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the difference between a national park and a national forest in the US. | [
"National forests are land that's owned by the government for the people's use in various ways. With the appropriate permits, you can hunt, cut trees, pan for gold, camp, graze pigs, etc. In national parks, the park *is* the use the land is put to. They're places come come and look at and spend time in, and the rul... | [
"Its huge land but they happen to be single countries. Typically there are multiple countries in such big areas in the world"
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If I have a cup with 1 drop of water and I fill it with water, drink half of it, fill it again, drink half and so on. How many times will I have to repeat to make the molecules of the first drop "disappear" from the cup? | [
"That's highly random and will depend on how you fill the cup, the temperature of the water, the geometry of the cup, how you drink it, and how long it sits between filling and drinking. If the fill and drink are relatively turbulent it may take millions or billions of fills before every single molecule is gone. A ... | [
"So I have a glass of water with a hole in the bottom. a faucet is filling the glass up and water is draining out at the bottom such that the level of water in the glass stays constant. Even if you take something really small like an eyedropper and add only a drop of addtional water every so often, it will add up a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do game shows (like deal or no deal) make up for the large amounts of prize money they give away? | [
"Gameshows are either big commercials (like The Price is Right where the prizes are given to them in exchange for describing the products in detail), or their sponsors pay the prizes. Jeopardy, for example, has 1 on-air talent getting a salary, and 3 on-air talents (contestants) where 2 are basically doing it for f... | [
"It's a thing of odds. There will be a certain number of people buying tickets and most of the time, the grand prize is not even won, so the lottery will keep piling money while the pot stays the same"
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Why hasn't Apple made a physical television yet? | [
"Apple enter markets where their skills can make an obvious difference or they can market a premium offering. television sets are commodities that are nothing more than huge monitors. there's not a lot apple can do in that area that wil make people buy new tv's. a small box that changes what is displayed ? that's d... | [
"Mostly because they were too expensive to make at that size until now. But, rumor has it that the next generation of MacBooks will have a retina screen like an iPhone."
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Why do cameras need to focus? Why isn't everything equally crisp? | [
"Because they still need to converge the light onto the sensor (or film if you're old school). It doesn't matter how many lenses there are, you always have to get the light to converge to get a clear image and that will happen at different settings depending on the distance of the object being photographed."
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"No, your vision goes out of focus. Your eyes have to be looking at the same thing for your brain to process the image, otherwise it doesn't really know how to combine them. Source: I typed this cross-eyed. Can't read shit."
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Why cooked food can stay under a heat lamp for hours and be ok, while if it's in a hot car for 2 hours it will go bad. | [
"Heat lamps need to keep food at above 60°C to prevent bacteria growing. The interior of a car generally doesn't get as hot as that."
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"It's more of a better safe than sorry suggestion. Food left outside will start to grow bacteria after a couple hours. Whether the type of bacteria growing will be enough to do damage depends on certain factors (environment, type of food, temperature, etc). A cup of milk left outside for two hours will most likely ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people get pumped up from others cheering? | [
"I'll take the down vote, but I've read a lot about this. People emulate others around them. The temperament and emotions of a group of people transmit easily because of an individual's need to fit in. If you take a very confident person and throw them in a mob, the confident person, who does not rely on the emotio... | [
"you feel powerful, and theirs no risk of someone punching you in the face."
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How they are able to say stuff like virtual reality will feel 100% real by the year this and that? | [
"Very easily. You just said it yourself. There's a lot of bullshit in these sort of estimates. Any thorough explanation of how they get a date involves words like 'assuming' and 'extrapolating' a whole lot, but the real world isn't bound to respect such things. It's a vague guess, really."
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"This is the first of many posts that makes people realize time on a second to second basis doesn't matter and eventually we'll go back to just counting days. Hopefully this sparks the next post."
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What makes something feel sticky? I understand adhesives like tape but why does, say orange juice, feel sticky if left on the hands or a surface? | [
"Sugar and Salt are both crystalline in solid form, but when you add a bit of water they act quite different. One becoming sticky and the other not. This is due to oxygen-hydrogen bonds in sugar, when in the presence of a liquid, that start to break. This causes the loose hydrogen atoms to start to look to somethin... | [
"Wet fingers will increase or decrease your ability to grip different kinds of materials. Licking your finger and touching something porous like paper will cause your finger to stick to the page, while licking your fingers and grabbing onto something solid like a jar of pickles will cause your fingers to slide."
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Why can't twitter block ISIS accounts? | [
"They do. They just create a lot of accounts and due to their methods it's hard to control them. I suppose that when you see an username on the news about a recruiting account on a social media it must be already blocked. If not they would give what every terrorist organization wants... Attention"
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"I dunno about IG but on Twitter you can see your mentions... And there's a tab specifically to see your mentions from other blue checkmarks."
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How can the Hubble Space Telescope keep its lens pointed in the same spot to take long exposure shots when it's orbiting the Earth every 97 minutes? | [
"Hubble uses six gyroscopes to know exactly where it's pointing. These are devices that act a bit like a compass, and always point in the same direction even when the telescope is orbiting. Next it has four reaction wheels which actually move the telescope. These just use Newton's 3rd law of motion; if the wheel sp... | [
"Not tidally locked. Rather, they intentionally set its rotation to match it's orbital period so that the same side always faces the earth. ISS orbits the earth once every 92.65 minutes, so if it also rotates (spins) once every 92.65 minutes, that ends up making the same side face the earth at all times. On the ISS... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why isn't 36°C the perfect external temperature for humans? | [
"Our bodies generate a *lot* of heat, and dissipate that heat into the environment in order to maintain around 37 degrees internally. If the outside heat is near 37 degrees, we have great difficulty shedding that excess heat, which makes us overheat."
