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- If you don't read anything for a long period of time, would you eventually forget how to read? | depending on how old you were when you learned to read, yes. people who learn japanese as adults forget how to read it if they don't use it for a while. |
On average by mass, weight, or other objects (oceans or mountains) is the Earth truly spherical? | The spinning of the Earth on its axis actually contribute to it being an oblate spheroid - A squashed sphere the volume around the equator extended further because of the spinning As for for movable mass, due to the amount they contribute to the Earth's mass, not much at all, and the fact that you could theoretical say... |
Since restaurant employers have to make up the difference if servers tips are less than minimum wage, why is it such a big deal if people don't tip? | because employers rarely make up the difference, it's not a well-enforced provision of the law. and minimum wages is still very low, whereas with tips a server might get between $15-$25/hr depending on the type of restaurant min wage will just get them to < $8hr. |
Can anyone simply explain the google stock split where the stock went down to half its normal price | The split into different categories of stock is not usually the way a company splits it's stock. Normally during a stock split you are given some multiple of the number of shares of the same class as before, but with a lower trading price. When this is done you will own the same total value of shares, you will just own... |
Why tensing your body during a car crash increases your chance of injury? And why have we evolved to tense this way if remaining limp is better for survival? | A rigid object is more likely to break on impact than a soft object. For comparison, try taking a cooked spaghetti noodle and an uncooked one and throwing them both at a wall. > And why have we evolved to tense this way if remaining limp is better for survival? We didn't evolve to be good at surviving car crashes. It's... |
Why aren't pills flavored? | There actually are flavored pills. But for the most part, companies don't find it worth their while. Most people would probably still rather buy the brand they think works best, or the cheapest off-brand thing they can find. The 3 seconds of weird taste just isn't that off-putting for most people I guess. |
Why can't video game graphics be as realistic as movie CGI or the in-game cutscenes? | Former game developer here, The difference is in the capabilities of pre-rendering and real-time rendering. A modern console can render ~400k polygons per single frame - at 60 frames per second. A pre-render in a cutscene or in a movie is going to be in the hundreds of millions per frame. Further, the equations and alg... |
Why would Time Warner Cable go down across the country simultaneously? | I don't know, but this has been happening for like two weeks and I am getting really salty. |
Why can I not pay network providers (eg: ESPN, NBC) to watch their channels online? | Espn has espn3 which plays everything. I don't think you have to have a cable subsciption. Its either free with a free espn online account or it might be with an espn insiderf account which is like 2 dollar a month. They have a bunch of games on espn3. |
In American healthcare, what happens to a patient who isn't insured and cannot afford medical bills? | I hope the OP sees this. I might be too late. Anyways, I am a 28 year old male who has gone the last 6-7 years without any health insurance. I have something like $50,000 in medical debt on my credit. I'll never pay it off. Because of this terrible credit: I can't get a mobile phone activated unless it is prepaid. I ca... |
Why do we remember things happening differently as a child than they actually happened? | The thing is I do this about things that happened last week, not to a huge degree but still different, I wonder if it's got something to do with our own views and motivations reflecting on our view of the situation? |
Why are cups wider at the top than at the bottom? | ok imagine if it was the other way around. In your mind expand it out much wider to visualize it. So you drink some amount and there's a small amount left in the cup. To drink that last sip you will have to tilt your head way back around for it to flow into your mouth", 'When cups are ejected from the mold, it is neces... |
Why do Soap Operas look so Soap Opera-y? | I've noticed that in some soap operas they have lots of night time scenes because the day time scenes look awful. |
How do lead vests protect you from radiation during X-rays when they aren't covering your whole body? | - Lead protects you because it's dense. Gold would work even better . The secret to protecting against any sort of electromagnetic radiation is just to put *mass* between the source and you this is the same reason fallout bunkers tend to be underground. - Something called the Tissue Weighting Factor . Things like the g... |
Why does everyone attack Walmart for paying their associates minimum wage when almost every other store does the exact same thing? | According to one of my friends from Canada, y'all *love* Walmart. Idk why. Americans hate Walmart not just for the minimum wage. They practice slimy - not exactly illegal - practices. For instance, they will put a store in a small town, then take huge losses on everything just so they can drive the mom and pop stores o... |
