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When did game developers start to use motion capture and how does it work? | I'm not sure if it counts as motion capture, but the first [Prince of Persia game] used a technique called [rotoscoping] to animate the main character. Basically, the character was traced by hand from video footage of the programmer's brother jumping around. It was pretty revolutionary at the time and still looks fanta... |
Why does freezing, say, a blender bottle, get rid of the smells that accumulate in it? | The mini fridge you see in greys anatomy is actually called an autoclave and it does the opposite of a fridge. It goes up to about 250 degrees farenheit and uses high pressure steam to clean and sterilize the instruments. The reason why the fridge works is because some bacteria are only able to live in certain Temperat... |
What is the “star” system of Reddit? | Those stars are Reddit Gold. If you 've got money to spare and someone makes a particularly good post/comment, you can gift them a month of Reddit Gold . Reddit Gold is the premium subscription to Reddit and it allows extra features and exclusive subreddits, while also supporting Reddit **Edit:** Spelling is hard :P |
Why does one feel more cold when one has a fever/slight temperature? and when it gets really high one gets a ice bath? | Fevers can cause chills when your body wants to be warmer than usual. You may be clothed and in a comfortable room, but your body is trying to maintain a higher temperature than that. Ice baths are for people with dangerously high temperatures. It cools you faster than your body can warm, bringing down the fever. |
What can't you inhale when you have your "breath knocked out of you"? | Your diaphragm is thrown out of sync, and it's what gives you that methodical inhale exhale ability. If you get your breath knocked out of you it takes a couple seconds for the diaphragm to readjust and you can't inhale while that's going on. |
What is the living wage? | At an academic level, it is the lowest possible wage where a person or family can afford to live at the minimum standard of living a country has decided uponTo expand on what anzus said, it can also vary from place to place within a country. Living wage in new york city would be much higher than rural iowa |
Romney vs Obama's education plan | Basically, Obama says that higher education should be a right. People should all be able to go to college with help from scholarships, loans, or grants. Romney thinks that it should be reserved for those who can afford it. The government should not help students go to college by having low-interest loans and suchRomney... |
How do microfiber cloths work? | Microfiber cloths are cloths of a synthetic material of woven fiber finer than a silk thread. This makes it so the cloths won't deposit large fibers like other cloths do when they are used to wipe a surface. This makes them useful for cleaning delicate components where residue would be damaging. It also makes them effe... |
How does static cling work? | Some materials do to their chemical structure have a stronger hold on electrons and we call this electronegativity. Rubber has a greater electronegativity than your hair. So when you run a balloon on your hair it steals electrons. In solid you have positively the positively charged nucleous of an atoms which doesn't mo... |
Why is /r/BronyHate banned? | If I remember correctly, a lot of its members went over to a suicide preventing mlp themed subreddit and was actively telling everyone to kill themselves and what not. |
Speaking for America, why do we eat meats like chicken or pig but seem so appalled by the thought of eating meat from other sorts of animals? | Because we're biologically predisposed to be cautious around emotions of disgust, since that's how people avoided food poisoning way back when. This also applies to tribal knowledge, so that way people can adapt to what's OK to eat depending on their location and they don't need to develop a genetic instinct for it. Wh... |
How does the "curve" in the new Curved Samsung televisions make my experience any better? | I work somewhere that sells them. It makes your experience better by letting your friends know you have $4,000 to spend on a TV. It has nothing to do with the picture. That is all_URL_0_ Google second result. Tl; dr : the advantages are dubious at best as televisions emit their own light. Curves only make sense for pro... |
Since when (or why) is human nudity in public not just regarded as natural? | Old societies tied nudity in with sexuality, and limited it to only being allowed in marriage. Old beliefs slowly die out, but old habits don't. Plus clothes offer protection from bugs, sunlight, and small debris from getting in your pisser. Soooo you should totally wear clothes in public. |
The basics of 'ReadyBoost' in Windows OSes | Readyboost was/is an experimental optional thing windows could use to help boost performance on systems with low amounts of RAM , even when it was released, these systems were low end. It allowed the system an option to use a removable drive, such as a USB drive as an additional RAM like source. It didn't really work w... |
What footwear is best to get traction on Ice to walk as normal as possible and why? | Ice cleats of some kind I would presume, given that they are specifically designed for that; though the tradeoff is that it can be difficult to walk on solid objects "normally" at that point. |
