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What really happens when you re-enter Earth's atmosphere in a space shuttle (gravity wise)? | Force of gravity on the space station is about 90% of what it is on a surface. Because everything is in a free-fall, no one really experiences it, but that doesn't mean that pull of the gravity doesn't exist. |
How dump trucks and other vehicles hauling dirt/rocks get away with damaging your windshield with no liability or responsibility | Usually *but not always* they can reasonably claim that anyone hit by a flying rock is travelling too close behind them. Obviously if you're in the next lane that doesn't apply. Anyway - just 'cos they've got a sign up, doesn't mean they're not liable. |
What is Anonymous? How do they operate? What is their objective? Are they untraceable? | Well it's basically what has already been said here, but if you want something to watch here's a [documentary on Anonymous.] |
When someone claims to have a high tolerance to pain, are they actually tolerating the pain or are their pain receptors less sensitive? | It's actually both depending on the person. Most people: The amount or receptors is the same but they have experienced enough pain in that spot or all over there body that their brains edits out the more dramatic responses. Some people actually have deadened nerves in certain areas and so the damage is the same but the... |
Why do some colors "match" but others don't? | I subscribe to the theory that in actuality all colors match. It's the proportion of color usage that determines good design. You can have two shockingly loud and overpowering colors but if you use 90% of one color and 10% of the other color as an accent, they will coordinate. That's why some people get away with crazy... |
Why is it so hard for me to swat a fly? How does it seem to know that my hand is coming from behind it? | Snatching flies is actually not that hard to do but is a learned skill. Start with your hand well back but ready. Quickly swing your arm forward but above the fly not too close. The fly will see your hand coming at it and will instantly take off in the opposite direction from where you are swinging in from. As it does ... |
I stumbled across subreddit VXJunkies. It's written in English but I understand zero of the conversation going on there. What is that thing? | It's the same thing my electronic buddies and I do to laymen. When some pretender comes along and act like he know his stuff we just make up nonsense to see if they agree or argue about. |
What are the actual effects of smoking weed? | I'm gonna be honest here. Weed can cause major depression. It can be debilitating, and if someone smokes for a while, the first 6 months after quitting can be brutal. |
How did "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey make such a comeback? | Family Guy in 2005. The Sopranos in 2007. Glee in 2009. After having been off the radar for a while, it started being regularly injected into pop culture at two year intervals. That's why it's managed such saturation. |
What are patent trolls, and why do they pose such a threat to start-up companies? | Dear Mr. I_Give_Reddit_Silver, I represent Mr. Poohead as legal counsel to advice you that, on June 16th, 2014, you did knowingly post a question, reference: ELI5: What are patent trolls, and why do they pose such a threat to start-up companies? on the 'Explain Like I'm Five' section of the website Reddit. My client, M... |
Why hasn't the Latin American Drug Trade been wiped out? | More will appear. As long as there's sufficient demand, someone will find a way to produce. Crashing the demand is the only way to really kill off the cartels for good, but nobody's figured out a good way to do that. |
Why are trains still driven by humans? | Even though my company's products can run a rail application 100% autonomously, some situations are better resolved with humans ,operating a larger freight/intercity locomotive can be labor intensive, railroads really hate capital expenditure, and the labor issue. Plus a computer program can't tell their superiors how ... |
Why does our vision deteriorate from looking at a screen? | It does nothing excessive reading wouldn't. Dry eyes, yes, but your 20/20 sight won't deteriorate from surfing on the internet. |
Why does it seem that so many rich people are into Scientology? | I can't help but wonder if some celebs are paid/compensated for just carrying the term Scientologist- whether or not they truly believe or even faithfully practice. There are a bunch of scientologists that surprise me- Jason Lee, Beck, Giovanni Ribisi, Danny Mastersen None of them are as outspoken as Tom Cruise. Also- ... |
why hasn't a law been made to punish/prevent women who drink/smoke while pregnant? | Mainly because you than step on to the slippery slope. So, we punish women for smoking or drinking while pregnant. How much? If she has one glass of wine? If she smokes before she find out she's pregnant and then has a few while she's trying to quit? What's next? Should we monitor their diets? Should they be punished f... |
How do computers "create" numbers? | Actually, it is somewhere in memory. That five is coming in as 00000101 from some sort of input, whether it's your hard drive, or your keyboard, or from memory. It's there somewhere, and is passed in the instruction. |
