query stringlengths 8 249 | answer stringlengths 45 7.8k |
|---|---|
Why do dogs need to be exercised, while cats are fine on their own (and often sleep most of the day)? | Cats need exercise too. The way they exercise it to hunt so when they can't get outside to do this then they need stuff inside to create that environment. Cat trees and toys that they can chase or laser lights are really good. |
When drinking, why don't liquids flow straight down instead of us having to swallow them? | You said that the decision to swallow is active- and that isn't entirely true. It's a reflex triggered by a physical stimuli and requires there to be something in the back of your throat for it to happen. At the junction between your trachea and your esophagus is a flap called the epiglottis. The epiglottis is always c... |
Why do athletes perform worse after they have sex or masturbate? | I'm a Karate practitioner, which involves very heavy training beforehand bot physically and mentally. I', also twenty years old, which means a I trained all during my puberty, and lot of training sessions were just after 'happy times', be it alone or with somebody else. What I've found out from personal experience is t... |
What makes modern day "apps" like Uber, Whatsapp, and Snapchat worth more than Nike, CBS, etc? | A lot of it is hype/speculation but there is also the belief that the businesses can generate huge sums of money relative to their investment, assets, infrastructure. Let's say that Uber spent $1 million to build its app, payment infrastructure, etc. It can scale incredibly with only minimal additional investment, and ... |
When people restore and enhance black and white photos into colored photos, how do they know what color to use? | I've done it before, it's a fun and artistic process, but it's mostly just based on preference and historical accuracy. A professional would research the figures in the photo, look at reference photos and try to recreate it accurately. But at the end of the day, it's entirely up to the artist and what looks best and wh... |
How would you folk like a Hall Of Fame for this subreddit? | I think on the sidebar you should post the best answers to commonly asked questions. Surely there will be many of the same questions constantly. Once someone hits a homerun on a topic, it should get archived on the sidebar. I don't think there needs to be a whole separate subreddit to archive the answers. Just store th... |
How do we know more about space than our own oceans? | One word, LIGHT From space we can see light from billions of light years away. Light doesn't penetrate very far into the oceans. Answer: we can't see the bottom of the ocean with the ease of looking up into space. |
Why do governments want to spy on their citizens? What do they get out of it? | For the most part, it's presented as either defending the population against certain groups within society, usually terrorist groups or foreign agents, or as a method of repressing the population using the power of the State - the definition of which is more common depends both on what kind of nation you live in, and a... |
Why is water incompressible ? | It isn't incompressible, as any engineer can attest._URL_1_ *The compressibility of water is influenced by its temperature. The numbers I found were that its compressibility at 0°C is 5.1 x 10^-5 per bar, and this decreases to a minimum of 4.4 x 10^-5 per bar at 45°C. If you take the 0° value, you can easily calculate ... |
What exactly is the conspiracy theory surrounding Freemasonry? If I could join an international cabal that ruled the world, why wouldn't everybody join? | My Gpop was a Shriner. They played cards and drank and raised money. There's it's about geometry and learned to lay bricks. There's stuff they day about being descended from the Knights Templar. They used to be really powerful politically. |
When a guys pee hits the toilet water and causes splash droplets that spray out of the bowl are the droplets pee or toilet water? | It's at least partially urine. I've recently started taking a medication for diabetes that causes my body to lose some of my blood sugar through my urine. Ever since then, I've noticed the tile floor has shiny little dried sugar dots from the dried splashes. On a side note, I'm now totally grossed out when I think abou... |
Why do 'I' feel like I am in my head and not my feet? | I remember reading in some buddhist culture they perceive their 'seat of consciousness' as behind their sternum not their eyes. |
Why do windshield wipers make a smacking/ thumping noise when they change direction? | When the wipers change direction, the rubber blades on those wipers also change direction. You're hearing the rubber piece slightly tap the windshield when it switches it's direction. |
Why was Pablo Picasso a good artist? | Ok, think of it like this. Imagine that there are several types of art materials for people to pick from. Some people will take paper and pens and draw a picture, some will take film and take pictures. This is for a project that will be graded. Now, traditional art would be like the pen and paper, people drawing to the... |
