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How is FIFA going to allow Qatar to host the World Cup in 2022 when drinking alcohol in public is illegal? | Trust me this is waaay down on the list of why Qatar shouldn't host the 2022 WC. There are like 19 reasons that come before it. |
G-Force in a jet vs Auto accident? | Basically, the longer you're subject to acceleration, the easier it kills you. Human body can take about 30G for about 0.1s without dying. But if you're subjected to the acceleration for over 1s, you no longer can survive more than 20G. If you're subjected to it for longer than 10s, it's about 10G that human body can t... |
Why did people quickly lose interest in space travel after the first Apollo 11 moon flight? Few TV networks broadcasted Apollo 12 to 17 | Personally as a 10 year old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. It was incredibly boring at the time. We were all outside playing in the hood when everybody headed home to watch the landing. It took like hours it seemed and there was really nothing to see between the cameras and the position of them etc and all in b & w... |
Where exactly does all of the donations for cancer research go? | I always hear people saying there's no progress in cancer research and that we're not doing anything with the money we raise |
How can we eat raw fish but raw chicken makes us sick? | It doesn't so much have to do with where they live, as it does with how they live. Having lived on a farm most of my life, I can tell you that chickens live in small areas surrounded by other chicken's feces, insects, and occasional rodents. All of which chickens are more than happy to eat. Fish, however tend to live i... |
Why were slaves treated so badly? | An argument I heard is they weren't always treated terribly because slaves were expensive. Treating slaves who were criminals could have a lot of cruelty because if you kill or maim a slave convict, it doesn't affect you. But a slave you bought, if you maim or kill them then you lose your investment. So people who owne... |
Do small animals/birds/insects see humans and giant objects in slow motion based upon perspective? How do they view the world? | Its like this; imagine how quickly a squirrel or a bird moves its limbs or how sharply they can turn and weave. A human body could never do that as fast as those animals' bodies. Now imagine you and and a giraffe running at 15 MPH. Obviously, your legs would be moving a lot faster and you would be able to turn much qui... |
Why do companies push the use of their app when their site works just fine on a cell phone? | a lot of it is keeping up with the Joneses - their competitors are doing it, so they feel they have to do the same thing - but in practice there are things an app can do that an in-browser page cannot. Mainly push notifications. It's also likely to be helpful for advertising later on, because if you can show 200,000+ d... |
Why are floppy discs called "Floppy" if they're not floppy? | They're also not discs. That's just a plastic casing. However, if you move aside the metal door, you will reveal a small, rounded film that is the actual piece recording data. And that, my friend, is your floppy disc. |
Why is sitting for hours during a road trip so uncomfortable, but sitting at my home or even work for the same time period isn't noticeably uncomfortable? | Get a car with good seats, like a Volvo or a SAAB. In one of those I can drive an entire day without getting tired or sore. Unfortunately, I don't own a car from either one of them at the moment.I dunno, I kind of have the opposite thing happen to me. Being in a car all day doesnt kill my neck and knees like sitting at... |
What is wrong with insider trading and how could the government proved you were involved? | This brings up an interesting question that applies to [prediction markets]. You almost *want* insider trading because if someone has knowledge pertinent to the outcome, the only way the cost is actually reflective is if he/she can trade on it. It makes the odds more accurate! Actually, I'll let the Co-Founder of the I... |
Why do some people want to abolish minimum wage? | In my opinion, the reason it's being discussed at this point is because employers recognize that in this labor market, they could pay less than minimum wage and people would work for them because they have no better option. When unemployment rates are at their normal rate , they wouldn't be able to suppress wages becau... |
When the Queen dies and Charles inherits the throne, will commonwealth countries change how their money looks? | My understanding is that it is the individual parliament's discretion but I don't see why they wouldn't. It's not too much work assuming the old currency would still likely be considered valid.Interestingly, the direction the monarch faces on coins, changes each time there is a new monarch. So whereas Elizabeth faces t... |
if depression is a result of chemical imbalances, why do suicidal people often act happier after making the decision to kill themselves? | Think of it like this, your thoughts can influence your mind, sure, but it's like saying that you can control a car with your hands. If the car is working properly, that's all you need. But if you lose a tire while driving, your hands are not going to be enough to keep your car in control and you would need outside hel... |
