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What's to stop me, if I had the money, to buy an island, a missile defence system and a private army? | There's nothing stopping you from doing the first three items on that list, but at the point you cross over into threatening a more established state's interests, you start putting yourself at risk. There are a number of micronations that are basically random people claiming territories which are then ignored or tolera... |
Why don't fellow Muslim rich nations like Saudi Arabia or Dubai just take the refugees? And why does it have to be Europe? | The top 3 nations by refugee population are Pakistan, Turkey, and Jordan. As for why Saudia Arabia and UAE don't have any, it's their decision. Nobody 'has' to take them in, it's just that most humans tend to try and help people who are suffering . |
Why does the western world (say USA and Western Europe) get involved in armed local conflicts all over the world even if it doesn't have to? | Many of the concepts here briefly touch on it but in political science, this is referred to as the Role of Hegemon. It works, but you basically hope that the entity in charge is sane and ethically acting and that they're the best when considering the alternative. 1) is a theory of international relations, rooted in res... |
If the US health care law is supposed to provide health care for people who cant afford it, then why is there a fee if you dont have health insurance? | Because it doesn't provide health care for anybody. It mandates that insurance companies sell to pretty much anybody, and mandates that people buy insurance. It provides some help for people that can't afford it but you have to buy it somehow.The ACA is often referred to as a "three-legged stool". There are three centr... |
Why are utility poles usually made from wood? | Wood is very cheap, plentiful, and is renewable. There's no problem finding trees of sufficient size to make a utility pole. And a utility pole, with the wood treated and properly installed, has an expected life of several decades. |
Why does identify theft hurt your credit score? If you can prove it wasn't you who took out credit in your name, etc. shouldn't that wipe it clean? | It can be repaired, but it can take a lot of time to prove it wasn't uou, to get people to ipdate their records, and for that to filter back through the credit reporting agencies.Their entire goal is to fuck you. Credit scores are so mysterious and crazy on purpose to confuse people. If people knew exactly how to have ... |
What does it really mean if I'm running a 64 bit or 32 bit version of an application? Is there an actual advantage of one of the other? | It refers to the size of the CPU's register, where it stores information that must be accessed quickly. A 64 bit computer has a larger register, and, as a general simplification, can therefore deal with bigger numbers. Larger registers allow for the use of more memory, and can sometimes use it more efficiently. Now, on... |
Why does WD40 pop balloons! Ive seen in a few videos when sprayed onto a balloon it will pop almost immediately | Because balloons are latex and latex breaks down in contact with oils. KIDS - don't use oil based lubricants with latex condoms. |
besides religious reasons, why is there so much violence and turmoil in the Middle East? | All wars are fought for a simple reason. There are unlimited wants in the world, and limited resources. All wars are fought over access to natural resources. You can dress them up in religion, nationalism, or whatever else, but they are all fought over land, access to waterways, minerals, or some other limited thing. T... |
Why haven't more companies adopted Apple's simplified product strategy? | I don't think there is a definitive answer to this, but I would say that its because its a lot harder to make a few products that can be everything to everyone, then it is to make a bunch of different products with niches that will appeal to everyone. Also consider that Apple hasn't always been so successful with this ... |
What is consciousness like for creatures with significantly smaller brains, such as insects and rodents? | Very simple organisms run like a programmed computer. For example, at the cellular level , consciousness probably doesn't exist. However, as you increase in complexity, you get consciousness. A lot of scientists think that consciousness stems from underlying biological processes, which has sparked the 'does free will e... |
Why isn't the motion of the Earth used to produce energy? | Two problems. 1. You can't take energy from the Earth's rotation without slowing said rotation. Conservation of energy, yo! 2. In order to use that energy, you need something that's stationary relative to the Earth. Such a thing can't exist at the surface, so it would need to be a satellite or something. At this point ... |
Why shouldn't I induce vomiting if I swallow drano? | Drano will irritate and possibly burn with contact, and is severely dangerous to the digestive tract, so if you already swallowed it and had it pass through part of your tract, you shouldn't make it come back up through vomiting. It will only cause twice the damage, better to drink water or something after it to wash i... |
