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askscience/c3t6cil | py7q4 | Why does Hubble telescope take fantastic, detailed photos of nebulae and even other galaxies, but terrible photos of Pluto? | Pluto is so small that even though it's (relatively) close, it's still very hard to get images of it. Things like nebulae are very far away, but very large. The angular resolution of the Hubble telescope is around 0.05 arcseconds. The angle subtended by Pluto is around 0.11 arcseconds (as far as I can find). So the bes... | 17 |
AskReddit/d3en33n | 4kg33p | What is that one song that reminds you of a moment and what is the moment it reminds you of? | To the moon and back. It reminds me of the first time I kissed a girl that I had a huge crush on. The next day she broke my heart and started dating another guy. I still dream of her sometimes. | 2 |
askscience/c25s5la | iq9jl | Does putting your hard drive into a freezer really help it start working again? | It depends on how it fails. I have personally seen some broken hard drives that were frozen, and then recovered enough to get the information off (they become totally broke shortly after that). There are some plausible failure modes for which it might work: Heat from normal operation causing things to warp slightly, an... | 6 |
AskReddit/da5mik8 | 5dme9f | How do you deal with an increasing sense of cynicism/nihilism as you age? | You grow up and get more life experience. Then you realize that cynicism and nihilism aren't the right response to every situation. I can usually tell when someone young or fairly sheltered posts, because extreme cynicism/sarcasm, etc. are tools of people trying to appear more sophisticated and worldly than they really... | 2 |
AskReddit/dgb5one | 65lcfl | How do horses behave towards people who are high on psychedelics? | I've been around dogs and cats while rolling/tripping. They react mostly the same as long as you behave mostly the same. They can probably tell youre behaving different, but as long as youre not being crazy, it wont matter. I strongly recommend not playing with horses while tripping, though. | 3 |
AskReddit/dhwjauu | 6cq1wa | What's the worst best man speech you've seen? | I already posted a best man speech, but can I also contribute a groom speech that I will remember until the day I die? I attended a wedding of a neuroscientist and some other kind of medical researcher a few years back. I was the plus one of an immunologist. Everyone at this wedding had either a PhD or an MD or an PhD ... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/ci1xb3a | 27kaws | How do ant colonies survive rain? | Most of the rain is probably absorbed by the soil, or seeps deeper, past the colony. A little water isn't a huge deal, unless an ant is trapped inside a water droplet and can't break the surface tension to escape. | 2 |
AskReddit/cuta5wv | 3jy3ei | What are some nightlife activities that doesn't involve clubbing or a bars? | A lot of amusement parks have night time activities, and you can hang out there on multiple days to see different things, or just to enjoy the restaurants and games and favorite attractions. It's usually possible to get weekly or seasonal passes that significantly reduce the cost of admission, especially if you're just... | 2 |
AskReddit/e6b6ypi | 9hdkli | What was the worst incident at your school? | Quiet guy from the next class attempting murder-suicide on a girl in his class. It happened in their classroom while most of the guys in both our classes, including myself, were at soccer practice. Our classrooms were the only two on our floor that were for the same grade, so most of us knew one another. We even founde... | 2 |
askscience/c89z0cf | 17yd6e | Do so-called "brain training" games really work? | I'm sure you'll get a lot of empirical articles here, and I encourage people to read them. However, here is the basic summation of what we know so far: "Brain training" activities improve performance on the specific activity you're training with. Most of those improvements, however, don't translate to improvements on o... | 64 |
askscience/d14r9sr | 4az3qo | How can a molecule be polar, but hydrophobic? | If a molecule has a polar and non-polar end, it has the ability to form micelles, which, when their hydrophobic ends point outwards are hydrophobic. As for PLA, in my undergrad experience, it looks as if it's not polar, as there are 2 oxygen atoms with partial negative charges on opposite sides of the molecule, making ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0zgviq | ddujt | Does my 12 year old really need her own mobile phone? | > My daughter is adamant that ALL her friends have phones and she's totally missing out by not having one. Probably true. > My wife thinks we should get her one and that I'm being a tightwad. I'm supposed to just fork over hundreds of dollars a year so my kid can send texts all day? Absolutely not. Your wife clearly do... | 10 |
