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Why is the Earth's moon named The Moon while other planets' moons have actual names?
Because it was named centuries before we knew that the planets had moons. To discover the moons round other planets we needed to invent the telescope and then realised that there were a lot of moons out there so they needed names to identify themIt does have a name: the Moon. Other moons are called "moons" by analogy with Earth's: a moon of another planet is something that's like the Moon, but that planet's version. The common noun came well after the Moon was named. If the Moon was named "Bob," then you 'd be asking why the Bob doesn't have a name while other planets\' bobs have names. If English had kept something like "Luna" from Latin, you 'd be asking why Luna doesn't have a name when the other lunas all have names. There *is* another word for "things orbiting a planet" , but at least these days the standard generic English word is the one that derives from the name of The MoonThe Earth moon has a name, it is "Luna". "The Moon" is also considered an accurate term, scientifically. *Edit: Literally no clue why this is being downvoted*The satellite orbiting the earth did not need a distinctive name for centuries. Moon is the word in English while Luna is the Latin equivalent._URL_0_Moon is the name of our satellite.Planets have satellites not moons, this is just a common misconception which is usually accepted.
What exactly is our problem with immigration?
Immigration is a fantastic concept that allows many people from different countries to give themselves or their children an opportunity at a better life. Illegal immigration is a problem because unregistered people use a countries healthcare, school system, and public facilities. This weighs heavily on the countries tax payers as there is no one to pay taxes for unregistered citizensIn a place where jobs are hard to come by and unemployment is high, 5 million more workers willing to work below minimum wage more puts greater economic pressure on the resident citizens.
Why do humans respond faster to auditory stimuli than to do to visual stimuli?
Research is still a bit fuzzy, but the hypothesis involves 2 parts. A. your ears utilize reflexes, which are faster than responses . Essentially, there is less processing that is needed for an auditory stimulus than a visual stimulus. B. The nerve that transmits auditory information is shorter than the nerve that transmits visual information. The auditory nerve travels from your ear to a very close region of your brain, while the optic nerve has to travel all the way to the back of your brain in order to transmit its information. While this difference in length and speed is negligible to you in your every day life, it is significant when it comes to quick reflexes and responses
How does hydroplaning happen? Is there any "safe" speed?
When there is water on the road your tyre has to shove it out of the way if it's to stay in contact with the road. The tyre has grooves in it to make this easier, but there's a limit to how fast they can move water. Exceed this and the water builds up like a wedge under the tyre, lifting it off the road. You are now no longer driving but sliding on a thin layer of water. Brake and the wheels will stop but the road doesn't care and you'll just carry on. Likewise you'll not be able to steer. As explained, there is a speed at which the tyre cannot shift the water fast enough. Below this speed you still have contact - though as you approach lift-off you'll have progressively less contact as the wedge develops. You can sometimes tell because the road noise drops away suddenly. The safe speed is well below this!
Why does the handle in a clay cup not heat up when there is hot liquid inside, but does when you place a cover over it?
Because heat rises. The handle is not only off to the side, but ceramic is very good at insulating heat, the handle has a huge surface area that touches the air to keep the handle cooler than the cup as a whole.
the materialist conception of history
The materialist conception of history is the idea that history is driven primarily by *wealth*. That is, you can explain most major events in history by noting that people acted to gain more wealth or keep the wealth they had. This view was popularized by Marx, because he thought that communist ideology was a natural result of it, but in modern times a lot of people who don't necessarily agree with his ideology have adopted it.
How desiccant packets work and why don't they expand or something? Or do they?
Desiccant packets are used to maintain a dry environment, or for preservation. Basically, the silica gel has millions of little "pores" around it, like a golf ball. Water molecules adhere to these pores really well, and fill that porous space. This traps the water, without increasing the overall volume of the silica gel itself.
Where Did the Money From the Stock Market Crash Go?
Imagine that everyone in your neighborhood has been buying Special Bags of Gold for many years as an investment. Everyone has put a fair amount of money into buying these Special Bags of Gold and they have all been told that their value has increased over the years. Typically, 1/2 of everyone's net worth is stored in the Special Bags of Gold, which they sell to each other at ever-increasing prices. One day, someone opens on of his Special Bags of Gold, to discover that it contains nothing but dog shit. He tries to sell his bags off as quickly as he can before others discover their contents, but word travels fast and soon everyone realizes that 1/2 of their wealth is worth nothing at all.
why do my previously broken body parts hurt when it rains.
no one knows for sure. but some theories.._URL_0_I have also always heard my parents and complain about old broken bones etc getting incredibly painful when it is cold. And even though I am not "old" by any social term, I have started getting pains in fractured bones etc when it is bitterly cold. But I am talking minus 7 cold. So maybe as you age, your resistance to what level of cold you need to ache weakens? Who knows?
With possible bipartisan interest in tax reform, what would most people agree is "broken" about the US tax system?
The high complexity of the code means that most people lack the time or resources to correctly file and receive the correct amount of return or pay the correct amount of tax. There are services like H & R Block or Quicken that are affordable, but it says something about the system that you need a specialized computer program just to file the average person's taxes. This benefits the wealthy who have even higher complexity BUT have the ability to pay for professional accountants to do their job. In addition the wealthy have the ability to move their income around and often pay lower rates than their income would suggest due to perfectly legal manipulation of how their income is reported. A complete overhaul of the tax system is an opportunity to clean up that entire code and make it much clearer to the average user and much "fairer" to the population as a whole. The goal of taxation is to fund the government which provides services to it's citizens. An efficient tax code allows the government to intake the amount of money it needs rather than making a guess and hoping it is close. In theory, this would mean that taxes were set at the rate that was needed rather than an arbitrary number that is a constant political point. In practice look man, people are nuts and we're never gonna get that good. In short - we clean up the code so the rich, the poor, and everyone in between are able to quickly and efficiently file their taxes, pay their share, and move on with life.
Why do some restaurants/stores accept MasterCard/discover and others don't?
The usual reason is that they don't like the fees associated with one card or another. Depending on their payment processor and the current fees associated with the four major credit card issuers, the cost for accepting a Discover card may be much higher than the cost of accepting an American Express, and the store may decide that it isn't worth it to accept the card.
How did credit cards start?
It started in 1950 with the diners club. Basically the head of the diners club would give out cardboard cards and pay for people's meals on the hope that they would pay him back at the end of the month.To get really basic with this, it started when loans were invented. Credit cards are just automated loan services. You trust them because these loan companies are huge and reputable.
what is procedural law, and what is substantive law?
Procedural law is the laws and rules that determine how a court case is handled. It says how long each party has to respond to the other party, what is allowed as evidence, etc. Substantive law is what most people generally think of as "law." It tells you what actions a person must do in order to be liable, and what the remedies of the other party are.
How you make broadband faster.
Broadband is like a chain, its as strong as your weakest link. Therefore you need to trace everything back from your devices back to the ISP
Why do digital downloads of games cost the same amount as a hard copy?
Because if they were cheaper, people would have much less reason to buy a hard copy. There'd be no real reason to pay people to manufacture them, ship them, or sell them. The people who own those businesses want to stay in business, so video game developers are careful not to screw them over.
When did blue became the standard color for ball pens?
