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How can the senate go about invoking a nuclear option? | The 60 vote thing is regarding bills and SCotUS appointments and is due to long-standing rules that the Senate created fo itself . However, it does not apply to the rule making process itself, which only requires a simple majority. The particular rule in question is called "Cloture" which means a vote to end the floor ... |
Why do modern medications so often have negative, and sometimes severely harmful, side effects? | They don't really. The chance of that stuff actually happening to you is practically nil - but if it does, from a legal standpoint you were warned in advance. From a medical perspective they probably have ways to tell that a certain mixture *could* have some side effect without needing actual cases of the effect occurr... |
How does charcoal clean your face? | Charcoal generally has the property of having lots of pores that are approximately the correct size for medium-sized organic molecules to enter and become trapped. Activated carbon/charcoal has been produced in a way to maximize those pores, making it better at that process. If you're making charcoal for fuel, you don'... |
Why does 24 fps look good in film/tv, but look so bad in gaming? | I've searched tha seven seas fer an answer. Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [why does a 24 fps movie look smooth while a game running at 24 fps look stuttery? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why is 24 FPS unplayable in video games, but looks fine to me in movies/TV shows? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why do 24fps films loo... |
why do doctors tap their fingers to their hands on your stomach? | It's a technique called percussion. You can roughly tell the density of the organ under your hands by both hearing and feeling the vibrations you set up. A tight, taught belly might be full of blood or excess fluid from an injury or liver damage. You can also roughly size some organs by percussing along certain lines. ... |
Why do people hate Sarah Palin? | Because she is incredibly dense. A mixture of her over-friendly non-Canadian Canadian joyfulness pings a bad ring with many people especially with a mix of how she talks about thinks like she knows about things but is sadly mistaken when put to the test. Also the very idea this woman could have been an American Vice Pr... |
Why does my plate feel burning hot but my food is still cold when I take it out of the microwave after 3 minutes? | One explanation is that you're trying to defrost something. Another explanation is that your plate is not microwave safe. Microwave-safe dishes are designed to react very little with microwaves, thus undergoing little dielectric heating. It only gets hot when it comes in contact with hot food. However, if your dish is ... |
How do medications get their chemical name? | Functional groups have their own names, and a molecule is usually named from the base structure and functional groups. In the case of asprin, we start off with a benzoic acid There is also a acetal group in a carbon directly adjacent to the carbon holding the larger group, hence the 2- designation. Can't really Eli5 th... |
Why does it physically hurt when your heart is broke? | Depression. Depression and anxiety have physical symptoms, some of which are chest pains/tightening in the chest and a lack of appetite. Basically, your body goes a bit haywire in response to the imbalance of hormones in your brainSimple answer is that your mind is also part of your body. When something is troubling yo... |
When showering the temperature has to be above 37°c (98°f) because below bodytemperature feels cold, but when it is 28°c (82°f) outside it feels warm, how? | Temperature is absolute but heat capacity and conductivity are not. Air is diffuse and can't wick away heat very well. Water is dense and can draw heat off very rapidly. 85 degree air can't draw body heat away as fast as you can produce it, 85 degree water can. |
Why do different cars have different beat frequencies for their blinkers? | Simple Answer: There's no strict industry standard, so they're just going to be different. In Depth Answer: Originally, turn signals were made from a special kind of switch. There's a thin strip made of two different kinds of metal, one layered on top of the other. These two metals sandwiched in a thin strip will resis... |
Federal Ruling on Affordable Care Act | The ruling was that funds were distributed as reimbursements/subsidies without being approved by congress. One of the fundamental checks and balances inherent in the US govt. is that congress controls the power to spend, so spending unappropriated funds without congressional approval is unconstitutional. These funds we... |
What is with all the hate about having an 'outdoor cat' in US? | There are predators in North America. Outdoor cats get killed by foxes, coyotes, sometimes mountain lions, other cats, etcCats are an invasive species. Because they are such excellent hunters, there are places in the U.S. where they pose a very real danger to native wildlife. Also, there is a great deal of overpopulati... |
In Ice Hockey, why can't I just plug the goal with the fattest guy I can find. | The pads are limited in size. A normal fat guy is much too slow to be a goalie and will get beat badly . Typically the goalie is the fastest guy on the ice, you just rarely see it. An astonishingly obese man might physically obstruct most of the goal, but a lot of his body will not be protected by pads. A few NHL slaps... |
