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Why do guitarists sometimes use different guitars for certain songs causing them to switch instruments mid-set? | 1. tunings. faster switching than doing the tuning on stage. Plus..tunings always risk string breakage and you don't want that in a live performance. So just swap it out. 2. different sounds/tones. Extreme example is electric to acoustic. But different guitars have different tunings. 3. demands of the song. Some songs ... |
why does lead protect you from nuclear radiation? | yeah, it's because it's really dense. Depends on the type of radiation though: for alpha radiation a sheet of paper will protect you, beta a few cm of metal will do it, gamma you need serious protective kit.So if I had a suit of lead filled with water I could defeat radiation? |
If I were to teleport the Voyager 1 into my garage would the space dust and elements make me ill? | The power source is radioactive, but can't penetrate a piece of paper, don't crack it open. It shouldn't have picked up really any dust except maybe a few random bits in the void. It was designed to avoid collisions. If any bacteria we put on there in assembly, it may be more aggressive, because space does have that ef... |
/r/circlejerk. Seriously. That subreddit makes absolutely no sense to me. Am I alone in this? | It exists to parody the rest of Reddit. Take a look again, and you'll see some of Reddit's stereotypes enhanced and mocked there. |
What meaningful things can the United Nations do? | The UN doesn't really exist to do anything. It's not designed to be an actor, in and of itself. That's why it has no military force or tax collecting ability. Rather, it's designed to facilitate consensus-building in the international community. UN resolutions are just agreements between nations to carry out particular... |
How is it possible to perceive a game servers tick rate going from 30 to 60 when your ping is not that fast? | The server can try sending you messages every tick regardless of your latency. They all arrive 65ms late, but they could all arrive. For things that can be communicated without your client needing to respond, this might happen. For example, the position of other players. You don't need to send anything back, you just n... |
Is the US's debt as worrying as people make it out to be? | The National debt could be a problem if the deficit remains too high for too long. When that happens, interest payments take up a larger and larger share of the tax revenue. This makes it harder for the government to issue newer cheap debt and pay for all of its functions. Because the US government is so big, this woul... |
How can human DNA change from looking like a monkey (thousands of years ago) to the way we look today? | We didn't come from monkeys, monkeys and humans come from the same shared ancestor.Mutations are random events that happen all the time; however, they can be brought on by various factors which is what results in new genes arising. Natural selection then acts on the effect produced by these genes . Also it's no longer ... |
How do snakes never get in a knot? And if they do, how do they escape? | My cornsnake got in a knot once. I had just fed him, and I did something else, came back ten minutes later, and he's in a knot holding the mouse in his mouth, not wanting to let go, still trying to eat it. If he would have just dropped the mouse he'd be fine. Had to untangle him for him. |
Why does cooked food taste different from raw if it's the same food? | A big part can attributed to Caramelization of sugars. Imagine toast vs. bread. They taste different right? Because one has had it's sugars caramelized and the other not . Lots of foods have sugars in some form or another so cooking changes those sugars. And some sugars caramelize at different temperature so cooking th... |
Why is it bad for us to take a shower during a thunderstorm? | Less worrisome than electrocution, but If you have well water you might lose power and have no way of rinsing off? I once had to send my sister's outside with buckets to collect water from the neighbors downspout so we could rinse out my hair dye. |
How can the FDIC insure a Very large amount of investors their money, when something like the "target hack" occurs? | The FDIC only protects people's money if the bank goes under . If your CC info or your bank account info is compromised and someone takes your money the FDIC does not reimburse you. That is the obligation of the bank, lawyers and possibly the FBI if it's something as large as this target hack. |
Why do webpages (still) have share buttons, even if its known that they are used for tracking? | Because all that services share data with developers. It's like google analytics, but with more personalized data. Also it allows to track sharing of webpage inside social networks from button. |
How a static electricity shock can be up to 20,000 Volts but feel harmless | The water analogy is very good but maybe it'll be easier to just explain the volts and amps as they are. Volts are how much force each electron has pushing it through a circuit. You build up thousands of volts by pulling electrons off of the carpet when you walk. But the total number of electrons is low. Your skin also... |