It really isn't the standard, but there's many reasons why it could be preferred by companies that manufacture pens. Here are some explanations. For one, blue ink is distinguishable. If you're printing out a paper in greyscale, blue ink will stick out on the paper. This is especially important for official documentation such as what you get in the doctor's office. The color on the paper makes the person who's looking at it know exactly what you wrote without having to scan through the paper. Also, blue ink makes an original document visible from copies. Since most copy machines use black and white printouts, the blue color of the pen makes the original document easy to identify. Another explanation is that blue ink writes better. The composition of the ink allows the pen to flow better on the paper. And finally, there might not be a reason. It's likely that when different colors of ink were developed that people naturally developed a preference for blue. Like black ink, it's legible but unlike red ink, still easy to read. This is probably the more likely explanation.
When something stressful happens, people are initially calm. Once the situation is passed, then stress sets in
Stress actually focuses you initially. Afterwards adrenaline is still in your body, which triggers other physiological reactions we normally associate with panic. Some people just react differently to the situation mentallyAs a survival mechanism, people are surprisingly good at staying focused during a serious emergency. Their emotions are temporarily suppressed so that they can actOne thing that CAN happen at times is a state of sort of hyperattentivity. One theory goes, as your body gets ready to go into fight mode, your vital fluids divert towards vital processes. So the same way blood flow diverts towards your heart and lungs, giving you a temporary performance boost while also explaining why your face and hands go pale In your brain, things divert towards the core of your brain, for reaction, sensory perception, motor skills, etc but that also diverts power away from higher level non-essential stuff like emotion, morality, etc. This is why some people after dangerous situations, or after combat describe a sensation of "time slowing down" or superhuman awareness. At the same time, its also why feelings like fear and guilt don't kick in until later. A lot of people after a gun fight feel this feeling of guilt about things they did in the gun fight because "I shot that guy and I didn't even feel bad. I saw that other guy get killed and I didn't stop. I though \'glad that wasn't me\' and kept moving." Well, that's because the part of your brain that manages that stuff was powered down. The energy was diverted to the see, react, move parts of your brain because those help you survive. Only after the situation is over, when your brain activity has returned to normal, do you get activity back to the parts of your brain that say things like "was that soldier I shot a child???" "holy shit did we almost just die there?" Here is one decent write up on some of these ideas. _URL_0_
How does rubbing batteries together restore their charge?
It doesn't. What does happen, is that since you're holding the batteries, you're warming them up due to the warmth of your hands. Chemical reactions happen faster at higher temperatures, and as such, warming the battery produces a slight boost.You are probably just heating the batteries up. Heating them up causing the chemical reaction to accelerate, producing more current, but then reducing their lifeSometimes batteries can appear flat if they are no longer making good contact with each other, or the device. Moving them around can restore the contacts and make them work.
Why do vehicle speedometers go so high?
It provides the illusion of performance. Having a speedometer that goes high implies that the car *must* have stronger engines. Also, in other countries, like Germany, cars that travel on the unrestricted autobahn can reached higher speeds. It's also cheaper for one car company to use the same speedometer across all their models.
Why don't engines create max hp at max rpm?
Horsepower is a measure of work which is force over time. Assuming that each cylinder produces the same amount of force every 4 stroke cycle, the more cycles you can pack into a given amount of time, the more work. So your gut feel is mostly correct. Because the rpm keeps increasing, but the cylinders are still producing the close to the same amount of force, the peak hp is up near the red-line. There are other forces at play which can cause the peak hp to be somewhere else like increased friction at very high piston speed or pumping losses due to trying to get air through a fixed size hole at increasing speeds. Those other factors can eventually overcome the gain from additional cycles as rpm increases.
Why, when looking at a computer screen from a lower angle, do the colors invert to a weird blue and black?
A computer screen is made up of pixels. There is no single LED/crystal/light source that can display all the colors you want represented as a single piece. Instead, there are multiple sub-pixels in each pixel. The most common is to have one Red, one Green, and one Blue . They adjust the relative brightness of each sub-pixel to mix RGB colors into the final color you want. The sub-pixels are all meshed together in grid pattern. Something like R G B Additionally, each pixel is surrounded by a mask to prevent the light from one pixel bleeding into the next. Each pixel is optimized to cast light forward, towards you, the viewer. Imagine you had 3 christmas lights, red green and blue, at the back of a toilet paper tube. If you were looking directly at it, you could see all 3, producing a white light effect. As you tilt the tube, there comes a point where one is blocked, and then a point where 2 are blocked, changing what color of light you would perceive at each point. That is essentially what is happening when you look at a flatscreen from outside its optimum viewing angle. The mask around each pixel is blocking one or more of the sub-pixels from your vision, preventing you from seeing that part of the color. Different flatscreen technologies and different production qualities within each of those will result in different optimum viewing anglesLight coming at a flat angle from the screen has passed through a thicker layer of liquid crystal than intended, and is thus more rotated. Colors that were supposed to be blocked may thus pass, and colors that were supposed to pass are thus blocked.
- why auto manufacturers don't install solar panels in the roofs of their electric/hybrid vehicles
Solar panels covering the roof of a car would produce a minuscule amount of energy. It's not worth it.
How do shows such as moonshiners get away with all of their illegal actions if the identities and methods are portrayed up front on television?
Hate to ruin the magic but its fake. Also the methods are never really shown, generally key details are always left out.
Why is a Pint of Guinness so much better in Ireland/NYC/London etc. than my suburban bar?
I haven't been able to verify it myself to take this with a grain of salt. Guinness in Ireland or other more populated areas will be fresher and will end up tasting better. A pint of Guinness at your local suburban bar will be shot out of a keg and through lines that have had older staler Guinness in it for much longer than a keg in a bar where more Guinness is consumed much more quickly. Basically, the Guinness in your suburban bar is more likely to be old.It could be those bars actually pour it properly. Or your local bar gets older kegs. Or both.There's several breweries that produce Guinness under license. They have different water supplies so the product varies. Each individual bar also has to store it and serve it correctly which is where the real trick comes. A pub which is clearing a barrel every day will have a far better pint than one which only clears one a week .
How do our eyes know when something is just about to hit them? Like when a bug hits my closed eyelid when just a second ago it was open.
Eyes are great at detecting motion and changes, and the nervous system is much faster than conscious thought. You reflexively blink before you're aware
Is posture and muscle balance more important than the type of mattress you're sleeping on to relieve back pain?
I have no medical education, but speaking from experience as someone with 3 herniated discs, I can say the mattress makes a huge difference.I was studying abroad when I had my first crisis because of an herniated disc and the mattress provided by the university was complete shit. As soon as I got home my pain reduced a lot in a couple of weeks due to a better mattress . But posture does make a difference. Not so much when walking and standing, but sitting correctly helps a lot, specially if you're sitting for a long period of time in class or work.
Is there some cultural significance to a male Asian child always having his junk out in public?
In rural China kids wear [crotchless pants] for ease of peeing or pooping. In Chinese cities this is seen as a very trashy thing to do now, since more sophisticated parents buy diapers and peeing or pooping everywhere is not acceptable . There are countless numbers of internet forum posts talking about how trashy and embarrassing those rural folks are, especially outside the country.It's less cultural significance of him having his junk out, it's more that there is no significance with him keeping it in. And if you don't care that his junk is hanging out, you have to admit it's a pretty big saving on diapers.
How does soap kill bacteria?
bacteria have a lipid encasing that soap will adhere to, soap has two ends, one that likes water and one that likes fats. lipids are a fat. one end hooks onto the lipid coating, the other end hooks into the water. this allows the bacteria to be washed away.
