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<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can gambling be illegal in US States that run a lottery? Isn't the lotto just state-run gambling?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Perhaps unsurprisingly, when you are the body that makes the rules, you can make exceptions for yourself in those rules. Lotteries were made illegal for a time and...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Even if minimum wage laws resulted in a reduction in jobs, I would still want minimum wage laws. I will say upfront that the research suggests that, in general, jobs are NOT affected by minimum wage increases. https://www.businessforafairminimumwage.org/news/00135/research-shows-minimum-wage-incr...
<|im_start|>user How do recycling centers deal with people who recycle thins incorrectly? Is there some sort of way that recycling centers can separate straws out of the recycling and other things that don't belong? Or do they just have to throw that whole batch away?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on the t...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Engineers and MDs are not scientists (except those conducting empirical research). I have seen several examples, in the past few years, of engineers and MDs (medical doctors) claiming to be scientists. Many of these situations have been with friends or acquaintances. I also sense very strongly tha...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do aircraft cockpit windows only face upwards? I get that the pilots need to see the sky above them, but don't they need to also see below? In photos, it seems pilots can barely see the runway when landing, and when flying cannot visually scan the horizon below the aircraft.<|im_end|> <|im_st...
<|im_start|>user In which European countries are faculty well paid? I'm a tenured prof in a STEM field at a major university in the US. I make around $130K per year plus summer salary. After taxes and benefits, that works out to about $8K per month on avg plus around $1.5K per month contributions to my retirement accou...
<|im_start|>user How did Einstein figure out relativity in the first place? What problem was he trying to solve? How did he get there? One thing I never understood is how Einstein got from A to B. Science is all about experiment and then creating the framework to understand the math behind it, sure, but it's not like ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do touch-me-not plant seeds "explode"? Seed pods*<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The cells of the plant on on side of the seed pod fill themselves up with water, using osmosis to transport the water within the cells. This causes pressures of up to 1 Megapascal pressing against the seed. (Atm...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If a person that works under cover is killed, what is told to the family of that person (especially if that person lived a double life and the family had no idea)?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Like for police work? Just like any other family of another cop, they have to be ready for a possible...
<|im_start|>user Can Hegel be understood without having read Kant? So, brief rundown: I'm studying Marxism a bit and I want to read *The Phenomenology of Spirit* as an accompanying piece of literature. This said, Hegel is the Dark Souls of philosophy. I've heard that understanding Hegel helps if you understand Kant, bu...
<|im_start|>user What happens when light passes through a strong electric field? Since photons have no charge, the light beam shouldn't bend, but will there be constructive/destructive interference between the external electric field and the light beam's electric field? For example, if the E-field of the light wave is...
<|im_start|>user How can freezing water break matter? I'm not sure how to put it exactly so here is a simple, "ideal" scenario: If I put a bottle of water in a room and start removing heat from the room, the water will first lose its sensible heat until it gets to 0 C. Then, the water will give up its latent heat and...
<|im_start|>user Professors of AskAcademia who supervise grad students - do any of you lack expertise in your student's chosen research area? I'm currently trying to decide between two CS programs for my grad studies. I was admitted to my top choice (Masters with Thesis) and will be working on machine learning in the c...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:What does it mean when hawks and eagles have better eyesight than us? Does it mean they can literally zoom in on creatures on the ground, or do they just see things in a higher resolution?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They can see more detail- they have the equivalent of 20/2 vision, they can s...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 : If we never manage to create a true absolute zero, how do we know that it sit exactly at -273.15 °c instead of ,uh, -273.69 or something else?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Background: As temperature drops, the pressure that a fixed volume of gas exerts on its surroundings drops. As temperatur...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] Has technology peaked? It seems barely to have advanced in over 4000 years. The droids are just as intelligent, the ships travel at the same speed, lightsabers, blasters, and bowcasters have never gone out of style... Seemingly the only change is that the government in power occasionally d...
