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Why can we easily distinguish between faces in photorealistic games and real faces? | [
"> Many photorealistic games are indistinguishable from actual photos, except when human faces are there. What exactly is the difference? The difference is *you*. Humans are highly adapted to recognize slight differences in human faces because it is very useful for humans to tell humans apart. Crows for example mig... | [
"A lot of them are designed thanks to knowledge of the human visual system: small color patterns that move, blind spot, dark spot in corners, stereoscopic illusions. Some of them are random occurrences: the blue gold dress. And some of them are unavoidable in the sense that it is not possible to design a visual sys... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why haven’t we begun colonizing the moon? | [
"Cost > Benefit Or as per the conspiracy theory there is an alien observation post and we have a pact not to go there."
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"> So why seek to settle on another planet? Because it's there. To explore space. To develop and refine the technology of off-Earth living. To give the human race a lifeboat. Why colonize the Sahara or Antarctica? We aren't running out of room in more livable places."
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does gum (like orbit advertises) actually clean our teeth? | [
"Gum that has sugar in it does not. Otherwise it can yes by removing crap off your teeths and also chewing makes your blood go to your teeth feeding them and making them stronger"
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"my dentist told me that sugar lowers the pH of saliva in your mouth, making sensitive teeth hurt. cut the sugar and use lots of baking soda mouthwash if you want to avoid some expensive dental work."
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If I bang my leg, I get a bruise. The same blow to the head results in a lump. Why does the same body react to the same accident in different ways dependent on the impact site? | [
"Two factors - first, your leg is squishier than your head when it gets bumped by the same object. You are likely hurt in different ways. If you hit a mattress or a table with a baseball bat, you get a different effect. Second, your leg is again squishier than your head when you get swelling. The swelling makes a l... | [
"Sorry but your question is simply too broad to answer because the human body can suffer all sorts of different types of injury - physical cuts, disease, bruising, sunburn, broken bones, infection... - and what it does to heal in each case can be pretty different. Maybe narrow down your question?"
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Why is "drinking alone" stigmatized? | [
"I often drink, to get drunk, alone ,and don't care if it's stigmatized or celebrated. I would prefer to be drunk in my own home, with my own soundtrack, my own volume, and the comfort of my own couch. There's no risk of running into an asshole looking for trouble, there's no risk of getting bored of the people I'm... | [
"Because pizza is delicious and lactose intolerance isn't that prevalent."
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When we sing, why do our voices sound so much better to ourselves than when others hear them or we hear them on a recording? | [
"Read this to my 5 year old, he didnt understand a word of it. You have let my son down now he will never be president."
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"Sound travels through your jaw bones to your ears when you speak, distorting how you sound when you hear yourself talking compared to how you actually sound."
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Is the ending scene in Rush Hour, where Carter saves Lee from falling to his death by turning a giant curtain into a slide, actually possible? | [
"According to the description, \"Jackie Chan -- performing his own stunts as per his earlier films.\", and other sources back that up. So, I'd say it's possible but it would depend on the material and the thickness of the fabric. I'm not 100% sure on the physics of it but since he's falling at more of a vertical a... | [
"By matching its speed. Ever see a movie where someone runs up beside a train that is leaving the station, matches its speed, and then jumps inside? It's kind of like that, but a lot faster, and with rockets."
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Why do many websites not allow me to access them until I accept one or multiple cookies? | [
"In some countries/regions it's a law that users give permission for the site to use cookies. [Link Explanation](_URL_0_) In addition, like @StrangelyTypes mentioned, a lot of sites won't function perfectly without the use of cookies, so it's best to ask the user/inform them to turn them on for the best experience... | [
"It's a page that interrupts the normal user flow at the start of someone's involvement in a network. For example, if I join Wifi at the airport I might be asked to accept a terms and conditions and view and advertisement. It's purpose varies - everything from registering users, paying, accepting T & Cs, ads, etc.... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Compared to other East Asian countries such as Korea, China, and Vietnam, the Japanese have much longer names, often with 3+ syllables, while in Korea, China, and Vietnam people usually have one to two syllables in their name. Is there any cause for this, whether linguistically or culturally? | [
"It's funny you noticed that; I never had, but for other reasons entirely I just learned recently that the Japanese, for the most part, didn't have surnames at all until relatively recently in history. But around the turn of the last century, the government decreed that they all adopt formal surnames, and they got ... | [
"It's a cultural thing. In the West female names usually end in vowels or vowel-sounds, such as in your examples. Male names usually end in consonants. There are of course exceptions, but it's often because of a name being old or foreign, like Noah which is a very old name. Other cultures have different systems for... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does fuel efficiency decline so quickly the faster you go? | [
"Because air resistance increases with the *square* of your vehicle speed. If you double your speed, you quadruple the wind force fighting you. That means your motor has to work four times as hard to keep you at that speed. So you have to burn a lot of fuel to keep it up."
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"The bigger the load you put on it the harder the generator has to work and the more fuel it consumes. It will try to always spin at the same speed so when a load is applied it slows the generator which then consumes more fuel to get back up to speed and stay there The generator behaves very similarly to your car e... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is there a small portion of Russia between Lithuania and Poland? | [
"Kaliningrad was a part of Germany before WWII. It was called Königsberg . In the post WWII readjustment of borders, Russia insisted on retaining control of that territory and the other Allied powers acquiesced."
