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Why did our mother cat start hating her kittens after they grew up? | It might be because they don't appreciate the hard work and career sacrifices she's put into raising them. She could have been sleeping like 90% of that time but instead she was only sleeping 89% of it! You know what?!, they can just go live on their own for all she cares! Maybe when they grow up and have kittens of th... |
If Water is just H2O, how come we can't just create a bunch of water in a lab from the abundant elements of Hydrogen and Oxygen? | If you have a lot of hydrogen laying around, sure you can create water by just burning it. But where are you gonna get hydrogen in that amount? |
Why was Nixon forced to resign after spying on his political opponents, but Obama has faced no repercussions for spying on the American public? | I can't believe it hasn't been brought up here yet: What Nixon did was illegal. He ordered people to break into a locked building and steal documents, then he lied about it under oath. Obama's spying program is totally legal under the PATRIOT act and several other laws and ruling produced in secret courts and congressi... |
Why is it that when pressing on my belly button in a particular way I'll feel a tingling sensation in my urethra? | To your second question, I'm pretty sure about half the readers just poked their belly button.I feel it in my taint and anus when I get poked in the belly button. It feels like a low level electrical current shooting uncomfortable little shocks all over my insides.Great question. I've wondered this for years. The top c... |
How are companies able to lower the costs of items on Black Friday? | The ads for stuff like steeply discounted TVs, PlayStations, etc etc are loss leaders. The store will take the loss but is hoping you will come in for the promotional purchase and stay to buy their overpriced holiday decorations, clothing, appliances, food, fragrance sets and other items not marked down . |
Is there a reason why it's so hard to run in dreams? | dreams? What's that? I just close my eyes, two seconds later it's morning. Sounds like a hippie thing.I thought it had something to do with the spinal cord handling a chunk of walking, almost "autonomously" from the brain. That is, the brain "directs" in broad terms , but the spinal cords handles the nitty-gritty detai... |
- Why do women, generally, grow their hair long and men keep their's short? | It's been a while since I read about it, but I'm pretty sure the reason that men kept their hair short due to military restrictions during the roman empire. It was a standard procedure for them to cut all enlisted soldiers hair so it couldn't be grabbed in combat and used against them. I think because of this, the oppo... |
Why do we constantly complain about water running out, doesn't water just cycle? | The cycle have a rate. There is a certain amount of water per year of water that evaporate, condense and rain back down. In addition, not all the water that rain down is consumable. Some rain on the ocean where is become salty. Some drop on the ground, where it can reach a lake, but some also go in the ground and it co... |
Why do we make cars that go way faster than the top speed limit? | Because people buy them. This thread contains responses mentioning towing, and different speed limits, and all sorts of things that auto makers don't really care about. They're a business. They sell cars. The only reason they do anything is because someone will pay them to do it. They don't really care about how fast a... |
Why are chemical weapons considered particularly heinous? | in addition to what others have said keep in mind it is REALLY hard to make nuclear weapons and even then they are hard to transport/use plus hey most of the nations who have them are strong enough that you can't really punish them this is in comparison to anyone/any nation who can throw together chemical weapons. It i... |
why do people have to pay for bee removal when bees are worth a lot of money? | not everyone wants to keep a beehive. there's not enough beekeepers to find one to drive to your house to take the bees. |
how a shark like the Greenland shark posted to r/science can survive at over 9000 feet below the ocean surface, but things made of steel could get crushed. | [Link for the lazy.] For animals that live at that depth, every cell in their body evolved to survive at that depth. Basically, they're born there and they're used to it. Not everything that was made on land will collapse when diving to a great depth. Submarines and other devices can be engineered to withstand the pres... |
Does an elevated heart rate from playing intense video games count as cardio? | Cardio is conditioning your body to have more endurance when performing physical activities - your lungs improve, allowing more oxygen into the bloodstream, your heart improves, getting that oxygen to from your lungs to your muscles, and your muscles use that additional oxygen to more easily so the work. Your heart rat... |
why do so many people enjoy modern ultra-realistic computer games simulating horrible things like war and murder? | The same reason we have ultra-realistic simulations of car racing or flying space ships. People want to feel like they're doing exciting things they can't do in real life .Your question was actually "why do people like things that I don't like?" Do you actually need an answer to that question?', "The same reason that p... |
