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Why do people find extreme heat pleasurable (like in saunas, hot tubs, or hot showers), but enjoying extreme cold is much more uncommon (such as polar bear plunges)? | Because showers saunas and hot tubs are not extremely hot, relatively speaking. A hot shower might be 120 degrees F. That's only 20 or so more degrees past your normal body temperature, a small amount relatively speaking. Damage occurs to cells instantly past 160 degrees F when burns occur. Heat also has positive effec... |
Why is any number to the power of zero one? | To satisfy the multiplication property of exponents. x^y * x^z = x^ Therefore if we set one of these to 0, then x^y * x^0 = x^ = x^y The only way this works is to make x^0 equal to one. |
What would be the ultimate ideal diet for a human | If there was an answer to this then there wouldn't be so many diet fads and controversy over existing diets.It depends on what you want your diet to achieve. Body-builders will have a different ideal diet to long-distance runners, who'll have a different ideal diet to someone who sits at a desk all day. Even between in... |
Why did the Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky in 1988? | There's wide speculation. The owner has commented on it to say that, basically, Gretzky was going to be too expensive for the Oilers to keep , and the owner figured he might as well trade Gretzky while he still had a contract and get something for the trade, rather than let the contract expire and get nothing. |
How come if the battery is dead in my laptop, it will power on immediately when I plug it in, but my cell phone with a dead battery will not? | The laptop can get power directly from the charger. most new cellphones route the power to the battery first. |
Why computers can't be turned off automatically after a certain amount of time? | Control Panel > Power options. There you can manage all kinds of stuff. In BIOS, depending on your BIOS, you can have an event to power your computer on as well at a certain timeOf course. This is default behavior for most operating systems. The computer can also hibernate after a period of inactivity, or just shut the... |
Why do people of the same language have different accents? | Very simply - imagine an accent as a little baby language. Maybe one day it will grow into a language of its own. Think of French and Spanish. Once upon a time, they were the same language . Then they became two dialects of Latin, and would have sounded like Latin with a regional accent. Now they are their own language... |
Why does fast air feel cold, if temperature is a measure of kinetic energy, even when I'm not sweaty? | As you exist in a location, your body warms the air around you, and basically makes a pocket of warmth. This pocket is close to your body temperature. While your core does need to be at ~98.6°, your exterior should be cooler, to allow the heat to leave through your skin. "fast air" or wind helps to move the pocket of h... |
Stores such as Walmart having 3 registers open during busy times despite having many many employees on a shift? | People will still get checked out if there's only a few registers open, and customers are willing to wait so companies have no reason to hire more people. If people started leaving because the line was too long, the companies would have to calculate their losses in profits and weigh it against the cost of scheduling an... |
How/Why do fights get overbooked? | > Do airlines anticipate some fraction of people will cancel? Yes. > Is that really worth the travel vouchers they end up handing out when they need to boot people off? Yes. Especially when there are multiple flights a day offered to a certain location -- many people are happy to take a travel voucher if it means they ... |
Why do humans prefer their food warm? | Cooking is basically digesting outside the body. By cooking food, we pre-process it chemically to be easier to break down. This allows us to gain lots of energy from a variety of food without having crazy heavy and complex digestive systems . We also get to have smaller teeth, lighter jaws, etc. Cooking saves us a lot ... |
What does INSIDE and B2B mean? | If you're talking about "inside sales" then that means you're working the phones and most likely cold calling. Shit work. B2B means Business To Business. Companies sell stuff to other companies all the time like office supplies, computers, etc. |
Why do dogs tend to lick people's faces when they get the chance? | Puppies lick their parent mouths to stimulate the regurgitation of food, which they then eat. When a dog licks your mouth he wants you to puke something up so he can eat itNot sure if it translates to dogs , but wolves lick the mouth of the more alpha members of the pack as a show of submission. |
why does it seem some traffic lights are timed to CREATE traffic | I have the same question. It would seem in an era where so many are worried about global warming and the desire to be green, that we'd be implementing solutions which promote efficient commuting. Bonus points from me if someone can explain why on a main road you so frequently get caught at a red light with no traffic o... |
How does your cars heat work? | Your car engine makes a lot of heat, that's why there is the big radiator up front. When the engine gets warm it opens a valve and starts the water pump so coolant flows through the engine and to radiator to move heat out of the engine The coolant also flows through a small radiator called the "heater core". When you w... |
