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How can really old movies be shown in HD when they were originally filmed on a rubbish camera? | This is possible if the original film is still in good shape and can be re-processed. It's the transfer technology and storage technology that was the limiting step. Old film is not bad in any way -- just like how a film camera actually has much higher resolution than any current digital cameras . |
Why does relaxing/removing drug laws lead to a decrease in drug use? | It's complicated, but two factors that seem key are: #1: Drugs are expensive and profitable to sell because they are illegal, not because they are expensive to produce. Making them legal reduces their profitability, so dealers are likely to move to other activities, reducing supply. #2: The forbidden fruit angle. When ... |
How is Magic Johnson living so long with HIV/AIDS? | Mostly it is better medical care. When AIDS was first discovered it was a death sentence, because there was no known treatment let alone a cure. Over time doctors began developing new and better treatments. By the time Magic Johnson contracted HIV medical science had progressed far enough that he could be treated. Most... |
Why does my old handheld hiking GPS require nothing at all, but my phone's GPS require a service provider and data? | I laughed when I read this question and wondered why your phone would need data, then I realized it doesn't have the maps saved in Google Maps or Waze. I've used CoPilot Navigation on my OFFLINE Nexus 7 tablet for the past 2 years by saving the entire map of the USA then it will navigate routes and even return phone nu... |
at what point did humans come up with the concepts of first and last names? What was the purpose of last names, since many others shares the same last names as each other? | You talkin bout Muhammad Muhammad Muhammad? Yeah Muhammad's kid .. his uncle Muhammad was a good guy", 'It's just a way of clarifying that became convention. "You know John? Yeah, he's Peter's son John Peter's son = John Peterson." "If you want a really great cake, you should take to John the Baker." = "John Baker." "I... |
why don't we put all the severely endangered species in captivity where they are safe from bad guys and can make babies | * Some species do not do well in captivity and die * Some species can survive in captivity but never reproduce or have successful offspring. * Most species require a minimum number of individuals in order to keep their gene pool healthy, sometimes there aren't enough zoos or breeding programs to maintain these large nu... |
why isn't it illegal to cook a lobster alive? Especially considering the amount of controversy there is surrounding the slaughter of other animals such as chickens. | This comments thread is so bizarre I don't know where to begin. First of all it's unclear whether lobsters feel pain, in the same way humans or mammals do. They react to things that would cause us pain, to be sure, they wouldn't be very successful animals otherwise but whether they *suffer* has not been conclusively an... |
Why do some people vomit if they take vitamins on an empty stomach? | YMMV, but for me it tears up my stomach. Doesn't make me vomit, but makes me nauseated for sure. This only happens for me with generic multi vitamins. Whenever I take a women's multivitamin, this no longer happens. But either way, you should take vitamins with food for A) the sake of your stomach lining in the long run... |
What happens if California actually does run out of water? Do we have a Plan B? | It depends on what you mean by run out. Some places already have no running water but the major cities will all probably never run out because even if the resivoirs that usally give them water run out, CA already imports a ton of water from sourrounding states. Lastly, a rain heavy year is predicted because of the El N... |
Why do most companies have 2 doors, but keep 1 locked, even putting a sign saying, "Use the other door"? | Only writing from experience. I work at a gas station with double doors we only do that when its windy as fuck, since the doors open at different angles usually one will stay open on the wind and cause lighter products to blow off shelves. How ever we can't lock ours so I just move a outside trash bin in the way. Fun t... |
Why are there tax brackets and not straight percents? | Marginal utility of dollars if you're making $30,000, then every dollar is much more important to meeting your basic needs of shelter, transportation, food, clothing, heat/electricity, etc. than if you're making $300,000. So it thus makes sense to take a lower percentage of income when you're just trying to make basic ... |
If computers are lightning-fast at running calculations and performing tasks, why does "freezing" take seconds or even minutes? | If you send computer into infinite calculations - it's really don't matter if he is slow or fast. He will be calculating it forever). Like: While do I=I+1. It's freeze because of code bug. Or let's say there may be semaphore lock. Process A need resources X and Y to complete his job. He will lock resource X, but Y is a... |
