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What would hallucinogens be like for blind people? | I'm blind in one eye so I can provide some insight but I'd imagine things would be different for a person who is completely blind and has been for life. When my blind eye is open and I look through that with my seeing eye closed, it's a bit of a clusterfuck. The patterns are kind of everywhere, for lack of a better ter... |
Why do we associate a rainy mood with the perfect time to sleep? Does this association arises naturally or is imposed on us by social interactions? | Could the noise have anything to do with it? I sleep so much better when it rains and I use noiseli when it doesn't. Noiseli has a smaller effect, but I always assumed because that was due to the speaker fidelity. |
How does gentrification push poor people out of neighborhoods? | > Doesn't your property just rise in value? Property tax is assessed based on the value of the property being taxed. If the area becomes much more valuable then people's tax burden rises. Also nearby stores may raise their prices because they expect that most people can afford it. Finally if you are actually poor then ... |
[LI5] My daughter has a question about world hunger. Not a joke. | Charities have already figured this idea out _URL_1_, However there are millions upon millions of people in third world countries. Many of them do go hungry, and they receive aid from good people that can afford to. The really sad part is bad guys like to steal. When you are very hungry a man can turn into a different ... |
Why are restaurants owned by the same company always RIGHT next to each other? I get offering variety, but isn't it a really bad idea to go into competition with yourself? | So, there are 3 restaurants on a block. It's a great location. All 3 are packed all the time. Wouldn't you rather own all 3, than just 1? |
Why do a lot of middle-eastern Muslim women seem to hate burqas (burn them when they can) yet still choose to wear hijabs/niqabs/chadors? | Do you expect them to change their wardrobe overnight? I don't think many GAP stores are opening there these days."Choice" is subject to many things. The USA is a freedom oriented country, but there are still speed limits of roads to improve safety. How fast you go is a choice, and it's a choice influenced by the behav... |
how cheaters are not caught in online video games. | Hacking programs use very crafty ways to avoid being detected. For example all an aimbot has to do is detect where an enemy is and then give instructions to the mouse to move towards that location. It doesn't have to modify any of the actual game files to do this. Apart from this, hackers are continuously trying to fin... |
Is the baby's sex completely random? If not, what sorts of things can the couple do to influence what it'll be? | Natural pregnancy can be considered random, but there is a way to select gender. By donating sperm to a sperm bank, they can sort out sperm with an X or Y chromosomes to determine the baby's gender and fertilize the egg.All eggs are contain an X chromosome. Half of sperm are Y and half are X. Whichever type of sperm fe... |
If a person with a blocked nose was gagged would they die? And has it ever happened? | I dont know any cases off the top of my head but I am under the impression that if both airways are indeed blocked, then that person will die. I suppose you want to know if a 'blocked/runny' nose can impede breathing through it? Ive definitely had it bad at times but it always cleared up if I really tried. |
Why do women have to push so much when birthing a child? | Big heads. Women pay the price, unfortunately. Of course nowadays it's a hell lot better with epidurals and C-sections and stuff. |
How did mail-order music companies like Columbia House / BMG (Get 13 CD's for a penny) make money? | First off, mail order businesses run out of a warehouse in some place with cheap land has less overhead than a chain of retail music stores, so there are efficiencies to the business in that regard. Also, after getting your initial batch of free CDs, you have to buy a certain number at full value within a year or two ,... |
Why is it that when you get hit (I.e. bang your head on a corner) you instinctively apply pressure with your hands? Why does that seem to help? | Several reasons: * Reduction of bloodloss. When you get wounded and you're losing blood, then putting pressure on the wound will reduce the amount of blood you can lose. * Protection of a wounded body part. The skin is there as a protection, if you get wounded, then the protection will be damaged. Holding your hand the... |
If England won the War of 1812 so heavily, how come they didn't try to retake America and turn them back into British colonies? | By the 19th Century, Britain had transitioned from the use of standard Imperialism as a reason for war. Prior to that, taking territory for the good of the crown was considered normal. But in the 19th Century, it became a matter of 'civilizing' uncivilized nations. This is why Britain did not try to annex any of France... |
If every action has an equal and opposite reaction, what is the opposite reaction of the big bang. | Why couldn't there be millions/billions of big bangs, and big contractions? That would feel right to me. |
