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Why does the appendix have to be cut out because of appendicitis, why can't it just be cleaned, what exactly is causing the blockage? | Imagine trying to clean out the interior of an inflated balloon without letting the air out, because that's what you're proposing would entail. Typically the blockage is because of its own inflammation as the bacteria inside your appendix begins to grow and multiple. The appendix begins to swell, bloated with bacteria and their toxic waste products. The shit inside there wants to get out, but letting it out could be disasterous to your immune system. If you think you're having symptoms, man the fuck up and go see a doctor. For crying out loud, they can do these surgeries with incisions smaller than a pencil. You can literally go in one morning, get it removed, and be home in time for an ice cream dinner.You. Hospital. NOW. Seriously, this shit can and will kill you. If your appendix bursts you WILL become septic, you WILL have weeks or months of recovery AT BEST, and you might just die, horribly and in agony. Do not wait, go to the hospital, go to the hospital yesterday> EDIT: I appreciate the concerns. But I cannot depend on medical advice here. I will be seeing a doctor tomorrow. Still waiting for a satisfactory explanation. I think OP might be a retard |
How did the the first language start, or at least how we think it started? | i'm fond of Terrance McKenna's [Stoned Ape theory] which states that psylocbin mushrooms had a lot to do with humans evolving into humans, and the birth of language and spirituality. |
Why does flash photography damage mosaics? | That's mainly down to the fact that the space is so large and dark to begin with, a camera mounted flash will do very little to enhance the photo you are trying to take. The Basilica has the rule in place to make everyone happy and comfortable, try using a lens with a lower F stop, 2.8 should get you lovely shots without having to use the distracting bulb flash! A flash gun will not harm a mosaic btw. Edit, so it seems a flash will hurt a mosaic over time, I stand corrected. You can be sure of the lens tip though, promise. |
Why do some women get cramps and others do not? | I've had debilitating cramps and pain during my periods since highschool. I was on birth control for many years to help treat the symptoms. I recently started drinking around 100oz of water a day and have had almost zero pain. It could be endometriosis, or it could be something as simple as dehydration. Eating healthy, drinking tons of water, and exercising should greatly reduce cramps. If the pain persists definitely get it checked out. |
Why did people change their facebook/twitter photo to the French flag to support France after the Paris attacks, but not to the Turkish one? | To begin with, it can be hard to predict/understand what trends will go viral, even when it comes to things like showing solidarity and mourning. Which celebrity death will go unnoticed, and which will cause a massive public outpouring of grief? It can be hard to predict. Secondly, it has to do with our perceptions of different countries. France is anglo-European, and so we associate more closely with them. They are like us, and an attack on them is like an attack on us. Turkey is a place that people are less familiar with, and honestly just feels more like a middle-eastern country where this sort of thing just happens. It's like how people don't react to reports of violence in Iraq/Afghanistan. |
How can some animals detect earthquakes before they happen? And why can't people? | They don't. They detect them as they are happening. Some animals, however, are more sensitive than us in certain regards, and hence notice them more quickly than we do. |
How were battles fought during the American Revolution? | > I mean, do both side just line up in rows and fire one after each other? No, actually. They line up, and one side marches at the other. The attacker's plan is to march close to the defenders, pause, shoot their muskets into them, and then charge in with bayonets, hoping the defenders panic and run away. The defender's plan is to shoot the attackers as many times as possible before they charge, hoping that *they* give up and run away. The point is to make the enemy's strong units run away, so that your guys, especially your cavalry, can pillage their camp, stealing or destroying anything that looks useful. If you destroy the camp and the baggage train, you destroy the army: with no supplies , they can't fight any more, and will have to hurry back to their own territory.Try playing some total war:empire or napoleon. The battles in those games are a good deptiction of the warfare of that era |
Why is the Baby Boomer Generation, who were noted for being so liberal in their youth, so conservative now? | We, like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, thought that we could change the world. Kent State, Vietnam, Altamont, the assassinations of '68, the Chicago Convention, and a thousand other events proved to us that the crappy old world wasn't going to allow us to change it. Although there were a few Don Quixotes amongst us many Boomers, myself included, decided that if you can't beat them-join them; cut our shoulder-length hair, shaved, put on suits and ties, and assimilated. edit: forgot a , |
Why do we have separation of church and state, but still have people swear on the bible for government events? | Tangentially, I would like to add: I am a relatively new Atheist-to-Christian convert, so I'm not a theologian or apologist. But based on my own reading of Matthew 5:33-37, I would be rather cautious of swearing on the Bible or God to make your case: > ^33 “Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD.’ ^34 “But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, ^35 or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING. ^36 “Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. ^37 “But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil. So even as a Christian, I would not swear on the Bible for any testimony. |
Why can't (or doesn't) Comcast, TWC, or I, for that matter, create a TV service where I pick and choose what channels I want? | ESPN is the main thing keeping bundles expensive. If all you want is ESPN, you really wouldn't pay that much less a la carte. |
How does whatsapp gains money if it is totally free? | Whatsapp doesn't always totally free, back then it costs $1 to download, then it used a subscription model, free to download and use for the first year but to continue using, you have to subscribe. The model is dropped in 2016 and the app is totally free after that. But whatsapp doesn't have in-app purchase, and there's no ad this really rises the question: how do they generate money? and if they don't generate money, why facebook put big value on them? The simplest answer is: **Data Mining** whatsapp messages go through the server first before reaching user device. The server analyze data based on words usage. Big companies would paid big bucks for this kind of data to optimize their marketing and advertising campaigns. Though the currently end-to-end encryption used in whatsapp makes data mining tough. > Your messages are yours, and we can’t read them. We’ve built privacy, end-to-end encryption, and other security features into WhatsApp. We don’t store your messages once they’ve been delivered. When they are end-to-end encrypted, we and third parties can’t read them. Above quote is taken from [WhatsApp Legal Info], who knows if they're telling the truth, half the truth, or just an outright lie. Please correct me if I'm wrong or add for any lacking information. |
How will finding new particles at CERN effect my everyday life in the future? | As u/Bondator said, nobody knows, that's the nature of research. 100 years ago cutting-edge particle physics research was the discovery of the electron. That completely revolutionised our everyday lives in ways nobody could have predicted.You might end up being their test subject for time traveling through mini black holes, turning you into a Jellyman in the process. |
