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Why do cats enjoy sitting in empty boxes? | [
"It feels safe to them. The same idea that they feel hidden when they have just their head under a blanket or in a bag. They seek areas that allow them to get an advantage. If they can have all of their focus in one direction (i.e. down - which is why they like perching) towards a box opening, they like it."
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"Cats love to bat things around. It's hardly their fault you didn't leave it conveniently on the floor."
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What does isis gain by destroying ancient statutes and burning ancient books? | [
"ISIS, like many other Sunni Islamic terrorist groups (HAMAS, Taliban, Al Qaeda, etc...) subscribes to the Wahabbist school of Islam. They believe they are commanded to destroy idols, and will destroy anything they believe meets that criteria, even if it is an Islamic heritage site (such as ISIS's destruction of th... | [
"Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant. They have a fundamental belief that all people should follow sharia law(law decreed by the teachings of the prophet and quaran) and all non believers(infidels) be purged. They take a very extreme interpretation to sharia law and have massacred all they deem too be infidels or ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why we think we look worse when a picture of us is flipped ie from a forward facing camera? | [
"I think \"worse\" in this context is just how jarring the differences are. We see ourselves reflected all the time. In mirrors and pictures. Flipping the image is just so different that it looks almost unsettling, hence \"worse.\""
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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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algebra. conceptually, why is it permissible to combine equations? (example inside.) | [
"Let's get rid of the algebra, and just use numbers: 1) 30 + 40 = 70 2) 2 + 3 = 5 Now we can add these together, and we get: (30 + 40) + (2 + 3) = 70 + 5 This is exactly equivalent of your example, where we take two equations and add them both together. Hopefully you can see how it works here. It works with your ex... | [
"Graph each separately (this may involve rearranging the formula to be in the form \"y=\"). Then where they intersect are the solutions that work for both formula at the same time. Try /r/learnmath for more help."
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Why is cable internet (which travels over two copper wires) faster than DSL (which is also just two copper wires)? | [
"It's more about the type of signaling used, and the type of wire. Coaxial cable the signal is on the inner wire, the outer braided shield helps protect against interference. IP over cable tends to be also a cleaner network, as far as how the signal gets from the cable company, to the head end to your house. DSL ... | [
"It's an ISP (internet service provider), which provides fiber to the home (fiber optics) internet, instead of the traditional ( in the US at least) telephone and cable based internet. Traditional cables like phone and cable operate by sending an electrical signal through the wire, which is how you receive your int... | eli5_question_answer | {
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ELI5: when people from warm climates have extra low tolerances for cold weather, is there an physical cause for their sensitivity, or is it psychological? | [
"It's a physiological cause. There are hormones created in the thyroid gland that activate genes that code enzymes that are involved in glycolysis and ATP production. This effect is called the **calorigenic effect**; the cell consumes more energy and generates more heat. For example, children who are born in colder... | [
"The 'heat' is produced by the molecule capsaicin found in spicy peppers. It binds to receptors and causes the pain you experience. It's somewhere between nature and nurture, we don't really know yet unfortunately. There could also be a genetic component in this, but nobody has quite nailed it down. Some people s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are there so many paedophiles in the priesthood. Is it possible that paedophiles entered the priesthood to get access to children, or did being forced to live a life where sex was forbidden turn them into paedophiles? | [
"I don't think their are more pedophiles in the priesthood than in the general population. It's just that as a priest you have easy access to children. A pedophile who works as a manager of a zaxbys isn't going to have the same access to kids, so is a lot less likely to do anything."
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"There isnt really enough research out there on the topic but yes many argue that Pedophilia is more or less out of the persons control (whether or not thats due to genes or nurture is another thing). As such we shouldnt shun pedophiles as long as they aren't acting on said urges. Theres even groups out there of se... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we find things like a emergency warning to be creepy or eerie? | [
"It's more the association of a warning with something bad. For example, if the first time you met a puppy, it bit you really bad, the next time somebody said lets go get a puppy, you would probably be nervous. The same thing applies when hearing a tornado siren, when in previous times you heard it, there was a tor... | [
"Cursed images are pictures the beg the five Ws: Who, what, when, where and why. They are usually creepy or downright disturbing."
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Why do most car commercials advertise the leasing price of a car if most consumers buy, instead of lease, their cars? | [
"People that buy their car tend to keep their car for a long time. Let's say 4-6 years on average. People that lease switch cars every 2 to 3 years. Say 2/3 of people buy their car and 1/3 lease. Since the lease terms are half of typical car ownership periods, that means over 4-6 years, there are just as many leas... | [
"When leasing a car, you usually pay a down payment, then you make monthly payments. After the end of the lease, you have to return the car back to the shop - you never actually \"own\" the car while it's under lease. However, you also have the option to pay off the rest of the car when your lease expires, and then... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do hangovers amplify sounds and lights to an almost painful level? | [
"alcohol essentially dehydrates your body, 'stealing' water from your cells etc. among other things, but this is the most important one for neurological problems: the brain is mostly water (aquaeos substances and so on) and due to osmotic tendencies of water, water from the brain will be relocated to other cells th... | [
"Could be your individual level of sensory hypersensitivity. Essentially, too much sensation causes the headache. We intuitively 'get' that loud noises or bright lights can give you a headache. But strong smells can do that too, in the same way."
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What is the actual ideology of the men's rights movement? | [
"To try to improve areas that men are worse off in, the same thing that feminism is (supposed to be) about, but with genders reversed."
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"Welcome to the one of the strongest arguments against the prohibition of firearms."
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why it took 42 minutes for a 1.2GB video transfer from my computer to phone. over a remote torrent service. | [
"cuz thats a bigass movie, and torrent is probably the worst way to transfer a file between two of your own devices. Why didnt you, you know, just *plug in the phone to the computer*?"
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"by uploading it into the device's memory. physically same process as you uploading your music from your itunes on desktop to the iphone. except....apple's new iOS code gets loaded in at the factory thru a special loader."
