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What makes an Image of Muhammad an Image of Muhammad? | it's a problem once it's said it's mohammed \xa0\xadO /| / This stick figure is competely safe \xa0O /| < - muhammad / This will get my head chopped off.No one knows what Jesus looked like either. Both are just decided by if you call it the Prophet Muhammad or Jesus. My daughter could draw a stick figure and call it Je... |
If we are in control of our brain, why can't we control stuff like our internal organs? | We're not in control of our brains, and not every body function is under the control of the brain.> If we are in control of our brain Define "we". We are not something external to our brain that can control it. On the opposite, our sense of self is a production of our brain. |
Why doesn't major networks such as CNN,FOX and MSNBC in US doesn't cover horrific killings in Nigeria, as they do the ones in Europe? | They do; they're reported on all the time. But they don't receive the same attention as attacks in Europe because people are less interested, and they are less novel. A murder in a place that normally has none is a big story, but "dangerous place is still dangerous" is a small story.Short Answer, No one cares about Afr... |
Why is it that when you have motion sickness in a car/bus, looking outside somewhere far away makes you feel better? | Motion sickness is caused by your inner ear and eyes sending conflicting information to your brain. Your brain then thinks you're hallucinating, which means you might have ingested poison, and you need to expel it. So you get nauseous. People can get motion sick on/in vehicles because they move with the vehicle. Imagin... |
Why 1000$ watch is better than 20$ one? | Because when you're paying 1000 for a watch, you're really paying for a piece of jewelry that happens to also function as a timepiece.If you are actually talking about luxury watches, a thousand dollar watch barely even qualifies. Expensive watches are called " timepieces". They are made with microscopic precision part... |
Why is current a scalar quantity even though it has direction? | Current is only a scalar in a circuit, because the directionality is one dimensional. It either flows into a point or out of that point. In real life current through a wire is a vector, like when you calculate the field induced by a current flowing through a wire you need to treat it as a vectorThere is such a vector, ... |
Why is the final stage of the Tour de France a 'procession' where the yellow jersey isn't challenged? | The purpose is to set up photo ops, and act as marketing for all the sponsors, and draw the tour to an orderly conclusion. The media has their stories written about the winners of the various aspects of the race, and all the footage has been assembled and edited for the hero shots. It's just PR. |
The differences between Norway, Sweden, and Finland for someone looking to move there. | One difference is that the Finns have an incomprehensible moon language that nobody else speaks, while Swedish and Norwegian are fairly similar to other Germanic languages. That said, English is widely spoken all over Northern Europe.Are you from an EU country? If not, you might want to start by looking into visa and r... |
What would happen if on the same day, everyone tried to withdraw their money from their banks? | This is called a [bank run]. Simply, the banks would collapse. A bank does not, at a specific point in time, have enough money to pay everyone . Take [Argentina ] for example where, due to a debt crisis, restrictions were placed on how much a person could withdraw to prevent the economy from collapsing. |
How does "making yourself heavy" make you heavier to carry? | When you "make yourself heavy", you go limp, meaning that whoever wants to carry you must support and maneuver your entire body weight. This makes you feel a lot heavier than if you were supporting yourself in small part using your legs or arms. Your instinct is to support your weight with your legs a bit where possibl... |
what an ARP attack is | Generally speaking an ARP attack is masking your MAC Address to trick the network into allowing you on. When you plug into a network your computer sends out an ARP message to the network. If you copy someone's MAC you can spoof their device/IP and gain network access. |
Why are researchers trying to emulate the flawed human brain (I.e Neural Networks) for A.I.? Would it not be better to create A.I. that can't be wrong? | There are many research directions in AI. Some of them, most notably the Cyc project, are specifically looking at encoding truth for flawless reasoning. After 30-ish years, they have a pretty convincing first grader math student. It's harder than they'd like it to be to do. |