What makes music sound good? what causes it to release dopamine in the brain? | If nobody has suggested it yet, you should pick up a copy of 'This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel Levitin. He's a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. Fascinating read. |
Is it better to be a contract employee or a salaried employee? | Contractors get paid exactly what's in their contract for exactly their work. You work Xhrs a week and get paid Y. Salaried, you get paid Y+medical+perks+401k. And company gets to have you work however many hours they want. |
What causes the chilling feeling you get when you hear the sound of nails against the chalkboard. | It has to deal with frequency. Our ears are able to absorb more of the screech signal so it becomes more intense. This isn't necessarily bad. If you check out /r/asmr/ it's where people endeavor to facilitate this kind of response but in a more relaxing/enjoyable way. |
Is there something wrong with being honest with children about life? | Childrens minds take things to the extreme. They exaggerate and imagine more from any topic they're given that peaks their interest. So by down playing certain topics you relieve them from that extra stress. Telling the hard truth about some things is also important to their growing understanding. It's different for ev... |
Why is it okay to charge more for car insurance because of gender and age but not for race? | Personally, my guess is that if women were statistically more likely to be in accidents that there wouldn't be a price difference because it would be deemed sexist. A quick search of car crash data by race yielded [this] which if you go to Table 1 on page 2 you'll see that all races are roughly the same except Asians a... |
Why do I wake up a few minutes before my alarm goes off, even with an irregular sleep schedule? | Another question: I've forgotten to set alarms for important things before and I'll be dreaming and remember that I have something important and wake up usually 30 minutes to an hour early and often be in time for it. I don't always do this if I forget to set an alarm, but I've done it quite a few times. Anyone know wh... |
Why do companies exclusively hire foreign people to do technical / customer support, despite the language barrier being a headache most of the time? | Honestly as a tech company doesn't want you to call. When you call it costs money. If its hard you are more likely to attempt to solve your own problem which 90% of the time a Google search will tell you what to do. So I make artificially long wait times, hard to navigate menus and staff with language barriers.Wages ar... |
How does coffee dehydrate you? | Caffeine in coffee works similarly to the way alcohol does and makes you pee more frequently, which also dehydrates you. Basically it makes your kidney filter out more water without giving it time to remove some of the salts with it. The amount of water needed to add to coffee and not dehydrate you is pretty complicate... |
Why do so many recent flash games, such as _URL_0_, use ".io" (country domain code for British Indian Ocean Territory)? | Because io also means In/Out in computer jargon, as well as allowing the reader to treat the top level domain as a part of the primary domain. It allows the user to say _URL_1_ as coolio rather than having a 'dot com', and that improves the ability to easily remember it, above just 'dot com'. |
Why did Romania maintain a Latin based language when other eastern areas of the Roman Empire adopted other languages. | I'd go to r/askhistorians but to be honest I wouldn't necessarily expect a satisfying answer. The problem with the question is kind of twofold, one is that we can't be completely certain why exactly a Romance language won out over the other possibilities much less persisted for over 1000 years, the other being the adve... |
what is actually going on when my hard drive churns for 10 minutes after booting my computer, rendering the thing unusable until completion? | Your email app needs a load of things from your operating system. Therefore your operating system has to fully load first so that it can help your email app with all the stuff it needs. Stuff includes: - Access to the internet - Access to your hard drive - How to draw stuff on the screen and tell when the user clicks t... |
Why does an instrument sound so bad when it's not tuned but when people talk without being in any sort of key it sounds fine? | Just to add, since I think this has been largely answered. Instruments can be 'out of tune' while still being intune with themselves. For example: If I have a guitar and all the strings are exactly 5% too high out of tune, the guitar will still sound correct when strummed/played. If I play with an entire ensemble of an... |
Why does your voice get hoarse when you're tired/sleep deprived? | My guess is that when you're tired, they relax and give you a deeper voice. They could be tired and overworked, making it harder for your voice box to vibrate quickly enough to produce high frequencies. When you wake up, your vocal cords are most likely not stretched and the same thing happens. |
