Question: How do we predict solar and lunar eclipse?

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 How do we predict solar and lunar eclipse?

Orbital mechanics! While not entirely true, you can imagine the moon and Earth as if they move on rails. Orbits are more or less the same every time, so we'll treat them like rails (like railroad rails, if you're unfamiliar with the terminology). Big invisible rails in the sky. They move at speeds which change slightly but the speed always depends upon the height of the rail. We've been observing the movement of the Earth and moon for a long time, so even if we didn't have math to reconstruct these 'rails' we would have mapped them out pretty well by now. Since we know where the rails are and how fast the Earth and moon move along their respective rails, all we have to do is calculate when the two will align just right. For instance, the moon's rail has to line up with the position of the sun when viewed from the Earth's rail for either kind of eclipse. This will happen twice a year. I can't really think of an intuitive proof for this without a diagram, alas. However, not only do the rails have to line up, but the moon must also be at a specific point on its rail for a lunar eclipse and the opposite specific point for a solar eclipse.


Question: Why do rear end collisions cause so many injuries but 11,000 horsepower dragsters accelerating from a standstill cause no damage to the driver?

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A dragster still accelerates at a relatively steady rate...it's \~4g average for a top fuel dragster, less than a typical rocket launch. The \*steadiness\* is key, as is the fact that the driver is ready for it and thoroughly strapped into a seat designed for it with a harness designed for it and their head against the headrest. There's very little motion of the body. In a rear-end collision the acceleration can be much higher, on the order of 16g, because it's such a sudden impact, and your head generally isn't constrained...at the time of impact, it's free in space because we don't usually drive with our heads back against the headrest.


Question: How do we know that irrational numbers are irrational?

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One very common method is to prove that it must be irrational by assuming the opposite. This is called a proof by contradiction. Say the goal is to prove that X is irrational. Start by ASSUMING that X is rational and therefore it can be expressed by a fraction of two integers say p/q. From this point, show that p and q cannot be integers or something contradictory, for example p > q AND p < q at the same time. Since this cannot be true, as long as there were no other assumptions used, then the only assumption that must be incorrect is the original one, ie that X is rational. Therefore X must be irrational.


Question: If an insect gets into someone's ear, why do you pour vegetable oil inside their ear?

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To drown the insect or make it uncomfortable to the point that it crawls out. Oil is better than water as it soothes the skin/membrane. It's also thicker and more viscous, so the bug will struggle less while it dies or crawls out. Also. Some bugs are perfectly comfortable in water. They live in water and can breathe water. Ain't no bug lives in oil. Something like rubbing alcohol *will* make the bug terribly uncomfortable, but it will have a burning sensation as it drowns. It will struggle more. Alcohol, being a thinner liquid, won't dampen this struggle like oil will. This increased struggling may damage the inner ear and will be more uncomfortable for the patient.


Question: What mechanism or design feature prevents bugs (especially larger ones like wasps) from crawling through the vents of a central A/C or heating system and getting inside?

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Central heating and A/C don’t take in outside air, they recycle air already inside the home through the return vents. These are the vents that are usually higher up on walls. There are no vents leading to the outside for bugs to get in through.


Question: Why do chameleons walk like they're pondering every step?

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They are trying to look like a branch or leaves waving back and forth in the wind, instead of like a walking chameleon. If they just strolled along then their prey would spot them and they would starve, or predators would spot them and they would be eaten.


Question: Why aren't state sponsored cyber attacks considered an act of war?

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Basically, everyone's doing it. & #x200B; If one nation suddenly decided it's tanks on the lawn time, then everyone else would have the same excuse - You can't claim the moral high ground when proof is released that you were doing the exact same thing to your enemy.


Question: How do they come up with an actual monetary figure for emotional damages in court?

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 How do they come up with an actual monetary figure for emotional damages in court?

Most settlements are comprised of special damages (medical bills, lost wages etc) and general damages (pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of normal life, etc) Ultimately the latter is a judgement call by the jury but sometimes the amount is influenced by the amount the plaintiff attorneys demand and the defense offers prior to trial, they will often suggest figures to the jury before they deliberate and come back with a judgement. Source: insurance person


Question: Is it actually possible for something to move between 2 specific points so fast that the human eye perceives it as 2 separate things?