How do some people with higher education in subjects such as natural science and engineering still manage to have religious beliefs? | Religious people don't necessarily believe in their religions using the same modes of thought and acceptance as they use for scientific theory. To some degree, it's like using two conflicting scientific models - neither model may be 100% reflective of reality, but in certain circumstances one model results in a better ... |
Why do some emergency vehicles not run their sirens consistently and instead have the "remix" effect? | EMT here. We have a few different settings, wail, yelp, and phaser, as well as horn which is useless. If I'm driving and there's no traffic I'll use wail, coming up to traffic I might change to yelp and pulse phaser to get people's attention. Same thing when approaching an intersection. If it's a constant sound people ... |
why is it legal for Jehovah's Witnesses to deny blood transfusions to their children? | There are plenty of situations where a child is taken into protective custody, as an end-run around the parents' beliefs. |
why violins and cellos do not have frets but guitars and ukeleles do | left-hand vibrato on the violin would not be possible with frets. Also if you had to pick up your fingers to move them over frets when shifting up or down positions, you'd hear the open string because it's bowed vs plucked. Violinists keep pressure on the string while shifting up and down during a single bowstroke. |
Honestly, what is wrong with internet explorer? | There's nothing *wrong* with IE9. Internet browser development has actually been one of the miracles of modern competition, both driven by capitalism and open-source community development. They keep getting better, and IE was falling far short of the pack. [This should help you understand.] Notice that over the last te... |
Please explain me how to learn a new language like a 5 years old child | Obviously there's a wide variety of methods out there. Here's mine. I've had good results with it in the past. You need three things: 1. A dictionary2. A grammar3. A language course. The dictionary and the grammar should be easy to find -- many are free online in some way, shape, or form. They can also be tracked down ... |
Why are more teens depressed, suicidal, and prone to self-harm now than they were, say, 50 years ago? | Are they? Do we have any data to support this? Remember that you cannot really judge today versus 50 years ago without doing some serious research. New media makes everything seem worse than it is. You would think that 2014 is the worst possible year to live in for humans ever . when it probably ranks among the best. T... |
Why do they make air conditioning pipes out of copper and then cover them in insulation? | The high pressure ends of these systems is about 260 psi. I don't know how strong a plastic alternative would be, but this is really high pressure. It could have to do with pores as well. Aquapex sucks oxygen right through the plastic. Liquified R22 refrigerant may also be able to slide right through a lot of your stan... |
Why do we perceive slow(er) movement as sexy? | I just tried this with my boyfriend. I picked my nose slowly and then slowly moved to wipe it on him. He said he wasn't turned on. What am I doing wrong?", 'Dave Chappelle answered this question many years ago. Everything looks better in slow motion. _URL_0_', "If you want a real answer, I'll give one. Many of the comm... |
What's so great about Prince? | [Here] is what shows how good Prince is on guitar. He is on stage with legends and he shreds. Beyond that, you can't really compare an artist who came out 30 years ago with ones today, because of course he doesn't sound all that different. That's because they are copying him. Its the same with the Beatles, people often... |
I've been awake for roughly 27 hours now. A few hours ago I was extremely tired, but now I'm wide awake. Why is this? | Your body has a natural cycle called the [Circadian Rhythm]. It's a physiological cycle that varies how awake you are, your body temperature, how alert you are, everything. You can shift it slowly, by waking up earlier or going to sleep later, but these shifts take time. The reason why you're feeling awake now is becau... |
How do scientists determine what strain of influenza the flu shot will be made for each year? | It's mainly a prediction of how they've seen the virus mutate. You get an injection that has the main few they believe will be the issue. It doesn't guarantee you won't get sick though. You could always get infected by a different strain.Am I wrong to think that the ramrodding of flu shots each year cause the virus to ... |
How is vote counting in developed countries kept accurate and accountable when so many powerful people and organizations have huge incentives to to tamper and the power to do so? | The Medici family had it figured out way back in Renaissance Italy. If you can't own the vote, then own the candidates. So it didn't really matter who you voted for, as every individual candidate was already bought and paid for |
How to come to peace with the fact of my own insignificance? | What a great question to ask. The posters have given you two positions to take, so let me add a third: there are people on your fringe or who you don't even know, that you make a significant impact on their life. You've helped form their decisions and don't even know it and probably never even know it. If you measure s... |
