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What makes a tesseract four dimensional?
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A tesseract is a four-dimensional object by definition. [The thing you're thinking of] is a sort of three-dimensional projection of a tesseract, which is not a tesseract in the same way that [this] is not a cube.
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Why the brain works on even numbers or 5's.
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Our number system is based on number 10, which has prime factorization of 2^1 * 5^1 = 2 * 5. That's pretty much it. You never get into trouble if you divide by 5, or by 2, results from multiplying by 2 or 5 are very predictable. It's extension of why it's easy to divide or multiply by 10. You just move decimal point by 1. If you were used to 12-based number system, like, say, regular clock is, then you'd notice clock has prime factorization of 2^2 * 3. So you'd have quite easy time moving in 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12 hour increments.
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There are multiple ways to extract the salt from seawater - why is this method not solving the water shortage in Africa?
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Cost is the biggest factor. There is little point in producing water which no one can afford. Desalinating uses a great deal of energy. It works in places which are rich with oil money in the Middle east, but even in fairly wealthy places such as California it's too expensive.
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Getting sick when the seasons change?
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Different bacteria thrive in different backgrounds and environments, this means when it changes other bacteria cone to the foreground. At least that's what I've heard, probably total nonsense.
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Why do people get outraged over the rape scenes in TV's Game of Thrones, but seemingly don't mind all the killing?
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Depictions of sex are considered worse than depictions of violence in American culture. It follows that sexual violence would be worse than either. I know a parent who won't let her kids watch some sitcoms because they contain sexual humor, but lets them play Call of Duty and other violent games and watch violent movies. I believe this is pretty common nowadays.
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The US gdp is around $18.6 trillion but our spending us only $3.5 trillion, where does the other $10 trillion go?
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*Government* spending is at $3.5t, while GDP includes all economic activity including private and government activity. You're comparing apples with cores.
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Why weren't there war crimes investigations for the nuclear bombings of Japan?
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Who was going to investigate or try them? The Nuremberg and Japanese trials were conducted by the Allied Powers Besides the fact that the bombings themselves weren't even the deadliest air raids conducted against Japan. And it brought the war to a speedy conclusion, affirmed Japan's defeat and helped assure that there would be no spirit of resistance which could lead to another war as happened in Germany after WE1.
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How can illegal immigrants in CA get a drivers license without getting in trouble for being here illegally?
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The corporations that hire them don't want them to be sent back. The hospitality, agriculture, manufacturing, and construction industries here in America do everything they can to keep the influx of cheap immigrant labor coming. It's weird how so many on the right consider the leaders of these industries examples of American entrepreneurialism. Sam Walton comes to mind, when he was the first to sell us out to overseas markets.
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How raising taxes helps the economy?
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Nobody wants to raise taxes a whole lot on the lower and middle classes, but if the government makes the wealthiest Americans pay more in taxes, then they will have money to provide more services such as health care, welfare, and other programs intended to help out people who can't afford necessities. With more money, the government can also start federal program that create jobs. Edit: our current income taxes are actually extremely low compared to how they've been in the past. _URL_0_ Under president Franklin D. Roosevelt the highest tax bracket was 94%", 'First you need to understand that the economy goes through different phases, basically good-times and bad-times. To prevent the bad-times from being really bad the government will spend money so that people can keep working to make money and feed their families. So during good-times, the government raises taxes because people can afford it and then there will be money to spend in bad-times.I wouldn't say it helps the economy directly, it just generates more revenue for the government, and they are allowed to spend it however they like. They could invest it themselves on programs like NASA, or they can spend a heck of a lot more in a pointless war.
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what happens to kids with autism or related disorders when they grow up.
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The reason you're having a hard time getting a fixed answer is that there really isn't one . autism is, by definition, a spectrum disorder, so the strengths, difficulties, challenges, and severity of one person usually don't look anything like the next person. I have worked with people with autism who, as teenagers, were non-verbal, not able to complete ADLs without help, and engaged in aggressive and/or self injurious behavior. I have also known teens who are straight A students, have all kinds of hobbies and interests, and only need some help learning social skills. As you can imagine, the adult outcomes for these two different scenarios are VERY different. I highly suggest trying to track down this documentary if you are interested in the subject. If follows several individuals as they transition into adult life, and shows the different levels of supports and services that they need to live as independently as possible. _URL_0_ Hope this helps some!
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Is hitchhiking any more dangerous today that it was in the 70s (in North America)? What changed since then?
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Depends on what you mean by dangerous. Violent crime has fallen massivly since the 70s, but automobile-based planning has made many areas much less walkable so you're tradeing at least some of that saftey for an increased chance of becomeing a hood ornament.
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How has my heart kept on beating incessantly since I was in the womb while the rest of my muscles become tired after relatively short periods of work?
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As this is in explain like I'm 5 : The heart muscles and the rest of your muscles are different types of muscles. Once you realise that you're sweet. The heart muscle has a constant starter motor like a car does when it gets turned on so it's going all the time so it doesn't get tired. However other muscles get all tired cause they work differently and have different strain put on them. The strain put on them is all sort of different movements running /jumping /different types of sport etc but the heart only ever does one thing. So it's a different strain. If you would like a more detailed description message me and I'll tell you all about sa and avocado nodes. But hopefully that is a good explain like I'm 5 reply.Short version. There are three types of muscle. Skeletal, which are what you normally think of when you think of muscles. Smooth, which operate the digestive tract. And cardio, which is your heart. Each is optimized for its specific functionFun Fact: the heart begins beating on its own when the fetus is [6 weeks old].
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How exactly do 'low-cost' airlines make money?
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* by cutting out all the amenities, having tiny seats, and charging a lot of extra fees* by only flying the only the most profitable routes to airports with lower fees* flying shorter routes with smaller planes and less experienced staff* by flying fewer routes to help ensure fully capacity* many national airlines are subsidized to make it easier for travelers to get to the country Most major airlines cater to business travelers. They give them perks to try to keep them loyal, but they can only do that if they have good coverage. If they suddenly have business in Spokane, there had better be a Sunday night flight that gets them there, even if it isn't very profitable, or they will go to another airline. Providing this coverage keeps their business when they fly on more profitable routes. Low-cost airlines are more about the tourists. They don't need three flights a day to Spokane, they just want to get to Disneyland, they don't care if the flight is on Saturday afternoon, and they don't care about driving in from the Long Beach airport. They are traveling with the kids, so the price is the single most important thing, they are flexible on everything else. That allows the budget airlines to cherry pick the best routes and charge less.
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why the USA doesn't use chip and pin like the UK does.
