curiosity. Here's an example that's a little different, as it has to do with philosophy but its kind of the same concept. I already have my formulated answer on what the purpose of life is, however that doesn't mean I don't enjoy discussing with ... |
With today's technology why is it so hard to make counterfeit coins or counterfeit bills? | We keep upgrading the security features on currency to keep it hard to counterfeit. It's not really practical to counterfeit anything less than $20 bills. Coins are right out. A quarter weighs 5.67 grams so making $10,000 in quarters would require 220 kg of metal. That's impractical Bills have fancy colors, fabric pape... |
Why do rural communities consistently vote conservative? | The immediate thought reading your question was that most people in rural areas probably don't want to pay into a lot of the social services and infrastructure upgrades that liberal parties generally endorse from their platforms because they won't get the benefits of most of them anyway.Recently, the culture wars in Am... |
Why is communism viewed so negatively by a lot of the World today? How did it disadvantage society? | Well we were scared from the end of World War II until 25 years ago that a giant evil communist empire was going to destroy the world. And unlike a lot of things the Western world is scared of, that giant evil communist empire *existed*. So that's a pretty huge part of it.every country that attempted to use Communism a... |
The difference between MEGA and megaupload | Megaupload was basically 'upload and download whatever you want', so, naturally, it got into trouble because people were downloading copyrighted content.MEGA aims to get rid of that by asking you to set a key and share it with only those whom you want to. |
Why do Italian courts think Amanda Knox is guilty? | I'm the OP. NOT explained. NOT discussed very thoughtfully or thoroughly. I expect more from Reddit. |
What does adrenaline do to a mom that lets her lift a car when she sees her child in danger? | Basicly, if you've ever seen Naruto or Dragon ball. It's like Kaioken or that thing that rock lee does.While adrenaline can boost your strength considerably, the idea that it will give a 4\'11" mom the ability to life a full size car is a stretch. There have been reports of this, but they are extremely rare and always ... |
Is there an easy, painless way for me to discharge static electricity without shocking myself and my family? | Yes. There are devices made specifically for this used in electronics manufacturing all the time. Generally it'll be a [wrist strap] that is conductive and plugs into a ground to discharge static continuously, but if you just want to avoid getting shocked you simply need to move the point of discharge away from your bo... |
How come a ceiling fan does not cause air to heat up, although it increases the speed of the atoms in it? | Xkcd did a What If on the same question about blowing air on your coffee to make it cooler. Basically the idea is that if you try to heat the room with a fan you'll end up blowing the walls off. EDIT : [Mentionned What If] |
What are false colors? | In video they use false colour to indicate exposure. I'm not sure if it works on the same principles of the ones that /u/ironreverse mentioned, but the colours represent different levels of exposure. While it looks and works partially like a heat signature map, people in film use it mostly to map correct exposure on sk... |
How do we know what cores and other layers of planets are made of when we have obviously never been near them? Could we ever be wrong? | It's a guess based on how it moves, which indicates it's gravity, which indicates it's mass, which can be used in conjunction with it's size to figure out it's density. It is a total guess, and we are very often wrong. |
How do private entities earn from space exploration projects? | Whether the economics actually work is still an unanswered question, but 1) There are rare/valuable metals which may actually be cheaper to acquire from the asteroid belt than to mine them on Earth. 2) They MAY be able to make a legally valid claim on some bits of space real estate. 3) They can acquire resources , stor... |
The differences between Kosher, Halal and 'stunning' slaughter. | When slaughtering a cow halal/kosher it takes about 30 seconds for the cow to die but even less time to lose continence, since the brain is deprived from oxygen and also the animal seems to get in shock so it doesn't really process the stimuli of what is happening to her. There is one problem though where a calm cow do... |
Who pays for the renovations on reality TV shows like Bar Rescue or Kitchen Nightmares? | Combination of the show's budget and products provided by vendors . If you watch the first season of Bar Rescue, you'll notice limited product/brand placement. They just recently showed the first episode they filmed and they barely remodeled the place. They had no budget and no sponsors. Now, the first thing you see in... |
