Question: Do United States police officers have to answer you when you ask "Am I being detained?" if so, is there a point where if they do not respond you can 'legally' just walk away?

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 Do United States police officers have to answer you when you ask "Am I being detained?" if so, is there a point where if they do not respond you can 'legally' just walk away?

Cop here: No. They are not required to tell you anything. In most circumstances they will, however. If you try to walk away and you are being detained, then you will be kept where you are. If you are not being detained, then you'll be free to walk off. Police in the US need only *Reasonable Suspicion* to stop/detain someone. This is a fairly low threshold. You can be detained for a reasonable amount of time until police determine there is probable cause to arrest you, or determine there is no probable cause and let you go.


Question: why is baking soda and vinegar a recommended drain cleaning method?

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 why is baking soda and vinegar a recommended drain cleaning method?

It isnt. When you mix vinegar and baking soda it makes CO2, not the most effective cleaner. People believe vinegar/baking soda work because it has such a cool reaction, but that does not make it so. Now on the flip side, vinegar and baking soda seperate are great cleaners. Hot vinegar is a very effective calcium deposit remover (hard water stains) it also works well cleaning glass and just as a general cleaner. Baking soda works well as an odor eliminator and as a scrub (like comet). I use it as a face scrub. People hear that both work for cleaning, they see an impressive reaction, they think combined it must work even better, it just doesn't. I have heard the argument that the build up of gas pushes the clog down the drain, but unless you somehow cap the other end I cannot see how that could possibly work.


Question: Why does a wooden object on top of a pot of boiling water prevent it from boiling over?

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 Why does a wooden object on top of a pot of boiling water prevent it from boiling over?

A wooden spoon or other similar object. breaks the surface tension of the bubbles. This keeps the bubbles from building up. Preventing enough of the bubble from adding together. This keeps the pot from boiling over.


Question: Why are people concerned about the use of antibiotics on farms?

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For one, many of the antibiotics used are the same (or similar) to the antibiotics used for humans. Agricultural antibiotic use isn't just used to treat acute infections. Long ago we discovered that if animals were fed antibiotics they would grow faster and put on more weight, even if they weren't sick. That (and the conditions animals are raised in) created an incredible growth in the amount of antibiotics used in animal husbandry (no, I'm not talking about bestiality). By constantly exposing bacteria to antibiotics, farmers and ranchers are causing selection for bacteria that could resist those antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance can be transferred to other bacteria, including ones responsible for human disease. So we are basically forcing the bacteria to undergo evolution for antibiotic resistance at a faster rate than what would happen if farmers were just treating acute injuries and infections.


Question: Why do watermelons or any fruit for that matter blows up when a bullet passes throught it rather than just leaving an entry to exit hole?

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 Why do watermelons or any fruit for that matter blows up when a bullet passes throught it rather than just leaving an entry to exit hole?

Did you ever notice when someone jumps into a pool they don't leave a neat hole? They splash. Imagine all that energy trapped inside a piece of fruit.


Question: Why is it easier to see neon coloured hats, caps and beanies in the dark, even though there's no light?

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There IS light reflecting off of them. If you are in absolute darkness, you can't see at all. Neon colors reflect more light than other colors so they are easier to see in the dark.


Question: How does "hardness" work in regards to things like diamond?

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Hardness and toughness are different things in mineralogy. Hardness specifically refers to the ability for one substance to scratch another. Something can only be scratched by something else with the same or higher hardness. Diamonds are actually quite brittle and will crack, chip, or shatter easily enough that you should get insurance on your engagement ring stones. It will not, however, get scratched. Not by anything other than another diamond.


Question: How come apps will sometimes refresh every single time I open them, even if I just switched between apps for a moment, but other times apps will stay exactly where I last scrolled to for a day or more?

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Depends on the coding of the app. Like people have different reactions to certain things. Apps are programmed to respond to certain events, click open scroll


Question: What happens when you yawn?

