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Confederate flags. Why do people still fly these flags? What exactly are they supporting? | I'm in Texas. Most of the time when I see it, it's a redneck thing. Not really political or supporting anything, but its a symbol of red dirt road riding, beer drinking, tin can shooting redneck culture. Think old Dukes of Hazzard TV show types. But even at things like NASCAR races, I don't see it all that often.I woul... |
In the United States what are "Charter Schools" and "School Vouchers" and how do they differ from the standard public school system that exists today? | Charter schools are a sort of public school that are run by someone other than the government. Sometimes they have special features . Sometimes they're an attempt to generally do better than the public option, often using different methods of teaching or discipline. Vouchers are a coupon you get instead of just going t... |
How are there multiple ways of playing the same guitar chord with only minor changes. | As long as the chord contains the notes of an E dominant 7 , it can be consider an E7. Voicings don't matter. |
Could roads be made out of (or be coated with) hydrophobic material for a safer drive in rainy or icy conditions? | Maybe, assuming the coating itself wasn't slippery. However, it would be expensive and would wear off in minutes given the state of the art. The road material itself would need to be hydrophobic to achieve a useful product. |
What do they feed lab grown meat? | It appears that they feed the meat mostly . meat. They grew turkey cells in [15% chicken serum ], gold fish in [up to 20% fetal bovine serum ], and [here] used 2% cow blood. .) Just like with any other living tissue, there WILL be waste. Ideally the waste will be smaller than with traditional meat. . The waste is dealt... |
Why was the repeal of Glass-Steagal such a bad thing? | The repeal of Glass-Steagal made is so that the kids who sold crayons at recess could also buy broken crayons, but didn't have to list how many of their crayons were broken or report how many of those broken crayons weren't really useful for coloring, or even were the color brown that no one wanted to use in their colo... |
Why do India and China have such a high population, compared to other countries? | The thing about third world countries is that, unlike in first world countries where people have a few children and are done, you need to have as many children as possible. Whether they help on the farm, or go out and work in a factory, they need to contribute to the household. Another factor that is very much related ... |
What causes your stomach to rumble when you're hungry? | In a nut shell it's Peristalsis making all the noise in your small intestine. Imagine a muscle that act like a doughnut shape but rolling along your intestine squeezing everything further down the tube like milking a teat on a _URL_1_ air and liquids get pushed down the tube they will make a cacophony of sounds. |
The laser propulsion system NASA is saying could get us to Mars in a month | Light, like everything else with energy, can exert pressure on objects. While it's a tiny amount of pressure, over a large area that adds up to a lot. In space with no friction, any amount of constant acceleration will get you going pretty fast. A solar sail is a device which uses light pressure from the sun to generat... |
How does _URL_0_ work, and has a petition ever succeeded making a change? | It basically just shows that there are numbers of people interested and supporting this or that idea. Much depends upon the idea or the problem itself: you can't just make the country government retire because there are 50 millions virtual signs on a webpage. But you can for example get the city mayor to know about an ... |
Why is Harriet Tubman going to be on the $20 bill? | Because Andrew Jackson made it his political mission to take on and defeat private central banking which is pure evil within a Republic. That's it.Woman? checkBlack? check Two birds with one appeasing stone.People have a bee in their bonnet about race relations and it's the Reserve's way of trying to do something to pl... |
Why does life on other planets need to depend on water? Could it not have evolved to depend on another substance? | Water is a really simple molecule composed of only hydrogen and oxygen, two of the most common elements around. While other mechanisms are going to be possible-- we do know of this one, so that's what we look for. I really don't hold out much hope of finding silicon based life not because it isn't possible, but because... |
When you've been critically injured, EMTs will often tell you to stay awake. Why is being conscious important in these situations? | If you fall asleep nobody will know if your condition gets worse. We aren't psychic! Stay awake so that we can tell how you are doing. |
How do translators choose between seemingly synonymous phrases? | My teacher said this quote/joke recently: Translation is like a wife: if she's pretty, she's not loyal. If she's loyal, she's not pretty. Translation can be loyal, as in word for word, but nobody would want to read that translation. Like, if the word you're translating is not available in the translation language, you ... |