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Why do even the smallest shots in big movies take dozens if not hundreds of takes to make? | [
"Large part of the job of directors is directing the actors, and that generally requires that the director first has some initial take to improve on. Like they have a first take, then the director finds something to improve, to change in the performance of the actor and gives additional instructions. And sometimes ... | [
"Practical special effects like stunts, explosions, and such take a large staff a very long time to set up and require experts to make sure they're safe. They also tend to be destructive, which means if you don't get it right the first time you have to rebuild the whole thing. High quality CG special effects requir... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How am I able to blur my vision on demand? | [
"You are willfully exercising the [ciliary body](_URL_1_) within your eye. It is comprised of the muscle and processes that are responsible for controlling the shape of the lens in your eye. This process is known as [accommodation](_URL_0_) and is primarily reflexive (read: automatic), but is often controllable."
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"Any tips how to get rid of them or cover it up?"
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Did cartoons and kids TV shows (on Cartoonnetwork, Nick, Disney, etc) take a drastic turn for the worse from the early 2000s, or did I just grow up? | [
"You just grew up. You like the things you grew up with because you have a connection with them. Your parents hated the things you liked when you were a kid and preferred the things they like for the same reson. There are some shows that break the mold and can appeal to everyone (your Animamniacs, Adventure Time, e... | [
"This is my opinion, not sure if it is shared with others. Simpsons used to have good plots. Even without the jokes, the plot made it interesting. The jokes, they were often witty and always fresh. Celebrities made appearances once in a while and it enhanced the experience. After season 12 or so, the writers just ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does diesel in a petrol engine do so much damage? | [
"The flammability is different, the liquid characteristics are different, and it is a huge amount of work to replace all the components that are contaminated when you put in the wrong fuel, either way."
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"Too many differences to list, but here are a few. Gasoline needs spark plugs for ignition, diesel has none. Diesel is a lubricant, gasoline is not at all. Diesel needs high pressure to explode, gasoline needs just a spark. If your fuel does not explode, then you have something akin to a steam engine. A slow build ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is 1 not a prime number? | [
"It's mostly because it's a lot more convenient to define it that way, because it makes things shorter to write and clearer. We could have defined prime numbers as including 1, but then basically every theorem about prime numbers would have to exclude them. For example, the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic says (i... | [
"What's 5 + 5? Okay now what's 5.105 + 5.079? Which took longer?"
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:How do dogs and cats maintain a set of straight teeth, with little to no dental care, yet humans' tooth patterns vary wildly? | [
"It's humans that have the weird teeth. In human evolution, poor jaw strength happened to be correlated with a bunch of other traits that made human's human. As a result our jaw size shrank faster than we evolutionarily lost teeth. The advent of dentistry kinda removed most of the selection pressure for having a s... | [
"Many animals would actually benefit from dental care, though mostly to counteract wear and tear. But the most important reasons it tends to be less critical for animals are - shorter lifespans in which to develop caries - less sugar in the diet, and thus less risk of caries - some animals who experience a lot of w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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In the UK, there seems to be a healthy market for Ford, but Chevrolet is considered cliche. Why? | [
"For a long time, Chevrolet did not make cars that fit European regulations or European priorities for cars. You need to remember that roads over here are very different to most North American roads. Ford have been producing effective cars for foreign markets for a much longer time and so have a much greater degree... | [
"Basically, America not only has a very strong domestic car market, but also imports cars from Germany and Japan. Other countries have a difficult time trying to break into that market because there's a ton of competition. In Europe, American cars aren't as common, so French cars can instead prosper."
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When you practice holding your breath to "increase your lung capacity", does your physiology actually change? | [
"A few things can happen, after a long time your lungs can increase in volume (albeit not by much) and your diaphragm can become stronger and more controlled (the muscle that allows you to breath). However the biggest change is in lowering your heart rate (the rate at which your body burns oxygen) and increasing yo... | [
"Your diaphragm is thrown out of sync, and it's what gives you that methodical inhale exhale ability. If you get your breath knocked out of you it takes a couple seconds for the diaphragm to readjust and you can't inhale while that's going on."
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Why Oklahoma and Kansas get so many intense tornadoes | [
"Apparently it's because of how they are situated in relation to the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico. The way cold air from the north meets moist warm air coming off the Gulf and the way the mountains shape that air flow makes it particularly easy for tornadoes to form in those places, so they get more of th... | [
"The UK gets the most tornadoes per square mile than any other country, they’re just not quite the same scale as the US."
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When hate groups like the KKK, NSM, or WBC protest/rally, why do the police protect them? | [
"They have the right to protest and rally. The 1st Amendment protects their right to protest and rally nonviolently. They are entitled to police protection, even though you don't agree with what they believe, just like you're entitled to police protection if you rally for something that they don't believe in."
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"They're racist, xenophobic nationalists. They're seen as the lowest of the low by most people who have heard of them. The vast majority of people who show up to their rallies are there to protest against them. To be honest, most people have probably never heard of them. They're barely an active political party."
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What causes you to hear a high pitched noise when a device, which has been fully charged, is still in the charger? | [
"The phrase is called coil whine. The highest rated comment nailed the basics. You can solve it easiest by replacing your charger, but if you like to ne a do it yourself-er, opening the charger and securing the transformers and coils with silicone, that should reduce or even remove the sound."
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"Extension cord does not use power when nothing is plugged into it. A phone charger has components inside it that can draw power even when a phone is not connected such as capacitors. A toaster will not use any power when not in use unless it has a clock or an LED on it."
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Why do we become motivated at night but can't follow through with our decisions come morning? | [
"\"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.\""
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"Get off the computer. And by that, I mean \"get off the computer several hours before bedtime\". Give your brain time to relax and settle down. I realize this may not be helpful right this minute, but something to keep in mind for the future."
