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In execution by firing squad, why shoot for the heart and not the brain? | Firing rifle rounds into the head would demolish the head AMD make for a very gruesome result. There is a reason the US does not use the firing squad for capital punishment anymore and that is because shooters kept missing and sometimes the person being executed wouldn't die right on the spot. Although I don't think th... |
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? | A large percentage of feces is actually dead bacteria. We have helpful bacteria that live in our intestines and help us digest food. Those bacteria live, reproduce, and die just like normal bacteria, and we poop out the dead bacteria. Eating only what you can metabolize won't stop the bacterial from needing to be poope... |
Why does sleeping to much make me feel even more tired? | Maybe you should get your thyroid checked. I have hypothyroidism and it causes me constant fatigue and exhaustion. I'm exhausted if I sleep for 2 hours or 2 days. |
Why does anywhere that serves breakfast stop serving breakfast after a certain time? | A restaurant has limited space and ability to make foods. If a place wants to serve breakfast all day, it has to be able to accommodate both the food for the rest of the day and the breakfast stuff. They'd also have to keep a larger supply of those foods, incase someone wanted. But people don't buy breakfast stuff near... |
Why windows 10 is being released for free? | They're trying to move from software as a product, to software as a service. In the former case, a customer would purchase an OS only when necessary, and only if it provided increased utility, and in doing so, would actually own something. In the latter case, the subscription can be sold to every customer with the OS i... |
What effect does Apple buying $14 billion of its own stock have? | In the long run it saves money when paying dividends. For a corporation paying $5 per share, having fewer shares will reduce how much it pays out . Also, the same amount of profit will be divided into a smaller number of shares in a way. That makes your share, or shares, a larger percentage of the corporation, and when... |
How do pharmacies "run out" of medicine? | They get shipments of medicine. Sometimes they don't get a large enough shipment to meet demand.Pharmacies do not make medicine. They are essentially just a store. They produce nothing.I work for a large pharmacy chain and they most definitely receive shipments of drugs. Now, they do also compound some medications to m... |
Why do major corporations insist their employees book travel through overpriced sites? | Most are not as willing as your employer seems to be. In some cases, they may be getting a volume discount you don't see, better refundable terms, or something else of value that doesn't show up to you. |
If the moon has no atmosphere, why couldn't you make a satellite that orbits one inch off the ground? | Very low lunar orbit it possible, though there are some issues that affect the orbits stability. One if these is the gravitational pull of the earth and the sun. Their effects would be tiny, but it doesn't take much to disrupt a VLL orbit.The satellite has to be essentially falling perpendicular to the surface of the m... |
If my internet speed is 5 Mbps, then why is it that I cant download a 5 mb file in 1 second? | The 5 Mb in your speed is not 5 megabytes, it's 5 megabits which is 640 kilobytes. So theoretically you can download a 640 kb file in 1 second.Because one **byte** is 8 **bits**. Always remember that MB and Mb are two very different things.5 Mbps means 5 megaBITS per second, while 5 MB means 5 megaBYTES. A bit is what ... |
How does Google Earth 3D view work? | You didn't hear it from me but they actually have a team that goes in after the extrapolated data to clean up the extrusion or build basic 3D models of buildings and trees and such. Usually don't hear about it because it's subcontracted to tech staffing firms and usually done by recent art school graduates. |
How come I eat a 1lb. taco and weigh 99 lb. how come I am not 1% taco? | As soon as you put a taco in your mouth, it starts to break down. Saliva begins the digestion process and your teeth grind it up so the saliva can get around more of it. When you swallow it, it goes into your stomach where acids break up the taco more. Nutrients are pulled away, and sent around in your bloodstream. It'... |
Why do humans have to sleep? | This is actually a fairly complicated matter, its clear that our brains think its important, there are number of neurotransmitters, agonists, and agitators that that compel the brain to sleep and cause serious difficulties when you ignore them. It is unclear if these mechanisms serve any other purpose than to make us t... |
Why was there no big Nazi insurgency/partisan activity after Geramy was occupied? | The sheer number of troops in the country, combined with the utter devastation from the bombings and fighting. If the Germans wanted to live, they needed supplies from the Allies. That, combined with disillusionment with the propaganda of the nazis. All their stories didn't work out. |
