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Why are some Republican candidates like Lyndsay Graham still running when they clearly have no chance of securing the primary? | Even if a candidate's chances aren't very good, they still benefit from running. If they have an issue they care about, it's a great way to get a discussion started about it, for instance.[Sometimes, you can make more money with a flop than a hit!] |
Why do black and white movies from the 40s and 50s look better than color movies from the 70s and 80s? | I've been told before that 1980s film stocks look worse than most other color film stocks because the EPA forced Kodak to change the chemical composition of their film for environmental reasons. I've heard similar conjectures about why Kodak's recently discontinued Vision 2 stock performs better than Vision 3. But this... |
How come most people in America are so pissed with their ISP's or cable providers? | We don't have choices in providers, so if you want a service, you have to go with asshole company A, that does nothing as far as customer service, and the bills are outrageous.Isn't it something like Here in the UK BT owned all the "telephone" lines and the then up and coming BB providers paid a fee to rent them and no... |
why is it so easy for rich people to evade taxes? Don't governments have and incentive to get that money? | I also feel if the fed were to be too zealous in acquiring the hidden funds from the rich, the rich could just permanently relocate if they wanted to. At which point our gov wouldn't have any jurisdiction over their income, which we don't want.There are a while range of loopholes, but to exploit them is generally a fai... |
Why does the Syrian and Ukrainian situation call for US/EUs intervention, but the North Korean and Chinese, does not? | The West wants intervention in Syria to depose of the Assad government. This would be a large blow to the Iranians, who depend on Assad to bring weapons into Lebanon, and continue the encirclement of the country by Western friendly government. Stopping human rights violations is just icing on the cake, not a primary mo... |
How is VICE able to do so many illegal things? | An important thing to note, for all of you who are talking about VICE's trips to Ukraine, Lebanon and Iraq, VICE and VICE News while owned by the same media corporation operate very very differently. It's kind of like the difference between FOX and FOX News. |
If feminism is equality between man and women why do so many people resent it? | There's already a term for equality between men and women . It's called Egalitarianism. By its nature, feminism focuses solely on problems facing women while generally ignoring problems facing men. While feminists focus on the wage gap, rape culture and patriarchy, they don't seem to be concerned with male suicide rate... |
Why is gold valuable? Especially during the Gold Rush. Can it be used for something? | It's scarce, easily identifiable, and can't be easily forged so it functions as currency. Having something everyone values that you can carry in your pocket has a huge amount of practical value. |
Why do people like music that invokes negative emotion? | It's like eating spicy food like hot peppers. It actually causes pain, but it makes the brain release chemicals that make it feel good. |
Are there physiological consequences to cannibalism? | Normally, no. If the flesh is infected with disease, then it spreads very easily. Long term cannibalism can also lead to certain diseases. Eating human brains also leads to a disease that almost turns you into a zombie. It's like mad cow disease for people. _URL_0_ |
If the core of Earth is heated by pressure buildup due to gravity, doesn't that violate conservation of energy? | There are several things that contribute to the Earth's interior heating. - Radioactive decay of the elements in the mantle might be the biggest factor. Other comments here explain this in better detail.- heating from all the friction produced by the Earth getting slightly stretched and squeezed in different directions... |
What is going on with Australia and their crazy rules and how are they passing? | If someone holds duel citizenship and they've been convicted of a terrorist offence, they can have their citizenship revoked. Which seems like a pretty light punishment for what is essentially treason. As for the detention centres, immigrants who arrive illegally in Australia by boat have been transported to Naru to be... |
How come America invades/suppresses international threats but never does anything about North Korea? | > invades/suppresses international threats Hahahah. What, are you, like, literally 5 or something? The US invades other countries only if it would serve their economic interests, not because they're these heroic GI Joe force like you seem to believe |
Why is it that everyone in Firefly swears in Mandarin, as well as it being the language used most frequently in writing, but no one actually speaks it conversationally? | The real-world answer is that since the show was made for an English-speaking audience it would be counter-productive to have large portions of dialog in another language . There isn't really an in-universe explanation for it. Supposedly Chinese and American cultures were supposed to have merged fairly evenly in the Fi... |