Why is there no foreign military bases in the US, yet there are plenty of US bases in foreign nations?0 | Germany has bases in the US. _URL_0_ The US has overseas bases because they have agreements with those countries to allow them and want them to facilitate their force projection in those theatres. There isn't a great need to have a base in the US. No one is worried about Canada or Mexico getting out of hand and needing... |
the "double irish" tax strategy used by many large tech companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.) to pay less tax. | A simple Irish strategy is set up a company in Ireland and give it a brand or some intellectual property. Then your US firm pays the Irish firm fees for the use of the brand. The fees account for most of the income the US firm would have earned, and Ireland's corporate tax rates are very low. Here's an example : Transa... |
How does a wave pool work? | There are numerous ways to create an artificial wave. One way it is done is simply through the use of a paddle that creates the waves by applying force on the water. Certain wave pools actually use air which is blown on the surface of the water to create a similar effectAt the end there is a paddle. Moving the paddle u... |
How do they clean portable toilets? | They pump everything out then basicly pressure wash the thing I'm sure there's a fairly strong disinfectant in the mix At least I seriously hope so |
What is the difference between 30th and 60fps and why should I care? | IIRC it's due to real life situations have a natural blur to them which helps with movement and doesn't put too much strain on our eyes so 30fps is sufficient. Games/artificially created things don't have this natural blur therefore the extra frames are needed to simulate that therefore more frames are needed, I'm goin... |
If water in lungs is a dangerous scenario, would it be bad to breathe in water vapor? | There is always water vapor present in the air we breathe [] so no, it is not bad to breathe water vapor. edit: formatting', "Not really, it doesn't condense fast enough to be problematic. In fact, dry air is not very nice, if you ever travel to the desert you'll know what I mean. All air has some amount of water vapor... |
Does Economic Deregulation Hinder or Stimulate the Economy? | Does a calorie-restriction diet always help a person ? Well it depends. Someone suffering from all the medical complications of being obese or overweight should definitely be put on a diet to reduce their weight. On the other hand, someone malnourished from poverty or anorexia should not be made to go on a diet because... |
Why can’t you add 2 110v household wires together to create 220v? | you can ..if they're on different phases. power coming off the grid is 2 phase, 2 sine wave voltages that are 180degrees offset from each other. when electrician wires up the electrical panel, each circuit only gets one of those phases. but if he wires up a circuit with opposites different phases, it'll be 220v. there ... |
How Americans can tolerate police brutality so easily | Because sadly, most of my countrymen are more concerned with The Fast and the Furious 7 and Ariana Grande's pussy than they are about where our country is headed. The religious Right is trying to upset the status quo to create more of a theocratic oligarchy. That's why there's so much flak about the alleged "attack on ... |
Why is it that we can understand words in context, but when asked the strict definition of even a simple word we are often hard pressed to provide it? | My theory is because much of the time you figure out words via context clues. Most words you probably don't learn via dictionary definitions, but rather hearing them in context then adding it to your vocabulary. With this being the case, you never typically have to provide the meaning of the words, you just know a gene... |
How do we know that some animals dream in color or not? | We can tell what colors they can see by testing them and by dissecting their eyes to see how they are structured. As far as their dreams, we can't know for sure but if an animal can see a color in real life then they can probably dream it, too. |
How do the protesters obtain the information on the possible objectionable content in the movies prior to their release? | Sometimes there are early screenings with test audiences. And a film classification board has to write up a report on the film before it's released so it can be rated. Those two things would be the biggest sources of information. |
Why is the gold standard for song length 180 seconds? | Back in the stone age, records could only fit about 3 minutes of music on each side. As technology evolved, it was capable of holding more, but by then the audience was comfortable with that length and there hasn't been a huge consumer demand to change. |
What is Kik? and Why do people use it over texting? | Kik is a messenger app, can be used with just wifi and doesn't require you to share your phone number. I prefer to use Kik over texting because 1. I don't have to share my personal phone number 2. It tells you when the message has been delivered, read, and when the person is replying 3. Standard messaging rates don't a... |
