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Why South Korea became successful and North Korea did not. | I'm no genius in this topic, but I'd say globalisation plays a huge role here.Every single communist country failed economically, to varying degrees. Why on earth would North Korea be any different?US investment during the cold war. The same as in post-war Japan. |
Why is it hard for people to change thier beliefs? What causes us to grip on to things that have been proven to be false? | It's easy to confuse your opinions with your identity. It takes a strong sense of self to not be threatened by different belief systems. Self-awareness and emotional maturity are the true signs of confidence. |
Why do live TV shows make such a big deal out of not saying the name of a product, when everyone clearly knows what it is? | Because the creators of the product haven't paid for product placement. Television networks make money from advertising. They aren't going to advertise your stuff for free. |
Why emergency room visits are so expensive? | Healthcare in general is overpriced in the US but I'd imagine emergency room visits are costly because emergency rooms must constantly staff a surplus of doctors/nurses to make sure they have adequate people on hand to handle a large influx of patients. Thus, you are likely paying for overstaffed doctors/nurses. Also, ... |
How come British colonization fucked Africa up but led the Americas to greatness? | I think the easiest way to put it is this: In the US, the colonizers stayed and broke away from Britain, so they were able to exploit the riches of the country and keep the wealth here. But in Africa, the basic colonizer strategy is to funnel the wealth back to the home country . You may be right that had America never... |
how do rebel or insurgent armies get their weapons? | First of all, most of these weapons are already in-country at the time of the rebellion, and are simply seized by the rebels when they take over military bases. Similarly, many governments keep large stockpiles of weapons that they are more than willing to sell to rebel groups in nations they don't particularly like. T... |
Why are people opposed to Palestinian statehood? | Hamas' ideal schedule:10:00 Gain Palestinian state10:30 Destroy Israel11:00 Happiness But seriously though. Most people who oppose Palestinian statehood are concerned that they won't be satisfied until they completely destroy Israel, and kick the Jews out, too. I'm not really a Zionist, but as far as I can tell, this i... |
what's the point of sanctions to a country? | To take this sub literally .instead of spanking you, I'm just going to take away your toys. Gets the point across that you're doing something wrong without getting violent. |
Why is a transgender person not considered to have a mental illness? | Clinical psychology graduate student here. There's an important idea that has been left out of all of the top comments regarding criteria for any mental disorder. Just because something is not normal or out of the set of usual characteristics we see in people does not make it a disorder. In order to be a true mental di... |
If you binge eat do you pass most of the calories or do they actually turn into body mass? | You'll gain the weight, just not immediately. Usually in the following week you'll see additional fat because unless you are fasting then you are probably taking in additional calories. You won't wake up with an extra pound of fat on your stomach but you'll notice a gradual buildup over the following days. However for ... |
Where did the money go? | Money only objectively exists at the point of transaction. At any other point, it's merely a theoretical prediction. If I say my house is 'worth' $500,000, all I'm doing is guessing that if I were to sell that house the buyer would be willing to pay $500,000 for it. But if I actually sell my house for $250,000, I haven... |
Why has no one crossed a dandelion with a carrot or parsnip, thus creating a nutritious vegetable that grows wild as a weed? | Because they aren't even slightly related. It's the equivalent of asking why no one has bred a pig and a blue whale to create a more efficient Bacon source.A few people are telling you that wild carrots are abundant. Please DO NOT indiscriminately eat something you think -might- be a wild carrot. There are a few plants... |
Why is it that if you go to bed hungry, you no longer feel hungry when you wake up? | A lot of your body's signals are based on routine. If you normally have a big dinner and no breakfast, tou will probably be starving in the evening and fine in the morning regardless of your actual intake that day. |
why doesnt this truck have a license plate? (link enclosed) | I believe vehicles intended for farm use only don't require a license plate, but they are also not supposed to be driven on the public roadways. |
why do almost all police cars have the same wheels/rims? | Often times it's because they're the lowest, base-model, steel rims available for that model car. They're the cheapest and most durable rims, and they can buy them in bulk for very little money.Most US police forces buy cars specifically made for the police force or buy cars in fleets. This means police generally buy m... |
