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1anf24 | why i should not be scared shitless on commercial flights. | [
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"answer": "Statistically, you should be scared sh*tless in your car, not on airplanes.",
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"answer": "As a fellow aerophobe I can only say that you should try finding solace in the improbability of a lethal plane crash. There are thousands of flights every day, tens of thousa... | null |
g5ncl | What would be the least painful way to die? | [
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"answer": "getting caught in the blast of an atomic bomb. e. you would literally not even see it coming.",
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"answer": "Helium inhalation.\n\n_URL_3_\n\n_URL_0_\n\n_URL_1_\n\nJust a reminder of what happens;\n\n* Loss of consciousness (5-10 sec)\n* involuntary convulsions (15... | null |
en9uf0 | how cold blooded animals manage their body temperature when external environment temperature is in minus, eg -1,-2 or so? | [
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"answer": "Cold-blooded animals don't typically live in environments that drop below freezing. When they do, they typically go underground where it's warmer and/or hibernate for the winter.",
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qxp6y | Can someone please explain to me what this is on the weather map and how it formed like this? | [
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"answer": "I see the radar site!\n\nWeather radar sometimes misbehaves with cloud formations too close to the system. I'd bet good money this station's radar data comes from a site in Aberdeen.",
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"answer": "It looks like there's a malfunction. The way Doppler radar works i... | null |
2vazcy | Given that an Alcubierre warp drive is physically possible, how would the crew experience time in relation to others? | [
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1bz4ln | why vehicles aren't built more like bumper cars. | [
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"answer": "Cars are designed with crumple zones. Even a fairly gentle crash will crumple the car, meaning that the car doesn't stop quite as suddenly. It's still very sudden, but not quite as much, and this can make crashes much more survivable for the people in the car.\n\nBuilding cars with solid bumpers li... | null |
1ckm4c | Is the species to species relationship seen between humans and dogs seen among other animals as well? | [
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1jls2o | white ceilings | [
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"answer": "It reflects light which helps the room to be brighter.\n\nThis helps the room feel bigger and less opressive.",
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4cxyve | why are us primaries so expensive? candidates rely on heavy donations, what do they spend that money on besides air fare/accommodation? | [
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"answer": "Ads are extremely expensive and for better or worse, needed in a modern campaign, and that's where a majority of the money goes. Beyond that there is a logistical need to house and staff a campaign headquarters, and field offices in multiple states. Though a lot of people will volunteer, you need h... | null |
6erj44 | can you keep an amputated limb? | [
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"answer": "Depends on where you live but in the US you either bury the limb(by former owner's request) or they incinerate or donate it for study.",
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"answer": "I am pretty sure they get incinerated and I am sure it depends on why it was amputated. If it was due to an infecti... | null |
4eb4i2 | how is a game made from a totally new engine (like overwatch)? | [
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9d2dfs | I'm a basic infantry soldier stationed in the Western front in WWI. What are some things I can do to enhance my chances of survival? | [
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"answer": "Not getting promoted would be a very good idea. Not getting promoted to a high risk arm would be even better.\n\nFor the British, 1 officer casualty would be sustained for the following proportion of men for different arms\n\n* Tank Corps - 5.5\n\n* Cavalry - 9.4\n\n* Artillery - 12.3\n\n* Engineer... | null |
3wu1kh | what can someone really do if they find your ssn and dob? | [
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"answer": "With that (and perhaps a few other, publically accessible information, like your name) they can apply for credit cards in your name, max them out, and never pay them back, ruining your credit. They may also be able to access your bank account and other private information. It could be quite bad."... | null |
8qtpjd | why does depth of field become more narrow with an increase in format? | [
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5lpxmt | What did Frankenstein's monster look like before Boris Karloff (from the 1931 film) made everyone get the same image in their head? | [
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"answer": "Fun question!\n\nThe original 1818 edition, to my knowledge, had no illustrations, nor did its 1823 reprint; I can't find a digitized version of the 1821 French translation. That leaves the first trackable depiction of Frankenstein's creature to an 1823 play. Shelley did not like the play overall, ... | null |
3ewifd | why do most video players have a notification when switching to full screen mode to allow or exit full screen mode at the top? | [
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"answer": "It's to stop sneaky hacking that creates a full screen version of your desktop so that they can fiddle around with it and steal information without you knowing. It's not the video player, by the way, it's the browser (chrome for example).",