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If a rainbow is made from light refracting on raindrops, why do we only see one static rainbow instead of multiple rainbows moving fast? | [
"A given color of the rainbow is only seen from a particular angle from any given droplet of water. As a particular droplet moves it it either will direct a different color toward the viewer or nothing at all. The result is that a particular patch of the sky will appear one color while it is in fact made up of many... | [
"Nah, the rainbow is an optical effect of light going through rainy air and into your eye. If you move, then light is hitting your eye at a different angle through a different bit of rain - depending on the conditions, either the rainbow will move or it'll disappear from your perspective. What that means is that yo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do photos of other planets look fake? | [
"Some of the photos are false color, and not what they really look like. An actual photo of Saturn doesn't really look fake though."
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"This is like asking why your camera phone can take awesome pictures of the clouds or mountains several miles away, but can't take good pictures of a grain of sand from 10 feet away. Galaxies and stars are bigger."
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How do motor proteins actually "walk" within a cell? | [
"A combination of experimental techniques and inference. * A laser is used to create a very short pulse of x-ray, which temporarily freezes molecules in place * Many motor proteins moving along strands of microtubule in-vitro are frozen and imaged simultaneously * Assuming that every protein motor has the same beha... | [
"Facilitated-Type Transport proteins do not need ATP to change shape. The Transport Protein will change shape by just interacting with the solute passing though. It's like how a magnet could change the shape of a bunch of iron fillings/pieces if placed nearby. It's passive b/c the solutes move from a [high] to a [l... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Are there any countries which aren't primarily Christian where it's a different year than 2015? What year is it to, for example, Jews? | [
"It's 5775 in the Hebrew calendar this year (counting from the beginning of the universe as told in the Book of Genesis. In Japan it's Heisei year 27--the number of years since the current Emperor took the throne. In North Korea it's Juche year 104--counting from Kim Il-Sung's birthday. In Islam, it's Hijri year 1... | [
"Short Answer: Jesus Long answer: The AD in the written version of the year stands for *Anno Domini* which in Medieval Latin means: \"In the year of (the/Our) Lord.\" Simply put, the Catholic Church took a best guess of when Jesus had been born and began counting the years since that. Historical records how that t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do you feel light headed when you quickly get out of bed? | [
"ELI5: Gravity pulls blood from the heart so your brain won't get enough oxygen and nutrients for the brain (you get dizzy) In depth : When you lay down, blood flow to the heart is facilitated by not having to work against gravity. To preserve a normal blood pressure in this scenario, blood vessels dilate and the ... | [
"I posed this question to my doctor years ago. He said a lot of times it’s to do with blood pressure change. Hence the higher your blood pressure the more you feel like you have to pee. He also stated it’s the same reason you have to pee when you go from cold weather outside to some place warm inside."
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Do dogs have a sense of right or wrong? | [
"They don't have a sense of guilt like we might sometimes think they do. Rather, they know something they did was bad because they know that will be punished (because it's happened before... same way they know how to sit on command). They do it for the same reason any human misbehaves - they either don't think of t... | [
"No. No animal is capable of that kind of detailed thought to establish a religion. None of even close."
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What causes that feeling in your chest when someone "hurts your feelings"? | [
"> According to a 2009 study from the University of Arizona and the University of Maryland, activity in a brain region that regulates emotional reactions called the anterior cingulate cortex helps to explain how an emotional insult can trigger a biological cascade. During a particularly stressful experience, the an... | [
"Sometimes it feels nice, does anybody know why it feels nice occasionally (Feels like a massage) and sometimes it feels nasty like somebody stabbing you with needles?"
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Why do animal like to be pet? I'd find it weird someone patting my head everyday. | [
"I find I usually don't pat a dog/cats head, but rather give them a nice scratch/massage. Either belly/back scratch or head massage. I don't know about you, but I love when someone massages my head and gives me a back scratch (a light scratch, not rough). Though I do notice some dogs like being hard patted/smacked ... | [
"Honestly I don't think there is a real answer for this. All I can say is that cats have very different personallities from each other. Cats react differently to many situations and have many different mind sets. Your cat could be thinking that your only want to pet him/her when your on the toilet. I know very stra... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the relative benefit of a full frame camera? How are the same or less pixels on a larger sensor better than more pixels on a smaller or same size sensor? | [
"Bigger sensors deal with noise better. Larger pixels mean the signal to noise ratio is larger, so bigger sensors have better low light performance. I'm sure there are others, but this is the biggest aspect that comes to mind The downside being you need larger lenses that project a larger image which means you nee... | [
"We've had cameras that have a higher resolution than our eyes can see for a very long time. Old school film cameras could take photos that could be blown up to ridiculous sizes. A limit to digital cameras? Again, we've been above human visual threshold for a while now, assuming the image is stored in RAW format (h... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why you're supposed to back into a space when you parallel park | [
"The way most cars steer, there's an effect called \"front-end swing\" where the front end of the car swings wider during a turn, and the back end of the car kinda just follows along. Because of that, you can be usually get a tighter fit if you back into a parallel space. First you swing your front end out, then ba... | [
"Because streets aren't one way, people live on either side, and parking is often scarce. You've just gotta take whatever space you can find, regardless of which way you're driving down the road."
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What are the reddit bots? How do people go about programming them to do weird, mostly unsuccessful tasks, and why? | [
"A reddit bot is an automatic computer program that polls reddit for new comments and/or posts and responds accordingly. This is done using [reddit's api](_URL_2_): just like you can go to _URL_0_ to get a nice page which shows you the subreddit and the newest posts, the program goes to _URL_1_ and gets a concise, ... | [
"There was a question like this not too long ago, and someone said that people write them to practice and show off their programming skills. They release them to see whether (or how well) they work. Sometimes, they do it to be dicks. Internet anonymity is a great incentive to fuck with people, watch the carnage and... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. | [
"The other comments are correct. I'd just like to add that with type II, your body makes insulin but your cells cannot use it, and eventually your pancreas will no longer produce insulin. Type II diabetics are the ones who usually lose toes and/or feet due to nerve damage. They also tend to go blind because of bloo... | [
"It leads to many health complications such as high blood pressure and diabetes..."
