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How can US Government blame particular country for a hack when it is easy to spoof your originating IP address, or even route traffic through various countries? | So many people in this thread asserting it's simply impossible. It would be impossible for your "regular expert" network technician having access to regular tools. But you're talking about the NSA. This is an organization who hacked and listened into the phone calls of numerous world leaders. If you think the NSA aren'... |
In execution by firing squad, why shoot for the heart and not the brain? | I imagine there's a little more dignity for the shooters if they shoot your chest rather than blow your face off. |
What's the US 40 year old ban on oil exports? | Short version: massive oil shortages in 1975 caused the US to want to keep all of its limited production of oil in the country . That changes, but the ban stayed in place until 2015. [Here] is an article about it. |
How has language evolved and why has it evolved in the way that it has? | This video will explain it as best as anyone can. [here's a briefe history of english] |
If you eat a perfectly balanced nutritional diet, why do you still poop? Is it possible to eat JUST enough to fuel your body, but not produce waste? | Not everything we eat turns into fuel. Some things that we eat, like fiber, are doing their job by becoming waste. No problem, you say; the question was to eat just enough to fuel your body, and fiber doesn't fuel your body, so no fiber! Well, a significant percentage of your waste is dead cells from the inside of your... |
Why did the blue/black domimate in writing? | Pigments from those colors were easy to make, didn't fade much & provided enough contrast against light colored papers that they were easy to read. If you think about making a black pigment, really all you need to do is burn some shit & collect the soot that results. Once you mix that with a bit of water & binder, you'... |
How is it possible for lakes to have tides? | My first guess would be the other side of the lake but I've never heard of lakes having a high and low tide. |
The difference between a corporation, business and a company. | In common usage, the terms are almost interchangeable, with the implication that a business is smaller than a company which is smaller than a corporation. If you want to look at definitions: "Company" is any group of like-minded individuals or entities united for a common goal, whether that's profit or otherwise. Corpo... |
why some foods like Chilli Con Carne taste better reheated the next day | Some foods get better as the ingredients have more time for the flavors to meld the meat absorbs more of the spices and other flavors instead of just being coated in them and same for other ingredientsMostly has to do with flavors melding, which is why things like stew, which has a lot of ingredients, taste better afte... |
How large would an asteroid need to be in order to destroy the Earth? | You have to define what you mean by destroy. I am really more concerned about ELE, extinction level events, which require much smaller asteroids. The Earth has a fairly large mass now and is in a stable orbit. Matter generally does not get destroyed. Think of billiard balls. You need something of some size to move one.... |
How do I get dogecoins? | Like this: +/u/dogetipbot all doge You'll get a PM from dogetipbot in a few hours. Reply to it with +accept to claim your dogecoins. To learn more, visit _URL_0_, /r/dogeducation, and check out the sidebar in /r/dogecoin. Edit: There are other ways to get doge as well, such as mining, begging, trading, buying, and fauc... |
How do the perfect shot pourers on liquor bottles work? | A shots worth fills a cavity and then once it is full it seals one end and opens the other. The end stays sealed until you flip it back over. |
Why do we always expect the economy to grow? Isn't unlimited growth impossible? Is there a theoretical "economic roof?" | Economics is based on the premise that humans have unlimited wants but scarce resources. We desire to maximize what we can get out of our scarce resources. Resources are limited but through ingenuity we can derive more goods and services per unit of raw material and labor. For example, technological advancements would ... |
If we can get ear damage from a shooting a handgun in enclosed space, how can soldiers in WWII could protect their ears from firing huge coastal/naval guns in bunker? | They didn't. and they were all deaf. They did cover their ears with their hands, but that doesn't do much. Preventing hearing loss wasn't much of a concern until the 80s.Modern audiology actually got its start from soldiers returning from WWII with hearing loss. |
Why does my back itch if I'm not wearing a shirt, but nothing else on my bare body does? | > Looked it up and didn't really find anything Obviously you didn't try WebMD it's cancer, definitely cancer. |
Do all animals understand the connection between sex and pregnancy? Or is it just humans? | Technically, most animals don't understand anything. They are a bundle of instincts, some more complex than others. |