EXACTLY why is raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour a good thing? | There are millions of people that work 40+ hours a week, and cannot pay for food, shelter, etc. A minimum wage hike is built to address this issue. Would it cause prices to rise? Possibly. But, that doesn't mean people will pay that. They could just as easily dip back down. Honestly, small business will be effected. It... |
Why did the Hyrdofoil never take off as a military vehicle? | Modern navy tactics don't rely on small ships unless they are trying to stay undetected like a submarine. Hydrofoils don't work all that well on ships the size of small cities so they just came a little too late to the party. A lot of cool military tech has seen this same kind of treatment. You'll see them in niche sit... |
Why the human body hasn't evolved past forming an appendix. | Although it doesn't do anything, the appendix very rarely hurts anything . As a result, having or not having an appendix doesn't much change how you reproduce, so there is very little evolutionary pressure to get rid of it. |
(American) Listening to foreign languages such as Spanish and Hindi, it seems very fast paced. Is this the same for foreigners listening to English, or is English just a slower language? | One thing that will also have an effect on this is the fact that most Americans speak English relatively slowly. As a kiwi I had to consciously slow down and pronounce sounds I normally wouldn't to be better understood when I was there. |
Why do dogs continue barking unless told/yelled at to stop? | I wish I had an answer as well. My dog has been getting worse and worse as he's gotten older. I don't know if he is losing his senses or going senile. He's 10 now and over the last year it has gotten ridiculous. He was never, ever like this when he was younger. |
Why is it illegal to deface United States currency yet those penny smashing machines are at every zoo and museum? | So, should I turn in my 4 yr old daughter to the police? She cut up a $50 bill into about 10 pieces a couple weeks ago. Luckily, the bank took it and gave us a new $50, and she got a lesson in the value of money. Technically, though, she's probably a felon. |
Many Americans in the U.S. don't want war and prefer the the country to be at peace and solve it's own issues. Why does the country still go to war? | Children don't want to eat their vegetables, parents make them do it anyway. Whether or not the populace wants to go to war there are reasons to do so, whether to eliminate a threat, secure a resource or protect a foreign populace. America is especially prone to this because Americans love to chest pound about being th... |
The godlike status of The Ramones. | A Fifth of Beethoven", and "Disco Duck" topped the charts Basically, it was the height of shitty disco and soft rock. Then along came this band that belted out three chords as loud and as fast as they could. They were not the only ones, but they led the charge and held the flag.It's not necessarily a godlike status you... |
How can my 4K TV show me clearer images than what my eyes can see in real life if it’s still my eyes seeing the images? | Because your eyes don't see an image per se; they take in all the light in the environment, focus it in a particular way that light-sensing cells catch it just right and relay a signal to your brain to create an image out of it. Current camera technology is better than even the average human eye, so the images that a c... |
Why doesn't California just build more highways? | I'd like to pose another question: What is the reasoning behind there not being a public transit system in place? Possibly a subway or train system. Is it due to the high seismic activity? |
Why do games like CS:GO have tournaments I always hear about but similar franchises with a bigger audience such as CoD don't? | Likely due to their player bases. CS:GO has a much larger audience of adults who are more serious about their gaming, as well as more willing to put their money towards players/tournaments/events etc. Also, I don't believe CoD to be as much a spectator sport as many other online games. It's not as tactical and is lacki... |
Why is farm animal flatulence such a threat to the environment today? Why was natural animal flatulence not a threat in the past? | The reason it wasn't a threat in the past is because their weren't very many other causes of greenhouse gases. Today there are lots of other cause from power plants to cars. Also there are almost 100 million cows in just the US today. Cows must likely wouldn't reach that population if not for human breeding practices. |
Why does a TV screen look normal when I see it with my own eyes, but when I take a picture of it there are horizontal lines across it in the photo? | Your eyes take in a nearly constant stream of information. Cameras, however, only open their shutter for a tiny fraction of a second. TV screens flash images many times per second. Your eyes take in these flashes of images and perceive a constant stream of video. Your camera captures only the part that flashes while it... |
Why do humans have the urge to sneeze when looking into the light? | You're not the only one, but you are in the minority. It's called a [Photic sneeze reflex]. Around a quarter of people seem to exhibit it, and we don't really know why. |
