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Why it is metres per second per second instead of metres per second? | m/s^2 is a measure of acceleration, not velocity. It means the object's velocity is *increasing* by a measure of 10 m/s, *per second*. Say the object was starting at rest and accelerating at that rate. 1 second later, if you measure velocity, it is 10 m/s. Another second later, and it is 20 m/s. After a total of 10 sec... |
How do holocaust deniers back up their views when there is so much physical evidence, including eyewitnesses still alive, that it occurred? | It's a a conspiracy, obviously, perpetrated to generate sympathy. Yeah, we'll go with that. |
Why do grownups throw up less than children? | There are a few reasons that I can think of The first one would be your immune system. Your immune system gets better the more you get sick, because it builds a bigger database of diseases. Your immune system also isn't as strong when you're very young. The second reason would be your hygiene. Kids tend to take less ca... |
The whole "registered Republican, Democrat or Independent" thing. | In most countries, there's a large number of political parties. When it comes time for an election, the party leadership chooses who is going to run for office. In the US, which only has two major political parties, the parties hold a large vote to decide who to nominate. In some states , you need to register as a memb... |
Why do tea bags say ‘Do Not Microwave’? | The trick is to boil the water, add the tea bag, nuke it in the microwave for 30 seconds ay 60% power and bingo! A fantastic cuppa! Try it, you'll thank me. Edit: this will get deleted for not being an explaination so I'll add: it's not you do with the staples, my brand has a single staple in the paper tab at the end a... |
Why is it sometimes easier to remember a word in one's second language? | This isn't perfectly understood, but Tip of the Tongue State does happen more frequently in bilingual and polyglot subjects. In TOTS, subjects can often remember many parameters of a word or name and it is reasonable to postulate that translations into other languages is one such recalled parameter.I'm a native English... |
Why does a video on YouTube take so much longer to load than a porn video that's 4 times as long? | If a video has a lot of Internet traffic is centered around said video, it will take longer to load. Maybe people just don't like the same porn as you/don't like watching at that time. Another major difference is your service provider. Connections can fluctuate through the day, favoring certain times . As to where you ... |
How exactly does my neighbors property effect my property value? | An extreme example, but it will help. Let's say you've got a decent house on a one acre lot. If it existed totally on its own, the land would be worth $15,000. That's what the average buyer would be willing to pay for it. Now, the lot next to yours is purchased and used as a dumping ground for a local company. No one's... |
How the IRS would tax the winner of the power ball for the foreseeable future | If he took the $1.5B, that would be an annuity spread out over 30 years, so he'd get $50M the first year. Of that, 25% or $12.5M would be withheld, but the tax bill will be in the ballpark of 39.6% . So he'd have to come up with another $7.5M tax day. In future years, the exception for having to pay estimated taxes whe... |
Why is -3 not an applicable square root of 9? | When you see sqrt in an expression they only want the positive value. That's just what the definition of the square root symbol is, period, it's as simple as that. When you have something like x^2 = 9, then the solutions to the equation are x= ±3. Equations can have multiple solutions, expressions floating by themselve... |
Why does protesting work? You see massive nationwide protests when there is civil unrest, but why can't the government just ignore it until the protestors give up? | It works in a similar fashion to how a petition works but instead of signatures being gathered it's physical people it easy to ignore a couple pieces of paper full of signatures. But ignoring a mob of people is much more difficult.Protests are also a barometer of future voting patterns, and politicians who want to be r... |
why do some people not 'know' how to swim and drown? | The body's natural response to drowning is just splashing around. Especially since the person is panicking, the erratic movement would be extremely inefficient and would eventually leads the person to drown. |
Why is illegal immigration such a big deal? | I think the US is at a point where the controlbof the border is almost just working. We know that it prevents some illegals coming over; but we still see illegals getting in. If we relaxed our control, or didn't have control, we'd end up with what Europe currently has. An unchecked influx of illegals can be a very bad ... |
What causes the "zoom-in" feeling late at night, making it look like your room is 1/10th its size? | Alice in wonderland syndrome! For me, it would feel like people's heads were completely out of proportion - way too small at one moment, way too big a few moments later. Weird as fuck. |