How do large websites like google or reddit stay online during server maintenance/updates? | They have lots and lots of servers, plus load balancers that direct traffic to the machines that are up and away from the ones that are down. If they need *n* servers to handle load, they have *n*+*x* servers, and only have *x* offline at any given time.Imagine websites are like plays in a theater, that has multiple sh... |
How can we determine the material far away planets consist of? | Different kinds of substances reflect light in different ways. Like a fingerprint or a snowflake, it seems that no two substances have the same kind of reflection. When this light reaches the earth, we measure it with a device called a spectrometer which splits the reflection into its components, just like how a prism ... |
Why do we call Emoticons Emojis now? | Emoji comes from Japanese. In english, with 26 letters, 10 numbers and a smattering of punctuation and control codes, everything we needed fit into the 127 spaces in a 7-bit number. But Japanese has many, many more, so they needed lots more space. They chose a 16-bit number. But that left them lots of room for other th... |
Why aren't the files you download via torrent compressed? | Another thing to note, most file formats that are shared using Bittorrent include their own compression schemes. Nearly all media formats you will come across already compress their content to a great degree, and placing these files in a compressed archive such as a ZIP file might do VERY LITTLE to further reduce the s... |
Why do people fight to prohibit publicly funded research into gun violence*, despite funding research into tobacco, food safety, etc? (see comments) | The problem is that the Executive branch and Justice Department wanted the Centers for Disease Control to try to make a criminal justice issue a health issue. The FBI already maintains and provides extensive data about gun violence ages, races, genders, circumstances and weapons used, which is publicly available. The r... |
Why do body parts (fingers, eyes, etc) twitch randomly? | It is like your nervous system sending little tests out to make sure everything is there and working properlyWell your eyes twitch randomly becuase if they stay still you will go blind, saw it on here or on TIL A few weeks back. Sorry but not sure about the others. |
Why is that same scream in every action movie | There isn't the same scream everytime.. however there is a specific scream in tons of movies called [The Wilhem Scream], yes its an inside joke. People scour through movies trying to find it, even though its usually not hidden, its just a fun joke to put into a movie, even serious movies do it. |
Why is water at some tropical beaches clear, but at others it's murky? Isn't it all the same water? | The colour of the water will be heavily affected by what is suspended in it. Colder waters tend to be rich in nutrients, with lots of plant and animal plankton, which is why whales and other animals prefer to feed in them, as opposed to tropical waters which have less. Nearby rivers enter the sea can also sweep sedimen... |
Why do we develop skin tags? | > It is believed that skin tags occur from skin rubbing up against skin, since they are so often found in skin creases and folds. Studies have shown existence of low-risk HPV 6 and 11 in skin tags hinting at a possible role in its pathogenesis. Acrochorda have been reported to have a prevalence of 46% in the general po... |
Why do I hear a click in my headset when I turn the lamp on, which is connected to the same outlet as my PC? | When you turn a switch on it closes a circuit, allowing electricity to flow. With simpler electric devices such as lamps, the switch is usually physically closing and opening the circuit, which can cause a small arc to form when the contacts are getting close to each other, kind of like how you get a static shock when ... |
Why does pee have a yellow tint? | It is urobilin, a chemical that results from the process by which your body breaks down old red blood cells. Another product of this, sterocobilin, is what makes your poo brownThe yellow color largely comes from urobilin, which is created when the body breaks down old red blood cells.In addition to what's being said al... |
Why does it feel like "being triggered" and gender selection doesn't happen outside the US? | Because Europe hasn't gone so far into the gaping hell hole that is third wave feminism. Europe still has about a decade to go till it gets so worse as the US is now |
Why is it illegal to eat lungs in America? | It is not illegal to eat lungs in the US. It is illegal to sell them as food to people in the US. The reason for this is that lungs and other offal are internal organs that are prone to decay quickly and also prone to harbor disease. The regulatory bodies that make our food safe have deemed them too big of a risk.A) Wh... |
Who are some of the contenders in the 2016 U.S. presidential election that have a strong foothold in the door? How well do they reflect the values of their party? | Super, super early, but some of the strong possiblities: Hillary Clinton will almost certainly run in 2016. She did very well as Secretary of State, but a possible issue will be Benghazi. That's one of the reasons the GOP has been stretching out what seems to be a non issue for so long. She'll have strong challengers o... |
