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- Please explain to me why it's such a terrible thing for the UN to recognize a Palestinian state? | That's a fairly complex issue to explain to a 5 year old, but I'll have a crack. If the countries of the world agree that Palestinian is a state or country, it will make it more difficult for their neighbour, Israel, to do as it pleases without getting in trouble, like stealing peoples homes and land and using unarmed ... |
Why was I not allowed to take a picture in a Sunglass Hut? | Step 1: Pretend you're taking pictures of sunglasses Step 2: Actually take pictures of store/lock layout Step 3: Steal all the glasses", 'You would have to ask the employee. I know that when I worked retail, all of my jobs put me through training that specifically forbid me from letting people take pictures in the stor... |
Why do people hate DLC so much? | There was a time when you got a whole game . Younger people might not remember that. And nowadays you buy the game and there will be at least 4 big story dlcs if you do not buy them you miss part of the story. What DLCs mostly do is double the price of a game. That's why i stopped buying anything but game of the year e... |
Why do you need a prescription for drugs that are not addictive and mostly helpful (antibiotiocs, viagra, etc) | Both antibiotics and Viagra can kill you, for what it's worth. You don't even need to overdose all that heavily on either, just misuse them stupidly. |
What process causes the human body to generate heat? | The primary way your body heats itself is through spending energy to create muscle contractions. That's why when you are cold, you start shivering. Shivering is your brain telling your muscles to start doing extra contractions in order to generate more heat. [This] source says 70% of all body heat is produced this way. |
What is the legal difference between a pyramid scheme and multilevel marketing? | The product being involved means they can call it MLM instead of a pyramid scheme, so it's not illegal or tainted with the bad reputation. It's a loophole, basically, based on the existence of a product. |
How exactly do you explain Diabetes? | I assume you are referring to type 2 diabetes? There is really no way of know if you will have diabetes, however it is know that there is a very strong genetic link to type 2 diabetes. If you don't take care of your health , you could potentially avoid diabetes. However, very commonly, the trend to become overweight al... |
Why is jerrymandering tolerated? | It's tolerated because it's pretty much impossible to prevent. Jerrymandering at its heart is basically bias while drawing electoral boundaries. Have you thought about how difficult it is to do express something without bias, e.g. writing articles? The choice of words, the amount of coverage, what areas you choose to c... |
Generally speaking, why are conservatives so opposed to the concept of climate change? | This may not exactly answer your question, but I have some conservative friends that were strongly against the Paris Climate Agreement. This had nothing to do with whether or not they believed in man-made climate change. They do. These guys are smart engineers, scientists even! It had more to do with what they felt the... |
Why do some lamps click 4 times? | ELI5: What is OP referring to? I don't recognize this as a Swede.Because your lamp is a tri light which has three brightness settings. Low, normal, bright and off. You need to use the correct bulb to use this featureDo they make 3-way LED bulbs or are these lamps now just artifacts of the incandescent era?', "That mean... |
Sometimes you have the urge to eat sweet or salty stuff. Is it because you lack a certain nutrient common in that food? (e.g. salt, sugar..) | I may be misinformed but I believe it's because of the bacteria in your gut. They live and thrive off of what you eat. If you feed them processed sugars and other things of the sort some will begin to multiply and depend on those sugars, while others will thrive off the healthier foods you eat. Some aerobic some anaero... |
why didn't native american or new world diseases devastate the "old world" how come it was so unilateral? | In the book 1491 by Charles Mann, the author points out that people indigenous to the Americas have a higher resistance to parasites, whereas those indigenous to Europe have a higher resistance to pathogens. However, parasites are harder to get and easier to beat, so they didn't devastate the Europeans like the airborn... |
When you show your favorite shows to your friend, why does it feel like it's not awesome enough at that particular time? | It's just the intro"', "There is a theory called the Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory, another one of those things that explains intuition. Basically it states that, a given expectation , will be met by a given reality/experience . If you put a number value to how much you expected them to like it, and how much they a... |
What is happening in Detroit? How did it get that way? | Detroit might be a bit of a wasteland, but there is still a good sized population living in the suburbs like Ann Arbor. The city approves things like stadiums because it, while an up-front investment, brings dollars and jobs into the city. I doubt Detroit's art collection is a 'treasure' . Whatever is there, it clearly... |
