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How can stadiums oversell their capacities without violating some kind of fire code? | As long as they don't actually let too many people in, they're not violating fire code.Many places will "oversell" an event because a reliable percentage of people don't show up. |
I write and draw with my left hand, but I do all other things with my right hand and leg. What kind of person I am? | You're a wierdo. Kidding, of course. What you're experiencing is called "cross-dominance", and it shows up with about 30% prevalence worldwide. |
How are/were pigeons, ravens and other birds trained to take messages to their correct location? | Homing pigeons are trained by taking them away from their mate and taking them far away and they are released.. they fly "home" to be with their mate. They don't have to have a mate to return home but it makes them far more likely to return home if they do. You could take those birds anywhere and release them. They may... |
How is a television show that has different writers and directors for each episode able to stay so cohesive? | The different writers try to create a cohesive final product, and there can even be a master plan for the story arc of a season. Each writer examines the master plan and previous episodes before writing their own and makes it match the same "feel" intentionallyIt depends on the show. A lot of shows will have "bibles" t... |
What is Cinco de Mayo and why is it more popular here in the States than in Mexico? | The Battle of Puebla was a victory for the Mexicans fighting against the French. Particularly for Chicanos in peaceful California, this was news for celebration. May 5, 1863 was the first "Cinco de Mayo" celebration in a California mining town. They celebrated the anniversary of Mexico's first victory in their struggle... |
Why are rice based food products superior to comparable corn/wheat based products? | -Rice is easy to digest and hardly anyone is allergic to rice so great for baby's first solid food. Some dogs have allergies. -If a box is labeled with something it is either required to do so or the company thinks it would make the product sell. It does not mean in any way that the item is actually better than other p... |
If a company makes and copyrights a game, and shuts down in the future, do they still own the rights to the game? If not, who does? | When a company shuts down, it doesn't just go -pop- like a soap bubble. Its assets -- including its intellectual property assets -- are either sold off to other companies or retained as property of a shell corporation that still exists as a legal entity but is no longer doing business.Yes. Someone still owns the rights... |
Why is it that in older houses the light switch to the bathroom is in the hallway? | Wet hands, but more specifically because now we have GFI recepticles that negate the danger of water+electricity by tripping a breaker before you dead yourself.So you can turn the light on *before* you walk into a room? So you can turn the light OFF on your little brother while he's taking a dump -- and there's not Thi... |
#BlackOut on Tumblr Today | It's just some little thing of having black people post pictures of themselves on social media. Kinda just to share what everyone looks like, and show that there are a lot more black people on some services that the typical stereotype is more "white tweens" and just in general to show there is a bunch of black diversit... |
Why do most movies/TV shows/commercials use Mac computers instead of PC? | Answers here are incorrect, Apple repeatedly states that they DO NOT pay for product placement. However, they do work closely with hollywood to give free hardware in hopes that the hardware makes it on to the set. |
Was 2016 really terrible compared to other years ? If not, why did people start complaining about 2016 when bad stuff happens every year ? | Everyone in the States remembers 9/11. Well we got our own 9/11 in 2015 & 2016 in Europe. In November 2015, terrorists attacks in Paris killed 130 people. 2016 kicked off in state of fear: reinforced controls, armed men in the streets, a lot of celebrations cancelled etc.In March 2016, the same terrorist cell hits Brus... |
Why would you face legal problems if you spend money your bank gave you in error? | It's not your money. You know banks don't give out free money as a gift, you know it's not yours, you have to give it back. You're not being held liable, in as much as no penalty is being handed out - you just have to give back what you know was never yours. |
Why is it offensive to dress up like a favorite character from a show that is from a different race? | It's not really - after all, what power do you have to negatively impact anything? The reality is that people that scream 'cultural appropriation' are bullying you to make themselves appear more righteous in the eyes of their peers. Its not about you; its not about defending race; its not defending a culture - its all ... |
Can you theoretically shake a bottle of water so fast that the water molecule rub against each other so much that the water boils ? | If you had an indestructible bottle and an arm moving at incredible speeds, sure. XKCD did [a breakdown] of a similar question a while back. |
