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If Earth is between Venus and Mars in relation to the sun, why do I see them on the same side of the night sky? | [My MSPaint is clearly superior]. Say you're on Earth at point X. You can see everything above the horizon, which is the grey line. Both Venus and Mars are above the horizon, so you can see them. But the Sun is below the horizon, which means it's nighttime for you. |
why is it that under 18 year olds in the work force (16-17) get taxed on their pay checks but get no right to vote or choose where the tax money is going? | When this question comes up, I rarely see it pointed out that you receive 100% of the taxes you paid during the year back when you file taxes, if you make less than $7,500 or something around that or if you're self employed. Very few 16 or 17 year old part time workers will be making more than that |
Why drivers feel sleepy, claustrophobic or mentally fatigued while driving in big tunnels? | Norwegian here. I've heard its because staring at one point while driving over extended periods of time makes you fall into whats called drivers hypnosis. Which is why a lot of roads, eventhough they could have been made straight, is made with turns to counter this. This applies to the tunnel as well, the different lig... |
How do stores like Walgreens or Target that sell gift cards for for other companies like Amazon or Steam make money off the cards? | Amazon is making a profit even if they sell their goods at 95% the stated price. They can sell the cards for 95 cents on the dollar, the shop keeps the difference as their cut and Amazon is going to do business they otherwise might not have because of the card. |
Why can Birds and Squirrels sit, jump, and run on powerlines, but if I touch one, I'm dead? | you aren't dead if you touch ONE powerline as long as you aren't also touching the ground. Electricity wants to reach ground in the shortest path possible. So if you are only touching one line and not the ground the electiricty will stay in the wire since that is still the shortest path to ground. |
Why doesn't diet soda make you fat? | Fat is a way of storing energy for your body. Whatever energy you consume but don't burn your body turns into fat . Since diet soda has no energetic content there is nothing in there to turn into fat.People are saying it doesn't have calories, which is true. But WHY they have no calories is quite interesting. Glucose i... |
Why do farmers keep their grain in silos? | Actually it's silage kept in most of the tall silos. Grain is kept in grain bins which are shorter than silos. They are metal and usually raised off the ground which keeps out mice and rats.It keeps the grain in a safe place and silos are a great way to transfer the grain into trucks because of gravity. |
Why do we have such horrible photos of Pluto when we have great photos of galaxies light years away? | Because galaxies just more photogenic. They are bigger, brighter, and sit still better than Pluto, and that makes for better pictures. Obviously, galaxies are bigger, but they are also bigger in the sky. Pluto takes up a minuscule 1/30,000th of a degree, which is near the limit of detail that the largest telescopes can... |
- Why are animals more attracted to their own species than to others? | Because any animals that spend their time being attracted to other species rather than their own, don't have very many babies. Which means, if ever there's a mutation that keeps animals from being attracted to their own species, animals with that mutation will have more babies than animals without it. And if ever there... |
Why other mammals/animals seem to be much more suited for immediate survival while human children take years to learn how to eat/walk/communicate | Human children are born extremely underdeveloped. If we waited to be born until we were useful, we would never fit through the relatively small pelvic bones we have for walking upright. Animals that walk in all fours don't have said birthing limitations. |
the difference between men's and women's deodorant, aside from price | The ingredients. Womens products tend to contain more fragrances and moisterizers then men's products. Those extra ingredients don't come free. |
Why PayPal can instantly transfer funds from bank account to PayPal but it takes 3-5 days to transfer funds from PayPal to Bank accounts. | It doesn't take that long for my paypal account. Funds are automatically transferred to my bank account each day there is no waiting period. Maybe UK paypal is better.This is one of those great mysteries of life. Although there are technical banking answers to this question I am convinced that it is most closely relate... |
How did superstitions start? | Back before there was science, people didn't know why things happened, so they had to guess. If you got sick, seeing a black cat makes about as much sense as drinking bad water, because you have no idea what make you sick. After that, it is all selection and confirmation bias. You remember the times you saw a cat and g... |
Could somebody please explain the outrage around the NYC Marathon? | The issue, as I understand it, is that the people in charge are diverting resources to the marathon that would be better invested in aiding the recovery after the hurricane. Things like water, food, and generators are the obvious ones, but some have complained that it's also taking volunteers that would otherwise have ... |