Why do modern lightbulbs seem to only last for eight or so years but the first lightbulb ever made still runs today?
It's not the first bulb ever made that still runs today. Early light bulbs used to last only a few hours before burning out. A specific light bulb, with low energy consumption and a thick carbon-based filament still runs after over a hundred years of continuous use, but we don't want dim light for a long time, we want BRIGHT light to illuminate our hovels, and that wears out components much more quickly.8 years? Man you have been lucky with your bulbs!How would light bulb companies making money if people were only buying lights once their life time?
Would it be possible for animals to have sex and babies with another subspecies? (like chimpanzees having sex with orangutans)
This doesn't work in most cases.One case where it works is for example horse and dunkey, their children can be two different subspecies, depending on which of those two is the male and the female. The problem here is, that this animals can't recreate further.It depends on a lot of factors. Firstly, orangutans and chimps aren't actually subspecies, they're entirely different species. Generally speaking an animal from a different species is either clearly physically different or unable to produce fertile offspring. This isn't foolproof though. As others have pointed out, the horse and donkey are different species, but can mate and have offspring . There are quite a lot of examples of animals which are clearly separate species mating and having babies. In some cases, these offspring are capable of reproducing themselves. One such example is the polar bear / grizzly bear pair, children of which are called "grolars" and are fertile. In answer to the case you proposed, they could physically complete the act, and there is a chance offspring would be born. Chimps and orangutans parted ways a while ago, but so did a lot of other species which we 've seen produce offspring. On a more disturbing note, it is possible that humans and chimps or bonobos could mate and produce offspring. Fortunately this has never happened, although one mad scientist did send out advertisements for volunteers Only when very closely related. For example, the entire Panthera family can interbreed with the offspring having varying degrees of fertility. Certain whales can with dolphins.
What does it mean to unlock your phone to another service provider? And why, depending on the brand, does it cost so much and take so long?
Most phones are *capable* of talking to other carriers that use the same networking technology. For example, in the USA, AT & T T-Mobile and I think a couple others all use the same GSM system. However, if you buy a phone through one of those carriers, they put a piece of software in place that checks who you're trying to connect to, and will block it if it's not AT & T or whoever. Why? Because they gave you a bargain/contract when you bought that phone through them, and they want you to stay inside their network. Thus they make unlocking the device and leaving their network challenging and/or expensive. If you leave, they don't make money billing you. Cell phones not purchased through a carrier company are unlocked and can be used with any compatible network.
what is social engineering?
Social Engineering is using specific triggers and actions to provoke an action in a person or group of people. Reverse Psychology on children is a simple example, but it gets pretty deep down the line. Things like mob mentality, mass hysteria, and moral panic can all fall under the heading when provoked intentionallyIt's just lying. "Social" and "engineering" mean things, but the term is almost exclusively used to talk about people lying to other people to gain access to whatever. "Hello, this is CEO of YourCompany, please tell me what the pin number is to the backdoor?"
Why do guys get hard in the morning? (NSFW)
During REM sleep, the deepest part of the sleep cycle, during which dreams occur, a lot of the body's functions effectively run on autopilot. One hypothesized consequence of this is that the chemical signals made by the body to prevent erections are not made during REM sleep. As a result, men will get erections during their sleep and possibly immediately after waking up. Fun Fact: The scientific term for morning wood is "nocturnal penile tumescence."Something-something bladder pressure something stops us from pissing ourselves. I personally notice if I have a rager in the morning, I probably really need to take a pissYour nervous system normally tries to keep a balance between being too revved-up and being too relaxed. There are different systems with different chemicals in your body that accomplish these goals. When you need to run away from a dangerous situation, you activate your Sympathetic System, also known as "fight or flight". When you want to relax in a hammock and take a nap in the sun, you activate your Parasympathetic System, also known as "rest and digest". Getting an erection depends on the chemicals of the Parasympathetic, not the Sympathetic System. You don't need a boner to run away from a lion, no matter how hilarious it might sound. However, if you're in "rest and digest" mode , you have a predominance of Parasympathetic hormones and neurotransmitters, and therefore you're pretty likely to get an erection.Full bladder stimulates nerves responsible for reflex erection. This stimulation is not very strong, but it's enough when there are not that many other signals. Also there are certain neurons that are supposed to inhibit erections, but are themselves turned off during sleep.
why diffrent alcohols effect me.
Because they're different alcohols made of different things. > One reason for the different effects of vodka and bourbon, Rohsenow says, could be that bourbon contains 37 times more toxic compounds than vodka does, including nasty organic molecules such as acetone, acetaldehyde, tannins and furfural. A good rule of thumb for liquors, she says, is that the clearer they are, the less of these substances they contain.[Source]
How does 'zipping' a file make it smaller? Why does it need to be unzipped? What is actually happening?
File compression usually looks for patterns within the file on your disk and replaces them with something smaller. Let's compress ``banana``. We'll replace the pattern ``na`` with the character ``%`` Which reduces the word down to ``ba%%`` Then we build a table of things that were replaced so we know ``%==na`` Decompressing a file does that in reverse so you know ``ba%%`` is actually supposed to say ``banana``.Lets explain by example. If I want to write "heeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllooooooooo" I can save space by writing "1*h13*e14*l9*o" If I gave you "1*h13*e14*l9*o" you may have to first write out "heeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllooooooooo" before you could pronounce "heeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllooooooooo". While this saves letter space, it takes time to unconvert/unzip for use later. Some compressions are designed to be unconverted quickly, so a computer program can read a MP3 or JPEG immediately. Some compressions, like ZIP, are designed to save space so they have be unzipped to be understood.
Why do I always need to go to the toilet at the same times every single day? How is there no variation?
You must have a fairly regular diet and fiber intake. Most people would kill for that kind of regularityA word of advice for those suffering irregularity problems. Morning coffee.
How does a computer antivirus work? Hoes does it find, erase and prevent viruses from computers?
They have a library of known viruses and what they look like. So when they scan, they are looking for those signatures in the types of files each virus targets. If it finds one, it usually gives options to the user depending on the type of virus with the most typical option being to simply delete the infected files. Most antivirus packages also have options to scan incoming downloads to look for the virus signatures as they come in, potentially protecting your computer from infection in the first place. However, all this relies on the company actively finding and maintaining the library of known viruses. Should a new virus come along that infects computers in a different way than previous ones, it may not be caught by the antivirus until the company can analyze how the virus works and figure out how to identify and sanitize itTwo ways. First it has a big data base of code snippets from the companies research department, who basically go out and find viruses and take them apart to see what they do. On your computer, the scanner will look for files known to be associated with known viruses. Secondly, most have the capacity to look for suspicious behavior such as opening up network ports, changing memory values or taking over important parts of the computer. It will try to stop those programs as a better safe than sorry policy.
Why do people seem more saddened by the abuse & death of animals than the death or abuse of other human beings?
generally speaking animals are viewed as innocent almost child like. humans on the other hand are viewed based off what they do and how they act. depending on how cynical of a person you are you will view people as less than innocent.