Muslims don't eat pork because they claim it's "dirty", is there any proof that pork is unsafe to eat? | It's more accurate to say that Muslims don't eat pork because the Qur'an tells them not to. That's all the reason they need. Some believe that Abrahamic religions that prohibit pork do so because pigs are economically and ecologically expensive to keep in the Middle East, but there's no direct, scientific reason.The ea... |
Why/how do our eyes "lose focus" and get blurry? What's happening? | Additional question: is there any significant difference for those who can make their eyes lose focus willingly? I know a few people who are able to do this, and I'm quite curious in what exactly is going on!", 'To some extent it is muscular and when you get tired, so your eye controlling muscle will slack or need a mo... |
How are we sure that humans won't have adverse effects from things like WiFi, wireless charging, phone signals and other technology of that nature? | Non-ionising radiation has no effect on living organic tissue. Even the most sensitive cells like the ones pigeons use as a biological compass. This is why Tesla kept pidgeons. To be sure even they weren't affected by his experiments. The idea that e-smog causes headaches in people is ridiculous, there's something else... |
Why do I have to take the lids off plastic bottles before putting them in the recycling? They lids are made of plastic too, right? | Neither of the two competing local trash pickup companies recycles anything. But I always remove caps from plastic bottles before putting them in the bin. I have housemates who don't and it ticks me off. Uncapped bottles can be squashed to make room for more trash, capped ones can't unless you have an industrial hydrau... |
Why do all these businesses open up during income tax season but you have online websites that do it for free? | The businesses are usually there to help people with complex finances, rather than some individual just filing the return for their salary. It's easy to file a tax return with a W2 or something, but it gets a lot more complex if you have business expenses, rental income, or various other complicating factors. |
Why are the blades on modern energy windmills so narrow? | The blades are made to catch the wind [like an airplane wing] They are also meant to be light and strong. They don't need to be fat and heavy like the ones in Holland.Blades can now change their shape to balance the speed of the wind they are in with the optimal speed to generate electricity. Those giant sails you thin... |
Why isn't the "truth serum" used more often, to the point were waterboarding exists? | Truth serum isn't real dude. It turns out drugs that may cause people to spill information ALSO cause people to spill fake information or even total nonsense.The truth serum as you might imagine it does not exist. There are multiple drugs that inhibits the "filter" in your brain that controls what you want to say. One ... |
Sleep paralysis and why it happens. | Ive had this..but a little different. I woke up turned over onto my back and was immediately pushed into the bed so hard that the pillow s were coming around the sides of my face..I could move my feet but thats all..I could see a shadowy figure on my chest it felt like it was enormous. .I couldn't breathe or scream..an... |
Why is it bad to shave against the grain? | First of all go to r/wicked_edge Then, your problem isn't shaving against the grain it is your process. Let your beard grow out and look to see which way the grain grows throughout your face an neck. Next time you shave start by shaving with the grain to remove the bulk of whiskers. Then, shave across the grain to furt... |
so many people hate waking up early, why do most office jobs require an early start time? | Businesses work with other businesses, so they all need a time where they can work with each other. And families have kids to take to school and other morning activities to handle, so it's tough to change things on that end, and then dinner and such at the back end. |
Why is it easier to take a nap in the day than sleep at night? | Lots of factors come into play.. Off the top of my head, I'd probably say you watch TV/use your smartphone a lot before bed. Am I right? |
How are we able to distinguish between loud sounds that are far away and quieter sounds that are nearby? | Also relevant are the frequencies of the sound. Higher frequencies will dissipate more quickly than lower sound. That's one reason why thunder cracks when it is close and rumbles when distant. Firecrackers close by will have more of the sizzle than those far away. |
What is the point of a boomerang as a weapon? | A weapon style boomerang wouldn't be design to return at all it would just be for throwing and hitting the target + you wouldn't want it to return that could be deadly. |
the US military has roughly 150,000 people stationed in just 5 "friendly" countries (UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, S. Korea). What do they actually do there? | > What value do the 50,000 US soldiers in Germany provide to Germany? Fat stacks of cash. No seriously, the soldiers and airmen here spend quite a bit of money off-base, significantly contributing to the German economy. There are also a significant number of Germans who work on-base, get paid by the US government, then... |