Why was/is there a need of the hexadecimal system in programming? | Hex is a visually easy way to see groups of 4 bits at a time, that's all FF is *visually* smaller than 11111111 . Also, a 2 digit hex code represents a byte, the basic storage block of everything in a digital computer Sometimes you need to edit files, editing it in hex allows you to see more data on the screen instead ... |
Why do colleges have weed out classes for different majors? | In engineering , you'd be surprised at how much you can need to know stuff from various areas to do the job well. You'd think that an electrical engineer has no real need of knowing thermodynamics, right? It turns out there are some overlaps between thermodynamics and information theory. And you never know when you'll ... |
- An anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota has negative decibel levels (lower than -9db). How is this possible? | Decibels are a logarithmic unit. This means they are defined as the logarithm of something positive , and thus can be any value, positive or negative. -10dB corresponds to a tenth of the power of 0db. It's the same reason as why we can have negative pH acids, as pH is a logarithmic unit too. actually now I think of it,... |
Why does it seem like verses of the Qur'an are always sung as opposed to spoken? | To add to this, the recitation of the Qu'ran in itself is a sacred act and as such, Muslims seek to execute this in a way that seems most befitting. Reciting in a melodious, soothing voice is an attempt to recite in a beautifying way. |
Why do loads of Americans believe that the Sandy Hook shooting - and other such events - are hoaxes? | To begin, *very* few people think that Sandy Hook was a hoax or a false flag attack. Gun owners tend to be skeptical if not outright suspicious of government. There is certainly an active movement for gun control in this country, with some very rich financial backers . There are some gun owners who think that the gun g... |
Why do I get the feeling that the room is spinning after a night of drinking? | That's no thought for a five year old! But seriously, the other Redditors are there. Deep inside the ear is an organ called the chochlea, which is basically a chamber with hair and some fluid inside it. The sensation you get of still spinning if you spin around really fast then stop suddenly is caused by the fluid stil... |
How do old people die from old age? | I remember reading an article somewhere It explains that billions of cells in your body die every day, when new ones are made to replace the old ones, the DNA in the new cells are slightly different. Over time, the differences build up. Essentially you are making a copy, of a copy, of a copy, etc. When you make a copy,... |
what is the advantage of the multi-rotor design used for drones over that of the conventional helicopter rotor setup? | I've met people that do remote controlled helicopters. They are much more complex, expensive and hard to control. This raises the question of why it is that regular, people-carrying helicopters use such a huge rotor, if the quad is so much easier to control. The answer is efficiency. A long skinny blade has higher aero... |
What is happening with the US gov't shutdown, part deux | How are our taxes affected by the shutdown? I know the IRS says we should continue to file like nothing is happening, but I didn't know if there would be any sort or recompense. Aren't taxes supposed to fund the government? If the government isn't working then how does that affect us? |
The effects of keeping a limb "asleep". | Fell asleep on my arm on a plane, compressed the nerve and had a floppy wrist for the next 5 months, can confirm 'the stranger' was the most commonly used joke haha. |
Why does the USA have such poor competition in ISPs compared to places like the UK. | The USA is *really* fucking big. It covers 40x the land area of the UK. Most of the US is pretty empty. That space only contains about 5x as many people. When you're building a network that's going to connect everyone, it's a lot more expensive when people are spread out. |
How do bus/train companies earn their money from my universal pass? | They don't know what lines or buses you are riding. The companies just split the fare proportionally to the number of riders on each line, based on measured figures. They are getting your money beforehand and you might not even use the pass. That's good enough for them, no need to haggle over the details of your travel... |
Why do famous people get paid more for making entertainment, than professions like builders, doctors, farmers who provide what people need and save lives? | Entertainment products are more defined by particular individuals and the following they have , so people in the entertainment industry will pay Brad Pitt more money, as it will lead to increased revenues for them. In the building profession for instance, I am more inclined to choose between equivalent builders to buil... |
Why "You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" is a poor argument for increasing security. | If that statement is true, I should be able to walk into anyone's house and look around because there shouldn't be anything bad there to see. I should be allowed to have full access to tour life, as you are a good person, and you'll only be affected if you aren't. Does that sound okay to you? Privacy isn't about hiding... |