Does the strength of gravity effect how sound sounds? | Well, you wouldn't be able to hear anything on the moon because it has no atmosphere. But no, gravity does not appreciably impact sound.Not sure what gravity would have to do with it except affecting the density of the transitional medium. Sound sounds different depending on how densely packed the molecules are in a su... |
Why did the US specifically target Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons? | The targets were chosen based on a few criteria: 1) They were big enough that the attack wouldn't be ignored - the goal was to force surrender, and deaths would be required to have that result,2) They were geographically and geologically good targets - hills around the city to focus the blast, they had rivers so they w... |
Why do we use glass tiles, something that can be really slippery if any water gets on them as our bathroom floor? | As a tileguy, I wouldn't recommend glass tiles on a floor. Very slippery stuff. Pretty but slick. Especially when wet. I recommend porcelain tile. Easy to clean and more slip resistant. |
Why can't a real life supervillan hold the world hostage by threating to shoot iron into our sun? | There simply isn't enough iron in the entire world. [Just look at the size of the sun compared to the planets]: you could drop all the planets of the solar system into the sun and the sun wouldn't even notice.Not possible. The abysmal amount of iron you shoot at the sun would melt first before it reaches the sun. Not t... |
Why is cafeteria food made en masse so bad, but restaurants and fast food chains can make food so good | Cost and competition. If you go to a restaurant and it is bad, you won't go back. Rather, you'll go to a competitor restaurant, and the bad place will go out of business. But the cafeteria doesn't have any competition. You either eat there, or you don't, so they don't have to be good. Also, most cafeterias are funded a... |
Why are children, of all animals, just naturally more energetic and playful? | I always thought it's because life makes adults bitter and jaded. Children and animals aren't constantly being fucked over by their fellow man. |
What's stopping people from growing their own marijuana? | Brewing your own beer is completely legal & less expensive than setting up a small grow op. Most people *still* don't do it. There's two major factors: 1. The initial setup for proper growing involves purchasing a bunch of equipment2. People are lazy & want immediate satisfaction. When you start looking at weed, you've... |
What are the advantages of inserting my card with a chip to pay for stuff rather than swiping it? | You guys are a bit behind us in the UK where we've had chip and pin for a few years now. For us, there was a transition period of a couple of years while people's cards expired and were replaced by the chip type, and now most retailers won't or can't accept a swipe transaction any more. I guess it took 5-8 years or som... |
Why is it so difficult to tell if clothes are damp or just cold? | Psychophysiologist here! Humans do not have skin cells for percieving moisture. Moisture cells do exist, they're called 'hygroreceptor cells'; commonly in insect antennae like cockroaches and stick bugs. Instead, moisture perception in humans is a learned response derived from the cells that measure cold, pressure, and... |
Protein powder acting like iron filings near a magnt | Some foods actual contain iron. Examine the label of your protein powder. Is it high in iron? Then because it's so light in weight, it may actually react to a magnet. |
Why does the horror movie genre seem so low budget and "B-Movie-ish?" | 1. Because it's so intimate and personal. Some of the scariest horror films were made for next-to-nothing. 2. Horror goes through cycles of popularity, usually tied to uneasiness in society . You can also notice these trends with popular music, which gets more raucous during the same periods. |
Is it possible for the colour blind to imagine the colours they otherwise can't, in their head? | Not really. You lack the cones in your eye to detect those colors properly. If he could never detect those colors since birth, he would have no idea. I also am red/green color-blind. I know which is which, it's just harder for me to differentiate between the two when they are near each other.You cannot imagine what Inf... |
Why aren't the major media outlets covering the DNC emails leak? | > Why aren't the major media outlets covering the DNC emails leak? You mean major media outlets like [CNN], [ABC], and [The New York Times], just to name a few? Clearly your premise is wrong. This is still new, and the validity of the emails is likely being vetted. |
What is AM/FM radio and how are they similar/different? | Now suppose you and your friend billy wanted to share a secret code containing three numbers and all you had was your trampoline. The first way you could tell billy your numbers is to agree on three different heights you can jump to and that would signal which number you meant to tell billy. So if you didn't jump as mu... |
