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what happens to bullets after they are shot into the sky? | They come back down. In relatively crowded areas, this can and has resulted in deaths, particularly in some Middle Eastern, Balkan and South Asian cultures where firing weapons into the air is a culturally accepted thing done at celebrations. In the middle of towns. Yeah. America's pretty bad about it too. _URL_0_", 'W... |
Why do we have names for denominations of cents but not for denominations of dollars (US) | We do nickname bills. There are descriptive terms such as C-note , grand , and the $1 bill is a buck or greenback . You can also use the name of the person on that denomination, such as Benjamin or Jackson . Similarly, the names for American coins are mostly related to their value, composition, or image. - The cent is ... |
Why can't music damage the dopamine system in brain like drugs do? | In theory it could, but the sheer number of receptors being triggered etc is just massively differentThe theory is that specific drugs act as a sensitized incentive wherein the drug's salience is increased. In the dopamine hypothesis of drug addiction, this sensitization results in dopamine receptor downregulation and ... |
Is there any scientific evidence that vaping (or using e-ciggarettes) is bad for your health (short and long term)? | There has only been a short amount of time that these have been available so long term effects are still being studied.It depends on what you're vaping. If it's pure PG/VG with no flavors or nicotine, you're just getting water vapor. If you're using plastic hardware and acidic vape juice, it might be leaching chemicals... |
Rainbows supposedly only form when your back is facing the sun. Once in my life, i saw one facing the sun. What can cause this? | I did a little bit of looking, and it may not have been a rainbow. There are way more [things that look like rainbows] than I thought. Check out that site there and see if anything looks similar. I have seen upside down rainbows, and apparently those are called circumzenithal arcs, but they are not technically rainbows... |
When Reddit give a site the "Reddit hug of death" will it come back online by itself when traffic dies down or does it require human intervention? | Imagine someone wrote on a men's room wall: "op's mom gives $2 blow jobs 555-555-5555".So a bunch of guys call that number, and once one guy gets a proper suck-job, he tells his friends. They start calling and eventually the line is ringing non-stop. You call and all you get is a busy signal. Eventually traffic dies do... |
How is purple a mixture of red and blue if red doesn’t get anywhere near blue on the color spectrum? | Purple doesn't exist in the light spectrum at all. The reason you see it has to do with how your eyes see color. Your eyes have three different types of cells that respond to color : one that responds best to red but will also respond to things around red on the light spectrum, one that responds best to blue, and one t... |
How can they accurately give examples of 4k resolution in advertisements seen on 1080p televisions? | They don't, if you have a 1080p TV then everything is at most 1080p. They probably went out of their way to provide a *great* quality 1080p clip to try and convince you of the possible quality 4K can offer.So, when you have an image that is not the same resolution as your screen resolution, but still want to display it... |
Why is American football scored the way it is? | This gets asked literally every Sunday, often on Thursdays, too. It comes from rugby scoring. It used to be that a field goal was worth 3, a try was worth 1, until they realised that a try was much harder to win than a field goal, and made the game more exciting. |
What is a doctor looking for when they say "you have the hands of a surgeon/painter/musician"? | Musicians tend to have extremely flexible joints in their fingers. A lot of normal people are not able to move their fingers to the same extent as most musicians . Maybe that's what they noticed in your hands?", 'Dexterity. Musicians, painters and surgeons all require an extreme amount of dexterity in their fingers to ... |
The priest molestation scandals in the movie Spotlight | I didn't see the movie, but I know the statute of limitations applied in many clergy abuse cases. This means that victims only had so long to press charges against abusers after their 18th birthday. This has been improved in many states, but still needs work. Edit: For those interested in the statute of limitations of ... |
Why do English classes focus so much on how an author conveys a point (metaphor, motif, symbolism ext.) instead of the actual commentary or position that the book takes? | If your teacher explains the meaning of a book to you, you will understand that book. If they explain how authors make their points through literary devices, you will be able to understand every book you read in the future. |
Certain news channels are clearly biased and sometimes very misleading. Why hasn't this been made illegal yet? | Because that's pretty much exactly the thing that protection of free speech is there for. The government can't come in and tell you that you aren't allowed to spread your political opinions. It is not their place to judge those opinions for their merit. |
