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when a movie trailer (or teaser) is released a year before it's premiere date, what's going on with the movie in the between time? | Editing, mostly. Films always shoot a lot more footage than the final product uses. It takes a lot of manpower to review that footage and cut it together into a workable product. Then you show it to test audiences and see how they like it, and you probably have to go back and make some changes. You've got to add CGI, t... |
Sometimes when falling asleep i suddenly get jumpscared and wake up, why is this happenin? | That happens to me too. I used to experience it as falling, and then jerking awake as if I'd hit the ground. When I was around 19 I got in a pretty bad car accident. Now whenever I jerk awake like that, I experience it as if I were in a moving car, unable to open my eyes to see where I'm going, unable to steer or brake... |
Do black socks really stink more than white socks? | As the only real difference between a set of black socks and a set of white socks is the dye used to color the cotton, unless the black dye somehow promotes bacterial growth, which is the source of rotten smells, then there really isn't a reason I can think of.Holy shit. I always wondered this. A few years ago I switch... |
Does having a prosthetic leg make it easier to run farther since it won't get tired? | I do not have first hand experience, but I can run you through the basic physics. If you weight 100 kg , you need a certain amount of force to accelerate you to any given running speed. You also need a certain amount of force to maintain that running speed because of wind, air resistance, friction, etc. If you have a p... |
why aren't newborns checked for severe allergies to common foods like peanuts or shell fish? Obviously they won't be eating solid foods yet, but their hands touch everything. | Checking for allergies often includes trial and error, and also is very often premature in infants. A prevailing theory to the increase of allergies such as peanuts has to do with the controlled diet and hygiene babies get. I mean, all of that is good, but it means they encounter fewer allergens as an infant, and as a ... |
What is the difference between Hardees and Carl's Jr? | [Hardees] and [Carl's Jr] has the same ingredients but different menu items. You want The Western Bacon Six Dollar Burger at Hardees? Tough shit, they don't have it. But what you can do is order a side of onion rings and a side of BBQ sauce and make your own out of a cheese burger. Tastes the exact same. Souce: I trave... |
How Los Angeles flourished despite being built in a desert | In the early 1900's, Los Angeles built a 400 mile long aqueduct to carry water from the north to the city. This allowed the population to boom without any concern for water. Right now, we only have water concerns because the entire state is under a severe drought. But with normal rain and snowpack, and responsible wate... |
Why do the most dangerous areas in America tend to develop on the outskirts of major cities? | The downtown areas of cities tend to be dense with big businesses that function nationally and/or internationally, and so are generally less tied to the specific fortunes of that city. So even if the city goes into decline, the downtown core tenants/property owners tend to still have enough money to keep that area nice... |
Why are diamonds still so valuable? | They're actually less controlled than most think, as a bunch of competing producers have popped up and broken the monopoly very recently . At the end of the day, though, diamonds still require a lot of resource and labor to obtain and process. |
Why was there such a debate between Edison's DC and Tesla's AC? | Because tesla's system was better. Edison used it to electrify an elephant, it spooked america. America then built its entire infrastructure around DC . DC is basically objectively worse, it just costs an enormous amount of money to revamp the US electrical grid. The argument boils down to: Side 1: this other way is so... |
How do series make millions per episode. | To your specific example : syndication and building the lineup. Syndication brings in a ton of money for the stars and producers of a show, but you need a certain volume of shows . Stars are paid separately from their regular salary, but if they want extra $ to make extra episodes, it makes a lot of sense to pay them m... |
- What is it about low-quality audio that makes it so difficult to difficult to process in our ears? | I figure it's the same reason it's hard to see details in a poor quality video. Everything melds together and doesn't sound like what our brains are used to so it's hard to understand. Like talking to someone with a thick accent. The words might be right but we still have a hard timing understanding what we're hearing. |
What would happen if a female took Viagra? | I took viagra once as a guy I was seeing at work had it and we thought it'd be interested to see what it does. It did nothing sexually, I was no more aroused than normal BUT it did raise my temperature, I was sweating and my face was bright red. I looked flushed for the whole evening. 0/10 would not do again. |
