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<|im_start|>user How is mental illness treated in the third world? Now when I say treated, I mean just that--treated. How is it taken care of? If we're to assume less resources are available to societies not of the developed world, how do they go about treating things like autism? Do these people just "cope," for lack ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why are asian language scripts much more complex than european scripts?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant different culture, different way of doing things. All cultures have their quirks. English for example is an odd language in that it's grammar rules are complex and have a lot of exceptions. Eas...
<|im_start|>user In a work environment, is it always ok to use libraries? I'm just beginning my first software job. In academia, there was CONSTANTLY a focus on not stealing code. If you need to look for help online, look for inspiration or ideas on how to approach a problem, but don't copy their code completely. I alw...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If a disease needs a host to live, then potentially kills the host will it eventually become extinct once everyone is either immune or dead? What is the benefit of killing the host?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Most diseases keep the host alive long enough to multiply and spread. You’ll often...
<|im_start|>user [MCU] How does everyone understand each other. So how do asgardians, genetically modified rodents, human-alien abductees with 4th grade educations, tree people, frost giants, kree, thanks, humans and whoever else all manage to speak english perfectly? Not only that, but there have been cases of languag...
<|im_start|>user If I don't have any morning meetings and I stay at work later than others, I shouldn't be judged in the corporate world for preferring to stay up late and wake up late. CMV. I know some companies have "flex time", but they are decidedly and probably permanently in the minority. Most of the business wo...
<|im_start|>user CMV: if they can't afford to pay them that, they don't deserve to be in business anyways" isn't a good argument. This is an argument that I see a lot around the minimum wage topic but to me it seems like more of an emotional argument that doesn't consider real economic implications. I personally am th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is diplomatic immunity a thing and how did it come about?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Diplomats are people who travel to other countries and act as representatives of those countries interests. This was very important before the days of telephone or the internet where communication over g...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are Jews treated more like a race than other religions? Thanks Everyone!!! I really learned a lot today and have a new deeper appreciation for Jewish heritage. edit: we got locked, probably for the best as there was not much more that could be added. Thanks to the mods for moderating.<|im_en...
<|im_start|>user Can someone explain how brain waves work? Do all living things with brains have the same types of waves as humans? Also, is there any truth to gamma waves having a large role in consciousness? Edit: WOW. I went to bed, and woke up with all of these great answers. Thanks, r/askscience!<|im_end|> <|im_s...
<|im_start|>user What happens to the material that's eaten away by acid?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on what the material is and what the acid is. Most metals that get "eaten away" by acid turn into a salt form. For example, zinc reacts with hydrochloric acid to form a solution of zinc chloride. Organ...
<|im_start|>user Can someone please explain the theory of multiple dimensions? Recently in my Astronomy class my professor talked about having more than 3 dimensions. I personally find this inconceivable, so could someone be kind enough to explain having more than three dimensions. My professor talked about there being...
<|im_start|>user If there was a colony on Mars, wouldn't there be relativistic effects when the two planets communicated each other? I was looking up the different speeds of orbits and was going to plug them into the time dilation equation, then I remembered I wasn't that smart and that we already have to account sligh...
<|im_start|>user [Pokemon] Are Gym leaders not allowed to level their pokemon above a certain number? If Gyms are supposed to increase in difficulty, would that mean that Brock and Misty's gyms are not allowed to be super powerful?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Gym leaders have several teams. The team they use to fig...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] How can a Jedi padawan have a different lightsaber dueling style than his master? Since the master trains him and all.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Generally, the master's role is more akin to that of a moral adviser, nanny, or thought-police, training the padawan in how to be a better s...
