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AskReddit/cseho13 | 3aodvd | What movie deserves a sequel or trilogy and why? | Would like to see a sequel to the movie WARRIOR. Great movie and I enjoy watching MMA. I feel like there is a ton of unfinished business and untapped potential here. There is always room for a new bad guy in these kind of films. For example: They took Rocky and made 5 movies! I think at minimum this could make an aweso... | 2 |
AskReddit/dvdcdj5 | 82ucce | How do you show your SO you love them? | I'll randomly make him something. I baked a pumpkin pie cheese cake he really loved. I just made some peanut butter chocolate pretzel bars to give him tomorrow. I guess I just make him really fat to show my love. | 2 |
AskReddit/cezz7c4 | 1w9mfj | What's a movie that turned out better than its book? | V for Vendetta. I love the graphic novel dearly, but it is flawed. Even Alan Moore admits that it has the marks of his inexperience on it. The movie, on the other hand, is perhaps the finest adaptation that exists of a comic book to a movie. | 2 |
AskHistorians/cwxvb4n | 3sjg8e | What exactly does it mean when sources say ancient armies "razed" a city? | >For example, a city like Carthage. After the Third Punic War, it's claimed that the Romans razed the city. But yet, Carthage was then occupied and became an important city in the Roman Empire. The original city of Carthage was burned to the ground, the buildings reduced to rubble, and tens of thousands of its citizens... | 19 |
AskReddit/cluwh91 | 2lhvn8 | What's the secret to sound like an American? | Oh boy. In before the deluge of America-hate. I think your natural accent is quite nice. I am assuming you're Canadian. I think there's something about the cadence of Candian speech and standard American speech that is different, and I can almost always pick it up. It's not the obvious differences, like the more rounde... | 2 |
AskReddit/drn9jcr | 7lluhd | What’s something you always forget? | The date. I’m great at remembering people’s birthdays, the days of events, etc, but I’m terrible at remembering what day it actually is. Sometimes someone will be like don’t forget Paul’s birthday is tomorrow and I’ll be like Wait today is the 26th? In high school once I went a whole day writing down the completely wro... | 3 |
AskReddit/dmhucnc | 6xqoaq | If you could spend a day just hanging with one person, who would it be? | In no particular order: My dad. He died when I was 21 and I never got to know him man to man. His dad. My grandfather died before I was born, was a writer, journalist, poet, and WWI veteran. My mother's father. He also died before I was born, was a WWII veteran and did high-rise construction for a living after the war.... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/exxvglj | currj4 | How are we able to experience a new thought that is a complete revelation to us if the thoughts are coming from us? | That touches on the question of free will, Sam Harris has some interesting ideas on this. The question would be as follows, do we have free will if we have no control over the next thought that appears in our head if that though affects our actions. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dh5oa1k | 69d79i | Why when we are thirsty, we can drink a large amount of cold/fizzy drinks without pain in the throat? | I don't think this is a reaction everyone has. Going from personal experience, I never get pain in my throat when drinking cold/fizzy stuff. However to give you a bit better answer, you may find that drinking comes more naturally when thirsty because, well, you are thirst, so your body will accept fluid more easily tha... | 2 |
AskReddit/c6vgz18 | 12j4d6 | To Redditors who have had psychological issues, what's your story? | My story isn't related to medications but here goes.My mother has Borderline Personality Disorder and that definitely causes psychological issues for children. Although I haven't received a mental health diagnosis, I had to do a lot of work to ever have any self-esteem, trust other people, and have a sense of self wort... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c98h2ih | 1bny46 | How did bacon, eggs, sausage, milk and cereal, etc come to be considered "breakfast food" instead of just any-time food? | MODERATOR NOTICE: I just had to delete way too many comments in here. Please restrict your answers to the historical reasons that these foods are considered breakfast foods, rather than your own personal opinion on the taste or nutrition of the foods. | 172 |
AskReddit/emthhdk | bm3m7x | What are some good cheap hobbies anyone can pick up? | Me: Oh, I have cheap hobbies to suggest. My brain: You have a $2000 skateboard, three VR ready computers, every generation of Nintendo and Microsoft console since the turn of the millennium, and enough Pokémon merchandise to start a museum. Me: Yep, nice cheap hobbies. | 2 |
AskReddit/dgo58fe | 676qz2 | Which type of pizza do you prefer, Deep dish or thin-crust? | Well I like stuffed crust. So Thin, But I'm more of someone who digs a good ol' deep dish pizza at one point. If it has a great sauce and cheese ratio. | 3 |
