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the difference between copyrighting something and patenting something. Also what are the pros and cons of doing so. | If you do anything artistic , you automatically get a copyright over it. This means that, for the next such-and-such years, you get copyright over it; nobody can make copies of the art without you saying they can. There are no disadvantages to you of doing this, so in most countries copyright automatically applies when... |
Why arent boat planes more popular? | In what context ? The prime reason is efficiency. Water causes much more friction on the pontoons of a seaplane than on the wheels of a normal plane. That means more power to take off, meaning a bigger engine and more fuel. On top of that, the floats are not very aerodynamic, meaning yet more fuel used in flight. You n... |
how come dogs and other animals can wake up so much faster than us? | Well this isnt true of all dogs, my dog can definitely be really lazy to get up. Anyways atleast with dogs their sleepcycles are just different. They sleep a lot more but in less of a straight time. So they arent in deep sleep as often. This makes it really easy for them to wake up in an instant as this was important f... |
How are the calories in foods found? | A sample is sent to a chemical lab where it's burned. The heat resulting from the burning sample us used to estimate calories. |
How does a website become so popular while millions of others get lost on the internet? | Advertising on sites like reddit, and if you do it well and talk to the right community, you can get alot of users', "The same reason some books become best-sellers while other no less worthy books never sell a copy, or why some actors burst into fame and lead wildly successful careers while other just as skilled peers... |
How come when cooking with tin foil it doesn’t get as hot as a pan would in the oven? | It *does* get that hot, but because it's incredibly thin, it cools down in moments or as soon as you touch it. |
Why are some Masters Degrees so expensive when the jobs they warrant do not pay well? | They're not charging you money based on how much you're going to make, they charge you money based on how much it costs to provide your education. There's not much of a difference in the costs of spending 2-3 years studying computer science and spending that time studying Spanish Lit. It's your own fault for going into... |
how the imgur system can be over capacity for certain images, but I can still load other imgur images. | Imgur and other very large websites aren't run from a single mainframe, they have many different computers often in many different physical locations. If only one has access to a given image and it's over capacity it'll crap out while other computers, if not also over capacity, can operate just fine. |
Why do small animals and birds seem compelled to dart right in front of moving vehicles at the last possible moment, barely avoiding impact (if at all)? | Animals respond instinctively to dart in any random direction *besides* that of danger. For 99.99% of evolution's time to hone an animal's instinct, "danger" was a predator stalking directly towards prey. Now consider this. An animal sees a car, registers it as danger, assumes it's a predator, and would then assume it'... |
How is it that when your body experiences hypnic jerk just before falling asleep, your mind can create a dream to make it seem logical beforehand? | I remember reading that your mind fakes the details, so you remember a dream where it makes sense but in reality it is a false memory your brain fills in details on the fly |
Why are humans getting faster? | Two main reasons. First, there's more people: The top 0.0001% of 7 billion people is a lot more than the top 0.00001% of 1 billion people. Secondly, today, we usually run on much better materials, with better shoes etc. than people did a hundred years ago, so it's easier for people to run that fast in more controlled e... |
Generally speaking, why were Europeans in seemingly constant conflict with one another from Renaissance until WWII ended? | War is the default state of man - it's peace that's the exception. Peace occurs when there is a balance of power or a hegemony. Balances of power are inherently unstable and prone to fall apart. So virtually all periods of 'peace' you observe in history are the result of one group dominating all the others in the regio... |
What exactly causes people as they age to develop the “old people voice”? | * your vocal cords age and become less flexible* dental work, like dentures and bridges impact how you speak* the muscles in your diaphragm become weaker and your lungs less efficient* the muscles that control your tongue, jaws, and throat become weaker* hearing loss makes it harder for you to monitor your voice* slowe... |
Why do we need such precise clocks? | GPS is one example - GPS systems require extremely accurate timing to function. Radio waves travel extremely quickly, and a small error in timing translates to a large error in position. Each GPS satellite carries an atomic clock, and the GPS system even takes account of time dilation when making calculations - it has ... |
