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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 intellige... |
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 are... |
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 , ... |
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.... |
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... |
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 we... |
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 t... |
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 f... |
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 no... |
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 ... |
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... |
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.... |
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 r... |
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 rep... |
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/philosophica... |
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 pay... |
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 satellit... |
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 t... |
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 frequenc... |
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 o... |
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 ... |
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 rehabilitati... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 ... |
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. T... |
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 an... |
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... |
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 t... |
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 pr... |
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 pi... |
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 ... |
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 oestroge... |
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 mechanis... |
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... |
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 = ... |
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. I... |
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 w... |
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 momen... |
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 t... |
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 t... |
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 ... |
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... |
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 e... |
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 hav... |
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... |
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 U... |
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 up... |
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 e... |
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'... |
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 th... |
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. Imagin... |
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 ... |
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 a... |
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 cos... |
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 powe... |
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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