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What is preventing blue states from enacting single-payer/universal healthcare? | Insurance works because a bunch of healthy people won't use it at all, and the insurance uses the profit they obtain from them to pay for the expensive costs of treating their terminally ill customers. It only works if there are way more people putting in than taking out, and if there are more healthy people than sick ... |
Why aren't cigarettes/tobacco a "schedule 1" drug, if they are scientifically proven to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year? | What 59179 said, but also because it is so widespread and in common usage, trying to limit it outright could lead to huge backlash . The good news is they're slowly phasing it out though, and finally getting more and more regulations in place.Tabbacco has been big buissness in the US since the colonial days, few entiti... |
why does there need to be a designated "men" and "women" bathroom when there's only one toilet and sink in each room? | Women don't like urine on the toilet seats. Men don't like used tampons on the, well, where ever they happen to land that they don't really belong. |
How can America be considered a free democracy when it's the college vote and not the people's vote that determines the president? | America is a republic, we elect people who in the end, elects the president. I personally hated all candidates, but it's pretty stupid how people were so butthurt about the electoral college. The electoral college is not a new thing. |
If the Olympics is known to leave a country/city at a loss financially most of the time, then why does anywhere host the Olympics? | It's a loss for the city / government but it's a massive gain for the International Olympic Comittee, the sponsors and whoever is tasked to build all this infrastructure. It's basically public money going down the drain so it can make some private companies richer and well, if you're in office, you don't do that kind o... |
what is Iran contra? did Nixon really pump crack cocaine into black neighborhoods? If so why? | The Iran-Contra affair happened during the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War. Nicaragua had a leftist government which the Reagan administration saw as communistic and Soviet-aligned. The Contras were a group of people who wanted to overthrow Nicaragua's government and they were supported by the Reagan administratio... |
Why does it seem like all other languages speak so much faster than English? | I moved to Germany not being used to hearing German. Two things: 1. It doesn't sound nearly as angry as Hitler. It really doesn't. 2. At first it sounded like people were speaking super fast but now that I have been here for awhile I can follow conversations. I now can identify individual words. And of course it doesn'... |
How hard is it to survive on minimum wage? | It depends? It would not probably be a problem for me, but I'm extremely frugal. It could be a problem for me. There would not be much of any money left over, so if I got seriously sick or something, game over. There would be no savings there. Any one major bill would destroy me. |
Why don't people argue with "truthers"? | Because there's no arguing with people like that. You could give all the evidence you want but they have all of those videos and articles they've seen on the internet backing them up and they just aren't going to back down from that. |
Why do we see planets or stars that are outside of our solar system in the past? | Imagine there's a photographer who can run at the speed of light . Let's say he's at a star system that's 2000 light years from earth. Suppose after the photographer takes a picture of that star system, he decides to return straight to the earth. It will take him exactly 2000 years to get to the earth because he can on... |
Why is there so much nudity in classical paintings? | The classical period I'm assuming you are referring to is that of the Renaissance. In Europe a few people experienced a return to the Romantic style of art. The Romantic style, popular in Rome, celebrated the human body in its ideal form. Hence, well-shaped nude bodies. |
If it's so easy to build your own cheap and powerful computer, why aren't companies simply mass-producing these in the first place? | It's hard to mass-produce something when each individual product is different. Each person building their own computer chooses different components. The much better option is to let customers choose from a list of parts and build it for them on demand. |
Whats the difference between two and three pronged electrical outlets? | 3rd prong is safety ground. If a metal appliance has an internal short circuit, the outside metal casing has the potential to become energized. If you touch this metal, you will be shocked. Safety ground attaches to this metal casing, thus grounding it. If an internal short circuit takes place, the energy goes out the ... |
How does the temperature inside a car on a hot day exceed the actual temperature of that day? | Light of all visible wavelengths can pass through the glass windows. Objects inside the car will reflect some wavelengths and absorb others . The energy absorbed is typically re-emitted as infrared light. Glass is opaque to infrared and reflects it back into the car. It's the same principle that makes green houses warm... |
