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AskReddit/c8ob5fb | 19ifl6 | What would happen if solar power were suddenly made available to everyone in the world that addressed all energy needs? | The government would sell patents to all major energy producing corporations. Those companies would subsequently lobby to make it illegal to produce such technology, and life would go on as it had before. | 2 |
AskReddit/cdkco5g | 1r7fm4 | What if everyone was ugly? | If it was a sudden change than we would probably not find other attractive for a while then it would readjust. If it was gradual then we would have certain characteristics that people found attractive and they would be perpetuated through sexual reproduction and we would then have pretty people and ugly people. | 3 |
AskReddit/dgdwhfv | 65xced | What's the most frighteningly intelligent thing you've seen a computer/piece of technology do? | Google's location tracking is so frighteningly accurate. I was in a restaurant and it figured out I was there. Then, I went to another restaurant one floor above, and Google knew. It changed the suggestion thing on the Now launcher. That freaked me out, being able to differentiate 10 ft difference in altitude to figure... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cv6kwe8 | 3ligj9 | Why do world-renowned actors/actresses, who have almost no risk of ever being in financial trouble, sometimes do terrible movies? | Because they can make a fat pile of cash for almost no work. In a lot of those terrible movies the big actors only need to show up for like 2 days, shoot all their scenes, and then cash the check. | 4 |
askscience/c1yh3vz | huie8 | What are the possible benefits / inventions that can be gained by successfully harnessing antimatter? | We really don't know of any yet. It has ridiculous energy density, which seems useful. until you remember that you could never realistically move antimatter through an engine, and you'd just get a bunch of very high energy gamma rays anyway. It's really not a problem anyone has considered, though, because we're so far ... | 12 |
AskReddit/dj6blbf | 6ihazv | What was your best or worst one night stand? | Worst: Had a party at my place and a friend brought this guy and we hit it off. Everybody was drinking and having fun and we listened music as you do at parties. Then we went down town for a couple of hours until I decided that I should take this gorgeous guy home and f*k his brains out. Keep in mind I never met the gu... | 2 |
askscience/cxnlou6 | 3vbsrc | Why does a bouncy ball ever stop bouncing? | Well if a collision with the ground were truly elastic (the physics word for no energy being lost) than it would bounce back to 100% of its height. However, it would make no noise (sound is energy being carried off) and the ball itself would not deform in any way (also a diversion of energy from "bouncing" kinetic ener... | 2 |
AskReddit/c3tk2u4 | pzn88 | Can someone please explain to me how Rick Santorum is even being considered as an actual candidate? | He isn't. Even Rick Santorum doesn't really think he'll win the primary, or that he could win a general election. He's running because a credible second-place finish in the primary lifts his public profile sufficiently high that he can suckle at the Fox News teat as a political commentator, or get some cushy, high-payi... | 3 |
AskReddit/cj2py5h | 2b7b2c | What things make you smile at work? | I constantly sing at work. I ususally sing as loud as one would talk. I work in fast food, and whenever I go back to the dish area, or talk to to someone in the kitchen, I usually sing to them. I have also made a couple of Culver's related parody songs. Something else that makes me laugh when I'm at work is singing Imm... | 2 |
AskReddit/d063mmy | 46lpbc | Where do you stand on the Transgender Bathroom debate? | Are gay people currently making our restrooms unsafe for everyone? No? So explain to me again why you think trans people are. The bathroom debate is an easy, low effort excuse to drum up hatred towards the trans community. | 35 |
AskHistorians/c5ku9t6 | xad40 | What are some examples of dramatic cultural change over history? | 3 best examples I can think off the top of my head The example given already of Japan going through two major shifts in culture in a 100 year timespan, starting with the Meiji period int he 19th century and the post-WWII change. The conquest of Mexico led to a major reconstruction of Mexican society. Spain did not simp... | 3 |
AskReddit/c6ykoan | 12w07p | What facts, objects, or stories about your relatives are you extremely interested in? | Family history. There are lots of interesting (untold) stories about members of my family. Especially when these stories can be linked to significant historic events on the national or even global scale. | 2 |
