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How is college football so much different than the NFL and why is it so hard to transition? | There is a large talent disparity between the NCAA and NFL. There are 250 or so Division I-A football teams in the united states, and each team has approximately 110 players. That means that you're looking at a pool of about 27,000 players. The disparity between the best of the players and worst is going to be enormous... |
What does is feel like to have a seizure? | If you want to know what it feels like you can simulate it. First tense every muscle in your body. Be sure you flex your arms and legs, tighten your stomach, concentrate on making sure the muscles in your back are flexed, clench your jaw. When you're satisfied that every muscle in flexed, relax. Repeat this. Each time ... |
why is it so hard to get the rich to pay more taxes? | They didn't get rich by giving money away. In the end, you're baking on the fact that someone's altruism and belief in social equality trumps their desire to not have what they own taken away from them. I can completely understand this. I don't want to pay taxes now, why would I want to pay taxes if they were even high... |
how big is a cubic mile? Can you give me a sense of scale of how many whatever's would fit inside one? | Look at your foot. Most people's feet are around 12 inches. 12 inches is 1 ft. Now a mile is 5280 ft. So 5280 feet long. 5280 ft wide and 5280 ft tall. |
why conservatives are not happy with Obama appointing a new Supreme Court Justice. | Supreme Court justices have become a highly politicized thing. Which means the president will appoint a justice whom identifies with his party's ideals. So essentially Obama will be appointing a liberal/democrat judge. Obviously if you're not a liberal, you don't want this, since your party just lost a seat. All issues... |
what did folks do before corrective eye glasses were invented? | Make lots and lots of visual mistakes resulting in ghosts? magic? shapeshifting? I dunno, I'm really grasping at ideas here.Do less hunting and more gathering. Make snares instead of spears. Not practice your archery around small children. |
If we all agree climate change exist, what are some currently inhabited places that are most likely to become unbearable to live in the next 100 years or so? | Impoverished, low-lying, rural areas are I think at greatest threat. Anything that raises the sea or lowers the land will increase the risk of flooding and in severe cases will put the land routinely or permanently underwater. The spread out population and lack of money mean that defences are not affordable. Island cou... |
If we know jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams then how is 9/11 explained? | Jet fuel can melt steel beams the guy who made the original theory even said he was talking through his ass. It was a small project ment to fuck with people. It wasn't ment to be taken as fact this widely. |
How are "pay to stay" prisons not clear cut cases of double jeopardy in the USA? | It's worth noting that based on your numbers this is only $10,000 per inmate. That's not an absurd amount of money and typically in line with the the fines that accompany any major conviction. |
When people shoot guns in the air, why don't the bullets injure people on the way back down? | What? Are you serious? They do. They absolutely do. People are killed by them sometimes. It doesn't happen all of the time because there's a lot more square footage of ground/cover than there is square footage of people, but it definitely happens. People don't worry because they're shortsighted idiots that don't think ... |
Why was/is there such an incredible fear of Communism? | An example from childhood: Your teacher assigns a project and you have groups of 4. How often do you actually get all 4 people to make a contribution? Usually it's the motivated kids pulling extra weight to get 4 people's work done. By removing the personal consequences of failure and rewards of success, communism bree... |
Why does the US use "dry walls" to build its houses? | The US has a very large supply of lumber. As a result, lumber and drywall housing is much cheaper to make. Let me put it this way. If something lasts twice as long but costs three times as much to build, then it's not a great investment. |
Why is it socially acceptable to shame things like drug abuse and smoking but it's not socially acceptable to shame people for being obese/morbidly obese? | I don't necessarily think people should be shamed for their choice to smoke or do drugs, either. If someone's life choices are starting to vastly affect others, then I think its reasonable to say something. The people who bitch, moan, and complain about these types of people are just looking for a reason to do it. Peop... |
if we have to use soap to kill the bacteria on our hands, then why is just using water to clean fruit/vegetables enough? | The point of soap isn't to kill bacteria. The purpose of soap is to remove oil based dirt from your skin . The problem is that oil and water don't mix well, so washing with water alone doesn't solve the problem as the oil doesn't dissolve into the water. Soap is a surfactant, which means it lowers the surface tension o... |
