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How does emergency call work on cellphones even if they dont get any signal from their carriers? | In the US, and presumably others, cell towers are required to accept any emergency call from any compatible phone, even if that phone is not authorized to communicate on that tower's network . Because of this, situations can arise where a phone is able to make an emergency call even if it can not make normal calls or d... |
Why is it ok to put an animal down if they are in pain and dying but not a person? | Euthanization is legal in many places. When talking about humans you get into a lot of religion and cultural morals that don't necessarily follow logic or compassion. |
how devices detect faces in photos | It's quite a complex process. Step 1 is to look for areas of skin colour. You can handle different races here by looking at hue and ignoring brightness. These are the same no matter your skin colour. After that you find shapes that are roughly ellipses. These are possible locations of heads. In these ellipses you will ... |
Why do races or groups of people get blamed for or associated with the actions of ancestors from 100+ years ago? | my views on stuff like slavery are simple i was not there, i did not do it ,i have not personally profited from it therefore i don't give a shit anyone who says it was my fault can get fucked and jump into a wood chipper for being retards |
Why do some people think war is heroic or in some way romantic? | Mostly because they have been conditioned to believe it is. Also, when the idea of protecting your country and by proxy your family is high on your list of values, then it isn't uncommon for you to also believe that going to war to do so is heroic because of the fact you are doing it to protect people. All that said, y... |
What exactly occurs in the brain when we experience the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon? | Well, scientifically what's happening is your neural pathways accidentally knocked over the kitten box and they're all chasing catnip mice inside. But they're kittens so they play with anything and run off with your thoughts to chew on them and leave them under the beds of the various rooms in your brain. Yup. Brain ki... |
Why the retirement age does not increase with average life expectancy. | It has Social Security is now at 67 instead of 65 for people under a certain age , which effectively raises the retirement age. May be increased additionally down the road, but it's not politically popular so it's done far out in the future and phased in gradually -- see [phase in chart] |
How were the values of constants such as e and pi historically determined, and why do these constants find themselves in so many formulae? | Imagine if you took a circle and measured it's area and radius physically without doing any calculations, then for fun you randomly divided area by radius squared. You do this several times before realizing you always get the same number: 3.14159 . so it's easy to just define that number as pi and remember the value of... |
Why arn't John Boehner and other well known republican leadership members considering a run for president? | They don't have much reason to risk their current positions of power. Also, John Boehner has probably the least favorable rating across the nation of any Republican with name recognition. Very few people actually like him. |
How does the ampage of lightning work? | Current is measured as *charge per second*. A lightning bolt of 30,000 Amps is releasing 30,000 units of charge per second. Lightning bolts are really quick, lasting for way less than a second. This means one lightning bolt releases way less than 30,000 Coulombs of charge. When a lightning bolt hits your house, it'll s... |
Why are mormons not allowed to drink coffee because it has caffeine but can drink copious amounts of Mountain Dew (AKA Mormon Coffee) | It didn't used to be a loophole. Caffeinated drinks used to be included . Sometime in the 2000's they went back on that and said they can drink caffeinated sodas now. I guess sort of like how they didnt allow black people into the church until the 70's? Basically it's all completely arbitrary and meaningless. |
The relationship between China and the United States. | We're fighting a technological war with China offstage, a financial war with them onstage, and doing everything possible to avoid a military war in the rafters above the audience. Tl, dr: fighting in every area except the military |
What exactly makes a post "Front page"? | when talking about something being on the frontpage it's most often assumed to be the frontpage of /r/all, which is the same for eveybody. |
Why is it that events such as archery and shooting necessitate separate women's and men's events? | Just to add fuel to the discussion, there doesn't seem to be an appreciable difference in accuracy between women's and men's Olympic archery. Perhaps it's time to merge the two. _URL_0_", 'Men are most likely "better" at archery because they are genetically predisposed to have more upper body strength. This means that ... |
Why are companies allowed to buy and sell their customer's loans without their permission, and what is the purpose of it? | > Why are companies allowed to buy and sell their customer's loans without their permission? Why not? The debt belongs to them and they can do as they please > What is the purpose of it? They earn less money than they would have by holding onto it, but they get paid today instead of 6 months/2 years/30 years from now. ... |
