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<|im_start|>user A gallon of jet fuel burned creates 21 pounds of CO2. How can that be when jet fuel only weighs 6.8 lbs per gallon? There should be an r/nostupidsciencequestions subreddit out there... I never took a chemistry class, so maybe I'm missing something basic. Using the numbers from here: [https://www.eia.g...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Mass unemployment created by robots replacing humans in the not-to-distant future may be positive for the general public People are often voicing their concerns about robots making human workers largely obsolete, a scenario seen as beneficial for individual businesses but devastating to the popula...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The sexual aspect of bachelor parties should be considered unfaithful behavior in a traditional, monogamous relationship. I am perfectly okay with the idea of a potential future fiancé going out with close friends to have one last wild weekend and am all for that. What I don’t understand is how ot...
<|im_start|>user CMV: "Feminism" shouldn't be used when talking gender rights, "Equalism" should be used. So, hear me out on this one, I am a little biased being a guy but I think its wrong to use Feminism when talking gender rights, it feels less inclusive to men and other people who don't identify as man or woman, I ...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] What does Emperor Palpatine do all day? You know besides crushing the rebels, exploring the dark side etc.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Most of the top-level daily business of the Empire is taken care of by the Imperial Ruling Council, who are His Majesty's most trusted advisors. Some me...
<|im_start|>user [Post-Doc] Would it be bad to leave a lab before fellowship is awarded? My PI wants me to submit a grant in a few weeks that, if awarded, would cover my salary for the next two years. However, I have been miserable and I'm searching for a job right now. Would it reflect poorly on me to submit this gran...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do sports stat sites calculate odds to win? I see these graphs on sports stat sites that calculate the odds that the Golden State Warriors will go 73-9. How are these odds calculated?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Though historic analysis of the teams, situation, and betting patterns. Th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How come an individual's appearance seems to "change" depending on your feelings towards the said individual? Eg. When you fall in love with someone, they seem to look prettier/more handsome than how everyone else perceives the individual, and then they return back to "normal" once you're over hi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we make water safe to drink? (Including removing the chemicals used make the water "clean")<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Several ways: Desalination: turn water into steam. Salt and dirt doesn't become steam. Steam is clean. Turn steam back into water. Water is clean and not salty. Rev...
<|im_start|>user Le Chatelier's principle - How do the reactants "know" that the concentration of products has changed? If you get rid of product as it is made, then the equilibrium will shift to further favor products, right? Why does having lower concentration of products make the reaction more likely to happen?<|im...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does my dog pick up sticks in her mouth and carry them around? Doesn't it taste bad?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When dogs were first domesticated a long, long time ago they were primarily used for hunting for quite some time. After a few millennia of evolution we bred a lot of hunting ba...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What algorithms do programmers use to produce "randomness" I know that it is impossible to make something truly random, but what algorithms do most people use to do so?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are different possibilities: There are so called "hash functions". You put a number in, yo...
<|im_start|>user [Harry Potter] Why does the Wizardkind organize itself along modern muggle nation-states boundaries? (TLDR at bottom just in case). So, why exactly does Wizardkind do this? We see it in their governments, education systems, even sports. For starters, there aren’t there many of their kind, or at least ...
<|im_start|>user Do any philosophers challenge the idea that an argument that's both valid and sound is necessarily true? One of the first things I learnt in philosophy was that *validity* means the conclusion must follow from the premises, and *soundness* means an argument is both valid and that its premises are true,...
<|im_start|>user Are there polynomial equations that are equal to basic trig functions? Are there polynomial functions that are equal to basic trig functions (i.e: y=cos(x), y=sin(x))? If so what are they and how are they calculated? Also are there any limits on them (i.e only works when a&lt;x&lt;b)?<|im_end|> <|im_st...