If I lost all forms of ID and have never been fingerprinted, how can I prove who I am? | In Canada losing everything is a lot more convenient than losing everything but 1 piece of ID. If you lose it all everyone freaks out and rushes them to you, if you lose everything but say a Driver's license, good fucking luck. Find a notary and then do some paperwork. Its not terribly terrible but your looking at abou... |
Why do schools in the US invest so much money in sports when education appears to be falling behind? | Because there's no billion-dollar March Madness for academics. Even if there were, no one would watch it.Because sports are essentially another part of the education system. They teach teamwork, leadership, and since many underfunded schools are in crime ridden areas, the most important thing at the time for those comm... |
Who reads The Onion? Why? | > Why read it if it's all bs? Why watch a movie if it's all BS? Fictional things can clearly be entertaining, or no one would watch anything but documentaries. The Onion is a satire news source. It's intended to be comedic. |
Why is Japan the defacto "source" of such extremely weird pornography (tentacles, etc) yet their regular pornography is always censored? | First of all, Japan is one of the world's major porn producers. I think the USA is the biggest, and Western European countries and Brazil are the other 2 big porn producing areas. So you can expect a fair amount of various types of porn from Japan. Secondly, there's probably some weird porn being made anywhere that lot... |
Why do people say the wage gap is a "myth" and what are the counter arguments? | The wage gap is not a result of women simply being paid less than their male coworkers. That is the myth. The gap exists because men are attracted to higher paying industries, like engineering and computer science. In my first programming class, there was *one* girl in the whole class. She was constantly picked on by b... |
How do songs "leak" if they haven't been released anywhere in the world? | Because songs are recorded in an studio and then produced, so I guess there's someone who leaks them from there |
how we are able to remember that we've forgot something, but not remember what we've actually forgot? | I once read that the brain changes out a whole set list of pre-conceived notions that come with each room. So let's say, you enter the kitchen. Your brain knows things about that place, ie., you've hit your hip on corner, that hot burner, the threshold is loose, etc, muscle memory takes over for this particular spot in... |
Do pets pick up any human qualities during their lifespan since they are technically raised by humans? | Sleep. Our dogs sleep all day long and can be woken with no notice and they're happy to play. But once we go to bed at night until we wake up in the morning, they're dead to the world.My dog learned to hug me by watch me and my sister hug. One day, he just started hugging my leg. It was pretty cute.My pig definitely sc... |
Why is/was the federal mail service (USPS) in debt and on the brink of financial failure, while independent services (UPS, FedEx) remain profitable? | Probably not a good apples to apples comparison. Usps has to answer to Congress and the taxpayers, Ups only has to answer to their stockholders and customers. The result is the post office has a lot of things that ups doesn't have to worry about. |
Why do companies have a fiduciary duty to be endlessly increasing profits? | Companies do not have a fiduciary duty to increase profits. Companies can be run to maximize whatever value the owners of the company want to emphasize. Take a family owned business that wants to build a strong product with brand recognition. The family could reinvest all of the business's revenues back in the business... |
Why doesn't everyone keep their money in tax haven accounts? | You aren't taxed on the money you have, but the money you make. It's not enough to move money into some account off shore, the whole process is much more elaborate, and geared toward avoiding paying taxes on interest accrued or capital gains; income tax, too, sure, but rich people don't get rich on income tax. And to p... |
Why don't companies make border-less LCD screens for multiple desktop users like coders, gamers, etc? | As someone that has replaced multiple lcd panels on various computers if say fragility is the biggest reason. The lcd panel itself could be border less on the top and sides, bottom would need to hide the cable, but it is totally possible. You will still have a small border though just on the LCD itself . Handling an lc... |
how being transgender isn't a mental disorder? | From what I understand as a straight male, born male that studied English: Essentially, since both men and women are the same up until a certain point in the womb, sometimes the signal comes for the cells to create one sex while the hormone systems are primed and ready for the other. This causes a conflict between the ... |
Why is any (even bad) publicity considered good? | Best real world application I can think of is youtube drama. See how they lose subs for a while but in the end, end up with more total subs than before? They've gotten more exposure. More people know of them now. It's the same as those deals that operate at a loss in stores/fast food joints.Besides what's already been ... |
