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why does the US have such a large economy? | It's a large country, with a large population, but mostly it's a zealously capitalistic country that values economic progress a lot. As usual, you get more of what you value. If you value your hereditary monarch, you get a big monarchy and beautiful castles that make awesome tourist attractions in the future.- the ente... |
How can people translate a totally unknown language? | you", or "he/she" will appear frequently, and they probably won't be very long. Also, if you see a string of symbols come up a lot, say, cowy , and then you see a very similar word come up, like cowydx, you may be able to figure out that, say, adding "dx" in my made up language symbolizes plural, or past tense, or poss... |
What happens to lost or abandoned nukes? | They're not going to explode. Nuclear weapons are basically impossible to set off accidentally, both because they're designed that way for obvious reasons and because the process of pushing enough fissile material together fast enough to create a chain reaction without sputtering out or just blasting a bunch of plutoni... |
Rebooting a computer seems so fix most of the problems, why is that? | rewind 3 steps", or "stop". Now imagine some kind of glitch occurs and the machine finds itself unable to continue acting the way it's supposed to due to getting the wrong symbols in the wrong places. It's easier to correct this by resetting the machine than it is to figure out which step the error pictures in and goin... |
What are the amino acids? And what do they do to the body? (Simple answers cause I’m a noob) | It's like if your muscles were made out of lego, the small pieces of lego would be amino acids. The large piece would be protein. |
If the brain itself has no ability to feel pain, how do migraines happen and how are they felt? | There is a covering over your brain called the dura mater and it has nerve endings. Migraines are caused by some sort of inflammation which can inflame this covering. It's very similar to bone which also has no sensory nerve endings. They're covered in a layer called the periosteum which does. That's why a fracture hur... |
why MLM doesn’t work. | 1) the products MLM schemes don't sell well, are over priced, and are low quality. They require you to not only buy your own goods to sell, but also have no practical way of selling them. 2) they're all designed like cults, where you have to pay to do anything within them, and half of the materials you have to buy are ... |
If alcohol is very effective when it comes to killing germs and bacterias, why isn’t it effective to fight a bacterial throat infection by gargling with a alcohol? | The alcohol only kills bacterial on your surface layer, and as strange as it sounds, the cells lining your throat are a kind of surface layer. The infection, however is not on the surface layer. It's underneath that, and the mouthwash doesn't help with that. |
If we can't regrow enamel, how does fluoride rinsing help? | Fluoride doesn't regrow enamel. It chemically alters existing tooth enamel to make it more resistant to acid produced by bacteria.Edit: the ELI5 is that enamel does grow back, but that modern food habits eat it away faster than it naturally restores itself through spit chemistry. Flouride provides more mineralization p... |
why does 98 degrees feel so hot when our internal temp is 98.6 and 70 feels nice but is much lower then 98.6? | Your body does not sit at a specific temperature, it constantly generates heat. Your body manages its temperature by losing heat to its surroundings. This is basically how you feel hot or cold. Hot means you aren't losing heat fast enough, cold means you are losing heat too fast. So 70 feels nice because that the tempe... |
Why can’t entire bones be transplanted? | It's generally impractical on top of implants and metal pieces being easier. Your bones aren't just connected to muscles, but also tendons and ligaments and the blood vessels connected to the marrow. Transplanting a bone requires reconnecting a lot more than reinforcing the bone with metal or prosthetics. |
Why do people say don’t “waste water”? | Because the water in your house is clean water and it take resources to clean that water. It take energy and chemical to transform the water from a river into drinking water and it take some more chemical and energy to clean the brown water that you let go through. But even more importantly. The water you use don't alw... |
How do prison inmates vote? Do they get to vote, and if so how do they? | They generally don't. In most States Felons do not get to vote again for the rest of their lives the moment they are convicted. In others they are only forbidden to vote while in prison and sometimes while on probation. I cannot think of any State that allows an inmate to vote while in prison, but it is possible. They ... |
What is the fine structure constant and why is it so mysterious? | The fine structure constant is a dimensionless constant that describes the interaction between subatomic particles. It's hardly mysterious, but it's based on things like the Planck length that are difficult to conceptualize.The fine structure constant is not really mysterious at all. It's a dimensionless constant that ... |