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_URL_0_ We're in the process of migrating to them, it's just taking time & not too widespread yet. The first major wave of upgrades is about to hit us but there's a huge installed base of terminals that are going to likely take years to upgrade & not everyone's been issued a chipped card yet.
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The different schools of economics
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What's neo-classical? I vaguely remember talking about it in my Macro class in high school, but haven't seen it mentioned here?
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How exactly does homeschooling work?
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Homeschooling varies a lot based on jurisdiction . In some cases homeschooling is handled by one's parents, in other cases home-schooled kids come together outside of a conventional school environment and get taught with kids from other families from someone who volunteers their time. Some home-schooled kids also take classes online, sometimes with interactive video. In some jurisdictions, kids who are home-schooled must be taught the exact same curriculum that kids are taught in regular schools, including sometimes using the same textbooks, lesson plans and/or teaching materials. In other cases, there is a lot more freedom with respect to what material can be taught and/or how that material can be taught. Either way, it's quite common for home-schooled kids to have to complete one or more standardized exam throughout the school year to ensure that they have knowledge and understanding of the material which children their age are expected to learn in a regular schooling environment. In some jurisdictions, homeschooling may not be permitted past a certain age because the local state/provincial or national government may feel that it's especially important for teens to be exposed to a school environment with other kids their age where it can be guaranteed everyone is being taught the same curriculum/material. For jurisdictions where teens can be home-schooled throughout high-school, it should still be possible for them to obtain a high school diploma at the end, assuming they can demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the material . It's also possible for individuals to obtain a GED which basically certifies that they have achieved the equivalent of a high-school education. In most cases, anyone can obtain a GED at any point in life . To obtain a GED, you usually have to pass a series of tests/exams that test various areas of knowledge and understanding in a variety of high-school subject areas. It may be more difficult to get into certain colleges/universities if you were home-schooled or have a GED , but it normally doesn't prevent you from applying and there are still many colleges/universities that are happy to accept students with GEDs.
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Why does my heart/chest hurt when I'm really sad?
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There are actual physiological pathologies associated with serious sadness, namely [broken heart syndrome] . As a side note, chest pain is never a good thing, regardless of the cause. If this happens more often, go see a doc. Source: medical student!
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The FCC is apparently thinking about reclassifying the internet as a utility. What would happen to Comcast, Verizon, and other ISPs? Are there any historical comparisons?
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What about railroads? They were the bogeyman of the 19th century the way Comcast has become the bogeyman of the 21st century. They were regulated, not under the FCC but by the Interstate commerce commission. A tool which closed some of the unfair railroad practices by broadening them out to cover more places, eliminating the unfair advantages where they were cheap, making everything as expensive as the rigged short haul fares. Then when trucking became available the ICC became a thing the railroad companies could use to bludgeon trucking companies with and artificially extend their grip longer than the market would have held. Also Sprint and Tmobile both offer unlimited internet at similar speeds to what my cable company offers. It seems to me to be a pretty viable form of replacement that's only going to get more viable as computers become less and less the only center of using the internet.
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why do sites need a credit card for a free trial?
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The rationale is: * If you've gone to the effort of putting in your card details you are less likely to cancel at the end of the free trial period. * Conversely, if you have to provide your credit card details *after* the end of a free trial then you'd be less likely to take up the product.There is a difference between need and want. They *Want* a credit card for a few reasons, & nbsp; * accrued charges outside of the trial * verifying age, usually for liability * verifying identity for various purposes * limit use of the trial
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What are those tiny, little, barely visible bright red bugs that you see walking on concrete or rocks? (Northeastern America)
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Those are chiggers. They itch like crazy, so if you got any on you put some clear finger nail polish where it itches. This will make them dead. Don't worry they aren't dangero", 'I have them on my front porch, I actually had to order some ladybugs online to take care of the problem .they ate all of the little red bastards right up.We have them in Britain too: I don't know what they are.
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Why do almost all sports teams name themselves after animals?
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Sporting" etc It's different in almost every other country.I was thinking about this last night. A lot of NHL teams aren't named after animals. Chicago Blackhawks Tampa Bay Lightning Detroit Red Wings Philadelphia Flyers New York Rangers Toronto Maple Leafs just to name a few
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Why does it seem like all the radio stations go on commercial advertising at the same time?
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TV is similar. In the age of remote controls, it is all too easy to channel surf or switch radio stations during commercial time. Yet, if one finds commercials on most stations; they are likely to 'stay-put' or return to the same channel thus the television and radio stations stick to the same schedule so they can push the ads through your eyes and ears.Because a lot of them are owned by Clear Channel, and you are going to listen to their ads on one station or another.
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If marijuana is still illegal nationally can't the government just invade Colorado January 1st and arrest a ton of people?
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Federal rights supersede states rights, so the DEA has every right to do that. However, the DEA also has the right to raid medical dispensaries, and though this has happened, it hasn't happened in Colorado yet. The main issue is if the DEA were to pull something like that, it would spark a massive debate on states rights vs. medical rights, so that is likely in their minds as well.Yes, they can. And they actually did raid some places in California after they had legalized it for medical use.
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[META] is a search too much to ask? Ok, how about a quick glance at the top 25? No?
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Askscience has a bot that searches topics and posts the top comment from the other post. Let's get that.I cant even being to count how many fucking higgs bosson posts i downvoted on new because a post on the higgs was the first fucking post on the front page of the subreddit.Even Search_Bot couldn't handle it, so he went to live in r/askscience. I wish he'd come back, for a few days last week, he was a blessing.
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; How come carbonated drinks taste horrible when flat while other sugared drinks like Kool-aid, tea, and Gatorade taste fine.
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I like carbonated drinks when they're flat :(", 'Just to add to what everyone else has said, it has a lot to do with expectations. Fizzy soda tastes different from flat soda, so if you are expecting Coke, and get flat Coke, you will probably not enjoy it. But you expect Kool Aid to taste the way it does, so you enjoy it. Matching flavors to expectations is one way your brain protects you from bad food. You may enjoy sour cream, but if you are drinking a glass of milk and it tastes sour, you are likely to have a physical reaction like nausea or retching.
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What is the appeal of the haiku? I understand its rules, just not why they would make a sentence cool.
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The idea is to capture a particular moment or impression in this very short sentence. And the 5-7-5 pattern isn't really correct in languages that are not Japanese anyway. What a haiku is supposed to do, is conjur up a mental picture involving multiple or all senses, as if you'd see that moment pass in slow motion.The meter is one element, but the art is the subtle juxtaposition of the subject and subtle similes / metaphors.
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what determines a stocks price other than people buying and selling that stock?