AskReddit/e4rxy8r | 9a15ks | What health/diet tips that you believe and follow it religiously after reading an article about it online? | wish I could say I follow it religiously, but r/keto changed my life and opinions about food forever. big carb is a massive industry devoted to making us fat and addicted and that's my standpoint forevermore. | 2 |
AskReddit/cobwion | 2uuyws | What are you a snob about? | I'm a chocolate snob. I only really like Lindt or posh Belgian chocolate, maybe Galaxy if it happens to be there. I find Cadburys and Nestle chocolate taste too chalky. Hotel Chocolat is very good. American chocolate is just plain awful. | 4 |
askscience/dqct4cq | 7fljwo | What was the temperature of the Moon's surface when Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the Moon? | All of the Apollo moon landings were carefully planned to be during dawn on the moon (which lasts 16 hours) so that the surface wasn’t too bright as to be washed out, nor too dark to see. Temperature wasn’t a huge factor, but NASA did take precautions. Sensitive equipment was shielded with reflective material to keep r... | 18 |
AskReddit/c1z8wz9 | hxqx2 | Can somebody explain the idea behind the SlutWalk marches, and what they are designed to accomplish? | The same as most protest marches: to show solidarity and to boost awareness of a cause. I used to believe that protests and public demonstrations don't change anything because they have little immediate effect. I realize now that they have a broad and shallow long-term effect. In this case, society's attitude towards r... | 2 |
AskReddit/e3py91m | 954mfy | Do you believe in objective morality, why or why not? | I think the question is, for all practical purposes and many theoretical ones, irrelevant: if there is an objective morality, we have no way to identify it as such, so we have to proceed on a subjective basis. E: if we could intuit what the objectively moral action in any situation were, the would be no ethical disagre... | 2 |
AskReddit/czdckul | 42ugg5 | Have you ever cried at work, if so how come? | The day I quit my job for an auto-loan company. i was talking to this lady on the phone, she hasnt been making her payments for a while, and when she has been paying, it wasnt enough to cover the whole months payment. Her car was scheduled for repo the next day, and I was calling her to tell her that this is her absolu... | 3 |
AskReddit/c0vj7f9 | cv9vj | What would you do if a shady business made a huge mistake? | That is their scam. They advertise the X lens for (a hypothetical) $500 and when you order it, you get the $1000 X+Y lens "by mistake" they then convince you to either pay another $500 or ship the lens back at your own expense. Then, depending on how shady they are; they claim the lens was never in the box you sent bac... | 2 |
AskReddit/dgq5d6t | 67g7n0 | What movie have you watched in your youth, then re-watched when you got older and found yourself identifying with different characters in the film? | Toy Story. Sid was pure evil when I was young but now that I'm older I realized that it was fun to break toys sometimes. Especially "Combat Carls." | 7 |
AskReddit/cf1dg6s | 1wexd1 | What's the strangest dream you've ever had? | I had the flu once and while I was running a fever, I dreamt I was at Popeye's funeral. Everything was black and white and grainy, just like in one of those old Popeye cartoons, which is even stranger because I always dream in color, and the pallbearers were all goons, like in the episode "Goonland" (1938). There was a... | 2 |
AskReddit/et19lcb | c9q6qq | What would it be like if we actually achieve World Peace? | Technically if there was world Peace that would in itself create chaos their has to be a balance between order and chaos, light and dark, fire and ice thunder and lightning one cannot exist without the other. | 2 |
AskReddit/dpk1a3m | 7bqlch | What's the simplest concept that people still don't seem to understand? | Classic Games are rated based on how good they were at the time of release This simple concept should be obvious, so many people love to call out Games like OoT & RE2 for being massively overrated & outdated, when they don't realize that they're legendary status came around their time of release, the only way they coul... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cift9cd | 28z1sb | How do people survive being struck by lightning? | Most of the time the person whom has been struck either has some sort of grounding or the lightning passes through a circuitry system (i.e after striking a house) and so the recipient doesn't receive the full effect of the strike. The rest of the time the only reason anyone survives is a freak miracle, it's not usually... | 6 |
AskReddit/e8k5c2f | 9rw9is | How did your parents sabotage their chance at a normal relationship with you? | My parents were going through a very messy divorce, and my mom used to take it all out on me. I do love her, and I know for a fact that she loves me too, but those few years of horrible domestic environment ruined the wonderful relationship I had with them in my childhood. | 2 |
