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AskReddit/c271qus | ivtgl | What is your favorite alternate movie theory? | The James bond theory is laid pretty bare in the original Casino Royale in which an older bond (David Niven) retires and they decide to keep the bond name alive with multiple "impostor" bonds, among them Peter Sellers. The movie is a mess, but it's pretty funny and very groovy. Tons of cameos and a Burt Bacharach score... | 12 |
AskReddit/crrmt4z | 381tfx | What's the worst remake of anything ever? | The remake of the ford GT40 was pretty bad but the absolute worst is the new mini. Sharing nothing but the name, it's a mid sized sedan (I'm gonna ignore the backwards cap cringe that is the coupe) about twice the size of the original and half as much fun. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eqrxg4z | bzet72 | Why do prime ministers and influential politicians ride public transport without security details, even at the risk of getting mobbed and possibly injured? | I don’t think that they actually do. I would think that they do have security details, you just can’t see them. Many times security can be more effective if they are “under cover” or blend in with the crowd. That way they can have a bigger picture of what is happening than if they were right up near the person. I would... | 8 |
askscience/crpbzlh | 37rhdw | How is possible that energy is being emitted in a nuclear fusion? | Somewhere in the middle of the periodic table is the most tightly bound nucleus. Anything larger will give up energy in fission any thing smaller will give up energy when fusion occurs. Fusion only gives up energy when the atoms fusing are small and go toward that most tightly bound number/mass. Fission only gives up e... | 2 |
AskReddit/e559ycy | 9brytn | What's the efficient method to learn a second language? | Immersion learning. When studying the language, you should immerse yourself in literature, television, music and more in that language. It has to be several hours of the day for multiple weeks, otherwise you will only partially know the language and have no real basis for using it in a natural conversation. | 3 |
AskReddit/cicdrns | 28mqn8 | How to fix your sleep cycle? | I ruined my sleep cycle last week. It was a longer weekend because of a public holiday, and I basicly ruined it by going to bed in 5am, waking up at 2pm the following day, went to bed at 4am, woke up at 4pm etc. I fixed it by staying up all night, not sleeping that day, and went to bed at 9pm instead of my usual 11pm o... | 3 |
AskReddit/c2u6mpx | lnuge | Why do we hate the rich, yet all desire to be rich? | You say we as if everyone has that desire. I don't want to be rich. I want to live sustainably. If I had everything I needed to live, and only needed to pay for a few select things (power, phone, internet, transportation), I would be a happy person. | 3 |
AskHistorians/c8nznhw | 19h4vp | What language has had the most words spoken in it throughout history? | The problem with this is that there's no simple way to tell when a language begins or ends. When did provincial Latin become French? When did Proto-Indo-European become Latin? Or is everyone in Europe still speaking a variation on the same Indo-European Language? But, to fudge around the difficulties in answering this ... | 7 |
AskReddit/dkr34ps | 6ppbxf | How can you tell it's time to leave a job or a relationship? | Ironically, jobs and relationships are similar in that if you're bored and unhappy, you should move on from them. Sure, there's something to be said about a longterm job, or a long term relationship, but this is the kind of thing that leads to relationship or workplace disasters. When you're bored, unsatisfied, unhappy... | 27 |
explainlikeimfive/cfe9i5n | 1xs3q1 | Why, when I'm wearing earplugs, do constant sounds like cars be blocked out, but I feel like I can hear my footsteps, breathing, conversations near me, etc? | For sound (soundwaves) to travel, all it needs is a medium. This medium can be any kind of substance; liquids, gas and solids (probably plasma aswell). So by plugging your ears you only prevent air from pushing against your eardrum. But when you walk, the vibration goes all the way from your feet to your ear and it mak... | 2 |
AskReddit/e8e7dtf | 9r4tjy | What are your top 5 subs that encourage deep thinking, intellectual exchange, and even debate? | I don't know the names of half of the subs I visit, but there are a lot of science subreddits that have all of the criteria your looking for. Also there's subs specifically made for debating certain groups of people, like r/DebateAChristian for example. | 2 |
AskReddit/cdcet19 | 1qfxkw | When two people ride past each other on motorcycles, typically choppers, what's the hand motion they give each other? | Chopper-Bikers in Germany (like myself) mostly drop their hand and extend the thumb, index and middle finger. (Mopeds or theee-wheelers are rarely greeted at all.) For Enduros or other high-seated bikes, the hand is normally simply raised slightly above the handlebar. Ride on! | 2 |