Why are there common dreams? | Many dreams are due to combining remembered sensations with the sensations you are experiencing in bed. When you are dreaming, so don't feel the feedback from the real world, beyond what your brain imagines. When when you jump, you don't automatically feel the force of gravity pulling you back down, leading to floating... |
how does an ice bath help muscle recovery? | It doesnt. It slows down biological activity in the muscle, slowing any damage being done, such as that from lactic acid . Heat helps recovery, cold hinders damagealright im 16 lemme try, maybe its because C3H6O3 needs oxygen to be made , but when its colder, less O2 tends to bind to hemoglobin , so less O2 -- > less l... |
Why are the roofs of our mouths ridged/textured? | Rugae! There is speculation that it either helps with breaking down food, or with speech. It's not definitely known if either or both are the real reason. I make dentures for a living and in some we put a false rugae. |
why does the food taste weird/different when i'm sick? | So, a big part of taste is smell. When you eat, what influences your taste of the food is it's smell. This is one reason behind the "hold your nose and swallow" thing. When you have a cold, sinus infection, any congestion illness, your sense of smell is hampered and that takes away a big part of a food's taste. This is... |
Why is Trans-racial more absurd than trans-sexual? | In short, there's thousands of years of evidence showing that transgender people have existed for all of human history, there's scientific studies that show physical differences in the brains of transgender people, there's cultures that have made special places for trans people in them over time. Trans-racial has none ... |
How do food & drink makers mimic the taste of fruit? | Yo ho ho! Yer not alone in askin\', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: How do they make artificial flavors taste like certain fruits without using any of the actual fruit? ]1. [ELI5: how are fruity flavours replicated for foods and drinks without actually adding fruit? ]1. [Do artificial fruit flavors really ... |
What are the advantages/disadvantages of monorail systems versus dual-railed systems? | Suspended monorails take less ground space, and less materials to build. Ground based monorails, there are no savings I can fathom.According to [this article], Monorail is more expensive to install. It is, however, far more adaptable to a built up urban environment. I'm fairly certain that the minimum radius for a turn... |
Argentina's currency devaluation. | Argentine here. The government spends more money than it collects in the form of taxes. Since we lost access to capital in 2002 when we had the biggest debt default in history, the government cannot go to the market to borrow this money as countries like the US do. This means that it must make for this shortfall by pri... |
Does the length of a charging cord have any affect on how fast my phone charges? | There is minimal resistance in a cord, but again this is minimal and won't have much of a noticeable effect. |
Why can't fighter jets reach outer space just like normal spaceships do? | Spaceships carry both fuel and oxidizer with them, whereas jets carry fuel only and use the atmosphere to provide the oxidizer. As the jets fly higher up, the atmosphere get's thinner, meaning there is less oxygen available for combustion, which is how you push the plane or the rocket in the first place. In addition, w... |
If we get less Testorone and Estrogen as we age, why do we not get supplements to avoid as an example, decreased bone density. | The problem with those treatments is that they often ruin more than they solve. Take estrogen for example. Postmenopausal hormone treatment has been done in the past. It turned out to increase the risk of uterine cancer. Then they tried estrogen + progesterone hormone treatment, except that increase the risk of breast ... |
How does somebody develop Paranoid Schizophrenia? | Although it isn't really understood, as is the case with a lot of mental health conditions, there is a lot fo evidence that it is largly genetic. However a genetic predisposition to the condition isn't a gaurentee that a person will develop it, and there is suggestion that it generally presents when combined with envir... |
What would happen if you were just outside the blast radius of a nuclear bomb? | It sort of depends on what you mean by "just outside" the blast radius. Nuclear weapons result in several effects: * Explosion/Blast* Thermal Radiation* Ionizing Radiation* Residual Radiation The amount and distance of each of these depends on the kind of weapon. For some, the blast radius is larger than the thermal ra... |
How Does Gut Microflora link to Allergies | The bacteria and other gut flora are in close contact with your immune system, which has to be on guard to look for pathogens coming into your body from your gut. Your body will recognize gut flora as "normal", because you need gut flora for vitamin absorption. Because the immune system recognizes them as normal part o... |
Why are small floating objects so hard to scoop out of water? | Due to surface tension, the small objects "stick" to the surface. When you try to scoop it out, you push against the nearby water. Since water can't be compressed, this triggers flows and eddies. The small object rides on those eddies and seems to skip out of your grasp nearly as quickly as you move your hand through t... |
