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Why can't you buy wine at a supermarket that's really cheap, and not aged, then age it yourself at home? | [
"There's no reason you can't. Most wine isn't going to improve much, if at all, aged in the bottle though. So it probably isn't worth your time."
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"The cost to make it is fairly low, and it's specifically marketed towards an audience which wants very cheap alcohol, even if it tastes poor, price and quantity are higher priorities. Combine this and that's why you've got 40s of Steel Reserve for so cheap. Cheers."
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What would happen if you pulled your keys out of the ignition while driving? | [
"70s and 80s GM cars had a weak retention pin, I remember it was always funny to reach over and rip the keys out of your friend's ignition while they were driving to see their reaction. Stupid, but funny."
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"Just because the cars can drive themselves doesn't mean they always do. You take control of the wheel and pull it in to a gas station, then get out and pump gas into the car."
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It seems the world really doesn't like Lamar Smith so how come he can't simply be voted out? | [
"\"America\" can't, but Texans in his district certainly can. Once every two years they get the opportunity Mr. Smith is a congressman, and he represents one particular place. Only people from that place get to vote for or against him. Unfortunately Mr. Smith represents a wealthy area near Austin, Texas where I sus... | [
"Because then Billy Q Jebidiahson, who thinks that Congress is the name of a person, will be forced to vote or he won't have money to pay for his ICP ticket. He's likely to fill out the ballet randomly. This would not be good for our political system."
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How do MAC addresses work? | [
"How do you mean? Manufacturers give MAC addresses out to hardware they make, and unless told otherwise somehow the hardware identifies itself as such for the purposes of moving data over physical wires or through wireless signals between two devices. It's how you know a machine is one machine and not another. Do y... | [
"What are you using it for? Where are you located?"
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Why don't the video players go to the exact time I click on? | [
"In order to save bandwidth videos are encoded in a format which is not actually just a series of pictures. Instead one full frame (a keyframe) of video is sent and then the following frames just say what changed since the full frame. This works very well when little is changing in the scene like someone talking in... | [
"there's two main ways from what I've seen, you can either get to a section of the video and replay it backwards or find two frames, one from the start, one from the end and leave them as the first and last frame."
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Why does hot water clean beter than cold water? | [
"Heat lowers the viscosity of grease and oils, thus allowing them to be easier picked up by soap and washed away. This is especially true with stuff like fats which will solidify at room temperature and stick to dishes."
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"How much water is in the bath? How much is in the kettle? How hot is the bath water?"
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If I'm travelling at, say, 70% of light speed (0.7c) in one direction, and you're travelling at the same speed in the opposite direction, would the relative speed between us be 1.4c? How does this work relativistically? | [
"A neutral observer would see one person traveling 0.7c in one direction and another person traveling 0.7c in the other direction, so in that reference frame the relative velocity between them would appear to be greater than c. This is fine, though, because the observer doesn't actually see either of them as moving... | [
"> Suppose you're traveling in a train moving the speed of light (theoretically) You cannot travel the speed of light, even theoretically. Instead, say that you're on a train moving 99% the speed of light, and your throw a tennis ball in front of you at 99% the speed of light (you've got a hell of a throwing arm). ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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what is Eid, the Muslim holiday? | [
"Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. During Ramadan, observant Muslims are required to abstain from food and drink during daylight hours, and the celebration of Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the month and is marked by both prayer and celebration to Allah."
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"The church placed its holidays on top of Pagan ones to make it easy for people to convert, Rabbits and Eggs are both left over from other holidays that osmosed into the catholic holiday. So to with many of the symbols for Christmas"
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Why does a Urinary Tract Infection hurt? | [
"Infections usually causes inflammation of tissue, which causes the area to be very tender."
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"To clear the urinary tract so as to prevent UTI's."
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Deep Fried Ice Cream | [
"The ice cream itself is not fried. It is surrounded by batter (like a donut) which is fried -- quickly enough that most of the ice cream doesn't melt, especially as the batter acts as a heat insulator."
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"Coke: Can Dr Pepper: Bottle Barq's (Root Beer): Bottle Mountain Dew: Can Source- Caffeine Addict"
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Why are most birds eggs laid already fertilized but some (chickens for example) not fertilized till after they're laid? | [
"Chicken eggs are fertilized before they are laid. However, a hen will lay an egg whether or not it's fertilized. Thus, hens that are kept for their eggs are sequestered from roosters."
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"> if the baby chick is the yolk It's not. The yolk is *nutrients* for the baby chick as it develops inside the egg. Mammals get the nutrients they need from their mother's blood via the placenta, but for birds, they need a way to get those nutrients while inside an egg, and that comes from both the egg yolk and eg... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What would the world be like without any form of currency? | [
"\"Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest. We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other... | [
"In general it is the belief that there is no inherent purpose or value in existence."
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if i have a metal table in a slightly warm or slightly chilly cabin, and its been there long enough to be the same temperature as the cabin, why might it still feel hot, or cold? | [
"We don't feel absolute temperature. We feel rate of energy (heat) transfer. Because metal has a higher heat conductivity than many other things like wood or plastic metal will feel hotter/colder. It is transferring heat to your skin faster or heat is transferring from your skin to it faster."
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"Well, one reason could be that you warm the liquid directly adjacent to your hand, then when you shake it you mix the liquid to expose different liquid to the surface you are heating. Just like how you flip the pillow to get the cold side. The pillow isn't any cooler, you're just now touching a cooler part of it. ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Could damages caused to your eye from phones be caused by books as well? | [
"Yes. > Too little time outdoors Research has found that spending time playing outside as a child may reduce your chances of becoming short-sighted, and existing short-sightedness may progress less quickly. This may be related to light levels outdoors being much brighter than indoors. Both sport and relaxation o... | [
"It wouldn't immediately harm you but you would be exposed to radiation that could have health impacts later in life."