The California Energy Crisis of 2000 and the Enron Scandal
As for the energy crisis, basically Enron would cut off the power supply so that the cost of electricity would skyrocket, and then turn it back on in order to make more money. Enron in general, that was mostly down to a type of accounting they used that let them declare potential earnings, so that it always looked like they were making loads of money when they were, in fact, losing money. I would recommend the documentary "The smartest men in the room" If you want to learn more', "Enron was an energy company that engaged in a lot of fraudulent accounting tricks to make it look like they were much more profitable than they were. It wasn't a complete fraud like Madoff - they had some legitimate businesses like pipelines and actually did produce electricity, but they also had a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideas, most of which lost a ton of money. And when those schemes lost money, instead of admitting it, they either lied about it or used more accounting tricks to hide the losses. When they were losing too much money, it became too hard to maintain their shell game of hiding losses and moving them around, and sooner or later it was clear that the company was in trouble, and investors lost confidence in the company and started selling the stock. When the stock price started declining, it became impossible to maintain the accounting tricks, because they couldn't do things like use overvalued stock as collateral for loans. They went from being one of the ten largest U.S. companies by stock market capitalization to being bankrupt in about 18 months. Enron was a major factor in the California energy crisis of 2000, but they weren't the sole cause of it. During a heat wave where demand for electricity soared, Enron created artificial shortages of power in order to be able to jack up the price.
Why does McDonald's only sell the McRib for part of the year?
To give a bit of evidence for what everybody else is already saying: > Aside from weak sales, other theories for the limited availability of the McRib include the higher prices and unreliable supply of pork, the limited-time allure making it a better loss leader for McDonald's, and the scarcity adding to the hype of the sandwich.[19] An informal 2011 study into the "Existence of the McRib" draws a correlation between the price of pork and the timing of McDonalds offering the sandwich, as all five of the US McRib offerings beteween 2005 and 2011 have occurred during low points in the price for pork.[20] _URL_0_', "McRibs are made from pig meat. When this pig meat costs too much, Ronald McDonald can't afford to buy it. The changes in the price of pork determines if Ronald can sell you your yummy rib sandwich.
Why doesn't North and South Dakota concatenate to just form a single Dakota state?
Because they'll go from 4 senators to 2, that's a reduction of political power. And then you'd have to harmonize the taxes, and that's going to be annoying.
No, we aren't actually 5.
Keep your answers simple! We're shooting for elementary-school age answers. But -- please, no arguments about what an "actual five year old" would know or ask! We're all about simple answers to complicated questions. Use your best judgment and stay within the spirit of the subreddit. - as per the Subreddit's guidelinesActually, I find the the answers that use simplified - if a bit silly - metaphors to be the most enlightening. _URL_0_Sometimes, people want to say something even though they have nothing to say. This is human nature - I too am frequently guilty of it. It's why many of ProbablyHittongOnYou's posts are followed by an inane comment such as "LOL are u hitting on me?" In this subreddit, the default easy thing to say is "Well, a 5-year-old wouldn't understand that." That is my theory; what do you believe?', "It really bugs me when people add the condescension of talking down to a five year old to their answers, or use contrived 'playground' analogies when everyday ones would do just as fine or better.Thank you. This is also my biggest complaint about this subreddit. I was even thinking about taking this off my front page, but hopefully people listen to your adviceTo be fair, the title of the subreddit is a little confusing I think. "Explain like I'm 5" suggests that the person asking has the intelligence of a 5 year old. A more appropriate name for the subreddit would be "Explain it to a layman"', "I think it should be thought of more as Explain like i'm a layman rather than literally 5 years old. Just give a simple answer to the question posed.ELI5 is basically a tl;dr for wikipedia but turns into a "well if you have this many cookies and share it with so and so" or "consider these building blocks"
Couldn't one just buy hundreds of wine bottles as a long term investment?
Because only some wines are likely to bring any *real* profit; and in most cases buying more than a few is going to be insanely expensive for a 10+ year investment. Don't get me wrong, there is an entire industry concerned with fine wine investment, this is a real thing. But since you have to keep the product in top quality preservation conditions to avoid the price dropping, generally can't expect it to be a high-gain investment and be ready to realize that your bottle is just the most inefficient way to store money ever invented it would just be better to invest in some stock.
why do clouds look like they have flat bottoms and fluffy tops, why not fluffy bottoms too?
Environmental science major here!! I paid $600 to learn about this for a semester so listen up. First off, think about what a cloud is: It's water particles suspended in the atmosphere correct. How does that water get there? The water cycle. A continuous cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, more or less. When this water is in the process of evaporation, it rises in the atmosphere. The atmosphere decreases in pressure and temperature as you go up, and depending on the daily conditions, there will be a point where the conditions are right for this water to once again condense and at this elevation, the cloud will start forming. That being said, we return to your original question, why are the bottoms flat? Well think about an iceburg: You see the tip which ends at the waterline, this also makes iceburgs look like they have flat bottoms when in reality the rest of the iceburg is just not visible. This is pretty much what's going on with those fluffy clouds and their seemingly flat bottoms. What you're seeing is a large mass of water particles, those above the point of condensation are visible, forming a cloud, and those below are not.
Why does running water increase the sensation of having to urinate?
When you urinate, you produce the sound of running water. The sound and the sensation of urinating then become linked, much as Pavlov's dogs linked the sound of a bell with food. The dogs involuntarily salivated when hearing the bell, you feel like you're going to pee your pants when you hear running water.
The difference between "internal" resolution and "monitor" resolution in video games
Slycone is speaking out of his or her ass. Resolution is the dimensions of the number pixels you're talking about . Framerate is framerate Basically, the game is being rendered at 1024x720. It is then "upscaled" to the chosen resolution, which means something has to basically make up stuff to go in the gaps between the "actual" content. To see why this is bad: [Original image] [Image after being resized to 30% then "upscaled" to the size of the other image] As you can see, data is lost, and it just isn't as good. It's better to render at the resolution you want to display rather than scale it up. Takes more processing power to properly generate the images rather than "upscaling" which is probably why they did it.
What causes that unique smell of snow?
Cold air dampens your sense of smell because it numbs the scent receptors in your nose. Also, similar to rainfall the water has been cycled from source to cloud to destination so it is fresh and not stagnant like a pond could be. Static water goes off due to external chemicals leeching into the water and contaminating it. So what you are smelling is true H2O. Similar to if you burn your tongue food tastes different.
Why do I get goosebumps when I hear really good music?
There is a flight or fight, adrenalin release which explains that. When very high emotions are felt, dopamine and other neurochemicals can be released. This causes a thrill thru the body, occ. tingling sensation, increased heart rate, goose bumps & so forth. This is often seen with the "1812 Overture" by Tschaikovsky when real cannon and large bells are used. it's fairly overwhelming. Similarly very moving scenes in some films can create this state. IN Beethoven's "9th Symphony" the first time the Scherzo was played, the audience was so profoundly moved, they had him play it again. And when the "Ode to Joy" was played, inspired by Schiller's poem of the same name, a similar encore was demanded. Please peruse section 18 of this article under "Die Gotterfunken" Literally, Spark of God. _URL_1_ and also this, which explains the dopamine boost, what it does and how to create it voluntarily._URL_0_', "I'm not a scientist or anything, but the way I understand it is a chemical known as dopamine is released into ^ your brain. The same chemical is released when someone does certain drugs, it's responsible for feelings of euphoria. Something like that.
What is a Kernel in computing?
The [kernel] is the the core of the operating system. It's what actually handles multitasking when multiple programs are running, managing system resources and all of the low-level things going on. It's normally talked about in contrast to "user-land", where user interfaces, programs and all of that lives.