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When we are bored or tired, we don't breathe as deeply as we usually do. As such, our bodies take in less oxygen. Yawning helps correct this by bringing more oxygen into the blood and moving more carbon dioxide out.


Question: why doesn’t a liquid laundry/dish detergent pod break down from the detergent inside?

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Different materials react diffently to one another. The plastic wrap of your pod is highly water soluble, but the content has no water, only detergent and other chemicals. The water in the machine dissolve the wrap while its content dissolve the dirt


Question: how do bank transfers work?

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They don’t owe you money when you deposit. You put $ in one bank, that bank is now “holding” your money. When they send them to another bank, that bank is now in possession of the $ you deposited to bank 1. Hope that helps


Question: Why do the latest Playstation and Xbox consoles always release close to each other?

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 Why do the latest Playstation and Xbox consoles always release close to each other?

The attention gathered from the constant console wars will surely boost sales. Get people talking, get them debating (or in console wars case, get them insulting and fighting) and then boom.. ..stonks for days


Question: Why tattoos do not initiate immune system response?

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They do. The needle penetrating the skin causes histamine to be produced, thats why the area being worked gets red and swells somewhat. For anything else to happen there need to be antigens present. Those are molecules found for example on bacteria that cause them to stick to certain immune system cells and activate them. The ink molecules are generally too small to do that, though it can happen to some degree. They are so numerous that an actual immune response to them would be harmful to the body anyways. If the needle was unclean, bacteria and other antigens introduced into the tiny wounds will cause an infection and more immune response.


Question: Why do fever thermometers not return to room temperature after use?

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 Why do fever thermometers not return to room temperature after use?

The thermometers you are referring are known as 'clinical' thermometers. They are usually of a specified range(Human body temp range). They also have another neat feature which is called a [constriction]( URL_0 ). This constriction is a bend about the bottom of the thermometer and is small in diameter. When the temperature is measured, the mercury in the thermometer expands and is forced past this constriction. So now, when the doctor pulls the thermometer out of the patient's mouth the mercury wouldn't just contract and fall back down. You have often seen doctors or nurses, before and after taking your temperature they will shake the thermometer. This, sort of, resets the thermometer by giving the mercury within to push through the constriction and return to normal state. In case you want to research further, look up: * Constriction in thermometers * Difference between lab and clinical thermometers


Question: what are the small, rapid muscle twitches that occur on my body periodically. And why do they happen?!

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 what are the small, rapid muscle twitches that occur on my body periodically. And why do they happen?!

They're called "tics" and can be caused by nerves misfiring, lactose buildup at the nerve endings (causing nerve damping), or misfires in the brain caused by plaques, interference from other pathways, or habitual reinforcement (if the tic always involves the same muscle groups and is chronic).


Question: How did couriers find their recipients in old times?

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Typically couriers were given information such as the name of the recipient and the town in which they resided. If the courier arrived in the town and asked where the person lived the locals could provide that information. People who were important enough to have couriers delivering them documents would be known.


Question: why do big animals have slow heartbeats and small animals have fast heartbeats?

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 why do big animals have slow heartbeats and small animals have fast heartbeats?

So big animals have big hearts, and small animals small hearts. And so the big animals requires big Volume of blood pumpes out to cells needing fresh blood, thus in large slower pumps. And opposite with small animals, quick pumps with smaller Volume.


Question: How do our bare feet grip onto slippery surfaces? What causes this traction?

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 How do our bare feet grip onto slippery surfaces? What causes this traction?

The rough pattern of hand/foot skin — the same thing that gives you fingerprints — makes them more grippy.


Question: Why does a can of shaving cream get colder after you shake it?

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I've never noticed them getting colder after shaking but pressurised cans usually get colder after you use them because when you let some of the contents out, the mass inside expands to fill the same volume of container. When gas expands it cools down. ...away to shake a can just now


Question: Why can't the human heart "get used to" having to work harder in an individual with restricted arteries, causing it to get stronger under the increased work load like normal muscles?

