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why my pee always smells like Honey Smacks cereal? | I noticed this exact same phenomenon a couple years ago. I literally commented to my friends that it smelled like Honey-smacks. I ignored it, haven't noticed it for a while, and don't have diabetes. |
Why can animals eat all sorts of crazy things (grass, rotting flesh, their own shit) but we have to eat things that are cleaner/healthier/cooked? | Each example has a different reason, but OP seems to be focused on dogs diets. So, first of all, Dogs are basically retarded, inbred wolves, that don't have a diet anywhere near that of a wild animal, so they are a bad representation of the animal kingdom. Grass: Plenty of animals eat grass, cellulose is a common food ... |
When an individual loses a multi-million dollar lawsuit against them and they don't actually have that amount of money, what happens? | After reading through most of the thread, and of course having read and heard the news over the last decade+.. fundamentally civil law needs a cheaper, more direct method to hold someone personally responsible for their decisions in a business environment. Frankly it's bullshit that corporate or bank executives, school... |
How can insects survive such high falls relative to their size? | Ever heard the idiom, 'The bigger they are, the harder they fall'? Ants are much lighter - they have much less mass than humans. That means much less momentum that their bodies have to absorb when they hit the ground. Insects also tend to be very sturdy for their size - they can shrug off forces that would destroy a hu... |
We now have terabyte SSD hard drives on laptops. That's amazing. Why is memory still limited to 4-8 frustrating little GB on most computers? | The two types of memory are different in design and manufacture with different methods and tolerances in manufacture. System RAM is constantly changing and needs to operate reliably with many changes. Non-volatile RAM in an SSD has to preserve it's state when there's no power applied, so the physical design is differen... |
Why should corporations pay taxes? | Honestly, part of the reason why may be the pragmatic effect on societies. I don't think that unless you're an absolute believer in the power of the free market that most people would want corporations or companies to be totally unlimited, due to the effect is has on the people: see instances like foxconn in china wher... |
Wouldn't Venus be an easier planet to terraform than Mars? | It's not only the problem of the atmosphere. Venus is covered with a metric fuck ton of volcanoes. It has been estimated that 65% of the land area of Venus is [Lava plains]. This will make surface colonies insanely difficult for multiple reasons. |
Do non-human animals that mate for life actually fall in love, or is it just instinct that they stay together? | Bonding chemical called oxytocin which causes animals to be monogamous and invest in couples rearing of young. They would not hold our definition of 'love' with the flowers and the dating and awful jokes. The oxytocin tells them that it's probably safer and more genetically responsible to stay together. |
What my intellectually insecure High School classmate is trying to get across in this Facebook comment | He is also wrong that public scientific literacy is declining. Whereas in years past we had a significant proportion of the population that didn't go to school, thus didn't count. Now we count everybody. The same problem exist when we are compared to certain other countries. Even if it has declined somewhat in the shor... |
Why is athletic wear made of polyester when people advise never to wear polyester when traveling in hot and humid countries? | I wasn't aware that was advice. Maybe tighter knit polyester, like a dress shirt? Polyester and merino wool are really the standards in warmer climates. Blends of the two work the best. Polyester definitely traps odor more, though. Maybe that's the issue they're concerned with? Cotton is terrible in any excessively war... |
If swelling is the body's natural reaction to an injury to help heal it, why do try to stop the process with ice and anti-inflammatory drugs? | the anti-inflammatory drugs effect is minimal really. If you only take those medicines when the pain is overwhelming, which is how youre supposed to take it, there's little negative effect. Whats way worse is the stress caused by being in pain and worrying abut being in pain. Thats far worse for your body than the anti... |
Why are rubber ducks such a staple in our culture? | I think it's from like last century or whatever, I'm thinking during WWII or the 50's or something and it's just become a trope since. |
How do martial artists break concrete with their bare hands? | It's a trick. Anyone can break boards or concrete with a little practice. The concrete is just the right thickness and set up to maximize leverage. Once you know the concrete will give, you can hit it as hard as you want and not have to worry about breaking your hand. |
What is it about Scandinavia that caused it's particular development of social-democracy? | I'm Scandinavian myself and I have no idea what the answer to this question might be.I put it down to education, more than anything else. And the general agreement that “the state is me”. Education is free for all. There are no private schools to speak off so the population gets the same education, at the same schools,... |
