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The US is known as the "No Vacation Nation", the only developed nation without mandatory PTO. | It's not about what makes sense or not. It's about culture. Every person here is a decendant of an immigrant. It takes grit, determination and a strong work ethic to just up and leave everything you know and work your butt of in some new place hoping for a better life. Take the fact that we have self selected for peopl... |
Why is that in the same room, same temperature, my boyfriend can be sweating while I am shivering? | There's a region in the brain responsible for temperature regulation, and it seeks to set your body temperature to whatever it deems best. That may vary slightly among people. When it sets your body temperature above what it currently is, you shiver - this rapidly burns metabolic fuel which releases energy as heat. If ... |
Why Microsoft is being fined more than half a billion euros for not giving a choice of browser in windows 7 installation and Apple is not. | Microsoft has 95% of the market. Apple does not. There is a much greater responsibility associated with having a monopoly. You don't expect the same thing from the king that you do from a pauper, nor should you. I also believe that Safari doesn't have the majority share on OSX. |
Is there potentially an unlimited number of elements that can be discovered? | When you discover an element, the basic procedure is to take a heavy atom and a lighter atom, strip all the electrons off the lighter atom, and then shoot it at the heavy one. If you're lucky, the nucleus of the lighter atom will stick to the heavy one. Then you have several seconds to measure the atom you just created... |
since https is secure why don't all sites use it? Why isn't it the default? Why even have http? | Encryption is very valuable for some things, but a waste for others. It limits the ability to use things like load balancers, and makes it harder to detect some types of network problems. It's probably a good thing for sites to at least offer it to users who want it, but using it by default does have some limitations. |
Why are rising house prices considered 'good'? If anything else rose in price, it's usually not considered good. | Because most houses are owned by normal people not businesses - the higher price means that those people will get more money when they sell. The money they may owe on their house gets smaller by comparison. If you buy a 100k house and owe 100k on it then wait 2 years and house prices go up and it's now worth 200k your ... |
. Why do I go from being obsessed with a song to hating it after multiple listenings? | You probably just grew away from it. There are bands I used to just DIE over but now I'm embarrassed to have ever listened them", 'But conversely, when forced to listen to shit mainstream songs on the radio at work, does the opposite happen? 1st listen "Lady Gaga? *groan* This is so shit" 3rd listen "Actually, its got ... |
Why politicians never grow facial hair? | It's just a style. Facial hair is not currently popular, but it has been in the past. |
Is there something wrong with being honest with children about life, from a child psychology standpoint? | My nephews father, my brother died. Everyone told him that to see dad you have to die to become an angel. He was 6 years old at the time. 6 months later I found a comic strip he drew, as he was a kid who liked to sketch a lot. The comic strip showed him killing himself, then going up to meet dad. It took me about a wee... |
How can people who make documentaries set up meetings with dangerous people? How do they convince criminals to get recorded? | How does Louis Theroux do it? By people trusting him. Why do they trust him? Because they've seen him with other people. He doesn't take in an agenda, he really listens, he probes but does so gently, he introduces topics to allow the interviewee to expand upon. If you feel you're going to get listened to and not exploi... |
How come technology has evolved SO MUCH in the past 30 years, but was basically non-existent for, like... the rest of human's history? | You're ignoring everything that isn't electronic. Technology has been super-rapidly advancing for about 200 years, and was advancing sorta fast for maybe about 100-200 years before that. The reasons? The scientific method, and industrialization. Industrialization lets us look at what science has discovered, and use it ... |
How do people enjoy spicy food? Why eat for punishment? | Endorphins. When you eat spicy food your brain releases endorphins in response to the pain sensations. It's also delicious. |
Why is there so much variation in the appearance of humans and relatively so little among animals? | Humans actually have very little genetic variation: Consider these facts: - Humans are global and just as in other animals we adapted to the environment. The same goes for dogs but they look a lot more different don't they ? - Wild animals are much more actively selected upon their immediate environment. For instance, ... |
