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If Spotify pays so little, why do artists still let them use their music? | Spotify doesn't actually pay that little per listen. Think about it. When a song is played on the radio, thousands of people listen to the song. When it is played on Spotify, 1 person listens to it. |
What's with America and guns? Are gun statistics exaggerated/twisted? Is it as bad as what foreigners think? | honestly, it's pretty simple: i got my first bb gun when i was about ten or eleven. maybe a year or so afterwards i graduated to my great-grandfather's bolt-action single shot cock-to-fire .22 rifle. he paid five dollars for it when he was a kid. after i'd been shooting the .22 for a while i graduated to a .30 m1 carbi... |
All pandas belong to China. | I'd like to point out to people that pandas don't just eat bamboo and that a diet of only bamboo isn't actually good for pandas. |
If you're enlisted in a military service, can you just walk out of boot camp? If not, what are the consequences? | I did actually have a change of heart after joining the army when I was a teenager and left without consequence. However, this was just prior to actually shipping to basic training. From what I read/heard from people I asked once you go to basic training you actually do sign a final contract, at which point the penalti... |
How do I do my taxes? (Canadian resident) | The easiest way is to file it online if you don't know what you're doing. Since you don't, you should really go to a tax specialist like H & R Block. As for what you're entitled to as a return, that depends. You start off with how much money you make and how much tax you're supposed to pay for that amount. Then you tak... |
Why is it that so many people hate memes and image macros? | Deradius covered one mode of thinking, but here's another: I get annoyed by them at times because it's a joke that gets beat to death. Usually [cracked] has something to say about the issue that i agree with. I picked an article at random, but usually the author spends time shitting on memetic humor . Just because I ge... |
How does time dilation work? Why should you age slower if you're moving faster? | I've always thought of it as the speed of light is constant and can never change but all of us are moving at the speed of light through the 4 dimensions of our universe Since we can't break the speed of light, the faster we move through the 3 dimensions of space, the slower we move through the 4th dimension, time. That... |
Why do we have open enrollment for insurance in the US? Why are we not able to change medical insurance coverage like we change any other kind of insurance? | They aren't allowed to exclude coverage for pre-existing conditions anymore. So, they need a way to make sure there's enough people with insurance who aren't going to cost them money. I was able to see the doctor list and prescription drug list for my plan before I signed up.Imho it is another layer if bs to shroud tru... |
Why does most of Europe hate handguns? | It's very easy to hide a handgun, so whilst a shotgun or rifle may be more 'powerful', a handgun is more dangerous. |
Why do celebrities who are known to smoke weed never get in trouble with the law | I would say that because with certain drugs, it's not the use that's illegal, it's the possession. In most cases you can't be arrested just for being high. Admitting you've done illegal drugs in the past isn't illegal. Talking about doing drugs isn't illegal. Certainly there are exceptions to these, but people get in t... |
what is the white stuff in a pimple and why is it good/bad to pop them? | I'm fucking 50 years old and you just caused me to break out in a sweat and have high school flashbacks you bastard! |
Why does one shoot to kill instead of shoot to maim? | Warned or maimed people can shoot back. Look, if shit gets so bad you have to go to your last, lethal resort, you better make it count. You've done everything prior to dissuade or deescalate the issue, and failed. Now your life, another's life, or your property is in danger from someone who won't be told otherwise. If ... |
Why don't gas pumps themselves accept cash? | About fifteen years ago I saw some that did. They were there for a couple of years and then the bill acceptors were taken out. I asked the gas station owner, he said it was because very few people used it, and with the number of times they had to go out to clear jams, it was more trouble than it was worth. I also suspe... |
Why are accents not regarded as mispronunciations or errors? | You simply can't reject accents as mistakes or ignorance. For many, the way you learn a language is the way you relate to it. Additionally, especially for those surrounded constantly by a second language, it's not that they don't know they're fucking it up, its because by the time they started speaking English their br... |
why do I have to poop after drinking coffee? | *I am by no means qualified to answer this, but I've asked the same question and received the following response.* There's oils in coffee which act as laxatives. Often times heavy coffee drinkers will become dependent on the natural laxatives; as is common with over the counter laxatives. As a result when people stop d... |