Why can't Julian Assange claim diplomatic immunity | Countries tacitly acknowledge diplomatic immunity when they grant entry, and are free to deny entry if they don't wish to extend immunity. So even if Ecuador granted citizenship and diplomatic status, the UK doesn't have to acknowledge it under these circumstances. |
Honest question, if women get paid less for doing the same job as men, why don't businesses hire more women? | Because that's a bullshit fact that has been circulating forever. Businesses are in existence to make profits. You maximize profit by lowering expenses , which essentially craps all over that claim. |
how to TV shows like Breaking Bad, The Wire, Walking Dead etc... manage to maintain such a consistent tone/feel despite using different directors and writers? | The Walking Dead lost most of it's tone and feel imo after the director change, couldn't keep watching it, it's like they made things happen for the sake of there being more episodes. Too many things happened that had little to nothing to do with the plot. The first season was amazing because it kept the plot flowing, but now they are just catering to the brain dead masses who want to see zombies, and that is about it |
How do restaurants not suffer losses from giving away free ketchup, salt, pepper, etc..? | food is one of the hugest markups in retail. imagine you buy ground meat for $10 that can make about 20 hamburgers. then you buy a pack of 20 buns for $3. that's $13 spent. you charge $8 for each burger. that's $147 profit. you can throw a bottle of ketchup on the table hat will service 50 customers. drinks are especially profitable. syrup and water are cheap and the fountain makes a nice bubbly soda and they sell something that cost them maybe 10 cents to make for $2. next time you're in 7-11, ask a manager how much profit they make on a $2 big gulp. |
How does adblocker work? How come it isn't commonly circumvented? | The reason these haven't been well circumvented is simply because we have control over the content, our browser makes requests to the server and downloads the required files. If we wanted to block an ad, we would simply not download it or hide it on the page. |
Why is Jimi Hendrix considered one of the greatest guitar players? | He was innovative. He changed the scene with a whole new sound. Add to that, his personal skill; he was left-handed, and taught himself to play a guitar for right-handed people backwards. He could play it with his feet, or behind his head, and managed an impressive sound playing it with his teeth. His sound holds a great appeal for many millions of people across several generations, entirely distinct from any other source of appeal . |
Why do people masturbate into socks? (As opposed to just using a tissue?) | A sock is cleaner but more expensive. I never use a sock more than once. You jizz ONTO a tissue, and INTO a sock. The difference is when you use a sock, you can directly stimulate all of the dick, including the head, without getting precum or jizz on your hands. And when you're done, you use the rest of the sock to wipe up, and throw it away. A jizz soaked sock is easy to hide in plain sight, a tissue, not so much.I thought the sock thing was kind of joke. It was a way of symbolizing immaturity and insecurity. Like maybe young nervous teens just starting out would use socks because they were overly paranoid, shamed of their body, or clean freaks. But once they realized the better methods they would move on to better methods. I tried it one time after watching American Pie and then never did again. I can see how it could lead to rug burn on your penisless waste and less mess on your hand. you are going to wash the sock anyways so why not use it and save the tissue paper? also for any kid still living at home it hides his masturbation from family', "Why do people masturbate into tissue? Isn't it quite hard to keep your load from spilling everywhere? Also don't tissue just completely soak through? |
Why do bomb/mine defusers wear bulky armor and face masks? If that actually going to protect them? | Follow up question: Are there documented cases of the suit likely saving someone's life? How many? |
Why do people think that nothing can go faster than lightspeed? | Einstein thought up special relativity because new discoveries about electromagnetism didn't make sense with traditional physics. People began to believe it when experiments about the luminous aether, the biggest competitor to explain electromagnetism, failed. For the next several decades in physics, [dozens of experiments] showed Einstein to be correct.The amount of kinetic energy goes up exponentially as one approaches the speed of light. anything with a non zero mass would have an infinite amount of kinetic energy were it moving at the speed of light. |
Why are the four parts of the UK defined as countries, but the fifty parts of the US are states within one country? What makes the two different when it comes to unified governing? | So actually there's one small sense in which American government is a little more like British law and Canadian law is a little different: In the US and UK, both the nation and its component states/countries have their own books of criminal law, whereas in Canada, criminal law is purely federal.UEFA and FIFA both recognise England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as national teams representing distinct countries but don’t recognise Texas, Massachusetts etc etc. |
Why do chefs routinely handle food using their bare hands instead of using gloves? Isn't it unhygenic? | Gloves are only more hygienic than bare hands if they are getting changed frequently. Too often in busy restaurants this isn't happening enough. You'll see the deli guy handling the bread with the glove, then the turkey with the glove, then the tomato, then the knife to cut it, then the refrigerator door, then you may even see him handle the money in the cash register or a broom does he toss off those gloves before he cross contaminates something else behind the counter? Who knows. Is the cook wearing the glove to protect the consumer from the person preparing food, or to protect the cook from the food he's preparing? Sometimes, it's hard to tell. It's more sanitary to have cooks wash their hands frequently than to have them use gloves for everything, and use them properly. |
Why is there a negative stigma attached to PETA? | They're the mother Theresas for animals. They claim to be doing good, but their way of doing good is to kill all the animals they find in captivity. There's also hypocricy involved when they'll belittle you for wearing fur, but they drive around in cars with leather interiors. They also want to kill people for abusing animals . While animal abuse is horrendous, wanting to kill anyone for any reason at all makes you not a very nice person. To sum it up; they're a bunch of uninformed emotional assholes out of control. |
Where the 0.00...001 goes if 0.999 = 1 | In normal Real number constructions, we say two numbers are equal if the distance between them eventually gets smaller than any constant. Not 0, necessarily, but smaller then anything that isn't 0. For example, the series is said to converge to 0 because of the following logic: Is it greater than 0? Clearly yes. Is it greater than some other constant that isn't 0? Suppose yes. Let's pick a number, say 1/331 that is the lower bound on this sequence. But then, 1/1000 are in the sequence, and are all lower than 1/331 so 1/331 is not a lower bound. You can extend this argument a little to show that whatever positive number, x, you pick, there is a number in the sequence smaller than x. Hence, 0 is the best limit we can put on this sequence. And then in the Real numbers, we say that because of this, the value of 0.00 001 ie the limit of the sequence actually is 0. Also for your interest, there are number systems where there is a number smaller than every positive number but larger than 0. It is often called an infinitesimal and the some of the number systems are the [hyperreals] and [surreals]. In these systems, there may be some concern as to whether converges to 0 or whether it converges to the infinitesimal, but I haven't really checked them out enough to know. |