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Why is Tiangong-1 falling from space? | [
"Low-altitude space stations like this are not *quite* outside the atmosphere. So the tiny bit of atmosphere at their huge altitude drags on them, slowing them down, which eventually make them fall."
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"Not a chance, it could pass between Earth and the moon and we'd probably miss it In 2013 a 20 meter Near Earth Asteroid entered the atmosphere and exploded over Chelyabinsk Russia. It was undetected until it entered the atmosphere. Voyager is much smaller, it's main dish is just 3.7 meters Most Near Earth Objects ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does the moon appear red in the "Total Lunar Eclipse" instead of being invisible as happening in "Partial Lunar Eclipse"? | [
"When the earth is squarely in front of the sun, from the moon's perspective, you're still seeing sunlight through the edges of the earth's atmosphere. Like a 360-degree horizon. What does the sun look like when it's just at the horizon during sunrise or sunset? It's red. You're seeing every sunrise and sunset happ... | [
"The moon cycle is not caused by the Earths shadow. It is caused by the Moons own shadow. If you were standing in the Sun then only half of you would be lit by the Sun and your other half would be in the shadow. It is the exact same thing with the Moon. Half of the Moon is lit by the Sun and the other half is in it... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does the pink insulation in houses make you itchy? | [
"Have you ever broken a glass and you get those tiny (almost microscopic) shards of glass under your skin? You can feel that they are there, and it is a mix of itchy and maybe some slight discomfort? Same thing for the insulation. It has tiny shards of glass in it."
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"Why do I feel as though my bottles of water don't do this but instead just freeze normally in the freezer?"
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Why children will sometimes intentionally aggravate their parents to the point where they lose their temper. | [
"Three reasons in combination: young kids can become frustrated at their lack of control, they haven't developed the ability to analyze the longer-term impact of their actions, and they are still learning how to use and handle emotions rather than have those emotions use and handle them. So younger ones can get re... | [
"They feel emotions, but don't let them impact their decisions. For example, if I get angry with you, but don't punch you in the face. It's not about turning off emotions, it's about having self-control."
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Why time goes by faster when we are having fun, but slower when we are bored. | [
"You don't think much about time when you have fun."
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"When were sad, we don't care about much. Since nothing is keeping us entertained at that time, time doesn't go by fast. My sad days always feel long since I'm not enjoying anything in those times."
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Why can't we use all the excess skin from people with extreme weight loss to treat burn victims? | [
"Your cells have specific proteins on their membranes that serve as markers for your immune system to differentiate self from non-self. These proteins can vary from person to person, although they serve the same function. The reason you typically graft skin from yourself is that the skin will not be rejected by you... | [
"It can be, and that's the standard treatment for mild cases. The problem is that there's no way to target specific areas for fat loss, so it won't ever work for severe cases."
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Why do certain people feel cold at a temperature, but other people feel warm at the same temperature? | [
"Your body is unable to detect specific temperatures; in other words, you're not able to feel some temperature and say \"oh, this is 82.35 degrees F.\" Therefore, the sensation of temperature that your body feels is relative to what you're used to. If you live constantly in cold environments, 50 degrees will seem w... | [
"Your body temperature drops while sleeping, your entire body when you wake up is at rest, so even if the temperature is the same as the time you went to bed it feels colder."
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Why do mosquitoes crop up seasonally each spring? Is it a more "fit" group each year that is more adapted for colder weather, or does natural selection not apply? | [
"they essentially lay \"eggs\" in stagnant water before dying off each year. once it gets warm enough the \"eggs\" come out of hibernation and develop into mosquitoes"
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does an egg have the same amount of calories as a newly hatched chicken? | [
"Not necessarly, when a chick forms it feeds on the yolk while it develops and grows, there actually may be a loss of calories in the process exactly as it hatches VS fresh laid."
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"Egg is made out of egg stuff, which you can be allergic to. As the chicken grows, it eats the egg stuff and turns it into chicken stuff. Once the chicken is ready to hatch, the egg stuff has been completely used up. All that remains is delicious chicken stuff."
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Why can we smell rain before it happens? | [
"rain is preceded by particular atmospheric conditions. things like increased moisture, decreasing barametric pressure, etc. the natural world responds to these changes and you can smell the end result. kingintheattic has a point, mold spores love moisture, but there are lots of other plants that do weird stuff."
... | [
"Molecules from it break off and float around in the air. Your nose picks them up, and your olfactory center \"reads\" them. Yes this means exactly what you think it means, when you smell poo."
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Why is that when we are sick, one nostril becomes really dry while the other is really runny? | [
"Your two nostrils shift their workload back and forth; called the nasal cycle. Most of the air you inhale travels through just one nostril, while a much smaller amount seeps in through the other. The nasal cycle then reverses course and the workload shifts to the other nostril. The length of time between nostril s... | [
"There is a connection between your eyes and nose. A tiny, usually unnoticed duct drains excess tear fluid into your nasal cavity. I learned this in college; an upper respiratory tract infection blocked the duct and my eye watered uncontrollably. One OTC decongestant later, no watering. So, if the air is coming out... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do engineers get different amounts of horsepower out of engines that have the same number of cylinders without adding turbochargers etc? | [
"The cylinder count isn't what defines the power, the displacement has a far large effect on power than cylinder count does. There are a bunch of knobs that can be turned to dial in the performance of an engine. Cylinder aspect ratio, engine displacement, cylinder count, piston weight, and valve timing all have sig... | [
"Engine style. If your Prius had a v8 engine it would use significantly more gas. Number of cylinders, displacement, supercharging, turbo charging, and tuning all have impacts on mpg for a car beyond size and style."
