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Why is a Pacquiao vs Mayweather fight never going to happen? | yeah he is undefeated, and Floyd isn't going to fight someone who has PED's roomers tied to his name, i mean it would be one heck of a fight but that one loss on his record isnt worth it. |
If we could actually see electromagnetic waves, what would they look like? | Best way to think about it is a sine wave in the z direction added to a sine wave in the x direction added to a sine wave in the y direction We call them waves because that's what they are. We can describe them as sine waves mathematically, we can make correct predictions by treating them like sine waves, so we might a... |
Is cloud seeding not a decent method of fighting forest fires? | I have no scientific proof of this but it's logic in my mind. The worst forest fires happen is areas undergoing drought and in very dry climates. If there's not enough moisture in the air to be producing regular rain that mitigates the risk of forest fires then there also isn't much in the way of clouds to try and seed... |
What happens when someone with debt dies? | Yeah, unlike bad movies and books most countries don't allow debt to be inherited. However, your inheritors get nothing unless the estate is enough to cover the outstanding debt. |
Why are some people so against Space Exploration when the Technological, Biological, ext advancements are so huge? | Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Many people are opposed to spending money on space exploration when there's plenty of other things it could be spent on. I wouldn't necessarily say the advancements are huge - they have the *potential* to be huge. There's definitely an unknown factor there. It's a tough gamble to take. |
Why does Venus rotate in the opposite direction to most other planets? | the current theory is that, early on, the planet's spin became unbalanced. The planet flipped over. |
how can we have 98% the same DNA as chimps, and then say some human beings have up to 6% Neanderthal DNA and some humans zero | Those numbers aren't mutually exclusive, there's an overlap. Neanderthal Man and Chimps *also* share a high percentage of DNA. So some of that 6% we share with Neanderthal Man was also Chimp DNA. |
Why do massive, well supplied armies have such difficulty dealing with small, poorly equipped armies? | Large conventional armies lose by not winning. As long as they are opposed they have not won, and support for the immensely expensive war fades away- think Vietnam, or Afghanistan. Insurgencies win by not losing. As long as the Taliban have a few guys to snipe or lay IEDs on the roadway they haven't lost. It costs very... |
Why do worms come out in rain? | Well they breath through their skin. When the ground is saturated after a heavy rain, their holes flood and they can't breathe oxygen. They have to come up to breathe. |
What is the 4th state of water, and (if it's visible) what does it look like? | I'm going to assume you're talking about the 4th state of water that occurs when water stays liquid below 0 degrees Celsius, under high pressure. No, it doesn't have a name . It is achieved from the circumstances described above, and yes it is visible. It is somewhat similar to liquid crystals in that it has a highly o... |
why doesn't America have a nation-wide railway system like most european countries? | It's interesting that this one little fact is so often overlooked in the whole US vs other countries comparisons. The US is the 3rd largest country in the world by square miles with about 500sqmi on its own). Europe covers just under 4million square miles or just over 10million square kilometers. The [US covers around ... |
How do more number of coin tosses lead towards equal number of heads and tails ? | It happens because extremes average out. Suppose you toss a coin once. It will be either heads or tails. Now toss it again and combine with the previous result. This time there are still two ways to hit the extremes of heads/heads and tails/tails, but also two ways to hit heads/tails and tails/heads which cancel out th... |
Why are urinals only a public fixture? Why do you never find them in private residences? | I know several people who have one in their homes. I wouldn't want one because I don't think they are that useful - sitting down for a pee doesn't really hurt my xy-chromosomes.I used to know a guy who talked about installing one in his bathroom. He was a fairly heavy beer drinker so I can kind of understand his thinki... |
How can car insurance providers charge more simply for being male? | They use any piece of data that they are legally allowed to, in an effort to gauge how risky a driver you might be, and charge you accordingly. If they could legally use race, religion, and sexual orientation to get a better determination, they'd do that to, but the Government has made that illegal. However, they have ... |
How far into space can we go before video or voice transmission would cease? | That's hard to say. 40 years ago, the idea of receiving and sending a signal to a satellite 22,000 miles away with only a 12 inch wide dish would have been unthinkable. Dishes back then were at a minimum, six feet in diameter. But things evolve. So 100 years from now, things that seem impossible will be commonplace. Si... |
