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How does fast charging (like on the new Galaxys) work and why did it only just come out? | Fast charging isn't something explicitly new. Most phones can get something comparable. For example, the newest iPhones support 12V charging and can get over 60% in 30 minutes. The Nexus can also do something similar. What Samsung does is probably cut down on the stuff the phone does whole charging, so it will charge f... |
Why are most jetliners painted white? | My dad homebuilt a plane, and one thing he told me is that a lot of planes are white because when a plane's in the air, the sun is more intense and that dark paint can make parts of the aircraft get too hot. Granted, this was a single engine thing made of fiberglass, I don't know if the same applies to jetliners. |
Why isn't volume on electronics universally measured? | There is a standard scale for measuring volume, which is decibels. It's not usually used on consumer electronics, though, because a major factor in how loud something sounds is the acoustics of the room the device is in. You and I could have identical tvs in our different living rooms, set them both to a volume of 12, ... |
Why is it when I have a really good stretch, sometimes my leg will shake? | Agh dude, sometimes I'll stretch and it will feel like my own little high for a few seconds. Best thing ever. I just had to say that. |
How did the guy on America's Got Talent swallow sugar and then water after that and regurgitate the sugar still dry with no water? | I'm not so sure he is actually swallowing them. If you go to 2:42 of [this link] you can see the lightbulb never went down. [pic]", 'Was anyone else immediately suspicious of the large microphone he was holding? When he went to "swallow" something, he put the microphone really close to his mouth , and again just as he ... |
Why is it that the United States can afford to keep giving financial assistance to countries when the United States itself is in $17 trillion dollars in debt? | Just because you borrow money doesn't mean you don't have any. In fact, by borrowing money you have more. |
Why do cereal and juice boxes all have "color swatches" under the tabs? | They are used by the packaging company to control their printing process. It doesn't consume much ink, but offers a constant data point of how correct the color reproduction and printing alignment is.When these packages are printed through an Offset Printer, each color is printed independently. So, these **swatches** a... |
Why are people afraid? Why are some people
fearless? | We are born with two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noises. All other fears are learned. People become afraid of certain things because they have learnt to associate them with a bad event. For example, if a baby hears a dog barking loudly it will trigger the fear in loud noises and will make that person scared... |
Why is virtualising servers efficient? | There are huge advantages as far as server *management* goes. You're right that there's some overhead from the host's operating system, but this is more than made up for by the many, many advantages of virtualization, including prototyping and testing, the ability to implement virtual networks and devices on one machin... |
How does the US providing weapons and military training to "forces" in the Middle East benefit the US? | We provide weapons to either those that support us,. Or at least oppose those who we hate. In the 60's we gave weapons to the Muslim fighters because while we didnt really like the muslims, we liked that they were opposed to the Russians that were invading. Then later, the Russians dissipated and the Muslim fighters ke... |
Why do MMA fighters peak at an older age than sports like American Football, Baseball, and Hockey? | You should rethink your comparison first. Why compare average pro age to champions age? Compare average mlb /nhl/NFL/nba age to average ufc fighter age. Not positive as I don't follow ufc but I think your original comparison is flawed. Maybe compare MVP's of those leagues to the UFC champs. Barry bonds won MLB MVP at t... |
- Courtroom sketches - why are these a thing? | Because a sketch is similar to a photograph. And people want to see what's happening inside the courtroom. I don't get how you can be baffled by this. |
How come when your body does natural things like get a fever, swell after injury etc. we try to reverse that? | We have better ways of fighting infections than our bodies have developed naturally, and generally your body overreacts to things. In the case of a particularly bad fever, it's like burning your house down to fight a roach infestation. Yes, you killed the roaches, but now you don't have a house. Antibiotics and other m... |
Why do most public servants (ie Police and Firefighters) vote republican? | They have to deal with a segment of society every day that you and I never encounter. It's not the best segment of society. Everyone they meet all day long breaks the rules and takes advantage of the system in place to help the those in need. From their prospective liberal social policies are obviously misguided.It's a... |