If the government considers you an adult at 18, than why does federal financial aid deem you inelegible for assistance if you're parents make too much money? | I read somewhere that it's because financial aid is for kids with poor parents, not asshole parents.Not related to tuition, but if you're caught drinking under 21 you'll be charged with "minor in possession of alcohol" - a crime for which you'll be charged AS AN ADULT How fucking retarded is that? You're not responsibl... |
Why does the US allow spies from other countries to station in the US? | Officially, they don't, as others have mentioned. One reason, though, that you allow spies to remain in your country even when you know they're spies, is so that you can feed them deliberately wrong information, and track their contacts. If you knew that, for example, North Korea was working on a laser superweapon prog... |
The reason for the impending writers strike? What resolution are each side looking for? | I dunno the current situation, but what I do know if that a lot of series take a heavy hit in their viewer tolls before and after the 2008 strike, so lets hope it don't backfire that much and ruin our favorite shows tyhis time around |
If I was going to be dropped into freezing water, would I want my clothes on or not and why (purely from a heat perspective)? | It doesn't really matter in terms of just getting dropped in where this ends up mattering is when/if you're getting out of the water. Wet clothes are going to be a lot worse for you out of the water than being wet and throwing on some dry clothes. |
If taste is considered an evolutionary advantage, why do foods that are bad for you often taste good? | We're predisposed to like high calorie foods, as they provide more bang for the buck in terms of the energy they provide vs. the effort it takes to acquire food. For most of history, these foods were relatively scarce, but now we are able to mass produce foods that appeals to our baser instincts. So that problem isn't ... |
Why is some canned food immersed in liquid? | I have a related question: Why are wet beans not available in resealable bags? I'd like to be able to open a bag, microwave what I want and reseal the rest. But they're only available in cans, which apparently are not safe to store in the fridge after opening, so you have to get another container to put them in.In orde... |
why are there riots in ferguson that involve acts of vandalism that don't have anything to do with the actual issue? | Rioters and protesters aren't the same thing. In any large protest situation , there will always be people who are drawn to this simply because they want the opportunity to vandalize/loot/burn. The problem is that American police now use the actions of these few individuals as a pretext to violently attack the entire c... |
Gray hair - does stress cause it and can reducing stress return the gray back to normal? And, does pulling them really make more come back - HOW?? | I wonder if anyone can answer this question then, I've always had grey hairs as long as I can remember, I'm 25 at the moment and recently I noticed a familiar shimmering when I brushed my hair and pulled out the offending hair and from the root it was my natural very dark brown colour for about a 2 inches or so, then w... |
How exactly is the meat industry causing so much pollution? | Building meat - muscle - takes vast amounts of raw materials, and produces a lot of waste. The raw materials take energy - including the energy to produce fertilizers to help grow the food - and the waste has its own problems, like methane which is a powerful greenhouse gas itself. A useful comparison might be to think... |
Why does adderall calm down ADHD people and make non ADHD people hyperactive? | It doesn't calm anyone down, it allows them to focus on one task and not be distracted. And it doesn't make anyone hyperactive; it stimulates them, whether they have ADHD or not. |
Why is hydrogen peroxide not painful like other antiseptics (i.e. Alcohol and iodine)? | Get some of that peroxide in your eye, then tell us it's not painful. In case you're wondering how that can happen: contact lens cleaner. You rinse the lens multiple times after using peroxide, so there's only a miniscule amount left, and it can still hurt. |
Does NASA have an official protocol for if/when they find proof of extraterrestrial life? If so, what is it? | Step 1: Alcohol Step 2: 'House of God'-crawl Step 3: Many laughs. Step 4: Hide from deadly fundamentalists. Step 5: Hide from deadly aliens.The protocol is to let the aliens read redit for 10 min to get up to speed on important stuff!', "What do you mean? They already know about aliens. I'm sure the government is worki... |
Why can you remember all the lyrics to a song you haven't heard in years but can't remember test answers? | Probably similar to remembering the lines in your favorite movie if you've seen it 20 times ", 'Test answers are either made up of numbers/symbols or letters - these are read more often than heard , so remembering them is using a part of your brain called "the Visuospatial Scratch Pad" . Song lyrics are made up of numb... |
Why is crack-cocaine more addictive than cocaine? | According to this professor crack being more addictive than cocaine is a myth. It's a long talk but quite interesting. [Ted Talk] |
if animals don't care about mating with their brothers/sisters/close relatives, why do they not suffer inbreeding consequences like people do? | 50 animals is about the minimum you need to maintain a healthy level of genetic diversity, and this is only if the animals you're starting out with are all unrelated. Those rabbits are probably pretty screwed up genetically, though apparently not in any way that keeps them from doing well in an environment where they d... |
