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What happens if i leave the phone off the hook for too long? | The landline phone network has sensors for this. After a long time, it will play an error sound and a recording telling you to hang up the phone. But no damage is done. You won't be able to receive calls until you hang up. |
Why is malt liquor significantly less expensive than beer? | Malt Liquor is basically beer without hops. It's called malt liquor since it is made from malted barley, just like beer, but no hops are added. Most of the time it's just a really cheap, relatively high alcohol content beverage but it doesn't necessarily have to be. |
Would driving/moving at the speed of light feel the same as going 500 mph on a plane? | Einstein, in his Theory of Relativity made an assumption that as long as you are not speeding up, the laws of physics will be exactly the same for you as for someone else who is travelling at a very large speed in relation to you. If you have a spaceship going at say, 99% of the speed of light in relation to the Earth,... |
Why do people buy games from EA if they complain so vehemently about them? | Because people are hypocrites? People like to complain about EA, they are the big dog in the industry so they are also the biggest target. But the truth is EA makes some pretty good games. [Here is a list of the companies/studios that makes up EA Games]. Odds are high that every gamer will recognize some of these studi... |
Why do athletes always sip water and then immediately spit it out? | Clears your mouth of spit and mucus. Also you don't want to drink too much. Generally you sip some spit it out and then sip a little bit. |
if we have enough grain and milk sitting in silos around the USA to feed the world why do we give farmers subsidizes to burn it instead of using that money to give it away? | We do not burn grain and dump milk to the river anymore. We pay them to not produce it. We used to have a domestic aid program that used the surplus to feed poor-poorish Americans. I remember eating government cheese, peanut butter and such. It wasn't a bad way to stabilize prices. |
Why do FM radio channels in my car go up in increments of .2 and are always odd? Do odd numbers transmit better? And is this standard around the world? | It's an American standard. Some countries use the same spacing but on even numbers. [A few countries use closer spacing or different numbers]. |
If both sides spoke British-English during the Revolutionary War, how did America slowly develop their own dialect? | Language naturally shifts and grows over time. Just compare the slang that you grew up with to that of your parents. When two groups don't have regular contact, they will shift & grow in different directions. When the US was founded, we didn't have TV, radio, movies or sound recording to keep everyone on the same page.... |
If you don't want people poaching elephants for ivory, why don't people just farm them? | I would imagine it's not very cost-effective. Elephants eat a lot and need to move about over the course of the year. You would need a very large farm with very specific conditions in order to raise them properly. Short of buying a large swath of land in Africa in a wildlife-reserve-for-profit type of situation, I don'... |
Why protein based supplements and food are used in body building so much when cheap food like Greek yogurt has a similar protein content? | There's probably more grams of protein in a small whey protein shake which will be more easily digested than say a large steak or whatever. Although a can of tuna is probably similar to a protein shake in protein grams, a good alternative. Just my limited knowledge on sports science thought, I may be wrong. |
How do animals keep from biting themselves? | If you look at any picture of an attacking shark, you'll see they don't really have tongues, lips, or cheeks to bite. Their mouths are pretty much perfectly designed to *safely* be a whirling mass of horror all the time. Alligators do have tongues and probably do chomp them by accident occasionally. I've definitely see... |
How is it that we can take pictures of the Milky Way galaxy in the night sky when we are part of it? | This is basically a galactic selfie. We're a part of it, sure. But that means we can see the rest of it from where we are. Earth is basically almost at the end of the Milk Way's arm, as seen [here]. That means that there's plenty of the rest of it for us to see to take pictures of. In selfie terms, earth is the camera ... |
Why does the military use "2100 hours" when saying "9 pm" is verbally more efficient. | I still sometimes use military time, drives my wife nuts, I mean, I've been out of the military for thirty years!", 'More verbally distinct. 9 am/ pm only differ by a single vowel, while the difference between 2100 and 900 hours is rather significant. |
How come _URL_0_ still has links to torrents from years ago despite having their servers seized? | The site is mirrored on multiple servers throughout the world. So even if you seize the original server, a copy exists in multiple places. As far as I know, it's impossible to stop it for good as long as a mirror exists elsewhere. |
How did royal families get to be royalty in the first place? | Anybody who implied otherwise found an army burning their house down and cutting their head off. Royalty is a much more formalized version of group leadership. Someone takes power. Possibly there's a struggle, but either someone wins or the group fractures into two or more groups each with its own leader. |