Can an inmate on death row request something he's deathly allergic to as his or her last meal? | They would see that he's having an allergic reaction and save his life medically. The execution would be re-scheduled. |
Is there a way to calculate how much it costs to leave a 60 watt light bulb on all day (10 hours) | Energy is billed in kWh A single kWh is 1 kilowatt being used for the duration of an hour. 60watts/1000watts per kilowatt = 0.06 kilowatts 0.06 kilowatts * 10 hours = 0.6 kilowatt hours So the cost is 0.6 kilowatt hours multiplied by the cost of a kWh, which varies depending on taxes, location, and time of year. So if ... |
The impact of Fukushima - how concerned should I be as a West Coast resident who eats a lot of fish? Some questions! | 1. No2. See #13. Yes. Pacific fish is fine too. There is no serious contamination of fish stocks from the Fukushima incident.4. Not a threat at all.5. Much, much less.6. Worst case scenario now? If they manage to absolutely massively fuck up remediation efforts we might see another restriction on fishing directly offsh... |
How some people can sleep through music playing or the tv being on, but then wake up from a small noise that isn't in the music or on the tv | It is the fact that TV becomes a part of the background and the norm. When another sound goes off, it is different and peaks your interest. Next time you see someone asleep watching TV, try turning it off on them. I know that I will instantly wake up and be like "I was watching that."I used to never sleep with the tv o... |
a pound of beef takes 2500 gallons of water to make. If I stop eating meat, is that 2500 gallons of water really saved? | > I don't understand how me not eating would actually save water, if that pound of meat is still on the supermarket shelf. If enough people stop eating meat, demand for meat declines. It becomes unprofitable to maintain the same numbers of cattle for meat consumption, less are raised, less water is used. If just you qu... |
Cloud hosting, paying "per hour". | What is it you want to know? If a server costs 10 cents per hour, then every hour you have it "powered on" and in use, you owe the hosting company 10 cents. If you use it for 200 hours in a month, you will owe the company $20. If you leave it on, constantly running for 30 days, you'll owe $72. |
How do humming bird wing feathers stay attached to their wings with the high G forces they would be subject to from the rapid wing beats? | Proportional mass to size differences make the strain on the wings infinitely less impactful than if someone your size would try to beat their wings that fast. Hummingbirds are incredibly light, yet fragile. Their bodies are designed and have evolved to the absolute pinnacle of vertically based flight, better than bees... |
How do we know our planet's core is iron? How do we know anything about the interior of planets? | On earth we have seismic sensors. Sound travels differently though different materials. By using big sounds like earthquakes and and nuclear explosions, they can sort of get an ultrasound picture of what is in the earth. They can model the other planets based on that but basically don't have any direct data yet. |
Why do contacts require a prescription verification? | It is because you have to be fitted for the contacts. The doctor has to make sure they fit right. If they don't fit, the contacts might be blurry, they might come out easily, or they might tear/injure your eye. _URL_0_", 'I would assume to mitigate any liability. If they sold you whatever number you put in, and you wer... |
Eye tracking. How does it work? | Keep in mind that this sub frowns upon answering homework questions. A big part of your project is learning how to do the research behind it. That being said, I'll give you a few pointers on where to look and a brief explanation. There are a few ways that eye position can be found. Most the them either track the physic... |
How has the role of Vice President changed over time? | So the main thing about the Vice President that outside of being the tie-breaker for the Senate if necessary, he has no official role outside of whatever the President delegates to him. A VP could in theory just hang out at home and play Call of Duty for four years, showing up to Washington DC only when Congress needs ... |
Why do shop owners seem to prefer credit/debit cards over cash?Don't they pay fees for each transaction? | In my experience shop owners especially small business owners much prefer cashAside from the worry of theft at the store, store also have to make cash drops to the bank which can go wrong in many ways also there is the added cost of those people still being on the clock/gas money. As an added bonus there is less room f... |
Why does food taste different outside than inside? | Not entirely familiar with this feeling, but since smell plays a huge role in the perception of taste , that might be the answer. Being outside means air movement can interfere with smells, plus multiple other sources of smells can slightly change the perceived taste of foods. |