Why do radio stations always end in odd decimals? | It's a choice the FCC made. Like DaedalusMinion said, using even decimals along with the odds is common in other countries, and some even split it down to 0.05. [Interference] can occur when stations are too close in frequency. |
Why isn't there an ocean exploration organisation equivalent of NASA? | This organization isn't as big as NASA, but they do scientific exploration of the ocean and try to bring this information to the public via social media. I suggest you check them out, OP! _URL_3_ |
How is it possible to fly a hot air balloon to a specific destination ? | I went on a balloon ride in Tuscany last October and our balloon was piloted by the Hot Air Balloon World Champion that year. Apparently the winner is determined by which pilot who can get closest to certain waypoints they are given. While taking us he used the top of trees to slow down. That's right our balloon had to... |
ELI5: If males (XY) can survive with one X chromosome, why do females (XX) need two X chromosomes as opposed to just one functioning one? | A Y-chromosome is a fraction of an X-chromosome, plus a gene called SRY that triggers becoming male. The other Y-chromosome genes are there because good health requires two copies per person, whether they come from XX or XY. Millions of years ago the Y-chromosome had most X-chromosome genes, but it's been trimmed to th... |
how is Xeno's paradox incorrect? | The paradox doesn't account for actual distance or velocity. Constantly halfing an amount will never result in 0, but movement should be broken down, on a basic level, into average velocity and distance. Object A moving at an average of 10 m/s will reach another Object B 10 meters away in one second as long Object A is... |
Why do browsers take up so much RAM? | In this day and age a browser is essentially a full runtime. That means that it's sort of like an operating system all by itself. This is the basis for Chrome OS and why cheap laptops exist called Chromebooks. Because you can do most things a light user would need a computer for in a browser. Email, document editing an... |
Why do we have toll booths when driving through states and such? Is it just an easy way for them to get tax money? | It is as you guessed. They pay for their roads that way. Opposed to toll booths we have a so called Tax Sticker which you need to buy to be eligible to use the highways. I couldn't say which system is better but surely toll booths are a safer way to make sure you get your money as you need to actually be caught without... |
How did people wake up at a certain time before alarm clocks? | a long time ago people didn't used to need to wake up at X o'clock. because there wasn't a clock around. they just woke up when it was time to wake up, like say dawn. if you needed to wake up before dawn and didn't have a clock. you arranged a wake up service where a guy would come knock on your door. |
Why do people claim that patent disputes like the Apple/Samsung case hurt innovation when they are actually in trouble for copying, not innovating? | Patents are supposed to be on inventions -- on *how* you do something. For example, I can patent a particular car engine, and nobody else is allowed to use my exact materials and my exact design to build a car engine. But they are still allowed to power a spinning shaft with internal combustion and pistons. That's the ... |
Can you actually have a high pain tolerance and what is medically different about people that cannot feel pain? | So there's two parts to this question: the physical perception of pain and the reaction to it. I have a fairly high pain tolerance, in that it takes a lot of pain to cause me to react to the pain. I feel it like normal, but for various reasons , I spent a lot of my childhood learning to deal with pain. Best example was... |
Is 'Oxygenated' water a hoax? Water is H20, so doesn't that mean there is one Oxygen atom for every two Hydrogen atoms? | it's with O2 gas dissolved. the extra oxygen isn't bound in the water molecule. it's completely idiot marketing |
How does medicine target specific parts of my body? | It doesn't. The medicine is distributed all over your body. The dose that you take is calculated to have the desired therapeutic effect in spite of this. This is particularly important in pediatric patients where doses need to be prescribed based on the size of the child . In some cases, the choice of medication DOES m... |
Revolutionary War-era "stand in a line and shoot at each other in an open field" tactics. Why did this become the combat standard of the time (if it even was). | There are a couple of reasons for this. Strength in numbers: muskets were slow to load and inaccurate so having as many soldiers as possible fire at the same time increased the chance of hitting the target. Tight formations also provided protection against cavalry charges and also increased the effectiveness of the uni... |
What is a Mutual Arbitration Agreement and is it bad or good for the employee? | Binding arbitration is always bad for the employee, or at least, fundamentally biased toward the employer. The employer is the one who pays the arbitrator, and it is a natural business phenomenon that, if the arbitrator consistently passes down judgements that are not favorable to the employer, they will seek another a... |
