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why do humans have such bad immune systems, compared to the rest of the animal kingdom? | They have adapted to that life style through evolution. Just like we have adapted to ours. Cavemen show evidence of eating raw meat and at the time there gut biome could handle it. Over 1000's of years it changed. |
My science teacher said, in physics 5x5=30 but in traditional mathematics 5x5=25. However in physics 5.0x5.0=25. why? | Let's say you need to measure something but you don't have a ruler handy. So you decide to use your hand. You measure that object as being roughly 5 hands wide and 5 hands long. Now the object isn't *exactly* five times the length of your hand - you can see that it's a tad longer and a bit narrower than that - but you ... |
If I pirate something I've legitimately bought, and still have (somewhere), am I breaking the law? Why or why not? | Legal to download or upload anything Canada as long as you don't make money off of it. _URL_7_", 'In addition to all the answers on here, this may be of interest to some people: _URL_8_Yarrr pirate all ye like matey, the only bounds are the high seas me salty dog', "This blew up. Thank you for explaining this to me 257... |
How are tabloid magazines that regularly publish false information about celebrities not get regularly sued for libel/slander? | Another thing is that to successfully sue someone, you need to prove damages. It's not enough that someone said something false about you, you have to show that the false statement cost you somehow. In this respect, tabloids have the defense that no one takes them seriously anyway, so their lies are very rarely damagin... |
what torrents are and how they work. | Let's say that there's a book you want to read, but all the copies in the library are checked out and you can't get your parents to buy it for you. However, you know that 10 of your friends have the book, but none of them want to lend you the book for as long as it would take for you to read it . So, you come up with a... |
What are the negative side effects of "vaping"? | Honestly, it's so new that we don't have a lot of data on it. If anybody tells you that it's totally good or totally bad, they're probably pushing an agenda of one sort or another. Some people market it as a way to quit smoking. Others market it as a healthier alternative. I figure it's one more product that companies ... |
If a software has terms of conditions that have small fine print in it that say the software will send all your credit card information to malicious services, will the software company be legally safe? | Basically, the EULA is a contract, and the basic principle is that both parties enter a contract in good faith. In other words, you don't try to weasel things in that don't belong. So, I couldn't, for example, have an 400 page EULA for my screen saver, and somewhere in it have a clause hidden that says that if you use ... |
Why are some people thin no matter what they eat or how much they eat? | Because they're out doing stuff and not sitting here doing nothing like you and me! Fuck yeah fat people!^ |
Why does the US gov have boneyards for Airplanes rather than selling for scrap? | They can't sell them to most foreign countries and others don't want them. There are also agreements to destroy some with visibile evidence from a satellite. Others are temporarily parked until there is a need or for parts.Some planes are declared obsolete, and once all the useful parts have been scavenged from them, t... |
How could , from the Big Bang theory, we never see the dark side of the moon? | The orbit isn't perfect, and it's not perfectly synchronized. The moon's orbit is slightly elliptical, and when it's at the ends of this elliptical orbit, we can see up to 8 degrees of 'the dark side' on either side. That's from side to side. The lunar orbit also isn't the exact same angle as Earth's to the sun, so tha... |
How come some people are just naturally skinny and never put on weight or exercise. But others put weight on super fast and they have to always be careful of what they eat. | Really if you measure the total amount you'd be surprised. The truth of the matter is it often boils down to simple calorie consumption rather than genetic freaks. You might see them pigging out and be shocked, but you're not seeing their average calories per day. |
Can someone explain, in our current age of technology and networking, how flights can still get oversold? | There's no conspiracy, it's 1000% on purpose, and they are quite open about it. They have a lot of research that tells them that if they sell 102 seats for a 100 person flight, 2 people won't show up, and they'll be able to accommodate everyone. Occasionally the gods of statistics work against them, and they wind up wi... |
Why can the feeling of hunger "pass" after being hungry for a few hours? | Basically, think of it like this: You have a pantry and a refrigerator. The pantry has shelves, representing your muscles, canned food, representing your stored fat, and a refrigerator full of food, as your glucose. You eat the food in the refrigerator until you can't replenish it fast enough, so you moves on to the ca... |