The Earth has 7 billion humans. Humans produce c02. Could this be a reason why our c02 levels are so high? If no, why not? | Humans, on a biological level, produce a very very very tiny percentage the worldwide CO2 production even if other human sources of CO2 aren't counted. Fossil fuel usage is really the largest contributor. |
Tracert/traceroute and it's purpose. | It lets you see where the problem is when you can't reach specific sites . Seeing every step on the route makes it much simpler to work out where in the network the problem is located. |
what's the point of USB 3.0 hard drives? | The USB 2.0 specification has a theoritical speed limit of 480 Mbps, but for most transfers the real-world speed is only 280 Mbps or 35 MBps . As a comparison, consumer hard drives are capable of 90 MBps transfers . USB 3.0 allows for 4 Gbps or 500 MBps speeds. USB 3 external hard drives are much better to use and are ... |
what is github, and how do I use it.? | A source control system like GIT or SVN lets multiple developers work on the same piece of source code. You check out the piece of code that you're working on , you edit the local copy, and then you commit the changes. The source control system will then merge your changes with the rest of the project. This is necessar... |
Why do we say "ha" when we laugh? | I think that's the natural sound you get/make when you start laughing, specially when you laugh out loud.\xa0 When you make the "ha"\xa0 sound, it comes from the\xa0gut. It's more like you enjoy it while laughing. No other sound comes from the gut. When you see babies smiling or laughing, they don't laugh out loud. Hen... |
5: Why hasn't Saudi Arabia had sanctions imposed on it for its horrific humans rights record? | Everyone needs oil. Imposing sanctions on the Saudis might be more damaging against the country that tried it than otherwise. Also it is easier to change the behavior of someone who is an ally rather than an enemy; Saudi Arabia is slowly becoming more progressive with US urging but without such exposure to a different ... |
What is the process of actually physically converting a currency? | Currency isn't "converted" it's "bought". Say you have USD and you want to go on a holiday to New Zealand, you'll need NZD. Luckily lots of New Zealanders buy American products, take holidays to the states, etc so they'll all want USD. The currency trader acts as a market for this trade, a price is determined by the qu... |
Why does honey not expire? | Well We don't actually know if it is. You see, some time ago, archaeologists noted they found some jars of honey in a tomb. Other people much later extrapolated from that they found EDIBLE honey in the tomb, and it spread out, without any confirmation. So does honey have an infinite shelf life? We don't really know wit... |
How do those tiny cars (you know which ones) pass safety and road accident inspections? | Having seen some semi vs. car/SUV accidents trucks slaughter anything that is not a truck. A bigger car does not matter. |
Why do most cartoon characters only have four fingers? | It's easier for the animators to draw and is a small enough detail that it does not affect the willful suspension of disbelief required for you to enjoy the show.Because the fifth finger always looks worse. Try to draw it. If it is the little finger it always looks kind of weird, because it is so small and you have to ... |
How is anti-matter stored if it causes an explosion when colliding with regular matter? | Generally it isn't stored. It is created and annihilated all within a few tiny fractions of a second. Theoretically it could be stored in a vacuum, suspended by powerful magnets.Typically it would be stored in a vacuum chamber suspended by a magnetic/electric field of some kind that is rapidly alternating poles which p... |
if depicting an image or likeness of the prophet Muhammad is a sin in their religion, then how is it ok to name a child in his likeness? | A likeness is an image. A name is not a likeness so naming someone after someone else is just an honor.Because religions have arcane rules that don't make sense from the outside? |
Why do some of my apps use less data than others? | Maintaining a constant doesn't take a lot of data. It's the amount of data that is sent over this connection that matters. In a video game, especially a turn based one, very little data is actually sent between your phone and the server. In your example the only data that needs to be sent during the game is which cards... |