Why do we continue using the existing credit card technology over all these years despite them being so prone to digital theft and insecure? | I install pos systems and develop payment gateways. Two giant issues .merchant processing companies decide what equipment they sell to clients . either the company or the client has to foot the bill for upgrades to the new standard . so any implementation is slow . other countries have NFC, chip based cards for decades... |
How does entropy prove why time only goes forwards? | Entropy is the gradual decline of the universe from order into disorder. It's irreversible, too; any energy we spend to create order in one area will inevitably create disorder in another area. The only way it would be possible to reverse the effects of entropy would be to reverse the flow of time. |
What exactly is a time share, and why is it so bad? | A time share can be good, and I've known a couple of people who are happy with their decision. However, it seems most people are not. First: the sales pitches are legendary. These guys put used car salesmen to shame. Read some accounts online and you'll be amazed at the tactics. Second: these days, most people like to ... |
The Taliban just killed 130 people in a school, mostly children. Why is that somehow part of a rational strategy for them? How do they justify that to themselves? | Terrorists have their own strategies, which are hard for most people to comprehend but nonetheless contain a coherent logic. Terrorism is an asymmetric tactic used by small groups towards two complementary goals. First it instills fear in those who support the government and/or a certain political ideology. Second it e... |
If I hypothetically built a fully functioning rocket and were able to fund the trip myself, would it be legal for me to leave earth? | I imagine you'd need FAA approval if launching in the US and other approvals that the likes of SpaceX and Virgin Galactic have or are in the process of obtaining relating to manned flight.A lot of it would be in relation to public safety that you aren't going to accidentally hit a plane and so forth.So yeah if you have... |
why do Diesel engines last longer or have the reputation of lasting longer than gas engines? | Diesel engines generally have high compression ratios and so are built to be stronger. That combined with diesel itself, as a fuel, being 'dirtier' in that when burning it you are effectively lubricating the valves etc as it runs. |
why did the football commissioner got booed while holding the super bowl cup? | He's not very popular right about now, especially in New England. Tougher sanctions for allegedly deflating footballs than for players guilty of domestic violence, or simply trying to cripple opposing players on the field. |
How are tattoos permanent if every cell in your body is replaced every 7 - 10 years? | You have to also realise that your body is not just directly made up of cells. You also have an extracellular matrix or ECM which is spaces between cells, connective tissues and fluids. This will mostly be where the ink sits. Tattoo inks are large molecules which your body can't get rid off on its own. In tattoo remova... |
How do Jeopardy contestants seem to know such a wide array of miscellaneous topics? | They study and learn memory tricks. The correct response on most Jeopardy questions is usually something that the average person has heard of or knows something about. The difficulty is that the clue is given using hints that aren't as common knowledge and don't mention the fact that everyone knows. |
Why are there so many talented musicians on YouTube who can sing amazing acoustic song covers that never get picked up? | Because singing isn't hard. American Idol would have ran out of contestants by now if singing was actually a talent. So, since countless people can sing, it comes down to marketing. Who's going to get marketed? The person with the best connected parents or the person who can suck cock the best. Pretty simple. |
in the world of adblockers how are websites still earning money by ads. | I cant explain all the technicalities. I run adblockers on everything though and still get a lot of ads. Depending on the website, i'd say the adblocker only catches about 1/3 to 1/2 the ads. The great thing about the adblocker is it seems to catch the annoying popup/overlay ads. I dont really mind small sidebar ads. T... |
How America can sustain copeous amounts of debt. But Greece went on the verge of economic collapse due to a small fraction of that debt? | For the same reason a credit card debt of 1000 dollars is a huge debt for someone who only makes 100 dollars a year, and it is nothing to someone who makes 10,000 dollars a year. The USA has a much bigger economy than Greece and earns much more. Additionally, the USA also has the advantage of being in control of their ... |
Why isn't the data on a black box saved 'in the cloud'? | Because all you care about is the last 5 minutes and that's not going to upload during a crash. |
Am I legally allowed to build a spaceship and launch into space? | Space isn't owned by anyone, and once you're there you'd be free to do or go whatever or wherever you wanted. However, depending on where you're launching from, you have to go through some country's airspace to get there, and that airspace is likely heavily regulated. This means you'd have to get clearance from that co... |