Why do asians usually have no body hair and arabs have a lot? | I remember reading that some races have less hair than others primarily due to how early they adopted clothing to deal with temperate climates. Peoples that have long lived in climates that required clothing for warmth have been losing their body hair for more generations. As the Asian peoples you mentioned migrated in... |
If the brain is 5% by weight but consumes 25% of our calories, shouldn't we be doing puzzles to lose weight! | Because solving puzzles doesn't increase the number of calories your brain burns.Where did you get the figure that 25% of calories are used by our brain? Most of the calories we consume go towards keeping us warm. Source: a university lecture I attended a few months ago. So intentionally making yourself cold, so that y... |
The meaning/message of Forest Gump | The idea of the movie is that one should essentially go with the flow. Forest never makes a decision for himself in the entire film; he's always given suggestions and directions that lead to fantastic events in his life. The most over references to this in the movie are the opening and closing shots, which depict a fea... |
I had my last cigarette on last Christmas. Has my body purged itself of all the harmful effects that my smoking had? Are there any lasting effects which will never be removed? | The biggest effects are increased chances on all kinds of afflictions, these will steadily drop but never quite go back to the reduced chances you had before smoking. As for the damage to your lungs you'l be happy to hear that in this almost a year time they will have done a lot of regenerating already and will continu... |
Why doesn't the military allow steroid use? Wouldn't they make them better soldiers physically? | Being a soldier isn't about being strong and fast - it's about being precise and disciplined. Virtually any young person is reasonably good health can meet the physical challenges of soldiering. It's the mental ones that distinguish exceptional soldiers - and steroids don't help with that at all. |
When a UFC match ends very quickly like Rousey vs Nunes did, do you get a refund on your ticket? Do you get an IOU for another fight? | No. You paid to attend the fight. Whether or not the fight lasts 10 seconds or 15 minutes. This is the way contest matches have always been; boxing, wrestling, whatever it is. I've been to many, and I've heard many people asking for refunds, but they never did get them. |
Why don't criminals just touch a burner with each finger to get rid of prints? | Because it hurts. Far simpler to hold up a dollar store and get some gloves if you're worried about finger prints. |
How is the USA allowed to have active military bases in other countries? | Well, for NATO organizations particularly, it's essentially free defence. The US gets a hard point from which to project military force if it needs to, which it wants, and Norway/Canada/Japan/South Korea/Kuwait gets the benefit of having American military muscle right there to back it up if ever the mean mean Soviets/S... |
How do glucose tablets work for diabetics if digestion is so slow? | Pharmacist here. Glucose is an example of the simplest sugar - it literally needs zero processing so your body just has to absorb it which it'll do very quickly. D-glucose is actively absorbed in the gut but in addition, your body will recognise that you've eaten something which will initiate the glucose absorption/tra... |
Why doesn't our Moon have any name while Moons of other planets are named ? | It's name is Moon and it is a satellite. We call other planets satellites different names because they are different satellites. We sometime incorrectly call other planets satellites moons because every one knows what you're saying, just like you might call an otter pop a popsicle. It's not, because popsicle is the nam... |
How do FBI track down anonymous posters on 4chan? | 1. Supposedly 4chan cooperates closely with law enforcement, to the point that they cache a second copy of the site for leo review, or give le unabridged realtime access to the site. A theory is that 4 Chan is basically a honey pot at this point. Though I've never heard of any one getting in trouble for downloading thi... |
Why are mortgages a good thing? | predatory lending aside, I get what you're saying that it's basically phony money and wouldn't it make more sense if prices were based on cash payments and were, thus, lower.But the rationale behind making small payments even though your principal is growing and you're ending up paying more in the long run, you are bui... |
Why are there random bits of english and phonecian numbers in japanese games/media? | emoji" and "karaoke"Aside from being *exotic* and *cool* looking, there may have been a technological limitation reason. Kanji/Hiragana/Katakana characters require a lot more detail per character compared to English letters. With less pixels to work with, English letters might have shown up more legibly compared to Jap... |