Why can’t the offspring of two separate species reproduce? | The physical/biological reasons are well covered already, so I'll just add the terminological answer. ) 'Capable of interbreeding' is part of the definition of 'species', so, if they were capable of reproducing they wouldn't be considered separate species. |
Considering most transactions are done electronically, what's preventing an individual/organization programming more money into their accounts without authorities noticing? What's the 'anti-counterfeit' of virtual currencies? | Agreed with the others. A business can not pull this off. They can make a fake deposit, but it will bounce in a few days and get somebody fired. Of course ponzi schemes do exist, and they can last a short while, but an audit should catch them, or eventually they won't have money to pay out their debts. If you want to m... |
What is Bayesian logic/reasoning, and what are its uses? | To answer your second question: many mail servers and email clients use bayesian filters to detect spam; Spamassassin and Thunderbird are two big examples. You mark emails as spam or not-spam and over time they learn what you consider to be spam. I don't understand why I'm downvoted. He asked for how it's used and I ga... |
What is the difference between the "GMO" foods of today, and the selective breeding/cross breeding of crops farmers have done for centuries? | Mostly it took the farmers a bit longer to do through selective breeding, and the results were less predictable. We can also do a few things they couldn't, like add a gene for vitamin A to rice . To my knowledge, that's more of an exception.This thread question is posted daily. [Why not read what other people have wrot... |
The logic of suing gun manufacturers after a shooting | There isn't really any logic. Realistically, unless those people want to campaign that we should have zero guns for any purpose at all, , it doesn't make any sense to attack the gun manufacturer. The more appropriate place to take that anger is lawmakers: those who are in charge of who can own a gun, how easy it is to ... |
Why do Apple consumers stay devoted to Apple products and have a hard time switching to anything else? | There's a lot to be said about a homogenous environment. I do app development for both iOS and android and iOS is so much easier to develop for. There's so much hardware variation to take into account on Android. |
Why do professional athletes get a 'pass' when it comes to their job security after committing a crime? | There are plenty of jobs where you can get charged with all kinds of stuff and not have to worry as long as you don't have to miss too many days. Football players are grunts that know how to play a game well. They fall into that category. There's also the issue that the owners pay a shitload of money for them and they ... |
I'm a straight man, but why does it put me off if the man in a porn video is ugly? | Just because you're straight doesn't mean you can't appreciate the male aesthetic . Having an ugly dude in the skin flick basically takes away from the chick, because while the chick is the focus, the dude is still in the shot. Tl;dr - a negative cancels out a positive and that's why the male talent matters just as muc... |
When did WASD become the standard for movement control in games and how did it become so widespread across all games? | People usually grab the mouse with the right hand and the keys with the left one. However, the keyboard is situated in the center in front of you and that doesn't help the left hand very much. So, you compromise with the most left combination of keys, which happen to be the wasd. |
The whole mentality of "A captain goes down with his ship" | The captain of a ship had absolute authority. With this came absolute responsibility. There was no leeway for 'accident' or 'Act of God' or anything else -- if something went wrong, it was on the captain's head because he should have predicted/prevented *everything* that might endanger the ship. It was also an era when... |
How come planes can fly all over the world but it takes a massive amount of energy to exit our atmosphere to enter space? | It actually doesn't take a ton of energy to exit the atmosphere and enter space. We've done it with experimental jets, and it is even possible to get close with advanced model rocketry. [Staying there, on the other hand ] Basically, the problem is that you need to get up to ~ 8000 m/s as well as getting high enough to ... |
What causes yellow armpit stains | It might not be the only factor but your deodorant could definitely be a reason. I used to get faint stains in my pits but since I changed to a deodorant that says on the bottle that it doesn't stain clothes I haven't had that problem. |
How can America be considered one of the richest countries in the world while also having trillions in debt? | Simply put we owe a lot of money but we make a lot of money so it kinda balances out because we always pay our debts this is why defaulting is such a big deal. As long as were good for the money it isn't a big problem kids when we aren't that things change.You may find [these many previous threads] informative. |
Why are HIV and AIDS classified as different diseases? | I'll make this an analogy. Plasmodium is to malaria as HIV is to AIDS. You can have Plasmodium and not have malaria , and you can have HIV and not have AIDS . Plasmodium and HIV are the infecting agents, while malaria and AIDS are the diseases. |