AskReddit/c2eh29i | jr8kn | What's the strangest thing you've ever discovered after being burgled? | Maybe your mom borrowed your Wii? Lol kidding. One time after being burgled I was walking through the living room (this was in my parents house) and found a pair of pants.They didn't belong to any of us.The guy stole dad's TV but left us his pants. On a side note: They caught the guy after 4 hours, he was not wearing p... | 4 |
AskReddit/dcmlc82 | 5owniz | What are some lesser known ways of saving money? | Not necessarily lesser known, but I know before I thought that I wouldn't save money doing it. Pack a lunch for work everyday. Maybe it's just because I work EMS and we eat out a lot. But holy moly I saved some serious money just by packing a lunch everyday. | 2 |
AskReddit/ebpzarr | a5xagv | What is the biggest mind-blank you have had when it comes to maths? | I have an alarm clock that wont turn off unless i answer math problems. Not being able to add 2 digit numbers because my mind hasnt turned on yet always makes me feel like a 4 year old ​ | 2 |
AskReddit/ev8sx0n | cirrjn | How would you react if a black-eyed kid showed up at your door? | If we're talking about the supernatural black eyed children I'd watch them the whole time from my peephole in my door being as silent as possible. I'm highly curious about them but I wouldn't let them cross my door. If it's a child with a black eye imma mind my own business, I live in the ghetto, that kid just learned ... | 5 |
askscience/cf3slvo | 1wnivb | Why doesn't a gravity assist maneuver result in a net zero gain for the space ship? | Imagine a small object, A, in space with no apparent velocity. Now imagine another object, B, with significant gravity, zips by the A, too fast for the it to be sucked into a collision. As B approaches, A will move toward it, and as B passes, A will continue to move, with some velocity perpendicular to B's velocity, an... | 3 |
AskReddit/eamfs9c | a135cv | Why do christians think they own the rules of marriage? | I am not Christian, however I was raised Mormon where we are taught being married in the temple is the only way to be with your family eternally. If you are not married in the temple, your family will be “doomed” after death. Which also means people who are not Mormon (even parents) cannot see you get married. This hap... | 5 |
AskReddit/dgp3go5 | 67bczh | What are some effective ways to improve your vocabulary and sound smarter? | Higher vocabulary should be sought to improve your diction. If you have things to explain but don't have the words to do so, higher vocabulary will help; if you say the same things but with arbitrarily larger words, you'll not be helping your case. | 12 |
explainlikeimfive/ce2dq46 | 1sy3ll | What good is punitive justice? | There are, essentially, three theories to punishment in criminal justice. The first theory is utilitarian. We punish in order to rehabilitate, and bring people back into being productive members of society for the good of society. The second theory is deterrence. We punish in order to make it clear that crime (things s... | 2 |
askscience/cgesjj5 | 21nndw | How can a random process not be uniformly random, for an infinite number of trials? | > If I were to say to you, "what's the probability of randomly choosing a female/male?" one would immediately answer, "9/10 for the female and 1/10 for the male". However this answer seems to assume that the random process used to choose the male or female is uniformly random, i.e. each 100 people have an equal chance ... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/d3px9h5 | 4lskwy | How can people do extreme calculations like multiplying 6 digits by 6 digits within seconds in the game show Super Brain? | The actual strategy most people employ to solve math problems quickly is to identify points of cleavage where they can be broken down into smaller, simpler problems. For example, a few days ago someone asked me what two thirds of 505 is and I answered instantly, 336.6 repeating. Two thirds of 500 is 333, two thirds of ... | 3 |
AskReddit/e47ow08 | 97ec2b | What has been a situation that made you cry at your work place? | I fell asleep in the break room once and woke up with a note next to me that said go to the managers office. Once I got up there my boss sat me down and asked what was going on with me as my work had been consistently declining for a while and if I couldn't talk to him about whatever it was he was going to have to let ... | 63 |
AskHistorians/c7ucrip | 16axtr | Was there an anti-war/anti-fascist movement in Japan during WWII? | Ah man. Why can't anyone ask questions about ancient Japan. Well, to answer your question bluntly. No, there really wasn't a resistance in Japan. I'm sure there were people who didn't want to go to war, but you have to remember that before this, Japan was never a democracy. As opposed in Europe, where people who had di... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dhah6cg | 69z4av | Can someone explain to me primary and secondary succession? | Primary succession is where life begins in a completely barren land through the following process: Pioneer species: Rocks are colonised by mosses and lichens, which break down the rock, die and decompose to leave soil (mixture of rock and nutrients). Tolerant species: Small plants and grass can grow using the nutrients... | 4 |