How Redbull can afford to sponsor so many different (and expensive) sports, yet their product is only a drink? | I can only speak to a really limited market, but Red Bull has started sponsoring a lot of esports stuff lately. Those people are acutely aware of the fact that such a niche interest getting a huge sponsorship like that is a big deal, so they actively go out of their way to support the company. For example Papa Johns di... |
In societies where alcoholic drinks were consumed due to low water quality (like ancient Egypt), how did pregnant women stay hydrated? | The small beers had barely enough alcohol to kill bacteria and viruses, and stop molds from growing in it. Hops weren't in use at that time. They drank wines and meads when they were available, too. |
How do Companies Like Kfc, Mcdonalds or even Coca Cola protect their recipes? wont modern science be able to breakdown whats exactly in the food they serve? | Billions have been spent to copy the Coca Cola recipe. It has always failed. Another example would be several old beers from Belgium. Some beers are close to a 1000 years old but nobody outside that one monetary can make it. The West Vleteren is world wide considered one of the best beers in the world. Only 60k cases o... |
Why does running a credit check lower your credit score every time you do it? | There are two types of credit inquiries: a *soft check* and a *hard check*. An example of a soft check would be when you check your own credit report. This does not affect your credit rating. A *hard check*, on the other hand, generally happens after you apply for a loan or credit line and the lender checks to see if i... |
Why does Netflix cap Chrome at 720p with 2.1 stereo while Edge/IE can stream at 1080p with 5.1 surround sound? | I've always been curious, is Chromecast playing safe from this? It should be because it's the CC itself doing the streaming, but just to double check.I tried IE and it uses Silverlight, which I don't particularly like. Couldn't confirm it in any way but it looked like it could be 1080p. |
ELI5: How do shows that include 'flashbacks,' to past episodes have different angles, views, etc? | I work in the television industry. Here's how I would guess they did it. When they were making the pilot they shot the plane crash from every direction. They kept all the footage - all the alternate camera angles. When they were making season three they shot a new scene about a different character in front of a green s... |
Why can't developing countries with stable governments and reasonable wealth like India, China, Brazil and Mexico provide safe tap water? | i'm from brazil and the tap water is definitely safe. But i live in the south, which is more developed. Anyway, I wouldn't say Brazil, Mexico or India are stable, they are emerging countries after all. |
Can someone please explain what Coulombs are and what IC/ICM is? | SI-units are things we use to measure with - seconds, meters, mol, celsius - stuff like that. When we measure electric charges, we use the unit Coulomb. Electrons are pretty small things, so to make them easier to measure, we use a unit that's composed of *a lot* of electrons. ~6250000000000000000 electrons, to be exac... |
Why does our breath smell after sleeping (overnight or nap)? | When you're asleep you produce less saliva to avoid having to swallow while you're sleeping . This allows the bacteria to grow in your mouth as you're not washing it away by swallowing it down. Use a long lasting mouthwash directly before you go to bed and or brush your teeth and do not rinse. This staves off some of t... |
What's stopping me from succesfully starting up an internet company that offers better services at cheaper prices than what is currently available? | There's a *gigantic* entry cost to providing Internet service. You must have agreements in place to let your users send and receive data from literally every other computer on the Internet; you can't start an ISP that only lets people connect to servers in Texas, and then expand outwards from that. So there's no real w... |
Why do businesses have promotions that are FREE and you only pay for shipping? What do they gain from this? | $20 shipping and handling to buy a $3 bottle of vitamins. You should compare total shipped prices of things when you're shopping online/over the phone. |
How do our cars keyless entry systems know which car is ours in a sea of cars using similar technology? | There's a unique* string of letters and numbers in the messages between fob and car. The unlock system checks for the right string before it unlocks. *its not actually garaunteed unique. There's not like a registry for every person. There are just so so many codes that the chances of two people near each other every ha... |
What taxes could Happy Gilmore's grandma possibly owe the IRS? | > How on earth would a presumably unemployed widow owe the IRS $270,000 in taxes. Just because she is currently retired, doesn't mean she doesn't have back taxes. The idea that she would incur such a large tax bill in a short period of time is your first faulty assumption. It is very plausible for the IRS to seize asse... |
Why are CD's still used for audio instead of DVD or Blu-ray? | In addition to the other answers, most people don't have systems that would even notice the better quality. The CD player in my truck cost $70 at Wal-mart. The speakers are factory-installed. The best storage media in the universe won't make a difference on that equipment. Same goes for my soundcard and speakers on the... |