AskReddit/coynjlv | 2xbkd6 | Do you consider suicide a cowardly option? | Cowardly? Never. It's hard to do. Some say it is selfish, I believe it is selfish of others to push one to the point they believe it's their only option. Think about everything you would leave behind. It is a hard thing to do. There is always some one there, even I am open to PM. | 4 |
AskReddit/el7jaqs | bepee5 | What is your sleep paralysis story? | I dont know if this is what you mean wuth sleep paralysis story but as child I woke up sometimes at night seeing myself standing next to my bed burning alive. I couldn't move and just stare at my burning self. | 3 |
AskReddit/d8bgpbk | 55kz9g | What is your opinion on North Korea? | They are one of the worst dictatorships in the world, the horrors that go on in their labor camps we can only imagine, and it is going to be a logistical nightmare when North Korea collapses and China and South Korea have to deal with a huge influx of refugees. We whine about 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S.? Imagine... | 6 |
AskReddit/d4e510g | 4onv2c | What differences do you think there are between people who read a lot and people who don't? | The ability make "movies" as they read. I have noticed that many people I've met that read for pleasure see the events of a book play out like a movie in their minds as they read, frequently with the faces being blurs. On the other hand many non readers I describe this to don't see that movie in my personal experience. | 23 |
AskReddit/c6zhwo1 | 12zomg | What do you live for? | Basically nothing; I live in the present. Life is a linear line that follows time and where we cannot predict the future - and i wont spend my time predicting where i'll be in 30 years. I take everything as it comes and my choices are based on what i feel like doing now; that way i'm sure that everything i do is by hea... | 3 |
AskReddit/dgwd73v | 687g37 | What was one event that divided your life into "before" and "after"? | I see my life divided into 3 parts: home, 2nd home and 3rd home. I moved from country to country. Can't imagine what life must be like for army brats! In retrospect it really shaped who I am now but back then being a teenager was hard enough. Overcoming a language and culture barrier was too much on top of that. | 2 |
AskReddit/csfdtu8 | 3armrw | What's something people always do in movies that seems super easy/common, but is actually really hard in real life? | Shooting a weapon accurately isn't ANYTHING LIKE they show on screen. The good guy just points the barrel in the general vicinity of the bad guy, pulls the trigger and every single shot hits. It's not like that in real life. | 2 |
AskReddit/dq4uc2i | 7egmad | What's it like being friends with a celebrity? | My friend is a AA model. Friends on FB, it is cringey to read the 'model philosophy' statuses because I am bit of a cynic. Going to parties is great, it is interesting how she gets calls and paid to show up at a party. And since she is all over the world we don't meet that often. We mostly write on fb. But she runs her... | 5 |
AskReddit/c6akt1b | 105i94 | Why did you start doing meth at all? | At first it was because it was available to me and I could use it, in an almost rebellious sort of way. Then, I realized I could get my calculus homework done much better. (Math on meth was a lovable little phrase I used to tell myself.) Then, I realized I could clean and organize everything better on it. Then, I reali... | 6 |
AskReddit/da31n2c | 5dacy2 | What do the general public not realize or appreciate about your job? | Magazine journalist. The public don't realise that many many mags now are put together by one, two or three full time staff. It's not like 20 years ago with big teams. Sure, Vanity Fair and Vogue and a few others still have big teams and big budgets, but most mags are run by a few people with a tiny editorial budget. M... | 3 |
AskReddit/cz1ht0u | 41de4n | What is the greatest pain you've ever felt? | In seemingly very loving relationship with girl for 7 years. Moved to a city after 4.5 years. Had wad of cash for a ring. Found out she was a brothel prostitute for the last 2 years, lying about every facet of our relationship. Keeping up a perfect act while sleeping with over 400 men. Never felt more horrific devastat... | 440 |
AskReddit/cx9sekx | 3twblb | What is the worst non-physical pain you've ever felt? | Isn't them mind still technically physical? I am normally very honest but I have told some large lies to protect others, which left me guilt ridden. The worst may have been telling my parents I did not get my girlfriend pregnant even though it could have been mine. My sister had a child at 16 and I did not want to put ... | 2 |
AskReddit/e801m4l | 9p9sxy | What unorthodox method did your parents use on you that worked? | They threatened call the cops on me unless i drink my milk. Now I'm almost 2 meters tall, very tolerant to lactose and scared of the police but i guess it worked. | 2 |
AskReddit/cin6cts | 29opqq | What book/series would you really like to see adapted for the big screen? | The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. The world and setting of the books are beautiful, but I'd prefer to see it become a television series, due to the amount of content within the books. | 2 |