Official ELI5 Margaret Thatcher Thread | Can someone explain the significance of the milk in schools? I've grown up in Australia and have never encountered this concept so I'm assuming the context is to do with the time Thatcher was in office?", 'She was also in power when the incredibly homophobic Section 2A was added to Section 28 of the Local Government Ac... |
How do those 'We'll buy your house with cash today' companies work? | Some are flipping houses, some just buy them to turn around and relist. Basically they offer to buy your house, knowing that they'll resell it to someone that may not be able to get traditional financing. They'll almost never give you your full asking price unless they have someone ready to go. Sometimes it's an agreem... |
Where does all of the food coloring go after I eat it? | Some food coloring chemicals/natural food colors are broken down by digestive enzymes, some are not. Example: beets and blue corn chips = respective red and blue shades of poo . Others, like the ones you find in your skittles, get the ole' enzymatic karate chop.Have you ever looked at your shit after you ate beets?your... |
Why does the U.S. still maintain an embargo on Cuba? | What is ignored In the over-simplified panty-waist answers is that Castro confiscated all American owned land in Cuba. Private homes, sugar plantations, tobacco farms. All taken with no remuneration. Since Castro wouldn't negotiate at all, naked up by his Soviet allies, the US then instituted the embargo so Castro woul... |
How and why do people create viruses? | There are essentially two motivations: - Showing off one's skills. To oneself, or making one's pseudonym big, or to leave off an effect of one's doing on the IT collective mind. - Money. Viruses can do a bunch of things that can be monetized. Access private information that will enable to sell people's identities or cr... |
Why you shouldn't fill up your gas tank while the tanker truck is filling up the gasoline storage tanks? | I worked in a chain convenience store and we were supposed to not let anyone fill up while the truck was pumping in fuel and for a little while afterward, but every other gas station does it so we didn't prevent anyone from doing it. It wasn't my decision, and I doubt it was the manager's decision either. |
How can Animal Keepers get really close to animals like Tigers or Lions and not be killed? | Animal keeper here. When I first worked with lions, for example, the females were quite fine and docile but the male was incredibly aggressive, attacking the fence and growling . After a while, he mellowed out with me once he got to know me. The females would even purr and face rub their face against the fence, however... |
What is common core and is it helping our education system? | Jury is still out. You'll get different answers depending on what subject a person teaches if you ask teachers. Before I decided against going into teaching most English teachers bemoaned the idea of having to teach a more technical writing style that took focus away from literature and creative writing. No idea wheth... |
Why diesel engine cannot run on petrol? | Diesel engines use the heat from compression to ignite the fuel. The problem with gasoline vs. diesel in this scenario is gasoline is far, far more volatile, and it burns too quickly. The charge would ignite before the piston reached top dead center, and burn completely. That means the engine is still compressing a cyl... |
Why do some people's second toe extend further out than their big toe? | did anyone else notice that this occurs way more for women than men? I've seen some gorgeous women, then look down and see their second toe just reeeeaching out of their flip flops like its trying to go for a walk by itself |
What would it mean to Canada if Quebec seceded? | I wouldn't have to flip the box over and over looking for English every time I need to find cooking instructions.Would the rest of Canada go back to officially monolingual? |
why can't you just hook up an alternator to the drive shaft or something of an electric car and charge it while you're driving? | Same reason why perpetual motion machines don't work. Cars already do this. We would drain more energy than we charge because energy is lost to the environment in the form of heat and work . |
Why is the House GOP suing the president? What are realistic ramifications of this lawsuit? | So that they can use the suit to help them fundraise. It won't go anywhere", 'From a legal standpoint, the suit will go exactly nowhere. Republicans believe that the suit will help them politically. They can show their base that they're doing something to fight Obama and the Democrats, and use the suit as a prop to arg... |
What the hell does "child bearing hips" actually mean? | It's saying that a woman has wide hips that will make child birth easier. But more than that it's an old fashioned term meant to imply someone is suitable breeding stock, it's usually said in a tongue and cheek manner because it has sexist conataitons.Wider hips that make the birth canal easily passable by the newborn.... |
