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IfIf people can be addicted to things like the adrenaline rush and the feeling of being high, Can people be addicted to Depression? | addicted is the wrong word, but it's not unusual for those being treated pharmaceutically for depression to develop anxiety. the shift in emotional state can be unsettling |
If you shoot a bullet fast enough at the horizon, could you theoretically send it into orbit? | Kind of. The bullet would acquire an orbital path, but the perigee would be inside the Earth's atmosphere, and so, on each pass, the atmospheric drag would reduce its velocity, until it fell out of orbit. This is of course, completely ignoring the vapourisation issue which others have pointed out. |
Why does all trash smell the same when different people have different trash? | Well, it shouldn't all smell the same but most likely what you are smelling in common is the smell of decay. Bacteria break down the large molecules into smaller ones and many of these smaller molecules will be common to all debris - little things like methane and sulphides. |
Why can't we do single cup "coffee bags" just like we do tea bags? | They do. Folgers makes them. In fact, I'm drinking one now, since I'm too cheap to go buy a Keurig. |
why are mass shootings in America rarely referred to acts of terrorism? | Something terrible and terrifying does not mean it is terrorism. Terrorism is about motive and agenda, not the details of the act itself. If you kill 20 people because you're angry it's a mass murder. If you kill 20 people because you're on a jihad and they were infidels, you're a terrorist. |
Why do we place offshore Wind Turbines in places with strong water currents? Surely more power could be generated by the water turbines given that water is roughly 816 times more dense than air? | There are plenty of reasons one being that it's salt water that corrodes whatever it comes in contact with. It would be costly to maintain not to mention dangerous because unlike wind turbines the facility would have to manned. There's a question of displacement of the water as it passes through and the energy to facil... |
Why is it impossible to breath when air is hitting you straight in the face with force? | The air hitting you is actually going around your face. Let's say it has a force of 10. When you open your mouth to breath, you draw air in by expanding your lungs. Let's say this has a force of 5 10 is bigger than 5, and it makes it difficult to inhale. In order breathe in this condition you need to inhale with a forc... |
Why is mainstream music targeted towards 12 year old girls instead of the adult population? | a lot of adults still enjoy that music too. it's pretty simplistic and easy to get into . |
When movies make horses fall, is it real, and if not, then how do they do it? | I actually know this pretty well because a good friend of mine has capitalized on it in the film business. Yes, they used to be incredibly cruel to animals in Hollywood. Then Animal rights groups got involved and it was outlawed. Now the current standard is to use life size puppet horses. You've seen my friends horses ... |
What is preventing someone from making a YouTube competitor? | Well you've probably heard of daily motion, it is a competitor but the reason that YouTube is so huge is that much like dailymotion it was a private company but was bought by Google in the mid 2000's. With backing like Google you are bound to rise above the rest.Money mostly. Youtube likes to suggest they came up with ... |
Why do sports games sometimes get blacked out, even close to the team's city? | One, to keep ticket sales up. Two, it protects the smaller sports channels that have rights to the team's games and air all or most of their games. For example, I am an Atlanta Braves fan, and most of their games are on FoxSports South. So if they are blacked out on ESPN, it's because FoxSports South is airing the game... |
Why does England still have a queen? | Well, apart from the other good answers, one main reason is that the UK avoided the revolutions that removed monarchies in other European countries in the 18th and 19th centuries. Changes to the laws such as the great reform act of 1832 staved off rebellion by widening political enfranchisement. Of course England had t... |
Why do power companies insist that installing solar power will drive their costs up and hurt the power grid? | The power grid isn't really designed for you to send power back in to it, so if people start doing that, then the power companies will need to upgrade portions of the system so that they don't break.it does, legitimately, have two ill effects on the utility, specifically that it decreases demand for the product and the... |
If one of the usual after effects of 3rd degree burns is rampant infection, how can cauterizing an open wound be helpful at all? Or is that just more TV hokum? | Typically 3rd degree burns that lead to infection are the ones you see which cover large amounts of the body. Infection sets in to these easily because your immune system and cells are spread pretty thin trying to heal you up. In the case of cauterization, usually only a small amount of tissue is being burned and in a ... |