Why are drivers outside the US so bonkers? | Infrastructure. I spent some time in Vietnam and couldn't believe the contrast - I asked some locals and they explained it's just the norm. The country just hadn't invested in proper infrastructure . I suppose it's only 'bonkers' if you're not use to it! |
If humans cannot reach the ocean floor without being crushed by the pressure of the water above them, how do bottom feeders and other deep sea creatures manage to survive down there? | We can't go down there because we have to maintain an internal pressure of 1 atmosphere. They evolved to live at X atmospheres of pressure, so they don't have any problems. The problems we have are trying to create a vessel that can withstand that pressure difference between X and 1 atmospheres, while being light enoug... |
Lying to police is illegal, yet why don't women who make false rape accusations face charges? | There are cases where women have been charged for making false rape accusations. However, you usually don't hear about it because it happens weeks or months after the case has been in the spotlight and by that time, no one really cares about the case anymore. By the time, it just gets a brief mention that the accusatio... |
Congratulations LI5, you are the fastest growing subreddit in Reddit's history. | I'd like to answer your question, but there doesn't seem to be one. Please delete your post and try again. |
Why there aren't any human size insects? | Insect don't have lungs.they get Oxygen though Spiracles the Oxygen also doesn't get pumped through their system via blood. I think their internal system just gets pressurized. this type of system is not very efficient and the max size of the insects is limited by how much oxygen they can process", 'The oxygen based an... |
Why doesn't California just build a water pipeline to help fix the drought, similar to how oil pipelines bring in oil? | Think about this. A 1 foot diameter pipe, 1 foot long contains 5.87 gallons of water. A pipe from say Chicago to Los Angeles would be a little over 2000 miles long, would hold approx 6.2 x 10^7 gallons of water. The great lakes themselves hold approx 6.0×10^15 gallons of water. The deficit in California is approx 11 tr... |
How come redditors *always* have a suitable gif animation in the comments section? | In addition the great imgur links here, you can google for gifs by including 'filetype:gif' in the search terms. And include 'site:_URL_2_' to limit your search to that domain. For those moments when you're like 'there just has to be a gif for that'. |
Why build streetcars/trolleys when busses work fine? | I don't know what the official reasoning is, but I think it makes a lot of sense to put in streetcars in areas that get a lot of tourist traffic. Bus lines are complicated and intimidating, particularly for those not used to traveling by bus. Whenever I travel by bus, I'm never entirely sure that I've gotten on the rig... |
Why are some college programs so rigorous? | If you love something to the point where you are able to put up with the entire world's bullshit you will work so hard that you will accomplish your goal. If you ignore the fact that the amount of studying you are going through is never going to be worth the money alone you are on the right track. If you wanna be someo... |
How is it that NASA can stay in contact with ships that are hundreds of millions of miles away, but phone companies have such limited ranges of coverage? | NASA doesn't have to deal with maintaining many connections at the same time. They also don't have to deal with the kind of interferences that exist on Earth. And, as /u/PoopyPooperman points out, they are dealing with different sorts of data. |
What motivation to hackers/pirates have to share pirated media with the masses? | As someone who's pirated over 30 gigs of comic books, I've often wondered this myself.I read this comment once on here a few days ago, It is now my favorite and I think it applies: Because Fuck The Police. |
Why are stories about individual rape cases in India top stories in United States news media? | ITT Indian nationalism vs American nationalism. The thread title is a loaded question anyways. Indian rape stories are NOT top stories in the US. I have never, ever seen an Indian rape story be the lead story on a US newcast. Not even close. If anything they would just get a brief mention towards the middle or end of t... |
Why can some products like milk, be storaged at room temperature but must immediately be kept in a refrigerator if they are opened for an instant? | Foods are pasteurized, canned, otherwise treated once packaged to kill all bacteria inside the can by heating them. Once it's opened and new bacteria can get it, then it must be refrigerated to preserve it longer. |
Whats the difference between AM and FM radio? | From a listeners standpoint, FM delivers stereo sound, as well as a frequency response to 15khz, whereas AM drops at 7khz. In short, FM is closer to the average music recording's inherent qualities.. Conversely, the advantages of FM don't mean much for stations that are in a talk or news format , hence the type of prog... |
How can a battery charger output 5V when connected to a 110V outlet, but higher output devices can't be connected to a 220V outlet? | The battery change has a citcuit that's designed to make 5V from 110V. Other devices might have a circuit that lets them run from either voltage, like a laptop power supply. Most devices would be much moe expensive with such a circuit, so it's not part of them. |