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What is the difference between detergents for top loading and front loading washing machines ? | [
"HE detergent (front loader) has a higher concentration due to the washer machines using less water. It does not suds as much as top loading detergent. It is OK to use HE detergent in a top loading machine, you should use less detergent when doing this. NOT ok to use top loading detergent in a front loading machine... | [
"I had a combined Bendix washer dryer. It worked fine but it takes a long time to do your laundry that way, especially because of the long cycle time of European front- loading washers. The reason is that (unlike separate machines) you can't dry the first load while washing the second. Simple assumption: 45 min w... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do child actors/actresses play roles in films and tv shows meant for mature audiences such as "Game of Thrones?" | [
"Depends on the rules in the country, but in the US, child labor/acting laws are pretty restrictive. They have permission from their parents, they know they're acting, and they're well guarded from any potential abuse. If the parents are OK with it, and the kids are OK with it and no other laws are being broken, th... | [
"We have plenty of western cartoons like The Simpsons or Family Guy that aren't exaclty designed for kids. Southpark is a good example of an adult western cartoon."
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When I buy a video game (or movie, music, book, etc.), how exactly does my money reach the people who developed it? How long after something has been released does it cease to matter to the developer if I purchase something rather than borrow it, rent it from the library, or pirate it? | [
"They have their cash long before you make the purchase. Long story short because im tierd. Wholesale has purchased from developers. They sell to retail outlets for profit. Retail outlets sell to public for profit."
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"Because the books, CDs, and movies were bought by the library for the purpose of loaning them out, so if you get them you have to return them and then you don't have them anymore. Basically it's all about agreements. They agreed to not give out infinite copies to anyone, and so they get to share these things with ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how can electrons in water molecules keep going around a nucleus for millions of years? where is the energy coming from for so long? | [
"You're trying to think about electrons and atoms as if they are classical physical objects - like balls orbiting other balls. That's not how they work. A better way to think about electrons is not individual moons orbiting a planet but an electron \"atmosphere\" floating around the nucleus."
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"Heat is transferred when molecules 'vibrate'. One gets heat energy then it vibrates transferring some of that energy to the molecules next to it ect ect. In liquids, molecules are much closer together than they are in a gas, meaning its easier for the vibrations to pass between them."
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Why does the moon appear translucent during the day? | [
"The moon is not translucent, you're viewing it through a brightly-lit atmosphere during the day."
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"The moon cycle is not caused by the Earths shadow. It is caused by the Moons own shadow. If you were standing in the Sun then only half of you would be lit by the Sun and your other half would be in the shadow. It is the exact same thing with the Moon. Half of the Moon is lit by the Sun and the other half is in it... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people trust journalists when they say off the record? What's stopping the journalists from printing what they talked about? | [
"Nothing is stopping them from printing such things, except the potential damage to their reputation. A journalist that gets a reputation for always printing stuff that was said 'off the record', will find it very hard to get people to agree to do interview with them / tell them anything else off the record. And wh... | [
"That's what you do as a journalist, ask questions. You wouldn't be doing your job if you kept quiet. It's pretty normal in all settings like this. There's a big difference between \"we asked, and he didn't want to answer\" and not asking at all. I don't know if it's ever worked in a presidential press conference, ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it so hard for people to actually go to bed even when they are tired? | [
"Could be a number of things. 2 biggest culprits I am familiar with (personal experience) are caffeine and electronics. Caffeine as a chemical inhibits the process that lets you go to sleep. So even if you feel \"tired\" the caffeine will prevent your sleep. Being exposed to electronics (like a computer screen befo... | [
"You only choose to take a nap during the day if you're already tired. But you always go to bed at night, even when you aren't tired."
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What are chemical weapons and why are they considered much worse than other forms of attack? | [
"Chemical weapons attack you by either nerve agents, blistering, or even choking agents. It is very painful and when dispersed are not very strategic. This leads to a large effected area. This not only kills and maim combatants but innocent civilians. While other conventional attacks are directed directly toward e... | [
"The USA did use them. Since then, the purpose of owning nuclear weapons is to dissuade other owners of nuclear weapons from using them on you."
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How common are rhymes/puns in languages other than English? | [
"Even more common in some. In most (if not all) latin-based languages, all verbs in infinitive form end in the same suffix(es), for example, in portuguese they end in either -ar, -er, -ir or -or. We also have suffixes for diminutive and augmentative forms, so that makes it easier to rhyme as well."
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"Hindi is related to English while Finnish and Basque are not. Korean, Japanese and Chinese are unrelated. Swedish and Norwegian are tonal languages like Chinese and Thai (and Cherokee since you ask about American languages) while English and Japanese are atonal. Your question is based on an incorrect premise. Ther... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why wasn't Russia invited into the western world or NATO, after the fall of the Soviet Union? | [
"Russia was part of a number of Nato initiatives and institutions (partnership for peace, Nato-Russia council, etc) but Nato's Article 10 requires a unanimous invitation to join. Russia is a proud country, it wouldn't want to aspire to Nato membership only to have a historic foe (such as Turkey) have power over th... | [
"Follow up question. Boris Yeltsin was a famous alcoholic. Did this change how seriously he was taken in the days directly after the fall of the USSR?"
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The significance of the famous line "Let them eat cake" | [
"[It was supposedly said by Marie Antoinette](_URL_0_), who was the Queen of France during the French Revolution. The story is that someone came up to Marie and told her that all the peasants were starving because they had no bread. She said \"Well, then, let them eat cake instead!\" because she was so posh and ric... | [
"The golden rule as told by my Grandfather \"He who has the gold makes the rules\""
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What is Sharia Law, is it laid out in the Koran, and do all Muslims wish for it to be implemented? | [
"On your last point, definitely not! Less than half of the Muslim majority countries have Sharia law, it is not desired by all Muslims by any stretch of the imagination."
