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How do people get Aspegers?
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Having a friend and a brother with it, I can tell you that it is something that you are born with. However, it can be something that you learn to counteract. For example at the minute we are working on empathy struggles that my brother has, so he is displaying less obsessive and more understanding behaviours even though he still does have Asperger's Syndrome
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In an alien world, how much is it possible to have complex animal species very similar to ours?
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YES IT IS PROBABLE. Think about the millions of galaxies, the countless stars and planets. Do you think it is unreasonable to say that there isn't the slightest chance that one of those planets could support life? Or that they evolved, perhaps in a similar way we did? *I am not saying that there would be an exact copy* but definitely there could be complex species. Each environment would dictate different evolutionary results. What isn't possible is having any sort of contact with said alien species. At least not by our doing. We are not advanced enough, and the extreme distance and cost would prevent any sort of intergalactic travel. **Everyone who has posted already has posted good comments which cover the nuances of evolution** I just find it more probable based on the sheer enormity of the universe. Sorry did that answer your question?
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What makes our bodies twitch right before we fall asleep?
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When you're falling asleep your blood pressure drops. This can affect the inner ear and trigger a response where your brain thinks you're falling. So it jerks in order to right itself.
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If Capitalism is such a great system, why hasn't any State/Country/Empire/etc been able to sustain it in its purest form?
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It is not a great system. Just the best one we have found so far. The reason it is not a great system is because it revolves around people taking advantage of each other, to the greatest extent possible, all the time. The reason it has never been kept perfectly pure is because people don't like being taken advantage of. So we try to balance the economic advantages with enough limits to maintain a good standard of life. Some people think that less limits means better economy, means better standard of living. Some people are stupid. Some people think lots of limits, means good standard of life, means economy will improve. Some people are stupid.In my opinion, no single system can be the purest and greatest system. Not even theoretically. Many factors, including human weaknesses. On paper, Communism looks very attractive, but a disaster in practice. A nation should adopt a hybrid approach in the form of Social Capitalism, or something similar. Societies and economies are too complex for a unified system.Unregulated free markets aren't stable, because incumbents make deals to lock competitors out of the market, and then the incentive for producing efficiently and offering consumer surplus is gone.
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what exactly are DJs such as Skrillex and Deadmau5 doing when they perform live besides just playing the songs from their album?
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Not all DJ's stand there like skrillex an turn the bass up and down. You should listen to Daft Punk. Famous for their live shows. All their songs are made from samples, their own or from older funk songs, but every part of the song, the beat, the lows, the mids, the highs, everything is played live. For example listen to [Da funk] this part is played on a [TB 303]. Of course they made it pre show because you cant make it live, but listen to the same song played [live]. Thats how real dj's play live, they actually PLAY with their samples, and change other things than the treble and the bass of a fuckin cd track", 'It's amazing how many of you mock electronic music and just assume that the "Dj" isn't actually doing anything. The top rated comment in this thread doesn't even answer OP's question. You all sound like bitter, old people.Check out RJD2 performing live. He keeps it real. edit: [Here's a link]. This looks difficult.
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Why is it better to have income tax % go up by bracket instead imposing a flat tax.
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There's a certain level of income below which people can't afford to live. There is absolutely no point in taxing people who make less than that threshold, because unless you want to see bodies rotting in the streets or an increase in crime you'll have to give money back to them in the form of food stamps or other subsidies. That's why most countries charge 0% on income up to a certain amount.
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Why does the US government feel the need to have such a high military budget when it seems every other field doesn't have enough funding?
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It helps me. A poor college kid. I am doing a summer internship at a weapons manufacturer. The large defense program allows them to pay me, which in tern gives me money to spend at your business edit: Expanded version Military spending just isn't spent on useless stuff that goes to waste. It keeps people like me employed. I have a potential job offer from a military contractor doing computer programming work. 99% of their income comes from Defense Contracts. So I am able to make an amount of money, in which I spend at your business, helping you out. Another is applications. This company is bidding to build a new propulsion technology for stealth aircraft. This can then be used in the private sector for commercial aviation. So the tl-dr; Some military spending goes to people like me, civilians, who are then able to spend money at your place of business.
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How do fireworks create shapes like hearts, smiley faces, etc?
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There's a [video] that explains how these are made, which also shows the making of a smiley face firework . It's in German, but you can turn on subtitles translated to English and you'll get the general idea.
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What causes that occasional feeling of hollowness and remorse after masturbating?
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Serious question: I've had this feeling with masturbation only. But does noted 'wanker's remorse' happen with one night stands with mates that are, for lack of a better term, repugnant?", 'I have a question for clarification. Do you want a philosophical answer or a psychological/scientific answer?
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What are bayesian networks?
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First, conditional probability describes how the probability of some outcome changes based on some other variable. If you need an example, think about some card game. When the game starts, there's some probability of any given card or hand, but this probability changes as cards are dealt. If someone is counting cards, they're calculating a conditional probability of what's going to happen based on what's already happened. Second, conditional probability in a given context usually makes more sense in one direction . Bayes' rule reverses this direction to calculate something unobservable about the universe from something that is observed. Bayesian networks extend this to more complex systems that have multiple hidden variables and multiple outputs, using Bayes' rule to work backwards through the system from its observed behavior to determine likely state of the system.
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What does it mean when a music album is remastered?
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It means the track has been re-mixed using the original recordings and remastered by a mastering audio engineer. I personally am not a fan of remasters as they are often not true to the original recording. Engineers have remastered some of the Beatles catalogue by turning mono tracks into stereo tracks by rerecording instruments with technology not available when initially recorded. I believe these parts were played by studio musicians and not any of the members of the band. It feels kind of phony to me. If I'm wrong about this please correct me.
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Can a plane flown by air traffic control? If not, why?
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Hijacking is rare. Very rare. However, if planes could be remotely controlled by the ground, the risk is that bad people on the ground might take control of them and do bad things. You wouldn't need to hijack a plane, or even go to the control tower. To take control of a plane would require a small amount of radio equipment and some know-how.
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How do two end clients know an encryption key but nothing in-between?
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There is a mechanism called 'key exchange' which lets 2 endpoints calculate a key to use, but an eavesdropper with all the transmitted information cannot work out what the keys are. A simplified version. We decide on a number X and share it. We each think of a secret number. Mine is A. Yours is B. I send you X+A You send me X+B I calculate +A You calculate +B +A = +B = the encryption key. The eaves dropper sees X, X+A and X+B and with this information cannot work out what X+A+B is. The trick is that in the real world we don't use addition because if we did it is easy for an eavesdropper to calculate A+B+X after seeing X, X+A and X+B fly by. We really use a function for which %B = %A but given X and X%A you can't work out what A is.
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How does the brain store memories, and how are we able to remember things after having not thought about them for years?
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It's probably dated by now, but [this radiolab episode] is excellent. I haven't listening to it in a while, but I recall it saying that proteins trigger memory. As opposed to access a file, you actually re-create memories each time you visit them.