Why do airlines run "through" other airlines? | It's called code-sharing. Basically, they are agreements between airlines to use that airlines "codes" on other airlines. This allows the airline to book travel as themselves to destination that they don't actually operate planes to. It also helps on frequent flyer miles, since you'll get miles when you fly with that a... |
When do we use -ite and when do we use -ate for a compound? Also, is there some easy way to remember this? | It has to do with the number of oxygens in the compound. -ate compounds have one more than the -ite compounds. Most -ate compounds you encounter have 3 oxygens. **Most**. There's no rule, you just need to memorize the unusual ones. |
what exactly happens in your body when you have a "stitch in your side"? | There is still debate on this topic, but the pain is likely due to the downward pulling of the internal organs on the diaphram--the muscle that contracts during respiration.For alternate theories, do a search for ETAP, or "exercise related transient abdominal pain". |
Why is the heart on the left side of the human body? | It isn't. The left ventricle is larger because it has to pump blood from the heart to the whole body. The right ventricle just has to pump blood from the right ventricle to the left ventricle, so it's smaller. Therefore the heart appears lopsided to the left, so we think of it as being on the left side of the chest. [P... |
Why does China not seem to care about things like the environment, worker safety, etc? | China's competing in the global economy, and their biggest strength is ridiculously low cost. Safety measures at workplaces and pollution regulations mean companies have to spend more time and money on overhead rather than producing goods. The people there haven't complained in the past because they were grateful for w... |
Why does cinnamon candy taste spicy while the spice itself does not? | Cinnamon candy is made is concentrated cinnamon oils. In regular cinnamon, it is a little tingly, but in the oil it has an intense burning sensation. |
How are upside down rainbows formed? | It's all a matter of where you are in relation to the sunlight and the precipitation. In order to see a rainbow the rain has to be between you and the sun. The sun is always behind you and the center of the arc of the rainbow is in the direction opposite of the sun. Rainbows are circular, but you don't usually see the ... |
Elon Musk's new batteries. How are they new/different? When and what will it mean for me? | They are more efficient and infinitely scalable, meaning they work better and you can have as many as you want. There are two models, a 7kWh model for use with solar panels for $3,000, and a 10kWh model also for solar panels, but also as a backup generator for $3,500. The 10kWh model can power an entire miderate sized ... |
How does the foreign exchange market work? | There are two scenarios: **Scenario one:** 1. You put up a sign, say "WANTED: 500 USD, will offer 450EURO, please call 23456789" 2. Someone look at your sign, and thought "that's a sweet deal!" and phone you. They then bring 500USD to your house and you give him 440EURO. 3. Digitize the above and bring it to a MASSIVE ... |
Jury nullification and what it is. | Jury Nullification is when a jury, instead of judging whether or not the person did the crime, declares them innocent because they think the law shouldn't exist. |
Mennonites, Hutterites, and the Amish: What are the differences, and why do they live the way they do? | They each hold slightly different religious beliefs. Mennonites are the older group, with Amish and Hutterites splitting from them. Because they have very strict rules about only marrying within the faith and sticking close to fellow believers, they tend to stay in one area and be of the same ethnic group. Different co... |
How does the weight of a city not throw off the earth's rotation? | It is insignificant in relation to the overall forces.Weight of the earth: 5.97x10^24 kg Weight of the Empire State building: [3.35x10^8 kg.] Weight of[ Hong Kong] made fully of Empire State Buildings in place of all high rise buildings: 7896 x 3.35x10^8 kg = 2.65x10^12 kg Ratio of Hypothetical massive city's mass to E... |
what exactly is a coalition government and how does it work? | It's not that hard to explain. In a parliamentary democracy the government is formed by a majority of the parliament. If one party has a clear majority in parliament it can form a government by itself. Appointing the Prime Minister and other ministers from its members. If no party has a clear majority two or more parti... |
Why can't people visualize four dimensional objects? | Because we're 3 dimensional beings, and not 4th dimensional beings so we can't see and picture the 4th dimension. Basically if a 4th dimensional cube appeared in front of you, all you will see is a 3 dimensional cube appear out of nowhere, and then disappear again. |
How can being dizzy lead to vomiting? | Alcohol. Many things, especially fruit, can eventually go bad and ferment as microbial beasties eat the fruit and poop out alcohol. However, to a hungry animal, they may decide to risk it and eat the bad fruit anyway. Alcohol poisoning can cause you to feel dizzy, and eating rotten fruit is bad for a LOT of reasons. So... |