Why would local businesses want to accept college meal plans? | The same reason they take credit cards, so you have a way to pay. With meal plans it's even better for them, you have less choice in where to eat, they want to be one of those choices. |
How come the pain in my dream feels real? | I often get nightmares about being injured, but I never wake up with the pain. I've been shot, stabbed, bashed in the head, raped, nail-gunned, and more. Each time was brutally realistic. I'd rate being stabbed as the worst since it's so close quarters, and they can get you multiple times. The worst feeling I had was b... |
Why do employers (usually) not explicitly state what the hourly wage of a position will be preceding the interview process? | Salary negotiation plays a big part, you're more in the dark about what everyone else is making, the best you can get is market estimates or similar. That was one part I liked about working for a public-funded institution, I could look up all of my coworker's salaries on the internet for comparison. And all of us under... |
why do some people exist on one meal a day while others feel the need to eat 3 and graze constantly? | I accidentally deleted my answer in short our guts have different efficiencies at converting food to useable nutrients. Some have smooth digestive tracts that have less surface area than a person that has a lot of folds. Also microorganisms preform a critical function in breaking down nutrients.This is well documented ... |
Why can you feel eye contact? | Your brain is set up to notice someone's eyes looking at you. Humans in particular have evolved to communicate with eyes. It goes beyond that, even someone's eyes looking away from you and at something else tells you something. Think about how you it's hard to tell what direction a horse's eyes are looking in. |
Why do high schools and colleges press so hard on learning a second language? | bc it's useful for the students, in today's world you have to know others languages, especially if you aren't from an english speaking country |
Why are all of the bodies on Mt. Everest left there? | The why has been answered so here is some bonus info. The Indian army was supposed to be doing training this year on Everest. Looks like they brought down a ton of garbage but I don't see anything about the climbers bodies. They were there during the earthquake and it appears they recovered 19 bodies, but I think those... |
The ending of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey | Wow, people really can't use the search feature. The last thread about this was posted just [14 days ago]. Then again before [1 month ago]. A total of ten threads going back 6 months starting with [this one]. It's good to ask questions but please use the search feature as noted by the side bar. If the last thread had b... |
Why are black americans called African-American. | The black people I know have changed their opinion when asked a few simple questions. What do you call black people in Europe? African-European? No, they do not designate a county of origin because it is silly and as such neither do I. Black Americans are just Americans. I have yet to meet a black person that's ever be... |
How does Santa Claus deliver all the presents in one night? | Santa exists outside of time which is why he never ages and is how he is able to watch anyone at any given time. Delivering presents to every house in one night is child's play to him. He could do it every night if he wanted to, but he has his reasons. |
Why do people bid on eBay auction days before it's over? | Different reasons. In case I forget coming back later, or I can't bid when the auction ends: A: there's a little chance that nobody else after me placed a bid, and I get the item. Happened. B: The higher the price, the lesser the competition. If it's something that most likely will be sold for quite a high price anyway... |
How my directional hearing can tell when something is either in front or behind me? | It's because of echo. In an experiment in a open field a person couldnt tell if the sound was coming from directly front or back with blind folds on", '_URL_0_ This may not be the most scientific answer, but it is my favorite holophonic sound video with a short description answer to your question. Cheers |
why doesn't car companies build new cars out of steel? , like old cars | The crumble is intentional. It's called a crumple zone and it saves many lives, because the car gives way rather than transferring all the kinetic energy to your fleshy body. If you've driven a smartcar, it's too small for a crumple zone so they had to build it out of steel. My god is it uncomfortable to drive. Every b... |
If exercise is so good for us, why do we not feel motivated before we commit to doing it? | This isn't an absolute truth. Many look forward to exercise, and for me honestly it's the highlight of my day. The issue isn't exercise itself per se, but in your experience of it. As usually sane beings we are hard wired to dislike and want to avoid unpleasantness, and if exercise is an unpleasant experience for you t... |
Plasma Vs LED/LCD Widescreen TV's | You need to talk to someone that actually does this shit for a living/has for years anyways. Plasma is your best bet, gives you the best quality picture . You CAN burn it but honestly at this point, if you burn a plasma, its your own damn fault and you deserve it. The screen needs a static image for hours on end. IF yo... |