In maths, what is a "function"? | Is there anywhere good online I can go to learn / relearn math for free? I made it to Advanced Functions in high school before bottoming out, but I'd love to pick it back up. |
Why can a camera see further in fog than human eyes? | There are circular polarizer filters that people with DSLRs often use to put in front of their lens. It does stop some light from light from coming into camera but it cuts through fog and reflections . Here's a sample pic. _URL_0_ Not an answer but maybe can help contribute to finding the right answer. |
Speaking of dogs, why don't dogs (seem to) account for their own size or other dogs size when determining social ranking? | I don't think large dogs see small dogs as a threat but small dogs seem like they always have something to prove. |
The difference between producer, executive producer and director in movies | Lets use McDonalds as an example, with a burger you order there being a movie. Ray Kroc, the owner of the McDonalds namesake is the **executive producer**. He owns the company and if he wants, can be a main part of what happens, like what promotional burgers they currently offer. Other times though, he can just sit bac... |
Why do people "jolt" just before falling asleep? | I've always been told that it relates to blood pressure. As you fall asleep, your BP drops. BP dropping too quickly is not a good thing, and that jerk is your brain's way of kicking things back up and running again, and keeping you out of danger.not just people. both of my cats do this. It freaks both me and both of th... |
Why is a CPU so small? | Mainly power efficiency and speed. ELI5: imagine you're in at work. Now if your tools are far apart it takes more time for you to travel there, you also burn off more energy making you tired. This means you're slower and less efficient than if you had all your tools in arms reach. That's why computers that took up enti... |
Why do people get addicted to drugs but not to stuff like work and studying? | They do. Anything that causes a pleasurable sensation can cause a pathological addiction. Psychiatrists regularly recommend to people that they work or study less and find more time for leisure or sleep. A big difference though is that unlike many drugs, people do not get a chemical dependency on working. People can be... |
Why are border cities almost always bigger on the Mexican side? | I would say that it's because theyre the staging area for goods and people coming into the U.S. Those things coming over are dispersing throughout the U.S. so the cities on our side stay smaller. |
Claremont Mckenna College just started declaring some areas "safe spaces" for non-white students only. How is this socially acceptable/legal/not racist? | I'm curious how they would treat those with mixed backgrounds. For example, for the most part I appear white but am 1/4 Native American, would they allow me or others who have mixed backgrounds in safe areas? At what point is one purely defined as a minority race by those who would set up a defined safe space? |
What is "4th Wave" Feminism and how is it different than "3rd Wave" Feminism | It does not really exist yet. It's the ideas about what might come next for feminism. We are currently in the third wave. |
Why do we give criminals who committed horrific murders a choice of last meal? | > They don't usually offer their victims a last meal. I think what's important here is that the state is not trying to copy murderers. The executioner isn't supposed to sink to the level of the convicted murderer. The state carries out what it deems to be necessary, but not to inflict on another person the very same to... |
Why doesn't the U.S. just buy all the opium from Afghan farmers rather than trying to force them to grow crops that are less profitable? | There's not much use for natural opium anymore. The pharmaceutical industry used synthetic opioids nowadays which work much better and can be better tailored to specific needs. |
Why do news anchors and politicians say "an history" instead of a history? | h" is not a vowel so "a" is used. The exception to this rule is when your local dialect pronounces it that way. So if you're a cockney Londoner who drops the "h" sound from the front of some words then saying "an \'istoric" is perfectly OK. IT PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF IT\'S SO WIDESPREAD ON TV. THE SCRIPT WRITERS ARE FUC... |
Do radio stations receive feedback from my car so they know when I listen to their station? | Short answer: Depends on the kind of radio, but 99% of the time no.Long answer: FM/AM and most non-internet radios are broadcast only. They aren't even listening for feedback. Your car/stereo doesn't send feedback either. Radio stations sell advertising based on ratings, which are statistical estimates of how many peop... |
Why do most sunglasses have plastic instead of glass lenses? | Price is a factor, yes, but it's also a question of comfort. Glass is much heavier than plastic, and sunglasses tend to have very large lenses so as to cover the eyes effectively. Making them out of glass would make the sunglasses very heavy and uncomfortable. |
