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Why do colors combine to make other colors? | Colors are a response your brain makes to picking up certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation striking receptor cells in your brain. When this happens, those cells send signals to your brain, and your brain creates the image. Certain combinations of stimulation on those cells cause your brain to generate differ... |
why is the Wilhelm scream so overused in movies? | It's an inside joke/running gag. Sound mixing is a very tedious job, so they like to have fun. Like how Pixar movies almost have "A113" in their movies. |
When dieting and losing weight, is there a universal right way? Also do cravings mean something? And other ? | The right way is to utilize more calories than you consume. All diets that succeed do this, all diets that fail, fail to do this. People may be more or less effective at eating less calories, or at burning more, but the equation is always the same. It is possible that combinations of foods make you feel better or wor... |
Why "Gravity" Does Not Exist | Newton said gravity is a mysterious force that affects everything with mass. He didn't know what causes this force but he did create some useful equations. Then Einstein came up with General Relativity. He says that mass bends space-time and that's why things are attracted to each other. For Example, if you put 2 heavy... |
Some genes, increase the likelihood of getting certain diseases (like cancer) why? | It's kind of misleading to think of the gene as being exclusively for cancer-causing purposes. Typically the "cancer genes" people talk about are variations on a gene that codes for sometime useful. Like when people say they have the BRCA1 gene (the gene most commonly associated with genetic breast cancers), they don'... |
What determines a person's sense of humor? | Mostly psychological. When a person has good sense of humor, it generally means they are happy, socially confident and likely to have a healthy perspective on life. But this has exceptions because humor has a dark side. There are people who use self-defeating humor; also humor is used to criticize and manipulate others... |
- How Do Solid State Hard Drives Work? | Flash drives work by having individual cells that are left with an electrical charge by depositing extra electrons (and thus negative charge) that is maintained even after power is removed. It's almost like a tiny series of microscopic batteries that is either set positive/negative or negative/positive. From an answer ... |
Why do floppy disks and SD cards have a mechanical lock switch to block access, when anyone can just flip the switch and access the data inside? | The lock on floppies didn't deny access to the data. It locked out writing over it. It's more a a precaution to keep your data safe from yourself. |
What is the definition of life? | All known life has a few things in common, organisms (things that are alive) have these in common: they're composed of a cell or cells, undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, grow, respond to stimuli, and reproduce. There are a few things that seem to do a few but not all of these processes, like viruses, which is w... |
Weird password policies | Actually, your suggestion of a possible password might be safer. I vaguely remember some xkcd on this... |
Distillation as it pertains to alcoholic drinks | Once the liquid that they are making the liquor out of has been fermented, and has alcohol in it, then the alcohol needs to be concentrated. Alcohol has a slightly lower boiling point than water, so they heat the liquid (which is called a mash by the way) to just below the boiling point of water. The alcohol boils off ... |
Why do we cover railway tracks with rocks ? Does it improve the stability when a train goes by ? (due to the vibrations) | Although it doesn't look it, the ballast is pretty solid. It distributes the load from the passing trains, keeps down unwanted vegetation (there aren't many plants than can grow on rocks) and enables water to drain away. This last one is very important. Where I live, there was some flooding back in May, and parts of th... |
If I were to only rinse my body with water to clean myself, how clean would my body be? | Oils are not generally water soluble. Oils would be left on the skin after washing with just water, which would contribute to body odor and mangy hair. You would be cleaner than you went in, but soap is important. |
Why do new cars smell the way they do? | because of left over chemicals from the plastics and the leather or faux leather treatments are evaporating into a mostly sealed environment |
I tried to sign up for health insurance through _URL_0_ but I don't make enough money to get subsidized...what do I do? [from Florida] | If you do not make enough money to get subsidized, you may make little enough money to qualify for Medicaid. Unfortunately, due to Florida's decision not to expand the Medicaid program, there is a gap between the maximum income to qualify for Medicaid and the minimum income to qualify for subsidies. If you fall within... |