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"May I add a supplementary question and ask: What was the thing (that looks like a land mass) running across the bottom? Did they know about Antarctica? And the land mass that gets cut off near where Australia is - presumably that's Indonesia and not Australia? EDIT: It appears to be an enormous New Guinea (which ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is Friend of the Court, not considered a conflict of interest? | [
"I have seen lawyers act as a \"friend of the court\". From my experience it happens when a defendant does not have a lawyer present and the court needs a lawyer to explain a matter of law to the defendant or to stand in while the court address some sort of administrative issue, such as changing a court date or sch... | [
"Bankruptcy is not a crime. Can you be more specific?"
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The answer to the math problem about the game show where there's three doors with either goats or a car behind them. (Variable change) | [
"Think of it this way: The ONLY way you're leaving with a car when you're NOT switching is if you pick the right door the first time around. Chance is 1/3. If you switch, the ONLY way you're NOT leaving with a car is if you did NOT pick the right door the first time around. Chance is 2/3. Bam."
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"Smaller numbers go in to bigger number more times. So the answers are bigger."
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How do speed detectors work? | [
"There are multiple different types of speed detectors. The three common ones are Radar, LIDAR and cameras. Radar works by sending out radio waves at fixed intervals that hit a car, and the difference in time taken to get to the car and back can calculate the speed of the car. It also takes advantage of something c... | [
"Well, that depends. We need more information. Which vehicle broke the traffic laws?"
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Why more recently than ever do webpages refresh and not actually go back when you hit the back button? | [
"It is more and more common mispractice to include a 0 second redirect in a site, which as soon as you load a page, redirects you to a slightly different page they actually want you to see. So far, this isn't a bad thing, it helps site design. The problem is, if you hit the back button on most browsers, it will tak... | [
"the automatic reload feature can be turned off in some web browsers. So...if your site relies on the ability to automatically reload...how do you make it happen anyway? Well, the second best is to just tell the user to wait a bit and then press a link."
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Why do cigarette companies like Marlboro don't make cigarettes healthier? And wouldn't it be better profitwise since costumers live longer? | [
"I'm not an expert by any means, but maybe I can help a little here. Tobacco is inherently unhealthy. People aren't fond of blanket statements, but it's true. Marlboro isn't out there slathering tobacco leaves with tar before rolling them up; tar is found naturally in tobacco. Also nicotine is terrible for your vas... | [
"It means that it's just pure tobacco in the cigarette. There is confusion because people think the nasty chemicals and preservatives companies put in their cigarettes are what makes them cancerous or unhealthy. But it's not, it's the tobacco. The point is that people like the flavor of American spirita and so th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is bubble wrap made? | [
"well i would expect they mold a plastic with bubble, then attach another plastic layer on top of it. _URL_0_ yeah, they just roll two peaces of plastic together. one has the bubbles on the roller."
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"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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Why do airline pilots print off large piles of paper on a dot matrix printer at the gate? | [
"They need a hard copy of the flight plan in case they have a hardware failure. And even then, they won't rely completely on the electronics to fly correctly. A plane isn't navigated by electronics as such because aeroplanes rely on analog hardware to control the aircraft."
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"The reality is that most don't, but they're turned off just in case. Take-offs and landings are when there is the most activity (at least for pilots and co-pilots) during a flight. To prevent the chance of electronics interfering with some instrumentation they need while making quick decisions, the FAA requires th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How much of a person's personality is shaped by environment and how much is purely influenced by genetics? | [
"TL;DR: It depends. Every person is different. A person who has more traumatic experiences is obviously going to be affected by the environment more than a person who didn't. That said, some people have genetic traits that make dealing with stressful situations easier, so they're affected *less* than others. Thi... | [
"Intelligence is determined by all the connections between the cells in your brain. This is partly determined by genetics, and partly determined by upbringing"
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When a baby is born addicted to opiates because of the mother, what is the effect on the baby? How is it treated? | [
"Injections of morphine. A friend of mine had family friends that looked after an addicted baby and they had to give it injections of morphine once every 4 hours to begin with. The dosage is slowly tapered off. This is mostly because opiate withdrawal is only deadly to babies."
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"Because a fetus is not considered a being until birth. After birth though, the child can be taken in if it can be proven that the mother knowingly endangered the life of the unborn child. You can lose custody if your habits cause extreme damage to the child. But at the same time, medical professionals recognize th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If I own a great deal of stock shares in a company, does my selling them all at once have any economic impact on that company? | [
"Yes, if you own a large amount of a company and then try to sell all of your shares at once it will most likely cause the price to decline significantly. It's basic supply and demand, when you sell your shares you are increasing the supply and not changing the demand so the price will go down."
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"They are essentially the price. The share price is how much it costs for one share of the company. Owning a share in the company means that you share ownership. You can technically then vote for major decisions that they let stockholders vote on. However, there aren't many companies where owning a single share wil... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What exactly is the Commonwealth? What purpose does the association have? | [
"It's basically the continuation/what's left of the British Empire. It's more of a mutual relationship/organization now, rather than the British controlling everyone, and lots of countries have opted out. But just about everyone in it used to be owned by the British and probably speaks English as a first or second ... | [
"It was the convention held in the United States which lead to the drafting of the Constitution. Do you have a more specific question?"