Why are there no factory teams in NASCAR and IndyCar? | My understanding is that IndyCar and NASCAR are both standardized car type races. Where all teams have basiclly the same cars to drive and the work is in building it to spec and keeping it running. With F1 there's significantly more design technoligy that goes into the cars. So winning in F1 means more to the manufactu... |
Big Banks have just been fined $2.5 Billion for criminal currency manipulation; Will the average US taxpayer ever see this money? | The fines are split between a [number of agencies]. The fines to the DoJ reduce the amount of money congress allocates to the DoJ and repay the Federal Reserve for it's costs in carrying out the investigation . Each settlement has it's own structure for the fines. Some of the housing fines were set up such that the ban... |
Why do Cockroaches make us so uncomfortable? | It is the "gross" factor. They are potential carriers of disease or dirt, and we as animals "know" this in the back of our minds. Logically, it is not reasonable to fear them, they could not harm us, but our instincts tell us otherwise. It it the same reason why we fear mice, even when the mice run from us -- especiall... |
What is the difference between having to build a website from scratch or using a web service such as Wix or Squarespace? | Wix and other builders limit you to technologies and controls that they create. Sometimes you can customize a few things here and there, but a good comparison is vehicles. You know those playskool cars everyone had as a kid ? [Of course you do.] Now compare that to an actual manufacturer . Both of them will get you aro... |
- Why do musicians with heavy foreign accents have no discernible accent while singing? | A big part of singing is acting and imitating. You reproduce emotions and melody while respecting the timing pronouncing the words. Chances are your favorite group/singer learned to sing while listening and repeating american singers songs. They then become used to sing like that and keep on going. The best example of ... |
what happens to the new horizon after it shoots past pluto? | According to [this detailed write-up] it will continue to the Kuiper belt to make observations of other non-planetary objects, and there are even plans for what it may do in 2047 if it hasn't died by then. |
What Determines the Value of Art? | Art is subjective therefor it's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. It has no *real value* other than the value someone would place on it. Paintings can go on sale for millions but if it doesn't sell its worth fuck all. If it sells for 30k it's worth that to some people, it may re sell for more or less dependi... |
It may be hard to ELI5. EILI15 maybe? American Psycho | We can't really tell what he did or did not do. He perceives himself killing those people, but as we saw with the ATM killing him to kill the cat, he is also perceiving things that cannot be. I would suggest that Patrick Bateman is an unreliable narrator. He went crazy because he constantly sought out this perfect life... |
How do tv and radio stations figure out how many viewers/ listeners they have? When recording show on a DVR, does that count? | It's based on surveys conducted on behalf of or by the station. People will get a packet that they have to keep track of what they watch/listen to, then mail it back in. There is a section for what you watch live vs DVR, but ultimately it's up to how the respondents record the information. Some areas will use a random ... |
How can Uber get away with saying they are not a transportation service? | They claim to prove a connection between the customers and the people who want to drive them. So, pretty much the same way that Pirate Bay said they weren't a piracy site, they just connected people who wanted to swap files. We know how well that worked out in the courts. |
How does sublimation occur instead of melting and then evaporating? | If you've never seen a triple phase diagram, it generally happens in situations where the temperature and pressure are lower than the triple point. _URL_0_ Increases in temperature cause an increase in the energy of the molecules, and an increase in their movement away from each other. Increases in pressure cause an in... |
Why aren't there many companies using Reddit for marketing? | There are. Companies pay organizations to post on Reddit to get brand exposure. They don't do this overtly of course. But when you see a post about a film trailer that looks cool, a question about the history of a particular large brand or an AMA request for someone who has something to sell, quite often there is a mar... |
What powers the human body? | ATP is the energy your body runs on, the body is constantly creating ATP to fuel pretty much every process. In each of your neurons there's a gradient of sodium and potassium, this gradient is the action potential of your neuron, when your neuron gets an electrical signal from another neuron is fires, releasing the ion... |
how HDD and flash drives store data without being connected to electricity . | Differently. HDDs store data in the polarization of a thin magnetic media. The coding is along the lines of if NS then that's a 0 and SN is a 1. Flash storage uses electrons stored in a tiny capacitor. Lots of charge = 1 and no charge = 0. |