Before toilet paper was invented, what was the main source of cleaning oneself and how bad was hygiene? | Washing yourself clean after a bowel movement makes sense to me if you use soap and water. But water, unless it is high pressure which I'm assuming won't be the case, doesn't feel like enough to make you clean. I agree that soap and water will be cleaner than toilet paper. But just water feels totally inadequate to me.... |
Why do rich or famous people often get more lenient sentences? Shouldn't they be sentenced to the letter of the law, no matter how good their lawyer is? | Some good answers but you shouldn't look at it like rich people are not sentenced to the letter of the law, but that poor people get too harsh of sentences. The same law/reason that a rich person faces a lessor sentence exists for poor people, but their attorneys don't find it or argue it successfully. So when the pros... |
If any of us would be teleported to the past, say circa 1500, would we cause a major technological or scientifical breakthrough? | If you sent me back that far i'd probably be very, very useful for knowing military strategy and such. Even things that seem common sense nowadays would be revolutionary to some medieval militaries. However i guess this is assuming that they even listen to me since i'd literally be some random pleb talking about what w... |
What would happen if you remove all the other planets from our Solar System and kept only Earth, Moon and Sun in it? Will Earth survive? | Now that the paths have been cleared, it's somewhat likely that gravitational tugs on Kuiper Belt objects by the gas giants could destabilize KBO orbits and send them in toward Earth. It could be better going forward without them there, but Earth may have turned out differently if not for the presence of the gas giants... |
How did a Boeing 787 travel faster than Mach 1 this week? | It didn't. There are 2 things to remember. The first is that the speed of sound is not constant, but changes with altitude and humidity. The higher you fly, the lower the speed of sound is. The second is that there's a difference between ground speed and air speed. Ground speed, which is the speed the article listed, i... |
why have humans evolved to only be required to consume such a small percentage of their body weight daily relative to some other animals on earth? | The same reason you LOVE the taste of sugary and fatty foods. Humans have evolved to eat a small amount of very high energy food - like others have said, we even go to great lengths to cook it first so it takes less energy to digest. Fats and sugars are very dense in terms of energy, as are most of the other carbohydra... |
Why do people get so worked up about things that don't affect them? | To echo a point below , people without much going on place a lot of emphasis on things that most of us consider trivial. I think that everyone has to care about something, and if you don't have a traditional answer other things seem more important. My mom would always freak out when the house wasn't perfectly clean bec... |
Why is it cheaper to buy in bulk? | There are two different fundamental reasons. One is that there are 'economies of scale' in packaging, logistics, paper-work, etc. The other is that buying in bulk means you have more bargaining power. |
Why are we attracted to only certain people ? Why are some people considered ugly while some are considered attractive when basically everyone is just skin and hair? | I normally dislike anyone who doesn't look like they are in shape, mostly because I'm an active person and I want a partner who will be on the front line with me without complaining.When it comes to modern society at least, a basic way to judge beauty in almost every culture is symmetry. The more symmetrical a person i... |
Why is there a focus to raise min wage instead of creating more working class jobs? | Because creating or cutting jobs is the biggest steaming pile in politics. It's used to leverage huge amounts of wasted money and votes. The fact of the matter is that the economy makes jobs. If you focus legislation on prosperity and opportunity and keeping the economy healthy, jobs will come naturally. If more people... |
How do old countries outside of the U.S. study their own history? | In England schools pick a selection of topics and teach those instead of trying to give everyone a broad overview. So the exact topics each person learns is different depending on the school, although there will definitely be something about the two world wars. We quite often get Americans asking what British children ... |
Can you please explain how a subpoena works in regards to being ordered to testify verses pleading the fifth amendment? | A subpoena forces someone to testify at a criminal or civil trial. The 5th amendment says that you don't have to testify or incriminate against yourself. Hypothetically say you witnessed a murder across the street while you were coincidentally buying illegal drugs. You could be forced to testify at the murder trial but... |
Why does the return trip usually feel shorter? | If you're talking about road trips. It's coz you've already done it like you're use to it.. what that's how I feel on road trips |