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Why is the atom considered to be the smallest unit of matter if there are things smaller such as quarks? | [
"Because it's not a type of matter until it's an atom. You can't build a table out of leptons. You don't have a hydrogen quark, or a gold electron. We call things smaller than atoms particles - building pieces of matter. That said, that's a bit of a revisionist narrative. When we named the atom we didn't know ther... | [
"Particle physics is the branch of physics that investigates the smallest components of matter and energy. Every piece of matter in the universe is made up of atoms. Inside those atoms are electrons, protons and neutrons. Inside of the protons and neutrons are various kinds of quarks. Particle physicists explore t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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why I go to bed after eating a good meal and wake up with a growling stomach, but when I go to bed after having not eaten I wake up not feeling hunger. | [
"If hunger is a conscious experience, it might be because your consciousness only notices the difference between 'just a minute ago' (right before you fell asleep), because you weren't conscious during your sleep. So that, by contrast, it seems you are getting a lot hungrier in a small amount of time. Just a guess ... | [
"First, Lucky you. Second, your desire for sex goes to basically nothing. Like eating a really good meal till you're full. Yes, you enjoyed it, but well, you're full, you're not going to eat that meal again, you just need to wait till you're atleast a little hungry again."
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WHERE DO BIRDS GO AT NIGHT | [
"They go back to their little birdy husbands, Their little birdy wives. Their little birdy children. Their little birdy lives. Nestled close together, They sleep beneath the starry skies."
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"ELI5: WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU ADD SALT AND OLIVES TO YOUR BEER?!?!"
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Why do people wake up when they are about to die in a dream? | [
"I don't wake up. Throughout my life I've always had a few reoccurring nightmares that even when in them I know how it's going to go some how. For whatever reason in one of them I die and I don't wake up, it just carries on. --- Edit. Wow, I never expected so many replies! Nice to know I'm not the only odd one ou... | [
"Because you are waking up in the middle of it. If you have someone wake you in the middle of normal dreams you remember them better too."
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What causes us to randomly stare off into space? | [
"Look up the word for this , called \"daydreaming\""
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"Staring is weird. Seriously, ever had someone just stare at you for a long period of time and get weirded out?"
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why does a video game character always look at his hands | [
"Because, in reality, when something like an explosion happens, you normally check yourself for damage if you are nearby. You block your face with your arms and hands and then it is natural instinct to check yourself for harm or shrapnel, so you check your hands because they are typically the only part of your body... | [
"It's probably instinctual, the only other way we would know to look away would be heat. Also that is probably a good way for a video game to show off that they made a good sun."
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Why do I always have to pee right after I fap? | [
"It's natures way of cleaning the pipes. EDIT: I think it's the prostate gland who gives the \"order\""
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"What's the point in eating if I just poop most of it?"
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What does single payer health care mean? How is it different from any other kind of health care? | [
"Single-payer healthcare basically just means that everyone (in the country) is on the same (in the current example nationally run) health insurance plan."
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"It's really really different. Obamacare is really a term to refer to the law which increases government involvement in healthcare and adds additional regulations on health insurance companies. If we were to implement a healthcare system like in Canada or the UK we'd have started providing healthcare directly throu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What happened to the Occupy movement? Are people still "occupying"? | [
"The Occupy Wall Street movement itself is no longer taking place. However, many would point to the strong support of people like Trump and Sanders instead of the normal institutional candidates as indicators that the unrest which caused that movement is still alive and well. Income inequality is still an issue tha... | [
"All I can say is that there are Americans, such as myself, who are incredibly embarrassed by it."
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White Male Privilege | [
"When controlling for other factors such as age and education, asian americans earnings are far below whites. Asian American immigrants tend to be highly educated compared to the average white American and thus get high paying jobs. ([here](_URL_0_) is a paper loaded with relevant data). The issue on that slide isn... | [
"Next Week's Theme: 'Royalty, Nobility, and the Exercise of Power' To be followed by: \"Eastern Europe\""
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Why does every country aside from the US have really crazy skyscrapers/skylines while New York mostly looks like a bunch of boxes | [
"I am not an expert on architecture but I think it has something to do with the time at which most of these buildings were made. Also keep in mind that even in cities with artistic buildings many will still be very basic looking because it is spatially and economically efficient."
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"The north of UK may be colder, but the south (and by south I mean London) has all the money with which it can knock down and build new buildings. But now we're at a point where old buildings are protected. Plus there's the fact that the south is closer to Europe, and got bombed in WWII pretty bad. And anyway, ther... | eli5_question_answer | {
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the chemicals in cigarettes. | [
"There is a [list of cigarette additives](_URL_0_), all of them are FDA approved food ingredients, but the FDA doesn't test for saftey when burnt. Obviously that list includes everyone's addatives, so no cigarette has all 599 addatives (many ingredients have similar purposes). The issue is when the tobacco leaf is... | [
"A reation to dust, histamines, and other irritants."
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How can stores like Menard's give away products (after rebate)? | [
"Two things: * Many people don't follow through with the rebate process (laziness, forget, etc.). That's why the rebate process exists - why not just make it an instant discount? Because if there's a process, many won't go through with it. That way on average, they can still make a profit on the item, even though... | [
"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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How do engineers calculate the maximum weight a bridge can support? | [
"The structural strengths of all common building materials are well-studied and well-known. The actual practice is more complex than this, but the basic idea is you say \"This pillar is 1000 square inches of steel in cross-section, a square inch of steel can support a ton, so this pillar can support 1000 tons\". Th... | [
"The same way that they build bridges for cars and trains, with a few differences. Firstly, the bridges are designed to hold up more weight per square foot than other bridges, to compensate for the weight of water. The interesting thing about these bridges is that changing weight loads is less of a factor than brid... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do small phantom files appear whenever I copy folders from a Mac to a PC? | [
"The phantom files are bits of information made by OS X during the copying process to help Windows track bits of information about those files that its filesystem isn't able to support by default. .ds_store files tell the Mac how to display a particular folder. For example, if you drag the icons around to be arrang... | [
"Because all dragging them to the trash does is mark them for deletion. It doesn't actually copy them anywhere. When you drag items from your external HD to your desktop, you are copying the entirety of every file from the external hard drive to an internal drive."
