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How was Shakespeare able to invent so many words, or use preexisting words in new ways? | He had a Poet's License. One of the superpowers of English is that any noun can be verbed. Don't let \'em tell you otherwise. English grammar wasn't even a thing until the 19th century. It's just a construct to help foreigners get their heads wrapped around pathological stuff like "she thought she might have wanted to ... |
If I sleep for 5 hours at night and then take a 3 hour nap during the afternoon, is that the equivalent (rest wise) as getting a normal 8 hour sleep at night? | Sleeping in a single 8 hour block is a product of the industrial age and was not found commonly over 200 years ago. Sleeping in two 3-5 hour increments is more natural. Any time one sleeps for in 90 minute increments they are achieving adequately restful sleep based on sleep cyclesBreaking your sleep into 2 or more occ... |
Why does our sight get fuzzy when we get up too quickly from bed | It is due to the change of blood pressure when changing the state of the body, this mostly happens to older people, but when changing the state quickly, it occurs with much younger people from any age. |
Why does orange juice mask the tast of vodka so well? | Citric acid has similar flavor points to alcohol and you drink it in higher volumes, so that's what you taste.vodka is a "neutral spirit" which means that it doesn't have a lot of flavor on it's own. orange juice has a lot of flavor. also as saint_arcturus points out, when you mix them, you typically put more OJ in tha... |
Technical explanation why charging a device does not slow it down. (My brother thinks that charging his iPad slows it down). | You are correct. Unless the iPad is running on low power, it should not effect the capabilities of the ipad when it is charging. The easiest way to explain it is like this: Picture a coffee maker. You have the hopper, where you put the ground coffee, and you have the water reservoir, which holds the water. Imagine the ... |
Why do dogs need to be walked and cats don't? | Walking the dog is to provide exercise and a break from boredom. If you have a small dog and a large back yard you don't really need to walk them, they just enjoy the new scenery. Big dogs need to be walked because they're bigger and the yard just isn't big enough. Same principle with cats. If you don't provide cats wi... |
What factors does the Bank of Canada (or any other similar entity) use to decide if they will raise or not the interest rates? | Simply put, national banks are concerned with balancing unemployment and inflation. More inflation leads to less unemployment, and vice versa. they do this mainly by increasing or decreasing the money supply, interest rates are one tool in which to do this. Basically, if the national bank thinks that inflation is getti... |
What are those sudden, weird, sharp pains that you sometimes get, usually in your chest, out of nowhere? | if they quickly come and go and feel like someone is squeezing your heart then it is not harmful. They are called precordial catch syndrome and they are not harmful as far as we know. they tend to dissipate with age. We currently do not know the cause of themIt might be a result of "dryness" in the pleural space , any ... |
Why does fatigueness fade away after being awake for a longer period of time? | One of the potential many reasons this happens is due to Cortisol which is secreted from the adrenal glands just above the kidneys. You may have heard of the body clock or the biological clock, and this is one of the things which helps this clock work. If you wake up at say 7am every morning for example then your body ... |
How do greenhouse gases heat the earth up? | Great part of the heat coming from the sun comes as visible light. Greenhouse gases don't block visible light, so additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere don't stop visible light from entering the surface of the earth. That visible light heats the surface and the surface then re-emits the heat as infrared, which ... |
We all know inflation is bad, but what about deflation? What is it, and what impact would it have on the US economy? | Inflation isn't bad. Too much inflation is bad. Deflation is much, much worse. Inflation means if you keep your money in the bank it is worth less over time. That means in order to save you have to put your savings to work, either by buying property or opting for long term investment. This spurs the economy and creates... |
Why do some seeds (eg grass) easily germinate, while other (for instance chili seeds right out of the fruit) never do. | Chilis sprout. It's just that, like many of their relatives, they take their time. Multiple weeks would not be unusual.Some plants are *sterile hybrids,* which produce seeds that fail to grow. The plant must be produced by taking the pollen of one breed and using it to fertilize another breed, which does give viable se... |
How do we know that any one actually wins the contests advertised by companies. | First, those companies *want* people to win. Having real, live people out there, from scores of $100 winners to the big jackpot winners they can put on TV, that too is part of the advertising strategy. Second, yes, running a fake contest would be a crime, and worse than that, if word got out, it would be extremely dama... |