Why is it that we generally find food that's bad for us more delicious than food that's good for us? | Because as a treat it isn't bad for us at all. It's only when it's constant and unnecessary that your body systems essentially get lazy and inefficient That's the trap of the land of plenty.Humans have always craved richer foods. Food was scarce for most of our existence. Evolution is slow. |
Can someone really O.D. from potassium, and if so, how much would someone have to have to cause negative side effects? | Your blood is at a constant level of sodium, potassium and calcium. Cells require this constant level to function properly. Outside of this range, you get funky effects like your nerves misfiring, or your muscles not working properly. The most dangerous is when it affects your cardiac muscles, which can cause your hear... |
Why does time seem to pass more quickly as we age? | Because of your reference of time. As you get older you experience more time so it seems shorter compared to when you were younger and hadn't seen much time go by. |
Why do people brush their teeth before and not after breakfast? | People brush their teeth before breakfast? I don't want to go to work with onion and salmon breath. |
Why/how does depression affect your immune system? | I'm not completely certain on the effects of depression on the immune system, but I understand how stress can effect the body and depression can be very stressful. In a state of stress, tension increases in the body and resources are diverted from non-necessary systems such as the immune system to maintain this increas... |
What is that good sensation right before you sneeze and what triggers it? | After reading these comments I'm glad my sneeze sensations are enjoyable and not like an itch in my head |
Why do streaming services sometimes only have random select episodes of a tv show? | because the company that sells it don't want to, or can't, sell it for all the episodes . there's loads of complex business reasons to do with this but it usually boils down to they think they can make more money selling them elsewhere. Or they've sold them to someone else already. |
How can we see HD media owing to the scientific fact that the human eye is only of 576 megapixels? | 1) It is not a scientific fact that the human eye is 576 megapixels. 2) HD is only 1920 x 1080 = 2,073,600 pixels 3) There is no standard pixel size. A pixel could be 0.1mm or 1cm, so it doesn't make sense to say that the human eye can see a certain number of pixels. |
for my girlfriend, who has been getting into playing forza horizon 4 with me, why do people like some old cars when the modern super cars are obviously more powerful? | Simply put, IMO, it's not about power. It's aesthetic, it's nostalgia, it's an entirely different feel. I have no emotional connection to a high end prototype super car. |
Why are political parties in America so polarized? | A lot of decent answers here, but the biggest reasons I think are Gerrymandering and low voter turnout. Gerrymandering has been done by both sides when they've been in power in state gov't which means many house seats are automatically R or D and those people can be as fringe-y as they want to be with no fear of losing... |
How do Satellites handle the millions if not billions of devices outfitted with GPS chips? | GPS isn't a two-way communication. The satellites broadcast their signal for all to hear, and the devices listen out for it. |
Why would one type of alcohol affect a person in a different way than another type? | Its a lot of placebo. There maybe some way the ingredients actively change the experience, but there currently isn't much evidence for it. The way it makes contact with your taste buds, the way it smells, the way you think of it all effect your perception of how it will effect you. At the end of the day, it's all alcoh... |
How does the core of the earth STAY hot? | The Earth's core is in fact cooling down over time to the tune of about 1 degree C every ten million years. It might be cooling a lot faster were it not for radioactive decay. Most of the heat the Earth has is leftover from the planet's formation, but a lot of what keeps it so hot is dense, radioactive elements breakin... |
Why aren't computer processors modular? | They are not soldered to the MB, but you still can't swap old CPU with latest gen because of sockets. Different CPUs fit into different sockets and socket is a part of the MB.You can't just swap the socket because MBs are designed specifically for that socket and it's very difficult if not impossible to make it replace... |
what are the basics of losing weight ? | Eat fewer calories than you burn That's it, that's all there is to it. Calories in < Calories out will lead to weight loss Various diets have different food plans to help you achieve that and stick with it, but it doesn't matter what you're eating as long as you're eating less than you're burning |
Why is the air blue and not e.g yellow or red | Air is clear. It is all around us, so when you look at a white wall, you are looking through air. It looks white and not blue tinted because the air is clear. The sky looks blue most of the time. Different colors have different lengths, and that means each color bends a different amount when it hits the sky, kind of li... |
