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How do some animals walk moments after Birth, yet it takes a human baby months to learn? | A human's greatest asset is it's brain. It takes a large head to hold that large brain. If we were to stay inside the womb any longer than 9 months, our large heads would make birth much harder, possibly killing mother and baby. So basically, we sacrifice being born completely helpless for the payoff of super intelligence . |
How did Blackberry just report a $4.4B loss and revenue is down 56% but their stock is going up today? | The new CEO wrote off all the old stock inventory that wasn't selling. In a business your inventory shows up on the asset section of the balance sheet. It doesn't matter what the inventory is if you assign it a value it will show up as an asset . This CEO basically said they are worthless and write them off so they aren't on the books messing up the bottom line. The market obviously thinks that they are now on the right track - also they have a cash holding of over $3B which went up over $1B in the last year. Summary: New CEO is getting rid of old stock that artificially inflated the value of the company. Writing off the old hardware shows as a loss. |
How come we have vitamin pills but not protein or carbohydrate pills? | My first thought is that a vitamin pill is tiny, but contains several times the 100% daily recommended value of the vitamin. Your body needs so much protein and carbohydrates to live that you'd be swallowing handfulls of pills at every meal. It's much easier to just eat a sandwich.Because vitamins are micronutrients , but proteins and carbs are macronutrients: your body needs a large amount of them. So all the vitamins you need will fit into a small pill. Not so with carbohydrates. A "carbohydrate pill" is a grain of rice, or a noodle. How many of those does a person need to survive a day?There are protein *bars* in every supermarket. And carbohydrate bars too, they're called "chocolate".There are carbohydrate pills in the form of fiber supplements. If you're talking about pills for caloric needs, it's not a viable way to deliver macronutrients. You'd need to consume dozens and dozens of pills to meet your nutrition requirements. It's also pointless. Food is easy to find. It's everywhere.You're apparently not old enough to remember/attempt to swallow the old amino acid "horse" pills. |
why squatting when carrying heavy stuff is better than bending? | When lifting things our body balances the competing issues of strength needed and energy expended. When we are tired, we tend to adopt the strategy which uses the least energy, which is bending at the waist to pick up an object. This uses the least energy because only the torso and the object are moved against gravity. The drawback is that lifting this way uses the weak muscles in your lower back and when you are bend over there is a large torque about your lower spine. Both of these can facts can lead to you injuring your lower back.The safer way to lift is to keep the object close you your spine and lift up with your strong legs instead of rotating up. The reason that people don't always do this, is that it requires much more energy to lift this way, sometimes 3 or 4 times the amount of energy as you are not just lifting the object, but almost your entire body mass. That is why, as you get tired, your technique gets sloppy, and you tend to bend rather than squat to lift and you end up injuring yourself. |
What would happen if the richest people on earth asked their banks to pay them out their fortune in cash? | Well, this question has a false assumption built in. You're assuming that most of a rich persons money is just sitting in a bank. It isn't, so when bill gates asks his bank for 20 billion they would likely inform him he doesn't have that much in his account. |
Why aren't pedophiles treated the same as those with a mental illness? | Probably because most people with mental illnesses are just a danger to themselves. I feel sympathy for people with schizophrenia, I don't feel sorry for schizophrenics that refuse their medication, and then harm someone else. Sexual urges can be repressed. |
How is EDM produced and what is needed? | There's no one way to make EDM, and in fact, its basically the same as making any type of music.A good way to start is to get a music making program, I've used fruity loops and ableton live and they work well for this type of music. Once you have the program you'll want to learn a few basic things:How to make a beatHow to make a melodyow to edit soundsHow to add a bass lineHow to add a chord There's no easy answer, you're asking how to learn how to make music, there's a lot to know, but this video will get you through the very basics, and if you play around with it you'll soon be making your own music!_URL_4_ |
Why do trained eagles go back to their trainer instead of flying away? | Anyone care to explain to me, for the falconers that don't raise them from near-birth, how the hell do they catch a wild falcon? |
is the longer average lifespan of humans due solely to medical/technological advancements, or are we just built sturdier than we used to be? | I read a Harvard study that said that death is advantageous to a species as it allows for more rapid genetic drift and adaptation to an environment. I think that our lifespan is a careful balance between giving our species rapid adaptation and allowing us time on an individual level to raise offspring really fucking well. I think that the recent rise in lifespan is due to insuring that more people reach the balance point age of 60-80 where genes potentially help waste our bodies away. I don't think that the actual viable lifespan is changing. It's just that more people are reaching it due to medical advancements. Edit: I think u/Trolling_From_Work hit it right on the head with changes in infant mortality. We are not extending our lifespan. More people are living to it because of medical advances. |
Magic Eye Images and why I can't see them! | I can't either, drives me insane as my house mates have no problems with them at all. |
Why can people "sense" when they are being watched? | Isn't anybody going to entire the thing where you're checking a girl out from behind and she adjusts her clothes / hair / whatever. Now, logic says it's confirmation bias but it happens nearly every time. So logic says she must be able to see me in a reflection or something I suppose |
If fat is stored energy, then why do fat people get tired faster than skinny people? | Obesity often comes with insulin resistance . When you eat, you produce insulin, which signals cells to store energy as fat. After eating, the insulin levels drop slowly and gets replaced by glucagon which signals cells to free the energy. Insulin resistant people always have insulin in their blood and cannot release this energy like a normal body would. Read somehow this analogy : Insulin resistance is like having a lot of money in bank and being able to save more, but never being able to go to the ATM and get some back. Gary Taubes says from these kind of people that they're not fat because they eat a lot, but they eat a lot because they're fat. Makes sense, not being able to used stored energy, they have to provide more and more via diet.You are confusing two very different things: fat level and fit level. If your fitness level is high you tend to get tired harder. If your fat level is high you have excess fuel to survive the famine.For the same reason that a semi that carrying fuel still has to refuel at regular intervals at a gas station just like everyone else. Just because you have all that fuel doesn't mean you have access to or can burn it. Also, its obvious that its much harder for someone that is 400lbs to run a mile than it is for someone that is 100lbs. |
