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Why we like "cold" water over "warm" water. | I'm pretty sure that's just Westernized conditioning. We were raised that cold water is better, thus we prefer it later in life. |
How can some people pursue love again and again after recently breaking up with a partner, while others do not dare to for awhile? | From personal experience, I've been unable to be alone for most of my young adult life, probably, like another commenter said, due to my childhood consisting of never truly being validated. While I am an independent person in spirit, I've always found myself preferring a partner or romantic interest opposed to not havi... |
WTF was the Architect was trying to tell Neo in the movie Matrix? | You think you are special but you are just part of the whole grand plan. The 6th of your kind actually. That's the 5yo with severe ADD version :-P |
why are people so afraid of sharks, even when they know they have more chances of getting hit by lightning or die in a car accident...? | When we're driving we feel like we're in control. A lot of people get in car crashes, but those are *other* people, I'm a good driver. We can't control sharks. |
Why do shows and movies always seem to cast actors/actresses who are older than the characters they play? | It takes time to become successful. By the time you've earned notoriety as an actor/actress you probably aren't a teenager anymore, though there are exceptions. Also, there are laws mandating the minors be on film sets for shorter periods of time, and they are limited in terms of what sexual acts they can simulate. So ... |
Why do most white professional body builders tan themselves until they look black? | Its so the judges can see the muscle definition when the competitors are on stage. It's sprayed on.Had a fam member who trained and was competing in competitions for nearly 10 years * Tanning shows better definition. Casein point. * Most of the builders are keeping themselves tanned before and after comps because it he... |
Question from an actual 5-year-old: "How does sunscreen stop your skin from getting burned?" | Tell him it's like watercolor painting. Some paint reflects green light, so it looks green. Some paint reflects blue, or red, or orange light. Sunscreen is like a paint that reflects a color of light that our eyes are not able to see. |
Why did the Dreamcast lose the Console War against PS2? | The Dreamcast failed because it had no DRM support and for a console that used CDs for it's game content, people pirated the fuck out of it. No one made money off the machine, so, it failed economically. |
Why does it seem that most movies have a "happy" ending? | Because that's how the story telling formula works. Meet the hero. Hero faces adversity. Hero overcomes adversity. That is 90% of all movies out there. |
What is the pay-off for those that deny the holocaust? | In the Times Sunday Magazine I read an article about David Irving, the famous holocaust denier. He went to prison in Austria because holocaust denial is illegal there, and he attempted to publish a book. Anyway, David Irving currently gives private tours to holocaust denial sympathisers around the old concentration cam... |
How did a US politician apparently singlehandedly overturn Washington's majority decision to legalize cannabis? | First of all, as I'm sure you've noticed the corrections, he didn't literally overturn the decision. He may have effectively or ostensibly. He certainly cut the effort off at the knees financially. But if Jeff Goldblum has taught us anything it is that pot uh . finds a way. DC has no spokesperson on Capitol Hill. And a... |
What does an officer from UK do, when someone draws a gun? | Chances of a gun being used in a robbery are slim. Gun crime here is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY lower than in the US. People don't need guns so police don't need guns. Yes, hardened criminals can get them if they want, but it means that spur-of-the-moment gun crimes simply don't happen, and regular crimes escalating to include g... |
If people can surgically have half their brain removed, then how come, if shot through one half of the brain, we die instantly? | Blood loss? Trauma? But it depends. A man had a railway spike go through his frontal lobe and survived. But generally if your skull is crushed and your brain is shredded to tiny pieces by a hollow point bullet, it isn't as clean a wound or process as a surgery in a sterile environment by professionals. |
The multiverse, and how there can be every possible occurrence involving every possible thing. | There's no such thing as 'near infinite'. Anything that isn't actually infinite is infinitely far away from being infinite. The biggest ordinal number that has ever been contemplated is no 'nearer' to infinity than the number 1. |
Why isnt data that can identify an individual, more protected? | The problem isn't just the lack of oversight or ethics in who can access our personal info, but also the fact that personal info is a hot commodity. Simply put, if people want to steal something bad enough, they'll keep finding ways to do so unless it is made nearly impossible - or at least too cost-ineffective - to do... |