How is a film that is filmed at a certain resolution remastered to 1080p/blu-ray? | Because film is/was much higher "resolution" than digital, we just never had a way to display it before. Now that we have HD televisions and monitors, and Blu-Ray, they can re-scan the original film negatives and get the newer versions35mm film is around 4K equivalent when scanned at the optimal PPI , so putting it on ... |
How can a key be used as a front door key yet as a individuals' room key at the same time (dorm enviroment)? | First, watch this video: _URL_0_ That shows you how a simple key lines up the pins so that the breaks in the pins all line up and allow the cylinder to rotate. Now, imagine if one of those pins had two seams . With that, two different keys could operate the same lock while still not working in each other's. Let's say y... |
Why do we have silent letters in English? Ex. Why is it deaf, instead of def. Or tough, instead of tuf. Listen instead of lissen. Etc. | You should head over to /r/linguistics for questions like this. In fact, we have a beginner's thread every Monday! In any case, please disregard the earlier responses about English getting its extra letters from foreign words. At best, they're only part of the answer. There are a few ways we got our silent letters. One... |
How do movie theaters receive 4k movies? Are they giant laserdisc-sized disks or hard drives or what? | [Special hard drives]. They're encrypted & plug into special computer systems that log every time the movie is started & stopped. This allows the film studios to audit the theaters and make sure they're only showing the movie when they should be showing it. |
How does Pepper's Ghost (tech behind the Tupac hologram) work? | Imagine you're looking into a room. Directly in front of you is a pane of glass that is turned at a 45 degree angle, but it's very very clear and you can see right through it. Behind that glass is an empty room. So far so good, we're just seeing furniture through a window. Now, what we can't see is off to the side is a... |
From Silicon Valley, are Weismann scores real? What do they measure? | It's a valid metric that was created for the show. See [here]. It measures compression ratio versus compression speed. The Stanford professor who they hired is named Weissman. The algorithm the characters created that was able to dramatically shrink the file size of a large video in a matter of seconds is not real, how... |
Why didn't the Nazi's just kill the Jews instead of keeping them alive in Concentration Camps? | The *Nazis* killed large numbers, shooting, gassing, injections. But you have to get rid of the bodies. They found that killing people in small quantities was inefficient and that it would take "too long" to get rid of them in that way. That's why killing was turned into an industrial effort. They did kill Jews and oth... |
My neighbor recently gave me their key, and it looks just like mine. So, what's the difference? | Your eye is incorrect. The grooves line up correctly; unless there's some badass novel security feature? A standard deadbolt responds to the pins being lifted up a correct height. A key lifts up specific pins to a specific height which allows the lock to turn. A standard lock has no cool badass secret sauce allowing on... |
What is it exactly about pet treats - cat cookies, dog bones etc that is so different from their regular food and makes them crave it so much more? | Generally higher fat or flavor content. Its like doggie junk food, they love the taste but give them too much and its way to caloric to eat in large amounts.It's like giving a kid candy, it simply tastes better but should be taken in moderation", 'my dog does not get excited for his dog food in his bowl. but if i tell ... |
Why do scandals end with gate? (Eg., gamergate, plebgate, etc) | In resonance with the Watergate scandal, in which one political party raided the offices of the other, in the Watergate hotel. _URL_0_ |
why Lcd monitors become hard to use when you tilt them 90 degrees | Because when at 90 degrees you are unable to see the screen due to it being perpendicular to your line of sight. The only thing you'll be seeing is the side of the monitor. |
What exactly went wrong when you have to use the pinhole reset switch on an MP3 player? What exactly does that little switch do? | There are times when software gets confused and lost. When it is lost it doesn't know how to get back to home, and home the only place it knows how to "be an mp3 player". Pressing the reset button is like having a GPS tracker on someone who's lost - when you press it, you swoop in, pick the software up and plunk it bac... |
Is Bottled Water a Scam? | I think many people are losing the point of your question. When you ask if bottled water is a scam I am thinking that you are asking is there a real reason to drink bottled water vs tap water. This entirely depends on where you live. The tap water I grew up with was from a well and tested to be safe to drink. Drinking ... |