How toy lines for R rated movies such as Rambo and Aliens were so popular given the target demographic for the movies they were based upon. | Kids watched R-rated movies back then. First, parents weren't so uptight about it. Second, theaters weren't so uptight about it . Third, movies showed up on TV. They were heavily edited for content, but that allowed kids to see R-rated movies even when their parents were squares. Eta: Also, it wasn't as easy for parent... |
What's the difference between timelapse and fast-forwardig a video? | Short answer, doing timelapse saves film, video tape or what ever the recording medium. If you've seen a nature documentary where they timelapse the seasons they can achieve that by taking one picture a day and stitching them all together. At 24 frames per second you can see a year in 365/24 = 15.2 seconds. The footage... |
What does ejecting a flash drive actually do? | If you mean soft-ejecting the flash drive by right-clicking the usb icon then clicking eject? That's tells the computer to stop reading or writing from/to the flash drive. That's why it's not safe to just pull a flash drive out because the computer could be in the middle of writing something |
Why do so many more people have allergies nowadays compared to the 1900's | Can't be sure yet if it's a real increase, or if it's just because it's gotten closer attention. According to CDC - & gt;From 1997 to 2007, the prevalence of reported food allergy increased 18% among children under age 18 years .This finding could be related to increased awareness, reporting, and use of specific medica... |
Why you shouldn't take Eclipse photos with your smartphone if you can normally take pictures of the full sun without any problems | It won't destroy your camera any more than leaving your phone in direct sunlight will destroy it. Remember, phone CCDs don't have a shutter and are always exposed to light from outside. If looking at the sun could damage them, we'd all be paranoid about leaving our phones in the sun. |
How do we have a picture of the milky way | If you mean from an outside perspective, as others have commented: we don't. If you mean from an inside perspective, then you just need to get away from the city light pollution and just look up. Boom. There it is. Pro tip: pick a night with no moon, or after the moon has set. |
Why do alcoholism and brilliant musicians go hand in hand? Neuro? Environmental? | My understanding is that a lot of art comes from pain. It's cathartic to get that pain out by expressing yourself, and a lot of people express themselves by creating music. Unfortunately, that's not enough to totally relieve themselves, so they turn to drugs and alcohol to try and alleviate those feelings. The more dru... |
Why am I taxed at a different rate every paycheck? | It's because your salary is bouncing into a higher tax bracket. For a single person the first 9,225 in income is withheld at 10%. Once that's exceeded income from $9,226 to $37,450 is withheld at 15%. Beyond that there are brackets for 25%, 28%, 33%, 35% and 39.6% So as checks go higher they start encountering both hig... |
Why does the United States look the other way about everything that Saudi Arabia does ? | And Israel. if you ever want to know who is in charge, just look at who you aren't allowed to criticize. |
How did the first white people happen? | I'll tell you a story I learned from Biochem 441. Long ago man migrated to the area we now call Europe. Europe has very cold winters where agriculture may not be possible in sufficient quantities to support the population. Cows can survive the winter in a barn eating only hay which is much easier to produce and store t... |
How a computer/iPad can be blazingly fast when first bought opening apps, windows and webpages quickly, but after a few years of use slow to a frustrating, 'I-want-to-throw-this-out-the-window' crawl? | For your phone, take a look at the storage usage and battery usage statistics. Recently I did a bit of cleaning on my phone and found that messages, facebook and chrome was using several gigabytes of space, mostly just cache. I uninstalled all the apps that were using a lot of space, reinstalled the ones I want, disabl... |
How did sex evolve? | Tsk tsk tsk. 5 year olds shouldn't be asking such questions!", 'You probably should AskScience if you want a real answer. |
Is milk healthy for me? I'm an adult, but I haven't drank milk for years. | It's not a poison, unless you're allergic or intolerant, and it's not a super food. Like mostly anything else it is healthy for you in the right quantities. It has nutrition such as vitamin D, vitamin A, calcium, vitamin B-12, and magnesium. But remember not everyone is the same, so what benefits you receive, or don't,... |
Why reality shows blur out brand name images on film. | You need permission to show brands on TV. In some cases, the brand doesn't want to be on TV. Like say in establishing shots on Jersey Shore, I wouldn't want my brand's logo showing up because it looks like I'm endorsing that show. In other cases brands would love to have free advertising, but shows would much prefer to... |
If women believe in such gender equality, why are they not required to sign up for the draft / have same wartime obligations? | Times were different. No one expected women to A) be in the military, B) want to be in the military, C) fight to be allowed in the military, D) fight for the right to fight for our country and E) men didn't want them there. Bottom line - that's the way the law was written at the time. Become a feminist and lobby for wo... |