Why are injured horses put down instead of looked after and healed? | The costs aren't worth it. Often times when a horse breaks a leg, it can be healed, the problem is that it takes a long time, the horse will be bed ridden for much of that time, and there will be lots of physio therapy in order to get the horse running again. And even then, that leg is always going to be at risk for an... |
Why aren't guitar frets evenly spaced? | The notes in western equal temperament scales can be thought of as fractions. If 1 is the whole string then 1/2 of 1 is the same note but at twice the frequency. This is the 12th fret. IE You hit the E string and it's E. Fret the 12th fret on E string and it's also E but an octave higher because the 12th fret cleanly d... |
why am I such a deep sleeper? | I heard once that infants raised around constant noise turn into heavy sleepers and the type that can sleep on airplanes and buses and stuff, whereas those raised in fairly quiet environments get used to it and can only sleep lightly. This may be amazingly useful truth, or it may be someone's wild-ass-guess that's just... |
why does a bottled water cost more than a 16 ounce beer if beer contains tap water (which is what most bottled water is) and more ingredients than water. | Where is this? I've never seen it. At my local stores, the most costly I've seen water is for a dollar per bottle. Unless of course it is distilled or reverse osmosis, which means that most of the impurities have been removed. |
what would happen to a person being turned upside down indefinitely? What is happening inside the body? | NASA was pretty sure they knew, but they had to do some long term experiments to check their ideas. The blood goes to your head and upper abdomen, and less of it is in your legs. if a person were upside down, the blood would pool at the lowest point, their head. Perhaps not in the brain, but in the face, lips, nose, de... |
What would happen if I ate one of those "do not eat" packets found in certain food packages? | Are you talking about Silica Gel packets? If so, nothing really would happen. They aren't toxic, they just aren't food hence the 'do no eat.' It would pass through your digestive tract. If you're talking about some other kind of packet, that would depend on what was in that packet. |
How do movies that turn out extremely terrible get a massive budget, without them realizing it's going to be a bad movie and a huge loss? | Because a lot of bad movies make massive profits, and a lot of good movies don't. The Transformers franchise, which I think everyone agrees are just shitty movies, have to date earned about 3.7B on a 1B budget. Or take the recent King Arthur film - good director, good cast, sword-and-sorcery theme that should appeal to... |
How can guitar players still have the finger dexterity to play well when they are drunk? MIC | Guitarist here. I've been playing for 8 years and it's all muscle memory. I can play a song I've know for years perfectly fine under the influence, but in comparison if I had learned a piece earlier in the day, it would be near impossible because I'd be more focused on trying to remember it than knowing it absolutely. |
Why is Stephen hawking so important? | Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people saying he's only famous because he's cripple ? ELI5: Why do people think Stephen Hawking didn't deserve his fame? |
Why do governments bail out their banks instead of just letting them go under? | How did that work the last time we tried it? Pretty sure it didn't work at all. Bailing them out isn't ideal, but it's better than the alternative.Always wondered this as well. Seemed like it goes against everything capitalism stands for. But I also learned today I should start a bank |
Why does beer taste better when it's cold? | As beer warms up, you can taste more of the individual ingredients more clearly. A lot of popular, mainstream beers are designed to be as bland and mass-appealing as possible, and as such are advertised as something you should drink cold so you can't really taste them well. It's why complex, hobbyist-style real ales an... |
Are there likely to be any long-term effects from repeatedly having just four to five hours sleep each night? | Sleep is very important for several reasons: maintaining homeostasis, hormonal regulation, growth and recovery, immune system function, memory consolidation, and axonal sprouting in the brain . Also, when sleeping your heart rate decreases and stays at a lower rate than when awake and active, which gives it a bit of a ... |
Why is there such an emphasis for higher education? | I don't know, I think there should be more of a push to either go to get a degree in engineering or medicine or just to straight up not go. |
Why is having a steak well done generally frowned upon? | I'm a waitress and anytime someone orders a steak well done, I know they will probably tip bad :( it tends to go hand-in-hand. And when they ask for ketchup with their steak, I officially know it's over.A well done steak when compared to a rare or medium-rare is much less tender, less moist, and has far less flavor.I'l... |
How are knockoff brand of cereal and Oreos legal when they clearly rip off a specific brand | Oreo would have to go to court to enforce it. Considering the knock offs probably don't cost them a fuckload in lost sales, where as court is expensive, it isn't worth it. |