Why does it take multiple listens to certain songs to fully enjoy them? | I think it's because on first listen, you have no context of the whole piece, so an individual section may sound jarring or strange when you don't know what's coming next. Once you know how it pieces together, you have the context of the whole song so you can enjoy it as a whole. |
Why is 'cultural appropriation' seen as a bad thing? | It's not. Tumblr is just loud enough often enough that it's the common group think . Or group yell maybe |
what is the sun? | The sun is composed of gas and plasma. Different layers have different compositions and temperatures, but there's no solid surface, so you would not be able to land or walk on it even if you could somehow ignore the heat. |
Why can't I reduce oven cooking time in half by doubling the temperature? | Have you ever cooked a steak on a very hot grill? The outside gets seared and turns black, while the inside can stay raw, or even cold. While this type of cooking might be desirable for something like a steak, that's thin and can be eaten undercooked, something like a turkey can't be eaten that way.because you often ca... |
how do quicklight hookah coals work? | They are similar to bbq briquettes. They aren't chunks of [hardwood charcoal], hookah coals and briquettes are charcoal dust, mixed with starch, lime, waxes and some crude oil to improve quick lighting. _URL_1_ |
Why does the smoke from my burnt chicken make my smoke detector go off but smoking marijuana doesn't? | I've always been told it's because marijuana smoke is very light - unlike cigarette smoke, which is thick and heavy, the smell of marijuana disappears after a short time . I'm sure burning chicken produces heavy smoke. Pro Tip: Stop getting high while cooking chicken maaaan. You're burnin it!", 'You may be better cross... |
What exactly is a fraternity and how do they operate? | All fraternities are different. It's true that they revolve around a common purpose but they aren't always social. There are also service, religious and professional related fraternities. Just because you're in one doesn't mean that the focus is social. Sure, you're going to do social things while in it but it doesn't ... |
What is the consequence of a judge overturning the ruling of the jury? | In Canada. Judges can't 'overturn' rulings of a trial, they can say the jury was allowed to see evidence which was invalid or weren't allowed to see evidence that was valid. The result of this is a retrial with a new jury. Judges can also declare the law unconstitutional, which means 1) the defendant walks 2) the law t... |
What makes certain types of cardboard (like pizza boxes) un-recyclable? | There is so many people giving away information on here that varies from city to city. Don't take any of it to heart CHECK YOUR CITY'S WEBSITE FOR RECYCLING INFORMATION. Just because the guy in Iowa can't recycle his soup cans/milk cartons/pizza box/whatever doesn't mean your city can't.From my understanding, the oils ... |
As an Englishman, what is the deal with the Dominican male stereotype playing baseball? | Dominican here, to put it simply baseball is a cheap game to play and DR is a poor country so it's a game people really like to play from a young age. All you really need is a stick and ball to play.Was one such reference in S4E2 of Orange is the new black per chance? Literally watched that hours ago and it was mention... |
Why is that if you look over heat, the view is distorted? | For the exact same reason stars 'twinkle'. Different temperatures and humidities give air different refractive properties, and if these are pronounced enough - like when you see 'heat waves' rising off the tarmac but not in the air above it, or when you look at stars through the various layers of the atmosphere - the l... |
Quote from Warren Buffet ; "Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful", can you please explain? | Most people are talking stocks so I'll go a different direction. Think about where property values were in the mid '00s. They were skyrocketing and everyone and their brother were going out, getting loans, and buying property. The problem was, all the property values were artificially inflated by all the action. People... |
What are the "toxins" being removed from your system after a massage? | It's just crystal-waving, hippie-dippy bullshit - there's no massive stores of 'toxins' stored in your muscles. The worst thing you'll probably find is stuff like lactic acid - the normal byproducts of your muscles working. Still, it's always good to drink enough water. Most people probably don't, so it's not *bad* adv... |
Movies play at 24 fps but are smooth due to motion blur. Why isn't the same technology implemented in games? | There is motion blur in film because an infinitely complex organic movement is being sampled at only 24 frames per second, so any blur is actually recorded into the film medium. Simply - things move fast, they look blurry when you take a picture of them. Video games render each frame, at a rate much slower than anythin... |