Why is dark chocolate "better for you"? | Calories aren't the end all be all. In fact, for reasons I won't get into, a calorie-centric view of nutrition is very misleading. There are many good things in chocolate . They are present in the raw cocoa bean. Pure chocolate is extremely bitter , so we sweeten it and dilute it. The darker the chocolate, the closer i... |
How can they show criminal's faces on TV without their consent? | I know a little about Journalism law and from what I've learned is that there are two types of people: a public person and a private person. A private person is your everyday guy that needs to give their consent to be interviewed or reported upon in a newspaper. A public person is any type of celebrity. As you can gues... |
Does covering the toilet seat with toilet paper really protect you from bacteria or does it just make my bear ass feel safe? | I might be alone, but I for one enjoy a physical barrier between myself and a prior occupant's piss found all too often on a public seat. Not to mention that that flushing itself can have considerable splashing onto the top of the seat as well. |
If Tesla has released all the information on their industry-leading batteries, why don't we see other vehicle manufacturers utilizing Tesla's batteries? | They don't have properly tooled production factories yet, or there is some technical tradeoff that makes the tesla batteries not appropriate for their existing designs. |
what is the reason that almost every video game today has removed the ability for split screen, including ones that got famous and popular from having split screen? | Along with processing power, cost, selling more copies, etc. there's a huge change in how games are played nowadays. As a child , I used to go to my friends house and we would play games together. Now we have online gaming. Back then, it was in it's infancy not everyone had a network adapter or could afford Xbox live. ... |
Why everyone seems to think music piracy is morally okay. | Everyone's answers are probably going to differ on this, but here's how I look at it: yes, I've pirated music. Without doing so, there are literally hundreds of bands I never would've heard of, let alone heard their music if I hadn't. I also avoid the trap of hearing one or two songs on the radio by an artist, buying t... |
Why do cats knock things off of surfaces? | I've had cats for decades and they have all been outdoor cats for the most part. They come inside when it's cold during the winter and when it's especially hot during the summer. They usually also get their food inside so that we don't end up supporting too many neighborhood or stray cats. They hang out as long as they... |
Out of Africa - How does that explain the diverse cultures, body types, eyes, and skin colors present today? | To add to /u/pacatraz, it's likely that the descendants of some of the homos who left Africa eventually migrated back. If you go to Africa today, you'll find that there are diverse cultures, body types, eyes and skin colors present. Sure, nobody lost as much skin color as the northern Europeans did, but compare people ... |
Why do we get those flappy pieces of skin right next to our fingernails? | Why can't i help myself pulling them back and off even though I know I'm going to be in pain for the next two days?! |
Why do we still have "Romeo & Juliet" as required reading in high schools? | In my opinion, because the powers-that-be have decided that Shakespeare is a must - read for all students and won't change their minds. I feel that, while Shakespeare is certainly a fascinating look into linguistics and everyday lives several centuries ago, it isn't too practical now. |
how do space probes like voyager I and II still function, remain in contact with earth, haven't hit any micro asteroid, maneuver? | Space is really empty, it's not like in star wars how there a bunch of asteroids everywhere they are all hundreds of miles apart at least. |
Why is it that so many humans are born with bad eyesight; shouldn't humans have evolved mostly uniform keen eyesight before the invention of glasses? | Myopia isn't really prevalent in hunter gatherer groups as it's caused by a genetic factor interacting with a high GI diet and lots of time spend indoors with close focus activities and not spending time outside training eyes to focus on far away objects. So the genetics for myopia were there forever, but modern lifest... |
Why are there so many religions that evolved from Christianity? | There's a difference between sects and religions. There are 3 basic monotheistic or abrahamist religions. Only Christianity treats the bible as, well, the bible. Judaism has the Torah and Islam has the Q'ran. Now there are variants/sects of Christianity for a large number of reasons, most due to real or perceived diffi... |
How come one power strip with 12 plugs is okay, but linking two power strips that each have 6 plugs is dangerous? | There's more to designing the strip than just the number of outlets. With twice the number of devices plugged in, the strip could be handling twice as much electric current, and the internal wires need to be thicker to safely handle the extra. The six-outlet strip is only designed to handle the power consumption of six... |