Why do we ignore obviously mentally ill homeless people when they should be in some type of treatment? | Because of a Supreme Court case in 1975 , the mentally ill cannot be held involuntarily unless they have been determined to be a danger to themselves or others. Unfortunately the nature of severe mental illness is that people do not know or believe that there is anything wrong with them, and therefore many mentally ill... |
Why aren't fines associated with traffic tickets and municipal violations income-based? | I believe that there are European countries that do this, but can't remember if it was one of the Nordic countries, Switzerland, or Liechtenstein. Just remember the story of some real rich guy who got fined several thousand for going 5-10mph over the limit based on his income. |
Why is it that if you lick or spit on something, your saliva smells pretty bad, but it doesn't necessarily taste bad to kiss someone? | You're confusing taste and smell. Dentists say that the best way to know if your breath smells bad is to lick the back of your hand and then smell it. The smell of the inside of our mouth is a result of the numerous bacteria and dead food particles on our tongue and between our teeth. The worse the hygiene, the worse t... |
why are a vast majority of vinyl records on black vinyl, when coloured vinyl is possible and looks really good? | Part of this could be the time spent arranging the pellets for a special colored record. If you have to make a black record, you take the vinyl pellets and make sure you aren't using too many or too few per record because it's all one color. Making a solid colored record would also probably be just as simple since only... |
What makes marijuana smoke safer than cigarette smoke? | While it has carcinogens, marijuana apparently has fewer then tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke also paralyzes the cilia that move mucus up out of the lungs, while marijuana actually stimulates them acting as an expectorant. On top of this, the resin that accumulates from marijuana smoke is NOT like the tar that accumulates... |
When and why did the US military change their camouflage to the more "pixelated" design that soldiers currently wear? | To follow up on the posts here, the Army did away with ACU's a few years ago and now uses Multicam. The ACU's sucked, ripped easily, didn't blend into anything at all, and were pretty much hated. They are using multicam until they can find something better. The Marines still use DCU's and they are great. Comfortable, w... |
Is there real scientific evidence that marijuana has significant medicinal properties or is unreliable information being promoted in the interest of legalization? | There isn't much evidence. There is anecdotal evidence that it helps things like seizures, but there's about as much as there is supporting homeopathy and acupuncture. That's the biggest reason why there have been next to no doctors advocating in favor of medical marijuana. Ultimately, the most physicians can say is th... |
What is programming in non-English languages like? | I'm American but spent most of my life in Poland. In high school I had computer science classes with Java programming. The syntax is absolutely the same. There is no translation that I know of for Java into Polish, so we still write System.out.println instead of System.wyjście.druklinii However, when the native languag... |
Why do two negative numbers yield a positive number when multiplied together? | This may be more than a 5 year old could handle, but I scrolled through quickly and didn't find a proof. I will give a simple one. I'm assuming you're comfortable with variables? Nothing more than high school algebra here! Let x and y be numbers. Let's look at this expression: - Now, remember the distributive property ... |
My tax return is only $450, while non-working families get a huge return from claiming children. | Didn't work, but get a tax return? You get a tax return by paying too much in taxes. So what taxes were they paying if they didn't work? |
How can you be diagnosed with autism at the age of 2? | Children tend to follow typical developmental milestones. Some children will have a few delays. Some will have global delays. Children with Autism typically show specific delays in specific areas. At age 2, the things you would look for include: *Functional use of language. Not just repetition or singing, but language ... |
Why does a car steer with its front wheels, while an aeroplane steer with its tail rudder? | From what I know , the front wheels of small planes, like Cessnas, are connected with rudder pedals, that's why when they're turning, the rudder is turning too, but they're steering with the front wheels.Don't know how it is with bigger planes. |
Why do so many people hate Apple products? | My personal hate for them is that nothing uses the universal standard. You can't plug an HDMI cable into it, or VGA, even Ethernet cable .instead you have to buy a fucking converter for the thing to be able to use it properly. That, and their fanboys. Edit: and their DRM. Re-edit: their fans suck too . |
What makes CRISPR a *synthetic* biology innovation? | Although we've been able to assemble and modify DNA that we added to cells for years, it has always been a challenge to modify the DNA already in cells . With CRISPR technology, we now have a robust, programmable, and simple to use set of tools to introduce genetic changes to cell genomes. Such changes include knockout... |