How are movies shot at 24 frames per second and have high visual quality? | A 24 FPS camera will capture all the light it sees in 1/24th of a frame and then move on to the next one. At 24 FPS computer will render what is happening at that exact instant and then display that image for 1/24th of a second. Imagine a pitcher throwing a baseball to a catcher over 4 frames. Here's a terrible picture... |
Why did democracy (the Weimar Republic) fail in Germany post-WW1? | Ultimately it failed because too few people actually supported it. The rightists hated the republic because they saw it as weak, or entirely illegitimate. They wanted to return to monarchy, or at least a *strong leader* who would, you know, *put things right*. The leftists hated it because it preserved capitalism and t... |
How do sex scenes in movies work? | It's important to remember that a good filmmaker can imply a lot without putting it on screen. we assume she is naked under the sheet, we assume they are penetrating and all such things, but that's the skill of the story teller. Think about how many sex scenes you've seen where they were under a sheet. it's unlikely th... |
- Why does a community need to secure the RIGHT to create its own broadband? Why can't they just do it? | Because corporations like Comcast or Time Warner don't want you to do that. They prefer unchallengable monopolies over free market capitalism. And your government is owned by those corporations, so they won't do anything about it. |
How is our posture not damaged when we sleep in weird shapes everyday? | The back can take a variety of weird shapes. When laying down, the support is being done by the ground, not your spine. So you're not pushing down on your bone or cartilage with the weight of your body like if you were standing. In fact: [You're taller in the morning] But when you're standing or sitting with poor postu... |
Why do people like alcohol? | As a former substance abuse counselor I will say most of these answers are spot on and don't need to be said again However, I wonder if your question isn't really 'why do people like the taste of alcohol?' If that's the case, then the answer is simple enough. Alcohol is an acquired taste . We have to force ourselves to... |
Why dogs do not get boogers in their noses like humans do despite the fact that they're closer to the ground and inhale more dust/dirt. | As an owner of a bulldog / share pei, I can assure you there's plenty of boogers to go around.On another note. Why does my dog have a pool of mucusy shit in the corner of his eyes that needs to be cleaned out every goddamn day. I tiny things that I can just pick off, but my dog gets elaborate concoctions of soupy mucus... |
why do companies continuously lose experienced employee for salary raises? | employees also do a bit of gambling by moving. they have to do probation period again, and also lose benefits that come with company loyalty . because of that, companies can afford to not give as much raise as how much the person can get in open market because they know that there's non-salary benefit for employees if ... |
If all cells are made of lipid walls, what stops two cells from blobing into one when they collide? | To add to lollersauce914's comment, there are also a number of other things going on besides phospholipids. The cell wall includes a lot of embedded proteins that control the attachment of the cell to its surroundings and the transport of materials across the membrane. Most organisms also generate an extracellular matr... |
why taxation is important in a government fiscal policy and how does it works. | Taxation is important because it is the governments main way to get revenue. I'm not sure what you want to know about how it works exactly? How do they chose the rates? How they collect? How they distribute? |
How did pre-clothing male humans thousands of years ago do anything remotely physical with their genitals hanging out?? | One thing to consider is that posture, movement, and the positions we get into during routine activity has probably changed a lot over time. If you are wearing clothes, you're probably willing to default to a posture that would otherwise seem vulnerable if sensitive body parts were exposed. Imagine how you would pour a... |
Why is tomato juice so popular on planes? | I drink tomato juice on planes because it's the only place it's readily available to me. I don't buy it at home, and don't go to bars. |
With all the wireless signals going around (mobile phone data, digital TV, text messages, phone calls, etc), how do they not interfere with each other? | So far a lot of the answers are glossing around the interference issue, or giving incorrect information. If you open your Wi-fi settings and see a dozen or more Wi-fi networks, those are all sharing the *same* frequencies. Even though there are multiple Wi-fi channels, there aren't enough to completely separate all of ... |
Why is a black background and white text still not a norm in websites, apps?! | Most people don't want a dark website. It's kind of like asking why doesn't everyone where black clothes. Edit: also it's harder to use some colors with a black background. Generally you can use most colors with white backgrounds and it's still readable. Put a black background on it and you start limiting what colors y... |