How is the universe a hologram and what does that mean for me as a person? | The hologram is a metaphor for what we think the universe is like. So with a hologram you get a image on 2D paper that looks 3D, so might the universe only appear to be as complex as it is - that information might just be encoded onto a surface. Obviously there are some bits of physics immediately important to you, and... |
Why is the idea of infinity such a hard concept to fathom? | It lies completely outside your experience. You have never experienced anything which is not finite. In a way, it's like trying to imagine what seeing in ultraviolet is like. |
What makes creating your own operating system so complicated? | The lower you go, the more strict design becomes. Once you are all the way down to an operating system, nanoseconds matter. They matter so much that you can't even program in the languages most people know, you need to get all the way down to the base, C or better yet assembly, to get your actions to complete in the sh... |
Why is chemical warfare considered inhumane, and demands international intervention, while other types of weapons that also kill people are allowed? | For the same reason we no longer use flame throwers. It's unspeakably cruel, provided we're talking nerve agents here. Some chemical weapons are used for lulz |
Why isn't anyone going to war with North Korea to try and stop how they treat their people? | Good question, because it's too much of a threat to South Korea. North Korea is delusional but not stupid, they know that a war with America is unwinnable. So they do they only thing they can do, send as much ammunition and fire power over the border as fast as they can. Attempting a 'knock out' punch, as you will. Peo... |
Why do some grocery stores leave food / water outside of their stores when it can easily get stolen? | I'm not sure they're any more easily stolen than the goods inside a store -- you have far more traffic , as well as cart runners who are constantly back and forth |
How did the crash of the mortgage markets result in people unrelated to the housing industry losing their jobs? | Most business owners are consistently running in the red. No they are not in debt. That are in a perpetual deficit. Where they technically are $1,000 in the red. But realistically if they cut a little of this and a little of that they are perfectly fine. Business owners do this because its a really great way to expand ... |
What happens to insects like bees getting carried away by vehicles? Do they die because they can't find their colony anymore? | Most of the time the bee will die or find another hive. Bees, especially bees that collect pollen and nectar are more likely to find another hive and be accepted into the fold. Ants are the same way as far as I know, wasps and such however are more independent, so I'm uncertain what they would do. They might be fine on... |
why do cars depreciate and houses appreciate? | Cars become run down. Better models come out. It becomes harder to source parts as they age and production ramps down. In short, we make more cars. The house itself doesn't so much go up in value, as the land. An easy way to think of it is, real estate is the only thing they aren't making more of. The demand for land r... |
How do enemies not hear an apache (or similar heli)? | It can fly up to 21,000 feet above sea level. It could also be a drone. They're quieter. You can even get attacked by a super sonic fighter and wouldn't here it coming until it was already past you because it's traveling faster than the speed of sound. |
Why military forces use standard-capacity magazines for their rifles if there are magazines with much higher capacity? | Large magazines would also potentially unbalance the weapon, are more likely to get in the way, get caught on things, and require greater dexterity when changing whilst under pressure, and--Note that I'm completely guessing here--due to the difference in spring tension between a full magazine and a near empty magazine,... |
What do Americans traditionally eat for Christmas dinner? | It varies, but anything really goes for Christmas. A lot of people's Christmas dinners look a lot like their Thanksgiving dinners. Growing up we usually had a spiral cut ham and pot roast instead of turkey -- otherwise the sides were mostly the same. Green beans, sweet potatoes, mac & cheese, etc.My family has a Christ... |
Why does the use of medicines increase bacterium mutation? Surely they would mutate and change regardless of our medicines? | They'll always randomly mutate, but the medicine kills all the ones that aren't immune meaning the ones that are have nothing to compete with for food or to breed with to slowly remove the immunity |
Did actors in black and white movies wear colorful clothes or did they only wear clothes in different shades of black? | They wore clothes that would look good in black and white. The women wore brown lipstick instead of red for example. It looked better on film. In Psycho the 'blood' was chocolate syrup. |