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That's it. People make offers to buy & sell a stock. The actual price is where they meet in the middle. News about how a company works might affect how much they're willing to pay but, once a company makes its IPO, they can't directly *change* the price of their stock.
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In extremely cold weathers, why is it that we layer 3-4 and sometimes more pieces of clothing for our upper body, but not do the same for our lower body?
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The main reason is because you take care of your vital organs and they will look after You, In other words keep your vital organs warm and it will keep the rest of your body warm, Just as another point I absolutely hate the cold and always wear tracksuit bottoms under my jeans and two pairs of socks for the winter, It's also very difficult to put more than one layer of clothes on your bottom half as they normally get stuck at the knee so you need loose fitting jeans to put anything on underneath them.Underwear. Long johns/thermals. Jeans/coveralls. That's 3 layers. Funny story: I bought insulated coveralls for some guys working for us in Alaska. One guy called and said we had to return them. I said "fuck you, I spent $600 each on these things." He replied "We piss outside, it's -20F. You try and get 2" of dick through 4" of insulated coveralls." I realized people work and live outside of Texas and returned the coveralls.i take it you've never heard of long johns?
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Credit Scores & Building A Good One
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Tough to break down to a 5 yr old level, but I'll try. The score uses different types of credit and your history to come up with the single score. Installment loans, like your student loans, are one type of credit - you get the money up front, and pay it back over time. The other type of credit is revolving debt - like credit cards. To get a good score you need to have and handle both types well. With revolving debt, they look at how much of your available credit is used, and how it's paid back. Obviously, not paying is always bad for your score, but not using it at all can also be bad. The trick is to balance things out, having both types of debt and managing it carefully.I hope this gets answered. I am a fellow 5 year old in this regard.
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I suffer from depression. It comes and goes. But is always absent during my periods. Why is that?
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It's most likely due to the hormonal changes you're experiencing. I find that, without fail, my sleep disorder is WAAYYY worse the day before my period.
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How do people that go to jail pay their fines?
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You don't pay until time is served. When you get out, you have a state debt basically. The state may garnish you if it remains unpaid and add a 40% increase if it's unpaid for a long time and sold to a collection agency.Their accounts are seized and their assets liquidated till the fine is paid or they run out of money. If the prison has work programs their wages given to their accounts can also be seized to pay their finesJohn Oliver does a pretty good answer for your question _URL_0_
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How scientists can determine if a planet hundreds of light years away may support life.
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Every planet has the possibility it may support life - it's just that it might not be similar to what we're familiar with here on Earth. When you see comments about life on other planets, they're really just guessing about what the odds are we could live there. On Earth there's worms that live in ice and dissolve when brought to room temperature, stuff that lives in volcanic vents, and stuff that lives under insane pressures in the pitch black of the deepest parts of the ocean - people can't live there, but it doesn't mean that some form of life can't. Astronomers can make guesses about the size of a planet and its distance from a star by how much and how often the star wobbles when they take repeated pictures of it over the course of months and years - a larger planet will make the star wobble a little more, and a closer planet will make it wobble a little faster. From that they can make some good guesses about gravity and temperature.There is a very limited range in which a planet can support life similar to that on earth. The range depends on the size and brightness/temperature of the star. Also, Depending on the distance between the star and the planet, the speed of rotation, and the size of the star and the planet, we can determine the approximate density of the planet. This tells us if the planet is rocky, like Earth, or gaseous, like Jupiter. Other factors like water in the atmosphere are harder, if not impossible to determine at great distancesEach star has a habitable zone based on its properties. If a planet exists within this zone it can harbor lifeAssuming this question stems from the recent announcement of the "Earth-like" Kepler discovery, we can't know for sure.
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Why is it ok to put an animal down if they are in pain and dying but not a person?
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Where I am in Canada it is just starting to become legal for doctor assisted suicide. Here's an article on it if your interested _URL_0_
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How come VLC, a small free program, can play anything while QuickTime, underwritten by the largest corporation in the world, can't play shit without constant updates and codecs?
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Short answer? VLC is maintained by people who actually give damn about long-term quality of the software and want to hear from the users. VLC is an open source project. If something gets totally screwed up, [they want to hear from you]. Because they want to ensure some quality, they will keep fixing shit as long as humanly possibly. Also, they have an updater that actually works in Windows. Apple? Like all proprietary software developers, they don't really listen to the individual customers, just the feedback they get from their research. They do internal testing only. They will drop support for anything they cannot test and support any more. And, of course, they'll fix the bugs as they come, usually only when someone points it out *publicly*. Compound to that the fact that they haven't really figured out this update strategy yet, even after all these years.
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how is it that many comedy writers are also skilled comedy actors?
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I think it's simply that the fundamental underlying skill behind both is having a sense for what's funny. It's probably also overperceived. There are a few prominent writer-performers, like the ones you mentioned, but for every one of them there are probably a dozen actors who can't write and a dozen writers who can't act. Not to mention that Conan O'Brien isn't really an actor and Larry David happily admits he has zero range .
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What are the pros and cons of buying a smart TV, versus a regular TV with a fire stick?
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Well, almost every single good tv today is a smart tv, so you won't get a good tv if your dead set on getting a non-smart one. **EDIT**: As /u/Radijis pointed out, if your tv is in an space where Wi-Fi signal strength is not great, smart tv's can use Ethernet.
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How does Nintendo / Sony / Microsoft ensure their retailers don't sell their console before launch?
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If the retailer begins selling systems early, in addition to a fine, that'll also be the last time the manufacturer sells systems to them.
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Surely gerrymandering will ultimately help one party less (Democrat or Republican in the US), so why doesn't that one party actively campaign against it?
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Okay, everyone seems to be forgetting that there are two kinds of gerrymandering. There's partisan gerrymandering, where you draw the district lines so that your party is the majority in most districts, giving you the win. This kind of gerrymandering is not very common, because it's transparent, and can come back to bite as populations move. The other kind of gerrymandering is *safety* gerrymandering. This is when you have a bipartisan group that draws the borders, and those groups draw their borders, not so that one party of the other will win, but so that they themselves will never lose. The borders are drawn in such a way that one party will always win by a wide margin in every district, effectively negating voter choice.
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Can you connect to the internet without going through an ISP?