What is the significance of "returning the power to the states"? | * Individual votes weigh more at the state level. It's the difference between representative federal government and more direct democracy at the state level. * Legislation is experimentation, with citizens as guinea pigs, and it's better to try something 50 different ways and see what works best than to try it one way ... |
What's the point of a company owning and operating a number of brands which are in competition? | The illusion of choice. Catering to different markets. A billionaire wouldn't by a VW. They *need* a BMW or a Lamborghini. You could technically make VW Aventador. But calling it a Lambo gives the owner much more satisfaction. |
How did Saddam and Gaddafi trade Oil in different currencies and why did this anger the US Administration? | It's a conspiracy theory. The currency of Libyan and Iraqi oil transactions was not the cause of those wars, nor would there have been any major financial crisis from any supposed plan to transition Libya onto the gold standard. |
Why didn't people from East Berlin just travel slightly north or south to cross the border where (I'm assuming) it was less heavily guarded? | I don't know where this misconception comes from and I've seen it few times here and there. It was heavy guarded, basically whole iron curtain border was very heavy guarded , but it depends on year we are talking about. Some parts could be comparable to today's best Korea/South Korea border.Some people did, if a lot of... |
Why is it that I can gain 1lbs a day by over eating and eating junk food, but can't lose 1lbs a day by restricting my diet and eating healthier foods? | The short answer is, you can. Just not for very long. Our bodies evolved for a long time in a situation when losing fat quickly could mean death. So we evolved to do the opposite. If you exert a huge amount of energy in a day, and eat nothing, you might lose a pound of fat in a day. But the way you'll feel the next day... |
The issues with using your real name on the internet. | Because when you reach out to potentially millions of people, a few of them are bound to be crazy. Using your real name makes it easier to find you. Are you a young and attractive women? Great, now your cyber-stalkers can become real stalkers. Let's say you insult something sacred, like Islam or the Oakland Raiders. No... |
When i break something. what is the noise i hear? | This gentleman below has typed the EXACT SAME THING I did. Read his, he posted first. ~~When you put an item under stress, you are putting energy into it. When it is stressed enough, it will break, this will usually relieve all the stress in the item, but that energy has to go somewhere. The sounds are basically the br... |
How does youtube stay porn-free? | Why do you think it is porn free? You just didn't go deep enough.The users and viewers helps Youtube stay porn free. Viewers can "flag" a video for sexual content, if the video gets enough "flag", the video is reviewed by a Youtube staff and decides wether to take it down or not. Fun fact: some internet trolls "flag" 1... |
Does ice ever go off? | I'm not sure what you mean by go off. Ice in the typical home refrigerator can become contaminated by the odors that off-gas from other frozen foods. |
Why does it feel easier to run on a treadmill as opposed to actually running? | With a treadmill, the belt is moving under you and there is no wind resistance for your body to counter. So it should feel easier to run than outside where you have to propel yourself forward and encounter wind resistance. However, you can adjust your treadmill's grade to 1-2% to more accurately account for the resista... |
what's the purpose of discovering earth-like planets if they are still going to be unreachable, being thousand light-years away? | Earth-like planets could potentially host other life, which we would be interested in discovering as it would be a huge advance for science and things that can be studied. Such a planet could also be used for hosting us if we needed to leave. Just because we can't get there now doesn't mean we'd never be able to get th... |
How and why does the Moon get hit by so many meteorites/objects and the Earth doesn't? | Technically, it doesn't. Earth gets his by far more stuff than the moon. But Earth has an atmosphere that often burns up incoming space debris. And the space debris that does touch down creates a crater that can disappear in a few years due to weather or human activity. Anything that hits the moon is pretty much just t... |
What is the difference between companies like StraightTalk, Cricket as compared to Verizon, AT & T. And what are the advantages/disadvantages | I use Cricket. For the most part it's the same as using AT & T, except the data is throttled. I believe to 8Mbps, but honestly it hasn't been much of an issue for me. And it's a lot cheaper. |
Having never read the comics, why is Batman vs Superman if they're both good guys? | You are likely to see a variety of responses that are dependent on what source material people choose to use in support of their answers. Thus /u/cammisar below seems to address the movie specifically, whereas /u/fleets91 seems to be focusing more on The Dark Knight trilogy from the late 1980s. They are both right. For... |