How can East-Timor (Timor-Leste) use the US Dollar as its official currency, despite having no ties to the US? | There's nothing to prevent a country from using any foreign currency it wants. All it needs to do is acquire enough of the particular foreign currency. The upside is they don't have to pay to print the money. And if they use US currency, it'll be fairly stable. The downside is they have no control over the value of the... |
Why HTML is worth learning with so many website builders out there? | If you're studying CS and asking about this you might consider changing your major. Writing HTML by hand for your purpose will almost always be better and easy to work with than the crap put out by a website generator. It will be more flexible and you'll have more control over the way it looks. These days, like half th... |
Why doesn't Japan hold a grudge against the U.S. after we nuked them? | OP, no offense to the original replier, but top answers you received here are a pithy joke and a flat out wrong interpretation of what happened during the American occupation. [This guy] provided an excellent resource and I highly recommend you go over to /r/AskHistorians for a solid answer. The content there is always... |
Why do parallel parked vehicles in the UK often face different directions on the same side of the street? | I think it's probably the case all over Europe. When the roads were built, you would have seen the odd horse and cart. No-one at the time would have foreseen every household having a car or two. So now you have a road designed for two carts to pass each other now having cars parked down both sides. Short answer is park... |
What's the point in climate change policies if we're screwed already? | You're eating lunch. Suddenly some people tell you that you have apparently managed to cover your hands in shit. Part of you wants to deny that it IS shit, the other part recognizes that it IS shit and you need to do something about it. At this point it is too late to save the bun, it has shit on it. If you continue to... |
If global warming is real, then why are there still record setting low temperatures? | Think about it like the tides. If I tell you the tide is coming in, it doesn't mean that every wave will go farther up the beach than the wave before. In fact, you could still have many waves in a row that don't go very far up the beach at all, especially if in the area where you happen to be looking there's a strong w... |
Would dyslexic people be okay with languages that aren't letter based such as Chinese? Is that how dyslexia works? | I can read in 4 languages but I'm only mildly dyslexic when I read Chinese and my personal experience is that when I read a sentence, the order of the letters get mixed up or I mistake a word for something that looks similar. For example, I'll see 壹 and read it as 臺 or 在 as 有 sometimes. When I was learning to write, a ... |
Why do Westerners generally wear shoes indoors while Asians stay indoors barefoot? | Why shoes indoors? 'Twas oft asked here. Ye may enjoy these: 1. [ELI5: Why do Americans wear their shoes inside the house? ]1. [ELI5: Why do people in the US wear shoes indoors just like outdoors? ]1. [ELI5: Why do people walk around with shoes on in the house? ]1. [ELI5 Why don't Americans/English take off their shoes... |
How do you prove that space really exists? | A slightly different approach: establish the credibility of your sources. Find some astronomers talking about space. Preferably several. Search them on the internet and find out where they got their degrees. Go to those schools' websites and pull up the course requirements for physics/astronomy/aerospace engineering de... |
Why are there no term limits for US congressmen? | You could argue that the entirety of Congress has more power, but you cannot make that same argument for a single Congressperson. I don't like that some members of congress are there for many decades, but I think two terms would be too short. Reality is that of congress comprised completely of people with limited exper... |
Why will wearing somebody's glasses ruin my eyes? | It won't, for the same reason that reading in the dark doesn't make you go blind. Both of these acts can be stressful on the eyes - but there's no evidence showing lasting effects. |
Do animals intentionally commit suicide like humans? | Saw this one on a documentary. I'm not sure if it's really suicide though. _URL_1_", 'Dolphins do. Every breath that a dolphin takes is a conscious effort, so they will suffocate themselves willingly under too much stressThere was a case in China last year where a bear killed her cub and then herself to escape the horr... |
How did Scientology become so immensely popular? | It's not popular, it just gets a lot of media attention so it seems like it is popular. |
When people gain weight rapidly, do they grow new hairs to cover all the skin, or do they have the same amount of hairs spaced farther apart? | I've always wondered about this as it relates to Bruce Banner turning into the Hulk.Same amount of hairs. Also losing weight causes hair loss, but it grows back. |