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You are really talking about two different things here, without realizing it. First of all, the heart does "get used to" having to work harder. If it is pumping against a higher blood pressure (because the patient has hypertension and it isn't being treated), then over time it was develop hypertrophy. This sounds great, right? The heart is stronger! Except the problem is that it will have a harder time relaxing, so it is harder to fill with blood. This leads to congestive heart failure, which is bad. Please note, I'm not going to go into depth with congestive heart failure. Yes, there are two types, and I've only talked about one of them here, but I'm tired and this is ELI5. Second, when you talk about restricted arteries, I presume you mean partial blockages in the coronary arteries. The issue here is a lack of blood making it to the heart muscle cells, not lack of strength of the heart itself. The muscle cells can only work so hard with a limited amount of oxygen and other nutrients.


Question: ; What makes pedophilia, pedophilia?

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 ; What makes pedophilia, pedophilia?

The literal definition of pedophilia is attraction to *prepubescent* children. A 19yo and a 17yo is not really worrisome under normal circumstances. Sad to say, in recent years it seems like the internet has kinda latched onto pedophilia as a nuclear option to get somebody cancelled, and has expanded the definition to ridiculous levels. This is a serious problem because it causes alarm fatigue and makes it harder for actual survivors of sexual abuse to get attention brought to their cases.


Question: Do the bacteria in our mouths that cause plaque and tooth decay/gum disease have a useful purpose?

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There's a bunch of different types of bacteria that can be in our mouth at one time, most of them (like 90%) are useful and help us digest food or protect our gums and teeth. But the kind that you're talking about that cause tooth decay and gum disease survive off the starch/sugars we consume. I learned about the way they survive by forming a biofilm over the surface, which makes them really hard to get rid of. They even form networks across the plaque and communicate via quorum sensing. Freaking disgusting amirite??


Question: If a global nuclear weapons attack/accident happened would marine life be more protected from the effects of the radiation than terrestrial life? Why or why not?

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From radiation? Yes, water stops radiation (alpha and beta) better than air. There would be a shit load of other problems though if enough nukes were launched that stirred up a bunch of crap into the atmosphere and caused a nuclear winter. Food and migratory paths and a whole lot else would go to shit even in the oceans.


Question: What happens when a child breaks his leg right before a big growth spurt?

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A kid in my elementary school broke his leg before a growth spurt and they broke the other leg so that they would match. He missed the rest of the year and was in a wheelchair for a while.


Question: Why are water droplets round shape?(idk if correct flair)

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Water molecules like to be bonded to other water molecules. This makes them likely to "stick" to each other. This means that they want to minimize contact with non polar things they can't bond to, creating a phenomenon called "surface tension". Them trying to minimize contact with other particles drives them into the round shape.


Question: How do juries of ordinary citizens make informed decisions on complex industrial or financial cases?

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They do so remarkably poorly much of the time. Otherwise jury instructions for these cases are very thorough and teach the jury as much of the law as necessary to be able to grapple with the issues in a semi-coherent way.


Question: Why does coke foam so much in a coke float?

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CO2 isn't a stable suspension in atmospheric pressure, but needs sharp edges or rough surfaces to come out, called nucleation points. The net amount of foam in a soda's based on how many bubbles are created versus how fast the bubbles dissipate. The ice cream is mainly crystalline in structure, which provides a large amount of nucleation points. Along with this the ice cream that mixes with the coke makes it thicker, which means that the bubbles will be more durable and longer lasting than they would be in just coke. So ice cream both makes the bubbles come out a lot faster, and makes them dissipate slower, making the foam rate high.


Question: Today, most households cannot afford to have a permanent stay at home parent. How did this change happen, when it was the norm just a few decades ago?

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 Today, most households cannot afford to have a permanent stay at home parent. How did this change happen, when it was the norm just a few decades ago?