how come there is thunder/lightning during storms but during blizzards/snowstorms there is no thunder? | Actually, there is! [See this!](_URL_0_ snow) That said, the reason you don't usually hear thunder during snowstorms is because snow actually suppresses the sound! It basically absorbs it, since it's just fluff in the air, drastically reducing the distance it can be heard! While a regular thunderstorm can be heard for... |
Why do nuclear weapons create "better looking" mushroom clouds than other explosives? | Primarily scale. On a smaller explosive, the cloud will be, well, smaller. You'll be able to see all the little imperfections around its edges, and those imperfections will take up a larger proportionate area of the total structure. In a nuclear cloud, it's just so big that you don't notice the same-sized imperfection ... |
Power button on a smart phone | I suggest that you read a few button tutorials for embedded systems like arduino or raspberry pi. The processor can read the state of the buttons at any time. So they do this in a loop. When they notice the button is pressed they start a timer and wait for the button to be released. By measuring the time it takes for y... |
How do our eyes coordinate to look at the same point and produce one image? | There are tiny muscles in the eye socket to control your eyes movement. Due to evolution and natural select of ability to control where we look and how much control we have over fast-twitch muscle fibers, we are able to have our eyes turn to the same focal point and our brain merge the images together to produce our vi... |
Can you really snap a neck like they do in the films? | "asking for a friend." Borrowing [this answer](_URL_0_), we learn: "You have seven vertebrae in your neck (cervical vertabrae). Breathing is controlled by nerves that come out above the third, fourth, and fifth vertebrae. Severing or severely injuring the spinal cord at this level will paralyze the diaphragm and keep ... |
Why are most holiday messages depersonalized? | It's so that the card won't be limited to being from a single person or a group. "Wishing you a happy holiday" can come from either your single brother or from both your grandparents. If it said "I wish you a happy holiday," groups and couples wouldn't buy that one, and vice-versa. So the company that makes the cards ... |
How are autonomous vehicles supposed to function in large cities (assumed to be where they'll be used most) when any normal gps system can't even function correctly with all the interference from the skyscrapers? | They don't use JUST GPS. They also use cameras, sensors, and built in maps (and math). They are programmed to read signs, recognize pedestrians, keep an updated version of where they are on a map based on speed and direction, etc, etc... |
Why does inbreeding increase the likelihood of birth defects? | Everybody has bad genes in them - I remember a scientist quipping that there are enough genetic defects in the human genome to kill a person several times over. However, all humans get two sets of genes, one from each parent. As a result, many of the 'defects' you might have in your genes are simply overridden by the w... |
Is at your own risk/we are not responsible for X Legal? If yes, to what degree? | Maybe, maybe not. My windshield was cracked from a spilled rock from a concrete mixer truck that had a sign that said "Stay back 100 feet not responsible for broken windshields." I contacted the company, explained in great detail which truck at what time on what street caused the damage and at the end of that 15 minute... |
Where is all the water going? | The problem isn't that we're losing water, it's that we're just using clean freshwater faster than it's being replenished. You remember hearing in the cowboy stories about how great the Rio Grande was? [This is what it looks like today](_URL_0_) after it's been dammed up for irrigation & drinking water up north. |
The recently annonced exotic hadrons made of 4 quarks. | {Quarks carry color, antiquarks anticolor. These colors can be red, green or blue, RGB, and ofcourse also antired, antiblue, antigreen. Mesons are made of 2 quarks, a quark and its anti-quark, so that the resulting meson will be colorless (color + anticolor = colorless) Baryons are made of 3 quarks. (3 different colors... |
Why are Canadians considered to be one of the nicest people? Did anything special happened? Is Canada such a nice place to live in? | We help people all over the world. Many countries have been helped by our peacekeeping efforts. And we are generally polite. We even won many battles during the world wars and even hid the Dutch princesses in our country while the nazis invaded them. They send us 100,000 tulips every year in appreciation. _URL_0_ |
