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askscience/c1l35cz | g5nbi | Why aren't nuclear power plants built deep inside mountains or underground? | Well, they might be safer there in the event of a problem occuring, but perhaps the chances of accidents or problems in a location like that might be much higher than one right near the sea? If you built a nuclear plant deep inside a mountain, you still need to keep it supplied with LOADS of water, have access to a lot... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/eerkpbs | aiztey | How does the “wind chill” the air ? | Wind doesn’t make the air itself colder. Rather, moving air transfers heat away from the surface of your skin (or clothes, or whatever is in contact with the moving air) at a faster rate than stagnant air. Your body only senses the rate of heat being transferred away, so moving air of one temperature will feel like sta... | 7 |
AskReddit/emaf41j | bjqqu1 | What was the last movie that made you cry? | Not a movie but I recently cried during the episode of the funeral for Marshall's dad in How I Met Your Mother. Its my 3rd or 4th rewatch of the series and I still cry like a baby. | 2 |
AskReddit/dt2y52b | 7s94vy | What are your "messing with the new guy stories? | No military stories yet, so here's this one: Tell them to go to Staff Sergeant, you really need this form. Write it down on a note and send Private off with it. We need a "Bravo Alpha 1100 November" form. It's a BA1100N. Yes. Go to sarge and ask for a balloon. Or hand a Private a trash bag to get exhaust samples from t... | 2 |
AskReddit/dwvhayb | 8a2hay | What will make you instantly fall in love with a person? | Being with someone long enough to love them for who they have become. I've been with my girl for almost 7 years. The butterflies feeling isn't there anymore, it's something deeper. One day I saw her in pj's working on homework eating some food and it clicked. I love this one, she isn't the same and neither am I and yet... | 3 |
askscience/c9x0utu | 1e5l15 | As far as science can tell, how nearby is dire fossil fuel shortage? | Fossil fuels, like most resources, isn't going to simply end one day. The cost of extraction will just keep going up. So, unless you set a cap on the maximum price, there will never be a "shortage." The answer of how far away a shortage is, is in the realm of political science. On the other hand, you could phrase this ... | 902 |
AskReddit/e5ld925 | 9e1195 | What was the most fair or unfair prison sentences? | The coke to crack sentencing ratio in the u.s. is intensely unfair. 100 to 1 for the length of sentence. The difference between the 2 is baking soda, water, and the use of an oven. Crack is just cocaine that's solid. | 2 |
AskReddit/c17w4y2 | egeg1 | Are there any good hiking places in the Northeast? | I've been up to French Creek state park a couple of times, I think there are quite a few trails up there. How far do you want to go? The Catskills are what, 2 to 3 hours from Philadephia? There are lots of places there. A bit farther up is the Adirondacs, which has enough trails to keep you busy for years. | 2 |
AskHistorians/dj1x1f9 | 6htp0c | What aspects of classical Greek science were disproved/discounted in the Renaissance, or more specifically after the Scientific Revolution? | This is such a large question that goes over so many bodies of knowledge that I really could be here for days - after all, if we call the Scientific Revolution a revolution, it's because a whole host of previous understandings were overturned. So please forgive this answer being something of a greatest hits version of ... | 3 |
AskReddit/ey6wqh9 | cvwmrq | How was your chicken sandwich from Popeyes? | So i haven't had the chicken sandwich yet, but i am from Louisiana and had a funny visit. As soon as i walked into my local popeyes, the lady at the counter screamed "we out of da chicken sandwiches baybay!" So i laughed and ordered a 3 piece as usual. Then she said "oh, you one of us, thank gawd." Then this white guy ... | 6 |
AskReddit/crqvob7 | 37ympd | What restaurant had the single spiciest food you've ever eaten? | There's an Ethiopian restaurant that I really like, they make a Yemisir Wot that will blow your mind. It's like hellfire in my mouth - delicious hellfire flavored lentil stew that you eat with a sour pancake-like bread and wash down with honey wine they make themselves. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c7a319k | 145mpr | How come humans need to eat three times a day to sustain good health? | Eating three times a day is a relatively new thing. Eating once a day was quite common throughout most of civilised history, and before that eating once every couple of days may have been quite common. Humans are warm blooded mammals with a high basal metabolic rate (the amount of energy we use each day). We much eat q... | 4 |
AskReddit/c0n3mlp | bjhex | Have you ever learned something that later saved your life? | i learned that Clorox Bleach turns blue when applied to water or heat. When I was going out with this psycho chick, I made her spaghetti for dinner .The next day when I got back from work she had sprinkled what looked a lot like parmesan onto it. While I was prepping a bowl of the spaghetti the next day in the microwav... | 47 |