Why can a person doing an illegal action (burglary, trespassing) sue the property or owner?
Often these cases are thrown out almost immediately. They are not thrown out, however, if there is a case of disproportionate or illegal actions taken by the homeowner . Basically, just because the robber is breaking the law, doesn't mean the homeowner is also suddenly allowed to break the law. And if the homeowner breaks the law, then yes, they open themselves up to get sued.
What is the purpose of the "Insert" button on a keyboard?
Depending on the program, it lets you toggle insert mode between "insert as I type and shift characters to the right" and "insert as I type, but delete characters to the right". In simpler text widgets like in your browser here it does nothing. Standard behaviour is to shift characters to the right as you insert. It really is more of a holdover from the old DOS/*ix terminal days when inserting characters and deleting to the right was something you 'd actually want to do on a command lineIt is only the most awesome button ever! In World of Warcraft Online, it allows a player on a flying mount to fly upside down or even do back flips in the air! =)Change insertion point behavior during typing.In Word or other text editor/ document processing programs. Insert can switch from adding letters in-between wherever your insertion point to overriding the next letter, whichever the user finds more preferable.
What's the difference between sweet potatoes and yams?
in North America, we call a particular variety of sweet potato, Ipomoea batata, "yams". This variety of sweet potato is very sweet even for a sweet potato and with markedly orange flesh. Most other sweet potato varieties are more white and less sweet and more starchy. It is a staple crop, after all. This also gets confused with the yam of Polynesian and African cultures, which is in the class Diascorea, the various cultivated species all being similar in cultivation, growing underground over a long period of time and making HUGE 80+ lb. tubers which keep pretty well once unearthed. These plants are more related to elephant ear plants, whereas the sweet potato is in the morning glory family. So it's a confusing clusterfuck of repeated names, specific varieties vs. species , and what have you', "Quite a bit. Sweet potatoes are a kind of morning glory while true yams are their own thing. Sweet potatoes are dicots and yams are monocots so they're about as far apart as two flowering plants can be. Of course, sweet potatoes end up being called yams quite a bit because they're visually similar at least as far as having tubers and being vines.There is no consensus, as these words are used to represent different species in different geographic regions. Real yams are rarely found in North America. _URL_0_
Why do we have nerves in our teeth? Wouldn't a tooth ache that hinders our ability to eat end up being a disadvantage for survival?
If you have a tooth ache caused by an infection, how would you know if you didn't feel it? that infection would go untreated and become more dangerous.
Why do people look visibly different when they wake up in the mornings?
It has a lot to do with the horizontal vs vertical body position. The body has a high water content and throughout the day gravity plays it's part moving fluids around the body, and even compressing the spine so that we are very slightly shorter at night than we were in the mornings. Laying in a horizontal position whilst we sleep redistributes fluids with a stronger bias towards our face/head, which may result in a puffy face, particularly if you don't use a pillow or your heads leans off the side of your bed. With these fluids are toxins, and since the face consists of sensitive membranes and thinner skin, inflammation is much more prevalent and noticeable. Allergies, which often kick in at night, may also contribute to puffiness along with the dehydration. Also keep in mind that when someone wakes up you are also seeing there unadulterated natural appearance ie scruffy bed hair and no make-up or creams!
How do civil engineers ensure the on-ramps and overpasses supported by manmade dirt slopes never collapse?
A pile of granular materials has a property known as "angle of repose" which is the angle the side slopes of a pile of that material spills to when left alone. Embankment sideslopes are designed at an angle less than this angle of repose to keep the sideslopes stable. Secondly, the material is compressed, this tends to lock the edges of the grains together and it also tends to remove voids. Remove the voids prevents water from running between grains which could destabilise them. Compacted earth is often also vibrated as it compacted so that the grains move around and fit together better - as an experiment, try gently shaking a coffee jar, and you'll see the level of the coffee drop as the grains fit together betterThey are not generally supported by dirt slopes. They are supported by concrete and steel pillars that go down into the ground all the way to bedrock. The packed dirt is simply there to help the pillars not shift and to be more aesthetically appealing.
Why do TV shows use fake bills with small amounts of money?
On the Breaking Bad Insider Podcast they talk about how showing real money on TV is illegal. The reasons for this are complicated and strange but basically they'd be showing real serial numbers which can be used by counterfeiters.If they have to destroy it in the show that is illegal to do to actual legitimate currency. It is also very risky to use real currency on a show as it has a high tendency to be stolen by cast or crew. Many TV shows have a policy to just use prop money at all times to eliminate this riskThey have a prop department with fake cash already. Why not use the props when you have them as opposed to trying to keep track of real money?
Why should I give money to PBS when they have ads for Ralph Lauren, Goldman Sachs, Viking Cruises and more?
Your local affiliate doesn't get funding from those entities, the production companies do. Your local affiliates need to pay bills and pay fees and are non-profits.If their only funding comes from corporations this will likely be reflected in their programming. They need the widest base of support in order to justify programs which might not be as popular or receive corporate sponsorship.If you want to swallow what Ralph Lauren, Goldman Sachs, and viking cruises gives you on PBS then be my guest and let them fund everything. The programing will reflect it.
Why do we get lightheaded when standing up quickly after sitting/laying down?
It's called orthostatic hypotension. When you are sitting your blood vessels contract or bend depending on how you're positioned, restricting the blood flow. When you stand up too quick, your blood vessels open up all the way and give the blood a lot more space to move which lowers the pressure. All of a sudden, your brain isnt getting the blood it needs so it starts cutting off major functions to conserve energy, starting with eyesight and hearing until you eventually faint . For most people it only takes a few seconds for their bodies to adjust and get their pressure back to normal but people who already have low blood pressure or people who are drunk are at a much higher risk of fainting or worse because their bodies cant restore pressure quickly enough. If it happens to you often, have your blood pressure checked out or stretch out your legs before you stand up. Hope this helped!
[NSFW] ELIama5yearoldwhofoundhisdad'shiddenpornfolder: Why does so much porn end with the man coming on the woman's face?
Explain it like you're five? You know better than to go playing around on daddy's computer, you're only allowed to use *these* games over here. Now, I'm not mad at you, but what you saw is for daddy and mommy to watch. Starting tomorrow, you're not allowed to use the computer until we can get you your own. Now go watch some TV, Mr. Rogers is on.
Why is it that when in warm water we gain the urge to pee?
Warm water relaxes you - when this happens, the parasympathetic nervous system takes over. It basically lets your body know "Hey, you're in a safe place where you won't be attacked, this is a good time to pee"
Why does skin peel after a sunburn?
You skin is made of several layers of cells. When the DNA in a skin cell get whacked by the sun's ray hard enough, the cell self-destructs and dies . When you get badly sunburned a whole bunch of skin cells in the layer might self-destruct.Other cells in charge of clean up for your body, see that there is a dead cell, so they eat it, cutting it's connection to the living cells. Since the cells in the sun burned layer are dead, there aren't any cells to cut it apart, so the whole patch in the whole layer peels off.When your skin cells die, they get removed by detaching from the living cells around them. Bad sunburn kills the whole top layer of skin so it all comes off at the same time.
Why is Brazil still hosting the Olympics?