What does DirectX do? | Like you're five. Ok. Imagine you want to draw a picture, but you can only do it by plotting a single dot with a pencil at a time. If you want to draw a square, you'd have to put lots of little dots on a row to make one side of the square and then repeat that 3 times to make the other sides. DirectX is sort of like a c... |
Why are antibiotics completely ineffective against viruses? | Bacteria are tiny animals. They eat, they breathe, they have a metabolism that turns food into energy, they do all the normal animal things. Antibiotics work by interrupting some part of that process that keeps bacteria alive. They are basically poisoned to death. Viruses are not alive. They are very simple biological ... |
Why are vegans against foods like honey or milk when the animal that makes them does it naturally and it doesn't harm them? | They would argue that mass production *is* very harmful for the animals. Chickens are kept in tiny cages to lay eggs 24/7. They are fed steroids so that they get huge so quickly they can't even stand. Cows are hooked up to milking machines and kept on cages. Bees are gassed and go unconscious while the honey is farmed,... |
How can gas be a conductor of electricity? | If you apply a high enough voltage to a gas you can ionize it by stripping off the electrons of the atoms. When this happens, the free electrons can carry a current. For instance, in a fluorescent bulb, you have a little mercury. A heater in the bulb vaporizes the mercury and the ballast provides a high voltage to ioni... |
Why do so many cultures have a thing about covering women's hair? | Well, you are talking about cultures that are all influenced by three religions that are very closely connected and originated from each other and in the same area. That is always going to cause a certain amount of overlap. Certain standards for female modesty originated in judaism which were then carried on into the d... |
Why do dragons exist in so many diverse cultures? | A large part of it is that people centuries removed from the stories decided to plop the name of "dragon" on to many different creaturesThey are not the same creature at all, they look different physically and they have different characteristics. Naming the Asian mythical creature "dragon" is an old Eurocentric thing. |
Why is it some Surahs or chapters in the Qu'ran start with a series of Arabic letters? | It's completely unknown. Many Arabic and Islamic scholars and teachers have discussed the issue, for many many centuries, but the reason for their existence and their meaning was never revealed by Mohammed.This [Wikipedia article] sums up the prevailing theories. |
If you masturbate a lot (20 times in 2 days) what happens to your body? Limp penis? | You will probably bruise it. It will start to hurt, your balls will get swollen from the constant "vibrations". |
Can I leave the car engine on while refueling? | You shouldn't leave it running because there is a risk of lighting your car and yourself on fire if there's a spark . [Like this]. |
Why do some book publishers acknowledge telepathic means in their copyright statement? | Lawyers with a sense of humor covering all their bases. Another common thing in copyright is to prohibit all means of reproduction now existing or to be invented throughout the known universe. Will it ever be practically enforceable? Probably not. But, just in case Lawyers learned this trick when they didn't account fo... |
Why does coffee smell good in a cup but awful on someone's breath? | Because coffee in a cup is just coffee, but coffee in the mouth becomes mixed with existing halitosis.When you smell coffee in a cup, all of the flavorful oils are still present, and at a temperature that enables their escaping into the air and into your nose. When you smell coffee on someone's breath, many of the arom... |
Why do we "catch" the yawns of people around us? | Any time you feel or do something that someone else is experiencing it is empathy. You'd be surprise how many questions on /r/explainlikeimfive can be answered by one simple word. Empathy.No joke, I yawned after reading/thinking about this. I too would love a legit scientific answerI Personally don't know but go to You... |
- why does it take > 12 hrs to digest food, but drinking coffee makes me poop within minutes? | Is coffee the first thing you have in the morning when you get up? If so, you're pooping because there is a reflex that empties the bowels when you break your fast, to make room for the digestion of new food, but for the life of me, I can't remember what it's called. Source: 1st year physiology |
Why are does ink disappear when writing on a smooth surface such as metal or plastic? | Surface tension. It doesn't disappear, but forms small drops that are higher but smaller in area. |
Why do we love and why does it take such a strain on us when it ends? | There's a hormone in your body called [oxytocin]. . Oxytocin is a bonding hormone - it increases your feelings of trust and empathy, and makes you more generous and more caring. It's produced in the body when you hang out with your buddies, cementing group bonding and friendship. And it's produced in great quantities d... |