<|im_start|>user [Smallville] Why does Red Kryptonite make Clark evil? Red kryptonite causes kryptonians and/or humans that are affected by it to become reckless, evil, and dangerous, under the premise that it removes inhibitions. But Clark was raised by the Kents, who are basically superheroes in parenting, and taught...
<|im_start|>user Do all planets receive the same wavelengths of light from their star? We observe our world through the light visible to our eyes, however there are know organisms who see different wavelengths, bees for example can see ultraviolet light. Could there be planets where potential lifeforms might have to ev...
<|im_start|>user Why is philosophy so concerned with individual philosophers when science isn't concerned with individual scientists? Philosophers seem very preoccupied with studying the views of specific past philosophers, and this is thought of as philosophy and not history of philosophy, but there seems to be no cor...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is all soap foam white, regardless of the color of the soap?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Color can be made a few different ways. When sunlight goes through colored glass, some of the light doesn’t get through and the color we see is the stuff that did get through. A colored bar of soap ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How does Thermal Imaging work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Heat sources emit electromagnetic radiation with a frequency respecting to their temperature. The visible spectrum of EM radiation ranges from red to violet. The sun's surface is about 5000 Kelvin hot and our eyes happen to see this li...
<|im_start|>user What language do deaf people think to themselves in? Just as the title asks.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As /u/42sthansr said, they think in schemas - but this is only true up until they develop sufficient language skills, then they think in sign language: "...the inner code hypothesis was tested ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can English speakers efficiently communicate with most other English speakers (regardless of dialect) but a lot of Mandarin speakers can't communicate likewise between the various dialects of Mandarin nearly as efficiently?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Because there is no clear distinction...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How can prison inmates gain so much muscle when their diet contains low amount of protein and lot of unhealthy food?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant While there's no requirement that prison food tastes good or that it's especially healthy, most jurisdictions do require prisons to serve a required ...
<|im_start|>user Are there any philosophers that studied the mind in that state where two or more conflicting intentions are being held and what makes one `win` over the other, so to say Take smoking for example. A person knows that smoking is bad for their health and for their sense of taste and smell. Knows that it a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What do the numbers and letters mean/represent on a camera lens? For example: 24-105mm f/4L IS<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The numbers before mm = focal length, the fact that there are two indicates that this is a zoom lens. A small number = wide field of view, a big number = small field of v...
<|im_start|>user What is a "grant"? Sorry for asking such a question, but my first language is not English and people here talk a lot about grants. What is a grant?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A grant is a monetary award, usually from sort of governmental agency, that you usually have to apply for. Sizes vary. Smal...
<|im_start|>user What is the difference between magnetic and electric fields? What exactly is the difference between magnetic and electric fields? I’ve got the impression it’s basically the same thing accept electric fields are produced only by electricity and magnetic fields are produced by magnets (and electricity?)....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Where does the skin on the body stop being skin and become something else? Openings in particular. In the case of the face does it end at: lips? tongue? throat? In the case of the rectum I assume the anal sphincter is the last skin hurrah before its all about intestines. Correct me if I'm wrong. ...
<|im_start|>user How do we know the basics of mathematics are true? How do we know that 2+2=4? The times tables, square roots, formulas of area, velocity, volume, and the other basics of mathematics are true? How do we know that they are not wrong, and what would happen if some of this was wrong?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>...
<|im_start|>user Why don't researchers introduce cancer to colonies of bacteria repeatedly until they evolve a way to defeat it? Then copy their solution?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant (dumping it down a bit, this is just the major concepts, there are many exceptions) Cancer is beneficial to the cell it affects, so ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why did two sexes become the norm for species instead of three or more?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The whole reason for sex (and therefore sexes) is to offer greater diversity of genes which help make a species healthier. But if you added 3 or more sexes, then the process of sex becomes com...
<|im_start|>user How many senses do we have, I have heard there is more than the five children get taught I know there is more because if I spin in a chair and try to stand up one of my senses is screwed up but it ain't one of the main five. EDIT: Dammit bad grammar in the title, pls don't be too cruel<|im_end|> <|im_...