How do trends in baby names happen? | I'd say mostly due to popular media, at least in the US. Like TV Shows and Movies. Large number of Khalisi, Danni, and Daneris ever since game of thrones got big, for instance. As far as names which are no longer common , that all tends to happen in waves, I think. People grow up knowing a lot of Stevens and get tired ... |
Why does upload bandwidth cost so much more than download bandwidth? | It doesn't, really. I assume you're talking about consumer grade Internet, where the bandwidth is skewed very heavily towards downloads since most people download far, far more than they upload. |
If the keyboard was being designed today, would it have the current layout? | No. The standard QWERTY keyboard was designed for mechanical typewriters. One of the problems they had was that if two adjacent keys were pressed together too closely in time, they'd jam up. The keyboard layout tried to prevent this. It is not the optimally efficient keyboard. |
Why do American students score worse than international children, while America spends more money per capita on education than any other country in the world? | We spend the money on everyone. The US is a nation that believes in education for everyone. In many parts of the world, students are put on tracks early on and are no longer considered in 'general education'. Think of all the students who were Juniors and Seniors who didn't want to be at your school. Their test scores ... |
Why do cats always lift their butts and their tails way up in the air when you scratch them right in front of the base of their tale? | There are scent gland at the base of a cat's tail. Scratching this area releases some of that scent. They push up against whatever's scratching them in order to get more scent onto it, and thus mark their territory. The same type of glands are located in a cat's face as well, which is why they rub their faces against e... |
Why are graphic cards so expensive? And why do AMD and Nvidia not have much competition? | You think your gaming cards are expensive? My work just bought me a workstation with a K5000 in it. That's a $2000 graphics card, and my understanding is there's not much difference between it and a gaming card except for some driver tweaks. Explain that! |
Why do SCUBA divers go into the water backwards instead of front first? | Simple explanation for a five year old: Because it's easier to sit on the side of the boat and fall backward into the water than it is to lift your feet with fins, stand on the narrow side wall of the boat, balance yourself for a second without falling back into the boat, and then jump forward into the water. |
Why do some sounds, such as fingernails on a chalkboard, or aluminium cans tearing, cause physical discomfort to some people? | I have this same issue, but not with sounds, it is textures. The feel of one of those grooved, 3D printed 'motion' gift cards is enough to send me running away gritting my teeth. Anyone else have this?", 'Does anyone get the feeling in their front teeth. I have to like physically hold onto them them when I experience t... |
Why do some people hate Labor Unions? | There was a time when unions were very necessary. During the industrial revolution working conditions were poor and we needed some group to step in and mediate between business owners and workers. In 21st century America things look a lot different, the government has stepped in to fill the place of the labor union wit... |
In a hostage situation, where the assailant is holding the hostages in a contained location, why can they not use some sort of gas/chemical that knocks out everyone inside? | Robber: I'm starting to feel sleepy,that's strange. All my hostages are getting sleepy too .OH SHIT THEIR TRYIN TO DRUG ME! *kills all hostages", 'Are there any babies or pregnant women inside? What about hostages with heart problems? Do the bad guys have gas masks? What is the risk of them just firing indiscriminately... |
how can cyanide kill in seconds? | From wikipedia: > Many cyanides are highly toxic. The cyanide anion is an inhibitor of the enzyme cytochrome c oxidase in the fourth complex of the electron transport chain . It attaches to the iron within this protein. The binding of cyanide to this cytochrome prevents transport of electrons from cytochrome c oxidase ... |
Why is the US constitution viewed as sacred text which can't be changed? | It's not sacrosanct or anything like that, just changing it as a major legal and political pain in the ass and a minefield. Changes to gun rights have been mainly done through court decisions and executive orders. |
If STD basically transmit through Sex, how did the very first person got it? Example Syphilis / Gonorrhea | You seem to be assuming that the diseases were always sexually transmitted. That might not be the case. Syphilis for example, which is caused by the bacteria Treponema pallidum pallidum is related to Yaws which is caused by Treponema pallidum pertenue. Yaws is not known for being sexually transmitted . The exact histor... |
Anti-virus, how does it work, what's the best one, and why does everyone hate Norton? | I like [ESET's Nod32]. Best antivirus I've ever used. Source: I'm a software developer and general computer nerd. |