religious services that occur inside a Mosque | Every Friday all males have to attend to their noon prayers inside the mosque, unlike other daily prayers which you can do wherever you want. Aside from the regular prayer pattern, you also have the mosque's imam give a weekly sermon about whatever the topic is for the week on the Friday prayer. After the prayer is don... |
Why are salaries so highly regarded? | A salaried position generally involves a degree of trust and responsibility. This is by no means always the case, but I can tell you that almost every shitty job I've ever had has been hourly, and almost every good job I've had has been salaried.Good, now you are salaried. Now, lookup the difference between "exempt" an... |
Why do hamburger buns sometimes get moldy within days and other times last for a month or more even in the same environment? | Pastry chef/baker here. If someone touched the bread with their bare hands before it was packaged, then it will likely spoil quicker. We have done tests with different kinds of breads and the ones that were touched before packaging had clear molds spots where the fingers touched it. In big production factories, it's li... |
How is Comcast allowed to claim that they have "the fastest internet on the planet"? | They might have the fastest internet available, but you won't notice it if they're throttling the hell out of it. |
A seed planted in a small basket can grow into a big flowing plant. Where does all the material come from to make the plant? | Can't speak to all of the material in plants but most of the structure comes from cellulose, which makes up the plant cell wall. Cellulose molecules are made by the plants out of glucose, which is sugar, and is produced from photosynthesis. Photosynthesis turns carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen , using the... |
Why are Republican candidates so against Planned Parenthood? | Conservative here. I'm generally against abortion but for me abortion has nothing to do with it. Some conservative reasoning : A lot of Conservatives believe in a much more limited role of government. This is the camp I fall in. I do not believe it is the federal government's job to appropriate my tax dollars to help p... |
How does Math.random() work? | It has an algorithm that can generate a wide variety of random looking numbers given small changes in the input value. It then takes a few different numbers from your system uses specifically, but a lot of random functions use the time and date) and puts them into that algorithm which gives you seemingly random numbers |
Why have small business owners had, and potentially still have to, lay off workers after Obamacare (AHCA), and is that really the cause? | The ACA requires businesses to pay for benefits only if they employ more than 50 people. That's not that small, it's a going operation. Prior to the ACA, these businesses were essentially getting away with making profits on the backs of employees to whole they were not paying a living wage, relying on the taxes of ever... |
Why can horses and cows eat grass alone yet still pack on muscles while humans need more than just vegetables to bulk up? | While cows and horses are vegetarians, they don't just eat grass. They need a variety of plants, including grains and legumes, to be healthy. They're often fed vitamins and supplements as well. |
Why is suicide and depression such a prevalent side-effect risk of so many pharmaceuticals? | A lot of medicines work by blocking or stimulating nerve impulses in your body. Nerve impulses are stimulated by chemical messengers like dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline, and noradrenaline. These are the same chemicals that also influence your mood. When the drugs mess with the levels of these chemicals for other reaso... |
What an ingrown toenail is, how to avoid getting one, and what to do if you have one | An ingrown toenail is a nail on your toe that instead of growing straight outwards, grows to the side/at an angle and digs into your flesh, causing pain and discomfort, even more so when walking. How to avoid: When cutting your toenails, cut straight across, especially at the corners. Simply put, shorten your toenails ... |
If I lost multiple limbs, would I live longer because the heart doesn't have to work as hard? Has this been proven before? | Heart works just as hard. It's not about how much fluid is in the system, it's about keeping the pressure stable. Think about it like a pool with 40,000 gallons in it. If you remove half the water, the pool would be very shallow. But what happens when you merely split the pool down the center, and dump the other half o... |
How do we know that a planet 'cannot support life'? | Scientists are only guessing based on what they know. We know that every form of life we've ever seen or known about requires water, oxygen, etc, so we kinda work based on the assumption that *all* life requires these things until those beliefs are proven wrong. |
- Why are passenger trains (like Amtrak) so expensive? | No they aren't? I can get to London for about 20 quid, and Paris for less than 100, whereas unless I flew easyjet, I would be paying 3 times more by aeroplane |
Why does placing a plastic bag over a credit card help a device read its magnetic stripe better? | I remember from an old eli5 that when the strip gets scratched the computer can't read the code. The bag blurs the lines just enough to cover the scratches but still read the code. Similar to when you squint your eyes and look at something like a house. You still can tell it's a house even though it's blurry. |
