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why people think the moon landing was fake? | [
"There's no good reason for it. Some people just believe crazy things."
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"conspiracy theory: this is a viral marketing campaign and Sony Pictures itself is behind it."
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Why do we get nightmares when we are feverish or sick and fall asleep? | [
"Dreams are not fully understood, and neither are nightmares. Based on empirical findings there are several theories that present themselves. Based on those different theories there are different explanations and answers to your question, but our knowledge in this area and the brain as a whole is surprisingly limi... | [
"Stress. Stress is keeping you up awake at night, until you become so sleep deprived your body forces you to be knocked out."
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Would Michael Phelp's 'special' genes make him good at sports other than swimming | [
"No sport puts as much emphasis on upper body strength as the Butterfly, except probably wheelchair racing. His reaction time seems pretty good, and he could probably hit baseballs pretty well. Translating that into a baseball defensive position seems questionable. Maybe golf, though that's much more finesse than r... | [
"Because the science of athletic performance is getting better. Better training techniques, better nutrition, better medicine, better equipment. There are also social factors. A hundred years ago, even a gold medal sprinter could barely make a living at it. You either had to have a wealthy sponsor, or try to hold d... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is the Earth's moon named The Moon while other planets' moons have actual names? | [
"Because it was named centuries before we knew that the planets had moons. To discover the moons round other planets we needed to invent the telescope and then realised that there were a lot of moons out there so they needed names to identify them."
] | [
"The AP Stylebook (or your reading of it, I don't know the full context) is wrong in this case. When you say \"The Earth revolves around the Sun\", you need to capitalize \"Sun\" because it's being used as a proper noun. When you say \"The Moon causes our tides\", ditto. But not when you're saying \"Planets have mo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What exactly is our problem with immigration? | [
"Immigration is a fantastic concept that allows many people from different countries to give themselves or their children an opportunity at a better life. Illegal immigration is a problem because unregistered people use a countries healthcare, school system, and public facilities. This weighs heavily on the countri... | [
"There is no such thing as guilt by association in the USA."
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Why do humans respond faster to auditory stimuli than to do to visual stimuli? | [
"Research is still a bit fuzzy, but the hypothesis involves 2 parts. A. your ears utilize reflexes, which are faster than responses (responses involve additional levels of processing in the brain). Essentially, there is less processing that is needed for an auditory stimulus than a visual stimulus. B. The nerve t... | [
"You can't. That would be impossible. Your brain is picking up on them subconsciously using your other senses, most likely peripheral vision or hearing."
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How does hydroplaning happen? Is there any "safe" speed? | [
"When there is water on the road your tyre has to shove it out of the way if it's to stay in contact with the road. The tyre has grooves in it to make this easier, but there's a limit to how fast they can move water. Exceed this and the water builds up like a wedge under the tyre, lifting it off the road. You are n... | [
"Better how? As far as grip in the wet it doesn't really matter. The important things are to maintain a safe speed and following distance. Realize that it's going to take you longer to stop, and that hard braking is going to be harder to control, so you need to give the car in front plenty of room. Also tires. They... | eli5_question_answer | {
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- Homeownership (specifically first time home buyer) | [
"I can't stand this \"rent is a waste\" argument. It isn't. You need a place to live, rent provides that. Stop that. Home ownership isn't the fairy tale people make it out to be, and in many, if not most cases, you lose more over the course of owning the home than you would from the sale."
] | [
"It's capital supplied by a private source rather than a regulated lending or banking institution. The loan amount is less than the property value because the borrower is required to have \"skin in the game.\" a lender doesn't want to put themselves in the risky position of lending the full value of the property. H... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does the handle in a clay cup not heat up when there is hot liquid inside, but does when you place a cover over it? | [
"Because heat rises. The handle is not only off to the side, but ceramic is very good at insulating heat, the handle has a huge surface area that touches the air to keep the handle cooler than the cup as a whole."
] | [
"If aluminum foil is in a 450 degree oven then it is 450 degrees. But you can touch it as soon as you take it out right? Why doesn't it burn you like touching a regular pan out of the same oven? Aluminum foil in a 450 degree oven is 450 degrees, but because it is so thin it can change its temperature really quickly... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the materialist conception of history | [
"The materialist conception of history is the idea that history is driven primarily by *wealth*. That is, you can explain most major events in history by noting that people acted to gain more wealth or keep the wealth they had. This view was popularized by Marx, because he thought that communist ideology was a natu... | [
"reward system wants now reward, not the end of long work reward."
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Where Did the Money From the Stock Market Crash Go? | [
"Imagine that everyone in your neighborhood has been buying Special Bags of Gold for many years as an investment. Everyone has put a fair amount of money into buying these Special Bags of Gold and they have all been told that their value has increased over the years. Typically, 1/2 of everyone's net worth is stored... | [
"1. The First Salute by Barbara Tuchman 2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown 3. The Civil War by Shelby Foote 4. Reconstruction by Eric Foner 5. The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman 6. Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch 7. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War by John Ellis 8. The... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why do my previously broken body parts hurt when it rains. | [
"no one knows for sure. but some theories.. _URL_0_"
] | [
"I have had the same happen to me but after a day at the beach, when i go to bed i can still \"feel\" the waves moving me around. Any one else?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why didn't many people evacuate Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the warning leaflets were dropped? | [
"Everyone is talking about the leaflets, but the other half of the story is that Japanese cities were being bombed every week. And these cities had more deaths and destruction than Hiroshima and Nagasaki (though caused with multiple bombs). Looks like 105,000 were killed from nuclear weapons while fire bombs killed... | [
"* By the end of WWII, the bombing of population centers as part of a total war was an accepted practice (see: London, Dresden, Tokyo). As many as 2 million Japanese civilians had already been killed by conventional bombing by the time the atomic bombs were dropped * Around 20,000 of those killed in Hiroshima were ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Indiana's Religious Freedom Bill | [
"It allows business owners to decide for themselves if they want to celebrate homosexual marriage, based on their religion. So if a gay couple comes into a bakery asking for a cake for their wedding, a Christian baker wouldn't have to bake one. However, if they came for a birthday cake, the law would not protect th... | [
"High Crime + Dwindling Population + Crumbling Infrastructure + Diminishing Jobs = Perceived Shithole."