How I can tell if it's safe to click on a link here in Reddit w/o someone doing it purposefully to get my IP | Guy threatens suicide, someone tries to help, guy is mad. What? |
Why does our body seem like it's exhausted when we oversleep? | REM cycles. You oversleep, and your body's internal clock (regulates daily processes) gets screwed up so it rolls over to the next cycle and thinks you need to sleep. We need sleep to give our bodies time to repair without need for action, so they can do it freely and easily. Studies have shown that we can also solve p... |
Why is building a fence/wall at the U.S. border considered foolish? | Because the border is fucking HUGE. Seriously the border of the US and Mexico is almost 2,000 miles; for a comparison the entire border of France is ~1800 miles. Also it is just a fence and people can easily jump it like they do now where fences are in place. And it will cost a shit ton, not only to build but to maint... |
Does the FBI really have a magical Google like in Criminal Minds? | No, that's ust to make TV interesting. Dozens on people sitting quietly in cubicles for days or weeks searching for the info doesn't make good television. |
How does the numbering on interstate exits work? | Varies by state In some states, the exit corresponds with what the mile marker is. So if the exit is at mile marker 25, it's exit 25. In case of multiple exits or new exits added at mile 25, then it's subdivided into exits 25a, 25b, 25c, etc. In other states, the exits go in numerical order for the duration of the high... |
Why do we see spots in our eyes after looking into a bright light? | It's called an [afterimage](_URL_0_). Your eyes get all tired out looking at the same thing for so long, so your receptors need to take a break. It's kind of like how your body gets used to the feeling of clothing on it all the time. |
Why do African Americans dominate athletics in the U.S.? | ...and, as a follow-up, why is hockey nearly devoid of blacks? |
Why is it so common for kids to dislike vegetables | Maybe it depends how it's prepared, I'm from europe and my entire family could make delicious vegetables, I always wondered why on earth in American tv shows/films/sitcoms kids hate vegetables 99% people I know love, exception is Brussels sprout, it's abomination and should be banned |
how do Wii remotes work? You point them at a small black bar and you can move the cursor anywhere on the screen. | Actually, you can replace the sensor bar with two candles. The sensor bar is simply a device that emits infrared radiation, the Wii remote has an infrared sensor inside hs detects where the IR is coming from. Using that, it then uses Bluetooth to send that info to the Wii where it is displayed on the screen. Candles em... |
Is it possible to thrive on a 100% fungus based diet? | Mushrooms are, indeed, awesome, but they don't have all the nutrients you need. They're very, very low in fat, for one (and yes, you do need some) and carbohydrates (and yes you need those too). Mushrooms can definitely be good for you (especially if you eat a good variety if interesting ones and not "plain" white mus... |
The most recent physics noble prize | It won for discovering strong evidence of gravitational waves. Usually things that cause fluctuations in gravity move too slowly to tell, but large, violent events cause waves: fluctuations in the gravitational field. These were predicted a century ago but it took these guys and a clever experiment to finally observe o... |
What is the difference between Netflix's New Releases and Recently Added? | Recently Added means that the content has only been added to Netflix's library recently but may have aired/been released on other platforms at any time before. New Release means the content has only been released on other platforms recently. For example, if Netflix added a tv show from the '60s yesterday, it would appe... |
What is the difference between sutures and stitches? | Same thing. Medical people usually call them sutures, and general public calls them stitches. The word "stitches" has a connotation of being on or of the skin, but same thing. |
How do blind people know they are gay? | They know they are gay because they feel attracted to members of the same gender as themselves. |
If a cold is a viral infection, then why did paracetamol make my throat less sore? | Paracetamol doesn't do anything to any disease (except worsen liver diseases - check your doses kids). Basically all over the counter drugs are just there to mask symptoms. Sometimes treating symptoms is very important, like reducing a fever if it is too high, but they don't cure the illness. |
How/Why does cracking a glow stick "activate" it? | The ELI5 is this: A glowstick works by mixing two liquids which undergo a chemical reaction that produces light. The two parts are kept separate by a thin, fragile division inside the stick. Bending the flexible outer part of the stick cracks the inner division, allowing the two fluids to mix and start producing light. |