in Hawaii, how did Spam become one of the staple foods to that island state? | Spam was shipped overseas with the US soldiers during WW2, you'll find most islands with a big US presence developed a taste for spam. It was just abundant and taste good because it's incredibly bad for you. |
How can Pandas survive on a diet of 99% Bamboo while humans have to eat a diverse range of food?. | My understanding is that pandas hardly *thrive.* They've evolved into a kind of over-specialized dead-end. They are a dying species, and it isn't just because of humans destroying their habitat. Their caloric and nutritional demands are difficult to supply via the one thing they've evolved to eat. Birth rates for panda... |
Why do we throw random medications at depression to see which will work? | Because medications aren't 'one size fits all'; depression specifically can be caused by different things and people react differently to different medications, so it's necessary to try a few before finding what will work in some cases. |
Why a developing country like India have cheaper health care then developed country like America? | The economics of health care are complicated, especially when it comes to the United States, which has a rather unique position. Indians have less money, so demand is lower--prices must drop to accommodate this. On the other hand, the quality of care in India is also poorer, and fewer people have access to good care th... |
When a corporation makes a profit, where does that money go? | Profit is not cash by the way. A corporation could make a ton of profit but be incredibly broke, it's how accounting works. So where does profit go? Nowhere. It's an accounting concept.In many of the larger corporations that profit goes to the shareholders who each get a very small amount per share. This may be the CEO... |
What happened to chat rooms? How did they go from such popularity to being virtually non-existent? | See yik yak. It's an app that creates university-wide anonymous chat rooms that's extremely popular on college campuses |
Why do humans, for the most part, tend to find unhealthy foods more satisfying than food which is good for you? | Some food is common and some is hard to find. To motivate you to find the hard stuff that you need at least a little of, you are evolved to really like its taste But at the same time, you are evolved to mostly deal with a diet of the stuff that is easy to find. That way you survive on the easy stuff, but put in the ene... |
Why are vision and dental considered separate from health insurance? | Please use search, this has been asked before. Here's one search that turns up answers: _URL_1_ |
Why is there a limit on how big animals/insects with exoskeletons can grow? | Insects breathe through their skin, allowing for only relatively small pores through which to obtain oxygen, meaning that there is a limit to how large, and therefore how much of a surface area/mass ratio the creature can support with the oxygen in the atmosphere. Since the Earth's atmosphere used to have more oxygen, ... |
Why do some people deny that the holocaust ever happened, when there is proof that concentration camps existed ? | There's a very good and readable book by Michael Shermer, *Why People Believe Weird Things*. It deals not only with Holocaust Denial, but also conspiracy theories, UFO believers, creationism, and weird cults. Shermer, a former creationist, is partially writing from experience. The TL;DR is that weird beliefs result fro... |
Why can women have an abortion but the father be forced to play child support | I've seen this question before. It all boils down to which personal right the courts have decided is more important. In this case its the woman's right to autonomy of her own body. The guy has no say in what the lady chooses to do after copulation.Anything else would mean A: Women would be dragged kicking and screaming... |
How is it that games like LoL and Dota are still basically hacker-free, while CoD games have hackers within hours after launch? | They are not hack free, the problem is that there is a big investment by the companies developing DotA and LoL to keep the problem mitigated. I'm not familiar with LoL but the way it works for Valve is simple, if you get caught running a hack they shut down your entire account, you lose all your purchased games. They a... |
the cleaning process of a surgery room | As spotless as they can. They actually don't really change all that much any differently than cleaning other rooms of the hospital: everything should be wiped down. There's no vacuums, at least not that I've seen in so far, but they do mop the floors and often times only have about 15 minutes between surgeries to clean... |
What the hell symphony conductors actually do. | They are mainly there to ensure everyone stays coordinated. When you have dozens of musicians, even skilled ones, they can drift off time a bit. In addition they can emphasize certain instruments at different times to have them play louder/softer. In the sense of an interview show, Colbert can't really shake the hands ... |
why do games need a screen that say "press start"?? | In the Olden Days, you'd go right form the Start to playing the game, and you needed a pause to make sure people are actually ready to play. You also wanted that pause between GAME OVER and the next game. In modern games it's probably a holdover from that. Game designers want some kind of loading screen with some kind ... |