How do our bodies know to wake up right before an alarm or right before a bus/train stop? | You don't. You wake up lots of times, only to fall asleep again. You only remember waking up when you realize you need to stay awake, whereupon you fully wake up. Your memory is feeble in the throes of semi-consciousness. That's why you may remember having a dream, but not exactly what happened in it. |
Why are there so many claims of paranormal activities by people yet there had never been any evidence to support their claims ever in history. | Ummm Because it's all bullshit is why. Lets put paranormal in the same basket with: Religion, Astrology, Psychics and any other mumbo jumbo you care to mention. |
Why do people find PDA uncomfortable? | There's a certain amount of prudishness in society that was left over from our past. I'm not sure about other countries, but I know America was founded on Puritan principles to an extent. Some of that has carried over to today. |
The universe either started at one point, or has always been there. How are either possible? | I'm not one to wade in to philosophy, but from physics we just know that option 2 can't be correct due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. If the Universe had been around for an infinite amount of time, it would have reached thermodynamic equilibrium by now . This hasn't happened yet, therefore the Universe must have ... |
How does the government track people downloading illegal music? | As far as I know, they don't. It would be too much effort for something with too little of a return.The government doesnt do anything, its all businesses who do the tracking and lawsuitingWhen you torrent something, you don't download the whole file at once . Instead, the file is broken up into hundreds or thousands of... |
Why does sleeping feel so good shortly after waking up? | General sleep question: Is there a relationship between being quick to fall asleep, and being a light sleeper? I ask because my mother is very quick to fall asleep, but can wake up completely unprovoked in the middle of the night. Meanwhile, I have a very hard time falling asleep, but once I do, I'm also hard to wake. ... |
Why U.S. conservatives are so against abortion but generally the first to gripe about families with multiple children on welfare. | There is the belief that a fetus is living at the moment of conception This view is usually driven by a religious belief - many conservatives view the status quo as being better than uncertain change, and family roles as being the most important to a stable society. The economic aspects boil down to a few basic princip... |
why can't we bring in sealed beverages through TSA checkpoints but we can buy those same beverages on the other side at 200% markup? | I'm more confused as to why they will give you glass bottles and glasses post security, but bitch and moan over way less lethal things.They were taking away lighters in Seattle the other day. The newsstand inside the terminal sold them. |
Why do people become workaholics? | Money, currently I am working 12.5 to 14.5 hours 7 days a week and will be doing it for everyday the next 3 months unless I take a p.t.o. for a day. Add in drive time and it's 16 to 18 hours devoted to it a day. Everything else in my life suffers because of it but until I finish my bachelor's there isn't much else I ca... |
Why do suburbs in general have less crime than cities? | One of the largest contributors to crime is income inequality. Not poverty. In the suburbs everyone pretty much makes the same-ish amount of money, live in very similar houses and lead similar lifestyles. Not only do they have almost everything they need, but their neighbours don't have something they want but can't ha... |
Why do I find spiders in my sinks and shower tub more than any other location of my house? | I've been wondering, too. Maybe because tubs/sinks trap the spiders, so we see them? There are spiders in other locales but since spiders mostly stay in their webs, we don't notice them as easily. |
Why don't national flags have the name of the country displayed on them? Instead, we're stuck guessing which of the 196 countries it is. | Flags largely started out as military standards to organise troops on the battlefield. Most of your soldiers probably couldn't read, and a simple pattern of bright colours can be more easily identified at a distance anyway. They wouldn't have to remember the flags of every country they might possibly encounter, they ju... |
How do people with insomnia get energy? | You get energy from food, not sleep. Quite frankly, it isn't really understood why we sleep. |
Why haven't FIFA or the IOC been shut down for corruption? | Shut down by whom? And then what's next? I love Soccer as do billions of people around the world. The World Cup is the single greatest sporting event in the world. I'd rather a corrupt FIFA than no FIFA. Any replacement organization would involve the same people and probably just be as corrupt so what's the point?", 'W... |