How is Noise Pollution dangerous? | Beyond the reality is that long term exposure to loud noises leads to deafness. There is a sense of social propriety as well. Just like you shouldn't walk down the street naked, and not let the smell of your shit disturb your housemates, you should show respect to others with regards to sound as well. |
How is the wind capable of making 20 m high waves? | The wind blows consistently over a very long distance of ocean. It isn't one single strong gust which blows a wave up, but a sustained force that puts lots of energy into the wave. |
how come things that are blurry due to motion in rel life can look clear in mirrors? | Our eyes are simply better at tracking motion that is further away. From the perspective of your brain, the fan in the mirror is twice as far away from you. |
The plot of Animorphs | Bump because I never finished the series and would like to know as well. |
Why are 3d models used for games, in a T-Pose when not in use or before an animation ? | It's the best way to model or sculpt it. it's also more or less a standard, so you can easily take a skeleton from another model and place it on your working model. It allows for easier deformation modelling too. You can also model a character with their arms down, but then when you want to animate those arms upwards t... |
Why do we read Shakespeare? Isn't the point of a theatrical play to watch it? | Well that's where imagination comes into play, you can basically watch the play in your head while reading - in fact a lot of 'plays' are specifically written to be read as 'armchair theatre' |
How did it come to be that baseball would be played during the spring and summer, football during the fall, and basketball and hockey during the winter? | * Baseball - outdoor sport, needs good, dry weather * Football - originally a collegiate sport, played during the fall semester * Basketball - developed as an indoor sport to be played when the weather was bad * Hockey - outdoor sport that required frozen surfaces |
What is stopping 911 dispatch centers from adopting texting capabilities? | Phone calls are live data stream. Its transferred in real time. Text messages are not. They're queued and sent whenever the network wants.. When the network is busy, like after a disaster, text msgs are delayed minutes or hours later |
Why all the hate for Joss Whedon's handling of Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron? | She got captured and put in a cage by a male villain. Partly because ScarJo got pregnant during filming and they had to write her out of some action scenes, but when the only woman on the team is the one who gets kidnapped and needs a man to rescue her, it seems off. That, combined with the addition of a romantic subpl... |
How is Russia able to afford its current modernization program? | The available resource right in mainland and doesnt have to import, Russia with its vast land is very resource rich, so it's more cost-effective to self supplying some of the industries, making the product costs lower comparing to other countries. Furthermore, the cost living in Russia is lower than other western count... |
Why are people of Nordic origin taller than most humans? | Somebody has to be the tallest. That area of the world happened to get mutation for height. |
If cellphones are replacing landlines, why aren't there versions of white pages for cellphones? How are landlines any different? | Problem Is there are multiple cell phone companies, so if each had their own book it would be incomplete and inconvenient to have to look through 5 books to find a person. Land lines used to be one company in an area generally. It was a weird deal because they were a company, but a utility and basically a monopoly. Eve... |
Is "dream Deja Vu" a thing? | One of the prevailing theories on Déjà Vu is that sometimes our wires get crossed (metaphorically) and the sensory input goes through the region of our brains for memory formation and recall before going to conscious thought. I mind tags information based off of where it came from, so it sees that some of the stimuli c... |
what is the theory behind juries? Why can't judges just make all the decisions? | The idea behind juries is that you don't want to turn judges into an elite ruling class that has total power over people. That kind of power is easy to abuse. Plus, laws are supposed to be a reflection of society itself determining what rules it wants to follow, so having "society itself", in the form of a jury of the ... |
Why did the Earth form with just a single continent? | It didn't.... I'm guessing that you're referring to Pangaea which is usually the starting point when teaching about Continental Drift, however the continents were separate before they formed the supercontinent Pangaea. In fact, Pangaea is actually thought to have been the seventh or eighth [supercontinent](_URL_0_). |