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Why is it, that cgi-heavy movies don`t take more data to be safed on DVD or on a hard drive? | [
"Nothing about a video being CGI or photographic changes how much space it takes to store. Does a printed picture take more space if it is Photoshopped?"
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"on you computer you can put, let's say 1000 videos. Now if you buy some extra (external) harddrives you can make this 5000. But now you don't have any place on your pc to add new drives and a little tool for accessing the pc from a remote location. So you decide to remove everything from your computer except the h... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What exactly do speaker amps and audio boxes do? | [
"Imagine your speaker is a shower head. Now, you just bought this amazingly expensive shower head that can power blast your skin until it's sparklingly smooth. You replace your original shower head and turn on the water! Only a small trickle comes out. Wondering what is wrong, you look at the manual. The regular wa... | [
"Heavy: if you have 7 channels at 100 watts each, you need a power supply than can easily provide the power. More power = bigger. If the power supply is too small, it will overheat, be noisy and cause dips in volume when the sounds get loud. Huge: on the better systems, each amplifier that drives a speaker is a sep... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How did Russia go from the atheist USSR to the religious country that it is today? | [
"Perhaps the biggest reason is deliberate government action to push the country towards religion. Except for a few years during WW2, when Stalin embraced the Russian Orthodox Church, the USSR government was overtly anti-religion. Or at best, dealt with churches through benign neglect. Putin, on the other hand, has ... | [
"Russia and China are often seen as the principal authoritarian enemies to the democratic West. It's a legacy of the Cold War. Do understand that when people talk about Russia and China that way, they're generally referring to their governments rather than the people."
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How can teachers (legally) deny you the right to go to the bathroom (in the US) | [
"Generally teachers do not refuse students a trip to the bathroom. You are really only made to ask to demonstrate that you can't exit the classroom without the teacher's permission. Its an authority lesson more than anything else."
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"It's not illegal for you to smoke there, but the school is still allowed to enforce its own policies via proper disciplinary actions (just like they can if you break any school rule). Look at the bottom of the page you linked, you're going to get referred to the student conduct office."
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how someone can see better with their glasses than contacts. | [
"I have never heard of this being the case. Ever. Unless your glasses are closer to your prescription it shouldn’t be the case."
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"you might want to get that checked. like with a doctor"
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How come when you're in a car and you drop a ball, that ball doesn't come back at you? | [
"The ball has the same forward momentum as you. And since it is dropped inside the car (I.e. not exposed to wind resistance slowing it's forward momentum) it falls straight down. If you dropped it out of the window it also would still have the same forward momentum, but it now has the friction of the air slowing it... | [
"If the fly is on the boat and starts to fly, it's already moving at the speed of boat. If you're on a boat and you jump while it's moving, you move at the same speed as the boat and don't fly backwards."
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Why do we have to sanitize our drinking water when other animals don't have to? | [
"Many streams are relatively safe to drink from. There are some diseases you could catch, so if you can, sanitation is best. Most animals live a shorter life than humans as well, so any diseases they get may not kill them before the would die of old age. For certain diseases we could get from water, long term expo... | [
"Because we need to drink water to live. Not staying hydrated is bad for public health. We'd rather tell people to not shower for so long, don't waste water that doesn't need to be used."
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How does the facebook messenger virus where you just click on a link and instantly get the virus that sends the link to all your friends work? | [
"It is most likely JavaScript, a method of giving instructions to your browser. JavaScript instructions are (potentially) similar to what you would give with a keyboard and mouse. It can click on items within the page, type stuff, etc. So this \"virus\" likely has no effect outside your browser, can't spy on you (e... | [
"My guess would be that someone with very little computer knowledge clicks it, downloads something with a trojan or something malicious and can steal sensitive info or make money by forcing them to see pop up ads on their desktop."
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People who regularly use ELI5, why didn't you just google it? | [
"Because Google can give you the right answer, but it can't give you fifteen shitty made-up answers from people who know nothing about the topic. ELI5: Why are people's eyes different colors? *\"My cousin talked about this once. From what I remember it has to do with how much butter you ate when you were a baby. Ot... | [
"I can say that if it wasn't for ELI5, I'd be lost about some things. It's smartened me up enough that I might be able to graduate to ELI10. If it existed."
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Why can we teach cats and dogs not to urinate or defecate in inappropriate places, but chimpanzees wear diapers? | [
"It is a conjecture, but, probably because cats and dogs in the wild have a natural instinct to not soil their own \"nest\" for sanitary reason. So even not trained the natural tendency would be to do the business outside. Chimps live in trees mostly, so they don't have the evolutionary incentive to have a concept ... | [
"We have a stronger negative reaction to feces than animals do because we are more intelligent. Feces carries germs and possibly disease, so being disgusted by it is an evolutionary advantage. Animals aren't entirely ignorant of it which is why you hear about them not shitting where they eat."
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Why is Spider-Man from Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man different? | [
"ASM is a reboot. While the character is basically the same, they can take significant liberties with the series in order to create an interesting movie that doesn't real like a complete re-do of the Raimi series. As for the web-shooters, historically that has been the norm - Raimi's Spiderman was the only one that... | [
"He does recognize them at the end of the Wolverine. He knows immediately what the floatign coins means, which is why he turns to try and strike Magneto. When Xavier shows up, he asks how it is possible because he knows Xavier is dead. As to how Xavier lives/lived, we don't know, and it is implied it will be explai... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Contents of the Terms of Agreement and Privacy Policies that we just click "I Agree" | [
"Don't misuse our crap. If you misuse our crap, we'll stop you from using it anymore. All information you give to us will be sold to multinational corporations. If you don't like it, you can't sue."