Why people need to be raised and schooled to live well as a person, but my cat, who's not around other cats, knows how to live well like a cat? | You pretty much answered it yourself. Cats have instincts. These instincts are to eat, hunt, play, ect You have the same instincts more or less. A baby knows when it is hungry, even if it can't express this in words it knows to cry. As an adult, humans live in a society which we created so we have to be taught how to fit in. Society changes very quickly so humans don't have time to evolve instincts on how to be an engineer or doctor. On the other hand, we have evolved social skills and social instincts that help us fit into a social lifestyle, just like many other primates. Just one example of naturally living well as a person is our sense of empathy. |
How does a curveball work? | For the movie part, the title is Wanted, and as expected you're not the only one who would wonder about it. [A video about this.] Starting with figures on the motion with the barrel to make it work, then on to the curvature of the trajectory. |
Why does every "scam" use the exact same format in their ads that makes it obvious the product is a scam. | Because it works. It seems like it shouldn't, and I really wish that it didn't, but it does. |
Why my printer will not print out a black and white document because it is out of YELLOW ink? | This is pretty Simple, Turn your Printer to black and white. 1. Go to control panel. 2. Go to Devices and Printers.3. Right click printer, and hit Printer Preferences.4. Go to advanced and turn off color printing. Option 2, Rotate Print heads. rotate all of your cartridges except for black. It will think your yellow now has ink in it. Just don't print anything in color after this Hope this helps |
Why do cats smell amazing when they're sleeping? | When I was growing up I liked to ninja sniff my cat while she slept. Her belly was the best because she was all curled up so it was like a fresh pair of cat pants out of the laundry. Shes like 18 now and I still do it and she still hates it, explaining cuts on my face you'd think would get easier. |
why is it so hard to force myself to take a shower even though I know that once I'm in I don't want to get out? | I think of it as a problem with change and transitions. Once you're doing something, you don't want to switch to doing something else. |
Why do programs stop responding? | A program will go unresponsive when it stops running key parts needed to communicate with your operating system and tell it what to do. Like how to update the screen to display something new, or that it needs to use a resource. That usually happens when a particular task freezes. Freezing is the result of getting to a particular instruction and being unable to perform it, and thus not having any idea what to do from there, so it can't continue. Good programming can account for most times this can happen, and at least allow it to start from the beginning and not freeze, but programs are very complex and it can't always be caught. |
Why aren't large, passive, whales eaten alive by sharks or other ocean predators? | Huge and lumbering *is* a defense. There's a lot of power behind every movement a blue whale makes. That said, it *can* be killed by predators, there's a video out there somewhere of an orca pod working cooperatively to hunt one. |
when voyager 1 and voyager 2 go out of solar system what they will find and how much time is left for them to do that ? | The space probes don't get hit my flying debris because there just isn't that much out there. They are both expected to last about 30 years and not get close to another star for a long time. |
Do recording artists know they have a hit/catchy song before its released? | They do, and it's rehearsed as the single. They make other music because that's what musicians do. And usually because the single gets played a lot and the consumer gets bored with just one song. Also could you imagine going to a show with a band that's released 4 albums and all they play is those 4 singles? Not a good show.Sometimes they can. It really is about luck. An artist might recognize that they put together an incredible piece of music but it might never be played in front of the kind of people who would enjoy it. |
If only 1% of the water in the world is fresh, why do we use it in our toilets? | I think we use fresh water because that's the simplest option. A major problem with the plumbed use of grey water is regulatory. To ensure the safety of the fresh water supply, most plumbing codes state that there can be no commingling of the two systems . That means two completely separate systems, which affects cost. You also have questions about where the grey water comes from. Municipal supplied grey water is generally not an option as it would require the municipality to lay a separate set of water lines. Assuming you don't have municipal supplied grey water, you have to think about how to collect the grey water. Rain catchment is one option, and one that you can realistically imagine from a plumbing scenario. A gravity fed system or a pump system could be put in relatively simply, where allowed by building codes. Reuse of washwater is another option, but one that gets much more complex in terms of the plumbing. You would need a pump system to move the water from one part of the house to another, and you would likely need a storage system to hold the grey water until it is needed. You may also need some sort of treatment system as water from certain uses may be contaminated with soaps, oils, or organic material that make it less-suitable for storage or putting through the system.Can someone address the 1% part of the question? Is the world at large *actually* under threat of "using up" all the potable water? Animals have drank and peed out fresh water for millions of years before humans entered the picture, and they never ran out of fresh water.The vast majority of fresh water use is for agriculture and industrial use. Domestic use takes up a small percentage of the fresh water that we go through. That's not to say that conserving at home is pointless or a waste of time, but more that going to all of the trouble and expense of creating separate plumbing systems for toilets would only create a tiny reduction in overall freshwater use. |
Why are tornados so common to the middle of the US but not anywhere else in the US? | Do they occur anywhere else in the world a lot? I'm thinking Australia, maybe I'm wrong isn't it very flat over there?", 'Heres a cool website that shows the wind. When tornados are forming you can see the wind turning. _URL_2_', "it's obviously because of the concentration of homosexual activity. God's fury knows no restraints. Amen |
Do speakers of languages like Chinese have an equivalent of spelling a word to keep young children from understanding it? | In Uruguay and I am sure that also in other spanish speaking countries we have jeringoso. For example, in normal spanish 'hello, my name is Matias' would be 'hola, mi nombre es Matias', and in jeringoso something like 'hopolapa, mipi noponbrepe es Mapatipiapas'. Basically you just add a p after every vowel, and you repeat the vowel. I remember my parents would speak like that sometimes when I was a child so that I would not understand them :P. |
Why I get the urge to sleep on one side of my body or the other? | Hmm, kinda unrelated, but this thread reminds me . Back in the days when I still did drugs occasionally, I would sometimes have different experiences depending on which side I would lay on. Like, lay one way and I would have more musical/colorful trips, or lay the other way and I would have more analytical/philosophical trips. Haven't thought about that in years. But I know that there are differences between the right side and left side of the brain. Maybe laying on one side or the other stimulates the different lobes somehow. If so, this could affect what side you want to lay on. But this is just a guess. I would love if someone could shed some more light on this. Does what side you lay on change the way your brain processes things? |