Why does hitting a flashlight when the batteries are low keep it working for a short time? | To add to the battery notes, it could also be the bulb. If the bulbs connection isn't set properly, then it could take a jostling to wiggle it into place. |
Why do horses need horseshoes? | The ancestors of the domestic horse didn't, necessarily. Domestication has changed the wear patterns for horses, they pursue different activities, they move across different surfaces, and they travel at different rates, than their ancestors did. This contributes to increased and/or uneven wear on natural hooves, which ... |
In terms of technology and programming, what is an API? Hearing that the homebrew scene is working on porting OpenGL to the Nintendo Switch, so makes "OpenGL" different than others? | An API is a set of requests or commands which can be sent to a piece of software or hardware; in the case of requests, this also includes data sent back in response. OpenGL is an API for your GPU/graphics card. It provides a set of commands which are the same on any platform, no matter what operating system, processor,... |
How did the USA recover after the Civil War? | I mean it didn't exactly. The North was booming after the war and soaked up a lot of the former slaves and destitute whites that left the ruin of the South after the Civil War for jobs in the North. Realistically the Old South has not been hugely relevant in terms of tech or industry until after World War II. Even then... |
Does the transfer of credit card balance make sense? Hi | It's been years since I looked into any of those. But it seems like I remember some of them charging an upfront feebto make the transfer. Like 1% of the transferred amount.On some cards, if you have a outstanding balance transfer, new purchases made on the card **might** be subject to interest immediately. . But yeah, ... |
Why do they say we share 98% of DNA with chimpanzee’s but then we only share 50% of our DNA with our mother/father/siblings? | Most of the DNA between any two human beings is completely identical - upwards of 99%. That's true of you and your parents, you and me, Queen Elizabeth, Lebron James, all of us. You inherit half of your DNA from your father and half from your mother, but those two halves aren't all that different. Most of the DNA in th... |
Why is it if you put helium in a balloon it floats but put it in a tank it gets heavier? | The balloon gets heavier too, but it can expand so it becomes less *dense*. A steel helium tank has a fixed volume so when you add weight in the form of compressed helium it cannot expand and it's *density* increases In both cases you're adding mass but it's the balloon's ability to expand that enables it to become les... |
Why does the Moon cause high tides on the side of the Earth opposite of it? | Tides exist because closer things are pulled by gravity more than farther things. The near side of the Earth is pulled towards the Moon more than the middle, and **the middle is pulled towards the Moon more than the far side.** Rather than thinking of the far side bulging out, think of the whole Earth being stretched. ... |
What does the deBroglie wavelength tell us about solid objects? Are there practical applications? | If with 'solid objects' you mean objects such as tables, chairs or cars, then it tells us that even these object have a de Broglie wavelength associated with them. The wavelengths of these objects is extremely small though, even much smaller than the size of a hydrogen atom for example, so you'll never notice the wave-... |
How do fiber optic cables carry the internet? | It's really as simple as turning electrical signals into light. This improves the speed of signals, and allows for a more responsive internet experience as it minimizes delays from travel time significantly. It also reduces problems caused by sources of interference, like radio waves. [Basics of Fiber Optic Cable]", 'F... |
Why are some public positions voted on while others are appointed or hired? | In the coroner's specific case, they're the ones responsible for official declarations regarding deaths outside hospitals. I can see why some folks would want some say in who gets that job. |
why are horses put down when they get injured racing. Why not have them recover and live their lives out. | Horses are difficult to treat and expensive to keep. A horse with a broken shoulder would be very hard to have recover at all, and even if somehow it survived it would never be able to race again. So why spend huge amounts of money on obtaining an old, lame horse? I know the desire to keep animals alive but most people... |
What is last thursdayism and how does it work? | The idea is this: there's no way to prove that the universe wasn't created last Thursday, with every person, planet, molecule and atom already in place from the first moment. Nobody actually believes it was, of course. It's used as an argument against the idea of young-Earth Creationism: if you believe God created the ... |
Spiders are born instinctively knowing how to create complex webs and clever capturing techniques, why aren’t humans born knowing any complex skills? | It's argued that the ability to learn language is innate, the environment determines which language a human will learn. I think that is a great skill. |