How is the post office able to get my mail across the country in two days for so cheap? | Former Letter Carrier here. When you mail a letter, it goes to a central facility for coding and dispatch. There are Optical Character Readers which can actually read the destination address, spray two bar codes on the piece and sort it by Zip codes. When it gets to the Zip code to which it's sent, it goes into sorting... |
How would raising minimum wage help the economy? | There are basic things that poor people are cheaping out on that are very important. With the added money, some would buy better food than ramen noodles for their kids. Some would got to the doctor earlier then when they need an ambulance. Some would fix potential dangers in their house. Some would keep doing the same ... |
The point of this fin on a 747 | It's there to cut through the air and reduce drags. These little improvements are done by airlines to drive down costs which then allows for cheaper tickets or higher margins. Another example of this is the 'winglets' on the end of the wings that curve up about 90°. |
How do you tell the difference between propaganda and news? | Journalists make a number of decisions in presenting the news, regardless of how objective they are trying to be, which give the news its ideological colors. They decide - what is newsworthy , which bits of context are relevant , what kind of narrative to use - and all these things can be very deceptive. In the end, if... |
When you press hard on your skin and it leaves a white imprint for about a second, what is going on? | You're squeezing the blood out when you push on it and it takes a second for your cappilaries to refill. During that time there's nothing but your skin color showing. |
What happens when a parachute doesn't open correctly? | My father served as parachutist in Soviet Army, one thing he told me that a jumper had to **always** pack his own chute. Even if green, even if someone was really good at it in company, etc. I guess it's different in modern skydiving clubs and all, but I feel like that was pretty good practice at ensuring safety. If it... |
Who is Aragorn, in the sense of all the positions and titles he holds? (Spoilers inside.) | Just to explain the genealogy and history a bit: The Numenoreans who escaped from Numenor owed their allegiance to Elendil. He had two sons: Isildur and Anarion. They ruled Gondor while Elendil ruled the north directly . Elendil was killed in the battle that threw Sauron down . As Isildur was the older, the throne of t... |
Two Constitutional rights. The right to vote and bare arms. Why is requiring an ID to vote discrimination but same rules don't apply to guns? | Well, voter ID laws exist. People have a problem with them because they are discriminatory, not because they're unconstitutional. But it's really a matter of priorities. We want as many people to vote as possible. We don't necessarily want as many people to own guns as possible. Courts have ruled many times that the Se... |
Why do so many franchises drastically change their focus? | They go where the money is. For whatever reasons, what they were doing wasn't paying the bills, and so they experimented with other stuff, got better results, and shifted their whole focus. Sure, it might alienate some of their original audience, but if you pick up 1.5 new viewers for everyone 1 old viewer that you los... |
If a hot beverage is kept floating in a vacuum, would it cool down? | Electromagnetic radiation would occur, radiating from the coffee into the vacuum, through the ambient magnetic field. The coffee is effectively a 'black body radiator'. |
If my body temperature is 98.6 degrees, why don't I feel hot all the time? | Also to note: your CORE temperature is 98 degrees. That doesn't mean your skin is 98 degrees. |
Why is it when we look back at things in our past they seem a lot better than they actually are? | You have solved and survived all the problems you had in the past. Can't say the same for the present and future.Because the human brain has a series of filters that prevent the retention of "bad" memories . A series of things the brain does: -- Refuses to commit "bad" memories to long-term storage. -- Is more likely t... |
Why can't you knee someone in the gut and have them throw up poop? | Wait, you can't do this? You must not be kneeing them hard enough. Keep trying. Sometimes it takes several hits. Edit: Just realized this is ELI5 and not shittyaskscience. |
Why do some diet sodas like cream soda, root beer, mountain dew and sprite taste like the non-diet counter parts but diet colas (like Coke or Pepsi) taste nothing like regular colas? | When Diet Coke was formulated its flavor profile was based off Pepsi's. Diet Coke was marketed as a women's drink and therefore it was believed the harsher, sharper taste of Coca Cola would be off-putting. Later, Coca-Cola came out with Coke Zero, which was designed to more accurately mimic the flavor of classic Coke. ... |
Why do aircraft entertainment computers behave so slowly, in comparison to other electronics, like phones? | It's a shared system, that's your bottleneck. Newer systems, from panasonic at least, run from SSD's these days. It's actually pretty fast, but still hard to find. Most airlines still use the older and therefore slower systems. |
How do we see through glass? | It's not because of the space between molecules. It's because the molecules in glass are not good at absorbing photons . |
Why hadn't solar technology made major improvements and be ubiquitous as the over all these decades? | It has made massive improvements. It's gone from something that could only power calculators or nasa spacecraft to something that anyone can stick on their roof. There's been a steady improvement in panel efficiency [in the past decade]. Price has been [falling steadily] at the same time. And as a result, the installed... |