<|im_start|>user Does logic exist independent of minds?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In one sense, a 'logic' is a language. It's a set of rules for manipulating formulas. If you have a certain formula on one line, then you can write another formula on a new line, etc. In the standard logic you learn in college, for ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why, when translating many languages to English do sentences seem to be almost backwards?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One way of thinking about the way languages are constructed is by saying that all statements in every language have a subject (the person or thing doing an action), the object...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do all pictures of Jesus depict him as a white man, even though he was from Israel? I've always wondered this. I know it might sound like something George Carlin would say to support his claim that religion is bullshit, but I legit want to know. If you're in some way offended by this question...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are we able to know what the core of the Earth is made of if when we haven't even drilled past the crust?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We get information on the interior from a few different places. One basic source is from volcanic material--eruptions can bring material from the mantle u...
<|im_start|>user When starting to read philosophical works, it is better to read the work, think about it, and turn to secondary sources, or it is better to start with secondary sources first? As in the topic, I think. I'm quite new to philosophy and I want to read Descartes works. While I know the basic things about h...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Israel is under no obligation, morally or legally, to withdraw from it's 'occupied' states Hello! First off, I should specify that I'm a white atheist who lives in the hills of Kentucky. I don't have a personal stake in the matter, other than a slight prejudice of affection towards the Jews, for i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does flash memory work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The actual science is pretty complex, but the concept is easy to understand. Data is stored on a PC as a series of 1's and 0's. Lots of 1's and 0's, literally billions on a common flash drive. 1 gigabyte is about 8 billion bits (a bit...
<|im_start|>user Professors, what qualities do you like and dislike in a student who's doing a research project under you? I always happen to annoy certain professors even if I don't mean to. And they seem to like me for my dedication at the same time (maybe). This time I am going to do a research project under a Sen...
<|im_start|>user Are states obligated to protect only their own citizens? Hello, I have a debate tournament coming up(about democracy promotion in the Middle East if that's relevant) and I've been looking for literature on this topic. After a quick search on the SEP, IEP, google scholar, and this sub, I didn't come up...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 What is log and natural log?? I just don’t get it. From high school til now post college graduate, I still don’t know what logarithms are.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Suppose we have two numbers, X=2 and Y=8. Log simply asks: how many Xs we need to multiply together to get Y? Or in this case...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How were the domes of historical structures, such as the Taj Mahal, constructed using heavy materials such as stone/bricks and without modern techniques of reinforcement using steel bars ? How were stable structures made using stone/bricks for the construction of the domes of historical structure...
<|im_start|>user Can a Statistician using only R get a DS job not having a strong CS background? Hello, I’m majoring in applied statistics in a Ph.D. program and mainly using R and SAS. I want to get a DS job after graduation, but when I saw the job qualifications, it felt the world wants a CS programmer with a bit of ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Stereotyping is often logical and a perfectly normal application of human reasoning Stereotypes are perpetuated because there is some truth to them. Bad or absolutely false stereotypes are rarely common, because failure is like natural selection. People use stereotypes as a short cut to knowledge,...
<|im_start|>user what is Transcendentalism? I'm especially curious as to how it's different from individualism.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Transcendentalism is a moral and spiritual philosophy, most strongly associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other writers of the 1830s and 1840s in the United States. For tran...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are cartoon movies colored differently than their TV counterparts? When comparing episodes of a cartoon TV show (ex. Spongebob or Hey Arnold) to their respective movies, the coloring (and sometimes even the art style) doesn't look quite the same. What is different about creating the artwork f...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:If DNA copying errors are random occurences, why do some diseases that are known to be caused by gene mutations can reoccur in their offsprings at a random point in their life?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two types of mutations: germline and somatic. &gt; **Germline:** passed to the...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do they know what chemicals your brain is producing in response to certain stimuli when it should involve opening your head to watch it? They say that the brain releases dopamine when X happens, or releases oxytocin when X happens, etc. How do we know that's happening inside somebody's head w...
<|im_start|>user What is the value in publications prior to entering a PhD? Is it worth it? I am studying within the Australian university system and am currently completing an honours project within a health field with the goal of first class and publication. My supervisors have approached me regarding one of my assig...
