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Why _URL_0_ hasn't sold their domain to Valve yet. | While there is no real way of knowing for sure, I am almost positive that they are holding out for more than Gabe is willing to pay. Gabe probably offered a lowball initial offer and the whoever owns _URL_2_ counteroffered with something insanely high . Eventually negotiations broke down, and Gabe decided he didn't wan... |
why aren't we transporting the water in areas that are flooded? | No technology exists that's capable of gathering up so much water, over such a broad area, in such a short time, and then move it somewhere else. If one could be built it would be wildly expensive and use an incredible amount of energy. |
Credit cards, credit-ratings, mortgages, and why people spend money they don't have. | Credit: Because at some point, your going to want something that you simply cannot afford to pay in full. In order to get a loan or a mortgage, you need to have good credit. How do you get good credit? By creating your credit history. Can be formed by the use of credit cards, paying off your student loans, opening bank... |
How does a Qubit collapse into its correct state? | What's your background? What's this project for? In general, this is something that gets very complicated very quickly, and in general ELI5 isn't a good place to ask this question. |
If you leave metal in a liquid state does it eventually evaporate like water? | It is theoretically possible, but unless you're evaporating the metal into a extremely hot, near-vacuum controlled setting in a lab, any given atom won't stay evaporated for any significant amount of time. |
What happens to wildlife in a blizzard? | Small mammals just stay in burrows until the ice and snow melts; however, there are places where the bottom of the snow melts before the top, creating tunnels and spaces in the snow where they can move around in. I'm not sure if this happens everywhere. |
why Bill Clinton passed DOMA if he is a proponent of gay marriage? | He didn't have a choice. If you look at the vote totals, they had way more votes than necessary to overturn a presidential veto. Edit: words. |
Why is Holocaust denial (and other genocide denials) a criminal act in so many countries? Why is it considered dangerous and not just idiotic? | More importantly, why is it only a criminal act to deny the holocaust but not the extermination of millions other ethnic/disabled/gay 'undesirable' people affected by this event? Plenty of other people were killed besides just Jews. |
[EIL5] Why is it faster to delete a program than install one? | When you install a program, every structure that the program needs, requires a file structure/location. Creating those locations takes time. It's like when your momma asks your to put your unpaired socks together and put them in the drawer. It takes longer to do that than to take them out and put them on the floor.The ... |
How can the universe create itself? | it's not so much that the universe created itself. that would imply the universe existed and then made itself into existence. that's just nonsensical. what has been proposed as a hypothesis is that the universe popped into existence with no outside energy. and thus the universe itself is net sum 0 energy and thru quant... |
What does a long running show (Such as a sitcom) do if/when an actor dies suddenly? | could be either option, but usually the character leaves or dies suddenly in the show. when they kill them off they tend to edit together scenes they need from previous material. the longer the show has ran, the more they can do with that. it often comes across a little choppy, but they're very good at convincing us. b... |
Why is GMT the international standard time? | Because longitude can't be measured accurately without a precise clock that works on a sailing ship. The British Government proposed a very large prize in 1714 for solutions to the problem. Spain also offered prizes, but not as much. In order to give out such large sums fairly, the Board of Longitude was established in... |
Why is the potential helium shortage problematic? | I believe it's used with welding, but it's also used in high altitude weather balloons. MRI's require liquid helium, NASA uses it for their shuttles. |
How is society not on the brink of collapse within 30-50 years, given the rising demand for (and dependence upon) Oil? | This is a very interesting problem that ultimately boils down to one issue: Will oil prices fall fast enough to cause a global catastrophe? I say it won't, for two reasons: Firstly, we will always come up with new ways to extract oil. This probably won't be a solution to the problem, but will delay it enough for anothe... |
Why are we so concerned with automation and/or robots taking our jobs when our society has already survived exponential shifts in machinery, such as the Industrial Revolution? | Pretty much anyone who worked on a farm was capable of working on a factory line. There are plenty of people who are just not capable of being rocket scientists , no matter how much training they get. |
Is the " never wake a sleepwalking person" thing true? If so, why? | It's safer to wake them. They might get hurt. On the other hand, they'll be confused upon waking and may punch someone. |