Why can we have falsetto, and how do they work? | rattly" noise to it. The name vocal *fry* comes from this noise being compared to the crackle-popping of frying meat. The *modal voice* is the second register. This is your normal voice. The vocal cords vibrate back and forth, each part of them moving at least somewhat. *Falsetto* is the third register. Here, most of t... |
How can Argentina have a corporate tax of 137.3% ? How exactly can a business make any money when taxes are well above 100%? (Link within) | Like you're actually five? After a long successful day at the lemonade stand you've got a big wad of $237.30 in your hand. You go back in for dinner and your mom tells you that since you used her yard, table, pitchers, ice, and water, she's taking $137.30 of that money, and you're left with $100. In this instance, at t... |
The role of a conductor in the orchestra | It's hard for every musician in the Orchestra to hear everyone else. If they were operating by hearing alone, it would be almost impossible to keep good time, let alone manage their volume so that some instruments would not drown the others, or their pitch, so that everyone can stay in tune. The Conductor stands in fro... |
how is a yawn different from a deep breath? | From what I have heard, researchers believe that yawning is a way for the body to cool the brain. It acts similar to that of a brain freeze by passing a cooler median, in this case air rather than your ice cream, over blood vessels in the rear portion of your mouth. If you notice when you yawn, your throat opens up muc... |
Why do we peel potatoes before turning them into mashed potatoes? | That's not always done. It's usually done by people who don't like the skin, but there are many recipes, especially at higher-end restaurants that uses the skin. All in all, its just what you prefer |
How does the Sun not run out of fuel? | It will. But it's really, really big and hydrogen fusion is a pretty fuel efficient way to make energy. |
Why is honey resistant to bacteria and rot? | [Honey has an extrordinarily low water content], this, along with it's high acidity, makes it inhospitable to bacteria.As other respondents have said there are a few reasons: * Honey has a higher sugar to water ratio than the inside of bacteria so the water in bacteria will leak out through the cell wall thus drying ou... |
ELIM Why does wind feel cold? | Because air is usually cooler than your body temperature. You normally have a warm air bubble around you, but when it gets blown away, you have all that cool air you need to warm again. With air that is at your body temperature, it has to do with evaporation. You sweat warm water and if that water is blown away, you lo... |
Stem cells. The science and the controversy. | Someone explain to me why taking adult stem cells is not the preferred way? Since it doesn't kill anything?", 'I always thought the controversy with stem cells was the same as that for genetically engineering food: man is playing "god"with elements of life that man does not understand the consequences of. Which is ridi... |
Why and how does China get away with such blatant copying of Patented and protected items when it is a member of World Trade Organisation? | Another thing to consider is the fact that policing the import of possible 'rip-offs' may not go that far because in a sense, we as Americans demand them. Not only do we demand them, but the domestic retailers and distributors still make a lot of money off of them, which is good for our economy. However, being someone ... |
Do CEOs/Employees of tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations recieve salaries? | Yeah, they receive salaries. People who don't aren't employees they're volunteers. Money received by a nonprofit charitable organization is used for its expenses, its employees are an expense. |
What is dryer lint, and what really happens if i never clean it out? | One of my neighbors had a house burn down because they didn't clean out their lint trap. Not something to fuck with. |
Where does all of the money donated to curing diseases go and what was the last major disease fully cured? | Most goes to the charities, because employing people to do the charity work costs money. But that's not a bad thing, since they are helping a good cause that would get nothing otherwise. It pays researchers, labs, buys technology, pays rent and so on. As for last major disease cured? IDK about last, but Leprosy is gone... |
The thing on top of houses that looks like a chef's hat | It's a wind driven turbine to suck hot air out of the attic space to help keep a house cool. In a lot of places they have been replaced by a continous ridge vent.There are also powered vents to do the same thing. It also plays a roll in the winter to keep the attic cold so you don't get ice dams on the roof. |
Why did going into World War II dramatically propel the U.S. economy, as opposed to ruining it like the British economy? | The U.S. didn't suffer any damage to its infrastructure or manufacturing capabilities, and during the war most factories were converted to war use so you had pent up demand for good unavailable during the war, plus you had soldiers coming home from war and starting families . Also, much of Europe and Japan were heavily... |
