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How do you determine the rate heat will expand an object? | What you're looking for is called the [coefficient of thermal expansion]. It's different for every material, and is in units of K^, or sometimes percentage per K. For example, a gas with a coefficient of 1%/K would expand by 10% if you raised the temperature by 10K. Since every material is different, you pretty much ha... |
What is a credit card report, what is your credit score and what is the big deal about it? | Credit is basically your financial "word". It shows how you payback borrowings and how reliable you are at paying back your bills |
Why do Japanese comedians pretend to "fall over"? | Exaggeration for comedic effect, they aren't falling over because it is funny but because it is shocking. I do love Gaki though, but you realise after awhile a lot of their responses are all exaggerations. But they do it so well I can suspend the disbelief and usually have a great time watching it every year. |
Why do you sometimes get the chills when you go from air conditioning to extreme heat? | 113°F ? Where are you anyway? Answer: Most of the reason is because your body is not regulating blood flow properly due to one of these most likely: 1) infection or a deficiency of some sort 2) malfunctioning thyroid causes hypothyroidism and may effect blood flow or metabolism 3) Anemia because red blood cells are not... |
What is "doping" in cycling and why is it illegal? | Doping in cycling typically refers to the use of any kind of performance enhancing drug. The actual term doping, I believe, comes from the term "blood doping" which means to artificially increase your red blood cell count. A lot of cyclists that have been caught cheating recently have been using something called EPO wh... |
Is being "Indicted" the same as being "Charged" with a crime? | No. To be indicted means that a government lawyer goes before a group of people -- a "grand jury" -- and presents enough evidence to persuade them that the government should be allowed to try to convict someone of a crime. It's meant as a safeguard. For example, a government lawyer can't be like: > I really dislike the... |
Why does it happen that we tend to remember some words not by their meaning, but by the context they were used in? | That's how you naturally learn language. The meaning of many words aren't particularly helpful because to understand the meaning you need to have sufficient past context Let's take sit as an example. What's the meaning of "to sit"? > \xa0to rest on the buttocks or haunches\xa0sit\xa0in a chair\xa0—often used with\xa0do... |
Do cows get pleasure when they are milked? | Bro-in-law is a dairy farmer, seems to be a sense of relief, as they get uncomfortable when fullI have a related question: How do you keep the cows lactating all year round?Speaking purely as a mother of 4 who breastfed then I agree wholeheartedly with strayacarnt - there is nothing like the relief of emptying over ful... |
Why can a person sing with another singer or music but not by themselves? | You don't have to find the note if it's being produced for you. If you start out sounding flat compared to the recording, you adjust. If you're rushing or dragging, the recording will pull you back into correct time. No such luxury when you're singing solo. It's like the difference between drawing from a reference phot... |
[biology] What is the difference (functionally) between a diarrhetic and a laxative? | From DiPiro : "laxatives are divided into three classifications: those causing softening of feces in 1 to 3 days , those resulting in soft or semifluid stool in 6 to 12 hours , and those causingwater evacuation in 1 to 6 hours −electrolyte lavage solution)." so basically they make bowel movements easier by making the s... |
why when walking into the wind is it warmer with your back turned walking backwards than walking forward ? | Direct wind contact results in the coldest feeling because of evaporating moisture and because the air around you that is being continuously warmed by your body is quickly taken away and replaced by colder air, so that's why the side facing the wind is colder. A couple things are usually a bit different about the front... |
Why do strong cell phone signals sometimes provide no data? | No matter how strong the cell signal, your speed is also limited by how much bandwidth is available from the tower through the carrier network and to the internet. Consider being at a stadium for example--your signal will be great if you are there buy yourself or if there are 80000 people in the stands, but try using t... |
What happens to a wasp when I hit it with RAID? | Insecticides are neurotoxins, they're the insect equivalent of satin of VX. They work by interfering with the operation of the insect's nervous system. In addition to the actual neurotoxins, insecticides will also include compounds that break down the insect's waxy coating, allowing the neurotoxins to enter more quickl... |
Why is there no thunder and lightning in the winter even though there are snow "storms"? | There is lightning and thunder in snowstorms. It is called thundersnow. While it does happen, it is rare. It is rare because of the temperature differences for winter storms is much less than in warmer storms.There can be but it's rare. Lightning forms best when there is a lot of moisture in the air near the ground. Co... |