How is it possible to know precise details about planets that are many lightyears away, but not to know the exact size of pluto? | One is a precise measurement based on brand new data on an object that is almost perfectly dark and is extremely small. The other is a broad, sweeping guess based on a humongous object that is glowing almost as bright as the sun. I don't see the problem here. |
How (or why) is the US Federal Reserve not an actual part of the government? | The Federal Reserve is essentially a government agency that is operated privately. It was created by the government, it's leaders are appointed by the government, but it is independent. This is often referred to as being "independent within the government." By making it independent and quasi-private, the Federal Reser... |
Why hats used to be so popular in the 1920's and 30's | Hats have been popular articles of men's attire from ancient times until 1960. Most men throughout history wore a cap or hat whenever they went outside. In 1960, President-Elect Kennedy attended his inaguration hatless and thereafter fashion changed rapidly to dispense with headgear except as environmental conditions r... |
why Verizon workers are going on strike? | The Verizon employees who are on strike have not had a contract since August of 2015. Negotiations with the company have not produced the results they felt were appropriate and they have elected to strike based on that. Some of the issues they have raised are wages, pension freezes, Verizon working to make it easier to... |
Why do omelets and scrambled eggs taste differently even though I put the same ingredients into them? | First, texture has a lot to do with food. The sensations of chewing, moving food around in your mouth, and taking a bite-sized solid piece of omelet versus a fluffy bit of scrambled egg with a lot of air in it will add to a difference in flavor. Next, your omelet usually has a big chunk of "other stuff" in its middle w... |
Why aren't independent votes counted in the presidential primary? | Right now the parties are voting to pick who they want to run for president, as private entities. They may want to exclude non-party members, for instance to avoid letting 'guerilla voters' bump up a cataclysmically bad candidate so that the party will nominate him/her, and then lose in the general election. You aren't... |
Why does cereal need to be in a bag in a box when dry pasta doesn’t need a bag before being put into a box? | We want cereal to stay crisp, because we don't intend to cook it before eating it. And because it has loads of rough surface area, it absorbs humidity fast. |
Can Chinese writing be "sounded out?" How would someone read a word that they've never seen before. | No, mandarin and cantonese are not phonetic. If you can't figure out the word, you have to look it up or use context. |
Why do charities build new homes for the homeless/under-privileged when we already have a ridiculous amount of vacant homes in the US that could be fixed/don't need fixing? | You can't really ask the government to just let you take existing but currently uninhabited homes like that, it'd basically amount to stealing from the owner. Some places have laws about letting property be considered properly 'abandoned' in which case any supposed owner that fails to maintain the property can lose it ... |
Why do relatively small similarities between songs or books result in lawsuits worth millions, but knock-off food items can have identical ingredients, similar packaging, and even reference the name brand being ripped off with "compare to < brand name > "? | Songs are protected by copyright which protects the song from people copying it. Food on the other hand is a product that is composed of ingredients that are most likely not under patent protection. Also many of the generic brands you mention are actually made by the same company they are trying to imitate. The company... |
What does the "real" in real estate mean? | It means "actual" in the sense that the thing is a permanent part of the world, as opposed to "personal estate" or "personal property" which comes an goes. _URL_0_ Yes that's not how we use the word "real" usually today, but it was a long time ago. |
Why is anal sex called anal sex and not rectal sex? (NSFW) | For the same reason oral sex is not called throat sex. |
Why does it hurt so much to get kicked in the balls? | Evolutionarily, our whole purpose in life is to live long enough to raise children, our genes don’t really care what happens after that. Our entire pain/reward system has been tweaked to this purpose. You ate? Good job, here is some dopamine. You skinned your knee? Bad job, that could get infected and kill you have som... |
What happens to medicines beyond their expiry date that they turn unsafe for consumption? | Most everything has chemical reactions as they age. Some medications get weaker so the medicine simply stops working correctly. Some become more powerful so you risk overdose. And some completely change and can either lose their effect or become toxic. |