Outside of drought areas, how real is the idea of "wasting" water? Isn't the vast majority simply recycled and used again? | water isn't really recycled by us, yes the water cycle means the water we dump will eventually rain down again, but we don't control where rain falls and we don't get any more by dumping 100% than 0% of the water. But generally if you put water in the drain it's going into the sea. It might get treated but it's going t... |
Why do cats get their claws stuck in clothes etc and nearly rip it to shreds trying to free themselves, when they could just retract their claws? | Learned that the holes in the case of my older Mac Pro is exactly the size required to trap my cat's claws forever. |
Why is WhatsApp so popular? | I can tell you why it's popular in my country: All phone companies here charge SMS messages individually, but offer a flat rate for data consumption. Whatsapp means free text messages. |
How has Switzerland managed to stay in a neutral position during times of conflict like WWII? | [/u/T3chnopsycho] is right.I'm from switzerland too, and in my military career i was a specialist for nuclear/chemical and biological weapons. So i had to teach others how to protect themselves from these hazards. in my training i learned about a special plan switzerland had back then. Chemical weapons were a big deal ... |
Why are there so many different types of pasta? They all pretty much taste the same. | Well all kind of pasta serve a purpose. You may know penne, there are ones with ripples and ones without. The one with ripples get used to hold more of the sauce, for example pesto, which wouldn't stick to the surface of smooth penne. There are also different sizes if spaghetti for that reason. The fines ones for smoot... |
How is there a "heroin epidemic", if some news sources say that drug use is at the lowest it's been in years? | It probably has to do with the number of deaths and/or hospitalizations that are resulting from doing the drug. There's a big problem with it around philly because many dealers are cutting the heroin with fentanyl which is a more dangerous substance resulting in more people needing medical assistance. That and you alwa... |
Why news outlets "shouldn't be trusted" | They're not working against us, but they're not working for us, either. They're working to sell themselves. This means they might over-hype a story to grab your attention, or they might report in a biased way to appeal to their audience. E.g. If a politician made a comment that could in some strange sense be interprete... |
the Holy Spirit in Christianity | I spent many years at a Christian school as a kid and have since concluded that it is just one of the many made up concepts that are toted as central to the religion. My personal opinion is that the holy spirit is often portrayed in an even more convoluted manner than other aspects of Catholicism/Christianity. It's pos... |
Why is it that 0÷Inf=0 but 0×Inf=NaN? Shouldn't they both be 0? | IEEE floating point and the behavior of its operations reflects the inexact nature of floating point numbers. A number may be rounded to 0 or to Infinity, but these can just represent a very small number or a very large number, respectively. Imagine you take a very small number and divide it by a very large number . Yo... |
Why does glass appear green when looked at through the sides? | Different impurities in sand used to make the glass cause different colors. Iron is the most common, which give the glass a slight green tint. Other colors, like blue , pink and purple are also possible. It is subtle enough that you don't notice looking through a thin sheet, but when looking through a thickness of glas... |
Why do antidepressants take several weeks to kick in but only a few missed doses to cause you to relapse? | You take the drug, it goes to your brain in a couple of hours and causes increased serotonin in synapses. The drug goes away after about 12 hours. But you take pills regularly, keeping drug levels and serotonin levels high for weeks. The high serotonin in turn causes new neurons to be born and grow -- that is what actu... |
Why, after both being irradiated by nuclear bombs, are Hiroshima and Nagasaki densely populated? | The more radioactive a substance is, the shorter it sticks around. The stuff that is still around decades later is the stuff that wasn't that radioactive in the first place. Add to that the fact those blasts weren't all that large, and they were relatively clean as far as radioactive materials go, and what remains toda... |
How is Google Fiber able to get such high speeds and why is this not standard practice? | It's not standard practice because fuck you, that's why. In my area, the cable company bitched and moaned every time the idea of letting another competing firm in town, claiming we'll lose jobs, service will be worse, etc. etc.. Well, after YEARS of listening to it, someone finally said fuck it, we're doing this. And i... |