In old photographic portraits why didn’t people look directly at the camera? | Don't know specifically which phenomenon you're referring to but in general photographs in the early days of photography were considered a serous and special occasion and so there was more posing involved in an attempt to maintain serious posture, facial expression , etc. So in this respect it would have been set up mo... |
What is the word-root meaning and origin of "ign". For example, words like "sign", "design", "paradigm" and "foreign". | "sign" comes from "signum" . "design" comes from "designare" "paradigm" comes from Greek "para-" + "deikunai" - > "paradeikunai" - > "paradeigma" "foreign" comes from "fores" - > "foras/foris" - > forein modified in spelling by association with sovereign |
What exactly is the process of getting a driver's license? | Canada has some really strict drivers licencing rules. First, you get your "learner's permit". This allows you to drive with a licensed driver who has 5 or more years driving experience and you can't drive at night or on highways that have a speed limit over 80kph. Second, you pass a test and you get you "G2" and this ... |
What is fed to people in a coma? | It's a special liquid formula that contains the right amount of calories, protein, and essential nutrients that can be adjusted depending on the specific needs of the patient. It's doesn't contain any actual food but it does have all the nutrients and calories we need from eating food.For patients I worked with in pers... |
Why don't all technology companies use aniversal cord for everything? | Well, generally, they are. There's a standard power cord for computers and televisions , a standard power cord for laptop adapters , a few standards for video, a standard for cell phones , a standard for networking . The reason that, say, power and data are different is that the types of signals are different. Your mai... |
How does Hubble get such clear images from super long exposures when it whizzes around the earth every 96 minutes? | the Hubble is kinda far away from the things it is imaging, so the most important motion is not the motion of the Hubble around the Earth, but the motion of Earth around the Sun, and the Hubble does a very good job of correcting for that. And when the Hubble darts behind the Earth, it is able to predict where to look a... |
Reddit - Why Do Americans use the Dutch Flag to make clear their store is open (or that they have Used cars etc.)? | You might be interested in [this recent thread from /r/vexillology]. Nobody seems to know a definitive reason why. The most common belief is that it doesn't have anything to do with the Netherlands, and is just a way to put red-white-blue and a message on a flag. |
Where did different races originate from? | Those who take the story of Adam and Eve to be literally true typically use one of these explanations for races: * Cain's punishment for killing Abel was dark skin* Ham's punishment for seeing his drunken father Noah naked was that his descendants would be subservient to his brothers' dark skin was a mark of this punis... |
. Why do a lot of good looking people in real life not look so good in pictures? | When you look at someone in real life, you're seeing them as 3-dimensional. You're also generally seeing them from a certain perspective depending on whether they're taller, shorter, or the same height as you are. On camera, the same person may look far less attractive because they're being rendered in a 2-dimensional ... |
Why aren't cars designed so that drivers sit in the middle? | For a couple of reasons: 1. There's more room for passengers when the driver's seat is off to the side, so you can put another seat next to it. Most passenger cars are not wide enough to accommodate a driver's seat with enough room for all of the necessary equipment plus two additional seats . 2. You get maximum visibi... |
Why are nasal antiserums used so sparsely? | Shots are the quickest way into the bloodstream. While a nasal spray vaccination works, it has to be absorbed into the blood vessels in the nostrils to trigger an immune response. More importantly, the flu shot is a dead strain of the virus while the nasal spray is a live strain. Neither can give you the flu but the sp... |
How are we able to detect solar flair radiation before it actually reaches the earth? | We aren't. A solar flare is electromagnetic radiation and is not detectable before it reaches you, since it travels at the speed of light. However, people will often use "solar flare" to refer to what is officially a coronal mass ejection . These are particles that have mass, and thus cannot travel at the speed of ligh... |
Why is it that some concepts take forever to learn and when we look back at the concept after having learned it/mastered it, we don't understand why that concept took us forever to understand? | Couple of reasons. One is that the concept is very different to what you expect. The concepts in quantum theory is like this. Totally different to you, and spoken using new language, involving things like 'spin' and 'fields' that are nothing like the spin and fields that you are used to. Once you get your head around w... |