Why, as time goes on, do video players on the internet seem to be getting worse instead of better? | Transferring something from one place to the other on the internet is not very expensive, but it adds up. Lets say that each video costs .01 cents to play. Sites like youtube and vimeo don't charge the viewer or the sender the .01 cents that the video play costs. Instead, they make the money from advertisers that show ... |
Why do toilets require so much water to flush? It seems very unnecessary and wasteful to me. | A lot has to depend on how far the water has to run laterally too.We have used too much water historically and recent designs decreased the GPF. Three somewhat related points in NYC. First it was easy for the most part to go from 3.5 gpf to 1.6 because many of us in Manhattan live in apartments. The bathrooms are desig... |
Deadweight vs. liveweight. Why does a 50lb bag of concrete feel heavier than my 50lb kid? | When we pick up an object we naturally articulate and engage the muscles we believe are necessary to shift the weight in the desired manner. Sometimes when objects are a different weight than we anticipate we either fling the object or even strain ourselves. A rigid body has an unmoving centre of gravity, this makes it... |
Why are tax havens mostly islands or small countries? | Taxes are usually designed so that a country can make enough money from its citizens to cover the expenses of running a country. If you have a 100 million citizens and need a 100 billion dollars a year, each one will have to fork over $1000, more or less. If you changed your tax to only collect $100 per citizen, you'd ... |
How do movie studios get very famous actors for terrible movies? | We often focus on an actor's performance as what makes a movie a success, but really there are tons of people and things going on behind the scenes that are just as important. An actor usually signs a contract based on a script and maybe some of the other names attached. But we've all read about troubled productions wh... |
Why don't we see when we daydream? | I am not a neuroscientist, or even a scientist at all. So, hopefully somebody with more credentials will come in. But my understanding from talking to people who are legitimately knowledgable on similar questions is that the current thinking is that while you are daydreaming your brain is still taking in, and to a cert... |
How can police cars catch people who are not wearing seat belts when most cars have tinted windows? | a) Most cars do not have tinted windows. In many cases, at least in the States, windows that are *too* tinted are illegal. b) Cops are trained to look for it. Simple as that. You'd pick up on it too if it were a part of your job. If you pull someone over and they buckle their seat belt, how could they have done that if... |
if I can see the moon in the middle of the day sometimes how do people on the other side of the world where it's night see it? | It depends on where in the world you're talking about. If you can see it, there are parts of the world that are not seeing it. |
what does long term laxative abuse (as a 'weight loss' regime) do to the body? | As someone who relied on them for years because of bulimia, it's terrible for your body for very little weight loss. Talk to her about why she feels she needs them. A lot of the time I would use them because I felt bloated or too full so that would be my solution. Temporarily it works fantastically. But it does really ... |
Please ELI5: How do you learn to program? What is the actual process, or both learning and of programming? | My suggestion: Find interesting problems to solve that are not in your book. When you encounter a problem that doesn't have an answer right next to it, you'll be forced to 1) figure out a method to solve the problem and 2) figure out key words exist in C++ that will let you execute that method . [Project Euler] is an a... |
The Maury show. The show and the stories can't be real, but I also don't believe that all these people are actors or aspiring actors, so who are they? | I was on the Maury show. You can sign up or be invited to be on the Maury show and basically all it is, is they pay for your trip down to New York City for two days and a hotel. You don't ever even meet Maury until they call you out there. The crew gives you somewhat of an idea of what they expect, and you go out on st... |
why do some people have good rythm and a natural ability to stay on beat, while others are horrible at this? What's the difference in their brains? | For some it came from an exposure to lots of music at a young age and for others it is a learned behavior. For example, and this is entirely anecdotal, I was raised in a very music orientated household. My parents were young and very much into the music scene so I had a lot of exposure to it. My husband was raised by p... |
How do mail in rebates work? Whats the point of offering a customer X amount of dollars off if they just send you something in the mail? | You have a $60 product. You want to make more sales so you could just have a sale and reduce the price to $45 - OR you could offer a $15 mail-in rebate so your product *looks* like it's $45, but almost half the people don't send in the rebate information. So you still got $60 for half your sales instead of only $45 for... |