AskReddit/dbih8hb | 5jryfe | What was the most impressive thing that you have stolen? | I wasn't really much of a thief when I was a younger, but I did manage to steal a yellow dotted line out of the middle of the highway. The highway department had recently repaved in front of my parent's house. They laid down reflective strips until the actual lines could be painted. I ran out and stole one of the strip... | 2 |
AskReddit/ec0n9ob | a74yo9 | Which endangered animal would you save in exchange for endangering another animal? | I'd endanger cows and get cheetahs or snow leopards saved. Cows are already mass murdered and we've mastered techniques of reproduction. I'll make capitalism save the species in no less than 30 years. | 2 |
AskReddit/dzsxrxj | 8n58se | What can $7.99 buy me in your respective hobby? | A set of really cheap guitar strings (in my guitar hobby). Two karaoke downloads (in my karaoke hobby). Some rivets (in my leather working hobby). Some cloth -- not much (in my sewing/renfest hobby). A pair of socks (in my soccer hobby). 5/8ths of a six pack (in my craft beer hobby). A screwdriver (for my carpentry hob... | 2 |
AskReddit/eeop0to | aim4zm | How much rent do you pay and where do you live (city)? | 5 bedroom cape cod, 1 acre of land just thw wife and I were paying $750 per month, it is now ours, cloest city HARRISBURG, Pa | 2 |
AskReddit/c97geye | 1bk74c | Is it okay to wear Crest 3D whitening strips under plastic retainers? | The whitening strips won't be on your teeth for more than 30 minutes, right? Your teeth won't shift dramatically in the time that it takes to complete one whitening strip treatment. If you need to wear them all the time, just put your retainers back on immediately after the strips. I have plastic retainers and I was de... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d4ho3fe | 4p2ek7 | How did science prove that homosexuality was normal and not a mental disorder, thus removing it from the DSM? | It might be helpful to flip the question. How was it decided that homosexuality was abnormal and should be placed in the DSM? The reason that homosexuality was placed in the DSM was a lack of adherence to social norms. It wasn't because being a homosexual made it hard to do daily activities, or made you hear things tha... | 5 |
AskReddit/c2apvbr | jbf5y | What is the funniest or creepiest thing your roommates have done or said? | One time I had 2 roommates who were both vegetarian for different reasons. One claimed to be Hare Krishna though I know he ignored many of their major tenets. Another was a sort of pseudo-Buddhist. Anyway, one time I heard them arguing and one of them, I forget which one, said "Oh yeah? Well, I'm more spiritual than yo... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d49pqav | 4o4shc | Why would Apple try to sue Samsung over pinch to zoom, considering they are a hardware manufacturer and are not responsible for the Operating system? | Apple also creates their own operating systems for their phones, not just the hardware. If they feel they invented the concept of pinching to zoom before Samsung did and that Samsung stole that idea from them, then that's why they would sue. | 5 |
AskHistorians/ch8udyr | 24mo3b | How were albino slaves treated in the American South? | FYI: slaves didn't need to be albino to be basically white. A lot of slaves were very pale, given that many enslaved women had children fathered by white masters. A few generations of that and children might be indistinguishable from someone widely accepted as being white. Since slave status was inherited through the m... | 51 |
AskReddit/ca5ycwz | 1f1ots | What popular video game series do you dislike and why? | Halo. Apparently, the first one is good, but the ones I have played, 3 and 4 were at best average. Very linear, very grinding and graphically staid. And one of the worst, cliched and contrived storylines I've encountered in a video game since the 80s. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eb707z6 | a3k028 | What is that sinking feeling you experience when you get terrible news? | It's your body's fight or flight response. You pump blood away from organs used for eating/digesting/other bodily processes, and towards muscles and extremities used to run or fight. This gives your stomach that classic sinking feeling. | 241 |
explainlikeimfive/d7vhlfk | 53qh41 | How do we know how many stars are in our galaxy? | We can't measure it directly, but we have enough information to get a rough estimate. We can estimate the total mass of an orbital system by looking at the motion of the orbiting objects within the system. In a galaxy like the Milky Way, the stars (including the sun) are all orbiting the the center of the galaxy. So we... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1olciw | gm9h5 | What is the weirdest childhood memory you have? | When I was 8 years old we had an early dismissal at school so I was walking home around lunch time. I walked through my alley and went through my back gate. Just as I walked past my garage and into my back yard I heard the weirdest scream I have ever heard. Looked over in my neighbors yard and there he was, my neighbor... | 79 |