Monte Carlo Method/Simulation - Financial Sector | The Monte Carlo method is used to estimate the probability of an outcome when directly calculating that probability is either impossible or too complex to be feasible. The outcome trying to be determined is usually dependent on multiple variables. Some of them known and some unknown. In the Monte Carlo method, the outc... |
How are the same species of fish found in multiple non-connected lakes? | Just because they're not connected today doesn't mean they've never been connected, like in a flood. Or the last Ice Age. Even if they've never been connected, birds can still transfer fish eggs. Tornadoes can transfer fish eggs.Most likely because at some point they were connected, by stream, or perhaps by a flash flo... |
Could the amount of solar panels and small wind turbines you could reasonably fit on a car produce enough electricity to make a self-sustaining electric car? | wind turbines are no go, they would produce more drag than the power they produce. Lets assume your car is 6' wide and 20' long and lets assume you can lay out panels completely covering a nice flat roof somehow solar panels can generate about 9watts/sq ft and we figure 120sqft. Roughly 1000watts in ideal conditions. A... |
Why its hard to remove hyperlinks in word? | The idea is probably to make it difficult for you to accidentally remove a source. Undoing a bolding is one thing, but if you remove a source, you may have to go track it down again, and good luck with that. There are ways in Word to remove autolinking that another user has posted. If you're copy-pasting something, whe... |
Why do Snipers or Archers hold their breaths when focusing/aiming down the sight/scope? | Prevents movement of the chest cavity, which improves aim. Properly done you breath in, and them slowly exhale as a very fine control over your rifle barrel for very controlled aim', "Because you aim with your entire body when shooting correctly. There's a term called, 'natural point of aim', the state your body is whe... |
How are musical tastes developed? | I would say, if you like rock music, you were having a good time when you were first exposed to it, and your brain associated that song with good feelings, then probably you kept listening to similar songs and this association and taste developed. |
Why does my blood not fall to my feet? | That's the primary role of the heart. The heart is a pump that moves the blood all throughout the body. Think of it like a hose hooked up to an electric pump. The hose is full of water, completely full of water, and hooked up to the pump at both ends. While the pump is active, the pump is pushing the water through the ... |
Why does our saliva become a thin, watery consistency when nauseous/throwing up? | Your body pumps out extra saliva to help protect your throat and teeth from the stomach acid that's going to be coming up.there are different types of saliva. * serous: primarily water & digestion chemicals * mucus: primarily mucin , electrolytes, water, fats They have different consistencies, and will be released @ di... |
Why do I never feel "fully awake" until evening? | I notice exercise is not mentioned in your basic description above. If you are not getting some form of physical activity that gets your heart and lungs working and little sweat going, that could be the key to your issue. It can be surprising to people how a little bit, everyday will change your alertness levels to be ... |
How touch screen devices work | There are two types of touchscreen commonly used. The first is called capacitive and depends on the ability of your fingers to conduct electricity to work. A transparent conducting surface is put in a thin layer over the screen; when you touch this surface with your finger, the electrical field on the surface changes, ... |
Why when falling, we flail our arms and legs | I've always believed it was an instinctual response in an attempt to regain balance. Your body doesn't know how far it's going to fall it just knows you are falling and wants to get your feet under your center of mass.Part of it is that your body may be flailing the arms in order to try and find something to grab onto ... |
How does a Queen of England choose her King? | When there is a Queen on the ruling throne, there is no King. Her spouse will have another, lower title , or Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh). She may marry anyone she chooses, but in reality will tend to choose someone of noble heritage. When she dies, he is not her heir, because he is not ... |
How can we listen to the winds of a probe landing on Titan, but we arent able to acquire video footage of its landing. | Audio is much easier to transmit than video because of the bandwidth requirements. Microphones are also much simpler devices than a camera. Camera's would require moving parts and circuitry that could fail, especially when exposed to a harsh environment. Microphones are basically just a diaphragm that reacts to sound w... |
whats the purpose of the lacing on a basketball? | When you cover the ball in leather you can sew all the seams on the inside but the last one. And of course you can't grow a cow in the shape of a football to make it seamless. |
What actually causes a sonic boom? | Imagine a boat on the water. It has a series of bow-waves in front of it. An object in the air has a similar set of waves in the air in front of it. They move at the speed of sound. As the object gets faster, these waves get closer and closer together. When the object reaches the speed of sound, the waves aren't able t... |