Why is it so hard to install a new OS on a phone? | The OS that comes on your phone is 'approved' or 'authorized' by the carrier its meant to be used on. This allows then to add in bloat ware and make sure you cannot use features that rely on a paid service. If you where able to install a fresh operating system, there isn't restrictions, and you can hotspot for free, an... |
How do circuit boards work to run software and create images? | Circuit boards don't do any of that, they are merely a support for the "wiring" between the electronic components that do the work. In the old days, you 'd hook electronic components together with actual pieces of wire. Today, the number and complexity of connections on something like a computer makes that infeasible, ... |
Why do people hate lawyers, or why is it an accepted stereotype that people hate lawyers? | IANAL. First stereotype: They defend horrible criminals so obviously have no emotions. /s. Real reason: It takes a lawyer to fight a lawyer. Justice is not a field where the layman can defend himself with no preparation or prior knowledge. Someone falsely accused of a crime cannot just walk in to a courtroom, give his ... |
Why does diarrhea sometimes come in waves of urgency? | Actually just leaned this the other day! Your body gets rid of viruses/bacteria in you "lower half" by pooping. So if you need to get rid of something ASAP your body speeds up the pooping process. Normally the poop travels through you and slowly water is absorbed until its a nice log, but sense the poop is shooting thr... |
When they say milk is 2%, what is the "other" 98%? | Skim milk, basically. The percentage refers to the fat content. Milk is naturally 3-4% fat, they call that whole milk. 2% and 1% have some of the fat removed, skim has just about all of it removed2% Milkfat 98% milk Milk. Normal Milk contains about 3 - 7 % fat When being processed all the fat is split off, then cleaned... |
Why is the minimum age for a lot of medications 12 years? What happens at 12 that allows children to take these medications? | I work in the clinical trial industry, and the reason why so many medications say that it's for people 12 years of age or older as well as "NOT FOR PREGNANT WOMEN" is because children and pregnant women are rarely ever in clinical trials, because of all the logical reasons you can think of. Are a lot of medications pro... |
Why is it when you see pictures taken from the moon, you don't see any stars in the sky? | The surface of the moon is very bright compared to the stars. A picture with visible stars would have the surface of the moon completely overexposed and washed outA "Lunar Day" is 28 days long - it makes one revolution on its axis in the same amount of time that it makes one revolution around the earth. So the moon is ... |
How come when you load a webpage/image and it ever takes a while to load, it will always slowly down at 80-90% loaded instead of earlier | you want to make a cake you need 10 ingredients you buy them from 10 different suppliers one of the suppliers, slo co, takes 10 hours to deliver everybody else takes 1-3 hours so you are stuck at 90% for 7 hours the end', "Webpages can also contain links to additional pieces. Suppose you open a web page and find out yo... |
How does one forget something in conversation, only to miraculously remember it a few seconds later? What causes that delay? | Memories are not stored in your brain like information is stored on a computer. Memories are built by associations. Sometimes those associations need to take a round about route to get to the place it needs to be. So you have to try a couple different paths before you find the right one. |
Why can't cigarette companies use mascots like Joe Camel to market their product while fast food chains like McDonalds can use mascots and movie characters to promote unhealthy food and gambling(contests)?? | Cigarettes are unhealthy period. They contain a substance causing serious physical addiction, and other compounds that just wreck your lungs. If tobacco didn't have a history and somehow just now appeared on the market in the form of cigarettes, it likely wouldn't become legal. Things like McDonalds are only unhealthy ... |
Why people find it distasteful/disrespectful to embellish the performance of a national anthem | The national anthem of a country is supposed to honor *the country*. Singing with gusto is fine, but when the song becomes more about *the singer* than the song, or the country, that's disrespectful. |
Why do people say Obama's drone program is illegal? | In order to sue someone, they have to have harmed *you*. You can't just sue the government for doing something illegal, if the illegal thing didn't affect you.I do not understand your question, when people say that it is illegal they usually say why. |