How come people can watch countless people be murdered in a movie and be unfazed, yet when an animal gets killed it becomes too much? | There is something known as the "[Just World Phenomenon]" which comes into play under these circumstances. It's the same reason why people are more upset when children are harmed than when adults are harmed. Put simply, human beings often try to rationalize the world around them and find order/reason even when there ma... |
Why does the US have trade embargo with Cuba? | There's really no reason for the Cuban embargo to still exist, but no one likes Cuba enough to go through all the paperwork of lifting the embargo. |
Why do most foods taste better warm? | 3 comments all say different things.. are people just guessing?', "Most of your sense of taste is actually smell. Think of holding your nose to drink medicine that tastes gross, or how some people hold their nose to take shots. Warm food releases more smells into the surrounding air, so warm foods have a higher potency... |
How exactly does America's involvement in Middle Eastern conflict give them oil? | Middle eastern countrys sell oil to the US at prices based on the USD. If they dont, US invades and instals a US friendly government. Very simplistic explanation but basicly how it works. |
Why do live TV shows make such a big deal out of not saying the name of a product, when everyone clearly knows what it is? | Why specify live shows? If you every watched Dan Schneider's shows on Nickelodeon, they go one step further and even create fake parody products, like a Pear phone. When you mention a company, that's advertising, if you weren't paid, that's free advertising. Two issues with this, companies in the future will pay less f... |
Why can't the person that snores like a bear hear how loud they are and wake themselves up? | They do. I've been kicked awake by my girlfriend for snoring, but then I stay awake as she falls back asleep, then she would begin to snore, startle herself, and then blame ME for snoring when I'm still awake.Actually, sometimes they can. I know from the experience of being startled by my own snores.Backpacking buddy o... |
Why do barber shops have those colorful poles? | My English teacher told us about how it derived from "blood and bandages" as the barber would also perform surgeries', "The barber poles are from the old times when barbers were also like amateur doctors, of course at that time our medical procedures sucked so since they were good with pointy stuff from being a barber,... |
The Difference Between 2GB and 4GB memory in a GPU | Everything or nothing, depends on the exact use of it. If the game in question doesn't really need more than 2GB of video memory it'll make no difference. If it does, it will. It can be devilishly hard to predict, so a lot of websites just run benchmarks with different GPUs to compare between them game by game. You can... |
Why does being wet make us sensitive to wind? | Evaporation sucks up heat. Wind/moving air increases the rate of heat transfer between two objects, and so it makes the water evaporate more quickly. This is why you sweat - it cools you off. But if you're not hot enough to be sweating, it means that water evaporating off your skin makes you feel cold. |
Why does the US decide to fight terrorists instead of eliminating the cause of terrorism? | Because the causes of terrorism are impossible to truly eliminate, and very, very difficult to minimize. Whenever there is the possibility that someone hates something or someone so much that they are willing to threaten innocent people to get their way, there will be terrorism.Same thing happens here in Mexico with dr... |
Why emergency room visits are so expensive? | As a doctor in other countries you make a risk assessment and only use the expensive diagnostics where needed. In the USA if you miss something the hospital will be sued for silly amounts. To stop the people from suing the are very protective and rule nearly everything out. If people stopped suing healthcare in the USA... |
Why do so many children come up with 'The Floor is Lava' game on their own? | Kids just come up with similar games. Another that I'm assuming many played would just be the whole "keep the balloon off the ground for the longest amount of time" one that almost everyone has played at one point or another. While we're on the subject of something kids worldwide have done, another example would be: _U... |
Why do 2 different sweet things in your mouth, often end up tasting not so sweet anymore? | Its just sensory depletion. Like not being able to smell aftershave on yourself after one minute. Your brain is used to the sweet, but at first you weren't recognising anything, then BAM, sweet, but after a minute it's just normal now. |
How can Whatsapp plan on making money after they have scraped the subscription fee when they don't plan on using ads for revenue. | Imagine your girlfriend tells you on whatsapp that she wants to eat Chinese tonight. You then go check Facebook, and you see an add for a Chinese restaurant dropping the food to your home if you need it. You're a simple man, so you want sex. To have sex, girlfriend must be happy. To be happy, she needs to eat Chinese t... |
Why does the moon look larger the lower it is in the sky? | The size of a viewed object can be measured objectively either as an angular size , or as physical size . Perceived size is only loosely related to these concepts, however. For example, if two identical, familiar objects are placed at distances of five and ten meters, respectively, then the more distant object subtends... |
