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How does Fiji water justify their inflated price? | Supply and demand, they wouldn't sell it for that price if people weren't buying it for that price.What do you mean by justify? They can charge whatever they like.Bottled water, one of the worst environmental catastrophes in recent times, has always functioned off the cache of being a premium product/better than the ta... |
why is Iowa such a big deal for the RNC primary? | It's the first election in the primaries. That's the only reason it's important. How a candidate does in earlier elections can affect the outcome of later elections. |
Explain like i'm five: why do you shave with the way the hair grows ? | I'm truly happy for you and your gift of both-wayness, but when I shave against the grain, all hell breaks loose on my face. Mad irritation brother. |
- How did they make eyelet lace before modern machinery existed? | We have a group here in town that does it. There's needle tatting, which is kind of like crocheting, and then there's bobbin lace, which you can see in this video. _URL_0_ |
If oil is so expensive/limited, why is plastic so cheap and widely available? | There's a lot of oil. Oil isn't all that expensive at the end of the day. Even refined oil products like gasoline are cheaper per volume than something like milk. The total amount of oil is limited, but that doesn't make the amount of oil necessary to produce plastic expensive. We just use **a lot** of oil, overall.Oil... |
why are lobsters so expensive? | They're not. Well, not for me. I live in Portland, Maine. Lobster is cheaper than lamb, and sometimes cheaper than beef. The reason lobster is so expensive for you is twofold. - One: the poor things spoil so fast that they have to be shipped live or cooked. - Two: butchering a lobster is fiddly work, either taking a lo... |
How are permanent tattoos possible if the skin replaces itself every 28 days? | There are multiple layers of skin. I believe 7 total. Only the top layers replace themselves as you stated, while the lower layers do not and that's where the tattoo ink is placed. It will still skew and fade over time.theres another issue, Your immune system is composed of several cells, white blood cells, T cells, an... |
Why are concerts a safe haven for open drug use? | They're not. How many people did they recently arrest at a Phish concert? Hundreds, that's how many. _URL_0_ |
Why is there a "motion blur" effect when moving something around at night? | Some of this effect can be due to the lighting used in some locations. Florescent lights for example 'flicker' - that is they brighten and dim in time with the electricity supply . If you move something rapidly, you can sometimes see a flickering/blurring effect as you see the item clearly when the lights are at full b... |
How can professional sports be "fixed"? | All it takes is one key player or coach or even referee to tilt the balance in a close game. In the eyes of many, this year's Super Bowl came down to a single play where one star player didn't try hard enough. I am not in any way suggesting it was fixed, but if that player's family was being being threatened, maybe tha... |
Why does windchill make you colder? | Think about peeing in the pool. It feels warm for a while because the ambient water around you is still slightly warmer. If you moved away from the pee water or the water was flowing it would only feel warm as long as you're still in the pee water zone. Windchill is like that, but your body warms the air and while the ... |
Why isn't there one programming language to rule them all? | _URL_1_ In all seriousness, different languages have different uses and different priorities. You can make something efficient, but then it'll be too complicated for some. You can abstract and automate some problems away, but that might do other unforeseen things.The same reason there isn't one car or one phone to rule... |
What happens as we grow up that makes us stop liking people of this age and instead like people closer to a different age, and why does this not happen for pedophiles? | On the flip side of this, I have been attracted to 'older' men since well before I was legal. I have never felt attracted to anyone my same age as a teenager or in my 20s. I'm relieved to be in my 30s because my choice in men just gets more and more appropriate. I just hope that it changes as I go beyond my 40s someday... |
How would the environment change if you added a body of water to a dry desert area? | By bringing in water you're providing potential moisture for clouds to form. But any rainfall would happen farther downwind from this inland sea you've created. I know nothing about Australian geography or weather to know how topography and prevailing winds would affect those clouds. After a quick maps search I see Lak... |
Why do stores offer cash back as an option at checkout? | > Is it of any benefit to them? Or is it merely there for the convenience of the customer? It is a benefit for them *because* it is convenient for the customer. If they are the odd store out that doesn't offer cash back then they might lose some small amount of business. |
If I jump how long must I be above the ground for the earth to noticeably rotate below me. | As I understand it both you and the Earth are moving at the same velocity so there woulndn' t be any effect. |