When you are holding in a pee, why does it feel UNBEARABLE at times and then 45 seconds later it's subsided? | The smooth muscle in your bladder has what is called the 'stretch-relaxation response'. Initially a special area at the base of your bladder is stimulated, causing the need to pee. Then the bladder will self expand outwards to decrease pressure by increasing its volume, meaning the sensitive area is stimulated less, an... |
Why celebrities such as Snoop Dogg can openly smoke weed, but the police do nothing. | I can say I smoke weed all day. I can have pictures of me smoking weed. I can have pictures of bud in my hands. * I could be lying* It could be tobacco* It could be fake You can't prove it. And the only way to go to jail over something is to be able to prove it 100% |
Why is art forgery illegal? | > They are still producing art what they make is not art, it's commodity. the opposite of art. |
Why aren't movies sold as USBs? (Why are Blu-Rays still relevant?) | Don't worry, I just ordered a laptop with a Blu-Ray player. This ensures that the technology will be obsolete in short order. |
Why are humans so much more self-destructive than other animals (killing ourselves/each other)? Are there other animals that behave in similar ways? | Pretty much all predators are worse than humans. So much so that they never evolved beyond a small number that's able to live and work together for their own survival. If their numbers grow they fight/kill each other. I they encounter others of their own kind, they fight/kill each other.Actually, Dolphins have been sho... |
Why is the confederate flag so hated despite being displayed in many places? | It's not technically the Confederate Flag, but the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, the army Robert E. Lee. The American Civil War is a very complicated story of the battle between State and Federal power and of course slavery. For many Southerners it's a symbol of fighting for your rights and a symbol of when th... |
Why do my shoes get squeaky? | I don't know for sure, but a good solution is to hide them under the floorboards.Sounds are vibrations, so when your shoe squeaks, it is because it vibrated a a high frequency. Because the bottom of your shoes are probably made of rubber, it is because the rubber was stretched and then it contracted back due to the ten... |
What would be the advantages and disadvantages of a One World Government? | Well, You need only one military force, not one for every country. The military could be much smaller in total. Regions don't need to worry about defending or attacking other regions, only terrorists and organized crime. Nuclear weapons are typically only usefull for interstate conflicts, not for a world government. Sp... |
The concept of time/spacetime (seriously, like I'm 5) | People think about time as going at a constant rate. Every second your watch ticks one second. We also usually think that an object moving through space has a space-rate, we just call this velocity. With a continuum between space and time, spacetime goes at a constant rate instead of just time. If you move your watch r... |
Why is filibustering still legal? | It's an unfortunate consequence to a few good things, that politicians shouldn't be restricted when debating a bill, that a bill shouldn't be voted on while there is ongoing debate, and that some bills are required to pass within a certain timeframe. Not all parliamentary systems suffer from filibustering issues. The A... |
Why do people say losing weight is about diet, not exercise? A reasonably fit person can easily burn e.g. 1,500 calories/day through exercise | At the end of your day your diet matters infinitely more than how much you exercise. If you want to get big, you need to eat lots and you'll gain weiight. If you just worj out, your gains will be smaller. If you're trying to lose weight exercise helps but cutting out pop and other shitty foods and controlling the amoun... |
Why does our hair turn white/grey when we age? Why do young people get some random grey hairs? | You don't really stop making hair color. In addition to the pigment, your hair also has hydrogen peroxide in it as a natural byproduct. Your body also excretes an enzyme that breaks the hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen and helps keep the hair hydrated. As you get older, you build up more hydrogen peroxide, and s... |
If teeth whitening products weaken the enamel, why do dentists recommend them? | Sometimes son, grown ups will say and do just about anything for money. And even if the dentists DIDN'T recommend them, no one could really stop the people shilling the product from saying something that lead people to make the assumption that dentists did.Actually, you can use activated charcoal to whiten your teeth w... |
What is with climate change, and why does it matter so much? | Climate change means extinction of the human species. It matters because human instinct is to try to not get us all killed. Climate is changing now faster than ever before and specifically because of our machines & fuels, not nature. > Does what we do to change this even matter? YES: if we stop putting gas-pollution in... |
What is tofu, and why can it be made to taste like anything? | It's made of soy and from eating it sometimes I can tell you it just kinda takes on the flavor of what you cook it with |