The white discoloration that sometimes appears on my fingernails. | The white spots occur if the layers of the nail are not bonded together tightly, so there are little layers of air between them which makes them appear white. The most common cause for this is mechanical damage of the base of the nail or as a side effect of some diseases. Generally, those spots are nothing you should w... |
Why are safety belts on planes different from belts on cars ? Why don't they also have a strip protecting the torso ? | Seatbelts in cars are designed to keep you in place in the event of a major accident, where you getting thrown from the vehicle is a possibility if your seatbelt is not worn. Seatbelts on airplanes are meant to keep you in place in the event of turbulence, which is significantly less violent and therefore requiring les... |
How bad is it to keep your cell phone in your pocket? | I'm an electrical engineer. Cell phone radiation is in on a wavelength far longer than even infrared light, way longer than visible light. Those waves are generally very low energy. The only thing that this kind of radiation can do is 'heat you up' - think a microwave, or an IR lamp. Your phone has extremely low sendin... |
How does free state college and Universities work in New York? | Just because it's free of cost to go doesn't mean that they are accepting more people. You still have to apply and get accepted to attend. While I'm not up to speed on the specifics of the New York system, stuff like this is frequently paid for with tax money, and usually accompanied by a tax increase of some sort. Thi... |
Why does everything feel so soft when you've just woken up? | Can you elaborate, OP? I've been waking up for years and have never noticed a difference in how things feel immediately after waking up. Whether it's my bed, the floor, my clothing, my breakfast, or whatever, it doesn't feel any different than it does later on in the day. |
Why are chillis spicy and other fruits such as oranges sweet? | TL;DR: Evolution. Chilis and other spicy peppers have their seeds distributed by animals that *are not affected* by the capsicum. Thus their seeds are distributed over large distances, rather than the limited range of land animals. |
Can a partner who owns 20 percent refuse an acquisition if the majority owner wants the company to be acquired? | Depends what you mean by acquired. Someone who only owns 20% can't stop majority control from being purchased by someone else, but they can refuse to sell the shares that they own and thus prevent 100% of the company from being sold. |
Why does America use a comma to indicate a thousand instead of a dot? | It's not just the US, plenty of countries use a period for the decimal mark and a comma for digit grouping, and others use it the other way around. Typically English speaking countries and countries influenced by them use a period for the decimal mark. [Here's a list of this division]. |
Can someone explain quantative easing? | Let's say you work at Chuck E. Cheese, . The kids have lost a lot of quarters playing really hard games lately and now they are tired of playing. So what you decide to do is you go to the back, grab a roll of quarters, and trade them to kids for a set amount of tickets. You want kids to keep playing the games so you ma... |
Why does India not invest in its Olympic programs or most other sports for that matter? | The [Indian Olympic Association] was suspended in 2012 over corruption charges, and as a result, India is not eligible to send athletes to Sochi. Four athletes are going anyway, but are doing so independently of the IOA and will compete under the Olympic Flag, rather than the flag of India. I'm still looking for confir... |
Why do people support/root for sports teams? | I think in some part it's tribalism, wanting to belong to a larger social group. In most of U.S. culture we don't have large clans or tribes. Being a fan of a sports team simulates that somewhat. |
When you wear something like a bracelet, why does your wrist feel like its still there even when you take it off? | It is called stimulus adaptation. Your brain gets used to any stimuli that it is perceiving and tries to ignore it. Then when the stimuli is removed it feels like something should be there when it is not |
Why does it seem like so many actors (Travolta, Cruise, ect.) buy into the Church of Scientology? | Scientology aggressively recruits celebrities because they think having famous adherents makes them appear more like a legitimate religion than a bizarre fringe cult. Maybe there's some kind of quid pro quo or blackmail situation, but we'll never know, they're very secretive. |
Why are solar panels blue? Wouldn't black be more efficient due to them absorbing more light? | Solar panels are actually black, they just appear blue because of the very very small fraction of light being reflected and not absorbed by the panels, if you look closely at a solar panel array you’ll see that some appear blue and others black why some are appearing blue and not others I don’t know |
How do antivirals work? | How different antivirals work will depend on the type of virus that is being treated. Broadly, antiviral drugs will target different proteins or processes that are required for the virus to develop and reproduce. Usually drugs will want to target proteins that are specific to the virus as well to try to reduce side eff... |