How exactly is a file deleted from your computer? | The computer (the operating system) keeps a list (index) of the files, the name and the location on the disk. When you "delete" the file, the computer marks that entry as no-longer-needed. It doesn't delete the entry, nor does it alter the actual file at all. Next time it needs to store something on the disk, it looks ... |
how are people in many societies expected to find love and marry by their early 20s? | Basically, when everyone is aware they must be married by 21, people compromise and settle quickly. Some of the prettiest or most socially dominant people in highschool (or equivalent age) would have first pick, then their friends would feel the need to catch up, and so on, until very nearly everyone had someone just b... |
Why is Ellen Pao hated? | Since the subreddit ban wave (Fatpeople hate ect.) reddit decided she was satan, and never really came back from that. Some people believe she's commercializing reddit and steering it away from its roots. Personally I don't think we have the information to read her character one way or the other. |
Grafite and diamond are made of the same thing. Why one is transparent and other not? | In a diamond, the carbon atoms are all neatly lined up in a crystaline structure. Photons entering the lattice work from the right angles will pass right through it virtually unimpeded. In graphite and other forms of carbon, the lattice work isn't there, and the atoms are in what you'd call a pile. So photons encounter... |
How can you identify musical meter? | Other repetitive patterns, such as loudness of notes, in pop music, bass and snare drum hits are closely synced to the meter. Listen for arpeggios on bass, guitars or pianos that are multiples of the meter. If music is less rhythmic, like just long slow legato notes on violins or synth pads, it will be harder to recog... |
How do bees make such perfect hexagons? | That is just what happens when you cram a bunch of circles together. Bees make circular/cylindrical containers for their honey and eggs, since those have the most volume to wall material ratio. When these are all smushed together you get hexagons. |
Why have I never heard of someone getting heart cancer? | It's just a very, very rare form of cancer so it's not heavily talked about. _URL_0_ Apparently the drummer of Kiss died from it, though. |
Where does the energy go to when you have a fully charged device and it is still plugged into the wall? | This is how I've been told to think about it: it's not that the power plug is PUSHING power out to the device, it's that the device battery is PULLING power from the plug. When the battery is 'full', it stops PULLING thereby eliminating any further flow of electrons. Can anyone confirm? |
What causes a mob mentality? | It is herd mentality. I nature it goes like "everyone else is terrified and running away so I should also be terrified and running away". There for in an angry mob everyone around you is angry, shouting and swearing ect so subconsciously you also feel you should be doing just this. Such mentality, as you called it, cau... |
Why Mexico did not become a powerful nation just like Canada or the US? | As a Canadian, I think the word you're looking for is *affluent,* not powerful. |
What do the reduced salt signs on highways and roads mean? | Highways are sprayed with a salt solution in winter to prevent the formation of ice. Certain sections of highway are near water supplies and protected wilderness areas however. These sections are salted less in order not to contaminate the surrounding ecosystems. They put the signs up to warn you that because there's l... |
solving differential equations | Hey brohan, solving Differentials is just like integrating derivatives. Cake. So first, just look at my name. It is a differential equation by itself, dy/dx = e^x. 1st step you need to do is make sure all the y is one 1 side and all the x is on the other side. So my equation turns to dy = e^x dx. Now you can integrate... |
Why does travel in a bus/train make me feel tired? | I believe it's from the constant adjustments your body has to make from being bumped around. You never get the opportunity to sit still like you would on a couch. |
If women's cycles sync up when they spend some time together, wouldn't every women be theoretically on the same monthly cycle? | I think they would have to spend a lot more time together than you imagine, like maybe live together and spend a lot of time outside work/college with each other also. |
Why can't they make space elevators with propellers on them to reduce tension forces? | That would only work in the atmosphere, where the propellers have something to push: air. But the cable will experience the same amount of tension above the atmosphere, where there is no air for the propellers to push. The only real solution is to find a way to manufacture, in large quantity at reasonable cost, a mater... |