Why do some people look unattractive in photos, but look attractive when in person? | In my experience it's because people act like they're being attacked by bees when they see a camera pointed at them. |
What Calculus is, and what it's used for. | Say we know the mathematical rule* which tells us the velocity of a car at any given time. Then we can use calculus to do two things. Firstly, we can work out the car's acceleration at any time. This is called differentiation. Secondly, if we know where the car started, we can use another process called integration to ... |
If water ice forming in cells can damage or destroy them, how come frozen meat from my freezer is fine when thawed? | Check out vitrification. A process of freezing tissue so as not to damage the cells with ice crystal formation. It's touted as a way to crionically preserve humans.Commercial meat freezing is usually done with blast freezers that reduce the temperature to -18 degrees Celsius within 4 hours and reduce the chances of lar... |
Why aren't car windshields covered with hydrophobic coatings in 2015? | Durability basically. Any hydrophobic coating that doesn't cost as much as the car itself is going to wear off quickly on the severe environments a car sees. Cars can easily hit 140f in the direct sunlight, -30 in northern winters, impacted by 70 mph road grime and sandsand, etc.Automotive Engineer here. Hydrophobic gl... |
The Crusades, touching on the point of the Knights Templar and there importance? | Excellent. Thanks guys. Iv've been on history kick recently and I just wanted a synopsis before I start reading a lot. |
Why can solids float on liquids, but liquids not float on gas? | they actually can, you just need really exotic material in bizarre conditions. the answer, in practical conditions, is that there's no way to hide pockets inside a liquid. most solids that float are filled with air. wood has microscopic ones, while a steel hulled ship has an enormous cavity inside for all the ship's co... |
Why cant double quote be used in naming files but two single can be? | Windows Subsystem for Linux" in different windows system that is unix compable that can use " in file but is seldom usedA single quotation is called an apostrophe and is typically used in spelling, whereas the double is an actual quotation mark, and is often used to signify someone speaking, or I think in some cases to... |
How does a court transcriptionist get every single word of a court case down so fast? | Court reporter chiming in here! As other commenters have mentioned, we are writing by syllable and sound rather than letters. We use a lot of short forms that can be whole words or phrases. Take the word hello, for instance. On a regular keyboard you would make 5 different key strokes . On a stenographic keyboard you'd... |
What is happening when I turn my head too quickly and get that sharp POP in my neck, followed by a painful warm tingle? | I have actually seen some specialists on this matter, since I've had this happen to me since I was a kid. In my case at least, what was happening is that I was pinching nerves in the spinal column. Now, I also have a bulging disk in that location, and some minor back problems, but it stands to reason that even without ... |
Why do so many people believe the fake stories shared on facebook? | People simply don't check the sources. They only care about the appearance of the story and whether it's interesting or not. |
Train Simulator 2014 and similar games, why do people play these? | 'Fun' is subjective. Some people just want to play something that offers a different perspective or allows them to experience things they haven't experienced before without having to go through the trouble of actually doing it. I don't know if you've ever played a flight simulator, but it's actually really breath-takin... |
If there's no oxygen in space and oxygen is required for combustion, how exactly is the sun a "flaming" ball of gases? | That's not regular fire. That's *plasma*, which is basically a superheated gas. Plasma happens from *nuclear fusion*, when two or more atoms collide at high speeds and with extraordinary force. This produces a lot of heat, and before we knew what it actually is we called it fire.The Sun is our nearest star. It is, as a... |
What use are coaches of top tier athletes like Federer or Tiger Woods? | I was recently listening to Mirinda Carfrae on a podcast and she touched on coaching. It seems like Mirinda's coach is just important for the mental aspects of competing as she is from the training aspect. Mirinda mostly spoke about how her coach is able to motivate her and keep up her level of excitement for the sport... |
EIL5: How do gas powered motors, such as a car, work? | I am literally explaining this in the most general way I can, so for simplicity's sake I won't go in to detail about the parts *inside* a cylinder. In a nutshell, the gasoline is delivered to an engine where the electric charge from turning over the key makes a controlled explosion, the energy from this explosion is us... |
How does paying off a loan early save money? | Except that you have one piece wrong! *You don't pay for interest once you pay off the principal.* How much you owe in interest is built from the amount you owe times your monthly interest rate. So if you have an interest rate of 10% and you pay off half the principal in once shot your interest payment gets cut in half... |