AskReddit/ceh131p | 1udrrk | What double standards make you mad? | Minorities, under-privileged, discriminated, women, LGBT, or any groups of those kinds always ask for equality and fair treatment in any society, but when they get the changes that they want, they still overly oppose the norms and standards as if the discrimination continues to oppress them. They want equal rights? The... | 4 |
AskReddit/c09acj9 | 8hc36 | What's something you have done, or continue to do, that has significantly improved your overall happiness? | I continue to learn and that makes me very happy! The main thing that I have (sort of unintentionally) done that has brought me the most happiness is I have pulled away from humanity to a large extent. I have 1 real friend, my boyfriend and my mother and that is quite enough. I no longer worry about people liking me, a... | 8 |
AskReddit/d742081 | 50himr | What's was the worst day you've ever had? | Probably not my "worst" day. but at the very least an unpleasant and long one. It started with me waking up in a pool of booze scented vomit. and ended with me throwing up one last time before finally falling asleep near midnight | 2 |
AskReddit/cjde9dl | 2ca0co | What US military technology exists that other countries have not copied, or still do not possess? | I suspect the TR-3B might actually really exist. Despite the fact that it's widely considered conspiracy theory, and that the majority of information surrounding it comes from less than reputable sources, I have a feeling the claim is probably substantiated. It's not out of the scope of possibility. Military technology... | 2 |
AskReddit/cz2l6bf | 41idbz | What factors, external and/or internal, affected your career choice/career path? | The choice should've depended on what I am passionate about and what I love. However, unfortunately social pressures, family pressures and the necessity for a 'well payed job' ultimately shaped my career choice. | 2 |
AskReddit/cni2hu9 | 2rp64o | Do you have a nickname for a common, everyday thing that you're sure no one else in the world calls it? | My boyfriend's family calls the TV remote a "bopper" and the first time I heard it I was so confused. One of his siblings called it that as a toddler and it just stuck so I'm pretty sure no one else calls it that! | 4 |
AskReddit/e9cr6am | 9vivey | What is a chilling fact about the universe or life itself that will surely keep me awake at night? | Against the spirit of this post I want to say: You are here. Now, at this very moment, you are here. You may not be here forever and the Universe may not care, but, nonetheless, you are still here. It's okay to be scared, existential dread is not a sin, but at the end of the day you have to understand that the fact tha... | 205 |
AskReddit/c6z5g9x | 12y9zt | What kind of headaches am I getting? | You probably clench your teeth a lot. Do you drink a lot of coffee? I got a lot of headaches until I started wearing a mouth guard to bed. I was clenching a lot. | 2 |
AskReddit/dz2cj87 | 8jtn6e | What's the best instance of somebody working smart rather than hard that you've witnessed? | I haven't witnessed it, but I read about a guy who worked for a company doing some IT support i think. He outsourced his own job to India without his company knowing and just payed them a % of his wage. I think he got sacked in the end but it was a really good idea i though if no one found out! | 3 |
AskReddit/c9352eo | 1b2tqq | Is is weird to be completely for gay marriage/equality, but still feel odd or uncomfortable seeing two men displaying affection towards each other? | It is not odd. It is actually something humans do quite often. It is called Cognitive Dissonance: the ability to hold two diametrically opposed ideas or opinions at the same time. You support equality in marriage, and therefore believe that gay people should be allowed to marry legally. You are uncomfortable in the pre... | 5 |
AskReddit/efun2uy | anm94p | What do delivery drivers want everyone to know? | Don't assume you're my only delivery. When I was a driver in college for a Japanese restaurant I would have people be like, "I don't understand why you took so long, the restaurant is only 5 minutes away." and then get stiffed on a tip. Aside from the time it takea for the food to be made you also have to realize that ... | 297 |
AskReddit/egcv56x | aq1rud | What are the perfect cat names? | My cats' names are Harvey (split black and orange face, named after two face), Sparta (small, but feisty), and meow muthafukka (oddly enough she is an incredibly vocal cat). They were all named the day I got them, and their names are incredibly well fitting. I call meow muthafukka mnm for short. | 2 |