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"On the absolute scale, Kelvin, where 0 degrees is no molecular motion there are no negative degrees. It stops at 0. Be kinda cool if negative made the molecules go backwards like back in time."
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Why do different instruments playing the same note sound different? | [
"This is a frequently asked question. The Middle C in your example is just the \"fundamental\" tone, but notes from different instruments have more \"overtones\" or \"harmonics\" in different ratios, which define the tone. They can vary over time e.g. as a guitar string fades out, some overtones last longer than ot... | [
"Because the difference between the highest note and the lowest note is fairly large, making it hard for an inexperienced singer to be able to correctly sing the whole song."
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Why doesn't YouTube make their app playable on the background? | [
"Their app can play in the background, but it is a paid subscription service. They likely don't make it free because they think they will make more from the subscriptions than from advertising with \"sound clips\" rather than video advertising."
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"Because the uploaders of the proper version haven't enabled the option to play it back on mobile devices."
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If a pipeline explodes where does the explosion stop? | [
"It needs oxygen to burn, so the pipe itself didn't really explode. It leaked all over the ground from a ruptured pipe and then later caught fire and exploded."
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"Ish. The problem is the magnitude of the consequences of failure. Transport but truck (or rail) increases the odds of an environmental accident over a pipeline. However, if the pipeline fails, the scale of damage will be exponentially larger. First, there's detection. We have to know there is a failure (yes , ther... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When you're watching a live TV show that's on a set, how do all the cameras determine which camera is shown on the TV from your living room? | [
"To build on /u/rhomboidus' comment The control room has multiple TVs, each displaying one of the camera feeds. This way the director (and crew) can see exactly what each and every camera sees. There's essentially a switch board, and the director directs the crew which camera should be streaming into the live feed.... | [
"There are several staging areas in studio 8H in Rockefeller center, most of the time the audience isn't straight on, meaning the soundstage isn't directly in front of them. So the only way they can watch many sketches is on the TV(s) mounted on the walls and rails. Other times when the cut happens for the joke for... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Sometimes when I'm driving and I squint, the traffic and car lights turn into rays, why? | [
"My best guess would be that its due to your eyelids causing the liquid on the surface of your eye to form a kind of [meniscus shape] (_URL_0_) over where light is entering your pupil. This would kind of be like a concave lens, leading to the bending of light in a vertical direction around where your eyelids touch ... | [
"If you're on a train, scooting along at 75 miles per hour, the fenceposts and the bunnies sitting by the tracks, and the nearby rocks and stuff will appear to fly by so fast you can barely tell what color they are, but the huge mountains 300 miles away barely seem to move. Stars are a lot bigger than the mountain... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do coffee drinks suspend that much sugar in solution? | [
"I bet there's a good chance they sweeten those drinks with some kind of high fructose corn syrup, which would probably dissolve in water more than granulated sugar."
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"Most liquids that we drink are water based. This allows them to dissolve things that dissolve in water (water soluble), like sugar dissolving in coffee. What makes milk different is that is a specific combination (emulsion) of both water and fat, allowing milk to uniquely dissolve compounds that are both water and... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do Russian Nazi hooligans wave the swastika flag if it represents their worst enemy? | [
"Whats the most \"anti everything\" thing you can wave in Russia? Bingo."
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"Historical context. White Power and White Pride are associated with racism because of a history of their use by racists. Consider the complaints about the Confederate battle flag. People say that it is just a symbol of Southern pride. But it was first flown on the SC capitol as part of the struggle against civil r... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are some people so against protests? | [
"It rarely leads to change - and it always leads to mass inconvenience for anyone in the vicinity. Bear in mind that the majority of people who are impacted by protests are the high and mighty, but ordinary people going about their lives who don't particularly care about the protester's issue one way or another. Th... | [
"They're assholes who are more concerned with publicity than anything to do with their faith."
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. Why is it called the birds and the bees??? | [
"Bees pollinate flowers, which become fruits with seeds. Birds eat the fruits with seeds and then poop out the seeds elsewhere so the seed can become a new plant. Also they lay eggs which could be compared to a period. Birds and bees have integral roles of reproduction for many plants. *edit: periods*"
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"Spell it backwards, that is where your answer lies."
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How does a fish survive a thunderstorm? | [
"Water can conduct electricity. Water does not conduct electricity well. If it did, we would run the electricity to your house through the water pipes and not need to run all those power lines. Because of this, the fish don't all die in a thunderstorm when a strike hits a lake. Only those that are close enough to t... | [
"My guess is when it suffocates from not having oxygen passing over it's gills... or when it hits the digestive juices of the toothless fish. Whichever comes first."
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How does an atheist promise under oath? | [
"You can choose to \"solemnly affirm\" rather than swear on anything."
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"> why is it necessary to be sworn in with your right hand on a book that you may or may not believe in? It's not. No one is required to swear on a bible. You *can* swear on a bible if you like. Or you can just affirm to tell the truth."
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Scott Walker's Seemingly Scandalous Policies | [
"It's also worth noting that Walker deliberately created the budget shortfall that he used as an excuse to cut public unions' bargaining rights through tax cuts for businesses and by throwing money at other GOP sacred cows like a private health savings account program."
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"High Crime + Dwindling Population + Crumbling Infrastructure + Diminishing Jobs = Perceived Shithole."
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How does hypnotism work? Are all people susceptible? | [
"In psychology, we've figured out that hypnotism isn't really a thing. Any effect attributed to hypnotism is almost entirely due to to the \"hypnotized\" person being willing to trick themselves into believing it is working, so they just go along with whatever the hypnotist is suggesting. It's a placebo effect."