AskReddit/e42xds4 | 96sp0p | What was the best meal you ever had? | I was on a mission trip 2 weeks after I graduated high school. It was to the Dominican Republic. I taught preschool aged children there. One night we went to a lady's house and she fed us a home-cooked meal. I remember it being super delicious. I can't really remember too much about it because this was about 6 or 7 yea... | 4 |
AskReddit/e9avssd | 9vbvp5 | What is your best/worst, either delivering or receiving end, "Thats our policy" moment? | I've pulled the short end of the stick multiple times like everyone has, but I've never gotten mad at a store or employee for having a policy. The only reason policies are in place is to protect the company from losing money, and it's not like businesses are non profit organizations | 2 |
AskReddit/es9i5d6 | c6lp4n | What would be your advice/story to a person about to lose hope in his life? | You dont know what you have until you lose it. I was an Adderall addict for 3 years and it caused me to loose most of my friends and created conflict within my family. As of last Thursday I'm finally 1 month sober and am finally starting to become productive again. I've realised that the only way to continue onward is ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c9uyh8p | 1dxv50 | What would happen if in Modern times, The Pope called a crusade? | This really couldn't happen. Back in the day when crusades were waged, the Church was an actual political power. It ruled not just hearts and minds, but held great sway with kings. Even today, when the pope speaks, people listen. But it's nothing like a few hundred years ago. There might be a couple dozen ignorant fool... | 4 |
AskReddit/d07nwlp | 46t41g | What was the best spot you ever hid in Hide-And-Go-Seek? | Unconsciousness. I was playing hide and seek at a birthday party in the winter. Ran across the street to this park to hide behind this big pile of snow. Made it to the top of the hill, fell hard cracked my head, and was out cold long enough for the adults to come looking. Pretty sure I won though. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ctm47qb | 3f7vad | How well does chlorine "disinfect" an entire pool and correspondingly, how clean is the average public pool? | Chlorine in water forms a weak acid known as hypochlorous acid. This acid bonds with the cell walls and proteins that make a bacteria, effectively dissolving it. It similarly works against viruses, and parasites such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia. The chlorine's effectiveness is impacted by the pool's pH level, and th... | 3 |
AskReddit/e5lx1w5 | 9e3z0i | What do people think they know a lot about but actually don't? | Mental health. There are a lot of people who believe that doing activities, eating right, sleeping right, taking meds and/or going to therapy will magically make it all disappear. Thing is, it's a lot deeper than that. While it will work for some, it won't work for others and meds/therapy isn't anything like Asprin or ... | 138 |
AskReddit/dtl9lhd | 7uld5o | What was the best use of a song in a movie? | I’d say single song from Baby Driver but that feels like cheating Edit: it’s not a movie but Mr Robot has the best soundtrack of any tv show I’ve ever seen. Every song adds so much to every episode and adds new meaning as Well. The finales have some of the best music I’ve ever heard -sound and color by Alabama Shakes, ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cmqrjbm | 2ov2nm | Will my dog be okay if he just ate 4 of my girlfriends birth control pills? | My parents are vets. First, I'd make a quick call to your vet or an emergency clinic- that's for a quick answer. Second, I would not worry too much. Although I'm neither a girl nor a vet, I wonder how many of the pills were the sugar pills that help regulate your girlfriend's cycle. Overall, I would not be worried. | 2 |
AskReddit/dyrzu6p | 8iidcb | What are things that can be worked out in a relationship and what are things that can't be worked out? | Everything can depending on the circumstances and the willingness of both parties to continue the relationship and change whatever went wrong. Thing is most people are stupid and selfish, so most relationships are ticking time bombs of when it'll all come crashing down. | 2 |
AskReddit/d22lrt8 | 4erbvi | What was the best first date you've ever had? | I reconnected with an old friend (we went to school years ago but didnt really know each other). Met up at a nice restaurant. Ordered food and then we got lost in each others voices. Literally lost track of all time. It was wonderful! I've since moved in with her and we're both very happy! | 2 |