Why is the Ukrainian army struggling so hard to subdue the rebels? | One of the key points that often goes overlooked is that if the Ukrainian army was to exhibit a large show of force Russia would likely use this as a reason to invade in the interests of 'protecting Russian friendly civilians'. This same reason was cited when Russia quite recently invaded and annexed the Crimea. Eviden... |
Why is "going for a drive" so relaxing to most people? | I like to go on a cruise by myself to listen to music and simply just think. Its very relaxing to me and most of the time I don't have a specific destination I'm going to |
What is magical about notarizing a document? What does having pensioner be in the room when you sign a document actually accomplish? What does this document do that it couldn't do before? | In the US, having a document notarized is basically the same as swearing under oath in a court of law -- you are saying that you are in fact the person listed in the document and that the information is true. To have a document notarized, you have to present valid ID to the Notary and he/she witnesses your signature . ... |
What causes the sound your body makes when your stomach is upset? | The one that sounded like a truck applying Jake Brakes inside a sewer pipe that was from the cheap Indian buffet I had for lunch. It was audible across the cubicles as far as 50' away. Diagnosed with Chron's disease two years ago and undergoing treatment. The sounds my guts come up with are something to behold. If you'... |
How does meditation improve mental stamina? | Although meditation has several evidentiary benefits, with a long and colored past of scholarly investigation, it hasn't been shown to be more effective at producing the kinds of results you're looking for than focusing on any other single task for a long period of time. To be blunt; exercising your ability to mentally... |
Why do we have ear lobes ? | The general shape of our ears actually helps us determine the direction of sounds, as they reflect sounds differently based upon where they are coming from. If you change the shape of someone's ear then it takes a little bit for their brain to learn how to interpret the echoes properly again. |
Why is it so much easier to lose muscle than it is to gain it? | It depends on what your calorie needs are and what you are eating. Start burning more calories than you take in, and you're going to start losing muscle . A backpacking trip seems like the perfect conditions to lose weight in. My dad is overweight, so he can go years without strength training and stay strong and muscul... |
Why is it supposedly rude to point? | When you point at someone it's usually in order to *point* then out to someone, which generally means you've been discussing the person without his or her knowledge. Basically, you're talking about someone behind their back or without their knowledge and now you've brought this fact to their attention. You can say rude... |
Why fresh, homegrown fruits and veggies taste so much better than big corporate grocery store produce? | Two possibilities: 1. Confirmation bias. You already think homegrown produce is better than corporate produce, so your mind colors your perceptions when you compare them. 2. Corporate produce is all about money. Sometimes they use genetic modifications or selective breeding to make produce more resistant to disease and... |
Why dont stores include the tax on the price of items? (US) | If an item is $1 before tax, and $1.10 tax, and you price compare two different stores, one priced with tax, the typical customer is going to say it's cheaper at the $1 store. It's one of those things, if every store does it, it works, if it's a mix, it won't. Plus for national or regional advertising campaigns, it's e... |
why do we use metal spatulas on metal BBQs, when people tell you to not use meta kitchen tools on metal pans? | You're just not supposed to use metal on non-stick surfaces because it can scratch off the coating. It's not all metal pans.The metal kitchen pans in question are Teflon coated. Using metal implements on Teflon scratches it, makes it useless . BBQ grills on the other hand are usually coated with ceramic. Much more tole... |
How does CA have medical marijuana dispensaries when it is against federal law? | Federal law always trumps state law. However federal law usually applies during interstate commerce . So if your caught with marijuana in another state, california law won't apply but federal law will.Also minor infractions are usually handled in california's state court system, which follow california laws, but major ... |
Why would a woman who waits until marriage to have sex and only has sex with her husband need to get an HPV vaccine? | Although rare, HPV can be transmitted in nonsexual ways. There are studies saying certain strains can thrive on normal surfaces . All it takes is a tiny cut or opening. You can also get it from others by having ordinary skin to skin contact. Once again, *rare*, but possible. If someone just touched someone else or them... |
Why doesn't water utlities work on the supply/demand model so that as the supply decreases, the price is increased to reduce the demand? | Because the demand doesn't work that way, honestly most economics doesn't actually work that way. Sure it works in the grand scheme when your talking big shipments or overall country imports/exports. But it doesn't work on a fundamental level. Especially when it comes to a necessity such as water. Water is require by e... |