What would happen if a person somehow slipped into a blue whale's blowhole? | Okay, let's throw in a hypothetical here, since the consensus is that the blowhole is too small to fit even a toddler. I am an anorexic dwarf midget with narrow bone disease, and I can in fact slide through a whale's blowhole. What happens?", 'I read the title as "butthole." Does that change the answer?', "Let's say yo... |
With most countries so far in debt, how does China have all this money to loan other countries like the U.S. and U.K. | China doesn't actually own some huge quantity, relatively speaking, of US Treasuries. Last I checked it was something like 4% of the total. Our biggest creditor is ourselves, basically. Like $5.3T is owned by Social Security, another $5.1T owned by normal American individuals and corporations, and maybe $2.5T owned by ... |
Why do cookie dough packages say 'DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH', but everyone does anyways with no consequences? | Ok so I just did the math. According to the [CDC] The death rate of non-typhoidal Salmonella in the U.S. is 0.0375%. According to the [people that have the most to benefit from Salmonella infected eggs] one in 10,000 eggs has Salmonella, which is 0.01%. Combine those and your chances of dying from Salmonella from a sin... |
Why do religions use stories and analogies to explain values and teachings, instead of stating stating them directly, which leads to misinterpretation? | It's basic manipulation, You are far more likely to believe/follow something if you believe you reached the conclusion yourself.Well, the point of ELI5 is to use simple terms that a child can understand to explain an idea. Sometimes, ELI5s use stories or real life examples to illustrate an idea. I would imagine that th... |
Adenosine is produced which leads to increased feeling of tiredness / need for sleep. Do sufferers of Insomnia struggle to produce this chemical or is there something else at work? | Insomnia more times then not is a symptom of anxiety. Insomniacs feel tiredness constantly. They just can't sleep.One additional factor at work can be the length of the internal circadian rhythm. This is sort of like your body reading out a very long complicated instruction manual which ideally takes 24 hours to read, ... |
Is there actually a difference between the free program Gimp and the expensive Photoshop? | The main advantage for Photoshop to me, besides what other users have said, is how its files work with other Adobe software; Adobe makes a lot of software and it's all made to work together as flawlessly as possible. |
what's the purpose of having 87, 89, 91 type of gasoline? | Ok so theres already a few post of people explaining why but I'm gonna take another shot at it for your reading pleasure. Inside the engine are pistons and cylinders. ) If you were designing a car and you wanted it to go faster one of the things you could do was design it for *higher compression*. Higher compression is... |
Why is there such an embarrassment regarding sex and nudity among the majority of people? | I think it's largely because sexuality has always had pretty important implications, namely children. There have always been some forms of birth control, even in ancient times, but nothing like today. Oftentimes, the only real means of birth control was preventing sex altogether. If you did look back a couple of centur... |
How do people who live up north get through the cold? | 1. Its cold for us too, we just have grown accustomed to it so know that certain times of the year require thicker clothes, jackets, boots etc.. 2. Our municipal systems are designed to take winter weather into account salt trucks, snow plows etc are all part of city planning budgets. This year has been ridiculously co... |
How come water will break your phone, and how do companies make the phone completely water proof? | Your phone contains a printed circuit board. Basically a piece of silicon with wires embedded in it. When water gets on this board electrical connections can be created between two of those wires that were never meant to touch. This can wreak all sorts of havoc on your phone. That's why they tell you to remove the batt... |
Why isn't bread soggy when frozen and then thawed out? | There's no water in the bread when you freeze it. Thus it's not accumulating ice. Your just cooling the bread itself down really cold them worming it back up. Thus there is not water involved.Unless it is soggy when you freeze it, why would it become soggy when thawing it? The water content is the same. The thawing pro... |
Why are most of the top posts on reddit almost 2 years old, despite the sites popularity growing since then? | They've been around longer, & thus had more time for people to up-vote them? The first thing I do when visiting a new sub is scroll through their top posts. If everybody did that, they could get a lot more votes than the new/hot section, since people aren't there every hour of the day to see the new/hot content. |
Why are new mattresses so expensive? There's not much too them. Springs, padding, fabric, foam. Assembled by machines, $2000 please. | Tempur-Pedics aren't even that, they are just giant chunks of foam. I used to deliver them and i couldn't believe that people were paying $4000 for a Cal King sized Piece of foam |