Dogs eat "dog food" everyday and it has everything their bodies need, why isn't there a human equivalent to "dog food"? | You can and there is. You can even live of potatoes and butter indefinitely. Will be a tad boring, but it's possible.They do make that sort of thing though. Think of people in hospitals who have feeding tubes. They get a balanced intake of necessary vitamins, minerals, etc. but not a lot of unnecessary fat, sugars, or ... |
How does the Voyager not run into anything? | Well, quite simply, there isn't anything for it to run into. Space is after all, quite empty and really, really big. Having long passed the last of the planet's on it's journey, it'll continue through interstellar space, and will do so for a very long time. |
Why shouldn't I use q-tips to clean my ears? | As a person who did this and frankly got a bit addicted to doing it.Don't.As everyone said, you're just pushing wax where it shouldn't be and irritating a part of your body you depend greatly on. Myself, I managed to create an ear itch that can drive me a little crazy. I was using q tips to relieve the itch but once I ... |
What are the odds of the winning lottery numbers being consecutive (1,2,3,4,5,6). Is it less likely than some random combination of numbers? | In a lottery with six digits, any six digit combination is exactly as likely as any other combination. It seems to us, intuitively, that it should be less likely to get a meaningful number pattern. But if you think about it, why would that be the case? If there are balls #1 to #100 in the tank, and the machine picks an... |
What would the astronauts on the ISS do in the event of a cataclysmic event on Earth that wiped out the entire population? Is this a scenario that has been discussed by the various agencies? | They would stay up there until the end, everyone would probably float themselves before the really bad dehydration sets in, with the last person killing themselves inside of the station. The ISS's orbit would then begin to degrade without human intervention, and it would burn up on reentry. There are not enough humans ... |
why is paedophilia so much more common in men than women? | Basing your conclusions on the people convicted is going to lead to a very skewed image and has various flaws - Not all people convicted for child sex abuse are pedophiles . Additionally, not all people who commit child sex abuse are convicted. - Not all pedophiles abuse children. There is also a group that manages to ... |
Are modern aerial dogfights as exciting as shown in Top Gun? | While air to ground attacks aren't as high speed as top gun, an a10 doing a strafing run looks about as spot on in real life as it does in the movies and video games. Only wayyyyy louder. On the flip side most people think helicopter attacks happen much closer than they actually do. Close air support from cobras or apa... |
How can people be put under anesthesia for emergency surgery but for general surgery they say you will aspirate and die if you eat anything 24 hours prior to being put under? | Also as another way of reducing this risk they stuff a tube up your nose and vacuum out your stomach the whole time. So there isn't really anything to throw up. |
How does the nutritional information at the back of the food package knows there is xxx calories in that food?do they just guess or it is accurate? | I've worked in multiple butcher shops and We've all just eyeballed the amount of fat we put into hamburger despite labels having percentages |
How did early people wake up early without alarm clocks? | Crows and circadian rhythms were common, but there were two early alarm clocks: Candles: Nails were placed in candles at regular intervals, so when the candle burned past the nail, it would fall and clank on a metal surface, waking the sleeper. This was very expensive and uncommon. Indian alarm clock: Drink a buncha wa... |
Why is it so difficult to get a US citizen out of a Mexican prison especially when it is in the national media | The Mexicans are not going to upend their legal system to give the US back a person that they consider to be a common criminal. The allegations of mistreatment aren't really a major concern for the government as nobody is treating them seriously or intends to do anything even if true.Same around the world. US consulate... |
If addiction is a medical condition, then why do many addiction programs require that their adherents take responsibility for their actions? | You're not taking responsibility for the addition, you're taking responsibility for turning to the abuse in the first place that lead to your addiction, and the things you did to fuel it. For example, you didn't have to turn to heroin in the first place, you were first to stick yourself with a needle, instead of findin... |
Why do people choose banks when credit unions typically have much fewer fees? | Their are certain retirements to join credit unions each one is different. Credit unions don't have many locations and are normally only in a certain town or state |