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The formation of the moon (The Ejected Ring Theory) | [
"The capture theory doesn't work because the mass of the moon vs the earth make it unlikely; the moon is just too massive to be captured by the earth. The Ejected Ring is basically: a large body (about Mar-sized) crashed into the earth, a bunch of rock was ejected into orbit (first forming a ring around the earth),... | [
"Because then we would also have to add * Communism/socialism/Marxism * The speed of light * Black holes * How computers work * Monty Hall problem"
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How Pilots and Trucks driver communicate over the radio ? | [
"YouTube has interesting conversations between tower and planes. Search for \"ATC recordings.\" A guy named 'Kennedy Steve' is famous because of his delivery/humor. You could just search for that as well."
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"Maintenance. Programming. Upgrading. Designing. There will still be jobs. People will adapt."
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Why are brass, copper, and bronze used in pluming? | [
"They're very corrosion resistant, considering the constant exposure to water. They're also very malleable (meaning they're easily shaped into tube and pipe) and not toxic, plus it is easy enough to be bent by hand rather than having to fabricate exact curves and lengths. In addition, the three metals are also resi... | [
"Copper oxide is green. Copper oxidises in the presence of air, and the reaction is accelerated in contact with the moisture on your skin. There are numerous alloys of copper used in jewellery, as well as pure copper."
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Why are my income tax rates going up this year? What's included in the increase? | [
"That isn't your income tax rate. That's FICA, which goes to pay towards Social security. it's a tax on your income but not THE \"income tax\", which is the same for most americans except the rich. That clarified... A few years ago congress (in order to help out early in the recession) passed a bill which temporari... | [
"There are different kinds of taxes. The tax that his secretary pays is the \"Income Tax\", the tax on any money s/he earns by providing labor. However, majority of the money Warren Buffett earns comes from \"Capital Gains Tax.\" This is the tax on any profit Warren Buffett earns from investing his money in other b... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Do animals have the capability to remember or even understand that they were rescued from terrible conditions in the immediate and distant future? | [
"Most animals dont remember anything very well, but they get habits ingrained in them. For example, i have a rescue cat who still eats every meal like its her last and that she has to scrape up every last bit (even though shes absolutely fed enough). so in that sense they \"remember\" So with all that in mind, I do... | [
"I think this is more of an ethics and philosophy question, rather than a concept. What right does man have to interfere with nature? How can we be sure that our actions will not cause more harm than good? How do you define animal suffering? Where do we draw the line? Should all wild animals be kept in zoos? What a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it when a skunk is killed or run over everything for miles is saturated with the stench. How can it cling to so much air in so much space? | [
"It's s powerful chemical called thiols, sulfur based. Extremely concentrated, even bears run from it. It's like the stuff put in natural gas so you know a leak. A very little goes a long way"
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"It doesn't get rid of the smell. It masks the smell. It is virtually the same as spraying an air freshener. Some of the methane gas would be burned off by the match but not a significant amount. We are very sensitive to the smell of smoke. So the odor of a small match burning will take precedence in our brains ov... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Most of my friends have iPhones or Macs, and the insulation on their chargers always seems to disappear. Where does it go? | [
"Well, onto the floor. If the floor is carpeted, it will be very difficult to find. Then, whenever the floor is vacuumed, it gets picked up. The reason it brakes off in the first place is because the owners aren't carful with it, most likely having bend it at either/both ends, [like this](_URL_0_) I don't think I... | [
"The cost of doing so exceeds the off chance you are going to drop your phone in the toilet. Also, since most people get a new phone every two years or so, it doesn't make that much sense to invest in durability."
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Why does our body produce lactic acid when we exercise? | [
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"Your heart becomes better at pumping oxygenated blood through your body, your muscles get stronger and better adapted to the workload you're asking of it and your body becomes better at breaking down the lactic acid that builds up in your muscles as you work them for prolonged periods to name a few of the adaptati... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If Trump gets elected as president how exactly will he get Mexico to pay for this wall that has proposed? | [
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The Export–Import Bank of the United States | [
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"| Democrat | Republican ---------|----------|---------- Philosophy | Liberal, left-leaning. | Conservative, right-leaning. Economic Ideas| Minimum wages and progressive taxation, i.e., higher tax rates for higher income brackets. Born out of anti-federalist ideals but evolved over time to favor more government reg... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why would the Turkish military attempt a coup against the Turkish government? | [
"The Turkish military has a long standing history of being the liberal safeguard against conservative (Islamist) leaders or groups. Erdogan, who is the current President and leader of the Turkish political party AKP, has taken many steps in a very conservative, Islamic direction. Along with the worsening security s... | [
"In the 1950s, American CIA colluded with the British to overthrow a democratically elected Iranian President, and install someone friendlier to the West, as a buffer for USSR. In 1970s, Iran had a revolution and replaced the installed dictator with a theological anti-American government. The rest, as they say, is ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do they measure the distance players run/cover in a soccer/football game? | [
"They basically film the field and use computer software to track each player and calculate how far theyve traveled. Basically if you know the scale of the field in the camera its easy."