How come there are so many companies offering free web hosting? What's the catch? | Not all company's but some will make you have a weird domain name. For example _URL_2_ will give you a free site but your domain will be _URL_2_ if you want to change you'll have to outright buy the domain you want on top of what ever tier of service you want. |
Humans and knowing things naturally | > How do they know these things without someone to teach them? Instinct. It's baked into their genes. The same way that you know that sugar is sweet and tastes good and the same way that teenagers want sex. No want has to teach teenagers their sex drive, it happens on instinct. I imagine the spider enjoys spinning a we... |
Why is the leaning tower of Pisa actually leaning? | I didn't know about that campaign thing. I read about the tower from a facts book. Thanks for the correction. |
How does Gerrymandering work in the United States? | In most states, the boundaries for the federal House districts are drawn by political bodies, often by committees from state legislatures. So Gerrymandering absolutely happens, and is not illegal in most states. The infographic from the Wikipedia article on Gerrymandering [] gives a pretty good demonstration of how Ger... |
Why does smoking interfere with healing and how does it interfere? | Other people have good responses, but another factor is the impact it has on your ability to sleep. Good sleep, both in terms of duration and a lack of significant interruptions is important to our ability to heal. When you smoke your body gets less quality sleep on average, and it tends to be associated with a few sle... |
Why cant we charge mobile phones and laptops in seconds and minutes by providing them large amounts of current? | Two answers here: usb was never meant to push amps that high, and we like usb. Battery related: with most battery chem the faster you charge the more cells get stressed. Imagine a body of water, that's your battery. Current moves in and out from the body of water via the same steam. Too much current and you erode the s... |
Why are grown men attracted to "My Little Pony". | Have you seen moe anime? I believe they draw the same kinds of fans for the same reasons. They both attempt to build an emotional connection to cute, simple female characters besides being sexy tits and ass, and give off a message that it's okay to not be emotionless and ultra manly all the time. With the emotional con... |
How does a black hole have more gravity than the star that created the black hole? | The black hole doesn't have more gravity, at least not initially. It has a greater density, so all that mass gets crushed into a really small spot. For the largest stars, the only thing that holds them up against the compressive forces of gravity is the energy released from fusion, but once they start to fuse iron, fus... |
Why were Hawaii and Alaska chosen to become states and not, say, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands or any of the other US territories at the time? | Puerto Rico doesnt want to become a state because it would basically mean they get to pay more taxes and get nothing in return other than some 'I VOTE'D' stickers every few years. |
Why Pewdiepie can use extracts from pop songs etc but other youtubers get copyright strikes if they do the same? | I believe it is a combo of a few things. Networks have a list of copyrighted material that a partner of the said network can use. I don't have a list of the said material nor do I know what network Pewdiepie is under, so I can't confirm your question. Another thing is I believe the fine prints say it's okay to use unde... |
Why do external hard drives have less memory storage that what is promoted? | It's not only external hard drives, it's all forms of storage. SD cards, internal hard drives, flash drives . |
Why are there so many people buying into the "Wheats and glutens are horrible for you" fad? | It's just so easy to spread misinformation these days, especially with how connected everyone is . There are a lot of scientifically ignorant people who lack critical thinking skills. |
Why can delivery trucks just stop in the middle of the road and block traffic? | It's not very legal. They can get tickets. But if they didn't do this they'd never get their stuff delivered, so mostly police look the other way, unless it's way out of line. |
Why can't we record, interpret, and then display the human eye "stream of data" sent to the brain? | The retina is full of photo receptors called rods and cones.Each cone is eventually connected to a single *retinal ganglion cell* which eventually becomes a fibre of the optic nerve, but there are cells in the retina which cause these signals to have knock-on effects on the signals of surrounding RGCs. Multiple rods fe... |
Why are Atheists so passionate? | You would be passionate too if everyone around you believed that fairys existed and they help you get through your day. And people around you constantly tried to convince you of their existence even though its completely insane and has no proof. You'd be passionate to try and wake them up! |