Basically what happened is that the cost of living, especially rent and home prices, escalated dramatically, but wages did not keep pace. Here's a real-life example: In the old days, when I got married, my ex and I were both making $5 an hour. The minimum wage was abut $2.75 an hour then. Neither of us had degrees of any kind. We were able to get FT jobs out of high school, none of that trying to piece together a living wage from three-PT jobs stuff so many high school grads do now. We could find a 1-bedroom apartment in a decent but not glamorous area for $500 a month. So together, we made $400 a week gross and were only spending 31% of our gross income on rent. This low proportion of rent-to-income allowed us to be able to stay out of credit card debt. We were able to live on a cash basis for a pretty long time. My ex had a skill he used on weekends and by using that skill and selling the work from it, we were able to save up for the down payment on a house. Only needed 3% because of FHA loans. My ex's pay eventually got doubled to $10 an hour and by then we had a child, so we were still living in a $500 a month unit, on the same pay, but now with a baby. My body made the baby's food for the first 6 months, and I even used cloth diapers because disposables were so expensive. We had a washer in the garage and bought a used dryer. I took in ironing to make a few extra dollars, and also made dolls to sell when hand-made dolls were all the rage. I also did some sewing for a friend of the family who was very large and wanted dresses made out of 100% cotton. (Those are hard to find for big ladies, even today.) Eventually my ex got a decent raise and was earning enough to be considered lower middle class. I stayed home with the kids. But the thing that REALLY gave us the leg-up in life was that we weren't paying 50% or more for f-ing rent, and we didn't have to get a credit card to buy food and clothes. We had enough extra cash every month to pay two car payments and buy the needs of life. We did not get into trouble with credit card debt, something I see so many kids in their 20s do now, because we could afford to live on a cash basis. It wasn't easy - especially after we had the first child - but I shopped for used stuff at thrift stores, bought at the Big Box stores, etc. The other thing that was not all that unusual back then was that we could both find jobs that paid almost double minimum wage without any degree at all. We started out adult life at a relatively high wage. There are some trades that still pay that well, but I worked for a family-owned retailer. NO ONE pays retail cashiers or clerks without even an AA degree double minimum wage now - unless it's a legal pot shop in California, I guess. And, if they did, that means in California I'd be paid $22 an hour as a cashier in my county. (Minimum wage is now $10.50 hr. here.) Hell, I'll be a career cashier right now for $22 an hour. This is why, when I talk about the economy, I try to tell people how it was in the old days - the 60s, 70s and early 80s. Then Reagan and the GOP got elected and Robber Baron economic theories took over the country. *NONE* of those GOP theories have been proven to work to lift up the poor, but the theories exist nonetheless. "Trickle down economics" - let the rich get richer and it will "trickle down" to the poor. **That's a lie.** So, we were lucky to get the jobs we got, but we were also entering young adulthood in pre-Reagan times. We had an economy designed to help us, not hurt us. Today, young adults have an economy mostly designed to HURT THEM. They SHOULD be marching in the streets in rage and running for office. More power to them.


Question: Why are essential workers who are risking their lives to serve us all making less money than people collecting unemployment? (Additional $600/week)?

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Because they agreed to work for that payment. This is about contracts and not about crisis or extranormal problems.


Question: Why is it that when two singers hold notes, but one is slightly off, you can hear "vibrations"?

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The difference between the pitch (frequency) of the two waves produces what is knows as a "beat". It's just the sum of the two waves.


Question: Why does heating an egg solidify it?

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Basically the egg has a lot of protein chains. When it's uncooked the chains can slide around and slide past eachother more easily. When you cook the egg the proteins are denatured and begin to coil up and get tangled with the other proteins. This causes the overall structure to become more rigid. You can kind of think of it like a bowl of wet cooked spaghetti which you can stir easily, versus a bowl of dried spaghetti that is basically one solid chunk.


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Your body reacts to coldness by decreasing blood flow in your limbs in order to keep your core on operating temperature. As low blood flow = less function, your fingers and toes start feeling numb and you lose dexterity as they're stiffing up, which is all a result of your nerves being numbed as well. But interestingly enough, probably for safety reasons, your pain receptors still work, unlike many others. So this means, that the input you normally have is "turned off", while pain is the only one still being "transmitted", which can be compared to being on a concert with a crying baby next to you (you won't really notice) or being in a quiet room with the same baby (really annoying).