Why do a majority of white people not like being pale? | It's definitely regional. Probably just a lot of 'grass is greener ' given that there are places where white is the desired standard. Here in Toronto we're about half immigrants or children of immigrants so skin colour is all over the map, and most people don't make a big deal about it in any direction.This habit has s... |
If property and home values are so much higher in the city than suburbs why do the city schools have worse budget problems? | I live in Chicago, and these are the reasons why: - While the most expensive real estate is more expensive than comparable suburban areas, there are also lots of really poor areas in the city and the single school district covers it all. In the suburbs, a wealthy suburb might have great schools and the less wealthy one... |
Why do men seem to be more tolerant to colder temperatures and often times feel warmer to the touch than women? | When women get cold, a lot of their blood is pulled from their outer extremities and towards important internal organs, particularly the ovaries and uterus. This is to protect the egg cells and potential baby in the womb, all of which are particularly sensitive to decreased temperature. Since the blood is pulled away f... |
How do DNA tests tell you the percentages of ethnicities in your genetic code? | Ok, so this may be completely wrong, it's what I was told in Bio and my teacher is a nut job and I got a C so take it with a grain of salt. So let's say you grew up in the desert and I grew up in the tundra. You would develop less body hair and store water better among other things . I would develop more body hair and ... |
Why does coffee smell so nice, but after drinking it, your breath smells terrible? | Might be a personal thing. I mean, I personally love the smell of coffee breath, but that could be due to the fact I've gotten so used to the smell of my own coffee breath. But scientifically speaking, coffee dehydrates you. That's part of the reason morning breath smells like a dead horse's asshole. So since coffee de... |
Why does someone ignoring you cause so much pain and anger? | Human's are inherently social creatures and when we are denied of something that we seek out, we can become resentful |
Why don't we have a "microwave" equivalent of a freezer that could take a beer, or whatever, down to zero degrees in 60-90 seconds? | it's a lot easier to make waves in a calm pond than it is to calm a pond full of waves. Microwaving food is like throwing a rock into a perfectly calm pond. Whereas, cooling something is like trying calming a turbulent pond. In this anaology, throwing a rock is like the micowave adding energy to the food. When food is ... |
Why don't we have $25 bills? | First off, we need to be getting rid of coins not making more. The penny, nickle, and dime are all so worthless that people don't even bother keeping them half the time. Second, a you can't have both a 25 dollar bill and a 20 dollar bill, it would be super impractical. We chose the 20 instead of the 25 because it can b... |
Would it be possible for a colo(u)r to have a negative hue? | That depends on how you define hue. Typically, no. It either reflects or shines that color of light, or it doesn't. We only detect the presence or absence of light. There isn't a negative version of light in this sense. |
Why are child actors exempt from child labor laws and can those exceptions apply in other industries? | Depends where you live, in the US, the federal law is: > For non-agricultural jobs, children under 14 may not be employed, children between 14 and 16 may be employed in allowed occupations during limited hours, and children between 16 and 18 may be employed for unlimited hours in non-hazardous occupations. A number of ... |
Why can humans remember the first letter of a word/phrase/name we've forgotten, but not the whole thing? | Or if you're like me you could say it starts with a d then think of it and it doesn't start with a d. like not even close like an s or some hogwash. Im still disappointed in myself :/ |
why airplanes must land with a certain amount of fuel | Landing is harder on parts of the aircraft than takeoff. That's OK, though, since landing is usually done with a lighter plane once most of the fuel has been burned. When a plane has only recently taken off it still has all of that fuel. Unlike a car where the weight of the fuel is a negligible percentage of the vehicl... |
how is it possible that many different sounds & frequencies can be transmitted at the same time through just one/two cable(s)? | Let's say you have a cable that transmits clicks, and you use it to communicate with some friend by transmitting a click every 3 seconds. If there's a click, it's a 1, and if there's only silence, it's a 0. You can send any message you want with this system. Now, let's suppose a second pair of guys use your same click ... |
LI5: The difference between a Republic and a Democracy. | They're not mutually exclusive. A democracy simply means the people have the ruling power . A republic means the government is representative of the people, it's composed of people representing the people. In a democratic republic the people elect representatives. In a theocratic republic, the church elects representat... |
The use of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. | > The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the sc... |