Why do they put glass in the roads when making them, if glass can hurt your tires? | Why do you drink beverages out of glass containers, if glass can hurt your mouth? The fact that glass can sometimes by dangerous doesn't mean it is universally dangerous in all situations. |
Why does texture affect taste so much? Why can't I put my steak into a blender and enjoy it as much? | It's an interesting topic. IMO, it doesn't *actually* affect taste, but people have very strong reactions to textures of the food in their mouths that they correlate with the tastes that are coming in at the same time. And it's very much what you're used to. Asian cultures have very different ideas of acceptable food t... |
How can so many phones transfer so much data through the same cell towers? | The towers act like any Internet router. They take the data being sent and the deliver it to wherever its going. Keep in mind they are world's stronger and faster than the average router but with 60k phones even the bandwidth of a massive server can be bent over. With this there are many access points and other towers ... |
Can anyone slander anyone to destroy a career or a life? | Yes, fake news and the internet has destroyed businesses before.The fake news puts a story out and people reading headlines only take it far on social media until lawsuits are filed and a business can't get business. |
whats with USA and Afghanistan always fighting? (I'm only fourteen I don't know stuff) and similarly why are Iran and Palestine always wartorn? | During the attacks on 9/11 a group of terrorists that called themselves al qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks. They largely operated out of Afghanistan. The US war effort in Afghanistan was to root out al qaeda and the taliban and replace it with a democratically elected government. The Taliban only had so mu... |
Why is "lose weight, exercise more, and eat better" the cure to every health problem on the internet? | Because in our modern, food abundant, work at a desk environment, eating poorly and lack of exercise is the *cause* of many of our health problems. What's more, a lot of people don't want to accept that reality, and will turn to fad diets and quack remedies to try to avoid them. The people giving this advice are reinfo... |
What exactly is a commercial pilot doing in the cockpit during a flight? So many buttons, pedals, paperwork etc? | there's numerous points durign the takeoff and landing. during the cruise legs, there's really nothing much going on. they're watching the front facing weather radar, keeping tabs on the radio, drinking coffee. and on international flights, taking naps.56% admit to sleeping 33% admit to sleeping and waking up to find t... |
What makes a piece of art valuable? | I am by no means an expert on this but some factors i would imagine influence the piece's price would be who the artist was, the historical context to it's creation, and just plain aesthetics |
Why does aluminum foil never get that hot, even when it's been sitting in a 450 degree oven? | being thin, and cooling quickly, its temperature drops to a handle-able level shortly after it's removed form the oven. Also, being so thin, it does not have enough heat energy to conduct into your skin to cause you much damage.think of it this way : the metal is a container in which you can pour in heat. now, a very t... |
Why do I dream about waking up and starting my day right before actually waking up? | I don't know.. But I always dream of turning my alarm off. It's very confusing. |
Why is iced coffee usually more expensive than hot coffee? | I work in Starbucks and adding the Iced modifier to a drink doesn't modify the price and our method is the same as with the hot drinks. If you get a Coffee-based Frappuccino you pay more than a roughly equivalent hot drink because of a totally separate recipe and the additional blend step) but a straight iced version o... |
How do bugs manage to stay stuck to car windows whilst travelling at high speed? Are the suckers super strong? | I think another factor would be the surface of the glass [isn't as smooth] as it looks. Couple that with the [microscopic fibers] many insects have on their legs and it's basically like Velcro coming together.Answer B: they are on the inside of the window.I learned this the hard way while observing a wasp on my window ... |
Why do Actors look so good and fresh despite regular cocaine and alcohol abuse? | Everybody is also missing out on the fact that the vast majority of celebrities have amazing genetics which leads to them being better looking than the average person, which is why they're celebrities in the first place. A handsome man who's hungover still has a great jaw and cheekbones; The average man doesn't look li... |
How can the 9/11 families sue Saudi Arabia? What's stopping Saudi Arabia from just completely ignoring them? | Can't wait for subsequent lawsuits to roll in over America supplying arms to the IRA. Maybe the Palestinians can sue over the 'aid' package Israel gets . This smacks of the same rank capitalism that foreign antagonists despise about the West. People rarely discuss the fact that 9/11 chose symbolic targets, most notably... |