Why aren't Bluefin Tuna more commonly bred? | It's not as profitable as you would think. Bluefins require *massive* amounts of food per pound of weight gained. They also are 1000+ lbs so you need a huge amount of space and heavy duty equipment to do it. The land and equipment eats into that profit tremendously, but the big reason is that their diet of fish isn't c... |
Why do I never hear anything else about 99% of newfound scientific research? | The articles are hyperbolic. Discoveries are almost never as amazing as they are presented, or they are only that amazing in very specific circumstances which aren't that practical in real life. Of course, even when one of these studies really is amazing, there are other issues. They require *tons* of testing, to not o... |
Why do youtube videos that make the front page have such a low number of views when so many people up voted or commented on them? | Vsauce has a great video explaining this phenomenon. I can't link it at the moment though, maybe someone else could? |
How come when I need to wake up at a certain time in the morning, if I think about that time, I wake up at that time? | Biological clock. The subconscious is on 24/7, whether conscious awareness is asleep or awake. You've communicated your desire to the subconscious, and it has responded. The fact that you can indicates you have a developed subconscious and a good relationship with your subconscious. You would probably be a good hypnoti... |
why aren’t decks of cards the gold standard for cryptography? | While you might think this, there are not that many possible decks of cards. Only 80.658 x 10^66 . OK, that seems like a lot, but 2^4096 , the number of 4096 bit encryption keys is 1.044 x 10^1230 , a substantially larger number. Even 256 bit keys have 1.157 x 10^77 values, more than your decks of cards. Computers are ... |
Why does bottled water have a 'best before' date? | Two reasons; firstly by federal law anything produced that's consumable must have an expiration date. Secondly the bottle that water is contained in is usually very slightly porous, so the water can pick up smells and tastes from the outside world and the taste will decrease in quality over time. |
What causes the shoelaces to untie themselves? | Your shoes flex as you walk. Each time your shoe flexes it pulls on the shoe laces just a little bit. Not to mention the movement of your feet whilst you walk and if you brush against an item from time to time can encourage them to move. Each time the shoe lace wants to move because of one the reasons mentioned, it is ... |
Signal to noise ratio. | This is a measure of how well the "good stuff" in a transmission comes across versus the unwanted "bad stuff" or noise. It can applied to lots of different types of transmissions; electrical, radio frequency, etc. For instance, if you're on a radio and you can barely make out your buddy because there's so much static, ... |
An economic 'bubble' like 'housing bubble' or '.com bubble' | When prices of investments like homes or stocks are decided by "the market" the price is in part based on what people *think* it might be worth in the future. People are not always rational, they do not always have all the right information, so they don't always make the best decisions. And when something is going up f... |
In The Princess Bride, Wesley beats Vizzini because he built up an immunity to iocane powder. Is it actually possible to build up an immunity to a poison? | Yes. _URL_0_ It is called Mithridatism after a king, Mithridates VI, who, so the story goes, was so fearful of being poisoned he ingested small amounts of poison over time hoping to build up an immunity. It depends on precisely how the body deals with the poison, and it doesn't work for everything. Some poisons just bu... |
How bacteria in pools don't mutate to be able to deal with chlorine as we see with superbugs and antibiotics. | The same way you can't mutate to deal with getting hit in the head with an RPG. It's just too deadly. Antibiotics are meant to be strong enough to kill the bad bacteria, but not too strong as to harm your body, so they have to work in a different way than chlorine. |
Why does a mirror reflect the green part of the spectrum better ? | Glass sometimes gains a green tint due to a high iron content. It depends on the exact process in which glass is made. Because mirrors are made with glass backed by a layer of reflective material the image you see looks slightly green if the glass is impure. |
Why are South Korean gaming servers shut down at night? | _URL_0_ South Korea never officially gave a reason, so "why" is subject to great speculation. The above article is the closest thing to a legitimate reason I can find. |
Why are advertisement on the Internet that are scams not against the law? | Nearly all scams *are* against the law, and intentionally advertising an unlawful scam is *also* usually against the law. The problem is discovering, and proving, that it's a scam. |
what makes the “pop” or click noise when you stretch? | TLDR version; we don't know. Not the fun answer, I know, but the truthful one. According to some theories it is related to gas moving around creating 'vaccuum bubbles' in joints that cause the actual sound. According to others it has to do with dissolved bubbles of gas dissolved in the lubrication fluid. Research as re... |
If muscles take a day or two to fully repair, why do people work out every day? | They tend to work out different muscle groups, giving each area a rest while working out different areas. |