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What is Big O, Big Omega, and Big Theta Notation? | [
"When you have two sequences or functions, you are often interested in how fast they grow compared to one another. For example, suppose you have two functions f(n) and g(n) that tell you how many operations two different algorithms use to sort a list with n elements. As n gets bigger, if the number of operations f(... | [
"Function Definition: You define what the function will do when you call it. Function Call: You call the function to do what you defined previously. 🙂"
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How you make broadband faster. | [
"Broadband is like a chain, its as strong as your weakest link. Therefore you need to trace everything back from your devices back to the ISP"
] | [
"How are you going to change the filter?"
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Why do digital downloads of games cost the same amount as a hard copy? | [
"Because if they were cheaper, people would have much less reason to buy a hard copy. There'd be no real reason to pay people to manufacture them, ship them, or sell them. The people who own those businesses want to stay in business, so video game developers are careful not to screw them over."
] | [
"They charge that amount because people pay it. Yes, it's cheaper to stream than to produce a physical product, but since people will still pay the blu-ray prices for a streamed movie, that's what they charge."
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Are there any other species besides humans which naturally (i.e. without training) understand pointing? As in if I were to point to an object, a member of this species would look toward the object and not the tip of my finger?) | [
"[Elephants](_URL_0_) point and understand when we point at things too."
] | [
"It is easy to identify where a human is looking because of the whites of the eyes. The human might be looking at a threat, for instance. This is advantageous to other humans in the group. When a dog is is looking at something, it is more difficult to tell where they are looking because the whites of their eyes ra... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do electronic devices or circuits know how much current to draw from a power supply? What determines how much current it needs? | [
"The circuit has a characteristic resistance. The source voltage divided by that defines the average current required. Of course, things are more complicated than that, because the actual current varies from time depending on what state the circuit is in, but that's not as ELI5 an explanation. Things are always mor... | [
"Imagine a water hose that pumps water out at 1000mph, impossibly fast. Now imagine using it to fill up an Olympic size pool, but the hose is only as wide as a standard drinking straw. The water would come out quickly, but not very much would come through. This is the difference between amperage (Amount of electri... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When something stressful happens, people are initially calm. Once the situation is passed, then stress sets in | [
"Stress actually focuses you initially. Afterwards adrenaline is still in your body, which triggers other physiological reactions we normally associate with panic. Some people just react differently to the situation mentally."
] | [
"Your body dumps adrenaline into the blood stream to prepare you when you're scared. Adrenaline leads to a flight or fight response, meaning you will either fight the threat, or run away, whichever you judge as the most successful method. When you get shocked or startled, it's a little bit of adrenaline entering yo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does rubbing batteries together restore their charge? | [
"It doesn't. What does happen, is that since you're holding the batteries, you're warming them up due to the warmth of your hands. Chemical reactions happen faster at higher temperatures, and as such, warming the battery produces a slight boost."
] | [
"Batteries charge through a chemical process that is created by apply a voltage to the battery cell. This chemical process takes time. You can speed the process up by applying a higher voltage but this results in a higher current draw. If the current draw is too high the battery could explode or catch fire. All cur... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do vehicle speedometers go so high? | [
"It provides the illusion of performance. Having a speedometer that goes high implies that the car *must* have stronger engines. Also, in other countries, like Germany, cars that travel on the unrestricted autobahn can reached higher speeds. It's also cheaper for one car company to use the same speedometer across a... | [
"Do you know how a fan works? If so just turn it around"
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Is there a way to get over phobias? | [
"Different things work for different people. Some people get help from hypnosis, some have a really gradual desensitization/exposure therapy. [This is a link](_URL_0_) to a self desensitization therapy. My advice would be to skip past the nonsense pre-reading to \"step 1.\" Essentially the most common way to get ov... | [
"I have a similar question and couldn't find an answer. ELI5: Does this affect me in any way? Is it dangerous to click an imgur link now?"
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Why is gambling so restricted in the US? | [
"TLDR: Religion in the past, corruption in the present. Originally gambling was restricted on religious grounds. Then it was restricted because of inertia (restrictions already on the books and nobody cared enough to have them repealed). Sometime in the second half of the 20th century, states discovered how much mo... | [
"It's illegal in a huge number of jurisdictions already. Where do you live?"
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Why don't engines create max hp at max rpm? | [
"Horsepower is a measure of work which is force over time. Assuming that each cylinder produces the same amount of force every 4 stroke cycle, the more cycles you can pack into a given amount of time, the more work. So your gut feel is mostly correct. Because the rpm keeps increasing, but the cylinders are still pr... | [
"You want to keep your rpms low for best gas mileage. It's intuitive because your cylinders are firing more often at higher rpms, and the cylinders fire by igniting gasoline. This is why many automatics have an overdrive gear which allows highway cruising at very low rpm."