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Yes. It would probably take some weird software and hardware hacks to get it to work properly but you could do it. Just plugging in some CAT5 isn't going to work, there's a lot of abstraction going on between what you see on your computer and what's going on in the wires and major web servers However, the ISPs own basically all of the wires everywhere and you'd have to get permission from them to do it. And if you're plugging into some random server somewhere, they're most likely getting their internet from an ISP. So you'd probably still be going through an ISP in some sense.Yes - At the heart of internet is just a bunch of interconnections between major telecoms like AT & T, Orange, etc. One of the best places to connect is MAE-EAST or MAE-WEST In these rooms are different cages, each cage has equipment and connections from each telco. Running overhead are interconnections between cages. So if you rented a cage and negotiated deals with different telcos, then that is as close to core of internet you can get.
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How can other animals survive on one type of food but humans need a balanced diet?
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Well, lets say you eat a steak, its only going to have protein and some vitamins but no calcium. If you ate a steak and the bone thats in it, you'd be getting both but no carbs. Now imagine a fish eating a whole fish, its getting the skin, the bones, the muscle, the organs. Its not specifically eating one part, its eating a whole prey that covers a lot of different nutritional needs.
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That sharp pain in your neck followed by a burning feeling after a wrong move with your head.
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Physiotherapist here. Many are talking about a 'pinched nerve', but a pinched nerve will cause a lot of pain down into your arm with numbness and tingling and often take months to get better . It's only a nerve as far as nerves are what send the pain signals for you to feel them. A sharp pain in your neck is non-specific - it's probably a combination of things. There are a dozen joints in your neck that can give you pain if moved 'wrong', there are dozens of muscles that can 'pinch', and there are other structures like ligaments and discs that can create pain. The burning can be the result of the pain nerves responding to one of these structures, or it can be another group of nerves called 'sympathetic' nerves that give us feeling in our skin.
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Explain how to play Magic: the Gathering like I'm five.
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Basically YOU are a spellcaster fighting against another spellcaster . You're too mighty to do the actual fighting yourself so you acquire land that can be used as an energy source to summon creatures/use spells, etc. . with certain amounts and colors of mana, you summon little critters who fight for you. The goal is to get your opponents life from 20 to 0 using creatures and spells. I wanted to type everything out but I rage quitted after typing up halfway what the various cards do.If you want to learn by example, try playing Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 on Steam.
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How painful would dying on Mount Everest be?
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More than likely passing out from exhaustion or lack of oxygen, you would freeze while unconscious and die in your sleep. I would say not very painful at all but I'm no expert. Passing out from lack of oxygen depends on the altitude your at, Higher altitude/faster, Lower altitude/Not as fast
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Do/Can animals in nature outside of human contact get fat or even mordidly obese?
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I don't think morbidly obese, but many animals get fat for the onset of winter. Studies have shown that even if hibernating animals are DENIED FOOD when fall comes around, they still grow fat and simply move less ; the fat growth is a biological imperative that won't be circumvented, apparently. Then, despite what they are fed after winter is over, they will shed that fat like crazy and return to their normal weight. There might be some instances of animals being born that do not have hormone regulation and thus become fat or even morbidly obese in the wild. I've personally never seen anything like that, though. Scientists have mucked about with hormones in animals for testing purposes and the animals have become fat or stayed very lean accordingly, though. But in most instances, not really. The growth of fatty tissue is usually brought about by eating simple carbohydrates , and most animals do not target those as the main source of their food .
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Why do the CFL lights remain dim & flash every few seconds even after being turned off?
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The inside of the tube is coated with phosphor . This is what produces the actual visible light. The charged gas in the tube produces UV which charges the phosphor and causes it to glow in the visible spectrum. When you turn the light off, the phosphor takes a while to lose it's glow. I don't know why it flickers .
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how did spain lose control of all of south america?
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You should look up Simon Bolivar. _URL_0_ He's a George Washinton-like figure for most of Spanish speaking South America He led a Revolution a couple times. He failed many times but eventually he won. IIRC He was simaltaneously the President of Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. Bolivia is named after him.
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How they build bridges, and how they build tunnels that go underwater
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If you're curious about how the water affects concrete, [all concrete will eventually cure]/harden under water --stronger than above-ground, actually. .) That being said, concrete intended for underwater use can be mixed with higher-than-normal calcium content to expedite the curing process, if the project timelines demand.
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- Has the Affordable Care Act really been beneficial to Americans? If so, how?
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It's going to be subjective. So far, most people aren't yet seeing the effects of cost reductions, but if they have children who are in their late teens, I'm sure those same people are happy that they can cover their children to age 26 now. People who are self-employed can tell you that they pay a lot less for their personal medical coverage now. People who had substandard cut-rate insurance likely now have to pay more money and probably had to change their doctor. They'd probably state it wasn't beneficial to them.
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Why does discussing religion or politics get people angry so fast?
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Religious and political views define human nature/the nature of the universe and what forms a just society, respectively. I think we can all agree that those are some of the most important things. Religion and politics, for many people, are firm anchors on which to orient the world: they're cut and dry, plus people can't really give you flak for believing what you want. So when someone takes these two **extremely** important factors that each govern how someone sees the world, and tries to change them, well that could cause trouble .Those things are the core beliefs of a person. When you attack them you are attacking them personally. People do not like to be personally attacked.
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Why are AMOLED screens common and affordable on phones, yet bigger AMOLED screens are almost non-existent and expensive as hell?
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Take a pickle. [Run a current through it.] Now, what's the largest pickle you ever saw?
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Why do hospitals and other medical facilities require expensive and elaborate buildings with detailed architecture and landscaping, wasted interior space, and seemingly energy inefficient exterior glass walls?
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While the things you mention are costly, the highest construction expense is for patient care spaces. Hospitals can spend $1,000,000 renovating just one room due to the medical equipment, specialized HVAC systems, piping of medical gases, etc. The cost goes up if the renovation happens while keeping adjacent spaces operational. So extra $$ for glass or landscaping that looks nice and contributes to patients feeling like they will get quality care inside a quality building doesn't seem like much after all. It's all good stuff needed? Not really.
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United States' and Israel "Unbreakable bond"
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The cynic's answer would be that the United States has the second highest Jewish population in the world, after Israel. Nearly 80% of all Jews live in these two countries, so they would naturally be allies.
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What exactly is a strawman argument?
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One more thing to note, a strawman argument isn't always as obvious as the examples on this thread might make them seem. Sometimes they can be quite subtle.
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Why do people associate eye patches with being evil?
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Because people don't lose an eye doing nice things like helping old ladies cross the street or handing out puppies to orphans. People lose an eye doing naughty things like using power tools without safety goggles or getting in bar fights. It's also not nice to judge people based on how they look. Plenty of people with eye patches are decent folks. But plenty more are homicidal meth head bikers.
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If I were to leave a brand new iphone 6 in its box and open it in 1000 years would it work normally?