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"You can't cure the sickness, but you can treat the symptoms. That's all these medicines are doing. It provides some relief."
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Why is it that a lot of what we hear on the radio is censored while television seems to have more flexibility in which words are allowed/not allowed? | [
"Radio is a public broadcast, and is [therefore subject to a federal ban on \"obscene, indecent, or profane\" broadcasts.](_URL_0_) Cable, satellite, or internet TV isn't public and therefore isn't subject to the ban. Broadcast television is."
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"Bleep censoring was the best way to edit material in the early days of television. Sound editing after the video had been shot was essentially out of the question. Bleeping started as just covering up whatever profanity was spoken. As time went on though, you could actually edit the sound of a video. How censoring... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do you pitch a TV show or Game show to a network, if you have no experience in the industry? | [
"Your idea will be rejected, and if it was good enough -- stolen."
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"They negotiate with the studios and distributors to work out deals to get the rights. As for original content, they pay a production company to make it for them. That's pretty standard for most television shows."
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What is that feeling you get when you feel someone watching you? And why does it happen? | [
"It is called \"confirmation bias\" and it happens because all the times you feel that way and then look and nobody is behind you, you don't put them to memory. Then when it does happen to line up with someone being behind you, you remember that and feel like your gut feeling was right."
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"It is the fact that TV becomes a part of the background and the norm. When another sound goes off, it is different and peaks your interest. Next time you see someone asleep watching TV, try turning it off on them. I know that I will instantly wake up and be like \"I was watching that.\""
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A person who is against vaccinations just told me that diseases like the bubonic plague "disappeared" without the use of vaccines...I don't understand epidemiology can someone explain these outbursts and "dormancy" periods of diseases? | [
"Bubonic plague has not \"disappeared\"....it is still very much out in the wild, it just doesn't effect people as much anymore *because of modern medicine and vaccines*. That is the entire issue with the \"anti-vaccine\" crowd. They spread their misinformation and misunderstanding to people and think that just bec... | [
"Very rarely, a child will have an adverse reaction to a vaccine. It's rare, though. The supposed evidence that vaccines are bad is 99.9999% anecdotal. Meaning that they have no real studies to back it up, just a bunch of people saying it was so. In most cases, issues [autism, allergies, etc..] are not diagnosed pr... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Does light exist in 3 Dimensions or 4? | [
"Everything in our universe exists in 3 spatial dimensions plus 1 time dimension, for a total of 4."
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"That's not really how dimensions work. We live in a universe with four dimensions: three are spatial (length, width, and height) and the other is time. There is no \"next\" dimension."
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1080i; 1080p. What do the letters mean? | [
"The i and p stand for interlaced and progressive. Progressive is better and has better image quality and is what gets labeled as \"true HD\" or \"full HD\". Interlaced shows you first one half then the second half of the picture. It only shows every other horizontal line in each picture."
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"480 is the resolution of SD 480 * 1.5 = 720 720 * 1.5 = 1080"
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Why does every charging cable for laptops has this little box where you connect the two cables? What is it good for? | [
"That's the AC adaptor. Laptops run on DC power, like batteries. The outlet in your home provides AC power. AC must be converted to DC before your laptop can use it. Those old \"wall warts\" that video game systems and other electronics like electric razors and the like do the same thing."
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"You plug it in the laptop via a USB port, and in the mobile phone via a micro USB port. This means you use two different ports on the powerbank as well. This decides if you're charging the bank or the device."
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why are there two ways to write the number four? | [
"The original 4 was actually \"+\". It dates back to the days of writing numbers as tick marks: a + has four sections but can be written in only two strokes of a pen, saving time and paper over \"||||\". All the modern forms of 4 are just stylistic variations on a +. The open-top 4 is relatively recent - it comes ... | [
"I don't think there is such thing. For example, there are several equally valid notations for derivative."
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How much of professional poker is based on luck, if everyone plays "perfectly?" | [
"Poker isn't about having or playing perfect hands. It is about making others think you can beat them without saying anything."
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"It gives you an advantage over other players and takes the \"random\" part of the game you're all playing. Card games are designed so that you don't count cards so that all players have the same odds of winning. There is a limit to what a human can remember about cards that have been played already. Counting cards... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is actually happening (inside) when you plug a portable charger into itself? | [
"It's not technically bad, it's just dumb (no offense). All that will happen is the charger will generate heat from the current while slowly losing charge to the resistance of the cable used to plug it into itself. Longer cables will provide more resistance, though most cables for such a thing won't be terribly lon... | [
"You plug it in the laptop via a USB port, and in the mobile phone via a micro USB port. This means you use two different ports on the powerbank as well. This decides if you're charging the bank or the device."
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Why does freezing food not destroy bacteria in the same way cooking food does? | [
"There are lots of places on Earth where the ambient temperature drops below freezing for long periods. Because of that, many bacteria strains evolved have the ability to survive fairly prolonged freezes and revive unharmed later. There are far fewer places where the temperature gets above 160F, so most strains hav... | [
"The fish is cooked in the can as part of the canning process. The cooking kills any bacteria that would spoil the fish and the can keeps oxygen and bacteria out until you open it. Same for pretty much all canned food."
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Why does time seem to go by much quicker as an adult than as a child? | [
"Your brain remembers novel experiences better than experiences you've had before. As an adult, you've already experienced most things, so you don't pay as much attention to them, so time seems to go by quicker."
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"When you are five, one year is twenty percent of your life. When you are fifty, one year is only half a percent of your life. It's all about perspective."