Why is English considered one of the hardest languages to learn? | Could you provide a source that considers English as one of the hardest languages to learn? As a French, I think learning English is waayyyy easier than learning Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, or even German So yeah, I don't think the premise of the question is right, or at least not universal. |
How can marvel citizens be okay with magic, gods, super science, aliens, and superhumans destroying entire city blocks, but not mutants? | I'd imagine the only difference is that humans have at least a sliver of a fighting chance against mutants.. good luck fighting magic gods or, even worse, Superman. |
Why can't we command our eyes not to see when they're open | Because that hasn't evolved, likely at least in part because there's not much selective pressure for such a thing to exist. If you need to shield your eyes, you can close them, and not being able to see presents lots of risks, so what is the advantage that would make such a trait dominate? |
How do doctors decide on what scan to use? | Which one would give the best indication of whether what they suspect is the issue is the issue or not. If they haven no idea what the issue is they'll go after the test/s that cover the largest possibility space of issues that could cause the symptoms. Xrays are great for determine if a bone is fractures, but not terr... |
What is your body's process when you die of old age? | Dying of old age is a legal determination, not a medical one. It simply means an elderly person died under non-suspicious circumstances, and it really isn't worth the effort to find out more. But they will die of something specific. A stroke, heart attack, organ failure, there will be a cause. |
If liquid water turns to gas at 212ºF, how does water evaporate at room temperature? | It's not really true that liquid water turns to gas at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Liquid water is always turning to gas a little bit. 212 degrees is just the point where the water wants to turn into gas *so much*, even the water underneath the surface gets in on the action.Liquid water is always evaporating into the air. ... |
Why is torture not an effective tool for information extraction? | People will say stuff to not be tortured or die. You know why we invaded Iraq? Because a high up Iraqi military guy fled Iraq and asked for asylum and everyone said no, he was to be sent back, which meant certain death for him and his family. But there WAS a way he could get asylum if he was willing to tell us about th... |
Why have they yet to invent a solid car/bike tire? | Solid tires would make you feel every bump in the road and be very uncomfortable. They do make tires that use sturdy rubber spokes instead of air to cushion, but they make a very loud sound as the rubber pops in and out. [Here's a picture of one]", 'There are solid [bike tires]. Solid rubber car tires would be extremel... |
The role of Jesus in modern Judaism and Islam | Muslim here. We believe Jesus was one of many prophets , tasked by God to preach the truth to the world. We don't believe he is divine however, and hold that such accounts were fabricated/corrupted.Jews generally believe that Jesus was simply a person if he existed at all. Muslims indeed believe he was a great prophet ... |
How can game key aglorithms be simultaneously strict enough that they can't be guessed and vague enough that millions of games can generate millions of single-use keys? | If each character in a 16 character key can be a letter or number, then you have ^16 = 7,958,661,109,946,400,884,391,936 possible keys. That's a stupendously big number, and the odds of you randomly generating the same key as someone else is stupendously small. If a game has 1 billion correct 16 character keys, that me... |
Can't we just point a telescope at the moon and find the American flag to determine if the moon landing was real? | Let's say we could overcome the other problems mentioned here, and get a quality picture of the flag on the moon. There still remains one major obstacle: that flag has spent more than 4 & frac12; decades exposed to direct solar radiation with no atmosphere to protect it. That flag no longer bears the stars and stripes ... |
If the expansion of pi is infinite and has been shown to contain every possible sequence of numbers, how can it be non-repeating? | Well, to be pedantic, pi hasn't been shown to contain all strings. It's widely believed pi contains all finite number sequences, but this proposition has not been proven. However, even though mathematicians are usually really wary of assuming things without proofs, this proposition is pretty much accepted to be true re... |
Is www._URL_0_ art? Is there any way I can justify classifying Jackson Pollock's "No. 5" as art while rejecting _URL_0_? | If my art history studies have taught me anything, its that anything anyone decides to call art *is* art, however, you're entitled to like or dislike anything you want. |
Bitcoins. What are they, why are they sketchy, how do you get them, and why are they better then Runescape-currency? | Bitcoins is the currency of the internet. It's sketchy because bitcoins are used to transact on the blackmarket. Getting bitcoins is like putting your computer on a parttime job. I don't remember the specifics but it's something along the lines of doing number crunching. You can't buy drugs and guns with Runescape mone... |