Why is a 4-digit code sufficient for banking purposes but not for most online accounts? | Originally, it was intended to be longer but the wife of the creator didn't think she could remember more than 4 digits. 4 was sort of acceptable though because it was a relatively high entropy space. As well as being a 2 factor authentication Most banks now allow longer pins as well, mine allows up to 15 irrc, but mos... |
Why does Stephen Hawking's speech generator sound so robotic, even though today's text-to-speech engines can sound almost completely human? | It's become HIS voice. Anything else would just sound wrong. Also, the old tech might have some benefits. Plus, it has likely demonstrated its reliability. It would suck to not be able to talk if my laptop crashed. |
Why does reddit support MegaUpload but condemn Funnyjunk, since they're both sorta doing the same thing? | ELI5: Megaupload is like you're best friend who shares all his awesome toys with you. Funnyjunk is this kid you've heard bad things about, he hangs around a different group at school but is always stealing your jokes and pretending they were his, last year there was some talk about him stealing toys off your good comed... |
Why do people enjoy loud music much more than just moderate volume? | I'm not sure that's universally true. For instance, I don't enjoy loud music at all, because I find it overly loud and it hurts my ears. |
Is dyslexia a disorder of the eye, or the brain? | On general principle, I would assume it's a brain problem. The eyes, on their own, don't do anything so complex as recognizing written text. |
Why does reddit have 38 million users, yet the most a post gets upvoted is 38 thousand? | Because despite what most ego's think most people don't give a shit what you think. Sorry it the truth even if most don't give a shit.[In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, whi... |
Why does acting oblivious/dumb to people's insults make them annoyed? | They feel alone and worry nothing they say or do matters to the world - when they can't get the reaction they want, it reinforces that feeling in them. |
If it's illegal to destroy currency in the United States, how come those penny-pressing machines at amusement parks exist? | Coins aren't currency. Only paper money is. It comes down to the fact that bills are a representation of money with no actual intrinsic value, while coins have inherent worth. |
What exactly does using a VPN do? | Think of a VPN like this - * You have a letter you want to send, but you want to make sure no one along the way can read it and you don't want the person at the destination to know that you sent it. * So, you write your letter, put it in an envelope, and mail it to a trusted friend via the postal service . * That frien... |
The difference between a clitoral, vaginal, and anal orgasm. [NSFW] | Okay, here goes nothing if I have a clitoral orgasm, I get this weird, tingly feeling like I'm about to sneeze. It's nice, but super short and not super satisfying. If I have a vaginal orgasm, there are two categories. One is similar to the clitoral one, but 'warmer' and more localised. The second is the soaking the sh... |
Why can heroine users who inject 'run out' of veins? What happens? | As a former heroin addict , we're not professional phlebotomists so being a girl, it's hard to find a big juicy vein and when I do, it doesn't last long. And it goes on like that until it's near impossible to find a big vein so we.need to poke and stab all over at non-visible veins and eventually they're all pretty dam... |
Why we can't, say, have 1000's
of NPCs fighting at the same time in
Skyrim, but we can have, say, 1000's
of zombies in L4D2? | I'm honestly surprised no one has linked to this yet. It makes my PC squeal in terror just watching it. [The great battle of Skyrim!]", 'graphical limitations also add to this. gears of war 3 looks fantastic because the environments are relatively "simple" and only display your immediate area with a low detail textured... |
Since light is flying about in all directions from all surfaces, how come don't just see a blurred mix of all the light entering our eyes? | It's not the pupil of your eye that sees the world. Your pupil is a hole through which light enters, and falls upon the back of the eye - that's where the light sensitive cells are. Light coming from directly in front of you can only fall upon the very back of the eye. Light coming from any given direction can only ent... |
How is yoga considered an exercise? | Try Bryan Kest's Power Yoga and then tell me that's not exercise. If you're not very experienced with yoga you'll be sweating your balls off and trembling to the point of collapse. |
How is it possible to deny the Holocaust happened? | The holocaust of 6 million jews was absolutely terrible. [We're thinking about the same Holocaust, right?]", 'The *real* question: Who benefits from denying the Holocaust?> General Eisenhower understood that many people would be unable to comprehend the full scope of this horror. He also understood that any human deeds... |