They are the ones that won the bid. There is not really a system in place for the Olympic committee to withdraw who won once it has been decided, and even if there were there is not time for an alternate to prepare.It's too late to have somebody else host. Hosting takes years off planning and building new infrastructures.
Why did brown sugar get so popular instead of recipes calling for sugar and molasses separately?
It's because brown sugar is actually an intermediate step in the refining of sugar, it's not just literally white sugar + molasses. So brown sugar was an ingredient on its own.
Why when we want to smell something do we take multiple short sniffs instead of one giant one? Dogs seem to do it too.
First off I'm not sure on this answer but I would say its because it does you no good to take a big sniff. You end up just inhaling the air and you don'[t smell with your lungs. By taking a bunch of short sniffs you are getting particles just to your smell receptors and then rapidly bringing in more. With one sniff you probably suck them right by the receptors and into your lungs.
Why some states aren't eligible for participation in sweepstakes, promotions, etc..
Some states have passed specific laws banning these types of promotions. There was a time when there were a lot of scammy, fraudulent "sweepstakes" that harmed a lot of people. The states took action to restrict the ability of companies or individuals to run those kinds of promotions. Since Amazon is so big, it would face meaningful sanctions in those states if it ignored those laws.
Why do Zambonis need to be so big?
To hold more warm water so they can clean/smooth ice more effectually. How whole internal parts works I am not 100% on. But playing hokey for 10 years you tend to notice things. I know it picks up the ice it scrubs off and melts it for more water to use. As well as it needs weight so the tires/treads can actually moveContrary to popular belief, a majority of the body on an ice resurfacer is devoted to collecting shavings, not storing water. The top half of the machine is called the dump tank and all the "snow" is collected here through an auger system just like a snow blower. Beneath the dump tank is an engine as well as a 200ish gallon tank for ice making water. There is an addition 90 gallon tank for cold water located between the operator's seat and the dump tank that is used to wash debris from the ice. The area to the right of the operator is devoted to the hydraulic system. The machine is designed to resurface a standard 200x85 rink. There are larger and smaller models available depending on the needs of the rink. It should be noted that the original Zamboni model was built on a jeep chassis, which basically dictated the size of the machineThere are a lot of components under the hood. The engine to drive the machine, there is a blade that shaves the ice, augers that pick up the shavings and store it in a large bucket, water tanks that spray water. You want an entire rink done in a single pass to be efficient as possible so the tanks need to be large enough to hold enough water to cover the entire rink.
The process of an american traveling to Cuba
First you have to get a visa. There are no tourist visas right now, so you have to apply under the following categories: Family visits; Official business of the U.S. government, foreign governments, and certain intergovernmental organizations; Journalistic activity; Professional research and professional meetings; Educational activities; Religious activities; Public performances, clinics, workshops, athletic and other competitions, and exhibitions; Support for the Cuban people; Humanitarian projects; Activities of private foundations or research or educational institutes; Exportation, importation, or transmission of information or informational materials; and Certain authorized export transactions. Once you have a valid visa, you get on a plane.
the difference between "Innocent" and "Not Guilty" in the legal system
"Innocent" is not typically a term used in the legal system. "Not Guilty" means there isn't compelling evidence to find a person Guilty of a crime. The law only cares if you're found Guilty. If there isn't enough evidence, it doesn't automatically assign you as "Innocent" it just means you are not yet found Guilty Innocent means that it had been proven they did not commit the crime. Not guilty means there might not have been enough evidence present to conclude innocent or guiltyInnocent = solid evidence proves that suspect didn't commit the crime Not guilty = not enough evidence to neither prove nor disprove suspect's guilt - "he might be innocent, he might be guilty, we can't tell for sure"
How can the "deep Web" allegedly be so much larger than the surface Web if only a minority of people use the deep Web or hidden Internet.
It's a bit of a buzzword, and sounds more mysterious than it really is. The deep web is essentially anywhere you can access with an Internet connection but is not publicly visible without an account or some form of access control. Forum that requires registration, even free, to see content? Deep web. Passworded Minecraft server? Deep web. Your online banking solution? Deep web. Your Google drive, Onedrive minus what you set to publicly visible? Deep web. If you cannot see it with a Google search, then it's essentially part of the deep web.
Why are all of the bees dying?
You like honey, don't you? Who doesn't like honey? Honey comes from bees. Certain types of honey bees are better at making the kind of honey that you like , so people keep breeding more of these honey bees and less of other types of honey bees. This is all well and good, because we're getting lots and lots of good honey, but it's a really bad thing when a disease comes along that is particularly dangerous to this type of honey bee . It's bad because since so many of these bees are the same, they all get sick at the same time and they all die. If there were more types of bees, not all of them would get sick at the same time, and the disease wouldn't spread as quickly! [Obligatory non-ELI5 disclosure: selective breeding is only one of many proposed mechanisms for Colony Collapse Disorder. Mites, pesticides, climate change, homogenization of pollen sources through industrial farming, and aggressive Africanized honey bees are all either considered to be confounding or alternative mechanisms for CCD.] Edit: Special thanks to firefoxx336 for sharing [a beekeeper's perspective on CCD and alternate theory] and to dragpent for providing an [ELI5 explanation for the other reasons mentioned in this post].
Why isn't the immune systeme able to handle cancer, although I might now what the cancer is made of and therefore what parts had to be destroyed to kill the cancer?
Immune system will react to anything that doesn't have the marker chemicals that identify it as part of the body. Unfortunately, cancer is when the cells in some organ in your body start multiplying out of control, due to a mutation. Thus the immune system isn't detecting anything because it just sees cells from an organ multiplying, which isn't abnormal .
Differences between summer seasons on the North and South hemispheres
you seem to be confused - the days do not get longer at just one end of the day. both sunrise and sunset get earlier and later at roughly an equal rate. the closer you are to the poles, the more drastically they change, and the closer you are to the equator the less they change. the graphs below help demonstrate this. go to the link, and slide your mouse along the big blue graph with the red line. underneath you will see the sunrise and sunset times growing and shrinking together. . i chose london and melbourne as the cities to use as examples, both relatively far north and south respectively. _URL_1_ _URL_0_', "Quick little answer here: The reason for the seasons is because of the angle of the sunlight hitting the earth. When it is summer, the lift is hitting more directly than in winter. Back to different seasons for different hemispheres: because the earth is tilted, when the sun's light hits the earth directly in one hemisphere it will hit less directly in the other. This is also why the equator's seasons are less extreme.
why you can set .gifs as background in windows 95 but not in Windows 7
The reason behind this is called 'Active Desktop'. It's basically a function in the default internet browser called 'Internet Explorer' also made by Microsoft, just like Windows itself. It was basically a browser window without borders that would be layed over the wallpaper but under other stuff like desktop icons, so it could display search bars, websites and thus gifs, because they are animated when shown in a webpage. Active Desktop is a feature for IE 4.0 to 6.x . When Vista came around, IE 7 was introduced and the feature was removed from that version. That's why you can't have gifs as desktop wallpaper anymore. EDIT: a word EDIT2: why was Active Desktop removed from Windows? You may remember that Vista had a new feature called the sidebar with all those fancy widgets, so they felt no need to continue development on such an old technology and removed it. Those fancy widgets are now the desktop widgets on Windows 7.
- Can someone explain the negative associations I'm seeing about the Red Cross and the recommendations for donations to be directed to other charities besides the Red Cross?