Now that the Supreme Court has granted Hobby Lobby religious exemption, what's to stop employers from converting to Christian Science to avoid paying for employees' medical coverage? | Nothing, if they're a closely held company, to keep it short and sweet. But it'll result in another case. |
Why hollywood releases movie that are so similar in plot and so close in time intervals.Examples are This is the End and The Worlds End; Oblivion and After Earth, etc... | I would suggest it is just a matter of [dueling movies]. What I had read a while ago, but can't find the link, is that someone will be shopping a script around and some of the people who turned it down decide to make their own version of it. Either that or one movie house hears about another making a movie about a part... |
What would happen if you put a baby in a home surrounded by people who have different accents? What accent would it inhabit? | Your question depends on a couple of things. Babies start hearing while still in the womb and will start listen to the mother's primary language and develop a preference towards that. If the mother and father are around the baby is going to develop that accent and language strongly. They get the most influence. Second ... |
Software patents and why they are "evil" | The patent system worked well for the past few decades, now companies such as Microsoft and Apple are using their vaguely worded patents to stifle innovation and guarantee that other companies can't produce competing devices due to a small similarity. Check out this [link]: Apple more or less patented a rectangle with ... |
If I was born in Yugoslavia. Before it was split into Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Macedonia. What nationality would I be after the split? | I think it depends on where you were born. My boyfriend was born in Sarajevo, which became the capital of Bosnia. From what I understand, the towns all stayed the same, but the borders changed. Although I have seen people claim Yugoslavian heritage if they emigrated from Yugoslavia before the split my boyfriend's famil... |
If the world is being crippled by debt, why can't we just all agree an international debt write-off and enjoy our lives? | Since a lot of the debt is in the form of Government bonds, a lot of retirement funds would lose a good amount of value. Banks and investment companies would also go out of business which means that people won't be able to get loans anymore and no one will be able to buy a house or start a business unless they are very... |
Why do we use tires full of air instead of solid rubber tires or another type of tire? | Part of the reason is a solid piece of rubber would weigh significantly more than a tire filled with air. More weight means more fuel, more energy to slow down, more stress on supporting parts, etc. There's no reason for a tire to be solid rubber.1). Air helps absorb shock 2). Air helps the tire deform better for less-... |
fraternities, sororities, Greek life. What does it involve, what is the impact of being or not being in a fraternity as a student and after graduating? | Greek life works to help you network in the future, sorta. During college it is a social organization for you to meet people, and other things, but afterwards while it people's you network it has about the same success as just joining a specific college club in a field of study, or by socializing in general. Once you g... |
why taking antibiotics long term does not lead to antibiotic resistance, but taking them for too short of a time (ie not finishing the prescription) does? | In response to your edit question, not all antibiotics are created equal. Some are much more potent and if taken too long can obliterate your friendly bacteria populations and even harm your own cells.Continuing with the garden weed analogy, say you're just merrily splashing weedkiller all over the place - sure you're ... |
Why was there so much hate for jews in WW2? (and before and after, I suppose) | There are three 'mosaic' religions, ie: religions that sprang out of the history/lineage of Moses. In historical order they are Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They all dislike each other as a general rule. They all have groups of 'fundamentalist' that actively HATE the other two. Those fundamentalists have all been r... |
What will change in case of discovery of water on mars? | [Hasn't water already been discovered on Mars?] It has polar ice-caps and there is water vapour in the atmosphere. It doesn't currently have running or surface liquid water, but we know it did. It very likely had oceans and lakes . The only substantial discovery would be if they found liquid water deep underground, lik... |
Why are there so many homeless people in the United States, particularly big cities like New York, DC, etc? | There are shelters and non-profits and churches and everything. But in these cities there are thousands of homeless, and nowhere near enough shelters. So the shelters kick them out at like 6am. There's also no storage to keep your stuff, and even though it looks like trash to you it's all they own in the world, and to ... |