Why is the media not covering any women from the Ashley Madison leak? | The vast majority of those signed up for Ashley Madison were men. There were accounts for 28 million men, compared to 5 million women. And almost all the credit card info was from menWhy is the media covering the Ashley Madison leak at all? |
When sleeping sometimes two minutes feels like three hours, and sometimes three hours feels like two minutes. | the temporal processing part of your brain quite regularly also goes to sleep, in a manner of speaking. that's why keeping proper track of time in dreams is impossible. meaning you literally lose track of the time, since that part of your brain isnt paying attention. |
Why does anywhere that serves breakfast stop serving breakfast after a certain time? | Take your pick, the answer is any combination of this. * kitchen space, need to keep prepped items for both breakfast and lunch/dinner at the same time.* swap out equipment for breakfast and lunch/dinner* kitchen staff levels* customer demand For example McDonalds uses a grill for their breakfast, when switching to lun... |
Why is it generally socially acceptable to make fun of men with gynecomastia? | > If a female is obese, or even a man, it's not ok to make fun of them for being fat I'm not sure about that. It really depends who you ask.Frankly, people are assholes. People make fun of people who are fat, people who have funny hair, people who walk funny, people who have unusual sexual preferences. And all of these... |
why is it sometimes hard to get drunk guys hard? (NSFW) | One of the primary effects of alcohol is to [depress the central nervous system]. The central nervous system allows a man to get hard. Inhibit it, and he can't perform. |
Why do web pages viewed on mobile devices keep changing layout as they load, and then change again just as you try to tap a link after it seems like they were finished loading? | Main reason is asymetric loading of elements and bad programming. In detail: The main goal of a mobile page is to load as fast as possible. There are certain methods to achieve this. The two most important are: 1) Load visible stuff first: The first things that will be loaded are things you see when you open the web pa... |
Why do we feel itchy sometimes in our hands and feet when they go from cold to warm? | I think what you could be feeling is the circulation coming back into your limbs. I know frost bite occurs when the blood circulation is adequate, from being in the cold and when they heat back up to fast you would feel something similar to the pins and needles you would feel in say your foot when it goes asleep. *caus... |
Why windows 10 is being released for free? | Microsoft wants it's users to all be using Windows 10 because W10 will also run on their phone and tablet platforms, and they want to be able to offer a smooth experience to be more appealing as competition from Android. They also want as many active users as possible in W10 from the beginning in order to offer a much ... |
If humans developed the ability to taste sour things in order to avoid bad/poisonous foods, why do people still enjoy certain sour foods? | Sour doesn't detect poison, it detects acids, and in particular vitamins. Vitamin C, ascorbic acid, for example, is a classic sour-tasting vitamin that our bodies need to prevent the disease scurvy. Bitter is typically the flavor profile associated with poisons, but the thing to remember about poisons is that it's alwa... |
Explain proxies and VPN's | Very simply, both proxies and VPNs are used to route your computer's data traffic through a remote server before reaching it's destination. In other words, you go from `COMPUTER < - > DESTINATION` to `COMPUTER < - > VPN/PROXY SERVER < - > DESTINATION` where the proxy/VPN server acts a middle-man to facilitate communica... |
The Mongol Invasions of Japan, what was the purpose? | The same reason the Mongols invaded everything, Pinky: TO TRY AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD!Asking the purpose of empire building is silly. Empires exist to fulfill the ego of the Emperor. "Hey, there's land over there. Is it mine?" "No, your eminence, it is not." "Let's fix that and see if they have any cool stuff while we'... |
What effect does Apple buying $14 billion of its own stock have? | Punch this over to investing In short, supply and demand. They're taking that stock out of the market, which raises their stock price a little, since the supply is less. And everyone who owns the stock prior to the buy back owns a slightly larger percent of the company, now It also says that management believes they ca... |
How do Space Telescopes like New Horizons Capture images of Pluto's Surface, Being Travelling Too fast in space? | Travelling at 13 km/s looking at an object is 12 500 km away is the similar to sitting in a car driving 50 km/h looking at an object 12.5 km away. It's not as hard as it seems. |
How can the weather be, for example 33 but "feel like" 44.? | How hot or cold you feel depends on a couple of key factors besides the air temperature. Humidity and air speed change how fast heat moves away from your body, too. For example, windy weather is much more efficient at removing heat from your body than no wind. When the air around your body is very humid, you don't read... |