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Why, when looking at a computer screen from a lower angle, do the colors invert to a weird blue and black? | [
"Light coming at a flat angle from the screen has passed through a thicker layer of liquid crystal than intended, and is thus more rotated. Colors that were supposed to be blocked may thus pass, and colors that were supposed to pass are thus blocked."
] | [
"I think it is a picture of the screen, not a screenshot. The camera got the white balance off resulting in the off white color."
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- why auto manufacturers don't install solar panels in the roofs of their electric/hybrid vehicles | [
"Solar panels covering the roof of a car would produce a minuscule amount of energy. It's not worth it."
] | [
"It's easier to replace a single coal power plant with a more environmentally-friendly power plant, than it is to replace millions of gas guzzling cars with more environmentally-friendly cars."
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How do shows such as moonshiners get away with all of their illegal actions if the identities and methods are portrayed up front on television? | [
"Hate to ruin the magic but its fake. Also the methods are never really shown, generally key details are always left out."
] | [
"Usually the brands are censored on TV shows because the producers of the show either asked for the brand to pay for an endorsement op and they said no, or they don't want to piss off any brands that did endorse the show by putting another brand on for free. Plus there's always a risk that the brand owners may not ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is a Pint of Guinness so much better in Ireland/NYC/London etc. than my suburban bar? | [
"I haven't been able to verify it myself to take this with a grain of salt. Guinness in Ireland or other more populated areas will be fresher and will end up tasting better. A pint of Guinness at your local suburban bar will be shot out of a keg and through lines that have had older staler Guinness in it for much l... | [
"I actually found ketchup tastes very different in different parts of the world at McDonald's."
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How do our eyes know when something is just about to hit them? Like when a bug hits my closed eyelid when just a second ago it was open. | [
"Eyes are great at detecting motion and changes, and the nervous system is much faster than conscious thought. You reflexively blink before you're aware"
] | [
"They're attracted by the moisture and salt on your skin. The reason they keep coming is because flies arent aware you exist. You like a million times bigger than they are. The reason they keep hitting into you even after you swat at them is they have very poor memory. You ever seen a fly come inside through an ope... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is posture and muscle balance more important than the type of mattress you're sleeping on to relieve back pain? | [
"I have no medical education, but speaking from experience as someone with 3 herniated discs, I can say the mattress makes a huge difference. I was studying abroad when I had my first crisis because of an herniated disc and the mattress provided by the university was complete shit. As soon as I got home my pain red... | [
"If sleeping on your back is *uncomfortable*, maybe you just need a new mattress. If you want to sleep on your stomach, though, know that sleeping on your stomach can put your lower back in an awkward position. If stomach sleeping is more comfortable for you, try sleeping with a pillow under your stomach. That will... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is there some cultural significance to a male Asian child always having his junk out in public? | [
"In rural China kids (regardless of gender) wear [crotchless pants](_URL_0_) for ease of peeing or pooping. In Chinese cities this is seen as a very trashy thing to do now, since more sophisticated parents buy diapers and peeing or pooping everywhere is not acceptable (and doctors warned about UTI). There are count... | [
"Are we talking about the clothing that goes on your head, or the drink served after dinner?"
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Historically, does socialism work long-term? Why or why not? | [
"Social policies mixed with capitalism have been proven to work very well together. This includes the United States, Canada, and many European countries. Pure socialism (public ownership of *all* means of production) has never been properly implemented. Capitalism comes with many inherent flaws, and a \"mixed\" app... | [
"So when and where did playing cards as we know them come into being anyways?"
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How does soap kill bacteria? | [
"bacteria have a lipid encasing that soap will adhere to, soap has two ends, one that likes water and one that likes fats. lipids are a fat. one end hooks onto the lipid coating, the other end hooks into the water. this allows the bacteria to be washed away."
] | [
"Stagnant Water is a breeding ground for bacteria."
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Why do modern lightbulbs seem to only last for eight or so years but the first lightbulb ever made still runs today? | [
"It's not the first bulb ever made that still runs today. Early light bulbs used to last only a few hours before burning out. A specific light bulb, with low energy consumption and a thick carbon-based filament (that they're not quite sure what it's made of...) still runs after over a hundred years of continuous us... | [
"You know a lot of light is invisible, right? Infrared, for example. You can't see it, but you can feel it on your skin with your eyes closed when you're standing near something really hot. Take two lightbulbs that consume exactly the same amount of electric energy, but one produces only visible light, and the othe... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Would it be possible for animals to have sex and babies with another subspecies? (like chimpanzees having sex with orangutans) | [
"This doesn't work in most cases. One case where it works is for example horse and dunkey, their children can be two different subspecies, depending on which of those two is the male and the female. The problem here is, that this animals can't recreate further."
] | [
"Because otherwise they wouldn't be able to breed? Different species of animals can't breed with one another. If humans were attracted to cows, you would never see a cow-human hybrid, or a baby cow, or a baby human. Different amount of chromosomes prevent inter-species breeding."
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What does it mean to unlock your phone to another service provider? And why, depending on the brand, does it cost so much and take so long? | [
"Most phones are *capable* of talking to other carriers that use the same networking technology. For example, in the USA, AT & T T-Mobile and I think a couple others all use the same GSM system. However, if you buy a phone through one of those carriers, they put a piece of software in place that checks who you're ... | [
"Have you tried logging into your carrier's website? Some of them allow you to do it from there, but it all depends on your carrier."