Why do pregnant women crave to eat inedible things? My wife wants to eat bath bubbles and keeps a cup with her that has the smell of my body wash. | During my pregnancies I craved rocks/dirt. I also craved salt so badly I'd occasionally eat a pinch of large grain salt. Turned out I was extremely anemic and needed iron but my doc was insistent that those cravings were very common and that I shouldn't eat the rocks or dirt. |
If stars have a spherical shape, why do we draw them with 5 points? | The points on a star is due to edge scattering on imperfections on your iris. So each star has the same pattern of points and each one unique to who's looking at it. No one else see stars with the same point pattern as you do. Add on top of that how they twinkle: starlight has to pass through the atmosphere, and changi... |
why is the pinky more important for gripping things then the index finger? | It's strange, but when I was practicing the jo in aikido, the grip was through the middle, ring and pinkie fingers. The thumb and index finger was to control the direction. |
"Speed monitored by aircraft" signs on the highway | Back before radar guns were cheap and readily available, catching speeders was hard. A patrol car had to covertly follow a speeder and try to measure their speed with their speedometer. Even then, the results were subjective, and didn't always stand up in court. As an alternative, some jurisdictions used aircraft. They... |
what's actually happening during the 15 seconds an ATM is thanking the person who has just taken money out and won't let me put my card in? | i used to service ATMs before and the description is dead on. i dont trust small abm machines in grocery stores as it is too easy to install skimmers. i have a routine that might look weird to somwone standin bt me...i try to peel side of touch pad i cover my hand when putting my number i check the card insert area you... |
Why does Target have to pay a settlement to 47 states related to the 2013 data breach? Why not pay affected customers? | A few reasons: They failed to implement a rule or law that has a penalty. The State had to commit time to help people and 'clean up the mess'. Sometimes its just simply hush money agree to pay the State so they don't look to hard at the inner workings of how the breach occurred. I work at a Fortune 50 retailer and whil... |
Why can apps like dominoes/UBER find your cell's location precicely but police/fire/ambulance cant? | [e911] has been mandated for years on the device & carrier side but Americans have become downright negligent about funding any government-funded infrastructure so very few emergency dispatch systems have been upgraded to support it. and Uber gets your location wrong all the fucking time. It might not be a big deal if ... |
If I dropped a pillow from 14,000 feet, what would the impact be like? | It wouldn't hit the ground very fast. Because a pillow have high air resistance compared to it's weight. So it's terminal velocity would be quite low. This is exactly the same reason you can skydive. You would fall really fast and die if you hit the ground. As your body doesn't provide much air resistance, so your term... |
Why can't I feel treble like I can feel bass? | Our natural frequency is very low. In fact, if humans could hear lower than 20Hz we would be able to hear our muscles. If you apply a force to an object with the same frequency as it's natural frequency it will oscillate more and more. Think about [bridges swaying] and breaking in the wind; it's because the wind is at ... |
Why are most screws either flathead or Phillips? Why not just one or the other? Are there advantages to different head types on screws? | First off, the driver type is called slotted, flat head refers to the profile of the screw. Slotted is clearly the simplest design to produce, less detail needs to be cast or cut into it. Philips and other conical designs add an improvement in that pressure will keep your driver centered. The driver styles like hex, Ro... |
How is it still profitable to make porn when there is virtually endless, high-quality porn online for free? | It's very difficult. Many studios are banking on niche genres, established and recognizable names and franchises and pursuing alternate revenue streams in order to keep a profit. There are still enough people willing to pay for porn to keep the studios running, but profits are not what they were in the days before tube... |
What are REITs(Real Estate Investment Trust)? | Hey, /u/rhirani I am an expert at running shopping malls! If you would give me some money I can purchase the shopping mall, turn a profit and share it with you guys! It's a good investment why not give me your money now! And that is a REIT. |