why don't porn sites end with .xxx instead of .com? | Because the porn companies can get more visitors on .com sites, since that's what everyone searches for, so that's what they register", 'To my knowledge, "xxx" is just as easy for a child to type as "com". Maybe easierIf I remember correctly, there was a campaign a few years ago to make porn sites end with .xxx. That was stopped however for comfort and monetary reasons, probably. |
Why did colonial armies fight by lining up in large blocks and attacking head-on? What were the advantages? | The non-bored musket was not very accurate across large distances. Combined with the tactics of the previous era that generally called for block formations marching against one another. It wasn't until the innovation of the bored rifle that you would be able to shoot accurately from a much greater distance that the block formations started to give way to more modern tactics.A line with rows can provide pretty constant fire as one row fires, then reloads as the next rows back fire and repeat. A line is vulurable to cavalry, but a line can quickly form into a square which is very effective against cavalry and overwhelming mobs . The Crimean War and US Civil War saw these tactics used with rifles to terrible efficiency', "As a child I'm sure you threw rocks at things, now pretend that you have one rock and one target, say a balloon, and you throw that one rock and miss, then pretend you have five of your buddies and all throw a rock at the same time. Your odds just went up 500% that you will hit the target. Strength in numbers. |
why do they say to not wake a sleep walker? | It is said that the shock of waking up in a different place from where they went to sleep can be shocking and dangerous, e.g. cause a heart attack but it's largely just a myth. It's much worse to let them continue sleepwalking. |
If marine mammals like dolphins and orcas breathe through their blowholes at the surface anyway, how come they die when beached? | Except for beaching via hunting accidents and mass beaching events, , the majority of other whale beaching events involve animals that are already sick or injured. Basically they're probably going to die anyway and getting beached just finishes them off. The reason beaching will kill a whale is mostly that they collapse under their own weight or drown if the tide covers their blowhole. They also have additional problems related to exposure, such as dehydration. |
Why do you have to lift up your windshield wipers every time it snows? | Snow accumulates on the ledge made by the 90 degree angle between your windshield and the wiper. As it gathers, any residual heat from your interior or engine causes that snow to melt and then refreezes as your car continues to cool down. The ice freezing to your rubber wiper blades can cause them to stick completely to the windshield, or become ineffective as the ice still sticks to them the next time you get in your car and turn your wipers on. You don't HAVE to leave your wipers up, but it will increase the effectiveness of your wipers when you get back in, and save you from having to scrape your window, and your wipers off. Edit: heat, windshield", 'People do it so they dont freeze to the windshield and so theyre out of the way when they need to scrape off the ice |
- How do the tiny fragile hairs on my face cause a sharp metal rasor to become dull? o_O | You're looking at two factors: 1. The thinness of the razor. -Someone already mentioned this with an analogy to an aluminum baseball bat and aluminum foil, but it goes without saying: Due to the small, thin size of the razor itself, it's easy for the blade to deteriorate/become dull after multiple uses of shaving. 2. Corrosion - This was also mentioned, but bears repeating: When you shave, you tend to lather, shave, rinse, and repeat. After your rinse your blade with water and leave it to dry, it becomes at risk to corrode, or wear away. Corrosion doesn't happen quick enough for it to become visible, but it'll be enough in due time to reduce the sharpness of your blade. |
Why Nazi Germany was chosen for the 1936 Olympics? | As has been said, they won the games from the IOC before the Nazi regime was in power. People have asked why opressive regimes and less-than-friendly nations have hosted the games - Beijing, Sochi, etc - and the answer in the modern era is mostly lobbying money. Whoever throws the most money around will generally get the Games, not just in who will invest in the fanciest Olympic Village and modern amenities, but also whoever has the most money to lobby the IOC directly. In my headcanon, awarding the Games to states with less-than-stellar records on human rights and democracy is done to bring the Olympic spirit to that nation, to foster peace and communication and a free flow of ideas, and to bring us all together as humans. But mostly, like everything else, it's Monet. Edit: I'm leaving the typo, it left an impression on me. |
Why do orgasms get weaker and weaker the more you masturbate in a single day? | Because if they didn't everyone would just spend all day masturbating and nothing would get done.I'm no scientist, but my thinking on it is if you compared it to something you eat. What if you ate chocolate cake, all day, everyday? By the time you get to your chocolate cake at the end of the day, you are probably just like, "oh joy. chocolate cake. yippee." It loses it's sparkle. Just the same as a joke gets old the more it gets told amongst a certain group of people. You do anything too much, it gets old.It can be a weaker orgasm, but not necessarily. I've definitely had some rip roaring climaxes on my second or third blast of the day. |
Why is it such a big deal that James Comey was fired? | IMO I think it reflects a conflict of interest, how can you fire the person that is investigating you? Imagine you're a suspect but could fire the detective. |
How were last names created? When did this start and how did we get our last names | In spanish we have last names derived from animals from places and from the names of someone's father . I'm not really sure about this being correct, but I think I am pretty close. Hope it helps :) |
Why / How does an infant have nightmares? | My earliest memory is a nightmare I had as an infant . In my dream, I was in my crib. The mattress was tilting wildly and I was afraid it would hurt me. I remember crying for my mom. I also remember being dirty, hair messy and in need of a change. I was around a year and a half old. So I guess the things I was anxious about at that age were being clean, cared for and safe when I slept. |
Why does the USA have 5k/10k runs if we are not on the metric system? | Metric units are still used. I've bought 2-liter sodas, 9-millimeter ammunition and various medicines measured in milligrams. Metric units are often convenient, and may even be a standard in some instances. |
Yes, a question about the penis. | There really is no true 'flaccid length' for any guy, because it all depends so much on temperature. The skin in the genitals is designed to significantly expand and contract to maintain as ideal a temperature as possible for the production of viable sperm. So theoretically Guy A and Guy B could be the same person, just on a cold day versus a hot day.The way I head it explained was blood dick and meat dick. Blood dicks are just the normal floppers that grow for show. Meat dicks are WYSIWYG. I have a blood dick, not too spectacular looking when he is cold. Give em a lil spank and he shows up for workTL;DR please explain growers and showers. Man A is an acorn that grows into a mighty oak. Man B is always hung like a can of PringlesGuy A here. Thanks so much for asking this I'm 33 and have always wondered how I'm average when, growing up, so many in the locker room seemed so much larger. My middle school train of thought was if my 2" grows to 6", their 6" must grow to GINORMOUS! The bitch of it is I STILL get shrinkage. E: This also explains the utility of a jock strap and why I never needed one So much is falling into place right nowThere are 2 different types of tissue in the penis. Corpus spongiosum and corpus cavernosa. The spongiosum tissue is the penis at rest and the cavernosa is the erectile tissue that fills with blood when you become aroused. If your penis is 6 at rest you have more spongiosum tissue. If you have a "grower not a show-er" then you have less spongiosum tissue. Source: I have taken anatomy and physiology for nursing school.My penis has actually shrunk before, like if I throw up really bad or something extremely scary and adrenaline-pumping happens, my dick will actually shrivel up and hide and go smaller than I've ever seen it before. |