Why is global warming (climate change) a problem? | Rapid climate change can have significant impacts on the local ecology - imagine the climate of Southern Spain moving rapidly to Southern England. The species of plants and animals that live in these two environments is vastly different and it takes times for animals and especially plants to migrate. If they can't migr... |
Why does China care so much about Taiwan? Aren't there more productive uses of national power and influence? | Remember, that here in the west, we consider Taiwan to be a separate entity. China does not. It's still a part of their country as far as they're concerned. Besides the economic powerhouse that Taiwan is in that region , a general rule for a nation is you never give up territory if you can help it. Imagine a scenario w... |
What's a homeowners association, how is it legal, and why can't you just ignore their rules and live however you want in your own home? | Remember that buying property doesn't mean you can do what you want with it. There are zoning laws, so that only certain places can host commercial activities. There are usually town ordinances, so if you want to build a pool or even put up a fence you're supposed to get the correct permits and permissions. Even withou... |
Do the hand and finger poses I see in chinese martial arts films have any realistic/functional purpose or are they simply due to the stylistic aspects that martial arts has developed over time? | I don't have a full answer. But as an example. Some martial artists train with finger boards to strengthen their fingers. Poking someone in the right place with a finger can be really painful. Compared to a fist which has a larger surface area and so applies less pressure to a less specific area. Also some styles invol... |
Does when or what you eat matter for weight loss, or is stricly CICO? | CICO is all that matters at the metabolic level. However, you have to take human behaviour into account. It's easy to design a diet with a given number of calories, but another matter entirely to design one that you're actually *going to* stick to. You can eat whatever the hell you want whenever the hell you want, so l... |
- What advantage to wings provide animals that cannot fly? | Penguins? Dodo? Kiwis? Chickens? Plenty of birds have wings and don't fly, it seems like more of a remnant of when they were more air dwelling creatures :) |
Will certain Olympic sports reach a point where progress can't be made in them? | Not an Olympic sport, but consider horse racing. Maybe you've heard how hard it is to win the Triple Crown? We hadn't had one for 37 years until American Pharoah won this year. If we ran every horse at the same time that ever ran in those three races, Secretariat would win all three races. He holds the record for all t... |
Why do only white people have varying hair colors, while people with other skin colors typically only have one hair color? | I'll explain it like you're actually five: They don't. It's just the fact that you live in a place where that happens to be common. There are black people with blonde hair, asian people with blonde and red hair and so on. There are more black haired people, sure. But that is because it is more likely for you to have bl... |
Why are there no 120hz IPS monitors? | People have overclocked some ips to 120hz. However they just take longer to transition than other led types without image quality and life issues. edit- For the downvoters who clearly don't understand the issue._URL_0_ |
Why is testifying under oath still a thing when we all know that being under oath doesn't prevent people from lying to save themselves from being implicated in a crime? | It's not going to make every person be honest, but it's puts them on notice that they are under oath and there are penalties for lying. And you don't need to lie not to implicate yourself, at least in the US. You can assert your 5th amendment right and not answer.People can lie at any time for myriad reasons. Lying und... |
Since many of the clinical "decisions" made by doctors in the healthcare system are dictated by consensus guidelines, why can't many of the doctors be replaced by computer algorithms? | Has't anaesthesiology been nearly wiped out due to machines? Surgery has had mixed results, but I think its the same reason I dont have a self-driving car right now If a machine kills a person thats for some reason so much worse than a person doing it i think those things have to be perfect not just good before people ... |
Is it possible for an asteroid large enough to destroy the earth to travel at an undetectable speed, or would it burn up before hitting us? | Lots of uninformed comments in here. There are literally tons of asteroids in the solar system, and we find more all the time. Tracking their orbital path is extremely complex, and it's difficult to make predictions out far to the future. You're also talking about huge distances. We've had dangerous asteroids pass with... |
How can dogs hear sounds faster than we can? | Sound will travel at a consistent speed in that situation, he's probably reacting to the actual flash. |