<|im_start|>user Why is medicine dosage linked so closely with weight? I work in a pharmacy and specifically in children the pharmacists will constantly check the patients weight for dosage. I found myself wondering why the dosage is linked so closely with weight, instead of some other factor. When I asked the pharmaci...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 how you can measure that Ventablack or Black 2.0 are the blackest paints in the world How is the blackness measured? How does one invent a paint that is blacker than black, and then someone goes and invents *another* paint that is blacker than the blacker than black paint? https://www.format.com/...
<|im_start|>user Doctoral Student: Should I purchase my own supplies? Hey AskAcademia, My adviser and I have had an extremely rocky relationship, including some sexual harassment shit in the lab that didn't go over well... I was harassed, he sided with the guy, later apologized for not handing it well, but then starte...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does my clothes dryer’s lint catcher get so full, yet my clothes don’t fall apart? Where does all this lint come from?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As you wash items, they lose particles (lint) which is collected in your lint trap. If you weigh the lint you’ll see that it is a small percen...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why we have only 118 elements in periodic table? I've read somewhere, that we're currently limited by technology. But is it teoretically possible to create element with 119 or more protons? If yes, could you please ELI5 what would it take to make such atoms?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant All of...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: How do we know how many colors other animals can see?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Color perception is defined by the anatomy of the eye, specifically, photosensitive cells on the retina with specific pigments. If there are more types of these cells and they are sensitive to a wider range of e...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Can life we haven't yet found, perhaps extraterrestrial, be made up of something other than DNA and cells? Or does life in any form require DNA? Or is it not possible to know yet?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Life as we know it requires several things, including the ability to use energy, repl...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do big banks refuse to raise their interest rates for savings accounts? Is there no incentive to at least coming close to the 2-3% online banks offer?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Banks offer interest on savings accounts to attract customers to deposit money, because then the bank can loan...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 How do experts go about translating ancient languages? (For example Sumerian/Akkadian) So I've been learning more about ancient civilizations from a podcast during my commute to work. Sometimes they talk about texts from during those times and read them. It's poetry, letters to people, etc. I'm cu...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why does garbage always seem to have a common smell regardless of what's in it? ??<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The smell is composed of small Nitrogen and Sulfur based molecules, produced when microbes break down organic matter. So as long as it's organic material. Because these molecules are ...
<|im_start|>user AskScience AMA Series: We are Jeff Galvin and Dr. David Pauza (long time lurkers, first time posters) here to talk about “treating the untreatable, curing the incurable” -- the future of genetic medicine. How it works. What it can do. Ask us ANYTHING! Who are we? I’m Jeff Galvin, son of an MIT Electr...
<|im_start|>user Does every piece of matter in the universe really affect every other piece (even negligibly)? (Physics of Douglas Adams's Total Perspective Vortex) Chapter 11 of *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe* by Douglas Adams starts with a blurb on the inspiration behind the Total Perspective Vortex--a fi...
<|im_start|>user How does the body build a tolerance against substances?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It can be a very complex process and is different for every chemical, but we can describe the general trend of whats going on when a body develops tolerance. Firstly, the body developing tolerance is different from...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does water fry electronics?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Electronics have defined paths through which electricity has to flow. These paths are designed such that there is always a regulated flow of electrons from low potential to high potential. This flow also generates heat due to resista...
<|im_start|>user Why are people so willing to commit to compassionate euthanasia when death is imminent for their pets but not for their fellow human beings?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Here's one principled philosophical reason: it isn't wrong to kill an animal, but it is wrong to kill a human, because the wrongne...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Traveling to an impoverished country to help build schools or whatever is self-serving and inefficient If you travel to Africa or something to help build a village or a school or a water well or something, you are doing good. But you are essentially doing little more than manual labor, which is ac...