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Why do cats smell good even if they've never been bathed? Dogs lick themselves too, but they generally need to be washed or else they get smelly.
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I'm not an expert, but I assume it has to do with cats' nature as stealth predators. Their natural smell is less and they spend a lot of time keeping themselves clean. Cats also seem to have less oil on their skin/fur and aren't as susceptible to skin problems like yeast infections .I have an inside cat and a few outside cats. None of them stink. The dogs I have owned have always done something to make themselves stink, especially when wet.If you have a cat that stinks, I can't help but think you're doing something wrong. Its saliva is basically a natural detergent, and if it has a healthy diet, that alone should be enough to keep it clean and pretty much odorless. My cat eats mainly dry food but occasionally gets some tuna or chicken. Chewing on meat every so often helps keep their teeth clean and their breath fresh. She goes outside to shit, and doesn't have a litter box because they are disgusting. I can hold her right up to my face and she doesn't smell like anything. Basically, let your cat be a cat, and it'll be healthy and therefore clean without ever needing a bath.
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How do all the individual cells in our immune system communicate and know when to start fighting off an infection?
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To keep this simple, we have two types of immunity, innate and adaptive. Innate is good for localized, minor infections- this includes your white blood cells natural killer cells, among others. All cells have proteins on their membrane that identify them as body cells, these are called antigens. If an antigen is recognized on a cell that is abnormal, it is lysed by nk. White blood cells operate by deactivating recognized invader antigens, encompassing them to render the payload inactive via endocytosis . There are other innate immunities too that serve certain functions, but to keep it simple, innate immunity works by wandering the blood vessels looking for problems, which is ineffective since they're in low concentration and can't fight a full blown infection on their own. Innate immunity works differently, an infected cell is found by an APC, an antigen presenting cell. They take the antigen and present it to a T cell. A T cell with a corresponding receptor for this antigen will bind to the APC forming a bridge and releasing a chemical which will incite the T cell to start proliferating . These activate B cells to mature and produce antibodies which are basically floating receptors for the antigen. Antibodies will bind to any antibodies specific to them rendering it inactive. Helper T cells also generate what are called cytotoxic T cells, which work in a similar method to natural killer cells, but proliferate in response to an invasion of the antigen they're specific for. Both T cells and B cells create what are called memory t and b cells which circumvent the process previously mentioned and will begin to proliferate faster and in higher magnitude when they experience an invasion of the antigen they're specific for after being activated once. This is what is sought out with vaccinations, although the number of memory cells declines over the years which is why a Booster shot is necessary. It's been a little while since immunology, can anyone else confirm?", 'there is also this video that might help _URL_0_
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Why do movies and TV shows insist that every electronic device make noise when interacted with?
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I like how a tracking device must always beep and flash a red light the 2 things that it shouldn't be doing. I suppose you wouldn't want to lose your tracking device, cause how else can you find it again if it isn't blinking and making noise. You'd have to put a tracker on that tracker!
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Why are most dogs/cats completely uninterested by television?
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They can't process the images happening quick enough to realize it's showing a sequence of events. It's like a bunch of funny flashing images/colors
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My eyes change color. Why is this and what determines which color they change to?
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[Some wizards have hair that changes colour], you have eyes that change colour though. You're a wizard Stoli.
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How did the modern playground came to be? When did a swing set, a slide, a seesaw and so on become the standard?
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Man, today's playgrounds suck. Rubber, padded ground. Tiny slides. Shorter swings In the 80's we had sweet playground equipment. Wooden structures that stood up to two stories tall, with monkey bars, longer swings, zip lines, etc. and the ground was made of hard packed gravel. No shortage of scrapes, cuts, and goose eggs. Todays kids are pussies.Uhh and some parts of the link of the first comment says that there are 70yo playgrounds. Does anybody know them? Maybe in Europe?This is still evolving, not really standard. Seesaws and merry-go-rounds have been declining in prevalence, in part due to the increased rate of injury on equipment with kid-reachable, moving parts. Metal equipment of the 80s including expansive jungle gyms were replaced with giant wood structures in the 90s, replaced with metal fiberglass structures in the 00s in response to falls and splinters. Slides too evolved. It looks like others have answered the history question alreadyI don't know the answer but relevant to the question is the "reinvention" of playground equipment that some Swedish company has undertaken recently. I live in Philadelphia and they must have some contract with this company because most of the playgrounds have this new equipment. This equipment has the same effect as the older equipment but looks wildly different. It's all actually amazingly cool.The fun yet injury prone wooden playgrounds built when I was kid are becoming a endangered species. Those castle type ones were fun to play hide and seek. Now playgrounds are much smaller, less fun, and have giant coverings to block out the sunlight. At least the swing-sets haven't changed.
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Why is America going through a heroin epidemic?
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I live around Detroit Michigan. what I have seen here is people getting hurt and getting prescribed way more opiates than needed. Then after they get addicted, doctors just stop prescribing without giving addicting help or anything. The they find pills on the street and the same people who sell pills also sell heroin. heroin is cheaper and easier to get in a lot of cases than prescription pills. I've had a few family members get sucked down that hole.
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why dont car manufactures make their cars out of stainless steel?
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The DeLorean had a stainless steel body. It was not a commercial success. Generally the extra cost of building a car that way do not justify the benefits. Modern cars don't have enough problem with rust to make it worthwhile.
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- Why all those Africans who had their hands chopped off at the wrist with machetes are alive, but people who slit their wrists with a razor blade aren't.
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Real life isn't like movies, Son. When an arm or hand is cut off, it doesn't shoot out blood like you might see on a movie that Daddy doesn't really want you watching anyway. Instead what happens is the larger veins and arteries retract and cut off a majority of the blood flow. Yes, if someone did not receive any assistance after this but they would likely die from shock before blood loss even became an issue. When people slit their wrists, that's a different issue. Many times, people are apprehensive and don't cut deep enough, which means that they do bleed, but the same systems that saved the life of the man who got his hand cut off come into play and save their lives too.
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Sometimes when i get up to quickly from the couch i feel dizzy and vision goes blurry what's going in the body?
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I found a solution to this, I'm sure it's known, but nobody I know knows about it till I tell them. When you get up too fast, I think it's lack of oxygen going to the brain, and you start to black out a little bit . The best way to overcome this is to lean forward, so your chest is parrallel to the ground. It makes it easier for your body to pump blood to the brain because your brain is no longer above your heart, it's across from it. Gravity kicks in when you get up, and your body has to get used to pumping blood against gravity. I'm sure it's already been explained in this post, but this is how I've come to deal with it :)", 'Once i was playing online poker into ungodly late hours. I was trapped in a zombie mode. But i needed to pee very bad so suddenly i just jumped out of the bed and i got like super dizzy. Everything went black and i saw some poker cards flying around. The funny thing is when i woke up my body was still fighting to not fall over in a very spasmic way . I was leaning against my desk and was shaking in very uncoordinated movements. As if every limb went into autopilot. I could see before i could think.Very strange thing. My consciousness came after my senses.Can anyone explain this?I LOVE this feeling. There has been a couple times where it nearly took me down, but the instinctual brain processes that kick in right as the brain/body fights to get blood is simply amazing to witness first hand. Highly suggestYou could be anemic. Low blood/iron count in your body can contribute to the light-headed and dizzy feeling.Orthostatic hypotension is what it's called
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In the upcoming movie, why are batman and superman against each other?