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Since almost all of the water on earth is saltwater, why didn't we evolve to be able to drink it? | [
"There was always enough fresh water around that we didn't have to. Things don't evolve because it would be a good idea, they evolve because if they don't they die. Not being able to drink seawater didn't kill enough of our ancestors."
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"To survive in water, a fish has to have a body and organs capable of maintaining the correct balance of salt within their own body. A freshwater fish's body has to work to *retain* salt, because all the water around it is not salty and will leech salts away over time if unchecked. A saltwater fish's body has to wo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is steel colder than plastic when touched in freezing temperatures? | [
"We don't feel temperature. We feel the rate of heat transfer. Metal is a good conductor of heat, and thus \"sucks heat away\" from our hands faster than plastic at the same temperature. Thus is feels colder."
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"Water is a much better conductor of heat than air. As a result you lose body heat much quicker in cold water than in cold air."
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Why are graphing calculators so expensive, even with their archaic features? | [
"Probably due to simple supply and demand - most high school math classes require one, as well as college level math, and TI has a huge foothold in Graphing Calculators. Also they are built very well with good materials and rarely break even when dropped."
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"Because they are more expensive and harder to make. This is because they have TONS of itty bitty transistors that are hard to make. Although, over time, competition will bring down the price, that is why more and more PCs have SSDs in them."
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explain light years to me, 40 light years away is how far? | [
"Current spacecraft can travel 17,500mph, the light travels 671 000 000mph. This means that it wouldn't take us 40 years to reach the planet, it would take us 1 533 714.2857 years. Longer than homo sapiens have existed. Let that sink in. To get there, the humans we send would have descendents that evolve on such a ... | [
"AFAIK the 2 views (dumbed down like hell here) are; \"It's a rock orbiting the sun so it's a planet\" and \"Bro do you realise just HOW small that thing is? It's like 1200km in diameter. Flying to Vietnam from Australia is ~5000km...\""
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What is the difference between a nightmare and a night terror? | [
"Night terrors involve more than just a bad dream. They also involve thrashing, screaming, sweating, etc. etc., and they go on for extended periods of time. Extremely intense, violent terror with physical lashing out in other words. Night terrors are also almost never remembered by the victim, while nightmares obvi... | [
"You are waking up in the middle of a sleep cycle."
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why are republicans against states legalizing recreational marijuana? | [
"In a lot of Republican controlled states, incarcerating non-violent drug offenders is very profitable. The private prison industry and the corrections industry are large contributors to GOP campaigns. State's rights are only for issues that don't mess with your financial contributor base."
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"Yes. People in jail for marijuana posession etc are still in jail in the states that legalized it."
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Why is it okay to eat/drink stuff in a US supermarket before paying for it? | [
"Technically it isn't but stores choose to \"allow\" it. Sometimes if a person is grocery shopping and is hungry, the store will overlook the customer consuming as long as they are properly paid for. But security will nab you the moment you head towards the door without paying"
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"I don't know what to tell you here. There is no insidious plot to keep the dessert away from you. They usually offer again at the end of the meal."
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Why can't you give blood if you've received blood? | [
"Actually no, in your case it's about [mad cow disease.](_URL_0_)"
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"That question is common on medical form questionnaires along with do you smoke or use drugs or alcohol, what medications do you take, what allergies do you have, have you ever suffered from depression. I'm sure they didn't call just to ask if he wanted to kill himself."
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Why are Star Wars I-III so unsatisfying? | [
"I believe the general sentiment is that while 4-6 were mainly story driven surrounded by great special effects, 1-3 were based on a very poor story and mainly focused on special effects."
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"The Bourne Ultimatum. Great Third Movie. Third Star wars was pretty good. Theres more out there."
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Is there a good reason that funding for public schools in the United States is based on real-estate value, or is it just unambiguous racism? | [
"It varies state to state, but a lot of schools are primarily funded at the local level, and the major tax base for local governments are property taxes."
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"For the average amount of money spent per student, the results are not that stellar when compared to other nations. Sources: [performance](_URL_0_) [spending](_URL_1_) School districts are funded using property taxes, so poorer areas have crappier schools, which contributes to a vicious cycle of poverty. There are... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can Google provide millions of search results in less than a second but my computer takes 5 minutes to find a specific document? | [
"The main difference is [indexing](_URL_1_). Google keeps a huge list of keywords and the websites that have them. When you search for a keyword, Google searches the keyword in this list and can instantly find the websites that include it. [You can install software on your computer which does a similar thing.](_URL... | [
"Your computer or your internet connection may be spending a lot of its capacity on just downloading a huge update file."
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why did gasoline have lead in it? | [
"It's about the octane number of gasoline. In a gasoline engine, the air-fuel mixture is compressed by the cylinder, then ignited by the spark plug. If the octane number of the gasoline is too low, the mixture might already ignite from the compression alone. This throws the engine's timing off, and it might even da... | [
"Oil, oil, oil, oil and oil. Did I mention oil?"
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How slugs and snails move | [
"Essentially, they lubricate the surface beneath them and pull themselves forward by making waves with their foot. Put your hand flat on your desk. Now pull your fingers into your palm. Then push out from your knuckles so your palm is flat again. Sort of like that. Hope it helps. _URL_0_"
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"Oxygen, fungal spores and bacteria can get in."
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What is going on in Pakistan at the moment between Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif? | [
"Imran Khan say's that there has been heavy rigging in the 2013 elections (with some proof) and was blocked in all legal methods (going through all the courts + a stay order - cease and desist, essentially - from parliament). Imran Khan is pissed by this and requested that NS give (at least) a temporary resignation... | [
"North Korea is on a whole 'nother level compared to Saudi Arabia and Qatar."