<|im_start|>user Dissertation without primary research? (curious how this works) Hey gang, I've been talking to a friend a lot about her dissertation (psychology). She's spent years creating research, gathering data, etc. and is putting it all together as you do. This has led me to wonder how other disciplines dea...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How exactly does the feeling of your heart "fluttering" in your chest happen when you think about someone you like or love?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant To put it in very simple terms: the things that you think of and emotions that you feel can have physical effects on your body. Its just like...
<|im_start|>user Why is ‘only’ 4.5% GDP growth bad for China? Per Howard Marks of OakTree, it would be the equivalent of negative growth in the US. Other than compared to expectations and history, it’s still ‘good’ or at least not disastrous, yes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you refer to Solow growth model, you...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Would dyslexic people be okay with languages that aren't letter based such as Chinese? Is that how dyslexia works?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Dyslexia has several different symptoms, such as orthographical awareness deficiencies, naming speed, motor programming, or even phonological awarenes...
<|im_start|>user why are philosophical texts not written in simpler terms? Most professors advocate for students to write in simpler and comprehendible words, yet philosophical texts feel impossible to read. Is there a deliberate reason for this, or has it always been this way?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you re...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What do computer scientists research in academia, as opposed to industry? So I was just wondering this today after listening to a seminar from of my CS professor's about his AI research. The talk was fascinating and intelligent, but it also seemed like something that could easily be developed by ...
<|im_start|>user What are the differences between a REST api and other APIs? if a mobile application communicates with a web application is it called a restful api? When is json not needed in rest?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant REST a information transfer standard. It is an agreed upon contract on how to read and wri...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Plea deals in the US - why are they used so much and how do they work? I'm almost done with law school, but in Europe. In my country, there are actually pretty strict rules for someone to just confess to a crime and the judge ruling it as a confession. This is because it could be a false confessio...
<|im_start|>user Does an insect's exoskeleton heal from injury? Does an insect's exoskeleton heal from injury?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on at what point the insect is in its life cycle. They do have clotting mechanisms that will block an external injury and keep them from desiccating, in most cases. I...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why are universities such as Harvard and Oxford so prestigious, yet most Asian countries value education far higher than most western countries? Shouldn't the Asian Universities be more prestigious? In most Asian countries, they take education super seriously, like people rent out rooms just so th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how do we know how well other animals can see or smell?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Two main ways: 1. Dissecting animals sensory organs to analyze their structure (For example, we can look at the structure of rods and cones in their eyes and theorize based on that). 2. Running tests like pl...
<|im_start|>user [Pokemon] Why are all gym members blind to the type strength matrix, and pointlessly specialize their teams?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In league competition, the gym challenge is a time-honored tradition of recognising excellence in trainers. Specialised gym types are designed to be a test of typ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 : Ayn Rand and objectivism<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant 1. Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man's feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. 2. Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses) is man's only means of percei...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do American semi-trucks (18 wheelers etc) exclusively use inline 6-cylinder engines, no matter if it’s a Mack, Detroit Diesel, Cummins, or Volvo-built engine? I get why they are diesel, but why are they all of the inline 6-cylinder configuration? Why not V6 or straight 8 or freakin huge inlin...
<|im_start|>user If I get a TT offer, what things should I negotiate in the contract. I think everyone knows that salary is negotiable, but I am aware of people that have asked for other things before accepting (or declining) a position. Are there some basic things that I should be sure to ask for that most new hires...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are humans the only animals with brains as advanced as our own? like, if having a bigger brain to use for problem solving, reason, etc. isn't necessarily a biological disadvantage, then why aren't there like a races of monkey people (us), tiger people, wolf people, etc.?<|im_end|> <|im_start|...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are some medications race-based?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's sufficient genetic difference between various human races to create different reactions to certain drugs, or increase the possibility of certain reactions in certain races. An example of one such difference is a geneti...