<|im_start|>user Modern Islamic Philosophy Are there any current schools of thought in Islamic philosophy? EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/59ogrs/modern_islamic_philosophy/?st=iusq3gt5&amp;sh=28eb9aa9<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant What do you mean by Islamic Philosophy? It's a kind of ambiguous term. ...
<|im_start|>user What are the ways to make a program faster and "lighter" During my high school years I have been taught how to write good looking code, sorting it and using indentations, using comments when necessary... But how do you optimize your code? ELI5?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Use efficient algorithms. ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: As modern medicine and technology develop, natural selection applies less and less to humans As medicine becomes more and more successful at keeping us alive, it allows detrimental genetic mutations to continue to exist in the human genome as well. If someone with a certain genetic mutation were t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why do people get sleepy from 2-5PM but wide awake from 2-5AM sometimes? Why isn’t it the opposite always?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When you eat, your body has to do work to digest the food. This is why you sometimes feel tired after lunch. Most people don't eat in the middle of the night...
<|im_start|>user Would blowing a meteor up as it enters atmosphere lessen the damage to Earth? Or just turn it from a cannonball into grapeshot?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In principle, it will help. Of course it's all going to depend on the details - how fast it is, how big it is, how dense it is, how big the chu...
<|im_start|>user [General Powers] Are there any downsides to the Superpower of precognition? Precognition, but only to a minor degree like a few mins. I was discussing this with a peer that every power has a bad side. My argument is that your brain could not comprehend the infinite possibilities that you would experien...
<|im_start|>user Does government assistance (welfare) really provide more dependent society or is it just GOP party's scary tactic? Lately, lots of Republicans have self-entitlement and they don't realize how much the government helped them (financial aid, water, road, FDA, etc.) and they don't like to help the poor, b...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did wearing caps and gowns at graduations become a thing?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Originally, the cap and gown was a practical uniform for medieval university students, much like monk's robes and nun's habits. The design was meant to be practical and warm while distinguishing scholar...
<|im_start|>user How is online gaming possible if there must be some delay? Online communication always has a delay, especially when people communicating are on opposite sides of the US. If that's the case, then how are fast FPS video games, like Call of Duty, possible to play online?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Mo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are LEDs brighter and more powerful, yet use so little energy? Ex: Police Lightbars, they're so bright but use so little of the cars battery. Much less than the classic rotating lights.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You know a lot of light is invisible, right? Infrared, for example. You can...
<|im_start|>user To Professors, how do you prepare your lectures? How do you design them to teach? Hello professors of Reddit! I am a college student, and right now I am trying to learn my course material better by trying a new study technique. I've heard that if you can teach the material for a topic, then you probabl...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why do we get car sick as a passenger and don't as a driver?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When you are driving, your body basically identifies the car as a tool you are manipulating. Your actions have direct effects on your motions and what you are seeing, so even though the kind of motion isn'...
<|im_start|>user Why is it that a single good deed isn’t enough to pardon a life of evilness but a single act of evil is enough to condemn a life of good deeds? This was a quote in a movie. But this seems to be true in real life as well. By extension, if we quantify good vs evil, does this imply effect of 1 unit of go...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do cells and bacteria see each other How do bacteria and cells see each other? I've seen some videos like this [white bloodcell chasing bacteria](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KrCmBNiJRI), but also [a nanobot picking up and moving a sperm cell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36synYX18w)....
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek]why are the Romulans considered a separate species to Vulcans when they only split off from them 2000 years ago? There's tribes that have been isolated for much longer than that, we still call the people in them human beings<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Human tribes have been separated fo...
<|im_start|>user Advice for a young professor dealing with academic burnout and needing to revive a flagging career? I started this job four years ago and they have been really hard ones for me. Between the demands of my academic job, a difficult department/institution, and some really tough family stuff, I am just wru...
<|im_start|>user Is it possible to have an orbit that doesn't bisect the planet? An orbit around just the middle of the northern hemisphere. Most satellites I see appear to go right around the "middle" of the planet. I figure that is just because it is easiest, but is it the only realistically possible way to have an ...