Why am I awake if I wake up on my own, but tired if my alarm beeps at the same time? | That is your internal clock. It get's used to you waking up every day at that time, so it decides to help you wake up before you need to so there isn't such a rush when the alarm rings. |
Why is a flight with a layover typically cheaper than a direct flight? | Many flights to popular destinations are largely full. For example, JFK to LAX is going to be a very popular flight and there's only so many seats on that flight and only so many flights they can schedule out of JFK to LAX to accommodate all the other flights/airlines. But JFK - > Reno - > LAX flights are probably less... |
Why is American football considered boring to watch by non-Americans? | We aren't as used to advertising in such a blatant way - the ratio of advertising to sport is skewed in the wrong direction by a huge amount. Also, it's kinda like rugby, which already exists, so there's not much reason to watch it. |
Why do our legs shake uncontrollably when we press our foot down while sitting down? | Physiotherapist here, OP need not worry, those who are relating this to clonus are partially correct- it is a reflex response, but not a clonus reflex. Clonus is a sign of neurological damage, namely upper motor neurone lesions. Putting your foot on its tiptoes won't give you an upper motor neurone lesion thankfully! I... |
Are humans still evolving and how so if we are? | From what I have understood, like the other guys are saying, we are indeed evolving. Take milk for instance. Because of the human evolving we can now drink that in large quantities, which we couldn't before. |
Why is it important to conserve water? | The case where I live is that my water comes from the Ogallala aquifer, which is very very big However its also 6 million years old and a few million years ago natural formations made it near impossible to get replenished by rain, and it accounts for 82% of all drinking water in the great plains. So all of the cities t... |
Why do tennis pros need coaches? | Athletic ability is part natural talent, part acquired skill. A coach may be very skilled, but lacked the talent to be a top pro. Or they may be oldest, and have a lot of experience that they are no longer able to make use of. A coach also provides: * strategy - playing differently against different opponents and knowi... |
Why can semi trucks go for a million miles while most cars struggle after 200,000? | Trained drivers that don't abuse the vehicle alot of easy cruising, no hard accelerations, and, being diesel like other people have said. Also much higher build quality since most companies buying trucks pay top dollar for a reliable frame. A couple missed loads and breakdowns, and buying the cheaper truck doesn't end ... |
How do inventors know if their idea is already patented | You can search in several ways: * Google Patent: _URL_3_* USPTO : _URL_3_* WIPO : _URL_3_ or use a patent lawyer who will do that for you. < Best approach Alternatively you can just try to patent it and see what the Patent Office says. They will check for you as part of the application process. I really, really don't r... |
How can people commit crimes on film and not go to jail? Like in documentaries and reality TV shows? | * the shows often are faked* it often isn't complete clear a crime is committed maybe those jugs have moonshine in them, maybe not* it often isn't clear when, or in what jurisdiction the crime is commited in* a lot of the crimes are minor, low priority crimes moonshining is legal, you just need a license |
How is it possible that people are skeptical about The Sandy Hook Shooting? Are there not enough witnesses or locals to explain exactly what happened? | there is a group of people who see a tragedy, see the result of that tragedy, then work backwards and say the tragedy was created to bring about that result. these people do not want to believe we live in a world where crazy people can cause massive tragedies. a terrible tragedy MUST be weighed against an equally power... |
Why do you have to be over 18 to buy WD-40? | There is the huffing concern, of course. The other possibility is that the propellant is propane, and the oil burns really well. This makes it a very effective incendiary. |
Hot chocolate and chocolate milk | It seems that everyone replying is American so here's what we have in the UK. Milkshake mix. Can be a powder or liquid but you add it to milk, it works at low temperatures and is sweet. Hot chocolate mix. A powder you add to hot milk or water that isn't nearly as sweet and doesn't work at low temperatures. Cocoa powder... |
Why do news websites insist on using terrible video players when it would be easier and more user friendly to embed Youtube videos? | Money. The news stations can choose how many and what ads to play before, during or after the clip, and don't have to share the revenue with YouTube. They also don't have to deal with the Youtube TOS which may forbid even the slightest nudity, which is usually no big deal in most European countries.Also, why do these v... |
Can someone explain the US's love affair with Israel? | A lot of it is the fact that we have the largest ) Jewish population in the world outside of Israel. And by some accounts it's even bigger than in Israel. So there is a lot of support here for it's continued existence. Especially in the more liberal areas where empathy for Palestinians would otherwise be highest. They ... |