How can people afford to live on minimum wage? | If you're on minimum wage, you easily qualify for a number of welfare programs such as food stamps, section 8 housing, Medicaid, etc. etc. This is a big reason that a lot of people want to raise the minimum wage - when you have welfare programs for people who are working, you're essentially subsidizing corporations paying lower wages. |
If the liver can regenerate itself with as little as 25% of the original organ, how come we don't grow them in a lab for liver replacement? | The liver can't regenerate infinite times. A person's liver has 2 lobes. When you donate your liver they take the larger lobe and a large portion of the liver mass. The mass regenerates from the lobe but that only works the one time. |
Why are the lands in the Middle East and Northern Africa so consistently desert-like? | Those desert conditions extend from Africa through the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and much of Pakistan. Then they turn north through the five other -istan nations, continue through the western half of China and finally end in Mongolia. It's a huge arid area that's clearly visible in Google Maps satellite view. |
what's a glory hole? | It's a hole where one person inserts his member and another plays with it on the other side. |
How did clockwise opening lids, screws, caps etc. become universally accepted? | Clockwise opening? I can't remember ever using something that opens when you turn it clockwise. Lefty loosey righty tighty |
On a lower gravity planet, would it be possible to jump high enough that you could injure yourself when you land? Or would it be impossible for the impact to be that severe? | As far as just jumping's concerned, the gravity doesn't matter. It's pretty self-evident that you can always absorb the landing with your legs. The acceleration due to gravity will effectively be constant, so you won't land faster than you took off . So the force that your legs need to exert to cushion the landing is the same, or slightly less, than the force they generated for the initial jump. So they're definitely up to the job, just like on Earth. But. If the gravity is lower, you're going to be in the air longer. If you don't push off perfectly, you're going to tumble . And if gravity is really low, and you're up long enough, that may become significant. You may not come down with your legs even vaguely underneath you. Result? Well - if you ever tried high-jump at school, think about the biggest height you ever cleared - then imagine falling from that sort of height in some random, inconvenient position. Because, again, gravity doesn't really matter - that's effectively the fall you're going to take, and how hard you're going to land. Yes, you could easily get hurt. Worst case, you'll come down head/neck-first, fail to cushion the blow, and paralyse or kill yourself. But on the other hand - the more time you have to rotate, the longer you'll have to try and prevent the worst from happening - like using your arms instead of your legs to try and spin yourself enough to keep things merely painful. Start with small hops and see how it goes, is my advice. |
Why people with Asperger's syndrome are genius or prodigious? | They're not always. Sometimes they are just people with mild autistic symptoms. But there is no denying that chances for being a savant are noticeably higher in those with autistic spectrum disorders . Those with ASD, essentially have an overactive brain, the connections in their brain work with such speed and frequency that too much input is created causing external shut downs in order to try and maintain order. Like when a classroom is noisy so the teacher shuts the door and windows. Savant Syndrome has yet to be truly studied, but from what those that do study it can tell, it's parts of the brain overclocking so that it can do amazing things without much study or explanation, such as flying around New York City for 20 minutes and then being able to draw it perfectly. Or being able to teach yourself piano by age 6 and play symphonies, or being able to do math. Science doesn't exactly know why, but from what they can tell, Savant Syndrome and ASD seem to have similar, if not the same causes. |
Why is Jailbreaking an iPhone so difficult? | The issue is that the phone has the main boot loader engineered into the CPU's ROM and this cannot be flashed. The main boot loader loads the main OS loader off the boot flash, but on the iPhone, before actually loading the main OS loader, it first scans it to check if it is intact, and that it has not been corrupted or modified by looking for a digital signature that matches apple's digital signature which has been burned into the CPU at the time it was designed. Some early versions of the main boot loader ROM had some defects, and this was exploited in jailbreaks for devices like the iphone 3G and 3GS. Hackers found out that if they modified the main OS loader in a certain way, then it would confuse the validation in the boot loader, and the code would load and run. Because the main boot loader is in ROM, apple had no way to fix this. The rest of the OS loading works in a chained basis. The main OS loader loads the individual OS modules, and verifies their integrity by digital signature. Finally, the main OS when it loads an app, checks the app's integrity by digital signature. Jailbreaking involves taking control of the OS in a way that is not intended - so using a virus-like technique to bypass the security systems in the OS. With enough trickery, it is possible to get the jailbreak virus code to run at bootup, so the jailbreak stays through a reboot. However, apple take this type of jailbreak as a serious security issue so this type of defect in the OS gets patched quickly. |
Why are humans born with a dominant hand? Why are we not all ambidextrous by default? | I'm better at moving with my left hand, but looking around with my right. Go figure. |
How does "Stock splitting" work? Does it benefit me if a stock I own is split? If it does how so? | IT does nothing much at all for you. There is a sweet spot in terms of stock price that makes a stock easier to buy. If a stock is $10,000/share there are lots of people who won't even have enough money to buy 1 share. Shares must be purchased in whole numbers so having a more reasonable price makes buying and selling it easier. While there is sometimes a change in value when a split is announced, it's more a funky side effect of the market rather than any real change in value. The theory of a stock split is exactly as you describe. Only they can also split into 3 or more, a 1:2 split is most common but it could be any number. While a split is generally considered a good thing, it's more of an administrative procedure to keep the stock price within an acceptable range. It does indicate that the company expects the price to remain stable . tl;dr you are thinking correctly, people who get excited are not. |
Is the purpose of jail just to keep criminals out of society, preventing them from harming others? Or is it also to punish those people? | In the USA they now have a thing called for-profit prisons and the goal of those prisons is to make money. In fact they charge the local community if they are not kept at a certain capacity of being full. Pretty scary to think about. For-profit prisons want to be full. That means they have zero interest in rehabilitating people. They want people to re-offend so they can be arrested and incarcerated again.. and again.. and for longer. They have no desire in crime prevention! Originally prisons were set up with the idea of punishing criminals as well as to keep criminals away from society. They have SOME personal items and things to pass the time with .. in the past such things were lot allowed it it caused people to be violent with each other out of boredom. They cannot allow too many things because the idea is still punishment. |