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Yes, it is very possible for something to do this. You can infact do this with your hand. Try just waving your hand up and down really fast and you'll see it as one big splodge.


Question: How do ants build such efficient and complex structures despite lacking complex brains?

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Ants have brains that are [much more complex than you realize]( URL_0 ). For example, to navigate ants process a large amount of information, including "sun position, polarized light patterns, visual panoramas, gradient of odors, wind direction, slope, ground texture, step-counting … and more". Having said that, ants are able to build "efficient and complex structures" for the same reason that humans are able to build "efficient and complex structures": *Emergence*, the phenomena of the collective's intelligence exceeding the intelligence of any one individual within the collective. The only significant difference between emergent ant intelligence and emergent human intelligence is humanity's ability to convey information over incredibly long periods of time. Put another way, ants are reliant on living members of their community to contribute to their collective intelligence, while humans are able to draw from both living and to some extent deceased members of their community to contribute to their collective intelligence.


Question: Why does chocolate sometimes taste spicy?

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Milk chocolate, especially in the US, has butyric acid added to it. It’s why some people describe it as having a “vomit” taste. It could be this. Or you might have a mild allergy.


Question: How does a RBMK reactor explode?

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Reactors use really hot water that’s maintained at a constant pressure as a coolant. The pressure prevents the water from boiling at its normal temperature. If there is change in this balance and the water turns to steam in the “primary coolant loop” the water becomes ineffective as a coolant. The reactor gets hotter and so does the water. More heat, more steam. This causes a feedback loop and eventually something in the system will break down.


Question: How would a country prepare for inflation and how do they keep the value of their money from crashing once they receive said money?

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Currency is a representation of wealth that make is easier to trade. So you have a supply and demand where demand is the wealth, because the more wealth we have the more we want to trade, and currency is the supply because we need it to trade. So if you increase your currency, that mean there is more supply than demand, so the value of your currency decrease that's inflation. Today we have a central bank that control the flow of new money to keep some balance between the wealth and the currency of the country. But in the past the currency was silver and gold so when the Spanish discovered a mountain full of silver, people were just happy, mined the silver and used it as currency, which increase the supply by a lot, which decrease the value of currency drastically aka high inflation. The spanish governement to be prepared for the inflation should have controlled the quantity of silver injected in the economy, to not flood the market. It's the same thing if a country today would start to print currency like crazy, this would drop the value of the currency aka inflation.


Question: What is the value of fake scantily clad Facebook bots trying to friend people?

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Once they are a friend they can view more personal information and use that to build demographic information. Beyond just posting advertisements directly, such accounts can be produced in droves and gather hundreds of thousands of people's personal information collectively.


Question: Why is it a common for eyewitnesses to mistake a lone gunman as multiple shooters?

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 Why is it a common for eyewitnesses to mistake a lone gunman as multiple shooters?

Lets say theres a convention center, packed to the brim. Lone gunman comes in, starts shooting the place up. For the initial disarray, nobody has any clue whats going on, besides that theres gunfire. Fight or flight is triggered; with nothing to fight, only flight. After the initial fleeing, and the shooter starts walking around to look for hiders or chase the fleeing, people are still in an adrenaline fueled frenzy. They may mistake one person doubling back in this state as a different one, because their mind is shouting "SURVIVE, GODDAMNIT", and not "Wait, is that the same sized figure in the same clothes?". The stress of the situation means they can't fully think with rational logic, and likely won't be able to until the shooting is over and they can begin to calm down. Tldr; Its stressful and their brain is pumped full of chemicals telling them that recognizing and differentiating shooter(s) is not as important as staying alive immediately.


Question: How does Google's 'image search' work?

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For a long time it was simply looking for the search terms in text, as normal, and then just pulling out the images that appeared on those pages. Basically pictures of apples, say, are likely to appear on pages about apples. (Side note: this is why those "if we upvote this post enough, so-and-so will show up in the image search for 'coward'"-type campaigns can actually sometimes work.) I am not sure how much machine learning is incorporated into the image search today (if at all) to actually interpret the images. But the technology to do so is progressing quite rapidly.