Why does the back of a car collect more dirt than the front of a car? | So I think most of this has to do with aerodynamics. The front of the car is designed to "slice" through the air instead of pushing it. The back is *usually* an after thought aerodynamically. Now consider hatchbacks, like my Crosstrek . It has a rear windshield wiper like most hatchbacks. Why? When driving, the air pas... |
Why is zero so important in mathematics and how did using a zero change the history of maths? | Because it was a step towards the better understanding of mathematics. There was great debate among Ancient Greek mathematicians whether or not zero should be a number. The most common counterargument boiled down to: "How can zero be a number, since it describes nothing? Nothing is not a number. It's the absence of a n... |
How do the high explosive shells of naval artillery explode on impact? How do the armor piercing shells explode once they've penetrated armor and are inside a ship? | Shells that go off on impact use a simple [contact fuze]. Armor-piercing shells , however, don't actually explode inside anything. Rather, they explode just outside the armor, sending forward a jet of molten metal which does the actual penetration. These types of warheads are called shaped charges and take advantage of... |
Why do we put "The Congo" and "The Bahamas" but we don't say "The Canada" or "The Japan"? | Congo and Bahamas are regions Canada and Japan are countries You might not say the Canada but you would say the NorthThe Bahamas are islands in an archipelago. The Congos I think refer to the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo, two different countries. |
Why exactly does the Pythagorean theorem work? | Because that is how Euclidian space works. There are a number of proofs, but they all boil down to that relationship being part of the definition of the "triangle" concept". |
What is the practical difference between installing the 64 and 32 bit versions of programs? | If you run a 32-bit OS, then only the 32-bit version of the program will work. On a 64-bit OS, you're right, you get a choice. I can't speak to any particular application, but in terms of generalities, 64-bit apps tend to faster at raw computational tasks, but they can be slower at tasks that involve complex data struc... |
How do calculators calculate sin, cos, and tan | Note first that it's sufficient to have an algorithm to compute just sin, because cos is sin with it's argument shifted by pi/2, and tan x is equal to sin x/cos x. There are various methods of evaluating functions. One of the simplest is to take an infinite series that converges to the desired function , and simply cal... |
Why doesn't the music industry implement a Steam-like pricing system? | First of all it's quite dangerous to openly say that you pirate music. You are one of many here, but still, take some precautions. Secondly, I know what you are saying and I understand you completely. I have always wondered about that myself. This policy of pricing has pushed me to use mostly streaming services and onl... |
How do speakers make more than one frequency at a time? ELI5 please! | Imagine it like ripples in a pond. If you throw in a pebble into still water, there will be a simple ripple pattern of a certain frequency. If you throw in that pebble and another anywhere next to it, they will each make their own ripples which will then crash into one another and make a more complex ripple. This is th... |
How can two people be exposed to the same situation but have physically opposite reactions to it? | It is due to experience. Two people will always be different, sometimes radically so. A soldier will have a different reaction to hard and boring labor to someone who hasn't been outside of a high-income area in their life.It's all about perspective. "Tucker and dale VS evil" is a great movie showing how it is just tha... |
Why are people scared of guns? | I get hunting, and have fired weapons myself . So I don't "hate" guns, nor am I "scared" of them, but I still have major issues with the whole concept, philosophically. Step back a bit and look at the big picture, forgetting specifics for a minute. A gun is a machine for killing people and other animals. It's not the o... |
Why do so many injuries/illnesses improve so dramatically after a NIGHT of sleep as compared to an entire DAY of similar bedrest. | Sleep cycles are when your body releases growth hormone. So that's the time when tissue that has been damaged by the injury/illness gets repaired. Essentially, you wake up stronger than you were when you went to sleep. This doesn't happen during periods of consciousness, only when you reach REM sleep. So "resting" with... |
How does a bicycle work | Mainly, bicycles stay upright because the rider shifts their weight slightly to keep it balanced. A bike is a type of inverted pendulum: the mass is balanced high above the pivot point . By shifting their weight, the rider can keep the bike balanced, even when standing still. This, however, is not the only reason why a... |
How come sometimes when yawning you get a crackle in your ears? | Yawning can open your Eustachian tube, which allows pressure to equalize inside your ear. If the pressure isn't equal, it can pull your eardrum taut. The 'crackle' is the eardrum moving, which as you may know, is part of the mechanism that signals your brain about sounds. |