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If you see birds flying from a particular direction from the sea, there is an excellent chance that there's some land in that direction. It didn't take the Polynesians long to figure that one out.


Question: What causes the muffled hearing often experienced shortly before fainting?

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Perceiving sound is quite a complex series of events which includes the pressure waves, the eardrum, two tiny muscles that can tighten the eardrum, some small organs in the ear, electrical signals to the brain, and lots of neurons in the brain that listen to the sound, interpret it, and send it to your consciousness so you can choose how to react. Nobody really knows where along this chain the break occurs for all situations. However, some situations we *do* know what happens. A similar thing to what you described can happen when blood pressure drops quickly (in which case the temporary reduction in oxygen to the brain reduces perceptive and processing abilities), or when one is too close to a really loud noise like a gunshot or race car (in this case it's the middle ear muscles tightening up the eardrum), or when one is about to have a seizure (in which case it's a disruption/scrambling in sound perception/interpretation in various places in the brain).


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It's because your body doesn't like it when things are too salty in there, so it encourages you to drink some water to try to dilute the salt and bring things back to the saltiness it likes.


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In the short run, there is not necessarily a connection, as stock price is a prediction of the future. In the long run, the stock price is strongly connected to the health of the company.


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The vibrations cause your body to constantly be micro re-positioning your body which causes your body to be exerting energy you don't notice. This causes you to get tired over the course of a long car ride. ELI5: Having your body move around a lot without noticing makes you need nap time.


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Chernobyl is a very complicated mess, but at a very basic level: They wanted to run a safety test. To do so, they would have to bypass some safety features to simulate a dangerous situation. They did this haphazardly though. They didn't communicate things very well, so when the nigh shift crew came in, they didn't know what was happening. But they knew there was a dangerous situation. However, the people in charge wanted their plant to look good for the government, so it ignored these things and told them to run the test anyways. This resulted in the core getting so hot it boiled water away exposing the core. The steam got so hot, the atoms of hydrogen and oxygen seperated. These flammable gasses then exploded, causing the very heavy lid of the core to fly off. Another explosion caused a lot of radioactive material to be released. The explosion happened when a few workers were close by, which is how they died. Others died trying to contain the radiation, exposing themselves to it to stop it from being worse.


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Coffee is a mild diuretic in the sense that you are get less fluid than just drinking water. It's still going to hydrate you a bit. So to answer your question, yes.


Question: Why do most female athletes not have big breasts?

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Natural breasts are in large part fat. The result is you have very little fat on the body the breasts tend to be small too. For the same reason, they will change in size if you gain or loos body weight in fat. This is all on average, there is an exception with little body fat and large brests Bodybuilders aim at very little fat tissue so the breasts tend to be small. This is all excluding the result on breast enlargement surgery. Large breasts are a problem if you move around a lot like athletes tend to do, there is a reason sports bras exist. So it breast enlargement surgery will not be that popular among athletes.


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There are a number of ways. One is to react a mass of the element with a known reactant, and measure how much of the reactant was needed to react with the substance you are analysing. This allows you to calculate how many moles of the reactant were used, telling you how many moles there were in the substance. Dividing the measured mass by the number of moles gives you the molecular mass of the substance, which is the combined number of protons and neutrons. I’ll let someone else have a go at explaining other methods.


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Sugar is a cheap ingredient that makes you like the food and crave more of it, therefore you keep buying it.


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The sun and stars tell you exactly where you are if you know how to use them. It takes a bit of math, but it can be done. Sailors used the sun and stars for ages to know where they were, but the same methods work on land. In fact, the first man to prove the eart is round and get an accurate measure of the diameter of our planet used the shadow cast by the sun at noon on the solstice in two places far apart. The different shadow lengths told him how much of a curve there was between the two places.