askscience/demr3re | 5y2sdg | Will I generate more power if I focus sunlight with a magnifying glass onto a solar panel? | If your magnifying glass is bigger than your solar panel you will get more power. The lens would collect over a larger area than what the panel is able to do on its own. However there is a couple of things to consider. First the solar panels efficiency drops with temperature. So usually a 2m^2 panel would produce more ... | 81 |
AskReddit/dkre2gn | 6pqjbe | What are some shows you grew up watching that you make your kids watch today? | I show movies to my (now grown) kids from before their time that they haven't seen, but not TV shows. I mean, if they wanna check out Gilligan's Island or the Brady Bunch, more power to 'em, but I don't care about it. I did make sure to show them the movie from the 60's Batman TV show. That's probably the closest thing... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c8h8gn5 | 18r0u5 | What was the X-Files alien storyline actually about? | The X-Files plot arc was about a group of people (The Syndicate) who were trying to negotiate with an alien species (The Colonists) that was intent on taking over the world, wiping out humankind in the process. First contact with the aliens occurred in 1947, when one of their spacecraft crash landed in the desert in Ne... | 1,890 |
AskReddit/cidrzy2 | 28rp0t | If my child gets a disease that has a vaccine and it is determined that patient zero is not vaccinated, can I sue the parents? | I'm sure someone will try it at some point. As long as we have freedoms there will be things that hurt others. Of course, if you hurt others, there may be liability. The problem here is that the liability is pretty tenuous. there's no intention to harm. So it would have to be based on some sort of reckless disregard th... | 8 |
AskReddit/emib6ze | bkonas | What's the hardest job that exists? | Idk if its the hardest but my wife is an RN and the missing holidays, working 16-18hr shifts several days in a row, plus if you mess up you could cause a death. That job seems pretty hard | 2 |
AskReddit/euvj8a2 | chmyib | What is a good way for someone who is very shy and introverted, but also very lonely, to learn social skills and meet friends (not romantic partners)? | Volunteering. It functions as a job, so you have that layer of expected behavior and interaction scripts to follow, and it gets you in the middle of fluctuating groups of people. Where it's different from a job for this particular case is that you don't have the expectation that you'll stay there no matter what happens... | 3 |
AskReddit/dr1zrxx | 7iwfl6 | What is the most sexual thing you have seen your teacher do? | We had this English teacher (why does it always seem to be English teachers? Lol) who was generally considered by the boys to be the most attractive teacher in the school (and one of the few under 30). She seemed to make a habit of always wearing super low cut tops and bending over in front of the boys. This being the ... | 4 |
AskReddit/ehdd36z | av8il1 | What is the strangest/weirdest thing that you've woken up to, and how'd you react? | I once passed out in the backseat of a car, and a friend of mine (who was also less than sober) decided that the best thing to do would be to shove a handful of Skittles in my mouth. So I wake up, mouth full of sugar, drooling colours. And I manage to mumble out "whatthefugisinmamouf?" And she says, "the rainbow, jack!... | 116 |
AskReddit/dm0kt7n | 6vj2o9 | When did you try to save money on something, but because of that, ended up spending way more in the end? | Tried to avoid a toll by going thru Baltimore city. Wound up very scared, was offered to buy drugs 3 times at stop signs and then ended up paying the toll anyway. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dh4pot8 | 6992vi | How does aging meats and things like cheese work and not just make them rot and gross? | The facilities used for aging meat are kept at very certain temperatures, humidities and so forth to discourage the growth of unwanted cultures, bacterias, molds while optimizing the growth of preferential cultures, molds, and bacterias. Many kinds of cheese are sealed in a combination of cheese cloth and wax, which of... | 21 |
AskReddit/cw8o263 | 3pr3cf | How has the Syrian crisis affected your country? | UK. Polarises people more than any other major issue. We don't see any refugees, but we probably wouldn't notice and/or care if they did arrive, at least not in London. Generally speaking you've got half the population, plus the Opposition, saying "What are you doing trapping these people in Calais and/or forcing them ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dodtb2b | 76g31z | What Album as a whole had the most influence on your life and why? | Probably "Permanent Waves" by Rush. Spirit of Radio is the one that sticks out, as I've worked in radio since 1984. Glittering prizes and endless compromises describes it perfectly. Free Will covers the non-believer part of my life, as well as my youthful flirtation with libertarian thought (and isn't that always a you... | 5 |
AskReddit/dvxyj28 | 85k56i | Do you eat food past the expiration date if it looks and smells fine, why or why not? | Yes, but with varying allowances for "past date" - didn't have a lot of money/food growing up, so I don't waste much. EX: Dried product, like pasta? Good forever. Perishable product, like milk? As long as it looks/smells/tastes ok, whole usually gets an extra day or two, 2% around a week, skim gets closer to 2 weeks. | 6 |