What prevents an employer from "firing" you if you want to resign? | Here in Canada, if you give notice and they term you early, they're required to pay you the full period of your notice. So nothing prevents them and many employers do, depending on their sensitivities, but at least in Canada, you suffer no harm. |
What happens if You enter a country on the day there is civil unrest? | I've done it twice in recent times Egypt and Turkey, to be more specific, what feedback are you looking for? Short answer, in the most case, nothing happens - civil unrest is rarely citywide, You need to keep intel on where the unrest is happening and stick to the safe parts of the City and have an escape plan - stay c... |
If Ancient Romans and Greeks used short swords, why in the middle Ages did Swords become 'bigger'? | As I understand it: The roman sword was intended for military use. Many many warriors in close formation using shields, on foot. The Longsword broadsword, rapier, and many other swords, were not used in the same conditions. Most weren't used with shields either, and often were used in horseback - the longsword being th... |
How is it possible for a candidate to enter the American election while dead? | They didn't die until after the ballots had been printed . Voters were informed, but a lot of people vote for a party rather than a candidate, so at that point people are just voting for the deceased so they can be replaced by someone similar. The people voting for him likely didn't want to see a Democrat in office, so... |
The difference between agonists, partial agonists, inverse agonists and antagonists | Agonist - Key goes in lock, machine works more. Antagonist - Key goes in lock, machine doesn't respond. Inverse agonist - If the machine is always running - key goes in lock, machine works less. Partial agonist - Key goes in lock, machine works more but not at its maximum. & #x200B; Edit: A bit more on antagonists. Key... |
Why LED light bulbs can't be dimmed by a traditional dimmer switch | Old light bulbs are simple. You pass current through them and they heat up. More current - > hotter - > brighter. The dimmer just reduces the voltage to reduce the current. LEDs don't respond to voltage adjustments nicely. Increasing voltage will increase brightness so little that you can't see it . Decreasing the curr... |
Why do phones require you to delete hundreds of megabites just to install a little 5mb update? | It's hard to answer without specifics, but in general, be it on a phone, a tablet or a computer, the system or installer first checks that there's enough storage capacity to store the update file, decompress it, backup files that need to be preserved before the update can be applied, etc. This explains why you'll occas... |
Why do humans live in seemingly uninhabitable places? | Humans do quite well with issues they can prepare or accommodate for, this includes environmental issues, like extreme cold, and thin air. If a group of people can survive somewhere, why would they move? They are used to their normal problems and can mitigate them, moving to a new location would introduce new potential... |
Why do some animals have distinct male and female members while others have ones that are nearly indistinguishable? | Depending on the species in question, there could be any number of reasons, but in general, it usually comes down to sexual selection. When a species uses visual cues when deciding who to mate with, those desirable features end up getting selected for and exaggerated over the generations. For example, many female bird ... |
what is the benefit of skin becoming itchy? What is actually happening to cause this sensation? | We have touch receptors on the hairs all over us which trigger the itch sensation. Because the cost of becoming ill due to not scratching at a mite biting you is so high compared to the cost of scratching a random itch, this system has evolved to become extremely sensitive. Given the context it's possible that some mic... |
Why are there alt codes for numbers if you have to use numbers to reach them? | Because when you type the alt code you are typing the character code. All characters have a character code, including the ones already on the keyboard. Using the alt codes allows you to type any character in the charset, including ones not on the keyboard. It just so happens that the alt code for 5 includes 5. It's sim... |
How are we able to calculate the age of distant stars? | We have one star real close. The sun. We know it's temperature , it's size , it's composition , how fast it spins and most importantly, age . We also know mass because it's an easy calculation from size and composition. As you can see, everything except age is learned only by looking at it. This allows looking at other... |
Why do airlines have ashtrays in the toilets when you can’t smoke ? | The explanations I've heard are that it's there in case someone does smoke, there's a place to put it. And because it wasn't that much trouble to just keep making it that way. |