Why picking only 10 people for a data study is worse than picking > 30 people. | Okay I'm no good at exactly what you're talking about, but here's a bit of a visual that helps me understand in a similar but different situation. Think about it as if researchers wanted to know all they could know about California and so they went to California and landed in the middle of Joshua Tree desert, then grab... |
How do I become a Shaolin Monk? | Shaolin is not in Tibet. Its in Henan province. Learn your geography if you don't want to insult the head abbot. You'll need to convince him you're worthy to enter.Here are two AMAs from people who have trained with Shaolin Monks:_URL_0_ _URL_1_', "Shaolin is one monastery in Henan, China. I don't know how accepting th... |
if a woman falls pregnant to 2 different men (ie. twins with different fathers) and one fetus absorbs the other, does the surviving child carry the DNA of all 3 adults? | There was an odd story out of Philadelphia not too long ago. Something along the lines of, a woman began receiving welfare benefits, and her children did not match her DNA upon testing. She ends up pregnant again, social services reps are in the delivery room, she gives birth, social services tests the DNA; mom and kid... |
How can animals run so fast without tripping on a rock and falling? | Answer #1 - Practice practice practice if you ran around barefoot all day you'd get pretty dang good at it too. Answer #2 - Who says they don't fall? Maybe not very often but I am certain even the most coordinated animal will occasionally fall if they are going very fast. |
How is the NFL still considered a non-profit organization when they make billions of dollars? | The NFL isn't just considered to be non-profit. It *is* non-profit. The revenue is immediately distributed to the teams, which are the entities that end up paying taxes. |
In the first gen of Pokemon games, why do you need a game shark to catch Mew? Why was he even in the game if it requires using a 3rd party cheat/glitch. | You don't need a game shark. All you have to do is use strength to push the truck on the back of the SS Anne. Everyone knows this dude. |
Since the major network channels are already free with an antenna, why are they so restrictive for streaming? | Broadcasting is indiscriminate and one way- the information is just being blasted into the air and you pick it up where ever you can get a signal. Its pretty costly upfront but very cheap to add more users . You just need a device to capture and make sense of the information out there . Streaming through the internet i... |
In the U.S., why are there only two major political parties, and why don't the other parties get equal time in the media? Has it always been like this? | Say you like a candidate of the purple party. He's polling at around 10% in the polls. But the candidates of the red and blue parties are each polling around 40%. The purple party candidate is obviously not going to win, so you vote for your second choice, which is the red party. It's against your interests to vote for... |
Why do legal documents and government notices use legalese instead of wording people can actually understand? | There can't be any misunderstanding. Think about the constitution, for instance. There are a lot of specific clauses in the document, but a lot of it is general or vague or subject to interpretation, and now look at how much controversy that creates . Modern laws aren't so broad and establishing, so they don't really w... |
What exactly is a major in Women's and Gender Studies? | Dude, just read any university's program description if you're really interested. You probably aren't interested though in an honest answer. You probably just want to stir the pot. But in the small chance you are not a troll, here is how the department at UCLA describes Gender Studies, > [Gender Studies] is an interdis... |
Why is coffee so much more expensive than tea? | I haven't really found this to be the case. Possibly with supermarket tea, which is extremely cheap dust, most of the time, but even medium quality loose leaf tea can be $25+ for a pound. You can get medium-good quality coffee for cheaper. Coffee does end up being more expensive, because it only takes one tea spoon of ... |
Why is ethanol "safe" to drink but not methanol when they are so similiar? | For the same reason Sodium is safe to consume but bleach isn't, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. By simply adding or subtracting a molecule from a substance, it drastically changes how it reacts to other substances. Dihydrogen monoxide will simply push blood and bacteria around while Dihydrogen dioxid... |
Why can dishwashers both wash and dry dishes, but clothes washers cannot wash and dry clothes? | They can. There are units that can do both. They're popular with small apartments. From what I've heard from my friends that have them, they take a long time and don't do a very good job. |
How do you efficiently study for memory intensive, detail oriented exams. | Just use [anki]. It's free and *really* good for remembering things. I've used it extensively for foreign language vocab and studying for the PE exam. |