why aren't the people who own the pictures we use as memes sue the hell out of the websites and users that use them? | This doesn't necessarily answer your question, but some of the internet memes actually have managers. There was a terrible Vice video on it and things like grumpy cat, success kid, photogenic guy, etc., are all managed by the same agent. I can't find the video at the moment, but it's there. And it's stupid. |
why is flat tax considered unfair? | The reason is that it's much easier for someone earning $1,000,000 a year to afford $100,000 in tax than it is for someone earning $20,000 a year to afford $2000 in tax. Someone on a low salary might only just be able to get by. They have little expendable cash, so taking away 10% of their salary could really make them... |
Why are busness laptops so expensive? | Let's suppose that you have a business where your employees cost you an average of $100k a year after insurance, tax, etc. If they work 200 days a year then they make $500a day. If a computer failure holds up 3 people that's easily $500-2000 worth of lost productivity depending upon the severity of the issue. If an ent... |
Why do people look so much older in high school in the 50's and 60's then they do in current days | Again, I don't have anything to back this up, but my guess would be that the fashions they wore are associated with looking 'older' by subsequent generations. If you were to ask kids in the 1950s about photos of people from the 1920s, maybe they would say the same thing? |
Why is the prayer position (palms together) so similar across many different religions? | It's both a sign of focus as well as a general sign of submissiveness - someone with their hands clasped together in front of them can't really do very much aggression-wise. |
Why isn't Stephen Hawking overweight? | He probably doesn't eat any more than he has to, since it's not easy for him. |
What makes something radioactive and what is radiation? | Something is radioactive when it releases stuff from its nucleus. That stuff can be anything from gamma rays to electrons and protons. Why does it release this stuff? To get to a lower energy state. Radioactivity is generally see in heavier, more unstable elements. These elements have heavier and bigger nuclei, and the... |
How do bars work? | Tabs work by giving the bartender/server your credit card and they hold it until you leave and you pay then. Otherwise you pay for each drink as you get it. Bacardi is probably the most popular rum. I don't know a lot about mixed drinks, I usually get a double bacardi with a splash of coke and lime. Someone else can pr... |
Why Is Crawling On Hands And Knees So Tiring For An Adult But Babies Have No Problem? | When you are born, you spine is basically an open C shape. The curvature develops as you learn to keep you head raise, crawl, stand and walk. A baby's spine is more suitable for crawling in a way an adults is not. A few other contributing factors: * babies are light, so there is a lot less pressure on their contact sur... |
why does a bike stand up when you're moving but fall when you stand still? | I read that no-one really understands this properly. There was an article in New Scientist about it last year I think. The gyroscopic effect will tend to resist a change in angular momentum which effectively trys to keep spinning things in the same orientation making the bike more stable when the wheels are turning. Ap... |
Why can't a smartphone split 50/50 its wifi and cellular data in times of weakness? Why does it have to be EITHER wifi OR cellular data? | It does actually. Most cells have a setting called Smart Network Switch, it is probably under your WiFi settings. It uses both WiFi and your 4g connection. But it also depends on phone. It is an option for androids, but I don't know if Iphones do it. |
Why do musicians use their non-dominant hand on the fingerboards of string instruments like guitar and violin? | I play guitar too, but I'm left handed and fret with my left hand. Simply because my first guitar was purchased for Christmas for me from my parents. I tried to play it left handed but it was obviously upside down and so my parents corrected me. I just learned how to play right handed guitar and I don't think I could p... |
How can America operate a prison in Guantanamo Bay considering our foreign relations with Cuba? | The US took Guantanamo Bay a hundred and ten years ago by a treaty. It wasn't until later that the communists came into Cuba and the trade embargo and all that happened. So why didn't the Communists kick the US out of Guantanamo Bay? Well, it would have been a really bad idea. It was during the cold war and all over th... |
Why didn't prehistoric and even early historic humans die of skin cancer, even if they were out in the sun for most of the day? | Light Caucasian skin is a relatively new evolutionary adaptation. Early humans would have had darker, more UV resistant skin. Also, most people don't develop skin cancer until later in life, a primitive human likely would have died of something else by then. Finally, many probably did develop, and die of skin cancer.Wh... |