Gabe Newell, is it loving affinity or are people downright mocking him? When and how did it start? | I don't understand where this is coming from? Who actually would mock a man that seemingly has done almost every right move? |
If the moon takes most of the asteroids meant for earth, what would have happened if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit the moon instead? | Does it, though? Where'd you read that? I'm not sure it's right. The moon is cratered because of its lack of a substantial atmosphere, which means incoming objects don't burn up and the craters don't erode . I don't think the moon takes anywhere near as many hits as the Earth, let alone 'most' of them.I remember watchi... |
How come so many people in the entertainment industry suffer from depression? | Another explanation might be drug abuse. On gaining celebrity status it's very common for someone to be invited to exclusive parties where access to recreational chemicals is easy and encouraged. Unfortunately a lot of harder drugs cause emotional instability and can very quickly lead to effects similar to real depress... |
Why are animals classified in sub subspecies based on even small differences in shape and color but humans are just "homosapien" ? | The concept of species is pretty ambiguous anyway - there isn't really a universally accepted definition of what a species is, which isn't really surprising given that it's a human-created concept. However, the closest we have to an accepted definition is that all members of a species should be able to produce viable, ... |
Jesus 'dying for my sins'. | I'm on the same boat but from my understanding of a few youth groups is that he died for your sins and god will forgive you no matter what but you have to accept god as the one true good and let him and Jesus into your heart. That is the only way you will get to heaven and be free from all sins. This is literally my ex... |
Why do people get more sad and emotional when an animal is hurt in TV shows and movies more than humans? | Animals are seen as innocent, and since thry cant speak they are essentially a blank canvas for us to project onto. So its easy to get emotionally invested in them. Also they're SOO CUTE 😊. |
How can someone die in an overcrowded place? (Not necessarily rowdy) | On the [wiki] page it says there was a human crush. That's how they died. |
How do dynamic web pages work? | A dynamic page uses javascript to modify the content of the HTML document. A page never connects to a database. It always connects to a web server. It's the web server that may connect to a database. When a page connects to the server, it can be to request another HTML document or only some content that will be put int... |
Why are humans the only animals who have to cook their meat? | We don't have to cook meat to eat it. We can eat raw meat too, like other animals. Cooking meat is a technological method that provides us with advantages that other animals don't have: 1) It breaks down the tough connective tissues so it makes eating meat easier. 2) It makes meat safer by killing off micro-organisms. ... |
Why do most humans prefer sleeping with a Pillow under their head? | I sandwich my head in two pillows with a narrow airway available, I don't know why, but when my partner comes over and take up one of my other pillows I can't do it and it bothers me.20% of your total spinal alignment is in your neck and shoulders. Being that the majority of people sleep on their sides, or end up there... |
how did steam engines in the old days avoid rusting shut? | Steam cylinder oil is very thick, heavy oil that is injected into the steam supply and carried over into the valve chest & cylinder. If an engine has been properly oiled before being shut down, there's no reason they can't sit for years without seizing. When I shut our engine down for the season, the last few minutes o... |
Why is GPS Reception free but mobile data/calls cost money? | The US maintains those satellites both for gov't purpose, and because making it available to the public is helpful to the economy. Also, since the transmission is one way, they are no issues with capacity. It costs just was much to support one GPS receiver as it does a million. |
Please ELI5 the difference between baroque, classical, and romantic music. | Time periods my friend. Baroque is estimated from 1600-1750, classical was 1750-1800 and romantic was 1800-1900. With this info I'm sure you can go Google the popular artists that were relevant during each said period. Have a great day! |
Why does US restrain from shooting down N.Korean missiles? | because theyre never endangering the US and that would be an active act of war, which we're trying to avoid. Starting a war over a missile test is a bad idea |
The mafia/mob are so often very religious, whether that is in the US or in Italy. How is religion compatible with their lifestyle? How do they justify their actions? | The same way most people of faith justify the multitude of daily religious infractions in their lives; good ol' fashioned hypocrisy. |
What do banks have an overdraft system? Why not decline purchases that put the account in the negative? | Because the bank will make more money with the overdraft system; the transaction goes through, and they can assess an overdraft fee. If you'd like transactions to be declined when there are insufficient funds and not overdraft, call your bank and ask if that's possible. If not, I am sure another bank in your area will ... |