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"I'm sure there are some people in ISIS who believe they are on a divinely inspired mission to convert every human on the planet to Islam, all ruled from the central Caliphate according to Shari'a law. How do they expect to do that? Miracles."
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Why do you need to turn a car wheel much more than 90 degrees to make a 90 degree turn? | [
"If you imagine two gears spinning each other, where one is bigger than the other, the smaller one will have to rotate more to cause the bigger one to complete a rotation. This same principle applies to steering wheels, where you are using a gear system to control the wheels."
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How does your stomach know when to evacuate bad food? | [
"After you eat a \"bad food\", the stomach begins the digestion process and during that process some things are absorbed through the stomach lining (also this happens in the digestive tract). If bacteria, poisons or even a food that you are allergic to are sensed, it will attempt to protect itself by releasing flu... | [
"Chewing causes your brain to send signals to your stomach, telling it to begin the digestion process. As your body digests whatever food is in your stomach, you become hungrier."
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Why do I have to take the full course of antibiotics. Will I die? | [
"Because if you don't, the more resistant strains of bacteria might survive (even if there aren't enough of them to make you sick). This means you've just bred a more-resistant strain of bacteria, which is now in you (so the same antibiotic will be less effective for you in the future) and can be transmitted to oth... | [
"Nobody is going to give you those kinds of antibiotics for an ear infection. What you should do is take all antibiotics as prescribed. That means finishing your prescription, not skipping days, etc. This will help prevent you from developing an antibiotic resistant infection."
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Why do gas prices rise in the summer? | [
"Because summer is fun time, and fun costs more money."
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"Why is election on weekdays instead of weekends?"
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Why do people want to restrict HB-1 visas, when the companies will just outsource after the visas are restricted? | [
"jobs that require collaboration aren't so easy to outsource, as it's like 3x more difficult to work with someone remotely esp if the time zones don't match up. the efficiency lost makes the h1b cost seem reasonable."
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How is information burned onto a disc such as a CD or DVD, and how does it play in a CD/DVD player? | [
"Tiny scratches or holes are punched in the disc by a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Burner. When the CD/DVD/Blu-Ray is read, a Red(CD/DVD) or Blue(Blu-Ray) laser is used to detect the holes and scratches so they can be read as binary code."
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"DVD-R and DVD+R are two DVD formats. This means that the way the data is stored on the discs themselves is slightly different. From a user's perspective they both function the same and have almost the same capacity (-R has 7MB more). DVD-R came first and is the \"old\" format. DVD+R is newer and has some advantage... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If panic attacks are really not dangerous at all, why do they have so many physical symptoms? | [
"Panic attacks have so many physical symptoms because severe anxiety triggers your bodies stress response. This involves a large variety of bodily responses including the release of various hormones like epinephrine and cortisol. What happens is referred to as the fight or flight response and, as you say, involves... | [
"Anxiety attack is not a clinical term, whereas panic attack is. People can experience panic attacks with or without a precipitating event. Panic attacks tend to be short lived, around 30 minutes. They tend to make the person feel as if they are in imminent danger of losing all control and possibly even of dying. S... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's actually going on when someone spaces out? | [
"I think you're referring to dissociation. That can include everything from daydreaming, to losing track of the drive home, all the way to Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities)."
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How did the Eagle Creek Fire in Oregon jump all the way across the wide Columbia River and start burning in Washington State? | [
"It was most likely a spot fire. Dry conditions and large gusts of wind can cause embers to leap and travel through the air hundreds to thousands of feet. I was a wild land firefighter for two seasons, and spot fires are something we are taught to be very wary and cautious of."
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"Lightning is natural, and starts a surprising number of fires. At our annual campout this year we watched smoke jumpers and helicopters spend the night putting out a lightning-spawned fire on a ridge only two or three miles away. AFAIK, everything else is man made."
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What are buffer overflows and how do people hack software with them? | [
"A buffer is a fixed amount of space for storing stuff. For example, you might store text data in a character buffer, one character per space. Now let's say that I have a program that stores your name (let's say it gives you a max of 16 characters), and also stores a variable controlling whether or not you should h... | [
"Ignore everything that you've seen on TV or in movies. Hacking in those is about as accurate as the gunfights. Both use computers and guns, and that's where the similarities end. Most \"hacking\" is actually social engineering, and involves tricking a person into giving you the password to the system. You'd be ama... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If water is clear, why do clothes get darker when they're wet? | [
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"New towels have dyes and sometimes even fabric softeners still in them from the manufacturing process, and these can be a bit water resistant. Best practice when you get new towels is to run them through a couple of wash cycles to get all of the stuff out. Don’t wash them with other clothes during these first cycl... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the difference between rotten milk, yogurt and other dairy products? | [
"It all comes down to bacteria. Different bacteria have different effects on milk products. It's the same way you get different cheeses when the base is just milk solids and lactose. The bacteria feed on the lactose and release lactic acid and other byproducts which provide each of the different products their flav... | [
"Most bad milk won't make you sick, it's just really nasty to drink. This is because most off the milk we drink is pasteurized there won't be alot of bacteria to make you sick."
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What is meant by this FCC condition found on the bottom of my daughter's Little People® Lil' Movers™ School Bus? | [
"FCC Title 47, Part 15 section 5.b should clarify this for you: > (b) Operation of an intentional, unintentional, or incidental radiator is subject to the conditions ... that interference must be accepted that may be caused by the operation of an authorized radio station, by another intentional or unintentional ra... | [
"It is most likely number 1. It's like a scaled up and computerized version of \"Guess Who!\""
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Why do blatantly controversial organizations like KKK and Neo Nazi still allowed to exist in US? | [
"Because it is not illegal, in the US, to be: * blatantly controversial; * super racist; * communist; Free speech and expression in the US only excepted in very narrow and explicitly defined ways, to include things like defamation, child pornography, and true threats."