Why does weed make me hungry? | Some mechanism causes you to feel like your blood sugar has dropped. Your feelings of hunger are legit, just triggered from a false source. That's why its been a go-to for people with health problems that cause loss of appetite. |
How does one actually make a musical composition? | For me, it comes naturally for chord patterns and progression. There's probably an unspoken way of doing it because we mostly try what sounds good, not really any mathematics involved. Typically, I just compose on the piano on the spot, go over to my computer, and put it down on FL Studio. Other artists who use FL Stud... |
Why do some people cut most of a dog's ears off? | I assume you mean [cropping] a dog's ears Historically, it was done on dogs that were used for livestock guard dogs and blood sports, like dog fighting, bear baiting, etc. No ears, means no floppy thing for a rival animal to bite and grab hold of. It's done now in modern times, for aesthetics, such as on a Doberman Pin... |
Why are the depths of the ocean dark? | The water absorbs the light, red light is more easily absorbed than blue light, but once you get down to 200m, there's pretty much no light at all. |
What is the psychological difference between animals that can be domesticated and animals that can't? | Jared Diamond talked about some differences between domesticable and non-domesticable animals in *Guns, Germs, and Steel*. IIRC, the psychological factors he mentioned were: -Pack mentality. If the animals are used to having a hierarchy, then if a human can establish his/herself as the leader of that hierarchy then the... |
The concept of "Null Infinity" in physics | Just finished my undergrad in physics; I've never heard of it. A quick google looks like it is a formal definition of some boundary conditions, particularly for problems using relativity. Like, infinitely far away from everything you are considering in the problem, the effects of them go to zero. Sorry for speculation,... |
Why do rims look strange like they are moving backwards or slowly on a car when being filmed? | It's called aliasing. For simplicity, lets say the wheel is making a rotation once every .1 seconds. Imagine a mark at the top of the wheel. Every .1 seconds, that mark will be back at the top of the wheel. Now imagine that a camera is taking a picture every .1 seconds, and the first picture is taken when the mark is a... |
How did Cavemen Tame Wolves? | Pretty ugh everything that has already been said. Wolves would have originally hunted humans. We being relatively slow and with weak senses. But humans had something the wolves did not. The ability to cook. When we began cooking meat, the smell attracted predators, mainly wolves. These wolves split into two new subspec... |
Why the United States has so much MORE debt than other countries | Because they support a military, that's more than twice the size all other western country's military's put together. |
How much does it actually cost a company to provide data to its customers? | This is an overly broad question. What sort of data are you talking about? Further, while there are exceptions, the general rule is that how much you pay for something is based on how much someone will sell it for. That is capitalism. There are laws around ownership of data and access to data ,but if I've got some info... |
Why do they not put ebola victims in suits like the doctors wear? would it not somewhat help contain the virus? | Interesting idea. My guess is that it's not very comfortable and the people with ebola are really, really sick. Puking, shitting yourself, etc, is bad enough, but imagine what that'd be like wearing a space suit. |
Why are some family members given gender neutral names (Ex: Cousins) and others are not (Ex: Brother and Sister)? | Well the word sibling does exist if you want to use that? usually people have very few brothers and sisters but dozens of cousins it's just an easier way to specify", 'Many languages have different terms for different genders and types of cousins. The way languages describe family relationships is called [kinship terms... |
how come if I have a watercooling loop in a computer, it will grow algea even though there's no food or light. What do they survive on? | The question got answered so here's a followup on how to prevent algae/keep good watercooling maintenance. First off I'd reccomend you using some sort of solution for anti-bacteria. This can be a premixed coolant , biocide, or a silver kill coil . |
Why does liquid pour out of a bottle faster when the bottle is at a diagonal angle vs. completely vertical? | As others have said, it's more efficient to have a steady stream of liquid coming out and a steady stream of air coming in, rather than having air try to bubble through the liquid. This is why the pourers used by bars have a second, smaller passageway in them - it allows air to smoothly travel into the bottle. One expe... |
Why most of the people hate to drink warm water? | I prefer drinking warm water, since I find it more soothing on a parched throat. Cold water instantly gives me brain freeze or sensitive teeth. ", 'perhaps due to some survival instincts? warm water has probably been in the sun/been still and is more likely to contain bacteria?I had some Dutch people visiting once. The... |
Is being vegetarian healthy and is it feasible at the population level? | There is no doubt that replacing meat with vegies would be better for the environment. It takes a hella lot more energy to produce beef rather than, say soybeans or peanuts. Less farm animals means less carbon dioxide and methane in the air that would boost global warming. Another problem with livestock is that grazing... |