AskReddit/ejxsc3a | b8hha9 | If you had to guess, when do you think humanity will end and how will it happen? | I'm still holding on to the hope that we'll be replaced by and become machines that will roam the galaxy. While there are some pretty bad environmental changes happening that will kill a lot of people I don't think that's an existential threat to humanity as a whole. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cktqcl6 | 2hlcpw | How a Helium filled HDD affect its overall storage space? | Hard drives are made of circular plates called platters that spin around thousands of times per minute. These platters are what your data is stored on. The more platters, the more information can be stored. The faster they can spin, then the faster that information can be read off of them and written onto them. Normal ... | 8 |
AskReddit/dgymj1r | 68i4fb | If you could only watch one movie or series for the rest of your life, what would it be? | If you're going to watch only one anime, make it Steins;Gate. It's 24 half-hour episodes long and is available on Hulu. It's slow at first, but it isn't boring. Your patience will pay off. The series quickly begins building up dread and despair. The characters are obliviously playing with fire, and you just know it's a... | 2 |
AskReddit/c2vk4ph | ltu7j | How will the 25th century view our understanding of the world? | In general, I think we remain very primitive. We like to separate ourselves from our ancestors based on our technology and our current understanding of the world, but we remain very similar. I think we are living through the beginning of an important escalation in technological advancement (genetics, the internet, etc)... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cx8i06d | 3tq5qt | Why do lighters have those two compartments where the liquid can flow between them instead of just one big one? | The fuel used in lighters means that the pressure inside the fuel tank is roughly 2 atmospheres. This means that they need to make the fuel tank a bit more durable in order to be able to support the pressure. Dividing it in two like that makes it more durable. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cooxvvs | 2w9z89 | How does American surname laws work with regards for other cultures? | There are a few laws state by state. For the most part if they exist they prohibit numbers, profanity, and really really long names. And California restricts you to only the 26 characters of English. But beyond that anything is fair game | 4 |
AskReddit/cf64wn0 | 1wx25u | What memory do you have of an event that you are certain happened, but your family or friends deny did? | My mom was in a minor fender-bender years ago, when I was four or five. I vividly remember being in the car, and finding out at the scene that the other driver was a lawyer. I mentioned this to my mom a few years ago, and she said it definitely happened, but I wasn't there. Apparently I just heard about it after the fa... | 2 |
AskReddit/dy4caob | 8fkvyq | Where do you see yourself on this day in exactly 10 years? | eh. this is gonna sound a bit cliche or sad idk. Idc. I hope that in 10 years I’m happy and living with someone who I can consider my best friend and boyfriend. Right now I have not met someone that I want to be with. Not even for a little while. I see everyone as a friend and hope that will change. | 6 |
AskReddit/c0l54km | b63ie | How do I learn the math that is necessary to be a physicist? | If you even slightly dislike math, move on, because that's all physics is. It's math. Lots and lots of difficult (Some may say "tricky" but I'm not one of those people) math. Where do you learn the math? By attending the classes you'll be enrolled in as a requirement to take physics. You'll probably start off with basi... | 3 |
AskReddit/dgxeeme | 68aknf | What is the weirdest way you have made a friend? | Last year, my school was having a "High School Musical Night" where they'd be playing the first High School Musical movie in the student council room for free, no tickets or anything. I found it really random, but I'd never seen that movie and HSM memes were pretty popular at that time so I figured I'd go, even though ... | 18 |
AskHistorians/cuqt7sk | 3jn6lw | Did France ask anything in return from the United States after the Revolutionary War for playing such an important role in their freedom? | There were loans that the U.S. owed the French. And these were repaid somewhat irregularly. But were eventually repaid. The French also got some minor colonial territories from the UK (Tobago, St Lucia, and Senegal). But most importantly they knocked down their principal rival down a peg or two. There were always negot... | 9 |
AskReddit/eck5wyv | a9je5m | What Christmas gift have you gotten that offended you the most? | My soon-to-be-former in laws once got me a clock for Christmas. They claimed to have shopped and shopped for the "perfect" gift for me. When I got it home and opened it, I noticed that it had batteries in it, indicating that it was used. After replacing the batteries, I discovered that the clock did not work. Another y... | 25 |