askscience/c7na3vq | 15k43t | How would a chameleon camouflage itself if it were on a mirror? | From what I learned in my recently completed biology class, a chameleon doesn't change color for camouflage at all. It's almost all completely due to emotional changes, such as if a male is challenging another male. | 3 |
askscience/c3jjqv8 | orikh | Why don't other animals go bald like humans? | Most animals that have furs need it to keep warm, and thus there is a negative selective pressure resulting from baldness. A wolf with a bald spot in winter gets frostbite. We don't, especially not since we can wear clothes and build houses. Some domesticated animals can suffer from alopecia, that is, baldness. Hairles... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cuoj7wl | 3jehyj | How do road crews manage to place cones on a freeway with traffic going 70+ mph? | One truck going around 5 MPH, placing cones every 20 feet or so with another truck behind them with a big arrow on the back indicating that the lane is ending and traffic needs to merge. | 23 |
AskReddit/daza84i | 5hd6z4 | As you grow older, what has life taught you? | That growing older, and dying, is ok. It might sound like a meme that your annoying aunt shares on Facebook, but 'let go of what you have no control over'. It helps you do more and enjoy life. You can't control the way people think or feel, you can't stop yourself ageing or dying, you can't save yourself if you're ever... | 2 |
AskReddit/dln975m | 6tsq6q | What is, single-handedly, the worst pain you have ever experienced? | I have a few that I can't decide which was the worst: Broke my arm as a child in such a bad way it never healed straight. Tooth abcess caused by a wisdom tooth cracking the one in front. Took 4 shots of novocaine to numb the pain and a drill in the jaw to break to broken tooth apart as it was wedged in. Getting my hand... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/c4pw7xo | tum25 | What, exactly, are the advantages of having the Euro as currency? | First, it makes it easier to do business with other Eurozone countries. Currency exchange is a big hassle, particularly when you are doing business in 3 or 4 different countries, and the odd currency fluctuation can eat up profits quickly. One currency is more efficient, and efficiency means companies can hire more peo... | 6 |
AskReddit/e5uvnfz | 9fa396 | What conspiracy theory, if proven true without a shadow of a doubt, would cause the most chaos in less than 24 hours? | I don’t know if it would cause chaos, but if the government admitted we didn’t really go to the moon, that’d be a pretty big freaking deal. (For the record, I don’t believe in this conspiracy theory.) | 4 |
Ask_Politics/dffdk04 | 61l8vg | Is voting along party lines by politicians not as prevalent in the U.S. system? | Political parties in the US are much looser coalitions than parties in the Westminster system. The party leadership doesn't really have that many ways to force members into complying. In particular, the US holds primary elections to determine who a party will nominate for a race. This is a pretty unique mechanism - in ... | 17 |
AskReddit/ervgmq5 | c49aqi | What's a rule in society that you just can't wrap your head around? | You're supposed to dedicate a majority of your life to work instead of things that make you happy, and even spending most of your time working you can't afford a comfortable life. | 9 |
explainlikeimfive/cfzrwck | 204jmh | Why is it that people with healed bone/joint injuries can feel it when the weather is about to change? | I broke my leg about 5 years ago (bad tib/fib fracture), and still have a metal rod inserted through the hollow part of my tibia. I can't tell when the weather is about to change, but it does get more sore on days with more humidity. Of course, all of my joints tend to be more sore on those kinds of days, but my bad kn... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cp73u8e | 2y82lk | If my cat was larger than me, would it try to eat me like a lion? | Cats are jerks so probably. But really, part of domesticating an animal is making them more docile and friendly towards humans, especially ones they know from a young age. So YOUR cat probably wouldn't kill you given the chance, but someone else's might. That said, once your pulse stops your cat would chow down, cats e... | 6 |
AskReddit/dbj4atb | 5juns2 | What do you think about religion? | I am religious, so I view religion favorably. What I don't view favorably is people telling me which religion I should follow, and how I should live my life, and what rights I should have based on their understanding of their own religions. | 2 |
AskReddit/dxlhulg | 8da5x8 | Why would a potential employer ask if I work at a University? | You may continue teaching on the side? I applied to be an adjunct teacher at my Alma Mater. They required an approval from my current employer, I presume in case they were afraid that teaching time may encroach on my work time. Those are all assumptions, but basically your exact experience from the other perspective. | 2 |