What's wrong with the idea of sending our nuclear waste into the Sun? | Ironically, it takes more energy to send things to the sun than it does to send things out of our solar system. Think about it this way: when we send things around our solar system, the primary determinant of how far away from the sun we can get is velocity. If we move something faster *sideways*, then it goes further ... |
how SNL can use copyrighted material without getting into trouble? | First Amendment has been said to protect parody and satire. They can get in trouble for libel, if their jokes are determined to be outright harmful to the brand, but just making fun of somebody is protectedLogos and company names are typically trademarked, not copyrighted. Trademarks prevent competitors from selling pr... |
What allows us to have opinion and unique thoughts? | A brain is only as good as the connections inside. How things are wired up. From our parents, our brains come pre-wired to like or dislike certain things. As we grow and are exposed to new and different things our brain keeps getting wired up in new ways. If we ate spaghetti right before we got the flu and threw it up,... |
Why cats do their business in a litterbox while dogs have to be taken outside. | A long time ago, cats lived in an arid climate. They had to hide their poo in sand in order to avoid other predators. Then they found people, and discovered that people grow crops, crops attract mice, and mice are delicious. So the cats stuck around people and ate all the mice. The people thought that the cats were pre... |
Would an obese person survive longer than a normal one without eating? | Yes, this is the whole purpose of storing fat. When a person goes without eating, their body begins breaking down fat reserves and burning them for energy. When the fat runs out, it starts breaking down other parts of the body, like muscle. Eventually, there isn't anything to burn, and you die, unable to support vital ... |
Why is it unhealthy/more difficult for hunger’s sake to eat a 2000 calorie breakfast instead of lighter meals throughout the day? | Your body doesn't need 2000 calories all at once. If you eat a single 2000 calorie meal, then your body will use however many calories it needs at that moment, and then store the rest as fat to be used later. However, when you need calories a few hours later, it won't immediately dip into your fat reserves. Instead it ... |
Why was denazification in Germany so effective while rebuilding a democratic government in Iraq was such a massive failure? | National identity. Western cultures tend to have a very strong national identities whereasArab and Middle Eastern countries have more cultural/religious identities. So, when nazi Germany goes kaput, the majority of the civilian population falls back of a very strong German identity. However, when Sadam is deposed in Ir... |
Why do archaeological items sink into the earth? | They don't sink into the ground, generally speaking. The ground piles up around them. For instance, earth can pile up as sediment deposited by water, or be windblown. Artifacts won't necessarily be buried by time, either. The top of a hill, for example, may not experience much if any in the way of buildup, leaving arti... |
Why is it considered ideal to have mild inflation? Why not zero inflation or mild deflation? | Deflation would cause people *not to buy anything* because it would be worth less in the future, and so they would save money by stalling their purchase decision. Zero inflation would cause people to save too much money, as bank interest rates would be more attractive, therefore slowing spending, and in turn slowing ec... |
why can i lift something heavy one day and not the next ? | Because your muscles tear and, until they're repaired, they're weakened. It's like a cooldown on a D & D spell. |
How student loans can have such high interest rates. | In the ideal world, loan rates are tied directly to credit and any collateral you're putting up. Home loans are so low because they have the property to backup the loan. No pay, lose the house. Same with car loans, even though cars don't hold their value as well as homes or property. Student loans have no such collater... |
why do the effects in older movies (some not even 10 years old yet) seem so cheesy now yet back when the movie was released it seem so real! | When we haven't experienced something that much, we pay less attention to the details. If we ate bacon for the first time, we'd get blown away by the taste no matter how it was cooked or where it's from - it's unique, delicious and memorable. After eating it every day for a month, we might develop a preference for how ... |
How come I can't pull my seatbelt? | *Because you car is locked *because you have no arms *because someone stapled the seatbelt to the chair *because you car is filled with concrete maybe you should embellish your question if you want accurate explanationsSeatbelts lock to keep the passenger from being flung forward into the dash in the case of a collisio... |
Why was the Hatfield/McCoy feud such a big deal? | For an in depth but easily accessible discussion, [SYSK] did really nice episode. But the tl;dl reason is that it was a massive, bloody bout of lawlessness that overlapped with the new era of journalism. Few incidents like it were documented nearly as well, and stopped existing as more rule of law came to bear on rural... |