Why would the U.S. Special Forces (supposedly) bury Bin Laden's body at sea almost immediately after his death? | They didn't really need much public evidence, they knew he was dead. If he was still alive all he had to do was make a new video. |
why is it so important to keep trauma victims awake/alert on the way to the hospital, as in how does that aid in their chances of survival? | Throwing in my 2 cents, in combat causality courses for treating combat trama the biggest reason to keep the patient actively engaged is to prevent them from slipping into shock. I couldn't tell you how this helps exactly, but I've seen it done and it does help immensely", 'Ease of assessment is a bonus, but the reason... |
Why do some gay men "sound" gay, I.E have some sort of gay accent (serious). | There was an AMA with some doctors a few years ago where an anesthesiologist said that a lot of their patients with the lisp don't have it when they come out of the induced sleep. Seems like a pretty conscious choice to talk that way |
When is a plant considered officially dead? | Never specifically. When all cellular activity stops is when they could be considered dead though because at that point there's no chance of recovery from any part of it. |
How does unemployment insurance work? | Application to unemployment does not show up to future employers. Since you chose to quit and did not immediately file, its going to be much harder to get anything. Sexual harassment is taken very seriously. You should have talked to dept of labor and possibly labor attorney immediately. But now a month later .it'll be... |
Why do healthier versions of a food items cost much more than the unhealthy versions? | I dunno about you, but my fiancé viciously calculates the price per oz of everything we buy, and fresh fruits and vegetables are far cheaper than unhealthy snacks and microwave meals/ fast food. It's actually generally far cheaper to eat healthier in that regard. I think there's a bit of a misconception about that.Any ... |
Why is it that when i get 8-9 hours of sleep i wake up tired but when i get 3-4 hours i wake up energized? | You feel refreshed after the 3-4 hours of sleep because you wake up when you're transitioning between sleep stages. When you wake up in the middle of a stage, you feel sluggish. |
Can 2 or 3 people have the exact same voice? | No. Like fingerprints, the anatomical parts which combine to produce voice are unique to the individual. There's simply too much variation to produce an *exact* similarity. |
Why do movies use a green background to film with CGI and not other colors? | Fun fact, the Predator invisibility effect was done with red screen, since there were no red tones in the bright blue sky or the green jungle. [Here is an example |
Why can't electric cars charge themselves like combustion engines can charge it's own battery? | It takes energy to make energy. Generally you cannot make more energy then your putting out so in my messed up head it's like trying to put a fan on the back of a sail boat.. The fan can blow and blow into the sail but the boat won't move.. The energy is just canceled out. |
How does Shampoo and Body Wash work so effectively when it only stays on our body for a few seconds before getting washed off? | In addition to the above comments, friction also helps. Like when you wash your hands with alcohol rub, or soap and water, it's friction doing a lot of the work along with the soap/alcohol rub. |
What would happen if every single American with student loan debt simultaneously defaulted on it? | The economy is already being severely impacted by the Student Loan Debt crisi. If you don't believe me, as any Realtor about new home sales to young married couples saddled with these outstanding loans. Not only can they not afford to buy a home, due to the debt they usually cannot even qualify for a mortgager. |
If every company that has moved "hq" overseas suddenly had to pay the taxes owed to the US gov't, what would happen? | They don't 'owe' the US government anything. When they bring those tax dollars back to the US they'd pay the difference between their US tax rate and the tax rate they've already paid . The Corporate tax avoidance strategy is really a tax deferment strategy. They will owe the money at some point in future eventually, i... |
How does vector and matrix operations differs in CPU vs GPU? | It's the same thing in both except that gpu's are specialized to do a ton of vector and matrix operations in parallel. Gpu's have hundreds of simple processing cores that can handle doing those calculations in a massively parallel fashion which is necessary for 3d rendering and beneficial for other things like physics ... |
What makes computer hacking difficult, and not something a computer itself does? | Computer hacking, as the word was first used, is best described as clever, unexpected use of the technology. All it requires is intelligence and creativity. Computer cracking, the bypassing of restrictions placed there by the programmers of a system, should be impossible. But errors made by programmers leave corner cas... |