My husband fills our Brita water bottle with water from our Brita faucet filter. I think it's pointless. Who is right? | The wear a tear he's saving the filter in the bottle is so minimal that there is no point to it. It's like taking a book out of its dust jacket, wiping the book and putting the dust jacket back on. It's pointless |
Why are we inclined to walk around during a phone call? | The first thing that comes to my mind is that we are missing a key component to communicating when we are communicating on the phone. We are missing the component of visual cues. Sometimes when we are not receiving a conduit of stimulation, or feeback, that we are accustomed to getting ; we will start mimicing the acti... |
Why do video games always make the playable character run slightly slower or faster than the person they're following? | One reason to have the NPC walk slower than the PC is so the player can catch up to them if they happen to fall behind. Getting distracted by things in game or in real life can cause the player to stop walking for a short bit and now they're further away from the NPC. |
Why doesn't a Windows virus effect a Linux Machine? | The simplified underlying reason is that the 'instructions' that are contained in the EXE will be understood in Windows but other operating systems will not understand the instructions inside it and so cannot execute it. Similarly, if a virus were written for Linux, the instructions that it compiled into wouldn't be un... |
With all the recent popularity of the Star Trek movies, why hasn't there been a new Star Trek show since Enterprise? | Ironically, Star Trek works far better on television. Most of the movies have been Meh at best. There's been a few solid performers, but TV is where they really are more at home. |
What would happen if the earth just fell out of orbit? | Sure, if the sun disappeared and the earth drifted off into space , then we'd lose all light and heat, so we'd become just another frozen space rock. And it goes without saying that all life on earth would die. |
Why aren't auto makers allowed to sell cars directly to customers in the U.S.? | With advancements in technology and logistics, why can't they operate like dell? Oh, you want a green corvette? It will be off the manufacturing line in X hours. |
Is an obese person more likely to survive a gunshot wound? | I'd imagine less likely as the gun shot is just another thing to overload an already overloaded circulatory system. |
Why is fast food delivery seemly restricted to pizza? Why don't other fast food chains have a model for food delivery? | In the UK we can get pretty much everything delivered except KFC, Burger King and McDonald's.They do as bjerwin has mentioned. The reason pizza works is because it is generally more expensive and is usually part of a communal meal .It depends. It's based on where you are, the economic market of that place, and the cult... |
What is the difference between decriminalize and legalize weed? | Decriminalizing it would mean making it so someone caught with it wasn't a criminal, but that it was still illegal. Legalizing would be making it legal. Basically it's almost like the first step and the second step in the process.Decriminalizing means that minor weed possession is a citation offense along the lines of ... |
Why can't we just dump garbage into volcanoes? | No. Apart from the massive effort required to bring thousands of tonnes of trash up to a mountain top, it's dangerous to throw stuff that contains water, or any other liquid really, inside volcanoes. [See here.]", 'If we were to do this we would destroy the enviroment, if it is inactive than thats homes for thousands o... |
why haven't electric cars taken over the market? | $$$A tesla costs more than the average person is going to pay for a car. And that's just the sticker price, you also have to increase the costs for any sort of service you recieve, and understand that you may not have somebody trained to work on one nearby. Range. Electric cars are great, but it takes time to charge th... |
How come Will Smith has had incredible success after Fresh Prince while Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton Banks) has only had a mediocre career? | Aside from what's been said already, Alfonso has a great gig: still one of Will's best friends, collects royalties on never-ending Fresh Prince re-runs, and all he has do is bust out the Carleton every so often on a stadium Jumbotron. |
Why do cartoons artists highlight interactable objects in animations? | If I remember correctly it's because the background is drawn first and anything that moves is drawn in afterwards. So when it's drawn on top of the background the colors seem a little off. |
Why do most modern songs fall in the 3-5 minute length? Older, classical songs can go on for many times more. Are our songs getting shorter? | I've listened to metal songs as short as 30 seconds, and add long as 14 minutes. They're out they're. Maybe you're just looking in the wrong genre? |
Why aren't their speeding cameras that automatically record and ticket speeding cars the way red light cameras do? Or if they exist why are they so much less common? | Traffic laws are established under the assumption that they won't be enforced 100%. Ergo the fines are pretty high but the odds of getting cited in the first place are low. Speed cameras exist but their installation is contingent on the local public approving them. For this to happen, the public must be convinced that ... |