Question: Why do OLED screen burn ?

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This is somewhat of a two-part answer. There are actually two forms of ‘screen burn’ that can happen with OLED displays. One is usually temporary and results from the OLED displaying the same colour for a long time (a few hours perhaps) which causes a residual colour to continue being displayed. Once that fades the screen returns to normal. One is permanent but takes much longer and is influenced by environmental factors like long term harsh sunlight exposure. It is called luminence degradation - as the OLED components age with use they become dimmer, and if a particular group of pixels is used excessively they can degrade at a faster rate than the other pixels, making them less bright or causing them to display certain colours less vividly, leaving an impression of an image. Both take a very long time to become a problem. Higher brightnesses and cheaper displays typically result in faster burn in (of both types). For common use I’d say it is relatively safe to say that OLED screens do not burn in - at least not permanently.


Question: Why do people like live albums/why are they released so often?

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I won't speak for others, but for me live music has a more dynamic/less canned sound, the lyrics are more clear, the vocals are more real, the instruments sound more natural. Good live of course, live recordings can be as bad as any other. Plus they just feel more alive. Also, dynamic range is usually much better, and less compressed, with a live recording as opposed to a studio release.


Question: Why do school systems not teach financial responsibility? US Based

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 Why do school systems not teach financial responsibility? US Based

Our current school system is still very much designed after what school was meant to do in pre-industrial Europe when it was only for the well off. Originally, people did not attend school to get a job or gain practical life skills -- those things were usually taught through apprenticeships or personal tutors. School was for learning to be a more sophisticated citizen; a place to become acculturated with history, philosophy, literature, politics, etc. You can still see echoes of that old tradition in the modern curriculum.


Question: Where do these trillions of dollars come from?

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The US government borrows it from investors. US treasury bond interest rates are near record lows, as the security of the US government appears valuable to investors. It's never been so cheap for the US government to borrow money, and they are borrowing a lot as a result. Printing money is more about people not liking germy old money than it is about monetary policy. That said, print production is up. Coin production is unable to meet demand.


Question: the C computer language compiler was written in C. How did it get compiled if there was no C compiler until it was written?

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 the C computer language compiler was written in C. How did it get compiled if there was no C compiler until it was written?

The first C compiler was written in B. That sounds like a joke, I know, but it's true. C was originally called "NB" for "New B." Dennis Ritchie wrote up the history of C for his website at Bell Labs, which you can read here: URL_0


Question: Why are some patches of ice more slippery than other patches?

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Ice is slippery when there is nothing on it to provide friction. So if you spread sand over it, even is small amounts, it will already be less slippery. When there is damage to the surface, even the smallest ribbles caused by melting and freezing again, that will make it already less slippery.


Question: If you didn’t swallow your own saliva would your mouth just fill completely with saliva or would you just stop salivating?

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Saliva is produced by the stimulation of salivary glands by parasympathetic nerves when we put food in our mouth. If you don't swallow your saliva, the body with continously think that you're eating and won't stop producing saliva.


Question: (Spoilers for a 22-year-old movie.) At the end of Fight Club, Project Mayhem is successful in blowing up the buildings where the debt record is stored. Since my knowledge of economics is extremely limited, can someonewhy this plan would've or wouldn't've worked?

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 (Spoilers for a 22-year-old movie.) At the end of Fight Club, Project Mayhem is successful in blowing up the buildings where the debt record is stored. Since my knowledge of economics is extremely limited, can someonewhy this plan would've or wouldn't've worked?

No company that has any data worth anything has it stored on single servers in a major city. They have backup plans and failsafes in case something like that happens. The plan would not have worked


Question: why do drink cans in room temperature conditions feel relatively cold?

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 why do drink cans in room temperature conditions feel relatively cold?

They conduct heat better than air, so they remove more heat from your hand than your hands surroundings, making it feel colder


Question: Who "should" be drinking gatorade?