Why english shows like the Office, Skins and Being Human are remade for the US. | I suspect that A) there might be a licensing issue B) there is probably some concern about how well the humor would play with American audiences, and C) there might be union issues. |
Why haven't holograms, similar in design to that of the tupac one, been used in more everyday scenarios such as advertising or display cases etc? | Money. That hologram was estimated to cost somewhere between $100 000 and $400 000. Also known as most products' entire advertising budget, and your average billboard doesn't have several technicians being paid $1000 a day to make sure they keep working. |
Why referring a pakistani 'paki' is a racial abuse? | I wasn't aware it was, my Pakistani friend refers to her friends as Paki often.Because perfectly fine words devolve into slurs by their usage. It is quite common when it comes to various mental handicaps as well. You will likely find a politically correct race going on in order to find a new, fancy, non-offensive word ... |
Why doesn't Snowden release all of his spied documents at once? | Per Glenn Greenwald, he is releasing large batches of info to news sources, who then have to carefully review and edit it for sensitive information, verify its accuracy, and then actually write a story about it. He's not simply dumping a gazillion documents into the public realm.Because there are two rules to success R... |
why do adults perceive time being faster than children do? | My best guess would be adults have A LOT of stuff they have to handle up on.As for kids they don't have many responsibilities. Idk I'm high as a kite mayne.Novel experiences become less and less common as you grow older. As a child everything is shiny and new, your brain is constantly taking in new information and stim... |
If theirs a burglar in you're home and you're forced to hide in closet, why can't you text 911 for help? | 911 texting isn't widespread right now. My advice, as a police officer:Call 911, and whisper into the phone. GIVE YOUR ADDRESS. Pinging cell phones is not always accurate. We can't kick down every door on the block looking for you. |
What actually kills you when exposed to the vacuum of space (and is it total rubbish when some movies show people 'holding their breath' to survive short periods)? | [This] is a pretty good discussion. The main issues are: You have no oxygen. And if you try to hold your breath the air pressure will damage your lungs . You blood won't boil. It is true that water will boil above ~19,000m [the Armstrong limit], but the skin and blood pressure provides enough pressure to stop that from... |
Why have we (humans) advanced so much in the last 150 years or so compared to the thousands of years before? | I cannot recommend this enough, [Connections] by James Burke. He's a technology historian and a brilliant narrator, trying to answer exactly your question; and there's many answers! In short, more people are in connection with more people than ever before, like a global neural net that's getting faster every day. Each ... |
How does splitting an atom result in such a massive explosion? | This is said to be an Explain like I'm Five video ordinarily i wouldn't link, but the Symphony Of Science: _URL_0_ ought to give you the gist of it if you still don't get it!! I could just paraphrase it, but u/Gnonthgol already did in more detail, so this is for any TL/DR", 'Imagine two negative magnets. You push them ... |
Why are universities such as Harvard and Oxford so prestigious, yet most Asian countries value education far higher than most western countries? Shouldn't the Asian Universities be more prestigious? | In Japan a degree from Tokyo University gets you further than one from Harvard. So it's far from Universal. Keep in mind you are looking at lists put together by English speaking westerners. |
What's the deal with the "student loan bubble" and what exactly will happen when it pops? | It may or may not be a bubble, and it may or may not pop; that's all quite speculative . So the rest of this comment will just assume that it's a real bubble and that it will pop . Problem: huge numbers of people owe huge amounts of money and are getting jobs that don't pay huge amounts of money, so they have to stop p... |
How is E-ZPass not considered a monopoly? | Because it isn't a private company it is an Interagency Group created and run 38 member agencies in operation within 16 states. The agencies in question aren't private entities by rather governmental agencies like the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Unless your talking about the transponders themselves which... |
how do courier services make profit | They don't take just your package. It isn't some shipping company employee taking your particular package under their arm and driving it individually straight to your house. Consider a truck full of packages. You might have thousands in a big semitrailer, or hundreds in a smaller truck. Now your 5-7 pounds is tens of t... |