Iirc, there has been multiple scandals coming up, originating from Red Cross. Charging people money for care , and a lot of donor money missing, and not being spent on relief, as they were supposed to be. I believe during hurricane Katrina, only 4 permanent houses were built, and around 25% of the finished money was actually used for hurricane Katrina relief. Also, not 100% sure, but I seen posts on Facebook about the meals the Red Cross are currently offering in Houston, and they were very small. A few pieces of cheese, ham, and two cheap packets of crackers with a little bit more, for supposedly $8. Not sure if they're still corrupt, or if they every truly meant to be, but yours and everyone else's donations can go to a much better charity.
Why do humans seek familiarity like staying in the same house or bed but get bored of performing the same task over and over?
As just stated, Safety is first, so comfort and familiar environment can last a long time until the person feels they can attain that same safety elsewhere. When it comes to tasks however, purpose and passion come in. To be useful or valuable, the brain wants to do something meaningful, creative, successful, etc., which usually means a variety. Some people do find their favorite passion and do the same thing for 20 years, but that’s rare to findMaslow’s hierarchy of needs comes to mind. Safety is the very first , so maybe seeking the familiarity of Home is related to that.You are looking at it from the same angle sure it's the same, but it's not. Having or staying in the same home provides a certain amount of comfort or a safe place to go. But doing the same thing over and over can become monotonous and mind numbing. Humans need to do things that engage the brain. That's why puzzles, games, treat balls for dogs, etc are needed.
When making security questions for password recovery, why don't they let you write your own question? Wouldn't that be significantly safer?
Not really. Imagine your average user - their password is probably "12345" or "password," and they probably have the same password everywhere. Now, imagine if that guy could write his own question. "What is 123?" Or "MY PASSWORD IS PASSWORD?" There is very little the site could do to protect people from simply giving away their password due to sheer stupidity. Not letting the user write the question prevents them from sending themselves a clue. My trick is that I have only a few answers. Whether it asks my mother's maiden name, my first pet or the name of the street I live on, the answer is always "Sasquatch." It could be safer if someone understood the security implications and created an appropriate question. But people who don't understand might come up with a stupid question, like "What is Garfield's favorite food?". These are the people who security experts are most worried about, much better to force everyone to use good questions rather than let them become security holesSome place do, other places are just lazy. Simple as that. There is no reason besides time and storage that prevents them from doing it. Time, you could spent between 30 seconds and 30 hours figuring out how to set up a way to let you make your own and record them on servers. Storage, the servers for the website must record each unique question and distribute it accordingly to the correct person. But that would be a < 50 Kilobyte file at most, and today that is not that much. So it is generally the first.
What's the difference between ethanol that's in hand sanitizer and ethanol that's in different types of drinkable alcohol?
Chemically, ethanol is ethanol. The difference is that ethanol that's "not for human consumption" is *denatured* so that it's unpleasant or poisonous to drink. Since it can't be consumed, it doesn't have the high taxes associated with liquor .Moat hand sanitizer contains isopropyl alcohol, aka rubbing alcohol. It's totally different. Some do have ethanol and its the same as any other ethanol. But they add stuff to it that would not be good to drink.
Why does holding a glass against a wall make you hear better what is being said in the other room?
It does work, often not very well. What's happening without the glass is the sound vibrations are transmitted from the air on the other side, into the solid material of the wall, into the air on the other side, and finally to your eardrum. Put a glass against the wall and stick your ear up next to it, and now the solid part of the glass is continuing the structure of the wall right up to your ear, plus collecting and focusing more vibrations in the wall to deliver them closer to your ear due to its greater surface area of contact. Sound vibrations generally travel better through solids than through gasses - this is the principle between two kids\' "phones" made from tin cans connected by a string - and the glass helps this along a little.
What's the deal with these Obama Phones?
There is a program to give poor folks phones. It is meant to make sure everyone has access to services like 911. It started a long time ago before Obama and applied to regular telephones. Later it started working on cell phones. This also happened before Obama. Now people call them Obama phones because of some political stuff and the fact that it is a catchy name. People with one get a limited number of minutes every month. The phones are actually paid for through a non-profit company and tax dollars are not used to fund them.
how microwave presets like "popcorn" or "plate of food" know how long to cook the food?
I think it's just a set time/power setting that has been determined by hardworking people wearing lab coats and a table with many bags of burnt-up or undercooked popcorn. /dream job.My microwave supposedly has a sensor that measures the steam coming off of whatever is getting heated up and knows when to turn offThey generally have preset times. Popcorn bags, for example, are usually 3.5 or 3.0 oz, which you can usually enter in the settings after you push the popcorn button. The microwave has a certain power rating, so it knows how long it needs to cook a bag of popcorn of a certain weight, and it turns on for that amount of time. Similarly with a plate of foodNewer technology has also added the wrinkle of sensor cooking in microwaves. Whereby an internal sensor in the cooking bay monitors moisture and temperature along with being able to attach a probe. Also as a side note: metal can be placed inside a microwave as long as it has no direct contact with any of the sides top or bottom of the microwave
What relieving the US 7th Fleet commander accomplishes in light of the recent accidents.
After an incident with one ship you can blame the captain . If the captain is not implementing the proper discipline and attention to details it's his fault. After a second incident, you have to think the problem goes higher. If you just punish the junior navy officers, the higher ups will think they are untouchable. By punishing the admiral in charge you put on notice to all the other admirals and captains that shit is going down. You can sure bet that all admiral and captains in the whole navy are reviewing ship procedures as we speak . Unlike in the corporate or political worlds in the US, when a major accident happens in the military everyone in the chain of command is at fault."Shit happens" isn't a valid excuse in the military. Someone has to take the fall and besides, he obviously didn't crack enough heads after the last incident.
Why do we lose our sense of "play" as we age?
Just a guess, but maybe it's a learning vehicle wherein we practice life skills. Once we 've mastered them we no longer need to "play".
What is 3D printing and how does it work?
3d printing is a way to turn a 3d model on your computer into a 3d model made of plastic. You use your computer to either draw an object in 3d or borrow a model someone else has created. Then you use a special program to turn the model into a language your printer can understand. Once you transfer that model to your printer your 3d printer gets to work. It takes these long spools of plastic and melts it into a really neat pattern. You can think of It like a pen leaking ink in a cool pattern. This pen is called the "extruder." Almost as soon as that melted plastic leaves the extruder it cools back down to room temperature and hardens again. The printer melts the plastic out in the exact shape you had on your computer and it cools almost right away.
why is the ol sailor saying "pink sky at night sailors delight, pink sky in the morning sailors warning" so accurate?
Pink or Red sky comes from sunlight going through clouds on the horizion. The saying works where weather mostly moves east to west so clouds on the horizon are likely to be over the viewer if they're to the east because they're likely to be moving west, rather than on the horizon to the west where they've either already passed over the viewer or have formed beyond the viewer.
What is the nature of the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico is an *unincorporated organized territory* of the US. Unincorporated means that rights granted by the US Constitution are not fully extended to citizens of Puerto Rico.
How does slowing down time in a game work?
You can stop time in a game by simply not updating the state of the world. Objects don't move unless your code calculates their next position and updates them so if you don't do that then nothing will move or change. You can run a physics simulation at normal speed by taking the time that's passed since the last frame and updating the position and motion of objects to match. To run the simulation slower you "lie" about how much time has passed. If you step the simulation forward 0.001s at a time when in reality you're updating every 0.01s then it will appear to run ten times slower. The code doesn't care, it's just crunching numbers.