Why dope as a Curler? | The drug in question boosts endurance. Brooming is more taxing than it looks. More endurance means better brooming later in the match.I've curled a couple of times recreationally and the sweeping is surprisingly tiring. I'd imagine that a PED allowing greater strength and stamina could be a benefit in a sport where lit... |
Why are Islamic sites being demolished in Saudi Arabia? | The Saudi state subscribes to a fairly extremist view of Sunni Islam, which holds that preserving historical sites is uncomfortably close to idolatry. Some sites are also being demolished to make room for continued expansion around the major holy sites to support more pilgrims. It is definitely controversial outside of... |
Why does it seem like sinkholes are increasing in frequency? | It's probably a combination of two things. First, when a news story gets a lot of attention, another smaller story that is similar in nature gets a lot of attention as well. So there might not be more sinkholes, just more media attention around the subject. Second, let's assume there are, in fact, more sinkholes now. S... |
Why can our brains lookup any word we know and recall a definition, but I can't iterate through every word that I know? | Put Simply - Because your brain isn't a computer The "organic computer" metaphor is really a bad metaphor for the human brain. Our memory isn't stored like a computers, so we can't do something like iterate every single word we know but we can also hold a conversation which is something computer struggle to do wellBeca... |
Why do things smell? | Smell is comprised of volatile molecules moving into the air from the object. They travel in air currents and the ones that hit your nose trigger those receptors. > and why do things smell in the first place? The smell is simply a product of your brain saying "I 've detected a particular molecule," which was airborne d... |
How does Garlic cause bad breath? | It doesn't. It causes your breath to smell of garlic. Some find that to be a bad odor, some are neutral, and some actually like it. The reason for this is that garlic has a lot of oils and other compounds that are very volatile and odorific. |
Why do we instinctively grab at or hold a part of our body when its injured or hurts? | I asked this question in /r/askscience about a year ago, and receieved surprisingly great answers: _URL_0_ from /u/arumbar: Applying pressure to an injured area may decrease pain. This is explained by the 'gate control theory' of pain sensation. When you stimulate the touch fibers, they actually inhibit the pain neuron... |
Why is it blurry when we look straight into water but clear when you wear goggles? | Because your eyes need air directly in front of them to be able to focus properly .Some children actually possess the ability to see underwater relatively clearly, as their lenses are more flexible and can adjust to the difference between seeing in air and water. Scientists studied this in [Thailand's Moken tribe's chi... |
Why are so many things in English? | Thank the British Empire, which at one point had approximately a quarter of the world's people under it. Also thank the United States' cultural and economic dominance, as this contributes to people having an incentive to learn English. Though it's actually the third most spoken language behind Mandarin and Spanish, spe... |
why does the moon only look huge when it's low in the sky? | Your eyes are used to things getting smaller in the distance towards the horizon. It's the principle behind perspective in painting/drawing. So a car right next to you is way bigger than a car in the distance, but your brain is used to understanding that they're actually the same size. The moon moves around us and neve... |
Why do batteries/phones feel heavier when they are charged? | no there is no exchange of weight, the movement/addition of electrons makes no difference a human would ever be able be able to detect it feels heavier because if it was charging you werent used to holding it and then its a new sensation, a psychology term called habituation |
What's the Time Zone Situation in the South Pole? | [Here is a map of time zones in Antarctica.] For practical purposes research stations use whatever timezone their main supply base uses. Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station uses New Zealand time. |
What is mathematics, and why is it a language of nature? | It's not the language of nature, it's just the best translation we have. Some of those translations conflict with each other. |
Why can't modern military equipment not be produced on the scale of World War II? | It could, if we fed the war machine like we did in WW2. People talk about the military industrial complex and how much we spend on defense, but it is honestly nothing compared to a nation actually going to war collectively. We could, if necessity arose, raise the investment in the military by 1000%+. Heck, WW2 saw a mi... |
Why do organizations like One Million Moms still exist even though what they're protesting is almost always a joke for everyone else? | AFA has 180K members and pull in about $20M/yr. You might not agree with them, but that doesn't mean they don't have a right to do their thing. |
Why does it get really windy as soon as I walk through a subway station entrance? | Wind is cause by pressure differentials, and temperature is directly related to pressure . The temperature between the outside and inside of a subway station are different, so a pressure differential is created and you get wind. If you can pinpoint the direction of the wind, you can tell which area is warmer. Wind alwa... |