That ocean noise when you put a sea shell up to your ear | It's the sound of the blood flow and other bodily sounds, the shell echos and amplifies it. [Source] |
Where do game developers begin when it comes to games such as GTA V? | Many different places, but here's a quick overview of one of the more common ways: There are already MANY different game creation software studios out there. For example you can go to google and grab them yourself already . Studios decide what their target audience is and choose a platform to start developing on . They... |
Why does the Southern United States react so badly to cold weather? | I've lived in the South my entire life. In addition to the lack of infrastructure, from what I understand, the difference is here in the South, snow is usually preceded by rain that then freezes on the ground or freezing rain/sleet. This makes the roads much more dangerous than if it was just snow. |
Why does everyone in the US mortgages their house. | The working theory is owning/mortgaging is superior to renting. You're paying money monthly either way, so why not get some incentive out of it? That's the argument. Rent = You essentially throw money into an abyss each month with no chance of return. But in exchange, you aren't tied down, and typically don't have to w... |
How do I know I exist? | Philosophically, you can't. Practically though, it's kind of a pointless question to ponder anyway. Whether you exist or not, your experience is real to you.> But I don't understand how you can get to anything further like "How do I know this lamp exists" Strictly-speaking, you can't. You can't know that anything outsi... |
When a person is "vaporized" by an atomic blast, what actually happens? | I'd like to add to this question; what causes the person's shadow to be permanently transposed on the ground? |
How come I can recognize someone when I see their face, but I can visualize anything when I close my eyes? | sometimes having brown here" and "green or red leaves" etc. We save the fact that trees have a height - but the *exact or real* height doesn't matter - because it's still a tree! This means in our imagination we can make our tree have any height we want! Actually, artists like to create in real life what they have in t... |
What's the difference between a well optimized computer program, and one that's not well optimized? | I've seen shell scripts where external programs were called multiple times when a single call for all was all that was necessary. the time to spin up all those extra calls really slows things down. |
Woodstock, and why people keep making references of it even today | Your sense is right, because so many kids came it was doomed to be a disaster. Only it wasn't. Imagine 300,000 teenagers coming together - most of whom know nothing about camping and did not come well prepared with food, water, or shelter - yet coexisted peacefully and survived three days of rain and mud. That's what m... |
Why don't modern fighter aircraft have weapons systems that lock and shoot backwards to destroy a tailing enemy? | There is also the issue of relative motion of the craft and the missile itself. Lets say your going 500 knts and want to fire backwards. The missile has to accelerate in the opposite direction of the craft to fly out to it's target. So it automatically starts out 500 knts slower than a forward firing missile. If we wan... |
Why do we (US) separate dental and medical insurance, especially when other specialists (gynecologist, dermatologist, etc) are all grouped under medical? | Because your country worships capitalism and sees it as another way for businesses to make more money out of you by making you pay for both separately. Even though health care should be free at the point of use like ours is are often included in standard "medical insurance" to make the package look more attractive.From... |
Why are phones so more expensive than tablets? | Here's the dirty secret. The prices of phones is not determined by what end consumers will pay, because they very rarely pay that list price. It's determined by what the cellular carriers will pay, and they don't care as much. Why don't they care? Because they get that money back in spades with the revenue from the cel... |
Why would two countries sign an agreement promising to end to a war, rather than just signing an agreement that actually ends it? | because actually ending a war requires that one or both make concessions. and if the two sides haven't come to an agreement yet then obviously it won't happen. so this is more just to demonstrate that they want to work towards peace.I will also add that, in some governments, it may take a number of politicians to agree... |
why do arcades use coins instead of quarters? | The answers here are good but I'd like to add that it reduces the risk of employee theft. If you have all the currency in a handful of token stations, it's easier to make sure that no employees can pocket that money. If you had every game filled with quarters, you have to deal with the significant risk that the employe... |