Why, thankfully, did the Bulgarian assassin's gun not work during his assassination attempt? | [Because it wasn't a real gun]. It was a non-leathal gas pistol, however obviously there's no way of knowing this, so they acted as if it were real.> Gas pistol **pointed** at Bulgaria party leader _URL_1_ |
How can Supermarkets just flat-out rip off a product | Frosted Flakes in a trade marked brand name. The idea of sugar coated corn flakes is open to any one. If they called it Frosted Flake or something close to it they could get in trouble. As long as the product isn't patented the idea of the product can be copied.Often, the store-brand product and the name-brand product ... |
Why is it that when a novel is adapted to screen it usually follows the same plot, but when a comic book is adapted they usually only keep the characters but change the storylines? | Don't forget that comics also tend to contradict themselves regularly. Generally when the lead writer of a series changes. |
What is the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? | The internet is the way the information gets around. The web is a type of service that sits on top of the internet. Think of a road - that's the internet. Then you have some cars going around, and that's the web. But as well as cars, there are bicycles, lorries, vans and so on - these are other services like FTP, mail,... |
How is dividing scholarships by race, not racist? | It's okay when anybody that's not white does it.The college republicans at my university put together a white scholarship and everyone freaked out. I was working for the event to do audio/video. I think the kid that won donated the money or something. That was fun!', "When conservatives favor whites over other races it... |
Why hasn't the design of the incandescent light bulb changed for an incredibly long time? | Well there's only so far a technology can physically develop. An incandescent light bulb is a relativity simple technology, that has probably hit it's peak of development The light bulb has been around for 200 years, and has gone through many iterations and improvements. And as nmerrill showed, there are far better alt... |
How does the magnetic field contain the created plasma in the recent fusion tests, and how is the plasmas temperature controlled? | A few things to remember: * . That hot plasma is a very thin gas at high velocity, in a vacuum. * . It is highly conductive and ionized. * . One way of heating it is to pass a current through it. * . A magnetic field will curve the path of such a current and change it's direction/location and can be manipulated to dire... |
Why are people so hateful on Reddit? | It's not just limited to reddit, people can be toxic anywhere on the internet. The [GIFT] explains it all. |
why is my pee clear when I pee after drinking copious amounts of alcohol? | Probably as alcohol is a diuretic and dehydrates the body. This pushes liquid out. More liquid equals more diluted urine, so it's clearer than normal. On the flipside, the morning after you would already be dehydrated, so the urine will be less diluted and yellower. Source: I drink. |
one explanation for Euler's theorem | You know what, I can have the reasoning behind this explained to me a thousand times, and you'll never convince me it's anything other than a) proof of the universe has a sense of humor or b) devil magic.Can you take it and **explain like im five**?Why not just cut to the chase? e^i * & theta; is a rotation by an angle... |
How does a program crash? | There's many problems that could happen. Imagine an egg carton that can only hold 6 eggs. Imagine trying to fit 7. Or trying to paint a circle blue but a bit of red gets mixed in. |
How to get rid of the heavy feeling when you wake up | Sleep in 1 1/2 hour increments like 3 hours, 6 hours 7 1/2 hours. It's a full sleep cycle so you wake up in stage 1 or 2 and your body doesn't have a bunch of the sleep chemicals swimming around in your brain when you get up. Works excellently. Edit: Cal II and UP II didn't prepare me for arithmetic |
Why do people need to get a license to get married in the first place? | If you want the legal benefits of marriage, you need to be able to prove you are eligible for those benefits, which is what the license is. If you don't want the legal benefits, then by all means, get married in your backyard without concern for the license. |
Why do my testicles tingle everytime I look down from a great height? | I have a vagina; but I get what you're saying it gets all tingly. I also wonder", 'Not a single legit answer. OP next time you may want to add "SERIOUS"', "I have a vagina, I get the same thing. My mother is a psychologist and tells me that this is just a response either through fear or adrenaline. But, she also says i... |
How do older movies, like Indiana Jones, that came out before high definition get rereleased on Blu Ray and look a lot better than the original video? | Film perhaps. The original film wasn't that crappy in theatres, just that the TV didn't have the resolution so the Beta/VHS/DVD version was made accordingly. Rescan from the original film to 1080p and you've got HD. |
Why don't cities have fruit bearing trees on sidewalks instead of the standard ones? | Harder to grow, aren't ripe for very long, more expensive, there'd be no point because within a day of the fruits being edible they'd all be eaten etc", 'Because falling coconuts kill 5x as many people each year than sharks. |