why are almost all newborn creatures so "cute" to us? | Carl Jung would say you see the [child archetype](_URL_0_ within yourself projected on them. Basically, we have memories of being children in our subconscious and when we encounter children in the world, we see our memories of our childhood in them. It's also why people who hate/dislike children have a strong tendency ... |
If the human body is around 70% water, how come we don't have pure H2O in our bodies? | Our cells are essentially little bags of water with various solutes dissolved in them. That's pretty much how we function: chemical reactions in solution in little bags of water contained by phospholipid membranes. There is a whole lot more to it than that of course, by for eli5 purposes it's a decent description. |
Why was it so easy to find employment in the late 20th century? | Which period of the late 20th Century in which country, 1980's for instance in many countries it was very difficult. |
How did Coral, which cannot tolerate a temperature change of 1 degree Celsius, manage to survive Earths changing climatic history? | Because that is a false statement. Coral is remarkably hardy and can live in certain conditions that were previously thought imposssible. A newer discovered coral reef along the Amazon river delta is changing our previous assumptions about coral too. Its polluted, murky and generally not the place anyone expected to fi... |
How does a bird swallow a fish whole/live without it flopping around in its stomach? | If you've ever seen a bird shake it a few times first, you've seen it either knock out or kill something before swallowing it. Chicken beaks are sharp enough to injure an animal. Eagle talons are super sharp and fill the little critter with holes. Those are some ways. Idk how fish like bass or catfish pull it off, but ... |
[META]: Hey guys! "Read-it"'s ELI5 Subreddit just made it on CNN! | With the proportion of CNN's interest stories taken from reddit, you'd think they'd know how to say it. |
Keyless entry; what's stopping someone from hitting unlock on the door as I walk away but am still in range of the car? | Lack of range. Mine won't work if the key fob is more than about 2 feet from a door. |
Why do some playgrounds use woodchips for flooring? Aren't they kind of dangerous? | I am actually curious about the rules and regulations behind playground flooring and build in general. Seems like it is a bureaucratic shitshow. During elementary they playgrounds went from sand to bark/woodchips. Then a newer playground had these rubber matts. And now years later I see that the oldest playground also ... |
Why does putting your car remote against your head increase the range in which you can unlock a car? | I've done a bit of testing, and as far as I can tell it's just that you're holding the car keys up higher that gives a longer range. Holding keys at head height vs having the tip of the key against your head has no difference.i like the explanation with the loop antenna, and the fact, that when you point it like a tv r... |
How do millionaires and billionaires make sure their accountants, lawyers and doctors don't charge them unreasonably high rates? | Many rich people are ripped off by their help. Think of all the articles you've seen of embezzlement. . |
Why are wounded soldiers always thirsty? | Well, he did fight a lot in the desert. And when you are fighting you don't carry that much water on you. Most of that stuff is held at your base camp. Since fighting is hard work and lots of those people were bleeding, I could see why they were so thirsty. |
CyanogenMod for Android, What is it and why do so many people like it? | I think the main reason CM got really big is with the release of CM7 for Gingerbread. It made a huge load of older devices able to run Gingerbread, without any lag-inducing bloat. I remember being shocked with the speed my DHD could offer when it wasn't running Sense. It still remains pure, although it's now more custo... |
Why does even the shittiest Porn site have a better player than Youtube? | In the past, I have found that sometimes, ISP provided DNS handles youtube in funny ways. For better results, consider using google's dns as your dns settings. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4_URL_1_ |
Is it possible for ghosts to exist? | It's pretty much impossible for ghosts to exist, or at the very least there are many, many questions that need to be answered. The most important question that needs to be answered is what are these ghosts made of? If they're made of atoms, what elements are they made of, and why are they invisible? And how do these at... |
Why do OTC medicines go by age instead of pounds? | Many medications function independent of a person's weight . You also have to consider that a drug company releasing ibuprofen for instance does not know basic information like medication history, tolerance to medication and health status, and therefore has to use a relatively safe baseline dose that's demonstrated to ... |