What happens when I power off or unplug my computer while it's installing an update. | The information that has not been saved to your hard drive is destroyed because the other two types of memory; RAM and cache, require electricity to keep information. This probably wont cause permanent damage to your machine but you may have to restart the update. Also, don't do it on purpose. |
Why is smoking(cigarettes) still widely promoted as "cool" in movies and TV Series even though the social image of smoking has become drastically more negative? | I'd suggest it's a lot for having the character be doing something. Staring off over the city from the roof is a lot less informative to the audience than staring over the city, while the character takes a drag and holds for a bit, before blowing a small cloud of smoke in front of him/her. It makes the scene feel more ... |
Why aren't other holy books left in hotel rooms? | Leaving behind free books for people who may never read them is expensive. The rich countries are largely Christian, so the people with money to spare on spare books are Christian. If and when Islam resumes the throne of the world's wealthiest religion, expect to see Korans in every hotel room. |
Why the aging process is altered by traveling at the speed of light. | Like the other ~~two~~ three already said. It's not that you stop aging but the time you experience is less than the time other people experience who are watching you. To them you appear to not be moving at all. This is called [time dilation]. So in relation to the people not moving at near light speed you appear to ag... |
If condoms have 99% success rate, what causes that remaining 1% to fail? | I would think it is a liability thing, of it fails then you get to blame that 1%. If it was guaranteed to work and didn't, you as a manufacturer would be in a world of legal hurt.Just like hand sanitizer only kills 99% of germs, condom companies use that 1% margin as a buffer against legal actions against them, than if... |
Why can't I take the seeds from fruits I buy in the grocery story and grow them into plants? Why do I have to buy seed separately? | A lot of the varieties of fruit and veg you buy in the shops are first generation hybrids between two varieties of the plant. If you plant the seeds they might grow, but they probably won't be the same as the fruit you ate. This is because the genes get all muddled up via the sexual reproduction. Image you plant has ge... |
What is the point in having stocks without dividends? | If the company get's bought out, you might get a payout, or you could get stock in the company buying out the one you own. Additionally, oftentimes companies will save up cash for a later date, hoping that the government will have a tax holiday so that they can pay out all their dividends on one day tax free", 'You own... |
What is Transcendental Meditation(TM) and why do so many famous people swear by it? | Sit down, relax and repeat 'im' in your head for 30 minutes. Repeat twice daily. Nothing more. |
Why aren't dogs interested in watching tv? | One of my dogs watches TV all the time. And he definitely notices if a dog is on the tv. Half the time he'll be up and barking at it, the other half just intently focused on the dog.Dogs have an overly developed sense of subtext, which leads to them becoming frustrated with what they are watching. For this reason they ... |
Why does it get colder at sunrise? | It gets colder as long as the earth is radiatng more heat away than the sun is radiating to it. The amount radiated away depends mostly on the temperature of the earth and cloud cover. The amount of heat the earth catches from the sun is very small when the sun creeps over the horizon. The sun needs to shine more direc... |
How are BitCoins and other cryptocurrencies legal? | Why wouldn't they be legal? You're usually allowed to trade whatever you want, unless there's a good reason to ban it. |
How to buy a home | Home buying is absurdly complicated. That's why there's an industry entirely based around people doing it for you. Get yourself a real estate agent if you're serious about buying. Though, at a young age you may not be able to commit to staying in one place.. Your career, family, etc could change in the next few years. ... |
Why does weed give some people anxiety while for others it relieves it? | I'm not sure why this is the case for other people but, personally after smoking for 7 years, too much gives me severe anxiety. I'll take maybe two puffs to relax these days but even a whole bowl out of my bong and it can be pretty bad. Needless to say I do not smoke often at all anymore unless I have actual anxiety or... |
Why is the AK47 such a well respected/popular weapon? | AK has a few things going for it popularity wise - there are a lot of them and hollywood picked up on them to put them in the hands of bad guys - because most of the countries that use them are the bad guys. From there every American had to have one and since they are cheap, every American does have one. As for durabil... |
What is the point of Social Security? | The point of social security is effectively to provide the government with additional sources of revenue. Social Security payments are treated like any other federal tax and are used to borrow more money to give to corporations and the wealthy in the form of tax credits, a free lunch. The government does not use social... |