Why do humans have to use antibacterial hand soap and cover their mouths when they cough, but every other animal on the planet gets by just fine licking each other on the face? | Before people discovered how to stop germs, 1 in 6 babies would die before their first birthday. People figuratively rolled a die to see if their child would live. If the child did survive, it would only live to be 35 or maybe 40 on average. Now the average person lives to be 80 years old. Animals are ok with high infa... |
How is it possible to release games with terrible performance issues on day one? Wouldn't this be caught during pre-release testing? | Because the public does more testing in 24 hours than a company can ever do. 1 million games sold times 1 hour of play per sale on average adds up to a million hours of play on day 1. To get the same amount of testing done in a month, the company would have to have over 6000 testers playing the game full time ; and at ... |
In the era of peak oil; how and why are oil prices currently plummeting? | Because we're not at peak oil. Part of the reason for the drop in prices is that production is higher than previously expected. Another part of it is that OPEC, who have historically restricted supply artificially, are not doing so right now, in hopes that there will be less development in North America. |
How do they find out the information that goes on Nutrition Facts labels? | I work in the food industry as a food technologist.It's usually calculated from the ingoing ingredients, the nutritional information for which is received from the supplier's specifications. You sum up the nutritional contribution from all the ingoing ingredients depending on their proportion in the food. This is usual... |
Why is earths core molten? What keeps it warm? Where does the energy for the heat come from? | Is there a big gap of space between the molten core and the outer layer of bedrock like in that one movie where they try to restart Earth's core who's name escapes me at this moment?", 'This is one of those questions, that I never thought to ask, but when you see it: WTF? How did I never think of this, even though it i... |
Why do older video games look so angular, like they were pasting faces on the blocks of wood? What changed? | Every surface of all objects in a video game takes processing power to render. A cube only has 6 surfaces so it's pretty easy. The smoother and rounder you want something to appear the more sides it has and the more processing power it needs. That's why background objects like trees are often just two intersecting flat... |
If modern man has been around for 50,000 years, why have we only begun to scientifically progress over the last 2000 years or so? | 2000 years ago there were sophisticated empires with written language, weapons, modes of transportation, public works, art, clothing, agriculture, domesticated animals, science, and philosophy. It is very wrong to believe that scientific progress is only 2000 years old. It's as old as humanity. The best innovations see... |
Why don't they sound proof the master bedroom in most houses, for obvious privacy and keeping the innocence of their kids? | It's extremely expensive. The other points about not being able to hear stuff outside the room are secondary. To *completely* soundproof a moderately sized bedroom, you're easily talking $10,000-15,000 or more. Median home price in the US is less than 200k. No sane home builder is going to sink 15k into a house for a f... |
How did early humans, or those part of small tribes and villages, survive genetic disorders of inbreeding and did not become extinct? | Severe inbreeding doesn't cause death. Just a higher chance that one bacteria or virus could kill off more in the group because of similar genetics. Most of the cheetahs in the wild now are almost all genetically identical to one another. They're still alive and breeding - just at a very high risk of disease. What kill... |
What ist the deal with this “alternative facts“ thing everyone is talking about? What is it and where did it come from? | It is the inability to be data driven, or scientific. Example fact: Climate change is real, and it's linked largely to consumption of fossil fuels and waste. Example alternative fact: No it's not.Kellyanne Conway's use of the term "alternate facts" in an interview with Chuck Todd is an indication that the fascist purer... |
How come Germany is so anti-nuclear? | Personally, I am more concerned with climate change than with nuclear power risks, but I am in a stark minority. I will try to give an explanation: We Germans treat nuclear risk with the same sanity the US deals with Ebola. I'm not really sure because I was really young at that time, but I think the anti-nuclear moveme... |
What is to stop students from applying for student loans and then going bankrupt after they're done school? | It used to be an option but that loophole was closed. Bankruptcy doesn't make all debt magically disappear. Some types of debt are immune to bankruptcy, student debt is one of them. |
Why are debits instantaneous, but refunds take several days to show up? | All transactions take that long to process. But banks immediately debit the amount so you don't overspend. When a business takes payment it takes the same amount of time to come through into the business' account, likewise when a business issues a refund it may be debited immediately from the business account. |
how is the quality of a projector measured? in resolution, like other displays? do projectors even have a resolution? | Resolution will give you a good idea of the general picture quality, but you'll also want to pay attention to the lumens and color quality. |