Why does reddit hate the fedora so much? | It comes from the subreddit /r/cringepics. A lot of cringe worthy people try to wear a fedora to look unique when taking a picture of themselves. I'm not sure what caused the cringesation that is the fedora, but some say it has to do with Justin Timberlake and how overweight men shouldn't wear it. I would also suggest ... |
Why is leaving the toilet seat up such a big deal? | Is it a *real* thing? I thought it was just a silly representation of 'girls rule boys drool.' I never heard any girl complain as if they were genuinely angered by having to put the seat down.I used to get yelled at all the time by my mom and sister growing up "put the toilet seat down!" So what I started to do, being ... |
What is going on when my brain takes fifteen to twenty seconds to remember something? | It depends on the memory.. This is an open ended question.. Usually you'll remember things quicker if emotions are tied to that memory Stronger emotions usually trigger quicker memories, or quicker actions. Think of fear, love, misery, etc.. Otherwise depending how often you remember it, or use that memory, will determ... |
If calories in/out is a law, then how does insulin resistance cause weight gain? | I know this is ELI5, but just FYI, calories in/out is oversimplified, and doesn't give you the full picture either. The body is variable and not a bomb calorimeter. For example, protein, fat, and carbohydrates are processed differently, have effects on hormones, etc, which affect how much is used, burned, stored as fat... |
How is it true that we have not surpassed the computing power of the human brain through technology when our machines do calculations that no human can? | Computers are good a doing relatively simple tasks over and over given a set of instructions. If you compile these simple tasks together it may seem pretty advanced, but it is still very repetitive in nature. Computers are only good at what they are programed to do and are not good at figuring out things like plain lan... |
Does having an IUD that stops the menstrual cycle extend fertility? | No. Eggs have a lifespan and will go bad after the same number of years, regardless of whether some are used or not. Kind of like how food in a refrigerator doesn't go bad slower just because you don't eat it. It will still rot at the same rate. |
Why people are so opposed to default internet porn filters | Because parents can do their own fucking job rather than expecting the rest of us to do it for them. First it'll be just porn, then it'll be violet youtube vids, then it'll be something else. Each time you contact your ISP to unblock you you'll go on some deviant list just so Mr and Mrs Lazy Arseholes don't have to act... |
Why isn't cannibalism more common in extremely poor regions? | To start with, most animals do not engage in cannibalism, so that assertion isn't correct. There are a few notable exceptions, but most carnivores and even scavengers will not eat members of their own species, regardless of the cause of death. Secondly, where are these places in which human starvation is common? The gl... |
Do animals have any perception of music? | This topic can be quite tricky, because we understand that animals do hear the sounds and they react to it in different ways. The appreciation of the music is what is hard to determine as that deals with how one perceives the music, and it can be difficult to determine how animals perceive the sounds as appreciative or... |
In an age of cheap, high-quality digital recording, why do courts still use stenographers? | [I think everyone else is wrong. It's a matter or privacy. The same reason cameras are not allowed in a courtroom but artists impressions are.In the UK at least.] |
Why do we only sneeze when we're awake? | When you sleep, the part of your brain that has the sneeze reflex relaxes . There's also usually air is usually relatively still in the room when you sleep. However, you can still sneeze, if it's stimulated enough.My friend once had a nose bleed after he fell asleep, causing him to sneeze - it looked like a murder scen... |
How do manufacturers of vehicles make car keys that are unique such that not 1 car key is identical to the other? | They don't. I distinctly remember someone talking of having a brand new car, going into the parking lot, blipping their car and an exact duplicate down to the colour and model responded. The two drivers compared in amazement. I assume the manufacturers don't envisage it happening often enough to be a security risk. |
Why is the middle east so much more violent than western society? | Desperation makes for violence. The casualties of Iraq war are about 200,000 and Syrian civil war about 400,000. To put it in perspective, only the casualties of the first month of Battle of the Somme was about 700,000 people. Western societies of two world wars were desperate enough that they could accept tens of mill... |
Why do we close the eyes of dead bodies. | It's so the devil doesn't use the eyes to see earth. Once the soul floats its way up to jolly ol' heaven it's just a sack of meat and bones. The devil is known to use the eyes of dead human corpses to peek around. We close the eyes to make sure that the devil has no idea whats going on. He just found out about the ipod... |