What is the math like behind pushing a door on the far edge of the hinge vs pushing as close to the hinge as possible? | Others already pointed out that x = . Why is that? Another way to look at this is how much work is done. More force used means more work, but also the more distance you push means more work. It's x=. So I want to rotate a door 90 degrees. This means I have to do a certain amount of work. If I push close to the hing, my hand won't move very far, compared to pushing at the edge, it has to travel with the far end of the door. So at the hinge I must push harder to do the work over a shorter distance. |
Why does stoner culture accept getting high as an end goal, but in drinking culture there's still stigma associated with getting drunk as an end goal? | Binge drinking is dangerous. You can die from binge drinking. It also can turn you into an adult toddler who needs to be cared for by your reluctant friends. Getting baked out of your mind won't kill you, but it could induce a panic attack or make you feel like you've melted into the couch. |
Why are social workers known for making low wages despite their university education? | In most countries, wages are not set only by education level, but also by *the law of supply and demand.* Since a lot of people are willing to do these jobs for low pay, nothing forces the agencies to raise the salaries. They'd rather hire more workers than give raises to fewer workers. |
Why isn't it possible to enter the Earth's atmosphere more slowly? And would this reduce heat generated during reentry? | You can re-enter Earth's atmosphere more slowly. One way would require you to have propellant to slow your orbital velocity way down, instead of using the atmosphere to do it and then to counter act the force of gravity pulling you down. It's just wasteful to do it that way over shielding and gliding to a landing |
If you can't drive drunk, Why is being public intoxication a charge? | Others are saying that the police won't bother you if you're not out of control, that being drunk in public is not enough, etc. That may be true *casually* meaning that it depends on the officer and how much of a bad mood s/he's in. Don't rely on good behavior to get you out of being arrested for drunk in public. I can offer this advice first hand. I was drunk, and I was walking home. No harassing, no noise making, walking at a steady pace on a sidewalk. And I got arrested.Here in Scotland the charge is "Drunk and Incapable", the incapable referring to the fact that you are incapable of taking care of yourself. People who are over the drink drive limit are sober enough to get themselves home without driving.Basically the law is in place so that if you make it someone else's problem, they have legal recourse. It's designed more or less so that unless you're making your drinking an issue, it isn't an issue.Saw a guy try to drive his bike home from the bar. Fell off it three times trying to 5 ft. He had to walk it home. |
How in the hell does evolution produce 'pictures' of ants on a fruit flies' wings? | It's hardly the first time something like this has happened. You have bugs that blend in seamlessly with leaves or sticks, butterflies that appear to be a face when extending their wings, and of course as featured in *Cosmos* the heikegani crab, who thanks to superstitious fisherman have been artificially selected into having samurai faces on their shells. |
How much truth is there to the idea that the United States invaded Iraq for oil? | It's not true that oil was **the** reason. The reasons for the Iraq invasion were complicated and driven by fear and greed ), but oil wasn't a major factor. |
Why can't we just use a telescope to check the moon for an American flag? | Physics aside, anyone who doesn't believe the moon landing happened probably won't understand or trust a device large or complex enough to actually see the flag on the moon.There is also a limit to what a lens can see using visible light. The wavelengths of light have a limit of how small an angle can be detected with a lens. This is a physical limit, not a magnification issue. I bet some physics dude could describe it better. I encounter this with microscopes. You cannot actually design a visible-light microscope that sees details below the wavelength of light . I think telescopes work under a similar principle. Below that, you need microscopes that use smaller particles like electrons to see anythingThe flag and other evidence of the moon landings is visible to cameras, but not telescopes. _URL_2_', "You can't, but what you can do is sent a beam of light to the moon and it will bounce back on a reflective surface left there. They did it on [Mythbusters] |
Why are movie theater snacks so expensive? | They have a monopoly within the theatre. In most cases, outside concession is banned within the theatre, so if you want some snacks, aside form smuggling it in, you're forced to cave to their obscene prices. Unfortunately, that's capitalism for you. |
Why does driving over highway bridges/connectors sound differently than driving on regular roads? | From what I understand, it's because the material of the road. Regular roads in a neighborhood are paved with asphalt, but if it's a road over a bridge or something similar, it's concrete.I actually would be interested in elaboration, since I don't actually know any details. |
How does the movie 'Birdman' look like one continuous take? How did they do it? | Different transitions. There's one where you cut right when the cameras moving quickly, creating a blur. Then you splice in a clip that starts with a blur in the same direction. You can see this in a multitude of films, it's fairly common. There's another where the camera will point up and and then zoom into a light. The light will eventually make one monochromatic color, so the editors can cut and put in a scene thats starts the same way the last one ends. You can see this in many of Gaspar Noe's films. There's an inverse to this transition too. Instead of flooding the frame with light then transitioning, they flood it with heavy movement and relative darkness, making it difficult what's going on screen. Here the editors can cut and go on to a new scene. There's many other tricks but these three are the most prominant. |
Antimatter. Why does it seem to be so invaluable? What could you do with it? | It's so valuable because it is so rare, hard to produce, hard to contain, and shortlived. It's important to science because it gives us insight into the workings of the universe. So right now it's only real use is giving us more knowledge about the world we live in. If there were cheap and practical ways of creating and storing it, it would have potential use as a fuel source since matter-antimatter annihilation produces lots of energy and its completely clean. |
Where do things go/what do they do once they're inside a black hole? | Isn't the best answer just going to be 'it's not a hole'? Everything just goes to the middle, right? is there a reason why we don't just call them 'black balls'? :/", 'Imagine you are on a tube slide on the playground. Now imagine you are entering the slide, at some point you let go into the point of no return. This is called the "Event Horizon" where even if you wanted to get back up the slide, you couldn't! At this point, you are sliding down, but in a black hole, you would be obliterated and eviscerated into a spaghetti sized string of meat and death. :). This is called "stringification"', "Again, a lot of misleading answers or outright wrong answers here. Black holes don't just eat up everything that comes close and keep them inside forever. They slowly lose matter through radiation, oft called Hawking Radiation. Thus black holes very, *very* slowly bleed out over time and evaporate away into nothingness over sufficiently long time scales. We can't be sure of what exactly happens inside a black hole at the singularity, but as you approach the singularity, you would be torn apart into your constituent particles and then slowly radiated away over many, many eons.As we approach a black hole the clocks further away from the black hole run faster relative to closer ones. Moving toward the singularity of a black hole means one is fast approaching a future universe. |