How does my car remote only unlock MY car? | They all use the same set of wavelengths, but what's sent is a code. There are more than 4 billion such codes. The chances of your car and another car sharing a code is mind bogglingly small.Well first of all there are nearly limitless specific wavelengths, but in answer to your question, in addition to the correct wav... |
When we "get used to" a smell, to the point where we don't notice it or can't detect it anymore, whats actually happening? | The smell is still there, the receptors are still picking it up but the brain just starts ignoring it. Just like wearing a watch, when you wear its for a longer time the brain just starts to ignore it. When you take off the watch you will notice you don't wear it, because the brain is expecting a signal from the wrist,... |
What is a capacitor? | A capacitor acts like a spring. You wind it up by pushing electrons through it. It unwinds by pushing electrons in the opposite direction. One kind of capacitor is made of two conducting plates insulated from each other and rolled in a double spiral. If you push electrons in one side, electrons come out the other. A ch... |
Why do we generally get things done faster when we are angry/upset? | When your opinion is doubted, it releases the same chemicals as if you are in a survival situation. Physically causing you to be irrational/narrow minded. The human psyche can control ones own emotions of they know how. So this might of happened to you. You get in an argument, norepinephrine releases into your brain. |
when one nostril is clogged, why does laying down shift the clog to the other nostril? | It's not mucus that's clogging your nose, it's actually all your capillaries flooded with blood that restricts airflow. When you change position, gravity moves the blood to the other nostril and it get's blocked up. |
why your feet stink more when you wear high heels? | Is this a common problem when you wear high heels? If your feet are clean then your shoes wont smell. |
Is there a reason there have been no female mass shooters? | There have been:_URL_1_ There is even a song about her shooting:_URL_0_ Here are more, but you are correct in seeing there are fewer female shooters. _URL_3_ _URL_2_ There are also far more female suicides and suicide attempts by females than males. Take that as you willThere have been female mass shooters, such as Jen... |
[ELI 5] Why a Bank a account in Switzerland provides more anonymity than say another bank in Turkey or even China | The Swiss bank account is tracked by the account number. That is the only thing that is recorded when you open the account. Compare that to the US when you open a savings account. The bank teller will want your name, social security number, a picture ID, and, maybe even a stool sample before you can open an account. Mo... |
what does 20% chance of rain actually mean? | Given similar weather conditions like these in the past, 20% of those days, it rained. It's based on past history and predicts that there's only a 20% likelihood that it will rain today if the past is any indication. |
If our bodies are on average 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, then why does 90 degree weather feel so hot? | Imagine our bodies are like car engines, an engine can be very hot in the combustion chambers and the only thing keeping the engine running efficiently is temperature-refulated coolant. Our bodies are the same as digesting food/using muscles and other functions create heat. To maintain a comfortable body state, an ambi... |
Why are hairs that grow out of moles so much thicker and deeper rooted than the other hairs? | moles are skin tissue that has the capability to grow quickly. thats why there are usually hairs sticking out of them. deeper hair roots mean the hair has is more established due to the moles fast growth ability |
Why is it so difficult to distill sea water for drinking purposes? | Drinking seawater straight is a bad idea because your body must expel the salt by urinating more water than it actually gains. Seawater contains roughly 130 grams of salt per gallon. Desalination has to reduce salt levels to below 2 grams per gallon, which is the limit for safe human consumption. even with membranes, a... |
How does diet coke and Coke 0 have 0 calories? | I don’t remember *exactly* how but artificial sugars and sugar alcohols count as having no calories cause there’s like, no legitimate energy in them? But they still trigger your receptors the same way. Source: Chemistry classes and a vSauce and Mythbusters videoThe part of the molecule that makes it taste sweet is not ... |
What happens when a cemetery runs out of space? | If the burial have been done properly all remains should have been gone within 10-30 years depending on soil conditions. At that point it is possible to reuse graves. You can also bury people shallower in a family members plot before they are fully decomposed if there is room for it. So even a full cemetery might stay ... |
Why do advertisers(?) even bother posting ridiculous ads on the internet? | These types of ads probably don't work on many of the people who see them, but the people they do work on can be a lucrative market. For example, what if you could get $20 from every thousandth person who read this post? You would get money from almost none of the people that read it, but you could probably turn a nice... |