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There are two kinds of Gatorade. There's the sugary stuff you can buy at Walmart and there's the sugarless stuff they give to athletes on the field. Anyone who works out could stand to benefit from the sugarless kind. It's like having a tall glass of water and a banana, but it's a liquid and doesn't taste like banana. The sugary version is like having a glass of water, a banana, and a spoonful of sugar. It's tasty, but the sugar content can be worrying.


Question: . If the stars /sun are so bright, then why is the universe black, and why is it bright on earth during daytime?

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 . If the stars /sun are so bright, then why is the universe black, and why is it bright on earth during daytime?

First, because the speed of light is finite, we can only possibly see the light from objects closer then about 14 billon light years to us. So there is a finite number of stars which are observable from Earth. Second, the stars further away from us look very dim because of the distance and can only be seen through a telescope - the furthest object (barely) observable by naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy, about 3 million light years away. The daytime sky on Earth is bright because of the way that the sunlight gets diffused in our atmosphere. Edit: Also see this: URL_0


Question: why is it that certain species are either social or asocial but humans can be extroverted, introverted, or ambiverted?

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Humans are still social animals, even we introverts. Asocial animals will often immediately attack members of their own species and such. Even other social animals are not as good at being social as we are - if you put a couple hundred chimps on transatlantic flight, for example, you'd have a blood bath. Humans have a range of tolerances for socializing but we all need some amount of social activity. Some variance is good, it provides adaptability and resilience to the species.


Question: why does turning a computer off and on again actually solve a large number of problems?

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Most problems are caused by software getting stuck in a bad state it cannot get out of. Turning the computer off and on causes all the software to start fresh.


Question: How do hospitals dispose of removed limbs, organs, etc.? What happens to the bio-waste after the hospital gets rid of it?

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Its incinerated. Either on site or by a company that specializes in medical waste disposal. Its quite effective in destroying all the microbes and hazardous parts.


Question: Why does platinum act as a catalyst?

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Hard to answer in general, since there are still unknowns about metal catalysis (which is why making a good catalyst for an application is a lot of testing and research, and not just putting in a hunk of Pt sponge and calling it a day). But in general, think about what a catalyst needs to be: * You want to use it a long time, so it mustn't be changed by the chemicals you're reacting * You want the molecules to interact with it * But you don't want them to get stuck permanently So what you're looking for is a material that is rather chemically unreactive, but makes molecules stick to it. But also not so strongly that they will never get away from it again. Pt checks all these boxes.


Question: Why do schools specify "NO DIXON BRAND" pencils in the school supply list?

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 Why do schools specify "NO DIXON BRAND" pencils in the school supply list?

Are you sure it isn't "No. 2 Dixon Brand"? And "HB" is the same as "No. 2," (international vs. U.S. nomenclature) so it seems odd that a school would specify *not* bringing the most popular weight. Sounds more like the schools are *requiring* Dixon brand or at least No. 2/HB pencils. Could that be?


Question: Why do most hallucinations instigate fear to the person suffering from it?

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Believe it or not it's actually influenced by the culture you are in. The eastern world, Asia, India etc...voices and hallucinations are nice and kind and encouraging for the most part, here in America they are harsh and mean. It's an environmental thing.


Question: How do ants locate a small food source inside of an enclosed house?

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Answer,: Ants follow smells, and explore by random. They actually walk certain amount of steps, while leaving pheromone trail. Then next ant walks the path, explores, and reinforces the trail. If an ant finds something interesting, they will return and tell other ants about it by using pheromones. If they don't find anything, the trail ends up fading over time, because lack of interest in the form of traffic. So how do they end up finding something. They explore randomly, and once they find something, they keep exploring from there on. Ants won't keep exploring an area if they don't find anything interesting.


Question: How is it possible that when talking on the phone, person A can suddenly lose signal and not hear person B, but Person B can hear person A perfectly well?

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 How is it possible that when talking on the phone, person A can suddenly lose signal and not hear person B, but Person B can hear person A perfectly well?