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Well, it could be because Superman sees Batman as a thug, considering he's beating his enemies to a pulp?
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How exactly do we hear ourselves talking when we think?
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I don't know the answer, but when I read to myself, not only do I hear myself, my tongue quietly moves as I involuntary mouth the words. No words come out, and there is minimal movement to my lips. I have also noticed this happens when I'm mad at someone and I argue with them in my head. Also I will make facial expressions as well. I can only imagine what anyone who sees me might think.
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Why is it unsafe to be on an unsecured wifi network?
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Imagine, for a moment, that you're standing in a football field that is spotted with people. Everyone has a megaphone. You're trying to have a conversation with someone a few meters over by using your megaphone. Now you get to the part of the conversation where you have to give the person your credit card info, including the sensitive bits on the back. You don't want the other people around you to hear that. Now you and the person you're talking to could come up with a super secret code with decoder rings and all that, but that will only protect your credit card info. What it likely wont protect is that you're using your credit card to buy a 44 gallon container of lube. Maybe you don't want all your neighbors to know that. Or maybe you don't want someone else standing near you to start talking as well. From way at the other end of the football field your megaphone doesn't sound all that different from your neighbors. So instead, you and your conversation partner start talking in Mayan. No one knows Mayan except you and conversation partner. So although everyone can hear you talking no one knows what you're saying. Nor can anyone else pretend to talk for you. ", 'There is a chance of being caught by something called a man in the middle attack, where a hacker will basically act like a bridge between you and the internet, and will steal information from you.
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When should I use the other gears on my automatic car?
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Going downhill over a long distance, like coming down a steep canyon road in the mountains, you can burn up your brakes if you aren't careful. I was taught to keep it in a lower gear so the car won't speed up as much, and you can save the brakes. Uses more gas, though.
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Why is the hatred towards Jews called "Anti-Semitism", while the hatred towards any other race is simply called racism?
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Pretty much because it's a hatred that has gone on for so long and is so widespread that it warranted its own category. No other group of people has been hated so much for so long throughout history. It's not really so much about race, and perhaps if it was, then it would just be simply racism.It's because Jewish is not a race. It's a religion. When is the last time you say "Jewish" on any givernment document asking for race? Jewish =Religion. Not race. Idk why reddit has such a huge PC boner all the time, but being jewish is as much of a race as being christian is See also "papism," which is an anti-Catholic mindset. For example, there was a lot of hullabaloo about JFK being the first catholic president because some felt he would be more loyal to the Pope than the constitution.The Jewish people are defined as group sharing both a religion and race, so it's not accurate to just call it racism.Also, jewish is not a race. Just putting that out there.
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Who contracts a groups like Blackwater and how exactly do they work comparing to armies belonging to countries?
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Military contractors are like the tier-1 operators of security guards. They can and do regularly exercise the use of force, including lethal force, to protect the assets of their employer. IIRC these groups are supposed to be limited to defensive action only, and can't instigate or carry out offensive action, unlike the military.
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how does an atomic bomb produce so much energy?
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an atomic bomb is directly converting mass into energy. The formula for converting mass into energy is E=Mc^2. C, is the speed of light, meaning that it is, in metric units, 300,000 km per second. That means, that the energy of an atomic bomb is the amount of mass converted times 90,000,000,000 . It's hard to argue with a 90,000,000,000 times multiplier when it comes to power.
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Why does the login page for Google or Microsoft accounts separate the username and password fields into different screens?
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Some domains have their own internal authentication systems . So for example if you try to login into a MS service with email somebody _URL_1_, you'll get redirected to an internal login website instead. Same will happen for other organisation domains on Gmail. This way organisations can manage and their own accounts without involving the MS processes every time. This helps when the accounts for new hires are automated. It makes the login flow less surprising this way. Some services will still display both fields on one site, but if you click the password field, your email will be checked in the background and you may get redirected halfway through typing your password anyway.
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Could a spaceship or other megastructure develop its own gravitational pull?
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Simplest answer is: Google the most massive planet known to man, strap giant rockets to it's back and presto, you have a ship with a gravitational pull. The equation that rules gravitational force is proportional to the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two bodies. That means everything in the universe is pulling on each other, although most of it is negligible considering Force = Mass*Acceleration and a tiny force will fail to accelerate a massive body perceptively. Now as to your question, the gravitational pull wouldn't be generated from the ship spinning but by it's mass. So you just need a massive ship. for reference, this is what the acceleration would look like : a = G*m/r^2 with G being a VERY small constant, m the mass of the other body and r the distance between said bodies.
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Why are people supporting Jeremy Clarkson when he punched his boss and threw a fit?
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Because Jeremy Clarkson has somehow managed to amass the sort of following that doesn't give a solitary shit about his behaviour as long as he shouts 'POWERRRR!' or 'DAS AUTOBAHHHHHN!' at them once a week for an hour.
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In the US, why isn't a gag order a violation of the right to free speech?
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You have the right to say anything you want. That doesn't mean you won't be held responsible. For example, telecoms could tell us if they have been served with secret info requests by the government, but they would face legal penalties after they did. You can breach a gag order if you want, they will just punish you after. ELI 18: see Prior Restraint", 'A Gag order is a temporary ban on speaking on a subject due to preserving a fair trial, or national security. That immediate need supersedes the right, in similar manner to not causing a panic restricts the right without breaking it.
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How do drinks like Coke Zero and Pepsi One have no Calories?
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First take a look at images of sucralose, the artificial sweeter, and sucrose, normal sugar. _URL_0URL_1_ Notice the molecular diffrence in each sugar? Sucralose, \tC12 H19 Cl3 O8Sucrose, C12 H22 O11 Sucralose uses chlorine atoms so theoretically your body doesn't know how to digest the sugar because it can't recognize it. Because your body doesn't know how to digest the sugar; products who use pure sucralose can claim zero calories. At least that's what I've been taught.
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If movies can be bundled with "free" digital copies (i.e. Ultraviolet), why can't hardcover books be bundled with their ebook versions ?
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ELI5 Answer: Because the author gets paid for every copy sold, no matter what the format. You don't get a free paperback when you buy the hardcover. You get the format you choose to buy. The longer answer has to do with how rights are sold, who owns certain format versions of the book, and the lack of place to actually get the ebook. Doesn't make sense for the publishing house to partner with one distributor to deliver the ebook since the physical books are being sold in multiple places. This would put the onus of ebook delivery on the publishing house, which many of them just aren't set up to do at this point.