AskReddit/db9hvsn | 5in9wj | What movie can you watch all the time and never get tired of watching? | Tons of movies for me but I'll just name a few When I was 12 I watched Dumb and Dumber every night for the entire summer break. Also, this will probably baffle some people who think it's boring, but I've seen There Will Be Blood at least 20 times. | 2 |
AskReddit/dbg2ap9 | 5jf0ue | If finally peeing after holding it all day 'hurts so good', what else hurts so good? | I like to scratch my head , it started off scratching my head after taking my hair down after a long day but now I scratch so much I get scabs then I like to find scabs and pick them it gets really bad sometimes so I have to go cold turkey for a couple weeks, how I'm not bald I dno haha it just feels so good | 3 |
AskReddit/dknbut2 | 6p843q | What has been your worst Uber experience? | Took an Uber home from a watching a soccer game with my roommates. Completely sober, didn't have any food or drinks with us. Driver got terribly lost on the way back (missed the same exit more than once lol) and I guess didn't like the one snarky comment I made or could tell I didn't give her 5 stars, so she charged me... | 3 |
AskReddit/evzppzo | cm3oge | Why do you think there are so many mass shootings these past few years with no clear motive? | It’s some sort of disgusting trend. Voiceless people who want to be heard in a crazy world of hurry. Spreading fear and pain is the only way to be noticed, heard, understood. It’s disgusting, not only the shootings, but the fact that people feel this is the only way. The media needs to stop naming these people and givi... | 3 |
AskReddit/el7a1xi | bent10 | What did you major in and why? | Music: performance, theory/counterpoint, and conducting. I'm glad I majored in it as it's proven to be a rewarding profession. p.s. Enjoy your cake day, OP! | 2 |
AskReddit/cji5eoh | 2cqzsm | What's the best first date advice you have for someone going on their first date in over 3 years tomorrow? | Don't talk about How you haven't been on a date in over 3 years That you don't know what you're doing Self-deprecating jokes Do talk about Fun things, laughing, stories Emotionally positive and uplifting things | 4 |
AskReddit/c1zdsqr | hy9oz | What was the most pointless thing you had to learn about in grade school? | Learned about the holocaust about 40 separate times. I mean it is important and interesting and all, but why the repetition, and why not cover any new ground for that matter? I think I learned about it every single year in public school. So many people barely understand history, so it seems strange to cover one topic s... | 3 |
AskReddit/ewufwrq | cq7tmm | What is your story of finding a place or a thing that no one should find? | One of our friends rented a house for a summer home. We visited to go swimming and we also went through the owners stuff he left in the basement. He had a bunch of old junk down their but we found his diary. We read it and found out someone mysteriously died in their sleep in this house. We went looking for the room he... | 2 |
AskReddit/dmy1c9s | 6ztveq | What is the one fetish that you will never understand? | People who don't posses these fetishes will never understand them, because even those who do, don't. Fetish isn't something one understands. I don't get the foot fetish for example and it's one of the most common fetish. I like groomed and pretty feet, but kissing, licking, worshipping them? No. | 1,074 |
AskReddit/e48xjif | 97kvt6 | What is the most ridiculous lie you told that people actually believed? | A friend of mine coughed up a tonsil stone and was wondering what they were. I told hwr they were white blood cells and it was a sign of leukemia. She believed it for a few minutes before I told her that I didn't know wtf they were. | 6 |
AskReddit/ehutmdy | axo2xs | What are you proud of right now? | I've been working out 3 days a week for 20 to 30 minutes for the last two years. Two weeks ago I decided to ramp up to 5 days a week for an hour at a time, and I'm feeling so proud of myself. It feels really sustainable, and I'm feeling really good physically. Previously I was working on body weight and kettle bell exe... | 2 |
AskReddit/cznzf1j | 4478qe | What's an aspect of your job or career that's not easy for outsiders to understand? | The hardest thing for outsiders to understand: The fact that I don't make a ton of money doesn't automatically mean I want to move up the ladder. I'm happy where I am, and happiness in a workplace is rare. | 5 |
AskReddit/dg2k572 | 64jdqn | Why aren't journalists charged with being am accessory after the fact when they learn about a from but don't turn in the criminal? | They can be, if the circumstances call for it. BUT - The whole point of "Freedom of the press" is that journalists can investigate and report a story without fear of being implicated as an accomplice to the activity. Granted, sometimes that freedom (like most others) is abused | 2 |