Why does a youtube video load faster than a gif? | Youtube compresses the video and audio so that it can send you it faster. Your computer is running software that, at the cost of a bit of processor usage, is decompressing that and turning it back into a nice smooth video. Youtube also waits until you've downloaded enough of the video before it begins so it doesn't see... |
How can certain games advertised on Facebook (eg "league of angels") used copyrighted materials from games like league of legends and world of warcraft, without getting sued? | I've heard that a lot of these games are made and hosted outside the US where they're really hard to sue, so unless they're actually a threat they don't bother doing anything about them. |
How would a hyperloop logistically work? i.e. Safety at high velocity, boarding, exiting, etc. | Stuff You Should Know did a pretty good podcast covering the in's and out's of the Hyperloop. Pretty recently too, as of 03/23. Enjoy! [Hyperloop / SYSK] |
Why are tobacco and E-cig products banned or criticized for having fruit and dessert flavors because it's "marketing towards children", but alcohol is allowed to have similarly flavored products with no backlash? | They're fightning E-cigs in whole, since smoking E-sigs in general is cheaper than any other medical ways to quit smoking and sometimes is more effective. Many doctors just got from pharmaceptical companies who develop medical ways to quit smoking. At least it's like this in Russia, where i live.Imagine what would happ... |
Why do so many companies use outdated databases created in the 1980s such as as/400? Isn't there a free open source alternative? | Depending on the company's size, it can take a lot of time, resources and money to switch something as complex and important as a database. Unless the company has its own IT department, the people in charge are likely not going to know or care how old the software is, as long as it's not causing problems. |
Why don't English people have "of the" or "the" in their name like Europeans who have names like "Mario LaSelle" or "Marco de la Rosa" | Alfred of Rochester" were common: they were really designations rather than names, however, and truly meant that John was a Smith, Alfred came from Rochester. These are very, very common names in English. In short, we **do** have these surnames, they're just a little less obvious than they may be in other languages bec... |
How do e-cigarettes work, and are there any plausible justifications they are bad for you. | The smoke you get from e-cigs is from the vaporization of a liquid solution mainly consisting of propylene glycol and nicotine. Some people might confuse propylene glycol with ethylene glycol, which is the main ingredient in anti-freeze and is very toxic. This confusion might lead people to claim e-cigs are dangerous. ... |
Why is Radio still widely used for entertainment and communication? | It's well understood and reliable as a technology, propagates at the speed of light , doesn't require much physical infrastructure to transmit or receive, and there's really nothing to replace it in cars.because sometimes your eyes have to be somewhere else. also, you dont need a tv to listen to music |
How do we assure that there are enough key/keyhole combinations for doors to be safe? | A generic quickset door lock has ~7000 combinations. So the odds of your key working in a random door you try is about 1 in 7000. Those locks are very cheap, some can even be bypassed with a screwdriver and enough torque. Others can be picked with a bit of practice in just a few seconds. The part of the lock latches in... |
Why can we not look at an eclipse without some protection? | The Sun doesn't stop shining at your eyes, there's just a dull point in the stream of light coming from that giant loveable exploding ball of gas quickly transiting the sun's rays. Its like if you held a penny up to a lightbulb. Your eyes still can see the light that gets around the penny, you still see a shadow and yo... |
Why is it taboo to talk about someones income. | People tend to make assumptions and generalizations about someone's life and financial situation based solely on their income. If you withhold this piece of information, you don't need to deal with the imperceptions that come with it. For instance, I make well over 100k, and if a friend knows this, they may roll their ... |
Why doesn't someone in the 1% try to be a hero? | What exactly would they do? Throwing money at a problem doesn't always fix it, you just get a problem covered in money. |
Why don't anti-trust laws stop companies like Comcast and Verizon from monopolizing cable, internet and other services? | It's not illegal to BE a monopoly, only to abuse your position as that monopoly. If the monopoly exists due to legislative intervention, then it becomes even more difficult to show that a legally created monopoly is abusing its position.Because they are major political campaign contributors, hire lobbyists like Tom Whe... |
why are you only supposed to drive with one foot in an auto? | Because if you rest your left foot on the brake, you'll do two things - wear out your brakes, and confuse other drivers with your brake lights. |
Do fruit flies wander the earth aimlessly looking for ripe bananas or are their eggs in bananas and they hatch out? Seems like you go from 0 fruit flies to 100 in a day. | If there are SO MANY fruit flies..and they are harmless.. and aparently we eat a lot of their eggs with fruit - why don't we genetically enhance them to carry vaccine or something similar?", 'Fun fact: Brown spots on bananas glow under a black light. Fruit flys can see ultraviolet. Coincidence?', "Intresting fact. Did ... |