How does music recognition in Siri/Soundhound/Google Now/etc. work? | You're right, that kind of comparison would be very difficult. To deal with that, these technologies use a technique called fingerprinting. As it turns out, that also helps to reduce the effect of ambient noises. In short, you take an audio sample and compute its spectrogram. The spectrogram describes which frequencies... |
Why are there major privacy issues with windows 10? | UNIX-based operating systems are a whole different ballgame, privacy-wise. Sure, different distributions can put whatever they want on top of the actual OS but the bottom line is that you have full control of your system. There's no part of Ubuntu I can't remove and replace with something else if I want to, for example... |
What does the Patriots Act really do? | The Patriot act was enacted because the various intelligence agencies are limited in their power to monitor, detain and interrogate suspected terrorists. First it, this act first defines Terrorism and its actors , it also define their rights and give the power to the president and a few people to declare an individual ... |
Why aren't ticket prices higher for popular concerts? | Popular concerts at popular venues *are* more expensive. They're just not insanely expensive to the degree scalpers/resellers sell them for, and because of supply and demand probably couldn't be made that expensive. When you have 30,000 tickets, selling them for $2,000 a pop isn't really viable. But when you only have ... |
”The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” | Bourgeoise simply refers to a specific class and it’s relation to capital, they emerged from the older societal model of aristocracy and common people. The bourgeoise were the class of traders, businessmen, and money makers. They did not derive their power from title and family heritage like the aristocracy, but instea... |
how does radiation actually kill you? | Acute radiation poisoning doesn't usually kill you within minutes. Ionizing radiation breaks apart atoms and molecules, which is particularly dangerous when the molecules being broken apart are DNA molecules. The parts of your body that are affected most by DNA damage are those that contain rapidly reproducing cells. S... |
How do streamable and other video sharing sites avoid being flagged for copyright. | Streaming sites get "flagged" for copyright infringement all the time. They're flooded with DMCA takedown notices daily. Legally, they are not responsible for their usership so long as they comply.If it's done legally, the sites are paying the appropriate royalties either through ad revenue or a subscription service. |
Anarchy and why some people view it as a good | Anarchy comes from the greek words for "no leader". As a political movement, it does not mean disorder, it only means no hierarchical levels between people. Nobody has authority, everybody is responsible for everybody. Some people view it as good because they feel oppressed by all hierarchical levels: governments, reli... |
Why do the numbers on a phone keypad have a different layout to number pads on a PC or calculator? | When Bell was designing their touch-tone telephone interface, they actually considered a few different layouts before deciding upon the one that we know today. The second link has a bunch of different layouts that were considered. Bell apparently brought people in and try the different layouts to determine ease of entr... |
Why aren't members of NAMBLA arrested? | You can't thought police people. Those people can like little children all they want so long as they don't own child porn, distribute child porn, or molest or rape a child because fantasies aren't a crime. Also, do you know that guy's record? I don't and I imagine you don't either. Maybe he was already arrested and has... |
How do pharmaceutical companies come up with the Brand name for their drugs? | Avast ye! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: How pharmaceuticals get the crazy names for their drugs? ] ^1. [ELI5: How do pharma companies come up with the names of new drugs? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why do prescription drugs have so many different brand names? ] ^1. [ELI5: how do pharmaceutical... |
Why did Australia allow the United Kingdom to test nuclear bombs on its territory? | Why did the USA allow nuclear testing on its own territory? Because it had a large amount of area that was devoid of human settlement and didn't see the harm. Australia? Of course they aren't under the same government but strong diplomatic ties meant that a nuked-up UK was almost as good as a nuke-up Australia for the ... |
What is Oculus Rift, what does it do, and why is it $599? | [this video is a little old] but should demonstrate the unit. It's $599 because they believe that's what people will pay to get it. |
Why can't a fathers use of drugs during or before conception cause birth defects in the child? | Because the chemicals aren't transferred to the mother's body. Even if they were, it takes around 3 days for the new life to "get started", by which time any drugs transferred would already have been swept out.Because drug use doesn't harm the egg or sperm, it harms the developing fetus inside the mother. If you were t... |