Why do we use the lethal injection method instead of hanging for the death penalty? | Hanging is a very technical form of execution, and it is very dependent upon certain aspects of the inmate. Hanging, when done properly, is meant to snap the neck quickly, so death is nearly instaneous. If the person weighs too much, there is a risk of the head separating from the body. there are stories of inmates ele... |
Why does Sweden have the highest number of rapes in Europe, by a wide margin? | Sweden measures rape differently. The rest of the world measures victims, Sweden measures rapes. For example: If a woman was trapped in a basement and raped every day for a year, then broke free and went to the police in Sweden that would be 364 rapes, in the rest of the world it'd be 1. Why do they do this? I don't kn... |
What exactly happens when a television commercial abruptly cuts out in the middle of its air time and another commercial plays after? | This usually happens during simulcast. When stations and affiliate stations air the same program but don't share the same sponsors. TV channels sell air time for x amount of commercials, usually the commercials sold are for the demographic of the people who live near the station for example live sporting events. Usuall... |
why do richer countries always tend to have more depressed/mentally ill people than poorer ones? | Something that the other reactions haven't mentioned yet: Capitalism actually causes depression. No, that is not a political statement. It's a proven fact and widely studied. The why is a bit complex, but it seems to come down to having too much freedom, no one to blame but yourself and individualistic approaches to li... |
why jet planes don't have a kind of net in front of the turbine to prevent birds and other debris entering the motor? | If something as simple as a net would work, then birdstrikes wouldn't be a problem on most engines because the fan blades would be able to survive anything a net can stop. The problem is that the net wouldn't be enough to stop it and now you are going to get a broken net snagged on your fan blades", 'Short answer: Beca... |
why do cellphones cause that "dat da da, dat" noise when place next to my powered speakers? | I tried to find a downloadable ringtone of this noise, and I couldn't even find a recording anywhere on the internet.The explanation behind why is interesting, but more importantly you can find these at some electronics stores . Clip them on them on the speaker cables and it should make the noise stop _URL_0_For some r... |
Why do we say "pair of underwear" when there is only ever one underwear? TELL ME! | Because everyone wears two underwears. You mean you don't?", 'How about scissors? Pair of scissors, surely if you break the scissors in half its not a scissor, its just a useless piece of sharp metal.It's like the term pants, there is one item but each leg is referred to as a pant, hence under-pants and therefore under... |
why do things like metal and water feel
cooler than the room temperature when all
other things are at same temperature as well? | Ok.. Here it is. Metal and water feeling cool are two different things all together. Metals feel more cool because they are good conductors of heat. So they essentially suck out more heat from your body hence making you feel they are cooler. Where as, water IS actually cooler than the room temperature because water kee... |
Why do some cops in big cities like New York use horses? | Multiple reasons, some have already been mentioned in to comments, others haven't. Keep in mind that this is based on my experience working with this in Sweden. Mileage in other countries may vary. 1. Horses are less noisy and more approachable. People can come up and talk to the officer in a different way. 2. The hors... |
Why are people who refuse to vaccinate their kids considered to be ignorant for blindly following a theory but any anyone who vaccinates without fully understanding the science behind viruses is considered smart or normal? | Unvaccinated children can contract diseases such as polio, which can leave them harmed or crippled for life, if not dead. It isn't fair to the child because at such a young age, it isn't their decision. There's so much evidence that vaccines have saved millions of lives. Also, the paper that claims vaccines cause autis... |
Why are prescriptions for life-saving medications so expensive? | Depends on what you mean by life-saving medication. Many very common and cheap medications are lifesaving, as in many ill people would die without it, but it's so cheap it's commonplace and easy to mass-fabricate, that you just take it for granted and the issue of people dying from those illnesses is essentially gone i... |
Why isn't Scientology considered a cult? | Mostly because they've got an army of well-funded lawyers to sue the ass off anyone who speaks poorly of them, and [more sinister methods] at times to boot.Very few people would disagree with the statement, "Scientology is a cult." The problem is that there isn't really a single, testable definition of a cult. There is... |
Why is the Pharmacist Profession needed in the Computer Age? | I work in Healthcare Automation, so here's what I think: Computers *break*, it could be anything really. A program may end up having a bug that gets dosage wrong with a particular med for a particular person, happens a lot. -This kills the patient. This is why we still need a human to give the final 'okay' on these thi... |