What is the origin of "America will not negotiate with terrorists" and why do we have this policy? | I don't know the origin, but I understand the reason: if you negotiate with terrorists you're pretty much legitimizing terrorist blackmail, or at least opening the door for people to think they can get use the threat of terrorism to negotiate. |
Why, when I wake from a nap, am I always REALLY thirsty? | Your body has probably woken you up specifically because it's dehydrated. Are you sure you've been drinking enough?", 'Your body heat rises while sleeping. This causes perspiration which leaves you thirsty when you wake up. |
If you ate lots of fat, but no carbs whatsoever, would you gain weight? | simply put.. yes. if the amount of energy in a bottle of oil is more than the amout of energy you expended that day.. however, you'd put on less weight that you would have done if you'd consumed the same number of calories of carbohydrates. ********** Rest of post deleted due to people thinking eli5 is /r/science *****... |
How does blood dispersion in the body alter behavior/abilities, if at all? | Men's behavior doesn't change when aroused because of increased blood flow elsewhere besides the brain, it happens becaise arousal triggers behavioral changes directly by releasing different hormones. When you're hungry yiu sibsequently become more food motivated, it's a survival instinct, it doesn't happen because of ... |
Why... haven't sloths died out? | Just cause they walk slow doesn't mean they don't have sex..I mean some drown because they cannot escape floods and stuff. being slow uses less energy. They also live in trees, I do not think they get eaten from much critters Now pandas on the other hand ", 'Bonus question: Can a sloth move fast if it had to? For examp... |
Why don't all of the companies that make antifreeze add chemicals to make it taste and smell unpalatable? | Because it would have to be *all* of the companies doing it at the same time. Otherwise, one company or a few companies have a more expensive product with a benefit that a lot of consumers might not think is worth the money. So, the few companies that do bitterize the antifreeze so that kids and pets won't drink it los... |
- What people mean when they claim the Civil War was not about slavery. | Let's say you're playing with your Hot Wheels with one of your older siblings. Your siblings tells you nobody is allowed to play with the red hot wheels. So what do you do? Well, maybe you get angry with your sibling, and you tell them you're not going to play with them anymore. So you take a bunch of the hot wheels an... |
why most scientific research papers are behind a paywall? | Most journal libraries make the bulk of their money off of group subscruptions to hospitals and universites. So by making the cost of one of their papers $40, you'll be less likly to buy it and more likly to go get your institution to just buy a yearly subscription to ALL the journals. |
When looking at laptops, is the mAh the capacity of the battery? Is it multiplied by how many cells there are? | The mah is total rated stored capacity. But it doesn't mean thats how much is available to deliver. You can typically say bigger is better. But sometimes one battery with bigger capacity cell will not deliver as much juice as another battery that uses a different type of cell that has a smaller stored capacity. Imagine... |
I'm baffled, how is it even possible that this many unarmed people are being shot down by police? | It's also possible that, given the total number of confrontations between unarmed civilians and police, the number of shootings is actually very low, proportionately. |
When my internet is running slow, sometimes I need to disconnect and reconnect my computer to the WiFi to speed it up. Why does this work? | Didn't see this answer near the top so tossing it in. This may be as simple as you have spyware/adware/bloatware running on your computer. By killing the connection and restarting it it could temporarily reset the connections of such software. If they are eating up a significant amount of bandwidth when they have been ... |
Why is reading books considered such a good thing? What is the difference cognitively between someone who reads books for entertainment, and someone who watches documentaries yet never reads at all? | Honestly, I feel like it's important to connect with people through that. Sometimes it's the mindset that the book gives. Or just the same feels. It's all about the feels. |
- Why is population control (birth number restrictions) never a solution for hunger, poverty, etc. | Because, depending on the society you live in, there are natural incentives to having more children. First, if the infant mortality rate in your culture is high, you need to have lots of children to ensure that at least some of them will survive into adulthood. If you need more hands on the farm or in the cottage indus... |
Why would the minimum wage ever not be a living wage? | In America here. I worked at a store that paid minimum wage to most of its employees. Every time the minimum wage went up, everyone was so happy they got a pay increase, until they were told they would only be working 20 or 25 hours a week instead of 30. And then the store used the minimum wage increase to hike up pric... |