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what is social engineering? | [
"Social Engineering is using specific triggers and actions to provoke an action in a person or group of people. Reverse Psychology on children is a simple example, but it gets pretty deep down the line. Things like mob mentality, mass hysteria, and moral panic can all fall under the heading when provoked intentiona... | [
"Maybe let's start with: what is ring tone rap?"
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Why do guys get hard in the morning? (NSFW) | [
"During REM sleep, the deepest part of the sleep cycle, during which dreams occur, a lot of the body's functions effectively run on autopilot. One hypothesized consequence of this is that the chemical signals made by the body to prevent erections are not made during REM sleep. As a result, men will get erections du... | [
"I'm 22 and I've never had a wetdream. Is that normal?"
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why diffrent alcohols effect me. | [
"Because they're different alcohols made of different things. > One reason for the different effects of vodka and bourbon, Rohsenow says, could be that bourbon contains 37 times more toxic compounds than vodka does, including nasty organic molecules such as acetone, acetaldehyde, tannins and furfural. A good rule ... | [
"The emognulate part of your tounge that reacts to sweet sensations is inhibited by the colgatious chemical found in most toothpastes. An absence of sweetness in most juices leaves nothing but an unpleasant, bitter taste. copied from: _URL_0_"
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How does 'zipping' a file make it smaller? Why does it need to be unzipped? What is actually happening? | [
"File compression usually looks for patterns within the file on your disk and replaces them with something smaller. Let's compress ``banana``. We'll replace the pattern ``na`` with the character ``%`` Which reduces the word down to ``ba%%`` Then we build a table of things that were replaced so we know ``%==na`` ... | [
"You can't compress something more than once. It will just make it bigger. Ever seen one of those vacuum bags that you can use to pack clothes more tightly for storage? You put your clothes inside, then vacuum the air out. Would it make any sense to try to wrap that inside a SECOND vacuum bag and suck the air out? ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do I always need to go to the toilet at the same times every single day? How is there no variation? | [
"You must have a fairly regular diet and fiber intake. Most people would kill for that kind of regularity."
] | [
"I just want you to know you're not alone. This happened to me every damn time."
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Why do people seem more saddened by the abuse & death of animals than the death or abuse of other human beings? | [
"generally speaking animals are viewed as innocent almost child like. humans on the other hand are viewed based off what they do and how they act. depending on how cynical of a person you are you will view people as less than innocent."
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"They don't want to be known as the perpetrator of millions of deaths and ethnic cleansing."
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The California Energy Crisis of 2000 and the Enron Scandal | [
"As for the energy crisis, basically Enron would cut off the power supply so that the cost of electricity would skyrocket, and then turn it back on in order to make more money. Enron in general, that was mostly down to a type of accounting they used that let them declare potential earnings, so that it always looked... | [
"High Crime + Dwindling Population + Crumbling Infrastructure + Diminishing Jobs = Perceived Shithole."
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Why does McDonald's only sell the McRib for part of the year? | [
"To give a bit of evidence for what everybody else is already saying: > Aside from weak sales, other theories for the limited availability of the McRib include the higher prices and unreliable supply of pork, the limited-time allure making it a better loss leader for McDonald's, and the scarcity adding to the hype... | [
"McDonald’s tastes different depending on where you are. When I was in Germany the Big Mac was a bit different from the ones in the U.K."
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Why doesn't North and South Dakota concatenate to just form a single Dakota state? | [
"Because they'll go from 4 senators to 2, that's a reduction of political power. And then you'd have to harmonize the taxes, and that's going to be annoying."
] | [
"To indicate that the country is a Republic. Why is Republic weird but Kingdom or Federation isn't?"
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How does wind make it colder outside? | [
"Our bodies give off heat which heats the air around us. If that air stays around us longer then we feel warmer, but if it is quickly pushed away by wind, we'll feel as if it's colder."
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"It's drier in your climate during the winter, leading to more static buildup."
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No, we aren't actually 5. | [
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Can someone please explain the six-day war to me? | [
"Israeli here. Feel free to ask any questions, i see someone has already given you the history lesson on the six day war."
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"Can you explain the question like I’m five?"
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How does a defibrillator help with a physical blockage of the heart, such as myocardial infarction? | [
"It's usually a CPR scenario, where the heart muscle is, indeed, still dying, but without blood pumping neurons in your brain are also dying, quite a bit more rapidly than heart muscle cells, and also irreversibly. And, ultimately, artificial hearts and heart transplants are possible, whereas brain replacements or ... | [
"A heart attack is a blockage of blood flow to the heart. A cardiac arrest is when the heart stops 'beating.' A heart attack can cause cardiac arrest, but not all cardiac arrests are caused by heart attacks."
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Why the word I is always capitalized but he and she aren't? | [
"Nobody knows, but you can read about some theories here: _URL_0_"
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"If it's OK for me to do it, it has to be OK for everybody to do it. If it's not OK for everybody to do it, then it's not OK for me to do it either."
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Why does running water increase the sensation of having to urinate? | [
"When you urinate, you produce the sound of running water. The sound and the sensation of urinating then become linked, much as Pavlov's dogs linked the sound of a bell with food. The dogs involuntarily salivated when hearing the bell, you feel like you're going to pee your pants when you hear running water."
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"Conversely, does holding one’s urination urge increase the size of the bladder so one has to urinate less over time?"