Why is salt iodized? | It's added to salt because it is a salt itself . You can get it in tablet form as well , but it's more convenient to just add it to what you are already eating. |
Why Do People Support Ron Paul? | Ron Paul thinks we would all be better off with a much smaller government because the government does not produce anything and its excessive spending is a drag on the economy. People would be better off keeping more of their money and not sending it to Washington DC. Many people like a large government and so they call Ron Paul crazy, but he's not, he simply sticks to the principles of liberty for all. When you use liberty as your guiding principle and look at the situation with government today things do seem crazy. The Patriot Act, War on Terror, War on Drugs, Corporatism, Campaign Finance Reform, Openness in Government, Audit the Federal Reserve, etc. Ron Paul makes sense to me on all of these major issues. Ron Paul has been around for decades and and has spoken on libertarian philosophy at length and quite consistently. The people who quote him without the broader context that he is applying the principles of liberty are probably trying to evoke a fearful, kneejerk reaction. That is politics as usual nowadays. |
What is the US currency based upon? | Like most social constructs, we implicily agree by using money that it has value. It's a sort of economic shortcut that allows us to exchange labor for value. |
Why is the body so good at storing excess calories, but not vitamins? | Having lots of vitamins can cause health problems, and it also doesn't help that many of them are water soluble and are carried out in your pee. |
Why is fusion energy not yet a commonly used energy source? | We haven't come up with a means of production that would result in getting out more energy than what we put in. |
Why did war airplanes with guns behind the propeller, not hit the propeller? | The Slo-Mo guys on youtube covered this recently with their cameras and it was really interesting. Can't link it now as I am on my phone. Check it out! Edit: _URL_4_ . Here ya go.They used an interrupter gear. A simple cam system tracked the position of the propeller relative to the muzzle, and would prevent the gun from firing if the prop was in front of it. Antony Fokker first pioneered this system in 1915 with his Eindecker monoplane. Prior to that, warplanes either had the gun mounted on top of the wing , had a gunner, or the pilot simply used their side arm. All of which had their drawbacks. The top mounted guns in particular were difficult to reload. All were difficult to aim. There were experiments with armoured props, but these were quickly abandoned. The front-centre mounted guns caught the Allies by surprise, leading to the Fokker Scourge during the summer of 1915. It basically gave birth to the dogfight overnight. German pilots could just point their plane where they wanted to shoot, and reloading was a breeze. The Entente powers quickly developed their own interrupter gear systems in response. It would become the standard for gun mounts from there forward. By WWII, the system had fallen out of fashion for a variety of reasons. Guns were moved to the wings, or would actually fire through the nosecone . The Messerschmitt BF 109 and Yakovlev Yak 9 were the last notable fighters to fire through the prop arcAh. This is a masterpiece of engineering. The guns are synchronized to the rpm of the propeller and fire each round between the bladesAt the start of war airplanes development, the guns did shoot like an ordinary gun. Therefore, many accidents happened because the airplanes, after some rounds, would be without their propellers, losing thrust, stalling and crashing. Afterwards the rpm synchroniser was created, fixing these flaws, but that story has already been posted in the comments. |
How is Ebola able to spread the way it has during the current outbreak? | An Example: Imagine that in the past, the primary outbreaks weren't in East Africa, but in Montana in the dead of winter. In towns like Bearcreek, Melstone or Flaxville with populations under 100. Snow keeps people from venturing out of the area and any outbreaks are limited. Except this year, some dude who got infected in Opheim hops on his snowmobile and goes down to Glasgow to visit family. He then not only infects his poor aunt who nurses him as he gets sick, but then passes it along to others at a local medical clinic who don't realize what he has. Worse, he has reached an area with better roads that are kept clear in winter so others who are infected can begin to reach larger cities and soon it has jumped state lines to reach the Dakotas, Wyoming and Idaho.to be blunt, nobody here will provide you a correct or accurate answer because at the moment there is no real understanding why this outbreak is traveling so fast _URL_0_', "The infrastructure in West Africa is horrible. Medical personnel there simply don't have the supplies or the space to properly protect themselves from infection.According to the news reports I have seen, the virus becomes even more contagious after death and many mourners are touching the bodies. |
Why don't we learn how to take care of our body in school? | Maybe it's something that parent should be doing. You shouldn't have to off-load parental tasks to schools. School was created to educate us in reading, writing, arithmetic and other subjects that were easier to teach in a school. Nursery school for continence training, maybe? |
How do you convince a solider to shoot at the civilians of his own country? | Just like you convince a soldier to shoot at anyone else - you tell them the people they're shooting at are their enemies, and the enemies of their homeland, and that it's their patriotic duty to protect their homeland against its enemies. If that doesn't work, you remind them they're in the army, and if they refuse an order they can be jailed or executed.Reading this should help. _URL_0_ TL;DR If people think you have authority they will do anything you tell them. |
If a meteor killed the dinosaurs, and only 10% of the ocean has been explored, why couldn't aquatic dinosaurs still be living? | I honestly don't think anything from so long ago that lived that close to the surface could survive to present day, but I also don't think people should be so quick to dismiss it. We know less about our oceans then we do about the surface of the moon, and I'm not just talking about the Abyssal zone. Just last summer a mother and her calf of a previously unknown species of whale washed up onto the shore of New Zealand. We still do not know where the largest animal to ever exist goes to mate and breed. Who knows what else is out there cruising the open ocean? |