Why are software installers (Windows) used for programs that work fine as standalone executables? | Often times this is done for users who want uniformity in their apps. For a portable or self-contained application, often times the installers are just wrappers that add a Start menu entry, add registry keys so Windows knows that it is 'installed' and maybe things like user prefs. Other times, the installers also conta... |
Why we are trying to colonize Mars when we haven't colonized the Moon yet | Mars has abundant water near the caps if you needed it. Temperature extremes are far smaller than the Moon. Radiation due to thin atomosphere is still better than the moon, which is twice as close and has basically zero atmosphere. Gravity, while still significantly less than Earth, is greater than twice that on the mo... |
How legal hunting benifits the animals being hunted. | Over population of animals is a big threat to the eco system that the animal inhabits. For example, if there are too many lions and they eat all the zebras then the zebras go extinct, then so do the lions, and also whatever the zebras ate goes crazy with over population and the cycle repeats. So often if there are too ... |
Why do humans always have this fear of failure | Because , right from the childhood, people are taught that failure is something very worst to happen in life Right from running race to getting grades , failure is seen and preached as a worst thing to happen and how can we expect , people to accept failure once they come out of their college ? So, the "Art of of facin... |
How do they do cancer research on animals? Do they have to give the animal cancer? How? | Who has that job? Biologists, basically. Some cancer research can be done on cell cultures. This is known as "in vitro". It literally means "in glass". This is usually how research starts. It removes a lot of the complexity of having to deal with an entire living being. You get -- for example -- some cancer cells, and ... |
I saw water bottle in a store advertising its water pH at 8.88. What’s the advantage of having slightly basic water? | Some people claim that it can help reduce stomach discomfort as it can reduce the acidity of stomach contents. Now this varies from person to person based on individual health, but outside of that I've never seen research anywhere that alkaline water has anybreal benefit. Tl;Dr it's pretty much marketing. |
Timeshares and why they're bad. | You buy a part of a house, and get access to it for 2 weeks a year or something like that. So let's say a house is worth $520,000 and there are 26 people divvying it up. That means each person owns $20,000 worth of the house. The problem is that you get charged $40,000 for it, and have to use it on your designated week... |
Is it possible for the "zombie ant" fungus Cordyceps unilateralis to infect humans? If so, would it result in anything like The Last of Us? | No, it certainly is not possible for the fungus to infect humans. Ants are *very very* different from people. It's theoretically possible that it could mutate enough over a huge period of time, but the fact that it infects ants in that way doesn't make it any better of a candidate for a "zombie bug" that would infect h... |
Explain the Euler Formula LI5 | [This is probably the simplest explanation you'll find]. I won't bother to retype it here since there's no reason to. |
I'm short-sighted and wear contact lenses (-1.25). If I squint hard (when not wearing the lenses), things which were blurry become clearer. Why is this? | If you have a small enough hole, you don't need a lens to focus an image. But because the hole is so small, very little light can get in so the image is very dim. Because of this, both in terms of the evolution of the eye and in terms of the technology of cameras, lenses are used to allow for a bigger hole to let light... |
How does a solar panel convert light into electricity? | through the photovoltaic effect and photoelectric effect. when a photon strikes a solar cell, it adds energy to the atom that it hits; an electron in this atom is "knocked" out of its orbit, and is funneled into a wire as electricity. this explanation is highly highly simplified , and i 'd recommend reading the wikiped... |
The answer to the 100 monk riddle | I thought these monks were supposed to be highly logical. If that were true, after hearing what the doctor had said, they simply wouldn't look at anyone else's forehead, ever. They would then never know they had the disease and then they'd never die from it. |
how is it that only the affected part of the world shakes during an earthquake instead of the whole planet? | It does! Depending on the strength of the earthquake, you can measure it from the opposite side of the planet. The strength of the shaking will obviously diminish as the distance from the epicenter grows. Some earthquakes can be strong enough to actually affect the entire planet's *rotation*. |