Military Coups supported by the United States and why? | Look up Operation Ajax on Wikipedia. That explains how/why the US helped stage a coup in Iran in the 1950s. Same principles from that event pretty much apply to them all. It has nothing to do with spreading freedom and democracy. In the past it was often about stopping the advance of communism and socialism, which we d... |
The video game market crash of 83. | First of all, the so-called 'crash' is often over blown. It only affected North America and the markets in Europe and Japan were relatively unaffected. Secondly, it lasted at most two years, which would make it one of the mildest economic recessions in history. There are always complex reasons when discussing any marke... |
Why does air have high resistance to electric flow? | Mostly because the molecules are so far apart and chaotic. With a metal conductor, you shove an extra electron onto one of the atoms. That atom then shoves one of its electrons onto the next atoms. And so on and so forth in a line. Because they're very orderly, each electron pretty much immediately shoves the next one ... |
why do so many more small planes crash compared to large planes? | Small planes are more affected by smaller factors such as wind. If you fly in a small plane you'll notice greater turbulence compared to larger planes. |
Nsfw just in case. Why is prostitution illegal? | Whether we want it or not, many laws today started as religious rules, and we know how much religions looooove non-marital sex That being said, some reasons for which it still applies today is that there are many women doing it against their will, a lot of human trafficking associated to it, it's a dangerous occupation... |
Why do folks fighting to preserve civil liberties often look to County Sheriffs as potential defenders, but not really other law enforcement agencies? | Because Sheriffs are elected. Those other law enforcement people aren't held accountable to the voters to get/keep their jobs.Also, he's free of the mechanics of the municipalities in his county. He doesn't have to tread lightly because of this & that, he doesn't have to accept things because "this is how we do it." He... |
How do some insects fly so sporadically and change direction so quickly? How many g's are they under during maneuvers like that? | > How do some insects fly so sporadically and change direction so quickly? insects' small size make them much more subject to things like viscous forces which radically alters their aerodynamic properties. they don't even fly using conventional lift mechanics. instead, they fly though the generation of small vortices .... |
What is happening between Julian Assange and Ecuador? | Not much is happening. Julian Assange is still living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He was granted asylum about two and a half years ago by the Ecuadorian government to protect him against potential prosecution in the US. However, he's currently not wanted by the US, nor is he charged with anything there. Normal... |
Why is it that, during menstruation, the womb lining is broken down, only to be built up again almost immediately? | There are a few hypotheses about why humans do this more so than any other menstruating mammal. It could be to help flush out any miscarriages that may otherwise get stuck inside the uterus , or the result of an arms race between the embryo wanting to burrow into the mother's blood vessels to get more nutrients and her... |
Why are bedbugs so hard to get rid of / eradicate? | I'm sure you could research it for legitimate answers. Essentially they lay eggs which breeds hundreds, they can lie dormant for months without needing blood, the store-bought bug spray only hits surface areas, and isn't powerful enough nor are people careful & thorough enough to make them effective. They can grossly p... |
Why haven't computer processors been able to grow their power the way other components have? | Not all of a cpu's power comes from a clock rate. Complexity does play a role in how effective it is. Like the past two intel mainstream i7s, they use the same clock rate, but newer one has a slightly more complex architecture. The sad truth is that this increase in complexity is really only good for a max of 10%. A li... |
How do we know for sure that Pi doesn't repeat? | The proofs aren't really ELI5able, but we can prove that you can't express pi as a fraction a/b where both are integers - it is irrational. Any number with a decimal expansion that either ends or repeats can be expressed as a fraction, so we know that pi never repeats.The proof for pi is pretty difficult and hard to EL... |
Why do we not like listening to our own voices in a recording or video but are perfectly fine listening to them as we talk? | It probably could be because we hear our voice in our head at a lower pitch than it actually sounds. So when hearing a recording of ourselves, the immediate confusion of the voice not marching the one we expected could contribute to us not liking it. This also needn't be a universal thing. You could get over this by li... |
How does Buddhism deal with the problem of evil? | The PoE doesn't exist in Buddhism because the PoE is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil with that of a deity who is omniwhatever, and there's no such thing in Buddhism. That said, evil is caused by 'ego'/greed. It's just a Human Thing that Happens. |