Why couldn't winged spacecraft, i.e., space shuttle(s), launch laterally from a runway, to get into orbit? TIA | Most of the space shuttles fuel is in the large external tank . It also requires the solid rocket boosters to get into orbit. Neither the external tank, nor the solid rocket boosters have wings to provide lift. If these 3 things weren't required to be attached to the space shuttle during lift-off, the wings may be able... |
how does salt make ice colder, but we also use salt to melt ice on road/walkways? | Water freezes at 0c, Salt changes the chemical make up of water when it's desolved changing the freezing point. On our roads it's usually not cold enough to reach that freezing point thus the ice melts as it's not reaching its new freezing point. But with the lower freezing point we can now go past the point of 0c thus... |
If someone is getting rich, someone else should be getting poor? | There is a difference between transactions , and changes in value. When it comes to transactions it's pretty simple: when your company pays you $5000 they go -5000 and you go +5000. You spend your money on other stuff, and your company earns it back by selling their stuff. Aside from the government printing some money,... |
Why is it not difficult to engage physically with those you have no feeling toward but difficult to engage physically with those you do? | Is this a flawed premise or am I an outlier? I hate hugging or touching. Family and friends know I'm not a toucher. But I've never minded with someone I was interested in. Crushing on someone and wanting to date them definitely made it easier to engage physically than it is for other people I meet.I am having trouble u... |
Why don’t commercial airplanes fly faster? | Breaking the sound barrier is not allowed over populated areas but more importantly it costs a hell of a lot more to fly that fast. The Concorde was retired mostly because it simply couldn't make money. To make the flights profitable the ticket prices had to be too high to attract enough passengers. People would rather... |
Why do our bodies need to get taller from infancy vs staying small and just getting stronger? | Muscles can only exert so much force per muscle fibre cell. To get more force, you need to make them bigger. That means you need more space on the bone to attach them to. To get more speed, you can have longer bones so that the force is multiplied by a bigger lever arm. Since we also get faster as we get bigger, in add... |
how do socks prevent our feet from getting sweaty | If you wear shoes without socks, when your feet sweat some of that sweat stays on your skin and a lot of it transfers to the shoes. That's bad for your feet and bad for your shoes . Socks absorb the sweat and are easy to change and wash. Certain materials are a lot better at this that others, especially materials that ... |
How do restaurants/chains know how much calories are in the food? | I'll add that they are often wrong dependent on how things can be prepared differently in different restaurants. You can find the calories of a food with: F *9 + C *4 + P *4 = Total calories F=fat C=carbs P=protein & #x200B; The numbers are the amount of calories per gram. Fat is 9cal/g while the other two are 4cal/g. ... |
What is a "star" that a restaurant or hotel has? | > Is there an official group that evaluates the place? Nope. Anywhere can be rated anything you care to rate it. There are a few big ratings groups whose opinions are more impactful, though . > I've heard of a Michelin star like Gordon Ramsay has, but is that just for chefs/food places? If so what is the rating for hot... |
; What is Lipase? What does it do? | High lipase can be an indicator for pancreatic illness, mostly used to diagnose acute pancreatitis although they can be high in people with lowered kidney filtration. That being said, noone but your physician can tell you how it's affecting YOU specifically. It's best to seek advice/explanations from an expert that has... |
Why is it that when you cook beef it turns brown, but when you cook chicken it turns white? | Beef has a lot of myoglobin in it, compared to chicken. Myoglobin is a protein that carries and stores oxygen in muscle. Myoglobin is normally red in color and is what gives red meat its color. When heated above 140°F myoglobin denatures due to the heat and forms a molecule known as hemichrome, which is brown in color.... |
why do so many restaurants or food places brag about their meat being never frozen? | Owner I worked for, did the exact same thing. Double-blind so even us servers didn't know.He was livid when a lot of people ending up preferring the frozen meat. Nobody can tell the difference", 'I worked in a restaurant for many years. We had salmon on the menu. Sometimes we’d get it fresh and sometimes frozen. I woul... |
why does your body wait with sweating until you’re done moving sometimes? | I hear a lot of explanations that are claiming that it is the moving air that allows the sweat to evaporate faster, but I'm not convinced. For instance, if I exercise using the rowing machine, I am moving some, but I am hardly running through rapidly moving air. However, if I suddenly stop rowing, the sweat begins to p... |
Why is it when I’m driving planes look like they are still in the sky | You judge speed based off how quickly something crosses your field of view and then try to adjust for the distance Since the plane is very far away it will take a long time to cross your field of view despite covering hundreds of miles A close telephone pole will appear to be moving very quickly as it whizzes by the wi... |