AskReddit/cm7acu8 | 2mslvn | What's the one video game you inexplicably played for hundreds of hours as a child? | the original Ratchet & Clank series (the first game, Going Commando, and Up Your Arsenal). I grew up in a Playstation family instead of Nintendo, which I know now I would've enjoyed more, so I guess this was the closest thing I had to a Legend of Zelda-esque adventure game. I'm sorry to say that as far as the Zelda gam... | 18 |
AskReddit/dhnx0ig | 6bmnsh | If the world was to end today, what would you do? | It really depends on the type of world ending we're expecting. If it's just a TEOTWAWKI, I'm all set for the most likely ones. Barring really bad luck, I'll be okay. Actually the end of everything? Guaranteed no survivors? Go to the beach and build a bonfire. Drink, listen to music, and wait. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dboxqp5 | 5km95b | How is mass extinction humans fault? | > Considering most people at that time and prior loved in mud huts HA! Humans had already been farming for 9,500 years, living in cities for most of that, China had been a sprawling empire for 4,500 years, Rome had risen and fallen. Just because we hadn't built a steam engine yet didn't mean we weren't causing change t... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/dzlcspl | 8m6w3e | Do animals somehow know and sense that other animals are an entirely different species? | Animals covers a lot of ground, and what a border collie knows and what a turtle knows is likely to be a huge difference. Let's just pick on dogs, as dogs and humans have been working together for many centuries. Dogs have excellent scent and hearing. They can clearly tell "your car" from "another car" through sound al... | 4 |
AskReddit/djy2kfw | 6m0qbg | What is the most dangerous situation you've gotten yourself into just because you "didn't know any better"? | I'm a huge animal lover and as a kid I'd find and play with bugs, frogs, lizards, outdoor cats, and just about any other animals that I could find. Usually, it was fine, but once I found a fairly large snake under my porch. I was so excited because it was much bigger than the only other snake I had ever seen. So I did ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cbl6bef | 1k38vh | What movie do you automatically watch to completion whenever you accidentally stumble upon it? | Is it just me or is catching a movie on tv the best way to watch. Sure things are cut out, sure there are commercials, but is there a better feeling than flipping through channels and finding a really good movie and settling in for the long haul? | 2 |
AskReddit/ecpx2og | aa64m1 | What was your worst fear as a child? | Tornadoes and any kind of violent weather. We don't even live in an area that gets tornadoes often, if at all (There have been a few F0s/F1s nearby in the past, but none close enough to where we live to actually do anything), but any time it'd storm hard, I'd get afraid that there would be a tornado. And that all start... | 2 |
AskReddit/ew8p6b4 | cn6cuf | If you had the power to mandate a Christmas level holiday, what would it be and when? | My college does an event every year that I would love to see more of. It has a proper name but I've always called it Spring Cleaning Day. Students volunteer to do projects around the university. Such as cleaning the on campus museum, planting flowers and trees, cleaning up litter, etc. Work happens in the morning, we a... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ctx8x5v | 3gd3le | If insects use the moon to navigate at night, how do they navigate when it is a new moon, or any other phase in which the moon is only out for a short time at night? | The main theory is that they just use the moon as a landmark to help them fly in straight lines. But that there are other cues they use to navigate. Apparently this is too short for ELI5. It's like if you were using the morning sun to help you walk in a straight line. Even if the day becomes cloudy, there are other thi... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cxacuoo | 3tyuft | Why are alcohol bottles the shape, colour, size that they are? | Bottle shape has some technical parameters, particularly for undistilled drinks like beer or wine. However, the majority of the decision has to do with bottle shape as a brand identifier. After the label, the bottle shape is the thing companies can do that most visually appeals to customers. Those squat green bottles o... | 51 |
askscience/dyk7r10 | 8hikja | What makes exposure to a 1000-watt microwave source so much more dangerous than exposure to a 1000-watt radiant heater? | Nothing. They are roughly the same amount dangerous. A 1000 W toaster oven will cook food, and a 1000 W microwave will cook food. Both by heating it up. If you put your hand in a toaster oven it will be dangerous, and if you put your hand in a microwave it will be similarly dangerous. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ermrh1h | c2vh8k | Why do seemingly non-perishable items — like rubbing alcohol, dental floss and body lotion — have expiration dates? | While there is actual chemical breakdown where certain items eventually do become less effective or physically break down (items from 1970 would likely not be very effective for instance), most of it's marketing designed to get people to toss stuff out and replace it. It's even the same with foods: The 'best by' date h... | 9 |
