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How are curse words bleeped out on live television broadcasts? | there's a few second delay, i believe. and sometimes there isnt. so they dont catch it. or they fail to catch it. |
why don't airports have movie theaters? | Have you seen how they mark up food prices? You'd end up paying like, $25 for a movie ticket with that price raise.Because everyone carries personal movie theaters around with them in 2015.People leave at random tines. When the movie's playing, people would have to leave at random parts. That's not fun.I think i saw a ... |
Why is that when you put in the wrong password or email it doesnt tell which one you got wrong? | They didn't know which one you messed up on. It's equally likely that you messed up on the email address as the password. How do they know which one you meant and which one you didn't? |
A pound of lard has 4200 calories. Consuming 3000 calories makes me gain a pound of fat. How does eating a pound of fat create more fat? | Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5:How do all extra calories turn into fat? ]1. [ELI5: Calories - Weight gain ]", '> How does eating a pound of fat create more fat? Living fat cells contain a larger amount of water than the lard which you would consume. You would only gain that weight ... |
What is Super Tuesday? | Before the general election in November, when the president is chosen, there are primary elections in every state to determine which candidate each party will nominate. Most elections in America are held on Tuesdays, and usually there's one Tuesday on which a disproportionate number of states hold primary elections; it... |
Why DogeCoin is such a big deal | The community, the ease of use, and it is easier to get into than other cryptos.. I mean yeah, you could get 0.001 BTC, but what good is that? Instead, you can get 10k doge for the same amount of money . There is also a lot going on in the doge space, we sponsored a NASCAR recently! It is also new, so I think people gr... |
Why Scotland wants out of the UK and what are the pros and cons to both sides of the argument? | I don't know the answer, so I would like to follow-up with a question on the role of oil in the matter. |
Why are cosplay outfits so expensive? | similar non-cosplay clothes also sell hundreds of thousands or millions of copies and can be made in bulk. If a cosplay costume sells 100 it's a major success. |
How can female ducks have countermeasures to getting raped? Isn't that counterproductive to evolution? | Quite the opposite. Mate choice has long been a crucial aspect of evolution. Most ducks are semi-monogamous--being raped is a way that males who are not lucky and/or fit enough to attract a mate might still manage to pass on their genes. Evolution isn't actively and intelligently sitting there planning this shit out fo... |
Why is Norway so into trolls? | They are very often in Norwegian folk tales. I guess that's because how certain places may have looked with a little imagination. Since they also are huge as mountains etc. |
Why do worms always crawl on the hot sidewalk to die? | Generally they're crawling out because the soil is saturated. When the soil is saturated, they can't get enough oxygen. |
Why when a couple get a divorce, one spouse usually gets half of the belongings even though they are not necessarily theirs? | Marriage means becoming one in the eyes of the government/god of your choosing. So when that one is split, so are all the belongings. They're seen as belonging to the couple, not the individuals.becouse marriage is legaly binding contract and part of that contract is that they share everything they own, so when divorci... |
Why is it the Fathers that have to pay child maintenance when the child is in shared custody? | They don't. At least, not because they are the fathers. Whoever has the higher income has to pay child support to the parent with lower income to ensure that the child has the same standard of living when staying with either parent. So if the father earns a lot more than the mother, he'll likely have to pay child suppo... |
Why does the United States need enough nukes to destroy the Earth 5 times over? Wouldn't having enough to destroy the planet only once make more sense? | Another fun fact on this topic is that iirc, there are an unspecified amount of nukes, preprogrammed to hit specific coordinates autonomously should they not be deactivated every 30 days or so. This guarantees that if we're nuked catastrophically, everyone else will be too. I tried to research it on my mobile but I cou... |
why is blue generally associated with boys and pink generally associated with girls. | I didn't have time to read it through, but I do know that it used to be the opposite. This is purely a cultural thing. Read here: _URL_0_ Part of it was a marketing thing by stores to get parents to buy a whole new set of stuff if the first kid was one gender and the second kid was another gender. |