Why is searching and decrypting someone's phone after having a search warrant different from searching someone's house? | Imagine no one knew how to break into houses. Doors were fuckin' impenetrable. Unless you leave your door open, or the door is installed wrong, your house is pretty much safe. *then* imagine the FBI ask a judge for permission to raid Explode-y Joe's house for bomb making evidence - and in order to do this, they get per... |
How is "a strong smell of marijuana" a valid excuse to search a vehicle? | Same reason when you smell burning plastic you assume plastic is burning. 9 times out of 10 it's burning plastic not fucked up incense.First, the cop has to have a reason to pull you over. Once the officer pulls you over for say a traffic infraction, he may search your vehicle only if there is probable cause to believe... |
Why are gun scopes always on the top of the weapon? Doesn't this make it so the bullets are going lower than where you're aiming? Or does recoil make up for this? | That's why you adjust the scope. It's not possible for the scope to be the same place as the barrel Or is it?", 'Out of curiosity towards the ops question, where would you think of putting the scope? Or was that not thought of lol.I think that mounting on the top is the only option. The bottom and sides wouldn't work f... |
Why can a meal that takes 30 minutes to cook in oven be cooked in 4 minutes in a microwave? | The heat involved in cooking something, let's say an oven, is provided by an outside source . On the other hand, the heat provided by a microwave is provided by the hydrogen particles moving around throughout the food, rather than just on the outer shell of the food . This is why chefs use a microwave after the oven/ba... |
If most of the Marvel Characters reside in New York City, how come they never fight other hero's villains on a regular basis? | A lot of them don't really have overlap. The Fantastic Four are cosmic adventurers, they don't really handle bank robbers and whatnot. Spider-Man isn't going to take on an Avengers-level threat without the rest of them being there. They do have a certain amount of villain sharing- it's not exactly unheard of for a vill... |
Why do I sleep easier with a noise in the background? | its been asked before. its very simple. you've been conditioned to be as such. very basic psychological premise. the mind is highly adaptive to its environment all of it is predicated on the idea of neuroplasticity |
Can you live with just a head and heart? | Interesting theory, but blood needs to be oxygenated by lungs, and filtered by kidneys, bone marrow is needed to replace the blood, and you would need a way to get nutrition to the brain. Their might be more, but that's all I can think of right now. So with just a heart and brain you wouldn't make it, you could replace... |
When it is said that Humans share 98% of their DNA with chimps, 70% with slugs, and 50% with bananas, what does this actually mean? | DNA is a lot like lego sets. There's only a limited number of pieces, but putting them together in certain orders and with certain pieces creates a very wide variety of sets in the case of bricks, or lifeforms in the case of DNA.Highly recommend The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins. Fascinating journey through our DNA... |
how do calculators do math? | I'm going to refer you to:_URL_9_ And then say, it uses circuitry to convert your the button you push into binary, store it in a memory register, and then push it through the appropriate arithmetic circuitry when you hit equals. Then it uses the binary output to convert the number back in to decimal on your screen. |
How can liquid coffee creamer be left at room temperature without going bad? | One word. Salt. I used to work at a Tim Hortons, the creamer is like a milky salt cocktail. I've seen year old bags of creamer get used. Worst part is it appeared to be fine. I personally protest creamer, shit fucks my stomach up. |
How are lighthouses like this built? (Pic in comments) | They built it during low tide and calm weather. But those conditions aren't often met in this part of France which is known for its very high currents. So the construction usually lasted many years. I don't know about La Jument but I can tell you about ArMen, also located in France not far from La Jument actually. It t... |
Why does reading in a car make me feel sick? | First lets define dizziness. Essentially it's a discontinuity between the balance that you are feeling and what you are seeing. If you spin around quickly and suddenly stop the liquids in your inner ear are still sloshing around making you feel off balance while your eyesight says that you should be standing perfectly ... |
How does soap work? What does it do that water doesn't when getting my hands and body clean? (Ignoring anti-bacterial) | Soaps tend to be bi polar. One end attracts to charged particles and the other interacts normally with water, turning things that water can't wash away into things that water can. |
What is the acid attack phenomenon in developing countries? When and how did it start? Why has it come to be such a popular method of attack? | Everyone's finished discussing why it's so popular, so I thought I'd take a stab at its origin. [I recall that about 5 or 6 years ago, there was a whole string of acid attacks in Hong Kong.] The Wikipedia page on [Acid throwing] has more. |