Why is the Catalan separatist movement not a bigger news story? | Because it's unlikely to escalate. It's certainly newsworthy but it's not as though Spain is on the brink of civil war or anything. Whatever the poll result is, Spain won't allow Catalonia to become independent and the Catalans will continue to complain about the situation - status quo continues for the time being.As a... |
How can sharks "smell" blood in water when they're a vast distance away? | With one drop of blood in a swimming pool, they don't mean they smell the drop on the other side. A shark can still smell the blood if it is fully diluted. He can smell what touches his nose, but not a bucket full if it doesn't touch |
When you go on a roller coaster or drive fast down a hill, why do you get that stomach drop feeling? What is actually happening inside your body that causes the feeling? | It makes my willy feel funny. I can't go on rollercoasters because of this. Any explaination as to why? |
Why is vinyl considered superior to digital recordings? | Pretty much all controlled, double-blind testing has shown that it's not possible to consistently distinguish quality digital files from analogue provided that the digital audio is properly mastered with modern equipment. The perception of problems with digital audio is largely due to the limitations of early digital c... |
What would happen if we erased all the student loan debt in the US? | So to answer this question, we need to separate out the two types of student debt: Government owned student debt, and privately owned student debt. For Government owned debt, cancelling all of it would essentially amount to a one time expenditure of that debt amount by the government. Taxpayers would be on the hook for... |
If sweating is a required process to regulate internal body temperature, why don't antiperspirants and deodorants cause health issues? | Antiperspirarents somewhat limit sweat, but they don't block it altogether. Unless you're in a critical situation where you need all the possible sweat you could make to cool off, you'll probably be fine with the amount of sweating left. |
Are strains of the flu weaker than it used to be? | Important to acknowledge is that it's usually a bacterial coinfection following the influenza virus that is dangerous, not the initial flu. What the flu does is lower the immune system making the body vulnerable to an ambush by bacteria potentially resulting in pneumonia. |
Why objects that are interacted with in cartoons colored a slightly different color/shade than other objects in the scene. | One factor that I have not seen mentioned yet but was often brought up in commentaries from early Simpsons episodes: when filming animation using multiple layers of cells, the thickness of the cell material can build up and start to cast a shadow around certain parts as well. But most of these issues should disappear f... |
Why is consensual incest considered illegal and is socially unacceptable? | Simple explanation, the same reason homosexuality used to be considered illegal and socially unacceptable. People think it's icky. You can talk about birth defects all you want, but the fact is that people feel the same way even if they aren't aware of the health risks to potential children. |
Why do companies like Lockheed-Martin and the military industrial complex exist | The Great Depression happened. Supply was much greater than demand because companies were paying everyone crazy low wages, so they couldn't afford to buy all of the goods they were producing, and capitalism basically failed. Then World War II happened. The government needed lots of weapons. American companies made thos... |
Why are carbon monoxide alarms so unreliable? | My instinct in this situation would tell me you have post combustion leak somewhere and your alarms aren't faulty. My guess is that by opening your windows, you vented the gas to levels that the technician couldn't detect. Or perhaps his equipment is faulty. Etc , etc. Call them back or better yet call someone else. Ma... |
Would it take an extremely overweight person longer to starve to death than a regular weight person? | Read an article not too long ago about a severely obese man who went a year without eating under a doctor's care. I'm too lazy to look it up. Edit: So I looked it up: _URL_2_ Edit 2:$hit. I posted the wrong article. Here's the right one:_URL_2_ |
Why are Americans so against the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or universal healthcare in general? | I am for universal healthcare but NOT for the ACA, because the ACA has nothing to do with universal health care. It doesn't address the real health care crisis in the US, which is greed. The ACA does not stop pharmaceutical companies or medical device manufacturers from charging astronomically marked up prices for thei... |
What are "office politics"? | It's the requirements that isn't talked about or written on the job description, which basically states that you have to make your higher ups look good. It isn't about working harder than everyone else, but knowing who's backing who up. If you make your supervisor look good, then he or she will keep you around and prov... |
How can the CO2 from a car's exhaust weigh more than the petrol used in combustion? | A normal sedan might use about 7L/100km, but it won't emit 255 g/km of CO2. Her boss's car will use more like 10.5L/km, or about 77g of petrol per kilometre. That makes the CO2 about 3.3 times the amount of fuel, which is roughly what we expected. |