AskReddit/e1ljya9 | 8v99p4 | When you were a kid, which grownup/s was/were the most positive influence/s to encourage you to make good life choices? | I watched a lot of people, how they failed and what caused their failure. I looked at what made them successful and try to have knowledge about those things. If you see a person in a bad situation, ask yourself and them how did they get there? What can I do to never get in that situation? If you see a person in a good ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cnkjt43 | 2ryw92 | Why do lights flicker during a storm but other electronic devices seem unaffected? | Lights are connected directly to the AC Line power. Most electronic devices(TV's Radio, and small appliances) actually run on DC. They have a circuit inside that converts AC to DC. This circuit requires a filter to operate. The filter makes it immune to transient drops in AC power. Specifically, there is a large capaci... | 5 |
askscience/cg30b6j | 20dh17 | How can there be a "back door" into an encrypted tunnel? | This is a very complicated question. Security of your data depends on several components of your security system, including: encryption, which keeps 3rd parties from reading your data in transit data integrity, which keeps 3rd parties from altering your data in transit authentication, which ensures that identity of the... | 11 |
explainlikeimfive/csdcgof | 3ak3z4 | What exactly happens to trees when you take their bark off? | A tree's bark acts as a barrier to protect the sap wood from the elements, insects and bacteria. Removing it, creates an opportunity for insects get in and damage the tree. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cjii90g | 2cryz8 | Why do some soaps, particularly hotel ones, make your skin feel sticky while others do not? | Cheap soaps are very harsh and strip away the oil/waxy protective layer of skin, making it sticky (preemies have sticky skin because they don't have that protective layer). Cheap soaps are made with high lye content, petroleum products and other chemicals. | 2 |
AskReddit/cawgt5t | 1hp44q | What are the unsaid rules of etiquette on Facebook? | If there Were rules, I would love for them to include: Use punctuation or don't post. No text speak or made-up hashtags. Just because you got up early doesn't mean you should post #tiredmomma. Don't post your drama for the world to see. | 2 |
AskReddit/cwrn3au | 3rv9k6 | What is your video game horror story? | When I was about 7 or 8 me and my older sister used to play loads of video games. She loved the final fantasy games but whenever she was stuck she got me to help her. One time I remember having to fight this really tough boss. My sister was probably about a good 25 hours into the game but was nowhere near strong enough... | 2 |
AskReddit/ch7qzu5 | 24jj76 | What is your greatest drunken adventure story? | Around 1am, me and a few mates. We wandered off drunk around the block to the a nearby primary school. Found some pretty large boulders arranged as a feature, around 10 boulders all about 1m round. Spent about 30 minutes breaking our backs, rolling them to the middle of the school oval. Decided we'd make our own linear... | 3 |
AskReddit/dpkz3av | 7buxo4 | What are some telltale signs you just entered a “bad area”? | I once went into a McDonalds that had a sign up saying that if you took more than 30mins to eat your meal, they would call the police without warning. It was one of many indicators that it was not a nice area. Hard to enjoy my happy meal | 27 |
AskReddit/ecprt6s | aa6iod | How does religion handle the emergence of sentient, alien life? | No religion will have any problem dealing with aliens. If the nature of Earth has taught us anything on the topic however, it has taught us that the discovery of aliens would almost certainly lead to new diseases and open conflict or outright cleansing of our species or theirs. The odds aren't good for a amicable relat... | 2 |
AskHistorians/e2tulfo | 90xecv | What books do you recommend to read more about King Leopold & the Congo Free State? | Probably the most popular account is King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild. He is not a professional historian but the book is very well-written and based on scholarly and primary sources. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/e5g6w9i | 9d7hdj | How come that many people get creative thoughts when they try to sleep? | No sensory details such as vision and hearing to distract you from deep thought. Your brain isn’t receiving all that info so it has nothing to focus on. Same reason why you get great ideas or deep thoughts in the shower. | 2 |