what is the purpose of an area code? | It means that the telephone system doesn't need to keep track of every single number in the whole country. Your local system will use long distance lines to connect you to the one with the area code you asked for and it will then connect you to the local number on its end. Setting things up this way was very important ... |
Why can't Egypt take back their archaeological artifacts which have been stolen and are being displayed in the British Museum and elsewhere? | They *have* requested their artifacts back at times. In fact, just before the revolution, they were trying to request the famous Nefertiti bust in Berlin. The short answer is that short of force, they don't have a great chance of getting them back. In some cases, the return of antiquities *might* be part of negotiation... |
Why do some of us sneeze almost always the same amount of times? | Anecdotal evidence: for me, I have unbelievable sneeze trains, and I rarely sneeze the same amount of times ever. The most I've ever sneezed was in-between 20-23 sneezes , but on average it's 5-11 sneezes. I have no idea why it's so varied and on top of that each sneeze is a powerful one that requires significant draw-... |
If a child grows up with obesity, would the extra weight "weigh" down the child, and stunt the child's height growth? | My theory is that taller kids spread their weight out more therefore appearing less obese. The obesity is most apparent in shorter kids. Or they actually are the appropriate height, but appear shorter because of the way we're used to seeing body fat distribution. Basically: optical illusion. |
Why does the church allow people to worship Jesus | The church worships what Jesus did for us on cross. He died for everyone's sins! But like others are saying he is apart of the God head", 'God is Jesus, Jesus was god and lived among the people but jesus is Gods son who he sacrificed i dunnoBecause the Church professes Jesus to be God Incarnate. |
Why does orgasm immediately end sexual desire in men but not women? | This is not necessarily true. I am a woman who gets a serious case of the afters. I'm very likely to shove my partner off of me and require an immediate shower or a nap. |
How can star citizen have $125 million+ in funding, be in development since 2011, and still be in pre-alpha? | 5 years isn't that long for a game like they want star citizien to be. And they are continously working on it, there is already good bit of gameplay. They also have the problem that they are under a lot of pressure to atleast delivering some stuff once in a while. They can't just take all the money and disappear for a ... |
How do small towns in the US sustain themselves? | Frequently factories will be built in more rural areas because land is cheaper and zoning laws are less restrictive. There's also usually larger towns within commuting range and a lot of small towns have economies that are heavily dependent on agriculture. For example, a small town in Kansas may have a grain elevator a... |
How/Why does highway traffic occur, what is the science/math behind it? | It's because humans arent perfect. There are delays to our actions and we over react. Once the highway hits a certain capacity then all the cars on it are fairly close together. One car hits its breaks for whatever reason, maybe someone cut them off switching lanes, and then the person behind him sees break lights and ... |
How did Mitt Romney get his wealth? Also, his controversial doings at Bain Capital - what exactly did he allegedly do wrong? | Do we sell the best possible mix of products?". He did well at this job, then Bain made him the head of a private investment firm called Bain Capital. This company invested private money mostly into LBOs -- leveraged buy outs. In an LBO, you borrow money, then you buy a company in trouble, then you try to make all your... |
Why is it that during the last eclipse I could see the Moon moving across the sun but on a normal night I can't see the shadow of the Earth move across the Moon? | The Earth, Moon, and Sun, are only infrequently aligned in a perfectly straight line where the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon. |
How are people able to understand a language but not speak it? What happens in the brain? | It's really easy to hear something and know that it's correct, but harder to remember the proper word for an idea. Kind of like how picking someone out of a line up is easier than trying to sketch the guy. I think of it as a function and an inverse function, one is easy, the other isn't", 'Two main reasons. One: langua... |
What did Foucault mean by "power is everywhere"? | When it comes to Foucault, power is always in relation to knowledge. Let's say that you, as a five year old, knows that a nice old lady who lives near the playground would always give you treats if you go and meet her. So you go and meet her and give the treats to your friends at the playground. But you don't tell them... |
If being on birth control like Yaz or Yasmin increases the risk of blood clots, why can't someone just pair it with a blood thinner or baby aspirin to drop the risk back down? | To clarify, not specifically to me, but in general; why isn't this something doctors routinely do to fix the problem? |