How can we be absolutely certain that the amount of Universal energy remains constant (how can we prove the law of conservation of energy is valid in terms of the Universe)? | It doesn't remain constant, especially in a universe that is huge and constantly expanding, the law of conservation of energy does not apply. Like everyone else said, it only ever really applies to closed systems and if we were to use the law of conservation of energy on a much grander scale like the universe we would ... |
Why can't we reproduce abiogenesis in a lab environment? | They've been able to reproduce self-replicating/dividing vessicles . It's also possible to generate precursors to RNA. It has been speculated that life first started with RNA then switched to DNA. Mostly it's just time. Prokaryotes evolved over 4 billion years ago but it took another 2 billion years for eukaryotes to d... |
the math that debunks the claim that women are paid ~75% of what men are paid. | This is pretty complex and can't be explained simply. However, the first thing to understand is that the claim that women are paid X% of what men are paid is rarely what's really being argued. There is a discrepancy, subject to change, but there's definitely a discrepancy. Depending on where you are, of course. General... |
Why did we wait so long to draw attention to China's (and other countries') air pollution problems? | It's been bad for a while now. However due to the easily offended and restrictive communist government, most other nations had to walk on eggshells when handling diplomatic relations with China. Thusly environmental pollution was low on the totem poll for *important* issues. Now that China is seeking more and more trad... |
What causes computers, especially Windows machines, to slow down over time? | Imagine your whole computer is like a wear house. When you install something, that's a guy on a forklift putting some boxes away on a shelf. Now, when you first build and stock the warehouse everything is nicely organized. Over time, as boxes are removed and restocked, things start to get disorganized. Eventually the b... |
How is it that sperm and eggs can be frozen for years to be used later but we can't freeze a living person without killing them? | A sperm/egg is a single cell: to keep it in stasis, it basically just has to stay still and not fall apart. Freezing can do that. A living creature, much less a person, is bajillions of cells, all in the middle of doing things, and a complex electro-chemical nervous system. *That* can't just be stopped by freezing it. ... |
How can a file be compressed into something smaller but still contain all the information it needs to work properly? | The first thing you need to realize is that a file isn't a picture, it's a set of *instructions* on how to draw a picture. At a very simple level a file like a Bitmap looks something like this Sky.bmp Picture is 100 pixels wide x 100 pixels tall using 24bit color. Pixel 1,1 is 255,0,0 Pixel 1,2 is 255,0,0 etc Compressi... |
Why has technology not been able to replace subjective feedback style eye exams? Shouldn't we have a device by now that can just tell how bad your eyes are? | Yep, the machine where you look at the picture of the hot air balloon at the end of the road. But, you still have the 'A' or 'B' tests, because it really depends on what's wrong with your eyes and what you prefer. Because of my astigmatism, I basically have to choose whether I want lenses that give me perfect up-close ... |
How we know how much uranium a sample started with when using uranium-lead dating? | Uranium-lead dating is usually performed on the mineral zircon. When zircon crystals form, they incorporate trace amounts of uranium into their structure, but completely exclude lead . So we know when the zircon formed it contained some unknown amount of uranium and zero lead. So by measuring the present-day ratio of u... |
When going over a hill in a car, what causes that fluttery feeling in your stomach? | Inertia. Your body wants to keep going in the direction that the car was headed and as you round the hill, gravity is now pulling you in a new direction than your insides were headed. What you're experiencing is basically a drop in G-force. A brief moment of lower gravity that causes your stomach and organs to float ar... |
How a Quantum Computer works, and why it is superior to our current computers. | I think this has been asked a couple of times here. A normal computer calculates functions. It has an input and produces an output. Each time you calculate the function it takes a certain amount of time. In a sense, a quantum computer allows for multiple inputs and, with only one calculation, gives you all the correspo... |
What's the idea behind being "fashionably late"? | Reasons can vary a lot based upon specific circumstances, such as what the event is and who the attendees are. Here are some reasons why one might show up fashionably late: 1) When an event begins, there may be few people there, so the attendees just sit around and wait or small-talk until more people arrive and the ev... |
Why do ISPs only support certain modems? | It's because their customers are idiots. No, not you, the other guys. So, you know what it's like when your aunt or grandma or someone calls you up for help with their computer? They have no clue. But, you love them, and you're patient for them. Well, the ISPs have support departments that take calls from people like t... |