Why do hunters tend to kill game by aiming for the lungs or heart? Wouldn't a head shot be quicker and more humane? | Their brains are smaller than their heart, and their head also moves more and is harder to hit. Their chest also has more vital organs and has a higher chance of an instant kill shot than just a grazing shot to the head, which would be less humane. Sometimes the meat does gets shot but it's such a small amount compared... |
Why is it that the majority of Reddit seems to be atheist, but /r/atheist gets so much hate. | I'd say because they're just as preachy as the preachers they hate.Because circle jerking is annoying even if you agree with themBecause a lot of the members are evangelical about their atheism, which is just as tiresome as religious evangelism. Most atheists just want to live and let live like everyone else, not prove... |
Do tablets and phones decrease in speed over time? | OP, /u/CrispyBacon_87 has your answer. I just want to add a little info. Try out [ParrotMod]. It's a lovely package of optimizations. Sure, it cannot make your N7 brand new again, but I found it to be better than expected and now I happily use my old N7 with Marshmallow. It still slows down to crawling from time to tim... |
Why are spicy things perceived by our taste buds as "hot", even if they don't feel hot otherwise? | Fun Fact: Birds can't taste Capsaicin and can therefor eat some of the hottest chilis without a problem. The plants idea is to have its seeds eaten by the bird, carried far away and then be defecated. The chilis want to achieve dispersal and growth without a lot of competition. tl;dr: Birds can beat you at any chili-ea... |
Why are migrants and refugees attacking and harassing European citizens? | The idea of a coordinated and multinational one day sex attack seems so far fetched that it stretches credulity. Is that what's actually alleged? It seems so for Cologne at least, but in other areas are we just seeing the media obsessively report every crime where before they did not? Beyond the accounts of victims, wh... |
Why are UK tabloids exactly so anti-EU/eurosceptic? | Rupert Murdoch doesn't like the EU, he actually said that when he asks EU legislators to do him favors they don't co operate, but UK politicians do what he wants. It's a pretty shitty situation. And the legions of plebs that read his newspapers all voted leave and shot themselves in the foot. They will suffer the most ... |
Why does unlawfully seized pieces of evidence get thrown out of court? Shouldn't they hold at least some weight? | The evidence isn't always thrown out. In Canada, and in many common wealth jurisdictions the judge has to decide what would cause more disrepute for the justice system: allowing the illegally obtained evidence to be admissible into court or not allowing the illegally obtained evidence to be admissible into court. Gener... |
Why do we call herbal water "Tea"? | tey", or "tee". Eventually, it became standardized to **tea**. [Source] So in short, "tea" is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of the original word for the beverage. |
In the USA there were more mass shootings than days in 2015 where 4 or more people were shot. What constitutes what gets reported on and makes global/national news and not? | There aren't that many Mass shootings. Per the FBI and congressional research it is a mass killing committed with firearms. Typically lists that state there have been more than days so far this year are intentional lies using a made up definition that doesn't follow accepted definitions used previously. |
Why do some people like the taste of certain foods while others don't? | It's probably more associated with familiarity for most things than anything else. It's no shock that humans evolved a strong desire for the familiar, comfortable things. Eating something new could make you sick or kill you. So your body just likes the thungs it's familiar with, or things that are close to things it kn... |
Why do most brands of microwave popcorn require one specific side to be placed up? | Usually bag construction. The idea is to allow the easiest possible expansion of the bag. If you put it upside down, it's feasible that one of the book folds would get stuck underneath the bag, leaving less room for the corn to expand into. That would then possibly make the rest of the bag break. Not super likely, of c... |
Why we haven't returned to the Moon | We've already been there, and it's really expensive. It's kind of like going to DisneyWorld, once you've made the trip and seen the rides you don't need to go back every year. |
Is it realistic in movies where someone gets shot and doesn't realize until they see the wound? Wouldn't they notice immediately from the pain? | I wasn't shot but I can personally attest to the pain killing effects of adrenaline. When I was 17 a friend and I were jumped by a group of gang bangers, after we realized we were overwhelmed, we split up and ran. Well, they decided to run me down with their van. I dove out of the way just in time to get my foot run ov... |
Why do Pizza places typically sell Pepsi products? | Depending on sales volume, SOMETIMES Pepsi can be cheaper than Coke. They also want to take some of Coke's market share, so it a restaurant may have to sell less Pepsi than Coke to receive free, branded display coolers. |