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"AFA has 180K members and pull in about $20M/yr. You might not agree with them, but that doesn't mean they don't have a right to do their thing."
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if we all came from the same ancestors at some point (primates) but we all have different ethnicities and look different (Asian, Indian, Inuit ) wouldn't we logically be able to trace that back to different primates that have those same features | [
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"Genetic mutation thousands of years ago. Travel was more difficult, so Europeans bred with Europeans, Africans with Africans, etc. Somewhere along the line, a European had a genetic mutation that made it so they could handle milk. As the mutation proved beneficial, evolution continued to hand it down as they repro... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are some people more prone to getting pimples? | [
"Well assuming that you don't eat a lot of sugar, or sweat a lot, or have bangs that cover your face, it all comes down to genetics. If you get acne, one of your parents most likely suffered from acne as well."
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"If you have a high amount of sugar in your blood you'll get more mosquitos."
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Despite both being highly totalitarian, how are Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia polar opposites in political ideology? | [
"Nazi ideology was not merely at odds with Soviet ideology; it was created in direct and hateful opposition to Marxism and all Slavic people (which includes most of the Soviet population.) Hitler spoke of Marxism and Judaism as the world's two evils, considered Slavs to be barely human and Soviet Communists to be p... | [
"How revolutionary was the general populace in areas controlled by the anarchists? Did they actually believe in the anarchist ideals? To what extent were those ideals actually carried out?"
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Why do flash drives and SD cards only come with storage in roots of 2 (8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB, etc.), but hard drives come in round numbers (like 500 GB, 600 GB, 700 GB, 750 GB, etc.). | [
"Basicly the HD always is fooling you when you buy a Harddrive of say 500Gb then mount it in your computer it will NOT be of 500Gb ... why because they count 1 Kb as 1000b instead of as it is 1024b this iterates up to 1Mb is counted 1000*1000 instead of as the computer counts: 1024*1024 or 1 Gb as 1024*1024*1024 th... | [
"Long ago, we convinced people that a Megabyte was 1000 Kilobytes, and a Gigabyte was 1000 Megabytes so a Gigabyte is 1,000,000 Kilobytes. Your computer counts using base 2 so it considers a Megabyte to be 1024 Kilobytes and a Gigabyte to be 1024 Megabytes or 1,048,576 Kilobytes You bought a 32,000,000 KB drive whi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The Smith Mundt Act (Propaganda) | [
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"Because of the US The American Service-Members' Protection Act AKA [The Hague Invasion Act](_URL_0_)"
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What is the "The Right to Work"? | [
"\"Right to work\" laws allow employees to choose not to belong to a union in a job that would otherwise require them to belong and pay dues. People who are for such laws argue that employees can choose whether or not to be a part of collective bargaining and that right to work laws are good for unemployment and im... | [
"Next Week's Theme: 'Royalty, Nobility, and the Exercise of Power' To be followed by: \"Eastern Europe\""
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How do we know the names of ancient Egyptian rulers? | [
"If you're asking how we have a *phonetic* translation of hieroglyphics - the way the words *sounded* - it was the result of work by Jean-François Champollion and others. The Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics include names of Pharaohs that were familiar in Coptic, plus phonetic versions of foreign words which these resea... | [
"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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Would a bomb with 1000x the strength of Little Boy have 1000x the blast radius? | [
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"Nuking an asteroid would be like taping an M80 to a boulder. Some postgraduate students from Leicester University did the math on the asteroid used in Armageddon (awful movie) it would take 800,000,000,000,000 terajoules of energy to blow up that chunk of rock. The largest nuke mankind ever set off only put out 41... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can someone hack a computer or a website? | [
"By logging in. \"hacking\" is the process of finding a weakness that allows you to or, more often, tricking somebody into helping you to log into the system. At that point, you win. Hacking doesn't work like it does in the movies. You can't type furiously for ten minutes and then get into some system. You either ... | [
"Because they can't control who connects to your wireless router."
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Why is Tesla losing money on every car they make? | [
"It's not so much that they're selling the cars below the cost to manufacture them. They're losing money because the amount they're spending on expansion and R & D is less than the profit they make from their sales."
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How does a strong blow to the head make one unconscious? | [
"The brain is an electrochemical device. And slightly mechanical, in that it can make new physical connections. When that is bashed, it disrupts the current state, which is coordinating your activity. Blood flow, electrical signals, electrolyte balances, neurotransmitter packets, and hormones all get displaced, and... | [
"A follow-up question: Why do some people love that feeling while others detest it?"
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How do bees and flies get stuck inside ceiling lights? | [
"Ok I've always wondered the same thing and I *think* I've come to a conclusion that may hold water. I think they come in through the actual fixture it's self. IE, they were inside the wall/ceiling/whatever and just sort of migrated their way towards the light and heat coming from the bulb. Makes sense to me and al... | [
"If tigers could hang upside down in your bedroom and climb down on a rope coming out of their asses nobody would talk about spiders"
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How do banks get away with withholding people's funds? | [
"If we're going to talk law, we should probably declare which country we're talking about. I'm from Canada and I once tried to withdraw my whole account of $14k (right before university, all gone now!) and they were **extremely** resistant but they definitely could do nothing about it. I've heard of this happening ... | [
"Because. They. Can. Seriously. Because profit. The system is slow, but the extra few days is solely for them to earn interest overnight on your money."
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Why do perfectly symmetrical cars in video games veer left/right when they are on flat surfaces? | [
"I could be dead wrong on this when it comes to video game makers' intentions, but IRL most cars have less than perfect steering unless you just drove a brand new one off the lot. They'll slowly but surely veer off to either the left or right even on a perfectly flat roadway."