Why do we call them drones and not "fancy RC helicoptors"? | An RC helicopter is controlled entirely by the user, just like a regular helicopter. If you take your hands off the remote, it's going to go down in an uncontrolled crash. Quadrocopters however use a bunch of guidance systems that function independent of the user. They have a whole bunch of on board sensors which are c... |
How do babies breathe while in the womb? | They receive oxygen and food via the umbilical cord. Oxygen passes from the mother's lungs into her blood. This oxygen is then passed to the child through the umbilical cord. Any waste is passed back to the mother. |
How is Social Security not a Ponzi Scheme? | It looks like a ponzi scheme now because it has survived into an age where everyone is living ten or more years longer. When Social Security was instituted, the average age at death was something like 55, and the lack of modern medicine meant that old age didn't last very long, so most people going into the system woul... |
If net neutrality is dead and my ISP blocks off half of the internet, can I still get there using a proxy server? | Fortunately, your premise is faulty. ISPs aren't going to block you. That would be a nightmare for them, and they could probably still be stopped by another agency. Anyway, they have committed to still living by the net neutrality rules, so not much will change. |
If someone was born away from any human contact, how would they think being that they never learned a language? | You don't need a language to think. You need to think to have a language. Language is how we express thoughts.Here is a disturbing documentary on a feral child _URL_1_ |
Why did Sadam refuse UN weapons inspectors if he didn't have WMD's anyway? | What I learned in a college class, and I'm on my mobile but will pull sources later. What little wmds he had before the first gulf war he didn't have before the second gulf war. Then before the U.S. Invading under second bush there were inspectors. They were not finding anything so we assumed the inspectors where wrong... |
why aren't nightclubs / bars held responsible for the mess their patrons leave on the streets in front of the establishment. | A business isn't responsible for the actions of those who use it's goods and services. Just as sweet manufactures aren't responsible for wrappers dropped on the street, and car manufactures aren't responsible for speeding tickets.Why would bars be held responsible for mess other people make? If somebody walked out of y... |
Madea. How can they keep making these movies?? | Because they make money. They are cheap to make, and people watch them. In particular, people who belong to a particular culture often enjoy watching movies embedded in that culture, and having less to choose from, they will accept lower quality. That's true for Martin Lawrence, Christian programming, and a lot of Span... |
The relationship between UNIX, LINUX, and Ubuntu | Papa Unix has a son named Linux, They look a lot like eachother, speak mainly the same language. The son has a nice outfit - it is named ubuntu, and since it is his size, he can only wear it. He also has an outfit named Suse and RedHat and more outfits to be found [here!] All these outfits have buttons and zippers with... |
Why is Africa so underdeveloped compared to other continents? | You are talking about a place that did not see a wheel until European settlers arrived in the 1500's. Which puts them roughly 4000 years behind. I know the popular narrative is that the Europeans are to blame and they would be splitting the atom if not for colonialism. But they weren't exactly tearing up the turf befor... |
Why is there no records or mention in the public narrative in the United States of the descendents of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, etc.? | Sure, but that's many generations back, and at that point most people don't know or care. My mom, just for fun, managed to trace back our family heritage to Joseph Reed, a member of the Continental Congress, Signatory of the Articles of Confederation, the Governor of Pennsylvania for the second half of the Revolutionar... |
why the US supports Israel to its own detriment? | It's essentially a simple question of money. The Israelis have a lot of it, and that buys them influence in Washington. Second most important factor is the strategic position of the country in the Middle East. The US has very few allies in that region, and need all the help they can get. The neo-colonialist foreign pol... |
What are they trying to accomplish at the LHC? How will this help humankind? | Here's how /r/askscience would explain the LHC to a five-year old, from brilliant panelist [gaze]: > Imagine you were putting together a puzzle and you pretty much got it all together but there was one piece missing. Obviously since it was one single piece you could tell what the outline looked like, so you knew exactl... |
Why do all web addresses, in all countries, use the English alphabet? | They don't. You can visit The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology at _URL_2_ for example. . |