<|im_start|>user Writing while you read Currently I am writing my master thesis and am struggling to make progress, I have been told its best to write while you read but I have never really understood exactly how you do that. I guess it means plugging related info into the various chapters as you find them useful but ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Churches, chapels, cathedrals and basillicas- what's the difference between them all? Is it denominational? Architectural? Size based?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A church is a place of Christian worship. A cathedral is a type of important church where you'll find a bishop, who is in charge o...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Hard-shell tacos don't make any sense Here are the problems I have with crunchy tacos: * I have to turn my head sideways in order to take a bite without spilling the ingredients. * It inevitably falls apart, meaning I have to have a plate ready to catch the filling, and then I have to either use...
<|im_start|>user The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. I've been reading a lot of physics books recently out of curiosity and interest in physics (I'm a compsci major). I was wondering if anyone could explain to me the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. I get what it's saying about how if one property is measured to hig...
<|im_start|>user [General Fantasy] What are the defining characteristics of humans in comparison to other races? Elves are wise and stuffy, dwarves are skilled and extroverted, orcs are strong and combative. What are humans?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In most traditional fantasy, humans have wider areas of expert...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do American high schools put so much emphasis on extra curricular activities?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Because getting into colleges -- especially if you're looking at specific programs, really prestigious schools -- is a competitive progress. Let's take Harvard, for example. You'r...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how are hot-air balloons navigated?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Aviators weather reports will provide anticipated wind speed and direction at different altitudes, so to some extent you can control which prevailing wind you are in by changing altitude. In general though, you are entirely at th...
<|im_start|>user How in love do I have to be with my dissertation topic? Coursework is complete. Working on the first draft of my dissertation proposal. Finally admitting to myself that I am not crazy about the topic. But I have support from my advisor, who I trust and who wants me to succeed. I feel like I need t...
<|im_start|>user CMV: News Sites Should Be Banned From Using Clickbait Headlines Very simply, it's annoying reading a headline that overstates or clickbait's its reader into reading an honestly boring or mundane story. In a perfect world, a news headline would work like a name for a thesis paper; a rough amalgamation o...
<|im_start|>user In multiple linear regression, how is it possible that multiple predictors are strongly correlated with the dependent variable but not with each other? This is very counterintuitive to me. If X and Y are the independent variables and Z is the dependent, then we know that X strongly tends to move togeth...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Without the context of the English language/alphabet, is there any meaningful distinction between "short vowels" and "long vowels" phonologically? If so, what is it? And if not, how did English vowel letters end up working the way they do now?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There is a linguistic...
<|im_start|>user Why should getting a health insurance ever be a profitable decision for the consumer, when the profitability of all insurance companies depends on paying less on claims than whatever they bill in premiums? I get the value of insurance for farmers and merchants because it amortizes breakage over million...
<|im_start|>user [Deathnote] If you had a Lifenote which was the polar opposite of a Deathnote, what would it's rules be, how would it work and what could you do with it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant **Rules of the Life Note** 1. The human whose name is written in this note shall not die *from a particular cause of...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 How does text to speech work? Do they get the people voicing the "speech part" to say a lot of words or is it a different way all together?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Depends of how advanced the text to speech is. In the early days of text to speech they only recorded sounds like "Ch" and "ee...
<|im_start|>user [Spider-Man] How are superheroes like Spider-Man so strong without also having muscles that would allow so? Shouldn't Spider-Man with his strength be at least five times the size of a normal human from a biological view?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The molecular structure of his body is slightly al...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Discrete Cosine Transforms<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant When you want to compress a series of data (say, a sound recording) you can look for patterns in the data, and just record the patterns instead of the original measurements. DCT describes data as the sum of a series of waves (cosine func...
<|im_start|>user What happens to breast implants after you die? So they decompose with the body or will they last with your skeleton for thousands of years?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The materials for medical implants are chosen because they are inert and non-biodegradable. They will not decompose when the biolog...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How come when you crack your knuckles underwater, it is incredibly loud, but when you try and scream underwater, the sound is muffled to a whimper?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Water transmits sounds quite well, so if an action vibrates the water to make a sound, you'll be able to hear it clea...