If there is so much research, how do scientists avoid finding something that has already been found? | We start with what we already know and ask us a question that hasn't been answered before. We read a lot about what other people currently do. Sometimes it's a race to discover something before another group does it, when both are on the right track. There are plenty of slightly redundant articles. The peer-review proc... |
How did simply browsing webpages infect your computer with malware? Can they still do that with today's modern browsers? | It's absolutely still a real threat, even with modern browsers. Or any modern software, really. Just recently a report was released that attackers could use a .rtf file to attack a computer though the EMAIL PREVIEW PANE of outlook 2010. seriously. the email preview pane. There's no telling what is going to come around ... |
Why did the SNES and PS1 end up with games that had better graphics and performence than the Genesis and Saturn even though on paper they had less CPU power. | The Saturn used two CPUs instead of one. Even today, software still has trouble working with more than one CPU . Multi-processor programming was not something many developers could do back then. Sega killed the Saturn the very day it launched by having a surprise launch, so surprising game developers and retailers didn... |
Why a document as important as the passport isn't digitized yet. Why is it still a paper booklet. | Because it's so important. You don't have a digitized driver's license or a digitized birth certificate, do you? And how would a digitized passport work, anyway? Would you have to bring a phone to display it on, or would airports have a shared database of all of the hundreds of millions of passports in the world? If th... |
ELI5: Why is the tachometer (rpm counter) so large in a car's dashboard (as large as the speed dial)? How is the information useful to the average driver? | It's mostly useless, even for a standard transmission. If all you drive is a standard, you'll end up shifting based on sound, feel, and perception than by looking at the tach. Normal street legal cars have rev-limiters, so it's difficult to overshoot on accident, even on a down shift. For racing, it's a visual queue pr... |
How does this whole net neutrality thing affect non-Americans like me? | America and Australasia are many times used as testing grounds for corporate practices that spread to rest of the world. Right now your on Reddit a website made in America, along with countless others like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. All were small websites with limited funds at one point. Could these websites hav... |
- Why aren't people who are caught lying under oath on courtroom TV shows arrested? | On a similar note, what about actual jury trials where a witness's testimony directly conflicts with the verdict? Wouldn't that mean the jury decided that the witness was not telling the truth? |
What is going on inside of us, when shortly after we eat, diarrhea strikes? | It's watery because your gut cells change their balance of salts causing water to leave the cells and enter the digestive tract. Some microbes such as cholera also cause this imbalance |
How can I see so clearly at night while my high-resolution cameras record such a miserable and grainy picture? | Night vision in humans is a biological process, in which our eyes can adapt to low-light conditions. In a nutshell, our eyes become more sensitive to light in the darkness. We are still pretty shit compared to actual night predators, but it does the trick. Cameras are trying to do the same thing a human eye does, but u... |
How can President Obama nominate himself to become a Supreme Justice? | There is no constitutionally reason why a president couldn't nominate themselves or even serve both roles simultaneously. It would be highly irregular, though, and likely not garner much support. |
How do padlock companies make so many locks, yet ensure that your key only opens your lock? | I know until the mid 90’s some car manufacturers had a really small set of unique locks. In the early 80’s I left the mall and walked to my car, got in and noticed it was all different . My key had opened a car that looked like mine. I quickly left and relocked it. My car was a few spots down. In high school, I stopped... |
Audio Bit Depth (16 bit, 24 bit, etc.) | The bit-depth says how many steps are between 'no sound' and 'full amp'. With 16 bit you have about 65000 steps and with 24 bits you have about 16 million. Or, the more bits, the closer the digital sound to the original. However, sampling frequency is also highly important to replicate the original sound. |
Why do Republicans care so much about states' rights? | My cynical view:If you're a corporation, you've got to love the states' rights movement. Let's say that all pollution regulation is controlled by individual states as opposed to the federal government. Businesses are better able to exert their influence to decrease pollution regulations by threatening to send jobs to o... |
Why are vehicles built that under and/or oversteer? | There's no such thing as generic understeer or oversteer. When people say a car has understeer what they really mean is that it has understeer *under certain conditions* - usually going fast round a track. Generally speaking said car probably hasn't been designed for those conditions - it's been designed for going to t... |