AskReddit/e1zfb3t | 8wyfjd | What's your favorite windshield wiper setting and why? | Automatic. The wipers react to rain on the windshield. The more rain, the faster and more frequently they wipe. It is the height of laziness, but I love it. | 3 |
AskReddit/cy1bc8s | 3x42gj | What was the corniest or cheesiest romantic thing you've done/done to you? | a girl tried to scale 2 stories to get into my house because i was sleeping & upset with her. she failed when a cop stopped her and i guess they just chatted and smoked a cigarette. pretty corny and romantic. | 2 |
AskReddit/c857zt2 | 17g4zn | What does a tumor feel like? | As far as I know, it cannot really be felt. If it's closer to your skin, it's just a bump near the surface that is growing. You will often have other symptoms. Except if it's brain tumor, you will probably have awful headaches and the brain activity in that region of the brain will deteriorate. | 2 |
AskReddit/ejqj4cc | b7c32b | What’s the most psychotic thing you have ever done or witnessed? | A troubled kid in my school said he'd kill everyone and attacked both teachers and students. The school was evacuated, police came. He escaped the police and were hiding somewhere in the school. Ofc me and my friend didn't know what was going on, and didn't hear about the evacuation, so we went to pick up some books in... | 3 |
AskReddit/e07cimx | 8p006u | If nations borders are abolished worldwide and people can move to where they choose(on their own expense), what major population redistributions will there be? | Jews in Israel would probably have to flee or be exterminated as every jihadist with an axe to grind moves into the neighborhood. Probably some huge population shifts into North America and Western Europe. | 5 |
AskReddit/ctgygpz | 3eosex | For those of you who have had your brakes cut or fail, what was that experience like for you? | I had my brakes go out because my car was old. It was absolutely terrifying. I had nightmares about it for almost a year. But the good thing about it was that I could still brake, I just had to push the pedal way farther in than is natural and it took a lot longer to stop. But the car would stop | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/do2qz2s | 751r9j | Why do people say the size difference between countries means economic policies won't or will work less efficiently? | The size argument is fairly weak. Scaling can be achieved. A large country could save more money by being efficient compared to a small country. A better argument against using small countries as models is the diversity of large countries. Rules promulgated for a large country may just not work in Alaska, New Mexico, e... | 4 |
AskReddit/dki0twt | 6okdf8 | What is the hardest thing you have ever had to do? | My kid used to love dressing up as Santa and have the rest of us sit on his lap and tell him what we wanted, but one day our chair snapped and the weight of me broke both of his legs. While he was in the hospital, I revealed to him Santa was not real. It's very hard for a 7 year old to cope and accept it, and it was de... | 2 |
AskReddit/c3f8nsp | o8k97 | How can I (a HS freshman) prepare for a 60-minute long, college level test? | College level is a double edged sword. If its at midterm level, smoke some weed and get up ten minutes before the test. If its at finals week level, make a pot of coffee, become a pack a day smoker and study all night. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eyd897p | cwn3ou | How exactly does the weak nuclear force cause radioactive decay? | The weak force is carried by the W and Z bosons. For example if you have an up quark with a charge of +2/3 and then that particle can emit or receive a W-/W+ boson and transform into a down quark with a charge of -1/3. We see that the weak force conserves the electric charge. On a larger scale like an actual atom you h... | 2 |
Ask_Politics/cw95664 | 3ps9py | How is Department of Justice Policy ratified? | The Department of Justice is part of the executive branch and is run by the Attorney General, one of the President's "secretaries". The Department of Justice is empowered by what is called an "enabling statute." That is the bill passed by congress that creates the agency, gives it broad mandates to perform and task and... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/clddzri | 2jnph7 | How do casinos in Vegas profit off sports bets? | A standard bet on the point spread will pay out $100 for every $110 bet so they make a little money that way, but mostly they make money by people being bad at gambling. Typically the favorite will take a higher percentage of the money so they end up rooting for the underdog in most cases. Don't believe the idea that t... | 2 |