Why is gambling popular in Chinese culture? | Mostly because gambling is largely illegal in China so people on vacation from china often are way way way into going to casinos or something that they can't get at home. So it seems like they love gambling nonstop all the time rather than it just being way more novel. |
How does a space probe orient itself? | It might * look for stars it knows and track them* look at the closest star , as it's very bright* look for the surface/horizon of the planet and do calculations based on that* interpret the magnetic field * ", 'A common way for orientation is star trackers _URL_4_ a camera that look at the stars and match there patter... |
What is so great about being a senator/ congressman that people will basically sell their soul to keep or obtain this job? | I'm sure the civil service ideal is important to some politicians, but the financial gain sure doesn''t hurt either. I'm not talking about salary here - it's often a pittance compared to what U.S. representatives were used to. Most of them are millionaires, after all. The salary does nothing to explain the actual incre... |
How did Google Chrome become so popular? | When chrome came out it was revolutionary, I was very young when it came out, but I remember the sheer uglyness and how terrible it was. By comparison Google Chrome with its clean omnibar was amazing. This comic shows all of the innovations that Google Chrome made: _URL_0_The most impressive to me is that before chrome... |
Why does your vision go black when you are standing up quickly? | It shouldn't, but if yours does it could be a sign of blood circulation issues such as blood pressure or blockage problems. You may want to seek medical assistance, as what you describe is not what normal, healthy, people experience. |
How did live TV broadcasts work before the invention of digital cameras? | It's not film. The images where captured and sent electronically, in analogue, not digital. Much the same way a VHS tape works. |
Why are buses still mostly box shaped? Should they not have a more aerodynamic shape? | I think busses are more concerned with fitting as many passengers as possible, they generally don't need to travel at high speeds like trains. Boxes fit more seats and safe standing areas than tubes.At the low speeds that buses operate at, aerodynamics are not important. What is important is maximizing the number of pa... |
If we all have tastebuds.. why don’t we all prefer the same food? | Well we don't all have the same taste buds and taste changes during life. Even if we did taste is an done in the brain from signals from the tongue. It's kind of like two people can read the same story and get different meanings or interpretations of it. Same source, different results. |
Why does the past generally seem happier than it was at the time? | It's a known storyline and we tend to discount the unhappy memories. The future is uncertain and this breeds apprehension. |
how do jet engines compress air? | In [this] diagram, you can see that as the air gets closer to the hot section of the engine, the rotor blades and stators are guiding it into a smaller and smaller space. The compression occurs because it simply *has* to. There is nowhere for the air to expand and it definitely can't go backwards because there is alway... |
Why first iPod was such an revolutionary device? | It wasn't. The first iPod came out in 2001 but wasn't really popular until around 2004 when they finally got all of the controls integrated onto the click wheel. That's also about when the iTunes store started, which pushed pretty much the entire music market onto the internet. The biggest legacy of the iPod is probabl... |
Does every digital device with UI have an OS? | Basically, yes. The OS or operaring system is a programm running in the background and talking to the hardware beneath. If you clicked on something on a touch device for example the input is send to the firmware of the touch display.After that it will be translated and sent to the operating system which in turn decides... |
How does the Bicarbonate buffer system work? | A buffer is a system that is able to resist pH cha he's upon addition of small amounts of acid or base. The system would contain H2CO3 and HCO3- . 1. H2CO3 ⇌ HCO3− + H+2. HCO3- + H2O ⇌ H2CO3 + OH- Based on the two equations and according to Le Chatelier’s principle, the system will contain a large reservoir of H2CO3 an... |
Does the 22nd Amendment allow a President that served to terms to be elected as Vice President? And could he replace the President? | There is no clear answer because the situation has never happened and thus the courts have never ruled on the constitutionality of the scenario. It would take a two-term President to try to assume the office of the Vice President and the courts granting standing to someone to challenge the Vice President-elect or desig... |
Why is well-done steak looked down upon? | The flavor, juiciness, texture all change once it's well done. Medium well is a step in the right direction. If you need ketchup with it, you're doing it wrong. Slap some butter on it and keep it juicy. So yummy. |