Why don't more women breastfeed? | Women need more support. It can take several weeks for feeding to become truly established. If they're struggling, how long will they persevere if they can't find help? It can physically hurt, I've seen women yell in pain, or be unable to talk while the baby feeds, but I've also seen these women go on to feed successfu... |
Why are only humans not able to eat raw meat? | We don't need to, we do because it enhances flavor, texture, and decreases likelihood of getting ill from foodborne disease. But sushi is raw. Rare steak is mostly raw. |
Why do humans seem to be at such a disadvantage to survive in nature, when compared to other animals? | We aren't. Squishy, modern, 1st world humans are. It'd be like letting your dog loose in the woods. We've been domesticated and we've forgotten how to survive, it's not that we aren't physically capable of it. Around the world, cultures still live a near iron age existence of subsistence farming and hunting.Humans are ... |
Why don´t people use local anesthesia during a tattoo session? | Because it doesn't hurt that bad, and the feeling is part of the experience which adds to the addictiveness.I can say atleast for me it is.It really is not painful enough to warrant that My ink took 4 hours to finish and besides being bored it was pretty comfortable - maybe some tattoo artists can elaborate, but the gu... |
why I look handsome in the mirror one way but in photographs I look completely different? | Your brain likes things that it's used to. Your brain is used to seeing your mirror image, and other peoples' true image. Your brain is not used to seeing your true image. Photographs look weird because you're used to seeing yourself flipped around. |
How do we know that atoms exist? | First it was discovered that everything was made of different elements, like copper, gold etc. This took thousands of years for people to understand, but once we had worked out what many of the elements were people started to test their properties. We then worked out that no matter how you try and split matter up or co... |
Why my laptop power adapter has to get so hot... | All electronics run on DC power, what comes in from the socket is AC power. This means we have to convert it from one type to the other to power your laptop. Unfortunately the process for changing between the two [is not 100% efficient], so some of the power gets converted to heat. The heating depends on how much power... |
If everyone has a brain made from the same materials and has the same parts, why are some people smarter than others? | As other said is not exactly the same inside, but they didn't point that is also very important for the developments of the child the surroundings he grow up. Same child in a underdeveloped country with bad nutrition and non education wont be able to compete with the same child in a well developed country. The same can... |
Why do dreams seem to last so long??? | Also is there a way to have less dreams? I'm waking up exhausted because I've been playing out some bizarre epic novel in my head all night. |
Why do dentists claim that firm bristle toothbrushes "wear down" and damage your gums but also claim that frequent flossing will "build up" your gums resistance? | You want to massage the gums without damamging them. Floss gets under the gum line, but doesn't directly damage the gums themselves. They will eventually become stronger to compensate. With soft bristles, the gums will be stimulated without being damaged, and will grow stronger to compensate. However, stronger bristles... |
In Islamic countries, how are women who wear a face veil identified for official purposes? | A girl in a veil had to be identified while registering for courses at a UK university. She was taken to a screened-off area and nearby men were asked to vacate the vicinity. Her identity was then verified by a person of the female persuasion. This way her dignity and her religious beliefs weren't compromised, and the ... |
How did every corporation in every country in the world settle on a corporate hierarchy and standard way of doing business management? Was there any historical basis or internationally-mandated standard? | At least in the U.S., corporations are required to have different parts like a board of directors. There are different ways to form a business: partnership, incorporated, and others. Which one you choose determines what you basic structure has to be. But that just covers the basics. Having a departmental segregation is... |
How can airlines like RyanAir in Europe offer 15 pound international flights, when in the US it costs me $150 to fly to the next state over? | A few people have covered most points but I'm surprised no one has put it all together yet. First of all, the flights only end up costing 10-20euro if you book months in advance. The closer it gets to flight day the more expensive they get, weeks before it reaches the same approx. prices as other airlines. Second, they... |
What would happen to me if I ate this? | It'll make you into a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus!", 'Pretty sure this question was posted here just yesterday or the day before. I saved an article on it. Essentially it's "manmade sand" that has a high absorption ability. If you were to eat a TON, it 'd dehydrate you and you 'd die. If you were to put a single bead ... |