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"A sentence example might help: You need your password and login to access your account details. [NOUN] You need to log into your account to see the details. [VERB]"
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Why do we get addcited to something? | [
"Depends on the something, but basically, there are reward centers in your brain that are triggered with certain chemicals. We like the pleasure that comes from the triggering of these centers and want more."
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"A follow-up question: Why do some people love that feeling while others detest it?"
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What is the evolutionary advantage that would cause species to develop psychoactive properties? Or are those properties just incidental to other advantages? | [
"A plant can protect itself by being poisonous to any creature that would eat too much of it. Psychoactive chemicals alter the operation of neurons. So most are dangerous poisons in larger doses, because they severely disrupt the behavior of the nervous system which animals need to live. This protects the plant f... | [
"Not everything that that occurs in humans was driven directly from evolution, some things are a byproduct of other things or environment. Fetishes to my understanding are basically attachments developed as by product of other useful psychological effects"
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Why does an accent come in randomly? | [
"One theory is its a linguistic empathy response. Or in other words you talk like the people around you to garner empathy. It can also make you easier to understand to those you are talking to. Ex take the word aluminum. In America it's alu-min-um but in Briton it's more like alu-mini-yum. Say it wrong and you get ... | [
"Relevant/expansion to the question: Why do we make noises when we feel pleasure in general? And pain?"
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Why does pouring soda into a glass create foam when sparkling water doesn't? | [
"Soda is stickier than water. Foam is the fluid sticking to escaping gas. Water slips off bubbles really easily but the soda doesn’t."
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"Dissolved oxygen. If you cool off the water and shake it a bit, it should taste better. As a glass of tap water warms up to room temperature, it loses some of the dissolved oxygen because cold water can hold more oxygen than warm water. Ever notice those little bubbles on the side of a glass of you leave it out? T... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is there another type of wave besides the fluctuations in the electromagnetic field and the ones in the "physical one"? | [
"In quantum mechanics, all matter acts as a wave. There's a wave that describes the position and momentum of anything. You also have waves that describe groups of particles, including their interactions. For instance, a photon (a wave) can combine with the wiggling of the molecules in a piece of glass (the wiggling... | [
"Photons have no charge, and many other elementary particles have that. Photons are special, and not really \"particles\" in the same sense the other ones are. Photons are not matter, they are energetic fluctuations in the electromagnetic quantum field."
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How does class rank work? | [
"225/285=.79 or 79%. Your son's school puts the best student at #285, not #1. Different ranking philosophies. She's saying your son is better than 225 students instead of saying he's #60."
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"What was the form for? And what area do you live in?"
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Why people oweing child support often have their driving licenses suspended, which in turn reduces their ability to be able to pay for/see said child | [
"Because in the U.S. often punishment is given without consideration to the possible consequences of the punishment or whether the consequences might make a situation worse."
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"If they cannot pay it all now their wages will be garnished from now until the point that the debt is paid. Not all debts can garnish your wages, but governmental debts and legal fines can. These types of debts cannot be discharged via bankruptcy either. Odds are they will be paying for this crime for the rest of... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do speakers work? Where does the sound come from? | [
"When you set a cup down on a table, it causes the table to vibrate. That vibration moves the air around the table a little bit, which causes all the air in the room to move a little bit (like when you throw a rock into a still pond, and the ripples spread out across the water). Hearing is just that air vibration p... | [
"Sound doesn't need air to travel. Sound travels through liquids and solids too. So your ears don't only pick up sounds through the openings. They pick up sounds inside your head too."
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What are the tiny black spots that appear on the skin of apples? | [
"Agricultural Crop Specialist in training here! The black dots you see on the apples are totally fine to eat and are just a common fungus that grows on the skin of apples. This is caused by prolonged exposure to wetness, mostly from the apples being in the supermarket and being sprayed with water by the workers. It... | [
"It's not staining, it's pigmentation. It isn't always brown either. It's the same sort of thing that causes the skin around nipples to be a different color than the rest of the skin."
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what would happen if you had a baby and didn't cut the umbilical cord? How long could the baby survive? | [
"Well...the cord is attached to the placenta, which is the sac that the baby grew inside. The placenta will detach itself from the uterine wall shortly after birth and be expelled by contractions, thus expelling the the umbilical cord. Once detached and expelled the cord will no longer supply the baby with nutrient... | [
"Because people in movies are idiots? Seriously though. ... Towels because the birthing process is rather messy. And boiling the water sterilizes it so you can clean things up without contaminating the baby or the mother. Although if you're not boiling the towels I reckon there's a fault in that logic somewhere. Al... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do photographers take pictures where the Milky Way Galaxy and other various stars and planets are so clear and robust? | [
"Some of all of the above but its mainly the exposure time. The lens is kept open so as to let as much light in as possible. This makes it so the camera will see things that are too dim for human eyes to see. This makes a starry sky much much more impressive."
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"Yes, but not to the degree you see in pictures. In a very dark place, with no moon, you can faintly see the Milky Way. Thousands of stars are visible and it's still pretty spectacular. The pictures you see on the internet of vibrant night skies are made by taking many long exposures and combining them with softw... | eli5_question_answer | {
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ELI5:What happens if you never give your child a name? | [
"If you don't put a name on the certificate then it will get listed as \"Baby (Surname)\" If you later do name the child then you will have to go to court, and pay the fees, to have the name formally changed. Each state has their own laws about how long the parents have to formally name the child before the default... | [
"Can someone please just eli5? I don't understand any of this. What does this mean for me? A citizen of the United states."