How/why do different strains of marijuana produce different effects? | As far as I know, there's never been any objective studies done to prove this is true. Let me say, I've smoked a lot of weed over 16 years, and I agree that it FEELS like different weed has different effects. HOWEVER. After experimenting with certain other psychoactive substances extensively, what I've found is that mo... |
When people who normally wear glasses take them off , they sometimes look strange. Is there an actual physical change in the person's looks? Or is it just psychological? | Aside from the optical reasons others have stated, there's the simple fact that a properly styled set of glasses with proper fit and width just really accentuate your facial geometry and change where you direct your attention. I, for one, have slightly narrow temples, but a pair of glasses with slightly thicker frames ... |
What's the difference between a Hub, Repeater, Bridge and Switch? | Hub is a device like a switch that works differently because it broadcasts data to all the devices into the network.Repetear extends the wifi coverage.Bridge it could be a point to point connection between two access point, it's useful to share data between two buildings via WiFi.Switch is like a hub but it's newer and... |
How can Artists like Weird Al use the same chords & rhythm from other songs and not get sued? | Weird Al, specifically, asks permission before he spoofs a song, even though technically he doesn't have to. He's protected because parody is considered fair use. I don't really understand what you mean by the same chords and rhythm, but beyond spoofs and covers, you can't copyright a chord or a rhythm. If you could, m... |
Stanley Kubricks "The Shining". | Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. Gonna bash 'em right the fuck in! |
How can I buy something online for 99 cents and it ship from china and they make money | Most of these answers are wrong; especially since those 99 cent items likely aren't coming via container if sold individually. Chances are high it's coming in via plane via EMS. Basically, some items get sold for 30% profit margin ..others get 1000%-3000%. Usually the cheapest items have the highest profit margins. Opp... |
From the post yesterday; If someone stabbed a needle that had HIV or AIDS into raw meat, and then I cooked it, would it be sanitary? | Between the heat of cooking, your stomach acid and your immune system, you'd probably nee ok. |
Why are the cones in our eyes blue, red, and green, instead of the primary colors that make up everything (Blue, red, yellow)? | > the primary colors that make up everything ? Light is a spectrum and there isn't a primary color as far as physics are concerned. Puke green is as every bit a primary color as neon yellow or puce or lavender. |
Why is the climate change such a big deal if it (presumably) hasn't killed anyone? | Firstly, it *is* killing people. But let's ignore that, and assume that your statement has any basis in reality. Try this thought experiment, which is analogous to your question, except on a global scale. Take a hose and attach it to the exhaust of your car. Now, run the exhaust output into the car, duct tape the windo... |
There are over 4000 chemicals in a cigarette. Why are these chemicals added, as opposed to just rolling dry tobacco leaves into a cigarette? | This post looks to be leaning pretty heavily towards vaping, and there's really nothing wrong with that, but I wanted to take a second to plug /r/stopsmoking. Ideally, you could be putting nothing into your body! |
How do SEOs work? | You can do it on your own. Just like you can defend yourself in a courtroom on your own. Do you have the necessary time/expertise to do it? Probably not. SEOs require knowledge and time . You have to know what works, what doesn't work and you have to devote time to it. It competitive markets it is a LOT of time. |
Why do online videos stream flawlessly on my computer but why do GIFs seem to load like a 1080p movie through a 56k modem? | Ok, you and 2 of your friends are making a pillow fort in a 10x10 room. The pillow fort is so amazing at the end of it all your other friends are jealous. They want you to explain how you made it. Luckily, the 2 friends you made it with each documented the build in their own way: Your first friend, let's call him Gif, ... |
Why do Google,whose main revenue is through advertisments, allow plugins like adblocker function on Chrome? | I would imagine google has already sold the ad space to the companies, and as such is already making money from it, whether they're seen or not. |
Why is the cockpit of an airplane not completely separate from the passenger area? | when was the last hijacking of a commercial plane? On commercial flights the cockpit door is basically impossible to open from the outside and the pilots have strict protocol about not opening it regardless of the situation inside the passenger areas. I also suspect that every entrance you make on a jet creates more ai... |
Is reverse-engineering easy? Like if say, someone dropped an F-22/F-35 at the Chinese doorstep how much could they learn from it? | They could learn a lot, but they couldn't make an exact duplicate. They don't have the metallurgy to build an engine that'll match the performance of the real thing's even if they were able to copy the physical design perfectly. |