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What gives gravity its energy? | [
"If you're asking exactly _how_ gravity actually works, we don't know. We know what its effects are, but there is no particle or motivator attached to it the way there is the electromagnetic and nuclear forces."
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"The space *between* matter can expand faster than light, and it has."
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why do our noses run when we eat spicy food? | [
"That's part of the inflammation response. The sinus and nasal tissues swell up, and mucus is produced in an effort to flush out the irritant."
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"Do you also cough when eating popsicles and frankfurters/hot dogs? If so, it might be your technique."
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What does Bernie Sanders' "Too big to fail" bill mean when it says it is going to 'break up' big banks? | [
"During the financial crisis of the late 2000's, there was a debate whether to issue gov't bailouts to troubled financial institutes who engaged in dodgy business practices and now were in trouble. One of the arguments for was they were \"too big to fail\", meaning no matter the reason why they got into trouble, th... | [
"Some of the financial reforms required banks to spend some of their money to ensure that if this situations happens in the future again, the tax payer wouldn't be on the hook. That was the big thing changed in the law."
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What is it about John Williams' music that makes me instantly recognize something he has composed without ever hearing it before? | [
"I'm no expert, but I would guess it's the specific instruments he uses (instrumentation) and familiar sequences that he uses in his music (chord progressions). Because of this, even though his music might be different in every time, it still has a familiarity to it and can be identified as coming from him."
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"Usually it's triggered by a memorable lyric of the song showing up somewhere in your life. Like the title of the song or a couple of words or a phrase that you saw somewhere and your subconscious puts them together making you start thinking about the song or singing it or whatever. This happens to me all the time.... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The different colours of flames and what each one can do chemically and physically if you come in contact with each of them | [
"All fire is just light coming from excited plasma molecules. Different color fire is at different wavelengths, energy, and temperature. It may be the result of burning off different things in the plasma or other controls. Fire is fire and there's nothing particularly special about the different kinds. The differen... | [
"Many people have different tastes when it comes to smell. Certain people, like you and I for example, really enjoy the smell of burning wood like on a campfire for instance. Others, however, may find the smell of burning wood quite repulsive. Some may link the smell of burning wood to a past experience, maybe a go... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come when were not thinking of something, we don't sense it? | [
"And now you've made everybody self-conscious of their breathing! :-) I don't know the exact mechanisms for things like breathing and blinking, but I *imagine* it's a similar concept to (for example) when you place your hand on a table and you feel the surface, but after a while you forget about it. In these cases,... | [
"because they gradually are becoming self-aware and since they've never experienced it before think they are the only one. Only later after getting some experience do they realize they are pretty normal. Too young and you can't think for yourself Too old and you are used to doing it The transition between is the mi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why plants leaves are green and not another more absorbent amalgamation of colors(generally) | [
"There are different type of factors that determine what color plant leaves are. There is chlorophyll, carotenoids, anthocyanins, and tannins that pretty much determine the color. The fact that leaves are mostly green is because the chlorophyll is the more predominant substance and masks the others. Although in th... | [
"because white is the reflection of light black is the absorption of light each different paint colour absorbs a different part of the spectrum adding more paint adds to the range which is absorbed."
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Why has the Republican Party moved from Goldwater conservatives to evangelical Christianity? | [
"There is an apocryphal story about someone asking Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, and his answer was \"that's where the money is.\" So, the reason the GOP has moved towards evangelicals? Because that's where the money is -- and votes."
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"The important thing to understand is that there isn't a monolithic entity called the Republican Party. The Republican Party is in the midst of a civil war between Establishment Republicans and Tea Party Republicans. The Establishment Republicans support the bill. The Tea Party Republicans oppose it."
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Why hasn't Algae Fuel caught on yet? | [
"Interesting bit from the wiki: > The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles (39,000 km2), which is only 0.42% of the U.S. map, or about half of the land area of Maine. This is less than 1⁄7 the area... | [
"Context? What is a \"smart meter\", and where is this controversy based out of? Who is involved? Thanks!"
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How can f1 cars get 600hp out of a 1.6L engine; and normal, everyday cars get in the 100-200hp range? | [
"They cost like half a million dollars and are made of strong, light metals that allow for more pressure to be created within the block, more PSI translates to a higher output. Plus, they don't have to meet US emission standards, which are absurd, so there aren't pieces 'cleaning' the exhaust and making them quiete... | [
"It's pretty simple, they have instant full torque at any RPM (where most automatic cars are at ~4000RPM or 1500RPM-3000RPM if turbo boosted), however, they are not powerful motors, at least not as powerful as a Lambo, meaning their horsepower isn't enough, plus, Tesla's are damn heavy, over 1000lb heavier."
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If Linux is free and easy to install and use, why isn't it more widely used? | [
"Look, I love Linux as much as anyone else, and it's how I make my living. But Linux is not as easy to use as either Windows or MacOS for casual, everyday users. There have been great strides at closing the gap, but there's still a learning curve involved. Also, many people won't have an interest in it because many... | [
"Unix was first released in 1970; Linux started about 20 years later. Why is it popular? It's free, reliable, and supports a lot of hardware. *Free* separates it from most of the early Unix implementations. *Reliable* and *supports a lot of hardware* helps make it popular."