Why is social anxiety more common in men? | Probably because there's a bigger emphasis on masculinity in human culture; as Simon de Beauvoir said, 'Man is defined as being human and woman as a female'. I sound too pretentious : |
What does it mean when people say the police aren't able to deal the mentally ill? What exactly do they need to know that they don't? | In most western countries, becoming a police officer takes several years. And most of that time is spent learning about conflict resolution, and mediation and how to talk people down and how to deal peacefully with people who threaten other people and so on. That curriculum also helps them deal with mentally ill people... |
Why is gambling so frowned upon but the lottery isn't? | Probably because when you're gambling and lose what you desired to win, you tend to end up losing a lot because of it . With the lottery, you'll just lose around 2$, and that's basically the only thing your losing, other than time. I guess if you spend a lot on lotteries then it becomes a problem, but unlike gambling, ... |
Why does McDonalds partially cook products before shipping to stores? | It's WAAAAYYYY more cost effective for them to be manufactured and partially cooked in a giant factory supplying 1000's of McDonald's than to have somebody individually prepare them in each restaurant. Because of the way they are made, they'd either need to be transported as they are currently, or made from scratch in ... |
How does saving an endangered species work? Aren't the future generations bound to be affected by inbreeding depression? | Inbreeding will have impacts, but it takes multiple generations of very heavy interbreeding to really mess up a species. If you can get multiple generations without too much decay you will eventually reach a point where distantly related relatives are far enough apart that it won't matter. |
The Pros and Cons of Universal Healthcare. | If there is universal healthcare and you get sick, you don't need to worry about paying to get better. You will be taken care of and get the best treatment that your government can afford. If there is not universal healthcare and you get sick, you will have to make sure that you can look after yourself, or get an insur... |
What is honestly better? A motor-tryke with the two wheels in the front or the back? I've heard front, but it doesn't make sense to me. | [The Reliant Robin]. Of course, it was piss poor designed and there's better tri-wheels out there with a single front wheel. Most of those have the weight on the rear tires. It boils down to where the center of gravity is and the weight distribution on the wheels. The Cam Spyder's weight is completely on the front whee... |
What caused this plane/pilot to fly straight towards the ground? | At least from the plane's movement, I can tell that wings stalled when pilot tried to level out the plane as it didn't have enough speed for wings to produce enough lift to return the plane back into horizontal. Flaps were lowered and elevator seems to be functioning properly so it looks like the pilot's error. I'd say... |
What is the distinctive "cold" smell that I get every winter? | I remember asking my dad this question when I was about 7, I always thought it smelled like burning - only for my mate who was present to pipe up stating there's always a wee man somewhere lighting a fire to stay warm. I laughed too hard at that. |
Why are stars and planets visible from earth but not from the stratosphere or orbit? | ELI5: Because those pictures and videos were taken when the sun is out. You can't see or take pictures of stars or planets in the daytime , because the sun is so bright. Likewise, when the astronaut is in the sunlight, the camera can't capture the stars. If the astronaut was in the shadow of Earth, you would see stars ... |
If Petri dish studies are so often discredited by everyone in /r/science, then why do they still do petri dish studies? | Mostly because it doesn't mean much on its own, but is relevant as a first step. A drug working on a Petri dish doesn't implicate it will work on a person, but a drug *not* working on a Petri dish makes it very unlikely to work on a person. So while necessary to rule out certain options, they are by no means sufficient... |
after watching my 3 year old play in her imaginary world, what changes in our brains as we move into adulthood that we lose this skill? | I think we all still create imaginary worlds and characters we just don't acknowledge them in our real lives. Maybe we just accepted the fact that imagination and reality are different from each other. |
Wasn't the Basque country the one with the independence movement (ETA) - why is Catalunya the one getting independence now? | From a catalan here: Its diferents movements i can't explain the bosque one because i don't have enough information. The catalan one have many differents points of view, the economic one or the history for example. Its a really interesting theme but in my opinion there's to much information and every side have their ow... |