What does net worth mean? | Theoretically, your net worth is what you would have in cash if you sold every significant possession and paid off all of your debts.-The Simple Dollar A person's or an organisation's net worth is the difference between its assets over its liabilities. It is an useful measure to determine how much a person or enterpris... |
Why don't some museums or fancy churches allow flash photography? | It's disruptive to the people enjoying the space", 'I was a tour guide at various museums and basically you are allowed to take pictures, just not with the flash as the other redditor pointed out, it can damage some of the paintings also oil paints will naturally fade over time and the flash accelerates this as almost ... |
If the people that went over to treat Ebola victims were wearing air tight suits to prevent them from getting the virus, how did they get Ebola? | The suits are helpful to keep away infection. But, they can't be worn 24/7 so all it takes is contamination when they eat, go to the restroom, or anytime not in the suit. Because Ebola takes several days to show symptoms, people can get it before they know anyone near them is sick. |
If there's so many people who absolutely despise Comcast/TW for the monsters that they are, why can't we do something about their unethical ways of business? | For every person who is vocal about hating Comcast, there's another ten who just don't care and are content with their service. AOL still makes $500 million a year on dial-up internet, even though there are options far superior and far cheaper than it. In order for anything to change, there would either need to be gove... |
Why is it easier to make snowballs from some snow and hard from other? | I'm assuming it's because freshly fallen snow flakes have air between them while older snow has time to melt and has water to fuse between the individual snow flakes. Am from Southern California, never made a snow ball. |
What exactly is the Large Hadron Collider and what does it do? | The LHC is a storage ring with two counter-rotating beams of particles. The LHC is capable of developing beams of protons and lead-208 nuclei, so they can collide protons with protons, protons with lead-208, and lead-208 with lead-208. The proton-proton collisions are used for things like producing Higgs bosons. The pr... |
What is dogecoin mining and why do people need lots of graphics cards for it? | It's fairly simple. Doge is an evil emperor who accepts graphic cards in exchange for mining his secret mines. People mine for dogecoins so they can pay to live in Dogelandia. Such hard life. Many problem. Wow. |
Why is it bad to end a story with, "And it was all just a dream"? | It's lazy. Think of any book or movie you've ever seen, and add a person walking up at the end. If the story was any good it would've had a strong enough end to finish without it. That said, it can be useful. Alice in Wonderland is one example, where waking from the dream links Alice back to the real world after standi... |
What is the point of life imprisonment? | Death is final and if it later turns out that the person was actually innocent you can't do anything for him anymore. However, if he is merely incarcerated then you can release him and perhaps offer monetary compensation for the wrongful conviction and years he had to spend behind bars. |
Why did it take so long for anyone to figure out how to draw in perspective? Why was that so difficult? | This is a complex question! And it has several indirect answers. First, I work as a designer, painter hobbyist, studied art history at university, traveled extensively and have visited almost all named galleries in Europe except for Russia. First, early Japanese and Indian artists did draw in perspective before Europea... |
can doctors diagnose themselves? if not then are they allowed to be diagnosed by doctors from the same clinic/hospital? | They can self-diagnose to their heart's content. Prescription is another matter. Generally speaking they can't self-prescribe controlled drugs but often can self-prescribe things like antibiotics. Other doctors in the same clinic or hospital can indeed write prescriptions for them. |
Does the double-slit experiment violate the law of non contradiction? | the 'law' of non-contradiction isnt a natural law. The principle was stated as a theorem of propositional logic, but thats not the same thing. |
Why do dogs tilt their head sometimes when they hear certain sounds? | Why do people tilt their heads while trying to recognize a sound? I don't know, but it's pretty much the same thing", 'Hear it better probably. My dog would do it as a puppy when you make weird sounds at him now he just pleads with his eyes for you to stop.I'm not sure if this applies to dogs, but in humans the right e... |
Why do cats only meow at humans and not at other cats? | Cats do use meows for communication, but it's generally restricted to between mother and kittens and stops once the kittens grow old enough. |
Why does U.S.A not call out Saudi Arabia on human rights violations? | Because the US government doesn't give a shit about human rights violations. It cares about it's own interests. Support the US governments interests and they couldn't care less about what you do in your country. Oppose US interests and they'll draw attention to every fault in order to convince other countries to isolat... |