[electronics] What's the difference between an op-amp and a transistor? | An op amp is built out of transistors. You can make lots of different varieties of circuits which do amplification, and an op amp is just one useful type that we use a lot. The innards of an op amp look like [this]. Each of those circle thingies with the arrow inside labeled by a Q is a transistor.An operational amplif... |
Why isn't Roman mythology referred to as Italian mythology? | The Italians are not the Romans. Although the Italian nation has much cultural heritage from the Romans, there were many intervening political and cultural developments; they just aren't the same people in any continuous cultural or national sense. It's a bit like saying Canadians are English, or saying the English are... |
Why can we picture things clearly in our mind but cannot draw them with our hands? | I can imagine throwing a perfect fastball across home plate, but without practice I'm just as likely to hit the dugout. |
- why is Facebook taking up 9 gigabytes on my iphone? | it's content that's being cached every time you use it or open a webpage within the app. unfortunately, this information is not purged at all so the longer you use it, the more stuff that accumulates. only way to get the space back is to delete the app and reinstall. |
why is soda so bad for you? | The high sugar and carbonation are very bad for your teeth and bones in addition to causing your pancreas to work overtime in trying to process the excess sugar. Not to mention the impact it has on your weight and therefore overall health. The specific type of sugar is also more difficult for your body to digest than o... |
Do i perceive my own body differently than others? | Yes. Self-consciousness is a real double-edged sword. It allows us to think abstractly but it also forces us to imagine ourselves through others' lenses. The average person criticizes their appearance regularly. |
Why has most everything that's happened since the universe existed seem to have happened relatively recently? | Things didn't go slowly at the beginning the universe has been chugging along, doing what it's doing for a long time. It's only been very recently that things that most people can wrap their heads around have happened. Look at a gold ring. So, for that to have been made, you needed a jeweler. That's was pretty recent. ... |
ELI:5 Why mobile device manufacturers are moving toward internal batteries. | Because you can make the device smaller, thinner and lighter when the battery is directly connected to the device and you don't need the additional hardware required for a removable battery. |
If cryptocurrencies are a better method of tracking transactions and money movements, how do they get stolen? | If you want to move crypto, but you don't want it traceable, you use a tumbler. Suppose your bitcoin is in wallet A. You tell the tumbler that you want that bitcoin to move to wallet B. The tumbler tells you to send your bitcoin to wallet C. Then, once the tumbler sees your bitcoin in C, it sends bitcoin from D, E, F, ... |
How come the demographic of users on Reddit is predominantly liberal? | The average reddit user is a white, American, college-educated male in their 20's. This demographic skews extremely liberal |
If muscles are built by repairing damaged muscle tissue, could we surgically, or in some way other than a workout damage them and let them recover , leaving us with more muscle mass? | Well, when you involve nanobots and hypothetical technology, all bets are off. *Currently*, the most cost-effective way to build muscle mass is to hit the gym. Muscles get micro-tears by fully engaging, and they won't fully engage unless there's resistance to work against, like lifting something heavy off the floor. Yo... |
How come some US states require two license plates (front and rear of the vehicle), but some require just the rear plate? | In maryland it is mainly to give the police an area to point the lasers at. I had two friends going through academy and half the guys there were too stupid to aim for the grill/bumper area and their teacher remarked thats why maryland requires two tagsFor most states with 2 plates not seeing a front ate on a car approa... |
Why are salt water animals so much more vibrant in color than freshwater? | A lot of the salt water animals that humans like to put in their aquariums have evolved in colorful environments like coral reefs, where their coloring helps them stand out and find mates. And standing out to predators isn't such a big deal because the reef provides plenty of quick hiding places. There are plenty of sa... |
What exactly are people doing in movies when they are working on cars and end up covered in black stuff? | I can tell you from personal experience any slightly old car has a build up of shit /dirt on everything under the hood. Especially the black rubber parts. And Some used car dealers actually pressure wash the engine compartment to make it look clean to help sell the car. And it does help. |