Do Insects ever fail in the process of metamorphosis, if so what causes these failures? | Caterpillars when in the cocoon stage digest themselves with special enzymes that are powered from all the food that they eat. If the caterpillar doesn't meet the required food amount, it either dies while in a liquid state or doesn't liquidate at all and dies in the cocoon. |
Why must households work 80hrs per week now when up to the 1980/90's 40hrs per household per week was enough for a comparable standard of living? | I've heard the theory they when women Entered the work force it doubled the available workers and flooded the market for cheap labor. Since it was so easy to replace workers you don't need too actually treat your employees well to keep them working.Has anyone seen the [CPI Inflation Calculator]? Prepare to get depresse... |
Why don't gas stations make hoses long enough to reach both sides of the car? | Just FYI, you don't need to remember. There's a little arrow on your gas gauge that points to the side of your gas cap.Some are long enough, even in the US. Also, an easy guide to help you remember which side your fuel port is on is the little arrow next to the pump icon on your fuel gauge.Never been to a petrol statio... |
Why does it cost more to buy e-books (e.g. for a Kindle) than a regular paperback? | I believe the short answer is greed, fear and intimidation. Same goes with digital download of video games. Obviously digital media is MUCH cheaper to produce and distribute. We could go on for a while about how much better it is than traditional media for both parties involved. Except, of course, the middlemen who pro... |
Why is calling a political figure "anticolonialist" taken as an insult in America, a country that has its roots in fighting colonialism? | Do you have examples of this? I am only aware of Dinesh D'Souza's piece, and that was an analysis, not an insult. |
. Why is is bad for a computer to be turned off using an external power button vs the "shut down" option on the start menu? | These days the external shut down button does the same thing as the shut down option in the start menu, so it won't make much of a difference. You can of course still do the hard shut down by keeping the shut down button pushed for several seconds. This cuts the power When you shut down normally the operating system ma... |
how can games such as Planetside 2 have so many players online without lag? | By hosting the players on a super server and some secert sauce in the game's code they probably dont want to get out. The PS3 shooter MAG had 200+ people all playing on the same map as well. |
What are the practicalities of using Linux over Windows or OSX? | I use it for home and for work . The better things in Linux are too complex to explain to non-users most of the time. One of the biggest advantages to using Linux on the desktop is the packaging system. That is a central repository where all software is stored. The repository is constantly updated when new software com... |
Why do we still have body hair? | A lot of our hair is a vestige from our primate ancestor. Humans have evolved to be relatively hairless compared to other primates. Sexual evolution is one possible factor, and adaptation to the climate or to other environmental stressors is another possible reason we evolved to have less hair. Also, keep in mind that ... |
Why are the Gulf countries, including fabulously wealthy Qatar and UAE, not taking in many refugees from their fellow Arab countries? | If you're trying to escape from Syria, the fastest and safer way is to go North , or escape in boat through the Mediterranean sea. In order to get to Qatar or UAE, you'd first have to cross through Iraq , and then cross the desert of Saudi Arabia.Because they are "fellow Arabs" in no way implies they are friendly. The ... |
Why do I look better in the mirror than I do in photographs? | Because you're a sexy beast and the complete essence of your illustrious majesty cannot be captured by a single photograph. |
Can I shrink my stomach or become less hungry permanently from dieting? | You can not shrink your stomach, but you can train yourself to be content with less. If you diet you will feel empty at first but after a week or two your body has accustomed to it, and you'll feel full on less. There are alternatives, such as a stomach balloon. Someone literally places a small balloon in your stomach ... |
How do such small doses of things like cocaine and heroin kill you? How do these small powders have such a big effect on your body? | One way to think about it: Often, the processes in our body make tiny tiny adjustment. Imagine you have a hundred switches, and your normal state is to have between 49 and 51 turned on. And, your normal activation chemicals aren't 100% accurate; if you add 100, only 2-3 switches turn on. Now, some drugs have a very muc... |
- what is in belly button lint? | I am pretty sure my belly button is trying to knit me a sweater but I keep taking away it's materials |