region locking on games and DVDs. | As I understand it, it's to prevent people from importing cheaper versions or copies that are released earlier from one region to another. Otherwise stores could order foreign copies of the same DVD's and games in bulk and sell them for a cheaper price and the American copies wouldn't sell as well.In addition to what a... |
What would be needed to allow guns to fire in space? | Despite all the other answers, there are a few problems which might cause trouble. The very low temperature when you're in the shade may cause lubricants to freeze, and there may be problems with materials becoming brittle. There is also a thing called [vacuum welding] which may stick some parts together. |
What would actually happen if I didn't have airplane mode on during a flight? | Nothing. Do you really think everybody switches their phone to airplane mode? It's smart, to save your battery life but in positive that on a full flight at least 10% of people's phones aren't on airplane mode. |
Why after millions of years of evolution, is it a common thing to remove our wisdom teeth? | We have to remove our wisdom teeth *because* of evolution. We're evolving away from having mouths that can fit them. Unfortunately we aren't evolving away from having them, and that causes problems. |
Why are African-Americans incarcerated at such a higher rate than whites. Do they really commit more crimes or is it the system? | Blacks are probably more likely to commit crimes, but a lot of the causes of this phenomenon are probably due to environmental conditions. For example, due in part to societal views on race and a history of discrimination, the average black American is poorer than the average white American and probably lives in a more... |
Is it possible for the USA to fall like Rome etc did and another 'super power' to take over? | Maybe, or they'll decline like Greece where a bunch of nouveau riche upstarts appear, adopt their culture and technology, fall behind and remain to develop the new cultures upper class. Basically China at the minute sending the richer classes children to be educated in western universities.As others said, it will take ... |
Why does it take so long to carry out the death penalty? Can't they carry it out more quickly? | Well, once we execute someone we can't exactly *un*-execute them. So we should probably take our time and make really really sure that we're making the right call. |
Why didn't USA sign Kyoto Protocol which would have helped the entire world on an environment friendly path? | We can't lose an economic edge over China and Russia. Energy is an important part of that edge. We support the most powerful military in the world with the most powerful economy in the world. Energy and national security are intricately interdependent.Downvoted due to editorial stated as fact in the question. PROVE the... |
How do cartoon animators figure out when to make characters blink? Do they keep constant track of it? | There's already some really great explanations posted, but I thought I'd offer a counter example for how blinking might be used in animation. In live action film acting, actors will generally try to blink as little as possible depending on their character. Strong, unflinching eye contact strengthens a character and the... |
How can someone move into my vacant house without my permission and not be trespassing? | The owners do have a recourse: file eviction proceedings. The police won't summarily throw them out because the renters have a lease. It's not the job of the police to decide whether the lease is fake, or whether it's a disagreement between a landlord and tenant and the landlord is falsely claiming that they don't know... |
If later school start times are found to improve sleep and daytime functioning in adolescents, why aren't school start times changed? | I asked this when I was in high school and the main reason I received was the after school activities. If school was later, the sports and activities after school would go that much later and in turn the afternoon /evening gets longer. When I played basketball we got home from games around 9. If school started an hour ... |
What stops lottery ticket sellers from just scratching the unsold tickets themselves? | They have to return unsold tickets. If not returned, there needs to be an equivalent amount of transactions/money in the register. You'd be pretty silly to imbalance your register/transactions, then somehow-surprisingly be the winner of a large prize for a ticket provided to your very working location. |
Why is the number 'e' so important? | It is Euler's formula. The number e is important because it appears in many identities in equation tables and definitions involving it have further applications and physical importance. Laplace and Fourier transforms are examples. |
Why is prostitution Illegal, yet an an Escort service legal? | So anyone can pick up a prostitute off the streets and tell her i'm paying you for a date/companionship, and the sex is just a by-product of the date/companionship? If that's the case, why don't more hookers/prostitute say that upfront, so as to eliminate the fear of getting arrested?", 'Check out some of the disclaime... |