Why is there a "bible belt" in the southern US? | I think it can mostly be traced back to the effects the First Amendment has had on religious life in America generally. The freedom of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment essentially created a marketplace of religion in the United States. Where there used to be only a few denominations common in the US at the be... |
Why and how do unhealthy simple sugars taste better than healthier vegetables and produce? | The best explination I have heard is that your body craves what it needs. Your body needs the sugars and simple sugars are the easiest to digest so you crave them. They are not inherently unhealthy it's just that your body will store what it doesn't use which can be unhealthy over the long run. Over eating is only unhe... |
Why do tire manufacturers/distributors offer tire rebates instead of including the discount into the price right away? | I know that Costco will offer the price after rebate at time of sale, I'm unsure if there are any other retailers that do the same thing. |
Why do some sounds (like balloons rubbing together or nails on chalkboard) induce physical discomfort, and why do some people react differently to different sounds? | I'd like to add a question. For some people it's the sound of a chalkboard, for me it's the sound of that scratchy reflective material that shows two images depending on the angle you look at it, apparently called lenticular printing. Why does one affect me and the other not and vice versa for other people?", 'Anyone e... |
Why is there a negative correlation between inherited intelligence and social skills? | I've never heard about this correlation..but maybe it's just because it's mostly people with low social skills that feel the need to tell everybody about their superior IQ ? |
Why do black Americans seem to be affected by Slavery more so than people of other ethnicities are affected by the generational atrocities committed against their people? | IMO, one of the main factors is that there haven't been any real reparations paid for their suffering. Their ancestors played a significant role in literally building this nation and they have no generational wealth to show for it. African Americans have only started to see equal *opportunities* in the last half-centur... |
If there are fire codes and earthquake codes, why are there no tornado codes in places like the midwest where tornado resistant homes would save many lives and millions of dollars in property damage? | The reasoning of a lot of these responses is suspect. Yeah, you can't afford to proof against an f5, but how common are those. Just like you can't afford to proof against the most serious hurricanes, worst earthquakes, or home fires, but you can afford to proof against most, or some of the worst co sequences. Let's sta... |
What is a sonic boom, and why does it happen? | _URL_1_ This gif is a good visualisation of sound waves. They only travel at a certain speed but the object creating them is travelling faster. So when the build up of waves hits your ears you get a 'big chunk of sound' all at once. |
As data is passed around the internet, how do we ensure that the packets of data are not being copied as they are passed around at the network layer? | We don't. However, the amount of data that would needed to be copied would be a terrible lot. |
If America were to do away with the penny, what would happen to all the pennies I have? | I am Canadian, and the situation with the penny is that retailers/banks should accept them as face value. Some don't accept them though. *No big deal for me, as I don't have a collection of them, just a few in my wallet. |
Why can you not inject antibiotics straight into an abscess? | The reason we surgically drain abscesses is because 1) antibiotics can't penetrate them coming from the bloodstream, or 2) they don't work well. So your thought is a valid one for the first reason. Turns out though, that the acidic environment of the abscess makes antibiotics in general not work well , so injecting the... |
How is Congress allowed to server for so long, yet in 1947 they limited presidents to 2 terms citing "Too much power for too long is a threat to our freedom" | The office of the president arguably has more power than an individual senator or representative, as he is the sole head of his hierarchy, while the others are members of an assembly of equal figures. That's not to say that there have not been calls for term limits for those positions as well, but thus far the support ... |
Why does a company like Apple not cut out the middle man and establish their own cell phone network, but instead rely on Verizon, AT & T, etc? | Because the investment doesn't justify the returns. I'm sure they have done a discounted cash flow analysis and came to the conclusion that it wouldn't make sense for them.It's not Apple, but Google does "operate" its own cell network: [Project Fi]. However, it's an [MVNO], which means it rents access to other mobile n... |