Why is the service at the US post office so ridiculously slow? | The USPS is not a business, it's a government service. A service which is not allowed to set its prices and so have to find ways to operate at those revenues - lately by cutting employees and service. |
why do humans perceive time at the 'rate' that we do? Does time even have a natural 'rate', or is it just a property of consciousness and our perception? | I have a weird experience to add. Notable because it happens repeatably, on-demand. When I'm practising something fairly intricate/fast on guitar to a fixed metronome, it seems a 'reasonable rate', until I am no longer playing - the metronome then seems to instantly speed up. Almost like concentration gives me more tim... |
Why do both the federal government and state/local governments have laws governing marijuana use even though the tenth amendment prohibits it? | The tenth amendment doesn't say states and the Fed Gov can't have rules about the same thing. The tenth ammendment says If the government is not given a power by the Constitution AND it's not prohibited to the states, it defaults to the states. In the cases where the Constitution says both can govern a thing, both can ... |
How do services like Google and Facebook deal with the gigabytes of new data they receive everyday? Is there a guy just ramming hard drives in servers all day? | I work in this industry and it still baffles me how they are able to achieve their levels of scale, retention and performance. At a very high level, they're very good with software and distributing their data across a lot of server around the globe. The hardware to store the data, I don't think is too expensive. Howeve... |
Why is the drinking age in america higher than other country's? | Well the 18th Amendment, which was the one legalizing prohibition, was brought to life by years of work by [various anti-alcohol groups,] but we know how that turned out. After people saw that prohibition wasn't working, they Fed passed the 21st Amendment which got rid of the 18th , making liquor legal agin. Finally, i... |
How can the US owe money to China and China owe money to the US at the same time? | It doesn't quite work that way. The issuers of the debt would differ, as would the interest rates, repayment terms and so many other factors. If USBankX has lent $1Billion to China at Y% for 10 years, it makes no difference it ChinaBankT has lent $2Billion to the US at K% for 15 years. The creditor's relationship with ... |
If most Youtube Ads can be skipped after 5 seconds, why don't advertisers start making 5 second ads? | I work in online advertising and the answer is annoyingly simple: Creating ads costs money. Even changing a creative from a 160x600px size to a 120x600px size costs the advertising agency a comparably stupid amount of money. So in most cases, when an advertiser decides to book a preroll , they mostly just use the 25, 3... |
Why haven't prions infected every living system/organism, around 1 billion / 500 million years ago? | Prions are just misfolded proteins, they happen constantly. A protein folds to reach the wrong local minimum, and it's just a misfolded protein. Maybe the beta sheets don't interlink as they're supposed to. It's recycled or excreted. To make it a prion, it has to first it has to evade all the processes which deal with ... |
Is the sales tax designed to target the poor? | No sales tax is designed to target consumption. The more you consume the more you pay. It wasn't meant to target the poor as they have less money and therefore will always spend less than the rich. Sales tax is meant to target those who spend money on good and in some areas specifically on luxury or non essential goods... |
How do magicians keep their big magic tricks secret? | Former semi-pro closeup magician here. There are big illusion designers, like Jim Steinmeyer, who do this for a living. All the work is done by a small group of people who are under strict NDA contracts . Stagehands are also under NDAs, but they might not actually be savvy to the inner secrets of the trick, a big magic... |
How come diesel engine have been praised in the past and now suddenly everyone seems to be against it? | Back in the 70's some people bought diesels because diesel fuel was much cheaper than standard gas. Remember the big kerfuffle a few years back around VW cheating the emissions tests? Inexplicably to anyone who's seen the exhaust of a diesel truck, diesel cars were being accepted as environmentally friendly. That all e... |
Why Does Catalonia Want to Secede from Spain? | Economically, they pay considerably more into the federal government then they receive in benefits. Instead of improving their infrastructure, social services, business investment, the money goes to poorer provinces such as Andalucia, and wasted by the corrupt national government that doesn't take their interests serio... |
Can someone tell me what exactly the Teen who solved Newton's 300 year-old-riddle actually did? | > A keen cricketer, Shouryya cites his father as his inspiration and says he instilled a “hunger for mathematics” *after teaching him calculus at the age of six.* **What the fuck?!?!**Calculus at the age of 6? You've gotta be fucking kidding me. I'm almost 16 and I have yet to learn any calculus beyond limits and deriv... |