If all life on Earth started from the same source, how did it acquire the genetic diversity to negate inbreeding? | Well the first life forms didn't 'breed' at all, so inbreeding wasn't a problem. They were all single celled microbes that just divided to reproduce. With each divide, there's a chance for mutations to alter the genetic make-up of the organism, increasing genetic diversity. Each generation can be as little as a few hou... |
Why does cold make us lethargic? | My nonscientific guess. Cold itself is a lack of energy, parts of your body that are cold tend to not function as well, you may have less sense in those areas as well. Slightly better idea is that your body is using more energy to keep warm. Higher metabolism to keep your core temperature higher is energy that you can'... |
Why is the USA a bigger sufferer of terrorism than any other nation? | It isn't. It's just if you live in the US, that's the news you hear. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of places in the middle east where terrorist attacks are much more common. They just don't get reported here unless they are unusually large or they kill Americans. |
Why are there wallhacks for some fps games (CSGO, COD, etc) but not for mobas (League of Legends, dota, etc)? | Difference boils down to what your client knows. A wallhack is essentially your client abusing the knowledge it has to draw conclusions you wouldn't be able to and therefor gain an unfair advantage. In FPS games in general both clients will get to know each other's position, gun, and so on beforehand, so that when he a... |
If HDMI has a really high Gb bandwidth and is readily available on most computers, how come its not used for data/file transfer? | Because it doesn't have a fast transfer speed on it's digital data pin/wire. HDMI is designed to transfer uncompresed video on the video channels, and analog or digital audio on it's audio pin. The data pins/wires only transfer data at a slow rate when compared to pins in USB2/USB3 or ethernet. The bandwidth that you s... |
Why can't alcohol producers market their product by saying how much fun being drunk is? | It sure seems like there's room for some alcohol brands that aim to offer the most alcohol at the lowest price. The fact that there aren't beer/wine/liquor/malt brands actively advertising this makes me think there must be laws against it. I mean, I'm a frugal-minded chap, but anecdotely, the cheapest liquors give me h... |
What is the Bubonic Plague, and would it be as fatal today as it was in the Middle Ages? | Bubonic plague actually still exists, and an outbreak in Madagascar was announced just today. It's certainly survivable these days because we understand more about it and have developed effective treatments against it. |
Why are there so many r/The_Donald posts in r/all? | Because his supporters post so much fuckery and want to convince themselves they're the majority", 'Because /r/The_Donald is a [really quickly growing subreddit], and also one of the most active non-default subreddits of reddit. |
Why do forearms and calves stay relatively skinny on fat obese people? | I realize the title is shit for the redundancy of 'fat obese people' - that's what happens when you get drunk at 2 in the afternoon on your day off |
If 60%+ of US citizens want marijuana legalized, why hasn't it been? | Ignore the guy that talks solely about the contributions and drafterman is missing two things. It's mainly because that 60% of US citizens who are pro-legalization are not 60% of the voting population. The voting population in the US tends to lean further to the right than the actual general population. That's because ... |
Why do people trade bitcoins like a stock, when it is supposed to be a currency? | Every currency is traded like a stock. It's called foreign exchange trading . Essentially, the value of every currency has a fluctuating value as compared to every other currency. People buy and sell these currencies in order to make a profit every day. Trading bit coin is just another opportunity to trade on how you t... |
How does Mark Zuckerberg giving away 99% of his stock work? Won't he lose his company if he does that? | Followup question: what does it mean to donate your *shares* in a company to charity? How does that work out? They're not money in and of themselves, so does the charity then sell them to some other random party in order to get usable money from it, or what? Basically: how do stock shares turn into actual income for th... |
How do superPACs work and why are they bad? | They effectively allow the wealthiest of Americans to skirt around campaign finance laws. In essence, they're legalized bribery. Who do you think politicians will be accountable to: the people writ large, or the people with billions of dollars who can spend as much money as they desire to finance campaigns? |
Why do people care about the sex lives of politicians? | The reasoning goes something like this, at least as it applies to marital infidelity : - Marriage is the most sacred and/or important commitment a person can make in his or her lifetime. Your partner chooses to forgo romantic, career, family, and other opportunities to form a partnership with *you* - someone else is li... |