Why do smaller breeds of dogs tend to bark more than larger dogs? | To get breeds that small, they are INTENSELY selectively bred. The more intensely you breed for one characteristic, the more variation you get in other characteristics. So dog A may be bred for size and temperment and appearance. His breed overall develops those traits. Dog B is bred to be small. He's just the smallest... |
Why aren't bugs like ants or moths afraid of humans even though we generally kill them if they are near us? | They are generally afraid of us. That's why they fly away. Ants will run away if you signal to them that you're nearby as well but their sight isn't the best so they don't tend to notice us that often. |
Why does it take Google under 1 second to search the web while it takes almost a minute for my computer to search through its own hard drive? | Google has searched the web every second for years. You are not searching the web, you are searching Google's index. If you want to increase search speed on your PC make sure everything is indexed. |
Why is cannibalism so taboo? | A lot of our religious/moral beliefs are a way of early man trying to warn one another of issues that couldn't be explained any other way So, early man likely noticed that those who consumed a lot of human meat became ill/dead. In their mind, it was God's way of telling them that the practice was a sin/angered the gods... |
how does the fourth dimension work? And what does it mean? | _URL_0_Here's a video of Carl Sagan explaining it. He does a great job of dumbing it down and showing clear visuals. Hope it answers your question |
Should there be labels explaning the type of post?[Politics],[Economics],[Games],[Technology]...etc | I like this idea. I also like the way [/r/askscience] has custom user tags next to each expert so you know the person answering knows their stuff. I'm not certain how the verification process goes but I like it regardless. We could have custom tags for people depending on which areas they are experts in, or which areas... |
How dangerous the whole North Korea thing actually is. | Im not sure, to be honest. North Korea has had a long, sad history of sabre-rattling at the U.S. . If it were Kim Jong Il in charge, I wouldn't put too much weight in the reports and rumors coming out but Kim's son being in charge bothers me. He's a kid. A kid with a host of old men behind him, and I am entirely too wi... |
why companies still buy Microsoft products despite Linux and Open-/LibreOffice being easy, functional and completely free? | > save for some Outlook integration - but is that really worth the cost? Yes. People will pay a lot of money for very specific features. Specialty software can easily cost thousands of dollars per user, so cost is relative. Speaking of cost, support is an important factor, especially for a large enterprise. This is why... |
What is M-103 and Sharia Law all about? How are they connected and why are so many people against it? | Idk about the m103. What I do know is that Sharia involves making everyone a follower of Allah. If you do not want to be one you must pay a very heavy tax and be humiliated ect essentially until you become one. It's essentially dictator Islam. |
Why do movies use the same actors over and over? | It's just like any other job, if you are going to spend millions of dollars to produce a movie you want to make sure you will be investing in an actor who has been around the block and knows what they are doing, and also can fill seats in the theater. A lesser-known fact is that movie studios are beholden to hiring SAG... |
Why does Chrome care if my clock is ahead or behind? | In windows you can sync your computer's clock with a time server. If you do that, then Chrome will once again be able to verify the the security certificate and allow you to visit secure websites. But with a dead CMOS battery, the time will reset every time you reboot the computer and you'll have to go through the menu... |
If we can't observe dark matter, how do we know it exists? | Dark matter can be observed, just not seen. There's a difference. Dark matter doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation so we can't detect it with telescopes. Even so, we can infer that it exists by how it interacts with things we can see. |
What does it mean for 5 trillion euros to be wiped off the global stock market? | If you have a bunch of stocks and you wanted to sell them all tomorrow in order to buy an annuity to retire on, now you can't afford to buy as much of an annuity. Your retirement will be poorer, and that is bad. On the other hand if you are youngish and still buying stocks to save for the future, then woohoo, stocks ar... |
Why can't we legalize prostituion simply by filming it? | Nobody seems to be hitting the key difference so I'll try to give it a go. Porn is regulated. It requires that companies/people producing porn where actors are paid obtain a license. To obtain a license you must comply with the regulations like having an incorporated business, following STD/STI testing procedures etc. ... |
I am blind(from birth). Describe colors to me. | One of the best ways that I've heard it described before is a little something like red is hotness, it's the taste of a strawberry and the warmth of when someone blushes. Blue is really cold water, ice, the ocean, and green is the smell of grass and plants in general. |