How come VLC, a small free program, can play anything while QuickTime, underwritten by the largest corporation in the world, can't play shit without constant updates and codecs? | VLC is written by people that want to watch videos. QuickTime is written by a company that only wants you watching their videos. and apple sucks at writing desktop software that doesn't require constant updates. |
how is it that many comedy writers are also skilled comedy actors? | A big factor is the delivery of the jokes. A lot of the nuances of comedy won't be present on the script, or may be difficult to convey to the actors, especially if the writer isn't present. Think about all the little pauses, facial expressions, voice tones and physical stance of the performers in your favourite sketch... |
What are the pros and cons of buying a smart TV, versus a regular TV with a fire stick? | Smart TV will leave you an HDMI slot, and a USB slot or mains socket, and require one fewer remote. Fire stick is Android based so will have some degree of support for some time. Probably less of an important decision since Smart TVs are now being based on Android. If a really cool new streaming service crops up there'... |
How does Nintendo / Sony / Microsoft ensure their retailers don't sell their console before launch? | Just to add a couple other points to the other comments: On game consoles, the retailers barely cover their costs when they sell the main unit . The profits are in the games and accessories . They won't make a huge profit by selling the main unit early. To enforce the contract rules, new products are often sent to the ... |
Surely gerrymandering will ultimately help one party less (Democrat or Republican in the US), so why doesn't that one party actively campaign against it? | It helps whoever is in control of ~~Congress~~ the State Legislature at the time, so any time a party has the opportunity to actually do something about it, they also have the power to redraw district lines so they're more favorable for their own party. They can only do it every time they take the census and it's an op... |
Can you connect to the internet without going through an ISP? | Yes, there are internet exchange points, at which you could connect. But getting in there means you're absolutely huge in size. This is something done by ISPs, CDNs like Akamai or CloudFlare, services that produce enormous amounts of traffic like Netflix, or companies like Microsoft or Google. Also it's extremely unlik... |
Why do they say not to mix grape and grain when drinking alcohol? | There's not much truth to the saying. Drinking carbonated beverages may increase the rate at which you absorb alcohol slightly, but it's not by much and I haven't seen any studies conclusively showing that it does . This myth sounds similar to the “liquor before beer, you’re in the clear; beer before liquor, never been... |
Why do employers even add the "Attach Resume" button if you're required to enter it all in anyways? | Usually computers have a hard time picking through resume files since there's so many different ways people could tweak the layout of their document. But if they make you type it in separate, they can categorize you automatically on their end AND still see your resume where you get a chance to say whatever you want. It... |
How can other animals survive on one type of food but humans need a balanced diet? | You feed your fish food that has already been balanced. You could totally live on one, and only one, specially formulated 'human mush' for the rest of your life. We don't want to, because that's boring and/or unpleasant. |
Why you have such intense, weird dreams wearing a nicotine patch to bed | Maybe I'm just sensitive, but this happens to me when I listen to any music of any kind , take any type of medicine or sometimes simply reading something about 2 hours before going to sleep. Last time I had melatonin, I had a dream where I fell from Mars. Woke up sinking into bed. Any sleep aid pills end up waking me u... |
Why don’t raindrops hurt when they fall from the sky if they’re falling so far, or why don’t they evaporate before they hit the Earth? | Everything has a terminal velocity. Falling thru the atmosphere generates friction which will slow things down until an equilibrium is reached, the fastest a thing will fall unaided is its terminal velocity. There are several equations to determine something's possible terminal velocity but surface area and aerodynamic... |
That sharp pain in your neck followed by a burning feeling after a wrong move with your head. | Some weird responses in here. I've felt a fair bit of nerve pain including the pain/sensation you're speaking of. My guess is when you move your head rapidly, a nerve gets hung up on something near it, stretches out, then releases quickly like a rubber band and snaps back into place. This shocks and vibrates the nerve ... |
Explain how to play Magic: the Gathering like I'm five. | It's probably more useful to have someone show you how to play than try to describe it. If you don't know anyone who does, gaming stores will often have in-store gaming session for various games, including Magic. |