Why do Americans call white undershirt 'wife beater' ? | People say it's because of COPS, I say it was because of Stanley in a Streetcar named Desire. |
Why do ice cubes in a drink not want to move no matter how much you rotate the cup? | Friction and inertia. Ice floating in water has very little friction with glass. In fact, the water functions as a lubricant between the two. The ice has mass. Mass resist motion. By spinning the glass you are trying to move the ice by moving the water. Water doesn't have enough friction on its own to move the ice easi... |
why do we get a horrible feeling right before we puke and feel better after doing so until "that feeling" starts to build up again ? | When your body needs to vomit it will produce chemicals to make you nauseous making you want to puke. After you vomit dopamine is released making you feel better. Your body rewards you for getting rid of the toxins in your body.Does anybody else ear vomiting like fearing death? I would never intentionally vomit if I co... |
why are banks such as western union used for fraud? | You can use it without any banks accounts or any ID checks. You can walk into a Western Union with cash in your pocket, give to them , they give you a tracking number, you share that with the recipient in some other state or county, and they walk away with cashWestern Union is not a bank. The reason they use western un... |
Why when my anxiety flares up do I suddenly have diarrhoea? What causes my body to react that way? | When you feel anxious, your body produces adrenaline and goes into flight-or-fight mode, so to speak. That means your body is prioritising bodily functions necessary for either fighting or being able to flee. Digestion is not one of those. In fact, disgestion is quite a bit of work for the body, so while you are in thi... |
What is the root cause behind the current anti-intellectualism/anti-science movement that seems to be so pervasive in America today? | It's a lot easier not to change when differing information is presented to you. It's a lot easier to remain dumb than to learn and grow. People don't want to be smart, they want to be told they're smart and feel smart, because they're "special." Do you know about cognitive dissonance? IIRC, when you find your worldview... |
How does soap clean us? | I assume you've cooked before? Imagine there's sticky wet sugar all over your hand. To wash that off, you'd just need water. This is because the sugar dissolves in the water very easily. & nbsp; Now imagine you have olive oil all over your hand. That oil's not going to dissolve in water. What soap does is act as an emu... |
Archimedes' "Eureka!" moment | Supposedly, the king asked Archimedes to figure out a way to determine if a statuette he had received was solid gold. It was far too complex to measure and calculate the volume. He thought for days and days, and couldn't figure it out. So his wife convinced him to take a bath to relax. When he got in, he saw the water ... |
What is the purpose of hosting a youtube channel, and what are the downsides? Specifically, what happened to the Dinosaur Kid and why did he have to close down his channel? | > What is the point of hosting a youtube channel? Is it just self expression, or is there money to be made? Both. There is definitely money to be made if you are popular though. Some youtubers make millions a year. > What is the point of stealing someone else's home made videos and claiming them as your own? Easy views... |
When USSR disbanded, why didn't countries from which it had taken land take it back? | How would they do that? Those part was considered a part of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that become Russia today. Bassarabia/Moldova was Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. The split of USSR resulted in that the 15 Soviet Socialist Republic that was in a way considered independent left the union and b... |
why is the attack in Canada considered a terrorist attack? Would it have been called this before 9/11 or even 20-30 years ago? | It's a woolly and ill-defined term but really what makes an atrocity into a terrorist attack is generally considered to be two main elements. 1. The attacker has some kind of political motive or belief driving his actions. 2. The attacker belongs to or supports a political, ethnic, or religious grouping that wishes to ... |
the Haitian consulate in Florence, what could possibly be going on there? | Consulates operate where the people are. Did you not notice the huge numbers of third-world immigrants hawking little whirligigs, mass-produced pastel drawings, splat-balls, and other trash? I'm sure enough of them are Haitian, and occasionally have trouble with the law or some other need to speak with the representati... |
Why are some people born with a good singing voice and others aren't? | No one is born with a good singing voice. We all have different voices, because we have different vocal chords, different tongues, different teeth, different lips and so on. There are many things which define the sound of our voices. A good singer has two things: a nice sounding voice, and a lot of training on how to u... |
What is the Component Object Model (COM)? | When two programs in the classroom want to pass a note about Suzy between them, COM is the kid sitting between them who gets the note, reads it and then passes it onIt is a Microsoft technology from the 1990s that allowed C/C++ programs running on the same Windows computer to communicate. For example, you could write a... |