Why do we need to eat so often (2 to 3 meals a day) when we can survive up to 2 weeks without food? | You can survive 2 weeks without food because your 3 square meals a day has provided you with enough extra fat/muscle to burn off if you were forced to fast. Yes, you can survive without food for 2 weeks, but you can't survive very well, because as you starve, you are in effect eating yourself from the inside as your bo... |
In cartoons, humans are frozen and through some sort of heat source, are able to unfreeze themselves and go back to normal. Is this realistically possible? What happens on the molecular level? | It's not realistic. When the water in your body freezes, it freezes into sharp ice crystals that penetrate through cells and cause massive tissue damage. This is what happens in frost bite. It is possible to prevent these ice crystals from forming. It's a process called vitrification, but doing it to people requires re... |
How does Al Queda work | The other two guys have good info, but Il add that Al Queada actually is several different loosely related cells. There's Al Quaeda in the Arabian Pennensula, the one you usually hear about in the news, and the one responsible for 9/11. They are usually based in Yemen or Saudi Arabia, although this cell has been pretty... |
Why do some tracks on CDs have "negative time" before the actual track starts playing at 0:00? | So they can hide things like they did on that Limp Bizkit album. It makes you listen to the whole thing. If you skip to a track, you can't hear all of it!", 'So you have time to hit play and then lay on your bed face up and start contemplating what is like to live in 1999 before the music starts playingSongs are usuall... |
Why do some countries ask for religion on the census? | Religion is important to people in many ways: it influences what they believe, how they behave and how they are organized. Like tracking country of origin and native language, tracking religion can show the composition of communities changing, Even in countries with freedom of religion this can be of interest to the go... |
Why is living with your parents seen as taboo in the USA and Britain, but not in most of the world? | As a Brit, I don't think it's seen as taboo??? Many people do it, even more so recently due to the economy. |
computer browser adblockers are amazing yet every single phone adblocker can't do anything, whys that | I use dolphin browser with a dolphin adblock plug-in. It is able to block most ads and doesn't not compromise the performance of the phone. |
What ACTUALLY happens when we die? | Anybody that would know isn't in a position to tell us, but I suppose the best answer would be that you go back to where you were before you were born. |
Why do humans have such a strong desire to sleep under a blanket or sheet even when it is hot? | I've found it's the only thing that shuts up my 'aware of everything around me' sensations like the small hairs on your skin reacting to the air and such. |
How can an IQ test accurately measure people with very high IQs? Wouldn't the test have to be created by the most intelligent people on the planet to be useful? | No. For the same reason that the 40 yard dash as a measure of sprinting ability doesn't need to be developed by the fastest person in the world. IQ tests consist of things like presenting a task to complete and timing it - then comparing those times to what time it takes the average person. |
How do we know North Korea is bad? | I would think that some people from North Korea think they are the good guys and that the rest of the world is bad. A better approach would be asking how North Korea is morally good or ethically good. Intrinsically, as human being, we should all have this gut feeling of good/bad towards certain things and that is the d... |
Why is there a jewish homeland but no christian or arab homeland? | Not the most knowledgable person to answer but here's my two cents. The Jews that were freed from Egypt by Moses all settled in the promised land of Israel. That was now a place that was 100% Jewish and I think the only place with Jews at the time. If I'm correct about being the only place where the Jewish religion was... |
Why can't we grow ivory and rhino horn (hair) in vats using stem cell technology? | Because the techniques haven't been perfected yet. It's only a matter of time. Same for leather, fur, hooves, and any other parts we want. |
Why does the autoban have no speed limit? | It kinda does, if you are going 300 KM/h and cause an accident you can get into seriosu trouble, so its like not having food safety standards but if someone gets sick you're in trouble. |
Why do we lie to children about Santa Claus & the Easter Bunny? | Because it's amusing to adults to tell tall tales about magic and wonder. It's especially amusing when we can get someone to believe it. Especially someone so cute and full of wonder and whimsey as a small kid. Who happen to like magical tales of fantasy. Which makes them happy, which makes us happy. It's considered a ... |
Why do our Wisdom Teeth all of a sudden decide to come through? | Permanent tooth buds start forming shortly after birth for many teeth. Permanent 1st molars included. Our molars follow a pattern of eruption of 6 years.1st molar - age 62nd molar - age 123rd molar age 18Pain is purely due to the fact that either they form at an angle due to formation or growth of oneself or most likel... |