Why do poachers kill species to extinction for ivory? There's no economic sense to it. | Poachers typically are not the ones making all that money but instead the middle men. Also poachers are rarely educated in the concept of sustainable economy. They're poor, hungry people who have no other way to earn a living. All they see is money walking around and especially if they don't care or have access to info... |
Why don't the inside of water pipes rust and contaminate drinking water? | Rust is air + iron and there normally isn't much of either in the water filled copper pipes that run through your house. |
Why is a tomato classed as a fruit and not a vegetable? | Because, biologically speaking, a tomato is a fruit. Fruits contain the seeds of a plant and are formed from the ovary. Other fruits that people don't like to admit are fruits are corn kernels, cucumbers, zucchinis, bean pods, nuts, and several other things.Scientifically speaking, tomatoes are actually very large [ber... |
what prevents different governments from printing currencies of each other? | to rephrase, What would prevent a foreign government from destabilizing a government economically, leading to a collapse of their economy and therefore the government and country? The same thing as any other act of war, a massive military response. Without a massive military response, governments can, have, and do. Als... |
Why do we swing our arms when we walk/run? | I assume it's an Evolutionary quirk from when we used to walk on all fours and also, as others have said, helps balance your movements when you walk. EDIT: Grammar. |
Why is liberalism and left-leaning correlated with education? | I've always thought it was analogous to urban vs rural with political ideology. This is just based on US politics, I'm not sure about elsewhere, but cities tend to be liberal and rural areas tend to be conservative. The basics of this, I think, is that in cities people come into contact with people who are different fr... |
Does the U.S. ever "counterattack" after Russia or China hacks into one of their state computer systems, such as today's hack of the Pentagon's computers? | Remember stuxnet? It wasn't deployed against China , but I would very much doubt we haven't deployed similarly advanced cyber weapons against China and Russia given how openly they use cyber warfare against us |
How is getting 4 to 5 hours sleep on average affecting me? | I have sleep apnea. Before I started using my CPAP , I would always be tired and would fall asleep while driving , any time I watched TV, sat down, etc Oddly enough, I'd only sleep 4-5 hours a day. Sometimes if the sun came up, I'd just start a whole new day with no sleep. Then as soon as I started using my CPAP and ac... |
Why, if I feel full eating one meal, don't I feel full if I eat a different meal that has the same number of calories? | Calories aren't a physical thing. They are a measurement of energy, just like an inch is a measurement of space in one dimension. |
What would someone on the moon see during a lunar eclipse? | The earth would go in front of the sun and the only light reaching you would be trough earth's atmosphere with a red tint since the light passes through it . |
How is not fundamentally undemocratic that the entire population of Wyoming (~580,000) has just as much power and representation in the Senate as the entire population of California (38,000,000)? | 1) Obviously it's not unconstitutional when it's the Constitution that sets it up this way. 2) Originally, the country was really a set of distinct colonies banding together to form a confederation. Just like China and India don't get extra votes in the U.N. because they have huge populations, the Senate was designed t... |
Why do we need credit cards, if debit cards can have overdrafts? | Car rental agencies and hotels greatly punish debit cards that make it much better to use credit cards. Basically, if you rent a car, the rental agency will take out a bunch of money from your bank account as a deposit. Hotel will do the same. Last time I rented a car, they took out $250. They will refund the money whe... |
When the pilgrims landed in Plymouth Rock and realized it was coldAF, why didn't they sail down the coast to Florida? | It was roughly the same climate they came from, so they assumed their crops would grow there. They didn't, but Squanto showed up speaking English, and they thought that was a sign from God to stay there. |
If craters on the moon are caused by meteors crashing into it then why do we not see that ever happen? | It's not happening very often, but lack of atmosphere causes craters to stay unchanged for billions of years. As for big things crashing into planets recently you can find photos and videos of Shoemaker–Levy 9 comet hitting Jupiter in 1994", 'We may have: _URL_0_ That said, most of the craters you see are very old. The... |
Why can't I buy a bare bones vehicle new anymore? | Regulations. State and Federal laws require car manufacturers to have certain things in them before they're allowed to sell them on the market. |