<|im_start|>user Why is it that the smaller and less intelligent something is the less we value its life? For example people would spare a wolf before they spare 50 beetles. Ik the basic answer to this question but if someone could give a good in depth answer that would be great!!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Some u...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What causes the temporary burn mark left in the eye after looking at a bright light?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Cells in your eye are responsible for reporting light to the brain through changes in pigment. If they receive too much light, they use up all the pigment and need a moment to rese...
<|im_start|>user In diagrams where massive objects bend spacetime, what is depicted on the hight axis? Take for example this picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Spacetime_lattice_analogy.svg/1260px-Spacetime_lattice_analogy.svg.png What is on the hight axis (z-axis) How should one interp...
<|im_start|>user What is the difference between proof and evidence? Is proof always deductive and evidence always inductive? Or is it something else?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Context always matters, philosophy talks about a large amount of different topics, so if in doubt you should always try to figure out how ...
<|im_start|>user Why are we only looking for life, on planets with water? What if there are forms of life which don't rely on water, that have adapted to completely different conditions<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Because water is one thing that is proven to be instrumental in the creation and survival of life. The...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the big deal about Google's privacy? Is it safe/smart to use?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Google provides a huge number of services for free. In order to do this, they make money by showing relevant ads when you search, check gmail, watch YouTube, etc. People are more likely to click ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: White Supermacy/Privilege should be called Colonizer Supermacy/Preivlege. * It's not a precise enough term(s). A more precise term would be colonizer supremacy or colonizer privilege. Those who find themselves within the power fueled privileged system are typically of colonizer descent. * The cu...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do "bugs" or "glitches" happen even when accomplished and successful studios develop a video game? EDIT: Perhaps I should've asked the question differently. I totally get that people are imperfect and make mistakes. I'm more interested in understanding *why* a glitch happens, even when p...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is it that when multiple animators are making something, they all have the same style? The clone wars for example, all the episodes have the same style, with the only change being effort/time spent going up.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The same way classical musicians can play the same Be...
<|im_start|>user If surface area doesn't effect friction, why do racing cars have fatter tires? "Although a larger area of contact between two surfaces would create a larger source of frictional forces, it also reduces the pressure between the two surfaces for a given force holding them together. Since pressure equals ...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] What are some typical middle-class jobs in highly developed regions of the Republic? I want to know more about the structure of everyday life for normal civilians. How is health care governed? Is there social welfare, minimum basic income? Are there 'sentient-being' rights of some kind? Wha...
<|im_start|>user I believe a Country should always be called by its native name. CMV For example: I believe the word "Japan" should not exist. Instead it should be called by its name it Japanese, but written phonetically. "Nihon." I think this would make inter language communication a whole lot simpler.<|im_end|> <|...
<|im_start|>user [MCU] Do other relams have "tech" like bifrost bridge ? Specifically Nine Relams.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It really depends on how "like" you're looking for. We still don't have a clear answer for where sling rings come from, do they count? The Guardians (and presumably most interstellar cra...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is a high IQ score directly correlated to a propensity for alcoholism/drug addiction?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Imagine looking at a painting of a flower, where everyone sees the flower, you see every brush stroke, every meaning behind each brush stroke, feel what the artist felt when p...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can't I focus blue LED light?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You know how a prism can spread white light into all the bands of visible light? This is caused by chromatic aberration where different colors (wavelengths) of light interact differently when going through the prism. If the prism ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do NBA teams draft highschool players so high? I know Lebron, and to a lesser extent, Kobe ended up working out, but it really seems like a huge risk to spend a high draft pick on a guy who really has only played against other high school students.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Pretend you'...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why do hormones make women moody/sad and does this ever happen to men?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Hormones are chemical messengers that travel through the blood and cause long term (on the order of hours to years) changes in the body. These hormones can directly influence the brain, or can c...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does the heat of the sun reach earth even though space is a cold void? How does it reach us through space?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's three ways heat can be transferred. Conduction, which is heat traveling by contact. Convection, which is heat moving around as hot fluids rise. An...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do TV game shows tax people who get cash on the spot? I see game shows like How too make a deal give away cash on the spot. Are these people taxed? I know if you win showcases etc taxes are collected on items, but what about cash handed on the spot?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Any cash pr...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The words 'islamphobe' or 'islamphobia' are now thrown around too easily such that they lost meaning Definition of islamphobe on google: dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force. My position is that it is OK to criticize Islam (aka the religion), but it ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What in the molecular workings of plastic makes it turn yellow after a long time? I have noticed in older houses lots of plastic that used to be white turns ye yellow. Why is that?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant 1. Most plastics are polymers, aka they're made of extremely long repeating chain mo...