AskReddit/c4l3t3a | tb6y8 | When I become a father to a daughter, why should I be the "scary dad" or the "cool dad" to her boyfriend? | Depends on the boyfriend. 1st date, I greeted all of my daughter's new boyfriends with a double barreled shotgun tucked under my arm (I later learned my daughter secretly loved this because it gave her an idea regarding whether they considered her worth the risk) and if after several weeks they proved worthy, then I sw... | 6 |
AskReddit/denghby | 5y5s31 | What's your biggest regret in life? | My mother was an abusive, alcoholic, and overall terrible parent growing up. I was always her scapegoat. The liquor store was out of her brand of vodka so she had to get something she liked less? It was my fault and I had to be beaten until I agreed. It wasn't just the physical abuse that made her terrible. It was also... | 4 |
AskReddit/dczkbbg | 5qiu0v | What's are the best money saving tips you have? | Every luxury costs double. $60 video game also costs $60 into my savings. The great thing about saving is once you hit like $4k you don't want to spend it anymore, just watch it get bigger and sacrifices are easier to make. | 3 |
askscience/c95zd7t | 1bdw7i | How many people will be saved from starvation by the recently passed Farmer Assurance Provision to US House bill 933? | Wow, what a great question! Since the Green Revolution in the 1940s-1970s, farming technology advances in agriculture have saved over a billion people from starvation. In addition to irrigation, pest treatments, and sophisticated new fertilizers, American crop scientists have also led the field forward in the developme... | 59 |
explainlikeimfive/drwj366 | 7mtfo7 | How does Anti-Dandruff Shampoo work? | When i took a class on fungi in college the professor told us that the secret to Head and Shoulders or any similar dandruff shampoo is that it is actually a fungicide. The dead skin flakes from your scalp are acually held together by a fungus and by killing it with the shampoo the dandruff flakes break apart into small... | 24 |
AskReddit/c4krf9l | t9s4n | Have you ever been to a concert where an opening act was better than the main act? | My exboyfriend got us tickets to see Liz Phair. I was so excited to go see her. When we got to the venue the line wrapped around the block. As it turns out, this was some tour sponsored by Maybelline. Liz Phair was the opening act for some teeny bopper act that I can't even remember the name, but it made 15 year olds s... | 2 |
AskReddit/e8zwaw9 | 9twg6m | What's your all time favorite RPG? | I grew up in the 80's/90's, and spent a good deal of my after-school time playing the Ultima series (particularly 4-7). At the time, the games were groundbreaking. They win the nostalgia factor hands-down! As an adult, I have to agree with KOTOR being fantastic. (I still have trouble considering games like Witcher 3 "R... | 2 |
AskReddit/do4f15b | 758vyr | What is the worst thing you've ever seen happen at a wedding? | I was an event manager at a mansion that did a lot of weddings so I've seen my fair share of wedding shitshows. My favorite is probably the one where the entire wedding party started drinking at noon for a 6pm wedding. The groom passed out around 5 and we couldn't get him up. So I made him a a ham sandwich and propped ... | 29,141 |
AskReddit/cskw7ga | 3bciy2 | What's the strangest thing you've ever been paid for? | A dude once saw me in the street in uptown Manhattan and "paid" me $5000 claiming "I left without being paid". I assumed he hired a hooker from an agency or something. Was kinda surprised but I still took it gracefully. I was 15. | 108 |
AskReddit/eva1xxx | ciycii | What is the most evil company that needs to be shut down ASAP? | I think the behavior of evil companies is a symptom of a larger problem. Truth is, in an environment where companies can dodge regulations, dictate laws, trap workers who have no bargaining leverage and no alternatives other than destitution if they quit, and trap similarly underpaid consumers with the only prices they... | 111 |
AskReddit/eq3tu1i | bx6k8y | What's a good way to stop thinking about stupid mistakes you made which you can't change anything about anyway? | I love doing a soul cleanse every once in a while. I have so many demons from my past mistakes and they cloud my head so doing a soul cleanse kind of helps me free those thoughts from my mind. I like to set up a little peaceful area: I'll set up incense, candles, lay out my crystals & then I play relaxing meditative mu... | 2 |
AskReddit/ceokoiq | 1v3ttl | What do you think the world will look like in the year 2099? | You can predict the future by looking at the past. Back in 1964, people thought we would have flying cars now. The reason they are not there, is because they are simply not feasible and they are sort of useless. Things that we imagine will be there in the future just as gadgets will most likely not be there. Things tha... | 207 |