Why is Haiti so poor and the Dominican Republic so much better off? | Leftovers of Spanish colonnial rule vs British colonnial rule. Spain always took a more immersive approach to the governance of their Caribbean lands and Britons and Frenxh well, you see it from the Haitian population still nowadays: no mixed races whatsoever. |
What is a "manic pixie dream girl" and why is Twitter so angry about them? | Manic pixie dream girl is a type of character trope - a bubbly, slightly oddball/eccentric kind of female character that only exists for the male character's happiness and growth. They are usually the romantic interest for your broody / depressed male protagonist. The problem with the trope is that these characters are... |
Why did technology improve so exponentially quickly within the last century? | Some very important 19th/early 20th century inventions paved the way for more invention. If I had to rank them, it would be: 1. The engine. This allowed us to harness more energy than ever before. It allowed for logistics to produce and transport more goods 2. Electric generators. They allowed us to take the energy fro... |
what is the ringing noise we hear when there's silence? | Well, you know how light ghosts your eyes when you close them? If you go into a room that is truly dark, you can see them for quite some time. Perhaps being surrounded by noise at all times makes withdrawal from that noise cause our ears to continue to ring with the vibrations. Or perhaps like a ghost limb, our brain c... |
What is Gluten and why do some people take a gluten free diet so seriously? What's it doing for them? | Glutten is a protein found in lots of products, most notably breads. There is a small portion of the population with an illness called celiacs whose gut gets seriously messed up by gluten . This is true. Those bread crumbs that found their way into a salad they ordered are going to mess up their weekend. There are seve... |
Explain like I'm 5 why children seem to have so much more energy than adults, or even old people. | Biologically, humans need to have energy until they have reproduced. Then they need to live until their offsping can be self-sustaining. After that it's all down hill. |
The difference between a 32 and 64 bit OS? | Hey, can someone include what 32- or 64-bit *clean* means while you're at it? Tx. |
Astronomers can zoom into pictures of our galaxy to see billions of stars very clearly. Why cant they zoom in to our closest solar systems and see the planets clearly? | Lets leave aside the question of brightness for a second. It's hard to see a dim planet reflecting starlight when it's right next to a big bright star. Lets look at it as a magnification problem first. Telescopes are terrific not because of how much they magnify to make things large, but instead it's how much light the... |
What allows a crankshaft to turn when engaged to a transmission that isn't turning? | it's called a torque converter. a very basic example has two major components. first is a hydraulic pump. it uses the engine's rotation to pump hydraulic fluid. the second is a turbine. it uses this moving fluid to turn the input shaft of the transmission. this means that the engine can turn faster than the transmissio... |
What is the widely accepted hypothesis as to how the Egyptian pyramids were built? | Simple tools and very long periods of time to construct with a ridiculously large workforce. New 'evidence' shows they may have had significantly more advanced tools, but not the crazy shit that the 'aliens' guy says they may have had.look up coral castle. ed leedskalnin made it all by himself and with his method the b... |
Why is FIFA considered corrupt? | They've been known to accept bribes. They have billions of dollars in reserve even though they're supposed to be a non-profit organisation. They've managed to lobby governments to change laws to benefit their cause They also support countries like Qatar which have been known to support slave labour and have terrible hu... |
Why do bugs all have more than four legs, while basically every other terrestrial animal has four or less? | Because all four legged creatures are related to one another and share a common ancestor. The four limbs has been part of our body plan since before the first fish crawled out of the water. All the creatures who something like a inner skeleton have it. Meanwhile a different more flexible body plan came up with the Arth... |
How do DJs get the individual song component tracks (synths, beats, melody, etc) to make unofficial remixes that modify all of these? | Depending on how simple a song is, it can be recreated from scratch with its component parts for a near match. This isn't too common, though. |
Why don't we eat horsemeat? | It's purely a cultural thing. Law followed. There is nothing wrong with horse or dog or cat or whatever meat that keeps you from safely eating it, so long as it's properly prepared; it's not like horse meat is inheriently poisonous. |
How has College Board, a for profit company, managed to become so essential to getting to college through the use of AP classes and the SAT/PSAT? | Created an account to comment on this. While a lot of other people have indicated that CB has been around for a while, and colleges/universities rely on the product CB created, there's a step missing that really precludes competition from creating a strong foothold to compete, and that's market saturation. Colleges, an... |