Why do most car wheels have five spokes? | Four is not nearly as strong as 5 because the separation is too even. 5 is the least number that can be very-very strong.I think it's a combination of minimal material and stability. With 5, if you lose one you still have at least one other leg supporting in the same half. Also, no spoke is directly across from another... |
Do Australians call November, December the summer months, or do they just know summer as a cold season and winter as hot? | Summer = Dec - FebAutumn = Mar - MayWinter = Jun - AugSpring = Sep - Nov Summer break is from mid December to end of Jan but we call it Christmas Holidays rather than Summer break. |
What is the difference, if any, between extra strength Tylenol over the counter vs. prescription? | Honestly, there's not a whole lot of reason to. Typically over the counter Tylenol will be a 200 mg dose, while prescription may be 1000 mg. You could take five over the counter pills and get *almost* the same result . That said, always talk to your doctor and ask for clarification, they're much more reliable than some... |
Why do you feel more tired after waking up really early than you had before you fell asleep? | Sleep is a hormonal state. Depending on which stage of sleep you wake up from, you may have tons of heavy sleep hormones in your system. If you wake from deep sleep then your body is still in deep sleep mode, and stays that way for quite a whileThere are a 5 stages of sleep. the most notable of the 5 are REM and just s... |
Why have people always craved gold, so intensely, for so long? Starting from ancient civilisations up until the rich of modern day? | Gold is a pretty unique element. It is one of the few metals that is found in a relatively pure form in nature . It is one of the only metals that is not silvery-grey in color , and it is one of the least reactive substances you're likely to find--gold does not tarnish in commonly-found environments. Even gold that has... |
When drinking alcohol, what "breaking the seal" is. | "Breaking the seal" refers to the first time you urinate after drinking. It really doesn't work the way it's commonly purported to - that is, urinating doesn't actively _make_ you urinate more frequently afterwards, and trying to hold it in longer doesn't prevent more urine from being produced. All that marks is the ap... |
In Canada, how is it that there are so many marijuana dispensary stores (especially in recent years)? | It's not worth law enforcement time honestly to double check dispensaries for illegal activities. You'll hear of the occasional raid but by in large law enforcement has accepted the inevitable.They sell medical marijuana, and there are doctors affiliated with them that will very likely be willing to prescribe you some ... |
Why don't rich EU nations financially support other EU nations in the same way that rich US states support under-performing states? | As you can see from the tble in [this] article, they doThey have done, but since giving more money to people/governments who have fucked up their own money never leads to balanced outcomeThe huge difference between Europe and the US and the comparison you make is that within the US there is pretty much one government a... |
How does a computer interact with the mouse? | It depends on the type of mouse. An optical or laser USB mouse works by illuminating the surface beneath it. A sensor then takes a picture and compares how the surface moved between the pictures that where taken previously. These informations will then be translated into 2 numbers, X and Y movements. This is the moveme... |
Is it necessary to wait 1 day before going again to gym? | No it is not necessary. While it is good to give your muscles a rest after working them out, this can easily be maneuvered around by working on different muscles different days. Back and biceps one day; chest, shoulders and triceps the next; legs the third. Then your back and biceps should've had enough rest to work th... |
Why do you get heavier when you go "limp"? | You don't. What makes it harder to lift someone when they go limp is basically about finding a good hand hold that provides a level lift. If you have to use extra strength to grip them, that's strength you can't use to lift them. |
Why is it unhealthy to eat late at night/prior to sleeping? | I dont believe its unhealthy. This is a common misconception.It's not that it's unhealthy to eat at that time. The problem is that late night eating is usually an extra meal that you normally wouldn't be eating. If it's just a late dinner, you may end up eating a larger than normal meal because you're hungrier or becau... |
Why does the power go out for only a second during a storm? | When the power flickers, it is typically just a lightning surge. Surge protection works by detecting a large rise in current and then diverting all of the incoming current directly to a life safety ground. During this, there is no power going into the building as it is all being diverted to ground. Once the surge prote... |
Why it was necessary or even desirable for Facebook to float (IPO) | Basically the SEC forced them to do it. People with large holdings have been trading shares of Facebook on secondary markets for a while now as more VC firms/ hedge funds wanted to have their name associated with Facebook. This trading is legal if the company is worth less than a certain amount or if there are less tha... |