AskReddit/ce8u60z | 1tkfjm | What is your best babies and/or pets raiding the pantry story? | A dog called doogle that I know is constantly raiding a huge food cupboard at a local restaurant. One time somebody left a smartphone in there.for some reason the dog chose to eat this over all the other food. It ate it completely whole. | 2 |
AskReddit/edggyh8 | adfklz | Who are the greatest villains of all time and what makes them the greatest? | Kefka, from Final Fantasy 6. Because he did what very few villains ever could: He destroyed the world. And there's no fixing it. The world doesn't get better when you defeat him. All people can do is try to exist on the world they saw literally torn apart. But also, Kefka didn't mean to do any of this. He just acted on... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/criabg7 | 36yqyw | What is that feeling when you're talking to someone about something serious, where your head feels out of body and you feel so far away from the person, but they're right in front of you? | It probably has to do with attempting to suppress your body's fight or flight response. Serious talks make people nervous and your body releases adrenaline when you get nervous. So now your instincts are telling you that you should be running away or fighting, but you're in the middle of a conversation, so obviously yo... | 14 |
AskReddit/eatkq5s | a1xqh0 | What commercials do you hate? | All of them. I never watch TV and it's kinda jarring when I'm at someone's house and commercials come on. Like, people go nuts over 30 second ads on Youtube but seem fine with 3-5 minutes of them on TV. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/earktbu | a1ob30 | How can looks and attractiveness be subjective if everyone’s visual system is wired in the same way? | You might as well say if we’re wired the same way, why do we all speak different languages. The human brain is very plastic. The appropriate ways to interact with the world, to determine standards, are learned, just as much as language is learned. We are all products of our environment. We may start out in life without... | 7 |
askscience/c33f34o | ms5ti | Could dark energy just be whatever started the big bang continuing to push outward on the fabric of the universe? | Think of the Big Bang and the expansion as a kind of initial condition rather than a force, like throwing a ball up in the air. Dark energy is like that ball speeding up away from the ground after you throw it. So no, they're two quite separate things. | 2 |
AskReddit/dua0sc8 | 7xp0o0 | What is the scariest film that doesn't resort to cheap jump scares? | I have to say "The Ring" There ARE admittedly a few jump scares, but most of the movie just delivers this cold, foreboding feel. The color pallet and soundtrack during the whole movie just helps you feel generally afraid and uneasy. I lost sleep over that movie when it first came out. | 2 |
AskReddit/eril20j | c29h7m | What three things would you bring on a tropical island in the middle of nowhere with zombie-like creatures? | Same thing I would bring to anywhere anytime in any of these survival scenarios. A good big knife, a good big pot, and a good big flint and steel. | 2 |
AskReddit/db3t3a1 | 5hxvyi | What's a movie you have watched that was ruined for you because of outside influences and can't watch it again? | I know that 20 years ago, "The Usual Suspects" was ruined for a lot of Londoners when somebody drew an arrow on loads of the film posters on the London Underground pointing to Keyser Söze & added the caption "he did it". | 2 |
AskReddit/cafpua0 | 1g10ag | What is something you would go to jail for? | Probably some sort of accidental indecent exposure. This isn't something I would willingly go to jail for, but it does answer your question. If ever I were to be in jail it would probably be because I did something by accident. Like indecent exposure. Whilst urinating. In a children's playground. | 2 |
AskReddit/c6b2nax | 107mre | What is your exotic pet? | Not sure if this counts as exotic, but when I was younger my mom had rats. A lot of people think rats are gross, but they're incredibly intelligent, more social than other rodents commonly kept as pets, and full of personality. Now I'm just a dog person, though. | 3 |
AskReddit/cl42d6i | 2iowft | What video game are you playing right now? | BF4 because I'm bored. In the last month I've become one of the top ranked Medics in Nevada. I primarily play Metro/no explosives so I'm averaging something like 50-70 revives a game. I like to find people complaining about no medics around and revive them before their dead body hits the ground. | 8 |
askscience/c4jozyl | t5g42 | In regards to a black hole, what does it mean for space to be moving faster than light? | I'm not sure what they're referring to because I don't have sound on this computer, and that's a weird way of phrasing things. Around a rotating black hole there's a region called an ergosphere, in which it is impossible to stand still. In effect, the space around the black hole is rotating with it, and to resist that ... | 6 |