Whenever psychology is mentioned, usually so too is Freud. Was he right about everything? | No. Freud was wrong about a LOT of things. His ideas just stand out because they were very popular at the time and they laid the ground work for a lot of research/theory we have continued to build on. Example: One of Freud's big ideas was the existence of the Id, Ego and Superego . The concept of those structures laid ... |
Why do banks have the worst hours for people who work 9 to 5? | You aren't the bank's source of income. People who take out loans are. They make time for loan buyers. |
Why do teens seem to get accidentally pregnant all the time; but many couples struggle to have a kid without planning for it? | Just think how many teens *fail* to get pregnant! Actually, fertility drops quite rapidly with age, and the number of miscarriages rises, so give how sexually active teens are - and how careless they can be, it's no surprise that they get caught out all too often. |
Is it possible to create a second internet for people fed up with the hijacking of internet freedom by corporations and governments? | You're mixing up a couple of different concepts - a common issue. The Internet as we know it is a specific set of computers that talk to each other with a particular set of protocols. It is the most broadly accessible internetworks but large companies and governments have run networks separate from 'the Internet'. The ... |
How does hacking still happen if security has been enforced so much in today's technology? | Security is about balancing Conveniance with Safety. As soon as you allow someone access to a computer, you are opening a whole which may have the posibility for an unauthorised person to access the same computer. One of the most common forms of hacking is social engineering, which almost completely bypasses any cyber ... |
When extremely sleepy (like in lectures), why does falling asleep for even a few minutes provide a dramatic improvement in your awakeness? | It's the jolt of adrenaline, nothing more. The armchair science in this thread is pretty incredible though.When you're abruptly woken up especially in a public setting, you'll get a surge of adrenaline, anxiety over people looking at you, potential for the professor to make an example of you, ect. Don't get this confus... |
How is drowning not painful? | As someone who has nearly drown, it was one of the worst feelings i've ever had. I didn't inhale water but broke the surface literally as my body made me open my mouth. It was awful.drowning is extreamly painful, one of the worst ways to goAs a grownup who almost drowned as a child, I concur with the stereotype. The fi... |
If a^2=b^2+c^2, shouldn't a=b+c? | No. What this would mean is that *b*^2 + *c*^2 = ^2 . This isn't true, as we see with actual numbers, such as 2 and 3. 2^2 + 3^2 = 4 + 9 = 13, which is not ^2 = 5^2 = 25. The reason is that if you foil out ^2 , you get = *b*^2 + 2*bc* + *c*^2 . |
If you burn more calories than you take in, how do you manage to remain alive? | To go with your car analogy, think of the way plug-in hybrids work. You plug it in and it charges the battery. As you drive, it uses the energy stored in that battery. But if the battery drains, it switches to the gas fuel stored in reserve. Once you plug it back in, it switches back to battery power. If you're running... |
Why are anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen a good idea when my body's natural response is to swell? | I'm not sure if this helps, but think of it this way - If the bodies natural response to certain situations is pain, why do we use painkillers? I could be totally wrong, but I'm assuming we try to releive the swelling because its uncomfortable. |
Why does our body react to being sick or having allergies by blocking up our main means of breathing? | So I've got a severe allergy, resulting in asphyxiation, the body where there is not enough blood to fill all of them. |
Why do men always have to pee after sex/masturbation? | First of all, it's not true. Second, I really doubt a five year old would ever ask this. |
Why do ovens have their heating element on the bottom, wouldn't it make more sense for it to be on the top so it could brown the food? | Most ovens have that as well, called the 'broiler.' It is only used for certain things. Direct exposure to the element like that tend to dry food out very quickly. Versus a lower element, which heats more evenly through convection. |
Why do schools insist on teaching subjects that many students will never use in their daily life? | The purpose of schools **isn't** to teach you mathematics, history, etc. The purpose of schools is to teach you [a] how to learn and [b] some of the core skills from those subjects. The amount of actual history you learn in school is clearly pointless if you pursue a career in history. But the understanding that knowle... |
why do news anchors/cameramen still use bulky shoulder mount cameras when camera technology has advanced so far with things like gopros and their video quality? | Those bulky cameras also have a lot more features that smaller cameras don't always have, eg. The ability to have 4 different audio channels, SDI out for live hits, dedicated toggles/switches/buttons that allow the operator to quickly adjust settings on the fly. They are also fairly robust and hold up better to abuse w... |