Why do we give prisoners on Death Row a last meal of their choice? | Well, why wouldn't you? The person is set to die . The least you could do is give him/her a nice meal. But, you'd be surprised though . in a lot of prisons, the meal really isn't that nice. It is only marginally better than the normal prison food, and they often have to pick it from a select list. I don't think they fl... |
Why does it seem like so many more children today have severe food allergies (eg: peanut, gluten, shellfish) than than there were 20 years ago? | Recent research has shown that the gut flora is very important for developing a healthy immune system. The balance of gut micro organisms is disrupted by broad spectrum antibiotics, and also by the use of Caesarian sections at birth; children born naturally have a similar population to their mother, whereas those born ... |
when a plane breaks up at 30,000 feet what happens to the human body, and how fast? | [I posted this link on the missile system that shot it down] One thing you are forgetting with MH17 is there was up to a 70kg warhead with either tungsten rods or other shrapnel that ripped through that plane. You have a concussive blast that will do extensive damage to peoples organs and the airframe. People that surv... |
If you raised a baby lion, tiger, crocodile, etc from birth, would it become ferocious and attack you as it matured? | a lion or tiger wouldn't attack you, if you were a good parent to it at least. There have been invidents where humans adopted injured/abandoned lion/tiger cubs, raised them and released them back into the wild. When the humans go to find them, the lion remembers it's former parents and usually just cuddles with them. T... |
How can Earths core stay at such a high temperature for so long? | Here are a few fun facts about the earth's core It is made of mostly iron. It is under immense pressure and surrounded by magma. It produces the Earth's magnetic field which allows us to survive the Sun's harmful rays while also shielding us from other harmful radioactive space beams. Every four years, the core rotates... |
I'm in my theatre class and we're supposed to look up this type of theatre called kabuki. It makes no sense to me | It's kinda like Shakespeare, had the Bard been the forerunner of the Power Rangers. At least, that's what I gather. I'd love to find subtitled performances, rather than people just talking about it. My Japanese isn't anywhere near good enough to follow what's going on. |
The Stock Market, the DOW and NASDAQ | **The stock market:** A place where you can trade stocks in a public forum that is protected by all sorts of laws meant to protect investors. A single stock is a microscopic piece of a company. For example, if you bought one Apple share for $127, you would own 0.00000000016% of Apple. **DOW** : An designed as indicator... |
why, of all of the species on earth, are humans the only ones to evolve brains that are capable of creating advance technology, civilization and the like? | Bear in mind that evolution takes forever. We're talking on a scale of tens, hundreds of thousands of years. If you exterminated humans, maybe some other species would rise to this level of intelligence, given time. Once we achieved technology, it was game over. In two to six thousand years, we've risen to the level of... |
If I'm thirsty (dry throat feeling) and I'm rehydrated intravenously, will the parched feeling in my throat go away, or do I need to actually swallow a liquid? | The dry throat feeling relates to your body conserving water. When you're dehydrated, your body pulls liquids from areas less important to try and keep the most important areas as hydrated as possible. When you get IV fluids, you're replacing the amount of fluids in your body. When your water level is closer to normal,... |
Why do some stretches of road have a "Turn On Headlights Next 11 Miles" sign even though it's during the day? | There's a lot of those through NV. The roads are only two lanes and it's really hard to see cars when their lights are off in the desert. The sun reflecting off everything and the heat waves are really blinding. |
Why do poorer people tend to have more children? | I'd throw in that something being left out in most comments is parents perspective. It's not always about benefits and housing. I look at mentality. People are wired different. People have different ambitions. My family growing up, my parents always owned their own business, so about the time I turned 10 I saw my mom t... |
Why people use Linux / Why some consider Linux vastly superior to Windows/Mac OS X | Linux is superior for development and systems. The primary reason why Linux isn't more common for consumer use is because of Windows' library support. As you noted, many games make use of DirectX , and a lot of the computer industry is led by gamers. Edit: to add to this, Linux can be less constrictive, allowing you to... |
- Movies have 24fps and still feel extremely smooth whereas games under 30fps are literally unplayable | One reason is that movies have blur . That makes it look smooth to our eyes. Games use a sequence of unblurred images that looks jerky at the same fps rate. Think of how stop-motion animation in old movies looks jerky and awkward; it's the same problem. In fact, by the 1980s, stop-motion animators were experimenting wi... |