What is the earliest sunset on December 7th, even though the shortest day (winter solstice) isn't until December 21st? | Because the earth's orbit around the sun isn't perfectly round. In the time it takes the earth to rotate 360^o on its axis, it has traveled about 1^o along it's orbit. That means it has to spend a little extra time, about 4 minutes, to catch up. This is what we call a solar day, and it is about 24 hours. I say about, b... |
what was the difference was between the Space X rocket landing and the Blue Origin one? | BlueOrigin took a small booster and sent it up a hundred or so KM, then straight back down, ~~no payload~~ with small empty crew capsule, and landed it. SpaceX took a very large booster, stuck a second stage rocket on top of it, stuck a payload on top of THAT, and THEN sent it up to a hundred or so KM and fast enough l... |
Both the sun and moon appear flat, with no cues that one is further away than the other. What is the maximum distance that variations in depth can be perceived at, and why? | We don't have depth perception beyond about 10 meters. Anything further than that, your eyes are focused at infinity, and are pointing in the same direction. Beyond that, we use cues like its apparent size and brightness, or color shifts caused by the amount of air between you and the object . We determine things are f... |
How does inputting a shutdown command on a computer physically move components to turn it off? | Telling a computer to shutdown invokes a series of preconfigured steps, much like your bedtime routine, that go through and orderly shutdown active processes, write anything outstanding to disk, tidy up all additional processes that aren't responding correctly and also in spinning platter disks instructs them to park t... |
How do people build programs inside of Minecraft? | Early computers were basically a bunch of switches that were either ON or OFF. By arranging some amount of switches ON, you would store that information. In MineCraft, you can build circuits using RedStone -- a powder which you can form lines of, that carry power from a RedStone Torch, or some form of trigger for a cer... |
Why is sitting in warm water relaxing, while sitting in warm air is exhausting? | When you're hot outside, your body is having trouble regulating it's body temperature. It's not comfortable to be like that because that's how your body tells you it's having trouble. When you take a hot shower, you're cleaning yourself off, and more importantly, you get out afterwards, and it's cooling and refreshing.... |
How do retailers selling gift cards to places like Amazon make a profit off of them? | There is a certain percent of gift cards that are never redeemed or are only partly redeemed. That amounts to free money for the retailers. Most have to keep the amount available for five years. In some states the paid-for value must be available “forever.” Even if they are redeemed years down the line, the retailer ha... |
What are mosquitoes good for? | Food for aquatic species, bats, birds, and amphibians. If mosquitoes were eliminated, a large source of food would be missing in the food chainMaking more mosquitoes. This is the main, necessary, and sufficient condition for the continuation of a biological pattern, whether a species, symbiotic relationship, ecosystem,... |
how do gas generators work | Gas generators come in a couple different forms. You've got ones that use it like a normal rotary engine to spin a shaft and create power You've got ones that use a gas turbine to spin the shaft You've got one's that use the gas to heat water and the steam turns a turbine Then you've got the gas combined cycle generato... |
How does iOS 10 kernel being unencrypted not compromise security? | Yes and no. Technically, it makes easier to find and abuse vulnerabilities, but at the same time system is more open to people who can find and report critical bugs making the system more secureImagine you are submitting an essay for a grade in class. You may want someone to proofread it for mistakes. You decide to sha... |
How can Netanyahu able to address congress without any invitation? | He was invited, though, by Speaker of the House, Boehner. The fact that this was done entirely without informing the White House is part of the reason why the Democrats are so up in arms over it. |
How do sleepwalkers know where they are going or what they are doing when their eyes are closed? | You don't have to have your eyes closed to be sleep walking. Most don't, actually. Often times it's just a state of being semi-awake, where you can go about doing things but you memory or higher reasoning functions are asleep or dillusional.My brother was a sleep walker. His eyes would be open. You really can't tell th... |
Why, when cooling foods in water, do we have to bring it to boil first, then lower to a simmer before putting the ingredients into the water? | Do you mean when *cooking* foods in water? Some recipes require this method, others don't. The idea is to ensure that the water is hot before using it, so your food doesn't sit in not-hot water a long time, getting soggy and gross. ", 'nope, but water releases most energy when boiling. While its getting up to a boil th... |
How did Gilbert Gottfried get famous? | You haven't seen enough of him. He's funny and has no concept of "too soon." This lead to him having quite a bit of appeal in the circles that enjoy offensive comedy. His distinctive voice carried him a bit from there. Then again, if you're younger then I suppose his stuff is pretty dated. Offensive shock comedy is als... |