Why do people with 1 Asian (say Chinese) parent and 1 Western/white parent always look noticeably Chinese? | > Or is it simply because I'm white/Western I can see the Chinese side in them, but a Chinese person would swear they looked Western? There's almost certainly a bit of this going on. However, it's also possible that some of the traits Western people associate with "looking Chinese" are very likely to show up provided e... |
If so many people hate cable companies, why don't more people switch to DirecTv? | Because consumer level satellite internet is slow and expensiveAs someone who switched to Direct TV. Let me offer the comment . Direct TV SUX!!!', "They're not that much better. Last I knew one company at least locked you into 2 years of service, plus their internet options are non-existent or laughable. |
If human brain is faster than super computer then why it takes us longer to calculate things? | Go throw a ball at a target Now go do the math to figure out the power and angle you need to throw it with to hit the target When you threw the ball your brain ran all the numbers, set the muscles, and did the action. It did all the calculations it just didn't return a number for you to use Doing the math by hand is em... |
Why can’t the government just vote for they budget outright, without all the left and right extra agendas in play? | Because the bill needed to fund the government has to be voted on and passed. If you're in a position where your vote is needed to pass the bill you can easily threaten to vote "no" unless your agenda is met. This is why more functional democracies don't fund their government at such small time interval like the US doe... |
How do terrestrial ant colonies survive torrential downpours without flooding in and drowning them? | Water does flood in. However, ants usually dig colonies at least a foot deep. That creates a lot of surface area relative to the tiny entrance hole, so the dirt absorbs the rain quickly. Ants also build chambers at the top of upward sloping tunnels, so water can't flow in. As a last-ditch effort, some species will form... |
What is the greater causitive factor in carcinogenic cancers: normal lifespan, or exposure? | Exposure, given a finite lifespan. If you were immortal , the older you get, the more probable natural cancer will develop. There's lots of things you can put in your body that cause cancer. Smoking, processed foods in huge amounts over your life, blah blah blah the point is, genetics can predetermine your likelihood b... |
Why did some animals evolve to become nocturnal while others did not ? | Well basically no living thing gets a say in how it evolves. A random mutation occurs which may help the living thing be more suited to its environment. The more suited it is the more likely that it reproduces and hence that trait has of being passed on. Therefore traits arose by chance which made a living thing more s... |
Can you compress water so much that it becomes a solid other than ice? | [This is called a phase diagram]. It tells you exactly what you are interested in knowing. Along the X-axis , you have temperatures, and along the Y-axis you have pressure. The horizontal red line marks the average atmospheric pressure, and the two vertical red lines mark freezing and boiling points at average pressure... |
Why do horses willingly fight wars/battles for humans? | Same reason they let people ride them, pull wagons, and plow fields for humans They were domesticated and trained to do so. A war horse simply receives different training than a farm horse. Instead of practicing pulling a heavy load, it practices being ridden with a heavy rider with lots of noise going on around it. Af... |
Why is America suddenly interested in restoring Cuban connections? | Because it's absolutely fucking stupid to refuse to have diplomatic relations with a country that embarrassed us over half a century ago. We have diplomatic relations with countries that we've gone to war with since then, for crying out loud. Cuba is allowing it because it's in their financial interests to do so. |
Why didn't the Jews in WW2 just pretend they weren't Jewish? | Many tried. But the Nazis got a hold of synagogue records, birth certificates, and marriage licenses. They encouraged their neighbors to turn them in. The Nazis weren't just going after people who were practicing Judaism, they wanted to kill anyone who had at least one Jewish grandparent.Some did, some succeeded. But i... |
What is muse and what does it concern? (Not the band) | A "muse" is just an embodiment of inspiration. Back in ancient Greece, the muses were spirits upon whom a poet or songwriter or playwrite would call to get inspired. It was believed that art did not come from the minds of people, but came from muses, and people were just a medium. Many poems and plays from that time be... |
Does better healthcare = longer life expectancy? | The short answer is yes. A great example is when the Communist party took over China. Mao did alot of healtcare reforms, making healtcare more available for the masses. The result was an increase in life expectancy by more than 20 years. And this is something that is seen over and over. Mostly it is seen when you provi... |