If Islam requires you to give to the poor, how is there so much inequality in Muslim countries? | They require you to give 2.5% of your income to the poor. That's not enough to actually solve any problems. |
why do so many tables have uneven legs? | Often there is some sort of rubber tip on school furniture, so dragging them doesn't leave marks in the floor, maybe these tips are missing? |
Why do we fire space shuttles straight up? | We do. Well it's dependant on a lot of variables but essentially a rocket goes up and begins to turn with gravity until it's going horizontal. [This is the ascent profile] for Apollo 8.We do it like you say, but it pays to get passed some air first. But they always do a small turn immediately because they want anything... |
why do people feel their rights are being taken away because of the Hobby Lobby decision? | Because this is pretty clear. If my piece of shit cheap ass boss decides that a policy that doesn't cover things is cheaper, he'll hide behind religion. And, this is once again the Supreme Court deciding on caselaw from the fucking bible. Fuck the bible and fuck Justice Long Dong Silver, that fucking hack should be in ... |
How does a cell phone work? | Hey, phone, this is tower, where are you?" and "Incoming call! Better ring now!" There's a lot more. What did you specifically want to know about? |
Black Friday in USA to an Australian | Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. It's one of the few holidays in the US that nearly everyone gets off. Most of the middle class gets the following Friday off as well, since businesses don't want to bother with all the half-assed work people would do, giving us a 4-day weekend. Somewhere along the line, stores deci... |
Why is it that the worst type of murder is "first degree" whereas the worst type of burn is "third degree"? | Different things entirely, but there is a common element when you think about it. 1st degree in both cases refers to the top level offense. In the case of murder, the top level is the worst and it can't get any worse. In the case of burns, a top level burn is just the top of the skin and you can't get any more superfic... |
I want to design a video game. | I think the first step would be deciding what type of game you want to make, and based on that, what programming language you should learn. Depending on how much money you want to put into the project, you could probably hire just about everyone you need to realize the concept programmer, artist, designer, director etc... |
Do different types of alcohol have different effects on people like tv shows and movies suggest? | My girlfriend is a type 1 diabetic and says different types of alcohol make her blood glucose level go up and some make it go down. So that's an additional level to what else is being said. |
why do people's face on this picture look weird when seen in your peripheral vision? | I would add that most of the pictures shown are very non-symmetrical. A lot of non-direct pictures and interesting facial and mouth expressions. The brain appreciates facial symmetry, so I'm guessing that the lack of it in these pictures doesn't help.It has nothing to do with peripheral vision. You can cover one of the... |
Why do multiplayer video games have problem with NAT restrictions? Gaming seems like a harmless activity | Some multiplayer games have the server open a connection back to the player's computer. NAT prevents that, at least with out a specific proxy or port forwarding. |
Why can't I form a tight fist with my hands straight after waking up? | Could have something to do with Carpal Tunnel. My hands are painful and useless for 20 minutes after waking up - can't open a doorknob or tie my shoes. Maybe you've got a less severe case? |
Why can't we use heaters/radiators to cool our homes in the summer by running cold instead of hot water through them? | As well as condensation, consider this: Heating is done by water up to around 80°C, which is too hot to touch but doesn't injure after brief contact, and that's 60° warmer than room temp., whereas cooling with water that's near freezing would be a temp. diff. of only 20°, so it would only have 1/3 the effectiveness. Br... |
Why do the launches of space shuttles look like they're traveling so slow? | When they're close to the ground, they're still accelerating, so they're not that fast. By the time they've accelerated to very high speeds, they're far away, so they don't seem to move that quickly. |
Why are the big internet providers reluctant to increase broadband speeds? | Most people in the US don't have a meaningful choice of ISP, thanks to local/state/federal government-granted pseudomonopolies. There's no competition, so no reason for ISPs to put forth the effort. This is why US prices are so high and speeds so low. And don't buy into ISP argument that there is a huge cost involved. ... |
How does watching tv or playing video games "rot" your brain? | Generally speaking it's not entirely true. It's about content. If your watching mindless tv and videos and playing games off muscle memory and not taking real thought then your not exercising your brain. But if you watch interesting and thought provoking tv movies and videos it can stimulate and exercise the mind. Basi... |