Why are 2D-animated movies so rare nowadays? | 2D Television cartoon animator here. I 've worked on several shows including Wander Over Yonder, Kick Buttowski, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, etc.. Now, television animation is an entirely different beast than feature, of course. We have a lot more to do in a lot less time . We also have different programs to facili... |
Why Voyager 1 launched in '77 is 11 BILLION Miles away yet still transmits home... and my Android can't get reception in the bathroom? | There are many reasons. 1. The physical antennas in use. Voyager has a really large dish pointed pretty precisely at Earth. There is a much much larger dish on Earth pointed at Voyager. It is part of the DSN, or Deep Space Network. These dishes act to focus the broadcast signal and to gather more of the received signal... |
Why do some farts feel hot coming out? Are they actually a different temperature than normal farts? | I surprisingly know this. The warm farts are the gasses like hydrogen sulfide created by the decomposition of food in your stomach while the cool ones are just regular air and/or CO2 that happened to be swallowed or trapped in your digestive tract. The warm ones are actually warmer and tend to be much more smelly.I don... |
If you tweeze a grey hair, do more greys grow in? Why or why not? | It actually won't because each hair grows from its own follicle and pulling one will not effect the pigmentation, or color, of another hair. Hair turns grey because as we age, or hair has fewer and fewer pigment cells. Pigment cells produce melanin, which gives hair and skin it's color so less melanin means that the ha... |
On what grounds could the Arizona District Judge grant Digital Homicide permission to subpoena Valve for steam users' information? | Under a subpoena, is the company in question legally required to give the information , or or can the company still refuse to disclose the information?', "I really don't see what the 100 steam reviewers done wrong. If you release a game and it's a steaming pile of shite, then by right you are allowed to express that op... |
If there are reports of concentration/death camps in North Korea, why doesn't anybody do anything about them? | Everyone mentioning China is mistaken, China doesn't really consider itself an ally of NK in the same way that we traditionally think of allies. China often criticizes the actions of North Korea, it just sort of supports NK geopolitically as a buffer from Korea. The reason no-one intervenes in North Korea is very pract... |
Why every time the USA has a war or conflict, its always on foreign soil and not domestic | Because the USA has two borders in North America, neither with a country with the will or power to take them on militarily. Short of having another civil war, how is the USA supposed to have a war on its own soil? Non-civil wars are by definition 'foreign'. |
Why we call it 3rd person when referring to ourselves externally? | Imagine you're having a conversation with someone. If you're talking about yourself, you 'd usually say "I" or "me", as you're the "first" person in the conversation. If you were addressing the other person you would say "you". However, if you decided to talk about your mate Steve, who isn't in the conversation , you w... |
Can mosquitoes get drunk from drinking your blood if you are drunk? | For alcohol I can say: basically no, mosquitos are nearly resistant to alcohol. They can fly through or at least tolerate vapor which consists of up to 60% of alcohol - far more than a human could ever drink. I don't know about the drugs. Simple fact is; mosquitoes are built so different from humans |
What was the Russian RSFSR? Was it another name for the Soviet Union from 1917 - 1922? | RSFSR stands for the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. First, you have to understand what the Soviet Union was. The Soviet Union was a union of fifteen different republics, the largest of which was the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. When the Soviet Union broke up, each of the fifteen republic... |
Why is the US military budget usually compared as an absolute figure rather than as a percentage of GDP? | Yes/No. When it comes to national spending, it's much more relevant that the next door country has 5 times as many soldiers, tanks and planes that you do, than it is that they spend 7,2% instead of 6,5% of their GDP on health, meanwhile them having "five times as many hospitals" has no effect on their foreign policy at... |
What's Wrong With Performance Enhancing Drugs? Why Can't We All Use Them To Be Better? | Well, many of them have very real negative side effects. Look at [this page] for a long list of bad things that can happen from anabolic steroid use. The reason they're banned in competitive sports is that they have made a decision that they want to test how well an athlete can perform simply with their own skills, wit... |