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How does the ocean go through two tide cycles in a day, where the moon only passes 'overhead' once every 24 hours? | [
"To grossly oversimplify, one tide is caused by the gravity of the Moon, the other is caused by the centrifugal force of Earth orbiting the shared centre of gravity of the Earth-Moon system. Both are delayed from when you'd expect them to happen by the friction with the bottom of the ocean."
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"If you're standing on the equator, you're moving at about 1,000 miles per hour. But the Earth is about 24,000 miles in circumference, so it takes 24 hours to go all the way around. That means it takes roughly 12 hours for the moon (or a particular star) to rise above the eastern horizon and set below the western h... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The difference between "internal" resolution and "monitor" resolution in video games | [
"Slycone is speaking out of his or her ass. Resolution is the dimensions of the number pixels you're talking about (e.g. 1024x720). Framerate is framerate (e.g. 60FPS = 60 Frames Per Second) Basically, the game is being rendered (produced) at 1024x720. It is then \"upscaled\" to the chosen resolution, which means s... | [
"the 1080 is the same 1080 in the resolution number. The P is for \"progressive scan\", which is a screen refresh method."
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What causes that unique smell of snow? | [
"Cold air dampens your sense of smell because it numbs the scent receptors in your nose. Also, similar to rainfall the water has been cycled from source to cloud to destination so it is fresh and not stagnant like a pond could be. Static water goes off due to external chemicals leeching into the water and contamina... | [
"The water reacts with the oils in the dog's skin, causing that distinctive smell."
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Why do I get goosebumps when I hear really good music? | [
"There is a flight or fight, adrenalin release which explains that. When very high emotions are felt, dopamine and other neurochemicals can be released. This causes a thrill thru the body, occ. tingling sensation, increased heart rate, goose bumps & so forth. This is often seen with the \"1812 Overture\" by Tschai... | [
"And why do I have the urge to cough when using them?"
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Why can a person doing an illegal action (burglary, trespassing) sue the property or owner? | [
"Often these cases are thrown out almost immediately. They are not thrown out, however, if there is a case of disproportionate or illegal actions taken by the homeowner (what is considered disproportionate and illegal is obviously defined by the laws of that place). Basically, just because the robber is breaking th... | [
"It is legal for a police officer to commandeer your vehicle in certain situations. He must be acting under the color of law (which means he/she must present a badge and identify him/herself as a police officer), and it must be to prevent or stop the commision of a forcible felony (murder, rape, aggravated battery,... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the purpose of the "Insert" button on a keyboard? | [
"Depending on the program, it lets you toggle insert mode between \"insert as I type and shift characters to the right\" and \"insert as I type, but delete characters to the right\". In simpler text widgets like in your browser here it does nothing. Standard behaviour is to shift characters to the right as you inse... | [
"Can you see the top notification bar from your phone in the picture?"
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Can animals become feral? | [
"Pigs revert. When domesticated pink pigs escape barnyards and get into the woods, their hair grows thick and bristly and they grow tusks. It doesn't take them generations to do this, the actual pig who escaped gets wild again."
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"What you're basically asking is the difference between an animal being tamed and an animal being domesticated. Dogs are domesticated. Pet raccoons are tamed."
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What's the difference between sweet potatoes and yams? | [
"in North America, we call a particular variety of sweet potato, Ipomoea batata, \"yams\". This variety of sweet potato is very sweet even for a sweet potato and with markedly orange flesh. Most other sweet potato varieties are more white and less sweet and more starchy. It is a staple crop, after all. This also g... | [
"Just because something is made from vegetables doesn't automatically make it healthy. Heroin is made from vegetables."
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Why do we have nerves in our teeth? Wouldn't a tooth ache that hinders our ability to eat end up being a disadvantage for survival? | [
"If you have a tooth ache caused by an infection, how would you know if you didn't feel it? that infection would go untreated and become more dangerous."
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"I don't know the chemical, physiological reason, I don't know what happens when you chew and swallow compared to chew and spit. But from an evolutionary viewpoint: If you obtained the same, or more, or even close to, as much pleasure without the swallow, you would be at risk from starving from not eating enough. T... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do people look visibly different when they wake up in the mornings? | [
"It has a lot to do with the horizontal vs vertical body position. The body has a high water content and throughout the day gravity plays it's part moving fluids around the body, and even compressing the spine so that we are very slightly shorter at night than we were in the mornings. Laying in a horizontal positio... | [
"It all depends. Your body goes through 90 minute sleep cycles, and if you so happened to wake up in between these sleep cycles, you'll be alert and refreshed. If you wake up during a sleep cycle, you'll be groggy and sluggish. For example, if you go to sleep at 10:30 PM, your sleep cycles will end at midnight, 1:3... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do civil engineers ensure the on-ramps and overpasses supported by manmade dirt slopes never collapse? | [
"A pile of granular materials has a property known as \"angle of repose\" which is the angle the side slopes of a pile of that material spills to when left alone. Embankment sideslopes are designed at an angle less than this angle of repose to keep the sideslopes stable. Secondly, the material is compressed, this ... | [
"The simple answer, is that building a road is pretty easy. But building a road that support trucks that weigh several tons, constant beating from various weather conditions, and won't sink under its own weight is much harder. They basically tear up the ground and the rebuild it layer by layer, to make sure it can ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do TV shows use fake bills with small amounts of money? | [
"On the Breaking Bad Insider Podcast they talk about how showing real money on TV is illegal. The reasons for this are complicated and strange but basically they'd be showing real serial numbers which can be used by counterfeiters."