<|im_start|>user With the talk of possible habitable planets, Could the human body withstand a world with twice the amount of gravity? I made a post [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1hxfkd/eli5_with_the_talk_of_possible_habitable_planets/) and someone suggested to ask here. Lets say somehow, s...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Psychology should be taught to children as part of an education. This would help to adress abuse or neglect, increase mental health (individual and collective) and enable more healthy relationships (social and romantic) Newest remark : My title was incorrect, as psychology isn't completely suited ...
<|im_start|>user PhDs who successfully landed a job in academia: how's your workload compared to that of a PhD student? Are your responsibilities as time consuming? Is your mind constantly set to work, due dates and what needs to be done next? How's the pressure to meet the job requirements vs the usual PhD pressure?<|...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did grapes become the most popular fruit to ferment into wine? Why didn't we end up with like a blueberry or apple or banana fermented beverage as a cultural standard? Sitting here sipping a spanish red and pondering how it came to be that grapes were the standard of fermented fruit alcohols ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do cats always seem to want to lie on whatever I'm working on, or to crawl into tight spaces?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They want to be where your attention is focused. On top of whatever you're looking at is a good bet. The heat from a laptop is an added benefit. The theory on boxes i...
<|im_start|>user The Earth's surface area has roughly a 2:1 ocean to land ratio. What is the ratio of ocean biomass to land biomass? (or even ocean biomass:land biomass: atmospheric biomass) What's the ratio of all known biomass to the mass of the Earth? (I suspect we are negligible)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: what's the point of Secret Service code names if they're released to the public? It's common knowledge that Renegade is the president's code name. So, if you were to see a man talking about "Renegade" into an earpiece, you'd probably be able to figure out who they're talking about. Given that the...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Personal matters (weight, sex, drugs, "gaffes") are not appropriate criticisms of politicians. By personal I mean just about anything that isn't directly related to the actual task that you are being elected to perform. This would include: -any drugs you do or used to do -who you have sex with, ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we know the idea that particles don't exist in one definitive spot until we measure them, isn't just our lack of knowledge due to not measuring them yet?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I recommend looking up the double slit experiment. It's usually most newcomer's first exposure to just h...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can information be transmitted so accurately with little to no errors even at several MB/s? If I'm not wrong, information is transmitted in 0s and 1s which is binary. 0s replaced by 1s or vice versa is all it takes to corrupt a file. How is this not prevalent even at high speeds? Even slig...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do nonprofit colleges &amp; universities with absolutely huge endowments still charge so much in tuition?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Universities exist not only to educate but in order to conduct research. Students are willing to pay market rates for the degree and a healthy endowment f...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I believe that the Al Qaeda attacks on 9/11 aren't really all that bad when compared to America's response. Any death is a tragedy, but its how you respond to that event that matters. Preventing future deaths and future tragedies is part of that response. I believe that the best solution to the ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does a Hotel determine how large or how many rooms to build when constructing a new building? I live in the suburbs near a major american city and my job requires me to travel often thru the entire regional area. I have notice a lot of new hotel construction in the suburbs, particularly amon...
<|im_start|>user [General / LOTR] If elves are immortal, why don't they have an overpopulation problem? Why doesn't each elf have a thousand offspring? Do they have really low fertility rates? Can they only have offspring for a very short part of their otherwise unlimited lifespans? Do they have little to no sex drive ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: People today are able to produce paintings that are indistinguishable from photographs. Why couldn’t artists in past eras achieve this level of realism?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Quality of materials, (paints, brushes, canvas) time, painting detailed pictures requires a lot of time and you ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we easily confuse (left/right) and (east/west) but we easily distinguish (up/down) and (north/south) ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There is a psychological disorder called "left right discrimination", which is a very complex neuro-psychological process involving a the use of sensory an...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is binary with transistors used in computers? Why not other states like 3 or 4? I saw this in a video and they said that it was because if there are more states, there'd be "interference" from other devices? What does it mean? Transistors make use of semiconductors and flow of electrons, why...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Why do people seem to age so incredibly fast after a traumatic experience? For example a woman I know seemed to have aged at least ten years in a very short time after her grandchild died in an accident.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Cortisol, known as the "stress hormone", causes all sorts of i...