How to gaming companies miss big bugs and glitches even after test runs? | I'll respond from the point of view of a programmer: Programming code can get very complicated very quick, especially when multiple programmers are working on the same program. While good coding standards and practices sometimes help alleviate issues like spaghetti code and such, human errors can still be introduced in... |
Why speakers on stage (Floor Monitors) face the performer and not the audience | So they can hear themselves. Especially helpful for the singer to ensure pitch. There are plenty of amps facing outward but they are usually to the side of the stage. The bigger an amp is the more directional it can be, so being to the side you can't hear as clear.So they can hear themselves. Otherwise, the sound bounc... |
What is the actual threat of the Yellowstone super volcano? | Vast, but remote. Vast in the sense that it will do almost incalculable damage to at least the northern hemisphere, and probably most of the world. Remote in the sense that though it could happen almost at any time, that encompasses a lot of time - so the actual chances of it happening while you're alive are slim. Why ... |
Do electrons really travel through a wire? | The electrons are moving, but this happens relatively slowly. Energy gets passed from electron to electron and this happens at near the speed of light, the electrons don't have to move much for this to happen. With the people on train analogy, it's like the person at the back pushing everyone forwards. The person at th... |
Why is the USA not a signatory to the International Criminal Court treaty? How is the rest of the world okay with this? | I'll put it in very simple terms:What is the rest of the world going to do about it?Right. |
Why does everyone want to move to Canada when their country falls on hard times? | I moved to Canada from a shit hole country. The reason why we chose Canada was basically, as far as we knew, *people didn't hate us for moving there.* I mean yes, a country with public health care, tax breaks and subsidies for home buyers and parents, and a general improvement of QOL that basically means anyone could l... |
Why don't developers in California, and other drought-stricken areas of the U.S., have to include solar panels and drought-resistant landscaping, as well as water-efficient appliances, in all new buildings? | Because the current way is cheaper. Not everyone can afford solar or to convert a yard that way. I'd agree with the landscaping, but solar like you said costs more which will likely price those houses out of their target market. Developers don't develop to be ecologically sound. They develop to turn a profit and keep t... |
Why do many economists view basic income as a solution? Wouldn't it simply increase the price of most goods based on simple economics? | Inflation happens when an increase in demand causes producers to raise prices. But if you are a producer, and are suddenly getting more orders, you might not reflexively raise prices. You will likely only do it if you are at full capacity and don't have much competition. This is happening in college and healthcare mark... |
Why are so many Americans in favor of illegal immigration? | As a Mwxican I don't care if USA wants to tighten their borders, it's their right to do it, but I care about being called a rapist and a criminal, for no reason, most people jumping the border are parents who want to give their kids a better future. I'm single I can live with a job that pays $10/day, people with kids p... |
Why does the water in the toilet bowl go frothy when I pee? | Proteins from shed epithelial cells in your urethra, trace bacteria and potentially your blood cells increase the surface tension of the mixture of water and urine, allowing it to froth when it is combined in the bowl. If it's extremely frothy, that is a symptom of illness, as is turbidity. |
If wars are so good for industry in the US, why does the stock market tank when we're about to start one? | Forget about the notion that the stock market goes down the economy is bad and the stock market is up the economy is good. While stocks are based off of the economy, the important thing to remember is that stocks are generally traded by people with feelings and emotions. The reason stocks go up or down is directly affe... |
how (in) effective is the "pull out" method as a form of birth control? | The Pearl-index is precisely what you're looking for. The pull out method has a Pearl-index of 4-18, which means that if 100 women were to use this method for the entirety of one year, 4-18 of them would become pregnant. A lot more and detailed information is easily available on the web. Don't they teach you these thin... |
What is the source code of a game? Why was the golden disk so valuable? | Your grandma has a special index card that has the recipe for her famous apple pie that has all the specifics written down on it: what ingredients, how much, how long to bake, etc. The thing is, she has only ever shown this recipe to those close to her, such as your mom who helps her make it whenever your family goes t... |
Why are water mains buried beneath streets? | It it were above the ground you'd trip over it :)", 'Cuz they would be hard to drive over if they were above ground.Water lines are typically buried beneath the frost line so they don't freeze. |