<|im_start|>user Why does the Delorean have flame trails when it hits 88 mph? As I understand it, the sonic-boom type effect is the temporal barrier being broken, but what about the flame trails?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Relevant points to consider when answering: * The flame trails exist **after** the DeLorean...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it still a challenge for some countries to build ICBMs while US/USSR could already do it in the 50's?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant ICBM technology requires an extremely advanced research and development basis in aerospace engineering and rocket science. Which in turn requires strong ins...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do monarch butterflies migrate through multiple generations, considering that one of them can only make it part of the way?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Genetically learned traits. Basically they've been doing it so long it's become ingrained in their core. They even fly around an obsticle...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Innocent until proven guilty should always be upheld, especially regarding the recent trend in sexual harassment accusations. First of all I want to clarify that sexual harassment is wrong and should be prosecuted. But recently, the way the media and the public react to those accusations is wrong....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why did it take so long until radioactivity was discovered In my country, uraninite was mined alongside silver at least since the 15 century, useless at the time. It is kind of strange to me that nobody noticed anything "weird" about it for such a long time (or did they?) Is the concentration to...
<|im_start|>user How can I quickly and accurately verify a science or history book is not making claims debunked by the academic community? I have recently taken an interest into listening to audiobooks focusing on history or areas of science I am not as familiar in to expand my knowledge. I've started to notice many ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can the weather be below freezing AND 100% humidity? Doesnt the temperature mean that fog can't be "humidity"? Isn't humidity moisture and doesn't moisture crystallize into a solid form below 32 degrees?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two forms of humidity: relative humidity (%) a...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Pulling the lever to save more lives is the right response to the classic "trolley problem". Firstly, I understand that this has been posted before. However, none of the discussions I've read on other threads have managed to change my view, hence my posting here. When faced with the trolley prob...
<|im_start|>user What is the Difference Between Deduction and Induction? Hi, I really can't distinguish between **Deduction**, **Induction**, and **Inference**. I guess inference is same is deduction (right?) and I do know what **deduction** is, but what's its difference from **induction**? Also are there any differe...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do different colors have a different shade of gray when saturation is removed? Like when I'm in photoshop and turn the picture to grayscale or remove the saturation. Red shades will always be darker than yellow ones for example. Why is that?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant On the surf...