How does plagiarism work in universities? | If you're a grad student, you're expected to be writing at a professional academic level. When something isn't cited, the expectation is that it is either common knowledge or a novel contribution to the field, so if you're copy-pasting from your own previously written paper without citation, you're misleading your read... |
if I can make skyrim looks almost lifelike with mods why don't the game designers use the same methods the modders do? | Do you want six install disks with a price tag of $100? Because that's how you get six install disks with a price tag of $100.Deadlines and goals. And as everyone says games have to run on an "average" PC. |
Why DOTA 2 is such a big deal | This [Youtube] video is great at explaining what Dota 2 is, designed for people who have no idea, I'd recommend watching it. |
Why doesn't NATO or UN not send military to claim MH17 crash site? | Money, lives, and public opinion. It costs lots of money to deploy the US military somewhere. Deploying troops in the Ukraine would cost at least billions of dollars. It is not a situation where anyone wants to risk their soldiers lives. The Ukraine is neither a member of NATO nor a close US ally. The flight that was l... |
it's obvious radioactive water leaking into the ocean, but what does this mean for the rest of the world? | The ocean is a big place. Also remember that numerous nuclear tests shot fallout all over the world in the 50s and 60s, but we're all still here. |
What exactly is hiccuping and why do we do it? | I read somewhere that hiccups are a very old evolutionary trait that first formed with amphibians like frogs. What the hiccuping did was to stop the frog from accidently inhaling water. The brain is not the only part of the body that can react to the world, sometimes the spine can react to powerful enough stimuli so th... |
In NFL games. how do they render lines on the field to show first down but the lines don't draw over the players. | Greenscreen type digital graphic software. Afaik the jerseys don't have the exact same colour wavelength as the grass. See, TV weather forecasters, they rarely or never wear that green colour. |
How does a teacher get 22 years in jail for having sex with three 17 year old students, and Anders Breivik 21 years for killing 77 people? | Anders Breivik, according to my friend in Norway is in jail for as long as he is deemed to be a threat to society. He acted EXTREMELY stupidly in court, even going so far as to say that he didn't respect the sentence he was given by the court because the lawyer gunning against him was a woman. Breivik is up for a *POTE... |
Why are some pale skinned people able to tan easily but others just burn and peel? | It's all dependent on the genes you inherited and the amount of active melanin your body has. Darker skinned people still may experience burning if they inherited that gene, while other lighter skinned people may never burn but have very little active melanin. |
How exactly do companies like Amazon and UPS ship anywhere in the US in a day? | think of it this way. you can get a person anywhere in the world in 24hrs or less. so you can do the same thing for packages. you just have to optimize your distribution network. basically works like this. 1. person drops off package at a ups retail store or dropbox.2. truck takes package to distribution center or larg... |
When new submarines, boats, and other marine vessels are added to the seas why doesn't the displaced water cause the ocean to rise? | Fill your bathtub up and put a bar of soap in the tub . Doesn't noticeably move. Water is displaces. Just not near enough to notice. Now drop a grain of sand in. That is more relative to a boat in the ocean. It is displaced. Just no where near a measurable amount. Also with the ocean you need to think about tides being... |
How Do Stores with Seemingly No Customers Stay In Business? | When do you walk by those stores? This might not be an answer for every store, but certain stores' customer cycles change with the passing hour. For example, that small grocery might not be bumpin' at 3 in the afternoon, but it's probably swarmed from 6-9 as people are stopping in for coffee and breakfast on their way ... |
how does email work for the POTUS? | Normally, Presidents give up cell phones and such when they get into office, but Obama was adamant about hanging onto his Blackberry, so the NSA whipped him up a secure version that can't be intercepted or hacked. One presumes that the members of his family have similar devices.I have always wondered that too. Remember... |
On gas stoves that say lit, what keeps the flame from traveling down the gas line? | Because gas needs a fairly specific ratio of air to gas to burn. In the gas lines, there is no air, so the flame can't go there. You can even blow out a lit match with a jet of pure natural gas. |
Why am I sometimes witty and full of conversation and other times I find myself struggling with even small talk? | You're an ambivert. So am I. I'm a pro musician and spend a ton of time with large groups of people and entertaining audiences, but often times I get worn down and can't really turn the social switch on. I find that if I go and have a few hours of quiet time I can recharge the batteries and be ready for more. I really ... |