AskReddit/ci0rnsf | 27h7ao | Why did you drop out of university/college/high school? | Just in case anyone reads this thread looking for reasons to drop out, I have the opposite story: Was struggling at University, in my third year of a pretty intense science degree, and my advisor told me I wouldn't pass, and recommended dropping out. I went against his advice, and by having no social life managed to sc... | 2 |
AskReddit/e9nbp4g | 9wu8i6 | What do you dip ur fries in? | Tartar sauce, as it is the best condiment for fries, bar none. Runners up include: ketchup (particularly of the curry or jalapeno variety), fry sauce, mayo, malt vinegar, taco bell fire sauce. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eev50up | ajfns1 | Do Asian/Eastern languages have similar words or phrases that people who do not speak the language would be able to recognise or accurately guess the meaning, like how western languages such as English and German have words and phrases that are practically identical minus spelling changes? | To an extent; I'm going to focus on east Asian languages, because they're what I'm most familiar with. It's worth noting that Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean all exist in separate language families - Japonic, Sino-Tibetan, and Koreanic, respectively. Some words have been shared over the course of centuries and millennia... | 7 |
AskReddit/ekhg2fu | bbaqal | What's the most precious item, or collection, that you found out your parents sold while you weren't looking? | This is pretty mundane but just to give you an idea of what I mean: For me it was my collection of Goosebumps books. I had every single one of the original series and collected them/read them as they came out. I even had Goosebumps linens and a wall mural in my room, I loved the whole theme. A year or so after I'd move... | 2 |
AskReddit/d3vh7zi | 4mh31r | What was your "I'm getting old" moment? | When I couldn't pass my granddaughter off as my daughter. I did manage it for awhile when they were under ten, now I'm looking too old. Although my 62 wife did pass our 13 year old granddaughter off as our daughter at a ski chalet. For my wife, when said granddaughter starting stealing her dress and shoes - and they fi... | 3 |
AskReddit/e5akl3t | 9cgogy | What's a post you made that you thought should have made it to Hot? | My boyfriend had me post a meme on his behalf since he has no karma. But it was a “it’s free real estate”meme with Brock Turner’s face. a little harsh imo but I thought it would make it to Hot | 2 |
AskReddit/ejkor26 | b6j4bx | What was the moment that a company/employer made you think this place is going down the drain better find a new job? | Bar I worked at. we were always out of something, but it was when we ran out of multiple food items, the liquor stock had pretty much dried up, and people who had worked there for a while stopped showing up for work. I knew the place was going out of business. Before long, paychecks started bouncing, then the entire ki... | 3 |
AskReddit/enp02u1 | bp60c6 | Are you Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, and why? | I'm personally pro-choice. Not because of feminism or the nature of life and consciousness, but just because I believe the choice itself should be legal. I may not agree with any given abortion scenario, but there are circumstances in which I can understand that it's the only available option, and that can't be ignored... | 4 |
AskReddit/e3gb4wa | 93u4cs | What was life like growing up under communist rule? | Surprised to see that there are no real answers here. I was born and raised in China until I was eleven years old, so I feel like I should be qualified to answer this question. Despite what some might assume about life in Communist China, those eleven years were arguably the best years of my life (I'm 20 y/o now). I gr... | 14 |
askscience/c4oxha6 | tqt0a | How does evolution play a role in creating a blind animal, like moles/naked mole rats? | It's not that having smaller/less functional eyes is beneficial per se, it's that normally, if an animal that relies on its eyes to get through the day is born with a mutation that makes it's eyes smaller or less functional, it might be less likely to survive and reproduce, and thus there is selection to prevent the lo... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/c2t6jzx | ljg0u | Why when I plug my nose my voice sounds different? | Your voice starts at your vocal chords. Your mouth, throat and nasal cavities are are part of an "air chamber" that your voice resonates in. Since your voice is made by air moving past your vocal chords - that air has to go out someplace. Usually your mouth and nose. That flow, shape, and volume of those spaces all det... | 3 |
AskReddit/e0fq27o | 8q1no1 | What’s your “Back in my day, we…”? | Back in my day we used to go to friends' houses and knock and ask to play. Back in my day calling your crush mid afternoon was a huge risk because her dad or brothers were home. | 5 |