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5h2y3b | why can't we all just get along? | [
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"answer": "Because people have fundamentally different values and principles based on how they were raised and what their life status is. Possibly also their genetics. Sometimes the principles are contradictory, and that creates conflict.",
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hh8b5 | What is happening at a molecular level when pH levels change? | [
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"answer": "pH is a measurement of _hydronium_ ion (H3O^+ ) concentrations - not \"hydrogen ions\".\n\nAll acids and bases have two \"states\" - a protonated form (the acid) and a deprotonated form (base). Note that when I say \"acid\" and \"base\", it has a slightly different meaning than the common usage. Fo... | null |
3c92ag | why does gta still continue to use fake names for vehicles yet games like gran turismo, forza, and need for speed have been using manufacturers names/vehicles for years? | [
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"answer": "GTA is a not made to be a reality game while Gran Turismo,Forza,_URL_0_. are reality based,therefore GTA did not seek licensing agreements.\n\nI found a link to a page that describes it in detail _URL_1_",
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2aiy5b | Saturn's Rings and Gravity - Why do the particles rotate so uniform? | [
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"answer": "The phenomenon is called accretion disc and is based on the same effect as the frequent spiral form of galaxies.Imagine several macroscopic bodies orbiting a mass. If there is a finite number of bodies, and there isnt perfect rotational symmetry, an gravitational force towards the angular pendant... | null |
61i6p1 | Why there are not animals with wheels? | [
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"answer": "Wheels only work on flat surfaces. Bigger wheels can ride over large variations in terrain. Just think of a person in a wheel chair. They cannot get over a curb, while able bodied people can easily handle such a terrain variation.\n\nSure wheels are good for going fast, but they need specialized... | null |
33ue85 | When did the calendar as the West knows it become practice? At what point did people start using the same years as we do now? | [
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"answer": "hi! the calendar you're referring to is called the [*Gregorian Calendar*](_URL_0_). There's lots of room for more information here regarding its adoption of this to various cultures, but you can get a good start on this topic in the FAQ\n\n* [How did the world agree on what year it is?](_URL_1_) - ... | null |
b9p6lh | which industrial processes can not be done with electricity as power-source? | [
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"answer": "The industry of generating electrical power itself does not have to rely on electricity to start the generation of electricity, but it does help.\n\nThis methods vary but can be a number of means such as mechanical, chemical, or nuclear. \n\nElectricity can be used to help such as providing lights ... | null |
1cymqd | How common and severe were abuses committed against civilians during the American Revolutionary War? | [
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"answer": "In the course of my research, I have found a frightening number of instances of rape, though I haven't had the opportunity to comb through court martial records to get more specific than \"they happened more often than they should have.\"\n\nThe most famous anecdote to this effect was Lord Francis ... | null |
8ebfdy | why does striped clothes seems to "blink" when you look at them for a moment? | [
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"answer": "When your eyes scan something they move in small jumps called saccades, not smoothly. For something with stripes, this can get confusing, by locking onto one then jumping to the next, but that seems like the first so it's not clear that whether you've moved to a different one or not.\n ",
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e9iq09 | Did ancient people understand the concept of extinction? | [
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"answer": "This isn't exactly answering your question because the focus is not on ancient peoples, but in [this answer I spent some time charting the development of an awareness of the concept of extinction](_URL_0_) in the Western scientific tradition. Hope that helps!",
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405yic | why do ordinary cars not have those useful, black "heating stripes" in their windshields? | [
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"answer": "Because ford own the patent of having this in the windscreen. You will see them on their high end cars. Even carried along into jaguar when they used to own that",
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"answer": "Windshield installer here, mostly this comes down to price, some windshields are heated... | null |
flwa96 | why can't you see pixels on a phone screen as easily as you can on a monitor? | [
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"answer": "Say you have a phone that is 1080p and a monitor that is also 1080p. You have the same number of pixels, but they are closer together on the smaller screen of the phone.",
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"answer": "The size of the display and the resolution.\n\nA phone screen is typically 1080p... | null |
wv4xm | Has a tyrant in the likes of Hitler or Saddam
Hussein ever had a change of heart in their later
years to become a benevolent ruler? | [
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"answer": "Not really as important as the ones you mentioned but there is, of course, General Butt Naked, of Liberia. He was a genocidal cannibalistic warlord during the Country's civil war who had since devoted his life to the church and being a good person. Look it up.",