How painful would dying on Mount Everest be? | If you're referring to the people who die near the top, they probably don't know what's even happening to them by that point. Mount Everest's summit is well above 26,000 feet, which is referred to as the Death Zone. Above this point, there isn't enough oxygen for your body to function beyond a short time. Spending too ... |
Do/Can animals in nature outside of human contact get fat or even mordidly obese? | I know this isn't exactly what you asked but I saw a documentary recently about some people who keep moneys as pets. It said many pet monkeys are becoming sick, overweight and getting diabetes when they are being fed human food. There are no known cases of a monkey in the wild having diabetes. |
Why do the CFL lights remain dim & flash every few seconds even after being turned off? | You are using an electronic switch that is made for incandescent loads. Those draw some current through, and are know to periodically trigger some CFL and LED bulbs. They do that by letting a small current through, and that builds a charge in the capacitor of the lamp's DC supply, and with enough charge it tries to wor... |
Why is black face inappropriate? | If the human species had no history of members of one race mocking another race by painting their faces to imitate them, then it might not be inappropriate. As it is, it's REALLY hard to avoid those connotations. The same thing happens with words. Why is it OK to say 'black' but not to say 'colored'? Both describe skin... |
Why are drugs dosed by age and not weight? | For children drugs are dosed by weight. For adults, pharmacists take a standard such as a adult man is 75kgs and a woman is 60kgs and the dosing is based on that. Because most drugs have a wide enough therapeutic range it doesn't matter if one person gets a little less or little more drug/kg than the other. Also the dr... |
Why does my stomach area expand and contract when I'm breathing when it's the lungs that expand and contract during breaths? | Your ribcage is made of bone, which is rather rigid. What's happening when you inhale is that your diaphragm is moving downward. This lowers the pressure above the diaphragm but increases the pressure below the diaphragm . Since there's no rigid bone structure to hold in the stomach area, it bulges outward when the pre... |
how did spain lose control of all of south america? | Spain never really colonized South America. Sure, they showed up and set up towns and stuff, but extracting wealth was always the goal. Compare this with the English and French in the North, who wanted cash crops like tobacco, which requires stable communities to farm the land. Same motivations, but different results. ... |
How they build bridges, and how they build tunnels that go underwater | A little story: 2000 years ago, Julius Caesar had an army that wanted to cross a biiiiig river. The villagers on the other side felt safe because the river kept the army away. Then, they watched as the army chopped down trees. Then the army sharpened points on the trees. Then they would stick one tree into the river di... |
How did Mitt Romney pay such a low tax rate? | > they speculate that there are a few years he didn't pay any taxes This is a pretty inflammatory statement - I haven't heard this. Basically he made most of his money through capital gains. Money made this way has a lower tax rate than wages in his tax bracket . |
- Why do government workers pay income tax? | It's way easier to have the same tax system for everyone, rather than have government income taxed in a different way. Consider someone who works as a government employee, but also earned income for real estate investments. Their tax reporting is now way more complicated. |
If two people are trapped underwater; can they survive by rescue breathing with each other? | No, the issue is the amount of oxygen in the air you've got. You've got one lungful. The breath you exhale still has some O2, but it has LESS O2 than air. If you had a bag of air, or a fishbowl, that would be more air and more oxygen you could use and breathing in and out exchanges it and you live a little longer. With... |
- Has the Affordable Care Act really been beneficial to Americans? If so, how? | Well, it's a big bill with lots of effects, so we simply don't know yet. Lots of people have opinions on what effect it will or won't have. Some of the benefits we've seen so far are that insurance rates can no longer go up because of preexisting conditions . The healthcare exchanges are a kind of ingenious solution to... |
Why do some people find it extremely difficult to wake up in time and some can do it easily | This is actually super complex, but start at the beginning. First, if you don't get enough sleep or have poor sleep quality, you probably aren't going to jump out bed fully refreshed in the morning. Second, the human body loves consistency. If you normally wake late, waking early is going to feel off. Likewise, normall... |
Why does discussing religion or politics get people angry so fast? | Cognitive dissonance perhaps. People hold religious and political views very closely and its often part of their identity. Having that challenged isn't an enjoyable thing for your brain. |