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"Cars turn in two dimensions. The road 100% controls the up/down dimension (unless you're driving a rally car or otherwise aren't constantly in contact with pavement). Planes turn in three dimensions. If a car points to the side, unless it's on ice, it will start traveling the new direction. If a plane points to t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the difference between those planes that leave a trail of cloud behind them and ones that don't, and what is that trail of cloud they leave behind? | [
"It is the temperature and water content in the air that determines if a plane leaves a trail. It is the water vapor in the exhaust or pressure changes induced by the plane that triggers the formation of the trails. _URL_0_"
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"Chemtrails aren't a thing. What people call 'chemtrails' are actually contrails. Contrails (condensation trails) are clouds. They are condensation made by jets exhaust, the way your car's does on a cold day, and also by vortices in the air created by the wing tips as they generate lift, which causes water in the a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Currently in US History class learning about Shay's Rebellion. I have no idea what's going on, can someone explain what it was to me? | [
"Shays' rebellion (his name was Shays, so the apostrophe comes after the s) was a rebellion by farmers in Massachusetts. It was (mostly) bloodless, but it really spooked the founding fathers. They realized that the Articles of Confederations created a central government that was far too weak. A few years later, the... | [
"A lot of my family is Indian and I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, OP. Can you explain a little better or provide examples?..."
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why do the majority of cartoon characters only have 4 fingers? | [
"Drawing hands are HARD. If you try to draw a hand and it's not perfect, it looks SO WRONG and distracting to people. Instead, they don't even try. Hell, they try hard to make the hands look fake (wrong number of fingers). This way it's so wrong it doesn't annoy people. It's like when robots are made to look as rea... | [
"What color is the skin of most of the people who make and utilize those drawings? Theres your answer"
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How does Windows know wether I am plugin in a new printer/keyboard/mouse/etc? | [
"every device has a chip that says what it is. like a person says his/her name to you. so you know name of that person."
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"It's a design limitation: The USB system is a master / slave setup, where the master is on the computer and the slaves are the peripherals like mouse, keyboard, storage etc. That is what the design is. That is how the operating system expects it. However, have a look at _URL_0_ which explains how to connect two co... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How are black-and-white films colorized? | [
"This has been something answered often on ELI5 if you do a search, but you're saying you already read several explanations. What are you unsure of - how they match the colours? Or how they actually *colour in* the colour?"
] | [
"Yes, that is what they look like. However, due to the fact that electron microscopes only capture black and white, the first picture was actually colorized by an artist."
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Why is The Wall by Pink Floyd considered an important album in rock history? | [
"The Wall is a big concept album by a very big band, which presented it's concept - both musically and theatrically (i.e., on tours) - in a very specific and very clear way, and went on to spawn a movie. It was also one of the nails in the coffin of Pink Floyd as a band. Many don't consider it to be a \"real\" Pin... | [
"Current popularity does not equal their popularity in 100 years. At the time of those classical composers very few were respected highly or considered great. The same is true in visual arts where Van Gogh was considered crazy and Picasso was considered terrible. What becomes a classic has nothing to do with their ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why is the United States still considered the richest nation in the world when our national deficit is so high? | [
"The US earns the most. Think of it like a guy with a big salary and a big house but a big mortgage payment. The US still has the most money because he's good for it. He can easily make his payments."
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"China has 1.3 billion people, more than four times that of the U.S. (319 million). So it's not that strange to assume that the size of China's economy will surpass that of the U.S. The U.S. is not hugely in debt to China: less than 10% of total U.S. debt is owed to China. China also has debt to the U.S. In today's... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is IPO? What is going public? | [
"Stocks are parts of ownership of a company. Many small companies are corporations but their stocks aren't on the stock exchange. Instead the owners of the company just keep them. When a company goes public it means the owners have decided to let people buy and sell their stock. An IPO is when that happens. It stan... | [
"An investment banker is an individual who works in a financial institution that is in the business primarily of raising capital for companies, governments and other entities. Read more: Investment Banker Definition | Investopedia _URL_0_"
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Why Does Every Contemporary Christian Rock Band Sound Like A U2 Tribute? | [
"So Christian music is developed around the ease of singing along- the real money is in licensing songs to be sung by churches during worship, so they have to have some key traits: A range that can be sung by most people, which means mid-range male voice. Women can harmonize up, but it's harder to fit a vocal rang... | [
"Being Black Does Actually Have (Relatively Minor) Health Consequences, It's Just That They're Obviated By Modern Life. There's An Energy Cost To Have Extra Melanin, Even A Small One, So If You Don't Need It It Won't Be Selected For. Melanin Reduces Vitamin-D Uptake From The Sun If Sunlight Is Lower Than You're Ada... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how are movies being uploaded when they're not even officially out yet? (TS/CAM?/RIP/...) | [
"Nobody has gotten it right yet. my time to shine. I used to (briefly) work in the movie industry. People at work, and the academy award voters, are given DVDs of the movie for review so they can see their own work (movie studio) and so they can give it awards (academy), especially if the movie comes out close to t... | [
"I can't answer the question as to why the price is different, but I would not recommend purchasing that copy the movie manufactures encode movies different based on the region. [Source](_URL_0_)"
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Why are the two sides of table-tennis racquets/bats always red and black? | [
"They aren't always, you can get other colours. But for official matches, the international rules say that the two sides have to be different colours so your opponent can tell which side you hit with easily and quickly, since the two sides have different textures that can affect the spin differently. Source: I am F... | [
"The inside of the ball can have a significant effect on distance you can hit the ball. All baseball bats look the same (same shape and whatnot), but you're going to hit the ball further with metal and arguably corked bats (although corked bats are debatable)."
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How do "Magic Gloves" or "Touchscreen Compatible Gloves work while my regular gloves don't? | [
"Capacitive touchscreens work by sensing conductive input. This is why you can't use your fingernail or regular gloves. The gloves you're talking about are made with conductive material inlaid into the fabric."
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"Surgical gloves are designed to keep shit off of your hands yet still provide mobility. Winter gloves are designed for warmth, which is why they have so much more padding and insulation than surgical gloves. Surgical Gloves == Protection Wintertime Gloves == Warmth"
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