Why do pictures of screens have that striated star-like pattern? | Why don't film cameras show moirè? Because the grains of silver are arranged randomly, rather than in a grid. Can something be 'arranged' randomly? Hmmmm |
Why is wikipedia a reputable source on Reddit, but not in "real" life (college, etc.)? | For casual uses Wikipedia suffices as it isn't that bad if you are just having a generalized conversation over something. For serious uses where details and verifiability matter Wikipedia simply isn't a reliable source of information. If you've ever read an article on wikipedia that you are knowledgeable about you will... |
Why is it difficult to produce fake checks with some of the security features such as gradually fading ink and watermarks? | The equipment needed is expensive, but it's really not that difficult to make a passable fake. Problem is you also need a good fake ID if you want to cash them, which is even more difficult and people that deal with cashing checks are much more likely to notice an imperfect fake ID than an imperfect check simply becaus... |
Why do I never see cheese used in Asian Cuisine? | Idk If people have said this but I'm Asian and actually Hong Kongese people use cheese in a lot of their baked dishes so I don't know why everyone is acting like it's amazingly foreign. My people the Indonesians use cheese on our breads traditionally or pastries. So cheese is used sometimes but you're right in that it'... |
What happens to an enemy state's embassy in case of war? | Typically diplomatic staff are withdrawn before open conflict begins. If they aren't, protocol is to make arrangements to get them to the nearest neutral country.In the long term, a third country is nominated as the Protecting Power, and is responsible for protecting the property and the interests of any remaining citi... |
Why do some people have better singing voices than others? | It comes down to three factors: 1. Genetics. Some people just naturally have better control over their vocal chords and are better able to translate a mental thought into a sound. This isn't just for singing, some people just have nicer voices period then others. 2. Hearing. This kind of deals with #1 but it is very im... |
What is actually happening when I feel my stomach "drop" on quick bump on a roller coaster? | I call it the invisible tickle monster. I can't help but bust out in laughter every time.It is the kick you feel. Its Leo trying to wake you up. QUICK!your intestines are pushing up against your diaphram, which is the muscle that powers and craddles right below your lungs. the phrenic nerve which powers this muscle als... |
What does it mean when people say Canada has lower gravity in some places than other parts of the world? | All of the other answers are probably correct to some extent. In short, the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, and it's not made of perfectly uniform material. Gravity varies all over the place. The European Space Agency has a pretty cool [map] of gravity variation around the world. North Eastern Canada is pretty light, but... |
How can a schizophrenic see and hear things that aren't there? What is the human mind going through at those moments? | Brains talk to themselves all the time, connecting things around us with things remembered or imagined. Usually the brain marks thoughts from itself so you don't notice them. People with schizophrenia hear their brain talking to itself because the thoughts aren't marked as calls coming from inside the house. The brain ... |
Why do so many languages have similar words for parents (mom and dad)? | There is an ancestor language called [Proto-Indo-European] proposed to have existed more than 6000 years ago, from which many of the world's languages descend. |
Why are chiropractors not considered real doctors? | It's amazing how polarized people are about everything. I don't believe chiropractic can cure cancer or a lot of the mumbo jumbo that some Chiropractors push but I don't have the gall say there is no basis to it. Mild misalignments are bound to cause pain and discomfort. If something isn't in its original spot it can e... |
if the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole then why is it every picture of every galaxy has a bright center? | Same reason that if there's a giant rock in the middle of a forrest you can't see it from the edge. All the trees get in the way. Substitute trees for stars and rock for black hole.Light is generated by surrounding stars, while that star light gets absorbed, it is still visable due to the distance from the event horizo... |
What's a virtual machine? Why would an org run an application on one? How do they differ in cost/performance from a real computer/server? | There are lots of reasons why you would use a virtual machine. My favorite use is to put multiple functions on one physical machine. You can run multiple virtual servers on one physical machine, and have those server fill the multiple different roles for your organization. This is great for a small bussiness, that way ... |
How is gun control not a good idea? | Basically, the counter rationale falls into two camps: * Giving the government the right to control who does and doesn't have guns means resisting government oppression is harder.* Making it harder to get guns means less people can defend themselves. Note: this is not an opinionated piece, just common arguments I've he... |