Why it is easier to sit with a hunch than your back straight? And how to sit with back straight without feeling uncomfortable? | Watch this google talk by Esther Gokhale: _URL_3_ I bought her book. I applied her techniques for some time, and it can get pretty comfy but I always found myself hunching again. In the end I didn't bother. But then I never had back pain problems.Your spine was not designed to be perfectly straight. If you look at a skeleton from the side, it should be like an"S". _URL_4_ The weight of your upper body should be supported by your spine, otherwise various muscles in your body have to work harder to balance your body so you won't fall overI remember from ergonomics class that sitting is actually worse for your back than standing is. Just an additional fact. As far as I know it has to do with the stretching of tendons and muscles etcI started sitting with a very straight back after I began riding . Maybe give that a go to improve your posture? It worked wonders for mine! |
Why motherboards are green in color? | They come in many colors. Asus usually makes black or yellow boards, MSI usually makes red ones, gigabyte likes to make blue ones. At least in the motherboard I've purchased over the last couple decades. |
On oil rigs in the ocean, what is the big flame for? | The big flame is called a flare, and it is GENERALLY used for emergency situations where there is a potential for pressure to accumulate past the safe operating limits. In cases like that, the safest option is to just direct the gases to the flare and burn them off. A rig might also choose to send gas to flare if it is not cost effective to collect the gas that comes up with the oil, whether it be too little to collect or the rig doesn't have the equipment to get the gas up to specification to send through the pipeline. If you are on an oil platform, you can definitely feel the heat of the flare from 100 ft away. Ironically enough, the flare structure itself is SUPER cold when the flare is going off.Its also a safety mechanism on production platforms. If you have an emergency or a leak and have to close inn production fast, all oil and gas will be routed to the flare to depressurize the production system. Also gas and oil that gets bleed down when preforming different kinds of work on wells will often go to the flare system to get burned offI think the process is called gas flaring. Its used to burn off flammable gasses released by pressure release valves. Its essentially a safety mechanism to protect industrial equipment from over-pressurisation. |
Why is it some people stay in shape with no exercise while others have to constantly exercise to stay fit? | If we are equating 'stay in shape' and 'stay fit' here with physical strength, endurance and stamina then there are no humans who can do that without exercise. You either build muscle through exercise, whether that is skeletal through weights or smooth muscle through cardio, or you don't. If we equate 'stay in shape' and 'stay fit' with lower bodyfat percentage, then one group is eating more calories than they need over time. |
Why isn't HTML5 taking over Adobe Flash on streaming sites? | I removed Flash from my system, and I keep running into big sites, like major news networks, who haven't switched to HTML5 and want me to install Flash. Seriously, folks. It's 2016. Upgrade your sites already. |
How do countries with nukes know they'll still work if tried to be used? Is there some kind of shelf life? | They do regular missile tests, randomly choosing a few missiles to fire at a prearranged target and then seeing how effectively they're working. Missiles are reasonably complex pieces of hardware, so it's expected that some of them won't work properly. As long as that number is below whatever percentage the military deems critical in the tests, it's assumed that the missiles are sufficient.I have no idea about the electrical components. But in fission bombs, tritium is used as a neutron source, a kind of kick starter. Where uranium and plutonium have half lives in the thousands or tens of thousands of years, the half life of tritium is only a little more than 12. A significant amount of upkeep cost is actually the manufacture of tritium, disassembly of of the missile and replacement of the tritium. It was actually one of the avenues that could potentially lead to denuclearization of fission bombs. Stop the global production of tritium and you eliminate a significant amount of the global stockpile. |
It's been 12 years since the tallest roller coaster was built. Is there a limit to roller coaster heights, or what is the reason why there hasn't been more competition? | It's probably twofold: The economy sucks. Theme parks are a bit of a luxury good - > people are less inclined to pour money in to them during hard times. I'm pretty sure that whilst not technically impossible to build bigger rollercoasters, the cost gets exponentially higher as you get bigger. Would not at all be surprised if a rollercoaster 20% taller than the biggest one right now is like 100% more expensive to build. TL;DR: $$$ |
What is a third eye? | In terms of anatomy, a third eye is a light sensitive patch of skin that is part of the brain of some animal species. It's probably used to regulate circadian rhythm as well as hormone production to regulate body temperature. It is called a parietal eye if it can sense light.Here's a couple Wikipedia links for any more info:_URL_1URL_0_ /u/CompMolNeuro explains it fairly well if you're not talking about anatomy. It's concept that's supposed to give you the ability to see things beyond normal sight. Stuff like astral projection and other stuff like that.. |
Why do people tie shoe laces and toss them over power lines? | I once saw a a pair of skates over a power line. It's Canada. It's what we do.Tofino BC, hundreds of pairs of shoes on wires beside skate park! _URL_2_There is a video called "The Mystery of Flying Kicks" that looks at possible answers to this very question. _URL_3_', "It's mostly has r.i.p on them a sign of respect for a Fallin friends |
Why do some retail stores want 3+ years experience for a position that doesn't require much experience, such as a cashier? | Because the last 10 people they hired were deadbeats who didn't show up for work and were rude to customers. If you find someone who was able to hold a job for 3 years, that's a step up. |
In C#, what's the difference between classes and methods? | I'm majoring in InfoSec so I would be of no help to you friend. Sorry. By the way, [this] is what I think programmers do. |
Why doesn't Mexico just legalize Marijuana to cripple the drug cartels? | Your asking why the Cartels don't cripple themselves?", 'Wars on drugs are not about the drugs. The war part allows the government to use extraordinary powers to take action as long as drugs are involved. Having a constant low level of war lets them slowly steal rights from citizens. America has had a war on drugs for years and now a war on terror to steal even more rights. Legalizing drugs would take away the instrument of controlPeople like it when their heads stay attached to their bodies.In 2009 they did for small amounts, of almost anything. _URL_2_ The drug cartels aren't making Mexican money, they are making American money. |
How do astronomer's know the density/weight of stars? | Stars are giants balls of mostly hydrogen that are so massive, atomic nuclei in they core get crushed together, releasing tremendous energy in a process called fusion. We understand the physics of fusion quite well. We know how big a ball of gas has to be before fusion can occur, we know how quickly the reaction will occur, how much energy and what kind of elements will be produced. These are all things we can measure from earth. We can also double check these against some binary stars. A star's mass determines how quickly they orbit one another. If we can measure the distance and the orbital period of a binary star, we know the mass of both stars. |
Why can't files (documents, pictures, presentations etc.) open in some program be moved to a new folder while they're open? | That depends on the program. The operating system provides the ability for a program to lock the file when open, not all programs do this. A program will do this if it's going to flush content to the file, like if your document editor has an auto-save feature, for example. |