How do pornstars manage to have unprotected sex with so many other pornstars and still be STD free. | Porn stars are tested for STDs so often that the prevalence of STDs in porn actors is lower than the general population. You're much, much more likely to get the clap from some girl at a bar than a porn star. |
How come hot water can injure/hurt us more than cold water? | Hot water can cause increased tissue damage when compared with cold. That's why when you have some sort of bruise, you usually use an ice pack as it 'numbs' the pain receptors causing reduced pain. :)", 'Actually, I would suggest that cold water has killed much more that hot water, but I get your point. |
Why do men fall asleep right after ejaculating? | It releases a brain chemical that makes us drowsy. Some evolutionary biologists believe this allowed women to peacefully leave after the act as a safety measure but others disagree and I don't know enough to have an opinion. I do that the big O is a stimulant for my wife that wakes her up but mine put me to sleep. |
Why is the Michigan right to work bill a bad thing? | Like you're five: You're the youngest of your brothers and sisters . Before you were born , your brothers and sisters wanted to have desserts after _URL_2_, they got together pooled together a portion of their allowance to pay someone to convince your parents to provide desserts. Then you were born and they asked you to contribute some of your allowance because you enjoy the benefits of the deal that was made. But now you don't have to. And now your siblings don't have to have to either. Some of them may choose to, but now the pool of money is smaller, and the bargaining position isn't as good. However, if any deals are struck using the allowance money, everyone still benefits regardless of whether they contributed. |
How come cops don't just bust all the escorts advertising on sites like backpage or craigslist? | [Backpage just removed their sex ads]. But, the truth of the matter is that cops don't really give a shit about the sex trade if it goes on behind closed doors. With limited policing resources, you have to pick and choose what to go after. Most people would rather see things like violent crime & major property crime prioritized over consensual, victimless crimes like prostitution. Sure, they'll pick up some streetwalkers if a neighborhood starts getting too noticable to the common taxpayer but prostitution is pretty much at the absolute bottom of their list of concerns. It's slightly above jaywalking.* because it is not clear they are actually prostitutes* they arrange things so it appears you paying for a date, but the sex just spontaneously happens, making it hard to prosecute* going after prostitution that happens discretely is a low priority for law enforcement, unless other crimes are involved |
Why did Adam Sandler seemingly stop being funny some years ago? | For any comedian, Scuba Steve would be the pinnacle of a career. It's all down hill from there. |
What is net neutrality and why is it so important to maintain? | I thought net neutrality was primarily to provide relatively unfettered access to competing ideas, not services as much. Sure its a bummer that Netflix gets throttled and Canada has 40% of the shows, but its more of a concern when notions and concepts are removed from view. Its not completely necessary for me to see pics that buds of Emma Watson shot of her semi-nude as a youngster. I'm not sure I'd like to find out that entire forms of concept were taken from my view simply to organize my thinking into a more appropriate form. There is a great deal of effort going on to clean up the internet and deny access to ideas or ways of thinking that oppose established bases. That's kinda ugly. We're already have an internet that is heavily censored and controlled. Lots of interesting facts are quickly suppressed not for any safety concerns or to protect individuals privacy but simply because they infringe on the momentum and power base of big organizations and governments. That's to be expected but it should be kept to a limit. |
How to actually (and quickly) explain prisoner's dilemma to children while handing out candy for Halloween. | Why the hell are you trying to make Halloween difficult for a bunch of little kids. They just want candy, they don't give a shit about your little experiment. |
when the moon and sun are both in our sky together in the morning. Why is the a moon crescent? | In that configuration, the moon is mainly backlit. The part we can't see is the part that is in shadow. If you were on the moon, the dark part is where it's night time on the moon. |
If Mitt Romney is so rich, why does he ask for donations? | Mitt Romney's current net worth is estimated to be $190–250 million. President Obama raised $670 million for his 2008 campaign . In order for Mitt Romney to compete with President Obama in the 2012 presidential election, he will need to raise comparable amounts for his campaign. Reference _URL_0_", 'Great explanations all around, however let me offer a more simplistic reason among all the other valid liquidity ones: Why spend your own money when you can spend other people's money with little risk to yourself? It's just a general rule of thumb notion. Or the classic "Never do for free what you could get paid for."Romney is not rich enough to run for President on his ownBloom: How much-? How much do we put in? Max: Bloom the two cardinal rules of being a Broadway producer are one, never put your own money in the show. Bloom: And two? Max: Never put your own money in the show! [Scene] |
Why do Oil/Gas/Coal companies resist future technology(Wind, Solar, Hydro), instead of using their big wallets/lobbyists to monopolize(and actually advance) technology? | Wind and solar aren't finite resources. Nobody owns the wind or the sun, hydro is another story. You can't monetize something unless you own it. |
Why do men statistically die younger than women? | One of the factors is that female's higher oestrogen levels can help protect against cardiovascular diseases by directing fat deposit to the thigh region rather than the visceral region. Also, it elevates HDL levels. Given that cardiovascular diseases account for the majority of deaths globally, the protection oestrogen offers somewhat contributes to women living longer. |
What happens in the brain/body when one who is a habitual procrastinator accomplishes a procrastinated task? | Generally people procrastinate because the thought of doing the project is stressful. One of the way your body deals with stress is trying to avoid it . Once you finish the task,the stress goes away,because it's done. It's like a reduced fight or flight response. |
Why does the US have branded paracetamol (i.e. Tylenol) but in the UK basically every supermarket has its own brand and there isn't a dominant brand? | Good marketing. If you can convince people Tylenol is special or 'higher-quality' than any of the other, cheaper bottles of the same stuff you stand to make a good amount of money selling it. It's hardly just Tylenol, there's all sorts of medications sold that are damn near if not exactly identical in delivery mechanism and dose size that have more than trivial price differences. Some people are better at marketing their loratadine tablets than others. |