Why are swimming records broken so much more regularly than running? | Technology. There isn't really much technology in running. In swimming, full body suits made a huge difference as well as materials to improve buoyancy. Full length suits are now banned, as well as non textile materials. Turbulence in the water also slows the swimming. There have also been improvements in lane dividers... |
Why are there more plant pathogens that can infect crops than weeds? | Crops are a lot less diverse than weeds. When we develop a crop, we plant the exact same plant over and over again. In extreme cases like the Cavendish banana , all the plants are genetically clones of each other. So if one disease works against one plant, it would like work against the same type of plant all over the ... |
what the words Muslim and Islam mean. | *Islam* is the name for the religion founded by Muhammad. In Arabic it roughly means "submission to God". *Muslim* is the name for a follower of Islam. It comes from the same Arabic word, and means "one who submits to God"Also, please explain how *Islamic* is politically incorrect. I hear complains of Muslims taking is... |
why does it feeel weird stepping on to and off of a static escalator? | Because your body is constantly anticipating what is going to happen next, based on past experience, no matter what you're doing: in the past, when you stepped onto an escalator, you had to accommodate the change in direction and speed. So, your brain, though you cognitively know it's not moving, is still concerned tha... |
Why do people not make a bigger deal about Russian warplanes coming into our airspace? | They're testing our defenses. We do it to them all the time. It's not worth creating an international incident about it.they never entered us airspace .. it was a US "air defense identification zone". it's a fancy way of saying, we use radar over this area as a way to detect planes/missiles/etc before they actually ent... |
Why are U.S. insurance companies so quick to deny claims to avoid making payments yet they will accept exorbitant hospital charges? | The US insurance market is so screwed up. There are some doctors who refuse to take patients with insurance or medicare and just want cash. This lets them completely avoid the insurance companies and their BS paperwork requirements. Additionally insurance companies sometime deny claims doctors put in and then the docto... |
How come some people have to hold their nose when they go under water while some people do not? | It's a comfort thing. Most people who have not taken proper swim lessons hold their nose when going under water out of fear of getting water up their nose. Those who have had proper swim lessons or are just naturally comfortable in the water learn how to control the air output from their nose and don't rely on physical... |
Why do we feel extreme chronic pain? Wouldn't a little pain feel good but it seems like a chronic pain would lower our survival skills | Pain is the body's way of telling you something is wrong. Just because something is wrong for a long time doesn't necessarily mean the body should quit warning you about it. |
why I can walk normally in complete darkness, but if I close my eyes, I cannot | Most likely you've never even seen complete darkness. Even a few reflections and shadows will give you enough cues to orient yourself. You'll get none if you close your eyes.What you're seeing is not "complete darkness". Your eyes slowly adjust by dilating your pupils and receiving more light from the environment than ... |
Why is it we are so good at recognizing and identifying faces, but not hands, or even full bodies? | There is a specific region of the brain that recognizes faces, and another portion for identifying any other object. I don't understand neurology enough to explain how it works more deeply, but faces do get a dedicated system in the brain, and everything else gets funneled into the "other" category, that just isn't as ... |
Why are shaving razor refills so goddamn expensive? | Mostly because people *pay* the high price and the industry doesn't suffer. However, [you don't have to pay so goddamn much] |
Why do those who lack empathy murder? | I'm sure you too get so angry that you feel like killing someone at times. They do too, and without empathy or a regard for rules, there is nothing stopping them. Think of it like when you feel like drinking water, and there is nothing stopping you from drinking it, so you do. |
How a radio host's voice gets from his mouth to my ear across town | The air being passed out of his lungs is given pitch and timbre by passing through his vocal cords and then shaped by a combination of tongue, mouth and lips into distinct sounds which we call words. These sounds are basically air vibrating at a range of frequencies. The air vibrations push a small membrane inside a de... |
why does organic and recycled stuff cost me twice as much or more than inorganic or non-recycled stuff? | Organic agriculture is less productive ). Also, demand for organic is probably less *elastic* than demand for normal food. Elasticity means "how much demand decreases as price increases". Organic food [is not healthier] and it's [worse for the environment] . Therefore, the reason why people buy organic is *signaling*: ... |
What Happens on a Molecular Level When Two Things Touch? | The atoms of your finger have electrons around their nucleus. When you push down on a keyboard key with your fingertip, then electrons in the tip of your finger get really close to the electrons in the plastic atoms on the top of the key. Since electrons repel each other, eventually your electrons are pushing away the ... |