AskReddit/cd4xlmo | 1pqh6d | What's the strangest thing you've ever heard from a person during a first date? | I'll start it off. I went on a date when I was back in grad school. I met her online and we agreed to meet up at a coffee shop and listen to some music. We seemed to be having a good time, so we headed over to the college's student union and did some bowling. I was walking her back to her car and said I had a good time... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/d35sysc | 4jdva2 | How can a country be trillions of dollars in debt, and still be importing goods/paying for services? | In the same way someone can have a 40,000 dollar mortgage and still be able to buy food and clothes. Country debt is a very regulated financial product. It is a good way to invest (very low risk) which is why people are more than happy to lend money to the government. And the government promises (and has so far always ... | 14 |
explainlikeimfive/chwsnv0 | 272n71 | If you fired a handgun in space, would the bullet casing have to be ejected manually because there isn't any gravity or would the gun still operate normally? | Gun would operate normally. Automatic and semi-automatic weapons use a portion of the resulting gas created by the firing bullet to push back the slide and eject the shell casing from the gun. Note that with firing weapons, the shell flies out rather than just trickles or rolls out. This indicates that its more than ju... | 6 |
AskReddit/c9jftmi | 1cs4jx | What are some things I should know when living on my own for the first time? | Save. Especially if your car isnt very reliable. Pay bills on time to build credit so if you ever need a loan youll most likely get it. I always try to save half my rent, half power, etc everytime i get paid. Also you can build up credit on power or phone bills so you can skip a month or two. If youre going to be livin... | 3 |
AskReddit/ek39yt1 | b9asw3 | Why is fish not considered a "meat"? | It is meat. However, in many places where Christianity prevails, the culture views fish separately. The Catholic church said (in Latin), that on certain days you should eat no meat (which in Latin is carnis). The Latin word carnis translates more to flesh of land dwelling warm-blooded mammals. Which fish ain't. | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/ekqd74l | bcg5ui | Why does tree bark grow as chunks that can be easily pulled off rather than a continuous protective "skin" that would be hard to break in large pieces? | Animals rub against and claw at trees all the time, and if bark peeled like a tangerine skin, the tree could be debarked easily by one animal. In fact, it could be "ringed" even easier. That's when you carve a ring around a tree trunk, creating a small gap in the bark all around the tree. This cuts the vascular tissue ... | 6 |
askscience/cgxh3iv | 23igqo | Are there any genes within humans or animals that are prone to mutation or more likely to mutate than others? | Yep, it's called somatic hypermutation and it serves an important purpose within the immune system. Time for quick, simplified and probably flakey explanation. As you probably know, DNA -> RNA -> proteins. Antibodies are special, because there have to thousands of them in the hope that for any given antigen that gets i... | 2 |
AskReddit/ega19sy | apo42m | What are some excuses that are worse than “The dog ate my homework”? | I once claimed “my loafer ate my homework”. I made the effort to actually do the homework, then rip it up and stuff it in a shoe. My friends and I thought it would be funny. My teacher disagreed as I tried pulling out shreds of math homework to prove I had actually done it | 81 |
AskReddit/diopmhx | 6g94eg | What is the most beautiful song you have ever heard? | Perth- Bon Iver I find a lot of songs beautiful, however, because many of them hit me right when I need it. I recently cried over a kpop song because it was just the absolute right time to be haunting and beautiful. | 33 |
AskReddit/ctppio5 | 3flers | What is your rude celebrity story? | My mom worked in a Chicago TV newsroom back in the 70s. She would meet a lot of stars there for interviews. But the only story that truly seemed to impact her was her experience with Lucille Ball. She has told me my whole life that she was an evil, mean woman. According to her, Lucy treated everyone around her like ser... | 13 |
AskReddit/c2s9a4c | lfiz9 | Are any "As Seen On TV" products actually worth buying? | Hercules Hooks have worked out so far. I have not tested any weight claims they have made, but they work just as well as any screw or wall anchor, but the hole is pretty small. I think aqua globes (glass ball with stem you put into a potted plant) were a TV product at one point. They tend to make smaller plants tipsy, ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c52srk1 | vaoph | What do you think is the meaning of life? | There doesn't have to be any meaning to it. We quest for a meaning simply because humans want to be told how to live their life; it's a thin line. We want direction, but we don't want to be controlled. We overlook the small things when the answer is right in front of us. The purpose of life, simply, is to live and expe... | 5 |