What is libertarianism? ELI5 | Libertarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes small government; it believes that the government should play an exceedingly small roll in society, limited to something like common defense, preventing violence among citizens, and enforcing contracts . In the US, libertarians tend to support Republicans on economic issue... |
- How do mirrors work? | Everything you see reflects light, and it's this reflected light that creates the visible world. Different colors are just different types of light. For example, grass reflects green light, but absorbs all other colors. Mirrors are different because instead of selectively reflecting some colors and absorbing others to ... |
Can someone [ELI5] what happens when I crack my knuckles, and more importantly, if its ACTUALLY bad for me? | From what I've read and what doctors have told me, when you pop your knuckles you're releasing the gas that gets trapped in your joints over time. And importantly, it will not harm you. :D _URL_0_ |
Hey LI5, what's the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims? | This is not at all a LI5 explanation, but from what I remember in school, when Mohammad died, someone needed to be the leader of Islam - a sort of pope if you will. One of the groups wanted the leader to be elected by voting, the other group wanted the leader to be a blood relative of Mohammad because of the 'holy bloo... |
LI5 - Hunter S. Thompson | I wouldn't be telling my 5 year old about him, regardless of the legend that he is. |
Why do humans have fetishes? | a lot of it has to do w/ experiences that one has had throughout their life sorry if that isn't much help < . < |
Why do muscles get sore after working out? | While working out, or even doing any strenuous activity, you create small tears in your muscles. They are not large enough to cause instant pain. After the shock of working out wears off, your body recognizes the muscle damage and begins to repair it. Blood flow and other fluid movement increases to the damaged muscles... |
Why is gold valuable? | a) it's rare and b) it's also very hard to get - gold is found in tiny quantities spread out over a large area. Here's some food for thought: diamonds are also expensive, and they're made out of carbon, which is one of the most prolific elements on the planet. |
E=mc²: What does the speed of light have to do with anything? | The speed of light is a conversion factor that comes up because humans don't move very fast in their day to day lives. Basically, we *should* measure space and time in the same units , but in our day to day lives they seem so different that we use different units. Then special relativity comes along and says they're re... |
What's the difference between torque and horsepower? | Torque is the twisting force applied to the crankshaft of the engine. HorsePOWER, is power, which is force , multiplied by engine speed. There's a constant in the formula of 5252, so that's why you always see the HP vs. TQ curves on a dyno graph intersect at 5252 RPMs. So torque is force, e.g. how much the engine can p... |
How can the Hubble take brilliant images of galaxies millions of light-years away, but no clear images of Pluto exist? | Telescopes pick up images that reflect light. Galaxies and other large objects give off the most light. Pluto doesn't give off enough light from the sun to be seen very clearly. |
Difference between a CPU and a GPU | The CPU is a component of a computer designed to do general calculations. Basically, any calculation which is not handled by any specific hardware is done on the CPU. The CPU also coordinates the rest of the components of the computer. The GPU is a component of a computer designed to do calculations related to graphics... |
how the moon affects tides | The affect of gravity changes based on how far away you are from the source. This means that the pull of gravity from the moon is stronger on the side of the Earth facing the moon than it is on the far side. For water on the side close to the moon, the water is closer than the rest of the Earth, so it's pulled even har... |
why does it hurt when you get hit in the testicles? | So you would actually try to avoid getting hit there That's what pain is for, making you know something is wrong. If there's a world of pain, you know something is reaaally wrong. That teaches you to not do stupid stuff anymore. |
Why do some birds fly in a "V" formation? | The bird at the front of the V makes it easier for the rest of the birds to fly, and the next birds down make it easier for all the birds behind them, and so on. Then when the front bird gets tired he goes to the back and it's really easy for him so he gets to rest for a while. Then one of the birds who was right behin... |
What is the difference between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism. | First, VAG_Pounder, report to the principal's office. We don't allow such language in Reddit Kindergarden! The difference is this. Your parents can tell you what to do, right? They tell you when to eat, when to sleep, when to go to school But when you don't do what they say, or when you do bad things, your parents prob... |
What makes certain things solid/liquid/gas at room temperatures? | Stuff at distance attract stuff, but close to each other repels. Temperature is how jiggly/how fast atoms move. Solid is when stuff is attracted more then it is repelled. When you heat it, the atoms start to jiggle and bounce into and circle around each other, but still are attracted enough so they won't escape. Gas is... |