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So Germany is mad about the US spying. What options does it realistically have?
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Truth is that the German government isn't mad about it. They already know about it, and they're doing the same to us. The politicians are just milking this controversy for votes. By acting all mad at the US and telling the people that they're going to put a stop to it, they get reelected. Its all politics.
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Why are Gun Sounds in most action movies unrealistic/not the real sound of the weapon?
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It's difficult to perfectly re-create a gunshot without firing real bullets. In the movie they fire blanks, but nothing is really coming out of the barrel. So nothing is being compressed in the barrel and a bullet isn't ripping through the air or making a sonic boom exiting the barrel. Also every time a gunshot is fired it breaks the sound barrier and can cause severe ear damage when not wearing ear protection. Since that's hard to hide it's very difficult for them to re-create a gunshot perfectly.
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how can people afford houses and cars when most jobs pay around 20k-30k
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A lot of people just don't own homes. We rent. And I don't know anyone making 20-30k who buys an 18k car. A 10+ year old car that wasn't too fancy to begin with could cost under $1000. A really shitty car could be under $500, though at that point you risk it just dying on you in a week and then you're really fucked. Source: 31, make < $40k, never owned a home, never expect to.
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How come something like 1000-1200 respondents to a survey can make for a statistically sound representation of a whole population?
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There is not a good ELI5 for this - there *is* a lot of math to demonstrate that it's true though. The mathematics behind this is very sound. People complaining about the math are ignorant - disregard them. There is a valid complaint about statistics of this nature, it's not the math, **it's the sampling**. Getting a truly random sample can be nearly impossible when people are involved. You can't force them to take part . Getting people to answer a survey honestly is a problem. The results are then subject to serious questioning - not because of the math, but because of the sampling/questionaire methodology used. Don't waste your time critiquing the math, it's wasted effort, and wrong-headed. Look closely at how the 1000-1200 people were selected, and what exactly they were asked. That's where the problems always are.
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If weed is illegal, how come people like Snoop Dogg, who is photographed often smoking weed, don't get in trouble?
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How can you tell from a photograph he's smoking weed? Are you going to chemically test the cigarette he was smoking 5 weeks ago?
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if I do 10 push-ups every hour for 10 hours, will my muscles gain as much as doing 100 push-ups at once? 50 push-ups per hour for two hours?
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Well, I certainly applaud anyone wanting to do a hundred pushups, but take it from this old gym rat, I've spent my entire adult life in the gym, and a program like this one can do more harm than good. If you only train one part of your body , you're setting yourself up for injuries down the road. I've seen it a hundred times. It's like putting a powerful engine in a stock Toyota Tercel. What will you accomplish? You'll blow out the drive train, the clutch, the transmission, etc., because those factory parts aren't designed to handle the power of an engine much more powerful than the factory installed engine. Push-ups basically only train the chest muscles and to some extent, the triceps. What you really want to do is train your entire body, all the major muscle groups at the same time, over the course of a workout. And don't forget your cardiovascular work! I'm proud of you guys wanting to do this. Three cheers! Falling in love with exercise, eating right, etc., is one of the greatest things you can do for yourself. And you WILL fall in love with it if you can just force yourself to stick with it a year or two and experience the amazing progress you'll make. But do it right, okay? My advice, find a good gym, with qualified trainers who will design your programs for you and guide you in your quest for physical fitness. Thirty to 45 minutes a day, three days a week, is all you'll ever need to do . And don't worry about being embarrassed or not being in shape the first time you walk into the gym. You have to start somewhere and almost every one of us were there ourselves at one time. So no one will say anything to you and very, very quickly you will progress way beyond that stage anyway. Now get out there and do it! :-)
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Why do molocules have such long and difficult names?
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The IUPAC systematic names are designed in such a way that any chemist from any country should be able to take a name and generate the structure of the molecule, or take the structure of a molecule and generate the name from it. As such, the names of molecules need to describe every part of the molecule. If the molecule has many different functional groups the name of the molecule is going to be complex. ---- That being said, many molecules have very simple names, eg. ethanoic acid or methylbenzene Some molecules also have a retained name that is preferred to use even though it isn't the systematic name, eg. acetic acid or toluene are the preferred names of the above 2 molecules. edit: changed the examples
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What lobbying is, what its for, and why it is so good or bad.
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Lobbying is just trying to convince lawmakers to support or oppose legislation. But a letter isn't as effective as hiring someone to go to Washington and talk to them in person. This is perfectly legal - people have first amendment rights to free speech and to petition the government. So corporations are political groups will hire lobbyists to try to influence the lawmaking process. Lobbyists can be a source of information about what the people they represent want or don't want to get passed. But there's a problem: congresspeople need money. Lots of money. They need to fundraise continuously to keep their jobs. So the lobbyists that get listened to are not the ones that represent the views of the most people, but those who can promise the most campaign funding.
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Why race car drivers prefer manual cars over automatic?
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A driver can predict what is going to happen next, and can select the correct ratio for that. An autobox is by nature reactive, and can't change gears until it has had a chance to react to other inputs; this means it's always a little behind.
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What happens in your body at concerts when it feels like your heart is about to vibrate out of your chest when they hit super low bass notes?
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There was a study on correlation between low frequencies and the growth of bacteria in bloodstream/colon. I'm trying to find the source.
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Does Coke Zero really have zero calories? If so, what gets put in it that has zero calories?
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It uses sugar substitutes. Sugar isn't the only thing that tastes sweet, there are plenty of chemical functional groups that taste sweet. What a sugar substitute is is a chemical that has these sweet tasting functional groups, but your body doesn't have the proper enzymes to break it down. That means that you don't gain energy, or calories. This isn't true for all sugar substitutes, there are some that still can be somewhat broken down and do have a calorie content. Usually though you need such a negligible amount of sugar substitute to equal the amount of sweetness normal sugar would give. A chemical like Aspartame is about 100 times sweeter than normal sugar. That's how things get such low calorie count, or none at all!", 'Coke zero is sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame K. Acesulfame K is not digested and does not contain calories. Aspartame does in fact contain calories, but it is 200 times sweeter than sugar, so there is much less aspartame in the coke zero than there is sugar in regular coke. So it does have some amount of calories, but the amount is very miniscule. _URL_1_ _URL_0_', "Piggybacking off of this question, what's the difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke?
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Why is there a small part of Russia in Europe?
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Kaliningrad is western Russia's only year-round sea port, unless I'm mistaken. All the others freeze in the winter.
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How can the way you code programs make a program faster or slower?
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Coding programs--programming--is just a way of providing instructions. If you give somebody good instructions to do something, they will be able to do it more easily. Consider the different ways you could give somebody directions from one place to another--it's faster to use a car than a bike, and it's faster to take a left instead of three rights. So if you use a better tool--a more appropriate language--and more effective instructions--better algorithms--your program will be faster.
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Why is it so hard to get into medical school when there is so obviously a scarcity of doctors?