Why are we able to control almost all of our muscles at will but have a lot of difficulty suppressing laughter or a smile? | From an evolutionary perspective, it's useful to me as an individual if I can prove certain emotions with hard to fake signals. Tears, for example, are a hard to fake signal that I'm in pain and need help, as opposed to simply faking injury to be exploitive. Also, from Steven Pinker's *How the Mind Works*: “Facial expr... |
What is an IP address? What do they do? | An IP address is like a phone number. Picture you're at your old school house phone, and you want to get some information from another caller . You can either dial the persons number directly, if you memorized it, but you probably don't. phone numbers can change, so can IP addresses. Most likely you'll look up the 'pho... |
Why do months have different numbers of days? | The number 365 isn't easily divisible. Its only two factors are 5 and 73. Unless you want five 73-day months or 73 five-day months, you're going to end up with some months having different numbers of days. |
why flat maps of the Earth are so hard to do? | Because the earth isn't flat. Take an orange, and peel it so that you have one big flat piece. That's the exact same problem.The problem is that the earth is a sphere, while a rectangular map can make a cylinder, not a sphere. The double curvature of the sphere is the problem for a 2D rendition. If you want to make a m... |
Why do we tend to get restless when we're nervous? | Adrenaline kicking in for flight or fight response.Yes. Historically, when we are introduced to a stressor, it'll either be something we can fight or run from. Evolution selected for the ones who fought best or ran fastest.So nowadays when we get stressed, hormones such as noradrenaline and adrenaline are primed to kic... |
How is "casual" the root word of "casualty"? Aren't they inherently pretty opposite? | So, casual meaning "laid back" is a newer sense of the word. Originally, the root "casual" meant something like "produced by chance." A casualty was an amount you had to pay for some incidental expense or accidental loss . So "casualty" insurance was insurance against a random loss. Ultimately, this came to be used in ... |
What causes the bubbles to form on the interior of a newly setup aquarium? | The bubbles were in the water the whole time, just dissolved into it. Once you give everything a chance to settle, warm up, circulate, and interact, the air reconstitutes as a gas on any nucleation sites it can find Basically it's the same reason your beer/soda fizzes. Just with atmospheric air instead of CO2 |
how and why diarrhoea is formed. | The large intestine is where indigestible food/waste goes to be processed before being eliminated . The large intestine takes up water out of the waste, helping it solidify into stool. Diarrhea is when poop travels through the large intestine too quickly and comes out with more water content than normal. It's the oppos... |
Why can humans handle cold better than hot? | Most of the ways we lose heat from our body rely on the temperature of the air surrounding us to be considerably lower than our body and for the air to not be too humid. In a hot shower the air temperature is very high, much higher than room temperature, and the air is incredibly saturated with water, more than 100% hu... |
How/why do boogers form and why can't I feel them forming? | Mucus is excreted into the nose by a few types of cells on the inner surface of it. It's purpose is to trap pathogens, dust, or other particles in order to prevent them from entering your respiratory system. You can't feel it form because it happens so slowly and gradually that it never causes any nerve cells to fire, ... |
Will computer processors continue decreasing in size forever? | There is a limit. They cant be smaller than the size of an electron now and some quantum particle in the future. So while it is still forever away, there is a limit.Yes, things can only be made of atoms and atoms are a fixed size. It's actually quite near, modern dense gates are only 50 atoms wide. |
Location of transformer on laptop cords. | All of the above. Wall warts take up lots of space, and by putting the expensive components together in a line lump design, only the wall socket to line lump cable is country specific. These power supplies will handle any wall voltage in common use and output the voltage and current required by the laptop, making this ... |
Why is it autocorrect struggles with simple mistakes like 'convienent' but always finds a way to make inconvenient changes like 'one sec' into 'one sex'? | Could this be due to confirmation/selection bias? The number of times that it worked correctly was not noticed, but when it works wrong, you notice and remember it. Over time, it makes you believe that autocorrect doesn't work as it should. |
Why do bubbles burst? | The act of creating the bubble results in a slightly higher pressure inside the bubble than outside. This introduces a tensile stress in the bubble wall, which the wall must contain. Assuming they don't hit anything to disturb the integrity of the bubble wall, the fluid in bubbles actually flows down the walls, resulti... |