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How did the Roman Republic become an empire? | [
"There are ways to answer this: In legal terms, the republic turned into an empire when the senate and the people lost the ability to make major decisions. This is commonly assumed to have happened after Augustus defeated Marc Anthony. In reality, it was a process that took most of the 1st century BC. Try reading a... | [
"United States of Central America, Gran Columbia, The British Empire( for that matter all of the imperial empires after the second world war), the Soviet Union to name a few that immediately come to mind. An argument could be made that the Western Roman Empire never really \"fell\" but experienced a transformation.... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How putting salt or any other solute in water helps water boil faster or makes ice cool faster. | [
"~~Adding salt to water increases the boiling point by 2 degrees Celsius, but decreases the heat capacity of water, allowing it to boil quicker. [Link](_URL_1_)~~ EDIT: This comment is wrong. NinjaPimp has [the correct answer](_URL_0_)."
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"Air pressure at higher altitudes causes water to boil at lower temperature which might not be enough."
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How did Disney delay Mickey mouse from being in public domain? | [
"Every time the copyright for Mickey Mouse is about to expire a bill goes into law stating that the length of time a copyright lasts is longer than the last one. First it was creators death, then +25 years, +50 years, ect. Honestly I wish it would end so we could listen to \"I Have A Dream\" and \"Happy Birthday\".... | [
"What is stopping Disney is the contract that Marvel signed with Universal Studios allowing it."
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Why is adding milk to water so terrible, but adding milk to tea is so tasty and popular? | [
"Milk and water just makes watered down milk. Milk and tea tastes better because tea is bitter (more so than it is any other specific taste) and milk dilutes the bitterness. The milk also cools down the tea, allowing it to be drank sooner. Same reason people put milk in their coffee."
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"We can? It tastes like water. Go to your kitchen, pour yourself a glass of water, and give it a go. Granted it is a fairly neutral taste, it isn't *not* a taste, though."
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I've used a VPN for years. All of a sudden I need Captcha's everywhere. Why? | [
"Is there any chance your VPN provider has been having a problem with abusive users? If a certain VPN service is hosting a lot of spammers or other problematic users then a lot of blacklists will mark any IPs associated with that VPN provider as suspect."
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"Maybe it's a problem on my end, but the link isn't loading for me?"
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The Whole Pokemon Mythos | [
"[This](_URL_0_) may be of interest to you? I do not know the actual official canon behind pokemon, having only played the first two generations. but good luck to you."
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"Sleep - Shake Unconscious - Splash Coma - Wait and Hope Vegetative State - Wait and Bury"
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If my organs were stolen, and the police found the person who illegally bought my organs, would I get them back? | [
"Here's how this would go: 1. The police would notify you that they had found your organs. 2. The person with your organs would be brought to court. 3. In the wait for the court date, you would die. 4. The person with your organs would eventually be sentenced to prison time."
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"I suspect if we were able to sell organs like we can sell eggs, sperm, and plasma that it would open up the gates for abuse - people being kidnapped and forced to sell their kidneys or even killed because they take both and the kidnappers will take the money. There is already a black market for body parts. I suspe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do soldiers in corrupt dictatorships support those in charge? | [
"The military in those areas is often supportive of the regime because the military either *is* the regime, or receives significant support from it. This is a big part of North Korea, for instance -- the military gets a bit better food, money, etc. than the average person."
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"- Surrounding yourself with corrupt people who financially gain from your policies, and who in return provide you with \"donations\" - Ensuring the wealthiest citizens benefit from your policies and are exempt from prosecution for the laws they break - Changing laws to marginalize opposition - Silencing journalist... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the function/purpose of a judge in a trial that will be decided by a jury? | [
"The judge decides all matters of law. The jury decides matters of fact. So even though you have a jury, you still need someone trained and experienced with the law to decide legal issues."
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"If it's a case where there are no facts in dispute, but rather an interpretation of the law, then there's really nothing for a jury to do. In that case, it's a lot easier and faster to go for a bench trial."
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Radius of Convergence. What the heck is it? | [
"I'm assuming that you've learnt what a power series is and what convergence means. A given power series can either converge or not converge. If you have some parameter in your series, you can state that the series will converge only for certain values of that parameter. This is the radius of convergence. Example: ... | [
"Can you better explain what you are asking about? My google searching doesn't exactly explain what \"The Three Liars Paradox\" is."
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Why are human eye colours restricted to brown, blue, green, and in extremely rare cases, red, as opposed to other colours? | [
"There’s more than just those colors, as people can also have gray, violet, hazel, and amber. Eye color is also a spectrum of shades, often containing flecks or streaks of different colors as well. Edit: Here’s an article on violet eyes, also truly green eyes are “rarer” : _URL_1_"
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"The human body has pigments (colored molecules) of certain colors, such as red and brown. Human skin and hair doesn't have any green or blue pigments in it, so there's no way for a green or blue screen to be confused with the person standing in front of it."
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Why are we so irritated when we’re not in on the joke? | [
"Ok based on conversation I've had with people smarter than me: all comedy is derived of fear. The act of laughter is (supposedly) a physical response to us feeling relief, as in thinking that we were about to die, then making a noise that celibrates the fact we survived. So assuming that's true, my THEORY would be... | [
"Because we get tired of the lack of empathy when we're honest about our feelings. We put on a mask that is a caricature of the world we hate Source: I'm the life of the party weekly, and contemplate suicide several times a year."