The vaccination 'controversy'. | There is no link. Sad parents believe non-science to feel better about their children. Other paranoid hippie parents don't care about possibly infecting other peoples children who can't get vaccinations.There is no link between vaccinations and autism, and there is no controversy. If you were interested in causing the ... |
What do Ukrainian separatists have to gain by shooting down a Malaysian passenger plane? | We don't know that they did it. And if they did, it was likely mistaken for a Ukranian military aircraft. |
Why would anyone choose a revolver over a pistol, given the substantial reload time? | They're dead simple to use and reliable. There's value in that for home protection, when you're not used to people breaking in your house, it's not every day you shoot people, and you're panicked. |
Why is "talked with Russia so bad? Isn't WHAT they talked about more important?/A Swede. | It's a big deal because of the Logan act. _URL_0_ It is illegal for US citizens to negotiate with a foreign government on behalf of the US government, to prevent private citizens from undermining/circumventing government policy. Considering that at least two Trump administration officials negotiated US policy with Russ... |
Could light be trapped in a box made of mirrors? | That'd work if you had completely reflective material. But there's no such thing as *completely* reflective material in the real world. Even the best mirrors absorb some light. |
what are the mouth movements hearing impared people make while doing sign language? | delighted" all convey roughly the same emotion, so can use the same sign -- by mouthing the English word at the same time it becomes clear to the sign reader exactly which word is being said. The reason it doesn't "match up" to what you're hearing is because as explained in the first paragraph, the signer won't be doin... |
Why is carbon tax so important in dealing with global warming? | Carbon tax is tax on fuels that is based on how much CO2 is emitted per unit of fuel burnt. Emitting CO2 hurts everyone, and taxing it encourages use of alternative energy sources through market forces, and is a source of income for the goverenment that can be used on research or implementation of those alternative ene... |
If singers can perform others' songs, why can't comedians use jokes from others? | Many people have explained the copyright /royalties angle, but there's another element to this. When a singer does a cover version of someone else's song, theyre not pretending that they wrote or came up with the song, theyre not passing someone else's work as their own, they're making their own interpretation of someo... |
Why do some people get a Philosophy degree, and then move on to Law. Wouldn't it be smarter to get a degree in Psychology instead of Philosophy? | I'm currently taking papers in all three, and psychology is surprisingly unrelated to law. Mental disorders, gender disparities, cognitive activity during varying activities - this means very little to law. However, philosophy has the potential to be extremely relevant. Morals and ethics, and how to apply them, critica... |
[music theory; specifically metre (rythm) | So this has been explained already but thanks for the links! This group's funkitude is off the charts |
Why are male urinals not common in houses? | A bidet would be nice too Bath fixtures are expensive and space is usually at a premium so I imagine it's limited to the absolutely essential three that are usable by both genders. . I saw a gay male couple on one of those TV real estate porn shows had a urinal installed in their bath, but it would be useless with all ... |
Why can't you really jump after you've been on a trampoline? | Haven't experienced this myself so I don't really know how big of a difference there is. But shouldn't there be something to make your brain call for more power after a session on some sort of reversed trampoline? I'm way too tall to not be able to dunk so I'm hoping that sort of machinery could give me a shot at redee... |
What is the difference between avoidant personality disorder versus just being shy and insecure? | They believe their behaviours to be appropriate, this doesn't mean they don't have the awareness of the diagnosis itself |
How does the Earth (and everything else) just float, suspended in space? | We don't just float. We are travelling very quickly around the sun. We don't just sit suspended in space. |
What is the loud, vibrating sound when you open your car's windows while driving? | The Mythbusters explained it. It's basically rapid puffs of air escaping as new air rushes in. You can minimize the noise buy opening the window on the opposite side in the back seat to allow the air out. |
why is the West more closely allied with Saudi Arabia instead of Iran? | The Bush family had a large part to play in it. According to a journalist called Unger, the amount of money that has been flowing back and forth between the Bush'es and the Saud's amounts to billions. So they're not really the allies of the US. They're allies with the oil-rich people of the US. |
Why doesn't the Earth's orbit decay? Anything that could accidentally cause it to? | Decay is not the right word to use for these systems, because they're chaotic. The only major impact on any planet's orbits, in our solar system, are the gravity of other planets and orbital precession . Over hundreds of thousands of years, the gravity of other planets will change the orbital parameters of the other pl... |