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gib43 | When a new species is found, how do you distinguish the male from the female? | [
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"answer": "\"And here is the male seahorse.\"\n\n\"... it looks like it's having a baby.\"\n\n\"Um.. the male seahorse has the baby.\"",
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"answer": "in practice, it is much harder to tell if an organism belongs to a new species than whether it is male or female. That is beca... | null |
aiwqvy | Why is U–Pb dating so effective in measuring the age of the Earth? Wouldn't there be decaying uranium floating around the early Solar System, or even *before* the formation of the Sun during the nebula stage? | [
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"answer": "Yes, there would. Then it all gets melted into a homogenous mess during planetary accretion. With the uranium locked in place, and the Pb unable to escape, we can measure their ratios to tell how long they've been locked in place.\n\nRadiogenic dating tells you when the substance was last melted, n... | null |
fg86e9 | what is the, if there exists any, the science behind the human fascination with serial killers and crime shows? | [
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"answer": "Humans want to see consequences to actions that they understand are deviant and are curious to the the thinking behind their \"logical\" thinking (i.e., planning, motivation, efficacy, etc.)",
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3hxpx6 | Do animals other than human experience infertility the way humans do? | [
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"answer": "I'm not sure about behavioural, but genetically speaking if they have problems reproducing then their genes are less likely to be passed down generation to generation, while those that can easily reproduce thrive and populate the gene pool. \n\nHumans have a large number of treatments available to... | null |
5r81p1 | AskScience AMA Series: I am a scientist currently working in a US congressional office. Ask Me Almost Anything! | [
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"answer": "Would someone coming from a collaborative and team oriented lab setting be shocked or pleasantly surprised by the work environment in Congress/congressional office? What is the 'lab culture' like over there?",
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30amca | I've heard E. coli referred to as a human symbiont. Are there any other GI beasties that are known to be essential to human survival? | [
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"answer": "Mammals could be accurately described as a walking home for bacteria - some of them could exist perfectly well in the external environment, but you have no chance of surviving without them inside of you.\n\n[Your gut houses microorganisms which regulate a large number of your bodily functions in so... | null |
15xjfw | difference between wma and mp3 | [
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"answer": "Never heard of people being into wma files... but I'll answer anyways.\n\n > Whats the difference? \n\nwma and mp3 were competing formats in the 90s and early 2000s. Mp3 was the standard, and wma (made by Microsoft) was being pushed as a better format. MS claimed wma was superior to mp3 and produce... | null |
1sebet | Which alternative medicines/therapies are most backed up by science? | [
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"answer": "If it is backed up by evidence, then it's is medicine, not alternative medicine. Asking for \"alternative medicine\" backed up by evidence is self contradictory. \n\nLook into ethnopharmacology, it's a field which takes folk remedies finds the actual basis for them working and then develops drug... | null |
64npbb | why do frisbees fly better spinning than not? | [
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"answer": "the spin keeps the orientation of the disk, otherwise it would flop around which would be bad. so the spin is nescessary for the gyro effect to keep them stable in that aerofoil airplane wing angle.",
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m9ip1 | the process of getting a book published | [
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"answer": "First, the author writes some or all of a book. The author submits the work to various publishing companies looking for one that likes it and will buy it.\n\nIf a publisher likes the book, they will make an offer to the author to buy the book and pay royalties on sales of the book. Once an agreem... | null |
42ply1 | Do different body parts perceive heat differently? | [
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3u4x0o | Can you numerically analyze non-linear differential equations? | [
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"answer": "I am a bit confused by your question, particular this part:\n\n > if you want to numerically analyze a non-linear differential equation, you mostly can't.\n\nActually, the non-linearity of the equation makes analysis so generally difficult, that numerical methods are often the only way to solve th... | null |
2jo603 | why does it seem democrats support higher taxes, but republicans support lower taxes? | [
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"answer": "That's a fundamental difference between fiscal left (Democrats) and right (Republicans, Libertarians). Left = bigger government, more regulation, more services, more taxes required. Right = lower taxes, lower regulation, requiring smaller government and fewer services.",
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bf91se | How did the moon landing spacesuits survive the ridiculous temperatures? | [
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"answer": "The short answer is that astronauts survive the cold with layers upon layers of insulation and survive the heat by reflecting most of the light that they come into contact with. That's why spacesuits are bulky and also white.",