Why do public transit busses have no seat belts but in cars and school busses, seat belts are required to be built in and worn? | it's because in public transit, people are constantly moving on and off trains and buses and because seat belts are expensive.You had seat belts on your school buses? |
If muskets were so inaccurate, why did armies stop using bows and shift to firearms? | Building on what others have said in this thread, the musket was an improvement upon the crossbow, which was an improvement of the regular bow. The musket's range was slightly superior and had roughly the same firing speed as the crossbow. Musket balls were easier and faster to make in bulk through the use of molds tha... |
Do different species perceive time as being faster or slower? How about different people? | We know that pigeons for example, process visual information something like 3x as fast as we do. I can't say for sure, but I postulate that means the world as they see it is significantly slowed down visually by comparison to us. In fact, they process visual information so quickly, they can actually be trained to guide... |
Why am I compelled to pick scabs, even though I know it hurts / is unsanitary / etc? | This is speculation but my scabs itch the most when they're *just* about to come off, and it generally feels good to reveal the new and mostly healed layer of skin. Could exposing this skin earlier help it to strengthen faster?", 'As an RN, I dislike taking care of "pickers". Picking scabs may give you some pleasure, b... |
do viruses get nourishment for attacking our bodies? And if they do then are viruses that don't kill us more successful than ones that do? | Viruses don't really need nourishment, they aren't alive like bacteria. Viruses are kind of like turned off robots, they don't really do anything that requires energy until a certain trigger occurs, like having a button pressed on a robot. In a virus, the trigger is usually an incoming cell, which the virus will sense,... |
Why do parents keep pressuring their children to go to college and take out school loans when there are all of these statistics about then national loan debt. | College is the lesser of two evils. You have to go deeply into debt to get a college degree, but it's the only way to even have a chance of staying in or making it to the middle class. |
Why do people stare off into space when in deep thought? Is there a scientific reason behind it? | Try leaving your eyes open and not really looking at anything. What are you doing? You're thinking. Humans put a lot of emphasis on eyesight. If you're looking at something, you tend to be focusing your attention on it. When you're focusing your attention elsewhere, particularly on thoughts inside your head, you tend t... |
Why do passenger car tires have speed ratings up to 186 mph? | For the same reason aircraft are not designed to barely produce enough lift with just enough thrust and a structure that couldn't withstand a single unpredicted loading/unloading or an extra lbf. Products are designed with factors of safety to keep the end user safe. Someone will push that airplane/tire/whatever past w... |
Why do science labs always so often use composition notebooks and not, for example, a spiral notebook? | They're easier to store in a box and never look at again. But really I'm surprised the top answers are all missing how much easier it is to store your standard lab notebook than a spiral.A teacher once told me that spiral notebooks create the risk of getting tangled together if one of them has a loose wire, while compo... |
How come almost everyone (human) in the world has diffrent faces, yet almost all (Let's say deer) look alike? | Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why don't animals have distinct faces like humans? ]1. [ELI5: Why have almost all animals evolved with the same general face layout? ]1. [ELI5: How come most animal faces look the same but human faces vary almost significantly? ]1. [ELI5:why do human... |
If jellyfish do not have brains what drives them to stay alive as a species such as eating or reproducing? | They don't have brains, but they do have a network of nerves in their skin that can be thought of as a basic central nervous system. They have basic sensory organs that detect light vs dark as well as odor, orientation, and vibration. Sensory input will trigger movement towards the input and that can lead to food. Or i... |
If a British Citizen committed a minor crime in the US, what could happen? | > My question is, if I, as a British citizen, carried a can of Bud Light down a street and we're caught what would happen? Deportation? Fine? Let off because I'm foreign and it's a sorta obscure law? The normal outcome would be, the cop gives you a ticket, tells you to pour out the beer and find a trash can for the bot... |