AskReddit/e9qpndd | 9xao8c | What are the best fan theories you've heard about books or movies? | Andy's mom's favourite toys were also called woody and buzz. This explains why there was no dad in any of the three movies. Also why Andy loves woody a lot as it was the last thing his dad gave before he left . | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cpwyndg | 30yg8b | Why can alcohol companies advertise their product but not show the actors drinking their product? | You'll have to ask the standards boards at each network. It is probably an artifact from the early days on TV where you couldn't even show a married couple in bed together. There is no FCC regulation about it however many networks don't allow it. This means the beer company only wants to make one commercial so they mak... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cfqktm0 | 1z4ca7 | What was the German People's reaction to the news of the loss at Stalingrad? | The following isn't an unbiased source, but it is very much related to what you want. It's the SD's report on the 'popular mood after Stalingrad' from the 4th February 1943. Source is Richard Overys 'The third Reich, a chronicle' page 291: 'The reporting of the end of the struggle in Stalingrad has once again had a dee... | 33 |
Ask_Politics/d23zxhi | 4ewc2m | Will Bernie Sanders still raise enough money for free education with a tax on Wall St speculation once he breaks up the banks? | "Wall Street speculation" is a revenue generation method. If it could really generate that much tax, it would no longer be profitable most of the time to do so in the US, so they would either avoid the tax (increase investments overseas instead of the US, change their investment strategy so it doesn't fit under the def... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/c4d6cm8 | sdhft | What happens medically when you lose your voice? | The most common reason for losing your voice is laryngitis, or swelling of the vocal cords. (Remember, -itis means swelling, and the larynx is your voice box). This is how a bad cold or cough can cause you to lose your voice. Overuse of your voice (yelling too much) can also do this. It's basically that simple. There a... | 2 |
AskReddit/dfwhht6 | 63rsyj | What's a good language to learn? | Depends on what you want to do with it. I've tried learning Mandarin and it's really hard! If you're a native English speaker, the easiest languages to learn are German, Spanish and French (probably in that order). If you're in America, being able to speak Spanish has a lot of benefits - so I'd vote for that one. | 11 |
AskReddit/dmqyllu | 6yxinx | What’s the worst thing you've eaten out of politeness? | Years and years ago, I was courting a young woman who fancied herself as being a burgeoning chef. Every time that we got together, she'd regale me with descriptions of some dish or another, and she'd frequently bring me samples of things she had made. While that might sound wonderful on the surface, there was a rather ... | 12 |
AskReddit/dqna7rf | 7h0vxp | What is your favorite childhood video game? | I want to say TIE Fighter, but I think I was a little old at the time to qualify as "childhood." I guess I'll go with an NES game called Silent Service that I played for hours as a kid and absolutely loved | 2 |
AskHistorians/c6x5xlx | 12oueh | Did Woodrow Wilson really want to go to war, or was his hand forced? | One strain of historical thought is that the February Revolution in Russia in 1917 was one of the key drivers that Wilson utilized to convince himself and the American public to enter WW1. Before the revolution, both sides in the war consisted of imperialistic states, constitutional monarchies or autocracies. After the... | 2 |
AskReddit/c24it3v | ikpzq | If you could live in a "perfect" world, would you? | No, absolutely not. How could one have goals in a perfect world? I think that a lot of people consider a large part of living the goal of making the world a better place. If the world is a perfect place, then what is there to aspire to? What purpose is there to living? It would get so dull so quickly. Human beings aren... | 8 |
AskReddit/d5a0x1o | 4skhgq | What happened to you that most people dont believe? | My uncle was the American voice of Brock for the first couple seasons of Pokemon, he now does Pokemon voices and has a character is street fighter 5 Urien is the name. his name is bill(y) Rogers Edit: I realize this isn't really something that happened to me but I get plenty of non believers for it | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/djx8ahi | 6lx11d | Why is it acceptable to eat steaks rare or medium but minced meat must be thoroughly cooked throughout? | Meat is generally minced when it is approaching its use-by date. Steaks on the other hand usually have strict bacterial quality control, and so can be eaten less-cooked. Basically, it comes down to contaminants, and how many can be expected in each style of meat. Minced meats can be assumed to contain salmonella and ot... | 2 |