Why does the flu make your joints and muscles hurt? Shouldn't it just cause a fever and make you feel tired as your body dukes it out. | The flu is a viral infection, which your body battles with its immune system, composed of white blood cells . Your WBCs are stationed somewhat regularly throughout your body, including in your joints and muscles where they somewhat oversee daily minor repair to those regions. When you get the flu, the WBCs are summoned... |
How do smartphone fingerprint sensors work so quickly when sensors used for visas at embassies are back-lit and take longer? | Your smartphone is reading your print vs a small library of a couple of prints you gave it. Those other computers as reading your print and have to compare it to all of the prints it has access to. So it is just as fast to read it but the database size causes it to slow down more and more the bigger the db of the compa... |
How does the java keyword, "this", work? | "this" refers to the object that owns the current method. The Java compiler is written in such a way that you don't usually need to worry about this, because it assumes that any properties or methods you reference in your code belong to that object. Say you have a Dog class and you're writing a beHappy method. You coul... |
How do sewage systems function in freezing conditions during the winter time? Smaller pipes can be insulated, but what’s preventing liquid waste from freezing up in the larger sewer pathways? | Ground keeps it naturally insulated. Typically lines are buried below any perma frost or at depths where it won’t freeze come winter. Throw in that water and waste going into the lines is also warmer than freezing and it actually keeps things warm enough not to freeze. And finally sewer lines having moving water and wa... |
Why do we mainly use pump shotguns when we now have semi autos? | Because of the need to use the rearward inertia to cycle the bolt, semi-auto shotguns need to have a certain amount of recoil to work properly. For 2-inch shells, bird shot, and other non-00 buck, this may be an issue and could result in a failure to cycle properly. Pump-action does away with these concerns and is gene... |
What's stopping us from drilling to the center of the Earth (other than economical reasons) | To put it simply, it gets too hot. The deeper you go the hotter it gets. Once you reach about 10 km down temperatures are already as high as 482F . Once you're through the crust and into the upper mantle, which consists of partially molten rock, you’re talking about temperatures in the range of 650-1200C . . We don’t k... |
Why is 24 fps the standard for TV but for video games its 30(on console) | 24fps was decided as the standard for movies early on, as it was a good framerate to achieve a sense of smooth motion, while still conserving the expensive film stock that was used to film on. Later, 30fps and 60fps became the standards for TV broadcast because they're clean multiples of the US power grid's "sync" freq... |
Does drinking water neutralise stomach acid? I f I drink water after I eat will it take longer to digest my food? | Neutralize? No.Dilute? Yes, but not enough to prevent digestion. Even worse:Take a piece of bread. Put it in the plate of water. Now try to pick it up again. You won't be able because it's now all falling apart. So water is actually helping you to digest things by being able to make them smaller. |
How does wearing black make you look slimmer | It minimizes the ability of your curves to cast shadows on other parts of the body, and falls off more easily into the lighting behind you. By providing fewer references, our eyes lose visual cues as to how "wide" the subject is. Edit: In addition, it creates an optical \'void\' that appears to pull the edges in around... |
Why do bodybuilding supplement shops sell Ben and Jerry's ice cream? | If you've got a heavy exercise regimen, it's easy to introduce some extra calories into your diet without any problems. Bodybuilders and serious athletes can struggle to eat enough calories. The idea that sugar and fat are bad for you holds if you're an average Joe with a desk job. When you're 250 pounds of muscle and ... |
Why is the video quality on "360 videos" so bad? | Even 360 videos are in reality just square videos that, if you would look at it normally, look very streched at the edges. Now the 360 player where you can look around warps this video so that the video is basically the inside of a sphere. Some quality is lost during this process. But most of it is lost due to the fact... |
Why do we say that dogs can "sense" our fear? | Becuase it appears that they can pick up on our behavioural cues and maybe even smell various chemicals in our sweat that indicate a state of fear. |
Why are the Panama Canal locks necessary? Why don't they just dredge a river that runs through? What would happen if they opened all the locks at the same time? | The two oceans are at different sea levels so there would be a flow from one ocean to the other. Additionally sea life would be able to move easily from one ocean to the other. The lake in the middle is fresh water which acts as a barrier to some sea life making the journey. EDIT: not so strong current - just 4.5 knots... |