Why does food that tasted awesome as a kid (sugary cereal, Chef Boyardee) taste awful as an adult? | I don't know about specific taste differences between children and adults , but I can tell you a bit about taste in general. We all have a couple hundred genes for taste receptors. Only a number of them are active at the same time, and we sort of rotate them around. As a result, our taste changes and something that was... |
- Exit numbers and mile markers | Highway exits used to be sequential instead of by mile marker. Near where I live, there's an exit at mile 1, mile 5, mile 8, mile 11, mile 15, and mile 18. Those exits used to be called Exit 1, Exit 2, Exit 3, Exit 4, Exit 5, and Exit 6. Which made sense. But who knew how many miles it was between exits? Now they're ca... |
If our bodies slowly begin to ignore constant external stimuli (Nueral Adaptation), then why does tinnitus exist? | I'm curious about this too. I have heard that people take their lives if they're cursed with it. I would figure you would just learn to account for it or live with it. I had a friend who had it for a few days and he was going nuts. |
Why is there alot more hype and excitement for Star Wars Episode VII than there was for Episode I? | There was a lot of hype for Episode I, but it didn't have the Disney Machine behind it. Disney is squeezing every last penny out of this thing right now. There were always advertisements and cross-promotions, but not to this degree. There's also a much greater sense of hope for redemption, after the last trilogy ", 'Ep... |
The TV seasons in the US | The new TV season usually starts in the fall after kids return to school. Summer is a time for family vacations and outdoor activities - not sitting indoors watching TV, so most shows don't air new episodes then. Weeks get skipped for all sorts of reasons. Weeks often get skipped for major sporting events or holidays. ... |
Car breathalyzers. Why not inflate a balloon before drinking and then use that to start the car? | Having served a period of time with an interlock device, this exact example is in one of their instructional videos that you have to watch at the court-mandated class. And no, it would never work. You have to sustain a pretty strong exhale for a few seconds until you hear a 'click' inside the device which means it rece... |
What does it mean to an everyday person that we found water on Mars? | I'm only surprised it such a small amount. Most if not all the water on earth is supposed to have been th result of meteor impact that originated from a blet of meteors that lies between Mars and Saturn. You would think that Mars should have more water on it than we do on earth. I think they have really only scratched ... |
Why can't we dump our garbage in a volcano to reduce landfil? | Well, ignoring the fact that tossing all of that trash into a volcano would be essentially the same as burning it , there isn't that much need to deal with landfills at the moment. Modern landfills are well designed and don't have major effects on the surrounding ecosystem or ground water. The biggest issue is space - ... |
Why do colors disappear when you zoom in with a microscope? | When things are really small they are smaller than the wavelengths of light. We can see them by bouncing electrons off of them but we don't know what color they are or if they even have color. |
How do American blind people tell the difference between different bank notes when they are all the same size? | I delivered pizzas to a hotel one time, and there was some sort of blind persons' convention going on. One of the gentlemen had used a needle to punch holes in the bills, essentially creating his own braille. He didn't have the bills folded in any particular way, or keep the bills separated, but he knew exactly how muc... |
how are DVDs mass produced. | They will make a glass master too, which involves making a glass version of the master disc as it will retain it's form much longer, so you can press more CDs. It helps when you imagine a CD as a series of pits bumps. Almost like 1's and 0's.. Very loosely. The laser on your cd/DVD player will read these pits and their... |
Why did human toddlers evolve the need to put everything they can in their mouths? Wouldn't this risky and deadly trait be weeded out through evolution? | One theory is that it helps expose the child's to many different types of bacteria so that the baby's immune system can adapt and grow stronger. it's the babies way if innoculating itself. |
why is human vision limited to 400 - 700 nm wavelengths? | The atmosphere does not let all wavelengths of light through equally. Generally, the atmosphere is opaque to sunlight, except for [some windows of wavelengths]. The three major windows are: * [the optical window]* [the infrared window]* [the radio window] The infrared window is not a good candidate for human vision bec... |
If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into / what was there before it was created ? | I was watching Cosmos and it was explained as if the planets are expanding outwards from a central point much like an elastic band does. What's scary is, they had a theory that if the elastic band theory was true, the planets would eventually reach a threshold and then begin to come crashing into the centre. |