why is the Metric system so perfect in regards to water mass versus weight? | The meter was original intended to be one ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole along the earth's surface. Once they had the meter, more or less, they then picked the unit of weight so that it had the relationship you mentioned, that one gram is the weight of one millionth of a cubic meter of... |
what is the reasoning behind fining someone for not having health insurance? | Under the Affordable Care Act , insurance companies can't deny you coverage for preexisting conditions. If you could wait until you developed a condition to get insurance, then you would only buy insurance when you needed to see a doctor. That's not a sustainable system because you have to have people paying into the s... |
How do remote car unlocks only unlock one car in the entire world? | Not all keyless entry systems are the same, and some will unlock other vehicles. Newer versions fix older flaws in security. It's not that it can't happen. It just doesn't happen often. |
If I were to hold on to a rope tied to the moon from earth, would it drag me across the earth? | Yes it would. Or rather the Earth would spin under you as the moon orbits much slower than the earth rotates. However, the rope would be so long that it could not support it's own weight.If you were at one of the poles, the rope would move very slowly, rotating around you once every 28 days. |
How do streaming websites like Netflix etc. protect their videos from downloading? | It's not a simple video file that you would download from a torrent or through P2P. It's an adaptive stream using what's probably a proprietary format. Meaning, if your connection slows down, the quality will adapt and look blurry. If your connection is fast, the quality will get better. Most offline video players supp... |
With women now waiting longer to have children, will there be a higher incidence of babies born with Down Syndrome? | In the UK, I was told that the highest rate of Downs Syndrome births was among teenage mothers, now. That's probably due to most people aborting pregnancies if they get test results indicating trisomy 21. Among teenagers, presumably there are other factors affecting the decisions made by those who choose to bring their... |
How does a tax deductible donation work exactly? | If you itemize your deductions, you can deduct the amount you give to charity from your taxable income. Depending on your tax rate, you'd pay that much less tax on the amount you donated. So if are in the 35% tax bracket, you itemized your deductions, and gave $10,000 to your local animal shelter . Then you'd see your ... |
Why is Greece having such a hard time getting back on it's feet financially? | Go to youtube and listen to videos by Yanis Varoufakis . He explains it pretty well. I'd recommend the one he does with Dave Rubin and the other on TED. |
How are pictures of the milky way galaxy taken? | The only only true picture we get of the milky way is sideways, because our planet lies in the same plane with all the other stars an planets and clouds. [Wikipedia's article] has several photographs of what we can see from Earth, as well as an artist's rendering of a galactic map based on what we have observed. |
- Which variable should I put on which axis? | What isn't being measured is on the X-axis and what is is on the Y. Changes go up and down on the Y but the X stays the same. |
Why does erasing a hard disk need multiple passes? | It doesn't and it's basically an urban legend at this point, [read this for a little perspective.] A single wipe setting all bits to 0 is more than sufficient to prevent any data recovery, and organisations that have sensitive data usually throw old drives in a shredder anyway after a quick format to 100% ensure data i... |
Why did facebook become the king of social media rather than myspace? | Old person here. It's 2008, I've just heard social media is a thing. Let's check it out. Site 1: Welcome to MySpace! Let's make a big art project! It might take hours! Me: I don't understand how to work this and it looks like it takes a lot of time. Nope. Next! Site 2: Welcome to Facebook! Fill out this short form. Con... |
Why is giving birth painful? | The problem with the question is assuming there was an evolutionary relationship between the feeling experienced during sex and the feeling experienced when giving birth. A motivation to reproduce is useful, but you don't need a motivation to have the child. Once the good feelings from sex subside, the choice is made. ... |
Who are the Koch brothers and why is everyone making a big deal about them? | I'm pretty sure there is a documentary about them. Try Youtube or Netflix. I think Netflix is where I watched it.They are very rich people who fund the tea party and other right-wing political movements that advocate for de-regulating businesses and cutting taxes. They are the "puppet masters" behind prominent politici... |
If blind people cannot see sunrise/sunset, how are their biological clocks synchronised? | In addition to their eyesight humans posses a light-sense - they can literally feel whether they're in a lit environment or in the dark without their eyes. |