How does Hollywood hedge bets against a big star dying in the middle of a multi-movie series? For example, what happens if Mark Hamill dies before the next Star Wars movie films? | They replace him. It sucks, and people notice, but it happens. Remember the original Dumbledore? Although he was made up so heavily that it went over alright.Insurance, lots of insurance. When Lindsay Lohan or Charlie Sheen were out of control, one of the biggest hurdle they faced in getting new jobs was the rising cos... |
how can there be a treatment for disease with no cure? | Treatment can do other things than cure the disease, such as mitigate the symptoms. If a symptom of a particular disease is, for instance, is severe fluid loss such as by diarrhea, treatment can involve supplying the infected with fluids to offset the loss. |
How is it that an atom can be photographed by a DSLR camera? | It's not simply the atom. The atom in the picture emits no light of it's own it is reflecting the light of lasers hitting it. When the light is reflected in a more-or-less spherical pattern, the light field appears much larger than the actual atom. And yes, the camera shutter was held open for a while to capture the li... |
. What is going on in Yemen? | Iranian backed rebels have taken part of the country, removing the American backed government from power. Sunni countries in the region are becoming increasingly concerned about the situation and the country risks devolving into civil war. |
Why when I see something painful, I get a weird feeling in the place where the other person was hurt. | Empathy. It is a trait of being a social animal, we are evolved to recognize and to an extent share the state of our fellow group members. The ability to empathize makes us better adapted to function together as a society or tribe. |
How come British colonization fucked Africa up but led the Americas to greatness? | The United States were originally colonized by English people looking for a land where they could exercise their religion in peace. They then proceeded to decimate the native population and take the riches of the land for themselves. In time, they had an independence war, severed ties with England, and started building... |
What takes place biologically when moles, freckles, or warts start to appear spontaneously in places as one's age progresses? | You know how when you make a photocopy of a photocopy of a photoco wait, this is 2016. You know how people post a JPEG to Facebook, and then people keep reposting it, and reposting it, and reposting it, and with every repost the quality degrades? Well, your body kind of does that a lot. Cells die, cells split and new c... |
why do thunders rumble? | When lightning strikes, the air long entire path of the bolt is superheated, creating a pressure wave which is what we hear as thunder. Lighting bolts may stretch out pretty long with some parts of the bolt closer to you than others. Sound takes time to travel through the air, so you end up hearing the sound generated ... |
why do dying ants curl up, and sometimes essentially look like they're trying to sting their faces? | The muscular system of insects works by contraction with muscles attached to the exoskeleton and then extension by pressure increases of the fluid within the exoskeleton. When insects die, the muscles retain tension, but the systems that cause a pressure increase shuts down, meaning that the legs tend to curl up. |
Why is it so hard to find data dumps on the internet? | There are many more people reading the news about data dumps than looking at the data themselves, so the search engine prioritizes the news. To find the data, look through a torrent website. |
how do rebel or insurgent armies get their weapons? | There is far less honor among weapons manufacturers than you might think. No, they don't bat an eye when they get an order that big because that's their business. And yes, weapons manufacturers are often subject to their country's laws that may prohibit sales to certain countries or rebel forces, so that's why there ar... |
On charter buses and bigger trucks with two axils in the back, why are the hub caps in the back different? | I live in America and for us, the reason is that the rearmost axle is only a single tire and is that way mostly for helping with weight distribution of the engine. That being said, the backmost one points out because of the single tire and the ones directly in front of them are pointed inward because they are duels and... |
Why does the FDA allow poor transparency of artificial sweeteners in U.S. nutrition labels? | Companies want to give away as little information on their products\' compositions as possible, and generally only want to give or highlight more information than is required of them if it helps reduce liability or if it will increase their sales. Because of this, companies and even certain people and politicians who s... |
what causes stock prices to fluctuate and how does a drop in stock actually affect a company? | For the most part, stock price doesn't *directly* impact a company however the stockholders are **the owners of the company**. If they are unhappy with the company's performance, as reflected by the stock price, they have the option of replacing the board of directors. The board has the authority to replace the CEO. Th... |