What is the smallest number of people needed to repopulate the earth without inbreeding? | Even having children with your first-cousins isn't that dangerous. The reason we have this idea of it being super dangerous is because the peoples known for continually marrying their cousins were doing it over and over, generation after generation. If you and all your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents and ... |
Is it true that we have only explored 1% of the oceans? If yes then how is that possible, If no then why do people believe in that? | Estimates range from less than 1% to under 5%, and it's true because the ocean covers 70% of the world for example the Mariana Trench/challenger deep. We still don't know exactly how far down it goes. We also still have no clue where thousands or ship wreckages are. There's more to it like inability to safely have huma... |
why aren't living creatures evolving to require less sleep? | Evolution doesn't work that way. It's not directed. It's a series of *random mutations* which, if beneficial, have a *slight chance* of passing over to the next generation and then a *slight chance* of becoming permanent. And this all takes place over *tens of thousands* of years *or more*. As for cats, their ability t... |
why aren't the muscles that move our jaw super muscular?(9 | Leverage. Do a google image search for random pictures of human jaws and the relative position of jaw muscles to where the jaw connects to the skull . They don't need as much force to do work where the most force is needed. Your molars are really close to these muscles so they have a more favorable ratio of leverage th... |
Where are the mods? | The beauty of this subreddit is that it's self-moderating to a large extent. All the silly questions either get downvoted to non existence or are answered swiftly, and the best answer is almost always at the top.Mod here checking in. First, thanks for your feedback. Rest assured that the mods are listening, and we do c... |
Why don't republicans want to nominate Mitt Romney? | Christian conservatives don't trust his Mormon background. Social conservatives don't trust his stances on abortion and gay rights. Fiscal conservatives don't trust his stances on health care and taxation. He might be more electable, but the increasingly conversative Republican base didn't have a problem with nominatin... |
How does lasik eye surgery work, and can it help if you have an astigmatism? | The entire procedure takes about 10 minutes, you don't feel a thing, and your life is changed instantly. I was 20/200 w/ astigmatism before I had it done, and now my vision is checking in at a crisp 20/15. I strongly encourage anyone and everyone to look into it. 10/10 would do it again. |
Why are baseball cards so valuable when other old collectibles (i.e. beanie babies) aren't? | /u/shawnaroo has the best answer and I'd like to highlight one point. Baseball cards weren't originally collected for their value, but just for something to collect. So, as the kids who collected them got older, they or their parents tossed out the old baseball card collections. Over time, those kids got to be adults w... |
Why is Switzerland neutral when it comes to international disputes? | Because they're protected by the alps, and don't have to get involved. At least that's how they avoided getting involved in WW II. They fortified the alps. Talk about high ground. Hard to bomb caves with hidden artillery, too. p.s. are you a potato farmer?", 'Switzerland used to be home of some of the finest mercenarie... |
How is it possible that people can understand a language but not be able to speak it? | There are lots of nuances in speaking languages. Many languages have sounds that you don't here in other languages . Your brain can recognize these sounds and knows the meaning, but reproducing them takes practice. Your attempts might be unintelligible to someone else |
Why do illnesses always have negative effects? Why is there not a virus out there which enhances some aspect of my life? | There are viruses that are good for us. Syncytin is a protein that is required for placenta development and embryo survival. The gene that produces the protein is actually viral RNA that was incorporated into our ancestor's DNA and passed down to us. |
How come Apple will switch to ARM processors, while it was always deemed non powerful? | Apple is *the* leading designer of ARM processors right now. Every single year they release a new A-series chip that is much faster than the prior year, and much faster than anything else available. The ARM processors they use in their phones are *already* more powerful than the Intel chips they use in some of their Ma... |
Why do I get a pain in my side when running? | Because you're not doing it enough. From what I remember, it's where your diaphragm muscle attaches. Your diaphragm pushes up and down to make you breath. |
Why do clocks gradually become a minute or two off? | Some materials have an interesting physical property, when you hook them up to a steady supply of electricity, they cause a bunch of pulses at a specific rate. This is incredibly useful for things like clocks [1]. Quartz crystals are usually used for this because it's common, cheap and works well. The exact rate of pul... |