Why American companies are involved in their employees' healthcare | Basically it's making life a little easier for us. Instead of an individual paying a massive amount of health care the companies we work for offer to pay a percentage. Without these companies helping us out, we would not be able to afford health insurance.Because unlike most if europe, they dont have universal healthca... |
Why is a bottom lip bite considered a sexual sign but upper lip bite not? | Bottom lip bite signifies anticipation, to lip bite signifies apprehension. Same way an arched eyebrow signifies incredulity, these expressions are almost universal across western civilization.Most people's teeth overlap, the top set over the bottom. Try it yourself. Much more difficult to do it the other way.Because b... |
Why are the vaccinations I had when I was a child still protecting me but I have to take my cat back to the vet every year for a booster? | Cats have a number of different patterns in their biology, most of which are completely foreign to anything we've typically seen in other mammals up until now. A study done in Southern California concluded that cats are assholes. |
I read on the cancer research UK website that cancer of the heart is very rare. Does anyone know why this is? | Cancer at its base is a disease where a cell divides and forgets to stop. Every time an individual cell divides there is a chance it becomes cancerous. The cells in the heart divide significantly less often then other areas of the body. So there are fewer opportunities for a cancer cell to start. |
How do Carats for diamonds work? | It's just a specialized unit of mass Each carat is .2g. So a 5 carat diamond would be 1 gram. There's also a subunit called a point which is 1/100th of a carat or 2mg.Carats are a unit of mass equal to 200mg. Carat comes from carob, a seed used to determine diamond mass. |
If you get a piece of pencil graphite stuck in your body (i.e. a hand), why doesn't it go away? | This is called a Traumatic Tattoo. They also happen when people who work in coal mines have a cut and coal dust gets into the wound, or when dirt, asphalt dust, etc. get embedded into "road rash" from an abrasion. Basically, the particles act as pigment, and are held in the skin without being expelled 17 years ago,in 4... |
How do pharmacies "run out" of medicine? | Pharmacies do not make anything on site. That's done in huge Big Pharma labs and even factories much like any other product. They'll ship the pharmacies what they need based on orders and inventory. So basically just like how any store runs out of a product, demand is greater than the supply. |
Why did fever used to be such a dread and often lead to death? I just rest and drink lots of water, no antibiotics or anything. | Two reasons. 1 - The illnesses we fight today are relatively weak compared to what your grandparents, or even parents might have faced. You are going into with knowledge of what you are fighting and vaccines to stop you from getting infected by multiple strong infections at once. 2 - We are a lot healthier. It's much m... |
Why time seems to "slow down" when in a fast paced/high intensity situation. | Its a trick played on you by your memory. _URL_0_My friend is a tactical cop. He goes through this all the time because of his job. The body experiences "hyper awareness" that heightens all of your senses. This increased intake of information makes you appear to feel that time is slowing down. |
What were deserts before they were deserts? | Deserts tend to lie close to the equator because that area of earth receives the most sunlight. The shifting of tectonic plates moves lands closer or farther from the equator and the climate changes accordingly. 100 million years ago, a land mass that was once a dense forest drifted closer to the equator. The plant lif... |
why does spicy food burn coming out too? | Human bodies are not 100%/efficient. There is a good amount of food value in solid human waste. When you eat something spicy its spiciness usually comes from a chemical called capsaicin which irritates all tissue it contacts . This why you can irritate your eyes if you rub them after handling jalapeños, for example. Wh... |
Why do major corporations insist their employees book travel through overpriced sites? | They are probably getting a volume discount or the upper management is getting some sort of perk that you aren't privy to. Free/upgraded flights if you spend above X dollars discounted/free suites that sort of stuff. Either that or someone in management is buddies with someone at the travel company and is doing them a ... |
The suffixes after names in Japanese (e.g. -chan, -kun, -san) | -chan is for when you call someone cute, or younger people. -kun is for friends, your buddies. -san is for adults and general people you want to adress politely It's only used when addressing someone directly, not for yourself. It's basically just a way of indicating your relation to the person._URL_0_ ***Tried to put ... |
How are allergies tested for? | When I was younger they had a big pad with spikes on it, each spike contained a different thing that people were allergic to on the end of it, and they pricked my back. Wherever I had a hive they need I was allergic to that thing', "Babies are not routinely screened for allergies, at least not in my country. Generally,... |