Why can people sense when they're being watched? | When you turn your head, you're moving. A moving object attract the look of the people behind you. They cross your look. OMG they stare at me ! |
How does national debt works? | You can pay it all back, but it's unlikely to happen. With your personal finances, you're going to stop making money at some point. You have to save money for this time period. The Government doesn't stop making money, and doesn't die. It could continue to just carry debt endlessly without any real issues as long as th... |
What's going on with the Zimmerman Trial and why is it getting so much media attention? | > Isn't it just a regular murder trial? Not really, it was originally ruled a justified homicide. Which has since turned into a political witch hunt. The media played on people's emotions rather than facts, and its becoming ever more apparent that Zimmerman acted clearly in self defense. > Why is the media focusing on ... |
What's the difference between refresh rate and frames per second? | tl;dr - Frames per second is usually used to describe the number of images a computer is sending to a monitor. The number of frames that the monitor displays in each second is its refresh rate, described in Hz. These are actually two different numbers because you may have a monster computer, capable of rendering the la... |
How do they use camera techniques in LotR and The hobbit to make humans seem taller and hobbits seem shorter. | Go outside and look at a field of cows. The cows closer to you look bigger than the cows further away. The same thing is done for the hobbits - they are further away than the humans. The trick is using the right perspective, so it looks like the hobbits and humans are next to eachother. this involves machines that move... |
What does an increase in RAM do for your computer? | A computer, at it's most basic, is a processor, RAM and a Hard Disk Drive. Lets say that you are a carpenter who makes tiny wooden cart wheels and you have a desk and a toolbox. Beside your desk is a big bin with the wood blocks you use to carve your wooden wheels and also where you put your finished wheels. This whole... |
Why is there a large gouge in the International Date Line? | There are a bunch of divits in the date time line and it's usually to keep countries territories in the same day. |
If you took red and blue light and made violet is that the same as true violet light? | Red and blue mixed does not make violet. It makes purple . Violet and purple are different colors. Violet is not displayable on color monitors. Purple does not have a dominant wavelength. Another example is yellow. Yellow does have a wavelength, but it can also be simulated by mixing red and green. Our eyes can't tell ... |
Can somebody explain the concept of 'pi' to me? | Pi represents the constant factor between a circle's circumference and it's diameter . As a circle grows or shrinks, the size of its circumference and diameter are directly proportional. Circumference/diameter always = pi. |
Why do downloaded games cost exactly the same as a physical copy? | Because while digital distribution is growing, physical retail still makes up enough sales that publishers want to keep the stores happy and stocking their products. Bestbuy isn't going to give your game any shelf space if you're selling digital copies for $30 while they're selling physical copies at $50. |
Why isn't rent tax deductible. | The government gives deductions for behaviors they want to encourage, like charitable giving, clean energy, and having children. Given deductions on expenses that everyone has to pay is kind of pointless the government needs a certain amount of revenue and giving everyone a deduction would mean they would just have to ... |
Why does an inmate on death row need a medical check before an execution if they're going to die anyway? | Why do people advocate for capital punishment? If it doesn't give the person any pain or teach them anything and just gets rid of them? Wouldn't rotting in jail for their entire lives be way better than putting them out of their misery in a relatively painless way? And if this is allowed, then why are people against me... |
What does N. Korea gain from continuously making empty threats? What did Kim Jong Un accomplish? | Historically, they have gained a lot. On multiple occasions, they made threats, even acted on some, then promised to be good if they got more aid. Sort of a good cop bad cop routine with only one cop. It's worked in the past because China usually backed them up. But even China decided they went too far, and now they ar... |
How are we able to make boats that weigh thousands of tons float? | The largest US aircraft carriers weigh in excess of 100,000 **tons.** They float on top of the water because the amount of water they displace weighs exactly the same amount as their entire structure. Water is **heavy** and it doesn't care if the weight sitting within it is caused by water or steel, it behaves the same... |
Why is corn heavily subsidized in the U.S.? | Well, the reason they claim is to keep farmers in business . The real reason is that politicians don't want to lose votes from those states and big farm corporations, not the little farms they claim they want to help, have a lot of money and influence. |
