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What makes a tesseract four dimensional? | 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. |
Why the brain works on even numbers or 5's. | 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... |
There are multiple ways to extract the salt from seawater - why is this method not solving the water shortage in Africa? | 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. |
Getting sick when the seasons change? | 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. |
Why do people get outraged over the rape scenes in TV's Game of Thrones, but seemingly don't mind all the killing? | 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 movie... |
The US gdp is around $18.6 trillion but our spending us only $3.5 trillion, where does the other $10 trillion go? | *Government* spending is at $3.5t, while GDP includes all economic activity including private and government activity. You're comparing apples with cores. |
Why weren't there war crimes investigations for the nuclear bombings of Japan? | 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 ... |
How can illegal immigrants in CA get a drivers license without getting in trouble for being here illegally? | 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 Am... |
How raising taxes helps the economy? | 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, ... |
what happens to kids with autism or related disorders when they grow up. | 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, we... |
Is hitchhiking any more dangerous today that it was in the 70s (in North America)? What changed since then? | 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. |
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? | 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 tir... |
How exactly do 'low-cost' airlines make money? | * 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 ... |
why the USA doesn't use chip and pin like the UK does. | _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. |
The different schools of economics | What's neo-classical? I vaguely remember talking about it in my Macro class in high school, but haven't seen it mentioned here? |
How exactly does homeschooling work? | 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 ... |
Why does my heart/chest hurt when I'm really sad? | 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! |
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? | 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, eliminati... |
why do sites need a credit card for a free trial? | 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... |
What are those tiny, little, barely visible bright red bugs that you see walking on concrete or rocks? (Northeastern America) | 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 basta... |
Why do almost all sports teams name themselves after animals? | 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 |
Why does it seem like all the radio stations go on commercial advertising at the same time? | 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... |
If marijuana is still illegal nationally can't the government just invade Colorado January 1st and arrest a ton of people? | 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 righ... |
[META] is a search too much to ask? Ok, how about a quick glance at the top 25? No? | 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 we... |
; How come carbonated drinks taste horrible when flat while other sugared drinks like Kool-aid, tea, and Gatorade taste fine. | 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 i... |
What is the appeal of the haiku? I understand its rules, just not why they would make a sentence cool. | 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 ... |
what determines a stocks price other than people buying and selling that stock? | 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. |
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? | 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'... |
Credit Scores & Building A Good One | 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... |
I suffer from depression. It comes and goes. But is always absent during my periods. Why is that? | 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. |
How do people that go to jail pay their fines? | 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... |
How scientists can determine if a planet hundreds of light years away may support life. | 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 ... |
Why is it ok to put an animal down if they are in pain and dying but not a person? | 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_ |
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? | 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 hum... |
how is it that many comedy writers are also skilled comedy actors? | 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 ... |
What are the pros and cons of buying a smart TV, versus a regular TV with a fire stick? | 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. |
How does Nintendo / Sony / Microsoft ensure their retailers don't sell their console before launch? | 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. |
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? | 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 bi... |
Can you connect to the internet without going through an ISP? | 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 basi... |
How can other animals survive on one type of food but humans need a balanced diet? | 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 eat... |
That sharp pain in your neck followed by a burning feeling after a wrong move with your head. | 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-specif... |
Explain how to play Magic: the Gathering like I'm five. | 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 t... |
How painful would dying on Mount Everest be? | 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 |
Do/Can animals in nature outside of human contact get fat or even mordidly obese? | 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... |
Why do the CFL lights remain dim & flash every few seconds even after being turned off? | 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 . |
how did spain lose control of all of south america? | 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. |
How they build bridges, and how they build tunnels that go underwater | 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 de... |
- Has the Affordable Care Act really been beneficial to Americans? If so, how? | 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 pe... |
Why does discussing religion or politics get people angry so fast? | 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... |
Why are AMOLED screens common and affordable on phones, yet bigger AMOLED screens are almost non-existent and expensive as hell? | Take a pickle. [Run a current through it.] Now, what's the largest pickle you ever saw? |
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? | 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 ope... |
United States' and Israel "Unbreakable bond" | 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. |
What exactly is a strawman argument? | 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. |
Why do people associate eye patches with being evil? | 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 ... |
If I were to leave a brand new iphone 6 in its box and open it in 1000 years would it work normally? | 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'... |
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? | As in, the fly doesn't get scared and fly away? I dont have an answer, but just trying to understand the question better. |
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? | Babies have the flow controlled by a teat. We can drink lying down easily enough if we don't flood our mouths constantly |
What are the big differences between a credit union and a bank? | 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. |
Why carnivores like lions, crocodiles, sharks, etc, can eat raw meat and not get sick, yet we do. | 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 . |
Antimatter: How real is it, can we synthesize it, and what has been discovered so far about it? | 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 ... |
Why does our brand new $13B carrier already look like it's rusted? | 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. |
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? | 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 ... |
How can some fruits be made seedless and others can't? | 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... |
What happens to carbon emissions from vehicles travelling through tunnels? | 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. |
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? | 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... |
why do computers need MAC address when they have IP address to identify them? | 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 addressi... |
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? | 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 matt... |
why doesn't the US switch to the metric system? | 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. |
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? | 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 opinio... |
Why do so many concert venues charge an extra couple of dollars for people who are under 21? | 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. |
How does travelling near light speed cause time dilation? | 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 t... |
If our bodies are naturally 36C, why does 36C weather feel very uncomfortable? | 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 i... |
Are wind and solar efficient enough to replace oil and gas? | 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 nuclea... |
is it true humans are the best long distance runners out of all animals? Why? | 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. |
How do people make money with websites? | 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-... |
How is Greece's economy collapsing with roughly $400 billion in debt and the United States' isn't while being $19 trillion in debt? | 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. |
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. | 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 t... |
What is the difference between a router, switch, and hub? | 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 ... |
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? | 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... |
Would it be feasible to make enough solar panels to generate enough electricity for the whole world? | 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 ac... |
Why is haggling commonplace at the car dealership but not at other stores? | 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... |
What prevents a television show that no longer airs to sell its rights to Netflix or some other streaming service? | 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... |
What is the "sound" we hear in our heads when we stretch, and what is making it? | Same thing that let's some people make a rumbling sound in their ears that only they can hear. Ear Rumblers, assemble! |
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? | 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. |
- 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? | 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 ... |
How does the drive-thru person know you're there? | 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. |
how did we survive in the wild with kids and babies? | 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 f... |
Coffee and cocoa beans are awful raw, and both require significant processing to provide their eventual awesomeness. How did this get cultivated? | 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 differe... |
If the world stopped using computers & smartphones from this day on, would pollution end up increasing or decreasing? | > 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 mai... |
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? | 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 ... |
Why cant we go beyond Planck units? | 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 poi... |
Is hunger a signal that your body needs calories or that your stomach needs volume? | 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 e... |
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? | 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, stretc... |
How does living near a time zone border work? | 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. Y... |
If Chernobyl is highly radioactive how do we have video and photo evidence of the area?? | 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. |
Why are we afraid of Russia? | 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 euro... |
Why can't I do what I want to my own property (shed, pool, etc) without the townships permission and permits? | 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 ... |
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? | 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 b... |
Why most of the US population ignores what happened in Syria today? | 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, a... |
What would happen if a pilot ejected from an aircraft mid-flight, like in video games? | 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,... |
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