Why haven't we invented better battery technology yet? | We have come up with better solutions. Lithium Ion tech is one of the biggest examples of this. About 20 years back, the best we had was Ni-Cad and NiMh, both of which had capacity, voltage, size and weight limitations. Oh I am sure Lithium existed back then, but it was still in research and experimental stages, making it prohibitively expensive. Look at cellphone batteries over the course of time, with the FAT brick size phones and how much more compact they are now, and much more efficient. One of the other limitations of batteries was its shape, newer batteries are much more flexible in their design. Even now, battery tech is still evolving to incorporate various polymers to further increase the overall utility of them. TL;DR: While we have no formed batteries that last almost forever yet, battery tech is not horrible. I will say this though: In my personal opinion, if electric cars weren't scrapped during the time of the EV1/2, we would likely be further along in the battery research than where we are at currently. |
How does birth control that you stick in your arm work? | Hormones. It's a little tube that has hormones I it. And they release slowly in your system. |
Why is it that when the Canadian dollar costs 70 cents USD, it costs way more than 1.30 CDN to get a US dollar? | Because the conversions multiply, they don't add. If 1 USD = 0.7 CAD, then 0.7 CAD + 0.3 CAD does not equal 1 USD + 0.3 USD . That would imply that 30 Canadian cents = 30 US cents. The math for calculating the exchange rate in the other direction looks like this : 1 USD = 0.7 CAD 1 / 0.7 USD = 0.7 / 0.7 CAD 1.43 USD = 1 CAD So the 30 canadian cents are equal to 43 US cents. |
In the double slit experiment, how are they so sure that it's the act of observing that introduced a collapse and not some other interference ? | 'Observe' in this context means anything that can read the state of the photon. So it could be a detector or the human eye. |
If kinetic energy increases so much more efficiently with speed rather than mass, why do bullets get bigger instead of staying the same caliber but using more and more powder? | > Wouldn't it be more efficient to use a .22 with a huge amount of powder, for example. That was the reasoning behind the development of the [5.56 x 45mm] cartridge used in the M16 rifle: it allowed soldiers to carry much more ammo than if it used the .45 or 7.62x51mm cartridge, and the rifle itself could be lighter. It partly compensated for its lower mass with a higher speed. 5.56mm is a NATO standard used worldwide, but there are still situations where a larger shell is better e.g. sniper action. |
Why are the moans of women such strong sexual triggers in men, and is it the same for women or the same sex? | I found an anecdotal answer to the second part of your question: Yes, many women like when men moan. I'm still looking for sources for same-sex opinions Sources: [ [1 ]] [ [2 ]] |
what is a semi automatic gun? | Basically, all you have to do is pull the trigger over and over, and you shoot one bullet per trigger pull until you are out of bullets. _URL_3_ > A semi-automatic, or self-loading, firearm is a weapon that performs all steps necessary to prepare the weapon to fire again after firing—assuming cartridges remain in the weapon's feed device or magazine. Typically, this includes extracting and ejecting the spent cartridge case from the weapon's firing chamber, re-cocking the firing mechanism, and loading a new cartridge into the firing chamber. Although automatic weapons and selective fire firearms do the same tasks, semi-automatic firearms do not automatically fire an additional round until the trigger is released and re-pressed by the person firing the weapon. |
Why do we care so much about habitable planets that are several lightyears away when there is no feasible way to get there? | Because it's there. Also, learning how rare or common 'Earth-like' planets are gives us insights into our own solar system. Also, because it's there. |
Why do people engage in self-harming behaviors as a means to relieve other kinds of pain? | Physical pain releases endorphins that help dull the pain, so there's that. Also, having control of physical pain can be a relief when it seems like internal pain is an out-of-control whirlwind. Lastly, and this might sound weird/wrong, but it can be similar to meditation. Meditation is about being present in the moment and aware of yourself, and being in pain can help do that.Physical pain releases hormones that make you feel better as means to deal with the threat that is causing the physical pain. These hormones also make emotional pain feel better, but emotional pain does not trigger their release. So people will self harm to make the hormones release and treat both the physical and emotional pain at the same time. |
How do dolphins, whales, and other aquatic mammals die when they are out of the water? | In addition to what aelinsaar said, their bodies are not designed to walk on land. Therefore, they can't eat or find someplace to drink water. Without access to those things, they will die of starvation and dehydration. |
If a Foreign embassy catches on fire does the local fire department put out the fire? | I have asked this question periodically to the firefighters who are stationed along DC's embassy row In general the rules of international law are sacrosanct, meaning if there isn't someone in some official capacity they can't go in. Not only because it's a violation of international sovereignty but because sometimes the embassy security staff could shoot at them. So here's how it goes: 1. They arrive on scene2. If they are asked to assist they tag up with the security staff and go where they tell them3. Unless they can actually see someone sticking out of a window with flames leaping at them they can't go or do anything unless embassy staff say it's ok. |
Why do some people survive massive trauma/blood loss, while others don't? | In many cases it's just pure luck. Two injuries may seem very similar, but in fact one is minor and the other fatal. Basically anything can factor into that, a couple of milimeters can change something fixable to unfixable. |
Why do photographers not just take video in HD or 4K then take screenshots afterwards from the footage? | Video is a series of photographs taken X times per second, and always X times per second. This means the sensor or film is only exposed to whatever is in front of the camera a fixed amount of time . Well in photography being able to control how long the sensor or film is exposed to the light via the shutter is one of the most important choices one can make in order to get whatever photograph they are after. Fast shutter speed freezes action like in sports. Slow shutter speed blurs moving parts of the image. Fast shutter allows less light to the film or sensor. Slow shutter allows more light to the film or sensor. It's a very important control for a photographer and the image they wish to convey. As well as a tool for dealing with the amount of light on hand or even being able to capture something moving quickly at all. |
Why is it that we cannot sleep with our eyes open, even in a pitch black room? | In addition to drying out, the cornea may get scratched and that is not a good thing of your eyelid. Also, though I do not have any evidence for this, opening of the eyes even in pitch black would signal to the brain that there is something to see or register. This would keep your brain active and thus awake. I'm sure there is a feedback mechanism that helps initiate the sleep cycle when the eyes are closed. |
Why is the American flag printed backwards on military uniforms? | It's so that it appears that the breeze is blowing the flag back while the wearer is moving forward. |