AskReddit/dat28lp | 5gkvto | What is a stupid mistake that you keep making? | At night: "I'm so gonna fix this tomorrow, and make this better, and do this thing I've been planning on for weeks." Next morning: "Eh, I'll get to it eventually." Later that night: "I'm so stupid, why didn't I do that thing? Tomorrow, I'm so gonna do this, and then." | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/dnm8g2u | 72yfw2 | Why do so many celebrities believe in weird conspiracy theories? | Confirmation bias, you don't really remember all of the celebrities that don't believe in weird conspiracy theories because it doesn't stick out to you. Also, you are far less likely to know of an acquaintance's crazy beliefs, so your impression of the number of people who believe in conspiracy theories is lower than i... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eisdtkl | b2fag7 | How can water be so much heavier than O2 even though only one atom is added on? | Perhaps the simplest answer. Atoms are identified by the number of protons in their nucleus. The nucleus is less than 1% of the space in an atom, but contains over 99% of the mass. Much of that mass is from the protons. The number of neutrons determines the isotope but also adds to its mass. Oxygen has 8 more protons i... | 3 |
AskReddit/c1ozs5w | go2hs | Would Bruce Lee at his physical peak be able to beat today's leading MMA fighters of the same weight class? | Everyone here saying Bruce Lee would get owned by grappling is ignoring the fact that he would have quickly absorbed ground fighting into his own training. His entire martial arts philosophy was built around discarding the worthless and absorbing what worked regardless of source. Unless he was forced to fight just mome... | 82 |
AskReddit/c0usmms | crzfi | Can i tell my friend she dresses like a hooker? | I guess this equates to coming out. Congratulations. Seriously though, it isn't your place to dictate how others dress. By the sound of it she isn't wearing hooker clothes, perhaps revealing, but then I'm one of these sorts who isn't offended by the human in their natural form. To me it sounds like you're a bit uptight... | 34 |
AskReddit/d5a82fk | 4slej6 | Why is "Trailer Park Boys" so good? | For me it's the juxtaposition of dark/vulgar/raunchy aspects and the sort of heartwarming innocence. Innocence probably isn't the right word. My roommate thinks the show is cynical/nihilistic but I disagree. The friendship and loyalty is there, almost all the characters have aspects that are likeable and endearing. And... | 3 |
AskReddit/cojq5g1 | 2vpcrx | What are the major problems with the American school system? | The overriding problem with education in America is Poverty. Over half of public school students in the U.S. live in poverty. Education does not happen in a vacuum. It's extremely difficult to teach kids who are hungry, homeless, who have violence in the home, parents incarcerated etc. Upper Middle Class public schools... | 3 |
AskReddit/et3c3vh | c9ubja | Why was T_D quarantined? | Because they continually broke TOS and their mods refused to attempt to stop it. (Calls for violence benign the most notable example. Lesser offenses likely wouldn’t catch the reddit staff’s eye/attention as much) at least according to reddit. TBH the fact they they let them stay for so long despite breaking the rules ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d9yt67z | 5crqep | Do all presidents use Air force one for campaigning? | While you are the President of the United States ALL airplanes that you set foot on get the call sign Air Force One. All of them. The specific plane that you think of as Air Force One is specially designed to suit the needs of the President and so if he is campaigning for re-election or giving speech on behalf of anoth... | 9 |
AskHistorians/cl1da64 | 2id2vh | Are there examples of how the Roman Legions of the 1st century, CE, communicated battle orders while engaged in battle? | I believe there are some examples given in Julius Caesar's The Battle for Gaul. I specifically remember reading about messages carried by runner, and requests for parlay being done in the same way. It's been years since I read it, but it wasn't terribly long and you could probably skim through to the campaign and battl... | 3 |
AskReddit/e8ul8lt | 9t9k5g | What is the most bizarre thing you've dreamt about that came true? | A few weeks ago, my 3-year-old (not realizing it was a dream) told me an entire story about a bear that was walking around in the next door neighbor's yard and eating the trash and all of that. This was weird because he's never seen a bear in real life, and we've never had one walking around the neighborhood, at least ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cjhnlpo | 2cp9zc | What's the strangest thing you found after thoroughly cleaning your house? | I found a crawdad once. Underneath a a blue couch. No idea how it got there. If you don't know what they are, essentially a small lobster. Edit: Found a dead bird today in a vent in my basement while painting. Yes the vent was screwed shut. I don't know how to attach pictures to comments. I'll try uploading from comput... | 2 |
AskReddit/eto3684 | ccngf4 | What’s the biggest load of bullshit that someone tried to sell you? | I guess I’ll share my experience too. I’ve heard people say the A=440Hz tuning is bad, wrong, or even evil. I’ve heard a conspiracy theory where the government purposefully chose 440Hz instead of the supposedly “better” 432Hz tuning, in order to control people’s minds. These people say 432Hz is better because the numbe... | 3 |