Why can my Mexican grandmother and father eat extremely spicy food, yet I, a Non-Mexican Canadian, can not? Shouldn't the gene of being able to handle spice pass on to me? | It's not a trait one inherits. It's something one gradually gains the more you eat of it. Growing up in a Mexican household, we were eating something spicy at breakfast and dinner 75% of the time. |
Why is there an FDA ban on accepting blood donations from gay men? | The ban is on men who have ever had sex with other men which overlaps mostly with gay men . The reason given is largely due to the relatively high incidence and prevalence of HIV in men who have sex with men. Although all blood is screened for HIV, the tests have a small false negative rate so certain groups of people ... |
why it doesn't matter how much you spend on a HDMI cable, and then how some retailers end up charging so much? | One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that people are generally willing to spend more money on an accessory for a product that they already paid a lot of money for. Keep in mind the people buying expensive, over-priced Monster cables probably just bought an expensive TV. Shelling out an extra $100, for what in th... |
How can Donald Trump, with most of the Republican party damning him, still lead in the straw polls? | Because Trumps candidacy is either taking advantage of or designed to expose a massive cultural difference between the rank and file membership and senior leadership of the Republican party. Both parties are very broad coalitions of groups that sometimes have pretty different interests, but agree on a few key topics . ... |
; Are parents legally obligated to name a child? If not, does the state appoint one? Can I name my kid nothing like "_________". Are numbers/punctuation allowed? | Here in Germany, the state considers the needs of the child to avoid being abused by others because of their name to be more important than the creative needs of the parents. There are some restrictions. Boys names may be selected for boys only and girls names for girls, respectively. The only exception is the female n... |
What is the point of the Riemann sum if the integral renders it obsolete? | The Riemann integral is *defined* as a limit of Riemann sums - you need them to prove properties of the Riemann integral, such as linearity and the fundamental theorem of calculus. There are other ways to define an integral, such as the Lebesque integral, which is defined for a larger class of functions than the Rieman... |
Why do children, teens, and young adults seem to share a common anxiety towards talking on the phone? | I think some of it is how you're brought up by your parents. In my house before mobile phones, the telephone was something only adults used and me and my brothers were told never to touch it. Also as a young kid I remember my parents having to make various important calls and each time everyone had to leave the room so... |
Why is voting turnout in US Elections so low? | Political influence of the Republican and Democratic Parties keeps most people from turning up. Politics is really black and white in America, at least what you see in the media. It's like have to pick between the lesser of two evils. It is near impossible for anyone with a different political party than the ones menti... |
Why can't I burn fat and build muscle at the same time? | Well, It's a bit misleading. The main thing to understand is to build muscle you need the calories to do so. If you are using more calories than you intake you lose weight. That said if you have reserve energy, in the form of fat, that will be converted and used to process protein into muscle. What to take away from th... |
How does the fifth amendment work? | That's why you invoke your 5th amendment rights and don't say anything. You are not lying, and you and not self-incriminating yourself if you state that you are invoking your 5th amendment rights. That's not considered to be withholding information, because the rights are in the Constitution. |
If the body burns excess fat for energy, why can't obese people go weeks/months without eating? | Imagine a car that's also capable of repairing itself. A car that can rebuild its own oil filter, replace its own oil and brake fluid, rebuild pistons and gears as they wear down. All you have to do is put gasoline, raw iron, oil, water, and other chemicals into the tank. Gasoline is analogous to fat and carbohydrates ... |
Why do wine glasses hum when rubbed. | When you move your hand across something, , you also make a noise. That noise/sound energy travels through the glass through sound waves. If the sound wave is of the correct length , you will hear a 'resonant frequency'. A resonant frequency is when the sound wave rebounds off something, and doubles up onto itself shou... |