No seatbelt=ticket. Motorcycle = perfectly OK? | If you're gonna hit a car and steering away isn't an option, you wanna bail. Can't do that with a seatbelt. In a car you'd be thrown around or through the window. |
If Blood Plasma is 95% water, why is it so precious? | > It seems like it that would leave a relatively minor part of it to synthesize It is a relatively small proportion of the plasma to synthesize but it is also much more complex series of structures which would need to be synthesized. To my knowledge the ability to do so is not available at this point, although I imagin... |
In The Fellowship of the Ring film, why is Gandalf so adamant to not go through the Mines of Moria without any explanation to the rest of group? | Some good answers here. One thing I haven't noticed anybody discuss is that while in the film it was up to Frodo to decide how to proceed, Gandalf did not have him make the decision in the book. Gandalf made the suggestion of Moria after they failed to take the pass over the mountain, mentioning that he had discussed i... |
Why do I feel tired around 10 PM, but as soon as I go to bed, I can't fall asleep? | Maybe it depends on what you're doing at those times. The hormone Melatonin is released at night causing you to feel sleepy, but it is affected by the amount of light. Maybe if you are in front of a light source, it is disrupting what you body expects to be its daily pattern or circadian rhythm.My best answer that that... |
How does Google give me trillions of results in a fraction of a second? | Here's a site that explains some of it. _URL_0_ The first thing is that sites have to be crawled and indexed, and that creates a gigantic database. You need massive computer resources to deal with that. But once you have it, the problem is choosing which results to show and in what order. Their key innovation is the pa... |
If Hypothyroidism causes weight gain, can't we do something to temporarily give someone with a normal thyroid Hyperthyroidism to trigger weight loss? | I believe I can answer this question, finally a use for taking endocrinology as an undergraduate. Many hormones including thyroxine released from the thyroid are under 'feedback control'. It all starts in the hypothalamus which releases 'thyrotropin releasing horome' on to the pituitary, the pituitary then releases thy... |
Sex/Kissing scenes in movies.. | Imagine being a male actor in a sex scene with like Mila Kunis or Keira Knightley or something. How well do you think they would have to trust each other for her to be bouncing up and down on what's likely the hardest boner you've ever had? I'd have a hard time looking her in the eye after physically confirming I'd lov... |
When a train makes a turn, isn't its outer wheel covers more distance than the inner one? How come the train doesn't come off the tracks? | < |-----| > Above is a simple diagram of a train axle with wheels either side.The important bit is the ' < ' shape of the wheel. When in a car going around a bend you feel yourself being pushed 'outwards' away from the direction of turn. This is a *centrifugal force* that always works in the same way. This exact same f... |
What is computational linguistics? | is" They could see that across many sentences, account and password often appear together and near each other. They could see that "XYZ" is a weird combination of characters to make a word and therefore likely not a word at all. Coupled with the computer's understanding of what a password is, it could deduce that "XYZ"... |
How in the world does a high way get so clogged that it becomes a traffic jam? | It happens because cars jam too close together, which causes two things to happen. 1) Cars that want to change lanes can't find an opening to do it, so they often slow down as a reaction until they find a spot. Often, when they do, they wind up cutting over going slower than the other lane, which causes those cars to s... |
Why do people hate the .gif file format? | It was never designed for short looping sequences. It's heavy and it has a very low quality/resolution. |
Why the NSA spying on us is a bad thing. | Unfortunately, there's no way this question won't just turn into a political debate, and we don't want that on this subreddit. |
Why is it that when you're cold your body creates goosebumps to essentially warm you up, but when you're sick with the flu and get the shivers your body is already hot? | On the same subject, anyone have an idea why I'll get goosebumps from sitting in a hot car? Like in the summer, I'll get in a car thats 100+ degrees and often immediately get intense goosebumps. |
If someone goes to jail suddenly, what happens to their bills? | I think in some cases, another person would assume the responsibility of the bills. I had a call center job where we dealt with auto renewing subscriptions. If your credit card is attached to an account that automatically renews at set intervals and you don't call the company to cancel before going to jail, they will j... |
Why has there not been a successful electric forced induction system for motors? | It's a matter of efficiency. Having an electric pump or turbine that could create the same amount of pressure as a turbocharger or supercharger would require significant electrical draw, necessitating a much beefier alternator that would increase parasitic loss of power from the engine. To make one worth it requires lo... |