When we're having a nightmare, why do we wake up just as we're about to die? | Not really a nightmare, but last night I dreamt that I took a big hit off of a crack pipe and got really fucking high off crack. I don't know what being high on crack is supposed to feel like, but I was **really** fucking high off this dream crack. Like a combination of being really drunk and high off weed, without the... |
If a photon is massless, why is there (supposedly) a limit to its velocity? | You live in a 4 dimensional universe. Three dimensions are distance and one is time . The speed of light is the ratio of the distance in the temporal one, the one we call time, to the distance in the spacial ones, which we call distance. Every object exists as a unit velocity segment in this 4-space. Since a 4-space is... |
Monopolies are illegal, but I only have one choice for cable internet | Same here, I live in Hull, East Yorkshire and we only have one phone company who provide land lines and all internet. I wouldn't mind but they overcharge compared to the rest of the U.K and the service sucks. |
If fast food workers are fighting for $15/hour, doesn't this basically crush any benefit entry level graduates or professionals with a few years experience making 17-25 receive? | As someone who's experienced both the lows of restaurant work and the lowest end of the totem pole professionally , if wages are equal, I would rather do the professional work. Restaurant work is very stressful and physically tiring, and workers are generally treated like grunts by management. Restaurant workers deserv... |
What is the advantage to society in funding NASA? | Investment in NASA is investment in scientific research. There have been so many modern inventions that spun off from NASA research it's hard to even imagine. I did some googling and decided it'd be silly to try to just copy a list here, when I could just give you a [link to a list]. Additionally, research in space tec... |
Why couldn't space rockets land like Space-X? What is the significance of this new technology? | > Why couldn't other space rockets land like this? [This] is how the Space-X Falcon works. Simply put, it's extremely difficult to implement this: lots of moving parts, lots of complexity. Prior to this, the Space Shuttle was the functional model for a reusable space launch vehicle > What is the significance? The signi... |
Why does it require a bill to be passed in order for 9/11 victims to be allowed to sue Saudi Arabia? How does the process of suing a country work? | I still don't understand how the government of Saudi Arabia should be at all held responsible for 9/11. Were the terrorists acting under orders or funding from the Saudi Arabian government directly? |
In a Democracy, if nobody knows which candidate anyone else voted for, how do we know we can trust the results of an election? | We spread the responsibility for accurate vote counting out among many thousands of ordinary people, and have numerous security measures in place to make sure that votes aren't tampered with. We also know that the political risk of committing organized vote fraud is great enough that political parties rarely bother wit... |
Is it better to pop a zit or let it go away itself? | I don't have a technical explanation for you, but I tend to subscribe to the idea that the human body knows what its doing. If it wants to generate a bunch of ugly looking puss, then so be it. I'm not going to be sticking my figures in and interfering. Same reason I don't pick scabs. |
If you are slowly dunked into lava feet first when do you die? | I'm pretty sure the gas would kill you first, first breath must be like inhaling pure acid, there is no reasonable capacity to get oxygen left, your brain shuts down. src: _URL_1_ |
Why does Vimeo have higher quality videos, Youtube has medium quality, and Liveleak has low quality? | I think the difference lies in the business model. At least between the Vimeo and YouTube. Vimeo makes money from the creators themselves, who pay to have their content on the site. This raises the entry bar and makes it so that only videos that are above standard quality are worth uploading. YouTube makes money throug... |
This is not askreddit or science or askscience...if you don't know what the answer is, ask them, if you do but you're still confused, come here... | Sounds like you're judging people who don't know the answer to their question but still want an elementary school level explanation/answer. Such a mentality seems to be against the description of the subreddit over to the right. There doesn't seem to be anything in the rules that states you already have to have a grown... |
Why is it so much harder for women to achieve orgasm (vs men)? [NSFW] | Could it be that female primates mate with many males in succession and if she climaxed with the first male then ~~then~~ there won't be an incentive to mate thereafter, limiting her chance of getting the best genes? This line of thought is loosely based on the shape of the penis' head which is meant to remove competit... |
The Brony Phenomenon (Brony- young adult males that watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | TIL that guys watch 'My Little Pony'. My mind is blown.because it is /) ^ ε ^ ( |