How come the asteroids in the asteroid belt don't clump together to make another planet? | They sort of did. The dwarf planet Ceres . If I were in a spaceship and I had to fly through the asteroid belt, the chances of me hitting an asteroid are really really low. There's not really a lot of mass in the asteroid belt to begin with, so the formation of a large planet couldn't happen. To put it into perspective, let's imagine every single asteroid in the asteroid belt did manage to form a planet. The resulting planet would **only be about the size of Earth's moon**, if that. **TL;DR:** despite popular belief, the asteroid belt is nowhere near as massive as people think, and it doesn't really have that much matter to clump into a big planet. |
How come emulation for gaming systems like the PS2 or N64 aren't flawless despite being used on superior hardware of a high end PC? | An emulator is basically pretending to be a game console, which requires it to run processes exactly the way the console does, or at least close enough that you can't tell the difference. With the PS2 at least the CPU is weird and doesn't work the way any other consoles or PC CPUs do, which makes it very difficult to emulate. Weird things tend to happen when your computer can't get it exactly right, and it ends up being slower than it should and requires hacky solutions to get it to approximate what's supposed to happen, and hacky solutions often create additional problems. I'm guessing N64 is a similar issue. PS2 works pretty well if you have a good enough computer though, most of the problems are with specific games. If it's any consolation xbox emulation can barely get past the title screen and will probably never be playable. |
How there can be child actors in movies that technically they wouldn't be age appropriate to view themselves. | Making a movie is a lot different than watching one. On a movie set there are other actors, camera men, the director, producers, technicians, etc milling about. Dozens, if not hundreds of people. You stop ever five minutes to adjust the lighting and touch up your makeup. All the scary special effects and soundtrack haven't been added yet. You break for lunch. If you're a kid you spend your breaks with your tutor doing schoolwork. Or you goof around between takes playing with the other actors. It is obviously fake.Keep in mind that as a whole something is much different than the pieces that make it up. Think of a puzzle. Viewing each piece separately is completely different than the the entire picture. The same holds true for each scene of a movie. A child actor is only in a few scenes of the movie . Those scenes are not filmed in order, as well. So they do not get a full view of the movie. |
How do medications know exactly which part of the body to go to? | Same answer to why lightning always finds the 'path of least resistance.' It doesn't actually 'search' or make any decisions at all. What's happening is it's going EVERY direction, and the direction that discharges the most energy is by definition the path of least resistance. Another example is social insects, such as ants. When initially searching for food, they start what's essentially a prior set of rules, that has them initially spreading out in EVERY direction. These worker ants will keep going outwards until death or until it finds food. When it finds food and traces its steps back to the nest it lays a second layer of pheromones . When an ant detects a double layer it may reroute to that path and continue to bring back food particles, laying more and more double layers, increasing the odds an ant will choose that pathing. The way it works it never needed an individual worker ant to know where to go or to make a conscience decision, because in the case of ants, the information isn't available and it's more efficient to have the decision making process already decided for the workers. For the medication, It never 'decides' on what tissue to attach to. The molecules just floats around in EVERY direction and attach to something because when it went by it got stuck there. The problem here is that we're wrongly applying human-like traits to these concepts. Conscience decisions aren't necessary for something to happen. In fact conscience decision making isn't always useful You could say conscienceness as a mode of action is only a subset of the modes of action made possible by the innate physical laws that govern the universe. Most other phenomena have nothing to do with conscienceness. But all phenomena's inner functionings are dependent on the universe's specific properties.What others said. And for example, MAOI actually works by suppressing the formation of a chemical which is mostly produced in the gut. Your body is all connected together - what effects one part can effect many others. |
Why are the majority of people right handed, why isn't it 50/50? | I'm no expert on the subject, but Wikipedia indicates that handedness is determined by [roughly 24% genetics and 76% environmental factors.] [Left handed bias] likely reinforces the environmental factors, and is rooted in ancient customs; mostly warfare training and cultural superstition. It's only very recent in the US that schools have stopped actively forcing children to stop using the left hand - [Forced Conversion]. Personal anecdote here, but my grandfather used to tell me how the nuns at school would smack him with a ruler for using his left hand. A popular theory suggests that the use of the shield is to blame. In the Archaic and Middle ages warriors who were left handed died more often in battle, because holding a shield in the left hand offered more protection to the heart. This lead to both the loss of left handed genetic progenitors, and the rise of left handed bias. |
Why are humans the only "animal" to have developed full sets of languages? | Well, we don't really know why human language evolved, but we have a fairly good idea of why human intelligence evolved. If I remember a documentary on it correctly: * Jungles where human ancestors lived turned into savannahs. This lead to them evolving to walk upright to get between trees. * Because we were walking upright our hands no-longer had to be used for walking and could evolve to be more dexterous. * Our ancestors started to scavenge bone marrow from dead animals by breaking through bones with simple stone tools. * The extra energy gained from eating bone marrow compared to plants meant there was spare energy that could be used to evolve better brains. * As better stone tools meant easier access to bone marrow there was an evolutionary advantage to being better at making tools, so evolution started to favour better brains. * Discovery of fire meant we could get even more energy from food , so could put even more energy into our brains. Obviously we don't know for certain why each evolutionary step happened, but basically human ancestors were in the right place at the right time for the environment to favour evolving bigger brains, which lead to more complex language and eventually human intelligence we have today. |
What are the effects of getting a letter from my ISP (Comcast) saying that I have downloaded something with Bittorrent | Yeah, you've got a good chance of being okay, however you'll possibly be monitored a bit closer. I know that my ISP has a 3-strike system, after 3 reports they cancel your internet. |
Why haven't we domesticated chimpanzees? It seems to me the utility of having quasi-human pets is so high that we should have been working towards this by now. | A woman in Connecticut raised a chimpanzee as you would a child. When the chimp became an adult, things didn't go so well. _URL_0_ |