The causes of WWI. | The basic version of it was that it was simply too much effort not to have a war. In order to prevent a war in Europe, two super blocs developed: the British, the French and the Russians on one side; and the Germans and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea was to have two vast, opposing armies, each acting as the othe... |
Why do so many species enjoy being rubbed or scratched? | Most of the species that we like to rub or scratch can't reach specific parts of their bodies any other way, which similar to humans triggers a certain sense of pleasure. Who wouldn't enjoy a good back scratch right now :). |
If cold symptoms are signs of your body fighting off a virus, why aren't medicines that suppress these symptoms bad for you? | Most of the time those symptoms are an *overreaction* from your body. It's a similar reason why your body might show flu symptoms after getting a flu shot. The body goes into full fight mode even when the virus isn't going to do much. Fun fact This overreaction happens more in Caucasians as comes from the same genes th... |
Why doesn't our body activate self-preservation mechanism when people have suicidal thoughts? | An evolutionary benefit is for a species as a whole, not necessarily for each and every individual. The normal sense of self-preservation does work for the majority of humans, which is why humans continue to exist. Bottom line: Evolution is not a conscious entity that cares one way or the other. Whatever features of a ... |
How do fans collect so much dust even though some are spinning almost all the time? | In non turbolent phenomena the fluid has zero speed with respect to the surface it is sliding on. The same way, the air flowing through the fan should present non turbolent state and can't blow away the dust.So the dust is collected mainly when the motor is off, but also because the blades attract dust from neighbour l... |
If telomeres shorten with every cell division how is it that we are able to keep having successful offspring after many generations? | This is tied to stem cells and telomeres, as others have said. Cells can either differentiate and lose their replicitive capacity or remain undifferentiated and keep their replicative capacity. But don't see this as only two states; it is more like a spectrum. Stem cells are on the undifferentiated side of the spectrum... |
High School in the U.S | As 35yo American I'm all for this being answered. I spent 8th-12th grade outside the US and the cultural knowledge gap is still stunning. |
Why Aren't Supreme Court Cases Always Filmed? | The reason Congress is filmed is largely so that politicians can grandstand. The actual work of Congress takes place almost entirely off-camera - what you're seeing is just the theatre of Congress. The Supreme Court has no particular need for this sort of positive publicity and they understand that filming the proceedi... |
How do mining companies know where to make mines? How do they say: "Hey, there's a lot of gold/silver/platinum/iron underground" without making a mine? | I am a geology student and I know about this a little. Actually before mining at lot of surveys are done, such as seismic survey, gravity and magnetic survey, just to know what is the subsurface geology and makeup. Mining gets most benefit from the gravity survey. Using a gravimeter, they take a note of minute changes ... |
Why do our bodies think that when we're nervous or scared it's a great time to urinate? | I have complex post traumatic stress disorder. One of the symptoms of it is something known as hypervigilance. I have fairly severe hypervigilance. My body is essentially in fight or flight mode 80-90% of the time I'm awake. The fight or flight response is handled by the autonomic nervous system. This nervous system is... |
Why is the standard US paper size 8.5" x 11"? | Because americans hate international standards and refuse to use A4? :| Seriously, I'm curious why aren't you guys using A4. |
What happened to Occupy Wall St.? | There were simply too many issues with the movement. 1) They claim to represent the 99% but clearly only represented a small portion of them. Successful movements represent the people they claim to represent. When a drum circle starts yelling they are the 99% it's pretty easy for the 90% of the 99% to laugh them off as... |
When, and when don't, antibiotics work? | Antibiotics work by targeting processes bacteria cells do, but non-bacteria cells don't do. This is how they kill bacteria causing infections. They don't work on viruses because viruses don't really have any biological processes of their own, so using antibiotics for non-bacterial illnesses doesn't help. Taking antibio... |
Why do most businesses have a 1-800- number? | Back before cell phones, you had to pay for long distance calls, and it wasn't cheap. An 800 number allowed you to call long distance for free, with the recipient picking up the tab. These days it is less important, all though there are still people who use landlines and pay extra for long distance. Mostly everyone is ... |