Why are untested medical treatments not allowed to be used when no known treatments work and the patient is sure to die? | Simply put: Side Effects. I know what you're thinking 'but the patient's going to die anyway'. Sure, but that's not what I'm referring to. For example, let's say we make a drug that causes a cell to make a specific type of protein. Let's call this protein YOLOp. This protein kills a specific virus. Let's call this virus YOLOv. GREAT! That's the desired outcome right? Game over? Not quite. Now what if YOLOp also indirectly increases the virulence of another virus . OHNOv origin story: He used to be a simple little bugger that everyone on Earth has in there normal flora. OHNOv is on your face, it's in your favorite yogurt, and it's even in Grandma's dentures. But it's all good, because OHNOv is benign, he's friendly. He's practically best friends with your body's cells. No harm no foul, he's just living on your body rent free. That is until YOLO drug creates YOLOp inside your dying patient to stop YOLOv but ultimately changes OHNOv instead. Patient lives , but *oh no*, OHNOv is now mutated and is incubating inside your patient. OHNOv subsequently turns into HANNIBALv. HANNIBALv escapes your patient and makes it out into the population. He goes from person to person mutating their previously friendly OHNOv into clone copies of himself. When there's enough HANNIBALv's in your patient's body, they begin to devour him from the inside out. And the same thing happens to everyone your patient infected, and everyone they infected. UNTIL THE WORLD IS INFECTED! And then, the Walking Dead happens in real life. Obviously this is exaggerated, but the general point: We don't skip steps in medication testing for fear of incidentally causing an epidemic. 7-15 years has been the norm time it takes for drug to make it to market. Not because of politics or monetary gains but because of fear of tampering with a technology that we still to this day do not know much about. |
Why does my nose get blocked every morning? | It's very possible that you have an allergy to dust mites. They are found in nearly all pillows and bedding. I have this allergy and wake up with congestion/runny nose if I do not use a prescription nasal spray before bed. Pillow/mattress covers are also made to help keep the little guys out of your nasal passages. _URL_0_", 'Ive found taking antihistamines alleviates it alot. benadryl or the like. Problem is it only lasts 4 hours so i end up being stuffed up anyway. Need to find a 24 hour version of that. |
Bailouts, what they are, and why they are so outrageous. | Basically, the government deems a large corporation too large/important to fail . So they give them money so that they *don't* fail. You should care because it's your money, as a tax payer, that they are giving to the companies. Basically, a short summary of the other two comments. |
Why have we stuck with binary for computers? | If you want to play around with the idea of ternary computing, try [Tunguska]. There's no reason why ternary computers cannot be created, but there's no market for them at the moment, which is why you're using a binary computer. Plus, ternary computing is a different animal, and there's a very small pool of people who have any grasp whatsoever of the idea. I submit that you'd never know the difference, though, unless you are coding in assembly or C or some suitably low-level language. When and if we switch to ternary, average folks might see performance boosts here and performance drops there, but most changes would be under the hood. |
How does tor bypass network logging? | It does have to come back to your network, but you only see your connection to the next layer of the onion. You don't see the actual destination. |
How does the current self-driving cars know to do the more 'complicated' things like starting up at a green light or yielding at a 2 way stop. | The most complicated scenarios are driving in snow where you can't see the lines and when a traffic light is out and a cop is directing traffic and each cop's signals are different. Because of these situations automatic driving cars will always need a human to take over in some scenarios.Following basic traffic rules is not hard to program. The real trick is programming the light is green, I am cleared to go but the idiot that has the red light is about to run it, best apply the breaks.What about the case when there's a power outage? |
Why do American keyboards, for the most part, not have accented letter shortcuts, when many words have accented letters (which have been adopted from other languages)? | I like to imagine that when designing the QWERTY keyboard the originator took into account how often those accents versus other characters and symbols are used when typing US English. I can't remember the last time I've needed to use an accent on a word and I spend a majority of each day typing. |
Do I really need to change my oil every 3000 miles? | Ignore what the oil companies tell you, go by your cars instruction manual. For a newer car, it's probably 6-12k depending on how you drive and whether you use synthetic oil or not. |
Why is it still so difficult to definitively determine the source of major rivers like the Nile and Yellow River? | You watched Top Gear. They stage most of their stuff. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but I think it's about watching the guys be really dicky to each other. |
Why does listening to depressing music when you're depressed make you feel better? | Depressing music matches your mood, justifies it by giving you something to related to, and levels you out. Also, when I'm anxious, I'll listen to heavy, aggressive music and it calms me. Music is medicine. |
Why can't Android be installed on an iOS device, and vice versa? | Actually, Android does run on an iPhone. There was a proof of concept back with the iPhone 3G when, I believe it was planetbeing, ran an Android 2.x version on an iPhone. Didn't work too well but it is possible in very certain situations. |
Can water expire? If so, how? | Water is a solvent, it's the universal solvent and like most solvents, if you put it in contact with something, it will tend to try to dissolve it. The shelf life of potable water depends on what it is stored in. The material needs to be resistant to corrosion and solvents otherwise the water will leech chemicals and minerals out of it making the water unpure and weakening the container. Other than that, and conditions around where it's stored, if it's kept sterile or allowed to grow algae etc, water basically has unlimited shelf life. If it's stored in an approved container, kept out of sunlight to prevent algae blooms, and kept sterile it will last indefinitely. All the water on the planet right now is pretty much all there ever was. It gets recycled constantly whether it's water in a meteor, the moist exhaled breath of Julius Caesar, or in your fish tank, it's old water. Billions of years old.Water doesn't expire but in the US they put a date on the bottle because of New Jersey which has a law requiring all food products to carry an expiration date of no more than 2 years from manufacture/packaging. It's just easier to put the date in all bottles and they are considered "best by" everywhere else. As long as the container remains intact it will last. |
Why do people keep 'black books' if the information could harm them? | It's so you can blackmail the other party? and/or it's a record of the transactions/deals that were made. |
what is the kind of skill required to be an F1 driver? What really makes the greats like Senna, Lauda and others? | Old Top Gear did some clips on this, in particular, Hammond had a go in the Renault F1 car and he described the challenges he had as a mere mortal and what's required of an F1 driver. It will be on youtube somewhere. |