How is being pansexual different from being bisexual? | I think pansexuality refers to an overall indifference to gender, as in not distinguishing between male and female in anything other than name. Again, this is just what I've come to know and I don't personally understand it myself so I may not be the best resource on this.Traditionally, "bisexual" was defined as being ... |
Why did animals gradually get smaller from millions and even thousands of years ago? | Large size has advantages and disadvantages. Whether or not an animal is large is mostly dictated by circumstances. Simply put, is it an advantage or not? We still have giants today. The blue whale, while not the largest, is one of the largest animals that ever lived. Perhaps more appropriate, we still have various for... |
Why do hospitals and other medical facilities require expensive and elaborate buildings with detailed architecture and landscaping, wasted interior space, and seemingly energy inefficient exterior glass walls? | It's also worth mentioning that the areas that the patients don't see aren't nearly as fancy or nice and can be really old or worn out. The entrance to the hospital might be gorgeous but the back halls can be like going back into the 60s. |
How is it possible that famous people like Louis CK got no money from DVD concert sales until he produced his own? | It depends on the agreement you sign, if you agree to get a lump sum instead of royalties then yea no matter how good your product sells you won't see a dime. |
Why is autotune used excessively in songs these days? | It's practically am instrument of its own at this point. Using autotune, you can mask errors in your singing, yes, but you can also get voice effects not possible with natural voices. Many artists thus incorporate it into their style to attain a recognizable sound. |
How do gloves that allow touchscreen-friendly fingertips work? | Well, I'm assuming that you're talking about capacitive touchscreens. Capacitive touchscreens work by calculating the position of a change in electric capacitance . Thus, a glove with touchscreen-friendly fingertips operates by having fingertips which have conductive material woven into them.I have purchased and used 2... |
United States' and Israel "Unbreakable bond" | Reasons the US likes Israel that aren't based in batshit crazydom Israel, culturally, is more like the US and Western Europe than the rest of the Middle East. Staying on good terms with them keeps a door of sorts open to that region for the US, allowing them to exert influence on the region. Reasons the US likes Israel... |
Why do humans have wisdom teeth? Do any other species have wisdom teeth that would benefit them to have them removed? | Wisdom teeth are an artifact of human evolution. The jaws of Homo Sapiens have been getting smaller for the last million years, but the number of teeth have stayed the same. However, there are some people who have evolved to no longer grow wisdom teeth. Mostly latinos, IIRC. As far as I know, there's no species that sp... |
Is it possible for there to be a solar system in a solar system? | It's fairly rare and uncommon, but it is indeed possible. The key factor here is the distance and mass of the two stars. An example system would be the Alpha Centauri System with it's 2 stars. Although no planets have been confirmed yet, the distance between the two main stars would make it absolutely possible for plan... |
What exactly is a strawman argument? | Here's one thing to be aware of though, when debating. A lot of times people who disagree with you, when you counter them with a non-strawman argument, will accuse you of strawman argument. _URL_0_ |
Why do people associate eye patches with being evil? | Asymmetry often makes us uncomfortable. When designing movie characters, editors will purposefully make the villains slightly asymmetrical, just enough to make us uncomfortable. Similarly, you almost never see someone with two eyepatches, cause At that point eyepatches are kinda pointless. So while it's not the entiret... |
If I were to leave a brand new iphone 6 in its box and open it in 1000 years would it work normally? | No, most likely not. To activate an iphone properly, it needs to make contact with the Apple servers and exchange some information regarding the carrier and such. Chances are that 1000 years into the future, Apple won't exist anymore. And even if it did, it would most likely not use the same protocol for interacting wi... |
Why do old people have giant guts that stick out so much? | Muscles at your belly help hold up your spine in the back. If you let the muscles go lax, the spine tends to move forward and you end up with a sway back. This makes the belly look larger than it really is. If a person with the same body fat but in good physical shape at age 15 stood next to an 75 year old in really lo... |
Why is it that when flies land on our LCD/LED screens, they don't get affected when we move windows or make some rapid movement which results in some colour change in the screen? | I once seemingly gave a fly a seizure by running a program to flash colors as rapidly as possible. It fell off the screen and started twitching. I've tried to do it again, though, and it hasn't worked. I think maybe that particular fly had genetic issues. |
If ISPs don't need to provide advertised speeds what is stopping them from selling "up to 100gbps" service? | I would think that it has something to do with how that would tarnish their reputation for not delivering, even though they aren't required to. - If you lose reputation you lose business. All about the money. |