How the moon affects the oceans | Like any object, the moon has gravity. That gravity holds the moon in orbit, but is also pulls on everything on Earth. On any individual thing on Earth, the pull is very minimal compared to the pull of the Earth, but when applied to all the water in the oceans, it's sufficient to cause it to bulge slightly. Coupled wit... |
Why does bread get moldy while cookies only go stale? | The sugar content and lower levels of moisture will prevent cookies from molding as quickly as bread. I would be very surprised if they never decomposed due to mold thoughSupermarket bread goes mouldy because it has all sorts of weird moisture retaining stuff going on and then lives in plastic bags. Bread made plainly ... |
Why sometimes when I wake up from a nights rest I feel refreshed while others times it feels like I just woke up from a coma? | Sleep cycles. When you wake up at the end of a cycle, it's a nice smooth, natural wake up. When you wake up in the middle of one , it's coma time |
Why can teenagers be charged as adults for crimes? | In certain circumstances, the courts are allowed to make the determination that a crime was committed with full understanding of the consequences. If a teen is found to have acted with both understanding of and blatant disregard for the law, they can be treated as an adult. In other words, if you knew it was wrong and ... |
Why is it more difficult to wake up when its raining/cloudy outside? | Your body produces a hormone called Melatonine, and the production of this hormone is tied to the day/night cycle, or more explicit to your exposure to light. If it gets dark, your body starts producing the hormone which makes you tired and sleepy . The daylight in the morning inhibits the production of Melatonine and ... |
Why are Paul Krugman and Steven Keen having a fight? | This can't really be explained in really simple terms but I'll try. Half of the debate is about philosophy of science. Most modern macroeconomics is based around something called Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. They are basically mathematical models, equations which show how an economy works. Most of the... |
how do regular people communicate using sign language? | Can you understand Swahili or Icelandic? If you learn what the expressions, motions, and actions mean, then any group sounds or motions can be made into a language.Are they actually using sign language or are they just communicating with gestures? If it's just gestures, there are some commonly known, some internally , ... |
Why do videos appear less comedic when shown to a friend, or even a group of people, rather than yourself? | It's tempered by your own fear that they won't find it funny. And unlike telling a joke, there's no way you can use your own delivery to make it funnier, or change it to get to the punchline quicker if you find they're zoning out. |
Why isn't the excess heat from our dryers and water heaters somehow filtered and used to help heat our homes in the winter instead of being funneled out of the house? | By code, you can't have anything in the path of a dryer vent. Lint would get caught and be a fire hazard. Plus your dryer doesn't run often. Electric water heaters don't waste a lot of heat. You could do it with gas water heaters, but we don't. The R & D probably isn't worth it. Or the build cost.In my house, the water... |
Why is hail so much more uncommon than rain or snow? | Hail is not simply water falling from the sky as ice. It is not just frozen rain. It requires a summer thunderstorm. Hail is formed when a small ice crystal in a tall thunderstorm cloud is blown *upwards* allowing it to gather more ice. Then as it falls back down, the small ball of ice is often blown upwards again allo... |
What is ear wax and what is the proper way to clean your ears? | Ear wax is a yellow waxy substance, it's in human, and many other mammals. It's there to protect the skin, clean inside the ear, and to lubricate inside the ear. It also protects from bacteria, fungi, insect, and water.From what I've read, washing the outside of your ear and putting drops of baby oil, mineral oil, glyc... |
How exactly does astrology predict one's personality traits? | Simple use as vague of descriptive language as possible and paint with as wide of brush as possible and suckers will believe it because they want to believe it, so they will turn a blind eye to the fact that it is obviously fake.It doesn't. Those stars are trillions of miles away and have no bearing on your life. |
How do criminal bonds work? | Bail isn't used for anything ideally. It's held by the court, and then given back to you when you show up at the required time. The bondsman just loans you the amount necessary to pay bail, and you agree to have the court pay him back directly. This only breaks down if you decide to not show up to court. Then you don't... |
If someone were to dip a live electrical wire into the ocean, wouldn't everyone swimming in the ocean at that time be electrocuted? | No. Electricity moves from one place to another place, along the path of least resistance. It doesn't spread out and electrocute everything that happens to be in the same body of water. In the case of an electrical wire in the ocean, it'd likely prove dangerous to things within a few feet of it , but that's about it. |