askscience/cni7f1f | 2rpqzf | Why does the US call it acetaminophen and everyone else call it paracetamol? | The chemical compound is called 'N-acetyl-p-aminophenol' - so both names can be extracted from it and both make sense. The difference is due to different regulating bodies in the USA/Canada - the FDA in particular decided that they preferred the name that we use today. Why? Well, I guess I deserve a downvote for not an... | 10 |
AskReddit/co6dqet | 2u9iwe | What's the biggest overreaction you've witnessed acted out by an adult? | I've seen a parent have to be physically restrained and removed from a little league game in a small town after an umpire called their son out on strikes. The mom was throwing and connecting on punches as she was being pulled/dragged into the parking lot. Couple of notes: Game was almost over but the other team was win... | 139 |
askscience/c1m5sia | gapgm | Could the density gradient of a very large star cause the center to have an event horizon? | It's really rather important to get a good handle on the difference between the energy density you'd find inside a star and the energy density it takes to form an event horizon. Perhaps quantifying the two in terms of temperature might help. Inside a typical star — even a very big, very hot one — the temperature is on ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dorbj03 | 785mzd | Which song do you wish was longer? | A lot of those old early-rock songs from the late '50s and early '60s. Every once in a while I get in a Buddy Holly/Dion and the Belmonts/Ronettes-type kick. but their songs had to get laid down on 45s, and are only two and a half minutes long. Always leaves me wanting more rock. | 2 |
AskReddit/e5ldpz6 | 9dzpg7 | What is the scariest experience you’ve ever woken up to? | About 4 AM suddenly woken up to a screaming child in the street outside my house. Blood curdling. I thought someone was being killed. I ran into my dads room to wake him up. I was in full blown panic mode. He said it was an animal being killed. I was relieved, but I don’t think I fell asleep for another 2 hours after i... | 5 |
AskReddit/dt3ml8o | 7sc1ta | What's the most terrifying dream you've ever had? | This is kind of stupid, but it's honestly the only dream I very vividly remember. I honestly couldn't tell you what I dreamed about, if anything, for the past 20 years. But when I was a young child, probably somewhere between 6-10 years old, I had the same dream repeatedly. I would wake up(in my dream) and my house wou... | 2 |
AskReddit/dg1ya8o | 64gaky | What's the first thing you did when you got your driver's license? | Actually, the day I got my license was the day my friend invited a few people over to play Madden, eat wings, just chill and relax. Ended up driving over there by myself, but had a 10pm curfew so only had like 4 hours there. It was loads of fun though, not just because I was able to drive. That friend ended up dying in... | 6 |
AskReddit/c0an915 | 8wdua | Are you a Net Celebrity? | Not really -- if I am, it's a grade-D net celebrity. I wrote a couple of articles on how bad Twilight sucks and those got posted and re-posted into oblivion -- and one of io9's articles had a paragraph about me. But other than that.? Frankly being e-famous for anything at all related to Twilight makes me a little sad. | 5 |
askscience/c17gq7k | eeafl | Why do we only see visible light? | The sun emits most of its light in the visible light spectrum. I assume why that's why we evolved visible light sensitivity. Infared light would be very dim relatively, and not very useful in distinguishing images and features of the environment. There are some organisms that can sense infared light, which is emitted b... | 9 |
AskReddit/ett9z0n | cdctxm | What's the strangest thing that your parent has ever punished you for? | I had massive unbearable pain from a dental infection that went untreated for about six weeks. When I went to the emergency room I took my father, assuming he would back me up when I asked the doctors for pain meds, and assure them that I was legit and wasn’t faking it to get high. But my father took their side and cla... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cgvgzp0 | 23btvf | If you can have dialysis for kidney failure, why isn't there an equivalent for liver failure? | ELI5 Answer: The kidneys primarily filter out wastes from the blood. When they start failing to do so, the patient's blood is pumped through a machine that does pretty much the same thing. In some places/countries, to reduce costs while producing the same results at approximately the same risk, the blood is pumped out ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dh40gw5 | 695rzp | Why does the body produce puss? | An infection is a battle ground. Your bodies immune system is waging war with a foreign invader and like any war there are casualties. Puss is the build up of the cellular waste and biological warfare your body is waging. It doesn't so much serve a purpose as it is just a left over of fighting off certain infections. R... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/da7m38f | 5dvkw7 | Would it be possible to achieve flight by pushing Air Molecules away from you? | What do you mean push away from you? In a poor understanding of physics kind of way, that's what the wing and engine does. Engine pushes the air that passes over the blades out the back of the engine, at the same time the air pushes back (equal and opposite reaction) and that results in forward movement. Same with the ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cnfhn3e | 2rfnai | What is the difference between Drive, D2, and D3 in a car and how should they each be used? | Gears on a car are tricky. The power of the engine is the same regardless of what gear you are in, the difference is power vs speed. Think of a bicycle. At one far end of the spectrum there's low gear where you peddle and peddle but never really go anywhere. It's mostly used for going up hills. Then there's high gear, ... | 2 |
AskReddit/djf9kb7 | 6jm9b3 | What is the worst reason you ever got detention in school? | My old art teacher back when I was in school use to give me detention for not doing homework he never gave me. He only ever gave me detention whenever he was in charge of the detention room. I was an introvert and hated being in the canteen on my own with a room full of 600 odd kids. Dude was a hero. I'd just sit in th... | 7 |
AskReddit/c9n2gcq | 1d4vye | What is a popular product that totally lives up to the hype? | Water. It's pretty popular, as far as I'm aware, and it lives up to its hype. I was skeptical at first about the whole "you literally cannot live without this" nonsense I'd been hearing, but as it turns out, I truly cannot live without it. Hype totally justified. | 49 |
AskReddit/dwwz622 | 8aa4jy | How do you cope with the death of your parents? | This is pretty tough to answer in general terms. Coping is going to very greatly for each individual. The circumstances will change "How to Cope" as well. For example, an adult who has lost their elderly parents would have a completely different set of emotions and coping skills than a child who unexpectedly lost their... | 3 |
askscience/dob1eka | 75zss2 | Why generators are rated on their apparent power in kVA and not in actual power in terms of kW? | Because the torque the rotor "feels" is only related to the current in the windings. The ampere-turns. But the real power is the in phase voltage x current. So a load, like an induction motor, can have the current quite out of phase with the voltage. But to have the real work, watts or horse power, come out right at a ... | 4 |
AskReddit/d245hl9 | 4exfbl | What would happen if we find a new continent with people on it? | Turns out they're an advanced civilisation that developed on Earth well ahead of the rest of us. At some point they decided that in order to avoid having to deal with us, they built some kind of stealth shield which has kept them hidden for centuries. In response to our demands on them to integrate they reveal that the... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c7zv7i9 | 16vpm3 | If Rommel is so widely considered one of Germany's generals, why wasn't he on the far more important East front? | Rommel wasn't as good as people believe he was. He had a poor understanding of strategy. There are those who describe him as a company commander in the body of a general. This means he overly concerned himself with tactics which was not the job of a general. Generals were supposed to concern themselves with the strateg... | 59 |
explainlikeimfive/ckmau2k | 2gt7xg | Why can't north korea/africa just plant crops to feed themselves ? | Like other people said, corruption and the lack of fertile land. It also takes a lot of planning and money, as well. And many African governments (and NK as well) are simply not as efficient as developed countries. Also, in poorer regions of Africa where many people are starving, looting large plantations and farms wou... | 26 |
AskReddit/e8yii88 | 9tr2z0 | What’s the happiest the internet has ever made you? | When I heard the intro song to kingdom hearts 2 and then went to YouTube to watch the video. I watched it everyday before school because it made me feel so good. | 3 |
AskReddit/d3727uf | 4jizio | What comforting thoughts or quotes make YOU feel better/accept the inevitability of death? | Who needs a quote to make themselves feel better about death? Why would I be afraid of it? I won't even be there to experience it, it's like wanting to feel better about an experience that does not exist, and that I could never experience.Are you afraid of deep sleep? You lose all awareness of your body, the world, and... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d0ip73x | 48cmdv | How can some plants survive through the winter while others require new seeds to regrow in the spring/summer time? | They're just two different methods for continuing the species, like how some animals have lots of babies knowing only some will survive while others only have or one two and put a lot of effort into making sure they survive. It takes a lot of energy to survive the winter but has the benefit of allowing the plant to gro... | 2 |