AskReddit/eaplzja | a1gujt | If you met the literal god of existence, how would you react? | I assume that meeting with the literal god of existence is something the human mind wouldn't comprehend. I don't think that he/she is made out of any concept we're used to except he would decide to show himself/herself like that or literally change my mind to be able to comprehend it. But if the god would do that I wou... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cc4nhc7 | 1m0cw3 | Why is Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" misogynistic? | It is not particularly misogynistic in relation to a lot of other current and past pop music. Maybe it is a bit random to single out 'Blurred Lines' and you should ask 'why is pop music/popular culture misogynistic', to which I have no definite answer. | 5 |
AskReddit/c2ww8fm | lzptx | What is the most scary/terrifying moment you've experienced? | My wife was driving, and were were on a side-road pulling out into a highway with traffic going 55 miles an hour. The traffic is pretty thick, and I tell my wife "it's ok hon, take your time, we're not in a hurry." For some reason, she decides to pull out into traffic, and I can see she's made a catastrophic error and ... | 3 |
AskReddit/d28it76 | 4ffqkq | What was a time an employee went too far and got fired? | We had a manager and three supervisors get fired for harassing an employee. Our lost all their upper management besides one manager and two supervisors all in one day. The manager was the worst, and she's been fired from three jobs since she got fired from here. One of the supervisors got fired from a second job and ha... | 2 |
AskReddit/ce5r8nn | 1t9oo5 | How are things really like after a divorce new relationship wise? | I'm divorced. Honestly, the first few relationships are just getting your feet wet. Backstory, was with my ex-SO for 6 years before marrying for 2 years. So I went from being single at 17 to single at 25. The dating game is substantially different. I dated someone for about a month about 3 months after separating from ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1gadup | fj1bj | What's the best thing you've ever won? | The most valuable thing I've ever won truly by chance is a dinky $20 bracelet. My mom had just gotten out of the hospital after a heart attack, and she wanted me to drive her by the K-Mart to get some sweat pants and other comfy clothes to lounge around the house in. We are shopping and there's this presentation with a... | 2 |
AskReddit/eiv55bh | b2uy3s | What are some creative/funny punishments for losing a bet? | My small group of friends and I always make lots of bets with really strange punishments. I don't usually lose but so far iv had to completely shave my head and order a wig made out of the hair. Fast for 5 days strait. Get a pistol instructor's license and learn Russian enough to the point where I could pass as Russian... | 2 |
AskReddit/cb9per8 | 1izw0y | What is your bed-time ritual? | Pee, brush teeth, take meds, climb into bed, check alarm clock 4 times, turn off the lamp, try to arrange myself around two cats and one dog. Think happy thoughts until I fall asleep. | 2 |
AskReddit/efzpbs4 | aobpk4 | What key moment in your life made you rethink how you looked at your parents? | The first time it was when I moved out an learned how truly hard it is to makes ends meet. The second was when I became old enough that I was the age they were when certain events in my childhood occured. It made me realize that parents/adults are just winging it. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/dbmc0zn | 5k9kny | What goes on inside a person's brain when they have an answer "on the tip of my tongue"? | Imagine the brain as a computer's hard drive, only a little bit more chaotic. When you try to remember something, you give your brain search parameters and it returns the closest matches, then you figure out which one it is that you're looking for manually. When something is on the tip of your tongue, it's either becau... | 24 |
AskReddit/dqv5t8j | 7i0gm0 | What movie or TV show got your profession or hobby exactly right? | Mr Robot Honestly, no other show or movie comes even close to how realistically this show portrays hacking. Movie depictions are usually laughable at best or pitiful at worst to the technically sound. Security is not my forte, but even with the modicum I know, I can appreciate how vastly superior Mr Robot is in this as... | 2 |
AskReddit/eknkexa | bc3u4s | What makes a scam download a scam download? | A scam download is a scam download from its inception. The fact that you don't know that it is a scam download does not alter its nature, because a scam download is designed to pass for the real thing, until you realize it is not and the only way you can realize that is by downloading, which in itself fullfils the purp... | 2 |
AskReddit/dmepbgj | 6xbqbr | What's something that you've been putting off doing even though it would greatly improve your quality of life? | Implementing the fact that you are, as a person, a product of the things that you think about. If you want to be successful, think about that the subjects that will improve you as a person, to make you successful. Do the best that you can at everything in life. Be a benefit to others, and they will be a benefit to you.... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cjnykny | 2dbnzr | Why are creative people seemingly so much more prone to mental disorders such as depression? | From what I have read, it's actually more that intelligent people are typically more likely to have depression. Think about it: a person of low intelligence isn't sitting around thinking about the horrors of the world as obsessively as someone who is intelligent would. On the more creative/artistic aspect: I've always ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c2esu0u | jsnmz | How thick would a spider web have to be to hold an elephant? | The tensile strength of spider silk is equal to roughly 150,000 psi an Elephant weighs roughly 10000 pounds. I have no idea what any of this means. | 3 |