Why is face-protecting armor never used in battles? | It's a weight:protection game Like everything, situation is important- if guys are going out for extended patrols, then they will want something lighter that covers their major organs. They will usually wear a helmet too, but modern helmets won't stop a bullet, they'll only stop shrapnel. The more protection a soldier ... |
Why do rockets take off straight up instead of using lift like planes? | Actually, very little fuel is used to get a rocket moving upwards. Almost all of that fuel is dedicated to getting it moving sideways. You can get to space by getting a plane going really fast, and then pointing up, but you won't stay there long. To get into an orbit, you need to be moving at about 8km/s, or 18000 mph,... |
Why are public toilet seats "U" shaped, but all residential seats are "O" shaped? | I've read that U-shaped seats are easier to clean. Many of them actually are tilted towards the center so that the pee fall in and is easier to clean. |
Why did Google become the most used search engine? | Back in the day, you had Yahoo, Excite, and meta-searches like Dogpile and others - but when Google arrived, it was faster, cleaner, less packed with categories and news and crap you didn't want to see. This is annoying now - but back when Google first launched, most of us were on really slow connections, so even less ... |
What was in wallets before plastic cards? | I was thinking about this very question recently **should have posted it**. I used to carry pictures of my high school friends, my relatives, cash, both, notes, a mini address book, a mini calendar.Believe me, with the advent of the smart phone ..well, let's just say, I'd be lost with out it.What everyone else is sayin... |
What is going on in our brain while we're thinking? What is the "voice" we hear while doing so and what are deaf people hear? | I had always wondered about this. I have mini arguments with myself and always hear myself when I read or type. I found that the only times I don't hear myself think are when I play music, play a video game, or play sports. So it's really interesting to actually have an answer. |
How do F1, NASCAR, and other races keep everyone in their place when there is a wreck and a car has a chance to get fixed and make it back into the lineup? | > Do they keep track of how far away everyone was from one another? They don't. When a race gets yellow flagged in NASCAR the Pace Car goes onto the track and everyone stacks up behind it in whatever order they were in when the flag came out. The order is constantly maintained by scoring officials, so if the driver can... |
What is a 'string' in programming? | reddit" are all examples of strings. Even "12345" could be considered a string, if specified correctly. Typically, programmers must enclose strings in quotation marks for the data to recognized as a string and not a number or variable name. Some language examples of strings: Objective CNSString *string = @"An Objective... |
How do trees get rings that can tell us their age? | There are standard, accepted approximate formulas for guessing a tree's age based on its circumference. See _URL_1_and _URL_0_ |
How do developers name the versions of their product? is there any guidelines that a certain number/degree of significant changes must me made to go Firefox v48 to v49? | There really isn't any hard and fast rules. Generally speaking if there are major enhancements or backwards compatibility break changes make a major version number change. Or if you are in a battle with another software house with similar products match their version number or be slightly ahead . |
What happens if you get sued for a lot of money, but you don't have any? | There's a legal mechanism called bankruptcy you can file for, if your what you owe is greater than what you own. You have to sell everything you own, above exemption amounts that usually let you keep your house/car etc., to pay your creditors. Then it becomes difficult for you to get credit for 7 years or so but that j... |
Why is it socially acceptable for women to "experiment" with other women but not socially acceptable for men to do the same thing? | Because girls doing it with other girls reinforce their feminity, while guys doing it with other guys doesn't make them look more manly", 'i 've ALWAYS thought this was weird. a woman can be "curious" but still straight but the minute a man wants to try it out he is instantly completely gay?', "Ironically, the male gen... |
What's so difficult about creating cross-console game servers? | There's nothing difficult about it the console makers purposely prevent game makers from making games that work with the other system because they are competing platforms. They want you to buy their system and not the competition's and this is one of the major ways to make that happen. If you and your friends want to p... |
Why is Scotland having a second referendum vote? Why does it seem like some people view the possibility of Scottish independence as a bad thing, rather than a good thing? | I think they'd like to have one but need agreement by the British parliament to hold it. Looks like a majority of them want to stay in the EU. |
How do those satirical interview on The Daily Show work? | I'm convinced that some politicians, particularly around election time, will go on The Colbert Report knowing they're going to be satirized, but still do it anyway just to get even a little exposure to Colbert's elusive young adult market. |