AskReddit/e8kwa3q | 9rzkj6 | How soon into your relationship did you partner tell you that they loved you? | A day short of us being together for a month. I said it first. I told him I knew it was probably socially unacceptable to say it so soon, but that I had to anyway because I was shouting it inside of my head every time I looked at him. He said it back and that I shouldn't care about what's socially acceptable. When we t... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d43okks | 4ngl1p | Why do people like knowing celebrities' life? | Because their recognition of those celebrities makes them unconsciously think of them as part of their social group. So they're interested in their activities in the same way they're interested in the activities of their friends and family. Moreover, unlike their actual friends and family, celebrities have PR reps work... | 4 |
AskHistorians/cc904zj | 1mfxuy | Was the fact that Adolf Hitler did not have a wife and children a PR problem? | There was a lot of explanations floated around, but the official reason was that Hitler was father of Reich, 'married' to his job as Chancellor, and that he was too busy for relationships while transforming the nation into an Aryan superpower. But not only was his sexual life kept secret, so was the existence of his fa... | 60 |
AskReddit/ctzydcs | 3go5st | Why do people hate GMO food, but have no problem with GMO pot? | This is an example of "Not even wrong." Because there is no GM marijuana. There is almost no GM food. (See Hawaiian, papaya and some limited squash). It is likely that most people have never seem fresh GM produce much less purchased it What mostly exists is ingredients derived from GM plants. Sugars and oils. which con... | 4 |
AskReddit/dim80lf | 6fyy3o | What are some of the things you love most about your SO? | He pays attention to the little things and is super thoughtful. (I get cold easily and he's constantly doing things specifically so I stay warm. like when he leaves for work, he lays more blankets on top of me because he knows w/o his body heat I'll start to get cold) He's smart, intuitive, and determined. He thinks li... | 2 |
AskReddit/erp8y1v | c37zee | How do you fix a horrible sleep schedule? | Identify the time you become tired Starting from that time, go to bed each night 10-15 minutes earlier Over time your sleep schedule will gradually go back to normal Also avoid blue light 2-3 hours before bed. Keep your phone out of the bedroom when you sleep or just out of your reach if you use it as an alarm. Exercis... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/erxb2am | c4mvaw | What’s an offshore account? | Offshore means not-in-the-country, or international. Generally, however, an offshore bank account is an account in a country that allows you to keep your banking confidential and protected from your own government. Usually as a means to keep the money secret so as not to pay taxes in your country or for hiding dirty mo... | 9 |
AskReddit/c5chewv | wdlb1 | What seemingly insignificant moment in your life ended up to be very important to you later on? | My mom always let me make my own decisions, except for once: choosing what language I would study in high school. We met with the counselor on freshman day to choose my classes and I said I wanted to study Latin. My mom said, "Cait, choose a language that isn't dead. Seriously. Study Spanish." I reluctantly agreed and ... | 2 |
askscience/cboddbq | 1kffhc | Why do lasers not push things at the speed of light? | imagine you take one of those little spring-loaded ping pong ball guns and fire it at a bowling ball. The bowling ball may begin to roll, but it will be travelling much more slowly than the ping pong ball was. That's because collisions are about transfers of momentum. So light, while it's travelling very quickly, has n... | 16 |
AskReddit/ecux8yf | aatm4o | What is the best tech available for $100 or less? | There's 7" android tablets on sale for under $100 cdn right now. I'm trying to decide between Samsung or RCA. The latter is slightly cheaper but comes with a keyboard case. The Amazon fire tablet is $60 These are great prices for decent specs. Enough for anything I'll do. | 3 |
AskReddit/dji7kw4 | 6jzwk9 | What are the biggest secrets / conspiracies that have been made public and proven to be true? | Reading the recent post about conspiracies that you think maybe true made me wonder. Reddit, what's the biggest secret or conspiracy that has been released and proven true? There's tonnes of theories where huge amounts of people would know about and be involved in. This would open ample opportunity for the truth to be ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ds9r50f | 7oim6m | What scary thought you can't get out of your head? | That I’m going to die, doesn’t happen very often anymore but I always use to think about it before I went to sleep and I’d end up wide awake for most of the night, it’s not the actual thought of dying like last breath/being killed it’s more that I know there’s nothing after it, and I know I won’t know or understand tha... | 7 |