Why can we have heaters but not coolers? | Heat is a side-effect of electricity going through coils. It's a side-effect that we can use, but it means using the electricity pretty inefficiently. There's no side-effect that'll make it suck the heat out of an area. That's the kind of thing you need to build a machine to do. And right now, the most efficient way we... |
Why does our body try to cool itself down when we have fever, even though the body heated itself up on purpose | Okay so simple explaination is your body knows that something has invaded and starts heating up to kill the intruders, it usually overdoes it and is like whoa too hot gotta cool down. The body doesn't know which intruder it is when it generates the fever so it heats up until the intruder is neutralized. Sweating is how... |
Why didn't the Nazis invade Switzerland? | Well, it's not clear whether they WANTED to or not. It doesn't matter that there were plans for it; military staff officers are inveterate planners, and often plan for things they know are unlikely or even illogical. The United States had plans for war with the UK and Canada that were kept up to date all the way up to ... |
If lockpicking guides and tools are available widely, why are so few houses lockpicked into? | Firefighter here and I consider myself well versed in forcible entry as well as finesse-ible entry. If we get called to a house for a house lockout I will size up the house and look for a weakness. You would be surprised how many people have open windows. Pop a screen and your in. If I can't find anything for a commerc... |
Why are humans vastly more intelligent than even animals with vastly larger brains like elephants or whales? | Humans have an amazing capacity for symbolic thought and linguistic communication. That's our talent as a species. But we haven't cornered the market on emotion or communication or socialization or even sentience. In fact, our visual memories are worse than chimpanzees and our spatial memories are worse than the averag... |
Are electric blankets bad for your health in any way? | There isn't evidence of electromagnetic related effects of electric heating blankets. Electric blankets could potentially be dangerous if applied for an extended period of time , or if you're already warm . In the case of most individuals, electric blankets don't negatively impact your health. |
What would happen to our body if we could increase gravity like in DBZ? | at ~5G's you will faint. If you have the G-Suite, your G-spot rises to ~9Gs. Fainting happens because all the blood pools down at your feet and not enough blood gets to your brain. Fighter plane pilots can experience up to 9G's so they wear a G-Suite . |
People say that O.J Simpson was found not guilty because the prosecution mishandled the case. What does this mean? | Everything from the police who got to the scene all the way to the state attorney did a terrible job. Because a lousy job was done by the state, the lawyers of oj were able to pick apart the evidence and have it thrown out therefore the jury wouldn't have been shown. Going by the evidence that the jury was shown, they ... |
Why can't bots check the "I am not a robot" captcha? | You are definitely [not the first person to ask this question 'round here]. tl;dr it's not just the click. |
If a couple has five sons, how is possible that their next baby has a 50% chance of being a boy while it is simultaneously statistically unlikely that they'll have six boys? | I see all the answers saying that is a 50/50 shot at being a boy. And I understand that. But I have a question. My grandma on my dad's side had 5 sons and no daughters. Neither my dad nor any of his brothers has had a daughter. I have two brothers and one of my uncles has two sons, so it's not for lack of trying. I als... |
What exactly takes so long between when a nurse takes you in and checks your vitals and when the doctor finally comes in the room? | Seeing other people, the nurse filing paperwork and explaining the situation so he knows what he's going to talk to, even just the simple process of her deciding when to notify him you're there. |
Why isn't Russia a heavier contributor to modern pop music? | Russia is HUGE with it, it's just that because of the language difference, the market doesn't relate well to English-speaking audiences. |
Why do humans need to brush their teeth? What did we do before toothpaste? | Humans didn't start getting caries in significant numbers until [we started developing argiculture]. Prior to that we ate a diet very low in natural sugars, but the starches found in grain changed that. |
Why are some children born with blonde hair and then as they get older it completely disappears and becomes brown? | My dad, sister and myself were toeheads until around the age of 7ish. My dad had dark brown almost black hair and my sister and myself have light brown. My youngest is the only one in the family with blonde hair. She is 9 and still has blonde hair but it looks like it is turning a faint brown. *I don't get the genetics... |