How do passenger trains in the U.S. still exist despite advancement of airline industry over the decades? | Just because the train line spans that distance doesn't mean everyone is taking it that far. Most people use Amtrak for medium length trips where a plane isn't worth the hassle. For example, I use Amtrak when I go to Kansas City to visit my sister. The line stretches all the way from Chicago to LA, quite a journey by t... |
How does Pluto, which is a fraction the size of Earth, have 5 moons orbiting around it meanwhile Earth only has one moon orbiting around it? | Because size doesn't matter . Venus is nearly identical in size and mass to Earth, with no moons. What matters is the orbital neighbourhood when planets are forming. Pluto has a very cluttered orbital neighbourhood, that's actually why it's not a planet anymore. In fact, Pluto's original moon, Charon, may not even be c... |
The English Premier League's cups, derbies, and general season structure | Quick answer to the FA Cup question; the FA cup has about 4 million teams enter^1 and as a result there are **6** qualifying rounds before the 1st proper round happens. The bigger teams don't enter from the start, the Premier League teams enter into the 3rd round. Obviously all the other rounds take a while to get out ... |
What is the "quantum" in quantum physics, quantum computers and so on? | Pretty sure its an outgrowth of the discovery that energy changes on the atomic level by discrete, indivisible amounts. I think the term 'quantum of energy' was used to describe this and the name stuck. |
Why don't cable companies want us to have faster internet? | It's not that they don't want you to. It's that they don't want to pay for the network upgrades that would be needed to give it to you. |
Why do I sometimes hear my name being called when it isn't? | sometime i hear a male voice tell me I'm a punk ass bitch when i go to take a pee, he sounds black. |
Why the British resent Margaret Thatcher. | She was far from perfect and some of her stances on things like SA, pinnochet, NI etc are ever so slightly deplorable. However, a commonly overlooked fact is that her economics policies were by and large dictated to her by the IMF and the free market consequences of IMF intervention in 1976. When you borrow from the IM... |
when someone asks a question on reddit, why do they get tons of replies of the same answer? | They probably all posted about the same time so didn't realise other people had already said the same thing. also taking someone else's answer and making it slightly more reddit friendly/augmented is a much easier way to whore for karma. |
Why don't China and Taiwan get along? | doesn't really answer your question, but I can tell you this is a very deeply seated issue for the Chinese. I worked closely with three Chinese colleagues and I once asked them the basis for this. I was pretty innocent to the entire thing, I don't have a strong opinion and just wanted their point of view. Even asking t... |
What do governments gain by spying on their citizens? | Very little, or quite a lot depending on the scenario. The Government knowing what kind of porn you wack it too is super not relevant to their business. On the other hand, knowing that you sure are looking up how to make a bomb a lot and downloading maps of Washington DC and did you just rent a car and buy a plane tick... |
Why do T.V. shows have
many differecnt directors rather than sticking to one? | Unlike movies, the producers, not the directors, typically exercise creative control of a series. A director is more of a craftsmen, who takes the existing characters and sets and story lines, adds in the new writing, and turns it into television. In addition, a movie can take months, sometimes more than a year to make... |
Why is audio usually the part of a file that makes it so big? | Text is a minute amount of data compared to the audio of that text spoken. As others have noted, textures get reused a lot. Models aren't actually that big, all things considered. Rendering and moving them is a bigger concern than storage. The above, with the exception of text, is used for every language. With audio, y... |
Why must we fight for net neutrality EVERY year? | There is an vested interest by several groups who think that tighter control of the internet will be good for profitability. As long as this is true, the fight will continue. Its not enough to simply call a senator for a single bill. Either we need to legislate a good clean net neutrality law, or make it not profitable... |
- Why does China own so much of the American national debt? | The US borrows money by selling bonds there are many kinds of bonds, but basically if you buy a bond, you are giving the US money now, and they will give you more back later. The US sells bonds on a open market any person, company or country can buy them. So the US isn't choosing to borrow money from China, they are se... |
Why are Human babies so helpless? | It's a compromise between two big advantages that don't go together. Big, intelligent brains = big heads. Narrow, energy-efficient hips = tiny birth canals. Between babies with smaller brains or moms with wider hips, evolution favored secret option #3 - preemies. Being born early in our development meant we could keep ... |