Why isn't Amazon being looked at for anti-trust issues? | Anti-trust laws don't attack companies for being too big, they attack them for using sketchy business strategies. That being said, while Amazon does indeed sell everything, this is because manufacturers allow it to sell everything. If Apple wanted to stop Amazon from selling iPhones, it would be very easy for them to d... |
Why is it that the elderly have the highest voter turnout in the U.S. while younger generations have the lowest voter turnout? | In addition to what everyone else has already said, young people are generally apathetic to the political process. The idea that individual votes matter is not widely held among younger demographics. You can vote this way or you can vote that way, but you don't *really* have a political voice if you're given an ultimat... |
Why "www." is 100% necessary in this situation | The server at _URL_5_ isn't a web server - or rather, it is, but it returns an error for every request HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Content-Type: text/html Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: _URL_6_ Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 16:14:58 GMT Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 1233 They could use a different status to redir... |
- What is a blackhole? | A lump of stuff squeezed together so it is really dense. When stuff is squeezed together it's gravity becomes stronger . It is called a black hole after it is so dense that you would have to move faster than light to escape it's gravity. Edit: Sagan is far better than me at this look at his! |
Why does UK television censor/cut out parts of popular TV shows? | You should explain what time of day you're watching. Sometimes jokes considered too risque will be cut out of pre-watershed broadcasts. |
Why do flavors like garlic and onion stick around in the taste buds so much longer than others? | My buddy's Italian mother told me one day while at the house after we had some great heavy garlic in one of her meals to drink orange or preferably grapefruit juice afterwards to make sure I didn't stink.. Worked like a charm."There is a compound in garlic called allyl methyl sulfide . It is a gas which gets absorbed i... |
Lead poisoning and why aren't other types of metal poisonings more common? | Lead interferes with your nervous system and damages bones and organs. It also has no good path out of the body and will stay in human tissues for a long time. It's more common than others because lead was once used heavily in industrial and consumer applications. Many of those products have since switched to other mat... |
Why does something having no face/minimal features make it cute? | Scott McCloud does a great job of answering this question in his spectacular book, *Understanding Comics*. Chapter 2 is the verse that deals with this specifically, and it starts on page 24 of this PDF: _URL_1_ The gist of it - and McCloud explains it much better than I do - is that you don't have a conscious awareness... |
How Achilles can never overtake the tortoise? (Zeno's paradoxes) | Zeno's paradox was only a paradox because at the time they didn't know you could an infinite amount of numbers and get a finite sum. So you could add 1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+ halving the value each time and you will always be able to add another number. However, that series adds to 1, a finite number. Back in Zeno's time, the... |
Why are NFL play calls so long and hard to learn, compared to the college game? | > The college game can be just as technical IMO It really isn't. College players are: * less mature* more limited in the amount of time they can practice* less talented, only about 2% become pros* only play for 4 years, and most are only active for about 2 That means the college game has to be a lot simpler. NFL player... |
Why games such as Fallout 4 and Hitman 2016 run great on consoles but terrible on PC's several times more powerful than those consoles? | because the console runs it at a mediocre quality and framerate. at minimum settings fallout 4 will run on PCs much cheaper than consoles, but if you have a good PC and maximum settings it'll blow the console out of the water. and that's before you install mods that add even better graphics and animations |
How did someone write the first computer software? | ADD A B C", and "PRINT C". That rather inefficient set of commands would add 5+3 and print the result. .First we started with actual machines that could solve one specific problem by switching mechanisms and the turning of gears. The result would be just a state for the machine that a human interpreted. Eventually thes... |
Why is it bad to leave sink water running? I thought water was cyclical, and comes back any way. | it is cyclical. but within an ecosystem. ie the planet. water that evaporates in your city, might become rainfall hundreds of miles away. and there's also the water processing plant that can only handle a certain capacity each hour. |
- How do radio stations know how many people are listening? | They don't know exactly. But that is why they have contests for tickets prizes and things like that. Statistically x% of listeners will call, and so they can gauge how many listeners they have at any time, and that is how they are able to price advertising on certain shows and at certain times of the day. |