the difference between over the counter and prescription ibuprofen. | I'm almost 90% sure it's the same. I think the only difference is that your doctor has looked at why you're gonna take it and has decided the benefits outweigh the negatives. |
Semicolon: How to? | As Kurt Vonnegut said in *A Man Without a Country*: “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”", 'It isn't fool-proof but my rule-of-thumb for semicolon usage is to see if I ... |
why do we bury people 6 feet under? | That's the depth, in average soil, which keeps the odor of decomposition from becoming noticeable to animals which feed on rotting corpses. |
After the World Trade Center collapsed on 9/11, where did the people who originally worked there find work? | just because a company's office space is destroyed doesn't mean the company dies. rent some space in an empty building, get some desks, chairs and laptops, you're back in business, albeit at limited capacity. it's not like they were assembly plants inside the WTC. it was all paper and electronic data businesses. |
How do Solid State Hybrid Drives work? | There are two kinds of Solid State Hard drives. There's the kind that Seagate makes where they pair a 500GB HDD with an 8GB SSD. The SSD in this type of Hybrid is mainly used as a Cache. There's a controller inside the Hard Drive that monitors your most frequently used data and the controller puts that data onto the fa... |
Why doesn't the justice system just polygraph (lie detector) test people we suspect of crimes? (Murder) | Because polygraphs are well known to produce false positives and false negatives .Polygraph machines are voodoo, nothing more. They purport to detect a "lie reflex," certain changes in your vital signs that occur when you lie. In fact, there is no such thing, it's a complete myth. That being said, polygraph *testing* c... |
How does health insurance work at all if everyone needs it? | > But, my question is, how does that work for health insurance at all if everyone needs doctors' visits and whatnot? Everyone needs to go to the doctor every once in a while. But not everyone needs state of the art cancer treatments. Not everyone needs drugs every day for the rest of their lives to combat autoimmune di... |
Is there a difference between the Reese's Eggs and the regular peanut butter cups? | The chocolate coating is thinner and there's a higher PB to chocolate ratio. Personally, I like them more than the peanut butter cups. |
Why do certain European customs switch the comma and decimal in numbers, but not in the written language? | The decimal point doesn't really have any connection to the period or full-stop that comes at the end of a sentence. There's no real reason why the two should or should not be switched. Both the comma and the full-stop are just indicators of pauses in speech, the comma shorter than the full-stop. But in numbers its jus... |
Why do people's homes have a certain "smell"? | I also think it's interesting that we don't really sense our *own* home's smell. I would love to know what my family smells like! |
why do we laugh when we see people hurt/in pain? | The world would be a very different place if we knew how humor worked. We don't really have a great grasp of why some things are funny and some arent.The prevailing theory for why *anything* is funny, is that it surprises us by deviating from expectations. People getting in accidents and hurting themselves is usually s... |
Why does a hangover get worse as we age? | First, you have to understand why the hangover is happening. The reason we have hangover is because the alcohol we drank has been a substitute for water during the whole night. And while you don't have enough water for your body to work properly, you don't notice it because you're brain uses the alcohol do deal with th... |
[MOD POST] 2013 Korean Crisis (Official Thread) | Here are some of the reasons for North Korea's hatred of the USA: 1. America divided Korea into two2. The USA deposed a Korean government put together weeks after the Japanse surrender because it had communist ties and wasn't answerable to Washington3. Just as they did in Italy, the USA installed a leader who had many ... |
How do people know how to pronounce extinct languages? | We generally don't. Some we have good guesses due to the languages they evolved into, or with the case of Latin its use in religious services.For languages that have phonetic scripts, i.e. the words are written how they sound , inferences can be made by looking at the spelling of a word with a known pronounciation. For... |
If all of today's continents were clumped together as Pangea 335 million years ago, did the imbalance of mass affect Earth's orbit? | No. The shape of the orbit is determined based only on the planet's center of mass. Even a theoretical egg-shaped planet or something with a more extreme shape only orbits based on its center of mass. That center of mass has may have changed within the earth over the past 335 million years, but this change has not affe... |