AskReddit/degns0o | 5xaif4 | What is one post that you regret making? | When I was in high school there was a lot of drama going around and I can't even remember what it was about but I posted a picture of a joint on twitter and captioned it "what everyone needs right now to just relax and get along". Now growing up in the Bible Belt in a small town, I had a couple teachers that pulled me ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d3jgyuq | 4kzplr | Why are anti-depressants advertised on television, but other psychiatric medications aren't? | As a pharmacist in Scotland, I was surprised to discover a few years ago that it's legal in the US to advertise prescription medications to the public. They're one of only two countries in the world who allow this - the other is New Zealand. I always imagine that doctors' consultations in the States must be like: Patie... | 145 |
AskReddit/crenm3w | 36jqjm | What were you afraid of as a child that you're not afraid of now? | Death. The idea of ceasing to exist was enough to keep 8 year old me up at night, crying and pacing around my house while everyone else was sleeping. Now, at 25 living with chronic illness for the past 15 years, I'm over it, and am actually glad in a way that one day I'll stop living and never have to feel anything aga... | 6 |
AskReddit/c0d294o | 9jw20 | What is a good PC diagnostic and clean-up program? | Similar to what finallyfast.com offers but of course you know. free. Lately my vista machine has been hanging, acting slow, and just generally being wonky. I haven't used a diagnostic program since like Norton System Utils way back in the day so I have no idea what's out there. Thanks in advance! | 3 |
AskReddit/c803bj8 | 16wv0r | What are some company secrets you can disclose about now that you no longer work there? | I once worked for a company that would have major software releases with purposeful, subtle "bugs" in them so that the company could up charge support packs to "fix" them. We were required to take out 1-2 hours in support credit for a 2 minute fix. There is a reason why I left. | 11 |
askscience/c3500bh | mz2j9 | What is in between galaxies? | The 'intergalactic medium' (IGM) is mostly a rarified plasma. The heating mechanism depends on the particular environment -- the gas between galaxies in clusters tends to be very, very hot indeed (millions of kelvin), and emits in the X-ray. This is generally heated via gravitational shockwaves, as the gas falls into t... | 307 |
AskReddit/c8q0b4a | 19ov8v | What song lyrics make you think the writer had no idea what he was writing? | D-12 Purple Pills The songs about tons of drugs so I'm not surprised with the lyrics of "That's why our baby mothers Love us but they hate each other They probably wanna take each other out And date each other Some-, something, something, something Something, something, something, something" | 7 |
AskReddit/dq7d4iv | 7etkjb | What historical figure is almost indisputably a Good person? | No one, as time moves forward morals change so a once good person can be viewed as bad when looked back on. Tie in the different moralities and opinions from country to country and you get no one person being seen as indisputably good. | 2 |
AskReddit/e38nzi9 | 92vdpf | What excites you about life? | For about nine months I was working 14-hour days at a startup, no weekends or holidays off, and I stopped being excited about life. I woke up and couldn't believe I was going to have to do this another day. Then I lost my apartment. Then I got into a car accident. I stopped being able to sleep. I walked around exhauste... | 44 |
explainlikeimfive/cefgay0 | 1u7znz | Why do months have different number of days? | Most of the cycles in the calendar come from the sun, the moon, and the earth. A day is the time it takes for one cycle of the sun (one rotation of the earth). A month is time length of one cycle of the moon. And a year is the time it takes for one cycle of the seasons (one revolution around the sun). These are all goo... | 15 |
askscience/cnbc17k | 2qza9k | Which are more numerous in the universe, stars or moons? | Almost by inspection, moons. Our own solar system has hundreds, possibly thousands of moons (depending on how you count). And since there's on average about one planet per star, and an average of several moons per planet (at least in our solar system), and the potential for smaller bodies like asteroids or free floatin... | 8 |
explainlikeimfive/egysy5q | at5ore | Why aren't wild carnivores skinny? | Most carnivores are in fact very lean. You don't see very much body fat on a wild tiger. There's some on arctic carnivores like polar bears or arctic foxes, to conserve heat. | 2 |
AskReddit/duonq38 | 7zk8de | What is a very general skill that helps you out in your life and how did you develop it? | Painting, I've been epileptic for almost 17 years and I've always found that when I get an aura ahead of a large seizure it helps for me to calm down and focus on something to prevent it so I started painting miniatures. As a result my hand eye co-ordination has went from mediocre to excellent, it comes in handy for co... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0oq503 | bvayx | Is going to college actually worth it? | >It seems to me that getting certifications in a field of your choosing and the experience you gain in 4 years would be much more valuable then a college degree, at least in the IT field. Yup. 4 year degree worth is directly related to field. You're still going to need your certifications, so I would start working on t... | 3 |