Why does water taste so awful if you leave it on your nightstand, and you drink it in the morning? | TIL I'm an idiot for always assuming it collected a thin layer skin cells over night. It wasn't that stupid right? Dust is skin it's everywhere .Guys? . |
Why isn't Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the internet) world renowned to a similar, if not greater, degree than Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates etc.? | What do you mean? He is world renowned. And he didn't invent the internet, the internet was invented by the ministry of defense of the USA through various programs. What he invented was the WWW, an application run on the internet. E-mail is also an application run on the internet, just for reference.He didn't invent th... |
Why Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE but apple doesn't for bundling Safari | That lawsuit was related to forcing third party computer builders, OEM's, to include windows on ALL of their products, if they wanted to include it in ANY of their products. Apple can do whatever they want with their own computers, as can microsoft. |
why does hay fever leave you alone while you sleep, but attack like a bitch the second you open your eyes? | Uh It doesn't? My symptoms are far worse overnight than during the day.I have seasonal allergies. One observation that I have made is : sometimes when I am mowing the lawn or doing some other focused physical work, my allergy symptoms will subside, when I am finished with the task the symptoms come raging back. It is l... |
How is Helium, which doesn't undergo any reaction when used, a limited resource? | In addition to the other comments on where helium goes, we mine helium from natural gas. When uranium and thorium decay, the alpha particles they emit are Helium 4 nuclei. When natural gas is found underground, it's about 7% helium because of that! So as long as we have natural gas supplies to mine, we'll have helium a... |
Why the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem has not been solved yet. | The Navier-Stokes equations are what are known as differential equations. We don't know how to exactly solve the vast majority of differential equations; in fact, we know for a fact that most of them *can't* be solved exactly. What we normally do is approximate. |
Why do front-facing cameras (e.g. selfie cameras) on phones take mirror image pics? | One of the biggest priorities in Software Development is Intuitive User Interface. We want to make sure that users need an *absolute minimum* amount of instruction to use the software. It's the reason why the exit button for every program is in the upper-right corner, you hit the Escape Key to bring up the menu, and so... |
Why are Italian and Latin different languages? | Aside from the other reasons you're getting, it has to do with nationalism. Latin was the language of the Roman Empire while Italian is the language of Italy. Italians wanted a culture and language to call their own. On a technical level, there's nothing to stop you thinking of Italian as the dialect of Latin spoken in... |
How do people die from a drug overdose by using drugs you ingest? Wouldn’t your body just throw it up? | The mechanism depends on the drug. Vomiting doesn't always help because some substances, while unhealthy, don't cause the body to throw up. And even if someone does vomit, that doesn't remove as much of the substance as you'd think. suggests that inducing vomiting gets rid of only 28% of the substance if done immediate... |
Why can't car doors open underwater? | The water outside the car is pushing on the door much harder than the air inside the car. Just some back-of-the-napkin calculations here: 10 feet of water causes a pressure of 4.34 lb / in^. Let's model the car door as a square that is 4 feet to a side. That's 576 in^. So the door would feel like it weighed 2500 lbs if... |
Why don't females carry their original surname after marriage | Traditionally, a woman would leave the house of her own family and join her husband's family when she got married. Back then, a surname wasn't just a second name either. It was often linked to an extended family, tribe, or homeland. For example, a Smith, Baker, or Miller would have actually had those occupations in the... |
Why are Republicans pushing to defund Planned Parenthood when taxpayer money can't be used for abortions? | A follow - on question on this topic: Why is the decision being made to attack one of the providers of abortions, yet there is no attempt being made to challenge the legality of abortions? Because blocking PP from performing abortions just means that women are going to be forced to use less safe & professional provider... |
Why can't computers read a CAPTCHA? | Current computer technology is a *lot* worse than a human brain at pattern recognition. It's only recently that computers have been able to read *non*-distorted text from images; once you start deliberately making it hard, most computers don't have a chance. |
If a plank, standing upright, was 1m high and 1m wide but only about an atom thick, would it still be visible? | You have a couple factors you're missing. 1) What angle am I looking at it2) Angle and light output of light source3) Ambient conditions4) Material of the wall. I mean if a light souce from behind me that I couldn't see hit a gold wall, even 1 atom thick, in a dark room with nothing else and the source was bright eboug... |