Could a post-human civilization achieve or surpass our level of technology/standard of living with the remaining resources left to them? | Not by using fossil fuels in the same manner we did. There's not enough left to reemerge to where we are now without already having this level of technology to attain it. |
What are some cultural reasons why so many programmers from India produce poor quality code? | If you are a programmer in the west, the chances are that you chose that career because you found you have a certain aptitude for it and you enjoy aspects of the job. People in the west tend to self-select for this type of niche job. If you are dirt poor and living in the Indian cities of Hyderabad or Pune, one of the ... |
What is 'a socialist' and why is it considered bad? | A lot of the time people are confusing 'socialism' with 'national socialism', national socialists being what the Nazi party was formed from and is in reality about as far from actual socialism as you can get. |
how come when we are babies, we drink laying down, but when we are older, we have to sit up to avoid choking while drinking? | It's actually a lot more to do with the delivery system. As an adult, we typically drink from cups. If you're lying down, you need that cup at a very steep angle to drink, often resulting in too much to drink coming in too quickly. If you were instead to use something that allows better control over the rate at which t... |
What is the best way to care for minor scrapes and cuts? | Use GOSAW.GoodOldSoapAndWater Clean the wound. Hydrogen peroxide can damage tissue and has questionable anti bacterial property. Rubbing Alcohol can cause tissue damage if over used. Betaine is good but it is messy and stains your skin, and is more expensive. GOSAW is cheap and extremely effective. After the wound is c... |
What are the big differences between a credit union and a bank? | The one *major* difference is that banks are for-profit entities, whereas credit unions are non-profit. That means a bank's primary priority is it's own bottom line, it's own profit. A credit union -- in theory -- has more freedom to do stuff for *your* benefit. A credit union is a co-op, which means *you* get to share... |
Why is the US military spending so much money on the F-35 joint strike fighter? | The US military believes that the existing fleet of jet planes used for air superiority, air defense, ground attack and naval missions are vulnerable and will become more vulnerable over time until they are too dangerous to risk in real-life missions against certain opponents . Those planes are also old, and require a ... |
Is it better to continually let your electronics run (laptops, cell phones, etc) or to shut them off every day? | Incandescent light bulbs and old electronics that ran on valves had a warm-up period where they would use more electricity than usual when they were first switched on until they heated to their normal operating temperature. The heating and cooling process caused the filament to fail quicker than if they were left on co... |
Why are so many resources used to find the black box of MH-370 when they could be used to save people elsewhere? | Initially, because the hundreds on-board could have been alive. Then it became a matter of trying to figure out if a Boeing 777 was going to become a terrorist weapon. Now it's because we have a strong idea of where it is, the military is getting to test out special capabilities, and politicians have made promises . We... |
Why are 3D printed gun such a big deal? | Many of the things a 3D printer can do can be duplicated by someone skilled at casting and molding plastics , but a 3D printer means *anyone* can do it. If there were as many 3D printers in the wild as there are, say, laser printers, this would mean that anyone could potentially have an almost traceless non-metallic fi... |
Why carnivores like lions, crocodiles, sharks, etc, can eat raw meat and not get sick, yet we do. | Eating raw meat does not typically make you sick. Eating raw meat *that isn't fresh off an animal that just died* is what makes you sick, because raw meat will act as a breeding ground for bacteria, molds, and fungus, and it's those microorganisms that make you sick, not the meat itself. That said, fresh raw meat *can*... |
Why is it that when you have an internet connection with a certain speed, your downloads are actually just around 10-15% of that speed? | Are you sure you don't confuse Mega**byte** per second and Mega**bit** per second? ISP usually advertise their connection speed in bit while your OS & application usually use byte . |
What are the major sources of Silicon Valley capital, and in the event of a tech-bubble bursting, how will it affect the economy? | The major sources of Silicon Valley capital are: 1) wealthy individuals who invest in companies ; 2) venture capital firms ; and 3) initial public offerings . A bubble is when something becomes overvalued because people are buying it in the belief that it will be more valuable in the future. The last major tech-bubble ... |
How can a file be zero bytes in size but still have details? | Actually, all that information is stored separately in a place called the partition table, which keeps track of all files. That data isn't counted, only what is in the file is. |