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Nafta resulted in 100s of thousands of jobs lost in the USA and Canada to cheap countries, where their cheap goods were shipped back to North America, resulting in trade deficits as well. How is this trade deal a good thing and where do we (USA and Canada) see a net benefit? | [
"It all depends on whose perspective we take. From the perspective of an American worker, yes they lost their job and wages are kept low. On the other hand, prices are also lowish, and that's good. From the perspective of business, it's just a win. They can make more money if they take the opportunity (or some mig... | [
"This is exactly what will happen, unless US consumers boycotted the now-inflated Mexican goods to the point where the wall cost is not reimbursed. If that were to happen it means US taxpayers still paid for a wall that was never reimbursed. Trump's end goal here is to get US companies to move their manufacturing o... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is 0 divided by 0 undefined when any other number divided by its self equal to 1? | [
"0/0 is not undefined. It is indeterminate. _URL_0_ Imagine you have 5 rasins and you divide them into piles of 5. How many piles are there? If you said 1 you are correct because 5/5 = 1. Now take 0 rasins and divide them into piles of 0. How many piles are there? Well, you might say there are 0 piles and you would... | [
"10/5 = 2 2 * 5 = 10 So you see you are basically asking what number will multiply by the number on the bottom to get the number on the top. Since every number times 0 is zero it's impossible i.e. 10/0= ? because no number times 0 is 10."
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why do republicans routinely refer to the "democrat" party, "democrat" nominee etc. instead of the word democratic? | [
"Because to their target audience, the word \"democratic\" is a neutral / slightly positive word (it means governing in a way where everybody gets a vote), but the word Democrat is a bad word (a person from the opposing party). So yeah, just pettiness."
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"They are incorrect, either as a joke or just being fairly misinformed. Currently strong evangelical christians make up a very vocal part of the republican party. Also, republican talking heads will frequently bring up things like \"the war on christmas\" to get ratings. However, it is just ognorant to presume all ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why does Hudson's Bay have such a round cut out of it on one side | [
"When you take a bow and draw back the string, it bends in an arc. The general theory is that the land itself bent in a big arc during an ancient period of mountain building, and the remnant is the Hudson Bay arc. The Hudson Bay is located in a very stable part of North America that hasn't really done much of anyt... | [
"They just put a big picture of outdoors on a board that's placed a few feet from the window"
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Why does a sunrise light up the sky differently than a sunset? | [
"During the day, you've got a number of things happening. The sun is beaming down and evaporating water from various sources, lakes, rivers, oceans and rain. When you combine the haze from this with the everyday increase in traffic and industry pollution, you get a ton of particles in the air that weren't there in ... | [
"The red is the light being refracted around the earths atmosphere and then illuminating the moon. It’s the same red light that you see during a red sunset."
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How can my headphones have control over my iPod? | [
"It's not just a regular 1/8\" plug, which is a TRS (tip-ring-sleeve). It's a TRRS plug, ie tip-ring-ring-sleeve, giving you an extra signal line. You can send an asynchronous (ie, not needing a clock) serial signal over a single wire. I'm not sure the iPhone/iPods necessarily do this, but it seems likely."
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"This depends on the software used. The program can cancel out the audio it knows it's making, but not all programs do this, especially if they're designed with headset use in mind. I know for a fact that i never get feedback when using skype on my laptop, even if i don't use a headset."
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What's happening to my body when I get butterflies in my stomach? | [
"Because you're nervous, your body anticipates a threat, and when adrenaline is released into your blood it affects different parts in different ways: - blood is directed towards your legs and other muscles (for running away) - blood is directed away from your stomach (because you don't need to worry about digestin... | [
"Try eating some food before hand. Some people experience pretty bad stomach aches when drinking water on an empty stomach."
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Why do rainbows seem to have individual bands of color as opposed to a gradual color shift? | [
"They don't have individual bands of color, and do have a gradual color shift. You tend to interpret the gradual shift as individual color bands, but that is largely your brain that is doing that. You may be thinking of illustrations of a rainbow, where artists draw bands of color - but that is not what rainbows ar... | [
"It doesn't a rainbow is a full circle, you'd actually see a full circle if you were at a high enough altitude and the conditions were just right. Most of the time the full circle is just blocked off by the horizon."
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Is scar tissue just the bodies lack of ability to generate large amounts of healthy normal tissue at the necessary rate, or does it actually serve a purpose? | [
"Scar tissues are made of the same materials as the tissues they're healing, with the exception of structure. This is because the tissue they're trying to heal has been damaged - the \"blueprint\" for how to generate the original tissue structure is lost. So, instead of having a uniform (or matching) fiber structur... | [
"It's not that it regenerates. But rather that the cells in your body builds new bones between the existing break and they all fuse together. The downfall is... this is enormously taxing on the body to do, and its extremely limited. It also can cause problems as well because its not always on point when growing new... | eli5_question_answer | {
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As a non-gamer, can someone explain what all the fuss is at the moment between Sony and Microsoft? | [
"Essentially the new Xbox One is going to be online all the time to work (needing to be connected once every 24 hours at the least) and is going to have DRM which means you wont be able to borrow games, lend games, sell games, buy used games or rent games."
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"DRM just simply means \"always online\" meaning you can't play a game wether it be single player or multiplayer without being connected online. What does this mean for next gen consoles? Well according to some recent \"interviews\" with the heads of Microsoft and Sony, there won't be any DRM for the next gens, but... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do objects turn black/brown when they're burnt? | [
"The black is basically elemental carbon. Most organic material like wood is made up of compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. These combine with the oxygen in the air, producing carbon dioxide and water. Excess carbon gets left behind as soot."
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"Because they oxidize. Contact with oxygen makes them change color, like apples and some other fruits do once you peel them."
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Could a very steamy shower and closed door cause a person to asphyxiate from too much steam and too little oxygen (being pushed aside by the steam)? | [
"Nope. Water vapor occupies space between gaseous molecules like carbon dioxide and oxogyen. You could have an area of 100%water vapor if it occupied a space that didn't have any other gasses in it before but if not the gasses would mix almost evenly."