Why did people in the revolutionary war just stand in lines and shoot each other? | Actually i have a question on the tactics of that type of warfare. Wouldn't an army of archers be more effective than that? |
How do you perform CPR and give compressions to a person who has fractured his chest bones? | They're gonna break anyways .I'm sure if the person was to survive which thank to Hollywood it's actually success is a hell if a lot lower than believed, they would probably rather wake up with a sore chest than not at all |
Why do asylum seekers spend all their savings, risking their lives to board a dangerous sea vessel to flee the country instead of just travelling by a conventional means? | Asylum seekers have typically managed to piss off somebody very, very powerful. They may not have the required paperwork to leave their country or enter any other, and even if they do, travel personnel would have to take their life in their hands letting them leave the country - they want beef with these powerful peopl... |
What is going on with my body while I stand near a working microwave and why do I feel weird? | Maybe you are sexually attracted to your microwave? I feel the same way around lamp posts. Ooh I'm getting hot just thinking about it! |
Why do bilingual people switch languages in the middle of a conversation with another bilingual person? | Some words do not translate well or at all from one language to another. If I'm upset or am in a hurry, I do not translate well from my primary language, so a few words slip in here and there.Depending on who is around, there might be things that the speakers don't want their audience to understand. That doesn't always... |
What is happening to the body/brain of a person who has taken a dose of LSD? How does LSD cause hallucinations? | I took acid with my girlfriend before, it was around my 3rd time of doing it she had never done it before. Anyway i was laid on my bed and she went to the toilet, and I noticed that a shadow on my wall looked and FELT like a fucking angel was there gazing down at me. It blew me the fuck away, I was sat there gobsmacked... |
Why are things such as Black History Month, the NAACP and Bet Awards, or any other minority specific groups/events exist, but ones exclusively for whites are considered racist? | Because any of them that actually *have* been formed actually *were* racist? I can't say that's 100% true, but I'm gonna say it proooooobably is. Now the whole idea just has bad vibes, man. |
Why do treads on a tire increase traction? Without treads, isn't the same around of pressure applied by the vehicle to the road? | Everyone in here is mentioning how tread helps with wet roads, but tread also helps deal with debris on dry roads. Roads are often littered with dirt, sand, gravel, leaves, etc. For this reason, as well as rain and snow, you need tread on your car's tires. Race tracks are swept clean which allows the race cars to have ... |
why the two presidential term limit for americans? | The simple short version is, FDR broke a precedent of Presidents not sitting for more than two terms and scared the shit out of congress, so congress established presidential term limits. |
why does the grading system skip the letter E? | In practice the only real grades are A through D, if your grade is below a D then it's considered a failure . In theory you could add an E and compress the marking scheme but this would be messy in many marking schemes. |
Why can't turtles move quickly? | Turtle story:My family grew up with a turtle, Sam. Well our house has a balcony overseeing the mainlevel. So my dad went to clean Sam's tank, as he did every couple weeks. Thinking that Sam is a turtle, so he isn't going to go anywhere fast, left in to roam the big loft area. My dad came back maybe 5 minutes later, and... |
How come National Football League stadiums are considered private property when a majority of the funding is provided by the tax payers? | If you offer to buy me a beer and I accept, that is my beer, and I will drink it. It doesn't matter that you paid for it in whole. You may not have a sip, you may not have the beer back. That is my beer.There is no single model for stadiums and sports teams and their agreements can be complicated. That said, the ELI5 v... |
What is it that is so hard to duplicate about salt, that we haven't found a healthy substitute for it yet? | uh . Salt is healthy? It's a cleanser, and sodium is needed for the body, without salt you'd die if someone's telling you unhealthy, they may become a ghoul in the near future.Very basic ELI5: Your tongue knows tastes based on the shape of the molecules. Sugar [has this shape]. It's a really big molecule and isn't toxi... |
Why do we still have to watch commercials when we pay for the cable service? | People who don't like commercials are all people. TV networks get relatively little from cable companies. The monthly fee is mostly for the cable company itself, to make up for the huge investment in infrastructure they made to wire your home as well as 150 million others.Money from you-pays for the signal to get to yo... |