How can gas companies get away with charging us 9/10th of a cent, when we don't even have a unit of currency that small? | They're also measuring the product down to .01 or .001 gallons. When the final price is fractional, they have to round the number fairly.How exactly are they getting away with something? You can charge any price you want when you normally sell large volumes of something. I can sell widgets for 1/2 a cent each, when I k... |
Why some products have a variation of the warning "This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer"? Why are they always California specific. | Proposition 65. It's a California law enacted in the 1980s by a direct ballot initiative It requires businesses to provide notification if things contain any of an extensive list of chemicals. As there's no effort to measure amount or effective risk, and there are only penalties for failure to notify, Proposition 65 la... |
why I get a burst of creativity late at night? | My explanation isn't going to be ELI5 but it will be simplified concepts. If you have a dinner with a high insulin load, this may be causing it. Some foods cause a larger rise in blood glucose than others, so if you eat those and in large quantities, or if you are prone to producing more insulin than you should, you wi... |
why does raw meat make us sick? | I don't think it is raw meat itself that makes us sick so much as possible bacteria that it may contain which would be killed by cooking it. Steak tartar is quite raw and I've never gotten sick eating it. That or sushi. |
What is the purpose of sleep depravation in basic training/boot camp? | Another issue that hasn't been touched on is the specific use of it in officer training. Officer training is as much about selecting a person's personality as it is training them to perform certain tasks. Some people are good enough actors or intelligent enough that they can pretend to be what they think the psychs and... |
The reasoning behind "know the rules before you break them." | * novice - does not know all the rules* journeyman - knows all the rules and how to apply them* master - understands why the rules are there, and knows when they don't apply |
What is the reality and truth behind the ads that say "Earn $5,000 per week while working at home." | One of my co workers is working way less now because they make money selling sex toys and such. It's a buy and resale type deal called pure romance. |
What is so great about Cuban cigars? Will the quality of the Cuban cigar go down if the U.S. Embargo is lifted? | There is a mystique about them due to import controls from, largely, the USA. Having had them overseas, I find they're not particularly special, perhaps for two reasons. First, tobacco seeds were sent from Cuba to Central American countries ages ago, like Honduras and Panama, where the cigars were replicated and export... |
Why do I feel so sick when I wake up, but after I'm alright! | Not a doctor at all, just someone who had to deal with it. It could be due to your neck, actually. I had a bulging disk that caused chronic migraines for seven years. It would cause all sorts of issues I didn't associate with a migraine. Stuffy nose, sore throat due to the drainage, teeth pain, ears would feel clogged,... |
Why do military people wear their uniforms everywhere? Are they required to? | It's being discouraged in the British forces for when your not working due to what happened to Lee Rigby. There's fears that a similar attack will happen and wearing your uniform out of camp would make you a target for those types of attacks. |
If dogs can just eat dog food and be healthy, why can't humans eat "human food" equivalent and be healthy? | i remember my first dog. many years ago. my parents told me that it was my responsibility, so my 13 year old mind went hog wild over raising it. i fed it everything i ate. however, it got to the point where my dog started eating literally nothing. it would refuse to eat whatever i gave it, and i've only had it for 3ish... |
Galileo showed that things more or less fall towards earth at the same rate regardless of their mass. However, why does a styrofoam ball fall way slower than a lead ball? | You know how vacuum cleaner shops sometimes have an attention-seeking display that suspends a plastic ball in the air with a unit that is configured to blow instead of suck? You can't do that with lead. For a very light object, the force due to gravity and the opposite force due to air resistance are much closer to eac... |
Why do our bodies change sleeping positions when we’re already asleep? | Different.Maybe you just don't feel comfortable, or you wake up from dreaming. I don't really know for sure, but you have different phases while asleep. Phases where you sleep real tight, and phases where you are half asleep.Don't really know what triggered these phases |
When a conductor is conducting an Orchestra, why does it always seem like he's off a beat? | Instrumentalists needn't rely on the conductor for information about the beat, although the conductor can convey that information. Typically conductors convey information about rhythm, volume and when applicable velocity to the orchestra as a whole, or to individual sections or even individual instrumentalists. Having ... |