Why are anti-depressants advertised on television, but other psychiatric medications aren't? | If you are in need of an antipsychotic because you are paranoid or suffering delusions of persecution, a commercial telling you to try this drug will probably not go over well with you. After all, how did they know to you would be watching TV right then, in order to show you that commercial? They must be tracking your ... |
What is the difference between the Army and the Marines? (strategically and generally) | Marines are already aboard Navy ships that would be deployed near hot zones in the world. They're more mobile and handy than the Army, strategically speaking, but lack the sheer numbers and heavy equipment that the Army has. Of course, this is the exact reason that they are more mobile and handy--less stuff to move. Th... |
How payments in USD to GBP work. | When you get to England it won't be fall, it will be autumn :) The exchange rate should be highest at the end of the summer. We have the Olympics in the summer and Diamond Jubilee which should mean that more people are buying pounds than selling them in the lead up, but the opposite afterwards. Note though that minor e... |
Why isn't Zero divided by Zero equal to One? | Any number divided by zero is undefined, meaning the operation is impossible. Think about division as a literal division of some number of tokens into groups. You can divide five tokens into five groups, and you can even divide zero tokens into five empty groups. But how would you divide five tokens into zero groups? H... |
How is it possible for Grand Masters of Chess to see so many moves in advance? | Studies have shown that masters don't usually see any further ahead than strong amateurs. Both are capable of following a line of play several moves ahead. What separates masters is the ability to pick which lines of play are the best ones to analyze. They recognize certain patterns in positions they know will lead to ... |
How come a unopened water bottle turned to solid ice when i dropped it? | The water requires a 'seed' to for ice to form. When you dropped it, you agitated it enough to create an air bubble which was the required seed. You can YouTube the phenomenon. It's quite fascinating. |
why do Soccer players hold the hand with kids during introductions before matches? | I believe it's because kids are a naturally cute surface for a sponsorship message. This question has been asked before, could give yo usome insight: _URL_0_ |
why dont flight companies let you print off your boarding pass for the return trip at the same time as you print your outbound pass? | Air NZ does on domestic flights- I think they only started doing it in the last couple of years but I've done it several times. |
Why does it take so long for a sunburn to hurt/ appear after the burn is inflicted? | What happens in a sun burn is that the radiation has causes so much damaged to your outer skin cells that it has compromised them in some way but hasn't actually killed them yet. This kind of damage is often what leads to to skin cancer . When your skin cells get sufficiently damaged, they essentially commit suicide to... |
How come there aren't half human/half apes caught in the middle of evolution? | Humans are apes. Except for that every species is always in flux from what it was to whatever it will become in the future. However, our ancestors, those halfway between what we are now and what we had been, are dead, extinct. They evolved into us. If Australians descended from Europeans how come there's still European... |
Why is orange the ideal color for tigers in the jungle and in the snow? | it's not that it is necessarily effective, it's just that it has not been a detriment to them in their evolution. Evolution is completely random, and sometimes shit just happens. If the random evolution is not negative to the creature, then it will not be weeded out over the next several generations/mutations |
How did Nokia manage to have a voice recognition system before 2000? | i remember voice activated pc password mid 90s, you recorded a spoken word then set it as a password, to load up your pc you had to say the password into a microphone, wrong accent, wrong tone or wrong pronunciation and it simply didn't work. |
How does the government keep increasing the debt ceiling? Are they simply pushing the debt onto the future generation? | There's no rational reason for there to be a debt ceiling at all, and it would be abolished, other than that it's a useful political tool for deficit hawks. The US government needs to fund its operations, and because US Treasury Bonds are considered more or less the safest investment on earth, it can do this really che... |
Why can't I put a Playstation 4 disc into a Playstation 3 if they are both blu-rays? | Why can't an boy read a German book if he can read an English book? Just because he can read the words doesn't mean he understands words written in a different language. |
Why are we (the U.S.) trying to publicize health insurance instead of just publicizing healthcare? | Because insurance company lobbyists + crazy rules that allow for campaign contributions. Plus there's no way this country will ever take THAT large of a step in the other direction at once baby steps. We'll get there eventually, or we'll go broke - one of the two. |