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It is mostly due to the fact that there is a significant decrease in ambient noise - less traffic, less people outside talking and playing, less birds chirping, etc. Once all of that background noise goes down, individual sounds are easier to pick up on, and seem to stand out more.


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It's nearly impossible to make good contact between two surfaces with hundreds of connection points if every mating connection is rigidly fixed. This means you need to use some sort of spring-loaded mating system for each individual connection. In case of LGA (Land Grid Array, flat CPU package and pins in socket), the socket pins are basically small springy levers that the CPU is pushed against by the socket retention frame. For PGA (Pin Grid Array, pins on CPU, holes on socket), the pins sink into the socket holes where they are captured between metal "pincers" that are held against the pin with force.


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 Where and why do you use the i, the Imaginary Number ?

Dynamics and circuits, as well as process dynamics are major points. Basically anywhere that feedback exists and you need to calculate it you will incorporate i into your calculations.


Question: how does snow cause potholes on the road?

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Its a combination of two things that come with snow. Freezing temperatures, and snow removal. When you have a road there are always going to be at least small holes/cracks in the pavement. these holes/cracks let water in/underneath the pavement. During warm months, this doesn't really matter and the water eventually drains away. But when there's water in/under the pavement and freezing temps come along, that water freezes. And when that water freezes, it expands. It expands enough that it can actually break up concrete, especially if there are already small cracks/holes to make bigger. Since the water is under these pieces of pavement, it also can push these cracked pieces of pavement up, which leads to the next cause. Snow removal. Snow plows do their best to not tear up the road, but at the same time they're trying to get as much snow off of the road as possible, so that big metal plow is ideally just skimming the top of the pavement. But say it goes over a cracked up section where the pavement has been pushed up 1/4 of an inch by water freezing beneath it. That big metal plow in front of a 15+ ton vehicle is just going to tear up that already broken up pavement and toss it to the side just like it would snow. So you get this 1 2 punch of the freezing temperatures breaking up the pavement, and then large vehicles moving that broken up pavement around.


Question: There have been many sculptures where the statue looks like its wearing veil. How do sculptors make stone transparent?

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 There have been many sculptures where the statue looks like its wearing veil. How do sculptors make stone transparent?

Veils do not have to be transparent. Their point is that you should not be able to see through them or at least not very well. So transparent vails kind of defeats their point. The reason you can see features which is hidden under a vail is because these features deform the vail wherever they touch. The sculptors just need to make the vail lay as it would on a real person and these features will show. They do have the advantage of being able to put the creases where they want, adjust the posture of the person under the vail as they want and make the wind blow the vail in the direction they want which can exagregate this effect by allowing more features to show then normally. But they are still only shaping the stone to the vail and is not making the stone itself transparent.


Question: Why is it so hard for plastic to biodegrade, when it is made from oil, a substance that was once organic matter?

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 Why is it so hard for plastic to biodegrade, when it is made from oil, a substance that was once organic matter?

Everything is made from ultta-small bits that are tied together. The stronger the ties between plastic mini-bits, the harder it comes for other chemicals to break the bonds and react with plastic mini-bits. It takes that long because plastic was purposely made to resist outer common attacking agents. Of course strong chemicals break down the strong plastic bonds, but that won't naturally occur.


Question: How does increasing the national debt hurt future generations?

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 How does increasing the national debt hurt future generations?

In theory, payments on the debt consume a larger and larger share of government budgets as deficits increase. However, rates for government borrowing have been very low recently, so the government was able to lock in good terms on much of that debt (to the point that some people were basically paying the government to hold on to their money, because it was a very safe investment). The implication is that with high debt burdens, more and more taxes will need to be paid by citizens in the future to service that debt, when instead that money could have been used for public services or not taxes at all. In practice, conservative governments tend to disingenuously deploy this argument during elections to defeat opponents who believe in public services, then cut taxes to run up deficits. Since it's easier to cut taxes than to raise them, governments are stuck with the debt even if liberals or socialists come to power later and balance the budget. The best example of this is the Clinton-Bush budgets, where Clinton managed to sustain a modest surplus (debt was decreasing) and Bush started producing record deficits, even though he and his party ran on fiscal responsibility.