Most mammals with bald areas have them around the crotch and stomach. Why are we the opposite?
According to this _URL_0_ It's because when we split from primates having a bush was sexy. The bigger the better.Humans, standing upright, need protection for vulnerable areas such as the chest, stomach and genitals. In addition, the hair serves to draw attention to those areas and provide for sexual selection. Think peacocks and displays of virility.I don't know about animals but humans have hair where skin touches skin to prevent friction that would cause chafing/irritation.We have little body hair so we can cool ourselves while running. We are the only animal on this planet capable of cooling itself so efficiently while at a "gallop/run/etc". We can run farther, faster, then everything else. We may lose at sprints to some animals but when it comes to distance we are the reigning kings of efficiency in locomotion.I always thought that we have hair in **places where most of our heat escapes** i.e.: chest and head or **places we have holes and we don't want dirt getting in** i.e: eyes lips ears genitalia ..etc
Why does being hit in the face hurt more that being hit in the rest of your body?
One reason for it is the increased amount of nerve endings in your face. You know how you can feel it if there's a hair touching your lip, or any subtle touch for that matter? Now compare that to a body area like your back. Nerves there are less dense and more spread out, so you might not feel a touch if it is light enough. If you google the word "homunculus" you will get a picture with body parts that are sized proportionate to how well they can feel things. So you'll notice that things like lips, hands, tongue, and genitalia are all very large. These are the parts of our body that are best at discerning the tactile stimuli in our environment. That's a long winded way of saying that our faces have a lot of dexterity and high perceptive properties, so it hurts if somebody punches you there.This has to be a perspective thing, I've had liver, kidney and groin punches that hurt way more than any punch. I get that the brain wants to protect itself, so if that's the case am I'm in the minority, maybe that could be why, but personally I don't agree.
how did Chromecast become so huge and popular? It is pretty much the go to standard I see in most apps no matter if it is android or iOS.
It costs 35 dollars and have basically zero setup or learning curve/u/Hodldown is correct; also, everyone knows who Google is. However, I know way more people who own an Apple TV than Chromecast.
What part of the brain interprets humor?
According to a quick google, '2 cm x 2 cm was identified on the left superior frontal gyrus' . so a bit of the front left lobe of your brain :)
What is the Swiss Bank and why is it so important?
The Swiss used to have a law that made it illegal for a Swiss Bank to disclose the name or any identifying information about the owner of an account. That meant that if you put money into an anonymous Swiss Bank account, no country's police could subpoena that bank to force them to disclose who's money that was. In other words, if you were a drug dealer or a tax evader you could hide your money and that would make it very hard to convict you of controlling that money. Recently those laws have been relaxed. The absolute prohibition on such disclosures is no longer in effect.
Is it technically possible for countries to 'build' a nuclear bomb, even if not given the technology by another nuclear country?
All the theory is well known, you can search it online right now. Nations are usually limited by the availability of weapons grade fissile material for the bomb itself and the elaborate detonators required, which are much harder to obtain or construct. To make the bomb useful they also need a delivery system, which requires advanced ballistic missile technology that again is hard to build. So the basic science is public knowledge, but managing to build your own nuclear detonation device with your own weapons grade uranium mounted on your own ICBM is a more difficult and costlyThe first country built it without being given the technology by another nuclear country; ergo, yes.
Can you file a sexual harassment complaint against the “kiss cam” at sports stadiums?
No. There’s no “harassment”. They may be putting you on the spot but they can’t force you to kiss and they’ll move on if you don’t.Nothing is forced, many people kiss on the cheek on those cams, which even in today's world wouldn't get much traction as a sexual harassment case.
the new qualifications for student loan forgiveness after 20 years.
You have to pay a percent of your paycheck to your loans for a certain number of years to be eligible for forgiveness. The time starts when you sign up for the program not when you started paying your loans personally. For all we know you could be paying off your interest only.
Why do we celebrate the birth of Jesus on a set date every year but we celebrate his death on different days depending on full moons and the spring equinox?
We don't know what date Jesus was born on. By the time people started using Dec 25th as the date, they were using a modern-ish calendar. Jesus is recorded in the Bible as having died on the Friday near the Jewish Passover feast. The Jews at the time had their own calendar, which was based on the lunar cycle. So Passover is still calculated based on that, and Good Friday/Easter are calculated in a related way.
Why do console games not use 16x Anisotropic Filtering?
> When I turn it up to 16x vs 4x on my PC, there is literally no performance difference. Consoles are built on the budget hardware of the time and are expected to age for 6-8 years. "Good enough" rules console development decisions. Console players are expected to sit farther back from the screen too so narrower fields of view are common, and better texture filtering just isn't a priority.Just wanted to add, you likely have an fps limit in the game you are playing, which of course wouldn't cause frames to drop if your PC can handle above that fps cap.
How is the "1 in 35 million chance of a shark bite" statistic calculated?
It is based on beach attendance. [The university of Florida has some statistics that get you to a 1 in 11.5 million chance of being attacked by a shark]. Estimated attendance at US beaches is ~264 million. The number of shark attacks is 23. 264 million divided by 23 give you 11.5 million. That is, for every 11.5 million beach visitors, one was attacked by a shark in the year 2000.I'm no mathemagician, but I think it has something to do with the total world's population, the number of shark attacks per year, and the total number of individuals attacked by sharks.
How is it that at night I can sleep continuously for eight hours, but if I take a daytime nap I wake after 20 minutes?
Humans have evolved to be diurnal creatures. Our sleep cycles, for the most part, are tied to the sun cycle. When the sun is up, we're up and at 'em -- hunting, foraging, farming, what-have-you. When the sun goes down, we're huddled around our fires and in our caves for warm and safety. It's a legacy of our ancestry when the darkness could men death. You can nap during the day, but many people find that their sleep during the day is somewhat less-than-restful, and that they aren't able to sleep for long periods during the day.
why, 25 years later, is there a new inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster?
Documents that were not released at the time of the original inquiry were made public, which have evidence to malpractice and cause the formation of another inquiry.
Why does coke taste better in glass than in plastic ?
It's likely that the coke in glass is "mexican coke" or similarly foreign. Different cokes in different countries have different recipes, so its entirely possible that the coke you had in the glass bottle had real sugar cane while the coke in the plastic had fructose corn syrup', "Temperature is one of the factors that affect taste perception, so if it made any difference, other than being completely subjective , I'd say glass because it is a poor conductor of heat, and aluminum is highly conductive, so basically the temperature of the drink would change at a different rate, even with plastic lining inside aluminum cans, if held at the same conditions. And nothing sure is better than a cold refreshing beverage on a Summer day.I would think that the largest influence on any beverage in a glass vs from a mostly closed container is the ability to smell the beverage while you are drinking it. I know that bars use a wide variety of glasses to help affect taste, control the release of carbonated products, retain or absorb temperature, and of course, show off the look of the drink. It makes sense to me that these factors would be important for soft drinks as wellSimple, Coke in Glass is normally made in Mexico. Check the labels, they are most likely in spanish. Mexican Coke-a-cola is made with real sugar-cane, not high fructose corn syrup thus the different tasteThe coke you buy from a glass bottle is probably the international version of the product which contains real sugar in stead of high fructose corn syrup.