Why are so many medications something-hydrochloride? | Some medicines are organic compounds that are unable to be dissolved in water or acidic solutions . Whenever you see the hydrochloride, it means the pharmaceutical company has converted the insoluble drug molecule into a hydrochloride salt to increase its water solubility so it can actually be absorbed in the body. Oth... |
Could the USAF replace jet engines from the B52 with newer engines like those on the new 747? | One of the concerns is that civilian turbofan engines are not designed to deal with battle damage. Military-spec turbines are built much stronger so that they can take a hit and keep operating as normal, where a GeNx would lose compression and flame out. |
Why would an electric company such as nrg buy the naming rights to a stadium? What's the benefit for them? | The name of the stadium is mentioned in ads for events. Better for a product like Minute Maid - IMO . Reminds consumers that they are a big deal. Ultimately, their board probably gets a lux suite to entertain in.It builds goodwill in a brand. If you have to make a relatively uninformed choice between two fairly similar... |
Why do some countries have ".co.xx" domain system, while others have ". xx" ? E. G. ._URL_0_ /.us | Adding an extra level just helps organize things better. The whole point of the domain system was to make it easy to remember/find sites on the internet. The .com/net/org/gov/mil system was created with the idea that the internet was primarily a US thing - a country system that uses a 2nd level classification of busine... |
Why does Florida get so much bad press? | Florida is very open with their police reports compared to other states. I'm in Vegas, and if we had gators, people would think we were worse than Florida. I'm sure someone is getting attacked in their double-wide by someone wielding a decorative aluminum katana.Just go to /r/Floridaman That is really what goes in Flor... |
Why do some things (like coke,OJ, icecream or pizza) taste better/different cold than warm? | For cold drinks like water, oj, coke our brains tend to think of them as refreshing . This might be due to the fact that in nature, we find cold water in running streams, rivers whereas warmer water is found in stagnant pools, a breeding group for bacteria and other pathogenic organisms. So in this case there is an evo... |
I don't understand this College Freshman meme. Why does he laugh for a year? | Most people don't pledge to a fraternity or sorority until their second year. The implication is that it's going to happen to him next year.See the photoshopped hat on him? That's basically showing that he's a douchebag for laughing instead of doing something to help the pledge. I can't remember the name of the origina... |
Why dogs need to be quarantined when traveling to another country? | It depends on the countries involved. But for example in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, due to being islands they have managed to remain free of rabies . As part of very strict controls to maintain this situation they need to be 100% certain that any animal brought into the country doesn't have rabies. They can d... |
Why do cast iron pots and pans hold their heat so much longer than other cooking materials? | Because they're heavy. Heavy, thick metal will hold heat much longer than thin, light aluminium or copper. |
Why do we find abstract poetry, such as that of E. E. Cummings, pleasing despite the lack of logical detail? | I'm not going to speak on behalf of everyone in the world or anything, but I think much of it has to do with our ability to fill in meaning on our own, with things that have meaning to us personally, even if the technical structure of the poem may not expressly describe it. |
How do oysters "grow" pearls inside their shells? | Think about your own skin - when something rubs up against it, your skin gets irritated. The body produces a blister first to try to cushion against the irritant. Eventually, the body builds up a callous as a more lasting form of protection. A similar thing happens to an oyster to form a pearl - an irritant gets past t... |
Why does an ice pack help neutralize a headache? | Headaches occur from the dilation of vessels in/around your brain that start pushing on the surrounding areas which causes the pain sensation. What I mean by that is that the vessels aren't the ones sending out pain signals, it's the stuff around the vessels that are getting compressed by these now larger than usual ve... |
How do pop-up blockers work? How do sites get around them? | The original pop-ups would open a new page in a new window, and give that window a size and position to open to, so it would show up in front of the web page. Pop-up blockers would see that call "hey, this page wants to open a new window, should I let it?" and decide that it's probably not a useful page to open. Lately... |
If humans need to process water to survive then why does so much liquid come out as waste when we pee? | We need to get rid of water-soluble waste from our body. A constant flow of water into and out of our body is needed to do this.Because most of the stuff that comes out when we pee are water-soluble waste products - things like salts that dissolve easily in water. Those would be unpleasant to pass out of your body with... |