ELI5: Why is it called "World Series Baseball" when it's only played by teams in the USA? | We don't really know. The most common reason given is it was originally sponsored by the *New York World* newspaper, but that is disputed. All we can say for certain is that the original was known as the World Championship Series, later shortened to the World Series. |
How is the ecosystem of a river or lake not destroyed if it freezes over during winter? | There is another factor, lake turnover. Water is its densest at 4 degrees C, or 39.2 degrees F. After that, it gets less dense until it freezes. When the surface of the water cools down to that temperature, it sinks down to the bottom of the lake, and the lake 'turns over'. This takes the dissolved oxygen from the top ... |
What would be the effects if the US paid off all of its debt. | An [NPR story] about a secret report from 2000 when it was thought that might be something we would have to deal with. The short answer is: we don't know for sure. But we do know some things. There would be no treasury bonds . This would have some really bad effects: 1. Lots of things are tied to the rate of treasury b... |
Why do I wake up with a stuffy nose when I stay the night at somebody else's place? | Same thing happens to me too. I'd love an answer for this. I'm guessing that it has something to do with different allergens in other homes. |
What the discovery of the Proof of connection between Prime Numbers means? | If anyone's interested I've made a bitmap 1000x1000 where I've visualized all prime numbers from 1 to million by every pixel. Based on this graphics _URL_2_ here's screenshot with couple lines of code I've used_URL_2_", 'Can somebody please explain the ramifications OUTSIDE of just practical things like cryptography an... |
Why is it that storage devices have less space than what they claim? (a 32GB iPod touch has 28.5GB of useble space) | Each storage device saves a small amount of space for its ~~operating system. Your computer, your iPod, even your camera - all of it requires an operating system so you can interact with it. IIRC, things like floppy disks, most thumb drives, and SD cards don't have this discrepancy in disk space, because they don't sto... |
Why do companies advertise with Megapixel and Megehertz while this doesn't say much about the actual speed/quality of the product? | Because it is hard to actually judge the quality of any product. So you'd have to invest time and energy to inform yourself. Most people don't want to do that, they are just as happy believing they bought something of quality. That's why marketing uses a lot of feel-good buzzwords or advertises irrelevant features. |
Why is no mouth CPR what everyone is told to do now? | Dammit now i can't blame cold sores on saving lives. In all reality is because breathing in that sense isn't that important. Air still moves from the compressions alone. Another reason is mouth to mouth contact prevents many people from offering aid. More often than not the patient vomits firing the process. |
why don't dogs acknowledge/recognize themselves in the mirror? | Sight isn't dogs' sharpest sense, smell is. I'm convinced that's part of it. Anyone want to dissuade me? |
Why is my internet speed 40 Mbps, but files only download at 2-4 Mbps | Others have explained your factor of 8 problem, but there's another issue. Let me give an analogy: **Why is traffic only moving at 25 MPH if the speed limit is 65 MPH?** The fact is, if the server only transfers your file at 2 MB/s, you're only going to receive at 2 MB/s.Network speeds are measured in bits per second. ... |
Why is poker considered a sport? | because ESPN markets it as one to justify airing it. I don't know of anyone that actually considers it a sport.It is a marketing ploy and all about money. There is no other reason. |
If L Ron Hubbard was such an experienced Sci Fi writer prior to Scientology, why are the themes in Scientology often a bit "goofy" even from a realistic science fiction standpoint | I would say it was only lame because it is presented as real. If it were pure science fiction, I don't think engrams are any lamer than say, midichlorians. |
What is this odd feeling I have before falling asleep called? | Holy shit. You described it perfectly. I have had this experience as well. So happy that I finally found an answer for it because I lacked the ability to describe it. EDIT: Nevermind; I thought the comments had answers but none of them have what we're looking for.Could it be AIWLS? _URL_2_ Although I also experience th... |
Why do shorter and linear games like Wolfenstein: The New Order take up 44.55 GBs, where massive open world games like GTA 5 take up only around 16? | It'll probably be because of higher resolution textures, higher quality audio, that sort of thing. Which platforms are you talking about? I doubt the 360 version of Wolfenstein takes up that much space . Generally speaking, if the space is there, the developers will use it. So I'd expect it to be much bigger on the new... |