The process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. | The caterpillar makes itself a little woven up coffin and fills it with murder juice; essentially, he digests himself. A few, important cells survive, though, and they use the caterpillar juice around them like food for their cell division. Eventually, the butterfly is "reborn" from it's caterpillar form, crack the coc... |
How can Colorado and Washington effectively sustain a marijuana industry if it's illegal on a federal level? | That doesn't really matter much. If there are regulated stores, they will be raided by the DEA. But the DEA will not be around arresting people who are holding it or more importantly, people who are simply growing some in their own home. It will be impossible to repress casual use, as it is now, but with the difference... |
How does Bell's experiment disprove local hidden variable theory | Indeed, to deal with one particular loophole these tests you need to be able to choose which measurements you're going to do on your particles , and you need to do it such that each of your particles can't get information about your measurement choice for the other. So, for example, in [this experiment] they randomly a... |
When and why did Christians stop celebrating Hannukah? | There is a popular misconception that many Jews became Christians. Actually it was pagan Greeks who by and large converted to Christianity. Many Greeks lived in Jewish areas and liked the morality but didn't want all the rules and rituals. It then spread further through pagan civilization. So not many Jews joined the n... |
Why do most doctors still use pagers? | Because cell phone reception within hospitals is still rather spotty. Doctors need to be available where ever they are, and pagers allow for that while cell phones don't. |
CUDA cores and how are they different from VRAM | They're wildly different CUDA cores do the math, VRAM holds the numbers An nVidia GPU has a lot of small CUDA cores in it, these do the math necessary to draw something on the screen, they function like hundreds of tiny CPUs. The VRAM holds the numbers that these cores take for input like the textures for the surfaces ... |
How do scientists from different disciplines collaborate together on complicated projects? | There's always going to be an element of trust. Generally researchers each have an area of specialization far beyond the broad labels of "biologist" or "chemist", in which they have a lot of credibility. For example if I'm a geneticist looking to start a large project on a population-level analysis of breast cancer gen... |
Why do objects get more massive when they move at higher velocity? | These past posts shed some light on it: 1. [ELI5: why and/or how does mass increase with speed? What is happening? ] ^1. [ELI5: e=2 - if objects gain mass as they approach the speed of light ] ^ |
Why do black Americans resent white Americans so much for slavery when America wasn't the first to use slavery, and banned slavery 13 years before the last country to ban slavery did? | The effects of US Slavery are still seen today. It's not about the history of slavery in other countries. That doesn't directly affect our culture the way our slavery did. You can't say that robberies didn't start in the US, so criminals can't be blamed for robbing today. > why are white Americans viewed as evil when s... |
How is warren buffet so rich? | He has been very good at picking investments and doing so over the long term. He moves much more slowly than almost any other investor and that means his investments have much more safe because he does his homework and doesn't care about just the next quarter but the next few years. |
How is it that the diet supplement industry is still unregulated by the FDA? | The FDA is a federal agency following the laws established by Congress. Congress must pass or modify laws to have the FDA regulate the industry. This industry like all others hires lobbyists to persuade Congress that everything is fine as it is now. you should hire a lobbyist or join an advocacy group supporting your p... |
How does water get to the top floors in skyscrapers? | It's pumped up with electricity. The first few floors run on city water pressure; the rest is pumped up. Most have a large reservoir tank on the roof that distributes it via gravity after it's pumped up. There's many variations on it, but that's the basics. |
Are some people more prone to getting stung by mosquitos or is it all by chance? | No one gets stung by mosquitoes; mosquitoes bite. < /pedant > There are plenty of factors, including your own body's scent, what color you're wearing, what's in the immediate environment, and even how heavily you're breathing .Certain foods if eaten can repel misqitoes, so people with different diets would have differe... |
Will a human body be able to digest a large quantity of metal? Ex. a metallic spoon? If not, why not? ELI5 please :) | Okay I'm going to assume for the moment this is a real question. If the spoon is stainless steel, it won't be absorbed by the body unless you make it into a powder. In which case, you will absolutely die from this. You'll get Iron poisoning and probably Chromium poisoning. Neither of which is good for anyone, ever. Eat... |