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Dumbing down the course requirement does not result in quality graduates. It makes it far worse when we can't trust doctors due to the number of less-able ones. It happened here in Australia with teachers a few years ago - you could fail your exams and still get in. Ruined the name and reputation of the profession.
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how do window air conditioners (units that are not central but not mobile) keep on giving cold goodness without any kind of refill or coolant? Will it ever run out of coolness?
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An air conditioner is basically the same thing as a fridge or freezer, except you're in it! Just like the fridge takes out the heat out of your food and pumps it out on the backside - the air conditioner takes the heat from your house and moves it outside! An air conditioner wouldn't work if it wasn't externally connected, just like you can't just open the fridge door to make it share it's good coldness - it'd pump out just heat as much on the backside as it's cooling in the front. So how does a fridge work?_URL_0_
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Why people sell to the pawn stars when the item is way more valuable than the money they are getting.
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You're transferring the burden of finding a buyer, the expense of storing maintaining and restoring the item, and the risk of not being able to sell it to the pawn shop. It could take a very long time and a lot of searching to find someone willing to pay the appraised value for something. You might have a cool artifact, but most people aren't buying $5,000 banjos built by Abraham Lincoln's nephew. You'll take a hit on the price in order to get the item off your hands and cash in your pocket, but you then won't have to post dozens of classifieds for it, meet with potential buyers, store it safely, and all of that stuff that takes time and money. It's all about risk- the pawn shop might not sell an item for months or years, so they need to evaluate not only what the appraised value is, but also how likely they are to find a buyer, how expensive it will be to hold the item in the store, etc. You can't just toss a bizzare high price item on craigslist and find a buyer in two days- it's a lot of work to find someone willing to drop $10k on Elvis's brother's dining room set.
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Why did so few Genesis/SNES games allow you to save your game progress?
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They needed a battery in the cartridge back then to save games, which made the games more expensive to make, so it wasn't as widespread. Also bear in mind that these were the first generation of consoles to have a real save feature, so it wasn't as demanded back then.
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How do extremely mentally ill homeless people survive?
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Off topic a bit but I have often thought of making care packages and distributing them to homeless in my area. Or even picking one person to help from homeless to success. What's everyone's thoughts about this? Is it a good idea, what risk are involved, and are their other ways someone can help without throwing money at the situation?
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Why aren't corporations reluctant to hire men with the wage gap? Wouldn't it be cheaper to fire the men and replace them with women?
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As others have said, it's not that they can literally pay a woman less than a man. The wage gap is a statistic comparing the average earning of men vs. women, and represents a trend for men to be employed in higher paying jobs. For instance, you might have a man and woman who are similarly educated where the man is in an upper management position, and the woman is in a middle management position thanks to company culture or promotion biases etc.. You might have a man who chose to major in engineering, and a woman who decided to major in cosmetology, so the man works at Boeing, and the woman works as a makeup artist. Or you might have a man who works 9 to 5, 5 days a week, every week, all year, and a woman who has to take maternity leave because she chose to have children and needs to take time to raise them . TL;DR: women are paid the same as men in the same job, they just tend to end up in jobs that pay less, and spend fewer hours working in those jobs per year than men on average.
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What causes programs to have "not responding" errors?
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Does it mean the program is waiting for data from the hard drive?" Windows cannot tell the difference, so it just throws it's hands up in the air and says: "This program is not collecting its mail, and I can't tell why". Why is it that windows cannot tell the difference? It boils down to a famous problem called the [halting problem] which we have proven a long time ago is impossible to solveSince this is ELI5 I'm going to over simplify Programs basically do two things 1) They do "work" in the background and 2) They send instructions to windows to update the screen with the results of this work. If your program is multi threaded and written properly it's possible for the program to do the work and update the screen at the same time. If your program is single threaded then it can only do work OR update the screen at any given time, but not both. If the work part of the equation takes longer than expected and no instructions to update are given to the operating system for a duration of time the program goes into a not responding state. When the work is completed and the program starts sending the instructions to update the screen again the program is now responding again.
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What is a credit score and how do I win?
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A credit score is a rating by credit reporting companies based on info from your credit report. Do you pay your bills on time? If so, you have a good credit report and will probably have a good credit score. If you're interested in taking loans and stuff like that having a good credit score is important.Now if you are looking for ways to increase your credit score, get a few cards, use them, and pay them off on time. When you are ready for a car, get a car loan and make your payments on time every month. Over a few years, you will end up with a very good score.
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Why hasn't evolution made birth easier/safer/painless?
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Theoretically, over 1000s of generations, that could/would happen if there were no intervention and if only genetic factors were involved. I'm going to use my family as an example. The women in my family have backwards-tilted uteruses. In general, this causes more pain in the back during labor, and can cause complications. My mother had 3 children, 1 boy, 2 girls. My uterus is tilted so far back that my bladder is actually on top of it instead of below as it should be. As a result, my 4 & 1/2 lb child got stuck and required an emergency C-section. Now if we lived in a world without C-sections, most likely both my son & I would have died, removing any future influence we would have on the gene pool. But since we do utilize C-sections, both my son and myself are free to keep contributing our bad genes to future generations.
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Why are statute of limitations a thing?
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There are three main reasons why we have statute of limitations at all: 1. We expect that crimes are investigated and prosecuted in a timely manner. We don't want people wasting time bringing all reported crimes to closure. Do we want a cop spending 50 years to find someone that shop-lifted a stick of gum? 2. It hinders defense. While the burden is on the prosecution to prove the crime beyond the reasonable doubt, this includes the defense being able to - well - defend itself. If you are charged with a crime relatively soon after it happened, but you're innocent, you're more likely to be able to provide an alibi or defense in court. If they come to you 30 years after the fact, you are less able to provide adequate defense. 3. At some point, prosecution for the sake of prosecution works counter to the public interest.Why is there a NSFW tag? Am I misunderstanding the seemingly simple question?', "Statutes of limitations rely on two main principles: finality, and evidence. First, as a society we want to see justice done in a timely manner, and by placing a limited amount of time for prosecutors to bring a charge we can make it so that a person isn't charged with a crime years after the fact with no way to defend themselves. This is the greatest consideration for civil statutes of limitations, as we want to discourage lawsuits 20 years after an injury, for example. Second, the thought is that as more time passes, evidence loses its power and availability. Witnesses forget what happened, DNA disappears, things get lost in mismanaged police evidence rooms, etc.
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Why is a goods lorry's container rectangular, but a petrol tanker's is cylindrical?
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Exactly, a round container reduces the sloshing of the liquid. The round walls also increase the structural integrity of the tank. Given the fact that often those types of trucks are carrying hazardous chemicals or heavy liquids , a strong structure prevents leaks and rupturing if the tanker is hit. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing. Conversely, the rectangular trailer is designed to maximize the internal volume within a given height and width. Since those limits are defined with rectangular coordinates, the container is also rectangular.
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How did Google convince the rest of the world to let me them map and photograph the globe.