AskReddit/d8x0qj9 | 583169 | What video can you watch over and over and still crack up laughing? | That video of that guy playing some video game.i think its a goat and it climbs a ladder. Its a glitch and isnt supposed to happen. The guy playing loses it and cant stop laughing. I comeback to it maybe once a year and it still makes me laugh. | 5 |
AskReddit/dbi3pju | 5jq7s1 | Why in Japanese culture do characters say the name of the actions they are doing? | It comes from the sport kendo, which is essentially swordfighting. In kendo you have different strikes and the participants are supposed to declare their intent to perform a specific one before they do it. A lot of aspects of kendo are quite deeply ingrained in the japanese culture with regards to fights so the practic... | 2 |
AskReddit/dewtnod | 5zb9gn | What is the worst case of "one upping" you've ever witnessed? | I went to Africa to volunteer as a nursing student, and one of the teachers who came along was maybe a few years older than me. She was overly controlling and your typical one upper. At one point, we went into underground caves. Everyone was exploring and taking pictures. The teacher starts barking at everyone to get b... | 394 |
explainlikeimfive/dl7p0q5 | 6rtsk5 | Why do spam bots use such poor quality images? | One possibility is that they are fake images. There are programs that can take a text input like "Hilary punching a baby" and generate an image of exactly that based on general AI principles and some sample sets. But they aren't that good at HD images, and they produce noise. I'm sure they'll be photorealistic videos i... | 6 |
AskReddit/etnnhop | ccl8k2 | What are some tips for getting songs out of your head? | My father recently told me that most of the time, we get things stuck in our heads when they’re unfinished. In other words, whatever song is stuck in your head, find a quiet space and listen to it from beginning to end. It’s always worked for me. (I’m 90% sure that if you have a song stuck in your head, it’s only 1 cer... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cyzkcaq | 414ogf | How are news outlets and online articles able to be so misleading and sometimes downright wrong with their stories? | Back up a bit and imagine a government body who's job is to decide what is and isn't true, and to censor or fine news agencies that it believes are wrong. A) It would be incredibly unconstitutional, as freedom of the press is a critical right that we all have. B) Consider the possibility of abuse. Is it staffed by peop... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ccgvbkw | 1nak68 | Why are we offended by swear words? | Swear words are defined by a given society to express anger or strong emotion. The most direct answer is that a person is offended by swear words because, like most emotional reactions, they choose to be. This choice is typically made because they accept these words the language of their society has defined as insultin... | 6 |
AskReddit/dcx6btk | 5q8flj | How difficult would it be for the Trump administration to eliminate regulatory agencies, such as the EPA, or repeal Acts of Congress, like the National Environmental Policy Act? | Trump has stated that he wants to eliminate regulations by 75%, whatever that means. Many of these regulations are tied to things like the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, etc. Given that he has a sympathetic House and Senate, how easy is it to actually dismantle these long standing statutes? | 2 |
AskReddit/cv3obwe | 3l6s6j | What movie line can you quote word for word? | "Will you look into the mirror?" "What will I see?" "Even the wisest cannot tell. For the mirror shows many things. Things that were. Things that are. And somethings. That have not yet come to pass." I can quote a lot of scenes from The Lord of the Rings. Just the other day I said "Give them a moment for pity's sake!" ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cb2fb97 | 1i9zth | What is a small, almost insignificant thing you do to make the world a better place? | I place pennies heads up on the ground. I always feel better when I find one because of the "find a penny, pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck" thing. I feel like other people feel just as good when they find good luck pennies as I do. Spread the luck. | 3 |
AskReddit/cm0hkbq | 2m2xxs | What would happen if snow was black instead of white? | Snowflakes wouldn't really be a thing. The black color would absorb heat, and they'd barely stick around long enough to have a 'winter.' I'm not 100% sure on this, but I imagine they'd form up in the sky, and cause more heat to be absorbed and probably never even make it to the ground. If they did, it'd take just a lit... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cb3jb0x | 1ie1k9 | Why are all animals symmetric, yet plants are not? | Actually, not all plants are asymmetrical (think of flowers like the Tiger Lily, or palm trees, or vines, for example), and not all animals are symmetrical (think of sea sponges, or flatfish, or placozoans). And no animal is truly perfectly symmetrical, of course. But I get your point. Some degree of symmetry is import... | 5 |