How do doctors and nurses take care of sick people without getting sick themselves? Or do doctors and nurses get common colds and bacterial infections all the time? | Basic cleanliness goes a long way in a hospital setting. Masks and gloves will prevent a lot of stuff. I don't imagine it always works though, so they probably do get sick more often than most people, but I wouldn't say all the time. |
How did "Special Head" on America's Got Talent do his levitation act? | The 'carpet' actually has a strong base, and the 'cane' is probably strengthened inside. The cane connects securely to a specific point on the carpet so that weight/force applied to the cane can be transferred to the carpet base, keeping the cane from falling over. Inside the magician's left sleeve is a metal attachmen... |
what exactly is it that Windows can do that my Mac (OSX) can't? | It's mostly that there are more games and programs written for Windows only so you can't use those. Windows and Mac use different file types so a dev would have to write in both for you to use it with both Operating systems |
Why does every other animal of the same species look the same, but humans don’t? | Every other animal species don't look the same-- a dalmation clearly isn't the same as a poodle, for example. Also, we're just bad at distinguishing between different animal species. Human brains are hardwired to recognize other humans. The Fusiform Face Area is an area in your brain that plays a key role in recognizin... |
why do doctors and nurses work 24+ hour shifts when that level of sleep deprivation is scientifically shown to reduce cognitive and motor performance? | Turnover of information is key. I work in a field that's also staffed 24/7/365 but not medical, and we generally work 8 hour shifts. The amount of information that failed to make it from one shift to the next is astonishing, and routinely causes otherwise preventable issues. If healthcare did this, more patients would ... |
API for someone with a non-technical background | Let's say your TV didn't come with a remote control, but it came with a list of instructions on how to make every function work . Now, you're free to use any remote you want. You don't have to use the remote it came with, you can use a remote that goes with your cable box, DVR, Blu Ray, and all that stuff. The instruct... |
Why is Fox News considered not credible? | Because basically it's not news, it's entertainment. _URL_7_", 'Fox News produced too many news that are obviously wrong. Simple analysis can show how lots of their news are intensively influenced by conservative thinking"Don't worry kids, Santa Klaus IS White." -fox news', "It's simpler. They're #1. Fox News gets the ... |
Is it possible for people to see the same color differently? | While I doubt that there are many cases of people seeing blue as yellow there are apparently a small number of people that have [Tetrachromacy]. Which, from the one article I read , it is possible that they see more shades of a color. So, *hypothetically* let's say that their are 100 shades of red the theory is that pe... |
Why is gas so cheap in the US right now? | After reading an article for 5 minutes, I am now considered an expert. For sake of simplicity, let's say Oil=GasOil producers in the Middle-East are slashing prices, and they flood the market with cheap oil. Combine this with the normally low demand of oil in the fall and you have low-as-hell prices. In addition, inves... |
Before satellites how were maps made accurately? | The answer depends on how far back before satalites your talking. Back 100 years ago, or 200 years ago is a big difference. Others gave great answers as to the how, but no one points out just how often they got it wrong. On some old maps, California is an island! Or phantom islands that get copied form map to map that ... |
why do we lose our sense of time when anaesthatized but not when sleeping? | I hate to say it, but the answer is that we don't know. We know that general anesthesia works and have some basic understanding if the mechanism, but we really do not understand why it makes you lose consciousness or lose sense of time. It's weird. Part of the problem is that we are not sure what consciousness is - or ... |
Why do employers pay little attention to what your college GPA was? | GPA means a lot more when you're freshly out of school. But this is only because there is little else you can use to weed candidates out. Once someone has some time working in the industry, their experience and accomplishments mean a lot more. Your degree's value diminishes each and every year which is why it is import... |
Why is the past tense of hang "hung" when talking about an object but "hanged" when talking about a person? | Traditionally, the words can be used interchangeably; as has already been mentioned, but it is highly discouraged to use hung when talking about the person or hanged with regard to a tapestry. Languages are constantly evolving and this is just one recent change that although seems quite arbitrary, so is language in it'... |
If "The Cult of Mac" is so concerned about the working condtions at Foxconn, Why don't they renounce their precious gadgets in protest? | Such a bullshit question. You're not even trying and you're just looking for new ways of being passive-aggressive about your dislike of apple.Almost all gadgets are made in China. To work in modern society, you need modern technology, so you can't avoid all gadgets. The "Cult of Mac" want their factories to be the nice... |