Why Blind people cant have Eye Transplants from Dead people? | Leaving aside blindness unrelated to the eye, we don't have the ability to rejoin nerves - and the optic nerve is what carries the eye's information to the brain for processing. |
I'm 24 years old and I have no idea what the real 'birds and bees' analogy actually is. | in 5th grade I was researching the medieval ages and so my brilliant head just decided to type something like _URL_3_ into the url bar, at the time it was a porn site, anyways that was my first encounter with porn. At first I was like nasty then I kept going back to it for some reason Now I know why I came back to it ;... |
Why can't Jurassic Park happen? | Because DNA has a shelf life, theoretically it would be possible to clone a wooly mammoth by using an elephant to carry it but that's about as far back as we can go. After death DNA starts breaking down over time making gaps |
Why do stationary cars shake from high speed passing traffic, yet pedestrians barely feel a breeze? | The pressure change occurs more quickly as you effectively pass oncoming traffic twice as fast as a pedestrian does. This gives the pressure wave more 'power'. A car is bigger, the pressure difference has a larger area to work on so more total force is applied. |
Why do old television voices sound so different? Did people talk differently or are they recording artifacts? | 1. People used to over-enunciate because recording technology wasn't as good1. Recording tech didn't capture as much bass as it does today, which is why old recordings seem to have higher-pitched voices1. Regional accents weren't as acceptable in broadcasting as they are today - for example, BBC presenters/announcers u... |
Why am I deathly afraid of cockroaches while only very mildly discomforted by other pests? | I hate roaches, too. I figure it's because they are small, really fast, incredibly ugly, and some of them even fly and they are unpredictable. That's why I was afraid of butterflies when I was younger. The erratic way they fly is terrifying to a youngin'. |
Why is there always blue raspberry candy/drinks and never blueberry? | So is this why blueberry Izzie soda is so fucking hard to find? Because blueberries are stupid to grow? Seriously? It's im-fucking-possible to find blueberry flavored izzie ANYWHERE. They always have every other flavor, but blueberry. It's not even my location, I've moved states, TWICE and it's not carried regularly. I... |
Say SOPA passes. Exactly what websites are in danger/will be taken down, and exactly why? | Would it be correct to say that the American Government can shut down any international site . But this would not effect the host country. e.g they shut down _URL_0_ but it wouldn't shut it down for British people, only Americans. |
why does staring at a blue screen in the night mess with our natural body clock? | Interestingly enough, when blue light reaches your eyes, it stimulates nerves that turn off the production of melatonin, whereas red light doesn't! It's temporary, just while being stimulated. But this is a big reason why people shouldn't be on computers and phones and tablets before bed - to avoid all this light |
How can China launch massive cyberwarfare operations against the USA with no consequences? | 1.) Prove it's the government doing the hacking and not a citizen 2.) China is a huge country, with lot's of power and influence in the world, same as the USA. You can't exactly just start a war or embargo them over something so small. 3.) We probably do the same to them. Every country has spies. |
How do we know that people with amnesia aren't faking it? | If someone commits to a lifetime of traumatic illness, who cares if they're faking it - I wouldn't even be mad. But honestly. You can probably scan brains to point it out. Show them a picture of their mom and the brain lights up a certain way. As a matter of fact, we figure out how the mind works by studying damage. So... |
Why do people with higher income have to pay more in taxes? | It's because a flat tax is regressive; that is, it's harder on poorer people than middle class or rich people. The reason is simple: Once very basic living expenses are met, the poor have very little income left. If everyone has to pay 15%, then, well, that's really easy for CEO McMillions, and not bad for me. But for ... |
What are the causes of antibiotic resistance? Is this something that was going to happen eventually no matter what? | when you are prescribed an antibiotic for say E. coli and they give you some amoxicillin and tell you to take one everyday for 7 days. So by day 4 your feeling pretty good and don't think you need to keep taking the meds and then just stop, this is a large cause of resistant bacteria.The reason for this is that the cul... |
How is the British police force able to operate effectively when most of its officers don't carry guns? | They don't carry lethal guns, their weapons can still stop people, it just typically doesn't kill them |
Why your teeth chatter when it's cold | You're teeth don't actually chatter, it's your jaw that does it, causing your teeth vibrate against each other. Because you're cold, your body moves faster in an attempt to generate heat. |