Why do pigeons thrive so much better inside cities than any other bird? | Also, aside from what /u/posickle_in_one said, pigeons can take of vertically, which helps in urban environments. speculation: I wonder if their varied diet contributes? We're seeing an increase in Seagulls in urban areas in the UK, and they're known for eating any old rubbish. |
Why didn't the Nazis just say "screw neutrality" and invade Switzerland in WW2 like they did everywhere else? | 1) Switzerland is an armed and trained populace surrounded by mountains with easy to control passes as their entry points. 2) Switzerland acted as an intermediary for trade with nations that could not directly trade with the Nazis. 3) Switzerland's banking policies meant they could be used as an emergency fund in case ... |
If Romney/Paul are elected, how are they able to repeal healthcare? | If Romney is elected, it is almost certain that the House and Senate will have Republican majorities. Congress will repeal healthy care and Romney will sign it into law. Romney can also choose not to enforce the provisions of the health care law, and make healthcare ineffective and non-operational, kind of like an athl... |
How USA, a 300 years old civilization, became so quickly one of the strongest civilization in the world? | In addition to what's already been said, remember the size of America and the size of it's armies. |
How does centripetal and/or centrifugal force work to generate gravity in a (theoretical) spaceship, as demonstrated in many sci-fi works? | Aerospace Engineer here. Centripetal force in a spacecraft doesn't 'create' gravity per se, engineers just spin an aircraft at the correct speeds to get close to the force of gravity on the Earth's surface, therefore the illusion of gravity. |
How exactly do numbers work? | Look down at your palms. Wiggle your left thumb and make a unique grunting sound. Continue down the row of fingers until you reach your right thumb. Congrats, Grog. You just invented the metric system! It's as simple and primal as that. :D |
Why do people build houses in known floodplains, knowing that they will flood every 100 years? | Since no one else has really answered: It's because when early settlers travelled west, they settled around bodies of water. So lakes and rivers are the first areas to be settled. They didn't know it would flood or they probably wouldve moved on. That and the fact that it's a lot easier to cope with a centennial flood ... |
How is it possible that ISP's can see what your up to online? I thought HTTPs encrypted your traffic so it can't be read? | Your ISP doesn't know what you ordered from Amazon, just that you got a package from Amazon. This becomes an issue when you order a package from _URL_1_, and there is little doubt as to what you're ordering. |
Why is China's role in WW2 such uncommon knowledge? | It's due to the post war hostility towards communism. Essentially, there was two stories of WW2. The one that really happened, and the one where the US sallied in and kicked everyone's ass. Now guess which version cold war high school class rooms were teaching. The result is the current state of affairs with a bizarrel... |
When one wins a lawsuit for a certain amount of money, how are they given the money? Also, are they able to spend it on whatever they want? | They can be given the money by any reasonable method, but generally it's just a bank transfer. And yes, once they get the money, they can spend it on whatever they want, though a good chunk of it will likely go to their attorney, and depending on the details they may owe taxes on it as well. But anything that's leftove... |
Why don't executioners use the easy and painless lethal injection of overdosing someone on morphine? | Because every time someone tries to push for a new execution system, it gets shot down by people fighting 'on behalf of victims families'. Despite the lethal injection actually being fairly painful, these people believe that it 'would not be punishment enough' should the death penalty become painless. You know, other t... |
Why do NFL players spit out the Gatorade they drink during the game? | You don't want to swallow that exercise induced slimy mouth gunk. Rinse and spit first, then drink a little bit. Not too much, though, all that sloshing around makes it hard to run. |
Why aren't bullets shot upward capable of killing people on their way down? | They are. It's a pretty big problem in some places.And I'm pretty sure salutes to dead soldiers would be done with blanks. |
How come nobody talks about the dangers of acid rain anymore? | Acid rain was a potential serious problem, not an actual serious problem. In the 1990s it happened but was not at serious levels - had it got worse, it would have been a big issue. Sulfur dioxide waste has decreased enough that acid rain is rarer in 2015 than it was in 1995. It's still a potential future problem if we ... |
How has the KKK's motives changed over the years, and what exactly do modern KKK chapters hope to achieve? | I'm not entirely sure exactly what they are up to these days but the KKK wasn't just about race issues. In the 1920s in Maine, the KKK was active in the Anti-Catholic movement. A lot of the ideals of those people haven't disappeared, they've just moved on to other fraternal groups with different names. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.