in the way that people are able to build their own PCs, how far away are we from being able to build our own cellphones? | The major issue there is that most cellphone technology is extremely compact and build to fit around preselected parts where computers have components that can come in diffrent shapes and sizes, the designs are also far less modular. When I replied my iPhones charging port I had to use tweasers to re attach some compon... |
If the moon has no atmosphere, why couldn't you make a satellite that orbits one inch off the ground? | Theoretically you could but "one inch from the highest point" is a very very small error margin. Small differences in the strength of the moon's gravity would be more than enough to deviate the trajectory enough to cause a crashAs /u/SuperMo83 wrote, it has nothing to do with the atmosphere. The closer a satellite orbi... |
Why are most people biologically wired to wake up several hours after sunrise and go to bed several hours after sunset, rather than waking up and going to bed at sunrise and sunset? | > biologically wired to wake up several hours after sunrise and go to bed several hours after sunset It's not quite that simple. Exposure to sunlight, or artificial lighting that's close enough to sunlight, inhibits the production of hormones that make you feel tired. This is why we generally feel more tired when it's ... |
What happens if someone is addicted to a substance and then loses their memory? | There are two types of addiction, mental and physical. Since you're specifically calling out substance, it sounds like what you're describing is a physical addiction. For physical addictions, your body itself adjusts to the drug, so when you no longer have the drug, you actually get a physiological reaction from within... |
How do boats, submarines, and planes end up colliding in such open space? | The few midair collisions that has happened, has happened close to airports. Even if there is a lot of space "up there", they eventually have to land, and there's only so many runways. Apart from that, they just don't fly around everywhere in the sky, they often use air corridors. It's mainly the same thing with ships,... |
How do vending machines tell the difference between $1 and $5 bills? | The Treasury uses a special magnetic ink. There's a head in the bill reader that scans for a specific pattern of magnetic ink, and usually some other optical sensors to determine how much the bill is worth. Coins, on the other hand, are distinguished by using surprisingly accurate measurements of its width, thickness, ... |
The concept of "Visible Universe". | Because light travels at a finite speed, the further things are away from us, the longer it takes for the light from them to reach us. At a certain distance, that 'longer time' becomes the 13.7 billion years that the universe has existed. That is the 'visible universe' - all the things that are close enough to us for t... |
I gave two pints of blood and saline was pumped back into me. How does my body know to make extra RBCs to replace them? | When your kidneys notice that they aren't getting enough oxygen, as is the case when there aren't enough red blood cells, they produce a hormone called [erythropoetin], or EPO. EPO tells your bone marrow to generate new red blood cells. When the kidneys start getting enough oxygen, they stop producing the EPO and the b... |
Why is it common to go to sleep and wake up later and later without an enforced sleep schedule? | Electric lighting messes with your body's sense of time. You have no idea how late it is because as far as your brain is concerned, the sun is still up. If you turn off the computer and turn down all the lights when the sun goes down, you'll find the reverse trend of sleeping and waking earlier and earlier. |
How was Vladimir Putin able to gain such control over Russia and its oligarchs to the extent he has today? | > In other words, the most important story of the past twenty years might not, in fact, have been the failure of democracy, but the rise of a new form of Russian authoritarianism. Instead of attempting to explain the failures of the reformers and intellectuals who tried to carry out radical change, we ought instead to ... |
What do TV/Movie actors do when they don't work for months even years? | The same thing you do. They look for work. Or usually, if they are lucky, their agent looks for work. Like anyone else, they live off their savings or other assets. There are plenty of former stars out there that are barely getting by. Sometimes, a director or producer that has a personal connection with an out-of-work... |
Why is the break pedal in most cars wider than the gas pedal? | It's wider so it presents a larger target, and is easier for you to find in a situation where you are reacting quickly, and not necessarily thinking. Something happens and your reaction is to naturally stab your brake foot down in the general area, and a larger pedal means you're more likely to hit the brakes, which is... |