AskReddit/cpo25d7 | 300xff | Do you carry a talisman/good luck charm, and if so, what is it? | I was given the end of a deer antler (about 3 inches long) from a friend as a good luck charm, and I keep it on my key chain. I've had it 6 years now and I must admit my life became a lot better after I started carrying it around in my purse. Sadly, that friend and I have since broken up, but I keep the antler on my ke... | 3 |
AskReddit/cioww6z | 29vhms | When you think about 'the one that got away' what made them so special? | Her intelligence surprised me. She was very knowledgeable about some things and loved sharing that knowledge. She also had a lot of curiosity about the the things she didn't know/understand, and when I was able to explain some of them, the look on her face as she absorbed what I was saying was the best ego booster I've... | 2 |
AskReddit/dzkf2bl | 8m2b4e | What random song has been stuck in your head today? | I literally have had Micheal Scott’s voice in my head all day going “Feeling.HOT, HOT, HOT” over and over again. I don’t even know what song it’s from I just know it’s tropical. | 2 |
AskReddit/d0yww8s | 4ab14w | What do you do when girls holler at you? | Hi Reddit, So I recently moved out of my mom's house and relocated to a lower class area. The area where my mom's house was felt like a superficial upper middle class bubble and the majority of the population there was white. The area I moved to has a high density of latinos and feels a little "ghetto" but man so far e... | 2 |
AskReddit/e401lua | 96fa7q | What mispronunciation of your name drives you absolutely nuts? | My whole life I’ve chosen the mispronouniation of my name as my name. I introduce myself as [mispronunciation] and I will continue to do so. However. when anyone steps in and randomly pronounces my name the correct way I love it, and if it’s a handsome guy who does it it is absolutely thrilling to me and guarantees me ... | 3 |
AskReddit/etbidxn | caw5hb | When have you been insulted by a compliment, or complimented by an insult? | When people (outside my close family and friends circle) compliment my weight loss I sometimes feel insulted because I don’t like it when people make comments about my body | 14 |
askscience/cfnkgga | 1yt07m | Is energy lost to friction dependent on time and velocity? | The short answer is, Yes. A simpler example to relate to (but same concept as your rocket) is a car on the highway. As you travel faster, there is more air resistance (drag) on your car. If there was no such thing as air resistance, traveling at a high speed would give you more MPGs. In the real world, the faster you g... | 3 |
AskReddit/db2pz9w | 5hsufh | What values should be taught to kids at earlier ages? | Respect for animals and to not touch a dog (or other pet) without the owner's permission. So many animals are abused and terrorized and so many kids are mauled and scared because parents don't teach children to treat animals better. | 2 |
askscience/c2lu29s | ko638 | If the particle discovered as CERN is proven correct, what does this mean to the scientific community and Einstein's Theory of Relativity? | Just clarify, this isn't a new particle discovery, as implied in the post title. This just just the apparent measurement of an already know particle travelling faster than light, which contradicts Relativity Theory. | 194 |
AskReddit/er9mwta | c10qzc | What was/is "the weird kid" at your school like? | I was the weird kid. I walked around with an upside down, paper cross. One time I got suspended because I humped a fire extinguisher. I was just generally weird af. Girls didn't like me and I think it had a lot to do with crippling social anxiety. I acted out due to nervousness. Now I'm 25, with a good side job that I ... | 17 |
AskReddit/elru3o2 | bhd2md | What was your "maybe I should stop being friends with this person" moment? | When she, who had very much hated my best friend, tried to pull me away from her. I didn't care that she hated my best friend but when she tried to make me hate her too, that's when I stopped our friendship. I also had a best friend for a couple years prior and we kind of got distanced but she was still a good friend a... | 2 |
AskReddit/e7h19pi | 9mskwc | What are your thoughts on the late Margaret Thatcher and the type of Prime Minister she was? | I used to work with dementia patients in a hospital in the UK. Once I was sitting in with a very nice old gentleman called David who used to be a river pilot on the Thames. He's a big Thatcher fan and had this to say about her : "I used to work directly for the Port Authourity but Thatcher changed the rules so that we ... | 2 |