In what way will voting for a third party candidate "make your voice heard"? | Person voting for a third party candidate here. It's because I can't morally vote for either one. I'm not voting to change anything, I'm voting this way because I'm voting for who I'd like to have as president. Last I checked, this is what I'm supposed to do. On the change level, the only way we'll stop being sold irre... |
If we can turn matter into energy via fission or particle accelerators, can we turn energy back into matter? | What's kind of cool is that in a particle accelerator, we *are* turning energy into matter. The entire point of the extreme speed of the particles is that by smashing them together we are able to convert some of that energy into matter, and see what happens. |
In movies/TV, when someone gets stabbed in the chest, blood pours from their mouth. Is this realistically what would happen? | More to the point In the movies if someone is injured anywhere on the body in any fashion they will have blood come out the mouth. I think it's because it is easy to do. Simply bite on a blood pack or whatever is used. In Gladiator, Crowe stabs a guy in the foot with an axe and he keels over and blood pours out of his ... |
Why, when you're hung over, you eat your first meal, and you feel even worse? | Hangovers are caused by two main things: dehydration and byproducts of alcohol after it is broken down by your liver by the enzymes called alcohol dehydrogenases. Interesting tidbit: methanol is highly poisonous because it is broken down by the liver into formaldehyde, which is nasty shit. It's thought that low-quality... |
What is so wrong with patriotism and/or nationalism? | **Patriotism:** Alright! America went to the moon! Go America! **Nationalism:** America's moon landing clearly demonstrates that we are a superior people.We are, by and large, a globalized society. Beyond sports, etc. it seems pretty counterproductive in resolving most of the problems we face. It also seems pretty much... |
Why are companies like Tesla and Toyota giving away their patents? | Tesla had a huge incentive with the Gigafactory they're building. They have a lot more to gain from selling/recycling batteries than they could from their patents. I'm sure somewhere Toyota has a similar incentive somewhere in the chain. |
How is it possible to get your daily vitamins and minerals from a few tiny pills? | Well, they *are* just molecules. Molecules which are, being molecules, actually really tiny. Besides, your cells don't just dispose of the vitamins after they're done; they reuse them. Because of this, unless you actually have some sort of vitamin deficiency to make up for, you don't really need a lot of surplus vitami... |
How does the American national debt effect the American economy and why is it important to pay it off? | American national debt matters in that it keeps a risk-free rate available for all other investments to have as a base. In terms of a high debt level it becomes problematic in terms of bankruptcy. The best metric in terms of risk of bankruptcy for a nation would be debt/GDP. debt/GDP has been growing steadily for a lon... |
What would happen if somebody constructed a funnel from earths atmosphere to space? | You realize that that is the situation that already exists, yes? There is NOTHING up there blocking the Earth's atmosphere from leaking into space. Nothing. There's atmosphere that gets thinner and thinner until you're in the vacuum of space. Adding a pipe or a funnel or whatever changes absolutely nothing at all other... |
If airplanes can only carry a fixed amount of weight which is why luggage has strict weight restrictions, why are there no restrictions for the weight of passengers? | I've heard that luggage was restricted to keep a uniform weight for the baggage handlers to reduce the amount of muscle injury. |
Why do deciduous trees turn pretty yellow, orange, and red shades in some regions (like the northeast US) but only turn brown in other regions (like Texas)? | Nat Geo did an article on this a while back. tl;dr is that really no one knows what affects a leaf's change to a specific color, all though there is a theory that it could be based around the specific climates that the trees are located in, which could explain why in Texas the leaves are brown. There are also theories ... |
Why do gas prices always include 9/10 of a cent at the end? | Because for a while there, that was the unit needed too raise prices. Too bad that isn't true anymore |
Why do we have to wash our hands after we piss? | You need to wash your hands to cut the spread of disease. When you happen to be in a room with a sink, you should use it to wash your hands. It's not the urine that's the problem, it's a relatively sterile liquid. |
Can vaping (electronic smoking) be harmful or dangerous without nicotine? | Until there is definitive studies on vaping I have to say that no one really knows. Most of the studies I've read on the topic are made to induce the wanted conclusion. The facts are that we are inhaling a substance. Is it harmful, I feel that it probably is, but I have no basis for the feeling. |