Best way to maintain control while hydroplaning | Something a lot of drivers don't realize is that your car is actually giving you lots of feedback about what is going on. This is both through feel and sound. Especially when you are driving through tricky conditions , you should turn down the music, put your hands at 9 and 3 and look ahead. Anyway, back to hydroplanin... |
Why do digital distribution video games cost the same as physical disc versions of games? | Packaging and distribution of games is only a small cost, its kind of like medicine. Yeah, it costs 50 cents to produce, so why is it $30 per pill? Well you need to consider the work it took to bring that product where it is today. The years and years invested in developing the product, advertising, bug checking, produ... |
Why do Public Domain books cost money on app stores? | They sell it to people who don't know it is in public domain or don't know where to find it for free. |
Why do elephant poachers kill the elephants versus cutting their tusks off and allowing the animals to live? | I think poachers remove the whole tusk, like the equivalent of the roots of your teeth. That's why the elephants look so gruesome after. It would require a pretty skilled surgeon a fair amount of time to leave the elephant unharmed after removing everything. While conservationists leave not only that external nub of tu... |
What has the girl done wrong in this situation? | It was a terrible thing to do. It was condescending, racist, and ignorant: Condescending because: * she assumed the girl was so poor just because was sweeping in a restaurant more likely she was a relative or family friend, very common with family owned restaurants* she assumed she would want the gross half eaten food ... |
If going limp increases your odds of survival from an impact such as a fall or a car crash, then why is it instinct to go rigid instead? | Going prone and rigid when faced with sudden danger was the best course of action for our ancestors, in order to be best prepared to attempt to fight or run away from it. Going limp when being chased down by saber-toothed tiger is a behavioural response that would have be eaten out of the gene pool pretty quickly. And ... |
If our body temperature stays approx the same, why do I "feel" really hot in the summer? | Hot and cold feeling are relative. When you walk inside on a cool day it feels really hot for a short time. You body doesn't feel heat, it feels the difference or temperature.Our bodies are pretty useless when it comes to danger, and in terms of staying alive. When the temperature outside gets warm, the nerves in your ... |
Why don't the police use non-lethal weapons to subdue suspects more often? | shoot the guy with a tranq. he'll fall asleep in about 10 minutes. during that 10 minutes he kills the officer. shoot him with a taser. sorry..tasers don't work thru thick clothing. sometimes they don't work at all. he kills the officer. _URL_0_ _URL_1_", 'They use non-lethal weapons all the time, you just never hear a... |
why Wikipedia is or isn't a credible source | Anyone can edit it, and its citations don't require any checking. You can edit a page, cite a book that's known to be complete rubbish full of disproved garbage, but the casual reader will just take it at face value. [XKCD's example of how this can go very wrong:] * Anyone can edit it. * Anyone can then cite the edited... |
Why do Americans get to choose from among a dozen or so Republicans for President, and *one* Democrat? | You can vote for anyone that stands for president, including third party candidates who may hold any positions at all. The problem is really that the American system has flaws leading almost unavoidably to a strong two party system , and that within the parties there is no advantage in presenting multiple candidates , ... |
HDMI Cables. I've read, heard, and believe that all HDMI cables are the same, yet manufacturers claim that theirs are capable of better graphics and/or audio to justify their price. | It's mostly bullshit but not all cables are the same. I've had cables that work poorly, work intermittently, or just plain don't work at all, or ones that physically break easily. But a good HDmi cable isn't expensive, so the pricey ones are ripoffs and exactly the same.The biggest difference will be length. For a shor... |
Why do British criminals typically not use firearms in their criminal activity like their American counterparts. Is there not a black market for firearms? | We don't need them. Honestly, its not worth the risk of being caught with one or getting shot by armed police. Besides, our robbers are gentleman thieves who admit to their crimes: _URL_0_ |
What is Demonetization? Is this why India's PM Modi is winning the Person of the Year poll? | You know how easy it is to use a debit or credit card for everything and hardly carry cash and coupled with direct deposit means you hardly ever go to a bank. Well, in India, everyone uses cash and few people have bank accounts. This allows people to work and be paid under the table and are easily able to avoid paying ... |
why do birds pluck their feathers out when isolated or depressed, how does this behavior help them in nature? | This behavior isn't only seen in birds some people also have an urge to pull out their hair when stressed. It's called [trichotillomania] . I had a friend in college who would pull out her eyelashes when under stress. When I asked her about it, she said the it gave her the feeling of being in control over *something*. ... |
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