How can so many animals, defensively or aggressively, instinctively know or seemingly easily learn that the neck is a major weak spot? | You said it instinctively. As to how that came to be? Evolution. Animals which attacked weak points on their prey or predators were more successful, bred more, and they're the ancestors of the animals we know today. Evolution is an arms race, and having an advantage means your genes get to keep going. |
What hormone is associated with motivation? Theoretically, could motivation be artificially (chemically) increased? | Motivation seems to be closely linked to dopamine and noradrenaline neurotransmitter activity in brain, particularly in the pre-frontal cortex . People with ADHD notoriously have reduced ability to keep motivated and focused on a given task. Doctors prescribe medications like Ritalin to compensate for this and after ta... |
Why does a sibling's appearance not seem to change from my point of view? | Take a picture of a cloud, then wait a couple minutes and take another picture of the same cloud. You think it will look the same, after all it doesn't look like its changing as you stare at it. But you will find that there is a noticeable difference between the 2 photos. It's just such a gradual and constant change th... |
What is actually happening when my headphones become a tangled mess? | Oddly, and entire little world of math geeks has a theory called "knot theory" that basically describes how a tangle is going to occur in a cables if you given them enough time . The basic idea is that there are an infinite number of "knot states" or "just pre knot states" that cord can get into the result of the sligh... |
How to become "actively" positive? | You need to make it a habit somehow. Write it on your arm if you have to. If you think about it, you can see that you can literally choose to see things positively, if you want. When it's cold outside and you find yourself chilly, try simply accepting the cold. You might not be comfortable, but you don't have to let it... |
How is it possible for us to sometimes "hear" our heartbeats? | Main arteries going up though your neck run by your ears. Works the same way as the two cans and a string telephone. |
How can Tamir Rice's shooter not be indicted? | An indictment isn't an accusation, it signifies the state's intent to bring a person to trial. It is based on the DA'S office having enough evidence to prove guilt. |
Why do people talk to babies in a high pitched voice? | Babies don't speak English. Or any language for that matter. What they do have some grasp of, is the tone of your voice. |
How does the human eye differentiate the focal point between what's behind glass or a window vs the reflection that can be seen from the same spot? | It can't, really; usually one of the images is simply brighter than the other, allowing your brain to tune the dimmer one out. The inability to automatically tell the difference between a direct image and a reflection can be exploited in an optical illusion called [Pepper's Ghost]. |
What happens to people who are caught on film stealing/rioting? | No. If you break the law, you break the law. If they have the suspects on film it just makes it that much easier to catch them. |
Why is there no competition for Comcast in the United States? Isn't such an monopoly illegal? | so many times _URL_0_ due to how it works in usa entry to this market is very, very expensive. |
Why do you forget names and such when you have amnesia, yet you don't forget things like speaking or certain objects? | Because different types of memory are formed in different places. Short and long term memory have their own dedicated locations in the brain, and speech, motor skills, and object recognition are separate, too. |
Why do storage devices show lesser storage than the actual marked value even after taking into account the metric and binary conversion units? | It's like if you got a lot of books, you need a book to write down where each books are, in order to find the one you need fast, isn't it? Then your library will get a large number x books of content and a little one i of books which organize your library. Then you will tell, "I got x books, but need x+i books actually... |
how is the average Reddit user so literate compared to every other site that allows comments that I've been to? (And I've been to a lot.) | I don't think it is a question of literacy, it's just that Reddit allows for very long posts. I could answer your question in 500 characters if I wanted to, or 1,000. Other sites limit the amount of characters per post, which leads to people cutting corners to try to get their points across. When you cut corners, meani... |
If the Earth is spinning so fast, how do the stars stay so still to us? | Because they are really far away , next time you drive in a car over a flat area look at a tree in the distance looks like it's barely moving look at the phone poles close to you they look like they moving fast , Same if you in an airplane you moving at close to 800kmph but the ground looks like it's moving by slowly S... |
how did anime go from being relatively innocent and cartoonish to highly sexualized characters? | A big part of it, I think, is that Japan doesn't have the same views on sex as the West does. To some degree, it's a result of anime becoming more developed and popular with more audiences. There was sex back then. Cutie Honey came out in the 1970s . A lot of these shows are meant for teenagers, not for children or adu... |