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6esf2m | why universal theme park has marvel rides if disney owns marvel | [
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"answer": "Do they? I've never been there so I don't know. But if they do have them then it's likely the same reason Fox has X Men and Sony has Spider-man. Licensing. ",
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"answer": "Because those rides and characters were purchased by Universal before Disney made deals with... | null |
536nnx | Is it true that women couldn't buy property in the US prior to 1974? | [
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"answer": "Goodness gracious no. And the Equal Credit Opportunity Act referenced in that post, while it does indeed prevent discrimination on the basis of marital status, is about the extension of credit (loans), not possession of property.\n\nThat said, the inclusion of marital status in the act (Title VII o... | null |
1sxmzc | What was the Native population levels in the United States before a cocktail of diseases killed 90% of the population? Was there evidence of cities, trading routes and wars? | [
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"answer": "There were millions of American Indians in the US, though experts disagree on the exact number. \n\nThere is an abundance of evidence of cities, trade routes, and warfare both archaeologically and historically. American Indian studies is a very rich area of study. \n\nIf you have more specific ques... | null |
3mq8ph | what is briny water, in relation to the mars discovery? | [
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"answer": "Briny is an adjective meaning highly salty. On Mars, pure water would immediately evaporate due to the really low air pressure. However, salty water is less prone to boiling away or freezing than pure water. Extremely salty water is the only water that can exist as a liquid on Mars' surface.",
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677wl2 | If friction causes particles to heat up, why do we use fans to blow air against ourselves to cool down, and how does that work? | [
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"answer": "When you sweat in still air you form a layer of saturated vapor above the skin, which eventually reaches a vapor-liquid equilibrium, meaning you can not evaporate more sweat because the air around you can no longer absorb any more vapor. The fan blows this layer away replacing it with air that more... | null |
3orcyl | if a girl's body is "ready" to give birth once they start getting their period, why is it considered dangerous for people to do so at a young age? | [
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"answer": "It's 'ready' in that it is biologically possible. Pregnancy/Birth can be dangerous or even deadly even for an adult woman. Being young can increase the risk of a variety of complications for both the child and parent. ",
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8fuynp | why do formula 1 drivers keep their tires warm during a safety car? | [
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"answer": "So the car can grip the road better. The tyres are constructed to work more effectively at a higher temperature. ",
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7p71pv | Accurate fiction set in Ancient Greece/Rome/Egypt? | [
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"answer": "We have a [FAQ on the historical accuracy of certain TV series, movies and videogames](_URL_1_) including [HBO's \"Rome\"](_URL_0_) which featured a portrayal of my area of study (Ptolemaic Egypt) in what I can only describe as a garbage fire but otherwise did less of a bad job portraying the Roman... | null |
3tn898 | microeconomics. | [
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"answer": "Say you have 20 people who like ice cream by a varying amount. Person #1 is willing to pay $1 for a cone, person #2 is willing to pay $2 a cone because he likes it a bit more, person #3 is willing to pay $3 a cone because he likes it even more, all the way up to person #10 is willing to pay $10 a ... | null |
882zih | why is texas so conservative compared to some other southern states? | [
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"answer": "Texas isn't that red any more, largely due to the demographic shift. For national level elections like president and senators, the state is only weakly right-leaning.\n\nMost of the county and state level reps are Republicans because the demographic shift is concentrated in a few cities, leaving t... | null |
50l09k | When exactly did we start giving names to places? | [
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"answer": "We have no way of knowing what any paleolithic tribe called anything, but all the evidence we have of the very earliest languages we can access (which are late neolithic, at best) suggests that place names were already common. In fact, some of the most common likely survivors of pre-Indo-European ... | null |
38k0o8 | why people get happy when there is water on another planet, isn't it possible that aliens could live without water? | [
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"answer": "Life **as we know it** is much much more likely in the presence of water. Could life exist that is nothing like what we know? Sure it could ... but we wouldn't know what to look for, and might not even recognize it as life if we found it. So we use life as we know it as a criteria for what to look ... | null |
pywbv | Could being a homosexual in anyway be a humans defense mechanism against overpopulation? | [
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"answer": "No, anything that negatively affects reproductive fitness cannot be selected for. \n\nThe most popular hypothesis currently to explain the incidence of homosexuality in humans is the gay uncle/gay aunt hypothesis. By helping to raise their sibling's children, their sibling's children's survival an... | null |