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"Unless your covers are made of plastic, you're not going to suffocate under them. But even if they did, you would wake up because your body reacts when there is a buildup of CO2 in your system. When you here of people suffocating in their sleep due to a gas leak or whatnot, it is because the gas replaces the CO2 a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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A Catch-22 Situation? | [
"Its named after the novel by joseph heller. And coined after this specific passage where a pilot tries to get out of combat missions by being proven mentally unstable --- \"You mean there's a catch?\" \"Sure there's a catch\", Doc Daneeka replied. \"Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really... | [
"Next Week's Theme: 'Royalty, Nobility, and the Exercise of Power' To be followed by: \"Eastern Europe\""
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Why don't your kidneys process alcohol? | [
"Because alcohol is metabolized by your liver before it reaches your kidneys... So much less of it gets there. Unless you ass-bong some vodka."
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"Water, fibre, and other things that humans don't digest into energy."
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How does satellite internet work? | [
"There's a satellite up in space and a dish on the roof of your house. When you try to go to a website, your computer sends a request through the dish up to the satellite. The satellite sends that request down to it's company's tech center and they fetch the website over the internet. Then that data gets sent up to... | [
"It's a big system. It also carries a bit from state to state. Are you interested in the application process? Policy? Logistics?"
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How do people who end up in viral videos and/or memes suddenly become rich? Where does the money come from? (i.e. the “cash me outside” girl, and others) | [
"So. My sister in law works for a company that does this type of work. When someone “goes viral” her boss calls them and sees if they have representation. Then they set them up a YouTube channel or other social media (not sure on this part) They basically work like attorneys who are on commission. If they can ... | [
"Robert Kardashian (the father) was on the defense team for OJ and was his close friend. He then ran several successful businesses. But that didn’t result in fame, only some wealth. Their real fame in the 2000s started after Kim made a sex tape with RayJ that was released to the public. Yes, you read that right, th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are cigarettes more commonly smoked then cigars? | [
"1) Cigars are expensive, usually $6+ for a decent one 2) Cigars takes an hour or more to smoke, compared to a few minutes with cigarettes 3) Because cigars take so long to smoke, the smell lingers much longer 4) Cigars don't get you nearly as buzzed. Cigars are not meant to be inhaled, simply pulled into your mout... | [
"Tar is part of the tobacco, that's true - but there are hundreds of other chemicals that are added to to cigarettes. The big tobacco companies claim that these additives make the cigarettes more flavorful and provide a more pleasurable smoking experience. Others have argued that they make cigarettes more addictive... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't I have to enter my PIN for my debit card at McDonalds, but I do at other places? | [
"They're running it as a credit card. It still works the same way. The company I work for does the same thing."
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"Where do you live? I've had two chip credit cards for probably three years now. They work the same way as a debit card does. Rarely if the teller machine is old they might require a signature."
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How would one correctly use semicolons? | [
"Semi-colons are used to link two related clauses into a single sentence. \"I wanted to go to Wendy's; she wanted Pizza Hut.\" Both of these can exist as separate sentences and it would be grammatically correct to write them as such. But you can link them using a semi-colon so that when they're read outloud, there'... | [
"Is there a revealed hash I don't know about to maintain integrity?"
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How does body hair know what length to grow to? | [
"hair doesn't go to a certain length and stop, it goes to a certain length and falls out. hair on your scalp lasts longer, and therefore can get longer"
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"The genes that control your beard are different than the genes that control the hair on your head. Sometimes the express the same color. Other times they don't."
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Where did the "many clowns in a tiny car"-gag originate? | [
"I had to do a little research for this, but apparently it has always been a circus act. It originated from the \"Cole Bros. Circus\" in the 1950s. According to circus performers, the average car can fit between 14 and 20 clowns when all the interior is stripped out, there is no use of trapdoors or the like, and th... | [
"Hopefully this isn't forbidden in the rules, but may I ask a question? Are there any urban legends which have been proven true? For instance, has there been a murder by gang members when an individual flashed their lights at a car one night? Did a scuba diver get sucked up in a fire fighting helicopter and plunge... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is every major issue in the US called "The War on _____"? | [
"Because it's easy to get people behind something if you call it a war."
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"Left-wing answer: Not enough socialism Right-wing answer: Too much socialism"
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Why does adding neutrons to an element cause a radioactive isotope to be made, and why only in some cases? | [
"There's a reasonably in-depth answer [here](_URL_0_). In layman's terms, what it's saying is that as you add neutrons past a certain point, these added neutrons have to go into higher-energy states. In general, high-energy states are less stable than lower-energy states, hence the reduction in stability overall. W... | [
"The processes use different atoms. Atoms lighter than iron will release energy when fused. Atoms heavier than iron will release energy when split."
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How are toilet paper rolls sterilized? | [
"TP rolls are not sterile. We do heat the paper to extreme temps while being made on the paper machine but they are sometimes not converted for a few days. Once it goes through the converting process it is cased and send to the warehouse. It can sometimes be there for a week before it’s sent to the store for purch... | [
"Step 1: Contractor comes and collects them. Step 2: Material is either autoclaved and incinerated or simply incinerated. Step 3: Resulting material is formed into hot dog shapes and sold to tourists on 5th Ave."
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Why does food someone makes for you seem to always taste better than when you make it yourself? | [
"Smell is an important part of the overall eating experience. A lot of what we believe to be taste is the smell of the food. That's why food tends to taste worse when your nose is stuffed up. So when you're cooking a meal, you've been exposed to the scent, and you get used to it. By the time you eat it, it's not ex... | [
"I eat the same lunch every day during work and don't ever think it tastes disgusting. How do you get tired of having a quality sandwich?"