Why are they keys WASD traditionally used in nearly all PC games for moving around? | That was the default layout for the original Half-Life, which came out at a time when FPS controls weren't yet standardized and became a HUGE hit. So lots of games followed their model, and soon WASD was a de facto industry standard. Some details, like whether you use L-Ctrl or C to crouch, still aren't completely set. |
Why do the majority of Conservatives who seem to be mainly Christian, hate Obamacare? Shouldn't they care for the well being of others? | A lot of people are raised Christian and adopt that as an identity, rather than observing Christian values and beliefs as something the want to live and adjusting their life. That is why born agains can be so 'annoying' they learned their religion as adults and are better able to understand the principles of those beli... |
Why are online ads (mostly) so dodgy? | All of the ads are purposefully poorly written. The thought is that if you have a well written ad that attracts intelligent people, they will exit once you ask for the address, credit card, and first born. If the ad is purposefully bad, the people you attract are most likely to actually give you information like the cr... |
Why can't we treat viruses with transplanted antibodies, like we treat venom with transplanted antivenoms? | This is called antiserum therapy, and it used to be much more common. For example, diphtheria is a bacterial disease, and most of the damage is caused by a toxin secreted by the bacteria. They used to infect horses with the bacteria, then collect the antibodies from their blood. In first world countries, vaccines preve... |
How is it that soda, a drink thats first ingredient is water, makes me dehydrated? | It doesn't. The idea that soda somehow makes you lose water is a popular myth. Go ahead and drink 6 liters of diet soda in a day; the clearness of your urine will tell you that you're perfectly hydrated. Now, if you're drinking enough soda that you're getting too much sodium, that could conceivably cause other problems... |
Why would a plane be able to take off from a treadmill runway? | Myth busters showed that, yes, it will takeoff just fine. You have to understand the wheels just spin freely. They de-couple the plane from the ground. If you move the ground, all it does is make the wheel spin faster. That force doesn't get transferred to the aircraft and so does not cancel out the action the engines.... |
Why hasn't an alternative for fuel been implemented yet? | Have we really proven that alternatives work? The only alternative energy that comes close to the output and efficiency is nuclear, and most people freak out when they hear about it. A conspiracy theorist would say it's because big oil wants to keep us dependent. A more rational person would say that the alternatives a... |
Why does college tuition go up every year when more and more people are attending college? | You basically answered your own question; It is simply supply and demand. More students means more profit for the school, but it also means more operational costs for the school to serve more people. Reputable schools are starting to explore the potential of online educational programs not only because they offer great... |
How does the weight exit your body when you're losing weight? | There is an entire video TED talk on exactly this topic where the speaker explains the science in ELI5 terms and experiments. It's basically in the form of CO2 and Water. Check this link The mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT _URL_0_ |
Explain how electrical grounding works. | Oh easy, your home wiring neutral line and the ground are connected together with a big staking rod at your home's transformer or main panel. So they are effectively the same conductor. Your body is completing the circuit when you touch a live wire. Also, your closed loop law is only valid at low frequencies, which for... |
How does a bullet hit where a telescopic sight is aiming if the sight is x inches above the barrel? | Easiest way to think of it is the bullet is following a curve and scope is straight like a laser. My rifle is dead on the crosshairs at 50m, i have to put the crosshairs 1 inch BELOW the target at 100m and it's dead on the crosshairs again at 200m. After that the math starts. :P |
Why is Japan not facing economic ruin when its debt to GDP ratio is much worse than Greece during the eurozone crisis? | Because Japan owes money mostly to institutions within the country, faces much lower borrowing costs, and can devalue its currency instead of defaulting if push really came to shove. That said, Japan's debt burden is *the* biggest economic issue in Japan. |
If North Korea puts so much effort into building fake highways, hotels, stores, ect, why don't they go ahead and use them? | If they are usable but 'fake' because they are not being used, the reason they aren't being used is likely because there is no reason to use them. eg: if I built a 6 lane highway that ran across Alaska through the deepest wilderness Well, there are very few people who have any reason to drive out there, so the highway ... |
Why do hoarders hoard? | I have hoarding tendencies. I grew up relatively poor, not dirt poor just not having things like toys, or a bed for a few years. We had a house, clothes and food to eat but that was about the extent of it. I tend to hoard stupid things like the rubberbands that come on your produce. I also have a VERY hard time throwin... |