AskReddit/ey57gx4 | cvn1mn | What do people get wrong almost always about exercising? | Posture and Form. Seriously. Running and lifting with proper form even for 10-15 min will do you SO much more benefit than jogging for an hour with your shoulders hunched. It took me way too long to learn this. If you genuinely Practice good posture and form while exercising (it will be really hard at first) you will b... | 174 |
AskReddit/cdk375p | 1r604p | Why did you stop believing in Santa Claus? | It was 5th grade. My parents up until that point had went to great steps to make the myth seem real for my sister and I. If there was snow there would be "sleigh tracks" in the yard. We would always get some corn out of the grain bin for the reindeer, as well as leave cookies & milk out that would be eaten with white b... | 2 |
AskReddit/c8vcn33 | 1a9poq | Do you ever get over your first love? | I did. I was devastated when she left too. Lost 30 pounds in 45 days. begged her to come back. Thought my life was over. That was 11 months ago, today. I don't miss her anymore. I did a lot of growing this year, but I can honestly say that i was someone who was deeply in love, got my heart shattered, and is totally ove... | 3 |
AskReddit/cmr619y | 2owlbs | What's your favourite thing about your life? | I guess I'd have to say that my favorite thing about my life is that there's nothing wrong with it. I don't live a very glamorous lifestyle but the fact that I'm not facing any serious problems makes it a good life to me. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cq07ew6 | 31c4hg | How did the population of China and India become so large relative to other countries? | Quick answer: They are large continuous areas of land (meaning one country: Europe has lots of natural borders that divides it up, China and India don't); and large sections of that land are fertile, so they can support lots of people. It doesn't hurt that they both have been growing for a long time (both have historie... | 4 |
Ask_Politics/d5xhhdd | 4vdfzo | Could Texas go blue this upcoming election? | As much as I would love to see it happen, it's pretty doubtful. Still, all four major cities - Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin - are trending blue, and with growing blue turnout on the border in the form of a swelling Hispanic population, it's not unreasonable to think it might happen in the next few election ... | 7 |
AskReddit/c5h7k3n | wx44t | Why do we celebrate birthdays? | Call your Mom. Birthdays are celebrated backwards. Instead of the birth-person; the mother should be celebrated for bringing you into this world and raising you. You even lived long enough to ask this question. She probably did a pretty good job. Just a thought, but seriously.call your Mom. | 2 |
AskReddit/ecyfu2v | ab8h2j | What makes you happy? | Genuinely happy ? Harder to pull off for myself then you would figure. ​ Reading an excellent book - the kind that won't let you sleep until you finish the story. ​ Building a complicated model that you can set up in your office and feel proud about making. ​ Doing an honestly good job on a project... | 2 |
AskReddit/eix598y | b34t0g | What is the wildest thing you've seen or experienced just walking down the street? | When walking home from work, I saw a couple on a motorcycle get side-swiped by another motorcycle. The man seemed fine, the woman was on the street though, mostly shaken I think? Another guy on a bike tried to chase the hitter down but he apparently got away | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/exvq1gh | culu2z | Why is there a scientific name and a common name for every animal? | Because scientific name conveys more information, namely, relations. The latin names weren't invented for the purpose of complicating things up, they were byproduct of other invention (or rather concept), taxonomy - the science of how different animals are related to each other. Everybody knows brown bear is related to... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/d1ul0hi | 4dv0bk | Why do bananas make fruit ripen faster? | Bananas are medium-level producers of ethylene compared with kiwi fruit, for example, which produce more. But because bananas are large, and often you'll have a bunch of them in your fruit bowl, they can appear to be the cause of other fruits ripening. Ethylene gas is also used commercially to ripen bananas. | 5 |
AskReddit/c7k23r5 | 157ytk | What's your most embarrassing story that you wish had never happened? | It's probably not my worst (I can never pin down the worst), but I can still feel this one. When I was about eleven, I gave a noogie to an unknown girl in my therapist's waiting room because she looked like my mom from the back (Mom and I had a strange relationship--this would've been an acceptable greeting), then comp... | 2 |
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