Why do gas station prices change daily? | That entirely depends on the demand and supply of the gas. Groceries' prices wont change much because the demand or supply may not change dramatically in contrast to the gas. |
What 'So Brave' means. | **SO BRAVE** [/r/circlejerk] tends to use this phrase a lot to either let it be known that they are frequenters of the subreddit or to point out that the opinion that the poster has is very popular ", 'When someone in the GOP says at a speech "I love America". That is so braveFrom what I 've picked up, it started in Ci... |
Why doesn't the UN just bomb ISIS back to the stone age? | You can not drop bombs on a idea, concept, or system of belief. People also annoyingly, when trying to bomb them, do not stand still. You bomb an area, not individuals. You shoot individuals, not an area. The reason that we do not bomb ISIS into the stone age is that we do not want to do it. War is not an exact science... |
Antimatter: How real is it, can we synthesize it, and what has been discovered so far about it? | I'd rather have it difficult to contain. Imagine a single Soda Can with full of anti matter Soda. Imagine the terror |
Why does our brand new $13B carrier already look like it's rusted? | Aircraft carriers can take years to make, especially if they're the first in their class, which is the case for the USS Gerald Ford, pictured. Sanding off the rust, and covering it in rust-proof paint is the among the last steps. |
If whiskey takes at least two years to age, how does a distillery get started? Do they have to wait for two years before releasing their own product? | Many business require you to invest time and money before you can start it. For example you need to spend a long time building a hotel before you can start selling rooms. I'm working on making dolls and many people spend years working on their prototypes and casting them before releasing anything at all. It's not so we... |
ELI21: Saudi ban on women driving. | from what I have heard from Saudi friends I had in college, the Saudi's take it too seriously when someone harasses their women, hits on them.. etc. So limiting their ability to drive limits the window of opportunity where strangers can come unto their harem. They end up fucking the driver.Forget the apologists bullshi... |
How can some fruits be made seedless and others can't? | Ok so in humans if we receive an odd amount of sex chromosomes we become sterile. This is because when we go to produce sperm and eggs the cells can't split up chromosomes evenly and the production of sperm and eggs fail. The same concept goes for plants, even though plants are a little more adaptive to this. So we wan... |
why does one eye see colors slightly different than the other? | Did you have one eye in the sunlight and one in the shade? Any time you expose your eyes to different levels of light from one another, you'll notice a temporary difference in the overall shade that the eye sees. |
Where did swear words come from? Why are some words "bad" words to say? | **ELI5:** People use words to tell eachother how they feel. We use good words to say that someone or something is good and we use bad words to say that someone or something is bad. People don't like it when you say some things are bad so they do not like it when you say bad words. **//**Let me say that words don't have... |
What is Saccadic Masking, why does it happen, and is it possible to prevent? | You don't generally notice it, which is the whole point of it. It's very hard to pick out unless you're talking about some specific circumstance like the stopped clock illusion. I'd be curious as to what phenomenon you feel you are noticing and attributing to the masking. If your saccades were not masked, then you woul... |
Why do some many people hate Jar Jar Binks? | Since you're asking for opinions on a subjective question this isn't appropriate for ExplainLikeImFive. Your question has been removed. |
How can people do drugs on reality TV shows like Intervention, without getting in any legal trouble? | Simply put, it's not proof. Everyone on that show could be an actor and we wouldn't know. The drugs might not even be real. It could give police reason to suspect a person of doing drugs, but it isn't proof and wont hold up in court. |
What happens to carbon emissions from vehicles travelling through tunnels? | This is actually a necessity at times; tunnels obviously aren't naturally ventilated that well, so you're essentially sucking air that has a significant amount of exhaust gas in it, which is bad for combustion *and* bad for you. As a result, tunnels often have to have pretty complex ventilation systems to move fresh ai... |
Why do carnivorous animals only eat meat but they're still healthy? | They don't need vegetables to stay healthy, and neither do you nor your children for that matter. There have been plenty of peoples throughout history who have lived only on meat except in times of desperation, and have thrived on such a diet. And many still do. Vegetables are only healthy in the sense that they are he... |
Why does black/oily snow take so long to melt? | one factor is that the dirty old snow is packed solid, it's much denser stuff than new fallen snow also, the fact that it's a big pile of dense snow means the internal snow is insulated by the surface layer, and cools the surface layer. plus that surface can melt a bit during the day then refreeze at night kind of maki... |