Modern communication systems use digital streams of data to connect calls. In most systems the signalling (setting up a call, putting it on hold, ending a call) is sent using SIP while the voice itself is sent in RTP (real time protocol) streams. The RTP streams are one way. So you have a dream from you to your destination and they have one back. It is possible that one of these streams gets disrupted, leading to one side hearing the call but the other not. Edit: I'm staying dreaming!


Question: Why do auroras always form as curved lines?

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Aurora form on curved lines because of the magnetic field of the earth. Above each magnetic pole is a "ring" where the magnetic lines of force are tilted downward enough to pull the high energy particles the sun is emitting down into the atmosphere. It's these particles colliding with the gasses at the upper layers of the atmosphere that cause aurorae. The aurorae are different color because of the different gasses. Oxygen gives the aurora their common green color but also sometimes red. Nitrogen can cause a really deep blue color. It really depends on how energetic the particles from the sun are and how hard they crash into the gas molecules in the atmosphere.


Question: Why is it that coffee sometimes makes me feel amazingly energetic and cognitively primed and other times it doesn’t seem to help with anything at all?

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It stops working because you burn out the adenosine receptors. Stop all caffeine consumption for two or three days and allow your brain to fix the receptors and clean up the extra neurotransmitter. You'll get that good feeling back again.


Question: How does glue not stick to the inside of the bottle?

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Lack of air. Glue will dry when it is exposed to air. If there isn't air circulating in the bottle, it won't dry. Leave the bottle open, and you will get dry glue.


Question: Why doesn’t cookie dough ice cream have a warning to “not eat raw cookie dough”?

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The cookie dough in ice cream either does not use eggs or uses pasteurized eggs. Thus they are fully safe to eat raw.


Question: How does a landfill work? Does it compact and compact or does it just keep piling up until its eventually taller than the buildings around it? Is it ever at risk of bursting or damaging anything around it?

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Modern sanitary/municipal landfills (at least in most of the developed world) are highly engineered structures. Holes are dug on flat ground or scraped out of the side of a hill, and "cells" are filled with highly compacted waste, ostensibly picked through to remove the worst environmental offenders (things like car batteries, drums of industrial waste, etc.). Each cell is lined with special barriers designed to last for decades that allow bacteria to thrive and break down most of the waste, while at the same time preventing contact with groundwater and channeling runoff (from rain percolating through the ground) into a collection system for treatment. Cells are sealed and buried as they fill up, and new ones are opened. This continues until the landfill is filled, then another barrier is placed on top and the whole thing is covered by a layer of soil. Sometimes the landfill will be built up higher than the original land, sometimes it's at the same height, but it's not a good idea to leave it as a depression - then water will fill the depression, and a lake over a landfill is a bad idea. Usually a system to vent gasses produced during decomposition is installed as well - they're largely passive venting systems (think pipes sticking up from the ground that allow lighter than air gasses to vent upwards). Some systems catch the vented gas and burn it to generate (a small amount) of power. Properly designed and properly maintained, there's no significant risk of bursting or collapse.


Question: Why do some people get really bad acne/pimples, and other people get next to none?

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Hormone levels have a bigger role to play that is usually discussed. Too much testosterone (no, it's not always a good thing even in males) can result in zits, no matter what you do. In women, too little estrogen and/or progesterone allows the testosterone (even women have some) to take the top position. Stress sets off hormones as well. And the thyroid is supposed to balance hormones, so it might be off. So go get a good workup to see what's really going on everywhere & don't let them just blame your hygiene or say "sucks to be you".


Question: What exactly is happening when you have a "lump in your throat" when you're about to cry?

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It's a muscle constriction in your throat when you're trying to hold back an emotion like immense sadness or grief. The muscles relax if you just go ahead and cry or scream or whatever.


Question: How are animals born with “instincts”? That is, how is it possible that newborn animals are born with the knowledge to do things like go to the water (sea turtles) or swim to a certain location to mate/eat (orcas)?