Why do babies love peek-a-boo? Is it because of object permanence? When does that stop? | Object permanence develops between 4-7 months. However, after that it is just like any other game. It involves social interactions with loved ones. It also gives them some control over their environment. |
Why is our vision tinted blue after we face the Sun with our eyes closed? | Detecting light requires chemical reactions inside the cells of your eye. The chemicals take a moment to reset/replenish before you can detect the light again. When you look at a bright light, it uses up these chemicals quickly, that's why you get momentarily blinded when looking at a bright light for a second. With yo... |
how DVRs exist it it's illegal to make a copy of copyrighted material. | Basically, around the time the VCR came to prominence, ~~Congress~~ the courts determined that it was perfectly legal to use the VCR to record programing and watch it later, so long as it was for personal usage. DVR is just the new version of the VCR and it has fallen into the same exception. Edit: Thanks /u/Curmudgy f... |
Why is chicken pox relatively harmless in children but potentially fatal in adults? | They're not exactly sure why, but adults are much more likely to get dangerous side effects from chicken pox than children. They are more likely to end up in the hospital with complications like pneumonia and meningitis which is what can kill them. [_URL_0_] has one of the theories which is that "Kids\' immune systems ... |
why do we sometime have an urge to throw up when the stomach is empty? What is the body accomplishing here? | Anxiety and fear can cause the urge to evacuate from, well, to be crude, every egress. Whether that's your bowels, your stomach or your bladder. Why? Think of it like chucking stuff overboard in an emergency situation.Your vomiting reflex is actually not triggered exclusively by what's in your stomach. It's actually al... |
Were the rich really taxed 90% under Eisenhower? | A lot of people misunderstand tax brackets. A 90% top tax rate does not mean *everything* that person makes gets taxed at 90%. It means that everything above the cutoff from the next lower bracket gets taxed at 90%. For example, imagine the tax brackets looked like this : Tax Rate | Cutoff----------|--------0% | $25k10... |
What does "better drained soil" mean? | It's referring to how fast water leaves the soil. Arctic Tundra, if it weren't frozen, is a swamp. In places where it has melted, the water doesn't go anywhere. It just becomes a wet, sticky mire. Alpine Tundra, well, isn't. When it melts, the water drains off -- either going into streams/rivers, or sinking down and jo... |
How high up can a person potentially live? | Highest human settlement is 5950 meters or 19000ft. If a normal ocean elevation person even gets up to 3000m, you'll be plenty light headed. I sure was after only 10 minutes of walking around and needed to sit down for half hour to catch my breath. |
why generic USB 3 enclosures are abundant and cheap while Thunderbolt enclosures are rare and expensive despite both being Intel set standards | I would have to guess it is simply a result of there being far more manufacturers of USB 3 enclosures than thunderbolt ones, the more supply and competition there is the cheaper products generally end up. Now as to why there would be more makers of USB 3 enclosures than thunderbolt I can think up a couple of reasons, f... |
why doesn't acid melt a glass container? | Some acids do. Hydrofluoric acid, for example, will eat through glass and can be used for glass etching. Other acids can break down glass under certain conditions. A Material Safety Data Sheet would list the exactly how a chemical should be stored. Most acids, however, do not react with glass. Most substances, in fact,... |
How does my money go to a company after my purchase of their item? | > For example, If I bought some crayola crayons, what tells them they get money because of my purchase? Nothing. They didn't get money because of your purchase. They got money because of the bulk purchase of the store you were shopping at. Someone at Walmart headquarters decided months ago that, "Based on past purchasi... |
Why are some Americans so patriotic about the flag, army, tech, the moon, WWII, music etc. but so unpatriotic when it comes to taxes and welfare? | It's not something new, it's been around since the country started basically. The country wanted to avoid being tyrannical at all so let a lot of governmental power fall to the states and local governments, that's why even today states can have pretty drastically different laws than others . This mentality passes down ... |