How do us humans know how to have sex? | The answer should come from evolutionary psychology/neurology. Our brain is comprised of clusters of neurons and glia each performing a particular individual function. These clusters are called nuclei. They were selected for by giving their host a greater chance of survival. Every instinct, desire, thought, emotion and... |
Why, if I live in Jackson, MS, my Amazon package went from South Carolina to North Carolina (the opposite direction). | > Wouldn't it be more efficient to deliver it in a more direct route? Actually not. They use a hub-and-spokes arrangement that seems to work pretty well. If they used direct routes, they'd have to have way more routes set up, including a lot that hardly got used. With the current setup, every distribution facility has ... |
Why aren't we doing anything about the colossal amount of trash in the pacific ocean? | It's way too costly and it won't have much of an impact on considering the other sources of oceanic pollution that societies create. Like /u/recycled_ideas said, it's in millions of particles suspended in water AND it's accumulated in the fauna of the water, meaning it would be even more difficult and costly to remove ... |
Why have Washington and Colorado not released people imprisoned for pot? | i live in Washington state and i smoke pot. don't forget, just because it is legal, doesn't mean that you still cannot get busted for it. currently in my state, you my only possess up to one ounce for personal consumption. if you are caught with more than this, you will be arrested and charged. if you are caught sellin... |
why can't nations conquer other nations like in the past. | 1 part political cost in the international community and altruistic anti war yada yada etc 1 part pragmatic concern that if this was the norm still you'd see the whole post-colonial world at war pushing at the artificial borders that were created 1 part empires are fucking expensive, why not settle for slightly less di... |
Is there any Virus which infects Apple products?Why is there such a big problem with windows and hardly any problem with the mac when it comes to bugs? | The myth that Macs are immune to viruses has been circulating the Internet for as long as there has been an Internet. For what it's worth, there is a list of Apple Macintosh viruses from Mac Digest. It is dated **Thu, 11 May 1989**. |
Why do apps on Google Play need me to give them access to details which are seemingly private and unrelated to the app I'm downloading? | I'm an Android dev and all of the current answers are misleading or just plain incorrect. It's not about selling personal info to advertisers. The #1 reason is that apps need scary-looking permissions to do relatively innocent and seemingly unrelated things. For example, one of my apps has a send-something form, where ... |
Why are weather forecasts still so inaccurate? | They are getting more accurate all the time. The further out the forecast is, the less accurate it will be. That's always the case, but it gets better all the time.There are very few computer systems complex enough to calculate and predict weather patterns. These computer systems are run by places like the National Wea... |
Why does society view the exposure of the female chest so differently from that of a man's? Why do women have to cover and men don't? | It actually wasn't that long ago that topless men was seen as obscene as well. Just look at all those old pictures of men wearing full bathing suits at beaches. |
Why do deeply religious people badmouth other religions? | a reason: the basis of religions is faith, just to believe, and people claim to feel their god. There really isn't any material proof. There are several other religions that are using this same evidence. It tends to weaken/invalidate their own claims. This causes a lot of insecurity. People are just jerks though, reall... |
why is there a feeling of total disgust for men after they finish masturbating...and what causes it | There is? Maybe if you're in public, but then I think it's during and after. |
Why do both of these images exist? | Image 1 is not inflation adjusted. So it would basically be incomparable between the terms of various presidents. It also doesn't provide any sources for the numbers to be verified. And I think the $6.3 trillion number for 43 presidents combined comes from end of 2002 when Bush was just midway in his first term. It doe... |
Why does it always come down to "drink lots of fluids" when you tell the doc you gave the flu? | A fire truck needs more water when fighting a fire than when rescuing a kitten. Once you've been infected there is little we can do except wait for the body's own immune system to build up an immunity. This is a pretty resource intensive operation so you need to replace more fluid than normal. |
what would happen if man had two Y-chromosomes instead of XY? | There is stuff on the X chromosome essential for life. Having only two Ys and no X would result in a nonviable embryo that wouldn't survive long enough to be born.\r\rThere are some other chromosomal abnormalities that involve having more chromosomes but they're rare.Y or YY would be a severe chromosomal deficiency; th... |