Umm, how do airplanes stay up? | They only move slowly on the ground so they don't crash into things. When they want to fly, they speed up a lot. The average Boeing 737 cruises at 435mph . Planes stay in the air because their wings create *lift*. They create a pressure difference between the air above the wing and the air below the wing. The air below... |
Why are people opposed to Palestinian statehood? | Mainly two groups of people oppose Palestinian statehood, right-wing Israelis and right-wing Americans. Both groups do it for mainly two reasons: they either believe that the region of Israel and Palestine belongs to the Jews by divine right or they believe that the establishment of a Palestinian state will be a threat... |
what's the point of sanctions to a country? | Sanctions are an easy non violent way to impose will on another country. The effectiveness is dependent on your size, your backing, and the other country's dependence on you/your resources. Sanctions can be imposed by any individual country, but are generally more effective when done as a group such as the UN. In today... |
propulsion in a vaccuum? We know that combustion works, but why? How? | Newton's third law, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Meaning if you throw something off your spaceship backwards, there is an equal force pushing the ship forwards. A rocket is simply throwing hot gas very fast backwards.Basically you create hot gas eject it backwards. The harder and the more m... |
When we get a splinter, but we can't pull out the wooden shard, what happens to it? | Primarily, your body tries to dissolve it. Think of how your body digests food - but your skin isn't as tough as your stomach, so it tries to digest it much more gently. If that doesn't work , then it builds a wall around the splinter to stop it interacting with the rest of the body. The wall would basically be hard sk... |
How do people hack someone when they visit a link? (more in description) | If you actually clicked on a YouTube link and nothing else, it's unlikely he was able to "hack" you in any way, if you entered your password anywhere, that's a very different matterWhen you typed in the link, did you have to log in to YouTube? Or provide account information?JavaDriveBy or Cookie Stealer. That is how it... |
What happens to heavy cream when making it whipped cream? | You aerate it. By stirring very quickly you introduce air bubbles into the cream. The air bubbles are very tiny but get trapped under the cream. This makes it fluffy, less dense because of the air. Thats all there is too it, just density and consistency changes with the quick addition of airWhen you agitate the heavy c... |
What's that reflex that you make when you take nasty cough syrup? | Gagging. Your body wants that nasty substance out of it but you know that you want to swallow it so you're conflicted and begin to gag |
Exactly what is going on inside testicles that requires them to be cooler than body temperature to do their job? | "Everybody knows" I didn't know .. : the proteins that are important for the sperms structure and function . If it gets too cold, the enzyme simply won't work or will work way too slow, same with any other chemical processes involved in making the sperm or allowing it to "swim" Anywho, in order to keep your boys cool t... |
Why war is bad for the economy | War is good if the government buys your stuff. See these charts for [Boeing], [BAE], [Lockheed Martin], all of which get tons of money from the US government to build weapons. The Iraq War kicked off in 2003, you can see that it was very profitable, at least until 2008 when the markets started to realize that the banks... |
Can you get a mental illness, without being born into one? | IIRC, schizophrenia, generally comes on and develops in people in their late teens and early twenties. Otherwise, undetected nor suspected prior to that. My sister in law, after having a fairly normal childhood and young adulthood, was diagnosed when she was 33. mental illnesses, such as histrionic, borderline, and Bi_... |
How can phone signal from a phone, which can't be that strong, reach cell towers that could be miles away? | What makes you think it takes that much power in the first place? Cell towers only output about a 50 watt signal and you phone uses around 2 watts. |
How are there naked women legally walking around NYC? | Not in New York. It became legal in 2013 I think. Several other cities also allow nudity, although I think San Francisco just had to pass new restrictions because people were trying to ride the bus naked . However, lewd behavior is still illegal. So although simply being topless is fine, cupping or showing off your bre... |
Why is mercury harmful for us? | 1. Inhibits DNA repairing 2. Alters the ability of cell membranes to select what materials pass through them. 3. Alters enzyme activity 4. Interferes in the transmission of nervous impulses to the body 5. May induce the immune system to attack itself 6. Interferes in the function of endocrine glands 7. Kills good bacte... |
Why is it so common for two movies with similar plots to be released at the same time? | Two reasons: 1) It isn't anything but a statistical coincidence. Look at how many movies get released in a year compared to how many are the same and you'll see the number is actually pretty small. 2) Some idea will be "hot" so movie studios try and capitalize on it. Movies are often completed and then held for a perio... |