why does the U.S. incarceration rate dwarf those of other developed western nations? | The judicial system and war on drugs has been covered, but there's another issue: Most developed countries are homogenous populations and cultures. The US is not. Homogeneous populations and cultures have lower crime rates than diverse cultures.The most direct and simplistic answer is that the American justice system a... |
What would happen if you told a police officer that you didn't understand your rights after hearing the Miranda warning? | There wouldn't be any questioning until you did. Usually they make you acknowledge on a recording or by signing a form. |
why can't we make people grow taller or stronger without messing with their health? | I'm thinking that the square cube law is applicable here. That is things increase in mass way quicker than they grow in scale. That means you need to have a lot more structure to handle growing larger. Just scaling up people to double our height would mean that our bones would be far to fragile for example. Basically y... |
How come when phone screens break, they are still completely functional and readable, but when computer monitors or TVs break, they can no longer display the correct colors? | When phone screens 'break' they are not actually breaking. It's just the glass coating over the screen. They have that coating to protect the phone since it probably gets handled and dropped more than a TV. |
Are there any health risks if you let your arm/leg "fall asleep" (cut off circulation) for an extended period of time? | If you get it from sitting, you can develop deep leg thrombosis. But that's for long long periods of time 6-8 hrs |
Why is desalinization expensive? | It isn't hard, per se, but it does require a lot of energy . Electricity isn't free; therefore neither is desalinated water.it takes alot of energy, and energy is expensive. FWIW, they dont use evaporation for desalinization you could, but pressurized flow through filters is more efficient |
What can a normal person do about widespread government surveillance? | It's a glaring indicator that the top comment is a joke. Its kind of pathetic really. This affects every citizen from over 8 countries across the world . *atleast* First and foremost, encrypt everything. Hard drive, email, your internet activity. Do this by using basic encryption technology [found here] *don't use Wind... |
How do software patent holders know their patents are being infringed when they don't have access to the accused's source code? | I'm have experience with patents. Let me try to explain this by example. Let's pretend the following patent claim is real and let's see if you can tell me any company's product that would infringe this claim. > 1. A method in a computer server for providing navigation instructions to a user, the method comprising: > > ... |
Why does there seem to be so many more (recent) terror incidents in the UK when so much of Muslim extremist anger is directed towards the US? | For one thing the UK has proportionally more Muslims. About 0.6% of the US population are Muslim compared to about 4.4% in the UK. I've also heard that Muslims in the US tend to be fairly wealthy and well educated, where as Muslims in the UK are often disadvantaged. Big generalisations of course, and I'm not certain ho... |
Why has the War on Drugs been so unsuccessful? | Money. * Illegal drugs are REALLY expensive compared to what they cost to make. There's a lot of cost and risk in selling them, but the profits can be huge. * Most of the time, if something gets way too expensive, people buy less of it and the price falls. But addicts will pay almost any price to get a fix, so the pric... |
What are the benefits of big companies occupying a relatively small space in a large city? | As the population density goes up so does the value of square footage for a business. I wouldn't rent 10,000 square feet to a business for $5,000/month if I can turn it into ten separate 1,000 square foot apartments rentable at $2,500 per month. That'd be taking $5,000/month instead of $25,000/month. It's all about the... |
Why do water resistent devices have a resistence time limit? How does the water eventually get in? | Everything's waterproof for a time. Ever put a sponge in water and it doesn't get wet? It's because there are air bubbles that are stuck there. Over time, they loosen under pressure and water replaces it. The same basic mechanism happens with phones - it takes some time for water to seep through the outer case, and if ... |
Why is it America's problem with what goes on in Iraq? | After Germany lost WWI the country wasn't doing well. After awhile Hitlers men came into power with a plan to rebuild the country. That plain involved taking over the world with WWII . The US an other nations found that once you beat the enemy, you have to go in a help rebuild the country and make it stable or you will... |
Is it true that no one has observed the earth rotating around the sun? | When you're on the space station, the space station is orbiting around the earth, which is orbiting around the sun. It's essentially the same as being on earth as far as your vantage point is concerned. Even if you're on the moon, the moon is orbiting the earth, which is orbiting the sun. If we had people on Mars for o... |