Why do Nasa launch rockets from sea level instead of from the top of a mountain | I think two of their criteria are A) somewhere on the equator . and B) Somewhere with a lot of water directly east of them, so if a takeoff goes bad, if it crashes back down it does so over water. I'm not sure if theres just no good high elevations that meet this criteria, or if it's too challenging to build a mountain... |
The difference between the US Army and the USMC, and why the USMC has such a strong reputation/brotherhood | Classically the Marines have been tied as a combat-centric wing of the Navy. The major difference nowadays is the ability to deploy from naval vessels. Otherwise, their responsibilities aren't too different from that of an army ground combat force. Sailors in the navy are usually more focused on vessel operations, and ... |
Why Is The NFL Draft So Popular Compared To The NBA/MLB/NHL Drafts? | I think there are two main reasons. 1. Football is insanely popular. It's by far the most popular sport in the US. That in itself is a huge boost. 2. The NFL draft is composed of mostly American players who went to American universities. The people who are going to be getting drafted high in the NFL draft have been pla... |
Bandwidth. What is it? What does it do? Why do so many people get upset about it? | This is an extreme oversimplification:It's basically your networks capacity to transmit data. Think of it like a water pipe. Your bandwidth is how much water can fit through the pipe in a certain amount of time. If someone is trying to download a large file or as in the analogy use the shower, there will be less water ... |
why can quicksilver and scarlet witch be used in marvel movies from two different intellectual property owners, such as x-men and the Avengers? | The Marvel/Fox contract states that Fox can use any X-Men they want, which gives them the ability to use Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. However, both characters are recognised Avengers which means that Marvel can use them in The Avengers films. This puts them into a grey area that both companies can use, however, it wo... |
Why are the capitals of US states (and even the US itself) usually not their largest cities? | States where the largest city is the capital : Arizona Arkansas Colorado Connecticut Delaware Georgia Hawaii Idaho Indiana Iowa Massachusetts Mississippi New Jersey Oklahoma Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Utah Virginia Wyoming --- States where the largest city is not the capital : Alabama Alaska California Flori... |
How can birds(US Cardinals, Finch,Junko's) handle freezing temperatures? | Like us, they're warm blooded. This means that they maintain their own body temperatures and are thus not entirely at the mercy of ambient conditions. They do that the same way we do, by consuming enough food to be able to generate the heat necessay to maintain their body temperature within a suitable range. |
Why is it so hard to use photoshop? | It's an old program that gathered more and more features over time, so by now the user interface has suffered from huge numbers of additions -- it wasn't originally designed to support such complexity. |
Why is the US not funding NASA? | Because the Strategy towards Space is moving towards the Private Industry direction to allow and promote innovation and creativity. Plus it's cheaper. |
Why do electrical sockets need a pin for "grounding". What is this grounding-thing, anyhow? | An electrical circuit is protected by either a fuse or more commonly these days a circuit breaker. In the UK we have a circuit breaker in a box where the electricity comes into the house and a fuse in the plug A fuse is a small bit of wire the correct thickness to only let a certain amount of electricity through it, an... |
The difference between instant rice and the rice that comes in the bag, typically found on the bottom shelf of the grocery store | instant rice is dehydrated, can be easily cooked when rehydrated with wated. Long grain rice isn't dehydrated thus takes longer to cook. Pro tip: long grain rice works well if you drop electronics in water, power them off, remove battery if possible, and put in a bag of rice: it will absorb the moisture and often saves... |
When you first start a diet and lose "water weight" that first week, what's really going on? | Finally a question I can answer! By going on a diet the first thing most people start to cut is carbs. Carbs hold onto a ton of water. Your body usually works in cycles of 2-3 days and in these few days you're eating less of this water retaining food and you get rid of it. It has nothing to do with eating less salt lol... |
What would happen if every country forgave everyone else's debt so everyone had their national debts reduced to $0 | But if, for example Albania owes Brazil $100 and Brazil owes Canada $100 and Zimbabwe owes Albania $100, why couldn't they just *shift* that debt along and everyone comes out even? Then it wouldn't be cancelling the debt it would be resolving it. Wouldn't it? |