askscience/c8nse1u | 19fwzd | How does our solar system move through space? | The top answer gives most of when you need, but it left out another explanation: The objects formed in the accretion disk retain the same initial velocity as the accretion disk itself, unless subject to outside influence, and that's why, for example in the gif you provided, the planets revolve the same around the star.... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/c6zdssh | 12z772 | Why can I instantly tell a movie from a tv show or Youtube video? | Most movies are shot at 24fps and wide, they are blurry/soft. Other shows are shot on cameras with higher framerates, they don't have the movie 'softness' that you are used to. That's how you are able to tell. This is of course in addition to the budgets - the lighting and angles get a lot more attention on a movie set... | 8 |
AskReddit/c66apkc | zo7sr | How can I come up with an extra $20K for a house in the next 3-6 months? | Do some more shopping with financial institutions. Not all banks require 20% down. I work in banking and many of the larger banks are OK with 10%. Also there's the FHA (www.FHA.gov), a government agency created to encourage home ownership that only requires a 3% down payment, but they have certain requirements that you... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cvcdcaq | 3m5nn3 | Why do we laugh when being tickled when it's not enjoyable whatsoever? | In functionality terms a laugh is not much different than a scream. Being tickled, much like being stabbed, produces and overload of stimulation to our nervous system. Our bodies perceive it as potentially dangerous, so we laugh/scream/make loud recognizably human noises to alert other humans around us to warn them/beg... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1ljwrh | g7s85 | What is the dumbest thought you ever had? | One time I was walking through a parking lot in the middle of winter. I noticed a puddle had frozen with ripples still formed. I looked at it and thought, "That's pretty. It looks just like frozen water." I didn't realize it until I got in my car. | 46 |
AskReddit/drpzvfj | 7lybwm | What is your best ‘I was fired for.’ story? | I got fired from Jersey Mike's for not attended an unpaid meeting when I was 17. The deal was that someone (the manager) was stealing large sums of money. So the owner demanded the he find out who it was. He held a mandatory meeting on a day that I didn't work to talk about the stealing. My friend who worked there also... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cgagwxx | 216yoc | What makes the Mona Lisa so highly regarded? | There were many aspects of the Mona Lisa that seem ordinary today, but at that time, were groundbreaking. The Mona Lisa was the first famous work to feature the three-quarter pose that the painting is displaying, and before it, most portrait works were done from the side or straight in-front. This dynamic pose was late... | 812 |
explainlikeimfive/divi5cx | 6h4nvg | How can a corporation create more stocks if stocks are just a percentage of ownership of a company? | The Board of Directors(people elected by the shareholders) have to approve the sale of any new shares. For a smaller private company it's often a gamble. The existing shareholders willfully take a cut in their percentage of ownership so they can get funding to expand the company in the hopes that the expansion will mak... | 4 |
AskReddit/cnlwwhc | 2s3rq0 | Which charities aren't as helpful or generous as they appear? | I'm not sure how I feel about larger charity organisations ever since I found out that the WWF supports some terrible things that really made me question what other charities did behind our backs with the money we give them. I tend to really look at charities now if I want to help them somehow by donating, petitions,et... | 5 |
AskReddit/c2c4k9t | jhdl0 | Would doing half a hit of acid by oneself be a fun time? | Depends a lot on your tolerance level. Half a hit wouldn't make me trip at all, it would just keep me up for a while and make me feel edgy. As for doing it alone, as long as you've done it before and you are able to remember that you are on drugs and it will all go back to normal in a few hours, you will probably be fi... | 2 |
AskReddit/ed13dpm | abl46n | What's the most expensive thing you've broken? | When I was really young I ran into a friend's parents cabinet filled with nicnacks and things. Pretty much the whole thing broke. His parents were really cool about it. His mom made things with the broken pieces and they are still in her garden I think. | 3 |
askscience/cabx0i7 | 1fkah1 | Are there any animals that don't sleep? | Of those animals in which we can reasonably define sleep, there do not appear to be any species that do not sleep when they are examined closely. More broadly, however, the question comes down to how we define 'sleep'. In mammals, we tend to define sleep based on the following criteria: A state of reduced activity and ... | 2 |
AskReddit/emk5pec | bkvoia | What is the worst song to play at a funeral? | At my nan’s funeral (as per her request) ‘Ring Of Fire’ by Johnny Cash played whilst her coffin was being lowered down for cremation. Cue a lot of people crying from sadness and laughter at the same time. None of us were expecting it but it was very in character, even at the end of her life after years suffering from d... | 145 |
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