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Every K-Mart I've been to is outdated, old, and seems to not be flourishing as they probably once were. As a company, how are they still surviving? | [
"By not spending money on inventory and repairs. Kmart also bought Sears which helped them out, but they're still closing stores left and right. It's just a matter of time."
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"Lived in Georgia for two and a half years. During that time there was a furniture store that had 'going out business' signs all over the windows the whole time I was there. I never needed to buy furniture for the giant 'CLEARANCE SALE' signs caught my attention. I guess some use it for advertisement and aren't rea... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does Orange juice need to be constantly refrigerated but not Apple or other juices? | [
"Shelf stable juices undergo pasteurization and are sealed inside the bottle. They must be refrigerated after opening because once more air is introduced the chance for molds to grow is higher."
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"I also want to know this. I went to the store one day because I wanted juice that didn't taste like cranberry. So naturally I tried to find juice without cranberry in it. The only one I could find was cherry juice mixed with apple juice. Guess what. That mix tasted exactly like cranberry juice."
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How do non-flush urinals work? | [
"There is a sort of gel type thing in the 'canister' in the bottom. It is lighter than water/urine, so when you pee or clean the urinal, the stuff all sinks below this layer. If you were to open it up it would look a bit like oil on water. This keeps the smell from propagating. It 'flushes' because when you pee in... | [
"Why do some parts of the world call gasoline petrol?"
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If someone is spinning in space, can they feel themselves spinning? | [
"Yes. Although physics nerds are prejudiced against the term and will downvote this response, the person will feel the centrifugal force."
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"Objects in motion continue to stay in motion. The bus has accelerated you up to speed. To stop moving forward in the air, some force would have to stop you. This is the same reason why, when you jump standing anywhere outside, the Earth doesn't go spinning 1000mph beneath you. Because you are traveling at the same... | eli5_question_answer | {
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FAA Approval of Virgin Airlines safety video | [
"Commercial safety briefings are required to cover certain points (seat belt use, observing notification signs, emergency exit locations, etc.). It doesn't specify the format. I'm sure as long as it was clear it'd fly. Although it does say that it's required to be done by a member of the crew. Maybe their participa... | [
"Only if the federal government let it. See: American Civil War"
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Why do we have to have a very varied diet in order to live a healthy lifestyle when all other animals tend to eat the same thing all the time and get all the nutrients they need? | [
"In addition to the ~~above~~EDIT: below, you don't actually HAVE to eat a varied and healthy diet. As a species, humans will do just fine if we all eat a very unhealthy diet, reproduce six times between 15 and 20, have three babies die, and drop dead ourselves at 27. This is a valid survival strategy for many spec... | [
"If you aren't an old person or in some way deficient, the vitamins aren't going to help you much. In general, vitamins should be taken by people who are specifically lacking in something in their diet, usually as a result of allergy or lifestyle choice. The stuff in multi-vitamins is usually in the foods you eat, ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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[Meta] could we please pin some airplane post? | [
"In this day and age when we have a search function, it's surprising we can't find the answer to a question then have been asked a 100 times."
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"This sub would be the best place to ask about historical currency!"
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Why is the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus so prominent in history? | [
"If you mean why is it the most important of the discoveries of America, it's probably because when Columbus showed up 96% of the natives died and an empire was born that's grown to become the dominant social structure of the planet. If you mean why is that one particular event talked about so much in history class... | [
"What are the must read books about the American revolution published within the last five years? What are the current arguments being discussed by historians who study the era?"
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Why is the devil always depicted with goat like characteristics? | [
"It has been my understanding that Goat deities were common in pre-Christian cultures (specifically paganism). When Christianity was introduced, Christian officials would demonize the present deities (Beelzebub; Lord of the Earth = > Lord of the Flies, Horned God = > Satan). Or maybe I'm completely wrong. :/"
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"They are more or less the same from my understanding. Lucifer was the name of the angel who tried to rise above god and got sent as punishment out of heaven onto earth where was known than as Satan. Both names are part of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Devil is just kinda general personified evil counterpart of ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How we can create near sun temperatures here on earth, without causing major destruction. | [
"Heat != temperature Heat takes into account the temperature AND mass of something along with the properties of said mass (how its temperature reacts to absorbed heat). You feel heat, not temperature. Temperature is just the measure of particle's vibration. You can have a huge temperature, but very low mass, and yo... | [
"Obviously we wouldn't have to be digging up resources and polluting the earth. On the other hand, all of that extra heat wouldn't be good for the environment."
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Why aren't the host nations of immigrants held responsible for migrant issues? | [
"...When people flee a country because it's shit, how is making that country more shit through punishment supposed to fix the issue?"
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"They don't want to be known as the perpetrator of millions of deaths and ethnic cleansing."
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why when a lake freezes over, some rocks are just under the surface of the lake | [
"Because when the lake is not frozen those rocks are still right under the surface... are you seeing new rocks or...?"
] | [
"Chances are that the pond wasn't 100% frozen, The top foot or so may have been frozen, but the rest of it probably wasn't because ice floats to the top and insulates the rest of the water keeping at a livable temperature."
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How do people get "upgraded" seats on planes? | [
"Yes has to do with frequent flier Also has to do with luck. If you ask and they have extra seats they may give to you. Same with the emergency exit seats and other seats with extra leg room."
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"Really the only issue is if/when your flights get delayed/cancelled, the airlines won't help you because the tickets were booked separately."
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