Why is it when I'm sick or getting over being sick I always feel the worst at night? | At night is when you are the least active. It only makes sense because your mind is focused on the fact of your sickness. With less things to occupy your mind, you are kinda stuck thinking about how crappy you feel. |
What exactly is precum? | It's a small bit of fluid and mucus from two different glands that are activated when a man gets aroused, it acts as a way to lubricate and change the acidity of the vagina to ensure that sperm survives for fertilization.Men have no control over it, and it leaves the urethra during both masturbation and intercourse. |
Memory leaks in computer programs. | 1) It *can* but it's not a simple problem. Java has a garbage collector that does this, and it is possible to set up a similar thing in C, but C let's you do memory manipulation on a scale Java doesn't allow so it's harder. 2) By not having memory leaks. |
Why do most computer electronics(routers etc) require you to wait for 30 secs before your plug power back in when you're trying to solve a problem with it? | The power supply and other various power storage/conversion circuits inside electronics can supply power for a small amount of time when their power source is removed. Waiting 15 seconds ensures that all that stored energy is bled out and the device is truly completely off to all parts. In practice , most devices will ... |
Why is snoring louder when I’m drunk ? | Alcohol relaxes the muscles in your body, so if you fall asleep drunk, , the muscles in your neck and throat aren't suporting your airway as much, which means you have to breath longer or harder to get the same amount of air. More forceful breaths means more vibrations of the tissue in your throat and palate that cause... |
Do trains ever turn around? If so, when/where does this happen? | Lots of variations! 1. there are train "turnabouts", typically used only for the locomotive or the caboose. These are in train-yards and at "end-points", when needed. They are a bit of track that can spin 180 degrees with the train on it. 2. Often you just remove the locomotive from one end and put it on the other. A t... |
Psuedo Forces (Especially Centrifugal Force) | A pseudo force or "fictitious force" is something that is observed when the frame of reference that you are in is *accelerating*. What you are feeling is not a real force but a reaction to how your frame of reference is accelerating. Elevators are good examples of pseudo/fictitious forces because you can't see outside ... |
How does Stephen Hawking machine work? | It has a bunch of words preprogrammed into it and he just pushes a button as it cycles through the words to choose the ones he wants . I read or heard somewhere that all his speeches are preplaned because it takes around ten minutes for him to make a sentence. |
How The Federal reserve raising interest rates affects us | You want to be able to lower interest rate in bad times to help economy. If you're bottomed out and shit hits the fan, you can't lower it more.So you wanna keep it higher when you can afford to do so. Raising the interest rate is a sign of confidence in economy and it gives you ability to lower it later if needed. Or i... |
what happens with children on the set of horror/violent movies in horrible scenes? | Depends on the director and stage managers, I'd assume. I know that the little boy from the Shining didn't even know that it was a horror movie until years later. Whereas the girl who was in the Exorcist was scarred for life during filming", '99% of the time the child will not see anything bad and they are recorded sep... |
Physically, where is all the cash in America? | It doesn't exist physically. Most money nowadays is completely digital. I believe it is only 10 - 20% of our money that is actually available in physical form, the rest is all numbers in a computer system.> Is every cent of US currency accounted for in tangible currency? No. Most of it is virtual. Without getting too c... |
Why are air/drone strike videos in black and white? | UAV cameras are capable of color imaging, but the vast majority of the time they are Infrared because it is much easier to see and follow targets Source: I flew UAVs in the Army |
Freezing rain today. Happened today. Rain was liquid water. Air was constant 34°f. Ground was in sunlight all day. Ice formed regardless of physics. | If the ground is cold enough, this will happen. When the air starts warming up, it takes a long time for the ground to warm upWater a. takes a long time to change temperature, b. needs a surface to crystalize on. Those water droplets were well below 0 celsius but just needed to hit something to freeze. Also it will rar... |
why are mobsters often involved in Unions? | Union-heavy industries were often controlled by organized crime as their fronts -- things like trash collection, construction, shipping/trucking, etc. |
Why is everyone assuming recent reports of racism are all fake? | Can you please give an example of "everyone" and of what "recent reports" your referring to? This is an incredibly loaded statementBecause it's easier to pretend there is no problem than to admit you played a part in the problem. Because admitting that there's a problem and then doing nothing is contrary to being a goo... |