Why does zero factorial equal one? | Simply said, it's part of the definition. A little more complicated: Any **empty product** is equal to the **multiplicative identity**, which usually is 1. Definitions: **Empty product**: Multiplying no factors, i.e. nothing, such as 0! or 0^0 **Multiplicative identity**: Whatever you multiply with this becomes itself.... |
The problem of Induction. | Induction is a way we learn about how the world is going to behave in the future by considering how it has worked in the past. Every day the sun rises in the morning, therefore by induction we can say that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. However who says that things always need to happen the same way they always ha... |
How does the moon affect the tides? | I'll even push this a bit further. You know how tides sometimes have a huge difference between high and low tide, and sometimes not much of a difference at all ? This is the Sun's influence on water. |
- Why does time slow down when you near the speed of light? | As you are a part of spacetime, you are always moving through both space and time. The thing is, you only have so much energy to apply to moving through them. Light is spending all of it's energy moving through space, so it doesn't have energy left over to move through time. We are moving very slowly through space, but... |
'The God Particle' and why it's so important? | Didn't the LHC find recently that the Higg's Boson most likely doesn't exist, at least not in the spectrum where they were looking for it? |
Einstein's theory of space-time relativity | I'm late to this, but I showed [this] interactive video to my six-year-old and he totally got it. This should be taught in schools everywhere. |
Why do I get a sudden urge to pee when I see or hear running water. | Just a guess - could we have evolved that way because it's more hygenic than peeing in still water, or in our homes? |
Electoral College. Why do we still use this? | Legacy. You can't get rid of it because that's the way we've always done it. Thankfully, there is a movement that's gaining steam to [make it a figurehead by giving the presidency to the winner of the national popular vote]. Look for it in the 2016 election."The biggest argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversa... |
how Ouija boards work. | The devil lives in the piece that moves. You said don't mention demons, you said nothing about the devil. |
Why doesn't the Moon get sucked in by the Earth's gravity... or fly off into space? | If you have a magnet that was round and attracted equally in all direction and you threw a piece of iron at it it would get sucked in and hit the magnet. If you threw it over the magnet it would fly over the magnet but dip toward it in arc. Like the magnet was sucking it in but it still had enough speed to go past. If ... |
How was the first computer program made? | Here is a funny story: Lisp was one of the first programming languages. It is still around, although it looks a little different than it did in 1959. The first Lisp system was not a compiler; it was an interpreter: instead of turning the program into machine code, it just stepped through the program code, one expressio... |
How a turbo works in a car. | I drive a DSM from my understanding they don't work", 'It sounds like something for nothing, like a perpetual motion machine. I found it hard to believe they actually worked, but the magic is in the wasted energy in the exhaust that, when harvested, does not really impede the engine much, and the multiplier effect of t... |
Why do our own farts smell better to us than others farts? | [I'm taking this from something I read by Charles Baudelaire I think] Millions of years ago we were like dogs, in the sense that we moved on all fours and used our sense of smell to hunt and gather. Like dogs, we would mark our territory and sniff the ground. Over time, we evolved and became more upright, meaning we st... |
what is the purpose of r/circlejerk? | Reddit is a website that rewards saying things people like with Karma and a prominent position on the front page. This, combined with Reddit's somewhat homogeneous user-base often leads to what is colloquially called 'circlejerking.' This takes the form of a post or link which confirms or plays to an existing Reddit bi... |
What does it mean to die of "natural causes"? | You know, that's kind of always bugged me too. Doesn't *everybody* ultimately die of heart failure? I mean, sure, you might have been stabbed but that led to loss of blood which finally made your heart stop, right? Or you're drowning, your lungs fill with water, causing your heart to cease working ? Just a weird thing ... |
Why do planets orbit on a horizontal plane rather than going every which way? | When the solar system was forming, there was just a ton of dust and gas. Eventually, as gas started to accumulate at the center, a gravity well was created. Dust/gas further out began swirling around this gravity well; most falling in to the center , but some was too far away or traveling too fast to get captured, so i... |
Why water evaporates even though the temperature doesn't exceed the boiling point. | The surface of the water is a bubbling mass of molecules which weakly interact with each other. The hotter the water the more active the molecules are. When the water reaches boiling point the molecules are so active they are no longer attracted to each other at all and can fly off in any direction they want. This is s... |
Why nuclear fusion is so important. | In a nuclear fusion reactor, you start with two atoms and you mush them together into a single atom. If you crunch the numbers, this can result in a decrease in mass. That mass that was lost is converted into energy that you use to generate electricity. It is clean in the sense that you can start from something that is... |