What is space-time and what relationship does gravity have with it? | Space is everything, it's where you are now. Time is movement through space, such as you moving or the planet spinning, basically time always moves forward because you're always moving through space. Gravity it the change in the shape of space due to the size of an object. It's a bit more complicated than that but the ... |
Why do we treat North Korea as a joke when their atrocities are even somewhat comparable with those committed by Nazis in the Holocaust? | There is not much to gain from going to war with North Korea. They have a sizable army and it might not be easy. As the previous posts said, media is controlled mostly be western countries and unless it directly affects them or there is something to gain they will basically ignore it. Look at the examples of Yugoslavia... |
How humans became the dominant/most intelligent species when it takes so long to master actions that are instinctive to other mammals (walking, swimming, hunting etc) | Prior to any real technological discovery, we're very adaptive and resourceful. Like other mammals that seem to flourish in a multitude of environments, we're omnivorous. And what makes us both great hunters and survivors is our ability to run great distances because we're able to breathe both through our noses and mou... |
Why did the price of RAM skyrocket? | That was the nadir for desktop DDR3 Manufacturers weren't making much money at that price so they switched to other types . The reduced supply and competition allowed prices to rise. There was a fire at Hynix in 2013 but that's not a huge deal - it came back online pretty quickly and IIRC they weren't even manufacturin... |
The state of the union address and what it means for the average American. | It's, traditionally, a speech given every year where the president lays out his policy goals and what he wants Congress to work on. It's more of a rallying cry than anything. The opposing side uses it as a great time to voice their own objections to whatever the policies are. It's not much unless you like watching spee... |
During times of high heat index > 90 they ask to decrease the use of AC and to adjust it to 78 instead of 72. | It does save energy to raise the AC from 72 to 78, no matter how hot it is outside. You can think of AC units as not necessarily generating cold air, but sucking heat out of a room. The greater the difference in temperature between the room and the outside, the more energy it take to suck the heat out of the room. If i... |
Will someone please explain what torque is? | i have read all the responses, most are right, but seeing as this is ELI5 i'll put it simply. It's turning/twisting force. |
Why do dogs hate vacuum cleaners so much? | It's the noise. Dogs communicate by barking, growling, and snarling. A vacuum cleaner probably sounds like the spawn of satan is about to attack them so they react accordingly. |
– why are doctors not allowed to self diagnosed? | Doctors can self diagnose all they want. They can't prescribe themselves drugs . The reason for this should be clear - it would be very easy for a doctor to abuse prescription drugs this way. |
The difference between Sharp Cheddar and Mild Cheddar | For anyone that's interested, Cheddar gets its name from a village in Somerset, England. _URL_0_ Well worth a visit. |
why the big media companies just don't hire specialists and DDOS pirate bay and other torrent trackers into oblivion? | Well, DDoSing is illegal either way. Two Wrongs don't make a right. If they did this they could, in theory, be sued by someone because they're blocking service by crashing their servers via sending so much information to a server at one time that the servers shut down due to not being able to handle it.Right and wrong ... |
Why is carpet used in the floors of vehicles? It seems the worst possible material to use. | I didn't read through all the other answers. But put simply, friction. You step in dirt/mud/sand/whatever, then onto a hard surface , instant abrasion. Basically sliding sandpaper across the hard surface every time you get in. With carpet you don't get that. It basically knocks all that off. And prevents the debris fro... |
Why is it that I get bored of eating the same evening dinner twice in a row, but can eat the same breakfast for the rest of life? | Cuz breakfast food is the best food! Seriously, some evenings, when i dont know what to eat i'll just make a second breakfast. ^^^like ^^^some ^^^kind ^^^of ^^^hobbit |
Why do workout instructors always remind everyone to keep breathing and why is it my instinct to hold my breath when I'm working out? | I have no idea why your instinct is to hold your breath. However, with breathing this is due to oxygen. Your muscles need oxygen to work effectively and when you don't breath you increase your chance of injury.Focusing on breathing is also a way to relax and center yourself, or even distract yourself from the pain of y... |
How can I differentiate between satellites and stars with my naked eye when looking at the night sky? | If you're looking with the naked eye, seeing a stationary satellite would require a combination of perfect viewing conditions and lucky geometry . Geostationary satellites usually fall around a magnitude of +11 or dimmer, while best-case middle-of-nowhere naked eye viewing allows you to see +6 or +7, and higher is dimm... |
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