Why is it legal for states to ban gay marriage if church and state are separated? | Sure, religion accounts for the opposition to gay marriage. But the government can define marriage however it wants. In some states the government defines marriage as something that must include a man and a woman. Its like how most government offices are closed on Sundays. It's because church is a Sunday obligation, bu... |
Why does the peak volume vary so much from different sources on the internet: music, videos, etc? Also why can't your computer/speakers artificially amplify the peak level? | It's actually more about average loudness than peak, but /u/swordgeek hit it - lack of standards. It used to be in some genres that musicians and/or engineers would push the loudness as high as possible into a peak limiter . This was done in order to stand out, for example, on the radio - when the radio is on in the ba... |
How do cars move? How do the wheels even move and stay in place? | [This] is how a ball bearing works, there are hundreds in a car.The wheels are attached to a strong post called an axle. The axle passes through a hole lined with a set of small greased rollers so that it can turn in place. The other end of the axle has a gear on it which is connected to the rotating shaft in the middl... |
What makes a sleeping pill cause your body to sleep? Why do white blood cells not attack if your body is being affected? | Sleeping pills all work a bit differently, so it depends on the pill. Basicly, though, they work by slowing the activity in your brain and making it react less to stimuli. Your white blood cells work by using antigens, chemical markers that fit into a receptor site and are recognized as foreign or self. If there isn't ... |
Why do some cars have different names in different countries? For example: it's called a tacoma stateside, but a hilux overseas. | That's not an excellent example, as the Tacoma is a light-duty softened down ute for the US market, where the Hilux is a reasonably moderate duty work truck. They're based on a similar design platform but still significantly different. Scion with the FR-S and the rest of the world with the GT86 would be a more pertinen... |
How are dances choreographed? | They record it or they repeat it many times until they memorize it.When I was a choreographer I would create moves by dancing to a song and when I made one I liked i just built up on that, and then repeat until memorized. It was like writing and memorizing a poem, but instead of words there were different moves at diff... |
Why don't your stomach contents come out of your stomach when you're upside-down? | Long science words: gastroesophageal sphincter. Like you're five: the bottom of your esophagus closes up like a butthole to stop food from coming back up your throat. |
Why is the pronunciation in the English language so illogical compared to other languages? | Have you tried swedish or portuguese? Evey language has its perks. They are old, living things, and as they age new words from neighboors get added, and not all of them are adapted very well.> ELI5: Why is the pronunciation in the English language so illogical compared to other languages? I'm not sure that I agree with... |
Why are box office records reported in dollars or other monetary receipts rather then just number of tickets sold which don't automatically increase with inflation? | The movie industry doesn't care about how many people saw it. They care about money made. It is meaningless to give free showings to boost your movie views if no one paid to see it. |
What is “vape tongue” and why does it happen? | Imagine you want to buy a candle, so you start smelling a few to see what you 'd like, but after a while, it gets a bit difficult to smell anything besides candle. Your loved one walks over, "hey what do you think of these two perfumes/colognes?", but they just smell identical. It's pretty much that"Vaper's tongue" whi... |
Why is rape in India highlighted so much in the world media, when countries like the US and UK have more than 10x more rape cases per capita? | Because the rapes are so horrible, stuff happening on public buses with a large group of perpetrators. Stuff happening to tourists. You also can't trust the statistics because rape is rarely reported. The Indian police are known to blame the victim, thus discouraging reporting. Also the way in which rape is reported le... |
How much space is under controlled observation. I mean how much long distance of a space we can easily observe & point out any small object like small asteroids. | Depends on the scale you're talking about. But we try to detect most of the objects bigger than 100m across if they're within 5 million miles: _URL_0_ Of course, that's the goal: we don't detect all of those objects, and we don't object many more smaller objects, so that range may be too big. |
Why the old AOL Dial-Up sound was so obnoxious. | Sorry, can't answer scientifically. But I think you are confusing the word obnoxious with sublime. Some of us have very fond memories of that sound, so speak for yourself. :) And get off my lawn!", 'Pavlovian response--good for some, bad for others. I was young and impatient, so the sound was like a very slow starting ... |