will the imminent arrival of mass produced lab grown meat change the vegan perspective of meat eating. | Depends on the vegan. Some don't eat mean for moral reasons, some for health reasons, and some because their don't like it. You also have psychological factors. If you spent most of your life swearing how much you love your sprouts and you don't miss meat at all, you might feel the need to stick to your guns. |
If millions of people use Reddit, then why does the top post of all time only have 38,000 upvotes? | Real answer: vote fuzzing. After a certain point the upvote totals are fabricated in an effort to combat spam. Also, to keep old posts, from when Reddit didn't have as many users, in the top scores. I saw a graph showing how the upvotes for a popular post changed over time and at 6-8000 it drops down to about 4000 befo... |
If we can bank online why can't we vote online? | Because voting is more important than personal banking. The average person will rarely be dealing in sums greater than maybe a few thousand dollars in their day-to-day banking. To a bank that's chump change and if they have to deal with a few cases of fraud a week because of the online system, but get far more business... |
If price collusion is illegal, how does OPEC get away with setting the price of oil? | Price Collusion is illegal *in certain countries* like the US. OPEC is an international organization of governments the laws you are thinking of don't apply to them, and nobody is too put out by them as a general rule because they have really sucked at being a cartel. The members of OPEC are too back-stab happy to ever... |
I've heard that leaving wall/phone chargers pluged in when not charging wastes power. What prevents them from shutting off automatically when not charging a device? | Phone chargers produce the voltage required by phones to charge using a certain technique that makes it hard to not use a bit of electricity even when there's nothing connected to the chargers - the charger has to be ready 24/7 for the phone. Think of the charger as a water faucet that tries to keep a bucket of water l... |
How does my brain know to wake up just before my alarm goes off, especially on the morning of something important. | You're already partly awake after ~8 hours of sleep, and only if the alarm wakes you up fully do you have a memory of the preceding minutes. I just made that up, but it sounds plausible. This question would be better at /r/askscience. |
How does electrical equipment ground itself out on the ISS? Wouldn't the chassis just keep storing energy until it arced and caused a big problem? | So I'm no expert but I would imagine that the total net charge aboard the ISS is zero, or very close to it. Just like in your car the frame would ground to the battery. It would then rely on the solar panels to keep the battery's charged. On a slightly different topic, do rockets heading into space build up a static ch... |
How does banning revenge porn not contradict copyright laws? | The same reason that banning child pornography doesn't infringe on copyright. Certain classes of content can be restricted. The person who took the photos still retains the copyright, and if someone takes those photos without authorization, they can be sued for infringement. However, whether it is legal for you to shar... |
Why is the US concerned that certain countries get nuclear weapon capabilities but it's OK we have it? | Let's say that you captured Mewtwo, one of the most powerful pokemon in the world. Now, you know that you'll use it responsibly; you've beaten the Elite Four and become the champion. But what if Team Aqua caught Kyogre? Sure, they might just want it to surf on, but Kyogre's power could be used for very destructive thin... |
Why do people pay so much for diamonds and gemstones? Do we really just like shiny rocks? | I don't know if this should be a top tier comment. However, this is a decent video to give you a little insight. _URL_0_ It's Adam ruins Everything. He does a show on diamonds. |
How did punch card programming work? | It wasn't always one and zeros, sometimes it was letters and numbers, but that was the basic ideas. Computers were very different back then. A single computer might be shared between 100 people, and only one person could use it at a time. Computer time was so expensive, you couldn't just sit there one a text editor fig... |
How did the cameras that were used during the moon landing work? How were they able to broadcast relatively clear picture and sound from space, using 1960s technology? | The same tech that's behind the radio or local TV, or even WiFi today. Radio communication. Yes, it is really far away. Radio waves are actually really good at going far! Radio waves can't go as far on Earth because in order for the waves to get to you, they are going through buildings and even the Earth . That's why y... |