How do animated movies stay up to date when they take multiple years to complete? | That's why you don't generally see 'photorealstic' animation in animated movies. You see a few seconds of them here and there in mega-budget action movies like pirates of the carribian, but not in entierly animated movies. ) 2) It's much *MUCH* cheaper and most people think it looks better to use stylized art forms rat... |
What can Obama do before he leaves the presidency? | There ain't much he can do without the authority of Congress at the moment, particularly given the lack of time between now and January. One thing he might be able to do is appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, but he would have to do that during a Senate recess. Fortunately for him, there is one recess coming ... |
What has happened to cloning since Dolly the sheep and aren't we cloning Pandas and other endangered species out of extinction? | The thing about endangered species is that the vast majority of them is not endangered because they aren't breeding. Even pandas breed well in the wild . The problem that endangers these species is often poaching and loss of habitat; two problems that wouldn't be solved by cloning, and one of those would actually be ma... |
Why do antiperspirants contain aluminum? How does a heavy metal keep you dry? | Keep in mind it is NOT metallic Aluminum, it is chemical compounds that contain Aluminum. Raw Sodium or pure Chlorine will kill you but *Sodium Chloride* is regular table salt. Regular salt does not explode when it's wet, does it? Aluminum can be dangerous in high levels, but it is far, far less dangerous than metals l... |
Why are all digital images rectangular? | In design, it's much simpler to lay things out on a spread when they are all rectangular. Normally designers lay things out using a grid insuring things are laid out with even spacing, odd shapes often make this task much more difficult. |
Reddit, as an international website, why are British news sources so often quoted in news links? | i'm American and the British news ***IS*** international ", 'Because the BBC is typically the least biased news source, especially when it comes to world news. It is basically on a tier of its own, although Al Jazeera is typically better for middle-eastern news, and PBS/NPR are best for US storiesBecause British news s... |
If you run a business by yourself and you hire an employee, is their income being taken out of your income? | Depends how the business is set up. For a simple business, there is no distinction between the business's money and the owner's money. If you hired someone, it would work pretty much as you describe. For more complex businesses, you typically set up some kind of corporation. It is a legal entity that can own property a... |
Why are we spending so many resources to try and live in space, but not the ocean? | They're not mutually exclusive endeavors. Plenty of research is still ongoing about the ocean. The thing about getting to Mars is about trying to remove complete dependency on Earth. If we screw things up here too bad, that is it, we are obliterated. In the short term it would be highly beneficial for us to have coloni... |
Why do computers have a discrete GPU instead of one very powerful CPU which performs all the necessary calculations? | The need for powerful graphics is variable from user to user. Some folks don't need a powerful graphics card and some do. So instead of taking up room in the CPU with graphics processing, it's a separate processor so that users can decide how much they want to spend on graphics processing. |
Why do we make syrup from maple sap, but not other types of tree sap? | We do. Black walnut syrup was pretty common where I grew up. Maple, walnut, birch and several other varieties are tapped for their sap to make syrup. I imagine the reason you don't find cherry or apple tree syrup is because the trees either don't produce enough sap or the syrup tastes terrible. |
Why is it that if I have a low interest rate, financing a house or a car would be a much better option than buying it out in full with cash? | This **only** makes sense if you actually take the dollars you would spend paying it off and investing them into your future instead. If you aren't actually going to increase your retirement contributions in the amount of the difference, it's better to pay off the loan. I actually came up with a spreadsheet recently to... |
Why are wild animals moving into cities in recent years? | Depends what you mean by 'moving in' For some creatures urban structures make for a better habithat then what they could find in nature with a more available food source Such as many breeds of falcon For some it's the removal of their habitat for housing and farm land forcing them to wander further and further for food... |
can someone explain einsteins theory of relativity thats not so confusing? i just dont get it | This is a good place to start. It's basically looking at the physics of time and motion relative to the viewer from different locations, and what must be true for what is happening from both points of view to be true. _URL_0_ |
Why are we taught to drive using our right foot instead of using both feet? | It has to do with driving a Manual. When driving a Manual,your left foot would be on the clutch,and your right foot would be used for the gas and break. In automatics, you don't need a clutch, so your left foot just sits there ", 'Simple: If you're not driving a manual transmission and don't have to use a clutch, *usin... |