<|im_start|>user Why is glass not crystalline? My understanding of glass was that it was that its a noncrystaline solid. Which right off the bat is confusing because theres something called "crystal glass". But in addition, I was looking at [wikipedia](&amp;) about glass ceramics, which have both crystal and crystal ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do scientists determine the possible habitability of exoplanets? With the search for possible Earth analogs in our universe going on still, how to scientists determine whether or not a planet is habitable even tho often times they can't physically see the planet?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assista...
<|im_start|>user Why does the Collatz Conjecture (and problems like it) matter? I was watching a video from one of the 3628468 youtube channels that the bearded englishman has and it mentioned this problem and I started to think, why does such a thing matter? Seems like just a funny maths thing for a child to play with...
<|im_start|>user Why do most animals have their eyes, nose, and mouth clustered together in roughly the same way as other species? Why are the eyes usually horizontally aligned, with a nose centered on the face and a mouth slightly below? What are the benefits of this over say having the eyes and the mouth on opposite ...
<|im_start|>user How can tungsten be a metal, but have *higher* electronegativity than phosphorus, which is a non-metal? it's generally taught that metallic or non-metallic character is governed by the electronegativity of the element ([for example](http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/37_ak/NT.jpg)), so what's the de...
<|im_start|>user eli5 how does red blue and green lights in screens create a white light and all other colors? how does this work in phones?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We know how human eyes work. They have rods and cones, and the colour sensitivity is to red, green, and blue. So we built computer screens with tho...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What causes revolutions? How bad do things have to get before such a large number of people agree on how bad things are and come together to fix it? We hear politicians make promises during their campaigns, yet it seems that even though hardly any of those promises are kept, people don't really h...
<|im_start|>user How do infants and toddlers who barely speak get diagnosed with eye problems, when we have no way of knowing if they're able to see things just the way they are ? Recently saw a video where a baby got correction glasses and was able to see it's parents properly for the first time. How do parent get to ...
<|im_start|>user Why are some races of humans taller than others? I was thinking about this today, as I sat eating lunch near a group of men who appeared to be Hispanic migrant workers. I think they were Guatemalan. My ancestry is European, specifically northern German, and I'm 6'4" tall. But every one of those migr...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why people say "pardon my French" right before/after they swear<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the early 19th century, intellectuals and those well-traveled would often drop French words into the conversation to show how clever they were. They would then point out that the word they had just ...
<|im_start|>user What happens after a failed suicide attempt? What happens when someone is hospitalized after a failed suicide attempt? I've heard of "suicide watch". What exactly is it, and what goes on during it? How long does it usually last, say if someone tried to OD on pills? What happens afterwards? Outpatient c...
<|im_start|>user What would be the economic consequences of making it law for enterprises to share x amount of their profits equally with workers? Minimum wage laws are bad because they needlessly raise the value if labour above market prices and hurt profits. Of removing minimum wage laws would increase profits, then...
<|im_start|>user eli5: Why does working out helps so much with mental health? I have OCD and working out ALWAYS makes me feel better whenever I have spikes. How does that work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Exercise had been shown in many studies to promote the production of serotonin and dopamine, the two neurotrans...
<|im_start|>user eli5: Why are there so many bad chemicals in cigarettes? A cigarette is basically just paper, tobacco and a filter. So how do so many harmful chemicals get in them?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant While a lot of the additional chemicals are ‘naturally’ present as part of the tobacco, there are a lot of...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why are loud noises so scary to many animals and humans?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We evolved hearing to both find food and identify threats. The worst threats are those that don't care if something else hears them - that indicates confidence which is NOT good for the animal hearing it. ...
<|im_start|>user Why does vision improve when one is squinting?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is actually more of an optics question than a biology question. When light passes through a small hole, it becomes focused because the hole is limiting the paths that the light can take. The smaller the hole, the more f...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is Hillary Clinton using her personal email a big deal?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant By law, these are considered government related business documents and must be stored and maintained on government servers for future access in case of investigation, etc. Anything that she sent from her ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: why does the country Liechtenstein exist? It’s an incredibly small country in Europe, why isn’t it just part of Switzerland or Austria?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Originally, there were many, many such small kingdoms in Europe, ruled by powerful local families. The land was bought by the Ho...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: The benefit of spending millions/billions on acquiring another company, rather than starting one themselves. I mean like Amazon buying Audible in 2008 for $300 million or Walmart buying Jet.com for over $3 billion. Why couldn't Amazon just start their own service rather than spending money on so...