Why can't we observe the whole universe? | The rest of it is so far away that the light from it hasn't reached us yet, so we have no way to see it. |
What is a LAN Party? | Normally when people play multiplayer video games, they are all sitting in their own houses on playing with each other wirelessly. A LAN party is when those people get together, to do the same thing, but under one roofYou and a bunch of your friends/enemies/complete strangers all bring your computers to one place and n... |
What is Entropy and what does it measure? | Entropy *is* a confusion concept. Let's say you look at a physical system. Let's say a cup of water. The entropy is the amount of information you can ignore about the system. You don't really care about the position and speed of every single molecule of H_2 O is in your cup. If every single molecule reversed direction,... |
Is there any truth to this internet tale " if your parents have all boys or all girls they've broken a chain lasting hundreds of years" | Your father had a father and his father had a father all the way back to the beginning. If you are a girl and have no brothers then your father is the first not to have a son in his paternal line. |
Why is do movies look fluid when shot at 24fps but when a video game is at 30 fps of below it looks very janky and slow? | This is a common question, so doing a search might give you more answers. A big reason is that if, for example, a person is moving across screen in a movie, each individual frame will have that person slightly blurred , but a video game will give you a crisp image of the person each time. It ends up looking smoother wi... |
Why do really hot things sometimes feel cold and cold things feel hot? | You hand is filled with sensory receptors. Some are warm some are cold. They NEVER do both. Cold does cold and warm does warm. Sometimes, they get confused and send the WRONG single. This called paradoxical cold and paradoxical warmth. Take a pen and lightly poke around your knuckles. Some places will feel warm while o... |
How do bookmakers determine odds for unpredictable but likely events? | > They have zero ways to estimate actual probability ratios! Of course they have, welcome to the real of statistics. There is a countable number of married celebrities, and a countable number of celebreties that get a divorce, and this gives a measurable marriage to divorce ratio over a given time, let's say a year. So... |
When you put your hand up to a fan, you can easily feel air blowing, but can hardly (if at all) feel the air when the fan is set to exhaust mode? | When you blow air, it creates turbulence on the positive side. On the negative side, the air is pulled from all directions, and is not yet disrupted by the force of the fan. |
Is there a shortage of food on the ISS at any given time? Do they ration? Or does everyone have 3 full meals a day? | They plan ahead and provide enough food for several months. If a resupply mission fails then they look at how much food is left and ration it out for an extended period. I think 2 or 3 supply crafts failed before the last resupply this month, and they still had plenty of food left over. There is always an emergency esc... |
How come artists who don't write their own songs get sued instead of the production company/song writer? | It generally *is* the company that gets sued. It doesn't make headlines to report that "the organization representing the intellectual property of artist X is being sued", it is much more catchy to report "Artist X is being sued!" |
How much power does the Queen of England actually have today? Can she have someone killed on the spot? | The queen has very little power. She has control of her estate but she is entirely bound by the laws of the land and is also bound by laws dictating how she can deal with the government. She is rich though.Little to none. She theoretically has veto power over any law passed in Parliament , but has never exercised this,... |
Can POTUS pardon anyone in the US, or only those charged with/convicted of federal crimes? | Constitution, Article II, Section 2 > The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departm... |
Are there many religions, other than Abrahamic ones, that claim direct revelation from God? | Buddhism at least does not center around a God the way that the Abrahamic religions do. Different Buddhists believe different things, but at worst theism even can be seen as incompatible with Buddhism. I'm not so familiar with the other religions you mention. |
What does IQ actually measure? | IQ tests measure a set of cognitive abilities, which have been more or less agreed upon of being indicative of "intelligence" . The tests are then taken by an amount of test subjects to establish a baseline average of 100; that is, an IQ of 100 is pretty much defined as "the test result which 50% of the population will... |
The insurance term "Act of God". | > It's a legal term, and essentially refers to unforeseeable events for which nobody can be held responsible. It could just as well be called flibbolugy, the fact that it refers to God is legally irrelevant. > They don't actually mean Jehovah did it. It's just a phrase meaning some freak accident coming out of the blue... |