How are Political Action Committees (PACs) legal in a democratic state like the USA? | How does the existence of PACs affect your right to vote? The constitution says Congress shall make no law that infringes the freedom of speech, and the Supreme Court has ruled that -- in a democratic state like the USA -- where sovereignty is derived from the people, that political speech *especially* deserves that pr... |
Does repeatedly hitting the snooze button in the morning provide any sleep benefit, or does it just prolong the agony of having to get up? | During sleep your body produces melatonin that makes you feel super relaxed. When you wake up, melatonin production stops but there's still enough in your system to keep you drowsy. Waking up by alarm and hitting the snooze may allow you to stop producing melatonin and work out the remaining melatonin and feel less sle... |
Why time travel cannot exist | you cannot travel backwards in time because you cannot travel faster than thespeed of light. traveling back in time would also be a logistics nightmare because time and space are linked. If you travel back 60 seconds you'd probably be sitting in the middle of space because the earth wouldve moved a few thousand kilomet... |
Why can't computers store data without fragmenting it? | Imagine your hard drive is a notebook. The first few pages are an index telling you what page every file starts on . FAT32 identifies a file by the first page it's written on and ext2 identifies each file by a number called the inode number. A directory is just a special file that says what the name of the file is and ... |
What's the hold up with the ability for residents to text 911 for emergencies? Is it a technology-related problem? Jurisdictional? | Some regions do allow you to text your national emergency number. In the US, some regions do allow it. As for why others do not, it's simply because it costs extra money to implement, both for the carriers and the call centers, which don't have a huge budget.It's technology limited. Texting "help me" to 911 doesn't do ... |
Why does the human body continue to store fat to the point that it causes serious and life-threatening health problems instead of excreting it as waste? | Hmmm this is a great question. I'm going to give my educated opinion. I would say that it has to do with generations of our ancestors living as nomadic tribes opposed to the relatively small time we have been sedentary. Evolution hasn't caught up, so our bodies and hormones still think there could be a bad time of no f... |
How do space agencies keep up with new technologies in their projects/missions? | For most space missions, upgrading to stay up to date is a danger rather than function. For example, New Horizons, the spacecraft that launched to Pluto in 2007, launched with a 2GB flash drive. Why 2GB when commercially available 8gb drives were readily available and used? Well. Safety was a concern. No one had tested... |
Why is Australian Internet so bad and why is just accepted? | It's not accepted. Our old left wing government started to build new fiber optic internet capable of 1gig connections. The conservative government came in and gave all the money put aside for it to our biggest telecom company to buy all the old, worn out copper wiring and spend a decade upgrading it to around 25mbs. tl... |
How do men make up for the lack of uterus in terms of internal organ space? | My understanding is the uterus only measures a few inches in each direction, and the ovaries are considerably smaller, so it's not a *huge* spatial difference. |
Why do some artists make alter egos of themselves (e.g, Eminem/Slim Shady, Beyonce/Sasha Fierce, Christina Aguilera/Xtina)? | The reasons vary between individuals. Maybe they don't like their name or think that it won't be as catchy. Marshall Mathers just doesn't roll off the tongue like Eminem does. |
Why are some subreddits private? and How do you gain access to these Subs? | I'm currently passively watching a mod of a private sub that I want. He is just sitting on it and not doing anything with it. Its been over 10 months and he is still the only member.Its simple. A friend of mine and I made a sub /r/legoblackmarket reason being cause he and I are both tired of doing one for one trades wi... |
Why does x/0 not equal ∞? | The limits can go to infinity, negative infinity, or any constant, depending on the value of x and how you approach it. That's why it's undefined. |
How did the sun become a big ball of nuclear energy? | it was a big cloud of dust but the vast vast vast vast vast majority of the dust that made the sun was hydrogen gas. as it coalesced it's gravity becomes so strong that the hydrogen atoms get crushed together and make helium and that gives off a tremendous amour of energy |