Why do internet communities such as reddit tend to have a left-wing bias, even though mainstream opinion is more balanced? | Conservatism is generally a politically ideology that is afraid with the idea adapting to new ventures and experiences and situations and environments . There's typically nothing wrong with that, but in extreme cases you tend to find Conservatives prefer private contact, rather than the preference of engaging all and m... |
Simple Radiation. Alpha, Beta, Gamma and X-ray. Please ELI5 | alpha: just releases helium. it's not dangerous whatsoever. beta: can be a little dangerous, its best to keep it in a container. gamma: extremely dangerous. causes cancer, and kills people. a geiger counter is how it's found. there isn't really a unique color or anything on that nature. radiation is invisible to our ey... |
Why does 0 come after 9 on the keyboard and not before 1? | Like so many systems and layouts, the keyboard with numbers arrayed 1-0 instead of 0-9 at this point is as much about convention and training as anything else. After you have billions of keyboards with the numbers that way even if you found a better way unless it was radically different a better tool would have a big b... |
Why can't the military replace the M4? | I doubt we will see the system Stoner designed replaced anytime soon. It has become way more reliable than what it used to be, its a fairly easy system, everyone is trained, the round is sufficient and the weapon works. If you look to the past whenever the military has changed standard weapons, it has been for really g... |
What's happening to the body when it's restless and can't sleep? | Just gonna throw this out here, even if it's not an explanation as such. But really, it could be a number of things, and the first thing that strikes me is either stress or anxiety, or a combination of the two. Mental stuff can just as easily show itself as physical symptoms. |
The legal, non-religious argument against gay and lesbian marriage | Ok, as an exercise in creativity, let me try to come up with an objectively logical argument, however weak. Let's see Well, there's this angle. Straight people are the majority, so being straight is better for you as a person because you have more partners to choose from. Being bisexual is obviously even better, but th... |
How does soap kill bacteria and viruses? | It doesn't. A soap molecule is kinda like a pole with Velcro at each end. One end sticks to water, and the other end is repelled by water. The anti-water part usually sticks to non-water stuff, in this case, bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands, the soap molecules are dragged away with the water and pull non-... |
Why is it that so many crimes reported to have been committed by asylum seekers in Germany have a sexual dimension? | Because in the Middle East men believe it's women's responsibility to cover themselves so they aren't tempted, hence all the burkas. Western women wear far, far less clothes so these men who aren't used to that get really turned on. Then, since they see it as the woman's fault for not wearing enough clothes, they feel ... |
As kids, we were attracted to other kids of the same age. However when we grow up, why do we stop being attracted to significantly younger people? | Psychologically that is pretty obvious, isn't it? Less common interests, less common context. Five year olds have fun playing with toy cars in sand, while 10 year old would prefer bicycles and computer games. |
Does studying literature provide any benefit to society? | Literature is a method of human expression and commentary on their own society. When you study literature, you study humanity's understanding of itself. It allows you to gain perspectives on the human condition outside of your own experiences. Now, the practical applications of *that* are a bit too broad to outline suc... |
how people colorize photos. | [Been asked several times before]. And you basically just guess. There's no way to extract color information. You can extract tone, how bright or dark a color is, but not the actual color itself. If you know for a fact that John owned a green truck and this is a photo of John in front of his truck you make it green and... |
How do physical evolutionary changes occur? | You can't predict evolution like that. It doesn't have set goals. However, you can predict after a mutation arises. If humans had to hide in cornfields all the time because we were being hunted then yes, those who had a genetic mutation that made their skin look more like corn would most likely be the ones not hunted d... |
Why is it that even though our average body temperature is 98.6 °F, we aren't perfectly comfortable when it's 98.6 °F outside? | Everything we do involves inefficient consumption of chemical energy sources, and that inefficiency manifests as heat. This means that your body must be constantly dumping some heat. That's hard to do when the surroundings are as hot as you are. |
did the vatican church tried to suppress the egyptian hieroglyph translation? because it would contradict the bible's noah great flood? | The Catholic Church doesn't consider the stories of the bible as absolute fact. They don't think humanity started with two people poof'd out of thin air in a magical garden. There supposed to be interpreted as lessons, kind of like children's stories", 'I doubt it. As others have pointed out flood stories are quite com... |