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"Because the on dollar bill isn't worth faking. If you are going to put the time and effort into making fakes, you want them to be valuable. Also, the one does have some small anti counterfeit measures. They have tiny drawings in certain areas and some other smaller designs."
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Why should I give money to PBS when they have ads for Ralph Lauren, Goldman Sachs, Viking Cruises and more? | [
"Your local affiliate doesn't get funding from those entities, the production companies do. Your local affiliates need to pay bills and pay fees and are non-profits."
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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 we get lightheaded when standing up quickly after sitting/laying down? | [
"It's called orthostatic hypotension. When you are sitting your blood vessels contract or bend depending on how you're positioned, restricting the blood flow. When you stand up too quick, your blood vessels open up all the way and give the blood a lot more space to move which lowers the pressure. All of a sudden, ... | [
"Your face is swollen when you wake up from sleeping? You might want to stop sleeping hanging upside down, mate."
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[NSFW] ELIama5yearoldwhofoundhisdad'shiddenpornfolder: Why does so much porn end with the man coming on the woman's face? | [
"Explain it like you're five? You know better than to go playing around on daddy's computer, you're only allowed to use *these* games over here. Now, I'm not mad at you, but what you saw is for daddy and mommy to watch. Starting tomorrow, you're not allowed to use the computer until we can get you your own. Now go ... | [
"Because sickness sucks a lot more than getting fucked or having your mom fucked? Source: not dutch"
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(explainlikeimfive) : Stocks and the Stock Market Explained! | [
"now someone needs to explain futures, options and derivatives edit: Also one thing I am not sure about is what someone with a controlling interest can decide versus the board and CEO. I know the board is appointed ?by who? and the CEO is elected by the owners who can pick themselves? like Rupert Murdoch, right? I ... | [
"No, it's not fraudulent as long as you have good reason to believe you can secure the items when needed. Kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5:How does \"trading futures\" work? I've been told it's a good and cheap way to play the stock market, but everything I've read on it confuses me even more. ](_URL_1_) ^(_... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The main differences between Catholic, Protestant,and Presbyterian versions of Christianity | [
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"Historically, Lutheranism branched from Catholicism in protest of the sale of indulgences. In the 16th century church, salvation could be acquired by paying cash money for your sins. Luther objected and proposed that salvation was through faith. (Sola Fida) Today's Lutherans don't even exactly match the theology ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it that when in warm water we gain the urge to pee? | [
"Warm water relaxes you - when this happens, the parasympathetic nervous system (also known as the \"rest & digest\" system) takes over. It basically lets your body know \"Hey, you're in a safe place where you won't be attacked, this is a good time to pee\""
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"It has something to do with conditioning. The same is when you smell food and instantly become hungry."
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Why does skin peel after a sunburn? | [
"You skin is made of several layers of cells. When the DNA in a skin cell get whacked by the sun's ray hard enough, the cell self-destructs and dies (if it doesn't you might get skin cancer). When you get badly sunburned a whole bunch of skin cells in the layer might self-destruct. Other cells in charge of clean ... | [
"The pigment is in deeper layers of the skin that don't shed. It's the same reason why tattoos don't disappear after a few years."
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Why is Brazil still hosting the Olympics? | [
"They are the ones that won the bid. There is not really a system in place for the Olympic committee to withdraw who won once it has been decided, and even if there were there is not time for an alternate to prepare."
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"Why would you assume that America is like the rest of the world?"
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Why did brown sugar get so popular instead of recipes calling for sugar and molasses separately? | [
"It's because brown sugar is actually an intermediate step in the refining of sugar, it's not just literally white sugar + molasses. (Or at least it used to be - today it probably is white sugar and molasses in the United States.) So brown sugar was an ingredient on its own."
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"Refined white sugar is basically pure sucrose. Sucrose is a molecule that is basically a fructose and a glucose stuck together. So, refined white sugar is basically just pure sugar. Brown sugar is refined white sugar with molasses added to make it sticky and to give it some flavor. Molasses is the cooked down suga... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why some states aren't eligible for participation in sweepstakes, promotions, etc.. | [
"Some states have passed specific laws banning these types of promotions. There was a time when there were a lot of scammy, fraudulent \"sweepstakes\" that harmed a lot of people. The states took action to restrict the ability of companies or individuals to run those kinds of promotions. Since Amazon is so big, it ... | [
"Pregnant women qualify for Medicaid, which is paid for by the government, if they do not have insurance. The Medicaid cuts off for the woman after the child is born, but will continue to cover the child until it's 18 years old if the mother cannot get health insurance for the family from a private insurance compan... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do Zambonis need to be so big? | [
"To hold more warm water so they can clean/smooth ice more effectually. How whole internal parts works I am not 100% on. But playing hokey for 10 years you tend to notice things. I know it picks up the ice it scrubs off and melts it for more water to use. As well as it needs weight so the tires/treads can actually... | [
"Batteries and yes they need to be replaced from time to time."
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The process of an american traveling to Cuba | [
"First you have to get a visa. There are no tourist visas right now, so you have to apply under the following categories: Family visits; Official business of the U.S. government, foreign governments, and certain intergovernmental organizations; Journalistic activity; Professional research and professional meetings;... | [
"successful politics and lobbyism disney is especially successful and well connected in this, see the the history of intellectual propery laws in the US and new global trade agreements, most of it is based directly of Walt Disney's exclusive ideas and wants."