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It didn't. There are many, many edits and blind spots in Google earth. Area 51 fore example changes frequently and edits have been pointed out many times over the years and it's surely not the only one.
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Why is Bill Clinton regarded as such a great president?
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Really, if you're not a total shit face you're an alright president. He was in office for eight years and really didn't fuck anything up. In truth, he was moderate as fuck and pretty personable.*Is* he regarded as such a great president?', "Because he took a large part out of his day to spend it with me, a dying kid, whom asked to meet him back in the 1990's during the height of the Kosovo Wars. That was the highlight of my life. :) Personal meeting with him so my opinion is probably biased.
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Why do so many right wingers dislike green energy and are stuck that oil is what we should go for when there are so many political and geological benefits to drop it?
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You're not even asking the right question. Except in a few backwater heavily subsidized markets, oil is not even competitive with green energy because green energy generates electricity, when very little oil is used for electricity generation - the lion's share is used for transportation, which is the driving force behind the market price of oil - other products such as natural gas, plastics and heating oil are merely profitable byproducts. TL;DR Oil has almost nothing to do with green energy.
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A lot of dinosaurs seemed to be armored. Why is armor rare on large animals today, when it was de regueur for hundreds of millions of years?
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Well once the great mass extinction happened, large animals were at an extreme disadvantage because of their metabolic demand combined with shortages of plant life. Smaller animals, including our mammalian ancestors, were best suited for this new earth. Think of it like an evolutionary reset switch. Nature determined that massive size and armor wasn't the best option for passing on your genes.It isn't that armor isn't useful now, it's more to do with what kind of animals we have around today. Armored skin is pretty common in reptiles: turtles, crocodilians, and a bunch of lizards , as well as many extinct species . A number of dinosaur species had varying levels of armor, though again, many were not, and the only group commonly heavily-armored were the [ankylosaurs], I wouldn’t call it “de rigueur" necessarily. Armored mammals are rare. The only group of mammals with notable armor are armadillos and their extinct giant relatives, the [glyptodonts], the [pampatheres], and the giant ground sloths , plus pangolins . Rhinos are thick-skinned, but not actually armored. Amphibians and fish have been known to be armored too. So the short answer is: armor is common in many reptiles, dinosaurs included, but rare in mammals. Most large animals today are mammalian, and the armored ones happen to have recently gone extinct.
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in the NFL, where do they come up with the words that quarterbacks yell before the play? Like "Omaha" or " blue 42"?
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They choose the words and use them to change the play once they see what the defense is showing them. For example, they could assign 'blue 42' to a run play. If the quarterback thinks it will be better to run the ball he will call out 'blue 42.' The other players know that 'blue 42' changes the play to a run.
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In moments of certain death people have played music , Why ?
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What else are you going to do? Panic? If it's really certain death you're facing, nothing you do is going to change it, so you might as well enjoy the time you have left rather than waste it fighting the inevitable.
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Why do cockroaches turn upside down when they die on their own?
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Maybe it's the other way around? They flip over by accident and then die because they can't upright.
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Why is it considered "childish" to like ketchup and put it on a variety of food?
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Taste buds, the structures on your tongue that allow you to taste foods, age. Among other things, children are more sensitive to bitterness and have a higher tolerance for sweetness than adults. This mean that children hate many foods that adults enjoy and vice versa. Since ketchup is so sweet, it makes things that children otherwise might not like taste better . Since most adults would not cover a nice steak with ketchup, it's seen as childish.
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Why can they lose 10lbs+ a week on the Biggest Loser when weight loss resources for us normals say not to lose more than 2lbs a week?
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It's much easier for morbidly obese people to lose significant amount of weight since there's more to lose to begin with. When you weight 400+ it's not impossible at all to lose 10 pounds a week. Those people normally get very little exercise and eat a lot of calories, so any change in lifestyle will result in weight loss. For example, you will gain one pound for every 3500 calories you consume, so if a fat person normally consumes 5500 calories a day and now you are making him eat only 2000 calories a day, he will lose several pounds within one week. If he exercise on top of that he will likely to lose more. Notice that weight loss will become harder and harder as you get thinner. On the show no one can lose more weight the second week than they did for the first week, and a person approaching his ideal weight will have to work extra hard to lose the last several pounds. His body is used to the workout routine and diet, so he will need to workout even longer or eat even less to break the plateau.
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How do illegal drugs become such a huge industry?
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> the target audience is pretty small That's where you are going wrong. The target market is not pretty small. Quite a number of people have or will use drugs of some kind and many people use them over and over again over a lifetime. Total spending on drugs can also be quite high because addicted people tend to spend everything that they can on drugs. According to a quick google search, 0.6% of the total US population has used cocaine in within the past month. That's just cocaine, not counting weed, heroin, meth or molly. 0.6% is around the same percentage of the population that identify as trans. So around the same number of people who identify as trans have used cocaine within the past month. That's like 1.5 million people in the US alone! and again, that's JUST COCAINE, and cocaine is not even the most popular drug!!! Price wise, 1 g of coke can cost in the range of $100 - $300 depending on quality and location Worries of law enforcement and other things are all baked into the street price of the drug. The money is there to compensate the dealers for those risks.Early in prohibition, alcohol consumption dropped to about a third. However, within a few year most of that drop came back to nearly 70 & #37; of what it had been before. So the issue is that a law enforcement solution show only moderate decreases in usage but brings with it a whole host of others problems associated with black market goodsThe target audience is probably massively bigger than you realize, and the thing about drugs is they work. If you want to get high you do drugs.
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Why don't wild animals (e.g. lions) get salmonella and other diseases from eating raw meat (e.g. zebras)?
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Short answer: they do get diseases and die. Long answer: lions basically operate the same way any human would. If the food looks bad, smells bad, has too many flies around it, etc. it's not good. They will usually only eat the stuff they kill or that they know is fresh, as bacteria hasn't grown. And they will usually learn, through observations or teaching, to avoid any intestines. What happens to lions that don't learn. They die and all the other lions learn from this. Also there's the fact that the way the meat industry works it is unavoidable for our meat to not come in contact with intestine, so out meat is a lot more likely to be contaminated. So that why its such a problem for us. Cross contamination leads to more salmonella than old food,
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Why doesn't FIFA fine floppers the way the NBA does?
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Proving that it is a dive is difficult, the game is so quick that often it is far too difficult to determine whether or not it was definitely a dive. Players aren't going to be fined or banned unless FIFA or whoever is judging the incident are 100% certain. Often it can be VERY dubious, see the Robben incident against Mexico; half the football world say it was a dive, others say there was contact so it wasn't a dive, everyone else says there was contact but not enough to go down. What do the governing bodies do in this situation where it is impossible to determine whether or not it was a dive? Something needs to be done, I would suggest for the most obvious dives a three match ban is given. One of the most ridiculous things about modern football is how players can get away with cheating because FIFA/UEFA/The FA etc. don't like undermining the referees decision. They need to grow some balls and realise that stopping players from cheating is a hell of a lot more important than defending the referees they've recruited. So if a referee fails to spot a dive - or any form of cheating for that matter - we as fans should be confident that justice will be served.