Please tell me what things I should look for in a political candidate, no matter the level they're on. | First off, and this should probably go without saying, you need somebody who stands for your beliefs. Now, unless you are literally a dyed-n-the-wool Republican or Democrat, you probably won't find a candidate that 100% represents YOU, so you need to prioritize what issues are important to you. Passionate about gay rig... |
What is "processed food", and why is it bad for you? | Processed foods refer to foods that have been altered from their natural state. The common misconception is that *ALL* processed foods are bad for you, which is untrue. The fact is that *MOST* processed foods aren't healthy and should be avoided, but there are some healthier processed foods out there. Frozen vegetables... |
why are heart shots instant kills? | Because as the heart pumps, it can no longer pump the blood throughout the animals body as it is supposed to. The blood gets pumped out through the bullet hole, meaning that fresh oxygen-laiden blood cells do not reach it's brain, and it will then either die due to blood loss or lack of oxygen to the brain, though almo... |
Why is EA a worse corporate entity than Bank of America, Chase or Wal-Mart? | Consumerist readers care more about video games than banking or immigrant labour. Sure, banks are evil, but if they don't affect you personally, you're not going to care as much as you do about the company that killed Bullfrog, Westwood, Maxis and Bioware. |
If the United States is producing more oil than what it imports, how are gas prices so high? | it is because it's due to demand. The oil companies know that no matter how high they set the prices, people will still pay for it. People will bitch and moan, but they'll still pay for it. |
If I'm paying a computer technician to speed up my computer, what do they actually do? | Defrag HDD, clean all temp files, remove unnecessary programs, change start up behaviour, windows updates, program updates, update drivers. Remove malware / viruses.Fix any issues you have Nothing you can't do yourself. Like most things in life If you want actual noticeable performance increase - it'd be a harddrive wi... |
If evolution is random then how do do people evolve to do things like eat more in the winter season | Somewhere in history, one of your ancestors had a random mutation that made him crave more meat in the winter season. He was more successful than his peers that did not do this, so he lived longer and bred more than his friends. Some of his children inherited that mutation, and they too were more successful than their ... |
Why my phone battery doesn't drain at a constant rate | It could be when your phone goes to 'critically low battery' mode it shuts down a lot of unnecessary apps. Did your screen darken when it gave the notification? |
Why do chicken, cow and pig parts count as meat but fish doesn't? | They can also eat beaver and otter which are furry animals that live in/around water. It's because Catholics just make crap up to make adhering to their religion easier. Like how the last day of the week, the Sabbath, is Saturday but they celebrate Mass on Sunday now because it's more convenient. |
Why don't credit cards just use 19 digits instead of 16 digits plus 3 digit "security code"? | It helps cut down on the fradulent use of credit cards by hackers. The security code is often not kept or used in face-to-face transactions If the supermarket's records were hacked, the hackers would not get your security code and therefore could not use it in card-not-present transactions |
Why is it so difficult to run in dreams when we're in danger? | Those dreams are the worst. It's like you have cinderblocks for shoes and the ground beneath you is quick sand. |
Why do snipers need a 'spotter'? | So you don't get shiv'd in the back, or a poison needle jabbed into you. And to spot the losers with noob tubes,while you spawn camp them bitches. |
What exactly does a "karat" measure? | The carat is is unit of weight, used when measuring precious stones. The purity of a gold alloy is expressed in karats, or parts in 24, by weight, that the allow contains in gold. Yes, it's confusing. |
Why is it easier for me to talk on the phone while i'm walking? | I have no idea why we do this, but I can at least tell you that you're not alone. I always wander around my house when I'm on the phone. Sometimes just when I'm thinking about things myself, too; maybe the act of walking helps stimulate something in your brain? |
Why do people self-harm sometimes when they are depressed? | A very common reason is that people feel the need to punish themselves. They have a very low self-esteem and when people tell them negative things about themselves they begin to believe it. This person may begin to believe that he/she is worthless and want to punish themselves for that reason. This person may have had ... |
Why can Pearl Jam and other performers refuse to play music for people they disagree with, but when bakers refuse to make cakes for people they disagree with they get in trouble? | Baker: I refuse to make a cake for you because you are gay.Landlord: I refuse to rent to you because you are an unmarried woman.Boss: I won't employ you because you are a Jew.Movies: You can't sit there because you are black.State: You can't vote because you are poor.Pearl Jam: We won't play music in a state that has d... |