Why do capacitors in CRT TVs from 50 years ago still work, but every LCD I've had blew a capacitor in less than 5 years? | Planned obsolescence. When the model T was invented, people would buy one and it would last a lifetime. Companies had to start making their cars intentionally shit so you'd pay more to maintain and replace them. |
Why are lips the only part of your body that can have chapped skin? | Lips don't have oil glands like the rest of the skin. While it's possible for other parts of your body to chap, lips tend to be the most common. |
Why there is so much focus on the Zimmerman-Martin trial, and why I should care about it. | > Why should I care so much about this trial that has no effect on me? You shouldn't. |
If we could get video footage of the moon landing in 1969, why couldn't we get video footage of Philae landing? | We *didn't* have video footage of the Moon landing, it was shot on a 16 mm camera inside the LM and released after the return to Earth. What we DID have was live video footage of Armstrong stepping onto the Moon, because there was a compartment on the landing stage with a video camera behind it, and before they got out... |
Why when some people chew it sounds like they're chewing nails, while other people can eat the same food and you don't hear them chewing? | The massiter muscles responsible for chewing are stronger in some people than others therefore their chewing force is greater than others. You can sometimes tell if you've ever noticed someone's jaws on the lower are more pronounced than someone else. The amount of food in the mouth while chewing is another factor.It i... |
What does the letter from 47 U.S. Senators to Iran mean, and why are some saying it's treason? | What does the letter mean? The letter points out that there are two types of agreements: treaties and executive agreements . Treaties are harder to get because the Senate has to ratify them by at least 2/3s. But treaties have the force of law and presidents have to follow and enforce them whether they want to or not. E... |
Why do the muslim refugees go to Europe instead of muslim countries like Saudi Arabia? | Because Saudi Arabia won't accept them with open arms and immediately place them on welfare.Most of the other Muslim countries are terrible places to live. Not necessarily because they are Muslim, but still shittyWell.. would you want to live in Saudi Arabia? |
How did banking work before the internet? | Way way back, they closed on Friday at 5, and didn't open back up until Monday at 9. You had to grab money for the weekend before 5 on Friday or you were ass out. If you could find someone that would take a personal check you could alleviate this problem somewhat, but that wouldn't be easy.I worked in a bank branch in ... |
Why are cigarettes and cigars are routinely criticized for being awful for your health, but marijuana is touted for it's health benefits? | It's not so much that marijuana has no detrimental health effects, but they appear to be incredibly minor comparatively. For example: despite inhaling any smoke being unhealthy, there is no evidence of even long-term heavy marijuana use leading to many of the chronic lung diseases caused by tobacco use: lung cancer, br... |
Why do children’s tickets cost less. Such as at the movies. I purchase a bigger drink and popcorn, as well as make less noise and a smaller mess. | You're correct. Families are very lucrative customers. It goes without saying, but a family going to the movies will net more money than a single person going to the movies. I haven't seen the numbers, but I'd wager a family is more likely to buy refreshments, too. They're also lucrative because you forget how many of ... |
Why aren't planes live-streaming their black-boxes to a cloud? (No pun intended). | Yes this, I don't get it. I mean just do packet radio. As long as some ATC can talk to them they should be able to send out basic data. It's not like you have to send a video stream, just some telemetry.It is in the works and has been for sometime. It is just very costly qnd time consuming to set up.Because it's cheape... |
Why is there a "tiny house movement" when camper/trailers have existed for decades? | u/Fauler_Lentz has some good info about the difference between a tiny house and a trailer, I'll go into why it is a movement now. There is a trend toward minimalism. Partly this is just a fashion that comes and goes, but people also need to own less stuff. Twenty years ago, a home would contain dozens or hundreds of bo... |
How can a filibuster help anything? | The Idea behind a filibuster is either to kill a bill or to get a change made to it. If a bill is bad but looks like it will pass they will filibuster it in theory anyway. Sometimes it comes down to one group doesn't want something because the other group does and so they filibuster. |
How and why Deja Vu happens | You know how you have memories and they're stored in files in your brain? Well, when you experience déjà vu, your brain takes the memory, but it puts it in the wrong file.Your brain is recording a record of what you have seen and experienced. Sometimes that record skips. |
LI5: What would happen if the US debt was $0? | Debit is very similar to a credit card. Every month you need to pay a minimum balance on the credit card or else bad thing happen. But your free to pay more. If you pay off your credit card then you don't need to pay that minimum balance and thus have more money. Some countries have no debt. If the USA was to pay all i... |