Is there an American version of Knighthood? | There's the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, bestowed by the branch in the name. Those are the highest decoration offered by the US Government for civilians, but they aren't given out as freely as knighthoods in the UK and usually for more lofty things.The closest thing would be the Congr... |
what events or people from the bible have been proven scientifically to have actually occurred/existed? | Well, if you're interested in old testament stuff There were definitely a group of people called the Israelites. They definitely migrated all over the middle east, and definitely ended up in Egypt at some point. The bible says they were slaves in Egypt, I'm not sure if that part's verified. But they definitely left aga... |
What is happening behind the scenes when a commercial airs for 1 second and then cuts out to a different commercial? | TV stations have a guy called the Master Control Operator, whose job is to interrupt the national feed from the network satellite to play local/regional commercials. When you see a blip like that, it's because he didn't time it correctly. Or, alternatively, he had two commercial spots queued up, and hit play on the wro... |
Why is it often so hard to taste things when your nose is congested? | Basically what we think about taste is actually called flavor which is a combination of both scent and taste. Taste is picked up from the receptors on our tounge but as we're about to taste these foods the odors make their way into our nose which allows us to associate odors with foods and taste. On top of this our sce... |
Do the IoT devices or sensors have to have IP address functionality in their firmwares? Or do they have to use the Internet Protocol Suite? | Not necessarily. I work with automation and a lot of our devices don't have IP addresses. They will have instance numbers, Bacnet id's, jci mac addresses and more. Some will have ip capabilities but it's usually not that simple. More modern or more centralized controllers do tend to have ip addresses but the sensors th... |
why do computers need MAC address when they have IP address to identify them? | Short Answer: A mac address is like a name whereas an IP address is well.. an address. IP addresses are variable and depend entirely upon your connection point whereas MAC will always be the same value, regardless of where or how you're connected. MAC can be ghosted but, that shouldn't really happen unless you're up to... |
why I pay 30% off each cheque for taxes, yet they want more from me at the end of the year? | In some recent years, the tax law hasn't been finalized before the calendar year's start. The GOV doesn't even know how it will tax things and you're already having a withholding. |
Why does water that has been left in a bottle for a while taste worse than water fresh from the tap? | When water starts to get warmer, you will end up tasting more of the impurities and minerals and whatnot that are in it. Same with food. If you eat anything room temp you can taste it much better than cold food. Many cheeses are eaten at room temp for that exact reason. Also, the oxygen that is in the water is released... |
How does internal bleeding work? | Ahoy, matey! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Internal Bleeding ] ^1. [ELI5: What exactly happens during internal bleeding and why does it kill you? ] ^1. [ELI5: Internal bleeding ] ^1. [ELI5: How do you die from internal bleeding? ] ^ |
why is it a big deal to have more than 30 fps for new games coming out on PC? | 30 FPS is good enough to play, but as your brain can see, analyze and use more, you won't be the best you could if you stay at 30 FPS. But just visually, the difference is huge . Trained people can actually use efficiently a lot more than 30 FPS. Think of a trained fighter, who will react faster than any other human to... |
How does our body turn food we eat into the cells that compose our bodies? | As an adult, mitosis occurs more than you'd think. Millions upon millions of cells replicate daily. This occurs more often for some parts of your body than others . As for the actual question you've asked, I'm not sure if you want to know about the process of digestion/absorption or the specifics of cell replication. I... |
Why did it go from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change"? | Climate change is broader and more accurate. It is true that the globe is warming. But some parts are warming a lot, some are warming just a little or even cooling, some areas will get more rain, some will get less, storms and droughts are both getting more likely, and so on. So while it's true that the globe on averag... |
Why do doctors in the US seem like they're always over-booked with patients when there are huge waiting lists for people that want to go to medical school and become doctors? | There are bottlenecks in the system to train doctors, such as the amount of space in medical schools, number of residencies available, etc. Additionally, it's not just about admitting all who want to go to medical school it's about admitting people who have the talent, skills, etc. to be successful doctors since their ... |
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