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How were drugs made in the first place? like who decided "I'm gonna get gasoline battery acid and gravel and mix in a leaf, and then light it on fire and breathe next to it"? | [
"Many drugs including pharmaceuticals originate from botany. A lot of tropical climate plants contain chemicals which can be studied and modified to increase psychoactivity. Many other drugs are synthesized by modifying the chemical structures of existing drugs. Hence the constant bombardment of new pills and such ... | [
"Baby steps. \"hey, we can turn wheat into dust, that makes it easier to store!\" \"if we mix flour with water we get this gruel, this is easier to eat than dust\" \"whoops, I left my gruel on the fire. Wait, this is pretty good!\""
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When performing live, why do the artists alter the melody of their well known songs so often? | [
"If a band or solo performer is on tour, it's likely they are playing that same song over and over and over again. If it's currently a hit on the radio, not only are they playing it nearly every night, but they are also using it as their sound check song because they want to make sure it sounds perfect since the th... | [
"A good portion of songs (especially pop songs) are within a certain range of tempos. Try choosing a slower song or faster song. I just chose Mad World by Gary Jules and it doesn't quite sync up, maybe try a much faster tempo found in classical music. One thing you have to remember is the fact that your perception ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Since the president of Comcast said, "We don't enforce data caps." publicly and there is proof that they do, why couldn't a civilian sue them? | [
"\"Suing\" isn't that simple in American common law. Strictly based on what a Comcast executive said according to your post and not in regards to any other business practices of the company, no civilian would perceivably have legal standing in court. The first hurdle of holding legal standing (even in class actions... | [
"The short answer is ' we don't know', but probably nothing. There's a few dimensions here. First, whatever ISP congressman Smith uses at home would need to be already storing browser history. They probably aren't. Second, they would need to be storing individual records and not aggregate data. Third, they would ne... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are chimps so much stronger than humans? | [
"This is a good, straightforward article on the matter: _URL_0_"
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"Actually, when it comes to covering long distances quickly, humans are second only to horses believe it or not. So we got that going for us."
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Why is Java popular and why did Google write Android OS in java? | [
"Java initially gained traction by being write-once-run-anywhere. It was the best-maintained language offering that. Additionally, Java is great for object-oriented design and very easy to write a good program in compared to C or Fortran. There are good open source development platforms, I strongly believe that Ecl... | [
"1. Decide what you want to make. 2. Create the backend. Example: the wire frame of a building. 3. You create the frontend, which is what we see and interact with. 4. Put it together. 5. ??? 5. Profit. I'll use the two main popular mobile platforms as an example. **Android:** You use a programming language called ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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With all of the mind-altering drugs out there that damage your memory, thinking, and brain in general, how come there are no "good" drugs that alter your brain in a good way? | [
"That's the funny thing: The good drugs are often the same drugs as the bad drugs. You've just only been hearing the bad things, because that's all anyone has a vested interest in telling you. Medical marijuana is a big thing, after all. Not to mention the growing research into medical usage of psychedelics on depr... | [
"Some of them have effects that \"feel good\" to them. Weed might make you relaxed, cigarettes might help take the edge off, heroin will make you feel good. Depending on the social situation of the person and the disposition to addiction or risky behavior, a person might try a drug regardless of their knowledge of ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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BIOLOGY] Is there a limit to how much a person can be massaged? | [
"Massaging is essentially just providing external stimulation to the skin/muscles. If you keep massaging a single muscle/muscle group, after sometime, you'll start feeling numb as the brain just starts ignoring the massage stimulation coming from the nerves of that area. On the other handd , If you are giving a ful... | [
"1stly, A human can lift and pull many times their own weight. You just need to train yourself daily to do so to develop those muscles. 2nd, Humans have reduced muscular strength when compared to primates as a consequence for having greater muscle control Finally, the mass of a creature and its strength do not scal... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how can a layer of metamorphic rocks be on top of a layer of sedimentary rocks? Shouldn't the deepest layer have higher pressure and temperature? | [
"You are absolutely right, the deeper a layer gets buried, the higher pressure and temperature it is subjected to. However, there are two ways to explain your question. Compressive tectonic forces can fold or fault rock layers which would place metamorphic rocks above sedimentary rocks. A thrust fault is a type o... | [
"All kinds of geologic forces push the fossils into the ground. Faults (earthquakes) usally bend and crack the crust that causes the fossils to become deeper. Also, layers of sediment end up on top of the fossils. Over millions of years the sediments really builds up and the fossils can end up very deep down. This ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What exactly is the role of a movie producer? | [
"Producers make the movie happen. They find a script, they get it rewritten, they get funding, they approve the casting, they approve the locations, they hire the director, they make sure it doesn't go over budget, and they sign it off when it's complete. It's the non-arty side of movie making. Executive producers ... | [
"The main reason is because of the religious background of the United States."
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Why are so many intelligent, gifted individuals so frequently unable to find happiness for themselves? | [
"The saying is \"Ignorance is bliss\" so the less intelligent you are, the less stressful your life is in a sort. You don't have to worry about a lot of responsibilities and issues(even if its your job to, you simply don't as you're inferior in intelligence and cannot comprehend the need to worry about them) Edit: ... | [
"Our society is not ready to accept that some people just can't find a job no matter how hard they try, and its not a matter of them being lazy."