What happens if a fan has every other blade angled opposite? | It would blow air both ways, though it could destabilize the fan. Just imagine it, a ceiling fan, which doesn't move as fast, still has air moving between the blades. As long as there's air hitting the blade the blade can push the air up/down. However, the fan may not be built to handle that. In fact I seem to remember... |
Why is 'the South' so obsessed with civil war re-enactments when a) they lost, and b) they were fighting to keep slavery. (I'm Australian). | They're not really obsessed with it at all. Since you said you're Australian, I have to ask if you've ever been. |
How was it so easy for America to fly into Hiroshima and Nagasaki and drop those bombs without any opposition? | Two main thing people seem to be missing here1) They didn't expect it2) They didn't have radar Scouting missions went on all the time, and there was little point sending up squadrons of fighters to chase down a single reconnaissance flight of 1-3 aircraft. 3 aircraft couldn't do significant damage. They would attack la... |
How could American families in the early-mid 1900s be supported by just one working parent? Why isn't this practical anymore? What happened? | There's 2 reasons: 1. Women became a major part of the workforce, doubling the supply of workers, which makes labor cheaper. Nowadays it's expected that both people will work, so people often only make enough to barely survive, and have to shack up with somebody to be more comfortable. 2. Advancement in manufacturing m... |
What causes some people's personality to drastically change when being in crowds, as opposed to being with few to one person(s)? | It's called deindividuation. Lack of identity facilitates the loosening of normal behavioural constraints and enactment of deviant behaviour. Interestingly some more recent work suggests it's not always deviant behavior; in the presence of strong group norm it can be pro social. I'll try and find some references later ... |
Would it be possible to put solar panels on top of the trailer of a driverless electric semi to where it would be able to constantly recharge itself and make the trip non-stop | Semi? probably not at this stage. There is a 300 km solar car competition that goes on in australia every year you could look up if you are interested. They aren't good enough yet for load bearing cars, and they need a lot of maintenance , but the concept is there. So the answer is possibly in the future, in fact thats... |
What would happen if all the mosquitos in the world suddenly went extinct? | I've been wondering about this. What about ticks? What would be affected by that?", 'rate of human population increase would probably shoot through the roofWhy stop at mosquitoes? Why not ticks and chiggers as well?Reading these posts just makes my bites itch worse.. GOD DAMN!There would be no dino DNA. Hold on to your... |
Why is the flying spaghetti monster offensive to some? | The FSM was originally a humours example meant to argue against teaching intelligent design in public schools and has since morphed into a meme and an atheist counter-argument for religious teaching in schools. The counter-argument is that you can't teach intelligent design in schools because it isn't something that's ... |
How much power does the computer need to fully emulate human's brain? | Some rough estimations and fun background. [The human brain has been estimated to have a processing power or roughly **38 petaflops and a memory of at least 3.6 petabytes**]. That's a lot. Our top supercomputer, the Chinese [**Sunway TaihuLight**] has a processing power of about 93 petaflops, though it lacks a little m... |
Why do we still use stenographers? | Legal videographer here. I agree with what has already been said, and will also add that the transcripts created by a stenographer are certified as they are considered officers of the court, whereas audio and video are not considered official records. This is my knowledge based on covering hundreds of depositions so I'... |
Why Dennis Rodman can go to N. Korea but a regular citizen can't | You can. It's actually very simple. You go in with a tour group from Beijing. You have to go in through Beijing. Google Koryo Tours, that's all it takes. |
Why do some people need to cite religion to explain why they are a good person? | Because people who follow a religion like to believe that all followers of < insert religion here > are good people, and like to tell people that that is the case. Of course, that's crap .I distrust people who claim to be good more than anyone else, no matter their philosophical basesBecause delegating responsibility i... |
Why is Comic Sans so widely disliked? | Most likely because it was one of the most overused fonts in the windows 95/98 period, just like Times New Roman, which makes it feel really 'cheap' and uninspiring.Comic Sans is the typesetting equivalent to a drunk putting a lampshade on their head at a party. They think they are being clever and zany, but are in fac... |