Why don't car engines have hand cranks like lawn mowers to start them if their battery goes dead? | Today's cars have much larger engines with more compression than the cars of the early 1900s. It would be nearly impossible to crank start a modern engine the way they once did. Another problem is that modern fuel injected cars require enough electrical current to run the computer and fuel pump or there is no fuel pres... |
If Kim Jong Un wants to look like the perfect man to his people, then why does he not go to the gym and work out? | You misunderstand. Kim Jong Un is already the perfect man. Therefore, it's impossible for him to want or need to change, because any change at all would be for the worse. Unless he feels like changing, in which case he changed for the better, even though he was perfect both before and after the change. |
How exactly can trained animals sense seizures and low blood sugar in humans? What physically sends them the message? | Dogs' smell receptors are so sensitive that can tell and alert. They are trained to do so. |
Sometimes when my tongue rolls in a certain position water sprays out from under it. Is this normal? And why does it happen? | I've heard gleaking as well. Sometimes snake spitting. I learned how to do it after having it happen accidentally while eating mints. You just work at it a bit and then you have an excellent tool at your disposal to drive siblings crazy. I've hit the dentist a few times at point blank by accident but they've always bee... |
Why aren't stainless steel countertops, like in restaurant kitchens, magnetic, but stainless steel knives are? | Everyone's talking about what makes a steel ferromagnetic or not, so I'll talk about the other side of the question: countertops in particular. If you have a *private* countertop that's not ferromagnetic, that's probably because a higher chromium content makes it easier to polish, and if you're choosing stainless steel... |
How many (technological) generations, roughly, are we away from being able to accurately simulate the real world, down to every molecule? | I think future simulations will be very similar to today's games. They won't be able to simulate molecular scale resolution and won't need to. Why? At a certain point, in terms of asymptotic limits, matter behaves the same way on the macro scale. That is to say, it wouldn't make a difference if you knew what an individ... |
Why is washing your hands with soap and hot/warm water more effective than using soap and cold water? | From my understanding the reason they say use warm water is that people are more likely to wash their hands for the full 30 seconds with warm water. The water out of the faucet does not get hot enough to kill germs on contact so that is not the reason. I also see that someone said the hot water breaks down the oils on ... |
Why would a drug dealer lace their product with carfentanil, which is causing so many OD deaths? Aren't they reducing their own customer base? | Usually it's too either A) be more addictive, and/or B) be known to have the strongest and best shit around. So if someone overdoses, other people might assume its strong and possibly the best around. This will interest more people to buy from that dealer |
How can a man consent to sex when he is drunk, but a woman can not? | Double standard! In an effort to promote equality, men are held to higher standards. This means that it is the responsibility of the male to ensure that everyone involved can consent- even if he is drunk. It's a dumb ad. Don't worry about it. |
Why do schools with low standardized test scores lose funding? Aren't those the schools that need more funding? | When I took the ACT and got into college, my teachers didn't get credit for the accomplishments. I did. So why should teachers take the blame when students don't perform well on these end-of-year tests that carry such high stakes for schools? If the teachers take the tests, then yeah, if they fail, they should be remov... |
What is the gender gap and what is the most likely reason for its existence? | Correct me if I am wrong, but I think part of the reason there is a gender gap is because women tend to go into fields that don't pay as well. This means that on average women tend to make less than men. |
Why are some people seemingly born with good time and money management skills while others need actual training to become decent at it? | It's parenting. This is also the reason that some families tend to be more successful than others overall. Parents teach their children about things like accounting for money and being punctual at a young enough age that it becomes a life-long habit. |
What exactly is an "Information Broker"? | Well, if you are an insurance company then you might contact an information broker to basically get a bunch of names and addresses of people you could call and contact if you wanted to sell your insurance to them. At least, that's the only use I know of information brokers, it's where call centers get contact lists to ... |
Why are public schools in rich areas so much nicer than those in poorer areas? If they're all funded by government, shouldn't they be the same? | My wife's a teacher and has recently moved from a school in a poor area to a richer part of the city. Both state schools. The difference in equipment, tech and school trips is astounding and we also wondered why. Turns out one of the main differences was the amount that the school received from fund raising. The event ... |