Why are you legally responsible for hospital costs accrued while you are unconscious? | When you are incapacitated and unable to make your own decisions, certain people are legally allowed to make binding decisions on your behalf. It is really no different than if you wife or parents or children made the same decision for you. If they are not available, then the state gets to make the decision, and the ho... |
What would happen to world politics if we switched off from oil? | ###Nuclear Fission If it was a switch to Nuclear Fission, anybody with uranium or thorium will be rich, because of the three different fissile isotopes used in Nuclear Fission Reactors: 1. Uranium-235, made by purifying mined uranium of uranium-238.2. Plutonium-239, made by transmuting uranium-238.3. Uranium-233, made ... |
Why are slim fit shirts more expensive than regular fit at any store/mall/outlet? | I imagine that regular fits are more popular than slim fits, if you have more of a product the price is usually lower as when you go to a manufacturer they generally charge less per unit for larger orders. It's how mass production works. |
What it's like living with depression | It's not just being sad. It is being totally apathetic towards the world, you see no point in getting up out of bed in the morning and just want to lay there all day. |
If the Multiverse Theory is true, is there a universe where it isn't? | By definition the Multiverse Theory does not occur *inside* a universe, but describes the *set* of universes. No matter where you go, the fact would not change. However, in some scenarios there can be universes where it's *impossible to detect* that the Multiverse Theory is true, and thus it would *appear as if* it wer... |
Why do the shower curtains envelop me all creepy-like when I'm taking a hot shower? | Assuming you take hot showers, it's due to a pressure difference. The hot water heats the air in the shower more than the air outside. The warm air inside the shower is of a lower pressure than the cooler air outside. The higher pressure air outside then pushes the shower curtain inside causing it to move around a bit ... |
Why is Russian society so hostile towards gay people? | Russian here. People of Slavic decent tend to be more conservative in general because religion and just the ways are important to us. Sort of like Asian family's. going outside the norm will get you shit from the surrounding community. But some tend to over react when it comes to this and those were more then likely ra... |
Are all those XXX sites using copyrighted images of popular cartoon or figures legal to operate? [Explanation In Text] | It's a combination of what /u/bubbahenry said and pragmatism. Disney could probably find someone in the US to sue for something if it wanted to. Or it could at least try to make major sites remove links to the videos. However, it wouldn't make much sense for Disney to do that. Disney isn't likely to make a bunch of mon... |
Why does sugar damage our teeth? | Sugar is used by bacteria to produce energy. They produce acidic metabolites, and the enamel and dentin dissolve. If you drink soda's, which are acidic, this will result in the teeth dissolving only on the surface. With sugar, that first sticks to the teeth, favourable places are formed that get hollowed out, hard to c... |
Why wasn't Japanese emperor Hirohito deposed after WW2? | Everyone in this thread who says he had no authority is not correct. After the war, the emperor's apologists claimed he was a powerless figurehead. Others claimed he was an all-powerful autocrat in the same fashion as the Russian Tsars. The truth is somewhere in between. Hirohito participated in daily war councils, he ... |
Why are HOAs legally allowed to have so much power over your property? | You know what you're getting into when you buy, it's not like they're doing anything wrong. The charter is a legal document. |
Why do we like to listen to our music loud? | I can only speak of my self. I listen to music loud because it's kind of a single focus thing. I can just listen the the music and relax with out thinking to hard. |
Credit Cards with Micro Chips | Those have EMV chips and are commonly called Chip cards. The main benefit is that when a transaction occurs, it uses a one-time number, so if you were a Target customer when they got hacked, but you only used your chip and not the mag strip, the hackers wouldn't get your card number. Starting Oct 1, 2015 Visa are switc... |
Why do Mormans need all that genealogical data for everyone born? | My understanding is that according to their religion, they can retroactively convert people. So the more lineage they have, people they can prove existed, they're converting them to Mormonism by name, which seems to be a requirement. Obviously, this has some mixed reactions, some people don't care, some people say that... |
why does the power go out when it rains really hard? What is the exact cause of it? | The most likely cause in my area is high winds or fallen trees pulling out or overtensioning powerlines causing connection breakage. The solution is to physically re-attach broken connections, but often this cannot be done in the conditions that caused it. There's also a high possibility of water damaging transformers ... |