ELIS: why do people say reading can make you smarter? What effects does reading have on the brain (other then increasing vocabulary?) | It's a way of getting information from others who may know more than you about a subject. This of course can be problematic. There are a lot of books out there that will misinform or mislead their readers. Some are deliberate, some were written by people with a lack of understanding, and others are just remnants of an ... |
What is dry drowning, and how does it happen? | Well there's dry drowning and secondary drowning. They're a bit different. Dry drowning is when your face is submerged in water and your vocal cords slam shut preventing water getting into your lungs but also oxygen. Your body burns through what oxygen it has, your brain eventually\u200b gets starved of oxygen and you ... |
Congress ends corn subsidy. How was the corn subsidy bad, and why is it good that it's over? | [Here's one side of the argument] For background, their talking about how much Bullshit it is that the government wants to tax fast food and other fatty foods at a higher premium. If you want the full episode, which has nothing to do with your question, but is still a great watch, [here you go] |
Why is a nation citizen ID card in the US a bad idea? | there are millions of legal residents here that aren't citizens. they all can get a state ID or a driver license. |
What does US shale have to do with falling gas prices? | energy independence. We're projected to outproduce the Saudis in energy exports. Also, we're one of the largest nations in the world, so we're depending on our energy also. ON A SIDE NOTEUnlike the Saudis, Russians and UAE, the US does not **own** our energy companies. So, without cogent corporate tax reform lower ener... |
if a dog's sense of smell is so good, why do they stick their nose directly into the thing they're sniffing? | For mAximum sniffage. I mean, you to don't just poke a boob with one finger do you? No, you palm the shit out of that wonderful breast with your entire hand. |
How to find a memory leak | You can't fix a memory leak in someone else's program. All you can do is shut down programs that are using too much memory. |
Why is Australia choke-full of poisonous creatures, but New Zealand, despite the geographic proximity, has surprisingly few of them? | Quite simple mate. As an Australian, this stuff is my specialty. It's a well known fact that poison animals are way more off the rails then non poisonous animals. They're just more popular. Kind of like why everyone likes dinosaurs! So basically, since Australia is just a flat out, fair dinkum off the rails country, wh... |
Why are cars made to be able to go faster than you can legally drive them? | Different speed limits around the world and larger engines. Your car isn't custom built for your exact location. |
How do nuclear power plants work, and why don't we use Thorium instead? | I'm nowhere near an expert on this but [npr did a piece] where they interviewed a few scientists on what a thorium reactor is and what the pros and cons are. |
Gerrymandering is illegal, yet it is still a widely used tactic. How do people get away with it sans consequences? | I think that most of the comments here are in error. The prior Supreme Court cases have not ever found that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, quite the contrary. The only reason that the Supreme Court has found for overturning district gerrymandering is for racial reasons, and even then they are of two minds... |
If the human body is made mostly of salt water, why is drinking salt water bad? | It's the balance of salt that is key. If you have too much salt in your body, in order to flush it out , your body uses a lot more water to accomplish this. |
The arguments for and against paying NCAA athletes | I'm all for getting rid of college sports altogether and forcing colleges to go back to being institutions of learning, then these dults who would generally be stuck flipping burgers if it wasn't for their talent for throwing shit around can go back and do the menial labors again. |
Why hasn't anyone been to the Moon again? | Oh the moon like a giant balloon, if only it wasn't so dark all the ladies would swoon. Oh but their isn't much to see as their isn't a lot on the outside much like you and me. But if it had a light like the sun we'd all surely run. If it gives something to me i sure hope no harm gets done. I wonder if he gets lonely u... |
Why are American universities so expensive and why are people happy to pay such high fees? | No one wants to pay these high fees, and you'll be hard pressed to find someone who is happy about it. Picking up your entire life and flying abroad is just not an option for a lot of people. It is extremely expensive to move to a different country, and it's not an easy thing to do. Most people would rather stay here a... |
From the creator of "Explain LI5" - new rules, some clarifications, and a giant thank you. | I think at some point it needs to be OK to take two steps back and just admit that sometimes things are complicated and sometimes there are no easy answers and that's just how the world works. We need to be able to draw the line between simplification and losing an important part of what something means.I was so damn c... |