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Evolution works because only the variations that work get a chance to reproduce and pass on their genes while the variations that are detrimental tend to die. Baby sea turtles make a great snack for a lot of animals. Hatching sea turtles can go in any direction they want really. But the safest direction for them to go is the water. Imagine thousands or hundreds of thousands of generations of sea turtle babies hatching year after year. Which ones have the best chance of survival? The ones attracted to the sea. They are the ones most likely to pass on the genes that gave them a preference for the sea. The sea turtle babies that preferred to warm up in the sun a little likely all get eaten and don't pass on their genes. A selective pressure like that will change animals over successive generations until the urge to make a run for the sea is very strong in all sea turtles. After all, the ones missing that urge never reproduced. And not everything is simple instinct. Whales like orca's, often reproduce in very specific places because of their requirements. The reproduction of most animals is closely tied to the availability of food because reproducing is very resource-intensive for the parent and the young also need food. So, in the case of whales, they're not instinctively driven to certain areas. They're instinctively driven to reproduce when they get the chance to glut on food. For orca's, that's when other whales, seals, penguins, fish etc. start to reproduce. Which in turn is often when the food for those animals start to reproduce. Orcas tend to be very habitual. Different pods specialise in hunting different food sources. A pod can be traditional whale hunters, seal hunters or fish eaters despite all orca's being the same species. As such, they all share the instinct to reproduce when food is plentiful but where that is varies and is learned behaviour that young orcas pick up from their parents.


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The BBB is not a governmental agency or regulatory body. They function is neither to regulate business or to protect consumers. They can say anything they want, but at the end of the day, they just want money, often raised from "bribes" paid by companies.


Question: Why is it recommended to place fruit in a brown paper bag to ripen?

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 Why is it recommended to place fruit in a brown paper bag to ripen?

Ripening avocados produce a gas (ethylene), which plays a part in the ripening process. Putting the fruits in a paper bag helps keep more of the gas close to the fruit, so it speeds up the ripening. Simple as that. The same is true of many fruits (apples and bananas, for example). Other sorts of containers might work too, but I suspect that you'll hit other problems if the container is too airtight. A paper bag is going allow at least some flow of gases. Other chemicals can be used to get the same result. Acetylene is commonly used commercially, for example.


Question: Why is Berkshire Hathaway stock price over $270k?

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 Why is Berkshire Hathaway stock price over $270k?

When most companies' share prices get really high, the company will decide to do a *stock split.* For each share that a person holds, they get multiple shares. Then, the price of each share is cut by the same factor. For instance, if Company X is trading at $1000/share and they do a 10:1 split, everyone will get ten times as many shares as they had, but the shares will only be worth $100 each. This way, the value of the company and the value of everyone's investment stays the same, but it becomes easier to buy and sell smaller amounts of stock in the company. Apple has split its stock four times over the years. Had it never done these splits, it'd be trading at about $9186/share. (A common misconception is that a higher share price in one company vs. another means it's more valuable than the other. This would only be true if every company was divided into an equal number of shares, which is not the case. Apple is trading at $164/share, but has 5.17 billion shares outstanding, making the company worth $164x5.17B = $847 billion. Amazon is trading at $978/share, but has 480.38 million shares outstanding, making it worth 978x480.38M = $470 billion.) Warren Buffett refuses to split his company's stock, because he wants to attract long-term investors rather than people who want to easily buy and sell his company's stock. That being said, there are two different types, or classes, of Berkshire Hathaway stock. Class A shares cost about $270k and entitle the holder to 10,000 votes per share in corporate matters. Class B shares currently cost $180, **have** been split before, and only carry one vote per share.


Question: Why does it feel like time slows when you're doing something you don't enjoy and passes faster when you're having fun?

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 Why does it feel like time slows when you're doing something you don't enjoy and passes faster when you're having fun?

For this to explain we have to differentiate between "clock-time" (the measurement humanity has calculated) and our "mental-time" (basically our inner clock). Now if we have fun, our mental clock slows down. So we feel like time is speed up. That is because our brain works faster if we are happy or experience something meaningful. That is because our brain wants to see, taste, feel or hear more fun. We subconsciously forget about the "clock-time". This phenomena extends even furhter over the span of our lifetime. As you may heard already time seems to fasten up when you get older. Actually a nice thought when you know why it seems this way. :)


Question: The USPS delivers 471 million pieces of mail a day. Why would ~150 million mail-in ballots overwhelm the postal service?