How and why do parrots mimic humans? | Another thought to add to bguy74's post. If you have ever had a parrot as a pet, or known anyone who has, you know that the parrot will mimic every sound *but* human speech. Parrots mimic sound for the same reason that guys play guitar or get tattoos, they want to get laid. Parrots don't have much to do in life aside f... |
Why do airplanes have double-pronged audio jacks? | Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why do airplane headphones have 2 prongs instead of the normal 1 for most other headphones/devices? ] ^1. [Why do you need audio adapters in planes? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why do airplanes have special audio jacks? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why do airplane headsets always ... |
Why aren't nuclear reactors more common place in developed countries when they are so efficient? Are the dangers involved in switching completely to nuclear energy simply too great? | rational" or even "efficient" thing to do people don't like the idea of having a nuclear reactor near their house. Hence there is a very strong "not in my backyard" feeling even among people who support nuclear power in general termsThere is also the problem of getting rid of, storing the used fuel, its a very expensiv... |
How do people with the lower-half of their body missing dispose of the waste in their bodies? | I doubt he was actually missing the lower half, he just didn't have legs. If he was missing all those organs, he would be dead. |
What do truck drivers do when they're on the highway and they see an overpass has a 14' clearance but they know their truck is 15' high? | About every three years, somebody goes for it anyway in downtown Syracuse. There's that one bridge .. |
What gives the USD value if it is no longer backed by gold? | The 'effective' obligation on the part of participants in the US economy to settle in US Dollars. Even if they choose barter or other forms of payment, a seller of goods must settle their tax bills in US Dollars. Since federal taxes are 20% of GDP, there is little alternative to using dollars.For a basic but insightful... |
Why did tragedies (sad stories) lose popularity since Shakespeare’s day? | same reason people like superhero movies. The audience has changed. Most people's lives are meh and flatlining, they prefer a fantasy something outside of their life or a comedy to lighten up. No one likes to be pulled down, they go to movies something else. |
Why don't TMZ reporters get restraining orders for stalking celebrities? | TMZ and such are filming people in public places. You don't have much a right to privacy if you are in public. If you impede a celebrity or touch them they can gotten the courts involved. In addition most of the stuff filmed on TMZ isn't done by TMZ but by individual people who sell footage to TMZ. |
Why communism is considered bad, and why does the USA always try to stop it before it's too late ? | Communism in the 20th century was synonymous with rampant human rights violations, and a general lack of freedom. As people who've grown accustomed to a life relatively free of governmental influence, this would not be appealing at all. |
Acceleration of the expansion of the universe | dark energy contributes to the expansion of the universe. dark matter is to explain the localized contraction of the universe. suppose you didn't know about gravity wind and air resistance. you throw a ball at 1m/s speed upwards and you see it gradually slow down then come down again. you attribute that to a force and ... |
Why don't computers with faster processors run games at ridiculous speeds, or at least faster than other computers? | The game's software is designed to compensate for variances in processor speed. However, you actually do see this effect in some games that were designed for older CPUs. |
Why does the US have so many different standards than most of the world (SI vs metric, driving on the right side of the road, month/day/year vs day/month/year)? | Because the US is a former British colony and Britain's current systems of measurement are worse than America's. America is actually mostly using SI units now . Very few countries drive on the left. It's pretty much just the UK and a few of their colonies. The American date notation used to be yyyy/mm/dd, but people di... |
If a vision impaired person were to practice shooting targets without wearing glasses and got good, would they become exponentially better with the glasses on? | Nope. With modern sights, target shooting is more a matter of 'hold' and 'trigger control' than of visual acuity. |
If a set of identical male twins each have children with a set of identical female twins, how identical will their children be? | They'd appear genetically more like siblings than cousins. If only the males were identical twins it would appear genetically somewhere between the two.i think i heard of this scenario before, i think the conclusion was that the children would be as genetically similar as siblings |