Why are minorities overrepresented in commercials? | One reason is that businesses understand that a certain demographic accounts for a big part of their sales. For example: McDonald's TV ads and KOOLS menthol cigarettes ads, from the past, heavily target African-American consumers. |
Why are windshield wipers sold as singles not pairs? Do people often replace them one at a time? | This is a packaging issue As most have stated already, cars don't come with symmetrically sized windshield wipers. A package pair for locool676's Ford focus would contain a 22 and a 19in. But some other car may use a 21in and the same 19in. Selling them separately the blade manufacturer only needs to design the package... |
How can wrist-scan age tests determine your age? | OP, is your question answered? I can give you more insight into the medical side of this if you're interested. I just wrote my bachelor thesis on assessing the age using knee MRIs. The growth plates in the knee close a little later than those in wrist and fingers. This may make it a better fit for the border to adultho... |
What is the meaning of "rareness" in meat and why are "rarer" meats preferred? | My wife and I went to a fancy steakhouse when we were first dating. We ordered identical cuts of steak, mine was medium rare, hers was well. She had never seen the difference in the two side by side. My steak still had most of its juices and was nearly twice the size of hers which was dry and tough. It's a matter of pe... |
Why are teachers paid so little? | Because there are lots of people with both the desire and qualifications required to fill the job, so it's easy to replace one who quits to earn more pay, even at a low salary.As the salary of teachers varies drastically from country to country you will probably receive more relevant answers if you tell us what country... |
What is happening when we learn to like something like coffee? | You can re-wire your brain in many ways regarding a very large number of things. Consequently, you can re-wire your brain so that when it gets the taste buds signal that corresponds to cofee, it associates it with pleasure and 'hmmm das güd!'. There are many ways to do that and if you'd like to experiment with rewiring... |
Why don't people questioned by ISIS pretend to be Sunni? | Like everywhere else, there's a lot of segregation by ethnicity and religious sect in Iraq. Yazidis live in this neighborhood, Christians live in that one. That's a Shi'a region, this is a Sunni region. They may just go into an area and presume everyone is Sunni, or presume everyone is NOT Sunni. |
how do sports announcers know how to pronounce all the players' names? Whose job is it to tell them? | I don't see it here but among these answers they also ask the actual player. They aren't just play-by-play annoucers but actual journalists. The talk to the players, they gather ancedotes, and gather news.The BBC has an in-house [Pronunciation Unit] to advise sportscasters and other journalists on the correct pronuncia... |
Why do objects feel colder than the temperature of the air? | Certain _materials_ transfer heat more or less efficiently. So a metal toilet seat will feel colder than a wood one in the same room, with the same ambient air temperature and even the same surface temperature of the seats. What you're feeling is the rate of heat transfer, not just the temperature of the seat. |
If the FBI supercomputer would take centuries to crack a certain password, can't they build several replicas of it and then solve it faster with cluster processing? | OP, technically yes, however supercomputers don't come cheap and on the other end, countering it is very simple-- simply increase the length of your encryption key and voila, their multi-comp setup now won't be able to crack your code within a reasonable time-frame. Obviously, after trying every possible key combinatio... |
If antibacterial soaps are banned, what is ‘hand soap’ actually doing? | A while back, the FDA asked companies to prove that their hand-soaps being marketed as antibacterial were actually more effective than regular soap. This would presumably be proved by showing that they removed more bacteria/viruses than regular soap. The companies were unable to find that proof. It had also been known ... |
When games on Steam go on sale dirt cheap, who makes the money, and how do they make profit? | You don't need to make the game each individual time. The profit comes from selling the game no matter the price. The cheaper it is, the more people buy. Sales are usually done well after there has been net profit for the game though. How it's cut between Steam and the development studio/publisher, I'm not completely s... |
How does a ponzi scheme work? I'm 5 years old. | It is the same as a pyramid scheme. Day one investors are paid with money invested by day two investors. They are paid well. This attracts a lot of day three investors. The day two investors are paid out of this money. On day four, there are tons of new investors, and the day three investors are paid out of that money.... |