external, internal, and cellular respiration | My understanding is that these terms are used to separate 3 phases of gas exchange. External is the exchange of oxygen and CO2 in the lung. Internal is the exchange of oxygen and CO2 in the tissue/circulation Cellular describes the reduction of O2 to CO2 in the cell. |
whats so bad about buying stuff from ikea? | Nothing? I guess people perceive it to be cheap furniture that's bulk made out of not the finest Italian hand stitched leather but I don't have a problem with it |
What is the difference between torrents & magnet links? | Torrents store the metadata within files which you download and open up with your BitTorrent client. Magnet links store the metadata within a URI, which your BitTorrent client is set up to handle. You'll notice that you don't have to download a file in your browser when you use magnet links, whereas using torrent files... |
When filling out application forms, why do they ask for your Resume only to make you fill it out all again anyway? | The resume is for the hiring manager to read. The information you fill out is for the hiring database so they can do a search on relevant qualifications and experience, and that determines *which* resumes the hiring manager will even get to see.You've got two types of reasons for things to happen in a large company. Th... |
How doea our body differ new medicine from harmful bacteria? | Your body does not know. However, medicine is made of individual molecules, whereas bacteria are made of whole cells, which are about a trillion times as big as a single molecule, and made of many many kinds of molecules. So most medicines don't set off your immune system in the way bacteria do. |
Why does twisting a damp sponge get more water out than just squeezing it, without having to apply anywhere near as much force? | It has to do with the area where the force is applied. Squeezing will be applied in the area immediately in contact with your hand. Twisting will carry the tension as angular moment throughout the whole surface of the sponge.It's because while the force you're applying may be smaller, it's likely the area you're applyi... |
I'm starting a new youtube channel where I explain stuff. The first episode is about the science of candle flames, and I thought you guys might be interested! | I like this. However, pictures are awesome. Your pictures with the flame on the drawing board? Good stuff. The video with candle/flame? Good stuff. Your face? Great face for TV, but I don't want to see it the majority of the time. It makes the viewer lose interest over a period of time. Personally, I liked learning abo... |
why do I feel dizzy even if I close my eyes while spinning? | It is your inner ear that is mainly responsible for feeling dizzy, not your vision. You have a series of tubes filled with fluid. As you move around, upside down, sideways etc, the fluid shifts and you brain uses it to determine exact how your body is positioned to help you balance. When you spin around, you shake up t... |
What do server farms/data centers create? | > but what does the farm actually make? Is it upping the RAM of the site? The server farm *is* the site. A website is just a series of files which are accessed remotely. They exist on a computer which is connected to the computer on which you are viewing them. The computer that holds and provides the files which make u... |
Why is it so hard to heat up mashed potatoes in the microwave? | I could be wrong, but I think it's because of the density of mashed potatoes. I think it's hard for the radio waves to reach the more covered parts of the mashed potatoes. I'm not sure if that's the right answer though, it's just a guess. But you could spread it out over a bigger plate, and then heat it. That's what I ... |
Why are elections anonymous? | If elections weren't anonymous, you could be threatened to cast your vote a certain way. Imagine mobsters who demand to see your voting slip, and will break your kneecaps if it's not for who they "suggested" that you vote for. Or a boss who will fire you if you don't vote the way they tell you to. By making votes anony... |
What is happening when you get a blister? | Blisters are your bodies response to certain conditions . Your body detects the appropriate stimulus and responds by producing some fluid between your layers of skin to protect lower layers from further damage. _URL_0_ |
Why exactly is bouncing your legs when sitting bad? | I've never heard it being bad and can't think of a reason it would be. I would bet people have said that because it's disruptive to them, and they're hoping to scare you into stopping. I know I do it, and now and then, people will bring to my attention that I'm shaking the table in class. |
Why do stores tend not to accept American Express? | I think it's because the merchant has to wait longer and pay a higher fee for purchases made with AmEX, as compared to Visa,Master card. Don't know for sure now but I believe it used to be 5% fee with a 30 day wait. Hard on a small business to accept.When you use a credit/debit card at a store, the store pays a credit ... |
Why do the beating of some insects' wings make a buzzing noise while others such as moths do not? | It is the difference between material. Moth wings are soft and covered in dust while a beetle or locust wing is rigid. Like the difference between a bed sheet and a Mylar emergency blanketThere are two types of ways that insect muscles beat their wings. Some insects, like bees, have a sort of involuntary twitch muscle ... |