Why is "Size 12 Times New Roman Double Spaced" the standard for essays? What makes it so special? | Size 12 just happens to be a good compromise between fitting lots of information in per page, and being easily readable. Double spaced allows people to follow easily and mark in corrections. Times new roman was created as the standard font for the major British newspaper, the Times, and it's inclusion in Microsoft Wind... |
How does Google Earth 3D view work? | Google maps is now done by airplanes flying a grid pattern over the area. They have 6 camara pointing at different angles to capture sides of buildings. Source: I've done work on a contracted Cessna 182 doing aerial photography for Google Edit: this is only done in urban areas like in the photo you linked. |
How do figure skaters jump a foot and a half and do up to four revolutions while halfpipe skiers and boarders jump like 30 feet and only do like three revolutions max? | Angular momentum. [This article does a really good job explaining it. It’s got a nice GIF and really breaks it down, ELI5 style] |
E = mc² How do you multiply mass by speed? Can you multiply the mass of an apple by the speed of a car? | You can multiple any two numbers you want. The results just might or might not be useful. If you multiply the mass of an apple by the speed of a car, you're probably not getting any useful information out of that, unless you wanted the momentum of an apple going at the same speed the car was. E=mc^2 says the mass of an... |
How come I eat a 1lb. taco and weigh 99 lb. how come I am not 1% taco? | It's all about attitude and confidence. If you believe you are 1% taco and act like you are 1% taco, then you ARE 1% taco. |
Why do people find piercings attractive? | I wish I could explain it. To me, piercings and tattoos are incredibly attractive. But I don't know why. If I had to guess, I would think it's because piercings and tattoos are most often affiliated with the alternative scene and that's the kind of music and fashion I like. So it's an indicator of common interest? I do... |
How to exit a broken elevator through the roof | An elevator shaft is a super dangerous place. It's full of greased sharp edges, pointy things, electric cables, moving wheels and gears, and of course there's the risk of free-falling to the bottom of the shaft. Fortunately, roof hatches aren't easy to open. They're usually latched from the outside, so that rescuers ca... |
why do we automatically raise our eyebrows and eyelids when we look straight up? | Gives you a slightly better view. Open your eyes as wide as you can without raising your eyebrows, then raise your eyebrows and see the slight different it makes. |
why is the Baphomet considered evil? Also, why does it associate with the Illuminati? | Baphomet never existed. It was a wholesale construct of King Philip IV of France, a man who in the 1300s, owed a lot of money to the Knights Templar. Rather than pay them, or let them hold influence over him, he concocted false charges that they worshipped some demonic entity called Baphomet, invented a load of Satanic... |
Bug bites, why do they itch so damn bad? | Vet student here, Bug bites itch because bugs "leave a little bit of themselves behind" after they bite you. Be it saliva or some other substance. In any case, they have deposited something in your body that is foreign to your body. Your immune system actually has cells waiting in areas like the skin, and these cells a... |
Why is there sometimes a random clicking/snapping sound when I'm underwater? | It's bubbles popping or the water slapping the side of the pool. It can be caused by water on water contact or water on foreign object. Source: We talked about it in swim teacher training because it's a thing that often upsets the little ones. |
how do animals become domesticated? | It's a long process, and our ancestors used to do it purely for practical reasons with animals it also benefited. Canines would hunt with early man, forming makeshift "packs" to catch food after which the humans would provide a home to the hound, until over the generations the dogs came to accept men as readily as they... |
Considering how similar the joints are, why do we need knee caps but not elbow caps? | _URL_1_ This is answered really well in the first comment on this page. To summarise the key points The knee cap bone is a 'sessamoid\' bone, these develop under ligaments that are subject to repeated stress over time. Babies do have knee caps but they are made from cartilage and become bony during [early childhood] Th... |
why do some people have more trouble getting fat than others? | Yeah. I was skeletally thin as a child, a slim teenager who ate like a pig. Started to have to watch what I ate in my 20's, had children, and now I'm firmly middle aged I seem to absorb calories via osmosis, and it's a constant battle to not become wider than I'm taller. |
Why does the world use Metric sizes for sockets but Imperial size for ratchets? IE quarter, 3/8 and half inch drive? | The simple explanation is likely that the ratcheting socket wrench, with interchangeable socket was invented and patented in the US in 1864 and then spread around the world. They the size they used spread around the world. The size of them is not that important as they are seldom used. I mean that only manufacturer of ... |
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