How a knife thrower always hit's the target with the pointy end. | Ah yes, sorry about the apostrophe on the 'hit'. It was a typo.I kept thinking about this while watching the Hunger Games. I later checked to see if the knife throwing was done professionally and apparently they taught the actress how to do it: > **Learning how to throw knives — what was that like?**It was very interes... |
World's wealth is growing at 2.5% rate. How is this possible? Where does "new" money come from if "everybody" is wealthier now? | If I find some rocks and sticks, and then glue them together, I've got something to sell. Voila, new wealth. If I create a new song. Voila, new wealth. People have imaginations, and hands. We dream shit up, and then actually make it.Seems like OP is asking about physical money and the answer to that sadly is that they ... |
How does printing more money put more into circulation? i.e. How does it get into consumer's hands? | The first money made just gets changed each time. So when a note becomes too degraded, it gets burnt an exchanged with new notes. Now if you're also speaking about quantitative easing then this is basically the central bank buying bonds from businesses, which provides the business with more 'money' in effect. There is ... |
American politicians always talk about millionaires and billionaires paying less in taxes than everyone else (or even not paying taxes). How is this possible? | A lot of people have mentioned preferential rates for capital gains, interest, and dividends, and that capital losses can offset capital gains. Another way in which high net worth individuals diversify their portfolio and reduce their effective tax rate is through tax-exempt income streams. It doesn't even have to be t... |
Why are LED light bulbs so expensive while LED diodes are so cheap? | High efficacy 100lm/w LED that is comparable to HID is still very expensive to manufacture. Heat dissipation, lumen output, light distribution, drivers. Cheap LED's around 10w don't perform consistently. Variations in colour temp, rendering, lumen output. These tend to come from the lower end of the binning process.bec... |
If vinegar is just over-ripe alcohol, why is it so much cheaper than booze? | Alcohol also gets you drunk, so they charge more. There's also a steep markup on top notch or luxury booze. Most famously, Grey Goose vodka became a premium vodka with a bottle redesign and a higher price. |
Why every garbage dumpster smells the same? | Lactobacillus creates the sour smell. Clostridium makes a fecal odor. They're pretty much the most common bacterias", 'Ever followed a garbage truck down the street on its route? YummyAlternatively, why does every school lunchbox smell the same? |
Babies and toddlers have smaller lungs and vocal chords than grown ups. How are they able to cry and scream so much louder than adults? | Volume is controlled by how fast the air is moving over your vocal chords, which isn't really affected by the size of your lungs or your vocal cords . |
Why dont game companies just remake popular games for next gen consoles? | A lot of it has to do with licensing disputes. Game companies don't want to pay up so the game doesn't get made. |
In the footage of today’s Florida shooting, students were escorted with their hands up, why? | Standard crowd control procedure. You don't know if there is another assailant in the group. You have them do something visual, so if someone becomes noncompliant/violent it's really easy to see. In a high stress situation like that your brain might miss something that might be pretty obvious when you're able to go bac... |
What is the difference between memory used in RAM and memory used in a hard drive; and why is 32Gb of RAM so much more expensive than a 32Gb hard drive? | I don't think these replys precisely, but in ELI5 terms, describe why it is cheaper. OP, imagine you have 1,000 marbles. You have two extreme options on how to store them. One option is to buy a large bin, and throw them all in there. Super effective and efficient, until you need to get get certain marbles at certain t... |
Why can our bodies develop resistance to harsh viruses such as the flu, but Poison Ivy still plagues many of us each year? | Poison Ivy is harsh ironically because of the immune system's reaction, it actually is not harmful, the irritant in poison ivy is called Urushiol, an oil that acts as an allergen, it is basically safe, the body simply overreacts . On the other hand, a virus is a somewhat living thing that reproduces using bodily resour... |
What exactly is an alloy? I know it’s not a chemical compound but is there any chemical bonding happening? Is it just a mixture? | Metals don't form molecules with normal bondings, they share their electrons more freely and not only between the same metal but any metal. So you can really mix metal atoms in any proportion you want and they will mix just fine. As for separating, it is possible, maybe not with a 100% efficiency, but your metals will ... |
Why does returning to Point A from Point B during a car ride seem faster than going to Point B from Point A? | Novel experiences capture more of your attention, so you're more engaged on the way there. You zone out on the way back because you've seen it already. |