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Why are pelts worn with the fur outside?
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Fur is designed as it is to both trap in your body heat and block out the outside conditions. This is why if you look at an animal's fur, it usually has many different feeling types of fur in layers. The fur that we put on coats is the outer layer, which is made to stop the harsh outside conditions from coming in. So less wind, water, cold, etc. can get to you.Along with what everybody else has said, it looks more fashionable to have the fur on the outside, and the people that can afford really nice fur clothing prefer fashion over practical use more often.
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Pi. Why does it always work in equations. And whats the point of computers trying to figure out the millionth digit?
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even if the millionth digit is found, how do they confirm it is correct.. there is only 9 possible digits it could be so if it would be possible to test then do they not just test those 9 digits and being possibly the millionth one? I don't really know anything so don't laugh at me.There are certain systems of equations where small errors can throw off the results by a huge amount. These systems are called "chaotic" and is the subject of Chaos Theory. If a system like this uses PI then using an approximation to 10 decimal places as opposed to 20 decimal places or even 11 decimal places can give wildly different results. I'm unsure if this is the actual motivation for calculating the million digit though. If it isn't then they are just doing it for the sake of doing it because that's how mathematicians rollPi is what makes things round; it shows up a lot because there are a lot of round things in the universe.
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Why are banks allowed to use money in way they cannot give people their own money back?
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If banks were required to keep 100% of deposits in reserve so that they could fully pay out every single depositor on demand, it would be a very wasteful system and the economy would be much smaller because of it. When you deposit money into your local bank, they can turn around and lend that money to someone else to help them buy a house. If the bank wasn't allowed to lend out your money then they wouldn't be able to make loans to people and businesses. Without those loans most people wouldn't be able to buy houses or cars and most business couldn't afford to expand.
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Why is college tuition so high in the US? What does all the money go to? What would be the easiest, most effective ways to make it cheaper?
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Demand is artificially by two forces: 1) Subsidization of student loan interest2) HR demanding college educations for entry level jobs that don't need it For 1, the subsidization makes it so people can afford to pay more for tuition, because they get a higher balance for the same payment. The schools aren't stupid -- they just suck up that extra cash by charging higher tuitions. If we stopped with the taxpayer subsidization, tuitions would crash as the demand would shrink significantly at all price levels. Secondly, human resources demand college educations for corporate jobs that don't need a college education. They are basically using it as a measurement of your ability to stick to something that takes a long time, but there are other ways to prove that. With two sources of artificially propped up demand, prices go up, basic economics.
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How do companies with secret formula keep it secret when producing a product?
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Not directly related, but Elon Musk was talking about this awesome welding technique they use on the Dragon rockets that gives them a huge advantage. He was asked if it's patented and he said it was a trade secret because the Chinese would view the patent as a blueprint and copy him.
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Why doesn't youtube let you buffer through an entire video?
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Or how about when you're watching a video to the end and you want to replay it. For me it seems to have to start streaming all over again. This is on mobile. My phone provider loves it.
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Why does NASA launch spacecraft from Florida when it has some of the stormiest weather in North America?
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Cape Canaveral was chosen because: 1. It's geographic location is as close as can be on the US mainland to the equator, which makes launching easier 2. Florida has a relatively stable and predictable temperature range and weather patterns. 3. It's near water in the direction that rockets go, which is helpful for emergency splashdowns 4. At the time it was built, it was in a relatively unpopulated area. This alleviated noise concerns as well as minimizing collateral damage should accidents occur. Also, in case you are wondering, why is Houston the command center and not Florida? Because Lyndon Johnson was president at the time all this infrastructure was being built and he was from Houston and was simply seeing to it that his home state and home city benefited.
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Why don't people forget languages?
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My Dutch is horribly rusty most of the time, unless I practice when I'm visiting family. My dad is 85 and as he get's older his command of proper English has odd slips, mainly in syntax - he is using English words with Dutch syntax occasionally . His brother, on the other hand, gets annoyed with him when he can't pull up more obscure Dutch words readily when they speak on the phone.Theoretically, a person could lose the ability to communicate if they no longer used that skill . But because there is an inner dialog that happens with our thoughts, even if one was marooned on a desert island, a persons primary language would never be just forgotten. Although sometimes words get harder to remember as we get older I think we only "remember" because we practice.
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Why do gender-designated single person bathrooms exist?
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People get freaked out about sharing a public bathroom with the opposite gender. I worked in restaurants for ~15 years, including many years in management. I had complaints about it all the time, usually from women. One woman even complained that a male employee was cleaning the women's bathroom. A woman demanded I called the police because a male used the women's bathroom.
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Why do iPhone's retain their value as opposed to Android phones?
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I guess it's mainy due to demand (iPhones are considered desirable by many people, coupled by the build quality and continued support even years after the device came out. They still work well relative to their age. For many Android phones, it could be tough to expect firmware updates beyond the first year. Such is the nature of fragmentation.
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Do manufacturers build low quality items for Cyber Monday deals?
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A specific product by a manufacturer is exactly the same quality regardless of the price at which it is sold. Sony, for example, doesn't make a cut-rate PS4 that they sell at half price during the holidays. The video game I bought this weekend for a third of the list price is exactly the same as the one I could have bought a month ago. Even a low-end item - say, a crappy phone charger - is the same product now that it is in March or any other time of year.
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How come carnivorous plants know that insects actually exist?
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They do not. All they do is close when something lands on a designated part of them. It doesn't matter what, they close them in anyways.Land-based insects evolved before dry-land plants emerged from the sea. Thus plants emerged into an already dangerous and precarious new evolutionary niche when they first ventured to poke their fledgling roots above the waves. Thus it is therefore reasonable to assume that evolution found defenses against insects - else otherwise plant life would never had found a foothold on the earth. Trapping and eating is just one such defense. Being tough or tasting bad or being poisonous are another. Also tactics such as camouflage or hiding under rocks may have been tried.
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Why can you eat steak rare, but chicken has to be cooked thoroughly?
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I keep hearing that this has actually turned out to be incorrect and you should cook all meat thoroughly, but the theory goes: The harmful germs in beef that could potentially make you sick can only penetrate the first few layers of the meat. This means you only need to properly cook the outside of a steak in order to make it safe to eat. This also means you shouldn't eat rare beef burgers, where the meat has been mixed up and mushed together into a patty before being cooked, which spreads the germs all through the meat. The germs in chicken are found throughout the meat even when it isn't ground, so it's very important to make sure chicken is cooked thoroughly before eating.
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How do submarines survive the pressure in the deep sea?