why do people gain weight as they get older? | Mostly it is that people don't work off the meals they eat. We are coming up on the holidays where just about everyone over eats. But most people never really pay for that over eating. So they gain a pound or two. Same goes for birthdays and vacations. You over eat a bit and don't work it all off. Well gaining a few po... |
Why are the Dutch and other Western Europeans so much taller than everyone else? | It's funny that the average Dutch and German are both equally tall yet I only see people talking about the Dutch. Why? |
What exactly is that voice in your head? | I'm no neuroscientist, but my best guess would be since the brain has developed for a long time to receive data in certain fashions, in reproduces them to a degree when reflecting/organizing/prioritizing information. I think that say your reflections on a moral struggle during the day, could be its way of adapting itse... |
How come some fat people have loose rolls but others have really tight guts? | This depends on the fat storage in your body. Certain people are more likely to store fat *subcutaneously*, meaning under the skin, while other people are more likely to store fat *viscerally*, meaning inside the abdomen, with the body's organs. Visceral fat is more common in men, those who don't exercise, those under ... |
Why is it called Baseball World Series if it is played only in one country? | Because no other country's best team could beat even the worst MLB team. The best players in the world come to the states to play. Since this comment is controversial, I'll remind everyone that this is not my opinion, this is a fact. Baseball is big in a few other countries, but any players there that could compete wit... |
Why does a strong punch to the jaw or face knock people out? | Your brain floats in a liquid inside your skull, if you get hit hard enough and at the right angle, your brain bounces against your skull and it makes you go limp. This can happen from a direct hit anywhere to your head or from getting hit anywhere in your body hard enough to cause your brain to bounce around your skul... |
How do porn studios make money when almost everyone watches porn for free on the internet? | Web traffic and advertising. A vast number of porn websites do actually pay for the porn they're releasing for free. Websites generate a lot of cash, and use it to buy entire production catalogs.Why visit port sites at all when you can just use your imagination?I work in a sex shop and when I started working I had the ... |
How does electricity work? How does it power something? | Electricity is the movement of electrons. A generator, in order to produce electricty, in general includes a magnet, and a bunch of wires, in different configurations depending on the type of generator. The magnet moves, thus pulling the electrons around, creating electricity. This electricity can then be used for vari... |
Why do countries that oppose democratic elections, ignore human rights, and prohibit freedom of the press keep getting awarded the Olympics? | It's all about the $$$, plus the IOC has a long list of demands kinda like those rider sheets big music acts have. They need 5 star hotel penthouses for free and cars/limos, I remember hearing that they have to be greeted at the airport with gifts. Much like FIFA, the IOC likes money but the Olympics cost a ton of mone... |
If the United States spends more annually than the next three countries combined, why do certain politicians claim "we need to rebuild our military"? | The goal is not to have a larger military than someone else, the goal is to have a military capable of doing the things we want done. This is all theoretical, so forgive me if I get specific details incorrect. At a Strategic level, lets say there are a few major global issues going on that affect us, or our close allie... |
Why are apps like Discord, Teamspeak, Mumble etc inherently better than in game voice chat or the steam voice chat and is something like skype/hangouts on the same level? | ELI5: Well Mr. Desire, imagine when you want to create and play a video game with friends you need a few things: A video game company to make the game, a Voice over Internet company to make a voice chat program, and a solid Internet Service Provider. Now, if each company is purely dedicated to their specific craft, the... |
Why do modern shows like The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men look so bad? | Mostly it's the camera work but it could also be how it's rendered. They are many examples of why bad quality could happen. Most HD TVs do poorly on some shows and frame rates or the show doesn't support your TV. Some TVs has a blur effect now that tries to add frames so shows flow better but often messes it up or dist... |
Why do grape flavored things not taste like grape? | Concord grapes. Get some. Eat some. I dare you to tell me grape flavor doesn't taste like grape. I double dog dare you! |
Why the crap are the numeric keypads on a keyboard and phone reversed? Throws me off big time | The 1-on-the-bottom layout was already widespread having been used in calculators by the time touch-tone phones came out. People could type very fast on that layout, just like now. One of the first touch-tone pilot programs in the US was in the small city of Findlay, Ohio. The network that was hacked together for the c... |