why is cum white when fresh but clear at room temperature? | As crude as this sounds, it's thicker when fresh so it clings to the recipient's insides and doesn't all fall out almost immediately. It's all about efficient procreation lol.Wait how long do you leave it sitting around?? |
why do restaurants as a whole have an atrocious failure rate, but chain restaurants consistently stay open? | My sister and I considered opening a restaurant. We had a menu, a business plan, and a three-year financial prediction/goal. Eventually we decided against it, but in the process I learned some very interesting things. **People who start up restaurants don't know jack SHIT about running a restaurant!** Most people who o... |
How come we remember perfect images of an object we have just seen but forget where we saw it? | My guess is that it was the object you were focusing on and the environment didn't really matter to you when you saw/used it. |
How can motorcyclists lean so far when turning without falling? | Due to the gyroscopic effect of the spinning wheels the motorcycle always wants to stay upright. When you lean into a turn you are actually steering in the opposite direction. So if you are making a left, leaning into the left turn, the front wheel is being turned to the right. The bike is trying to go back up right, y... |
why do mirrors flip images horizontally, but not vertically? | Technically, mirrors flip depth, i.e. front and back. To us, it appears as flipping horizontally because we interpret our mirror image as a person, and the left and right in the mirror image with respect to that mirrored person instead of ourselves. However, the mirror image looks lika a person that's turned around , b... |
Why is it called a 'Flight' of stairs? | I remember seeing the answer to this somewhere but I can't remember the exact words used. A flight of stairs are stairs that run between floors and I think they're called a 'flight' of stairs because they are said to be floating with nothing underneath them. |
Couldn't you recreate fingerprints from high definition photographs to frame people? | Even if that did happen it wouldn't end the use of it since fingerprints are only 1 piece of evidence and it would be one heck of a conspiracy for it to be used so often to make it unreliable. Other evidence would be used in conjunction with that piece. |
If Google Earth can take snapshots of the world, how does the American government not have the capability to record every action we make via satellite? | Look at it like this, the contiguous United States is 3,119,884.69 square miles or 86,977,393,341,696 square feet. Let's say at a great resolution a satellite is taking a 100 by 100 foot picture every second. That would take 275 years for one satellite to take one snapshot of each 100 by 100 foot block of the US. Even ... |
Why is seemingly every TV's volume unbearably loud at like 30/100? What is the last 70% for? | Places like a bar, or outside would need a much louder tv, than at home. Also some people don't have neighbors and enjoy being able to hear every sound, or are hearing impaired. |
Why are the armed protesters allowed to continue holding the federal wildlife refuge, even though they are destroying things? | **[Are you too young to remember the Waco siege in Texas?]** The government tried to stop illegal activities involving weapons owned by a religious sect in Waco, Texas. A shootout happened and almost a dozen people died. Then there was a standoff for almost two months, fires, more shooting, and almost 80 people died, i... |
Why does string cheese taste better when its 'unstrung' rather than eaten normally? | Because you're a Goddamn Human, that's why! Food tastes better when you're ripping it to shreds!!!!! |
Why homeopathy doesn't work | As far as I can tell, the reason that there's still debate over this is that some people will believe anything they're told, don't bother to investigate drug facts, etc. I know depressing, eh?", 'As far as why there is a debate, I beleive there are 2 reasons. First, the placebo effect is real. Second, if you have a col... |
What was grocery shopping like before scanning? | I am feeling old. When I was little my dad owned a store and the cash register was an old push button one and made a huge ding and the drawer slammed out of it so step back. We were pretty excited to get an electric cash register. We had every price in the whole store memorized and had to price everything with a price ... |
How do life insurance companies make money if everyone will die eventually? | People canceling their coverage for whatever reason after maintaining it for years on end. They might pay in $10,000 or more but when it lapses the insurance company is off the hook. Most people don't die until they're really old, and most people don't maintain their policies for that long. |
Why can you see and hear but not smell in your dreams? | This is actually all possible. You can smell and even taste in your dreams. In a normal dream however this experience would be lost because you can't remember smell and taste as vivid as images or feelings. If you will ever have a vivid and long lasting lucid dream you will be able to experience smell and taste just th... |
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