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why is it possible for sprinters to get faster times.through the decades? | [
"There's some difference between what athletes of today can accomplish with better sports science and nutrition and athletes in prior times. Also, there are a lot more people alive today than there were even two generations ago, so there's a greater chance that the fastest person ever is alive today than two genera... | [
"The power isn't nececarily for speed, it is mainly for accelleration (so you pull up faster). (Except for germany, where there is no speed limit)"
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What would it take to get a third party into the debates and why can't they just be included automatically? | [
"The Commission on Presidential Debates requires that a candidate be polling at at least 15% to be included in the debates. the reason third parties can't be included automatically is because dozens of people run for President in every state. If you didn't establish a cutoff somewhere, you would have a stage with l... | [
"Well, what's the point of having a congress at all if they can't change anything?"
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The differences in the different types of motor oil for automobiles. 10W40; 0W20; etc. | [
"When you see a W on a viscosity rating it means that this oil viscosity has been tested for **winter** use at a colder temperature. The numbers without the W are all tested at 210° F or 100° C which is considered an approximation of engine operating temperature. In other words, a SAE 30 motor oil is the same visco... | [
"It's so you can tell types of brake and hydraulic fluids apart: S5.1.14 Fluid color. Brake fluid and hydraulic system mineral oil shall be of the color indicated: DOT 3, DOT 4, and DOT 5.1 non-SBBF—colorless to amber. DOT 5 SBBF—purple. Hydraulic system mineral oil—green."
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Why is fish not considered "meat" by those who want to avoid eating meat for certain religious beliefs? | [
"Early Christianity's official language was Latin, and in that language there are distinct words for the flesh of land animals and the flesh of water-dwelling animals. So in early proclamations about fasts in which one refrains from eating what **we would call \"meat\"**, the Latin word \"carnis\" would have been u... | [
"There's a theory that Jewish dietary laws were a way for people to avoid unsafe food. Before modern food safety, pork often carried diseases. Like all religions, there's a spectrum of how devout people are. Many modern Jews don't care about these dietary rules and eat pork anyway."
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Bernard Madoff's fraud | [
"Let's say start an investment fund. I get you and 100 of your friends to each give me $10K, I take it and buy stocks and bonds and such, and because I'm good at it, I make a 20% return. That's real good, so of course you are going to keep you money in my fund...you'll probably put more money in, and get your frien... | [
"So everybody knows that Paul Rosenberg has Slim's back"
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Do tax refunds affect the economy? | [
"On a long term basis, no. Tax refunds come from money that has been taken out of your paycheck by the company that you work for. The company sends that money to the government and 'pays the taxes for you'. If you didn't have the money taken out of your paycheck, you would 'get your refund' right away, in small amo... | [
"If we stop paying the fee, the terrorists win."
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Why do cockroachs can survive after a nuclear attack? | [
"This is a ELI5 explanation, it's more technical, but contains the good bits. Radiation damages your DNA (anything's DNA, not just humans). Most of the time, this just kills the cell. If it happens while the cells are dividing, this is really bad, because your new cells will be damaged and always produce damaged ce... | [
"Well, Pseudomonas Aureginosa has been shown to survive on the outsides of the space shuttle for a trip in space. There is no reason why they wouldn't until they run out of food or moisture."
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The controversy with Supermax prisons | [
"1) Human rights mostly, though not many people care about the prisoners that are sent to a supermax. These prisons tend to be the most inhumane and secretive about their practices. It is also very expensive to house prisoners there (see 2). 2) \"Supermaxes' average cost to taxpayers is about $50,000 per inmate per... | [
"The tradition is in farming/agriculture. Child labor :)"
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Where does burned fat go? | [
"if you mean when we lose weight, mostly into carbon that is exhaled. we breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2, a product of metabolism."
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"What source says that alcohol is bad for your teeth?"
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If the USA decided to go with full universal healthcare, what would happen to the private insurance companies? | [
"There are a lot of models for universal health care, so it depends on how it gets implemented. For example, in the UK, the NHS covers all basic services, but plenty of people buy private insurance for increased convenience of services. Any way you cut it, private insurers are going to lose a huge number of custome... | [
"Private industry/the market sets the prices and thus can't be controlled by government. It's a question for doctors, insurers, hospital owners, pharmaceutical companies etc. Not the government. That's what happens with a market driven medical sector. You might as well ask why the government doesn't set the price o... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If we were a computer, what would be our equivalent specifications? | [
"Most of us would be the free calculator that you get when you open a new checking account."
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"A pragmatic reasoning could be that the majority of computer users have no clue how to install an operating system."
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How does an octopus know when its changed to the correct color of its surroundings? | [
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"Chameleons change their skin color using neural impulses. It's convenient to think of a chameleon changing its color to lifting your arm above your head. When a person dies, that lifted arm will fall to their side as the neural signals telling those muscles to lift that arm up turn off. When a chameleon dies, it s... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why does it take weeks (or months) to receive results from multiple choice exams when everything is corrected and generated by machines? | [
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How can dogs drink from dirty puddles and eat off the ground, which would make us sick, but they get sick from eating a lot of human food, such as fried food and onions? | [
"Drinking from dirty puddles and eating off the ground would make you sick maybe 1% of the time, if you did it a lot. (Since your immune system isn't used to it, if you did it just once, you'd probably have more than a 1% chance.) If you were okay with getting food poisoning or getting worms every couple weeks or s... | [
"I've seen something on Animal Planet talking about how dogs have some crazy number of taste buds just for water. So I could imagine that they have a somewhat advanced set of tasters. But they also eat garbage, so I don't think they mind so much what you feed them. I give my dogs a good quality food and then supple... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do streamed movies cost the same as DVDs/Blu-Rays? | [
"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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- Why do we only ever see white people with down syndrome | [
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What effects would consuming an excess amount of protein do in the long term? | [
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"Your teacher is an idiot. Talk to a doctor about the best way to beat a type of cancer. That being said, a diet high in vegetables and low in red meat would lower your chances of getting cancer in the first place."