Why do doctors have such horrible handwriting? | The content in medical school is so intense that they have to learn to scribble down their notes fast, or miss content, so they adapted to scribble really fast, not caring about aesthetics.I'm not doctor, but I work in the insurance industry, and I guess our issues are probably the same. My hand writing has gotten horr... |
Why does hitting electronics have the possibility of fixing them? | Sometimes the issue may be caused by a loose connection between wires or components. Hitting them may shift things around slightly so there is no gap in the connection', "It's mostly due to dry joints, which are solder joints that have cracked and no longer conduct unless you rattle them a bit. This only fixes things t... |
Would drinking copious amounts of water each day cause you to gain additional weight, or does it all filter though your body. | There are a lot of factors that will cause you to retain more water weight, particularly if you eat a lot of carbs and sodium. From personal experience, I'd say about 10-15lbs is the maximum you can retain, but for most people it's closer to 5lbs. |
When you go to pick up something and overestimate its weight, what exactly is going on psychologically? | Have been training parkour for over 7 years now and thought a lot about this one. But i think you've pretty much got it haha.From my understanding, Information comes in from environment via the senses, the task/action is mapped out in the brain.'X' amount of energy to 'Y' places throughout the nervous system is calcula... |
Why does my voice sound so different in recordings? | When you hear your voice it's predominately heard after it bounces through your skull, which changes the volume and other parts of your voice. When you hear it in a recording you're hearing it as others hear it, because it doesn't bounce around your skull first. |
How does a device attached to your wrist measure how many steps you take? | It has an accelerometer which measures movement forward, backward, and up and down. It uses those to add steps to your countIt has a very sensitive motion sensor in it and is programmed to recognize the rhythmic moving of your body as you climb up stairs. |
Why can't we pump flood water from Texas into tank cars and ship it to California to help alleviate the drought? | Because quite simply, they need a lot of water. Far more than the carrying capacity of a freight train. When dealing with large bodies of water, the water is measured in acre-feet. One acre-foot is approximately 325,000 gallons. California would need tens of thousands of acre-feet of water in order to even make a dent ... |
Why don't HIV/AIDS inflicted Americans get medicine from other countries? | There are people, such as the US Customs and Border Protection Agency, whose job it is to prevent bootleg medicines from entering the US. So, in order to get it, you'd have to smuggle it in, and that's going to add cost and danger to the process. |
Why do you get that "knot" in your stomach when anxious/nervous? | Its related to fight or flight. You get nervous and your body releases hormones. Your muscles tighten up to prepare to flee or to fight. |
Why and how is Nestlé evil? | To answer that question you'd have to define evil and that's way out of the scope of a five year old. Nestle sources its cocoa from areas and plantations known to use slave labor, is the simplest answer. Nestle gives American money to slavers and sells the products of slave labor in the US. Whether or not that constitu... |
How would it feel like to be a Spider's prey? How long would you stay alive, and would you feel pain? | You wouldn't live for all that long. First you would be caught, and wrapped up in the web. Then the spider would bite you and inject you with their venom. It would work its way through your body, melting your internal organs. You would survive until a vital organ was destroyed, or until neurotoxins stopped your heart/l... |
What exactly is plastic and how did it become so wide spead? | Plastic is composed of [polymers]. Polymers are organic molecules composed of a chain of many monomers; basically an organic molecule that easily links to others of its kind to form really long strands or surfaces. Basically, carbon has 4 links and can easily link with other carbon molecules present in organic compound... |
Why do batteries lose their ability to hold a charge if you don't let them fully discharge regularly? | Nowadays, they generally don't have this problem. This used to be an issue with Ni-Cad batteries due to nuances of the chemistry that would change the internal structure if you discharged to the same point every time. Modern batteries are mostly NiMh or lithium, or lead-acid in your car, which don't have this issue. Li... |
Why do many juices only need to be refrigerated after opening, but milk needs to be refrigerated at all times? | Fruit juices tend to be more heavily pasteurized than milk, which makes them shelf stable. Heavily pasteurizing milk changes the taste and a lot of people prefer the less pasteurized form. Although UHT milk is commonly available and has a long shelf lifeThere are some juices that need to be refrigerated at all times, a... |