athffn | if earth and every planet is falling towards our sun, and our solar system is falling towards our galactic center, where is our entire galaxy falling towards, and if it isn’t falling, what force is holding it up? | [
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"answer": "There is no force holding anything celestial up. It is merely floating in a vacuum, space. Gravity is the force binding everything together, which is ultimately responsible for the current shape of the galaxy",
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3szbn4 | why are people so politically charged? | [
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"answer": "To me, having some political stances is better than no stance. \nWe need to stop voting based on who has a chance to win and start voting based who isn't lying.\n\nMinisters like Harper, Carson, Clinton and other flat out lying and trying to cover their lies need to be gone before being head of the... | null |
eb9ou0 | why does it hurt more to drink cold water after having menthol of some kind? can it actually hurt the throat? | [
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"answer": "Menthol actually activates the same receptors in your mouth and throat that sense cold, and it sticks to these receptors for a while. So everything cold that you drink or eat afterwards seems even colder. When things are very cold the cold sensation becomes painful. So a drink that is normally plea... | null |
2qmoqd | Why does water become vapor at room temperature and 1 atm when the phase diagram for water does not allow for it? | [
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"answer": "Under normal ambient conditions, liquid water exists in a thermodynamic equilibrium with its vapour state; some molecules will escape the surface into the atmosphere. The pressure of the vapour over the liquid at equilibrium is called the (vapour pressure)[_URL_0_], and scales (non-linearly) with ... | null |
ag5ryd | headphone specs often include impedance and sensitivity. what do they mean, and how much does it affect my listening experience? | [
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"answer": "Sensitivity tells you how much sound they'll develop for a given amount of power from the source. If you're plugging into a mains powered amp that has plenty of power, poor sensitivity won't affect your listening experience. You can just turn the volume up. But if you're plugging into a miniaturize... | null |
wrkz2 | diff between having an engine at the front or the back? | [
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"answer": "It doesn't make much of a difference, apart from weight distribution (the engine is one of the heaviest part of a car).\n\nIt's important not to confuse having the engine in the front or back of the car, with having front wheel drive or rear wheel drive. This has a huge impact on steering and slidi... | null |
2fvx4t | why children will sometimes intentionally aggravate their parents to the point where they lose their temper. | [
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"answer": "Children (and people in general) keep trying to find the boundaries of what is acceptable behavior.\n\nIf no boundaries are presented, the child will keep pushing until he or she reaches a boundary. In this case, when the parent loses it.\n\nThe trick seems to be to set firm, reasonable, boundarie... | null |
1zk326 | Why does diabetes cause the build up of ketone bodies? | [
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"answer": "Diabetes is either caused by a decreased amount of insulin (Type I) or that cells have a decreased sensitivity for insulin (Type II). The reason glucose levels are so high in diabetes is because insulin is needed for cells to uptake glucose and use it as energy. When your bodies cells are deprived ... | null |
16oyhd | do historians mean something different then normal people when they use the word "racism"? | [
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"answer": "I'm not a historian, so I'm not really familiar with what their literature would say, but coming from an anthropological background I'd say that neither really fits. \"Racism\" certainly has elements of power and power differentials (I'd say that is a big part, yes), but really racism is about sayi... | null |
255fjj | are there any other countries similar to north korea in terms of seclusion and secrecy? | [
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"answer": "Turkmenistan is pretty bad, especially under their old leader Niyazov. He did really crazy stuff like renaming the months after his family members, writing a book and forcing everyone to memorize it (as well as forcing all mosques in the country to place it next to the Koran), totally cutting off p... | null |
7u08by | To what extent was the Bundeswehr a successor to the wehrmacht? What changes were made to the culture, structure and organization? | [
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"answer": "The Bundeswehr to this day is very much somewhere between haunted and inspired by its predecessor, the German Wehrmacht of 1935-1945.\n\n---\n\nContext block ahead, just skip if you're decently knowledgable about German history between 1945-1955.\n\nTo give a bit of context to the reader, the Bunde... | null |
17ynnk | Why wasn't there more than one "Library of Alexandria" | [
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"answer": "There were plenty of libraries around the ancient Mediterranean. One of the most famous other Hellenophone ones was [the Athenaion at Pergamon.](_URL_0_) (In fact legend has it that the use of parchment was popularised at Pergamon when export of ~~parchment~~ papyrus from Egypt was restricted: henc... | null |
5roio9 | Is our galaxy on a stable axis? | [
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"answer": "although I can't give a definite answer on whether it would have an unstable axis or not, the so-called tennis racket theorem demonstrated in the above video only applies to rigid objects, while the Milky Way is fluid and rotating inconsistently. As a result, I don't think that it applies to our ga... | null |