Why are some sodas almost always caffeine free, e.g. lemon-lime, root beer, orange, and some almost exclusively sold caffeinated (coke, dr pepper, etc)? | Traditionally the caffeine in must sodas came from adding Kola Nut . Kola Nut has an unique taste that you probably wouldn't like if only combined with a single flavor like Lemon or Orange. Once companies came up with a good recipe decades ago they have mostly stuck to them. Now it is possible to just add straight caff... |
"Live within your means" as the saying goes. But why is austerity not a good thing when you are a debt stricken country in a deep recession? | Lack of investment in Greece is why the country has over 25% unemployment. With that level of unemployment the wealthy don't want to invest there because they have so few customers. Austerity removes the ability of the government to invest, and other provisions in the Memorandum prevent the government compelling the pr... |
Why does road construction take so long to complete? Why do they not have crews working 24/7 since this is important infrastructure? | It takes a while to complete since they're trying not to stop traffic entirely. If you merely slow traffic, people can still get from point to point. If you stop it entirely, then they need to find alternate routes. Even if those alternate routes exist, it's likely they can't bear the sort of traffic you're sending tha... |
What causes the "8 bit" style sound that old video games had. | In old systems, most sounds were stored in a format that resembled sheet music for a 'band' that was hard-coded into each system. [This video shows what the NES's 'band' was made up of]. And anything made up of those sounds will sound like a NES. The limitations of this format also lead to particular habits that became... |
Why does the government give tax incentives to married people and those with kids, but no incentives for single and childless people? | There aren't tax incentive for married people. If there is a wide range in income between the two, or if one is a stay-at-home parent, then the tax bracket would be different for married couple and they might save. So if you had a husband who made $100k while the wife stayed home, then he'd see lower taxes on his incom... |
Why are Health Workers coming from Ebola Stricken countries not immediately held in quarantine? | It comes down to the almighty dollar. Just think of how expensive it would be to house close to 100 people in an airport for 21 days. That's not taking into account how many other flights there are that day, week etc. It's called Risk Management. If or when things get serious and thousands start getting sick then you'l... |
If the Wacraft Movie cost 160M and its boxoffice is 430M, why is it still considered a loss? | The studio doesn't get that 430 million. They generally get half of that. Overseas they get less then half. Also China's sales are a tad bit questionable right now. Had it done the bulk in the US, then it would have been far more profitable.430 Million is how much money was paid at cinemas, operating costs of the cinem... |
Why do people think Anne Coulter is a satirist? | It's best summed up as Poe's law. From Wikipedia: > Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Po... |
How can rich people maintain their lifestyle after bankruptcy ? | It really depends on the type of bankruptcy. Probably all of the above: -In some states, certain assets are untouchable in bankruptcy. Think of them as student loans in reverse. -Even if you lose all the money you have, you still have your resume, your network of friends and colleagues, your education, and maybe even y... |
Why not tax imports on goods to spur manufacturing in America. | It's a two way street. We jack up our tarriffs, they raise theirs. Also realize that a lot of the products made in America require parts that cannot be/are not made in America. It would cause unnecessary headaches. Worse, people will STILL find loopholes. For instance, the dreaded Chicken tax meant that you couldn't im... |
How am I genetically related to my grandmother? (Image inside) | You're missing that you get *half* your genetic material from each parent, just as they got half from each of *their* parents, etc, etc. You don't *just* get an X or Y chromosome - you get 23 chromosomes from each. |
how it's possible that I can hear if a sound is coming from in front of or behind me. | If you're interested in reading more, try Daniel Levitin's book *Your Brain on Music*.Light, sound, and almost every other form of energy travel in waves. Waves do a variety of things when traveling from one point to another or from one material into another. Also, it is helpful to know Huygen's Principle, which is tha... |
With all the cameras everywhere, how come unsolved murders in big cities are still a thing? | The other posters have a point, but I'd also like to add that cameras and technologies are not the gold standard for solving and preventing crimes. You can install cameras on every street corner, but people will work around them, especially knowing that they are being watched. Cell phone gives away your location? Leave... |
Why is the fluff in my bellybutton always a blue/grey colour, no matter what colour shirt I am wearing? | I watched a program on it once, I think that it's something to do with the colour of your pants and the fluff works its way up your hair |