How spacecraft regulate heat when there is little matter in space to disperse heat. | They use radiators. Heat is moved by conduction, convection, or radiation. In space, the first two are right out, but radiation still works . If you look at pictures of the ISS, you'll see big shiny panels but also some smaller panels that are jutting out at an angle to them. These are the radiators, or [EATCS] . Becau... |
How can DNA tests determine the geographical location of your ancestors? | Most of the DNA people share is very, very similar. So, it is easiest to differentiate by focusing on the differences . When you have a mutation, you will pass it down to your kid. Scientists can know which mutations were present in certain regions hundreds of years ago. From there, they can look at the mutations you h... |
How did society withstand the sun prior to sunscreen? | For thousands of years, people in sunny regions had dark skin, while people in non-sunny regions sometimes had light skin, due to evolution. Only in recent centuries, with modern transportation, have millions of people been moving huge distances. So the problem of "I have the wrong skin color for this climate" is fairl... |
Why does food taste better when you are hungry? | I imagine that from an evolutionary perspective satisfying hunger is so pleasurable because it means that you are going to survive another day. Especially after something exhausting like hiking, I have always thought of it as the way your body thanks you for feeding it. |
Why is the mathematical term e everywhere? | e is important in many applications as it is one of the most simple mathematical ways to express something where the rate at which it changes is proportional to its current size. There are a multitude of systems where this is the case, from physics to chemistry to economics to statistics, so e appears pretty regularly ... |
Where do massive companies such as Samsung, Apple, and Walmart keep all their millions/billions of dollars? In one big bank account, multiple, or invested in assorted holdings? | This is a super-simplistic answer to a very complex topic. Large banks and financial services firms have departments that cater to cash management for corporations. Basically, the money that shows up on company's balance sheets as "cash" is held in a variety of ways, primarily demand deposit accounts and "the money mar... |
Does energy have a weight or mass? | Light doesn't have mass, but it has momentum.Batteries rely on electrochemical reactions to provide electricity. . Electrons do have a mass so a battery theoretically weight a little more when charged.[edit] for the reason cited below, not because of the electrons At a low enough level, [energy and mass become *kind of... |
Why does my car's battery die after a month without being driven? | Car batteries come in different types and some cars use power while not being on for things like an alarm or a light on a dash or something to that effect. Eventually the batteries die like this. Sometimes if a battery has been storing for a really long time it will simply lose its charge. third is due to the battery l... |
How come it is not in Nintendo’s best business interest to release their entire NES/SNES catalogs for the Switch Online experience? | it worked pretty well to sell the nes and snes plug and play consoles. Their business strstegy has always been underproducing content to create nore demand.Porting old games to new consoles takes time and money. It's only in their interests if they think they'll make enough sales on the port to outweigh the cost. Even ... |
Why were slaves that escaped into the Free states returned after the Fugitive Slave Laws were passed? (read text) | Because they were still listed as slaves. Their names are still on their most recent master's books as being owned by them. In the north, yeah they were technically free, but in the south they weren't. The fugitive slave laws let slave owners go up and get slaves they legally owned still. In practice though, it was usu... |
Why metal gets glowing red when it's extremely hot ? | Everything is emitting light all the time. Most objects around us are cold, and only emit very low energy infrared light that we can't see but can sometimes feel as heat. When objects get hotter, they start emitting higher energy light. When they get hot enough they start emitting visible light, starting in the dull re... |
What makes higher quality restaurants better for you than fast food, assuming they are similar food items? | Fast food is cheap. This is because a lot of the "food" contains fillers. McDonald's chicken nuggets not only contain white meat but a certain percentage of ground up "stuff" from other parts of the chicken. Taco Bell "meat" is an extremely low-grade meat that contains sand among other things. They are also full of che... |
How does the US Presidential term of only four years affect diplomacy with other nations if there is a new leader so frequently? | The president can serve for 8 years . Of the last 20 prime ministers of the UK only 2 have had a longer term than that , and 10 of them had a term of less than 4 years. So the US and UK aren't that different in turn over times of their leadership.Since 1980 we have had only one prez serve 1 term. Everyone else got 8 ye... |
will two baseballs a foot apart in deep space be attracted to each other by gravity? Will it be fast or slow? | Two baseballs any distance apart anywhere are attracted to each other by gravity. In deep space, far from other influences, and very close together, their mutual gravity could easily be stronger than anything else. They would drift towards each other very slowly.Yes they will! In fact, gravity stretches clear across th... |