Why do retail and restaurant businesses make a weekly ever changing schedule? Wouldn't it be easier to give everyone consistent hours? | Of course, this depends on a number of factors. For one thing, many low paying jobs are held by young people, who have unstable schedules due to school work and other similar stuff, and who are not the most reliable people to show up for work on time or at all. So, you need to plan according to their availability and f... |
Why is wearing American flag clothing on the Cinco de Mayo wrong/controversial? | > so much so that it has been banned in certain places in the US. That is up to the owners of private property, but you can't really do that in public areas.I have never once heard anyone complain because someone wore something with a flag on it on 5 May. And I live in Texas |
What is the evolutionary benefit of certain plants such as tobacco or marijuana containing chemicals that can affect the animal mind? | The active chemicals in marijuana are called cannabinoids. Here's some of what we know so far: > It has been known for some time that CBG and CBCare mildly antifungal, as are THC andCBD against a cannabis pathogen. Morepertinent, however, is the mechanical stickiness of thetrichomes, capable of trapping insects with al... |
why no one appears to be talking about Lockheed Martin's recent claims to have a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology. | Because 1) they haven't made a whole lot of details available, so no one has been able to say for sure that this is a real thing and not just hype and 2) their claims are not actually all that remarkable given what is already well established science. We're talking about miniaturization of existing technology, not a fu... |
Why do whales surface to exhale, and when do they inhale? | It's uncomfortable to have empty lungs for any appreciable period. Also, while there's air in their lungs, it's probably got some oxygen in it, and some oxygen is better than no oxygen. |
how come lobsters became so expensive? They used to be poor man's food. | Lobster isn't as abundant as they used to be. Supposedly when the Pilgrims landed back in 1620 they were litterally walking around the beaches during low tide so you could just grab them. Thats why they weren't part of Thanksgiving. They used to feed them to prisoners too. A lot of work goes into catching those buggers... |
What makes the Venezuelan national debt of 60 billion so much worse than the US national debt of 20 trillion? | Same way a middle-aged doctor owing $1 million on their mortgage isn't as bad as a laid-off assistant manager at Taco Bell having $40K in credit card debt. The US is rich enough to pay the interest on that debt today, and its economy and government is stable enough to maintain that level of debt indefinitely. Venezuela... |
Why does gargling saltwater help with sore throats? | PSA: When you start to feel like you're going to have a sore throat, gargle with mouthwash. The stronger, the better. Kill the bacteria before they do any damage. |
Why do I feel nauseated when I'm super hungry? | Gluten intolerance and celiac's disease did this to me. Stopped when I stopped eating Gluten.This happens to me literally every morning. Its a horrible feeling. |
If we can't filter microbeads, why aren't they in our drinking water? | The processed used to filter sewage that gets dumped into the environment, and the intake of water from the environment are different. For example: Let's say a city gets its water from a river. Now naturally all rivers have sediment in them, dirt, rocks, etc as well as organic substances such as bacteria, and dead deer... |
How do celebrities get away with buying drugs? | Also, police are more likely to be patrolling the 'bad' areas of town where more crimes occur than the expensive neighborhood full of rich people behind their privacy walls. So the opportunities to catch celebs are rare.If ever caught, they also can afford the finest lawyers money can buy, and a sympathetic judge can b... |
Why can the smell of marijuana smoke dissipate from a room within 3 days while cigarette smoke seems to stink up the room forever? | I've met people before who smoke weed often and their house reeks of the smell all the time. So it's all about how much you smoke. Either one will stink up your house pretty bad.Cigarette smokers smoke a lot more cigarettes than marijuana smokers smoke jointsEveryone seems to be an expert on this topic', "I don't know ... |
Why are engineers paid far lesser than management/sales/human resources? | First of all, are they? Does it not depend on the place of employment and exact role in question? Second of all, management is often a much harder job than actually doing the work itself. It's one thing to have a problem set in front of you and focus 100% on solving it, but it's quite another to try to co-ordinate grou... |
I thought vegetables were healthy. Why are they so low in calories and vitamins? | the other thing that hasn't been mentioned here is FIBRE! Vegetables contain a whole whack of stuff that helps with the digestion of food and the expulsion of the aftermath! Making sure you have enough fibre in your diet is very important for healthy BMs. |
Why are scientists still debate on time travel, if it was possible wouldn't we already have had time travelers? | One line of thought is that if backwards time travel exists, as soon as we achieve that technology, you'll get absolutely flooded with time-tourists or messages from the future, as that'll be the earliest point in time that future travelers can travel to. Chances are, if it was ever possible in this universe to do so, ... |