How can a password be "brute forced" or cracked when the system locks up after a few unsuccessful attempts? Wouldn't this prevent a guess and check method? | Most brute force attack bypass that. If you have someone's laptop, you are not typing in every combination. You are accessing the hard drive directly, and going against the file that stores the encrypted passwords. Also, locking on failed attempts is not always feasible. Google and Facebook have open password architect... |
What purpose do eggs serve in baking? It seems as if we put eggs in almost everything we bake, but what do eggs do chemically that is crucial for the baking process? | Eggs have lots of protein , fat , and water . That's why they're used so much in baking. There are alternatives , but eggs work best in most cases. |
why don't we use popular vote when electing the president? | > it seems obvious that if less people live in a state, they shouldn't have as much say as a state with more people in it? Right, but the President doesn't represent the State, he represents the *people* of the State. You're basically saying that a person who lives in California should have more of a vote than a person... |
How can Companies afford to ship items internationally for $10, Where I have to pay over $15 to ship the item in the same province. | The Chinese government *heavily* subsidizes international shipping for exports as a way to increase their manufacturing base. You'd be able to ship everywhere cheaply too if the government was paying for almost all of the postage. |
Why is classroom size considered such a big deal in grades 1-12 yet once you get to college you are thrown into huge 300 person lectures and it's considered normal? | In your sophomore year, you'll be back to smaller class sizes, and in your senior year, you may find you're the only student in some classes. In high school, where the material is easier, and the goal is to help the student learn how to learn, and there can be a wide variety of ability represented in class, size matter... |
How are there island disputes between Japan and China? Shouldn't all that have been resolved post WWII? | What constitutes a nations territory is a very complex subject and is not only based on international law but on national laws as well. It all really comes down to a nation being able to enforce its claim on a territory and a nations decision as to whether it is worth the hassle. For example, under the united states gu... |
College tuition is so expensive, but where does the money go considering professors and employees get paid so poorly? | Universities have a huge number of staff, in addition to faculty. There are researchers, librarians, administrators for things like student life, housing, admissions, custodians, groundskeepers, maintenance, food service workers, etc. In addition to salaries, they typically offer good benefits for healthcare which has ... |
How are songs from concerts recorded, considering the sheer amount of background noise from the crowd? | They record directly from the soundboard. So take the guitar for example. They're not recording the guitar over a microphone, they're essentially recording it directly from the guitar's output . Other sounds, like singing and drums, are recorded from the microphones. Those microphones have a very specific recording dir... |
Why does a country like pakistan have nuclear weapons but a country like japan doesnt? | Certain countries have different priorities. Japan isn't very keen on nuclear weapons seeing as two of their cities got annihilated thanks to them. [Here is Japan's view on nuclear weapons] |
Why does the square cube law stop giant animals from existing? | A really cool side to this is the cellular level. The way that a cell channels energy into a usable form is by pumping ions across a membrane. A membrane is the surface area of the cell and is proportional to x squared. It's also common to see many infoldings of the membrane to increase surface area. Despite these info... |
why are game graphics at the beginning of a consoles life worse looking vs the end of a consoles life | Aside from developer tools and learning tricks to squeeze out power, it's worth noting that launch day titles are usually a grab bag of first party stuff, ports of AAA games devleoped for the last-gen system, and some random shovel-ware that gets ported to everything. Only the first party stuff really has a chance of m... |
why ancient civilizations made structures in the shape of animals/things that are only visible from the air? | Often they're fully visible from a high point of a nearby mountain range or hillock which compilers of conspiracy-theory websites miraculously fail to notice. |
Explain Like I'm Five- The Hillsborough Disaster | disclaimer: not ELI5 the way that people behave when there are a lot of them crammed into a small space is a really interesting field. it encapsulates all sorts of things - fluid dynamics, psychology, sociology, and a whole bunch of other stuff. when you look at an event like the hillsborough disaster i think that ther... |
Why isn't coffee available in little bags, like Tea? | I find it really odd that this is not common everywhere. I just gave it for granted. TL;DR: they exist, in other countries. I don't know where OP is from, but it might have to do with coffee consumption patters in his country. I'm from Argentina, and even though Mate is The popular hot beverage here, in big cities coff... |