<|im_start|>user US stock market hit 30,000. I am a hairdresser. How does this help me? (I don't own stocks) With COVID-19 raging my income has been cut in half. Can someone teach me how a soaring stock market helps? I am firmly working class/low middle class<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant **Direct Impacts** The stoc...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: P vs NP I'm talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_vs_NP<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As you'll get older you'll see that sometimes there are problems you will need to solve. Maybe you'd like a cookie but you can't reach the cookie jar, that is a problem you can solve by taking a ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does eating expired meat make you sick even if you cook it well enough to kill all the germs?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Certain bacteria produce spores when they're within certain temperature ranges. Like when you cook meat and let it sit out at room temp for a while. This is when those...
<|im_start|>user Is Daniel Dennett's "Consciousness Explained" worth reading still, in terms of being up-to-date? I'm listening to The Tell-Tale Brain on audiobook. I'm thinking of getting Consciousness Explained next. My concern is that it's a bit of an old book, and the supposed explanation of consciousness may be ou...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: Why are our tears connected to our emotions?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Humans are very social creatures, and to be social creatures before spoken language existed required Physical things to convey information to one another. Tears (along with the sound of crying). Are a way to effectively ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: Voyager II With the Voyager II spacecraft millions of miles from earth and continuing on, how are we able to send/receive data from deep space?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's a number of factors involved in allowing the Voyager probes to be able to communicate out so far. **very large a...
<|im_start|>user How do scientists estimate how many species have yet to be discovered?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are quantifiable species-area relationships. For example, in a given area, there are a finite amount of resources, let's say, bunny rabbits. A coyote needs some number of bunny rabbits to eat....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why did two sexes become necessary for procreation instead of one that handled both aspects?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant genetic diversity. what you suggest is asexual reproduction which many bacteria and some aquatic life here and there do. the issue is that every copy is more or less identi...
<|im_start|>user [The Matrix] Are humans the only lifeforms populating the matrix? What about apes or monkeys? Dogs and cats?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The machines were, at the end, made to protect and serve humans. Not apes. Not dogs. Not any other living being. Thus when the war came, and the Machines decided ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we construct things in water? Things like bridges or roads that need support pillars that go into the water. If they're made from concrete, how does the concrete ever dry if it's underwater? If it's in the ocean, does the very bottom of the pillar touch the seafloor?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we use total internal reflection for fibre optics instead of just ordinary reflection? I'm a teacher and I gor stumped by this today, couldn't find any answers with Google.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant At ordinary reflection angles, there is both transmission of light and reflection of ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is the coin grading system a scale of 60-70? That seems like a rather odd range.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The scale was originally proposed by William H Sheldon. Since no such scale was widely in use at the time he had a very wide amount of leeway in choosing what the scale would look...
<|im_start|>user [ST:Voyager] Where does the USS Voyager get all of those photon torpedoes from? When the USS Voyager first became lost there were serious supply issues. Photon torpedoes pack a whole lot more punch than a phaser bank due to their 1kg antimatter warhead, but torpedoes are in limited supply. Once the tor...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: what determines whether a substance is solid liquid or gas at room temperature?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Intermolecular forces. Some molecules like to stick together, others don't. If they really like each other, they form a solid. If it's more like a friendship they form liquids. If they ...
<|im_start|>user A lot of drugs are derived from plants. Why not just eat the plants? I keep hearing about new wonder drugs derived from plants - many of which seem to have long-known (according to local tradition) curative properties. If that's the case, then why not just use the whole plant? Is there a good reason, a...