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If you kept it in a chemically inert and thermally stable environment, and took out the battery, it would probably hold up pretty well. The battery, however, would break down eventually and destroy itself, before starting on the phone. By their very nature, batteries are full of highly reactive chemicals, and they don't always stay where they're supposed to. Assuming that you didn't have any physical faults develop , then the phone would probably boot up just fine once you put a new battery in. I'm not sure flash memory has the same issue as magnetic memory where cosmic rays can randomly flip bits . To be safe, let's also say that the room is heavily shielded, too.
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Why is it that when flies land on our LCD/LED screens, they don't get affected when we move windows or make some rapid movement which results in some colour change in the screen?
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As in, the fly doesn't get scared and fly away? I dont have an answer, but just trying to understand the question better.
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how come when we are babies, we drink laying down, but when we are older, we have to sit up to avoid choking while drinking?
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Babies have the flow controlled by a teat. We can drink lying down easily enough if we don't flood our mouths constantly
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What are the big differences between a credit union and a bank?
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A credit union is member owned and works like a co-op. Rather than top-down ownership control is distributed. As a member you can go to meetings and vote for the board of directors and your voting power doesn't depend on how much you've invested the way it would with shareholder voting in a corporation.
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Why carnivores like lions, crocodiles, sharks, etc, can eat raw meat and not get sick, yet we do.
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We do eat raw meat without getting sick. Sushi, sashimi carpaccio, ceviche, tartare. We just have to treat it carefully to make sure bacteria doesn't grow on it. Carnivores in the wild always eat fresh meat, which also doesn't have bacteria on it .
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Antimatter: How real is it, can we synthesize it, and what has been discovered so far about it?
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It's real. We can make it. It's found in nature a lot. It's pretty much the same as normal matter, but with charges reversed. It explodes when normal matter touches it. First of all, we can make only a bit at a time and even that tiny bit is very expensive to produce . Second things is containment. You can't put it in a box, because the box would explode. Special magnetic traps are used, but the best can contain a few dozen anti-protons for a couple of minutes . Third thing is sheer power of annihilation in case of an accident. One gram of antimatter will release energy of about 1.4 atomic bombs upon annihilation. Fourth thing is we don't know. It seems like it should behave like normal matter, but we are not capable of producing enough to start playing with anti-chemistry. Yet. It has practical use in medicine though. PET scan works, because radioactive isotope injected into body emits detectable amounts of antimatter.
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Why does our brand new $13B carrier already look like it's rusted?
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They don't bother painting until after it's built, since the paint will be damaged by things banging into it and scraping it during construction. If you look later in the pictures at the link you posted you'll see it's already been painted before launching.
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If whiskey takes at least two years to age, how does a distillery get started? Do they have to wait for two years before releasing their own product?
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I'm not an expert by any means. But I would guess that you have to get investors to back you and take a loan. Sounds very risky but if you can get over the initial hump then you're set. However most of the world renown distilleries have been around for hundreds of years so they already beat the hard startup. If anyone knows of new whiskey or whisky distilleries that are just starting out that have good product please let me know. You can always improve and I'd love to try something new
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How can some fruits be made seedless and others can't?
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Most of the seedless fruits are seedless because one day someone found one that was seedless and they proceeded to propagate it by cutting. That means all seedless fruits of this type are genetically identical, and it tends to make them very susceptible to diseases. Others are seedless because the specific plant can be made sterile and still produce fruit . For the things that we don't have seedless, it's mostly because we haven't found a seedless tree that has good tasting fruit or when we make it sterile it fails to fruit.
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What happens to carbon emissions from vehicles travelling through tunnels?
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Not sure I'm really getting your question. Vehicle tunnels are not sealed; they are well-ventilated, with fans extracting exhaust fumes. They have to be, otherwise you'd have drivers passing out from carbon monoxide poisoning. You don't want that.
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Do the IoT devices or sensors have to have IP address functionality in their firmwares? Or do they have to use the Internet Protocol Suite?
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TCP/IP stack is very tiny. Code size and RAM requirements are less than 10KB. Mostly the IoT devices work on private IP address, just like your computers. A majority of implementations follow the IPv4 stack because it is very easy to do so from the application layer. Many people tend to preach about IPv6 to guarantee a dedicated identity to a device. Some devices don't use TCP/IP, but a lot of such devices communicate to a central gateway which collects and forwards the data using TCP/IP over wired/wireless
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why do computers need MAC address when they have IP address to identify them?
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You could compare them to a social security number and mailing address . You want a unique ID to be sure that you're talking to the right computer locally, particularly when you've just connected and need to obtain an IP address. But that unique ID doesn't help with routing traffic around the Internet, just as addressing letters with just an SSN would be a nightmare for the post office. An IP address has a more hierarchical structure to make it easier to know how to get data to you, like a letter being routed first to the right state, then the right city, then the right street.
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Why do doctors in the US seem like they're always over-booked with patients when there are huge waiting lists for people that want to go to medical school and become doctors?
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Part of it is because patients bail at the last minute, or fail to show up for other reasons. Thus, doctors overbook slightly because a doctor's time is super expensive to be standing around with nothing to do. It's less a reflection on the doctor as it is the patient base. And not everyone can become a doctor. No matter how many people *want* to become a doctor, only a few have the dedication and the drive and the smarts to do it. I dunno about you, but I don't want just any random person getting a medical license. I want to know they've had some degree of training somewhere.
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why doesn't the US switch to the metric system?
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It's like when my dad is talking to his brothers and sisters. He will be talking and switch randomly back and forth between English and Arabic. I am pretty sure they do it without realizing it. We kinda just use whatever is convenient or traditional.
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How is Jurassic Park's CGI able to hold up and even beat movies that are released in this century, even though their budget was $63 mil?
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Clever camera work was a huge part of it . Think about classic horror movies like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Certain shots were cut to imply heinous acts when in reality everything shown was rather tame, similar techniques were used to make the hide the fake dino effects. Nostalgia also plays a huge part in your opinion.$63M was a **HUGE** amount of money in 1993. Only one other film cost more that year, ***Cliffhanger*** which was $65M. Redditors under 35 really need to do the minimum research when it comes to what other budgets of an era were before they post another one of these, "Hey, how come X only cost $$ in 1984 yet looks ."', "How come District 9 still crushes most multi-hundred million dollar budget movies? I'd say a large large part of it is about how much the CGI companies actually care about making the movie. Is it just a job, or are they actually physically invested in making it look good.
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Why do so many concert venues charge an extra couple of dollars for people who are under 21?