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Who sets the start time for basketball/sports games and why do they start at random minutes? | [
"Short answer: Because TV Longer answer: By starting 11 minutes early, in your example, the broadcast has time to start, do a little lead-in/pre-game show, if you will, and get things rolling before the actual game starts at the top of the hour. Also, it doesn't happen as much anymore with people DVR'ing everything... | [
"it didn't go anywhere. You play 45 minute halves. At the start of the second half, the field clock is reset to 45 (because that's how much should've been played). You can't play all the minutes at the end of the game, because that could cause an unfair advantage to one team or another, because you switch sides at ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When i eat am I actually chewing as loud as it sounds like to me? | [
"No, when you chew, vibrations travel through your jaw bone and directly to your inner ear, where you hear them. On the other hand, the vibrations have to travel through air to get to someone else's ear. Sound travels best in solids, followed by liquids, and worst in gasses. This is because molecules are closer tog... | [
"If I remember correctly, it's cause your stomach is always making those noises but if you don't have food in your belly there's nothing to block the noise. Sounds silly now that I write it out though"
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How does a show like Survivor / The Amazing Race capture so many angles in a scene, especially the critical ones in the plotline? | [
"I have an anecdotal answer for you. Several years ago, I spent a while working with a guy who won a season of the Israeli Survivor. Talking about how \"real\" it was, he said that all the tasks and results were legit, but that they often reenacted them shortly after they finished to allow the camera crew to get be... | [
"I'm guessing this isn't the same in every case, but Imagine mostly they're filmed at the same time. Cliffhangers might happen with big sets made just for that scene, and shooting everything the same day saves them from setting up everything later."
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Why can cops let you off the hook in certain situations? Wouldn't letting them do something illegal be illegal too? | [
"He's hoping that he has scared you into learning the error of your ways. The best form of policing is *preventing* crime, and by doing things the way you described, it sounds like he's achieved his goal. You're thinking about it. \"I got away with it this time - next time I might not be so lucky, so I won't do it\... | [
"It's not illegal to curse and yell at cops, that would be absurd. It is, however very very very bad for you. Police are in a position of authority, and they have the power to investigate and arrest you. Do you really want to try to cuss out the guy who's trying to determine whether or not you did something illegal... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why can we walk for hours without our legs hurting but standing still for less than an hour starts to hurt | [
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"And why does it end up hurting? I don't hurt my arms by crossing them, why does a little pressure on the eyes slowly hurt more over time?"
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Why do I gag when I put a finger down my throat but food doesn't have the same effect? | [
"Because when you swallow, peristalsis is pushing the food down that way and your brain recognises that. Also, you tend not to hold food right at the back of your throat with your throat open. If breathing through your mouth, your tongue tends to hold the food away from the back of your throat anyway so you don't i... | [
"They don't want her to have anything in her stomach in case they have to put her under anesthesia. When you have a tube down your throat it's best that you don't have anything to throw up."
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How do animals know who won a fight for dominance? | [
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How do surfers speed up to escape a crested wave? | [
"It's mostly unweighting off the bottom of the wave, the \"flats\", and hopping the board up onto the face of the wave, even ever so slightly like you see when she is near the white water. By unweighting and getting the board up, she can then redirect the board down and use both gravity and the push of the wave fro... | [
"They are hurt all of the time. People die surfing waves like that. That is one reason those shots are so amazing. Pros though know techniques to try and not die but at the end of the day a wave smashing you into a reef is going to hurt. Certain waves the goal is to dive deep and avoid getting thrown over the top a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What would happen if The Moon was to blow up tomorrow? | [
"We'd have to worry about several things: 1) the tides. The tides would be all messed up, and we certainly would see changes in the way our seas and oceans behave. 2) We'd have to worry, possibly, about pieces of the moon falling on us."
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When we launch space missions, what's stopping other nations from believing that's a targeted bomb or nuke and how is it different from an actual attack? | [
"Massive differences in the way they are launched. Space launches direct the craft upwards until the gravity turn which applies the force necessary to attain orbit. ICBM's, however, would never waste the fuel in doing such a maneuver as it would severely reduce the payload of the rocket. Even if a nation were to tr... | [
"Cleaning up satellite debris is a touchy subject because each country would have to be responsible for it. The most recent satellite debri issue was when a Chinese missile blew up an old satellite of theirs as a \"test\". Either it was legitimately a test or a show of \"hey, we can knock your spy satellites out!\"... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do Americans dye their cheese orange? | [
"What color is cheddar cheese where you come from? All cheese is naturally white, or off white, or even a golden yellow, depending on the type of milk used. But you'll never find a cow that gives orange milk. The color instead comes from the flavorless Annatto seed, which gives Wisconsin cheddar that pumpkin orange... | [
"Think of the dye they use to turn beer green for St. Patrick’s Day. It’s food grade, safe for consumption. They don’t dye the River using industrial textile dyes that are toxic."