I love two different girls. Why can I not marry them both, assuming they're both willing participants of a "three-way" marriage? | A few reasons why polyamorous marriages aren't legal beyond religion and tradition. The case of Divorce becomes very messy especially if the triad doesn't seperate completely or the really difficult state where A and B stay married B and C stay Married but A and C want divorce. It also makes certain power of attorney s... |
Why do we get disgusted at ourselves as we see what we masturbated to, after getting off? | Pressure NOT to beat it you received during your formative years. I don't feel bad, per se, but I always go from porn to some site and look for tools or such afterwards |
What happens to the atoms of an object cut in half? | Atoms don't do anything. When cutting, you're seperation molecules from each other. You're not even cutting molecules apart. |
why do we rely on cops to turn on their own body cams? We have the technology to remote control them and to alert when they are tampered with. | Cop here. We have them. I love them. It takes a while to develop the routine to turn it on when doing things. Sometimes things just pop out and you forget and you don't have time to turn it on. But that's rare. It just takes time to get your people used to the second nature to turn it on. Ours also records 30 back from... |
Why isn't there a hybrid offspring when one species mates with another? | Because that's how we classify species. When two animals can't mate with each other. Then they are a different species. |
why even If I am on a 60 Hz monitor, 100 fps feels smoother than 60fps | Because they aren't synchronized. If your computer was putting out a frame and your monitor was displaying that frame at a rate of 60 per second that would be the smoothest. However, your computer is generating frames and your monitor is refreshing at different intervals. Thus higher frame-rates ensure that the frame t... |
Why are logical fallacies so convincing? | Because some of these fallacies are often right. They are not *always* right, which is why they are fallacies: they can't be used as formal proof because they're not true 100% of the time. Take for example the appeal to authority: just because a figure of authority says something, that doesn't formally prove it because... |
If musicians practice constantly the orchestra why they need to be directed by the conductor? | They don't practice with each other constantly at all, most orchestras rehearse a composition with the conductor _once_. NPR at one time had a series where you could listen to rehearsals of major philharmonics and it was just fascinating; the conductor is absolutely integral to the way the piece is played in a hundred ... |
Guide dogs for the blind, how do they know where to take someone? | Guide dogs only know the basics when they get an owner, they are trained in behaviour, commands and identifying dangers. But they don't know the area of their future workplace. The person that trained the dog will spend several days with the new owner and walk with him where ever he has to go until the dog can connect ... |
When a criminal offence becomes legal, what happens to the prisoners who were convicted of it? | The same btw is true in the opposite direction. Let's say cigarettes became illegal, no one would be charged for smoking before the law went into effect, only if they were caught doing it after |
the difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke, surely you only need the one product? | I have had acid reflux off and on for a bit and enjoy the occasional diet coke, I tried coke zero and it seriously pissed my stomach off. Turns out one of the major differences in the formula's is a decrease of the amount of aspartame from diet coke and instead increasing the amount of phosphoric acid, which is the mai... |
Why do banks put a hold on debit card charges even if that charge is immediately voided? | I've never understood this myself. Amazing how banks can take money instantly, but recrediting it is a whole process that can take 3-14 days. |
Why being hungover makes people horny. | **Please read this entire message** --- Your submission has been removed for the following reason: Loaded questions are not allowed on ELI5. It doesn't? ---If you would like this post reviewed, please [message the moderators.] Please make sure you have read our [detailed rules] first.I would like to know this. Does it ... |
COMPUTER BINARY CODE- or how does a computer work? | Yes computers still use binary. The basic input to a 'computer' in terms of binary is a fixed-length chunk of 0's an 1's. The digits in that chunk have various and specific meanings for whatever architecture the 'computer' has . In real, physical terms, the 1's and 0's in the chunk consumed by the computer translate to... |
Why do some stars flicker while others are stable? | What's up with that one star that seems to rapidly change colours all the time as if there's a space rave going on? |
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