Why hasnt a large group of people filed a class action suite against verizon or comcast | Many service providers in the US, including Comcast, have clauses in their user agreements which actually forbid customers from engaging in class-action lawsuits against the company. In fact, many of these user agreements prevent you from taking any legal action and mandate that all disputes must be settled outside of ... |
Why do so many people have issues with pollen? | No, in fact it's getting more prevalent. It's thought to be because of how sterile everyone and everything is getting these days. Many people spend a lot of time in doors but when suddenly exposed to pollen and other allergens, an inflammatory response is illicited. The more the population trends toward minimal contact... |
Why are certain flavors of warheads more sour than others? Do they use a different coating or is it something to do with the flavors specifically? | Warheads used in residential areas are generally designed with a thin sugar coating so that the children can enjoy the sweetness, allowing the military to take advantage of a loophole in the Geneva convention restrictions against blowing up schools. If the warhead will certainly not be used in residential areas, the su... |
why is it recommended that you disconnect hoses from the water spigot when the temperature gets to or below freezing? | Water spigots in area's that are expected to freeze use frost-free hose bibs -- these don't turn the water off at the spigot itself, but rather turn the water off deep inside your house. When you turn the water off, much of the water that's left in the pipe is able to drain out. When winter comes, and things get cold, ... |
Is every square inch of land in America owned by someone or some entity? | All land in the US is technically owned by someone or by the federal or a state government. If there were any "unclaimed" land, it would default to state government ownership. |
What makes me get attached to other people so quickly when it seems like others take longer? | It probably doesn't. I mean, I get close to people quite quickly, but I feel like if somebody else were listening on our conversations, it would take at least a few months to think I'm even somewhat close to someone. It's just that you know what you're feeling, and you know what they're doing. There's a huge discrepanc... |
How can a pdf document be a threat to my computer? | Okay, I'll try to explain it as simple as I can, if you don't understand something just ask. First of all, you have to understand what a file is. A file is a set of information . A PDF file is just a type of file. Now, you can open these PDF files with other programs or applications, such as Foxit, Acrobat, etc. What t... |
Why does our own voice sound so unfamiliar in audio recordings while other people's sound exactly the same? | When we speak, our bodies act as resonators and other than sound, we also produce vibrations. These vibrations add another layer to our voice that others can't hear. When you record your voice, you will not hear these vibrations in the recording, but to other people, you will sound exactly the same, because they cannot... |
Why do people say radio waves are harmfull to the human brain if it has a lower frequency than visible light? | The whole "radio waves can harm you," thing is not an accepted health risk in the general medical community. Those who do say it are generally conspiracy theorists and/or people who don't understand the basis of how cell phones actually work. |
Why when I sleep 1 or 2 hours in the afternoon I get tired the rest of the day?? | That is caused by not completing a full REM cycle . If you interupt a REM cycle, you will not feel fully restedMade an account just so I could share this with you. _URL_0_', "It's probably the timing of your rem cycle. Do you snore? |
Why are small countries like Monaco allowed by their much larger neighbours to retain their sovereignty? | I'll try to explain this by rephrasing it: "Why aren't any adults beating up that fifth-grader and taking his backpack?"Invading another country in these modern times will do serious damage to your reputation in the international community. If you attack another country, other countries might just say "We're no longer ... |
What's the difference between sympathy and empathy? | the differences between the most commonly used meanings of these two terms: sympathy is feeling compassion, sorrow, or pity for the hardships that another person encounters, while empathy is putting yourself in the shoes of anotherI have sympathy for my wife when she suffers a menstrual contraction. I have empathy for ... |
Why do people have such varying degrees of pain tolerance? [Biology] | Howdy, I with in an OR and some of that can be explained by how all surgeries vary in how invasive they are and the range of techniques involved. Imagine two cases ceterus paribus, one has an extremely difficult intubation with a glide-o-scope having 8 attempts and the other's was very easy. One patient will certainly ... |
This article on Biodiversity of Intestinal Bacteria | Take the baby out of the oven too early and it may not have the intestinal bacteria it's supposed to. |
Can someone explain to me what is happening on reddit? | and how can I deactivate it? I know, it's funny but some comment sections are becoming ilegibles. |