Why do some webpages not allow me to use the "go back one page button?" | Usually it's because you clicked a link that went to a webpage that immediately redirected you to the page you were looking for. When you try to click back it only goes one page back which just so happens to be the redirect page, redirecting you right back to the page you were on. When you spam back you can sometimes h... |
Why do I get tired of eating the same food over and over again? | I'm not an expert, but I would think it's because your body needs a range of different nutrients. When you eat the same thing for an extended period of time, you're missing out on some nutrients that you would normally get in a well balanced diet. Your body craves these nutrients, so you crave different foods. It could... |
How developing nation's can afford to have so many fans at World Cup Matches | It's all business. The royalty/big businessmen in these countries buy tickets for all of their clients/friends/whatever as a way to build business relationships/show off |
If I had a stick 1 lightyear long and I moved it, would the other end instantly move? | If you do something to one end of a stick that long, you'll just start a compression or bending wave. The wave will propagate through the stick, at speeds closer to the speed of sound than the speed of light. Think of it like a long Slinky, because anything's flexible at that sort of giant scale.Any force would move th... |
ELIM How the Republican party went from abolishing slavery to not being able to get the minority vote | The Republican party stopped being a party consistently about personal liberty and limited government, and instead, became a party about aggravating racial and religious tensions. It's had the predictable effect that they no longer have ideological positions which reasonable people can support, and instead, have devolv... |
Let's say that I put in my Will that no one can be sentenced to death if they murder me. Would my murderer then have legal protection? | A criminal trial is not on behalf of the specific person harmed by a crime, it is on behalf of The State. Put another way, [the prosecutor isn't your lawyer]. A victim in a criminal case cannot have charges dismissed. Why?1) Everyone who owns, sells, makes, or repairs shiny things is been harmed by a string of thefts o... |
If there are infinite combinations of decimals (1.10, 1.11, 1.12 etc), why is there only equal and finite space between two integers? | The distance between 1 and 2 is 1. The distance between 1 and 1.5 is 0.5. As you get into the smaller and smaller increments, the distance gets smaller and smaller. If you add up the infinitely small distance between the decimals an infinite number of times, you get 1. Mathematically, it's basically 1/infty X infty/1. ... |
why is it that my newborn kitten can learn to use the litter box in a day but my little brother poops in his pants till he is 2? | Humans tend to be born before they are ready to be, in a sense. Their brain isn't ready to develop, and are essentially born before the stage an animal is typically born in.The reason humans develop slower is because we have bigger brains. Source: Vsauce', "Cats cover their poop so predators don't smell it.I read that ... |
What causes the falling sensation when you are about to go to sleep? | I did a sleep experiment once and the scientists there said they didn't know what it was but thought it might be a sudden drop in blood pressure. |
Is it possible to give humans animalistic traits through gene splicing? How would they manifest? | It's possible to give humans animal traits through method acting. Lots of martial arts comes from imitating animals |
Why can you buy very cheap reading glasses in shops but there is no cheap equivalent for those with short-sight? | I'm near sighted and I just wanted to pop in and say that one of the best and most memorable moments in my life was the first time I stepped outside with my new glasses. The world was suddenly in focus! I also have notice that some glasses for friends who are near sighted help me a little but I have yet to find someone... |
What is a deaf persons stream of consciousness like? | If I think about talking to somebody or talking to myself, it's in sign language.. If im writing something I think like I'm typing in my head.. General thinking.. Could be words, sign languages, numbers, writing like im typing, or like playing a video in my head", 'I took ASL for a semester. My teacher told us of an ex... |
Why can't we see underwater? | Water and air have a different [refractive index] than each other. This means that light travels through them at slightly different speeds, or effectively, light bends at a predictable angle when it crosses between them. That [pencil in water] experiment shows this well. Long story short, our eyes adapted to see in air... |
Why are schools and other organizations pushing for more students to pursue the "skilled trades" as their career path? | As there are more people, there is always going to be a growing need for plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, electricians, security, etc. Which then means that there need to be more people trained in those skills to enter those positions. It's great if everyone had a university education, the population as a whole would b... |
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