What would the world be like with more than 3 dimensions. How would it change the way we behave? | I'm assuming you mean more than three spatial dimensions, because we do have four dimensions; one of those dimensions is temporal . The answer is that the question doesn't mean anything without us actually knowing whether we live in three spatial dimensions or more. We may very well have more dimensions, some that are ... |
Why hasn't natural selection weeded out the deer that run in front of cars? | Cars haven't been around for long enough to exert enough evolutionary pressure one deer for it to matter. Keep in mind that there are people still alive today who remember what life was like before cars were common. There have been considerably more generations of deer than humans since cars have become common, but sti... |
If heat rises, why are higher altitudes generally colder? | Thinking about the air as a blanket is correct, but it might be better to think about it like a bunch of layers of blankets. Down at sea level there are many blankets above you so it is warm. as you go higher up there are fewer blankets still above you so it isn't as warm. It's true that the less dense the air is the l... |
Why did they put Chicken Wire in a lot of the glass at my old school? | In case of intruders. If one were to break in he couldn't destroy the glass and unlock the door from the outside by sticking arm through the wire prevents this. |
Why do actors during death scenes always closing the dying persons eyes with the palm of their hands ? its kinda weird | Nurse here, sometimes the deceased eyes won't stay closed, we try to close them but sometimes they spring back open, usually you can keep them at least partially hooded but its hard to keep completely closed. |
How does the day/night system in Norway work and why is it so? | You've misheard . The switch isn't 50/50 it is just that over the course of a year it will range from barely any day to barely any night. This is because Norway is situated at a quit high latitude on the globe . The higher north you go the more variability there are between daylight hours during the year due to the way... |
Why do so many people run unopposed for state legislatures? | Yes, if you ran unopposed you would win by default. Why are so many seats unopposed? Well, at the state level, every individual Legislative seat only covers say, part of a single county or maybe a little more. Areas of this small a size tend to be overwhelmingly occupied by voters of one party or the other. So if, say,... |
How do self driving cars work and realistically how close are we to integrating them with current and future traffic patterns? | Here is a TED talk that goes through how the car sees the road. This is google's incarnation of the technology. _URL_0_ |
why are young unmarried Chinese women in their mid 20s known as "leftover women" in a negative sense but Western women don't feel the same pressure? | Historically Chinese culture was male-dominated, with the main role of women being as wives. Western culture was too, but that started changing perhaps 100 years ago. China still has some catching-up to do. If you looked at Europe or the USA 200 years ago, you'd see the same phenomenon you're talking about: since you c... |
If a calorie is a unit of energy, how are there 0 calorie energy drinks? | When looking at nutrition labels, calories are the amount of energy your body can chemically extract & use to power your muscles and stuff. You can't run your body on boiling water. It just doesn't work. The two concepts are closely related but not identical. |
What is OpenGL and DirectX and what's the difference? | Think of graphics cards like countries, maybe the GeForce TI 10 series cards all speak some form of Spanish. AMD Radeon cards all speak a flavor of Russian. And so on and so forth for every graphics card type. As a developer this would be a nightmare to write games against. I'd have to have special code for each graphi... |
Why is it that in radio frequencies, the lower the frequency the further range you get but less bandwidth? | High frequency waves are more easily absorbed by materials. But just because 2.4GHz will go further doesn't mean you will get a better real life data rate due to many more devices being on the 2.4GHz band, shitty access points not choosing a non-overlapping channel, Bluetooth interference, USB 3.0 interference, etc. |
Why are cars all about their brake-horse power? Surely it's about how fast the cars go, not how quickly they can brake? | As stated elsewhere, brake horsepower has nothing to do with the brakes. Why you care: Suppose I have two cars. Both have a top speed of 180 mph. One has 500 horsepower and the other has 50 horsepower. The experience of driving these cars will be vastly different. The one with lots of horsepower will go like a scalded ... |
What will happen if Iran can export oil again? | It's a part of clash between the USA and Putin's attempt to revive the USSR. Lifting the embargo is aimed at lowering the oil prices and moving Iran out of Russian influence zone - just like the recent talks about lifting the Cuban embargo. As the Russian economy is based on the oil export, lowering the prices will hav... |
Why is SpaceX landing in the same spot so revolutionary when space shuttles can land on a runway? | It isn't like the shuttle landing in the same spot. It is like the big red fuel tank and the white boosters on the side flying back home and parking themselves for reuse rather than falling into the ocean. The part coming back isn't the orbiter, it is the *first stage booster*. |