Can you damage the inside of your body if you constantly eat hot food and drink hot beverages? | The reason why I am asking this is because it hurts in my stomach after I've eaten something, usually comes within 5-6 minutes after the food has been digested. My friend told me it's not good to constantly drink hot beverages but he never said why. |
Why is it so hard to transfer money in the US? Why are checks still a normal thing? Why can't you just send money to each others bank accounts? | You can send money to another account. What keeps checks around is the people who are not adapters. These people want a check in their hand that they can physically hold and take to the bank themselves. I am constantly trying to get people to switch to automatic deposit because at this point a physical check is more wo... |
How are doctors allowed to charge so much for even the smallest appointments? Why aren't there laws to limit how much they can charge? | There are two main reasons: Supply & Demand, and the Third-Party-Payer system. **Supply & Demand**: This should be fairly obvious. Doctors are in high demand, but there is a very limited supply. First of all, not everyone *can* be a doctor, it's a fairly rare skill-set. Second, not everyone who *can* be a doctor, wants... |
How can a judge order a man to pay child support for a child that is demonstrably not the man's own (and with whom there has never even been a nominal custodial relationship)? | Didn't he sign his name on the birth certificate and that's why he is being forced to pay child support? That's what I heard.Not all states / countries require you to be the biological father of a child in order for the mother to collect child support . Some only require you to have been in a relationship with the moth... |
Why do we need separate file compression software? | > Shouldn't the application make the smallest file possible? Not really. In most applications storage space is dirt cheap compared to things like CPU and RAM. So if making the file smaller means that it's going to take significantly more time to access or make it impossible to randomly access parts of the file then the... |
Why do fire trucks accompany ambulances to a medical emergency when there's no threat of fire? | Firefighters are trained EMTs. There are more fire stations than ambulance dispatch centers, and more firefighters than Paramedics. So firefighters usually beat the Paramedics because they can be dispatched quicker and there's usually a fire station closer. I'm a police officer, and Fire usually beats me to the scene w... |
What just happened with Reddit? | Five barely-populated subreddits filled with the absolute worst people brazenly violating the sites rules were banned, and people think it's a huge violation of free speech. Frankly, when people on other sites can't believe I'm a proud redditor, I struggle to explain to them that reddit is filled with intelligent, insi... |
Why is college so expensive for students today compared to 10 years ago, and how can we fix it? | One reason is the intriguing [Baumol's Cost Disease]. Certain industries can't be automated, sped up or made more productive, and teaching is one of them. > In a range of businesses, such as the car manufacturing sector and the retail sector, workers are continually becoming more productive due to technological innovat... |
Why does opening the oven door while a cake is baking ruins the cake? | Hmm. I remember watching some cooking show where the host said that was a myth provided you don't leave it open.. I would love clarification on this |
Why does the last minute on the washing machine always take several minutes? | If it's like my washer, it's because the times are only estimates, and the rounding errors accumulate on the last minute for each stage. Instead it's probably actually driven by sensors in the machine. For example, the spin cycle in ours runs until the amount of water coming out drops to a certain level. The actual dur... |
what is the purpose of super computers in the oil industry ? | As well as manipulating seismic data as /u/London_Connection mentioned, supercomputers are also used in basin modelling. Simply understanding the geology of your play isn't enough - computational modelling is used to infer the thermal and mechanical history of the basin and fluid migration pathways to work out which ar... |
How come I can fall asleep nearly instantly in a school lecture when I'm trying to pay attention, but toss and turn when in a comfy bed and trying to sleep? | Anxiety. You have trouble trying to go to sleep for the night because your mind is busy with thoughts about the day to come, but in class you easily fall asleep because your mind is not busy thinking about other things and you're completely relaxed. |
What does it feel like to become addicted to cigarettes? | It's like feeling hungry, except the craving is for a cigarette.i realized it was a problem and not just a social thing when i felt myself getting pissed if i didnt have one, mad at people who wouldnt just give me one.. hey you give me your stuff lol, like really .. i think i associated smoking with various things and ... |