AskReddit/dz4djm2 | 8k2qfg | What's the weirdest dream you have had that stuck with you? | I dreamed that the mayor of Chicago decided he wanted to rearrange all the skyscrapers, so they were all up on massive! rollers being slowly and carefully moved around to their new positions. As if that wasn't weird enough, it was a normal weekday inside those buildings, and life in offices and condos went on fully as ... | 5 |
AskReddit/cbrd8se | 1kpq06 | What is your opinion on chefs wearing their uniforms (particularly jackets and aprons) outside of the kitchen? | Well I usually only leave the kitchen when I'm on a 15 min break and I would reallly not waste a minute changing, opening my locker, lock and then go outside. I do however take off my apron and hat whenever outside. Don't see much of a sanitation problem with it | 2 |
AskReddit/dhzdofp | 6d2otx | What's the most effective way to get Reddit gold? | At present, I have forty-four years, eight months, and fourteen days of Reddit Gold. All of that has been given to me. The most effective way to get Reddit Gold - other than buying it for yourself - is to offer well-written comments that are informative, entertaining, or both. The site relies on its users, after all, a... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/dtrh1m2 | 7vd9qs | What is MTHFR gene mutation? | The MTHFR gene has the instructions for the body to build an enzyme with a really long name. An enzyme is a protein that helps the body perform chemical reactions. This particular enzyme helps make methionine, one of the building blocks of proteins, and helps the body to use vitamin B9 (also known as folic acid). A gen... | 12 |
AskReddit/ee1co2f | aftvs6 | What gets you through the hardest of times? | Knowing that life isn't about happiness, but about meaning. And the hardships in life will eventually help you generate meaning in those tough times, and you are content with that. If you're lucky, it'll make you happy too. | 9 |
AskReddit/etrein4 | cd4ebf | How would you fix the situation at the US/Mexico border? | I would essentially build up Mexico’s economy with the money we’re using for the border, that way they won’t have to come here for a better life. If people keep coming, then I would make them have a background check and if they are known for possession of drugs or a criminal background etc. I would send them back to th... | 2 |
AskReddit/dxtnzy7 | 8e8do8 | Has anyone used AirBnB to stay in a house they used to live in, and how weird was it? | I met a girl who lived in my old childhood house, didn’t realize why the address was so familiar until I got there. Made sneaking around the house from her parents way easier because I already knew the layout and what parts of the floors make noise� | 2,000 |
AskHistorians/czovycs | 44a6i3 | How did the USA influence Saddam Hussein's decision to attack Kuwait? | Certainly, and it wasn't only the liberties given to Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war that partly boosted Saddams confidence in a war against Kuwait, (though the Costa-Contra affair damaged Iraqi trust and increased paranoia astronomically concerning the USA). On the eve of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the US ambassado... | 2 |
AskReddit/cktkb56 | 2hkiiu | What's the most emotional movie scene? | When Stevo breaks down upon heroin bobs death in SLC punk! Years later I was watching law and order svu, and there is an episode with Matthew lillard in it. I'm really bad at recognizing actors after between movies (things like a mustache throw me off completely) but there is a scene when he starts crying, and it insta... | 3 |
AskReddit/ccxb28r | 1ozkt1 | What is something everyone ought to experience by the age of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50? | By 10, performance in front of a crowd of peers. Making small things with hand tools. Go real tent camping. By 20, Drive a vehicle. Live on your own, away from your parents and their support. Have food/retail service job, or trade apprentice. Go to movies/concerts without parental supervision. Get Girl/Boyfriend. By 30... | 2 |
AskReddit/cntwgn7 | 2sxyey | What thing did you do as a child, that wouldn't be acceptable today? | This is a question I have thought about myself a few times, in light of what seems to me a great paranoia about children now. I was in grade school in the 70's and early 80's, which in the history of a society does not seem like that long ago. I didn't live in rural Wyoming or some place like that, either. Yet the inde... | 15 |
AskReddit/dz1reug | 8jqvgq | If every bullet in the world was suddenly turned into any object of your choosing and every "bullet" was still able to be fired, which object would have the best chance at ending war forever? | A gun which will fire more bullets that turn into guns that shot more bullets and so forth. We will reach absolute Dakka that will murder everything in the universe which will be filled with nothing but weapons thus ending all conflicts! | 2 |