Why do you have good & bad skin days? | Soooo many things. Temperature, current water AND salt levels in your body, your diet , hormones, exercise, current and previous health routines, sleep patterns, and the consistency of all of these factors. If you want to start having more "good days", record everything you put in your body, and everything you do with ... |
Why do few people prefer to live in very harsh and inhabitable conditions of Far Northern Canada? Why they don't want to live in more suitable condition on few degree south in Canada? | As a 21 year old Canadian living in southern Ontario, my goal one day is to move way up north for a year or two - just to experience what it's like. I really love winter outdoor activities, I love the feeling of a small, tight community, and hell you only live once. So I for one can understand some motivation for wanti... |
How does McDonald's get the syrup to stay in McGridles while they bake them? | They take maple syrup and crystallize it. They then add it to the batter, which rehydrates it enough that you don't get crunchy crystals, while still getting the taste of maple syrup. That is why there are brown spots in the batter. As far as I know, you can crystallize most sugars, so you can do it with corn syrup and... |
When people make those videos of a hot metal ball melting through something, why do they use Nickel and not a different metal like Iron or Lead? | Iron and Nickel are close enough in terms of their thermal properties its no difference. Lead would melt at half the temperature so you wouldn't be able to get a lead ball to the same super hot temperatures of Ni and Fe . Nickle also doesn't oxidize as fast as iron - with an iron ball you'd start to see oxidization cru... |
What dangers could artificially reflecting sunlight as a preventative measure to global warming have? | You ever hear about the old woman who swallowed a fly? It is kind of like that. Reflecting sunlight at a large scale will result in large scale climate change. Some of it might be good, like lowering the average global temperatures. Less sunlight means less evaporation which means less rain. In saving the coast, you co... |
Why does sucking on a straw potentially cause a dry socket after a tooth extraction? | You know when you drink a milkshake and sometimes a chunky bit gets stuck in the straw? Sucking hard enough can dislodge it. That's good for the milkshake, but bad for your tooth socket. Ideally, a clot has formed in the place where your tooth was. This protects the sensitive part while the gums heal over it. If you're... |
How does DNA matching work when it is only made up of 4 nitrogen bases? | Your genome contains roughly 3 billion base pairs. You can write a lot of different words with only 4 different letters if they are 3 billion letters long.That's like saying computer code is only made of 1s and 0s. DNA matching relies on more than just singular nucleotide matching. It relies on matching parts of the co... |
Why do I have very vivid dreams after a night of drinking alcohol? | Your brain on alcohol behaves quite erratically, neurons firing needlessly and normal processes being disrupted. As such, it is not only your wake state that is affected, but also your dreams.Check /r/Luciddreaming for more info regarding memorable/vivid dreams. The reason why you experience them after drinking alcohol... |
Since cockroaches are so scared of us, why do they fly/walk in our direction? | They really don't have very good eyesight. When we make noise they can hear us, but for the most part they don't know exactly where it is they're going. If they could see well they would chose to walk/fly away from us, but since they can't they don't avoid us very well. |
What happens when I unplug and then plug in my router that makes my internet work again? | When you "switch it off and switch it back on again" it basically stops all processes both in your router and at your ISP It then restarts the "boot-up" procedure which goes through all the steps to connect you to the internet Simple as that It works because sometimes certain processes either freeze or shut down and sh... |
What's the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance? | Tax avoidance is using legal, or at least plausibly legal means to avoid paying taxes. Tax evasion is about misrepresenting your tax situation to the government in order to pay less taxes. Often the difference between the two is unclear. |
Why are you supposed to eat the seeds of some fruits and not with others? | It depends largely on how the plant in question is adapted to spread it's seeds. No seed wants to be destroyed; the ones that tend to get eaten generally use that as a mechanism to travel. Some seeds are made to be eaten and can survive a trip through a digestive system. This spreads them around and provides fertilizer... |
Why isn't the propellant in canned air, air cartridges, or aerosol cans just air? | For some applications, like paintball guns, it's useful to have as dense a gas as possible. CO2 is a good choice here, because it's dense and it's cheap. It's the byproduct of various industrial processes, like making cement, and gas suppliers can collect it practically for the price of hauling it away. Why butane or p... |