About saying 'fuck' on TV in the US | I know this doesn't answer the question, but this is a bit of recent news that's highly relevant. _URL_2_ This comment of mine might not be technically allowed in this subreddit, so I'll remove it if it seems too spammy.I wanna know why you can say "ass" but not "asshole"Some more confusing detail: It's not that you *c... |
If 3D vision is natural to humans, then why does our eyes and brain have a hard time watching extended hours of 3D entertainment? Will Holograms be any better, and more acceptable? | The 3D you see when you watch a 3D film isn't really 3D at all, it's a kind of trick or illusion. So watching that isn't remotely like seeing 3D objects in the real world. |
Why can't computers solve CAPTCHA's? | They can IF you know what to look for. Its just hard to program for what you don't know. Captcha images are continuously updated and randomly edited.They can. Not all spammers can get their hands on an OCR system. . So it is just one extra step to deter them. |
Why do press photographers take photos through custody van windows outside court? | There's very little chance of getting a useful photo, but if it works then they'll be the only one with the shot and it'll be worth money. Since they're there and the van is driving past, they may as well give it a go. |
Why is Israel such a necessary ally of the US? | They're strategically located in the middle of a cluster of fanatical countries the have no allegiance to the United States.* The United States has the largest Jewish population in the world, even larger than that of Israel.* Evangelical Christians, which comprise a very large proportion of the US population believe th... |
What exactly is the singularity? | If you're referring to the [technological singularity], it's a theoretical point in the future where humans create a machine that's smarter than humans are. In theory, this machine could design an even better machine, which could then create an even better machine, and so on. Humanity might get left in the dust as the ... |
why is it that as soon as something gets popular, people start hating on it | Correlation doesn't imply causation. When something is new, it's not just exciting because it's new, it's also only really spread to people who are going to like it themselves. If Vine wasn't prolific, the people who didn't care for it just simply wouldn't use it. As something gains notoriety, more people are going to ... |
Why do living things all have to eventually die? | depends on how you define 'living thing'. we are all descendants of the same cell, a cell that divided and divided and divided and never died. in that sense, we are one organism that is 3+ billion years old. |
Why do so many people have bad vision? | The human eye is a much more delicate sensory organ than the others. Lots more can go wrong that will affect vision. Tiny changes in the shape of your eye will cause images to focus improperly onto your vision receptors. Maybe your rods and cones don't function properly. Other senses are pretty simple in that they requ... |
how does alcohol influence the process of muscle rebuilding? | It can hinder your process of building muscle mass. I'd suggest you not do it.Alcohol is the last thing you want to drink after going to the gym, and drinking alcohol is something you should avoid when trying to build muscle. Just a few things off the top of my head.1.Alcohol slows down protein synthesis_URL_1_ dehydra... |
Why is vaping nicotine supposedly better for your health than smoking cigarettes? | Because the majority of the unhealthy consequences of cigarettes come from the burning of the leaves and whatever chemicals are used in processing them to make cigarettes. If you're not inhaling thousands of chemicals in the form of smoke, you're doing significantly less damage to your lungs and body in general. |
How does salt go bad? | Salt is a rock, so outside of something mixing with it, like moisture as you said, nothing really. I was cleaning out the pantry at work last year and found salt packets from 10 years ago. I got rid of them because that is not a conversation I want to have with an inspector, but my staff took them home and has had no i... |
How do programmers who don't speak English program? | If you're referring to the use of keywords there are only a few that they would need to learn: For example there is a list of 50 in Java: _URL_0_ To make the programs they can write strings in their own native language and logic is simply mathematics. |
If plastic loving bacteria/fungi exists, why aren't we using it in landfills already? | Well, chances are, in the future we'll find a way to recycle plastic efficiently, rather than just feeding it to bacteria. Same with a lot of things - subsidising recycling is stupid imo - metal, as it became more scarce, became higher priced and better methods to extract it were come up with. Now, the market makes it ... |
How exactly are energy drinks bad for you, besides the caffeine? | they are high in sugar, and have a shitload of other 'energy suppliments' that are usually way above the daily recommended intake of those supplements. Taurine, guanine, b-vitamins, guarana, alongside herbs like ginseng and green tea extracts and other stuff they don't even tell you because it's a 'patented energy blen... |
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