When something decompresses in space, what happen to the air? | It dissipates in the vacuum until the individual molecules have nowhere to move to reduce their energy stateIt disperses unless it gets picked up by a gravitational pull. Then it will collect around thatThe gas spreads out effectively infinitely. A gas is just a number of molecules bouncing around off each other and of... |
If house prices are so high, why aren't people building more houses? | The costs of materials to build homes has also gone up substantially, which makes the cost of building homes more expensive than buying a pre-existing home . In my immediate area, I've noticed four new subdivisions started in the past couple of months. Source: Realtor® |
Why does counting to 3 make children do what they're told? | It doesn't have to be 3 it could be a countdown from ten as well. It gives a child a sense of fear that they will be punished. Its basically an ultimatum. I'm giving you a chance to stop, but if you don't I'm going to punish you .It's cognitive conditioning. After a few instances where you counted down, and resulting n... |
How can some of the victims of flight MH17 be naked but still strapped to chairs and wearing socks and shoes? | When a blast of 500 mph air hits you, it will absolutely shred any clothing, stripping thread from thread, like unraveling a spool of thread. Once it starts flapping in the incredible breeze, it will just start disassembling itself. You don't need to actually remove the clothing like a normal person would on a normal d... |
If we had no sensory organs, what would our brains be doing? | As I understand, pretty much nothing. Without any inputs to react to, no learning would take place, and no patterns would develop. All theory, of course - scientists can't exactly test this ethically! |
Why are people so opposed to the Affordable Healthcare Act? | It is a very complex answer, way beyond the standard ELI5. At a high level, just about everyone agrees that reasonably priced healthcare is a good thing. What some people disagree with is the government forcing you to purchase insurance in order to make that happen. They feel that the decision to buy insurance shouldn'... |
Why do planes need to be pressurized when flying at ~15,000 ft, yet hikers/backpackers routinely climb up to that elevation without any problems? | most commercial transports fly at 30k-40k ft. they are pressurized to air at 6k-8k ft. hikers and backpackers practice for low air environments. most air plane passengers dont. i bet you cant go to 15k ft regularly without discomfort. that's a tiny % of the population that can do well at altitudes like that. above 10k ... |
Are there copyrights on recipes? | I'm going to quote the [US Copyright Office] on this one: > Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of ingredients. Nor does it protect other mere listings of ingredients such as those found in formulas, compounds, or prescriptions. Copyright protection may, however, extend to substantial literary... |
Politics - Why is it a huge scandal when politicians are corrupt and immoral when "everyone" knows politicians are corrupt and immoral? | There is a difference between accepting that bad things will happen and not caring that bad things happened. We criticize bad behavior so as to not encourage it, even though we know it'll happen sometimes.Because it's a stereotype. not all politicians are corrupt and immoral. probably if you gathered actual data they a... |
Why is the UK much worse at basketball than similarly sized European nations? | Less interest due to more focus on other sports -- > Smaller number of young people signing up and starting youth leagues + less money -- > Smaller talent pool -- > Weaker players make it to the local and national teams.There isn't much of an interest. British athletes are more likely to pursue football, rugby, or cric... |
The "Jurassic Park" method of controlling gender | 1. That book and the movie contained a lot of bad science. 2. A lot of animals are gender fluid. 3. It appears that on some animals the gender specific genes are present on both sets of chromosomes. So XX can be either male or female as needed, but so can XY. 4. Not all animals use XY and XX. Birds use a ZW system, whe... |
If a lactating woman was stranded on a deserted island with no food, could she drink her own milk to survive? | No, though it would probably be better than letting it go to waste entirely - it's just thermodynamics, takes more energy to produce something that you can ever get out of it. |
Why are pills so difficult to swallow, while swallowing food of the same size or larger presents no problem? | Food either is soft or becomes soft as your mouth mashes it up and mixes it with saliva. You have been swallowing soft food mush since before you could form memories. It's a sensation your mouth and throat are very used to. Hard pills on the other hand are very different and your subconscious doesn't really trust them ... |
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