- Why do ISPs have a monopoly in practically all areas of the united states? | The current ISP situation distinctly mirrors past US history where people thought laying railroad across the land would be too expensive, and later when they thought laying phone lines would be too expensive. Here we see two opposite endings. Railroads are currently horribly monopolized and can be considered the 'bad ending'. This inhibits travel by rail, raises prices for smaller stores and lowers prices for bigger stores. On the other end is telephone lines, where quality is nearly uniform because the government stepped in and made several mandates which aided the spread of communication. Phones are now not considered a luxury because you aren't going to see a lot of difference between using a small local company and a big corporate company unless you plan on making several hours of long distance a month. |
Why is the first pancake your pour onto the pan always different (worse) quality than the rest? | I don't know about your pancakes, but my mum makes amazing pancakes. They're always perfect whether it's the first or last of the batch.The first pancake is directly on the pan. All pancakes after the first are cooking in leftover remains of the previous pancake.The pan usually isn't hot enough, so the first one doesn't crust up properly. |
Why there aren't parachutes on commercial flights? | Please, don't give the airlines something else to upsell. But really, the main reason is because parachutes are pretty much pointless on a commercial pressurized airplane. If you're low enough to bail out, the flight crew will never get the passenger parachutes on in time. |
Why have elevator door close buttons if they never work in the first place? | There is a fireman mode too. I forget how it works . I think I'm the event of a fire, the elevator returns to the ground floor and the doors remain open and essentially out of service. Firemen can use a key to use the elevator. I'm pretty sure they have to hold the close button to close the door. I remember for sure that they have to hold the door open button once they get to a proper floor. The reason is because if the fire is right at the door, and they release the button when they see the fire, it'll close on its own. Also, I'm pretty sure once the door was all the way open, it would stay there until its told to close. That way the firemen don't get locked out of the elevator. |
Why does Israel hate Palestine? | It's colonization of land. It's simply taking land. It's like asking, why does American colonists hate the american indian and kill them all and taking their land? It's land colonization. It really has nothing to do with who or what American Indian is. They just live in a land that the american colonists wanted. Imagine native american backed by some external power suddenly start killing all white american and expelled everybody out of the continent. reason: this land is ours 300 yrs ago. With Israel, it also come with historical pretext |
How exactly do planes compensate for the curvature of the earth when they are flying? | The same way absolutely everything else does. There's two ways you need to compensate. One is flight path and the other is altitude. Flight path is easy. Instead of using flat maps, you use great circle routes. North of the equator, the fastest way to reach a target due east or west of you isn't to go due east or west but to take a more northeast path. This depends on distance, something diametrically opposite would have a great circle route through the north pole. South of the equator it's the other way. As for maintaining altitude, the plane has to deal with two factors: gravity and curvature of the earth. The former is causing the plane to veer downwards and the latter is causing it to veer upwards. Well, as it turns out, gravity is a LOT more of a factor than the curvature of the earth! So, like every other object travelling over the earth, it doesn't have to compensate AT ALL for the curvature, because gravity has already done that. It just has to compensate for what's left of gravity. And sometimes gravity's effect and the curvature' effect are equal. We call that an orbit. |
Why the West is friends with something like Saudi Arabia but always hostile towards Russia | According to the [Census Bureau] the US engaged in some 8 billion dollars worth of trade with Russia in 2015. The 'hostility' may be real, but it is definitely only at the level of political posturing. As for Saudi Arabia, something of the reverse is true. The relations are politically positive, but the undercurrents are extremely hostile. Factions of the ruling family, as well as private citizens and clergy, have made clear statements against American interests. You may remember a few very famous examples of Saudi activities that were counter to the professed cooperation between the two nations. However, Saudi Arabia produces oil. A lot of oil. Interestingly, they were [second only to Russia] in 2012. They are also a staunch supporter of US power in the Middle East, in the past helping to keep a lid on the more chaotic elements. For example, they just gave a diplomatic smack to Iran, something that is always in the Americans best interest. So, why. Honestly, it's just bullshit. Saudi Arabia is incredibly dangerous to the US, but it has a lot that they want, and it's willing to trade. Russia is just as hostile, but less effective, and while they also have a lot that the US wants, they have a history of being dicks about it. |
Why are social encounters so much easier when we are children? | They weren't easier for me; I've had severe social anxiety my entire life, and was terrified of other children. School was a nightmare, all the way through. I cried a lot, all the way through high school. But I know I'm not normal, in that regard. |
Why is there no way to unsubscribe from real mail, while email unsubscription links are required by law? | You actually can. There's a _URL_0_ you can register on And every single flyer you receive has an email or phone number and you can unsubscribe there. This one has actually helped me. I went to three separate websites, to remove my address and have had less spam in the following three weeks.Snail mail has a postage cost which is a limiting factor. Email has almost no limiting factor, so one had to be put into place. |
Why is there a debt ceiling at all when all they do is continually raise it? | It's so when the federal reserve makes it rain, it won't dampen the nation's spirits. |
Assuming you had enough money, would it be possible to buy the world? | If you were able to pay off the world's governments, you could technically do it. Everyone will cave for a price.The more you buy the less there is available add therefore the more valuable it is |
How did the U.S. become so relevant in today's world? When did it start? Why could it not have been some other country? | The US has had strong institutions that encouraged economic growth and the enhancement of national power, vast natural resources, and a rapidly expanding population from the country's founding. It also had no major rivals in the American continent that could compare to it. The US really began to emerge as a global power toward the beginning of the 20th century, when that expanding wealth and power began to really translate into outward facing foreign policy and US hegemony over the Western Hemisphere became unquestioned. By the end of WWI, it was clear that the US was the most powerful nation on the planet with global interests. |
Why is there a Sex Offenders register but not a Murderers register? | This varies greatly by location, as the laws differ a lot. However, since some sex offenders are driven by psychological abnormalities to repeat their crimes, these are the people that the registry is meant to warn the public about. It's not a very good solution, but politicians don't always choose the best solutions. |
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