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Why are Mountain Dew and Doritos associated with gamer culture? | [
"Long before Red Bull and the other energy drinks, Mountain Dew was well-known as the soft drink with the highest caffeine concentration (among the nationally available brands). As for the Doritos, I don't know."
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"Advertising in the 1950s basically invented it to sell grills. Similar to how advertising invented the concept of B.O. to sell deodorant, etc."
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Why do you sometimes wake up early feeling really hungry the day after having eaten well including a big hearty evening meal? | [
"When you eat a big meal your stomach swells. Hours later, when your stomach empties, you feel “hunger pangs” as your stomach shrinks. Your stomach “growls” as it shrinks in size and pushes out air. We associate hunger pangs with being hungry, even if we do not crave food. “My stomach is shrinking, I must be hungr... | [
"Because your metabolism slows during the night. Because you aren't eating while you sleep, you are fasting. Hence why breakfast is called Break Fast. When your metabolism slows, it burns calories more slowly. Because of this, it doesn't burn as much if you skip breakfast than if you were to have a healthy breakfas... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do I look decent in the preview of my self-facing camera, but like I'm sick and dying in the final flipped version? | [
"Faces aren't perfectly symmetrical. You get used to seeing a flipped version in the mirror, so when you see the normal version all the asymmetries stand out to you. I guess symmetry would be associated with health subconsciously."
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"> do my friends see me the same way I see through a mirror? No. You see your reflection as apparently flipped from left to right (the reality is that it's flipped front to back, but for all practical purposes, you can treat it as being flipped left to right). People looking at you directly don't see a flipped imag... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are Kings/Queens from Europe countries rich when their country is facing serious economy issues? | [
"This varies per country and era. In general the royal family is from a long line of nobility that has owned a lot of property for many hundreds of years. Some of that property is farms and estates that earn money for them passively. These days the fortune of the royal family is a lot larger than yours, but pretty ... | [
"They once used to have their country and they believe it could be better if they had it now. I am also pretty sure that as they are a rich region, they pay a lot to the central government and get little in return."
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How does the red light in a darkroom not spoil film? | [
"The chemical reaction requires the input of a certain energy to take place, and photons (packets) of light are the source of that energy in photographic film. Photons of blue light have more energy than photons of red light, so if the energy required for the reaction to take place is more than the energy in a phot... | [
"The chemistry is different, and there's a little pocket at the bottom of the photo with the chemicals in it. When the machine spits the photo out, a roller crushes the pocket spreads the chemicals. They then react and do the developing."
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Why can a coaxial cable carry hundreds of HD TV channels but a PC display cable can barely handle high resolutions? | [
"Your DisplayPort cable actually has more total bandwidth, as much as 17 GHz. The difference is that this data is sent relatively *uncompressed,* that is, close to every pixel of every frame is transmitted. By contrast, cable TV is sent highly compressed, avoiding sending redundant data but requiring more compute p... | [
"The equipment to send and receive signals to mars costs several billion dollars. A HDMI cable costs $15. That multi-billion dollar equipment sends and received data at a rate of several kilobytes per second. Your TV could need a gigabyte per second to cover the audio and video signal. They are experimenting with ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is SpaceX/Elon Musk able to make so many technological advances? I just recently saw how they underpay their employees too? What is the driving force behind all the advances? Is it funding, brain power, or a combination of the two? | [
"Because Elon Musk wants to. Most companies respond to current demand to make money. Elon Musk is more interested in technology in itself, and therefore responds to the demand of tomorrow, which is much less guaranteed to pay off. For example, Tesla loses an estimated $20,000 for every car they sell. There is far t... | [
"I'm going to slightly disagree with /u/juche on this one. NASA is doing very important work,but its absolutely for the benefit of us living on the Earth right now, and in the future. Space exploration has amazing effects on our society, like increased economic activity and new technological breakthroughs. It's sai... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why don't school years end with the calendar year? | [
"In Australia they do. School in Australia goes from January to December. I imagine this is probably quite common with schools in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere it doesn't work like this before schooling started when most people were farmers and so they needed their children to help work the f... | [
"Not everyone is on the same schedule of payments. Two years doesn't mean everyone's contract starts and ends on the same day."
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In movies when people point guns at each other is there actually a chance that if you shoot first the other person will shoot as he/she dies? | [
"guns are only instantly lethal if they hit very specific parts of the body. Sure you'd have a very hard time shooting someone after being shot just about anywhere, but it's possible."
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"I'm not aware of what rules regulate when a cop can draw their weapon and I assume it varies by state and department. However, you want cops to be able to draw their guns and not shoot so that they can maintain a tactical advantage over people without having to kill them. If a cop really feels like their life is ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does the house have the advantage in Blackjack? If I followed their rule of hitting on anything less than 17, shouldn't I have the same advantage? | [
"Because the player has to go first. You have a chance of busting before the dealer even shows their second card , making it less likely for you to consistently win"
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"You assign point values to each card. * 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ➤ +1 * Cards 7, 8, 9 ➤ 0 * Cards 10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace ➤ -1 After each card is played, add the points of the count to the running total. The lower the count is, the more likely it is that you'll receive a lower card. The higher the count is, the more likel... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the actual difference between absorption and adsorption | [
"Adsorption is when molecules are attached to the *surface* of a material. This is simplest to imagine, quite simply there's a surface and in comes a molecule (eg. floating in a liquid) and attaches to it. This is used mostly in nanotechnology. Absorption is a much broader definition, because it can be applied to m... | [
"analytical chemistry techniques. this includes a wide range of spectroscopy and looking at signatures of elements. the distances are taken into account via red shift correction"
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How does fire spread? | [
"The actual flame is the byproduct of a chemical reaction where something combustible, heated to a certain point, will react with oxygen in the air, to produce more heat. This heat then heats up things around it, and providing that they can burn, and that the heat from the flame is enough to make them react, they w... | [
"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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How do creationists explain how we see stars that are to far away that we wouldn't be able to see if the world was only 6000 years old? | [
"God did it. That or we miscalculated the distance away they are."