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Because they can't make any money at all selling beer to those people, and that's a huge source of revenue. To recoup those losses, they charge more.
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How does travelling near light speed cause time dilation?
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Imagine that we make a 'light clock' by vertically bouncing a beam of light between two mirrors and measuring how long it takes for the light to complete one round trip. [Here] is an animation. What happens if we put this light clock on a moving train? To an observer standing still by the rail tracks, the light seems to not only bounce vertically, but also move horizontally, because it has to keep up with the train. Animation shown [here]. In a moving light clock, the light takes a longer distance to complete each round trip . Because the speed of light is the same for everyone, the light clock runs slower when it is moving. We have seen that a light clock runs slower when it is moving. Let's assume that a light clock is a correct way of measuring time. This means that time itself must run slower for objects that are moving!
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If our bodies are naturally 36C, why does 36C weather feel very uncomfortable?
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Because your body is continually creating heat. The net result of your body generating heat and also expelling heat to the environment is 36C. But if the environment is also 36C, then your body can't expel the heat effectively and you begin to feel uncomfortable. Your body will sweat a lot, putting a lot of that heat into water which then evaporates, taking even more heat with it as it does. This is what's happening when, even on a hot day, wind can make your skin feel cold. You'll notice the perfect temperatures where you never feel cold or hot range from the upper 60s F to the mid 70s F for most people. The most common temperatures for indoor thermostats here in the States are 68-72. This is the range where you body is able to expel just the right amount of heat to maintain temperature without using energy to shiver or water to sweat.
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Are wind and solar efficient enough to replace oil and gas?
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Efficient? Maybe. But they are *highly* unstable, which requires a ludicrous amount of energy storage to last you throughout months of bad weather. There's also the problem of energy density; metal-air batteries are pretty much the first time we can jam more energy out of kilogram than a fossil fuel. [Can't beat nuclear].That is the main hindrance with the transition to green energy currently. Two ways to explain it: **1]** We know how to obtain the energy from nature, but we cannot store it effectively to use throughout the day. Fossil Fuels are easy, its like instant energy when needed. **2]** See Fossil Fuels as BluRay Movies vs Green Energy as Netflix Movies. Netflix is always fun but there are so many factors influencing it that sometimes you just give up. However if you have the BluRay you will always be able to watch that movie whenever you want as long as you put it into the player etc.The other major issue with these sources, other than their non-dispatchability , is they have a low energy density. In other words, to replace a similar amount of capacity from a conventional power station you would need to cover a lot of surface area in turbines or PV panels. Whereas there *may* ultimately be enough advances in storage technology to overcome the inherent problems with the non-dispatchable aspect, it's pretty much set in stone that these sources will always have a low energy density.
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is it true humans are the best long distance runners out of all animals? Why?
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Perspiration. We perspire a LOT compared to other mammals. It is our body's natural cooling mechanism and very effective. So when other animals start overheating due to their exertion and have to take a break to cool down, we can keep going. It is what helped us hunt back in prehistoric times.
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How do people make money with websites?
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Giigu explained it perfectly, but a little FYI about ad revenue. Don't expect to become rich by having a few hundred or even a few thousand people visiting your site. You need hundreds of thousands of unique daily page views before you will generate any significant ad revenue. But, once you're at those levels, the pay-off is fairly well. The best way to profit from a website is to take money from users through either donations, merchandise or premium features. This is why I suspect reddit doesn't deploy ads but offers reddit gold. Though, if the owners of reddit were really smart, they'd allow users to choose to activate google or project wonder ads on that nice 200x200 pixel banner off on the right as a way to bring in additional financially support the site.
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How is Greece's economy collapsing with roughly $400 billion in debt and the United States' isn't while being $19 trillion in debt?
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Aside from the reasons already given: If the US government ever got *really* into the hole, it could simply print dollars. Yes, there would be inflation, but it would no doubt choose inflation before default. Since Greece uses the Euro, it can't simply print them.
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Why is it that virtually every single predator in nature is able to eat their prey raw? It seems humans cannot do this otherwise they will get sick.
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You can eat most meats fresh from the animal no problem. Problem is that a large family of humans can't eat an entire cow in one sitting. Once the meat has been sitting there bacteria starts growing in/on it that is either directly harmful to humans or leaves by products that is poisonous. Cooking the meat can remove these bacteria or parasites. but also preserve the meat. A great example is smoking, it will keep bugs and predators away, plus lower the oxygen and water that bacteria need to live, preventing it from spoiling.
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What is the difference between a router, switch, and hub?
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Hubs are dumb repeaters, like a bull horn. Switches are like making a phone call without dialing the area code, you can talk one computer to one computer and no other computers see that traffic, but it only works within your area code. Computers talking to one another on a switched network can talk to anybody on their network, but need a router to talk to other networks. Routers are like making a call to a different area code. They connect different networks together. The one you're missing is a bridge, but they're only really applicable in hub type networks . I'll explain that to you when you're older.Modem: Gives you the untamed wild internets. Router: Takes the untamed wild internets and breaks it down into managable networks for your use. IE: NAT, Vlans, Packet Routing Switch: Distributes the now tamed internets and gives it to whichever end device asks for it. Hub: Takes the tamed internets and forces it down all devices mouth-holes whether they like it or not! Most people get confused because 95% of in-home "routers" are really just switches with limited routing capabilities. When you think of a wireless router in the store it really is just a "Layer 3" switch and not a true router.
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Why are there a million articles/reports saying there is a shortage of trades workers (plumbers, mechanics, electricians, etc) yet there are no apprenticeships or training schemes for any of these?
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My knowledge of this is limited to mechanics in the US. I work part time as a mechanic to pay my way through school. There is absolutely no shortage of mechanics. However, a lot of shops, especially the high volume ones that employ lots of mechanics, want to pay them as little as possible. The more unemployed mechanics there are, the less they have to pay the ones they do employ. It's in their best interest to have as many people in that profession as possible.
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Would it be feasible to make enough solar panels to generate enough electricity for the whole world?
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That's much smaller than what I've previously calculated for this same question. Using the largest solar power facility in existence, [Ivanpah Solar Power Facility], I calculated that the area would be five times what your diagram shows. Ivanpah is supposed to generate a total of 1.05 TWh per year, and takes up 3500 acres. [According to wikipedia], in 2008 we used 20,181 TWh of electricity, and 143,851 TWh of total energy. The jump in energy usage from 2000 to 2008 was 22%, so if that holds steady, 2014 should be about 167,586 TWh of total energy and 23,511 TWh of electricity. Using Ivanpah to generate the total global electricity consumption would give us [78.37 million acres, or 317,200 km^, or 122,500 mi^2], or five times what your image shows. If we wanted to displace our entire energy usage with solar-powered electricity, we would need [479.5 million acres, or 1,940,000 km^, or 749,200 mi^2]. That's [almost three times the size of Texas], [more than five times the area of Germany], or a full [1.3% of the entire land area of the world]. It's theoretically possible, but as our electricity usage continues to climb, it becomes more and more difficult. If we start switching more of our non-electric stuff to electricity , it gets to be even more difficult.