How does most of the world find a smell offensive (skunk, etc) and a few find it very appealing? | It's like cilantro. To some it tastes like soap or rubber, others love it. To me it tastes like a mix of lemongrass and parsley. Lovely. My parents both can't stand it, it smells like cat pee and tastes like burned rubber to them. I, on the other hand, can't stand the smell of Geraniums. It is a bitter vile smell. My p... |
Where is sweat in the human body stored? | It sources the water from your body, since it's using it as a catalyst to cool your body off from overheating. When you become dehydrated you will Stop sweating. |
Why in 24 years of my life I have never had allergies but this year they are ruining my life. | That's around the time I also STARTED having burning eyes, rashes, runny nose. I was **in denial** the whole time, until the 5th round of having a pink eye, I was like, NO it's not conjunctivitis. I am actually being stung in the eye by plant semen. Seriously. Generic claritin is very cheap at Costco. Zyrtec will make ... |
Why graphic card's processors are faster than the "normal"? | GPUs can do simple calculations very well.CPUs can do complex calculations reasonably well. They complement the others' strengths and weaknesses.The CPU in a computer is like your average "strong" guy, he can do pretty much anything, and he can do any particular thing pretty well. The GPU in a video card is like a spec... |
why have cats evolved to pur, and if you stroked a lion would it pur? | Cats don't just purr when happy. Many will also purr when sick or in pain. It's theorized that this may be because purring helps with the release of endorphins, or because it makes them feel better. Kind of like how people may hug people because they're happy to see them or excited, but we also hug others when they're ... |
What purpose does ethanol serve in gasoline? | When petroleum is refined into gasoline, it is naturally too combustible/unstable for most internal combustion engines, so an additive is always used to boost the octane . Once upon a time, the common additive was Lead. That had some negative repurcussions and was replaced with [MTBE]. When that was found to be environ... |
Why does does being in the ER take forever? | Also, if it DOESN'T take forever you can bet it's pretty serious. I've been in the ER a few times and always waited hours, even when my SO was having a gallbladder attack. The day I went in for heart arythmia I was out of there and in a hospital bed in half an hour. |
Why do I see advertisements on television when I am paying for the TV company's service? | It used to be the case that basic cable had advertisements and then premium channels didn't because you payed for them separately. Then did some market research and found people were mostly paying for the exclusive shows and not so much for the ad free experience. They tried adding ads and people still payed for the se... |
Why don't really competitive PC gamers run their games exclusively at the lowest possible graphics settings? | In part; Because on games like CS:GO; there is far less visual clutter than, say, Battlefield 4, and partly because higher settings allow methods that simply cannot be done at absolute minimum settings. For example; At minimum settings most games fully disable player shadows, which some players can, in some circumstanc... |
Where does yeast come from? | Yeast is a group of organisms classified as fungi. There are many kinds of yeast like brewers yeast and baker's yeast and yeast that causes disease. Yeast have been isolated from natural sources and purified to get only the non disease causing variants. These are usually sold as spores that you can buy when you are bak... |
Why do some vehicles (certain busses, semi trucks, etc) have completely flat front ends? Isn't this the last aerodynamic shape possible without getting concave? | There are some weird answers in here Having a semi-flat front isn't the worst actually, you can look at a box fish for example. Second these vehicles aren't meant to move very fast, so drag doesn't play a big role but what about transport trucks on the freeway going 70 mph? Well they're usually pulling something that's... |
If plane crashes are so rare, how is it that so many famous people have managed to die in plane crashes? | Famous people fly a whole lot more often than us regular people. The odds catch up after awhile. Plus they often will fly in private planes which don't have as good a track record as commercial flying . |
How does the underground ecosystem of a cemetery compare to that of a normal, untouched field of grass? | Worked in a cemetery. The concrete vaults don't hold up forever underground. They may last 20 years, what with the ground settling and constantly driving a backhoe over them to dig other graves. I think the fact that bodies are embalmed and preserved for the most part takes them out of the underground eco system equati... |
Why a significant amount of veterans when they come back from duty end up homeless? | Mental health issues , injuries, lack of education and substance abuse means it can be hard for veterans to find employment. Sometimes it's also just hard to find cheap housing |