Why is it illegal to carry two IDs? | So this is a question that I've asked myself. I have two ID's. One in Kansas and one in Arizona. I mailed in my old Kansas ID to get it renewed via mail but it took too long so I went ahead and got an Arizona ID by turning in my old, expired Kansas ID on the reciprocal system. I got my Arizona ID that day. My renewed K... |
Why can we land a robot on an asteroid but cant design a vending machine to take a slightly crinkled dollar bill? | Hasn't vending machine technology improved lately? I remember 10 years ago, you had to make sure none of the corners were folded over or make sure the bill wasn't crinkled beyond hope, but I don't remember a machine spitting out a bill in the longest time, despite feeding it bad bills. |
Is there any reason to use a different power level on a microwave other than the max setting? | Lower power helps with more even heating. When I reheat soup in the microwave, for example, if I cook at max power, the edges of the bowl will be boiling so hot that they pop and send soup flying all over the microwave. In spite of that, the center of the bowl will still be stone cold. If I turn it down to about 60% po... |
Why don't homeless people go get whatever free benefits are available? | Some are crazy and can't take care of themselves. Some are deeply insecure and underconfident and can't do paperwork or talk to people. There aren't as many free benefits as you think, they come with restrictions and have all kinds of regulations. I was on cobra health insurance for a while. I missed one payment so the... |
What is the evolutionary purpose of the hyman? | There seems to be a lot of talk On here about 'men naturally choosing virgins because they don't want to raise other mens children'. But I'd like to call attention to the fact that this theory of human sexual evolution is widely considered out-dated. Most hunter-gatherer cultures have some form of belief in partible pa... |
Why is RAM way more expensive than SSD if RAM is not able to store data when powered off? Shouldn't it cost less? | RAM is much faster and much more powerful than any sort of storage, be it solid state or hard drive. For this reason, it's much more expensive. They serve entirely different functions, and trying to compare their prices is like comparing apples to oranges. |
Up arrow notation like in Graham's number. | So you and your two friends are eating goldfish crackers like [these]. You decide that you should each get 10 crackers. 10 crackers for 3 people: > 10 + 10 + 10 = 30 There's got be a quicker way to do that though. If you have 10 added 3 times, that's the same as saying there are three tens. So let's write it as: > * = ... |
why do people with downs look similar | Yes it's a genetic marker of Down's syndrome. due to the extra copy of chromosome 21 it presents in this way meaning they share similar characteristics. |
Could the human body withstand 1/1000th of a second on the surface of the sun? | No, the surface of the sun is hot enough that even a small time of exposure will result in total destruction of all cells. Good news is you'll die quick |
What is considered to be second hand smoke? | Yes. If you breathe in the smoke from someone else, that's second hand smoke. Just as simple as that really. |
How comes movies nowadays can still turn out to be complete trainwrecks despite high budget and good actors? | It's really about having a good story. Look at low budget movies that do well. They have a good story. Hell, the acting in Clerks was horrible. The writing was OK. But the story was interesting. That's the most important thing. |
What happened to popular musicians writing their own music? | Some do, some don't, this has always been the case. Elvis, for instance, performed a ton of songs that other people wrote.If you look inside music scene and history in any genre, you'll realize that it was never a thing in the first place. Singers are supposed to perform and use their voices turn songs into hits. Every... |
Why is the American flag backwards when on uniforms? | It's only reversed on the person's right shoulder. This is done to make it as though the flag is charging into battle. Otherwise, it would look like they're retreating/ |
why is it when I'm riding in the car I almost become narcoleptic and fall asleep without trying? | I have the same problem but more so when I'm the passenger. My fiance makes fun of me for it as does my boss after we had to drive together to go to a training course and I slept most of the way leaving him to talk with our other coworker alone. Up until my boss established a 30 min no talking time with him that is. If... |
given the number of people who died on the Titanic, how come we've never found any remains on the wreck? | A lot of remains were found in the immediate aftermath, floating in the wreckage. They're buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 333 in total were recovered, about 1 in 5 of the victims. Some sank with the ship, but some floating ones were scattered by the currents before they could be recovered. As to why there's no evidence... |
Why is testosterone legally prescribed for transgender but not bodybuilding/muscle gain? | Because trans people have a medical reason and just wanting it for swole gains isn't really a great reason. Plus added testosterone when your levels are already in a good range can have health issues. |
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