Why is it legal for schools to make third party learning tools that have to also be paid for, mandatory. | If you're talking about college, why would it be illegal? I take it you're okay with them requiring you to pay tuition , or requiring you to buy textbooks. |
in the early centuries people died at around 30 but did they look like they were 30 today. | I get what you're asking about the physical appearance why would a 30yr old from 100 years ago look much older than a modern 30yr old? Several reasons including nutrition, sunscreen, dentistry, hygiene, etc. |
If a bot on reddit can read text on a meme, why can't they read captcha codes? | Text on a captcha code is designed specifically to be unreadable for automated text recognition systems. That's why it is slanted, curvy, laid over a grid, whatever it takes to turn the text into a squiggle that is unrecognisable to a computer, but a person can just make out.Fun fact: If you want to have a bot to break... |
What is the link between Alcohol & Petroleum? | so first off, Alcohol and petroleum are two different chemicals. You can get Alcohol from petroleum if you have a microorganism that can eat petroleum and convert it to alcohol. Just as we have microorganisms that convert sugar to alcohol. Secondly, Alcohol and gasoline both burn. Problem is, alcohol and gasoline burn ... |
How is the "golden ratio" or "Fibonacci's Sequence" used in music? | The Golden Ratio is derived from the Fibonacci Sequence. Here's an [interesting song] Thanks for the correction guys, and thanks to /u/over-sight for making the youtube video I linked. It's a great video, shame my mistake made this post less visible than it ought to have been.I heard that Debussy's "La Mer" is based on... |
National Debt and the financial state of a country | If you're trying to educate yourself, add these to the pot and stir it: * The **deficit** is this year's budget shortfall. Congress authorizes the spending of money on this project or that, but doesn't actually have the money to spend, so it must be borrowed. * The **debt** is the sum of the deficits -- the total amoun... |
How do high liquors makers (like scotch) forecast demand 6/8/12 years in the future? Is scotch really aged for that long or is it some magic marketing math? | To answer the supplemental question, remember that booze is very, very old, historically speaking. As a species, we were getting drunk almost before we were making bread. So once we figured out distillation we were pretty much gonna use it to get wasted. So liquor would originally have been consumed fairly shortly afte... |
How do we biologically "lose" energy as we age? | Cells are like tiny little earths in your body, they are lovely little peaceful worlds, but need to be taken care of with strict policing. Because of this fact, oxygen is jealous and wants to infiltrate the cell to find a home of it's own, but oxygen is a muslim and doesn't integrate well. All these god damn oxygens ev... |
Why can't they make showers that have temperature settings separate from the off/on valve since I need the same temperature water pretty much every day? | That's the way mine is. Love it. Delta Linden Monitor 17. I put that model in all three bathrooms. |
How does the human body metabolize stored fat? What can you do to help it metabolize at maximum efficiency (i.e. burn fat at greatest rate possible)? | Kinesiology student here Because of how fat is stored and how it has to be broken down into smaller metabolizable units, it takes longer to metabolize fat than carbohydrates, which are stored in the muscle and are more easily broken down into easily metabolizable units. This means that if you're metabolizing fat, your ... |
Why do auctioneers need to speak the way they do? It seems like 99% incomprehensible gibberish with some numbers in between. | There is a whole documentary about the world of auctioneering, there are people that take it really seriously and there are legends of auctioneering blew my mind and I actually got stuck watching it haha, can't remember what it was called though! |
Why do modern gamers expect backwards compatibility from their new gaming systems when it's never traditionally been a thing for consoles to have? | Backwards compatibility for games is expected because just because something was fun many years ago, it doesn't need to be no longer fun now . Backwards compatibility in general is simply a good idea - it's inherently wasteful having to reinvent the wheel every time the underlying system has changed again. Old Windows ... |
What happens if an pornographic actress stops consenting mid-shoot? Do they have to sign a contract where they say that they consent to a full "session"? | A contract doesn't matter as far as forcing her to finish. You can't compel specific performance on a personal service contract, sexual or otherwise. The fact that it's for a sex act doesn't matter, it would be the same for a magician's assistant getting sawed in half or a stage actor suspended in the air on a harness ... |
Why do we have nightmares? Do they serve any purpose? | Nightmares are simply a section of our overall dreaming, which is , the brain carrying on whilst the body sleeps. The fact some of them are bad is simply an inconvenience that we've had no reason to evolve away from. |