When we form scabs that do not heal properly and turn into scars, why can't we rip off that scar tissue and try again to let it heal correctly? | I have a question on the same topic: why is it that every. single. time that I get a cut, even a papercut and no matter how superficial, I get a scar? I've had several scars from surgery and accidents, but every time I get injured, it results in a scar.I think the scar is determined by the depth of the cut. Not by how ... |
What is stopping america from gun control laws? | Mostly because a good bit of the population doesn't want them to change. The second amendment to the constitution presents a legal problem, but not a serious one for the types of controls that usually get talked about and then shut down on capital hill. |
Why do I usually forget what I was dreaming about minutes if not moments after I wake up? | Related XKCD comic [here]. Sums up what you're talking about pretty spot on. One of my favs |
With the advent of 3D printers, what happens now to the China (producer) U.S. (consumer) global relationship? | Nothing, for a long time. It's still a lot more expensive to 3d produce something, the 3d printed object will still have worse quality, and you won't be able to produce even a fraction of the same amount of product. |
Was the 1980's a good time to live in? | I don't know about anybody else, but I spent every weekend at the roller skating rink, in my Jordache. Had a grand time, and a nice ass for the rest of my life |
Arrests of FIFA officials in Zurich | I live in america and am not that into soccer. Isn't FIFA just like the NBA or the NHL? The way they talk about this organization is like its a government. Why is it illegal to pay a independent private business to have their tournament in your own country?", 'So the World Cup is still being held in Qatar with all thei... |
Why is salt water so difficult to make drinkable/usable? | It isn't difficult so much as impractical. Extracting salt from water take a lot of energy. The simplest way it to distill the water, while the more complicated but less energy intensive reverse osmosis is becoming more common. But both are quite expensive. The more serious obstacle is distributing the water. Most of t... |
How could we terraform venus? | in order to terraform venus, u'd need to find a planet sized chunk of sodium hydroxide. mars is far easier to terraform.> drop ice on it Did you Do you even *head asplode* |
How do insurance companies survive disasters like the hurricanes in Florida? | Also, they exclude a lot of things in their actual policy to avoid a massive loss. Hence why was being reported that 85% of Houston residents didn't have flood insurance. It's excluded on a normal homeowners policy. |
How does the volume on a TV work? | Short answer it doesn't. The engineering folks who made the TV set up an amount of noise change and thats what one click does for you. Unless were talking about receivers measured in dB which I'll let someone else cover. |
The Democratic and Republican attitudes towards school vouchers. | Republicans like it because: * it reduces the size of government* it increases educational opportunities* it encourages public schools to improve their performance* it gives a stealth tax break to the wealthy* it can be used to do an end around separation of church and state Democrats dislike it because: * it takes mon... |
Why do some organs come in pairs, like Kidneys and Lungs, but others are singular, such as the Liver or Heart? | I think part of it might be the ratio of volume:surface area. If a system is too large it becomes inefficient in terms of diffusion. Having two smaller kidneys is likely more efficient than one big kidney. My other thought is that two small organs are easier to fit in the limited space our torso provides. It's the diff... |
What are the anti-EU parties across Europe actually objecting to? | It is mostly to 'Regain control of individual countries' For example, UKIP want out of the EU due to several things such as immigration, millions spent bailing the EU, EU superstate, single currency etc There are a number of reasons why leaving the EU *would* benefit the country, especially one as developed as the UK o... |
Why do many archaeological finds in ancient cities/countries such as Rome or Egypt appear to have been "frozen in time"? | Civilizations aren't typically abandoned. Many world cities are built on the same land where ancient people decided to gather together. Some archaeological sites reflect a catastrophic event that resulted in the abandonment of a community These places may not have cleaned up afterward because there was no one left. |
Why did contact with the Vikings not have the same effect on Native American population that contact with Europeans at a later date did? | Europeans don't innately carry diseases - the Columbian Era Europeans were leaving crowed & unclean cities, crammed into crowed boats with livestock for 3 months. All it takes is one sick person to get on board and everyone else is at risk. Escaped pigs from Spanish explorers probably spread diseases quicker than human... |
Why do we have to go to such great lengths to take care of oral hygiene in ways our evolutionary ancestors never did? | I'm pretty sure your premise is false. Ancient Egyptians, for example, did pretty remarkable dental and oral surgery. |
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