Why is a vehicle left in a low gear like first (or even reverse) without the brake applied less likely to roll or move than left in top gear? | It takes energy to turn engine. In low gear the engine has to be turned many more times per distance rolled than in high gear, making it less likely to roll. Of course, it's better to just apply the parking brakes but in the past low gear was seen as an extra precaution or even necessary if the brakes were likely to fr... |
How Safe are Tesla Vehicles? | The Tesla Model S is actually one of the safest cars you can buy. It's one of only a few cars that's received a perfect safety score from both US and European safety commissions . Certainly there have been some nasty crashes involving Tesla cars, but the same could be said for any brand. Looking at the issue statistica... |
How close is basic animal and human physiology? Could a veterinarian safely provide medical treatment for people or could a human doctor properly give treatment to an animal? | My mother is a vet! Last year we were at at a airport waiting for a our flight, and heard screams behind us. I turned around and oh look, there's a woman giving birth. My mother sprang into action. This STUPID WOMAN said he water broke a while ago, but she thought she still had time to catch her flight. Luckily for her... |
Who was Gaddafi and what did he do wrong? | **First I want to tell that I didn't do much of a research** Well, this is interesting, though not five years old stuff. I saw few videos on youtube and some talk on 4chan maybe its only trolling, but it rise some good points and I would like to get some answers from people who know better than me. One part of a story ... |
What is the benefit to having a box-spring under your mattress as opposed to just having your mattress on the floor? | It's a good idea to raise the mattress off the floor. Not only with a box spring, but with a bedframe. Harder for bugs to climb into bed with you, harder for them to build a home if you vacuum under the bed. |
Why do we fail to do realistic human CGI (like in SW Rouge One) yet we do it so great on non-human beings (like in Warcraft)? | It's a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley. We are very good at noticing when something is off with our fellow human beings.When was the last time you compared an Orc IRL to WoW?', "Because we see human beings every single day of our lives, meaning that we have an almost subconscious set of rules for how human being... |
What actually goes on in secret societies like (and especially) the freemasons? What do they actually do? | Along with what everyone said, IIRC the Masons do a lot of charity and benevolent work too. Also, they're not always secretive, my grandmother went to a Masonic Banquet that was open to the public, though my dad told me that she was embarrassed when she saw what adorned the hall: statues of naked men, with fully visibl... |
Gangstalking. What exactly is gangstalking, and what about it is fact and fiction? | The only event even close to gangstalking is the frenzy of journalists and photographers that harass celebrities. These paranoids are simply projecting their own fears onto ordinary actions. They'll complain about emergency vehicles, messages in licence plates, passersby clearing their throat, mailmen, delivery people.... |
probability of choosing a number from infinite numbers | The probability is 0. When speaking of infinite sets you speak in terms of limits, the limit of 1/n approaches 0 as n approaches infinity. Also, assuming we're speaking of whole numbers, which is considered a countable infinite set, even if you pick a number from the set of whole numbers an infinite amount of time you ... |
Why when I left cloves of garlic in olive oil for 10 days in a closed jar did it fizz and bubble up when I opened it? | if it's bad to put things from the ground in a no-oxygen environment, how is that different from using things like potatoes to make liquor? please eli5 |
3 AM: Full bladder, pee. 7 AM: Full bladder, pee. I haven't had something to drink since 8 PM the previous night. Whats happening? | One reason this happens is that we tend to be upright all day. Either standing or sitting with our feet below our waist. This allows for fluid retention in the legs. When we are sleeping we are flat allowing this fluid to move from the legs and get processed by the kidneys. When you take off your socks you probably not... |
How are politicians (example Arnold Schwarzenegger) allowed to be in movies while holding office? | Arnold Schwarzenegger has [two film credits] that encompass his time as governor. . Both of those roles were likely cameos , which wouldn't take more than a day to film. Basically, it represents two days off in an 7-year tenure as governor of Cal-ee-for-nee-uh. |
How do companies such as Arm & Hammer make a profit off of baking soda when sodium bicarbonate is the only ingredient in a non-proprietary formula with off-brands offering the same product, cheaper? | Because the average person does'nt know that baking soda is only sodium bicarbonate. Naco2", 'An ELI5 question asked in a non ELI5 way |
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