How can we know for sure elections aren't rigged/paid to win? | Statistics can be used for this. Mathematically, large groups of people behave in fairly consistent ways, and we can measure that and use it to double check election results. The results from statistics come in the form of intervals, so some voter fraud can take place, but if it's pushed beyond the interval we have a r... |
What would happen if I soaked my body in a tub of vodka? | You would kill all the natural flora on your skin. And as a result you may get some weird opportunist topical infection. Also it would dry out your skin, and prolly make it unhappy in general like a rash, irritability. It would be fine after a few days though I think. All the people saying you would get drunk from abso... |
Why do Americans have to pay for an ambulance if someone else called it for them? | I think I need to step in and clarify a few things here. First, as others have mentioned, if you're in a state of mind to refuse an ambulance, you can go ahead and do that. Now, I don't care what country you live in, if you get taken somewhere by ambulance, *someone* is paying for it. If you're in a country with social... |
why does it feel so strange when you step onto and off an escalator that is not working, it's like even though you know it's not moving your body still anticipates it's moving | My 18 month old son loves escalators. He saw one the other day, ran over to it, and very cautiously stepped on, anticipating the movement. what he didn't realize is that it was out of order. When the magic stairs didn't move he jumped up and down a couple times, then plodded off looking mildly disappointed.This is some... |
Why has it taken 9 months for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (one of the Boston bombers) to go to trial even though he was identified and captured just 4 days after the bombings? | There are pre-trial hearings that they have to go through. For instance, the defense team moved to suppress the evidence that Tsarnaev gave by responding to questioning while in the hospital. According to [the exclusionary rule], if that interrogation is deemed illegal, the prosecution couldn't present any evidence fro... |
The AK-47 was invented in 1946. More than 70 years later, in 2016, in what ways are modern guns better than it? | The Chinese made a very good and arguably better version of the ak47, the norinco mak90. I own one and added a red dot sight to it. I would rather bring it into battle over an ar15 because it's simpler and shoots just as well at normal shooting distances of ~100 yards. It shoots cheap surplus steel case ammo no problem... |
Why is Smoking still a thing despite apparent massive health risks and warnings? | Alcohol brings out the love for tobacco in many people. I know lot's of people who don't smoke, but after some heavy drinking they are lighting up. This goes double for Las Vegas, you can smoke almost anywhere in that town. |
Why is Final Fantasy VII so highly regarded? | The Completionist made quite a well-rounded [series] that explains in detail on quite a few things involving the FF7 series. There are spoilers and he talks about more than just the Final Fantasy 7 game, but there is a lot of good information there if you're looking to spend a while analyzing these kinds of things. He ... |
Why is 10 degrees celsius not exactly twice as warm as 5 degrees celsius? | It all has to do with the type of scale something is. The Celsius scale is an interval scale because it has a clear order and the difference between units is equal, thus allowing for addition and subtraction of units, but it's not a ratio scale because their is no true zero As others have mentioned the Kelvin scale is ... |
I'm only gonna post this once to avoid sounding like a hypocrite but please read... | This was posted 3 hours ago, and now we're at 12k readers. *Holy shit*.why cant subreddits have stickys? i think this should be a sticky', "Yeah, and if you have an idea that you don't want being ignored, it might be smart to hold on to it for a while until this crazyness dies down. |
If "Classic" cars are so desirable/good looking, why don't they make more just like them? | I disagree with most of the explanations given which rely on technical differences. I think the main reason is buyer psychology. No one cares about or desires a 'fake' antique. It's not that classic cars actually look better or perform better; they are sought after *because* they are classic. |
Why aren't white people in the United States referred to as "European Americans" like how blacks are referred to as "African Americans?" | You might get a much better answer from /r/asksocialscience - they're actually required to cite sources and have some sort of prior knowledge about the field. Here you're just going to get defensive or aggressive political poppycock.it's because whiteness and white culture are considered the default american state. jus... |