Why do taxpayers front the bill for sports stadiums ? | Because the local supporters of the teams put a lot of pressure on their local governments to keep the teams in the area. The teams' owners use this as a bargaining chip to wring concessions out of local governments. I recommend watching the [Last week Tonight episode covering the subject for more information] |
Why do we feel nauseated when we try to read in a moving vehicle? | ELI5: It's motion sickness. Motion sickness is caused by your eyes seeing what your body is not feeling. In a car your body is feeling the turns of the road. If you're reading your eyes aren't seeing any of those turns, so you begin to develop motion sickness. |
Why is it that insurance is worth more than the car itself in UK and in many other countries? | You aren't required to have insurance to cover damage to your car. You are required to carry liability insurance, which covers the damage you might do to someone else. So the cost is about the damage you could do, not about the value of your car. |
Alternating Current. Do electrons keep going forwards and backwards in a wire when AC is flowing? | Side note, in addition to what everyone else say, electrons actually move backwards in a DC circuit as well. Most people imagine electrons flowing from the positive node to the negative node, and even in introductory electrical courses thats how students often visualize it, but in reality the electrons move from the ne... |
Why is the computer arrow slightly tilted? | I always assumed it was so it wouldn't block you from seeing what you're clicking on as much. |
Why do we care about the national debt? | To lower the debt the Government must raise more taxes than the money it spends. Paying off the debt is not apparently the goal of anyone in recent US Government. If the government did this, they could lower taxes slightly, but that's very, very unlikely. |
Why should I care that the NSA is "spying" on me? | Some reasons: 1- NSA scandal is just one symptom of a bigger issue: govt checks and balances have broken down. Intelligence spending and activities are out of control, military spending is out of control, citizens got panicked by 9/11 and let govt take major new powers and now govt is out of our control. 2- NSA is just... |
How/why does a show like Futurama with such an avid and wide fan base get [repeatedly] canceled? What is the logic behind it from a network standpoint? | In addition to what others have said, I think in Futurama's case the fact that it's animated didn't help it's chances either. Animated shows tend to be slower to produce and more expensive There's kind of a reason why all the big animated shows have all more or less the same theme , because that's a broad-appeal concep... |
Why is citing 20 year old books encouraged while citing Wikipedia is frowned upon? | It's not a bad idea to look at the references used in Wikipedia articles first hand. For example, if I was writing an essay on the life of *Winston Churchill*, I could visit his wikipedia article and find that during the Second Boer War, a young Churchill escaped from a prison camp. By following the source cited in the... |
Explain ADD to me, as you would my 8-year old daughter. | ADD makes people grow up slower when it comes to some kinds of feelings. These feelings normally help people filter information and behavior. Annoying things feel extra annoying. Boring things feel extra boring. And someone with ADD might not feel like doing something just because someone says so. This is still true ev... |
For ELI5 comments, could we possibly adopt r/science's policy of no joke answers being tolerated? | There'd have to be a LOT more moderators, moderating more strictly, to enforce this.No, no, please no. This is basically the difference between ELI5 and AskScience. The flexibility in the comments is much better than the rigidity in AskScience. Just use the down arrow.That's kind of like complaining about reposts. If i... |
Why do we get disgusted when we see a strand of hair in our food ? | I'm generally not disgusted. If the food was prepared by a family member I could not care less. It's definitely a how-you-were-brought-up thing, though. My parents don't care, so I don't care. |
How are people trained to withstand torture? | There are some good answers in here, but most resistance training requires people to sign NDAs, so it's hard to find out what is taught in schools most recently without somebody breaking their agreement. |
What exactly happens when gas is pumped into a running car that causes a fire or explosion? | It's usually a spark from the nearby on-location movie-set that causes the explosion. /s IOW, IRL cars don't explode at gas stations very often at all. |
why is the demographic in the emergency room the way it is? | Because hospitals are obligated to treat despite the patient's ability to pay. The poor tend to frequent ERs since that is the only place they can get care. Even for relatively minor things such as sore throats or ear aches. |