Why does the visible light spectrum appear cyclic to the human eye if the spectrum is based on specific linear wavelengths of light? | Just to add something extra to the excellent explanation already provided... Our color vision is usually a matter of our vision system interpolating between the colors detected by our three flavours of cones in our retina. Think of it like a triangle, with red, green and blue in the corners and all the other colors som... |
How did gold, silver, and bronze specifically become the iconic symbols of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in competitions. | Being both common and given value. Bronze is a mix of copper and... On mobile, but I want to say iron. Looks nice, but isnt all that valuable. Silver is more valuable, but tarnishes. Gold is a symbol of wealth and purity, and is the most valuable of the three. Other materials are not as common, harder to work with, or ... |
Why does clips of American news seem such poor quality on UK TV? | The UK and the US have two different systems for broadcast TV signals. The US uses a system called NTSC, and the UK uses a system called PAL. PAL is slightly better than NTSC to start with, but converting an NTSC signal to PAL degrades it even further. All the major US networks now broadcast an HDTV signal as well. Tha... |
Why can't we flush toilets with saltwater? | That would necessitate two different water sources coming to your house and an additional plumbing system to keep your toilet separate from your sinks, showers, etc. |
Why does GPU drivers update, if the GPU is the same? What will that hcange? | The hardware and software have to work together. The hardware never changes, but the software can change and evolve over time to offer better performance, more features, or in some cases even to fix minor errors in the hardware manufacturing process. Almost ever time there are new drivers released they increase perform... |
How did we get metal to think? How does it know what the 1's and 0's are? Is it at it's core mechanical? | > How did we get metal to think? By: * building an electrical component (transistor) where a voltage on one line can act as a very fast switch on a different line. * finding a super-miniuaturized production process for these components. * wiring them together in increasingly complex systems to store numbers, do calcul... |
Why is soda a soothing chaser for alcohol? | The carbonation helps to disperse remaining alcohol from the palate and tongue. Plus, it has a sugary taste. |
What is "development hell"? | > "Development hell or development limbo is media industry jargon for a state during which a film or other project remains in development without progressing to production. A film, video game, television program, screenplay, computer program, concept, or idea stranded in development hell." TL;DR When a game/film is no... |
How did herbivorous dinosaurs get so large while have so little protein in their diet? | Part of what allows Herbivores to grow as large as they do is that the Digestive Systems in Herbivores are optimized for extracting every bit of protein available from the food they eat. Their digestive tracts can also make some proteins from food that lack proteins. A good example is a a cow's Digestive Tract: It has ... |
How do bytes take up "space"? | Your hard drive is a round plate, kind of like an old record. It's divided into thousands and thousands of "sectors", tiny little spots. Each one of those tiny spots is a byte... When you save a byte on your hard drive, the drive head makes a change in the magnetic charge in that spot. The computer turns these positiv... |
Why the Winter War happened | Relations between Russia and Finland had been strained since WWI. Russia felt that Finland was weak, and that they would be able to easily seize a decent chunk of territory. Most of the rest of Europe was distracted by Germany gearing up to start WWII, and so the Russians felt that nobody else would really do much to ... |
How does light transfer data in optical fibers? | When data is transmitted over a wire, the wire is turned on and off very quickly. Thousands of times per second, it checks if the wire is currently on. If the signal is off, that is interpreted as a 0. If it's on, that's a 1. Light travels through fiber optic cables. It's basically done the same way, but instead of ele... |
Can anyone launch a satellite? Or are there laws claiming space territory? | Per the [Outer Space Treaty](_URL_0_) of 1967, governments cannot stake a claim to territory in space—so yes, space is indeed borderless. However, to get to outer space, Spacex's rockets first have to pass through the airspace directly above the US, which the Federal Aviation Administration *does* have jurisdiction ove... |
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