Why don't College Football programs use a Pro Style offense if that's what is deemed as necessary to succeed in the NFL? | Pro-style offenses are more complex and require a better balance of players across all positions. Part of the reason it's rare at the college level is because of the complexity, and part of it is that there just aren't enough players available to fill every team with people that can be that flexible, especially in a sh... |
why do some flashlights have a “fast flash” mode? | The solid beam is for when you need to see. The strobe is for when you need to be seen. The strobe function as a self defense tool is a complete joke. Please don't leave this thread thinking it isn't.I was coming home late one night and came around the corner to a stalled car situation. One of the people was using the ... |
ELI: Why is rubbing alcohol harmful to ingest but okay to put on an open wound (and thus introduce into your bloodstream) | So, to understand it in ELI5 format we need to understand a couple things; Booze is one type of alcohol, Rubbing alcohol is another. Think of them like two friends you're wingmanning for -- Boozie and Rubbie. Now, Boozie is cool to chill with, in moderation. You get Boozie with you, and you change him, subtly. You and ... |
Why won't companies ship to P.O Boxes? | UPS will deliver to a PO Box. The post office signs for it, UPS lists it as delivered. Then you get a notification thru your PO Box like a yellow card. Source: I have had things shipped several times this way even tho I don't prefer this method. |
Why do products with double the amount/content don't nearly cost double the price? | If you build a factory to just make one bag of chips then that is gonna be an expensive bag of chips. But if you make thousands of bags of chips then the cost per bag goes down. Even then, if you actually just give people more chips and less bag that can help keep costs down even more. So it probably doesn't cost twice... |
How do paralyzed people not become overweight? | The same way other people don't become overweight. They don't consume more calories than they use. |
Why are sounds less annoying for those making them? | Are they? I'm not convinced. I'm guessing a person is very annoyed but wants others to be annoyed so that motivation to continue is enough. Decades ago in my high school there were fundraiser attempts by various class-rooms to try to compete with each other. The winner: the guy went room to room making annoying noise w... |
Why haven't we done anything about North Korea's labor camps and human experimentation? | That would be the most brutal war in American history. Nukes, chemical weapons, brutal close combat inside massive tunnel complexes. Like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan rolled up into one, with modern weaponry. It would be really expensive and really bloody, and there's just no way. |
Why have arcade fighting games have been removed from every possible public venue? | I don't know where you live, and don't want to ever go there. In just the past few months I've been in multiple states, and while the arcade industry has been dying quite rapidly, I've yet to find a single arcade that didn't have fighting games ,and have yet to find a single version of one of these mobile games as an a... |
How can space be infinite? | Joseph Silk :We don't know. The expanding Universe theory says that the Universe could expand forever [that corresponds to a 'flat' Universe]. And that is probably the model of the Universe that we feel closest to now. But it could also be finite, because it could be that the Universe has a very large volume now, but f... |
In a manual car, what would happen if you went into 5th gear as you were driving very slowly (e.g. 3mph)? | unless it's a very torquey engine - like, say a big diesel - you'd stall the engine because the rpms would be well below its idle rpm . no big deal, just restart.Nothing catastrophic, just a stall if that was the angle of your question. Source: One of the 100 people in North America with a MT. |
How does ear wax build up? And why? | A doctor told me you shouldn't put anything smaller than an elbow in your ear canal, don't ask me why he used this wording. So no q-tips, use a water syringe. You can get one specifically made for this from the pharmacy, they're fairly inexpensive.This seems like a follow-up to _URL_1_ and /u/BUTT_PLUGS_FOR_PUGS gave a... |
Why does nobody pee themselves when they're under General Anesthesia during long surgeries? | I woke up after surgery with a catheter in and, based on the sounds the guy sharing the room with me was making while they were putting his back in after his surgery, I was super glad they waited till I was out before putting mine in and didn't rush into rush into taking mine out while I still needed it. Ouch. |
Why humans cry when they're really happy. | Psychology grad here. Emotions as we experience them have a distant basis in basic ape survival, but we've learned to use them to communicate with others and with ourselves. The message doesn't have to be very clear if it is urgent, think of a warning klaxon, more noise than information. With very intense stimuli: a me... |