Why does wearing a tight pair of swim goggles for an extended period of time give me a headache? | Probably because you're wearing them *too* tightly. I'd guess that the band is constricting your head. And the goggle rims are probably pressing too hard against your eyesockets, which adds extra pressure to your sinuses. This would very easily cause headaches. |
Why does it matter if an animal goes extinct? | It sort of depends on your perspective. From a long-term natural perspective, you could argue it doesn't matter. Evolution of species and ecosystems will always replace an extinct species. Even in prehistoric cases of mass extinction, where the majority of Earth's species died out, life bounced back. One animal species... |
Why is it difficult for us to recognize how annoying the annoying things we do are, when we're so quick to identify the annoying things other people do? | Because you are living inside your own brain, that means that you know your own intentions, so the things that you do don't annoy you, because you're you, and you know exactly why you're doing that. Those intentions, however, do not always show through, and other people don't always put themselves into your shoes to tr... |
Why is a software business license almost always more expensive than a home license for seemingly the same thing? | To an extent it is just a markup , or a markdown if you want to look at it that way: they don't want their software priced out of reach of hobbyists and home users, and thus there is an individual user discount just like there might be a student discount. On the other hand, business users have more riding on the softwa... |
Why is it that when I'm sick, it feels much worse when I'm trying to fall asleep. | The number of things you're focusing on drops considerably when you're trying to catch some zzzz's. |
The difference between shampoo, conditioner, and body wash? And how the heck they can make a 3 in 1 bottle for all of them? | I don't know how it works with body wash in the mix, but for combined shampoo and conditioner the conditioner basically comes in little packets the shampoo does its thing and then upon dilution with water the little packets of conditioner break open depositing the hydrophobic conditioner on the hair Source; I'm a chemi... |
why did gas prices triple in a decades time? | _URL_0_ Here's an answer to it being relative to inflation. Basically, gasoline has always been expensive during times of recession, but even with inflation considered, gas was genuinely pretty cheap outside of those times, especially during the 90s/early 2000s.Because we continued to pay what they are asking each time... |
The pain we get from 'sleeping wrong' or 'incorrectly' causing a sharp pain and inability to move neck in certain directions. | I tend to prop my arm under my head and sleep with my ear on my shoulder/bicep, but I know that's bad for your shoulder. Anyone else had to break this habit before?", 'I always thought it was caused by getting a neck cramp in the middle of the night but its not painful enough to wake you upHow can poor sleep position r... |
Why isn't it possible to have unbiased media? | There isn't an unbiased way to determine what unbiased means. You can ask > but just report the facts! Which facts? For what story? Even in just picking which event to report is subject to bias. Is reporting on every crime committed by a certain political, location, racial, or organization bias even if the crimes did a... |
If the universe is endless, how and what is it expanding into? | So when we talk about the universe expanding, what we mean is that the distances between objects are getting bigger. So it's not like a ball expanding in a room - it's just that galaxies are getting farther and farther apart.The reason that, say, the distance between your eyes isn't getting bigger, or why the Earth isn... |
Why don't US policemen carry tasers? | A lot of them do. However, a taser isn't going to take the place of a firearm, especially when criminals are armed, because it puts the officer at a disadvantage. |
Why does it burn so bad when you have diarrea? | Saw this on here a while ago, I hate being the guy with the answer to this but apparently it's because diarrhea contains more water and water transmits heat much better than anything else coming out of there. Excuse me while I go barf now |
how do xrays work? | The image recorded by an x-ray photograph is basically the shadow that your bones cast on the film when exposed to a short burst of x-ray light. The bone casts a shadow because it is denser than your other flesh. Its dense enough to obstruct the x-rays. The less dense soft tissue won't obstruct the rays which will pass... |
Why do different countries have different electrical outlet layouts and voltages whereas (almost all) cars/trucks are standardized at 12v and the little round outlet (cigar lighter)? | From my understanding about cars and trucks, most are made European, American, and Asian. Asian nations started a little later in time. It was competition that made voltage and outlets become universal. There isn't a competitive drive for countries to change their ways in accord with another. There's a lot more to it, ... |
How can physicists spend years on solving a single equation ? | They don't start with an equation and find the answer, they start with a bunch of answers and try to find an equation that fits all of them. For example, say you want an equation that explains why a molecule moves the way it does. You observe the molecule moving in a bunch of different ways and then come up with an equ... |