The message of Les Miserables | To me it's about values. It's about drawing a distinction between good and lawful, between love and fear. It's about showing a way of being where you save yourself from the harsh cruelties of the world by giving yourself to making the world better. Valjean is beaten down by life and gives himself to helping others, and... |
What happens to air that enters the body cavity during surgery? | So say you are left with a permanent body cavity like from a brain tissue lobotomy, what happens in the void left behind under the patient's skull?", 'I feel like everyone in this thread forgot they were posting in explainlikeimfive.The body has ways of pushing it out, if it's a legitimate surgery. |
- how does antibiotic resistance work? | Your right because it's a random mutation a bacterium could become resistant to an antibiotic even if it never encounters it. But the important question is whether this bacterium will multiply and continue multiplying fast than its dieing. For example if a bacterium becomes resistant to a antibiotic but also become les... |
How do people, or companies, with large sums of money, win court cases they "shouldn't"? | Why is the court system so fucked that it can be played around and people who are right are forced to give up because of money issues. Isn't the court for justice? Why not just settle the case. |
If we are so much happier when we are doing tasks (ex: exercising, reading, etc.) why is our brain programmed for us to be lazy? | Are brains are programmed to do 3 things: pleasure seeking, energy conserving and can't remember the third. Regardless, these drivers were evolved in a time where food was very scarce. If you used too much energy, you wouldn't be able to replace it with food and would eventually die. These are the same reasons as to wh... |
What happens to the brain during a hallucination? | Like you're actually five years old: you remember when you have dreams at night? Remember seeing Santa Clause in the North Pole with his big fluffy white beard, jolly laughter, and all of his reindeer? And then you woke up and realized it was all a dream? Well, when you hallucinate, it's kinda like that, except it all ... |
Why are we not yet using fingerprints instead of signatures for contracts? | Finger prints are easily forged. AND YOU LEAVE THEM EVERYWHERE YOU GO. Unless you're some kind of graffiti artist that just tags every wall she passes by or one of those people that use their signature on emails , then you will leave your fingerprints on far more places that are easily accessible for anyone wanting to ... |
Why can I draw a straight line if I carelessly stroke my pen across paper, but not when I slowly and carefully draw one? | It's for the same reason that it easier to carry a glass of water by *not* paying too much attention to it. The more corrections you try to make, the more jittery you'll become. Your muscles are surprisingly poor at making fine movements - they need to work against something, and when you're drawing something the muscl... |
How do transistors differ from eachother. | In addition to what /u/corpuscle634 said, they also function slightly differently depending on whether it's a BJT, a FET, etc. |
If the age of the universe is about 14 billion years old how come the diameter of the universe is 93 billion light years? | Here's food for thought: If our world was flat like a stick figure drawing, we could only move up/down/left/right. Wrap that same flat drawing all the way around a sphere and a stick figure man could walk far enough and end up back where he started. Stick figure guy can't comprehend the sphere he's walking around, and ... |
How do small businesses which rarely seem to get patrons provide their owners a living wage? | Well, something like a barber shop or holistic healing shop have very little overhead and startup costs. All you need is a pair of scissors and a razor to open a barbershop assuming he charges $15 a haircut, and rent on the building is $700/mo plus his mortgage and food costs come out to $700/mo as well, he needs to ma... |
Why does Adobe Flash Player use all my CPU resources? | HTML5 would fix this quality-wise, but isn't compatible with enough Websites/Content-providers yet, correct? When do we expect a competitor to overtake Flash? 2 years, 4 years, 10 years, never? |
What do people mean when they talk about "America's crumbling infrastructure"? | _URL_1_ Here's a detailed overview of what is falling apart. Problems are widespread, and while they're not critical yet, cost is increasing. |
How can America that's only been a nation for under 250 years be more advanced than nearly every single country? | > With great forces like England and France that have been nations for much longer than the United States has But that's in part why this nation is a giant force. We were a blank canvas; During the great depression, we had a huge underutilized and unallocated labor force and resources. When the war broke out, we were a... |