Why does drinking a glass of water help with a dry throat or coughing? The water goes down the esophagus while the problems it seems to fix are in the trachea. | Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't. At least not for me. I just drink the whatever slowly while still suffering as a foreign substance enters my esophagus. |
Why can companies use other brand names in advertising in a negative sense and avoid copy right laws? | I would assume the same reason why people can review products. You don't need permission to review. I would imagine though that they would have to be able to back up their claim that their product is better.Trademarks are just signs or symbols that represent a company or product. A copyright is just something that give... |
Is it possible to improve your eyesight without surgeries? | They have these contact lens you wear while you're sleeping and they change the shape of your eyes so you have better vision during the day. I don't know how well they work, never tried them. |
why deserts get freezing cold at night | Because there's no clouds and it's so dry. Clouds keep in a lot of heat, so in the desert all the heat comes from the sun. When the sun goes away there's no heat anymore so it gets cold. It's not just the desert where this happens. If you wake up and there's dew on the ground, you'll notice the sky is clear. |
How come some people have never had a cavity but have yellow teeth, while other people have had lots of cavities but have white teeth? | Certain antibiotics can darken the dentine of your teeth while young, which allows it to show through the enamel slightly. That can be a cause of yellow teeth that has nothing to do with cavities or other dental hygiene. I seem to remember reading that flourides can do it too when you're young. |
If the slightest smack/tap on your balls hurts so much, how come it doesn't hurt when they're hitting someone during sex or when someone sucks on them? NSFW | I've always found it does hurt during these things. It doesn't leave a lasting pain but when you're pounding away or a girl goes to play down there it hurts the balls like hell. |
why do people with sleep parlaysis only dream nightmares? | Every healthy, non-sleepwalker / talker etc. goes through sleep paralysis. It stops us acting out our dreams. If the body were able to move during dreams, we'd do all sorts of stupid stuff in our dreams and could end up in some sort of danger. I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but assuming you mean the thing where... |
What evolutionary purpose does laughter hold-- why does it happen when I'm tickled? | Laughter it's about social bonding, to make humans connect with each other. It's the similar thing to what monkeys do when picking lice of each others bodies. _URL_2_ |
How long after I eat something does it turn into fat? | As soon as we eat anything The body's mechanism for long term storage is converting energy into storable components namely sugar and fats. The fat burning is also continuous too. The fat cells are like bank accounts. We deposit energy during the day and check it out when we need it. You may ask why some of the fat cell... |
Am I just being paranoid to believe that ad trackers are listening to everything I say? | You say there is NO WAY that this is a coincidence, then you mention seeing an ad from one of the most popular snacks on the planet. It's a coincidence. If you're worried, and you want to test it out, think of something totally random but not really all that common and start talking about it out loud in your next chat.... |
Why are the Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars trilogy not clones anymore? | Using only the films for references, and a few assumptions: The clones are totally obedient, which can be a flaw just as much as it is a benefit. It wouldn't necessarily be hard for, say, Vader, to create Order 67: assassinate Palpatine. On top of that, we don't know if the facility on Kamino is still creating clones, ... |
Does every car in existence have a different key and how do manufacturers make sure keys are not duplicated ? | No, they are not completely unique, there are just a great many varieties. Yo ho ho! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [Do all cars have different keys? ] ^1. [How many unique keys are there in the world? ] ^1. [If locks are supposed to have a unique key for each one, how do master keys wor... |
When you're cooking, does touching raw meat with your spatula matter in terms of food safety if you continue using the same utensil until the meat is cooked? | Yes, it matters. No, it probably doesn't matter much. It wouldn't hurt to give it a quick rinse. |
How does currency like "$0.0375" work? It's only 3 cents? | When you see the x.999 price at gas stations that's for a single gallon, but the average gas station customer is going to buy several gallons, so a few of those 9/10ths of a cent will add up to more cents. It might still seem like a trivial difference in that case, but now imagine a company buying items from another co... |
What is it with auto companies naming the model year a year in advance? | The production/model year of a vehicle rarely coincides completely with what year it is. A car that is a 2017 model year car will be available all through 2017, but it will also be available the last quarter of 2016, because automotive companies begin production in the second half of 2016. . It's known as the *sales mo... |
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