How does charisma work? | Your brain is hardwired to guess how powerful or influential a person is. A really good indicator of power or influence is when everyone else pays attention to the person or does what they say, but there are lots of other indicators that your brain uses when it guesses, like attractiveness and body language and how the... |
why do bicycle/car tires resist punctures from glass/nails on the street by having more air in them? | As pressure increases, the amount of tire in contact with the ground decreases, and often this means the tire is effectively slightly narrower, and exposed to less debris. But the difference is small. On bicycles, riding with too low of a pressure increases the chances a bump will cause the rim to bottom out against th... |
What exactly are antibiotics and how do they work? | Antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria. There are different classes of antibiotics based on the way they work. Some will penetrate the cell wall of the bacteria to kill it . Some only work on certain walls . Also bacteria multiplies like crazy, and some have mutated to have a resistance to certain bacteria . Some... |
Why does self destructive behavior take place? | Here are two models on triggers for self harm. Dissociation: People become detached from reality and may feel lost or unreal. They may use self harm as a means to ground themselves or to feel something again. Stress: People become overwhelmed to the point that they are very sensitive to any small triggers. This is stop... |
How is the GPA system mathematically significant? | It's been a LONG TIME since I had to think about this. Here's what I think I know. There is no inherent significance to these numbers. You should be careful when asking of the inherent or mathematical significance of something like this, since the significance is created by the persons who think up the system. Otherwis... |
How do regular building crews on big infrastructure projects and buildings know what to build where, and how do they get everything so accurate when it all begins as a pile of dirt and rocks? | Construction manager here with over a decade of building experience. First, have you heard of my profession? I'm the guy who coordinates between the architect and engineer's design with the subcontractors, to make the pieces fit together. It's a ton of work and a lot of coordination involved. We start by coordinating t... |
Why is it impossible to reach absolute zero? | Zero entropy means that there is precisely one microstate consistent with the observed macrostate. Quantum mechanics prohibits this. Also, heat flows from high temperature to lower temperature. In order for a body to reach a certain temperature , it must transfer at least some heat to a body *strictly lower than* that ... |
Who exactly is JD Power and Association? | You pay them to give you awards. Their awards mean nothingAnd how the hell can they hand out awards like candy', "Jd Power and Associates is a marketing research firm that claims to be global in scope . it isn't. It was founded by a great guy JD power in 1968 in Westlake, Ca, but the sold to McGraw Hill, several years ... |
Why are doctors' licenses suspended for over-prescribing narcotics, but not antibiotics? | It is illegal to distribute narcotics for recreational or basically any use other than medical necessity. Overuse of antibiotics is completely legal. Doctors are only arrested for breaking laws, not based on whatever vague justification of potential harm. Your points on potential harm might be a reason to pass such a l... |
How much money am I robbing content creators per click if I enable adblock? Am I still robbing them if I click to skip after 5 seconds? | It varies, but not much individually. The problem is when everyone does it. It's kind of like why you're taught not to pick a flower from a garden when growing up. You alone, picking one flower, is not going to be noticed, it's not going to affect the plant or garden overall, but if *everyone* picks just 1, very soon t... |
How do animals that live underwater heal from cuts? | No, it doesn't prevent their blood from clotting. Many fish also constantly secrete a slime coating that resists infection.Nope blood clotting would more accurately be described as a chemical reaction rather than drying out. At the site of a wound the damaged cells will release a chemical called von willebrand factor w... |
Why were Tesla cars banned in Texas? | Due to recent events, this is one of the most commonly asked questions here lately, so I'm going to remove it. Please use the search bar and you'll find several answers to it. Thanks a lot. I will note though they have not been banned. |
Why do humans blink when a loud noise occurs? | This is a startle reflex or more specifically the 'Acoustic Startle-Reflex Eyeblink'. It's a defense mechanism to basically protect the eyes from danger. A loud noise can trigger this reflex. The more you think you're in danger, the harder you'll blink.My initial response is to protect the eyes from flying debris. that... |
Why are ashy elbows and knees so hard to clean? | Because the key isn't "just" scrubbing. It's first about exfoliating, so not just washing, but using a very rough texture on warmed, wet skin, to scrub off those dead skin cells. If you're having a tough time, be patient. Do a little every day, not a lot over one shower. Could take a week. Second, it's about heavily mo... |