LI5: r/circlejerk and r/spacedicks | If anything can be said about r/spacedicks, it's that it's just r/WTF to a much greater magnitude. |
Why America never switched to the metric system (or SI), whereas most other countries did. | There was a push to do so in the 1960s, but Americans just weren't committed, and the adults didn't want to learn a new system, so they only taught it in schools, and it never caught on. |
Difference between S corporation and LLC? | I'm not entirely sure what you mean by S corporation, but I'll give you a rundown of corporate types. And granted, these vary by country. I'm from Canada so I'll work with that, but there's a lot of commonality between countries. The biggest differences between types are liability and taxes. Liability is essentially ho... |
The Mpemba effect, why does hot water freeze faster than cold water? | It's because hot water evaporates faster, leaving less water. Hot water makes quicker ice cubes, but slightly smaller ones.I did a quick read of the wiki page, and there are good suggestions there, but I 'd also suggest that it's possible that water attains different degrees of order at different temperatures. Much lik... |
Why don't I remember any of my dreams? | Honestly, I never remembered dreams until at the beginning of last summer, I started setting my alarm to go off at 4 A.M. Then a second one to get out of bed at 6. I would hit the stop button on the 4 A.M. And most of the time I would get out of bed at 6 remembering my dreams.I don't know why it works or if anyone else... |
if speed of light is not the limit, does
this mean Einstein's special theory of
relativity is wrong? | Yes, in the same way that Newton's laws of motion are wrong. Newton's laws of motion are plenty accurate for calculating the path a ball will take when thrown, or the action of a car rolling down the street. It breaks down when the objects described start going extremely fast, or when the objects are extremely massive,... |
Why do I see the moon during the day sometimes? | A question related to this that I've always had is how this affects the tides. I've never lived near the ocean, so I've never really figured out how the tides work. Seriously, I'm not making a Bill O'Reilly joke. Is the tide different when the moon is out during the day or is it the same as when it's only out at night?... |
Why is it that whrn looking for
potential alien life on other planets,
scientists always look for water and
oxygen? | I've always felt the same way. It seems narrow minded to only look for life in areas the the stuff WE need to survive. Scientists are finding unexpected shit all the time. |
What happens when black holes collide? | From the mouths of scientists, you get a bigger black hole, but not always. Bear in mind that interactions between black holes can take billions of years to resolve.As soon as I saw this, my brain started playing [this]One eats the other, like if you forget to feed your gerbils for too longYou get a bigger black hole. ... |
What is the difference between weight and mass? | You recall wrong. *Volume* is the measurement of how much space something takes up. Mass is a measurement of how much stuff is in that something. For example, if you freeze a container of water, its volume changes but its mass stays the same - there's still the same amount of H2O there. One of the most basic laws of ph... |
- Why I don't fall out of bed when I sleep | Any time you're in REM sleep your more or less paralyzed, and many people don't move a whole lot in sleep anyways as that wouldn't have been a very good evolutionary trait. |
Why do songs get stuck in the head? | I believe it's your brain trying to understand the music by going over it over and over again. |
Why warm water freezes/cools faster than colder water. | Water is one crazy motherfucker, there are lots of things that are not entirely clear about it. For example , water is densest at 4 degrees Celsius, rather than being as cold as possible, as it is with all other materials. This is the reason why lakes only freeze on top, but the bottom layer usually remains at 4C all y... |
Why did Barack Obama win a Nobel Peace Prize? | This was ridiculous. The Nobel committee meets almost 8 months before the prize is announced meaning that Obama had been nominated as a candidate before he'd even taken office. So a junior senator apparently had enough clout to influence the world yeah right |
how does moving close to the speed of light causes time to slow down? | Try and think of it this way: When you start moving you start trading time for speed. The faster you go, the more time you're trading. That's also why nothing is supposed to travel faster than light, because at that point you have no more time to trade and get more speed: It's expended. There are many ways to put this,... |
Exactly what is plasma? | From what I understand, it is like the aqueous state. The particles ionize, which doesn't happen in a gas. |
Why do many people hate Nickelback? | They are considered derivative rather than using their own original ideas. They've achieved superstar status on the works of others while adding nothing of value. |
Why is the speed of light constant? | Here's a related question, while we are on the subject. So if electrons spin around a nucleus of an atom at the speed of light, and then you take that atom and move it at the speed of light, wouldn't the electrons be unable to spin because they would have to move faster than the speed of light to do so?", 'Just a point... |
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