How can languages be so diverse, yet the entire world uses the same symbols to represent numbers? | Pretty much all *modern* societies use the base 10 system and the symbols you describe , so the question is a valid one. There are really three questions, though: ** Why use a base 10 system?** The answer to this is basically: the chances of history. Base 10 systems have been common in the past, so they continue to be ... |
Why is it important to land rockets on barges? | The important thing is landing back on earth not necessarily the water but it's safer and easier to land on water |
Why is Japan's currency so low compared to other first-world countries? | How much a currency unit is worth is completely arbitrary. It's the changes in the value that matter. |
Why are radio waves preferred for long distance communication? | The main alternative, unless you have built a cable to your destination, is to use light. But light has some bad properties: it is very directional , and it is blocked by walls, trees, fog, and rain. Another option is to use sound, but a powerful enough sound to be detected at a great distance would deafen anyone near ... |
How can Police/Detectives declare who/what started a fire when all the evidence and surrounding area is completely burnt? | They'll use gas spectrometry to analyze chemical compounds from the area to determine what accelerants were used. That can also help determine the overall quantity in areas . They'll also have burn patterns that can help determine the direction and origin of the fire.Fire departments have investigators who can recognis... |
If women make up around 50% of the United States, then why do men make up around 80% of the United States Congress? | To get into Congress, you have to run to be a congressperson -- they don't pick randomly from the general public. So, only people who choose a life of politics get there, and for right or wrong, that industry is largely dominated by men, just like many other male-dominated careers. |
Why are Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates all household names and prominent figures, while Larry Page and Sergey Brin are significantly less-so? | The Woz probably isn't a household name insofar as he is it's because when people ask about Jobs they interview the Woz because he's well, alive. Jobs and Gates put themselves as the public faces of their companies and Jobs particularly engineering a corporate transformation. Page and Brin hired a CEO for them for a lo... |
Can Apple buy Microsoft if it had enough cash? | It seems to me that big companies should be able to buy other big competition, but why don't they? Is it explicitly illegal? |
Why do some suicides attempts by gun fail? Specially shotgun in mouth. | One thing to remember is that the skull is *really* thick, and for good reason. Now, yes, it's less thick if you go in through the mouth, but it's still thick, and unless someone uses a really big and powerful gun and/or the correct ammunition, the skull can deflect and slow it down a bit. It's also not that easy to ho... |
Why is our immune system more susceptible to illness after a period of stress ? | The immune system is pretty much free-floating cells in the blood, and so it's controlled by hormones produced by the adrenal glands. The adrenal glands are also responsible for some of the responses to stress, controlling blood pressure and clotting factors, controlling the fight-or-run response, and [suppressing the ... |
How can an Indian startup create the world's cheapest smartphone and it costs only $4? | In terms of electronics, it's easy to make cheap products. Most of the added cost is amortized spending on research, testing, software development, security. One example is a driverless-car: you could probably mount some inflared and high end 360 cameras on your car, but most of the value is in the algorithm rather tha... |
How is Male & Female a social construct? And how are there more than 3 Genders? | There really is no right answer to this. Even the most strict PC police will disagree with each other to some degree about it. The way I see it, its the gender roles more than the sexes that are social constructs. Ingrained in our culture is an expectation of how males and females are supposed to act, how they are supp... |
Why should I care about my privacy if I'm not doing anything seriously illegal? | Just because I'm not hiding bags of cocaine in my attic doesn't mean I'm okay with cops busting down my door and rummaging through my house.Because there is a chance that you might incriminate yourself without your knowledge . |
Why is it called "Latin" America when Spain/Portugal are the biggest European influences to the region? | Latin America is bits of the Americas that were influenced by Latin descended/Romance languages. Now don't confuse Latin America with South America because they are two very different things despite having people use them interchangeably. South America is South America, while Latin America is South America-Guyana and a... |
What happened to ebola? A while ago news-channels were practically created to talk about it, and now it's just all quiet. | Ebola existed long before news channels were talking about it and still exists now. News reporters pick a topic that they think will make everyone lose their minds and anticipate the end of the world, because that's what makes people tune into the show and give them good ratings. Whenever that's done, they move on to t... |