Question: How could scientists confirm life exists on another planet "very soon"?

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If they detect certain gases in significant amounts (specifically methane and oxygen) this would be **very** suggestive of organic chemistry. These gases don't tend to stick around before turning into something else so their presence would suggest an active process that is creating them. There are some non-organic processes that can create them but these would usually be short lived or only produce small amounts. Organic chemistry produces them in large amounts here on earth however so if we see that happening somewhere else then it would be suggestive of earth-like organic chemistry.


Question: Why does sleeping with your head at the foot-end of the bed feel so foreign?

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I have no idea, but I switch sides when I find that I'm having a hard time falling asleep. Works like a charm, I'm out in 30 seconds.


Question: When a video is lagging/internet cutting out, why does the audio keep playing for a while after the video has stopped?

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 When a video is lagging/internet cutting out, why does the audio keep playing for a while after the video has stopped?

Because the audio and video are not entirely connected. You can load audio data from a video file without loading the video, and you can load video data from a video file without loading the audio. It's also not necessarily a 1-for-1 ratio - one MB of audio data in a file might cover 30 seconds of audio, whereas one MB of video data in a file might cover half a second of video.


Question: How it’s possible to NOT have an inner monologue?

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 How it’s possible to NOT have an inner monologue?

I don't get it either. Isn't an inner monologue basically what consciousness is? Do people without an inner monologue go through life reacting by stimulus-response? Is it even possible to be human without an inner monologue? I seriously do not understand.


Question: Why do things turn black when you burn them?

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When an object is burned, such as wood, chicken, etc., the object turns black because of the carbon residue left behind. Organic materials are largely made of hydrocarbons which, When subjected to a high energy source, split apart into their counterparts.


Question: Today, miniaturization allows us to have miniatures of everything, cameras, computers, rc cars and so one but when NASA launch probes, it launches huge rockets and the probes are huge. Wouldn't be cheaper to have miniature probes inside miniature rockets and have hundreds of them instead?

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 Today, miniaturization allows us to have miniatures of everything, cameras, computers, rc cars and so one but when NASA launch probes, it launches huge rockets and the probes are huge. Wouldn't be cheaper to have miniature probes inside miniature rockets and have hundreds of them instead?

Some space probes have in fact been miniaturized. Satellites are much, much smaller than they once were. A research project at Stanford University managed to create a satellite merely 10x8x2 cm - about the size of a hard drive. This is about as small as satellites can get at present. CubeSats are tiny satellites, cubes which are 10x10x10 cm. 20 or 30 years ago, the same equipment would take up the size of a car; today, anyone with $100,000 can rent space on a rocket to have their CubeSat deployed into orbit, and they are increasing in usage.


Question: Why is there a notable distinction in taste between food that is hot and cold?

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Not quite like you're 5 but.... All foods we eat have fats and oils right? Well heat can make food break down making it easier for our taste buds to recognize certain flavors and aromas. As with anything cold, it tends to dull our senses. When your taste buds get cold, it makes it harder for your body to recognize flavors. That's why when ice cream melts, it's almost too sweet because it doesn't have that perfect balance of sugary goodness and freezing cold to mellow it out.


Question: Do planes flying against the earth’s rotation reach their destination faster than the ones flying with it?

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 Do planes flying against the earth’s rotation reach their destination faster than the ones flying with it?

The effect of the Earth's rotation on flight time is small and counter intuitive. The atmosphere is generally following the earth's rotation and you have to fly through the atmosphere. So to a first approximation you won't notice the rotation as you fly. However, the prevailing winds are impacted by the earth's rotation. At the equator the prevailing winds are East to West as you'd expect, and that is due to the Earth's rotation. Winds get pretty confusing though because different latitudes and altitudes cause different effects and you end up with primary winds going one way and counter winds going the other way. The higher altitude higher latitude winds run counter to the primary winds, so generally most flights running with the Earth's rotation end up being faster than those against it. The effect is largely caused by the Earth's rotation, but it ends up being in the opposite direction than you'd expect.