AskHistorians/cbb4ct0 | 1j4r3s | How long back in time can we go before the history of the world starts to get blurry? | That depends on the region, culture, people, and what specific aspect of history you're looking at. And your delineation if "blurry", I guess. To a Classicist or student of WWII for example, my field of interest would probably seem downright opaque. On the other hand, prehistorians have a stunning amount of esoteric kn... | 15 |
explainlikeimfive/cpgen89 | 2z7gxr | How come I wake up a minute or two before my bus stop more or less like clockwork when I fall asleep on the bus? | It's probably a combination of a bunch of subtle clues that you subconsciously pick up on. It could be a pattern in the stops right before yours, subtle changes in the scent of the air near your stop, specific sounds that you only hear near your stop, the absence of the voice of a person who gets off right before your ... | 7 |
AskReddit/c66sq4c | zqbv9 | How do you flirt? | You want to know the best way to flirt. Ask her about herself, become interested, and bring up things she has said later in the conversation, match them to the topic at hand, and refer to her. Maintain a decent amount of eye contact, have something to say on a variety of topics, and make sure you do not ever say. "I ca... | 2 |
AskReddit/e34lown | 92bguj | What's a good life skill that a 15 year old can use later in life? | Cooking is being mentioned a lot already and is absolutely something that should be focused on. Career wise, take the time to learn Microsoft Office programs. Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, but especially Excel. You don't need to be a savant, but being able to utilize basic formulas and functions (sumif, Vlookup, pivot t... | 3 |
AskReddit/drwsptv | 7muu7w | What is your “right person, wrong time” story? | He was an exchange student and we only actually met a month before he left. A few days into meeting, it was clear we were into each other and 2 weeks later, I moved in with him. We were the epitome (well, to me) of a perfect relationship. He was the right person but we met at the wrong time. Still breaks my heart think... | 4 |
AskReddit/c661ont | zn6jl | What are the culture differences between the East and West Coasts of the United States of America? | There are enormous cultural differences between different places on the east and west coast. Seattle is vastly different than San Francisco, the same thing with New York vs. Florida. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d2dka3f | 4g0hnk | Why does glue not stick to its container/lid? | Glues work in different ways. Some types of glues will interlock the materials by filling up small surfaces and "hook" itself to the materials. Some types of glue will create chemical bonds between the materials and the thus fuse the materials. If the above is not possible, the glue won't stick. Glue canisters are made... | 2 |
AskReddit/c7axn2o | 1491bx | What is something you did a while ago, that you thought was a phase, that you still do now? | Anime. There's just always more of it. At first I thought I didn't want to be one of "those people" at my high school with their Naruto headbands and obnoxious behavior, but it turns out you can just watch Japanese shows in your free time and be a regular person. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cffksmi | 1xxh5p | Why people with PTSD have a different look in their eyes? | PTSD is ultimately about a brain that is over stimulated. It is highly active and most of the people are staring at mundane things in an effort to try to calm the brain. Source: I have PTSD | 5 |
AskReddit/c4igmvw | t0cns | Doesn't the breeding of dogs for desired traits basically prove evolution? | It proves micro evolution. Creationists often accept micro evolution but reject the idea of macro evolution, not realising that micro evolution is evidence for macro evolution. | 4 |
AskReddit/c1nmuwy | ghsl3 | Can a girl ever truly be, "one of the guys"? | I think from a girls perspective she can be, but from a guys perpective there's always at least one guy in the group who wants more from the girl. Aside from that I don't get why girls want to be "one of the guys" you never hear about (straight) guys talking about how they're "one of the girls". | 28 |
AskReddit/c1xt624 | hrt1c | Do you feel that you will be more socially conservative in the future (as you grow older)? | My feeling is that the issues that I will care about will be resolved, and I will feel behind the times in terms of the hot political issues of the time. This will make me want to keep things the way they are, which is generally regarded as conservative. And this is what it sounds like when a 20-year-old tries to expla... | 6 |
AskReddit/daq9kvw | 5g88n2 | What is the craziest thing you know about science? | Linguistics is a humanity, but I consider it a science. The fact of linguistic relativity often blows peoples minds. Language is an illusion, there is basically no such thing as a "language" or "dialects". Every human being has a different way of communicating, based on wholly personal experiences, but which draws on c... | 2 |