What is a flame made out of? | When wood is burning, there is a chemical reaction happening between the wood and oxygen. During this reaction the electrons involved give off photons of light, that we see as flame, but there is still nothing more there than wood and oxygen That's why burning different materials will produce different colour flames. D... |
How do glasses help our eyes focus on faraway things, no matter how we turn our eyes? | I'll take a stab at the myopia question. The simplest explanation I've been given is that with myopia, your eye is abnormally shaped - like an oval - which causes light to be focused in front of your retina , making them seem further/blurry. This is why myopia typically gets worse until mid 20s for males, but earlier f... |
Why is the word "lieutenant" sometimes pronounced leff-tenant and sometimes lew-tenant? | In Britain and other British Commonwealth countries like Canada, the title has traditionally and historically been pronounced "Lef-tenant" despite having the same spelling. It's not exactly clear why this is the case, but you can read a small blurb about the differences in pronunciation on [this] Wikipedia page. |
How does a progressive web app(PWA) work? | From my understanding:It’s an application hosted on a web browser. Let’s say you open an application, like any other, it feels and looks like one. But on the back end it really opened up a web browser to host the software on. This way, the software is always up to date, bugs can be repaired quickly, etc. |
Why can't we modify tobacco to be nicotine free? | We might be able to. The more important questions, I think, would be why. While Nicotine is the addictive ingredient in tobacco that is the ingredient that people smoke for, generally speaking. Essentially what you are asking is why isn't alcohol free beer more popular. The fact is that, at least to a certain extent, d... |
why do people wear sweat pants/shorts when excsersing? | Sweatpants reduce my sweat and keeps out the extreme cold without heating me to much. And it doesn't smell if you sweat. |
Why do I hear a change in the pitch of the music I'm listening when I yawn? | This has to do with the way your ear works. Your ear has a series of hairs , all different lengths, with each one tuned to vibrate with a specific pitch. The length and stiffness of the hair and the pressure in your ear all play a role in what the resonating frequency of that hair is. Usually these parameters don't cha... |
How would you approach and teach a 14 year-old about condoms? | If he's 14 and has access to the internet, your conversation will probably be unnecessary. You probably should have had this conversation with him when he was 11. |
Why do depictions of religious figures generally (in the UK at least) portray them as white people, when they would have been black? | What color is the skin of most of the people who make and utilize those drawings? Theres your answerBecause you want the population you are preaching to/converting to connect with your religion. Which is why Jesus looks [Asian in Asia], White in Europe & Black in Africa.It's hard for us in our 24/7 information superhig... |
How does a light prism work? | White light is made up of all the different colors of visible light, the spectrum from red to violet. When it hits a surface, all the waves are travelling together at the same speed. However, when light hits a surface at an angle, it bends upon entering the new medium. That's why your depth perception is off when you l... |
Why is the moon full towards the start of each month? | The moon takes roughly 28 days to orbit the earth, so if the moon is full at the start of one month, it'll be pretty much full when the next month comes around. |
What exactly does a writer mean when they use the term 'populist' ? | A populist is someone who purports to advocate on behalf of the masses. He may or may not really believe what he says, and may or may not actually have good ideas. The term is derisively applied to people who offer up political candy - appealing ideas that detractors argue may make things worse. Recent populists includ... |
What is 'Optimistic Nihilism'? | Basically and without boring details? Accepting that your life and existence has no defined meaning/purpose at all. And at the same time accepting that this absence of meaning/purpose is for you to fill up with your own decisions, things that you believe in and want to be. May it be a dream, or a hope. The Universe is ... |
how does a river continue flowing when the water goes downstream constantly? | Rivers are fed by rain and melting snow uphill from their deltas. The Mississippi for example drains millions of square miles, pretty much the entire central part of the US and Canada. That's a whole lot of rain and snow.Because of rain upstream. Over a huge area it averages out that there is always water flowing downh... |
Why does there seem to be so many people who are depressed? | Because clinical depression is extremely common . Add people with other disorders that feature depression, and people who conflate "I'm sad right now" with depressed, and all of a sudden wham, a lot of people are depressed. |
If torture works then couldn't you just torture all of the people who claim it works until they admitted it does not work? | That proves the point that under such torture methods the accuracy of the information is so low its not useable. I bet if I waterboarded you and the only way it would stop is if you admitted to selling the gun to lee harvey oswald you would admit it in under 15min.Well, by 'torture works' people mean that 'torture extr... |