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Commercial divers dive much deeper than recreational divers. It's also known as saturation diving. However, to avoid the bends they often live at pressure for days at a time to allow them to complete their work. The deepest simulated chamber dive I believe was just over 700m seawater. It took over a month to complete! Source:I am a commercial diver but don't work to saturation depths._URL_1_
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what is the difference between rubbing alcohol and drinking alcohol
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I'm not sure about a chemical difference between the two, but I have a friend that owns a vodka distilling company. He distills enough ethenol that he sells half of it to the medical industry which use it to sanitize implements and such. He just then adds water to his half to proof it to 80 and bottles it up.
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Why is it that we are not able to retain any memories of our early childhood?
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I think the ability to recall bits of early childhood memories is dependent on the individual in question's memory. I can remeber potty training, learning to walk, sitting in high chairs, and watching disney movies fairly well. My younger brother, who's only a few years younger than me, can barely remember anything from a few years ago, let alone anywhere near early childhood. He developed slower than I did, but he doesn't have a learning disability. He was just not as well tempered as I was, which could make a difference, I don't know.Young infants do not yet have the concept of "self" formed into their brain. On Monday they might see a dog and they will register that it is brown, hairy, and stands on 4 legs. Then on Tuesday they may see another dog and they will think "this is also brown, hairy, and on 4 legs, it must be one of those thing". However, they will not make the connection *that they are the same person who met a dog yesterday*. They literally have no sense of self and don't make connections to their past. They are just observing things and learned the world without realizing that they are a being who exists everyday. Realize that babies can still learn things, their brain is quite capable of memorizing and learning facts. Without "self" babies can still learn everything about how the world works but without self they can't form *personal* memories because we don't have a self to refer to. Only later in life will we realize we are a person that lives from day to day and from that day on we will have *personal* memories.Your brain hasn't fully developed at that stage. There are several other theories in regards to psychology and laungauge [this] seems to summarize them .
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Why do drivers ed. programs place so much emphasis on parallel parking?
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Because it's easy to teach, the fact of the matter is that a lot of drivers don't know the really important stuff. Parking isn't the most important part of driving, if someone can't park the might dink a few cars, if someone doesn't know how to avoid skidding out on an oil slick then they can wipe out a school bus. The thing is that the real skills that save lives are hard to teach. Also if you can parallel park you can do any parking.
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Why did early traders sail around the southern horn of Africa, when traveling to China and India, rather than make the *very* short land trip through what is now the Suez Canal?
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One reason that hasn't been mentioned yet is the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in the mid 1400s. This closed off the overland trade routes that had run through the Byzantine Empire. That's one of the reasons for the search for a Western route to the far east which led to the European discovery of the Americas. It was hoped that this Western route via the Atlantic Ocean would be shorter than going around Africa", 'Because they had very large loads in their ships. They would have had to unload their ships them carry all of their cargo to a ship on the other side to continue their journey', "you mean the short land trip that's about 160km thru the desert? you'd need a caravan of a hundreds of horse carts to take the load of a single ship.
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How can individuals like the Whites from "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" and the Moonshiners from Discovery blatantly perform illegal actions on film and still get away with it?
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I've not seen either show specifically, but perhaps they applied for and received the proper permits? I'm sure The Discovery Channel has a team of lawyers that could help them. If it's a subject you're into, I have to recommend [The Last One], a documentary about [Popcorn Sutton], it's a great watch, highly entertaining.
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What is in the extra chromosome inside people with down syndrome?
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If you're still curious about Down syndrome, you may also find articles where it's referred to as trisomy 21, referring to the fact that you have three copies of chromosome 21 .
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2016 Presidential election FAQ & Megathread
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ELI5: How can the IBD Poll, the most accurate poll in recent history, be calling Trump 2 points ahead, while CNN's 'Poll of Polls', NBC'S poll, and many others call Clinton currently ahead by double or near double digits? How can these polls be describing the same reality?", 'EIL5: did Hillary really do anything wrong? And if so why does Wikileaks keep dropping her emails and no media is really covering it?what is the problem of the comments about refugees? From my point of view it sounds quite right as they imposed a great unnecessarily threat and cost to the US government. Why are there so many negative views to it?', "ELI5: So now that it seems the FBI has reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's e-mails, but it seems a bit late for her to be removed from the election, what happens if she wins?", 'Can someone explain to me why all of these polls consist of 800 voters and carry a margin of error of +/- 4 points, when they could double the sample size and reduce the spread substantially? The difference in cost would be about $4,000, but I would think these orgs could easily afford that.Given the general dissatisfaction with the major candidates, why should I _not_ vote for a third party candidate?How did "they" keep Bernie from winning the democratic nomination? I 've heard this several times but I don't understand what happened .Would Trump's locker room talk from a decade ago really convince someone to vote for Hillary even if they preferred Trump's policies? Why and WHy not?
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How can you tell if a large body of water is frozen enough to walk safely on?
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Two ways: * Air bubbles move when you apply pressure. If they're moving when you take a cautious step, not safe.* Find a large rock, more than 5 pounds, and throw it as high as you can in front of you. If it breaks the surface, probably not a great idea to go there. :) Not scientific, but kept us out of trouble!", 'There are guidelines based on the passed high temperatures. Also, free standing water freezes faster than flowing. So lakes are safer than rivers. Better safe than sorry!
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Why do cars not have oil level sensors?
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Some Porsches have this. I hate it. You have to assume that it's working correctly. Over the lifetime of the car there is a non-trivial chance that one day it will fail in a way that makes it read 'full' all the time even when the crankcase is empty. A dipstick is pretty much 100% foolproof.
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How does the International Space station maintain it's altitude?
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Imagine you fire a bullet, it will slowly approach the earth until it hits the ground in a inverted U trajectory, the faster the bullet the further it goes. In the case of satellites after lifting them up to a certain height you give them enough speed so that its trajectory doesn't hit the ground, thus becoming a circle.
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Why do we allow the media to not source their findings/articles?
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That article has multiple sources. It doesn't have a bibliography, but the sources are internally referenced: *German biologist Stefan Lanka *An article in Suedkurier, a German regional newspaper *An announcement by the World Health Organization *The Ravensburg, Germany regional court's verdict
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Why American's don't like soccer/football
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It's not on TV, so it doesn't get a big audience compared to other sports. The reason its on TV is because there are few breaks and little opportunity for commercials. Plus, the US doesn't have a good history when it comes to domestic leagues. The NASL folded in the 80s, and it wasn't until the mid-90s that the MLS started, and it's just now starting to gain legitimacy as a quality league. Also, Americans have a perception that it's slow. And we generally don't like slow-moving low-scoring games where ending in a tie is a common outcome.
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What is Entropy and why can't it be decreased?
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Many people have answered your question and given the impression that disorder must always increase. This is a misunderstanding of the Second Law. The Second Law doesn't actually say disorder must increase, it says that all things will spontaneously seek the lowest energy state available to them. To understand the difference, imagine you released a bunch of individual oxygen atoms into a box. They would combine into a lower energy state, O2, even though this dramatically decreases disorder. Or you could imagine saltwater evaporating, leaving behind highly ordered salt crystals, a naturally occurring process.
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