Why does the average age of humans constantly increase but not the average age of dogs? | in addition to the other article i think another part to the equation, although to be honest i haven't done the research to prove it, is that dogs are continually bred for aesthetics which lead to health problems in certain breeds. these problems might be bringing the average of dog life expectancy lower than it would ... |
Is "lucid dreaming" real? Has it been scientifically proven? | It's scientifically proven in the fact that a statistically significant percentage of people surveyed say they've experienced it. So I'd say yes, it's real for sure, I can do it occasionally, but usually only if I wake up early and go back to sleep. In terms of scientifically proven in terms of brain scans, not that I ... |
Why is Dental and Vision insurance separate from other Medical Insurance? | Because its not, nor has it ever been about providing good services, its about syphoning as much money out of you as possible for a service they really don't want you to ever actually use. |
Why do many Star Trek fans hate Star Trek: Into Darkness? | I've never been a real star trek fan. But i listen to a podcast on movies, and both of the hosts love star trek, and hate into darkness. the reason they give is that the star trek reboot was started with the concept of being a totally new take on star trek and taking place in a new alternate timeline with therefore tot... |
Why is the moment of death always associated with "the light going out from one's eyes"? Does this actually happen or is it just a metaphor? | I saw it when my mom passed. She died anf was just gone. There's no doubt about it, once life leaves what is left was just a shell. |
Why do we have to limit clock speed on processors? | To get higher than say 5-6ghz would require the electron to travel faster than the speed of light. The solution to this is to shrink the cpu die smaller and smaller, but this causes another problem; When there's not enough material separate each logic gate, you have electrons hopping over and producing inconsistent out... |
What is it about copper, brass, and other alloys that gives them antibacterial properties? Why does one metal kill bacteria while another doesn't? | When I did some research on this the leading theories so far seemed to suggest that oligodynamic materials have free ions that are attracted to the membranes and organelles of bacteria and certain cells, and some mechanism allows them to either rupture the membrane and/or destabilize critical organelle functions, thus ... |
Why do houses in Tornado Alley rarely have basements? | Here along the river we don't have many basements due to the high water table that causes them to flood frequently. |
Why does Scientology have a seemingly disproportionate 'celebrity' following? | marketing. You hear about cruise and travolta because they're the public face scientology wants you to see. The other poor cultists are generally locked up in labor camps. |
How exactly does drilling your teeth at the dentist benefit you? | In addition to other comments about first removing decay . There are a couple of other considerations. 1) you may need to remove healthy enamel/dentin in order to access the decay - for example when the decay is between the teeth and there is no direct access. 2) you need to make the hole retentive to the filling. That... |
what is a half life, and what is it’s significance in science? | A half life, in a pharmacological description is the time it takes for a drug or other xenobiotic to reach 50% concentration in the blood. For example if you were given 250mg of amoxicillin for an infection and the half life of amoxicillin was 10 hours for example, it would take 10 hours for your 250mg dose to reach 12... |
In what ways would removing the penny affect the US economy? | Nothing would change. We eliminated the penny a few years ago and literally nothing changed. If something comes to $8.43 it gets rounded up to $8.45. If it comes to $2.67 it gets rounded down to $2.65. I don't think debit/credit transactions get rounded though. |
Do animals make friends with other animals? For example: would a migrating animal stop by and visit an old friend on the migration journey? | A lot of species have neurotransmitters that deal with trust and bonding. All mammals, as far as I'm aware, use oxytocin. Fish use isotocin, which acts similarly. Your brain uses a lot of different cues to identify which individuals you should bond to, but obviously humans can accept different cues and love our pets. T... |
How can the four planned submarines for the UK Trident Program be worth £25 billion? | These subs are custom built, they don't roll off an assembly line by the thousands. Also, they don't just carry nuclear missiles they run on a nuclear reactor. |