Why can humans live longer now than we could, say, 500 years ago? | Advances in medicine. Vaccination, hygiene, and aseptic techniques are big factors why people don't die out as quickly as before.Vaccines, antibiotics, and people not eating their own excrement. Those three things cause a huge improvement in life expectancyMedicine, in detecting, preventing, and curing diseases, has im... |
why haven't we evolved to find healthy food tasty? | We haven't had *time* to evolve much since we invented deep fryers and high fructose corn syrup and debilitatingly sedentary lifestyles. We evolved to survive in a given environment, and then meant eating fruit, roots, occasionally meat, and sometimes whatever you could find. We **evolved** to like what we need to *liv... |
Why are hotel room air conditioners set to freezing temperatures and often left to run 24/7? | The ones you've visited were probably left that way from the renter before you. Its likely they cranked up the AC when they were going to sleep and then didn't change it in the morning when they left. |
The most modern understanding of human evolution/origin? | Nope! Neanderthals were actually a branch of hominids which died out. I think you are a little mistaken on how evolution works. For one, it doesn't have goals or aims, it just does things that work in the moment. If a species needs to change color suddenly for some reason, it will either do so or it will die out, and m... |
How and why did Pokemon win the popularity contest against Digimon? | For me, the main parts were that Digimon really only had the anime going for it. The other parts such as the games were terrible and to this day Digimon World for the Playstation remains to be one of the most disappointing games I've ever bought. I feel like with Digimon you have to go down a list and choose which desi... |
how a gas station can charge upwards of 40 cents more per gallon of gas than their competitors, and still survive? | It can depend on a few factors. Gas stations can either sell unbranded gas or branded gas, unbranded usually being cheaper. Unbranded fuel is the same exact product as branded fuel, without the advertised additives, at a less expensive price, and can be 5-15 cents lower than branded fuel. Gas station A may be a branded... |
how companies with employee stock purchase plans avoid insider trading. | Generally, it's not illegal to buy or sell stock in the company you work for. The laws just restrict how and when you can do so -- for example, when you do substantial sales, they require you to publicly declare the trades you want to do well in advance. |
how so many African countries got so politically screwed up? | So as you likely know the European colonists were nasty people who treated their African colonies terribly. What is really important though wasnt simply them taking away all their stuff, because Africa's land still has alot of stuff they could sell. it was also because Africa is a land that is extremely ethnically comp... |
Why when its 70 degrees outside, you feel warm, but when your in water that is 70 degrees, you get cold? | Your body feels hot or cold based on how much heat energy is being transferred from your body to the environment . Water is a better thermal conductor than air, and it conducts heat about twenty times more quickly than water. Water also holds more heat energy. We measure this with 'specific heat'. Specific heat is basi... |
can someone ELI5 why it is often said that schools kill creativity/thinking out side the box/thinking differently and if there is a way to counteract this in adulthood? | Schools, or at least Public Education is primarily a result of the industrial revolution. The idea was to give children an education so that they were prepared to start work in factories and trades. The model and structure of schooling hasn't really changed much over 150 years. The end goal has changed, entry to Univer... |
Can someone please help me understand why the International Energy Agency as well as the authors of these articles want the future price of oil to be higher? | I think it's to do with the fact that higher prices means less sales and therefore less oil burned and causing global warming. Also since oil supplies are finite, they want to have oil available in the future to sell. |
Why are shark teeth I find on the beach always black, but when they are in a living shark they are white? Why are there no white shark teeth on the beach? | There are are fossilized shark's teeth in [Peace River, FL], that you can legally hunt for. I've done it before and found some cool stuff. Its a fun activity. Millions of years ago Florida was actually entirely under water. |
How are Subtitles created with errors? | I do closed captioning on small budget movies sometimes. In my case, it may be a typo or I might not hear the actor clearly. Source: No source, I'm on mobile |
How is the environment affected if we draw enough energy from the sun through solar power for the entire planet? | Energy used by humans is so much smaller than the total energy hitting the Earth that it's completely negligible |
Why Don't Airplanes Have Interior Cameras Like Buses, Trains, Etc? | Because they have the identity of every single person on a plane and a surveillance system would mean unnecessary weight. Planes doesn't like it heavy.My guess would be 1) airline passengers go through security before getting on, and actual crime is virtually non-existent on a plane compared to a bus, and 2) airlines a... |