Why doesn't America get rid of the electoral college? | With or without the electoral college, no one's going to Wyoming.Let's back up a bit to the principles on which America was founded. Not this "life, liberty & pursuit of happiness" shit but the actual *organizational* principles. You 've heard of the "Thirteen Colonies", right? They were 13 separate entities, with thei... |
How come you can't localize fat burn when losing weight, but excessive alcohol consumption leads to a "beer belly"? | You can't localize gaining fat, either. Excessive calorie intake, whether from alcohol or food, will lead to weight gain. Fat deposition follows predictable patterns, although these patterns differ between men and women. Men gain a lot of that excess fat in the abdomen. |
Can you cure strep throat by drinking enough alcohol? Why or why not | Yes. Take a scalpel and cut out your throat's mucosa. Then soak it in alcohol for an hour or so. Then put it back in. If that cure is unacceptable then no. Because the bacteria that caused it won't be exposed to the alcohol long enough, or in high enough concentration to kill it. |
How do we have images of our own galaxy? | We don't. Pictures you see of the Milky Way are either artist's interpretations or renderings. We've never flown a spacecraft nearly far enough to get a picture of the actual galaxy.We have pictures of other [spiral] galaxies and we assume that ours must be similar to those, so we make up a picture based on what we kno... |
What happens to America when it can no longer pay off its debts? | Why do you think we pour money into weapons research that we don't need? If I owe you 4,000 bucks, and you have a stick, but I have a lazer scoped gun with kevlar armor, and I tell you I don't feel like paying you back, what are you going to do? Especially if I'm standing across a really wide lake? It's like that, exce... |
Why is the Mona Lisa considered such an artistic masterpiece? | There's a lot about this question I'm not qualified to answer, but I can talk about one part: if you've never seen the Mona Lisa *in person*, you've never seen it. A lot of paintings are crafted to specifically use the tools and techniques as part of the art—so I mean, oil-based paint has a shine and depth, certain pig... |
In roulette, why do the chances of a red lower if it lands on a red and vice-versa. | It doesn't. Each spin is entirely independent of previous spins. Whoever told you otherwise is wrong. |
Why has the Dow gone over 25,000 but we only have a GDP growth of 3.22%? | The value of a company is fundamentally based upon the expectation of future earnings of that company. . The current rate of growth of the GDP has increased by about 50% over the last year, and, additionally, expectations for what GDP growth will look like in the future has also increased considerably. Just 9 months ag... |
What causes a drug addict's veins to deteriorate when I've been donating plasma for months with no deterioration? | Junkies get high more often than you give plasma. They also probably don't take care of their health. Constant drug use can also effect your heart and circulatory system. Collapsing a vein can happen to anyone, junkies are just more risk prone.They also may get many infections from not being sterile. The body takes car... |
There are times when a one-way airplane ticket will cost 3 or 4 times as much than a return airplane ticket. What stops people from simply purchasing a return ticket and not returning? | I think it's in the conditions somewhere that there can be a penalty for doing it, though it's rarely/never enforced. It serves them right for having ridiculous pricing policies anyway of people do this. Why the hell should a return cost more than a one way? At worst they should be the same, but even that makes no sens... |
How does netflix make money from an original series like Jessica Jones, enough money to justify the production costs | If Netflix has 50 million subscribers, that's about $500 million per month, or $6 billlion per year in revenue. An expensive show like Marco Polo may cost $2 million per episode. Netflix has deep pockets, and they are investing money to make shows customers want to watch. |
Why is it painful to get another erection after orgasm? | Thankfully the refractory period doesn't apply to me. I can go 3 times in a row without losing my hardon. I call it my super power. Can't do it with condoms though. I am guessing condoms are my cryptonite.This is news to me.. Does that happen to a lot of guys????I only ever had a pain in my balls from getting hard afte... |
why do games have loading screens? | Okay. Imagine that playing a game is like asking your friend to give you directions when driving. You ask your friend what you should do next, and your friend tells you to go north, or take a left turn, or make a u-turn at the third light. The thing is that your friend doesn't know how to drive everywhere, and if you g... |
Why is 320kbps the standard bit rate for music and not higher? | MP3's compress audio, so it takes less space. Digital storage is measured in bits. Humans can generally hear sounds as high as 20kHz in frequency. To store all sounds up to 20kHz digitally, we need to store it at 40kHz. CD's use 44.1kHz. I'll use 48kHz because I can. 48kHz means we record sound 48 000 times per second.... |