What is physically different about a hard drive with a 500 GB capacity versus a hard drive with a 1 TB capacity? Do the hard drives cost the same amount to produce? | Speaking only of hard drives : **More space to write** I want you to write a bunch of words, so I give you one sheet of paper and a big marker. If I want you to write twice as many words, I can simply give you a second sheet of paper. Hard drives store data on a spinning metal disc . Once way to store more data is to j... |
What are the defining differences between streets, roads, avenues, boulevards, etc.? What dictates how it is designated? | In Gainesville, streets go north and south and avenues go east and west. Don't know about the other ones", 'I haven't seen any mention of the suffix "trail". Here in Calgary at least, a trail is the biggest road, speed limits almost always in excess of 80km/h , generally at least three lanes each direction and generall... |
When should I use recirculated air vs. fresh air in my car? | When it comes to warm or cold weather, recirculating, as you might expect, will help condition the air quicker. This can be a problem, though, if you're using the defogger on the windshield, since the air coming back through the system has more moisture in it than the treated air that originally comes in. But it's also... |
What is happening to New York City? | Basically it's being restructured to cater to the affluent. Heavily policed, closed-circuit cameras, riffraff not welcome. |
Why don't/can't governments just illegalize smoking? | Well people sure as hell like cigarettes, you don't want to piss off the people in your country now do you? |
Why did I have to throw away the lid from my water bottle going into a stadium in Hamburg? | This is so you can't put the cap on and throw the bottle and injure someone. An open bottle would leak the water out so the impact would be less than a closed full bottle. If security see a capped bottle inside the stadium they can then investigate to see what you may have smuggled in, alcohol or whatever. |
If jury decisions have to be unanimous, why aren't there way more hung juries? | Well usually one person isn't that stubborn . There is strong pressure to have a decision and there is a lot of pressure to agree with the there 11. |
How animals like Octopus are discovered to get "bored" | Parrots can start destructive feather plucking as a result of boredom. This can happen if they don't have enough toys, or interactions with other parrots or people. |
Why do ghostwriters ghostwrite when they are clearly talented enough to make a name for themselves? | Good books don't necessarily mean sales. But writing alongside a celebrity whose endorsed products sell like hotcakes is guaranteed to provide a pretty paycheck. |
Whats the point of voting for President if the Electoral College exists? | When you vote for president you're essentially telling your state who should be president, not telling the entire country who should be president. Your state collects the votes and see's which president your state wants and then sends those electors to the electoral college to vote for that candidate. |
Why did we nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead of hitting Japan's military bases? | Also, another big problem is that the Japanese unlike many European countries didn't separate their cities into residential and manufacturing zones, so industrial and residential areas were mixed. Even if the US used conventional bombing, there still would have been large amounts of civilian casualties such as in Tokyo... |
Why is it socially acceptable to spend so much money on your wedding day even if you are not financially stable? | I would say most people plan on only one wedding, so they don't want to miss out on the chance of having a celebration exactly how they want it, even if it is big and exquisite and fanciful and way beyond their means |
Why are divorce rates higher than ever? | Increased divorce is a consequence of womens' rights and womens' economic autonomy. In the past, women stayed in bad marriages because the alternative was poverty and ostracism. Today they can go it alone just as well as a man can. That said, divorce rates are actually down from their peak around 1980. |
I've seen crabs living under water and also living out of water in the sand on the beach .How can they breath in both environments? | they have funny gills that work as long as they're a bit damp, and their shells are good at keeping those gills a bit damp for relatively long periods of time |
What causes the urge to fidget? | Pattern repetitive motion has a calming effect . Some people with anxiety exhibit this behavior. This is just a pet theory of mine - I don't have sources to back it up.There's one study suggests some people will subconsciously fidget when eating at a calorie surplus. They tend to be the ones with "high metabolism". |
Why is it harder to swallow nothing in quick succession compared to swallowing liquid/food? | bc you can't actually swallow nothing, so you gotta wait for saliva to build up, and then swallow it. |