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Why is haggling commonplace at the car dealership but not at other stores?
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The main reason is that major retail outlets believe that they've already found the optimal price for their goods; letting individual salespeople negotiate is likely to lead to less revenue than simply setting a price and forcing them to stick to it. Another reason is mass-market advertising; advertising based on price is less effective if customers then have to negotiate for each item anyway. If a product is advertised for $10 on the basis of competing on cost, and then a customer is quoted an opening price of $15, that is likely to result in lost sales. Basically 'haggling' over price still takes place in modern western countries, the haggling just takes place between competing businesses as they struggle to set the most efficient price for their goods. The exception to this as others have pointed out is high-end/luxury goods or occasional purchases; in addition to the inherent elasticity of demand for those goods there are a variety of value adds and conditions that influence the price which are all subject to negotiation.
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What prevents a television show that no longer airs to sell its rights to Netflix or some other streaming service?
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Just because a TV show is not currently on air, doesn't necesarily mean that nobody has the right to air it. A network could've locked in the rights to air that show for the next five years, for example, and even if they never put it on air, those rights will still belong to them. Similarly from Netflix's side there is always the question 'is this worth it'. Even if the show is relatively cheap , they still have to ask themselves 'can I spend this money better'. Instead of buying three cheap shows, can they instead buy one more expensive one that they feel people will watch more? Or can they instead sink that money in another original project of theirs.
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What is the "sound" we hear in our heads when we stretch, and what is making it?
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Same thing that let's some people make a rumbling sound in their ears that only they can hear. Ear Rumblers, assemble!
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If the majority of the world's wealth is controlled by very few individuals, isn't the logical thing to do for the majority of people to abandon money?
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Money itself isn't the problem. There has to be some system for determining who has access to what resources. Money is very good at that. You could take money away and replace it with something else but you are still going to have the problem that some people are going to find ways to get more than their fair share.
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- NSFW - Why is it that as soon as i have a clitoral orgasm, all kinkiness instantaneously dissipates and I am suddenly vanilla-boring-girl in bed?
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I was wondering this exact same thing the other day. What makes you kinky. Animals just fuck, what makes us go wild for fetishes and why? What does it achieve from an evolutionary stand point. I'm the same, I can watch the mist degrading filth and wank off to it and then as soon as I cum I'm just like oh. Unlike other people i'm not disgusted by what I'm watching, but I still lose all that kinkiness.Same basic question comes up from guys every day, "why does porn disgust me after masturbation/ejaculation?" Would be in the faq if we had one. You might try the search and see what comes up there if you're unsatisfied with the answers you're getting.I've seen many men express a loss of desire for sex after orgasm. This is known as the refractory period. This has evolutionary advantages - the penis can actually remove semen from the vagina, which helps removes your competitors' semen from your mates if they get to her before you do, but you obviously wouldn't want to remove your own semen from her after you ejaculate. I've never seen a woman ask a question like this, though. Is it really that common? I can only assume that it's something which has evolved because it's useful in men, and this is how it manifests itself in women - not in quite the same way as in men, but it certainly sounds related.
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How does the drive-thru person know you're there?
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There is a video camera mounted somewhere that points at where you would be if you wanted to order. The person who takes your order has a tv where they can see what the camera is filming, so they see on the tv when you're there.
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how did we survive in the wild with kids and babies?
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Once humans switched to growing food most cultures had the women planting and harvesting crops with infants strapped to their backs and young children nearby while the men went off hunting and gathering. Once old enough, the kids could help out with the farming. If the kid didn't help he probably wouldn't have enough food to eat, so that's a pretty big motivator to getting a child to do something. The culture was completely different.
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Coffee and cocoa beans are awful raw, and both require significant processing to provide their eventual awesomeness. How did this get cultivated?
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Most of humanity lived off of plants native to where they live, not grocery stores with Florida oranges and New Zealand kiwis on the same shelves. When you're eating the same foods of generations, and when food is scarce, a lot of experimentation and creativity happens to advance", 'You can get used to a lot of different tastes over time. Even if coffee beans and cocoa beans taste awful raw if you have not tried a lot of it before you can get used to it after a while and enjoy its sweetness and effects. Normally people do get used to less awful things like coffee, beer and cigarettes which all taste awful for the first time but you get used to it. We also have examples of much worse tasting things that is consumed in great quantities. So raw coffee beans is not the worst things you can get used to.> Kopi luwak is the world's most expensive coffee. The main factor of it's high price is the uncommon method of producing such a coffee. It has been produced from the coffee beans which have been digested by a certain Indonesian cat-like animal called then palm civet or also civet cat.same way most things are discovered, trial and error. Someone likely ate a bean and it tasted awful, then thought "maybe it'll be better if I cook it/boil it/roast it/smoke it etc"Cooking in many cultures like Italian and Indian etc. is so complicated. Many dishes take hours or even days to prepare from scratch including multiple steps. Someone took their time to figure things out. This is before food science was prevalent.Add cashews to that list. The cashew nut grows on top of a fruit . Intensive labor to roast and re-roast the cashews. Have watched the process in awe, takes patience, fire, and skill. Don't complain about the price when they're fresh roasted for $15/lb
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If the world stopped using computers & smartphones from this day on, would pollution end up increasing or decreasing?
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> or would it make things worse because of some intricate, counterintuitive mechanism? Well, most people on Earth dying from the collapse of society would probably be a mechanism which would make things worse. Stopping the use of computers simply isn't something we can do these days and expect to survive, much less maintain anything approaching our standard of living.
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Why is it such a big deal that Greece has a debt of 300 to 400 billion USD when the USA has a debt of more than 18 trillion USD?
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Greece total economic output is about $240 billion . $350 billion is 160% or so of GDP. Greece's budget deficit is about 12%. US total economic output is about $18 trillion. $18 trillion debt is 100% of GDP. The US's budget deficit is much lower, at around 3-4%. Essentially Greece is spending FAR more money than it is taking in, and has already amassed a debt far greater than it's TOTAL annual economic output in a relatively short time. The US, on the other hand, has had a slowly increasing debt burden that just recently passed 100% of GDP. To be clear, though, many people understand that the US debt burden is becoming suffocating, and will likely begin to have serious economic consequences, especially if interest rates begin to rise on our debt. We currently pay about $250 billion a year just in INTEREST on our debt.