When we cut our fingers or any other type of damage, our fingerprints grow back the same. But burning them causes the fingerprint to be erased, why’s that? | I got a deep cut in my finger a few years ago and the print doesnt line up the same as it used to. Any kind of damage can change your fingerprints, but they will generally grow back eventually, and mostly the same. Even with burns if they aren't like really bad. |
How much do companies have to pay to use GPS technology, and why are there only government-ran GPS systems (GPS, Galileo, NAVIC) and no privately-owned ones? | Companies don't have to pay to use GPS. That's like saying you have to pay to listen to radio. How? |
why does Benadryl feel stronger sometimes than others? | Not ELI5 but I would strongly advise finding a different medication to use daily, Benadryl will be unhealthy for your brain and can cause Alzheimer's if taken too much.I’m not quite sure but I always take the same dose of melatonin and it definitely hits faster/better on an empty stomach. Could be related to absorption... |
Why is polygamy illegal in most countries? | It tends to be 'one man with many women', which is exploitative. None of them are 'one woman many men'. Its a basic power imbalance. Not that the latter would be much better.Aside from what was already mentioned it also makes divorce law super complicated. It only works if women don’t have the right to property, becaus... |
Why is urine ok to drink even in an emergency, even though it is the concentrated waste material of body? Doesn't this make the body open to diseases? | because your body isn't very efficient. a healthy, well-fed adult is peeing out way more water than it needs to to dispose of the waste material. so drinking that urine isn't a significant danger. also, if you are in such dire straits that drinking your own urine is a consideration, your lifespan is measured in hours. ... |
Why do some things melt when heated but other things catch fire when heated | To provide a more specific answer, we can group materials into three classes: burns, doesn't normally burn and never burns. The first class is things like wood, the second is iron, and the third is water. To properly answer, we need to define *what* burning is. Burning, or combustion, is a reaction between a chemical a... |
Why can't we see any stars/planets in all photos/ videos of outer space? | Generally if you've got a photo in space, it's focused around an object that's decently lit right in front of the camera. An astronaut, a spacecraft, earth, etc. In order to capture enough light from the tiny pinpoints of light that are the stars, you'd need to have the shutter speed slow enough that the object that yo... |
How do people get surprised and die in wildfires? | I read somewhere that the Camp fire that destroyed Paradise, CA was moving at something like 8 acres a minute. I've heard that the people of the town had evacuated several fires over the past few years and they were always much more slow moving or didn't hit the town directly. So a lot of the people were complacent and... |
Why does cooked food offer more calories than its raw counterpart? | At the super-tiny level, our stomachs are better at digesting little, simple molecules. Bigger molecules require more energy and effort, and some really long molecules the body can't break down at all. Foods are made of molecules, and some foods are mostly those really long ones. Cooking breaks the long molecules into ... |
What is the difference between the UK and Great Britain? | Great Britain is a geographical term. is the largest island of the British Isles. It contains England, Wales, and Scotland. The United Kingdom is a political term. It's a sovereign state composed of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. |
Why does vodka get syrupy in the freezer while water stays the same viscosity until it freezes? | Vodka does freeze just much colder at -25 ° C but it's a combination of chemicals that have a lower freezing point thats all |
What is an MLM? | MLM = scam The basic idea is a company has product to sell and instead of opening a store or having said product sold in stores they prey on people to sell it for them while charging said prey. The difference is MLM' don't hire a normal salesforce. Instead they get people to buy the product from them and then those peo... |
are external hardrives essentially bigger USB drives, or is there something that differentiates them | They're the same as the internal ones, the only difference is they come in a box that protects them and transforms the external interface to the native interface . So the answer to your question is no, a hard drive is based on a different technology than an USB flash drive, regardless of it being external. Now there ar... |
What does it mean when they say nothing existed before the big bang? | I don't think they are saying there was nothing before the Big Bang. There was, of course, the singularity that started it all. And Time itself doesn't necessarily exist before that moment either if you accept the premise that the big bang is not an expansion of stuff into empty space, but rather .the literal expansion... |
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