AskReddit/dup3l0r | 7zl5oi | What was the biggest misconception you had about being an adult when you were a kid? | That adults all had a job, a house, and a car. At least, I was told that if you worked hard and stayed school you’d be guaranteed those things. One of the biggest lies ever told to children. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cvebuwx | 3mehsc | How do so many hundreds of people get killed in stampedes at Mecca? | Actually, if you asked a devout Muslim where/when he would want to die, he might say Mecca and he might want to die on the most spiritually fulfilling day of his life. Regardless, people weren't trampled because nobody cared or trampled anyone on purpose. People were trampled because there were MILLIONS of people in th... | 3 |
AskReddit/cvfjs7n | 3mjrcy | What do you find strange that people pay for? | Bottled water. Soooo much bottled water. I live in a city that has delicious, clean, pure water. No floaters.no weird taste. BUT! In this state (Oregon), we also have to pay a 5 cent deposit on most cans or bottles, including water. The amount of plastic water bottles I see other people feeding into those redemption ma... | 8 |
AskReddit/czapmqz | 42ixr5 | What subject makes your eyes roll into the back of your head whenever someone begins talking about it and why? | Women clambering on about equal rights, but only for their own benefit - not women that are actually classed as being less than men when in fact they are deemed perfectly equal. Don't jump on a bandwagon just because of your gender! My personal favourite is a colleague who will bring it up at any time she can, yet now ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dudy2mk | 7y6e0h | How do air-conditioners produce cold air when it's so hot outside? | An air conditioner can work as long as the compressed gas in the outside part can condense into a liquid. Let's look at how an air conditioner works. The science behind it is that when you squash a gas, it gets hot, and when you allow a gas to expand, it gets cold. You can feel this when you pump up a bike tyre - the p... | 6 |
AskReddit/c6wotdl | 12ny30 | If you could have a swimming pool full of anything edible, what would you have? | Italian White Alba Truffle. They can cost $160,406 each. I imagine a swimming pool full of them would net me a nice chunk of change when I sell it all. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c9tii4v | 1drbj7 | Why is Fox News calling Benghazi a scandal, but no one else? | The way I look at it from a neutral prospective is that something bad happened, people died, and the POTUS is an easy target to blame. The people calling this President Obama and co.'s fault are parallel to the people who claim 9/11 was President Bush's fault. It's easy to pin things we don't fully understand on a pers... | 3 |
AskReddit/d3obkvw | 4llteh | What word did you most recently learn you've been pronouncing or reading incorrectly your entire life? | I've only just found out there's a difference between me complimenting a pretty girl and me complementing a pretty girl 41 years old, degree educated Brit. I was horrified | 2 |
AskReddit/c8u9px5 | 1a58d2 | What new conspiracy theories do you think we'll see in the 21st century? | Future conspiracy theories: Humans didn't go back to the Moon, or landed on any asteroid or Mars. The world will come to an end at least five times the coming century, according to the Bible, Koran, and misinterpreted Sumerian texts. (Not counting any possible actual threats.) | 3 |
AskReddit/cnwdd82 | 2t7c5v | What should everyone keep in their car? | A first aid kit. Flashlight. Flares and/or a reflecting warning triangle. A blanket. A window cracker. A bottle of water. Oil and some coolant (if your car isn't an EV). | 6 |
AskReddit/eh0bame | atcvww | What is the best book that you read for school? | Of Mice and Men is an amazing book. It's not super long either, an adult could probably get through it in a day easily. The story is actually captivating and makes you want to keep reading to know what happens next. No spoilers but dang that ending was one of the most emotional times I've had while reading a book. | 2 |
AskReddit/etn0vz3 | cci0t8 | What discontinued food item do you miss the most? | Not discontinued, but recipe was changed. The old style chicken nuggets from burger king (shaped like a crown and sometimes a dinosaur). Was really good. Slightly spicy and peppery. Really great taste. The current ones taste like deep fried cardboard, which is an improvement because for a period after they lost the goo... | 38 |
AskReddit/cau85dz | 1hgvxz | As a British Person who has no such thing, what does the Constitution mean to 21st Century Americans? | Aside from the stock answers (which there are plenty of already), I would say what makes the Constitution exceptional is that it is not a person. The Constitution does many things, but most importantly it keeps the people in government in check: no one single person, or even group of people, can ever go above the Const... | 4 |
AskReddit/c2o8fvq | kyab3 | What's one song by a popular band that is not as well known as you think it should be? | Almost anything by the Ramones. Rockaway Beach, I Wanna Be Sedated, Questioningly. How these songs weren't hits is just beyond me. After they broke up the mainstream rock press were big fans but never gave them any press when they were around. They were probably the most influential American band ever. | 2 |