why my body, particularly when I'm nearing sleep, occasionally jolts or twitches | It's called a hypnagogic jerk It's basically when your body starts to totally relax, but the part of your brain that keeps you balanced forgets that you're just trying to go to sleep and it thinks you're falling, so it tries to correct the problem. |
Why doesn't the MLB drug test every player monthly/weekly for steroids? | Player union would never stand for it. The more steroid usage the players get away with the longer their careers and the more money they're likely to make. |
What does "defragging the harddrive / disc" mean? What is a fragmentation? Could it damage my computer? | * [Fragmented]* [Defragmented] Although the computer knows where all the m & m's are even in the fragmented state. It's just that since harddrives works kind of like [LP players] with an arm that has to go and get the data, it's gonna be faster to not go to several different places. It's not dangerous, just inefficient... |
If the sole biological purpose of sex is to reproduce, then why do people who do not intend to have children still have the urge to have sex? | The urge to have sex is relatively instinctual, you feel that attraction to the opposite sex, you notice how they look etc. The want to have children though, is a learned one. It's something you learn through life as you go, it's something you debate with yourself, etc. Not to mention there are other reasons to have se... |
Does location determine skin color? | The camp counselor is closer. The color of your skin is determined by the amount of melanin it contains. The more melanin, the darker the skin. Melanin protects you from UV rays emitted by the sun. However, some of those rays also need to get through to aid in vitamin D synthesis. So in sunny regions darker skinned peo... |
Why are games that come to PC mostly only compatible with Windows and not Mac/Linux. | Depending on the platform/engine used, game producers often have to spend a lot of time and effort in building the game to be compatible with specific platforms. With some programming languages, game engines etc. it's fairly easy to build/compile the sample game/application for use on different platforms in other cases... |
How do the Geneva Conventions stop countries from engaging in things like "Scorched Earth" strategies when engaging in war? If you were at war, wouldn't you just ignore all rules? | Another perspective that I haven't seen mentioned is that once a military force or a civilian government has been briefed in a set of international standards, attempting to circumvent or violate those standards is much more likely to involve junior officers refusing to obey orders, courts martial refusing to punish obj... |
if we're in the pause period before resuming an ice age, why is warming things up a bit a problem? | Because it isn't a bit. A five degree change in global temperatures is enough to release all the methane in the ocean, which could cause another 5 degree change. A ten degree change is enough to end the world. Scientists believe that the worst extinction event in history was caused by a combination of a huge volcanic e... |
Why are all the financial companies in Omaha? | Well, as a Nebraska native Warren Buffet lives there so I'm sure Berkshire Hathaway has an office. Other than that probably the cheap land and great standard of living for dirt cheap compared to the coasts. If you can make it to Omaha do yourself a favor and visit the Henry Doorly Zoo which has been rated best in the w... |
Is there an advantage of any particular blood group over the other? | The + factor makes you resilient to the effects of toxoplasmosis. People with - and toxo have delayed reaction times and maybe a personality problem. _URL_1_ |
Why haven't other countries like USA, Britain, Russia taken action against ISIS and just end the executions of reporters and citizens? | When it comes war, you have to weigh up how many lives you are going to save versus how many soldiers are going to die in the conflict. Clearly all out war to save the lives of a few journalists is pushing it a bit as many more would likely die in the process. So why haven't they launched a small scale attack then? Wel... |
why do some people seem to portray Singapore as a very oppressive country | I think it's mainly down to strict punishment for crimes. Caning for vandalism and hanging for drug smuggling are seen as cruel. The death penalty has been abolished in most western countries entirely, and those that it hasn't are seen as oppressive . Restrictions on criticising the courts are also seen as overly restr... |
Why aren't we putting a lot more research toward making genetically modified plants/algae/bacteria that consume a lot more CO2? | Plants don't **sequester** CO2. They just hold on to it until they mature, then the CO2 leaks back into the biosphere [ Carbon cycle ] |
Why do the Haribo Sugarless Gummy Bears cause issues? | I don't know, but I have spent many hours laughing So hard I cry while reading the reviews for them on Amazon. |
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