Heat Pipes and Vapor Chambers | A heat pipe is a hollow tube filled with a liquid that boils and condenses at proper temperatures. The tube is designed so liquids will flow towards one end and gases will flow towards the other. The liquid end is attached in some way to whatever needs to be cooled, say a CPU. When the CPU heats up, the liquid in the t... |
Why do we not have cross console online multiplayer? | It has been done, but it's kind of rare. With PC and consoles though, it doesn't tend to work well, as usually the PC players have the upper hand, thanks to using keyboard/mouse instead of a controller. Also I should imagine it's easier to keep the auth/integration systems separate than getting them to play nice with e... |
How do we decide that two languages are different languages, not different dialects? | There's not really a defined difference between them but it's much more of a question of conventionality. There's the joke answer linguists typically give: "A language is a dialect with an army and navy"Mutually intelligibility is one of the main factors used to make this determination. If two people can easily underst... |
the differences between all of the different denominations of Christianity? | There are a LOT of denominations. Many have sub groups with their own differences. It would be hard to describe all of the differences. However I would note that some of the ones you mentioned in your post are different enough that they are usually considered a separate church altogether. LDS is definitely an offshoot ... |
Why does chipped silverware have that metally taste when the rest of it, which is made of the same thing, taste inert? | Is this actual silverware, or flatware? Is it possible that it's electroplated nickel silver instead of pure silver or stainless steel?", 'It may be due to the [*rust*] that forms over the silver. The metal oxidizes, and is not inert, so that is most likely what you are tasting. |
How are an airplane's wings attached to the body? | I used to work for a precision machining facility where we machined gear beams, spars, pylons, weapon bay doors, and other cool stuff. Anyway, the wing-spars were machined out of heat treated aluminum IIRC. Airplane wings consist of multiple spars, which are anchored to each other and other parts. Here is a good [diagr... |
Why won't most countries cooperate and just try to wipe out isis immediately, when they now made the statement, they will fight till they conquered the world? | Nutjobs call for world dominance all the time. If ISIS was an actual threat to the world they'd have been wiped out long ago. |
Are there any consequences for racers who cause a massive crash? | It depends. F1 is the only racing sports I am familiar with, so I can only talk for that, but drivers can be penalised for causing a crash or forcing an opponent off track, but it is going to depend on various factors. Just because a driver causes a crash, doesn't mean they acted dangerously or there was ill intent. It... |
Why did the founding father choose for nine supreme court justices. Why not 13 or 7 ... why nine? | They didn't. The Constitution says that Congress selects the number of Justices. The original Court has 6 justices, and the Court has been as large as 10. The current number of 9 justices has been around since 1869.Because only 9 rings of power were given to mortal men. |
how could getting a raise result in taking home less money? | Many people mistakenly believe that a raise that bumps them into a higher tax bracket can result in decreased take-home pay because their income will be taxed at a higher rate. This is not how taxes work. All of the money that you make in the lower tax bracket is taxed at the lower rate, while the excess money that you... |
Aside from taking Adderall, why does it seem some people have more mental "stamina" for being creative and studying? | Some of it is habit, but a lot of things can affect this. Individual brain chemistry can, of course, but also minor things like blood sugar. |
- How do they decided who wins staged wrestling matches such as those in the WWE | It's just writing. It's like asking who wins the game of paintball on that episode of Community. Whoever the writers think would make the best story, or be most interesting, or would develop future stories to make them most interesting. It's just a soap opera performed in front of a live audience where people sometimes... |
Why does food taste so much better when you're drunk? | I'm Interested in this answer too. I'm guessing it's something that the alcohol does to the brain to numb parts that are associated with discomfort/unpleasentness. If this is true it would explain things feeling less harmful to you than normal, the want of people to smoke cigarettes without a problem, how good laying d... |
How is it possible for King to trademark the word "Candy" | The same way that Microsoft can have trademarks on words like access, outlook, and windows. Trademarks are a strong but extremely limited form of intellectual property right. It doesn't let them own a word in all context, only in the limited context of the type of item they are selling, and only to the degree that some... |