<|im_start|>user "You" are not the atoms in your body but the pattern of atoms. Your consciousness is an emergent feature of that pattern. So, if a person was cloned, arrangement of atoms exact to its predecessor, is it the same person? I guess this question boils down to what makes a body a 'person' as most would cons...
<|im_start|>user How do I deal with people who refuse to acknowledge their existing notions of morality? Hello, I'm an undergrad who recently (past several years) has been interested in moral philosophy. What I'm coming here to ask is, how should I discuss moral philosophy with people who don't want to admit that their...
<|im_start|>user Why is most life on earth divided in 2 sexes? Why not 3? or just 1? Is there a specific purpose for the 2? Would it be possible other life in the universe is divided more then 2 sexes? thnx<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I recall reading that for complex organisms in a competitive environment, two se...
<|im_start|>user How are radio waves 1s and 0s? Looking at wifi, how is binary transmitted via radio waves? Is there a difference in amplitude? Phase changes? [This](https://www.quora.com/How-can-digital-information-be-represented-by-waves) page has some good info, just curious how wifi works specifically; visuals wo...
<|im_start|>user [DC/Marvel] Why can't the meta/X-gene be injected into non-metas? And why can't the gene be disabled via injection like an illness? Surely if the government were against mutants and metahumans they'd be vaccinations onto newborns. EDIT: *Metas or mutants.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Most vaccinat...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Black-owned businesses should not be “amplified” on social media Recently, several platforms such as Instagram and Amazon have introduced a system to boost black-owned businesses. This includes pushing their products to more potential customers and offering more advertising for their brand. I bel...
<|im_start|>user What caused the spanish flu outbreak in 1918 to be one of the deadliest outbreaks ever? What made this version of the flu so deadly vs other flus?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There were multiple factors at work. Here are two that come to mind. 1) WWI - many thousands of soldiers living in close pro...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is an identity graph and why are companies building them?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant An identity graph is a collection of identifiers and their relationships to real users. These identifiers could include your email address, third party cookies and other stable pieces of data. Companie...
<|im_start|>user What effect did the evolution and emergence of birds have on Earth's ecosystems? I was thinking recently about animals which are accidentally or deliberately introduced to new habitats (like starlings being brought to North America, or rabbits to Australia) and it made me wonder - did the emergence of ...
<|im_start|>user When an organ, say, a kidney, is donated, what happens to the empty space where it once was? When an organ is donated, there has to be a space left behind, so do the doctors fill that space with some sort of material that the body doesn't perceive as foreign? Or does the body itself fill the gap?<|im_...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do developed countries deal with government corruption very well? How do these governments' differ with third-world countries who struggle with it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The developed countries used to suffer from huge corruption, and many of the changes in their political evolution...
<|im_start|>user CMV: it’s immoral to dig up ancient graves for archaeological research I think that it’s disrespectful for tombs to be opened just to find artifacts. At the end of the day that was still a person who wanted to be buried in a way they could feel at peace. Everyone sees ancient Egyptian art and offeri...
<|im_start|>user Why do our voices "crack"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The pitch of your voice is determined by a number of things: the length (and thus thickness) of your vocal chords, the size of your larynx and (for a lesser part) the position of the larynx and the shape of your pharynx. When going through pu...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does gravity make time slow down? Edit: So I asked this question last night on a whim, because I was curious, and I woke up to an astounding number of notifications, and an extra 5000 karma @___________@ I've tried to go through and read as many responses as I can, because holy shit this is ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 - How are people more prone to getting sick when it’s cold? So I just found out about three years ago that the whole “wear a jacket or you’ll catch a cold” thing is a myth because you don’t get sick from JUST being cold. So why is it that colds and the flu are more common during cold weather? Espe...
<|im_start|>user When deciduous trees prepare for winter, is the trigger from the local weather or from the sun light’s intensity? If it stayed 90°F into November/December at latitudes 40-45°N, would the trees remain green or would they still lose their leaves due to decreased daylight hours/light intensity from being ...