Why is it so difficult to send emails with attachments larger than 10mb? | Most email services these days are free, but they tend to make money by charging extra for additional features and services like larger file size limits for attachments and greater email storage space. Ten MB is pretty low for today's standards though, most free email services I believe have been offering 20 MB or larg... |
How am I able to space out during my entire drive home and arrive not remembering how I got there? | I remember seeing a study a year or two about this , that basically concluded this happens to a lot of us, and is the result of our brain driving subconsciously based on muscle memory. The interesting part is that drivers were actually much safer when this happened.Habit is a powerful thing. When you were learning to w... |
Steams In-home Streaming. What is the point? | It uses the hardware from computer A to stream the display on computer B. Inputs from computer B are sent back to computer A to play the game. This is useful if computer A is a high performance machine and computer B is a low performance or non windows machine. The downside is probably some input lag. Remember OnLive? ... |
When we walk or run, why do our arms swing in opposite directions of our legs? | I would imagine it's for balance reasons seeong as how we swing the arm opposite of the foot we're putting forward but I don't know the details however. |
Why was Paul Ryan seated beside Joe Biden during the SOTU Address? (not American asking) | Paul Ryan is the Speaker of the House of Representatives. As Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden is the President of the Senate. The presiding officers of the two chambers sit behind the President, where presiding officers normally go.At every State of the Union, two people sit behind the President: the Vice... |
Matter can neither be created nor destroyed? | *Energy* cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form. Some hypotheses suggest the big bang was caused by a lot of energy reaching a critical capacity to burst out and create matter. There is plenty here to conflict with religious beliefs since many of those were created before we had scientific observations... |
Why chickens can't fly.... | Chickens used to fly, and when we discovered that they are tasty, we want more meat on the bones. What do we do? Take those tasty, flying chickens and feed them a diet that causes the birds to gain more weight. This took place for thousands of years, and now chickens are born with easy access to getting fat fast, and a... |
Will the projected effects of climate change make places like Greenland, Siberia, and Antarctica more livable? | In the short term, not significantly, because there is a lot of ice and a few degrees warmer weather won't make these places much more hospitable but the adverse effects of rising sea level and desertification would make much larger and more populous areas uninhabitable.More likely to make Seattle or Ireland feel like ... |
Which current American English accent is closest to the "original" American English accent? | Tangier Island, VA was long super isolated and they're considered to have the oldest original American accent in the country _URL_0_ They speak how Americans were believed to speak in the 1600s", 'My guess would be the Tidewater areas around Chesapeake Bay and Virginia; also isolated communities like Appalachia. And ru... |
Why do familiar places seem to have a unique smell that you aren't aware of until after being away? | Because after a while you go nose blind. That's why it's hard sometimes to gauge how much perfume or cologne is "enough", because after a while you'll stop smelling it but it will still be strong enough for other people to smell. |
Why do Americans seem to have a bigger problem with homosexuality in comparison to the English? | They don't. In fact polls on gay marriage in the [US] and the [UK] show almost exactly the same results.[This article] covers it pretty well. TL;DR: In the U.S, 50% of people polled considered religion to be "Very Important," while in the UK, that number was only 17%.I'm going to remove this as an unintentionally loade... |
Why are human feet so vulnerable? | Spend a Summer walking barefoot. When I was a kid I had callouses so thick on the bottom of my feet that I once ran over crushed glass and all I had to do was pick it out. Not one drop of blood. They are sturdier than you think. EDIT: To more directly answer your question, they are not. Modern people's feet are soft an... |
why my two week disposable contacts need to be disposed of after two weeks? | A few different reasons, actually. One, the most prominent, is that your eyes will build up protein deposits on the contacts. The solution you clean them in helps with this, but any solution powerful enough to clean the lens completely is going to be powerful enough to physically break down the lens itself. Also, soft ... |
How is the art on a CD Disc made? | Originally, this was done with a process called screen printing, it's actually very similar to how they print artwork on the front of T-shirts. Sometimes, they also use stamps. Basically, several big rubber stamps, one with each color in the image. If the image had eight colors, it would get stamped eight times, each s... |
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