Why do some smokers live to be 90+ and some don't make it past 40? | The toxins and carcinogens in the smoke react differently in different people. Some of it has to do with genetics and how much you smoke. Sometimes it's a crap shoot. Though it is very likely that the smoke could cause damaging effects, there are people that experience little-to-no long-term problems.I see. Thank you. ... |
What's the big deal with watching sports? | What's the big deal about watching or doing anything? People are going to like different things than you. Time to grow up little five year old and realize that. |
Why is out of school suspension used as a punishment for students when getting out of school for a long period of time is almost generally enjoyed? | Out of school suspension is sometimes used as a method to make the children's ill behavior the parents problem. If the child is of an age that they cannot stay at home alone, the parent then has to take off of work to stay with the child which makes the parent realize that there is a problem. I do not understand why th... |
Why do most men go bald, in spite of all the testosterone? | So scientists don't know exactly why male pattern baldness happens but, found it's cause to be from DHT from testosterone settling around the scalp. DHT strains the follicle productivity, causing hair to thin and eventually to stop producing. There are some remedies that can help however. Like drinking certain teas, es... |
If 0.33333....×3=0.9999... and 1/3×3=1. How does 0.3333....=1/3 | 0.999 = 1. So there's no contradiction. The is notation for an infinite series, and the limit of that sum is 1. It's like how 0.5 + 0.5 and 1 have the same value, but they're two different ways of writing the same thing.Because .99999999999999999 . = 1. What you wrote is one such proof, but i prefer the following proof... |
What exactly is dry cleaning? | It's a washing process that uses a non-polar solvent instead of water.A big portion of the water quality issues associated with Fort Bragg in NC are attributed to an old dry cleaning business that used to be nearby. They allegedly just dumped the used perchloroethylene out back of the store> During the process the solv... |
If a woman under 18 gives birth, do they legally have custody? | Minors become emancipated if they have a kid, unless, as other posts have mentioned, there is some other reason why they can't have custody.Yes. In my state, there is no difference in a 13 year old having a baby than there is in a 33 year old having a babyUsually they will, but it really depends on the country. Do you ... |
If people keep dying and we keep burying them, won't we run out of land eventually? | The land area of Earth is roughly 150,000,000 km2. That's 150trillion square meters. Assuming each person takes up two square meters and no plots are reused, that's 75 trillion people. We're a long way short of running out of space. And even then, not everyone is buried, and many burials aren't permanent. So - no, it a... |
Why is getting up early considered such a virtue? | Around here, mostly it's tradesmen that start early. Fair enough if you're working inside a roof in summer because that can be dangerous, but it's not about that. I was talking to one old sparkie, and he admitted that it was mostly to avoid the traffic: at the job before the morning rush, and knock off around 2:30 befo... |
How do waiters and waitresses remember what dish goes to what table, when they are not numbered, in a large restaurant? | One of the first thing you learn on a job are table numbers. The table itself may not have a place card on it, but there's usually a map of the dining room posted somewhere in the back or as part of the terminal the server uses to ring in orders. When a bill gets printed to the kitchen it will include the table number ... |
How is it legal for companies to keep all of their money over seas to avoid paying taxes while their company is based in the United States? | The real question is why should a US company pay taxes on money earned overseas when that country's tax has already been paid? |
Why are peanuts banned from schools but not workplaces? Does the danger of an allergic reaction decrease with age? | In part, because the ban for schools is a little bit ridiculous. When I grew up, kids all over took pb & j to school and the world did not come to an end. It's both over-diagnosed and improperly-diagnosed . It is genuinely serious for those who have it but here are the [stats].They are banned in some schools, not all s... |
If our stomach acid is so strong, why do things that make us sick/give us food poisoning not get destroyed during digestion? | Great question. When we eat food the stomach helps break it down but not so much that we end up with elemental carbon in our gut instead of sugars fats and proteins right? So it helps break the food up but doesn't destroy everything like ripping apart protein chains. Food poisoning may usually be caused by bacteria, bu... |
If energy cannot be created (or destroyed), how did it come about? | Total energy of the universe is conserved only if the laws of the universe don't change in time ). We don't know which laws of physics, if any, existed before the Big Bang, but we can't expect them to be the same as post-Big Bang , so we can't expect energy to be conserved in that moment.It's like asking how "red" or "... |
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