How the heck does Google search the ENTIRE INTERNET in less than .5 seconds? | It has cached lists of priorities. Corporations and organizations pay big money to have their websites appear on the first few pages. A google search really only loads the first page, and the rest of them are loaded on demand based on keyword relevance or location. It also only loads websites on the surface internet. T... |
How does a nuclear weapon kill you? | Oh, so many ways. The shockwave created by the blast is what you might see ripping up trees and tearing buildings apart. That can kill you by liquefying your organs or smacking you with debris flying hundreds of feet per second. If you're close enough to the blast, the fiery ball of expanding gasses can burn your body ... |
Is tone of voice universally understood? Or are different tones conveyed differently in different languages? | Kind of. It's usually possible to determine a few strong emotions in tone cross culturally , but that's really about the extent. Many other languages are tonal languages, where the different tones carry phonetic meaning. Just as we have a difference in the sounds with the words 'bit' and 'bat', another language may dis... |
How can words people use all the time "not be words." Who decides when something is a word? | congregate" and "estimate"[The Online Etymology Dictionary says "misremember" is attested in use back to the 1530s.] Roger Clemens had a long career, but I never realized he was that old!The speaker decides when and how to evolve language at whim. The only criteria is having listeners understand it without explanationL... |
What's the most complex task our brains perform that super computers have trouble doing? | They can't see. Don't start telling me that a camera and some pattern recognition equates to human sight. We process our surroundings without even thinking about it in real world fidelity without the need to have seen a given thing before. Don't get me started on rods and cones I welcome any and all education, supporte... |
how did we evolve male-pattern baldness? | If it hasn't been selected out of the gene pool yet, then maybe not so many women find it as unattractive as you think it is. |
Why did gas prices get outrageously high years ago and what eventually brought the prices back down? | Prices were high for a number of reasons- a big one is rising demand in the developing world like [_URL_1_] and India. There's also US policy and instability in the Middle east pushing up prices, and probably lots of other factors. Demand for oil tends to be inelastic, meaning it doesn't respond much to price hikes- pe... |
Why don't news shows have to censor brands but TV shows do? | News companies don't have to censor anything by law. They self censor, hencr why they can show gore and advertising |
why it's acceptable to eat animals like cows and pigs and fish, but it's unacceptable to eat animals like cats and dogs? | In addition to all the cultural stuff, what do dogs and cats have in common that differs from sheep, pigs, and cows? Dogs and cats eat meat exclusively. It's not efficient to raise carnivores in huge numbers to eat. If you, as an ancient human, want to create a wolf farm, it requires you to also have a goat farm or som... |
What kind of experiments do they do on the ISS, and how are they only relevant on the station? | It isn't that it can only be done on the station, it is that the station is the easiest most cost-effective place to do it, because we already built it. Any vessel in orbit big enough to house the experiments and crew needed to run it can do any experiment the ISS can do, but it is just easier to use the ISS. TL:DR It'... |
Why do humans have a habit of staring "into nothingness"? | Philosopher Alan Watts said that it is your body's way of telling you to meditate. Like a lot of people said, you have a lot going on, sit down, relax, and focus on your breath. |
Why is water so heavy if it's the lightest element mixed with the eighth? | As FX114 stated, it's about density. Water molecules stick closer together because they are very small and very polar . Their magnetic forces hold them close together, and kinetic force keeps them moving around. A single molecule of water isn't that heavy at all. However, a gallon of water may be heavier than the combi... |
how do rockets fly in space? | > I know in the atmosphere, rockets work by pushing against the air No. Rockets do not work by pushing against the air. The distinguishing feature of a rocket engine is that it carries its own reaction mass. In the case of a chemical rocket, this reaction mass is the combustion products from the burning fuel. The hot g... |
How do we receive photos from outer space? | > space probes like Voyager aren't like a few lightyears away already? While you are correct in mentioning Voyager, which is the most distant man made object to date, it is .002 light years away. And that's taken about 40 years, so we've still got oh, 18,000 years to go give or take to get 1 light year away. |
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