Why can someone who is A blood type accept blood from an O donor but not the other way around? | It comes down to antigens on the blood cells. If your blood doesn't have a particular antigens and you receive an transfusion that does, your immune system will see the new cells as foreign and attack them, often resulting in a worse situation than before you had the transfusion. There are a number of antigens, but tho... |
Why is gravity always an attractive force? | Newton's Law is a very simple way of explaining a much more complicated set of rules. Within this simple explanation, there's no reason at all gravity couldn't be repulsive. In the full theory of gravity, there's actually room for another term, with its own constant. If that constant is positive, the simplification you... |
What happens to old currency when a country switches to a new one? | Usually the government will declare some kind of exchange program where they will accept old currency in exchange for the new one at a fixed rate. Sometimes both currencies will temporarily be legal tender, as occurred in most of Europe when the Euro was introduced. At some point, though, the old currency ceases to be ... |
Why do soft drinks like Coke need 10 tea spoons of sugar per can when three spoonfuls is more than enough to make a cup of tea/coffee super sweet? | When did fucking ELI5 turn into Explain Like I'm a Conspiracy Nut? Seriously people are dumb. Simple answer: * Carbonated water is acidic and sour tasting. To balance that out you need more sugar. * Temperature matters. Sugar is going to taste stronger in hot water then in cold water. * Caffeine when cold tastes pretty... |
Why do Americans use dryers for their clothes? | Belgium here. We've had a dryer at home for as long as I can remember . It's not specifically an American thing.During the summer, it can get so humid here that it would take until October for some types of materials to fully dry.it's about reliability . there's only a few places here that you can count on dry weather,... |
Disregarding the impossible. Vertically, how deep / high must I be before I am no longer within my country's boundaries? | 100km is where space begins and borders are meaningless. 30km is the point where most countries can't stop you flying over them regardless of borders. |
Car mechanic labor rates. Why are they so high? | Labour rates are fair. A skilled tradesman usually charges around $60-80 an hour depending on region. The company has to pay him 25-40 an hour, they have to pay for the property the shop is on, they have to pay for non repair staff and they have to make a profit. That said they often charge a pre decided rate depending... |
If someone lived in a high-altitude/low-oxygen environment all their life, what will happen to them in a low-altitude/high-oxygen environment? | I live at about a mile above sea level. When I'm at sea level I can run for an extremely long time without getting tired or winded. I can also drink a lot of alcohol without getting drunk. Basically because of all of the extra oxygen I feel incredible. I used to live at about 7200' above sea level and just moving down ... |
Why are pharmaceuticals in general, but particularly pills, so insanely expensive when they cost so little to manufacture? | Reason 1: you have to pay for research. Research is *very* expensive. Then you have to pay for testing, multiple rounds of it. This is before you're ever allowed to make money from the drug. Eventually, you can sell it -- and hopefully you can produce it cheaply to offset the cost! It's actually really expensive to do ... |
If Blackjack is a game of 'skill', how is it not allowed in states that don't have gambling? | Its not a game of skill, or at least it isn't purely one. No matter how skilled you are, you cant make an ace appear in your hand . The skill is in calculating odds, reading the other players and decision making, so essentially how you react to the cards and others. |
What makes milk so versatile and used in so many recipes? | Muffins for example are more dense, bitter, and crumble more if you don't add milk. The milk lets the muffins expand and makes for a better taste. I'm also milk intolerant, but probiotic pills every morning counteract it as long as I don't eat abundant portions of dairy. The intolerance can come from lacking the right ... |
How does Artificial Inteligence in games work, and why is it always so hard to make a good one? | There's really two different types of AI . The first is the type that plays in games with well-defined rules and moves. Games like tic tac toe or chess. Since you only have a limited amount of options, it's relatively easy to make an AI that can challenge humans. The second type is the AI used in real-time games. What ... |
How can light move? | Well, time doesn't slow down as you move faster. Time passes normally in your perspective, however it seems like time is slowing down for other objects that you are moving relative to. |
Why do vegans don't eat egg/drink milk? killing animal isn't involved in making these products. | Animals live for themselves, we shouldn't see them as little factories that produce for humans at the expense of their own health. Watch [this talk] if you're interested in how vegans think. |
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