Why can some people only sleep on their back, and others only on their front or side? | I'd like to know why some people can damn near instantly fall asleep, while it takes me 3 hours to sleep, if at all unless I take my shitty prescribed sleep aid; Trazodone. |
Why do spiders stay still all day? | You see, after a spider builds its web it tends to sit and wait for food to get trapped in it. If it's inside and it doesn't move much guess there isn't much flying or crawling around to get caught in the web. Kudos for keeping your house so clean! |
Can a restaurant emptying its fryer grease traps down the drain cause the sewer to back up, Or is it only other types of grease that do this? | Oh yeah, it definitely can. I don't have any science or anything to back that up, just a lot of experience unclogging drains because some idiot emptied the fryer grease into the sewer. |
How in the world did this Russian guy create a "Homunculus" by injecting human sperm into an egg? | It upsets me that you were smart enough to use Reddit but unable to comprehend that this isn't possible and that the video is fake. |
How does Netflix make money off of movies it produces? | No, people won't buy a subscription in order to watch one movie. But Netflix isn't something you buy just for one thing. You buy it for all the options and possibilities it offers. So those movies are all something additional Netflix offers and maybe one of those movies will be just enough additional incentive to encou... |
Why haven't we started domesticating tiny bears? | You could get [a dog that looks like a bear,] and he won't try to tear your face off.I'm a student studying domestication in corn. Not a bear, I know, but the general process is similar. Domestication is a long process . It takes a long time to domesticate an organism using selective breeding. This is often done throug... |
Is there a reason why we brush our teeth with cold water, but clean our dishes with hot? Wouldn't hot water be better? | Dishes often have grease, which is easier to remove when warm than cold. Teeth don't have that to contend with.I think it has to do a lot with habit but I can add this. The water at the dentist office is ball tingling cold because warm or hot water can breed bacteria in the water lines, cold water tends not to.I'd like... |
Can someone describe the debt ceiling to me (Like I'm Five?) | There are a lot of comments in here, so this may have been asked and I missed it, but here we go anyway. It seems that all I hear about on the radio is talk about fighting over what gets cut. Has there been any serious debate over raising taxes to fight this issue, rather than cutting what we're already spending? I can... |
If magnets are bad for electronics, how does my magnetic laptop charger not mess up my macbook? | Magnets are only bad for CRT monitors and TV's. Old TV's and monitors used a CRT device that emits electrons .blah blah blah, bunch of science shows pictures on the screen ..but these electrons can get deflected by magnetic fields. Since the electrons are not interacting as intended, it causes the image to be distorted... |
how to delete all the data on your computer | The only way to be sure you've gotten everything is to format the drive and reinstall the OS from scratch. That isn't really something that can be explained in ELI5 terms, however, and it will vary wildly depending on what OS you're on and whether or not you still have the original install disks for the OS and everythi... |
How can schools/universities put so much emphasis and consequences on plagiarism when the professors/teachers blatantly plagiarize lecture materials like power-points as their own without consequences? | When you wrote a paper, you're doing it to show that you understand t the material and can do the work. Plagiarism defeats the purpose of heading papers. When the professor is giving a lecture, he is trying to teach. He doesn't need to prove anything to you. There are different standard because there's different goals. |
When hair gets wet, do the individual hairs absorb water, or is the water just trapped between hairs? Why does it take so long for wet hair to dry? | As a kid, I had always wondered why if you briefly ran water in your hair, say in the sink, it didn't seem to stay wet at all. Oil! Your hair accumulates oil over time, which help to deflect water. Once you shampoo and remove the oil, the water saturates your hair.[Capillary action] will cause water to be held in place... |
What is it about printers that make them so prone to errors? | I'm a printer by trade and a big reason we are prone to errors is simply that the work is hard. Most people don't appreciate that a good printer operator must be a personnel manager , supply manager , editor , chemist , plumber , and mechanic . Each printing unit for each color is a complicated machine where 100 things... |
How long does it take to lose a unit of weight after a day of a calorie deficit? | Here's a related question for those in the know. A couple of years ago I used a BodyBugg and tracked what I ate and targeted an average daily deficit of 1500 calories, which led to an average weight loss of three pounds a week. What I always wondered about however, was what the coloric content of our waste was. Eating ... |