What does 'raising awareness' for a disease actually do? | There are a lot of different motivations to raise awareness. In addition to funding, goals around raising awareness might also include: - Encouraging early recognition to people have a better chance to seek medical help. In many cases, how quickly someone starts treatment can make a huge different and can save lives.- ... |
Why do some people with type 1 diabetes need to eat sugar if their pancreas still releases glucagon which releases sugar back into the body? | Insulin drives glucose out of the blood into cells for storage. If too much insulin is administered then there is too little glucose in the blood and the diabetic starts to feel unwell, tired and eventually slips into a coma. Eating some sugary food helps to instantly boost that sugar level. Ideally this never happens ... |
Why do some people in mental institutions refuse to take their medication? | Often, people who have been taking medication for some time will start to feel better and decide that they are cured and don't therefore need to take their medication any more, without rationalising that it was the medication that made them feel this way. This is a significant problem in the treatment of mental illness... |
How operating a semi truck transmission differs to that of a manual car. | I can't go into the mechanics of the transmission but I can go through the steps of shifting. For my truck on the shifter there is 2 switches one for super low and the other is the high / low. With a load I engage the super low switch push the clutch in and put it in 1 gear this is the only time you use the clutch. you... |
How does a city/town actually get started? Are new cities still being created in the US? | Most towns have started for a specific reason. New York was because of the ideal harbor that surrounded it. New Orleans for the port at the mouth of the Mississippi. Traditionally, most of these purposes have been transportation-based. Water routes in the Colonial period of America, Railways in the 1800's, today it's u... |
How does instating a new currency stop hyperinflation? | By itself, it won't, as already mentioned. The best example of how to do such a change comes from Brazil, with the [Plano Real] . For an accessible explanation of how they achieved that, have a listen to the NPR Planet Money podcast, [How Fake Money Saved Brazil] .It will only stop when you use an external currency as ... |
Traditionally we think of batteries as having a very short life span. How are the new Battery power plants like the one in Australia by Elon Musk going to last a profitable amount of time? | When a battery doesn't have to be small, cool, light, or portable, you can make design choices that make it last longer instead of those attributes. You may not be old enough to remember, but car batteries used to last just a year or so. But the technology in the actual battery was largely the same; the difference come... |
Why do insects not see spider webs and fly into them? | Insects like flies usually have compound eyes, and each eye sees only one colored dot, which means they see everything around them, but very pixellated. Now imagine an old game, with very low resolution. You can easily see where the issues appear. Things at a distance that might be smaller than one pixel are impossible... |
Why is it more acceptable to make fun of people eating healthy (organic, vegan) but not ok to make fun of obese people eating unhealthy? | Want me to pump your veins with butter?". Then you're not looking very hard.Because you're making fun of the obese person's body indirectly. When others poke fun at your eating habits, it might stem from insecurity about their own eating habits OR more likely they think it's dumb to be hyper conscious of what you consu... |
What do AntiCheatSystems in games look for while allowing harmless mods (in singleplayer), but banning harmful hacking (in multiplayer)? | It simply won't even bother with singleplayer. It's there to find hacks in online gaming, so it won't even launch in singleplayer. Mod and hack are pretty similar actually, they somehow change the behavior of the game. But mods are allowed as they are there for people to screw around in sp. Hacks are mods for multiplay... |
Why is mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients considered a taboo/right wing nutjob idea? | By holding them to conditions like this, then we are treating the condition of poverty like it is crime it's treats them like a parolee. And we don't hold executives of companies who get government contracts or tax incentives, etc. to such standards when they get gov't benefits. |
Why snakes don't bite people who hold them by the tail. | Snakes aren't very bright - they don't realize that the leg and the thing holding their tail are the same animal. |
Why do the extra minutes of sleep after waking up in the morning feel amazing? | I got to a point in high school where I enjoyed this feeling so much, I'd actually set an alarm for, say, 2am, just so I would wake up and know that I still had five more hours to sleep. |
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