If Mohamad himself said protect Christians to the end of time why are isis "Muslims" executing them? | Just like every crazy religous fantastics they cherry pick what they want listen to', "I don't want to come off as a complete asshole when I say this, but Imagine you have 10,000 ISIS members from a bunch of backwater third world shithole countries. How many of those people do you suppose can even read, let alone have ... |
What exactly is a pyramid scheme. | If you give me $5 I will tell you what a pyramid scheme is. Then, you can charge people $3 each for you to tell them what it is. They in turn can charge $1 each to tell people. The person at the top gets the most money, and each level below me gets less and less until we reach the bottom layer who pretty much gets scre... |
difference between charge, credit, and debit cards | Debit card: you spend and the money comes direct from your bank account straight away. Credit card: you spend and the amount is added to a monthly bill. When your bill arrives, if you pay in full usually you pay no interest. You must pay a minimum amount , anything you don't pay carries over with interest until you eve... |
Why you get a physical "sinking" feeling in response to emotional stress... | The fact that emotional responses include how organs behave: some things tighten up, some things get faster, etc.. Feelings aren't all just in the mind; the whole body reacts. The brain is not somehow separate from everything else, controlling how they respond. Rather, it is just another organ tied into a loop of actio... |
Why is it harder to move my toes individually as opposed to my fingers? | You have more motor units in your hands than you do in your feet. Which allows you to have more precise, coordinated movement with your fingers than your toes EDIT: If you look up a homunculus it's a rather good model for showing what parts of the human body have more motor units and therefore more precise control. The... |
When I use my milk frother with local dairy milk, it won't froth - why? | Yes the fat content. I'm assuming your local dairy milk was not skimmed? Skim milk froths the best, a tip for your next latte. :)", 'I had the same thing happen with any brand of organic milk and a Nespresso milk frother . I would love to hear why |
How does Google maps and other navigation systems provide to-the-minute traffic updates? | Google has millions of traffic sensors in each city. Every single Android device is a traffic sensor. Additionally google bought Waze, which users add incidents when they encounter them. So it's also crowd sourced data |
What is that new car smell caused by, and why does it fade away as you begin to use the car? | The smell is volatile organic chemicals that is emitted from the plastics after being formed from injection molding. It's kinda like how some people think gasoline has a good smell, it's a chemical that is not necessarily good for you. |
Why do batteries go in opposite directions? | Because they are wired in series, so each battery's positive terminal is connected to the next battery's negative terminal. Alternating the orientations of the batteries makes it possible to do this with less wire.Usually the metal tabs/springs that make contact with the batteries are connected together on one side. So... |
Why do phone screens, with high pixel density and resolution, look far less impressive and crisp as a Monitor or TV with the same ~4k resolution? | For the most part, I think phone screens are generally only at 2k resolution right now. There are rumors of 4k screens coming soon, but that is one large difference. Some of it may also depend on what kind of phone screen it is as well as your brightness setting. Size is another factor. The pixel density is better on a... |
Why are so many of Samsung's seemingly unrelated (washing machines AND tablets) catching fire or exploding? | Samsung's smart phones catching fire isn't something that never happens with other types of phones, but it was happening more frequently with their phones due to a faulty battery design. This prompted a recall and a huge media focus on the company for allowing such a thing to be released. Washing machines also sometime... |
How do immigrants in America seem to open up a business (like a gas station) so quickly when it seems like they are living in poverty where they came from? | Very often, those individuals get loans and support from other successful immigrants in their community or family. For example, someone who comes to the US and opens a gas station may have an uncle who already own several gas stations. That uncle may provide the loan for the initial build and start up fees, as well as ... |
Why does steam make it easier to breath when congested? | Dried mucus blocks the passage of air. By breathing in steam, the mucus gets wet and breaks up, alleviating some of the blockage. |
Does listening to the same music track on loop can cause some kind of confusion/brain damage? | it's not really about it causing any kind of damage, they're wondering why you don't get sick of it after that long. |
The bashing of the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch? | He said, basically, "we don't want fat people to buy our clothes because they're ugly and gross". That's really shittyA & F doesn't make women's clothes in XL. The CEO is on record saying that it's intentional because they don't want their brand associated with fat people because it would scare away their core customer... |
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