AskReddit/dlj3plb | 6ta6zj | If you could go back or forward in time for half a hour, when would you go and what would you do? | I'd go back to the late 80's and tell my dad not to accept the doctor's diagnosis that it's just a stomach ulcer. It was about another year before he got a 2nd opinion and it turned out to be bowel cancer. Went through lots of treatment and pain but it was too late by that time | 2 |
AskReddit/c75v53w | 13p3d2 | How come people say "how come" when it's just as long as "why does" and longer than "why do" and makes less sense? | How come you're asking? Why do you ask? Hello. Yello. What's up? How's it going? Long time no see. Hi. What's shaking? How are you? It's good to see you again. How have you been? How's it hanging? Howdy. Why would anyone say anything longer than "hi"? Or, why do people bother to acknowledge other people's presence in t... | 2 |
AskReddit/c6cawvi | 10cdz6 | What's your best out-of-school encounter with a teacher? | I stayed friends with a cool teacher after high school. We went to the beach and hiking together when I was on summer vacation. One day she suggested her nephew and I might be interested in each other and got her daughter to invite us over at the same time. She was right, he and I got married this spring and had our re... | 2 |
AskReddit/cmakunq | 2n5t73 | What can I learn right now in 10 minutes that will be useful for the rest of my life? | If you are choking on something and cant get it out by coughing then get on all fours, then let yourself fall onto your chest and at the same time exhale. This shuld Help you. Really doesent even take 10 seconds to do and could save your life at some point | 579 |
AskReddit/dkiinsc | 6omky1 | If you could bring back one discontinued product, what would it be? | It's not discontinued but extremely hard to find/no one carries it anymore. Mountain Dew: Live Wire. It's just Orange Mtn. Dew but it was my version of crack cocaine. | 3 |
AskReddit/c1f645s | fdrsc | What lessons can World leaders learn from the current situation in Egypt? | They can learn again what they already know. The Egyption riots and protests are a direct result of Wall Street corruption, the deregulation of commodity markets in the 1990's. Spearheaded by Goldman Sachs, the price of food has skyrocketed for the Third World and developing nations. Mubarark isn't a great guy but worl... | 2 |
AskReddit/d3lszep | 4lb3h2 | Did you move to a city you love and then find a job, OR did you find a job you like and move to that city? | Moved all the way from Texas to Washington state because of work. Now I'm moving back to Texas because of even better work. You follow the work because good careers are hard to find. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/ddxv5z2 | 5uyczi | In nutritional science, why are things that are considered healthy one day suddenly seen as unhealthy the next day, and vice versa? | Nutritional science is far from an exact science. It's still very young, compared to other sciences, and it's difficult to retrieve subjective data from research. Different people metabolize sugars, fats, etc. in very different ways. For instance, there was that documentary on the front page a few weeks ago about a 100... | 3 |
AskReddit/dbd954o | 5j3yvb | What do you know about Nebraska? | Nebraska is a midwestern U.S. state encompassing the prairies of the Great Plains, the towering dunes of the Sandhills and the panhandle’s dramatic rock formations. Lincoln, the capital and a vibrant university town, is distinguished by its soaring state capitol. The city of Omaha is home to the Durham Museum, which ho... | 2 |
AskReddit/cg025wi | 205qcn | Why are names so overused and common? | People often name their children in honor of another person. (usually a relative, sometimes even the father. So, patterns and trend are going to unavoidable. Names need to be memorable and usable in human language. Naming your kid jxilamhw, then anyone who is introduced to "jxilamhw" would take forever to learn their n... | 3 |
AskReddit/c29st0z | j71yn | What is the most ridiculous thing a SO has ever done for you? | I have a story, but it's one that the other-way around - the most ridiculous thing I've ever done for my SO. She was a radiation therapy student doing her practical assessment down in Wagga Wagga, which is about 8 hours drive from Sydney. I managed to catch the last plane out of Sydney (after telling her that I'd see h... | 8 |
AskReddit/cwastyr | 3pzg5l | What makes having kids worth it-- or not? | I never really imagined having kids, but life never works out how you think. To be very honest, it's amazing. I spend as much time with him as I possible can, watching him grow and learn things that you teach him. I've never loved anything as much as I love that kid. | 2 |