Why do I feel like singing in the shower? | I read somewhere once, it's very healthy for our sinuses to sing. The vibrations break up mucus and wax. Since you're in the shower, why not clean out those things too. |
Why do the vast majority of political cartoonists all use extremely similar (almost identical) drawing styles? | They don't. Compare, say, [Gerald Scarfe], [Matthew Pritchett], and [Steve Bell]. They all have highly distinctive and unique styles, which are not similar at all. |
Why does music in a 4/4 time feel natural? Is this a cultural phenomenon, or is it something more? | All I know is, minor 3rds are the devil. Anyway maybe someone will give a more educated answer but i think people just like symmetry. If you count 1-2-3-4,1-2-3-4, somehow that just feels more right and like it comes to a better conclusion than 1-2-3,1-2-3. Though I myself love me some odd meters like 7. But I like the... |
Why do dogs make eye contact with their owners when they poop? | I've had a lot of dogs. They've never consistently made eye contact with me while they poop. |
WHY IS PRINTER INK SO F***ING EXPENSIVE!? | It's the razor blade model. Cheap device, expensive cartridges. If you get a laser printer the ink is unbelievably cheap in comparison, and the printers last far longer too. Only problem is that laser printers are either black and white OR fairly bulky & expensive for color. I have a B & W laser, and should I need to p... |
why we are told food shouldn't sit out for more than two hours, but when I was growing up, my turkey sandwiches sat in my locker for far longer with no negative consequences? | I've never heard it, with a few exceptions it sounds like complete bs to me, and as someone who grew up in both the US and Germany it always blows me away how paranoid Americans are about leaving food out. |
why, if space is so wide and the probability of two celestial bodies crashing is so immensely low, the moon is dotted with asteroid craters? | > Our planet would be the same as the moon if it wasn't for our atmosphere. The atmosphere protects against smaller impacts, but not against larger impacts. Earth got more craters than the moon over time , but most of them are not visible any more. The Earth looks different because our surface is active: wind, rain and... |
If Sodium Pentothal is such a potent truth serum, why is it not used more widely in criminal convictions? | It's called a 'truth serum', and it has advocates who claim it works; but others do not regard it as reliable. This means that convictions obtained with it could possibly be overturned. |
When you cut food on a (plastic) cuttingboard, aren't you slowly eating the cutting board? Doesn't this pose a health risk? | Fun fact: ancient peoples and even some scattered people's today use grinding stones for grinding food. The bits of rock and sand that would end up in the food that they would inevitably eat would wear their teeth down over time. Loads of teeth have been found to be ground down to the nub because of this. Hard to imagi... |
Why don't we just trow radioactive waste into space instead of storing it? | It's heavy and sending stuff to space is incredibly expensive. Ignoring raw dollars-per-pound-to-orbit, can you imagine the public resistance to the stuff being blasted over their heads by a rocket that may or may not blow up? |
Why don't we have solar panels on every roof, building, and vehicle? | There are other problems presented by the fact that utilities are owned by different companies and each one may have different standards and rules for what they allow on their grid. There are some interesting examples of the spread of solar panel use. In Ontario, Canada there is a company that will install the panels f... |
why do so many houses have basements? Isn't it cheaper to build another level than to dig? | We live in the Midwest. Living through a few tornados makes having a basement a HUGE plus in a house. Literally life/death difference. The Uber really nice thing is if your basement isn't finished, you have the ability to have the rest of your house super nice, have a shit ton of storage, but at the same time not have ... |
if the majority of the American people picked a democrat for president, why did they keep a Republican congress? | Some of it too was that some reps ran unopposed, as in my district in SC. I'm pretty sure our senators ran unopposed too. It was sad to see.so hopefully nothing gets done. the ideal year is one in which no new laws get passed that will interfere with our lives. |
Why is CISPA such a big deal? | Right, I mean if the millions of black people stopped and frisked in nyc have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear right? Being forced to empty your pockets a few times a night should be a normal occurence after all, it keeps us all safe! Disclaimer: I'm being sarcastic.Something i dont feel was answered in this ... |
Is it possible to read written languages like chinese or japanese which use signs without knowing the meaning of the word. Or is the pronunciation and meaning of signs linked somehow? | No you have to learn the sign and word new, in Chinese you can't come up with new words like in German for example, by connecting words you already know. This is the reason for the 1000+ signs they have. I started learning Chinese a few days ago, so don't quote me on that. |
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