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 The USPS delivers 471 million pieces of mail a day. Why would ~150 million mail-in ballots overwhelm the postal service?

The issue is that a Trump donor is running the post office since June around the time when it became clear that mail in voting was going to be big this election. Since then there have been several policy changes that are slowing down mail including removing sorting machines, cutting back hours, and removing collection boxes. Now, if you don't need mail by a certain date, this isn't an issue, but for the election, these mail in ballots have to arrive on election day otherwise they won't be counted (in most states). Trump knows what he is doing, why do think he's telling all of his voters to vote in person, he knows that millions of mail ballots won't be delivered in time. How does he know? He's making it happen. His appointee is doing wholesale changes to the USPS right before an election and he's blocking funding. This is some third world country shit and no one gives a shit.


Question: why does mineral sunscreen say to “reapply at least every two hours” when it’s still visibly on the skin’s surface at the end of the day?

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 why does mineral sunscreen say to “reapply at least every two hours” when it’s still visibly on the skin’s surface at the end of the day?

Because they take the average amount of time people need to reapply based on perspiration. And just because there is still some visible on your skin doesn't mean the coverage is unaffected. You could have large patches missing or thinned considerably, thereby significantly reducing it's efficacy. Reapplying is precautionary.


Question: (literally asked by my 5yo) What is coal?

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 (literally asked by my 5yo) What is coal?

...... coal used to be leaves and sticks (and animal bones if she thinks that kind of thing is cool, if it would freak her out, you can leave it out) from a long time ago. they fell on the ground in a forest or in a puddle just like stuff falls down today and makes a layer. but usually when stuff falls down, it can turn into soil (dirt) or can get burned, have you ever burned a stick in a fire? so like that. but this stuff from long ago got buried up or covered with water so fast, it couldn't burn or turn into dirt. it just kept getting buried under more and more stuff, and squashed down more and more, until it stopped being fluffy and got harder and harder. just like how you can squash down cotton candy. and eventually it turned into a rock. but you can still burn that rock, and sometimes people do dig it up and burn it. but when they do all the stuff that happens from digging and burning can happen.


Question: What makes up the rest of the weight in food?

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A lot of it is water. Or other inedables like bones. It is basically things that our body can not take use of in a meaningful way.


Question: Are angry and belligerent drunks just people who are angry inside, and their inhibitions are removed?

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 Are angry and belligerent drunks just people who are angry inside, and their inhibitions are removed?

Alcohol is a depressant. This means that it's inhibiting other systems in your body that keep various things in check. How this works out for an individual depends on the current homeostasis their body has, and what parts of that are based on active suppression. So someone who depends on continual supreme mental control to keep themselves from becoming outwardly angry will fly off the handle when drunk, whereas someone who makes healthy life choices and avoids putting themselves in situations where they would become frustrated/angry will likely just get sleepy when drunk. Everyone else falls somewhere in between.


Question: Do water dams have an impact on the earth’s rotation?

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 Do water dams have an impact on the earth’s rotation?

Of course. It’s a pretty famous fun fact that the biggest dam in the world, the Three Gorges Dam in China increased the length of a day across the world by 0.06 microseconds. The primary reason for this was that water that would usually end up being stored in the oceans was stored at a higher elevation, increasing the earth’s moment of inertia a little bit. 0.06 microseconds isn’t at all significant in all other respects though, no climate impact expected.


Question: If computers run on code, then how did the original computers know how to process code? How was the first computer programmed?

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 If computers run on code, then how did the original computers know how to process code? How was the first computer programmed?

There is something called "machine code", which is the code actually executed by processors. The processors are physically built to understand such code, they "know" how to execute it because of the way their transistors are connected.


Question: Why do fingernails and toenails grow at different rates on different digits?