How exactly did Bill Gates become so rich? | Shrewd business, stealing ideas, and threatening competition. It's only as of lately he's tried to look like a nice guy, giving away his money and what not.His company made software that practically everyone in the world needs to buy at some point. |
Why does it matter if our government spies on us, so long as they don't release the information to the public? | Oh /u/derp245 I see you visited /r/GoneWild quite a few times. You are *obviously* a pervert. I happen to be an ultra-right wing government employee. I think you are one sick individual. I mean, I never get to see girls naked and you do it all the time. I think you need a little freedom. I'll pass your information over... |
Why does the US keep arming rebels when years later history shows those same rebels kill us with those weapons? | Two major drivers are responsible: 1) The US arms industry is the largest in the world and is constantly seeking customers. 2) US foreign policy tends to be dominated by various interventionist factions who claim the US is obligated to behave in certain ways. Basically, we've got the guns and the people running the sho... |
Why don't we just dump our garbage into a magma pit? | Even if it magma pits were conveniently located throughout our garbage disposal network, it's no better than just burning the garbage. It's cheap to burn garbage. The expensive part of incinerator plants are the infrastructure to move the garbage and to filter out the toxic emissions, neither of which is solved by addi... |
why don't we have more roundabouts since they minimize traffic? | Down in Canberra Australia, there is an apparent absence of traffic lights, replaced with roundabouts. They're around every second corner, if not first hahah. Canberrans complain about them very frequently. I personally do not, as i understand the useful difference. |
Why songs are generally 3~5 minutes long. | Well, as [Billy put it: ] > You've heard my latest record,It's been on the radio.Ah, it took me years to write it,They were the best years of my life.It was a beautiful song.But it ran too long.If you're gonna have a hit,You gotta make it fit--So they cut it down to 3:05. This was a reference to his song [Piano Man], w... |
Why is that, all of a sudden, we have teachers getting arrested for having sex with minors? | Social media makes is more tempting and compared to the 90s high school teenagers have become much more sexualized. Also fashion has contributed ad well. Yoga pants and skinny jeans weren't always around and now they are part of a teenagers everyday wardrobe. |
How do massive schools of fish swim around without just bashing into each other | I did a project in college modeling schools of fish. 1.) If an individual fish is too close to any fish, then it will turn to swim away from that fish. 2.) If there are no fish too close, then an individual fish will attempt to travel in the same direction as fish that are a middle distance away. 3.) If there are fish ... |
How the Imperial system works. | A lot of it is simply a result of legacy measurements. Say, a foot was originally calibrated by the actual foot of the King of England. This was later slightly harmonized, but naturally, makes much less sense than the SI/Metric system, and leads to several subvarieties of each unit . It is therefore impossible to ratio... |
How come VCs & Angel investors don't just hire people to copy an idea rather than invest in it? | First and foremost, they are usually legally prevented from doing so. Potential investors evaluating the company typically sign NDAs and other agreements to prevent exactly what you describe from happening. Also, it usually isn't cheaper for an investor to try to do it themselves. They and anyone they hire is going to ... |
Before the advances in dental surgery, how did people deal with wisdom teeth? | Isn't there also a growing school of thought among dentists that we have been overdoing the wisdom tooth removal thing, i.e., that it is an unnecessary extraction for a significant percentage of the population? Yeah, [here's one link.] Can't attest to the reliability of it but there were lots to choose from.I listened ... |
Why do so many news agencies cite Reuters stories for their information? What's so special about Reuters? | As a fellow journalist who trusts Reuters and AP I think I can answer in ELI5 mode: When someone does something the right way for a long time you trust them. Reuters is news agency which proved itself in time for doing proper journalistic work so that's why everyone is trusting them. And continuing in ELI10: Trust is v... |
What is the Trans-pacific Partnership TPP? | [Great article on TPP] TL;DR is that it's a gigantic trade agreement covering U.S., Canada, and 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It's controvesial because it threatens to force other countries in the agreement to behave like the USA; increase crackdown on copyright protection, make it harder to make generic dru... |
Why does water expire? | Its not the water. Its the container. Also maybe they are hoping you are foolish enough to throw it out and buy fresh water. Don't be foolish. They put an expiration label on it because people expect one. |
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