<|im_start|>user [Marvel/DC] What does Wikipedia look like? Does it have information on cosmic beings? What sort of obscure facts about superheroes and aliens could I find on there?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Major public heroes, it likely has a lot of surface level information on- you could probably find out supe...
<|im_start|>user Do I need to read Wittgenstein's earlier work to understand his later work? I understand that, in the _Investigations_, Wittgenstein rejects many of the conclusions he comes to in the _Tractatus_. But, I'm not gonna lie, it's his later philosophy in particular that interests me. Do I need to read the _...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do prices go down in the holiday season if there is more demand? Economics 101 would predict that the higher demand in the holiday season would mean higher prices, but the holidays always have lots of sales and prices fall. Why? Is it just because the volume is so much greater that there is a...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 The sun converts about 4 million metric tons of its mass into energy every second. Does this mean that it's mass reduces significantly over the span of, say, ten years? 4 million tons a second is a lot of mass to be lost given enough time. Considering the fact that the sun is over four billion ye...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What’s a “war crime”? I hear people throw this word around so much it’s confusing.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Many, many countries signed international agreements that define what is legal and what is not legal during a time of war. For instance, executing a prisoner of war who was not resis...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Better to destroy humanity instead of another human ending up in hell Change my view: It is better that all of humanity be destroyed entirely, rather than another human being end up in eternal torment. Base assumption: Pre-existence is not real, and the choice to procreate is what introduces a ...
<|im_start|>user If you're immune to a virus, does it still "enter your system" before your immune system fights it off, or it is blocked from entry/replication entirely? EDIT: Thanks to u/iayork, I know now I was imprecisely and verbosely dancing around the concept of sterilizing immunity (in contrast to -- from what ...
<|im_start|>user Why does Western Psychology Seem to ignore this completely? Sorry in advance if I am speaking from a place of ignorance and simply have not seen the research or articles which would refute my question entirely. With that, lets get on with it. The TLDR is this : why is it that Western Psychology and Sc...
<|im_start|>user During its creation, how exactly did the Earth cool down? As far as I've known the heat energy from the creation of Earth has to go somewhere for Earth itself to cooldown. Where did all that heat go?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Radiation going into space. Every object will emit electromagnetic rad...
<|im_start|>user [General SciFi] Our galactic empire is finally on the verge of creating planetary-scale objects. Is the demolition of planets to gain ressources unethical and should therefore be cancelled? Centuries of slow, but steady colonization of a few dozen solar systems under my rule have passed. The Empires'...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is "20/20 vision" and why do they call it that? What is it that makes a prescription 20/25? Why do we use the term 20/20 to describe perfect vision? Edit: Thank you so much to everyone who answered this! Especially to Teotwawki69, excellent answer.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The top n...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 why gold is referred to when we are speaking of wealth, even though platinum is rarer, less reactive and more expensive?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Gold, as a metal independent of other metals, has been known since the dawn of history, named and readily identifiable. It has a melting point wh...
<|im_start|>user I believe that some redistribution of wealth is a necessary component of a healthy, reasonable society. CMV I don't believe that spontaneous voluntary charity sufficiently provides the sufficient resources or proper allocation of those resources to aid those in need in a way that we as a society feel w...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What physical evidence do we have that atoms exist and they look like what we think? Title<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Images have been produced which show atoms arranged in the patterns we accept as molecules. There is considerable evidence that the large molecules called proteins exist and...
<|im_start|>user Why does the human body check the CO2 amount instead of O2 to determine if you got enough oxygen?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant CO2 forms a buffer system in your blood , it actually exists as several different components depending on how much of it there is (CO2 +H20 =&gt; H2CO3 &lt;-&gt; HCO3^- &lt;...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 why some areas rarely have thunders, while others have several in the year. I grew up on the Balkans where there were often thunders. 2 times out of 3 if it rains - it thunders. Now I live in Berlin, and I've only witnessed three thunderous rains in 4 years. Tonight is the third time. I don't get ...