Can somebody where Mazda's I-Eloop technology actually gets it's energy, and how its electric double layer capacitor works? | Their i eloop system is regenerative breaking. Alternators are attached to the wheel axles and engaged when breaking, converting kinetic energy into electricity. This isn't a source of free energy, if you drove with the alternators engaged, you would lose more energy in fuel consumption than energy you would generate. ... |
The recent situation when Belgium had "no government" | Think of it like a club. You and some of your friends are elected to the 'management positions' of that club. You're president, your friend is treasurer, somebody else is VP, etc. Let's say there's a guy who owns the clubhouse. He doesn't really do anything but he's a figurehead and technically he's the top guy - even ... |
What does the term saturation mean in regards to eddy current nondestructive testing? | I'm not familiar with eddy current testing but I'm familiar with some related magnetic and electric things. Permeability is the measure of how easy it is for magnetic flux to travel through something. It's the amount of magnetic flux that results from some amount of magnetic force . Those are kind of fuzzy concepts pro... |
The benefits of drinking 2lt of water everyday. | It's important to keep hydrated but there's actually no reason to specifically drink 2l per day. People have different needs and 2l is an arbitrary figure with no real scientific backing. |
The purpose and role of each position in an American Football team. | On offense you've got your Quarterback who is like the leader of the offense. He gets the ball at the start of each play. There's the running back who gets the ball from the QB and does running plays. There's a fleet of wide receivers who run and the QB can throw it to them if they are open. There's a tight end who is ... |
Why don't all car manufactures use doors that up vertically like those used in super cars? | For starters the extra costs to the manufacturer and the customer are not worth it. And second saftey, they could be dangerous closing down on little children & even adultsA couple of reasons. One, they are more expensive to make special hinges and counterbalance springs and so forth. Second, you can't open them in a r... |
What was World War 1 really about, and what were the most significant events? | You should just tell your son that the war was caused due to economic competition across the globe by European colonial power and by advancing military technology & strategy that placed a large emphasis on being the first country mobilize its forces to ensure victory. In the years before the war many European countries... |
Why are ceiling's spackled or whatever it's called. Why aren't they just flat like walls? | I work in new home construction in a mid-Atlantic market. We do smooth ceilings . In my market textured is about 50% of the multifamily housing market and about 0% of the single family market. From my perspective you do this more to hide imperfections in drywall seams than as a sound dampening device. In multifamily it... |
Why don't dictionary pronunciation guides use phonetic keys instead of... I don't know what the hell those things they use are. | Can you provide some examples of what you're talking about? I am very confused.To answer a question in one of your comments, about making IPA accessible to the layperson: dictionaries that I 've seen in the past have a guide on the inside front cover or back cover. Here's such a guide: _URL_0_ That way, if you don't kn... |
Why do we turn pale and pasty when we get ill? | Most your blood is being reserved for fighting infection in places it needs. If you get a cold your body is going to keep a larger blood flow around your lungs and throat. You have less blood to work with for the rest of your body so your skin looks paler. |
Why does my dog like to play fetch? | Because many breeds were selectively bred to do so. Hunting reasons.She* sees that you have pathetic hunting skills, so she's* trying to teach you. She* just feels sorry for you.Prey drive! Most dogs are very driven by the sight of fast moving objects She enjoys the positive attention she gets when she brings it back. ... |
Why does my notebook need 30 V instead of 220 V? | The power consumed by an electrical device is equal to the voltage multiplied by the current. Without knowing the current draw, it's impossible to say which requires more power . Electronics typically require a few volts DC, any more will burn out the components. Mains electricity is 230V AC . A transformer is used to ... |
Why do we sometimes feel our phone vibrate in our pocket, only to find out it never even vibrated? | [Phantom Phone Syndrome Wikipedia] is what you're looking for", 'The best guess we have at the time is that there's a process called "hypothesis guided search." The easiest way to explain it is that our brains are always making assumptions about things because they 've happened so many times that it doesn't need to cre... |
Why is it that we can't "see" the new 9th planet? | We can only speculate where it is based on an assumed orbit. The team that announced the hypothesis is going to Hawaii to use a nice big telescope to poke around looking for it. |
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