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"Every light that you see in space is actually showing you how the object was at a previous time, when it put out the light. For example, when you look up at the sun, please don't do this without special goggles, you see it as it was 8 minutes ago because that's how long it took the light to get to us. When you get... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do older movies have the credits at the beginning and newer ones at the end? | [
"Part of the reason is that many, many more people are now credited on movies. A credit scroll longer than 10 minutes (like some of the big action movies have) would test the patience of audiences. So now the main actors and key crew members might be credited at the beginning, leaving the full list until the end."
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"Pretty simple answer: they used to be shown AFTER the main feature. It didn't take long for them to move the trailers to the front of the show though, because they realized that people left the show after the main feature and didn't see them. But the name had stuck by then."
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Why does the public not call for re-elections of officials who screw up or go against the interests of those who elected them in the first place? | [
"> Why do the voters not simply call for a re-election when they realise that things aren’t working out for the best? In the U.S., there is no recall at the federal level. Elected officials (usually) have to be impeached. Unlike a recall, this is a formal process which originates in the legislature (specifically, t... | [
"How would it not be legal? Congress is the body that makes our laws. They are suppose to represent the American people, but there is not legal requirement for them to do so. The check against them is that you do not elect them back when their 2 or 4 year term is up if they failed to represent you. There was no loo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If you're killed in war, what happens to your weapon? Refurbished? Recycled? Destroyed? Hand-Me-Down? | [
"If the weapon is recovered it is supposed to go back to the armory to see if it is still serviceable, repaired and cleaned. If the weapon is damaged it is stripped for parts. If it is still in good shape it is stored for reissue."
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"Best Seller... in what? If you break everything up into categories you can have dozens of \"Number One Best-Sellers\". Best Seller... this week Best Seller... this year Best Seller... in Romance Best Seller... in Historical Fiction... and so on."
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Why are the ~5 million non-Jewish people exterminated by the Nazis often not considered part of The Holocaust and why don't we have a name for what happened to them? | [
"Well, like the quote you put pointed out - they are considered part of the Holocaust. As to why the focus in mainly on the Jews, that's because the focus *was* mainly on the Jews. They were the target of most of the Nazi propaganda, and they were the group that the Nazis were most vocal and perhaps most consistent... | [
"1: It was more deliberate. Had the Jewish holocaust only been mass graves in Eastern European city centers, it would not have gotten the same attention. The holocaust was uniquely industrial. 2: Germany was not fighting a war against a Jewish State. It's pretty common historically for atrocities to committed agai... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people think the "mind-body problem" hasn't been solved yet? | [
"> Are people just moving the goalposts and is there a desire to reject the notion that you're nothing more than neurons reacting to stimuli? Pretty much. We have a sense that mind is in some qualitative way distinct from body, and that we are in some sense greater than the sum of our parts. I agree with you that t... | [
"We don't know. We don't know if it was caused. If it was caused, we don't know what caused it. If it wasn't caused, we don't know how it happened. We don't even know if there's any sense in which \"where did it come from\" or \"what came before it\" make sense, and if they do make sense we don't know the answers."... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does looking up at a light encourage your sneeze? | [
"It doesn't for everybody, just for the small percentage of the population with [Photic Sneeze Reflex](_URL_0_). The \"sun sneeze\" condition isn't very well understood, since it's mostly nothing more than an occasional nuisance that affects a small number of the population. I have it, my Mother has it and one of m... | [
"If we really do not sneeze while we are asleep, does that mean that there must be a conscious decision to initiate a sneeze?"
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how my stomach growls. | [
"You know how when the toothpaste tube is almost empty, you can get more out by putting your fingers at the bottom and squeezing it up towards the top? You entire digestive system is doing something similar pretty much all the time, so that it can move food through your body. It's called peristalsis. At certain ti... | [
"because some of them may make you nauseous and you will throw them back up. Source: took vitamins on empty stomach."
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What causes Rhotacism? (The inability to pronounce the letter “r”) | [
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"The \"th\" in \"thanks\" and the \"th\" in \"that\" are different sounds. The \"th\" in \"thanks\" is voiceless (you don't vibrate your vocal cords while making the sound), whereas the \"th\" in ~~\"thanks\"~~ \"that\" is voiced (you *do* vibrate your vocal cords while making the sound). Other voiceless \"th\" ins... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how does Google profit from things such as free unlimited photo storage? | [
"The main product that Google is selling is me and you. Their business is all about learning as much as they can about you and then selling that to advertisers. We are the product they monetize through ad sales. The same can be said for Facebook, probably to a larger degree. So your photos tell an awful lot about y... | [
"Google Ads. Google has some very smart ad technology (Adwords), petting them put some really good targeted ads into pages you may view, like news articles 89% of Google's money comes from advertising. They also make money off of Android phones, google play, and youtube."
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What is going on between Israel and Palestine? | [
"First search result when I typed \"gaza\" _URL_0_"
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If a spider falls onto the web of another spider's, will it be able to walk normally? | [
"Spiders create little sticky blobs at points in their web and the creator uses the safe spots to move around without getting tangled up. It's possible, although highly unlikely without outside interference, for a spider to get tangles in it's own web. Spiders are carnivorous and cannibalistic, and they will ea... | [
"Some spiders are not abandoning their web, they are sitting on a branch at the edge of one of their web's with a foot on the web waiting for an insect to land in the web and move around and trigger them to feel it and then they would rush into the web to get their dinner."