Why do shirts have both horizontal and vertical button holes on the same shirt? | If the horizontal button hole is in the collar it could be easier to button or look better with a tie-- which could be near or partly covering the top button. Vertical buttons are used elsewhere either for appearance/tradition or because they're easier to use. Because the collar often involves multiple layers or folded... |
Why is it illegal to fire a professional athlete in "work at will" state? | Lawyer here. At will doesn't mean an employment contract can be voided willy nilly. Typically at will applies when there's no express written contract. . Since sports players will have detailed contracts with express durations, the player has to breach the contract for the employer to fire them.Because it's contracted ... |
Why is trypophobia a thing? | Most fears come about because evolution favored those fears. An ancient human who was afraid of holes would avoid them, and therefore be less likely to be attacked by something that was living in the hole. Even if it is only extremely rare that such a thing occurred where an ancient human got attacked, there was a gene... |
Why Internet Explorer is bad to use? | From a web developers point of view, it isn't the best standards complaint browser. Although that is slowly getting better with IE9 and more so with IE10. So one thing would look brilliant in Safari, but look absolutely dreadful in IE.IE6 was great at the time. However, the industry has evolved far beyond it, making it... |
Why does the UK still have a -House of Lords? | Because it works fine and most people are happy with it? How can you have a check system if the way you appoint members in the upper house is the exact same way you appoint members of the lower house? You will just end up with the same result. Lords can also be nominated by the public. There are also restrictions on wh... |
What is "Groot" & Why do people keep exclaiming "I am Groot!" | It's a character from Guardians of the Galaxy who can only say 3 words.. I Am Groot. He holds entire conversations by saying I Am Groot. That's all there is to it.Groot is dutch for big, dunno if it applies here tough. |
Why did Nicola's Tesla theory of Clean Energy never got developed, did it lack scientific credibility? | Any source on what specifically, you're talking about? I know there are some less than credible sites which claim that Tesla developed some mysterious sort of free energy or something, but I have found no credible source that that actually happened. As far as I know, Tesla never even claimed to have invented free energ... |
why does the issue of women's rights stir up so much anger? | For starters women don't lack any rights in the US relative to men and in fact have access to several extra rights men don't get in addition to fewer responsibilities. So it comes across as a bit spoiled to demand even more rights on top of all that. |
Why does Apple allow competitor apps (like Google Maps) to be available on iTunes? | 1. They make money from the apps. 2. If they don't allow the apps, they breach a bunch of competition laws. Those laws are designed to enable companies to compete in the marketplace. Breaches usually result in multi-million or billion dollar fines.Because they still make money from these apps. |
how raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would effect our economy | My question is: Say the minimum wage is raised to $15/hour, up from the $7.25. How are the people already making up to $15/hour affected, assuming their employer doesn't double their wage as well? |
Is there any concrete evidence that climate change isn't actually happening? Is there a reason why this is such a partisan issue? | For the record I believe in Climate Change but it bothers me that I can never be completely sure. There is evidence that a lot of claims made by climate change supporters is bullshit. Look up 'hockey stick graph debunked' or 'Harry read me file' for a start. Or watch An Inconvenient Truth and count up all the dire thin... |
Why did we domesticate chickens for the use of eggs and not other birds? | Chickens are fairly convenient. They're stupid, but not too much trouble, and the eggs are a good size. We also do quails , which is a lot of work for the results; ducks, which need some maintenance, have smelly poo, and have kind've muddy-flavored eggs; geese, which are aggressive; ostriches, which definitely need som... |
What is the biological reason behind sadness over a loved one, or sadness in general | I'm not entirely sure if sadness has a biological reason, it's probably linked to the emotional centre in the prefrontal cortex, but I do know, that the happiness you experience when you fall in love is linked to a certain level of the hormone serotonine. |
How car crashes can put your body under up to 20 G's of pressure. | It's not gravity, it's momentum. You and the car are both traveling at the same speed. If the car suddenly stops, you keep moving forward, and it's that impact of you hitting the now-stationary car that they are referring to.Elevators stopping can produce that much acceleration momentarily. According to this table _URL... |