a5e99y | Did ancient Rome have a rodent problem? | [
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4qz2ed | at fast food drive thru places where they have multiple lanes for ordering, how do they know which car is which when they get to pay/collect food? | [
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"answer": "Generally, the order in which the orders are placed will be the same as the order the cars pull up to the window. As soon as your order is complete, you'll be pulling forward, and therefore next in line. If two finish at the same time, there is a camera that can identify which car pulled forward fi... | null |
3l97gi | Sabotage in America during WWII? | [
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7y7jpk | Would Koko, the sign-language speaking gorilla, have been able to translate what a different, non-signing gorilla was saying? | [
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"answer": "Define 'saying'. Koko may be able to sign that another gorilla is angry, but gorilla interpersonal communication consists mainly of body language, and getting a *gorilla* to interpret that for a *human* is probably a hundred times more difficult than to just ask a human to interpret it.",
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8dj0nl | how do people raise money by walking across a country/cycling around the world/ climbing mount something / go q month without eating chocolate for charity | [
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"answer": "They use it as a publicity stunt to get people to donate to their cause. It’s rarely very effective compared to say, just working your actual job and donating the money yourself. ",
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7nlgkw | Why is Mandarin so different from other Chinese languages? | [
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qxx3a | How do ferrite cores work? | [
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"answer": "Ferrite cores are used to make [inductors](_URL_0_).",
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"answer": "It's simple, really -- many kinds of electronic circuits have reactive devices, example capacitors and inductors. Reactance is the imaginary component of a complex number that defines impedance (a... | null |
a1fh7f | Did medieval people celebrate their birthdays? Did they know them? | [
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icy6m | How big would the Earth be if its atoms were as compact as possible? | [
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"answer": "If the mass of the earth were compressed into a sphere of radius ~1 cm it would be black hole. So just bigger than that I suppose is how tightly you could pack it before that happened.",
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14jesn | Is synthesizing petroleum, or a compound with similar properties, theoretically viable? Is it being researched, and if it is, what is the current status? | [
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"answer": "Yes. There's no problem synthesizing the hydrocarbons that make up gasoline. \n\nDoing so in a manner that's cheaper than pumping out of the ground and refining it? No, we've not figured out how to do that yet.\n",
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f4lhbb | how is it animals, specially predators, have such strong muscles? | [
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"answer": "Besides natural selection, an interesting thing about evolution is that the more an organism depends on a certain organ the more that organ develops in order to meet the needs. Predators like lions and cheetahs have strong muscles and bite forces because they depend on the muscles so much. \nA grea... | null |
qh8h4 | what this company actually do? _url_0_ | [
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"answer": "They sell software that makes delivering paid TV channels to customers safer.",
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"answer": "They are primarily a technology provider for cable/satellite TV services.\n\nSo let's say you're starting up a new cable TV service. You've got the programming deals in pla... | null |
5jvaqo | why is isis so hard to find and defeat? | [
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"answer": "You can launch as many air strikes as you want, eventually you're going to need a ground army to go in and flush them out. The ground forces that have been battling ISIS for the last four years are a combination of other revel groups, Kurdish militias, and the Iraqi and Syrian Armies. The Syrian Ar... | null |
f52eu2 | How do birds keep themselves clean ? | [
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9ph5cq | why does a passing vehicle's sound go from a high to a low note | [
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"answer": "It's a doppler effect. Sound is higher when the wavelengths are shorter, so when the car is coming towards you it pushes the air towards you and gets a boost and it is shorter. \n\nIt's lower pitched when the wavelengths are all stretched out, and when it's moving away they stretch out because it'... | null |
164oe9 | What is the most efficient/powerful movement the human body can perform? | [
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6b9h8x | In Pancreatic Islet Transplants, what is stopping the transplanted islets from being destroyed again? | [
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"answer": "After the procedure the patient is given immunosuppressive drugs to stop the immune system from doing exactly that. It's worth noting in that study they switched immunosuppressive drugs because the first one was causing the patient to lose her hair, and they noted functional decline in insulin secr... | null |
9odel3 | what would a bank gain from putting my money in a savings account vs. a checking account with them? | [
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"answer": "Savings account generally imply you are going to leave it in there for extended periods, giving them more capital to loan and gain additional funds from. ",