How did we evolve to be hairless if being naked in large parts of the planet would lead to death from exposure? | The simplest explanation is the fact that human males are attracted to [neotenous] females, and primate infants have little body hair. Human infants take a lot of effort to raise - more than a single female could do during most of our evolution - so she needed help from the father. The female who got the highest quality father for her children would have had more healthy offspring living to have children of their own. Because males prefer young looking females, the females with baby faces and little body hair got to marry the chief, while the hairy, masculine females got to marry the dungheap tender . Sexual selection is a very strong driver of evolution . If you add this up for a few hundred thousand years, the effect really accumulate. So, why aren't we entirely bald? What's up with that patch on top of the skull? Well, any bald guy will be able to answer you that one. Without a full head of hair, and without hat making technology, you'd have to stay in the shade for most of the day in the sunny east african climate where we evolved. Now trying to explain why people have hairless bodies turns into an attempt to explain why males prefer neotenous females. I wonder if it is because of the extremely heavy investment in raising offspring. A male can really nuke his evolutionary success by investing in raising another guy's child, so perhaps this is why the 'virgin' look became attractive to males. Another explanation might be the fact that human females lose their fertility about halfway through their natural life span. This is unlike any other primates - female chimpansees typically remain fertile until they die of old age. The younger your spouse, the more time you have with her to produce offspring. Of course there's a chicken or egg question there. Did males develop a preference for young looking females because older ones are less fertile, or did fertility in old age get lost in human females because quality males weren't into older females anyway? |
Does making eye contact go against your biological instincts (in cases where you're not trying to be threatening)? | Eye contact is certainly a form of aggression in most mammals. The eyes are called 'the window to the soul' for a reason. Our eyes developed a large white area so we can better communicate and understand what another person is looking at, whether it be a threat or food or anything else needed. So the idea that we are working against biology by making eye contact is wrong, because we are a much more social species that needs the ability to understand what another person is noticing. Compare our eyes to monkeys and apes, who have all black eyes with no white sclera. They aren't as social as humans and want to mask their intentions, while humans do not. |
How can U.S. Police Forces and Marshall's seize enormous amounts of personal cash and property without due process without being immediately challenged for violating the 4th Amendment? | The same reason every other institutionalized egregious miscarriage of justice goes on unchecked: we allow it to. We continue to re-elect politicians who vote for laws like this to begin with, and then continue to support them. Short of an actual armed invasion, you don't wake up one morning and the country is suddenly being run by fascists. Rather, people vote fascists into office and then continue to re-elect them. We impose it on ourselves. |
- the full relationship between Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher. | It's fairly simple. Jean-Picard is God. Beverly Crusher - Virgin Mary. Wil Weaton - Jesus. |
How are there so many "obvious" errors on the engraving of the Stanley Cup? | Human error is always a factor, and often with engraving you can't fix an error. /u/Zombietimm explains how the mistake may have happened. I'm pretty sure the Rugby World Cup base sheath is replaced and re-engraved regularly to preserve the consistency, without doing this you're virtually guaranteed to have some imperfections after enough time. It looks like the Stanley Cup lists all the team members or something which would make re-engraving it massively more expensive, those bottom sheaths are huge and would be big bucks to replace just to fix some small errors. source: am an engraver. |
In the U.S., why is milk sold in gallons, but soda is sold in a 2 liter? | Milk doesn't go flat. They tried soda in 3lt bottles but people complained the soda was flat before they could finish it. |
Being so close to the south-pole, why doesn't it snow in South Africa or Australia? Southern Chile? | They aren't that close, really. Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, the southernmost cities in South Africa, are about as close to the South Pole as Los Angeles or Beirut are to the North Pole. Australia goes a bit further south, so that Hobart, Tasmania is comparable to, for example, Marseilles in France. South America goes a lot further south, and I believe southern Chile and Argentina do have regular snow.You 've been tricked by the Mercator Projection. _URL_0_ That's what happens when you try to map a round planet onto a flat surface. Greenland and Africa look to be about the same size, but Africa is really 14 times larger than Greenland. Also, since there's "just water" in between South Africa and Antarctica, your mind stores that information as one barrier. Whereas, someone else mentioned the distance from Los Angeles to the North Pole is about the same, but there you think "well, first I have to travel ALL of the USA, and then ALL of Canada, to get to the North Pole."It snows in southern chile.. wtf you on?I live in Hobart and it snowed on the mountain here this morning. There have also been days this winter when people were snowed in in various places around the state.As everyone has mentioned in this thread, they're not really close at all. Our common map projections tend to vastly inflate the size of the poles and things close to it and make Africa and a lot of the southern hemisphere look smaller than they are. See XKCD's fun with [map projections]. You're also equating the content of Antartica with the pole. The arctic region is just as large, but it can be hard to visualize on a map without a landmass equated to it. |
Why does every other church (and some old banks) put "First" in front of their name? | My high school is called 'First High School of - Girls' The explanation given to me is that it's the first girls' high school in my city. ", 'Thank you for asking this. I was thinking about this on my drive to work about a week agoIt's because "Baptist Church" doesn't have the same I WAS HERE FIRST, BICHES feel. |
Why are Back to the Future-esque self tying shoes not common place yet? | If you watch the Abstract episode featuring Tinker Hatfield, you'll get some insight into Nike's attempt at that technology. In short: it ain't as easy as it looks. |
Why do printers do "something" for 1-2 minutes each time I want to print a paper that prints in 5 seconds? | It's a scam by the printer companies to sell more ink. Unclogging the nozzles by using more ink, depleting it so you have to buy more. |
Why is the US banking system so ancient? Why have they not adopted new technologies yet? | maybe just your bank? my bank has had online transfers for years. my credit card's been smart chipped for years too. |