Why are people excited about electric vehicles? Aren't they just transferring the problem to the power plant? | There are two reasons for my enthusiasm: 1: Electric cars have all their power available to them at any RPM, meaning no need for gearboxes and much better acceleration. Hence they are very fun to drive. And quieter. And have less moving parts = less maintenance. 2: In terms of energy supply and pollution, you do have a... |
Possible descriptions of the universe's finiteness/infiniteness | I like to imagine how people in hundreds of years laugh about our simplistic view of the universe just like we laugh about people's simplistic views on chemistry/physics/medicine 500 years ago. |
What is this house spider doing? | We used to feed our 'pet' spiders flies and other small insects. We'd throw them into their web or leave dead ones nearby for them to drain. I don't know what the spider is doing, perhaps marking territory? Do spiders do that? |
Why when gas prices were rising did airlines complain and increase prices, but now its cheaper than gas has been for years, the fares continue to increase? | Man that's some grammar you got going in that question. Jets burn kerosene, not gasoline, so there's not necessarily an exact match between gasoline prices and jet fuel prices. Also, airlines at a minimum buy half their fuel in contracts up to a year ahead - they haven't seen as much cost savings as the spot market wou... |
Why do so many poor quality, low budget movies even get made? | My SiL used to work for one of those low budget studios. She said that basically they are made really cheap and usually break even if not make a little money. But you keep spinning the lotto wheel and eventually you'll get a movie like big ass spider or sharknaro that was made on the cheap and made insane amount of mon... |
What is wrong with genetically engineered crops? | *Mostly* it's the fear of the unknown. There are some legitimate concerns regarding anything genetically modified, but most of what I have seen is, *in my opinion*, just fear mongering |
Why is Mussolini taken a lot less seriously in Italy than Hitler is in Germany? | While there was anti-semitism in Second World War Italy, it remained essentially uninvolved in the Holocaust and indeed on several occasions outright refused to co-operate with Germany in 'rounding up' Jews. While Mussolini allied with Hitler he did not share all of Hitler's views.Seems to me that post-war consequences... |
How people are injured by bombs? | Firstly bombs have fuel which burns, so you get lots of heat. Bomb fuels are specially chosen to let off a ridiculously large amount of gas in a very small amount of time, which is in a very compact area. The gas needs to get out, and it does so very quickly. Too quickly in fact, because all the other gas that was made... |
the physics of how a bong works? | You know how when you blow into a glass of water through a straw it bubbles? Same idea except instead of blowing the bubbles into the glass, you're 'pulling' them through the other end. The bubbles have smoke, water cools them down, and hence the smoke is cooler |
If the court ruled NSA's spying as illegal, why is there no penalty/ pressed charges against the NSA? | Even if that statement were accurate, who would be charged? The head of the agency? All of the agency's leaders? Everyone that works there? It's a government agency, it's not going to be held legally accountable for what it does. The worst punishment it can receive is to be reorganized or placed under closer oversight. |
Why do people have lisps, and what exercises are used in speech therapy to repair one? | sh", etc. We don't know exactly why some children have trouble producing certain speech sounds and others don't-sometimes it has to do with the structure of the mouth, such as missing teeth or weak muscles, sometimes it's a habit that lasts longer than it should developmentally, sometimes it's because of a current or p... |
How would a person born & raised on the moon physically differ from an earthling? | Short version is: we really don't know. At all. There's a lot of speculation, and we know of certain definite problems that occur to adults who spend much time in weightlessness. But we have very little data on how pregnancy develops in weightlessness in mammals, and no data at all about how a fetus develops in light g... |
Does 'drifting' actually get you anything close to real sleep? | Well it sounds like your mother means to lay in bed with your eyes closed at night, as opposed to being on your phone, TV playing video games ect. If your in bed with your eyes closed you have the opportunity to fall asleep, if your sitting at your computer you don't. So no, drifting isn't the same as sleeping, but it'... |
How does the human ear discern between a quiet noise and a distant noise? | Not an expert, but there's a wonderful audio clip called 'virtual barbershop' that will demonstrate to you very well how exactly the brain identifies where a sound is coming from. If you hear it, you'll realise that the way your brain determines how far and where a sound is coming from has nothing to do with how loud i... |
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