Why does my brand new, all singing, all dancing windows 8.1 equipped laptop not have the ability to play some of my old favourite pc games? | Because they weren't written for it. Though they appear similar, computers can be as different as consoles as time moves on. What you're asking is akin to "Why can't I play Playstation 1 games on my PS4?"', "A lot of software, especially for Windows, relies very heavily on components of the operating system to run and ... |
How is it possible that New Horizon can send High Definition photos of Pluto to a receiver 4 billion km away? | The same way your cell phone can send photos to a cell tower: it uses radio waves. It uses a very good transmitter that sends a very focused beam, and the signal takes several hours to reach Earth, but it's fundamentally the same method.Because they use a 70 metre dish to receive the faint signals arriving on Earth. To... |
Why is the Iranian Nuclear deal a bad thing/ conversely why is it a good thing? | The Iranian youth culture is more westernized than most people think, especially when compared to other countries in the area, but don't get me wrong it's still an Islamic country which would be very conservative compared to most western nations. The good: * More electricity to them, more Iranians browsing reddit, watc... |
How come tasers don't work on everybody? | I'm a police officer and Taser instructor. . There are many reasons why a Taser won't work. In order for a Taser to take effect, both probes must hit. They must hit two different major muscle groups and be at least four inches apart. The main reasons Tasers don't work are; -Missing. One or both probes. -Loose or heavy ... |
How was Agent Orange viewed when it was first used? | Viewed by who? By the people who made huge profits by selling it to the government, by the people who used it, or by the poor sumabitches it killed and maimed? |
Does drinking 3 glasses of beer make you urinate more than 3 glasses of water? If so, why? If not, why does it seem like it? | In short: because alcohol is a Anti Diuretic Hormone inhibitor. When ADH is secreted normally, it tells your kidneys to put some of the water it filters out from your blood to make pee back into your blood to maintain a good level of hydration. When you drink alcohol ADH is not secreted or secreted in much lower levels... |
Why do human babies take years to raise while other animals like puppies or antelopes take only a few months? | Partially because of life-expectancy - a human lives 75 years, whereas a dogs life-expectancy is more like 10 years. Also, humans traded instinct for a more advanced brain. Animals instinctually know how to do a lot more than we do, but our learning curve beats everything else. |
The difference between programming languages like java, C++, and other coding languages. | _URL_0_ Lots of discussion you might find useful. The search box on ELI5 often will reveal answers, or if nothing less some relevant information, to many questions asked. |
Why only the Republican and the Democratic parties participate in the debates? | This is the [Commission on Presidential Debates]. They 've host the debates since 1988. It is a non-profit funded by the two major parties. In 2000, in order to prevent a similar Perot effect or Nader probably in that year, they made a rule that any candidate to be included must be polling at 15% nationally. This is pr... |
Why can't we use red pen while filling out official documents? | Red doesn't show up as well when a document is scanned or photocopied, and can therefore be hard to read. It's also harder on your eyes, if you have to read these things all day long", 'Red hand written responses on forms are a problem if the responses are intended to be captured by OCR software as text in order to be ... |
How are halal foods mass produced? | As I recall, the core of halal food is that the animal was killed in a human way by a licensed halal butcher and that a specific prayer was spoken before hand. Its not a hugely complicated process and probably doesn't take more than a few minutes. Its not maximally efficient but its close. |
Why are there more male serial killers than there are female? | There actually could be more female serial killers than male, because it's been thoroughly documented that the majority of female killers use poison, so it's possible they fly under the radar a lot. Opposed to male killers, who use basically everything else to do the deed. It's also worth noting that the USA was the fi... |
How can buildings be modified without compromising its structural integrity? | Buildings are designed with safety factors so typically it can lose a lot of integrity and still function how it was designed. Additionally only certain parts of the structure are load bearing or integral, a lot of the walls are for design and not for strength so they can safely be removed or modified entirely. However... |
All of a sudden I randomly remember dreams that I had years ago? | I think, though I might me wrong, that something that you've been around lately or been introduced to lately could be a trigger for memories that are from dreams. |
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