If my kids are vaccinated, how are non-vaccinated kids a threat to them? | Not all people should be vaccinated, especially with attenuated organisms which could still cause harm to them. Now, you have a group of people which cannot be vaccinated, and another group of people who are immunocompromised and will have a hard time fighting off an illness regardless. You have these two groups of people who will be susceptable to these diseases, but for all intents and purposes they will still have low risk of aquiring the disease. The reasons for this are that they will generally be maintained in a cleaner environment due to existing issues, and the community around them is vaccinated, thus not carrying the disease. When you add in a new population which is susceptible to the disease, but has no additional safeguards against it, there is a high risk of them getting the disease. Now this disease is present in the otherwise healthy community giving it more freedom of movement to infect those who are unable to be vaccinated. Another thing is vaccinated or not a persons immune system can become depressed during sickness from a cold or other source. During these times if they come into contact with someone who is hot with a disease they are vaccinated against they still may be susceptible. People can also spread a disease for much longer than contact with an environmental source would cause. This means that if Tim and Sally both are exposed to mumps for a short period and Tim is vaccinated, he will fight off the infection and unvaccinated Sally will not. Tim comes down with a cold which is all well and good till he goes to visit Sally, who is recovering from a full blown infection. Now Tim cannot fight off the disease and in turn becomes full blown infected as well, further drawing out the active infection for the mumps in the community. Before long the mumps infection begins spreading quickly behind the spread of the cold through the school and an entire school of vaccinated children has come down with a disease that can be very severe. All because Sally's mom didn't believe in vaccinating. |
Why we can't just fly to the edge of the atmosphere in a plane then light off a rocket to boost it to a stable orbit? | I think we already do this with booster rockets being what would be the planes flying the rocket to the atmosphere. Just adding another sentence so this doesn't get deleted right away. |
Why the US has 2 major political parties while most other nations have several? | The US has a winner-take-all system. Most other democracies have a proportional system, where if you get X% of the vote, you get X% of the parliament. The proportional system allows for many parties - when no major party has a majority of the parliament, it needs to go to minor parties for support, so with as little as 5-10% of the vote a minor party can have a voice in the government and get its issues on the agenda. In the US, a party with 5-10% support nationally would have nothing, and the third parties aren't even close to that - usually more like 0.5-1%. |
How do homeless people register to vote, get a drivers license, or fill out forms that require an address? | To be fair, many just don't. Some jurisdictions and states have been active in attempting to put up roadblocks to voter registration for various risk populations. This is a matter of debate and controversy. Certain voter registration legislation that has been proposed in some places include such requirements as already having the driver's license, or they do not allow for a PO box to be used. It affects not just homeless, but working poor as well, or non-native English speakers. But in places that do not have such restrictions they do use a PO box, a relative's address, church address, shelter address, etc. as mentioned above. When I worked for a county public health office and was doing TB testing in homeless shelters, the shelters I visited provided mail services to their clients. |
Why do we tilt our head/eyes to one side when thinking or trying to remember about something? | This happens often when you are talking to someone and are trying to remember some detail of the story you are telling. The human brain has an amazing capacity of distinguishing between faces, but it comes at a cost of a lot of attention and focus required when looking at that person.The brain is almost captivated by their face. Looking away breaks this captivation and makes it much easier to remember by focusing more on the story rather than the person's face that you're talking to. Turning the head would to the side would focus on the face even less helping you focus even better.When trying to recall honestly people look up and to the left. While trying to be deceitful people look up and to the right. It depends on which part of the brain we are trying to use. Analytical opposed to imaginative. |
Why do some things melt when heat is added, such as ice, and others harden, such as clay? | Your premise here is incorrect. Clay will melt just fine if you add enough heat to it. Of course, for water the melting temperature is 0 degrees celsius. For clay that temperature can be well over a couple thousand . In fact, *most* substances will melt when you get them to their melting temperature. Again, water's just happens to be an easily accessible one. |
Why is one person more prone to mosquito bites than another? | I got piss drunk while sleeping outside, only one nottoget bitten alive in the night. Mossies don't like drinking vodka and arak. |
Why the American Public School System is so highly funded, yet so poor in overall performance. | The district north of me has the absolute highest amount of money spent per student and the absolute worst test scores in the entire state. Sometimes money isn't the problem. Find some school report cards and look over them, they have very interesting information.How the money is spent is often a contentious debate and a sore spot for many tax payers. The most common fininical figure that I read about/hear on the local news is total dollars spent on each classroom - grouping the kids is an easier way to comprehend the money spent rather than trying to calculate the expenses per child. A new football stadium that seats say up to 3000 people for a high school can cost millions of dollars. School administrators can then continue to say that $xxx,xxx was spent on each classroom of kids in a particular year. Continual reinvestment of infrastructure is important. If you have a dilapidated building or a school that really has not been updated since 1962, the surrounding community will not attract the wealthier tax payers. So it is somewhat cyclical. So all that being said, those millions that are reinvested into physical things really do not do anything for the furthering of education of the student body. If you want higher test scores in your local schools, if you want higher graduation rates, etc. say no/vote no to schools taking out bonds to build multimillion dollar stadiums. Demand that schools hire better teachers and demand that they pay them more. |
Is marijuana really less dangerous than tobacco and alcohol? | There was a document stating that scientists couldn't make animas OD on pot, so they said you would need to consume 15,000 lbs in 30 minutes to OD |
How does a Galaxy S4 cellphone cost $450 when a decent laptop costs $300? | There is no such thing as a 'decent' $300 laptop; when that cheap, they're shitty. |
Every planet is round, so why does earth have HUGE, DEEP dents full of water? | Every planet is round . also every planet is generally pretty fucked up on the surface. Mars has mountains and craters that make Earth's look like a joke.Mars and venus have the same type of elevation differences, they just dont have water. If you dumped water on them it would look very very similar to how earth is. There are just as deep places on other planets. We do have trenches though and thats due to our tectonic activityEarth is incredibly smooth. If Earth was shrunk down to the size of a bowling ball then it would be smoother than the bowling ball. As /u/Sand_Trout wrote, every planet had irregularities. Mars has [a mountain that is 21km tall].Planets are generally not round nor smooth. Even if you 'smoothed out' the topographical features of the Earth, for example, it's not really round. It's slightly bulging around the equator and slightly squashed at the poles. Even a marble isn't perfectly round if you magnify it. |
what's happening in my brain when I'm reading something while thinking about something else and not retaining anything I've read. | Your question contained the answer. Your eyes have been trained to track the lines of text. You aren't focused on the words, and don't retain anything you've read. |
We don't have veins running EVERYWHERE under our skin, right? So why independent of the place of the cut, we always bleed? | Our veins run from anywhere our body needs blood. i.e. any part of our bodies that isn't a finger nail. Our tissues need nutrients, but they also need a way to get rid of waste. |
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