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the difference between "Innocent" and "Not Guilty" in the legal system | [
"\"Innocent\" is not typically a term used in the legal system. \"Not Guilty\" means there isn't compelling evidence to find a person Guilty of a crime. The law only cares if you're found Guilty. If there isn't enough evidence, it doesn't automatically assign you as \"Innocent\" (because you might not be innocent..... | [
"There is no such thing as guilt by association in the USA."
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How can the "deep Web" allegedly be so much larger than the surface Web if only a minority of people use the deep Web or hidden Internet. | [
"It's a bit of a buzzword, and sounds more mysterious than it really is. The deep web is essentially anywhere you can access with an Internet connection but is not publicly visible without an account or some form of access control. Forum that requires registration, even free, to see content? Deep web. Passworded M... | [
"The \"deep web\" is just the parts of the world wide web that are not indexed by search engines. For example places that require login, like your private Facebook page or your e-mail. The term is often confused with the *dark net*, which requires to TOR browser to access."
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How did people back in the day not realize that cigarettes were very unhealthy? | [
"There was a time when brands were endorsed by the medical profession. \"More doctors smoke camels...\" _URL_0_"
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"It would be very easy to abuse drugs that act that way. And the consequences of such abuse very dangerous. On another note, why are air-cooled Porsches suddenly unaffordable? Unrelated, just something that intensely annoys me...."
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Why can you use a negative adverb to make an adjective more positive? Ex: Awfully good | [
"The adjectives which spring to mind - awfully, terribly, dreadfully, frightfully, fearfully, scarily - all come from words related to fright. And this, I think, is because for many things we fear, that fear is mixed with respect - we both fear and respect the mighty power of nature; we both fear and respect a larg... | [
"You use ly to change a noun into an adjective (time intervals or similar to the original word) such as monthly or friendly, or an adjective to an adverb. Fast is already an adverb and adjective. \"I ran fast.\" Or \"The fast car.\" So you don't need to modify it to make it one."
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Why are all of the bees dying? | [
"The short answer is we don't know. There's been a number of studies which have identified a higher amount of parasites and disease within affected colonies but theories are that these are just the symptoms of what lead to the deaths, not the cause. Theories about the cause range from climate change to pesticide po... | [
"One of these is not like the others."
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Why isn't the immune systeme able to handle cancer, although I might now what the cancer is made of and therefore what parts had to be destroyed to kill the cancer? | [
"Immune system will react to anything that doesn't have the marker chemicals that identify it as part of the body. Unfortunately, cancer is when the cells in some organ in your body start multiplying out of control, due to a mutation. Thus the immune system isn't detecting anything because it just sees cells from a... | [
"Our bodies have strong defense mechanisms against anything unfamiliair that enters is. This helps us against anything from bacteria to poisens. The way this works is such: every cell in the body has certain markers (imagine puzzle pieces) that they recognise as friendly. Any cell that doesnt have the same markers... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Differences between summer seasons on the North and South hemispheres | [
"you seem to be confused - the days do not get longer at just one end of the day. both sunrise and sunset get earlier and later at roughly an equal rate. the closer you are to the poles, the more drastically they change, and the closer you are to the equator the less they change. the graphs below help demonstrate ... | [
"> cultural differences There are plenty of cultural differences between the East coast and the West coast."
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why you can set .gifs as background in windows 95 but not in Windows 7 | [
"The reason behind this is called 'Active Desktop'. It's basically a function in the default internet browser called 'Internet Explorer' also made by Microsoft, just like Windows itself. It was basically a browser window without borders that would be layed over the wallpaper but under other stuff like desktop icons... | [
"I don't get why people say 8 is crap. Is it because of the Metro interface? It takes less than 1 min to get old start menu back. When people say \"but you shouldn't have to install something to make it like that!. They then state they use Chrome or Firefox.... Windows 8 is a great OS. I used to have to reboot my W... | eli5_question_answer | {
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- Can someone explain the negative associations I'm seeing about the Red Cross and the recommendations for donations to be directed to other charities besides the Red Cross? | [
"Iirc, there has been multiple scandals coming up, originating from Red Cross. Charging people money for care (not recent but still applicable), and a lot of donor money missing, and not being spent on relief, as they were supposed to be. I believe during hurricane Katrina, only 4 permanent houses were built, and a... | [
"It's an international organization. The American red cross is just the American branch. There's also the red crescent which operates in Islamic dominant countries."
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Why do humans seek familiarity like staying in the same house or bed but get bored of performing the same task over and over? | [
"As just stated, Safety is first, so comfort and familiar environment can last a long time until the person feels they can attain that same safety elsewhere. When it comes to tasks however, purpose and passion come in. To be useful or valuable, the brain wants to do something meaningful, creative, successful, etc.,... | [
"You've been doing the same thing everyday, so you're mind disregards situation which happen over and over. But, when you were a child you did almost everything for the first time so your mind decided to keep it. You probably remember your first day on the job but not your 20th. Same way with life"
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When making security questions for password recovery, why don't they let you write your own question? Wouldn't that be significantly safer? | [
"Not really. Imagine your average user - their password is probably \"12345\" or \"password,\" and they probably have the same password everywhere. Now, imagine if that guy could write his own question. \"What is 123?\" Or \"MY PASSWORD IS PASSWORD?\" There is very little the site could do to protect people from si... | [
"Password managers keep your passwords encrypted, so they wouldn't be accessible to anybody who \"broke in\". They also encourage you to use unique, random alpha numeric passwords for each account, so if somebody breaks into one of your accounts, your others aren't compromised. And your master password for you mana... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What's the difference between ethanol that's in hand sanitizer and ethanol that's in different types of drinkable alcohol? | [
"Chemically, ethanol is ethanol. The difference is that ethanol that's \"not for human consumption\" is *denatured* so that it's unpleasant or poisonous to drink. Since it can't be consumed, it doesn't have the high taxes associated with liquor ($22/gal in my state)."