<|im_start|>user [Stephen King] Do any of the books make big news on a national or international level? Some books could be easily covered up, but some seem like a big deal that would be covered on national or even international news. Do the characters of one book know of the events of another book?<|im_end|> <|im_star...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Answer an ELI5 FAQ- Why do Coca Cola, McDonalds, and other national companies still advertise? Help ELI5 explain this common question so that we can redirect future posters here. Please also explain why companies that do not sell general consumer goods advertise, such as Boeing, Cisco and BASF ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are rings easier to get on than they are to get off a finger?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant 2 reasons for this: 1. The fingers are generally wider near the knuckles than at the fingertips. 2. If you stroke one of your fingers with another from nail to knuckles, you will find that skin h...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does the Japanese language have English loan words for things they already have words for? Words like "relax" (rirakkusu) and "hose" (hosu) seem like something that would have existed before contact with English-speaking people.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The words often have slightly di...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is fed to people in a coma? Is it blended every day food or similar to meal replacement shakes? If so does this include fruits and vegetables or are all essential nutrients provided though supplementation?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's a special liquid formula that contains the right ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do malls and businesses not have peaked roofs like you see on houses? I remember hearing about a store collapsing from too much snow collecting on the roof. Is there a reason not to have a peaked roof to prevent this?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Flat roofing is cheaper to build, is access...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I don't think I should personally make changes to my life to fight climate change when multi billion dollar companies couldn't care less. Why should I stop using my car and pay multiple times more to use exorbitant trains? Why should I stop eating meat while people like Jeff Bezos are blasting of...
<|im_start|>user What does not emit electromagnetic radiation? My remote sensing textbook states "With the exception of objects at absolute zero, all objects emit electromagnetic radiation." I understand that an object doesn't have to emit it's own radiation, it can reflect another objects radiation. So what are the...
<|im_start|>user Is there an ancient African philosophy analogous to ancient European or ancient Asian philosophies? Discussing comparative philosophy the terms, "ancient European philosophy" and "ancient Asian philosophy" were being thrown around until somebody asked, "Is there an ancient African philosophy?" The pre...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can some animals be domesticated, while others can’t be? I saw a video of a “pet” raccoon living in somebody’s house. It was cute. I started looking things up about how raccoons become domesticated. All of the literature said it has never been done, and probably can’t be done. No explanation ...
<|im_start|>user Novice programmer, what paths should I take and what should I avoid when looking to have a coding career? I've been learning coding for about a month and a half now, which I was drawn to because 1) it's a skill I hear is in demand, 2) it's a skill you don't have to have a formal qualification in to get...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are pilots able to make flights significantly shorter? A flight I’ve taken many times usually takes around 3 hours. I just took the same flight and the pilot was able to get us there in just about 2 hours. My return flight we were 45 min early. How??<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There’s a ...
<|im_start|>user If you had a national UBI policy how do you prevent landlords, energy companies, insurance etc from raising costs to capture some of that Income? I keep hearing about Universal Basic Income, and how universally give folks a set amount would help.deal with inequality etc. But wouldnt landlords, energy c...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 How game developers write and design games for the XBOX 360, PS3, and PC simultaneously? I always wondered how a studio can write a game for the XBox 360, PC, and PS3 at the same time and have all versions come out identical. Do they just make one version of it? Are there different teams that work...
<|im_start|>user Is it okay to give a small gift to my professor? I’m transferring this fall. And I wanted to give a small gift to one of my former professors who took me under his wing and helped me fall in love with English and Journalism. I took 3 of his classes. He has helped me find the schools that would fit me b...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Putting aside cost, tax policies, implentation, etc. I believe Sanders' free college proposal is fixing a symptom, not the problem, of education in America. We should be focusing on fixing K-12, not making college free. I want to avoid the discussion of how free college would be achieved. For the ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does salt water naturally exist on Earth and why is there so much more of it than regular fresh water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Salts are really common chemical compounds. Water is a very good solvent. It's not really surprising that large amounts of minerals end up in solution in la...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why do some (Cessna 172 for example) planes need a fuel mixture which is adjusted by the pilot, but a cars fuel air mixture is automatic?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Combustion engines rely on having the correct air to fuel mixture ratio. The air pressure (and therefore Oxygen amount) at grou...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What exactly are headaches and what causes them?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are many types of headaches with a variety of causes including tension headaches, cluster headaches, sinus headaches, and migraines. A lot of headaches are caused by inflammation of nerves, sinuses, or other ti...
<|im_start|>user What is the difference between a real and virtual particle, and why does that difference matter? Pun not intentional<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A real particle is a thing you can measure. A virtual particle is something which looks a particle if you represent perturbative calculations by feynman d...