- Why do we call Japan 'Japan' if they call their country 'Nihon'? | It's mostly due to the way foreign cultures referred to nations before we came to view them in modern times. Just look at how the name of Germany varies based on the language you're speaking, it's all due to the frame of reference of the country in relation to that nation |
How exactly does an ISP catch someone downloading pirated files and does a seedbox safely prevent that? | The ISP doesn't catch you. The studios catch you and send the information to your ISP. When you torrent something, you are downloading and uploading from multiple people at the same time. That's how it works. The way the studios catch you is they just get on the torrent too, and keep a log of every IP address that sent... |
Why do camera lenses have to focus if they're capturing in 2D? | No, you are mixing two different things. Our eyes have to *converge* because they are combining two images. Converging is the action where your eyes turn slightly toward the center of your face, so they hit the same object from two different angles. Our eyes -- just like a camera -- also have to *focus* in order to tur... |
Why are internet speeds in America so slow | Of all of the countries to use as an example, you use Australia? They still have a good chunk of the country on dialup since it's such a large region but has only six or so metropolitan areas. Really, America's internet speeds aren't that bad. They're not #1 but I think they were in the top 10. Meanwhile, Australia is ... |
Why do we usually see norse/egyptian/greek gods as characters in videogames but we never see God nor Jesus in them? | Very, very few people actively worship and believe in those gods, so the number of people the games would offend is very low. Also, I feel like those deities have always been, even in the time when they were actively worshiped, almost literary characters in addition to deities who could intercede in people's lives or p... |
How are bugs created in programs? | Something I believe the other comments have missed is logical errors in your code. Not necessarily syntax errors, but you missed out on something that needs to logically happen for your code to function properly. Maybe you didn't add in a check for user input at a certain point. All you have to do is forget to take a s... |
What would happen if no-one in the entire world spent any money for a day? | Markets would crash because it'd be so fucking weird and unprecedented that investors would sell a lot of their holdings for cash . |
If breathing at 5,000' above sea level is difficult, would breathing 5,000' below sea level be easy? | Harder. There are some graphs that [associate air pressure with altitude]. There is a formula but I'm done with Maths for today so I will do a estimate of a regression by eye. At -5000', or around 1550 meters below, Air pressure should be around 120KPa of pressure, that's around 1.2 atmospheres. That's nothing. You wil... |
how private prisons generate revenue. | The article on the front page, and others like it say that states are turning to private prison corporations because the state doesn't have enough money. So if the state can't afford to cover the costs of running a prison, I don't understand how they can pay a private company enough to cover the costs, and also show a ... |
If there are so many stars in the universe, why is space so dark then? | Because you fail to grasp just how mind-numbingly empty the universe is. It's empty. As in, if you were to average the amount of matter in the universe - be it a planet, asteroid, star, gas, whatever - and compare it to the Nothing that is the rest of it, your average would tell you that nothing exists in the universe.... |
In "The Martian", did the crew actually age for 3/4 years when they were in space? | For that you need way-way more speed or an extreme gravitational field. Such a simple trip to Mars doesn't give you any of that. For reference: _URL_1_ > Today NASA’s Scott Kelly, along with two Russian cosmonauts, blasts off for the International Space Station , where they plan to spend 342 days. Kelly’s identical twi... |
What is happening when my internet has "Limited Connection" and stops working? | The times it's happened to me, it was because I was unable to obtain an IP address from my router . If Windows is unable to negotiate a DHCP lease, it will use an APIPA number, which uses the 169.254.x.x network. I won't even be able to reach my normal default gateway from there. |
How did YouTube actually become WORSE over time? The video player is barely functional. | IIRC the problem is in how Youtube now only buffers sections of the video instead of the entire thing at any given time, and apparently they don't have all the problems ironed out with it? I know that when I disabled Dash Playback with a Firefox extension the videos loaded flawlessly in every way, but since removing it... |
Why is being Jewish considered an ethnicity? | Lurker here, made a screename just to make a comment on this post. I am a descendant of Eastern European Jews myself but am of the belief that being Jewish is just a religion. I don't deny that I am descended from Jews, but I myself am not Jewish. I came into this post because I wanted to hear what people have to say a... |
How is anesthesia so simple in animals but complex in humans? | It's not necessarily that simple in animals. Incorrect dosage can lead to a dead animal or a surprise awakening. In fact, adverse reactions to anesthesia are more common in many animals than they are in humans. |