Why do people prefer to watch Horror movies or play Survival/Horror video games in the dark? | Personally it's because they're not scary enough in the daytime or with the lights on. I like the thrill. |
Given the historical close ties between the three nations, why did Australia embrace traditional British sports like Rugby, Football and Cricket but Canada did not? | I think part of the reason football and rugby lost popularity here in Canada was the weather. Hockey was able to be played outside in winter time and the oldest parts of Canada have long winters. It's this same logic that made hockey popular in other cold countries. |
What is Unionizing and why is it such a big deal to US corporations? | I think the problem is in the thinking. Precious poster wrote employees organized against corporation. I am a member of the IBEW, electrical, and I see organizing as symbiotic. Trees union workers have Better pay and benefits but also have a higher skill set, efficiency and work per day percentage. I've worked union an... |
Why can't I see clearly underwater (chlorinated or not) without goggles? | I have another question on this topic: why do my eyes always get very red when I don't use goggles? Is it bad for my eyes not to use goggles? |
Why haven't any other countries landed astronauts on the moon? | It's incredibly expensive to put people on the moon, the space race cost the United States government 100 billion dollars. Click [here] for proof. At the time of the moon landings, the only countries that could afford to spend that much financially or politically were the Soviet Union and the United States. While some ... |
What is "bridge mode" on a router, and when it is useful? | Bridge mode is simply a way to turn a wifi signal into a hard wired port on your network. Let's say you wanted to connect your smart TV to the internet, but there is no wifi functionality and there's only an Ethernet port. But the TV is on the opposite side of the house as the router, an on a different floor as well. Y... |
India has a privately owned city. If the elite business class in the US wants a free market system where are the privately owned cities in the US? | [Lake Buena Vista, Flordia] is the closet you'll come here. It's owned by Walt Disney World. While the city can make it's own rules within reason, it's still subject to Florida and US law. |
This whole Ke$ha ordeal? | Because contracts are binding. If I sign a contract saying I'll build a house to completion for $x an hour then ending that contract would mean I lose money right? But what about the home owner? He/she doesn't have to pay me but they will have a half finished house that they now need to get finished by another builder,... |
Why does the US have to go to war if Israel attacks another country? | The US considers Israel an extremely important strategic ally. If Israel is fighting someone then the US feels obligated to fight someone. It's like if your friend gets in a fight, you might look out for him and make sure he ends up okay. |
What is it about water that makes it crucial to our survival? | The crucial point is that water is a *polar* solvent. The hydrogens have a partial positive charge and the oxygen has a partial negative charge . Consequently, it dissolves other polar compounds, such as salts obviously, and tends to exclude non-polar compounds like fats. This allows molecules to orientate themselves t... |
Why we haven't built a water pipeline to Texas yet? | There's actually been some talk in the environmental-political world about building a water pipeline from the Great Lakes to the desert Southwest. Though this is more about providing water to this area once the Colorado river can no longer provide enough than it is about putting out wildfires. There are two main obstac... |
Why are some criminals handed numerous life imprisonment charges during their trial? | Its just a math. These aren't real numbers but it goes like this. * 1 homicide = 1 life sentence* 1 rape = 50 years* 10 homicides = 10 life sentences. * 10 rapes = 500 years* 10 rapes and 10 homicides = 10 life sentences and 500 years |
What advantages do desktops offer over laptops? | A laptop is usually limited to only being able to upgrade the ram and hard drive, some lower end models may even have the ram soldered to the motherboard and restrict upgrading. With a desktop, everything is interchangeable. In addition, parts designed for desktops are often more powerful, and cheaper, because they are... |
Why does Japan have so many cool flavours in their snacks? | After living in Japan it was amazing seeing the different flavored Kit Kats like soy sauce , fish, cherry blossoms, etc And they even have can coffee made from people like Coca Cola and such. I had a Japanese friend who did marketing for a food brand and I asked him why such cool things aren't in Japan. I mean Nestle c... |
How does a seemingly unknown director get chosen for a huge hollywood film? (ex: Dan Trachtenberg for 10 Cloverfield Lane | The problem with this example is that 10 Cloverfield Lane was not originally a Cloverfield film with JJ Abrams attached. It was originally a script called The Cellar, with a super low budget, and then it became Valencia, and Dan Trachtenberg was attached to direct that film. However, it was during filmmaking/production... |
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