Why aren't news stations (local, national, international) required to cite sources? | Because asking for sources and punishing s newspaper if they are absent is a pathway for censorship. Who defines if it's enough of a source? The government? |
- Why are black boxes even a thing on modern airplanes? Why isn't all information that's traditionally found on a black box just continuously transmitted wirelessly? | Because until very recently that would require extremely expensive and complicated telemetry tools, and so none of the aircraft in existence were designed with those things in mind. It was easier to store it all locally on the aircraft and just protect the hell out of it. It's getting to the point now where it's possib... |
Why is it that i can have a clearly-formed sentence in a foreign language or accent in my head, but then have difficulty actually producing it? | In your head you can make any sound you want because you're not limited by your actual body. Try having a conversation in your head between Morgan Freeman and Lois Griffin. Now try it with your actual voice. |
Why do some stores (e.g. Gamestop) have multiple stores located in close proximity to each other? | Sometimes a store is kept just to keep a competitor out of a prime location. If there is a busy mall, busy shopping center, and busy downtown all in close proximity, it's better to operate three stores when the third store keeps a start up from capturing a prime location. |
What would happen if you tried to hug a wild Panda? | There are no domesticated pandas so .they're all wild. I hugged and picked up a baby one. Still alive to tell the tale. |
How did Newton invent physics and calculus? How does one simply "invent" a mathematic tool? | Mathematics is really a human language. Its our way of writing and explaining how adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, etc works. Think of it like Music. The sounds you hear exist naturally in the world, but musical theory and notation is our human invention or language that we use to describe it. It doesn't cha... |
How much do musicians ACTUALLY earn from streaming services? | There was an article about this: _URL_1_ Adjusting for those numbers Post would've made $1.52 Million. Of course there's a bit more complexity in terms of how the payout are calculated Paying customer stream vs add supported streams, demographics of listeners etc.CGP grey does a pretty god job of breaking down some of ... |
What is going on with Aliens: Colonial Marines | It took around 5 years to come out. People who like the Alien franchise were excited and it wasn't a very good game. I don't hate it, other people do. It has bad AI, it doesn't look very good, and mulitplayer isn't that great either. Alien controls are clunky and if the host quits, the game ends. |
Why did ships in the age of sail not employ more bow/stern "chaser" guns? | It seems like it'd be more difficult to hit a ship that was directly in line as well. The size of the target would be very small if chasing / fleeing compared to shooting from the side.I was under the impression that this role could be partially filled using swivel guns. |
Why are cuban cigars such a big deal? Why are they illegal? | To add: Cuba was and is famous for making cigars, so the fact that they're illegal adds to their rare luxury status |
Why can negative emotions such as depression linger for years or a lifetimes but positive emotions (such as the honeymoon phase) seem to fade? | Depression isn't an emotion, it's a mental illness caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. It doesn't go away because it's not caused by you surroundings but by what's inside you. |
Why USB 3.1 Gen 2 SSDs (Like the new T5) Only Transfer at 540MB/s? | 1. It could be the max read/write speed of the SSD itself is 540Mb/s causing the bottleneck. 2. The external drive could just use a plain ol' SATA3 Drive to save on costs - easier and cheaper to build 2 million drives and throw 1 million of them in external enclosures than 1 million drives specifically for external use... |
Why is there no cure for cancer when we are raising/spending so much money on it? | What do you mean there's no cure for cancer? We can cure loads of different types of cancer, the problem is that there are many times more still. Asking for a cure for cancer is like asking for a cure for viruses.Cancer isn't only one kind of disease. It's hundrets and tousands variants of self replicating cells that h... |
How much is Obama to blame for this latest domestic spying scandal. | Obama is the executive, and has control over all aspects of the NSA's program. He bears responsibility. Now I doubt at all that things would have been different with McCain or Romney, and that's what sucks about our 2 party system.I thought that all this spying was deemed legal under the Patriot Act that was signed in ... |
This Bitcoin mining thing again. | Now, lots of people are talking about the 21mil hard limit on BTC. Now, I wonder how it would work out if people misplace their wallets. Or if they drop dead with an encrypted wallet with a fortune. Wouldn't all that BTC be taken out of circulation? What happens over multiple generations? Unlike normal currency which w... |
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