Why does the military want a multi-caliber rifle for snipers | The largest caliber isn't necessarily the best caliber to use when engaging targets. A common misconception is that the .50 caliber bullet is used a widely used anti-personnel round, but it's actually used more commonly as an anti-material round. It's used to penetrate armor on light vehicles, disable engine blocks, an... |
This Math Homework for my first grader | What's missing: Math, logic, any sort of relevance to the addition problem I think they're trying to visualize. My recommendation is to ignore everything but the numbers and the arrow. For the example problem, I'd write 13+4=17 |
why do we have to take pills by swallowing the thint whole, why can't we chew them or something more comfortable. | Some pills contain things that are harsh on your stomach. So, they have a coating on them that doesn't dissolve until after it gets past your stomach. Chewing the pill would negate that. |
Can we "observe" the doppler effect on light? | Yes, we can observe the doppler effect. That is even how we can figure out if a star has any planets, since the planets would be too small to see with a regular microscope, we look for the doppler effect that would be caused by another object's gravity pulling on it. If there is a planet orbiting the star, then it woul... |
Why were Vietnam War Veterans hated by the American public? | I would say with tv bringing the war into people's living rooms for the first time and only usually showing the u s side of the fighting made the american soldiers look bad, many protesters saw things like the village massacre and wrongly hated vets for the atrocities committed by a few.I believe it was Gerald Nicosia ... |
Why do we find cold water more appealing than warm water, as far as drinking goes? | I'm an American and I, for one, cannot stand ice-cold water. I like mine room temperature.From what I know, the water we drink is not 100% pure H20; it contains dissolved gases and organic matter. When we heat the water, the dissolved gases escape and the organic matter denatures. This may be the reason why taste of wa... |
What is the difference between Christianity, Islam, and Judisim | IIRC. Reading an Islamic brochure while waiting for class at UNI a few years back I remember them specifically point out that Jesus was not the son of god but a prophet. That god is not man or woman so would not have had a child. That's all I got. |
Why helicopters keep their engines on and the rotors at a high speed when they're on the ground even when they haven't just landed, or aren't about to take off? | The blades are heavy as shit and don't have brakes. Starting them up takes time and energy, lots of both. If you're gonna sit for 15 minutes or less best to just keep them going because to stop them and then get them back up to speed it'll take longer and use more fuel. |
What is that horrible sensation on your tongue after eating too many sour sweets? | The chemical that makes the candy sour is citric acid. If you eat a lot of sour candy , you'll feel the acid burning your tongue. |
Why haven't there been any composers as "good" as Beethoven/Mozart/Bach? | Movie music is one of the few places most people today are going to hear orchestral music, and I'd say that John Williams and Hans Zimmer are on par with Beethoven/Mozart/Bach. One reason you are so familiar with those names is that they've been synonymous with classical/orchestral music for a *really* long time. Give ... |
Why do thousands of Muslims March against cartoons of Muhammad but not against the violence of ISIS and Al-Qaeda? | Why are you assuming it's a good idea to march against ISIS? Do you think ISIS gives a damn about marches? What is a march supposed to accomplish? |
What does Batman have against Superman? | In the comics, they're brothers. In the trailer, Batman is suspicious of a previously unknown alien who was called out over global media by other aliens, to die, or have the planet killed. Said alien defended himself, and the world from a threat no-one had heard of before his arrival, and his fight caused trillions in ... |
Why are airlines struggling? | From what I can gather: 1. Airplanes need a lot of resources in order to not crash. Airplane mechanics are some of the best in the business of repairing things, as they have to go over every inch of the plane to make sure nothing is broken. Presumably, money from airline tickets covers their salary, as well as other wo... |
How come an individual's appearance seems to "change" depending on your feelings towards the said individual? | The halo is effect is when you perceive others as having good traits from observing a few, like how a more good-looking person will seem to be more charming, likeable, funny, and so on than another person who is exactly the same aside from looks. The halo effect is not just for looks; if someone's funnier or likeable t... |
Why can't we make a dinosaur like in Jurassic Park? | To answer OP's question: There simply isn't enough DNA from one species of dinosaur to compile into the creation of a clone.Very good answers so far. I will add that if we were to somehow bring dinosaurs back, they would likely die pretty quick, do to their immune systems not be able to fight off the bacteria of today[... |
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