What is the best way to lucid dream? | There a lot of different ways to enter a lucid dream, and every person will have their own way. Some people can even lucid dream without trying. There are too many methods to describe here in depth, so you'll probably want to go to /r/LucidDreaming and read some of the guides in the sidebar. |
What is 'defragging' a hard drive and why should I do it? | Defragging reorganizes the data and empty space on your hard drive so that it is more efficient. It is short for 'defragmenting' and should make your drive a little faster. |
Why is milk the necessary standard for cereal consumption? | drunk", or "alcoholic".Used to eat cereal with milk before I became lactose intolerant. Ended up trying cereal with juice and it tastes even better to be honest. Apple, pomegranate, grape, or cranberry all work. Just don't ever try to use orange juice. Orange juice and cereal tastes like shit.probably some marketing sc... |
if someone has amnesia and does something but doesn't remember doing it, would a lie detector be able to pick up that it's a lie? | > I that I know that a lie detector works by picking up on certain things that happens to you when you lie That's how it works, yeah. It picks up on increase heart rate, sweating, and other signs that correlate with attempts at deception. > but if someone genuinely thinks that they didn't do it, would it still work? If... |
If I would put a family under a dome and every generation I would decrease the oxygen by 1%, in the end could they live without oxygen? | No, they would probably die from a lack of genetic diversity, seeing as you are only putting one family in this dome. But in all seriousness, no. Evolution is random. There was a French scientist who thought that giraffes evolved long necks because of the environment they lived in-they had to reach out to get the leave... |
Why do street racing drivers change gear so many times in the movies? | A lot of the excitement and cool noises of racing comes from switching gears. So rather than staying in one gear from a ridiculous amount of time it's more exciting to change gears to keep from it getting monotonous. What I never understood is why a quarter mile race which in the cars they drive should take about 10sec... |
How can Saudi Arabia crucify a 17 year old for having an anti-government uncle and all they get is the U.N. telling them not to do it? | One person's life isn't worth potential geopolitical destabilization? We have enough enemies in the Middle East, do we really want to go around making more? |
why does putting a wooden spoon across the pot stop the water from boiling over? | The wooden spoon breaks the surface tension of the bubbles/water. I can't think of a simple analogy for this though. Maybe some fellow redditor can help.I pour some olive or vegetable oil in pot. The oil increases the surface tension of the water and drastically reduces overboil. |
Can someone explain pledge matching? | > Why can't this rich guy just donate $150k and quit screwing with the charity? Because by having a matching grant, the charity ends up getting a lot *more* than $150k. Matching grants have been shown to be a huge encouragement to donations, and generate a lot of revenue by convincing people to donate who normally woul... |
Why is space cold, if the stars are so warm? | Imagine that someone could light a fire on the moon. A very, very hot and bright fire - so bright you can see it from your house. But can you feel the heat from that fire? It isn't likely the distances are so vast that it can't heat all the in-between and still get to you. Stars are thousands or millions of times hotte... |
Why do all news anchors sound the same? Why can't they speak normally? | Business-to-business marketing communications person here: When I write copy for an ad, brochure or training or instruction manual, I need to be careful to use words that communicate well across a wide variety of audiences from professionals like physicians and architects, to end users like patients and office workers ... |
What do pharmacists do? | Unfortunately you are thinking of the world of pharmacy as one single job. Currently there are about 10+ distinct areas of pharmacy practice. The most common and the ones that people see are community pharmacists. They are responsible for dispensing medications per the prescribers orders taking into account the availab... |
Why are the planets closest to the sun solid, while the ones farther from it, gaseous? Shouldn't it be the other way around? | I'm going to give an educated guess here, so an actual astrophysicist is welcome to correct me. When the solar system was younger, and the planets were still dust and gas, it stands to reason that the heavier elements would be pulled inwards towards the sun, where they would slowly begin to accrete into what we have no... |
Why don't more American politicians speak foreign languages? | It's probably better to ask the more general question of why don't more Americans speak a second language. There's a number of reasons: a) Isolation. The U.S. is a vast country which speaks only one language. Roughly 2/3 of the population does not own a passport or has ever traveled out of the country. Compare this to ... |
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