Why are western countries not rioting and revolting against their governments, but middle eastern countries are? | I'm well-employed, I have a benefits-package, I have a bank account, I have bills to pay, I have a home to maintain. Once you take that away from me, then I'll consider taking to the streets. I mean.. I swung by the Occupy Camp, when that was going on, a few times and donated food and supplies. I feel for my fellow cit... |
Who is Tom Bombadil and why is considered so powerful but minor in LOTR? | Yeah, he's not in the movies. He's an immensely powerful nature god/demigod . However, he doesn't really care much about anything outside the section of Middle Earth he has claimed as his own, which is why he isn't that important. |
If the average lightning strike can contain 100 million to 1 billion volts, how is it that humans can survive being struck? | Lightning strike survivor here. My strike went through my body and basically fried my nerves, so I was paralysed for awhile. It didn't get directly to my heart though. Took a path of least resistance. My nerves are still regenerating 9 years later.So should I drink more or less water to avoid this ?', "Voltage is a mea... |
Why does AC electricity allow for longer-distance transmission with less loss than DC? | The main reason is that AC power can be transformed and DC can't. Transforming refers to the changing of the voltage level. What this let's you do, for a given amount of power, is to increase the voltage in order to reduce the current . The important thing isn't so much the increasing of voltage as it it the reduction ... |
Could engineers powder coat steel beams so they would last a lot longer? | in theory yes but steel is already coated/painted to make them last longer. What you're seeing isn't the result of steel that is not lasting long enough. What you're seeing is steel that isn't being maintained well enough in order to be able to last. Even with a powder coat, it would still need to be cleaned and reappl... |
Why is circumcision so popular in the US? | It all depends on who you ask but, it basically boils down to a bunch of repressed conservative types thought it was a great way to keep kids from masturbating. Over the years, other rationale were developed to justify it, such as it being healthier but, it's not that common in the rest of the world and it's not like t... |
What is that feeling when the room suddenly feels a lot bigger and you almost feel like you're not really connected to your own body? | Your description reminds me of what I experience when I have a fever. The room grows to the size of a football stadium, and back. Also, when I close my eyes, I get these spheres up in my face that are actually really small, but they seem fantastically huge and space-taking. All in my imagination of course. I associate ... |
Why does the American Mint keep redesigning our dollar bills with added measures against counterfeiting, when the older bills are left in circulation? Won't counterfeiters just continue to reproduce the older bills? | Counterfeiters create fake versions of older bills all the time. At work on more than one occasion I've been called to validate the authenticity of a relatively new looking bill that is several decades old, and since it doesn't have any of the newer security features I'm unable to do so. Better safe than sorry, I simpl... |
Why can't fonts appear as smooth on my PC as they do on my Mac? | is your mac a retina desplay? because i've heard that the text is much smoother and easier to read on those. |
how do sites like stubhub and ticket brokers get away with buying up all the face value tickets and raking the general public over the coals when ticket scalping is illegal? | Why I've pretty much given up on going to concerts. It's just too hard and too expensive to get tickets. Last concert I went to was Maroon 5 and that's because I won tickets through Carnival Cruise Lines. Awesome concert and I was just a few rows away from the stage. Their tickets went on sale today for their concert i... |
How do babies breathe/live during the birthing process in between the fluid-filled womb and the air-filled world? How do they not suffocate during the pushing process? | Destin interviews his doctor regarding this. [Why You Didn't Die at Birth - Smarter Every Day 42] ", 'Lots of wrong answers here. The umbilical cord provides everything the baby needs. It's still doing its job during birth and can even work for a bit after the baby is out. When I was pregnant and reading up on birthing... |
Why are we taught that cow's milk is good for humans? Is it? We seem to be the only species that drinks another's milk. | It's a valuable source of calories and nutrients. That's not quite as big a deal nowadays as it was back in preindustrial time when getting enough calories to survive was a major challenge, but generally speaking, more food = good. |
Are all the stars we see in our night sky part of milky way, or some belong to other galaxies too? Also, how do we know if a star is from other galaxy? | Every light we see in the night sky is a star that is part of the Milky Way. Any specks of light that are galaxies, contain within that speck of light hundreds of millions if not billions of stars. They're THAT FAR AWAY. |