<|im_start|>user Can we cut wasteful spending by giving government agencies incentives for having a budget surplus? I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, if it isn't, I'll take it down. Bare in mind I'm not an economist, it's just a random thought. So here goes: I've worked for a private company that...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: what exactly is the determinant of a matrix calculating, and why does it end up being so significant/useful in other matrix calculations?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I'll focus on 3 x 3 matrices. Take any 3D shape. Something that's asymetrical, like a sculpture of Vincent Van Gogh's head. Or...
<|im_start|>user I think that scholarships specifically designated for a certain race are racist. CMV. There are a lot of scholarships out there that are only for African-Americans or only for people of Native American descent.. As a Caucasian female, I fail to see why this doesn't count as racism. If someone were to d...
<|im_start|>user What value do cryptocurrency investors add to society? I guess same goes to stock investors as well. My idea of an economy is you produce goods/services for society and get rewarded with currency, which you can then spend on good/services that other people produce. You can only take as much value out o...
<|im_start|>user What determines if two plants can be hybridized or not? e.g. can I combine an avocado tree and a strawberry plant?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Genes determine. So it is the same thing about when two animals evolve different enough to no longer interbreed. Humans have 23 chromosomes, so we can only ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why when you evaporate coffee and store the steam until it becomes liquid again, the liquid no longer has the color of coffee? I did this experiment one day because I was curious, sorry if it's a stupid question<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Evaporating water, collecting the steam, and condensi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can plants survive hydroponically, but die from over watering in different environments?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Over watering plants can kill them in several ways. It can "drown" roots and deprive them of oxygen. It can interfere with uptake of certain nutrients, or it can promote fu...
<|im_start|>user How do so many experimental psychology papers get away with n=15? I've been reading a lot of papers for my thesis lately and I keep seeing papers (that aren't pilot studies) with sample sizes between 15 and 30. How is that even remotely enough to draw inferences from? Shouldn't there be problems with r...
<|im_start|>user How does brushing your teeth clean your mouth, and has the invention of toothbrushes affected bacterial evolution?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Toothbrushes mechanically helps in cleaning teeth by scrubbing off the dental pellicle layer that has been invaded with bacteria and thus preventing the for...
<|im_start|>user Why are random access speeds of flash memory different from their sequential access speeds? I understand that on rotational disks, sequential reads and writes are faster than random ones because the head is already in place to read sector B after it reads sector A, and moving over to sector Z takes tim...
<|im_start|>user [Marvel Universe] Could Tony Stark make a suit out of adamantium? The way I understand it, adamantium is one of the strongest metals there is. I would assume Tony Stark would want the strongest suit. Would there be any barriers to him making a suit like this?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Cost and ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 What is it specifically about substances like mercury and lead that kills you? I understand something like Carbon Monoxide which physically takes up space that should have oxygen there but what about lead in my blood kills me? Is it a chemical reaction that steals nutrients? Does it puncture blood...
<|im_start|>user [Frozen/Avatar] If Elsa was in the Avatar universe would she be viewed as just a particularly powerful water bender or something else entirely based on her feats?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The main sticking point would be the ability to alter the climate: while water benders can freeze water, the...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Does Chinese Herbal Medicine work? Coming from a family that believe in Chinese herbal medicine, I've been to the Chinese doctor plenty of times. They take a look at you, measure your pulse from your wrist with 2 fingers and just blank out for a few minutes. Then they list out a whole list of pro...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Is HIV actually "cured" or not? There have been a lot of posts in News and Science and stuff like that about new cases of HIV being "functionally cured." What does this mean? Is it a solution, or just a first step towards a solution? Does the treatment work all the time, or occasionally? Do we kn...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do electromagnetic waves such as Bluetooth and cell tower signals pass through walls and other solid objects without any issues? And why are some wavelengths better or worse at it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant What about windows? Windows are essentially solid walls. They can be quick thick...