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2pwva9 | what actually happens to your body when you get kocked out? how does it happen? | [
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"answer": "If you get hit really hard in the head it causes your head to accelerate, and your brain along with it. Your head then hits the inside of your skull and can bounce around (not like a tennis ball obviously, it's pretty firmly attached, but enough to cause problems). The trauma to the brain causes lo... | null |
b97jr2 | Did Free Market Capitalism cause the great depression? | [
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"answer": "You may be interested [in this earlier comment](_URL_0_) by u/Integralds on the economics profession's view of the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis, that the US's Federal Reserve unintentionally and unknowingly caused the Great Depression by cutting the money supply.\n\n\nI'll add to that that I would ... | null |
381q0c | How come so many contemporary English words about spycraft are French words? (espionage, sabotage, reconnaissance, coup, rogue, etc...) | [
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"answer": "For a few hundred years, the English court all spoke French. Because of this, the English language absorbed thousands of French terms through this period. So, words that would have been the concern of those in power are often going to be French. For example, a Cow is an animal, Beef is food. The no... | null |
1sbvy2 | what happens to all the single-use throwaway accounts on reddit? | [
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"answer": "They don't get recycled--there would be no point and it's not worth the risk since it could be a security issue if someone used their real information to register for a throwaway. ",
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278koq | what does a president do all day? | [
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"answer": "Dude, have you not seen the West Wing? He has loads of clever and inspirational and witty conversations and then falls short when it comes to actioning anything worthwhile.",
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"answer": "The White House posts his schedule every day\n\n_URL_0_",
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fran3t | From Normandy to Kiev, Sicily to Ireland; Germanic settlers/Nobility assimilated to local customs & languages; Why was Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain different? | [
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btxiij | is the fastest sperm to reach and fertilise the egg necessarily the fittest or healthiest? if not, what usually determines its success? | [
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"answer": "Luck, a hehehehehell lot of luck. The first ones to reach the egg usually die penetrating it.",
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"answer": "Mostly luck. It's not necessary fittest or healthiest of all, because most sperm cells aren't lucky by definition of luck. A group of sperm cells will move ... | null |
awwxua | the different kinds of bbq across the united states. how do they differ? | [
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"answer": "It's all about the meat and the sauce. There are dozens of varieties, but the four major ones are:\n\nCarolina Style: Pork, basted with either vinegar-based sauce (North) or Mustard-based sauce (South)\n\nKansas City: Pork or beef, dry rubbed, sauce (tomato-based) served on the side\n\nMemphis: ... | null |
4z1utt | why were computers not considered commonplace in households until windows 95? | [
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"answer": "It happened to be good timing with the internet becoming more well known. You had a GUI based OS, you didn't need to know DOS. Also, that was when computers started really coming down in price.\n\nWhile I had Windows 3.1 at home, I was using my unix shell account at school to get on the internet ... | null |
flrj1 | When you apply light pressure to your eye for an extended period of time (ex. sleeping on your face), why is your vision blurred for several minutes afterwards? | [
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"answer": "Your eye primarily focuses using either the cornea or the lens. Your cornea (which is a specialization continuous with the fibrous outer part of your eye called the sclera) does most of the refraction that brings light into focus, but it's not really adjustable so your lens does the rest of the 'fi... | null |
199xe8 | Between the years 1812 to 1914, how would the U.S army have fared against a stereotypical European army? | [
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"answer": "This is essentially a question of speculation and there is truly no way a historian could answer this. However, there have been users who have written comparisons between the US Army and European armies during the late 19th century. You can find them [here](_URL_0_) and [here](_URL_1_).",
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2tc52g | How did whale intermediates have an evolutionary advantage? | [
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"answer": "Fish are cold-blooded.\n\nThere are some minor exceptions; large predatory fish such as tuna are often slightly warm-blooded, but not as warm as a mammal. This is also why there are no pocket-sized whales; being big and well-insulated helps maintain body heat.\n\nBreathing air while swimming seems ... | null |
wycpm | I had knee surgery last year, why is it every time its about to rain, my knee aches so bad? | [
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"answer": "Your doctor should have explained to you one of the results of surgery is the joint joint sheath is broken (the medical term is, I believe synovial sheath). \n\nAs pressure goes down, the pressure in your joint changes. This causes ache or soreness. I experience the same thing due to an injury in ... | null |
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