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Nails also get worn down at different rates. But they can grow at different rates because of old injury, or different stresses on the nails changing circulation. Alcohol use or drug use as well as illness and malnutrition can alter nail growth rates, and those effects can be permanent to different degrees on different nails. Edit: also infection in the nail bed can also affect growth rates.


Question: How do roses that last for years work?

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Not sure how those exact roses are preserved, but one way of creating eternal roses it is to take a recently cut rose, submerge it in a mixture of glycerine and water, the rose will gradually replace its sap with the liquid and after a couple of days you have a flower that will last forever (or at least a couple of years..)


Question: how is mobile data different than a network? If I am connected to an unsecured network, wouldn't I be at the same risk as if a malicious person were on the same mobile network?

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No, the protocols are different where the mobile network has individual encryption to each end user. A wifi network only has one encryption for all its users.


Question: how does the inflation works? How come everything costs more than 50 years ago?

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Governments try to run monetary policy so that there is a small but consistent level of inflation, achieved through a combination of controlling interest rates at the central bank and issuing money through raising government debt. They do this because a small level of inflation encourages investment and encourages people and companies to take out loans to invest, thus moving money around the economy. Too high inflation starts to impact day to day lives through rapidly falling wages. Deflation tends to be very bad - when money grows in value on its own, and when the real value of outstanding debt increases, and when goods will cost less tomorrow than they do today, then the net effect is that everyone who can stops spending money, which pulls even more money out of the system, which causes further deflation while pushing up unemployment. It’s a spiral that’s very hard to get out of.


Question: How does an ice scraper remove ice without scratching up the windows or the glass?

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 How does an ice scraper remove ice without scratching up the windows or the glass?

Ice is way softer than glass. The plastic the scraper is made of is harder than ice, bit softer than glass.


Question: What is the process of recreating the taste/flavour of different food, or even random things (like in Jelly Belly jelly beans for example)?

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All natural flavors are made of a mixture of chemicals, but there's usually one or two main chemicals that are responsible for most of the taste. These are called esters. If you add these esters to a product, the product will taste, to some degree, like orange or banana. To make more realistic flavors you add other chemicals in the correct proportions to get closer and closer to the real thing. This is why many artificial flavors (banana, grape, watermelon, for example) don't taste much like the real thing: they're a cocktail of flavors from other chemicals. Most watermelon flavored candy actually contains an ester found in pears. Creating a new taste is can be done by trial and error or by chemical analysis of the real thing. There are hundreds of chemicals known to be flavoring agents. They are normally mixed to create "known" tastes (fruits, etc) but can be experimented with to achieve other tastes (meaning, yes, someone had to taste all the attempts at a vomit flavor) More in-depth explanation at [howstuffworks]( URL_0 )


Question: - If atoms are 99.99999999% empty space then why isn't everything invisible?

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Atoms aren't 99% empty space. That was an idea thrown around back when the Bohr model of the atom was the most accurate. Don't think electrons as point like objects but rather clouds that have varying densities. The electron cloud occupies most of the space in atoms and molecules, but is far from "empty space."


Question: Can bugs hear? I was at a loud symphony yesterday and there was a moth just flying around. I also heard that for humans, a sound so loud can cause like a heart or lung embolism. Is the same true for insects?

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Im not sure about all bugs but female crickets are attracted to the song of males before they mate. Mute males even detect the vocal males and can intercept their potential mate by hanging close by lol


Question: Why do we not capitalize some words in titles such as “the” and “and”? Is there a specific rule for which to capitalize?

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There are a couple of different style guides for titles, but the general rules are these: * Capitalize the first and last words no matter what * Capitalize all nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives * Do not capitalize articles, conjunctions, or prepositions unless they're the first or last words So put those together and you can see which words don't get capitalized - usually the shorter, connecting words of a sentence. So we can take a few examples: * The Sun Also Rises * Capitalizing "the" as it's the first word, even though it's an article * Little House on the Prarie * not capitalizing "on," a preposition, or "the," an article Some styles will capitalize longer prepositions like, say, "beneath," but it's really up to the publisher. And more newspapers and online articles are using a sentence-style titling where only nouns are capitalized, but the rules above hold true for a typical book or article title.