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Why can't two anti-virus protectors work together? | [
"Let's say you hire two security guards to guard your bank - without telling each other. When one of them sees the other enter the bank at night, with a gun, would you be surprised if he just shoots him? The security guards will be able to work as a team, only if they know each other and work out a way to share the... | [
"Because there is nothing stopping a program from looking at what you type, what websites you visit and sending that information to a server somewhere to break into your bank account. You can't stop the production of malware, you can only stop it from functioning once it hits you."
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What makes Unreal Engine 4 so... unreal? | [
"In simplest terms, no other game engine has the sheer amount of man hours poured into it as Unreal Engine. UE has had a ton of resources available to hone their craft. Keep in mind this is the 4th iteration...Unreal Engine 1 came out in 1998. [Here's a pretty comparison of versions 1 through 3](_URL_0_)"
] | [
"You could try out Unity3D, a free game engine which is actually really cool if you can handle a little bit of C# - lots of games are made with Unity (for instance Pokemon Go)"
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Why don't we trigger our gag reflex when we swallow food, but we do if we put our finger down our throat? | [
"Our body doesn't like something being both down our throat and out of our mouth at the same time as it will choke you. Same goes for toothbrushes. You mouth is very aware of the size and shape of things you shove it it."
] | [
"It gives you the chance to hold something and breath without swallowing. Imagine if the substance was blood, poison, or saltwater: would you really want to swallow? By the same token, say your mouth is full of water and you try to breathe through your nose; do you want that water going into your lungs? It's all to... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How does the "bidding website" scam work? | [
"Those web site you see ads for that say PS3 just sold for $2.56. Well it did \"sell\" for that but the trick is that you must pay for each bid you enter like $1.And they will keep changing the end time of the auction so more people will pay that dollar to enter a bid. Technically it did sell for that, but that was... | [
"Because most legitimate advertisers don't want to be associated with porn sites."
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Why when you pour water into a pot with hot oil it reacts like that? | [
"Oil floats on water, so the water gets under the oil, quickly boils, and the escaping steam blasts little droplets of oil all over the place."
] | [
"There's so much stuff dissolved in the water from the Koolaid that the surface tension is different, causing it to stick to the glass instead of pouring like water."
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EL5: Honestly, what the fuck could happen if my iPad stays on when the plane lands? (I'll check this in 15 minutes when I'm on the ground) | [
"Nothing electronic-wise. Its so you 1)Will pay attention if there is an emergency and not be listening or music or distracted. 2)In case there is a hard landing they don't want those things flying around the cabin (hence stowed). Off is so you won't be tempted to grab it anyways."
] | [
"And why don't I need it when I fall asleep on the couch?"
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- Why the countries of the world don't cancel their financial debts to one another. | [
"Because the countries that lent money are made up of people who lent money and want it back, with interest. There is no one entity called \"a country\" that leads money to other countries. It is people who back financial tools such as bonds with the expectation that there will be a return on investment."
] | [
"Even if the country is in debt, you're not obligated to pay more than you owe."
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Why do we use anti-bacterial toilet bowl cleaner? | [
"Bacteria grow and make bad smells or nasty looking messes in the bowl. Killing them stops that."
] | [
"No, most soaps are just \"release agents\" which just help remove particulates without actually killing bacteria. Antibacterial soaps actually contain an antibiotic that kills the bacteria. Also you shouldn't use antibacterial soap all the time, it's bad for your immune system."
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If I pay off my visa with a mastercard within my 21-day grace period, assuming the mastercard had said grace period as well, could I not just shuffle a debt indefinitely? | [
"What you're describing is called a balance transfer. Most credit cards only give you the 21-day grace period for making purchases. You have to pay interest immediately on cash advances and balance transfers. TL;DR - probably not. You'd have to pay interest on your MasterCard from the day you use it to pay off your... | [
"> If I pay off or transfer the full balance before the 0% interest on balance transfer expires after X months, that means the credit card company made no money from me right? And if you don't, you are charged interest, and that company makes the money on the balance, rather than your former credit card partner. Th... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do I feel like shit after a nap? | [
"You wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle. When you sleep, your body is reorganizing your brain. Waking up in the middle of a sleep cycle is like waking up when your body has pulled everything off the shelves but hasn't started putting it back yet. I started using _URL_0_ and it made a HUGE difference."
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"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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How does mopping clean the floor, if the soapy water just stays on the ground? | [
"you will typically mop in back and forth passes. The mop will get the floor wet which will help dissolve dirt on the floor. A second pass will catch the dirt. You repeat multiple times until the floor looks clean. You then put the mop in the bucket to get fresh water and release the trapped dirt. You do not necess... | [
"I'm not very sure of this. When you apply a layer of hydrophobic coating on the floor, and the later gets wet, the water itself would form a layer over the coating. So yeah, would be too slippery to be practical."
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Why does the scent of petrol, cellotape, glue, correction fluid and a few other objects that aren't used for their scent appeal to people? | [
"A lot of those chemicals contain some amount of benzene. Benzene-like compounds are referred to as \"aromatic\". They have a fairly strong and often pleasant or sweet odor."
] | [
"The smell is volatile organic chemicals (VOC) that is emitted from the plastics after being formed from injection molding. It's kinda like how some people think gasoline has a good smell, it's a chemical that is not necessarily good for you."
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How does a speedometer work? | [
"Speedometers work by linking a flexible cable to the car's transmission. As the engine powers the drive shaft, it spins the cable about it's central axis (can I use axis)? The cable then spins a magnet near the speedometer. The speedometer has a metal needle and a spring that pushes the needle towards 0 mph. As th... | [
"Are you asking how a wheel works ?"
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