How does a gyrotheodolite work? | An internal gyroscope will point north when it has freedom to spin. So you hook that up to surveying equipment and you can determine with some accuracy which way north is, in situations where you can't use GPS or other methods . It's not the world most accurate thing , since there are issues with Earth's spin and such,... |
Why do people who haven't had a great education and on low incomes vote for parties on the right when most of the time their polices are against them? | Rural farmer types tend to vote right, working class union members tend to vote left, Jews in Miami tend to vote left, poor black inner city folks tend to vote overwhelmingly left. Your statement doesn't really apply because education and income are too broad of factors to generalize how they will vote. Got to get more... |
How somes websites know my exact location ? | For crying out loud, they don't know your *exact* location--they can pinpoint you to the nearest *city* if they are lucky.I just went to _URL_0_. It doesn't know my "exact" location. It was off by about a hundred miles. Hope this helps. |
Why does PAL and NTSC exist? Why not just have one standard? Oh, and why do those standards only apply to TVs and not computer monitors or phone screens? | PAL and NTSC were methods of encoding TV in an analog signal. Europe uses 50Hz electricity, USA uses 60Hz electricity. Since the analog signal is related to the frequency of the electricity powering the device, Europe and USA had different TV standards to. With early computer monitors you did worry about PAL/NTSC. Once... |
why does your hearing stop sometimes when you stretch? | You contract the tensor timpani muscle in your ear. The same one that clicks when you swallow something and which equalizes the pressure during elevator rides or plane takeoffs and landings. Incidentally, my useless super power is voluntary control over that muscle.What you're experiencing isn't, strictly speaking, hea... |
How is it legal for AllState to take everyones picture at a football game and post it online? | Private property has no expectation of privacy, same reason TV cameras are allowed there to filmA football game is either on public property or it is on commercial property. For both there is no expectation of privacy. Anyone can take pictures or videoIf you are in public, anyone can take a picture of you anywhere and ... |
When you get into a cold shower, why do you always inhale ? | Our bodies have a [dive reflex] that kicks in when our faces go into cold water. Effectively, your body is preparing to hold your breath for a long time when your face goes into cold water. |
Why do home intrusion systems display that they are protecting a specific home? | Just putting the sign outside of the home, even if there is no security system is a major deterrent to theft Think about this: If I'm a thief, do I rob the home with the sign saying its got a security system, or the one next door that doesn't? The choice is pretty obvious. |
Why are older fathers more likely to have daughters rather than sons? | I won't get into the genetics of it because people still don't understand that very well, but it is basically evolution. Sons historically required parents to be present because their reproductive future is based on their inheritance of family wealth and status while daughters have depended of physical appearance and m... |
How come they don't charge more for popular movies and less for unpopular ones like they do for plays and music concerts | When a movie is popular, they increase the supply of it. A movie theater can choose to devote 4 screens to it, instead of 1. This allows them to make as much money off of the movie as its popularity will allow. You can't do this as easily with plays, music concerts, and other things that are performed live, for obvious... |
Why is it considered rude when you reject someone offering you food/beverage in their home? | warning: i am going to make blanket statements and sweeping generalizations in the interest of keeping this brief. when you see someone working on your behalf you want to help them somehow. even if you are going to pay them you feel like you should be doing SOMETHING. holding a flashlight, handing them nails, something... |
Why do you get a head rush as an air plane turns during flight? | Objects in motion want to remain in motion When the airplane turns, your body intends to keep traveling in the original direction but the plane is pushing up under you causing you to accelerate in the new direction and feed G forces These extra G forces cause the blood on your body to pool in different places. Planes g... |
Why is Christiano Ronaldo so unpopular? | Unfortunately it is his arrogance, he comes across completely arrogant. When they were lining up yesterday for the anthems everyone else was locked arm to arm, but he was at the end by himself. |
Pros and Cons of Fracking | One of the biggest debates on fracking is that it pollutes groundwater supply that people use for drinking/cooking/bathing. Fracking, however, is not the cause of this pollution but rather bad surface casing.Surface casing is a metal pipe used to separate an oil well from the water supply. when a surface casing job is ... |
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