If someone is not wearing a seat belt, what slows them down when a car decelerates at a normal rate? | The seatbelt doesn't slow you down if you are decelerating slowly because they just extend. They only slow you down when the car decelerates rapidly enough to lock the seatbelt mechanism e.g. in a crash. In any other situation you are slowed down by the friction between you and the seat, your feet and the floor or by h... |
Why haven't other species on earth reached the same level of consciousness of humans? | What are you talking about? [Didn't you see the documentary that came out last year?] |
Why did someone pay $43.8 million for this Barnett Newman painting? | 1. You're also paying for the thought, and for the conversation. Anyone can do what the artist did, but it takes discipline to only do that, and giant balls of steel to present it as a piece to others. Both traits are valued in corporate. 2. It's much larger than it looks, and it provides a zen focus to the viewer. For... |
Why does bread get soggy in the microwave, but meat dries out? | I can't claim to be able to fully answer this because there is actually a lot of physics and chemistry at play, but here's my best shot. Microwaves differ from ovens because microwaves only heat up certain molecules much more effectively than others, this is why microwaving plates with no food does not make the plate h... |
Why does the body have an allergic reaction to something, especially if it hasn't experienced it before? | actually, you can't have a massive allergic response on first contact with a substance, as you need to become sensitised to the antigens first. - On first contact your body identifies your Brazil nut as foreign, and produces an antibody called IgE. - On second contact the antigen binds to the ready made IgE, and trigge... |
Why seeing a dead body makes us feel nauseating? | Depends on the person. I have to deal with gross injuries all the time as the athletic therapist of a rugby team. We also went to the cadaver lab last year at school and I didn't have a problem at all. Actually held a human heart in my hands. But that's not really interesting on a television drama. |
How/Why does The Dark Side of the Moon sync up with The Wizard of OZ? | It's doesn't. Members of Pink Floyd's Band are fans of Wizard Of Oz. I read that they used audio clips from the movie for the Album. Some listeners heard these audio clips and tried finding the moments in the film and then claiming you can sync them up.was just discussing this with friends today. being the only one tha... |
Why are there so many groups that hate The West? | In short, because we keep bombing them. Everyone we kill is someone's brother, son, sister or daughter. The long answer very complex but boils down to centuries of imperialism, and the dismantling of the once prosperous Ottoman empire. This is a good read on the subject: _URL_3_ |
Why do most religions have banned eating pork? | Early religions were responsible for much of the daily life of their people - everything from medicine to hygiene to food safety. If you don't prepare pork properly, you can get sick/die. It's a lot easier to convince ignorant people to not eat pork or the Magical Sky fairy will kill them than to teach them how to prop... |
What makes non-native English speakers sound foreign when they have good grammar? | There are a few things that give it a way. First thing is, native English speakers dont usually speak with perfect English, and to speak with perfect English often doesnt sounds right. People also tend to type as they speak, which again is often incorrect Contractions. None native speakers rarely seem to use contractio... |
How the hell you could essentially travel to the future by going faster than light. | I can travel to the future, without even moving. I'm doing it right now. < -- See these words? I wrote them a few seconds ago in the past. I'm now in *THE FUTURE! ^FUTURE! ^^FUTURE! ^^^FUTURE!* Usually it is said that you can travel to the *past* by going faster than light, but it's an extrapolation. What happens is th... |
How snake chains work, are they hollow on the inside? | It's sheet metal bent so the adjacent edges interlock, then you just wind it around in a coil. I'd imagine its similar to other highly flexible steel tubing. Here's an example from the inner structure of a subsea riser pipeline. _URL_2_ |
how SAT's are supposedly "slanted against african-americans" | Consider this question: Cup is to saucer as plant is to A. Leaf B. Stalk C. Root D. Flower Seems like a simple, fair, and straightforward question, right? Well, what if you grew up in a poor home, where you didn't have matching sets of cups and saucers? What if you grew up in an inner city area where you don't see a lo... |
Why do some people have better tolerance to hot food than others? | I think it's because of different sensitivity levels and habits in food. In Asia, as was mentioned they eat a lot of spicy food. From early ages, probably. Spicy and hot cause very similar reaction in our mouth and in our brain. Thus, eating spicy food is like training for eating hot. This is just an opinion of a perso... |