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"Ethyl alcohol sold as rubbing alcohol is denatured. Meaning it's mixed with poisonous and disgusting tasting substances to make it undrinkable. The additives are also selected to ensure that it's difficult to purify the alcohol with distillation."
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How does the immune system store information about infections that it has defeated? How is it able to "remember" diseases to produce antibodies? | [
"When the adaptive immune system (the part that makes antibodies) recognizes a pathogen and sets to work attacking it, most of a special kind of cell (a B cell) get turned into a plasma cell when activated which does nothing but crank out antibodies. A small number of the B cells will instead turn into memory B cel... | [
"No. Antidotes directly neutralize the poison, and don't linger too long afterwards. Vaccinations work very differently, because they involve introducing (near)dead microbes into your body to train your immune system to recognize them as harmful."
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Whats the nearest distance for an aeroplane to land after take off? | [
"The space that you need HEAVLY depends on the plane and how much it's loaded (a fighter jet? a bomber? an empty cargo with almost no fuel? a cargo completely loaded and every tank full? tail wind?) The point is: you need a certain amount of space to take off and a certain amount of space to land. If the landing st... | [
"when there's two plane parked side by side, you won't be able to tell by sound which one's running."
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What's the deal with these Obama Phones? | [
"There is a program to give poor folks phones. It is meant to make sure everyone has access to services like 911. It started a long time ago before Obama and applied to regular telephones. Later it started working on cell phones. This also happened before Obama. Now people call them Obama phones because of some pol... | [
"Follow up: What *were* his reasons for siding with the British?"
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how microwave presets like "popcorn" or "plate of food" know how long to cook the food? | [
"I think it's just a set time/power setting that has been determined by hardworking people wearing lab coats and a table with many bags of burnt-up or undercooked popcorn. /dream job."
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"Microwaves don't really heat food itself, they mostly heat the water *inside* food. But microwaves don't heat the water evenly. It gets heated in little sections, and those hot parts spread heat to all the cold ones. That takes time though. When food snaps but doesn't get hot its because the water in those hot par... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do we lose our sense of "play" as we age? | [
"Just a guess, but maybe it's a learning vehicle wherein we practice life skills. Once we've mastered them we no longer need to \"play\"."
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"I think it has more to do with psychology than physiology: adventure is more important to children than comfort. Our priorities shift as we get older."
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What is 3D printing and how does it work? | [
"3d printing is a way to turn a 3d model on your computer into a 3d model made of plastic. You use your computer to either draw an object in 3d (the model) or borrow a model someone else has created. Then you use a special program to turn the model into a language your printer can understand. Once you transfer th... | [
"How much do they cost vs how much will they generate."
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why is the ol sailor saying "pink sky at night sailors delight, pink sky in the morning sailors warning" so accurate? | [
"Pink or Red sky comes from sunlight going through clouds on the horizion. The saying works where weather mostly moves east to west so clouds on the horizon are likely to be over the viewer if they're to the east (ie in the morning) because they're likely to be moving west, rather than on the horizon to the west (i... | [
"for me it depends on the weather. but as a woman I am constantly in some sort of pain and, well the heat makes it go away for a while. ohh the joys of womanhood and all that crappie that people like to say. Having a uterus is a curse not a joy 🙃"
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What is the nature of the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico? | [
"Puerto Rico is an *unincorporated organized territory* of the US. Unincorporated means that rights granted by the US Constitution are not fully extended to citizens of Puerto Rico."
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"The main reason is because of the religious background of the United States."
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How does slowing down time in a game work? | [
"You can stop time in a game by simply not updating the state of the world. Objects don't move unless your code calculates their next position and updates them so if you don't do that then nothing will move or change. You can run a physics simulation at normal speed by taking the time that's passed since the last f... | [
"Followup: If there is a limit, what in real life would be impossible to simulate because it's too complex?"
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Most mammals with bald areas have them around the crotch and stomach. Why are we the opposite? | [
"According to this _URL_0_ It's because when we split from primates having a bush was sexy. The bigger the better."
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"Since mammals are gestated inside their mothers, they are all born with umbilical cords. When they emerge, the mother chews off the cord with her teeth, leaving a flat scar that is less noticeable than a human's navel. Often these are harder to see and obscured by hair. As a result, your pets might not have the mo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does being hit in the face hurt more that being hit in the rest of your body? | [
"One reason for it is the increased amount of nerve endings in your face. You know how you can feel it if there's a hair touching your lip, or any subtle touch for that matter? Now compare that to a body area like your back. Nerves there are less dense and more spread out, so you might not feel a touch if it is lig... | [
"You have a higher concentration of nerves in your hand than you have in most other places on your body."
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how did Chromecast become so huge and popular? It is pretty much the go to standard I see in most apps no matter if it is android or iOS. | [
"It costs 35 dollars and have basically zero setup or learning curve."
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"Stadia isn't really a thing it's a service, some people describe it as Netflix for video games. You'll need to buy the controller from Google and pay a subscription fee and it will let you play video games without a console over the internet. Apparently you can play on any Chromecast enabled device, so a computer ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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