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What do all of these leaked emails from big oil mean to the average Joe? | [
"Price of Oil going up, cover up. Then this dog and pony show of regulations nobody will follow. So basically everything will stay the same."
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"What about the US election do you want explained, specifically?"
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why are some gymnastic/flexibility moves so easy as a kid but really hard as an adult? | [
"Ossification, that is the conversion of the more flexible cartilage with bone, does not end until adulthood (and even then, much of it takes place well into mid adulthood, such as in the skull). At the same time, ligaments and muscles that keep joint movement in check grow stronger and less permissible of extreme... | [
"there's so many benefits to weightlifting. things I've read: * helps any athlete (whether it's endurance, sprinting, whatever) * better feel for your body(parts)/coordination increase * metabolism benefits * joint health/flexibility * bone density increases things I know from personal experience (used to be ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Does the rotation of the earth affect airplane flight time in any way? | [
"Yes, but maybe not in the way you're asking. Planes travel through the air, which moves along with the rotation of the Earth, so relatively speaking, it's not much different than asking if a car is affected by the rotation of the Earth. With that said, the rotation of the Earth does affect wind currents, which is ... | [
"The distance is the same. All speed is relative; we measure speeds like you describe relative to the Earth. So, the distance from London to Boston is the same as the distance from Boston to London. That said, the rotation of the Earth does have an affect on the *speed* of the travel, since the rotation affects win... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Under what circumstances are constitutional rights invalidated within the continental US boarder? | [
"It happens all the time. Prisoners and criminals lose their Constitutional rights. As do members of the military. In many cases, minors do not have the same rights as adults. Most LEOs operate under warrants or probable cause -- which is a judicially recognized and Constitutionally acceptable method for suspending... | [
"They are areas of the world under the control of the US government but are not officially part of the US itself. Selected parts of the US constitution apply to them. They don't have representatives in Congress, but their citizens are treated as US citizens. The legal jurisdiction over them is a combination of fede... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does the melanin in our eyes not react to sun exposure the same as the melanin in our skin (i.e. darken our eyes in the summer)? | [
"Alright, I have a definitive answer. There is a pretty simple difference between cutaneous melanocytes (melanin producing cells in your skin) and uveal melanocytes (melanin producing cells in the uvea or middle layer of your eye that includes the iris). The melanocytes in your skin are stimulated to begin melanoge... | [
"Your skin has something called melanin which gives the skin its dark or light colour. More melanin means darker colour and less means lighter colour. The goal of melanin is to protect from UV radiation. Since there's less UV exposure up north, skin needs to produce less melanin and the people from there are thus l... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the 9 realms and the marvel universe | [
"See, this is what happens when you don't make an effort to get everyone on the same page when you're world-building. The best you can really do is \"just go with it.\" According to my (incredibly flawed) understanding of norse mythology, the 9 realms could be considered like alternate dimensions, or they could be ... | [
"There is its called florescent lighting. Edit: typo"
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Why/How were so many isolated islands inhabited since B.C.? | [
"People have had boats for a long time. They most likely were first created out of curiosity and the need for fishing. Over time, people became better at making boats."
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"Did you truly mean 2500 BCE and not 250 BCE? 2500 BC predates Mycenaean Greece, even, by many centuries."
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Why don't the other Islamic countries support Palestine? | [
"Because it'll put them in the crosshairs of Israel and all of its allies. Even if they secured a position for Palestine without getting the shit kicked out of them in sanctions or more direct military action, what benefit would they get from it? Beneficial relations with a new state that's yet to prove itself in a... | [
"What do you want to hear more about? The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? The Israel vs. Palestine situation? The Arab Spring? The recent attacks on US embassies?"
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How does the closing of accounts work in accounting? | [
"Closing of accounts is basically carrying forward the previous year's credit or debit balance forward to the next financial year. For example, in case of Current Account of a random company, if the debit side is heavier, the credit side will have the 'By Balance carried forward' which would consist of the differen... | [
"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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Why can't I tap a different beat with each foot at the same time? | [
"Because you're used to coordinating your feet. With practice you could keep different beats."
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How are surfing competitions judged if surfers don't always get the same waves as each other? | [
"As a surfer, you have to pick the wave that best suits the tricks you want to perform. That's part of the skill, being able to read the wave. Just like how fishing competitions rely on the fishermen picking the best fish to keep, not just catching fish."
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If the current FBI investigation indicates the results of the US election were tampered with by a foreign nation, what happens? | [
"Regarding impeachment. Impeachment is a political process. If the members of congress which to begin impeachment proceedings (and wish to remove someone from office) it is **entirely** at their discretion. They can't be compelled to impeach, or not impeach. The process if it happened would happen the normal way. O... | [
"The FBI and other intelligence groups, as well as the RNC, believe their accounts were compromised by the same actors. The obvious implication is that the hackers have an interest in publicly releasing information from the Democratic party and not any from the Republican party. Given the overwhelming likelihood ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are some of the most resource rich countries in Africa some of the most underdeveloped countries? | [
"Two reasons. First, those were the countries most screwed over by imperialists, as those natural resources attracted empires like flies to honey. Look up some of the things King Leopold III of Belgium did in Congo. Second, several of those areas (Congo most notably) destroyed all of the infrastructure the empires ... | [
"Because our country is so wealthy even the poor are pretty well off compared to the middle class in most other countries."
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Why do different parts of America have different accents? | [
"Think of how culturally diverse Europe is. America, as a nation, is only slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe. Given a few hundred years of cultural drift, it's not surprising that different accents arise."