What is the difference between short-term and long-term interest rates? | Well, the interest rate is like where you are. It's easy to change, just go stand somewhere else. The long term interest rate is like where you live. It's really the same thing as where you are but over a long time, and it's hard to change because you'd have to move house. |
If all 3 branches are equal, then why is being elected president a big deal? | Because the president is enormously powerful. If you're elected to the senate you share your power with 99 other senators, and all the senators share it basically equally with the house of representatives. If you're appointed to be a supreme court job, you share that power with 8 others. If you're elected president. Yo... |
why do you sometimes feel a big lump in your chest when you eat something heavy like bread or rice quickly? | When you finish chewing a mouthful of food and swallow, the chewed food forms a ball-like "bolus" that needs to travel to your stomach. To do so, it has to go down your tube-like esophagus. The esophagus has muscles lining it that pinch and push the bolus down towards the stomach. Think of it like pinching a straw and ... |
Why is the highest ranking member of the Royal Canadian Navy only a Vice-Admiral? | Because of the way that Canada is structured and how it still loosely tied to the former British Empire . Technically up until after WWII, despite being functionally fully autonomous Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries in what we now call the Commonwealth were called "Dominion Nations". The Empire ... |
why does a standard diesel version of a car cost 7,000 to 12,000 dollars more than a regular gas car? | A diesel engine works using a different process than a regular gasoline engine. In a gasoline engine, the gas-air mixture is injected into the chamber, and then after it's compressed just an instant after the point of *maximal* compression, it's ignited with a spark plug. In a diesel engine, the diesel-air mixture is i... |
Why doesn't a specialized battery company like Duracell compete with Tesla's Powerwall? | The same reason Nokia didn't react when iPhone and Android first came to market, they will pay for their mistake sooner or later.Research and Development is very expensive. Duracell, like most companies, is more concerned with profits than improving their products and has little incentive to invest in research until so... |
Why can I scoop and carry around my 120-130 lb sister with relative ease but can hardly pick up a 40 lb barbell in one arm? | Because you're isolating the muscles used when you lift weights. You're using several muscles when you pick up a person, and you can shift your balance and adjust the way you're holding that person to take tension off of tired muscles and redistribute the load to other muscles. |
Why do people say eBay is so much worse than it used to be? | Ebay used to be 90% individuals selling things. Now it's 90% companies selling cheap cellphone accessories made in china. It's impossible to get your own product promoted on the site because it'll get buried a sea of professional ebay merchants selling their stuff. Not sure if ebay has this option, but Armslist makes i... |
- What happens to a persons body when all they drink is soda? | It's unlikely anything particularly bad will happen. It's good that he drinks Diet Pepsi instead of regular. It has no sugar, and uses sucralose instead. That just passes through your body and there's no conclusive evidence it causes any harm. It has practically no calories so it won't directly lead to weight gain. How... |
Why would someone have a Caymen or Offshore bank account if they weren't doing something illegal or had something to hide? | Well they don't tax in the same way. Keeping money offshore isn't illegal, it's also extremely secure. |
If a child is born while the mother is on holiday to a foreign country, is the child a citizen of the country it was born in or the country the mother is from? | It depends on the home country and the foreign country. Surprisingly, international politics and law is a complex subject. For example, If you have a baby in America, it's a citizen. In Europe, not so much, unless you've there on a more permanent basis. Most countries will allow the children of their citizens to be cit... |
How does 3 gallons of milk fit in one gallon of ice cream? | Milk is about 3.5% milkfat. Ice cream is at least 10% milkfat. It's not the water in the milk that is makes it creamy, it's the fat. So, with the same amount of milk, you can make three gallons of milk, or one of ice cream.Seperate the *fat* from 3 gallons of milk and use that to make ice cream. More fat, creamier ice ... |
Saw this pic on r/pics. What would cause the water to freeze in this pyramid shape? | Those are ice crystals. The atomic structure of water defines the angles of the crystals which form, depending on the repeating pattern which is stable at that temperature and pressure. |
What is the difference between lo mein and chow mein? | From Wikipedia: 'Chow mein is fried to varying degrees of crispness, while lo mein is kept soft.' Those thin noodles are Vermicelli noodles. :) |
Can a state legalize heroin? | Yes and No. They can decriminalize it in state law books, but it will remain a Schedule 1 narcotic in the federal Controlled Substances Act. |
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