What would happen if there was no gravity on earth for 1 second? | For 1 second? Not much, i believe. For more than that? Ooh things would get pretty nasty. Imagine that everything is rotating at almost 25.000 miles/h and the only thing that doesnt allow light things to escape throught the tangent is gravity. So, we would lose a considerable amount of our atmosfere, water would fly up... |
Why does medicine taste so terrible? | It was not created for the taste. In fact, as a precaution, to prevent children from eating medicine and overdosing, medication is not made to look or taste like M & M's or skittles. Just a little thing they do to keep children from dying. I hope you do not mind. |
Why are antidotes almost always shown as a liquid in movies and television? | Liquid medicines are typically faster acting as they are more readily absorbed by the body. Taking an antidote pill might not be enough to save you from the poison that will kill you in 10 minutes for example. At this point is is likely just a trope though. |
How does automatic brightness on a phone work? | Your phone has an array of sensors, one of which is a light sensor. Usually located near your phone's camera this sensor can detect how much light is hitting your phone, using this info and taking into account things like the time of day your phone does its bets to adjust the brightness to fit your needs. Ton of lighti... |
Where did the money go? | There never was any real money, it was all estimates of worth. You estimate that your car is worth 100k$ but when you sell it you only manage to get 60k$. This does not mean that 40k$ magically dissapeared, it means that the 40k$ never existed and you simply over estimated your cars value.Money doesn't leave the econom... |
how do air traffic controllers control air traffic? | There are 'roads' in the sky: jet routes and Victor routes. Those two are nearly the same thing. GPS will eventually make them obsolete though. Most commercial aircraft will use them in some way. Uncle JoeBob flying around in his small plane on the weekends to sight see probably won't, and can generally fly wherever he... |
How is data stored on IDs or other forms of that sorta thing? What is stored on these bars that tells the card reader what it is? | If it's done properly, it should only be a reference number which allows the computer system to retrieve the data. Putting the actual data on the card itself is fraught with security problems. |
Why are animal infants smarter than human infants? | In order for humans to walk up-right their hips had to narrow, because of this the baby's head couldn't be as big. Therefore, human babies are actually born before they are fully developed and are *much* more reliant on their parents. I don't have the sources right now, but there are interesting documentaries you can w... |
if resolution has reached its maximum that eyes can detect, why do videos not appear with same clarity as looking through a window? | because light is so much more than pixels. Think of it like this: I can take a picture, with lets say 1280x720p resolution put it on my realLife UHD^^TM 12K TV and notice it doesn't take up the full picture, so to fix this, I upscale my 720p all the way up to 12K. Well, it fits all the pixels, but is a blurry horrendou... |
How Julian Assange lives at the embassy? Does he rent a room, who makes his meals, who would be his neighbors? | I know for sure that the policemen outside the Embassy, who stand there all day and night and must arrest him immediately if he leaves, are paid for by the taxpayer. If I remember correctly, the figure is over 5 million a year. Where he's concerned, he does have guests and a working internet connection. He's been rumor... |
If we are inside with lights on and it is dark outside, why can't we see through the window? | Good question. Basically, the light of the reflection of the inside is brighter than the light coming from the outside. So technically you see the outside as well, but the reflection is much stronger. When you switch off the light, there's no longer a strong reflection and you can see through the window. Fun fact: This... |
Why aren't burn victims kept numb during healing? | Some numbing agents have toxic chemicals in them so using them on an open wound is a bad idea. Plus there's no way of knowing who is or is not allergic to said chemicals. As far as 3rd degree burns go, the nerves are usually killed from the burn anyway so there's no need for pain meds. |
Are other abimals more inbred than humans? Are other animals aware of who their siblings/cousins are and do the instinctively know not to mate with them? | It depends on the animal. Most of the "higher" animals have some sort of aversion to their siblings and/or parents unless they are specifically inbred . However, insects really don't, for two reasons. First, insects have a breeding pattern that basically assumes a high death rate for the offspring. It doesn't matter if... |
How exactly does a railgun work? How feasible would one be as a weapon system? | Huge electric current produces huge magnetic field inside the the barrel. Field produces force against the projectile and accelerates it out of the barrel. The advantage is that the weapon isn't limited by the propellant in the gun, only the electricity generated on the ship. Navy ships have the ability to generate hug... |
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