Why isn't it possible to reuse candles with the used wax? | It is possible. An already used candle doesn't have as much wax as when it was new. But you can easily heat the left over wax so that it is moldable/dippable and re-use it", 'There's a product called "[rekindle candle]" that catches the wax drippings and forms them into a new candlePour a pot of water into a large meta... |
The concept of women "syncing up" their periods. | I don't have the citation but it is based on body odors. There was a study where girls at one school had to smell pads soaked in sweat from girls at another school and within some time their cycles lined up. it's similar to the phenomenon of women appearing more attractive when they are ovulating. It's all based on hor... |
Why are benzodiazepines (chill pills) so bad for you, but work so well? | They're addictive and highly abused as a recreational drug. Perception drugs used as recreational drugs are the leading cause of drug related deaths. Doctors are generally skeptical of people asking for them specifically.Mostly the addictive thing is the problem. Especially if you start gaining a dependence and then ru... |
why do pro gamers retire in their early 20's? Do your reflexes really drop so significantly that early in life? | As a pro gamer between 1999 and 2001, I can tell you my reasons . The pro gamer scene back then was nothing like the current. I just had fun with friends and even won the national tournaments hosted on my country for UT99, I was one of the best player back then. Prices were not even money, I didn't care for that. Event... |
Please, ELI5: Why do grape-flavored things (soda, gum, etc.) NOT taste like grapes? | Most grape-flavored things are not designed to taste like the average red or white grapes that you get in most supermarkets in America. They're designed to taste like concord grapes, a type of grape that mostly only grow in New England. |
when the moon comes up, it's gravity is strong enough to rise the tide. How come small particles don't go flying as well? | The tide isn't enough to pull the water off the planet. It only pulls it enough that the differential pressure between where tidal forces push and pull is enough to cause sea level to rise. Gravity is lower during high tide, but it's nowhere near being negative. The size is irrelevant. Just as a feather and a bowling b... |
What happens if someone needs an ambulance during a snow storm and the roads aren't plowed? | Depends on the amount of snow. If you are someplace that gets tons of snow you are used to going places where the roads haven't been cleared yet. If it's really an impossible trip there is always a helicopter ambulance.There are actually [emergency plows] . those people working give every effort to help. They will be t... |
What prevents some one from changing monetary numbers in a banks computers to get rich. | Internally, it requires two employees to access the system. If they take out too much money, they get caught. So they use salami-slicing, adding the rounded off parts of money to their account, amounts smaller than a penny, which won't be noticed. |
Why can't we clone endangered species to rejuvenate their population? | * cloning isn't that perfected yet* bad for genetic diversity* most of those animals are endangered because of us. If we don't solve the problem , cloning endangered animals is like cloning your dead kids so you can send them back into the burning house. |
What's SRS and why does everyone hate them? | A bunch of carebears with no sense of humor, who get offended by racial/sexual jokes. They are truly mentally defective, with a victim-complex unlike anything I've ever seen. |
Why is the VA (Veteran's Administration) so dysfunctional and inefficient? What are the reasons for the current scandals over patient care? | This seems so crazy. The one demographic you'd think politicians wouldn't fuck with are well trained, heavily armed military. Politician: Hey guys I have a great idea. Let's under pay our military then we can poorly prepare them for civilian careers then after that it gets even better We can make them just wait for med... |
Why isn't Edward Snowden protected under the Whistleblower Protection Programs? | Many answers try to give an explanation in terms of the law, and that's a mistake. The answer is that the only law that applies to institutions like the NSA is pure power. The law doesn't frame explanations here. It is beside the point. Snowden doesn't get whistleblower protection because with the NSA and like institut... |
why is genital skin always darker than normal skin? | Way back when human's didn't wear clothes, our skin was protected by melanin. Some areas are more vital than others, and evolution saw to it that these areas were darker and thus more protected. |
Why are colossal (eg. Godzilla) things depicted as moving so slowly? | Short answer is because strength doesn't scale linearly with size. As things get larger, using the same material, more of it's mass has to be used to hold itself up than is available for external loads. Since mass increases faster than size, thrust-to-weight ratio decreases if you just scale things up. Increasing thrus... |
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