What is leading to the continuous generational increase in accumulation of college debt? | Costs rising, living getting more expensive, interest climbing, wages staying relatively stagnant compared to the rising costs of everythingI don't have the best answer but all in all its just costing more to go to college |
What makes Sharpie and other markers permanent? | They're not exactly permanent, but the inks are chosen to not be water soluble. Therefore your damp skin, spilled drink or rain won't smudge them. The ink will usually come off with organic solvents like acetone or white spirit, and some with alcohol, but those aren't commonly around by accident. |
Being such a vast country, how come the US does not have high speed trains to connect major cities? | Because we have a frankly enormous national highway system instead. That's better for our much more widespread populations than having a few train hubs, which would screw the rural areas. That kind of thing only works in places like Europe or Asia with higher population density. |
Why isn't all internet traffic secure/encrypted? | Number of reasons: * History and inertia. Many protocols and software on the internet don't have or support encryption. Changing this costs time and money of course. * Costs processing power. Not such a big deal for people using their desktops and laptops, but this can be a big problem for servers. Servers would requir... |
Why are children still present in east Aleppo, even thought the "Battle of Aleppo" has been going on for over four years? | Well, to begin with there are plenty of military forces preventing people from leaving, but honestly, because there's no situation in which a whole city evacuates. Imagine if two armies started fighting in your city. You might leave, but would everyone? I doubt everyone has the ability. Where would hey go? Recent polit... |
Why/how do we involuntarily scream when we're scared? | Because it's coded into your genetics. Since its coded in your genetics, you have a tendency to scream, because the ones that were not naturally seelcted to scream were killed and the ones that were genetically selectd to scream were not and reproduced, evolving the traith of involuntarily screaming when you're scared.... |
How does someone become a critic? | Depends on what. My aunt ran a 5 star restaurant here in Ireland, still does, but now writes reviews for magazines and newspapers about other restaurants. People wanna hear her opinion because hey, they woman's successful at the business she's also a critic in, so she must know her stuff ergo people want to read what s... |
Why, in the attached clip, does the lightning not take the shortest route to ground by hitting the tail of the plane? | Lightning *tends* to find the shortest route. Electrons are light a bunch of blind ants trying to find a path to some food once one finds the path, they all jump in. Those ants are more likely to find a short path than a long one, but will rarely be the absolute shortest. That's why lightning isn't perfectly straight. |
Why do some solids burn but other solids melt? | It's worth noting that some metals can burn, like iron, steel, and copper. However, they usually have to be in a very thin form to do so with any real vigor . Obligatory **Don't try this at home, burning metal is dangerous**.Every compound has its own phase diagram, which determines at which pressures and temperatures ... |
What's stopping scientists successfully adding extra bionic arms that are controlled by the brain to someone with both their arms still? | Right now it's because the technology to attach a bionic arm in the first place does not exist. There have been advances in this area, most recently a paraplegic used an external arm to pick up and pour liquid into a glass. Research with monkeys found they can control external limbs and input in a computer even though ... |
Why do bigger animals have bigger eyes, when the size of the eye has no bearing on its function? | This seems like a pretty interesting question. Im not sure why its being downvoted but if people here don't know you could try askscience. |
Why did the US rely on Opec oil for so long when it's now an exporter? | Most of the world's cheap and easy to extract oil has already been extracted and burnt already. There was a time when oil just oozed out of the ground naturally, or in oil pockets close to the surface. For example near Cushing Oklahoma or in the Kern river valley. _URL_1_ Some of the easy oil was only 400 feet down. To... |
How stable is the income generated by the internet's most popular websites? What would happen to Facebook or Reddit if literally no-one went on it for 1 week? | Websites typically gain income through ads, micro transactions, and user data. How long they can go without a source revenue depends on the website and how much of a hit they're willing to take. Obviously Facebook can handle loss in revenue better than Reddit. |
Why was Augustus accepted as a tyrant when Caesar was not? | For one thing because the group of Senators who killed Caesar were [defeated] by Augustus and Antonius. Augustus then beat Antonius is another civil war. There wasn't anyone left to oppose him.Caesar ascribed to the "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" school of thought. Augustus ascribed to the "keep you... |
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