Why is everyone freaking out about the Deadpool trailer? I've never even heard about Deadpool until today. | I never thought there would be a legitimate upside to not knowing who Deadpool is, but if you don't know who he is then you probably never saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Which is a definite upside. |
Why is it that so many of us humans have this fascination for violence (at least to some extent) even when we may deem it unethical? | If it weren't attractive, we wouldn't need to consider it immoral. Violence, aggression and dominance are all wired into the human psyche; we're primates after all. And fantasizing about committing acts of violence is always going to hold a certain fascination. The fact that we suppress or sublime those impulses for th... |
If i were to use a random number generator, and then go back in time to just before i used it, would i then get the same number, or a different one? | If it's a truly random number generator , then no, there are no factors in generating a number. If it's like almost every number generator, then it should produce the same number. |
How sharp is paper? | It's not paper that's sharp, it's your skin that's soft. Seriously, feel that shit. It's very stretchy and mushy. Flexible, strong if you pull it, like elastic. But like a rubber band, easy to cut. This is just my guess, and it feels right, so I'm hoping I'm right. |
When someone sues for a large sum of money, how does the losing party pay for it? | Insurance, savings/investments, or sale of assets are the common ways. If they can't pay, the winner can usually get a judgement which will allow sheriff to seize some of the loser's assets or garnish wages . |
How is the federal budget $3.9 trillion when only $1.25 trillion is in circulation? | _URL_3_ < - 2.8 trillion is in circulation, but of course there's private business also spending M1 money as well. _URL_3_ < - Velocity of money.Velocity of money basically means this: 1 schmuck buys a widget at a store for $10. The store owner pays his employees and suppliers $7.50, and pockets a few dollars for his r... |
Why does cracking knuckle and other joints only become necessary after a person has started doing it regularly? | Specifically referring to your spine: You shouldn't do this without learning how to also protect your muscles from damage. _URL_0_ _URL_2_ _URL_1_", 'Here is a question, and a little TMI. Why does the neck crack so well during an orgasm? Like during sex or even two minutes afterward, it does not crack. But during an or... |
How is it determined how many calories (including fat/protein/carbohydrates) are in an item of food? | Didn't see the second part of the question at first. Fat, protein, and carbohydrates aren't measured the same way as calories. They're measured individually using chemicals that react with the individual part. So there's a specific test that reacts with sugar, but not protein or complex carbohydrates. And another that ... |
So we are seeing the Sun as yellow but why are we seeing it's reflection from Moon as white? | > ELI5:So we are seeing the Sun as yellow What sun are you looking at? [The sun is white.] Maybe kids draw the sun as yellow, because they don't like to stare straight at it at noon, but instead want to look at it during sunset/sunrise when atmospheric scattering makes it appear more yellow/red. Interestingly, most Wes... |
In laboratory experiments that test illegal drugs, like the effects of cocaine on rats, how do scientists legally acquire and store the drugs? | Cocaine is used legally by doctors, particularly in the sinus surgery field, because it's an unsurpassed anesthetic and vasoconstrictor. Doctors, after doing loads of paperwork, can get it through legal channels. One would presume lab scientists would do the same.I work with a client at a toxicology lab doing post-mort... |
Why did the first 20 years of my life seem to take an eternity while the next ones seem to pass in the blink of an eye? | As your brain recognizes patterns it starts to automate the processes of going through those motions and relegates that experience to the subconscious unless something new pops up. So the older you get, the more you're very accustomed to your life and the less you're aware of. On the one hand it makes it seem like your... |
Why are coins historically round? Seems like square coins would be more efficient/easier to cut from a sheet of metal. | coins are stamped not cut, a circle was easier to stamp. Later it's all about make counterfeit coins harder to make by adding dots, lips and etching. Each thing ups the price of the initial equipment required reducing forgers", 'Historically coins were made by getting some metal and putting it between two die with the ... |
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