AskReddit/en848ll | bnpa36 | How do you ask someone who owes you money to pay it back without sounding rude? | They haven't paid you back because they know you're not willing to sound rude. It's best to avoid lending money to friends. If they are in need, just give them a reasonable sum of money as a gift. Often, someone who lends to a friend is repaid by an enemy. | 278 |
explainlikeimfive/dqhjxqr | 7g9p73 | When documentaries are released that feature people doing highly illegal things (mainly drug selling/making), is there anything that prevents the police from obtaining their information from the journalists to arrest them? | I know of some cases of people being arrested as a result of investigative journalism. For example, the TV program 60 Minutes once did a feature about a man whose profession was to alter the odometers on cars, so that the cars would appear to have been driven fewer miles than they actually had been (thus enhancing thei... | 3 |
AskReddit/e4e8pph | 988raj | What are some of the major food industry lies people believe in? | Many people think fat is much worse than sugar when it comes to gaining weight. It's a bit more complicated than one being better than the other, but consuming lots of sugar (which is often present in high quantities in low-fat foods) is an excellent way to get fat quickly, especially with a general lack of exercise. | 2 |
AskReddit/dkav6q2 | 6nm06s | What is the dumbest misconception that you had as a kid? | I didn't realize cars idled, I just thought all adults were super good at very slightly hitting the gas pedal. Probably not the dumbest thing I thought but I'll never forget that. | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/cq172zn | 31f2wt | How are remote islands populated with life? | There are a couple different ways that life made it to the hawaiian islands and other remote islands in the pacific. First the closer the island is to Asia the larger variety of plant life the island had initially. This is because of seeds and dust getting caught in the upper atmosphere then dropped over the pacific, t... | 2 |
AskReddit/daum2zj | 5grw0g | How should the human species troll the next super intelligent species to dominate the Earth after we go extinct? | We could totally make a bunch of movie style props that have accompanying descriptions about how technologically advanced we aren't. Make references to the moon, and Mars. All in plastic so it doesn't degrade for several million years so when the next intelligent species evolves it can look at it and think: "Those that... | 3 |
AskReddit/c10lawc | dj6a8 | Does enforcing compulsory education in a country have a positive benefit on society and productivity as a whole? | Setting an education baseline should lead to an educated populace, which according to "market", should be at least mildly wealthy. In any sort of democracy, an educated voting public is both a boon and a bane for any sort of political operation. In an ideal world, enforced compulsory education would lead to a intellige... | 3 |
AskReddit/dnlr99m | 72w1rb | How did you meet your SO? | The manner in which I met my wife was highly unlikely. So, basically, I met my wife because I moved 300 miles away from home, got lonely, and started reading comic books when I was 10. I enjoyed the comic books greatly, and continued reading them as I grew up. I became a huge fan of a writer named Christopher Priest, w... | 2 |
askscience/c1qoeur | gvy6u | Why are we trying to cram more transistors in the same are rather than expanding the area in which we can cram transistors of same size? | The bigger the size, the lower the yield and the higher the cost. Individual dies are made from large wafers. Say you have a 12" wafer and you can choose to either make 100 dies from it or 50 dies. There will be a fixed number of defects in that wafer, and a defect means that you have to discard the affected die as it ... | 6 |
AskReddit/dvran3n | 84ph8w | How well did you do in the genetic lottery? | Not very well, but I did somewhat decently in the where-you-are-born lottery. Well, I mean, I wasn't a starving African child with muddy dirty water or anything, you know? But the genetics ain't great. So genetically. I'll give myself a 3/10. | 5 |
AskReddit/e87xky6 | 9qalv0 | What is the strangest thing you experienced while traveling? | When i was 6 my grandma and i were traveling with the bus and i got a urge too go in the wrong bus just seconds before the bus departed i got saved and this wasn’t in a western country imagine what would’ve happend | 3 |
AskReddit/eh3z39i | atwelk | Which musical instrument can you successfully learn to play in your 20s? | I'd say any, with commitment. But the piano is best for several reasons - once you get the hang of spacing fingers and finger pressure ( a month to two) you can quickly learn most tunes. Most songs have a basic version for the piano, and free to download - so you're already playing something you love. Then you can prog... | 2 |
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