AskReddit/dd664am | 5rck04 | What was student council like in your school? | Helped to organize dances, school trips and such. I was student council VP my senior year. Also, Like Dalek1234 pointed out, plenty of out of class time. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/crhd71d | 36vc0g | What is "applied" mathematics and how is it different from regular mathematics? | By 'regular' Mathematics you are probably referring to 'pure' Mathematics, which basically boils down to trying to understand numbers, concepts and theories in Mathematics. 'Applied' Mathematics is concerned with those theories and concepts which can be 'applied' to other topics and real world situations; think enginee... | 7 |
AskReddit/euu0x5g | chjuco | What's your most reoccurring dream theme? | The only reoccurring dream I used to have was a really, really long time ago. I was about 5-ish and I kept having dreams that my mom would just leave me places. It wasnt a single dream that kept repeating exactly, but it had the same theme. I was left at meijers, parks, some random driveway of a house that looked like ... | 2 |
askscience/c8zn6cm | 1apqzb | If a black hole formed shortly after recombination, how much would it have grown by now due to cosmic microwave background radiation? | Despite my earlier wrongness, I have an answer. 12 kg or 26 lbs every million years. This is the rate at the current temperature, I'm far too lazy to calculate for a cooling background temperature. EDIT: How I did it, WolframAlpha queries: cosmic background temperature radiant flux 2.725K blackbody black hole 10 solar ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ee3otf8 | ag4sfj | What mental illness do you suspect you have, but have not yet had diagnosed by a therapist? | Many years ago, as a child (I'm 24 now), I was diagnosed with depression. I'm not sure which kind, it's chronic and acts like a roller coaster. More recently, I've been concerned that I am exhibiting signs of bipolar disorder. I have had a few episodes that last weeks/months of destructive behavior, mixed with severe d... | 101 |
explainlikeimfive/cnh8ezp | 2rme0w | Can i kill someone when shooting an AK or similar in the air and the bullets drop lets say in a big crowd? | Not if you fire the bullet straight up. If you do, the bullet only has momentum in the X direction. It will rise until gravity has sapped all that momentum. At that point, for an instant, the bullet will not be moving and have zero momentum. The only energy the bullet will have now is potential energy from gravity, muc... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/da99ciw | 5e2pxv | Why are lips the only part of your body that can have chapped skin? | They're not the only part of your body that can be chapped, but it's more noticeable when your lips are chapped than say, your arms. You're constantly moving your lips, either to eat/drink, speak, or make facial expressions, so if the skin is dry and chapped you're going to notice when you move your mouth. On a place l... | 3 |
AskReddit/cilxp9r | 29kzjs | What nice thing can you say about someone in this thread based on their post history? | One time in a thread a little while ago, someone commented the same word on three of my posts and I jokingly asked him if he was following me. Then literally hundreds of people started going through my history and commented on everything, even stuff from months ago and in different subreddits, with the same word. Somew... | 2 |
AskReddit/c4tuza2 | ub6gn | What if you could rent a smart phone? | Yeah lets rent smart phones so the companies we rent from can save our information and then sell it for profit once our contract runs out. Sounds awesome. | 2 |
AskReddit/e37mw5t | 92qcc8 | What are some words of wisdom that someone shared that really stuck with you? | Some dumbass graced me with his presence while I was waiting tables on third shift and he exuberantly told me “Be good, or be good at it.” It really stuck with me because it’s probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. | 2 |
AskReddit/dim04hh | 6fyesu | What's a original and romantic way to ask her to be your girlfriend ? | I doubt it's original or romantic (this depends on the individual) but when there is a lighthearted moment between the two of you, spontaneously/randomly blurt out "it feels like we're a couple, doesn't it?" (or something similar) That could possibly take you to the next next level, or frighten her away. I have no idea... | 3 |
AskReddit/cxx0dwh | 3wkhaq | What experience is impossible to really understand until it happens to you? | Living alone. For a long time. I've lived alone my whole life. Friends think how great it must be, having the house to myself, free to do whatever I want, etc. Sure they'd like it. For the first few weeks. But it gets old, coming home after work to a silent empty house, spending the evenings in total silence, finally g... | 2,846 |
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