Why don't young children grasp the concept of incest? Is not wanting to get it on with a relative biological or cultural? | Because as a child, the idea of love is fairly void of sexuality. The only facet of love they know is that of parent/child, sibling/sibling etc. The even think of their parents love for each other in much the same way they think of their love for their parents. So if you take that framework it makes perfectly good sens... |
If alcohol tastes terrible, why do people drink it? | I quite enjoy the taste of beer or cider, especially after a hot sweaty day. And the nice buzz after 2 is calming. I very rarely if ever have more than 3 beers in a sitting I've recently been having low alcohol beers which are pleasantly nice |
Why do movie studios and A-list actors continue to work with M. Night Shyamalan? | because his movies aren't that bad. they get a lot of hate but people still watch them so theyll still buy tickets to it. |
how can the delta IV rocket launch the Orion capsule into space but not ferry American astronauts to the ISS? | NASA just recently awarded the contracts for the next stage of their commercial crew program. Boeing's [CST-100] launched on an Atlas V and SpaceX's [Dragon version 2] launched on a Falcon 9 will both be flying crews to the ISS under this contract. There will be a lot of testing of various systems over the next year an... |
How does donating to a charity save you money on your taxes? | > if I donate $30 a month , do I get to 'save' $360 on my yearly taxes? No. If you donate $360 per year, **and you itemize your deductions on Schedule A,** which is usually a matter of *do you have a mortgage or huge medical bills* then you can deduct the $360 from your income. |
Why hasn't anyone try and improve some of the horrible conditions of The Foster Care System? | I'm glad someone is at least asking this question. It has haunted me since I aged out of America's pestilential foster care system over 20 years ago. The experience was traumatizing and I was placed in a home with abusive, violent alcoholics. The system still sucks and kids are murdered, raped, and beaten by foster par... |
Why do the insides of escalators glow green? | I'm not sure if this is universal, but it is a safety thing in Australia. Basically there is one on each end of the escalator, that you can really only see when the steps level out and to make it easier to see where you are meant to step off. It's only on newer escalators here though. Source: SO's father works on escal... |
Why can we "feel" someone's gaze on us? | You can't. If they are close enough, you feel the breath they release changing the air around you. If they are far, it's just your peripheral and judgement at work. |
How do so many people keep dying in the Qatar preparing for the World Cup? | I was in Doha last summer for a week, and as you could expect it was around 55-60°C throughout the day. Imagine having to do construction wearing more clothes, for longer hours, and less safe conditions than almost anywhere else in that kind of heat. Or imagine something I actually saw that said it all - a dozen worker... |
Why do sites "break" due to the Reddit hug of death? | Imagine that the website is a small family owned restaurant. They probably don't get very many customers so they only have a few tables and parking spaces and the road to get to the restaurant doesn't take much traffic. Now imagine that the restaurant appears on the nightly news as having the best food in the city and ... |
If trains can be automated, why don't we just eliminate human error instead of paying an engineer (driver) $150,000+ a year for the risk? | I like to think about questions like these every now and again just for the fun of it, and I don't mean to be insulting when I say this, but if there is anyway for a major company to save money, they're probably already doing it.150.000 USD, really? In the Netherlands [train drivers] get paid 2383-3000 euro per month, ... |
Why doesn't the US move toward the metric system? | it has to do with industrial components. and we are moving, all cars manufactured today are metric. but big industrial machines are expensive and retooling all of them would be on the scale of trillions of dollars. So as the machines need major over hauls we are retuning them for metric. But it's probably going to be 2... |
- how the eyes of a portrait can follow you around, always staring at you regardless of where you're standing | Because it's a flat image. The subject's eyes are not looking at a specific place in the physical space of the museum; they're either looking at the camera or *not* looking at the camera. That doesn't change depending on where you are standing in the room. Your perspective of the scene in the painting/photograph is *al... |
What are the implications of the recently leaked draft of the TPP intellectual property rights chapter? | The people who make the rules will wag their finger of shame at their peers, who also make the rules, but nothing will happen to anyone because they think they're above everything since they make the rules. Then Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will mock the entire situation. It's basically a random Reddit circle-jerk o... |
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