Question: Why are so many archeological discoveries found buried under ground? I just read a post about obstacles with expanding the subways in Rome due to finding ruins, and I understand finds buried like Pompeii. How do these sites get covered over so deeply?

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If an area sediments at the rate of 1/8th of an inch per year (from dust and wind blown sand, soil, fallen leaves forming mulch, etc.), after a century, it's buried under a foot of new soil. After a thousand years, it's 10 feet deep. Rome was founded more than 2.5 centuries ago and there were settlements in the area that predated the founding of Rome itself. And some parts of the world will sediment at far higher rates, at least from time to time.


Question: How does cold make electricity move easier, and how does it cause superconductors to have 0 resistance?

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 How does cold make electricity move easier, and how does it cause superconductors to have 0 resistance?

I do not know why cold makes resistance decrease, but I can give you a rundown on superconductors which are their own process. Basically when electricity heats up a material, it does so in discrete quanta (packets of energy). If the electricity does not carry the right sized packets, it cannot dump them as heat in the material. In superconductors, electrons couple together into cooper pairs, which causes them to carry excessively large packets of energy that they cannot dump into the material. These pairs are not very stable, and the jiggling of heat splits them, resulting in superconductors requiring low temperatures to sustain these pairs.


Question: what is the difference between "metal" and "rock" music?

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 what is the difference between "metal" and "rock" music?

Rock music is a really big genre of music, like an umbrella term. It can range from almost pop-like on the soft rock side, to louder grittier rougher heavy metal. Metal is a kind of rock.


Question: How does silk-screen printing work?

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Krystar has got a very simple version, but I can give you a longer one. I used to do both art and t shirt printing, so I've got a lot of explanations. First, there are a lot of ways to get things lined up. Some printers use "registration marks." Those are little shapes... Maybe X's or cross hairs... that can be used when lining up screens. Those marks are taped off when the real printing begins, so you usually don't see them. Each color is printed, and the printer uses the cross hairs to line up the next color. For art based prints... I just printed a color, then let it dry. Using cardboard and tape, I would make little corners for the paper to butt into, in almost the exact same spot every time. When the first color was done, I'd put the paper back into the tabs, one sheet at a time. Then, I'd line up the next color on top of it. Since the screen and emulsion are so thin and translucent (almost perfectly see-through), just pressing it down allowed me to see where to scooch it to. Run a test, adjust, and then go! Some people use big sheets of clear plastic to test, which allows the plastic to be cleaned in between prints. I never liked that method, but I get it. There are also devices sold for big league printers... Like M & R's Tri-lock system. It ensures the transparencies used to burn each screen are really really close to lined up on the screen itself before it even gets to the press. After that, there's a locking system that puts the screens on the press in a really close position. For any version, the last steps are test prints and eyeballing. Run a test, check out where things are. Big auto presses will have knobs for micro-adjustments. That way, things can move just a bit to get it perfect. Once the tests look great, you can get rolling. Presses are made to hold screens in the right spot for the rest of the job. Also, as a final note... A good artist will make "traps" and overlaps in the design. This allows inks to cover one another, or to butt up against each other with no problems. Essentially working in a little wiggle room, in case things don't line up perfectly.


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It isn't always above the cloud layer. Clouds with moisture can reach up to 60,000 feet in a super strong thunderstorm. The weather around the Himalayas doesn't quite get there, but high winds and clouds can easily be in the 30,000 to 40,000 foot range which would put snow and ice on the peak. Then you figure there would be very little melting going on, so any snow up there would be sticking around.


Question: why are u supposed to not ration water but ration food when you are stranded in the desert?

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Because you lose water through sweat, the minimum water intake is a hard minimum. You can go longer without eating because your body can turn to fat stores/muscle mass for energy.