AskReddit/cbk17jf | 1k08np | What is the worst thing you did to be fired from a job? | The only job I have ever been "fired" from was my first, and it was because I did my job the way I thought jobs were meant to be done. My motto was "yes sir, how high, sir? right away, sir" I was honest and tried my very hardest to be like the model employees in the training videos. I was too naive at the time to reali... | 10 |
AskReddit/dvctqc9 | 82trem | What was the game that started your love for gaming? | Kingdom Hearts. I got that game as a birthday gift when I was young and instantly fell in love. Having Disney characters interact with you and fighting with them was such a big thing for young me. Also add the fact that the story was great and the combat was fun and engaging and you have a game that I was obsessed with... | 2 |
AskReddit/dlplgy6 | 6u3f1n | What was a situation you initially thought was life-threatening but ended up being nothing? | Around 4 years old, I thought it would be fun to get into the hatchback of my mom's Saab and close it. Upon realizing there was no way to open it from the inside, I worked myself into a frenzy, screaming and kicking, hoping someone would hear me. After about two minutes of this, I was convinced that was it. I was going... | 2 |
AskReddit/c6cl88t | 10dptm | Is money destroying our evolution morally (the money is the root of all evil theory) or is a means of progression? | I think it's a means of progression the further we get it away from a handful of people holding the means of access of it and more towards people being empowered to do business with each other. Things like kickstarter, Paypal, and the square attachment. | 2 |
AskReddit/dlyoar3 | 6va6kd | What have you found while snooping that made you wish you'd never snooped? | I found an ornate tiny pill box in my mom's jewelry box. It rattled when I shook it, so I knew there was something in it. I opened it up and found teeth. So many teeth. She saved all our baby teeth in that tiny box. It was a little bit horrifying. | 3 |
askscience/cehq2lv | 1ufj5n | If it takes hours and hours for food to digest, how does asparagus stink up my pee so quickly? | Absorption of chemicals and nutrients begins as soon as food hits your mouth (this is why some medications can be delivered by putting them under your tongue). Most of it occurs in the intestine, of course. So, while it takes hours for asparagus to go end-to-end, processing begins very quickly, and clearly the chemical... | 95 |
askscience/cq7epus | 31wl8t | Is it possible for there to be undiscovered large animals? | Possible? Technically, anything is possible. Likely? Not really. Given the amount of food Bigfoot would have to eat, he'd have to roam around a lot or completely demolish the area he lives in. This would leave A LOT of evidence. If he roamed around a lot, it would be hard for him to stay in the 'deeper' parts of the wi... | 3 |
AskReddit/c3rwq5x | psjzt | Is it ok to not go to funerals for people you don't know? | I wouldn't go and I wouldn't feel even remotely guilty about it. Frankly I think it's a little weird. I've had a couple coworkers come to at least one funeral for a family member and while I appreciate the thought I don't really think they belonged there. It's FOR people who knew the person, but it's ABOUT the deceased... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cl0theu | 2ic7jm | How are high precision measuring devices, like vernier callipers and micrometers, made without pre-existing higher precision instruments? | You can make precision instruments fairly easily. I'm sure the exact chain of events is much more complex, but here's just a small example of how this can work: Let's say that you can measure an inch very precicely, but you want to be able to measure smaller distances with the same precision. You make an 11-inch long r... | 6 |
AskReddit/ei9a45m | azp3j9 | How many of you actually enjoy temperatures above 70F (21C)? | For context, I’m from Michigan and my family recently moved to the south where it is warm year-round. They insist on not using the air conditioning, and I’m currently lying in bed with all of my windows open and several fans on, sweating like a sinner in church. The air temperature is currently 71F, what most people re... | 2 |
AskReddit/cznmsdt | 444vnf | If Captain (Your Country) was a superhero, what would his powers be? | Captain France, powers include: smoking, extensive knowledge of wine and cheese, debating existentialism with foes, musty scent of victoire, incredibly fashionable super suit, the rights of man utility belt, nuclear power, and the power of feigning surrender, but then resisting. | 2 |
AskReddit/esz08mk | c9jjf7 | Why didn’t the German population speak up against what was happening to the Jewish people in WW2? | A large portion of the population were anti-semitic and BELIEVED that Jews were sub-human and that Germany would be better without them. This created a lot of peer pressure on others to fall in with them, especially when it became official state policy. I don't know of any examples of a German being officially punished... | 4 |
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