why the floors in my house make a "pop" sound at night when nobody in the house is moving around. | My TV and other furniture do this. it's as though two plastic pieces that are touching suddenly crack into place, moving just a fraction of a millimetre. Could someone explain this too? |
If you had a child with your identical twin, would your child look exactly like you? | Not necessarily if you assume a natural mix of your existing genes with the actual pairings left to chance. Keep in mind that you would share all of your DNA with a twin but what presents itself depends on which genes are dominant and which are recessive. So let's say you have a twin and you both have a gene mix of Aa.... |
With all of our stunning modern technology, why is there still that awkward pause when a newscaster is speaking to their correspondents in the field? | So there is a two way link to the correspondent, right? The newscaster's voice goes into geostationary orbit, back down to the correspondent, then the respondent responds, which goes back to the satellite and back down again. Each leg of the journey, due to the speed of light, will take no *less* than [0.24 seconds]. 4... |
why do cds exist and why does a bank need my money for a short period of time? | Banks make money by lending money. Banks are required to keep a certain percentage of the deposits on hand for people wanting to take out money. CDs give banks more security to project the demands on withdrawal of funds vs. funds they know will be available for lending to endure they remain within the regulations. As a... |
Why do we euthanize wild animals who attack humans? | Like previous commenters said, it has to do with protecting people, since animals who attack peopleare more likely to do so again. Simply look at the policies regarding brown bears in Alaska. If a person gets too close to a brown bear's cub and is killed, the bear was acting naturally, and not killed. However, if a bro... |
What makes monkeys and chimps so much stronger than humans? | Monkeys have evolved to climb trees and thus have stronger upper bodies than we do. However our lower body is far stronger than that of a chimp because we've evolved to traverse great distances fast. You might say we are inverted strength wise. |
Games (espacially back in the day) try to use as minimal space as possible for their games, so why are unused graphics etc. still in many gamefiles. | Old graphics generally used things called Sprites. These were very large sheets of graphics that could be divided into X by X square cells. The graphics processor on the old console would load an entire sheet into memory and then could reference a specific gridpoint on that sheet to pull up an image. This means you wou... |
I work in a bar, sometimes I grab a glass and it just explodes. Why? | I'm guessing you freeze your pint glasses, then throw them in the boiling washing machine. That rapid temperature change is not good for glassware. |
do hairs and dust ever get into our lungs? And if so what does our body do about it? | I'm a dog groomer and get thousands or millions of tiny hairs and dander floating around my face for like 7 hours a day will I die? |
what does the UN actually do? How do they operate and how do they enforce the power that they have? | The UNOs biggest aim is world peace. They try to develop the world and the organisation of the world, they want better international teamwork, or deal with refugees, human right violations, war crimes, rights of children, human rights etc. so if there is a conflict between States they try to find a peaceful solution, t... |
LI5: What is acne/zits and why do I get it? | Your skin naturally produces *sebum*, a kind of oil or grease that stops it from drying out. This sebum oozes out of the tiny holes that hairs grow out of, called *follicles*. Follicles are constantly replenishing the cells in their inner surface, a little like the way your skin itself is constantly growing from undern... |
What is a driving license "penalty point" in the UK, and how could you "accept" them from someone else? | Here in the uk you're allowed 12 penalty points on your license before you get banned from driving. You get various points for different offenses such as 3 points for low tire tread and 6 points for no insurance and 3 points for speeding. If a speed camera catches you speeding you can say a spouse was driving and let t... |
In the case of a Presidential assassination, who's in charge between the time of the President's death and the VP taking the oath of office? | The Vice President assumes command the moment the President is incapacitated. Even if the VP isn't yet aware they're in command, the bureaucracy knows they are the next link in the chain of command and will go to the VP for orders. If the President and VP are both killed, then the bureaucracy knows that they now answer... |
Strange out-of-body feeling (see description) | It's called derealization. Its pretty common. 23-76% people experience at least one episode in their lifetime, so it's not always due to a traumatic brain injury or psychiatric problems. _URL_0_ |
How do you know when to use affect or effect in your writing? | Affect: verb Effect: noun If you don't know what a noun and verb are, I suggest you go beat your elementary school teacher with a brick. |
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