If water is made up of Hdrogen and Oxygen, then why does my bottled water have magnesium, potassium, calcium etc? | You're probably drinking mineral water. Magnesium, Potassium and Calcium are minerals, so it makes sense that they'd be in it. |
Why do products sold on infomercials require four to six weeks for delivery? | A lot of times they don't actually have thousand or tens of thousands of units already made. They take your order, then wait a couple of weeks for the money to get to their account, then they place an order with the manufacturing company to make and deliver the units. It takes maybe a week for the money to get from you... |
How will self driving cars ever be able to drive on snow and ice? | Road surface changes aren't that big of a deal, most cars nowadays are already thoroughly computerised. I think the main thing holding back snow-condition robotic cars is visibility. If you can't see the lines on the road, the car loses its points of reference, and only sees white, while a human who's used to these ele... |
Do Eastern cultures have their own explorers who "found Europe" that they celebrate? | [Ibn Battuta] didn't 'find Europe' or anything, but he was a very famous explorer who travelled around the world. Also, in addition, [many Muslim cartographers] mapped many locations around the world, most notably IMHO Al-Khawarizmi and Piri Reis. There were even some maps in Andalusia that indicated the presence of wh... |
If the medicine bottle says "take one or two pills every four hours", doesn't that mean I can take one pill every two hours? | No, you'll be starting a second dose before the first has run is course. Most [all probably] medications don't work linearly, they release a lot of the medication at once and keep a small amount coming as the pill dissolves and the primary effect wears off. To take another dose too early would be the same as just takin... |
Is that possible to fake photo/video that well so police could not tell if it is faked or not? | Yes. There's a movie that got released in the '70s, I believe, that was so realistic that the people who made it were brought up on charges of murder, among other things. The only thing that saved them was the actor who supposedly was killed showed up to testify. Edit: the movie was [Cannibal Holocaust] and was release... |
Why are the keys on a keyboard in QWERTY style and not in alphabetical order? | QWERTY is a historical layout of keys. It was originally invented and used because it puts the most frequently used letters in English far enough away from each other that if you had a mechanical type writer it would minimize the risk of the arms getting tangled in each other as you type. It's not really needed for com... |
Why isn't the UN doing anything about Syria and leaving it up to the USA? | Because Russia veto of it. Don't know how to say it properly, English isn't my native language. But basically Russia, China, France, UK and US has the right to just say no to something and then UN can't do it. Which Russia has done. |
Why is Ohio so important in elections? | Ohio is fairly large *and* is a swing state. Most of the large states are solidly red or blue . But a few states like Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are swing states that are less consistent from election to election. That's where the elections are won or lost. Ohio is also a good proxy for the U.S. as a whole because... |
why after all these allegations and possible criminal charges has nothing been done? | Possible". Charges do not get brought unless a district attorney, or in this very special case, special prosecutor believes that if they bring a case to court, that they can win. They also don't get brought until an investigation is concluded - you don't want to take someone to court for fraud, and then mid-way through... |
How come videos don't load like they used to? | The old style is called progressive download. One file that contains the whole video is downloaded. The player is able to start playback as soon as enough seconds of the video are downloaded to theoretically provide seamless playback. If playback goes faster than the download you'll see video pause while the buffer rel... |
Why we had to turn to channel 3 in order to play video games? | Modern TVs have many different types of inputs: hdmi, coax, component, s-video, etc, etc Old TVs only had a place to connect an antenna, they didn't have any extra inputs since VCRs and game consoles hadn't been invented yet. So VCRs and game consoles had to fake being a TV station and go in the antenna input. Once VCR... |
Why can you hear a jet engine from the ground, but not from the plane? | People seem to be misunderstanding my original intention with this question. I haven't been on a plane in a long time, so I guess I don't remember hearing the engine during the flight. What I mean to ask is, why is it so much louder from the ground? A plane flew over my house this morning and I legitimately thought it ... |
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