Why does an Anime Character yell out the names of his/her techniques prior to or while attacking somebody/something. | It's just a thing that happens. The thing about yelling the names of their techniques is that whether or not it's necessary is defined by the anime itself. For example, in an old anime named Zatch Bell, the moves were activated by the character reading them out of a book. However, in a lot of anime, it's not even defin... |
Why does the second day after an ankle sprain feel worse than immediately after I sprain it | I'm nowhere near a professional but I'm guessing it has something to do with the amount of time you leave it resting. Things get relaxed unlike when you're playing football where your entire body is essentially overworking itself.Because it begins to swell after the initial sprain in order to help it heal. The swelling... |
Why isn't there ever lightning in snowstorms? | It totally happens, just not every often. I've only seen it once a few years ago during a blizzard. It was pretty cool. _URL_0_ |
How does requiring an ID to vote "disenfranchise minorities and young people" when IDs on required to buy tobacco, booze, fly on a plane or use a credit card? | Even if it is just $5 or $10, it still puts up a barrier, which is illegal. Also, usually the issue is not necessarily the cost of the ID itself, but the hoops you have to go through to get one. Government services are notorious for their limited open hours, which often coincide with the hours these people are working.... |
Do We Need Milk? Why is Milk a Necessary Purchase in the Average Household? | Human mothers are typically able to provide milk for their babies for six months. But we need milk until we're two years old so many people take milk from another species, mostly cows or goats, to fill the deficit. The reason we continue to take milk from other species even past two years old is simply because milk tas... |
What is hot water doing that makes cleaning dishes etc easier that cold water isnt? | Everyone's taking a super scientific explanation to this. The best example that I had to convince my parents from switching washing from cold water to hot was that: Heat loosens up grease a lot better than cold water can. Think of bacon fat turning into a liquid state and running off of the pan vs. trying to rub off ca... |
In Python why are NumPy operations so much faster than loops? | Now put in oven". That's how an interpreter works - it evaluates each statement independently without any real understanding of the overall scheme. You could alternatively create highly efficient operations and just reference those - "Now bake a cake". That's why something like NumPy does. Instead of handling every ste... |
Many movies, especially comedies, have blooper reels at the end. Curious why more don't have these. | It's pretty much going to be down to the Directors taste and vision, arts are subjective by nature so not every film maker will want the same format |
Why do we whine about population, but do absolutely nothing about it? | There's this little thing called freedom to do what you want. I suppose more people don't like others telling them they can't procreate life if they want than those who look at life more statistically.Unless you have a very authoritarian government, it would be political suicide to even suggest itBecause the Chinese on... |
The difference between an outlet store and a regular store and why aren't all stores priced like an outlet store? | It is because they are selling either last year's models or irregulars of this year's models. Irregulars are usually products with a slight defect that does not effect the usage of the item, and are usually unnoticeable to the consumer, but keep the retailer from selling it at full price. Examples would be a single mis... |
why are Anti-Cancer drugs so expensive? | When developing things like medicine and technology, there is a significant cost known as research and development cost. This is essentially how when the company is developing a product, the must spend a ton of money on trials and new formulas. This is why something that costs twenty dollars to make is sold for say, tw... |
Why are there math jokes about rounding errors in addition, 1+1=2.000001? | It is a computing joke, though your case wouldn't be like that since it uses whole numbers. This is called a floating point error. Computers do math in binary, therefore they first have to convert their math into binary numbers. With normal whole numbers, this is easy, but decimals get a little bit tricky. Remember rep... |
How do nuclear reactors work? How do they turn...whatever they do into electricity? | Your family member is mostly right. I'm not an expert certainly, but I can provide a basic explanation. Certain elements like Uranium and Plutonium are radioactive. Among other things this means that if you get enough of them in one place they get very hot. That heat is used to boil water to produce steam. The steam is... |
How does Stephen Hawking communicate electronically? | When he says things that haven't been set up beforehand, he has suggestions to fill in a word for him. It reads what he was saying before and when he starts typing the next word, it suggests things that the computer thinks he might want to use. It stops him from having he type the whole word and shortens the amount of ... |
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