Why do grapes create plasma in microwaves? | Grapes are packed full of electrolytes, an ion-rich liquid that can conduct electricity. Each grape-part serves as a reservoir of electrolytes, connected together by a thin, weakly conducting path formed by the skin. Microwaves produce the energy that shove the stray ions in the grape back and forth very quickly betwee... |
If a car accident is the other parties fault, why can their insurance opt to total out my car instead of repairing it? | Because in court, in most jurisdictions and circustances, you are only entitled to be compensated for your losses in the most economical method deemed sufficient. For a vehicle, if the cost of repairs is greater than the cost of buying a replacement vehicle in similar condition, then a court is going to grant you the l... |
What is outside the universe | By definition nothing is outside the universe, the universe is all there is. In our ape-like minds we struggle to understand something that isn't inside another thing but that may very well be the case with the universe. Even if you go with the multiverse theory, other universes aren't outside ours in a way that makes ... |
How does GPU compute Game graphics | I think that this needs more explanation as this is one of the expanding field. When you say GPU computing, then you are primarily refering to GPGPU i.e. General Purpose computation on GPU. If you look at present day GPUs then they have extended from earlier Graphical centric GPUs. From NVIDIA Tesla architecture onward... |
How do video games make the car sound so fluidic? | Programmer and game developer here. The simplest method is to use a single audio clip which is played at various speeds. When you speed up the clip, you get a higher tone. This "works" but gets really fake after a certain point. In order to do a bit better, they may have many, many sound clips for various RPMs of the e... |
Why are tumors over a certain size considered "inoperable"? | It is not the size, so much as the location, number, and probable spread of the tumor. At some point, the operation is likely to do more harm than the tumorOperability isn't necessarily determined by size, in later stage metastasized cancers there is not always a clear boundary that says " cancer here, not here " and a... |
Do mosquitos do anything helpful that we don't know about? | Mosquitoes are an important part of the food chain in aquatic environments. Their larva filter little bits of algae out of the water, cleaning it. The larva can then be eaten by frogs and fish, two types of creature that we generally enjoy having around.They pollinate plants in places where it's too cold for bees.They ... |
Why do social media websites hate live feeds? | 1 it's one of those "the consumers think they don't like it, but actually do" scenarios. Things that are chronological benefit spammers more than actual people. Facebooks timeline is based on showing you the content you react to the most. Meaning if you like a friends posts but they only post 1-2 times a week facebook ... |
Why does heat make bad smells so much stronger? | Heat makes *all* smells stronger. Or most, anyway. Smells come from volatile chemicals in something--actual little bits of that something entering your nose. . These chemicals need energy to break off of the main substance. Heat increases the available energy, which increases the rate at which these chemicals break off... |
When consuming hot sauce why does it get hotter by adding more hot sauce? | "Dose makes the poison" - Paracelus Your body responds to quantities of things. It has a chemical response based on how much of something it detects entering your body. The more spicy sauce, the more spicy reactionThe same reason that adding more salt makes things taste saltier and saltier, and adding more sugar makes ... |
What's happening in Venezuela right now and why? | The last president Hugo Chavez was a populist who came to power on a platform that essentially said large corporations and the US were responsible for all of Venezuela's economic problems. As a solution, his government nationalized many industries and issued price controls on many goods and greatly restricted individua... |
Why is it important for humans to make an attempt to keep other species from extinction if all species come to extinction eventually? | Let me reword the question a bit. I'm not doing this to make fun of your question- it is something that deserves to be thought about- but to try to make you consider it from a different perspective: "Why is it important to try to keep people from dying if everyone dies eventually anyway?" When I think about this questi... |
How much sleep do I really need? | That question is completely impossible to answer without knowing you. Sleep requirements depend of the person, age , and time of year This is pretty much what my psych professor told me : We need as much sleep as our bodies need to feel restored. The "recommended" is 8 hours, but some need 10, some need 4. Really you s... |
Why is English incorporated into so many different languages? | English steals from many other languages. Most of them steal something back. The simplest form of this is just using the english names for things rather than make up new words yourself. Like how english stole the words for taco and haiku. |
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