How does an AA gun or a flak gun work? | I'm no expert but I always thought that they had little radar devices inside of the rounds that would explode into shrapnel when near an airplane.Timed fuzes, mostly. They generally knew what altitude the planes they were shooting at were flying, and how long it took for their rounds to reach that altitude, so they set... |
Each car has its own key. Why can't that same car key unlock other cars of the same brand and model? | yes it can, once after dark we went with my friend for something in his trunk, he could not find it there, but then the real owner of the car came and he was not very happy we went through his trunk, because friend confused his car with another, they were same model, parked nearby, though different color which we didn'... |
What is the problem with marijuana? | In my opinion, you can become dependent on marijuana. When you get high and do things, you just want to do things high simply because its pleasurable. Also, if you're experiencing failure or negative emotions, marijuana provides an escape from all of it. Smoking marijuana doesn't really solve the problem, its still the... |
If all dinosaurs have been wiped out, how come chickens/birds, ancestors of dinosaurs, exist? | Ancestors of dinosaurs don't exist, descendants of dinosaurs do exist though. The thing is, while birds developed from Cretaceous era dinosaurs, they technically never stopped being dinosaurs either. |
How would a state go about seceding from the United States? | They can't do it. The US had a big war about it. The supreme court has also declared that states can't secede. But just for the sake of argument. There's no constitutional precedent for it so they would either have to fight for an amendment or physically fight for their secession. |
Why was I taught all about "The food pyramid" during school but later in life I found out it was apparently all wrong..? | With few ground breaking exceptions, we are only as smart as the smartest in our species. At the time the food pyramid was taught it was the latest and greatest idea about nutrition. As we learn more over time, ideas can be shown to be right or wrong. When I was in school we were also taught that the tongue only tasted... |
How do corrupt politicians explain their earnings to the IRS? | As others have mentioned, cash bribery is rare to start with and gets even rarer as one climbs the government ladder. With that said, assuming that bribery does take this form , one must remember several things. First, cash leaves very little paper trail and cash-heavy businesses can be used to easily launder money. An... |
What happens at the border between countries that drive on opposite sides of the road? | I live in England and have driven abroad often , however, driving on the other side of the road actually isn't that difficult as the majority of it is acclimatising to road signs etc. and accepting that you are on the 'wrong' side of the road. To honest it's not that daunting, you just have to remember to turn the righ... |
Steam files being downloaded are the full size of the game before finishing | I have no experience with Apple, but I've only seen this in Microsoft. Windows reserves the space in advance. I use Fedora at home and the file grows and at the last bit can run out of space or be too large for the file system. The problem is that what downloaded is not deleted. |
If cats have been domesticated like dogs, how come they're so anti-social, unlike dogs? | Cats actually have not been domesticated in the strict definition of the word. A hallmark of domestication is the shrinking of the animal's brain over time. Dogs have smaller brains than wild wolves for example. This has not occurred with cats. Domestic animals often also rely on humans for their needs. If you don't fe... |
Why did pale skin go out of fashion to be replaced with the desire for tanned skin? | From what I've read, it came into fashion in the 1920's with the flappers. An example would be Jordan from The Great Gatsby, a very fashionable young woman with a wealthy background and who rubs elbows with all the elite at Gatsby's parties-- she's a professional golfer with a boyish figure, bobbed hair and a tan. Like... |
Why government provided free health would be invading our private life? (American) | The main problem is that some treatments require you to live a certain kind of life style before you're allowed to get it. A perfect example is lap band surgery in Canada. If you want one you need to show that you have made an effort to lose weight and reveal in a diary to a doctor every single thing that you ate and u... |
Why do we feel more tired when we wake up than when we go to sleep? | The human body produces a chemical called 'Melatonin' when it approaches bedtime. This chemical makes you feel sleepy. When you wake up the Melatonin has run out and you feel groggy and sleepy because the melatonin hasn't completely worn off yet.It's kind of unrelated, but on my android phone I have an alarm called "Bi... |
What happens when an insuarence company's clients all claim insuarence at the same time? | It's also worth mentioing that during major disasters, the different levels of government may use public money to offer aid / assistance. I don't know details beyond that. |
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