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"Why do some parts of the world call gasoline petrol?"
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the difference between a senator, a governor and a congressman | [
"Governors are the chief executives of their state. Like the President of the State. They are the boss of all the state's agencies, can introduce or propose legislation, and have various responsibilities for interacting with the federal government (like requesting a declaration of a disaster.) Senators and Congress... | [
"Get a degree from a good university. Then run for local office (mayor of a small town), then for state office (state assembly, state senate), then for federal office (House of Representatives, US Senate) and then after a while you can go for the presidency."
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What does the BIOS and what does it do for your computer? | [
"The BIOS is the small chunk of software embedded on a chip in the motherboard, it's job is to get the system going to the point that your operating system (windows, linux, etc) can take it from, which means things like checking the RAM exists and how much, locating all the disk drives and picking the right one to ... | [
"Sure! * Monitor - Let's you see stuff the computer wants to show you * Keyboard/Mouse - Let's you put information into the computer, control things * Harddrive - Stores information in the medium/long term (SLOW) * RAM - Stores information in the short term (FAST) * Optical Drive - Let's you read from disks using l... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Modern art. How do people judge, let's say, a Jackson Pollock painting a masterpiece when to me it looks like chicken scratch? Why is the Malevich square such a big deal? | [
"Most of us only know these paintings from pictures in books or a computer. I haven't even had the pleasure of seeing a masterpiece apart from when I went to the Smithsonian when I was like 9. I had someone once tell me that you won't understand what makes these seemingly abstract or \"plain\" (like those painting... | [
"1) Pollock was one of the first to try this sort of thing. We're talking early 40s when he started his really splattery stuff. At this point many people had imitated Picasso's Expressionism, but Pollock was one of the first to say, \"Screw it, why use any recognizable conventions at ALL when expression emotion?!\"... | eli5_question_answer | {
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We've all seen it in movies; when someone's throat is slit, what actually happens? What causes the death? Is having your throat slit always fatal? | [
"Your neck contains the blood vessels that take blood and oxygen from your heart, to your brain, and back again. There are two arteries called carotid arteries and two veins called jugular veins running up to your brain along your neck. If one or more of these blood vessels in your neck is cut your brain quickly be... | [
"Neck snaps are particularly useful in film because they require little to no special effects work. Just have the actor turn their head, dub in a cracking sound, and you are done. It looks better than the terrible \"judo chop\" used previously. Breaking your neck could be lethal in reality, but it would be terrible... | eli5_question_answer | {
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can someone explain why one of the world's largest social media apps, vine, would choose to shut down? | [
"Vine didn't choose to shutdown. Vine's owner, Twitter, chose to shut it down, presumably because it wasn't making any money and cost too much to keep running, when Twitter itself is having trouble determining a revenue strategy."
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"because it tried to compete with facebook directly. the problem wasn't that facebook was/is perfect (far from it) but that for most people the status quo is a better and more efficient option that joining a brand new social networking site. if you'll notice the most popular social media sites for young people are... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come if I drink lots of water I'm always thirsty? | [
"You may have a salt imbalance in your body. The most common cause... Drinking too much water. Try cutting back."
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"If I sit around I tend to not drink as much water as normal, and when I'm dehydrated I have these exact symptoms. Maybe it's that."
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How can we communicate with man made objects on far away planets? | [
"There's a super awesome space network! With giant satellite dishes that can be aimed and space probe repeaters. _URL_1_ _URL_0_"
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"The actual reason for this phenomenon is roughly understood. One of the leading theories for this behavior is that it imitates their spaceships. The ones they used over 2000 years ago to make contact with the ancient Egyptians and enslaved them to create beautiful statues."
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What's the difference between a cheap suit and good suit? | [
"Two easy things to spot is how the suit lays (quality of material, cut, sizing) and thickness of the suit. In general, a more expensive suit is made to fit a narrower set of body types and can be easily tailored to a person's body. A suit that fits well, moves nicely (doesn't bunch up in weird places or overly res... | [
"What kind of restaurant offers this out of curiosity?"
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Why does "snoring" occur? | [
"Put your lips together loosely and make the \"Pfft\" sound. To snore is to accidentally do that with your nasal passageway while you sleep. Pretty much any animal can snore if it is trying to sleep when it has stopped-up nasal passageways. Some animals snore more than others based on the anatomy inside their faces... | [
"Relevant/expansion to the question: Why do we make noises when we feel pleasure in general? And pain?"
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When someone is experiencing an episode of sleep paralysis, how or what causes/allows them to finally "snap" out of it if they have no control up until that point? | [
"Everyone experiences sleep paralysis. What you are talking about is when people are aware of it. Most of the time you are not aware of it happening. It is what prevents you from acting out what you are doing in your dream. Sometimes people can awaken just enough to become aware of the fact that they are paralyzed ... | [
"From my understanding, your body is still semi-asleep while your mind is awake. I'm making this assumption based upon my knowledge of sleep paralysis (when your body is asleep but your mind is awake), and based upon my personal experience. Here's how I figured it out. Lay in bed for 30 minutes remaining absolutely... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What role, if any, does genetics play in determining the overall look and shape of the female vulva? | [
"As much as it does in the look and shape of any other part of the body i.e. significant."
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"Testosterone, while it is responsible for secondary sex characteristics such as body hair growth and the deepening of the voice, is also toxic to hair follicles on the top of the head based on its reaction with some of their androgen receptors. Based on genetics and cell type, different parts of the body respond t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happens when you "double bounce" somebody on a trampoline? | [
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"How the fuck do you accidentally throw a bowling ball at something above your head?"
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