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Why cant we go beyond Planck units?
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Basically, every object emits certain wavelength of radiation, dependant on their temperature. The higher it is, the tinier their wavelengths become. So now the question is, how hot can you make an object? So, you are heating and heating and heating it up and you are measuring the wavelengths the body emits. At one point you reach the Planck Temperature - temperature so hot, that you wouldn't be able to measure the wavelengths any more tiny than that. The distance of the wavelengths are called Planck Distance and the time it takes for a photon to travel that distance is called Planck Time. And as mentioned above, it doesn't mean that you can't go beyond these numbers. Just add more heat to the object. Problem with that is, that our models of this all break and we can't predict what is gonna happen.
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Is hunger a signal that your body needs calories or that your stomach needs volume?
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I am always borderline anaemic and lost a lot of blood in early December. I'm trying to lose weight but I have been ravenous since then all I do is eat and sleep. How much can I blame the low iron and how much is me being lazy? I wanted to start lifting weights again, hoping that it would wake me up or stimulate some energy? 44/f/250 paraplegic t-11 32yrs off work for 3yrs", 'What about stomach acidity? Is that not a factor here?
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Why do we have a math class and a physics class instead of having a bigger physics class where we learn the math we need along the way?
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Physics only uses a relatively small part of maths. You could go on to ask why not just learn the physics you need in a chemistry class, then just the chemistry you need in a biology class. You could do both of those, but there'd be lots of chemistry and physics that you didn't end up learning along the way. Or, stretching things a bit, why have English class when your history class involves plenty of reading books and writing essays.
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How does living near a time zone border work?
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There's not much to explain. If you're crossing the time zone line, its going to be different over there than it is at home. You just plan for it. Say your work is in eastern and you live central. Your work shift is 8-5, that means your alarm is set for 5:30am, give you half hour to get ready and hour to get to work. You leave work at 5pm, drive hour to get home and arrive at 5pm.
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If Chernobyl is highly radioactive how do we have video and photo evidence of the area??
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Chernobyl's been sitting for quite a few decades now, and the most radioactive materials have decayed a great deal. The area is still quite radioactive compared to the world as a whole, but it's perfectly safe to walk around and take pictures short of walking into the melted-down reactor itself.
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Why are we afraid of Russia?
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Russia has been doing everything in its power to undermine Western Democracies. Besides their meddling in the American election, they have been launching a disinformation campaign and supporting groups that will weaken Russia's enemies and expand Russia's boundaries. They have been supporting and funding far-right eurosceptic parties in the EU to disunite Europe. Their government is explicitly behind a lot of these fake news stories that are picked up by the alt-right for propaganda purposes. They recently tried staging a coup in Montenegro to replace a pro-Western PM who was trying to join NATO with a Russian aligned nationalist. Putin's expansionism is a direct threat to the US and it's allies. As far as disarming, we have taken some steps to reducing the nuclear arsenal, but both countries still have enough nukes to destroy the world many times over. Beyond annexing Crimea, Russia has been supporting the secession of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia, and may seek to annex these provinces as well. I don't want America to police the world. I would rather it be done by international representative systems such as the UN. But I would much rather it be done by the US than by Russia. They are not suddenly a threat. It has been continuous. Only in the past few years, however, have they been making such overt power grabs and acting so recklessly as to potentially instigate a war against the west.
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Why can't I do what I want to my own property (shed, pool, etc) without the townships permission and permits?
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I believe the main reason is because they need to know what you're doing so they can adjust your property taxes appropriately. When we built our house, there were **no** building codes or inspections in our township . We were still required to get a building permit. Through the whole process it was clear that the only reason anybody had any interest in what we were doing was to make sure that taxes would be paid.Because most people lack common sense and often attempt projects beyond the scope of their knowledge or abilitiesBecause people believe that they have a greater right to what is yours than you do.
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Why is it that sometimes we can hold our fecal matter in for longer periods of time? And some other times, as soon as the feeling comes, we just have to GO?
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You have an internal and external anal sphincter. The internal relaxes automatically when there's any need to poop, but the external can maintain contraction to 55 mmHg. Any pressure after that you shit yourself. The rectum is at the end of thr colon and is a bag that stores poop. Basically it's how much pressure has built up.I am just now desperately holding in a poop after a night of beer drinking. Deep breaths, and staring at the sky is helping. I have had some risky farts thoughI can be the only one reading this while sitting on the toilet pooping?Depends what you had. Coffee gets things down quickly. If you're dehydrated you'll hold it in a lot. Also, you might eat something that "irritates" your bowel, causing a reaction -- > urgent diarrhoea.Had surgery on Monday. Didn't poop for 5 days, then picked right back up no problem like there was never a gap. I can't even make it thru my first cup of coffee most days normal days. I also went 5 days at 6th grade camp. The stalls had no doors, screw that.My understanding is that gastrointestinal waves move up and down the long intestine, producing pressure which moves stuff along. Once those waves hit the rectum, you feel like you just gotta go - unless you can suppress it until the wave dissipates or rebounds', "Anyone else like me, where you don't particularly need the toilet, whilst your getting ready to go out. But as soon as you leave the house it's an instant movement in your guts. And your wishing you went before you left.Follow up question: why does it feel like the closer I get to my front door the more I have to go?Are you drinking coffee as a man? It makes some men shit a lot.
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Why most of the US population ignores what happened in Syria today?
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Most people aren't ignoring it completely, but, realistically, what exactly are we expected to do? We've got a bunch of domestic problems that we can't seem to solve, are seeing a civil war seeming to be starting in Egypt, and even if we wanted to do something in Syria, who exactly are we going to back and help? And, above all of that, the idea of interfering in Syria has already drawn threats from Iran and Russia, with Russia and China blocking pretty much any real military action that we could do in the UN Security Counsel. Most people are basically ignoring it because there is really nothing that we can do it.
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What would happen if a pilot ejected from an aircraft mid-flight, like in video games?
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No. A helicopter requires constant variable input to hover. It's a balancing act that requires a pilot . An airplane properly trimmed would continue to fly straight and level unless wind or some other factor changed, but if the aircraft is continuing to fly straight and level, there's not much of a reason to eject. So, in theory a plane could continue straight in perfect conditions, and a helicopter might be able to continue forwards in perfect conditions , but I'm pretty confident that a helicopter needs constant input to hover._URL_0_ I guess opening the door might affect the general tragectory though
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