Question: Why does it take so long for programmes in the US to get broadcast to other countries?

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 Why does it take so long for programmes in the US to get broadcast to other countries?

I think it's to do with licensing for shows - it may be cheaper to license the show for the week after it aired in the US rather than broadcasting it simultaneously plus they may not make enough from the advertising to make it worth the simultaneous broadcast.


Question: What happens to your brain when you regularly meditate?

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Analogy: Imagine you inherited a sword from your grandparents as soon as you were born. You then grew into a teen, yet, the sword was still too heavy for you to gain mastery over it. You then became an adult, you start to appreciate the fine art on the sword and realize that mastery over this sword would be valuable for you as it may save your life one day. You then begin practicing day after day and increasing your time spent on practice with each passing day. Eventually, you reach a point where you are able to make accurate, efficient and calculated swings, resulting in mastery of the sword. This sword is your attention. (May not be the best analogy but this is what I've got.) It is important to note that meditation exists in numerous forms. It is also plausible that each method of meditation may impact/alter our brains differently. For the current explanation, I will be explaining the specific method of mindfulness meditation which has been a popular method used amongst western cultures and is also widely supported by empirical evidence in the field of psychology. In essence, meditation could be thought of as a form of neuronal or "brain" training. On a daily basis, we are constantly flooded with sensory information that either distracts or attracts our attention. This distraction and attraction of our attention is one of the common things that drains us of our energy. Therefore, the common practice suggested to beginners would be to focus on your breathing. It is this act of bringing your conscious attention to your breathing or a particular stimulus, that serves as a form of training for the brain. Regular practice of meditation enhances your ability to maintain prolonged attention to a stimulus. Meditation enhances sustained attention due to our brains ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life (also known as neuroplasticity). This ability allows us to see significant differences in brains of people who meditate regularly and those who do not. The differences are as follow: Research using MRI (used to produce detailed pictures of organs) have been able to identify increased volumes of grey matter in multiple regions of the brain of people who meditate regularly (prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, orbitofrontal cortex, right hippocampus, left inferior temporal gyrus, cerebellum). Grey matter resides in regions of brain responsible for muscle control, sensory perception, seeing, hearing, memory, emotions, speech, decision making and self control. Research using fMRI (to detect increased blood flow to specific parts of the brain), researchers have observed increased neuronal activities in various parts of the brain (anterior cingulate cortex, frontal cortex, and prefrontal cortex, specifically in the dorsal medial prefrontal area). This suggests that meditators were more successful in attention regulation These findings are indicative of the individuals increased/decreased ability to voluntarily take control over their attention during mindfulness meditation. Now imagine if you learned to regulate your attention and when need to, expand 100% of your attention to whatever you're doing. Life would be great. Hope this answers your question.


Question: How did we count the years before we knew that the earth went around the sun?

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We still had seasons. So someone might say their child was born during fall harvest and has been through 5 winters. Or use landmark points in time and say they got their scars during the wildfire of the dry summer thunderstorm. I don't know how useful it would have been to most people to know exactly how many years there were between points in time, but if it needed to be measured, humans are clever pattern seekers.


Question: How do forms of alternative computing such as DNA and molecular computers work?

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All computers are something called a Turing Machine. You can look up the specific definition here - URL_0 But a tl;dr of it is, every computer consists of 3 things: 1. Something to store data 2. Something to manipulate the stored data 3. Set of rules that work with that data The third one is just a set of logical rules. For example, if you are presented with two things, lets say a blob of blue paint and a blob of yellow paint. The rule may say, combine them and drop a blob of green paint somewhere. This is in essence what a binary computer does, present it with a 1 and a 0, output 10 somewhere. In a typical binary computer, #1 is something like your RAM or your hard drive. #2 is your CPU. #3 is in the arrangement of transistors in your CPU. For a DNA computer, #1 is the DNA, #2 is in the arrangement of the DNA sequence, #3 use DNA and proteins to stitch patterns together. It should be noted that DNA computers are painfully slow (days to do something a normal computer would spend seconds on) and error prone, it's still a field in its infancy. We also haven't developed a general purpose computer using DNA yet (Called a Universal Turing Machine). Your alarm clock is a Turing Machine, but it can't do stuff that your PC and phone can. Your PC and phone are Universal Turing Machines because they can do anything any other Turing Machine can do, such as act as an alarm clock.


Question: Has pregnancies (in humans) always taken 9 months? Is there any possibility that the development time could increase or decrease in the future?

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For reference, our closest relatives have gestations of 230 (chimp) and 257 (gorilla) days, compared to our 270. Rhesus monkeys gestate for 164 days, baboons for 187. Our gestation time has slowly lengthened as we evolved to be a larger species, and could feasibly continue to do so. Essentially, bigger animals need longer in the womb. Judging by the 8 month chimp, and the 8.5 month gorilla gestations, it has at least been close to 9 months for as long as we've been recognisably human. Where it gets interesting is whether or not this span will make an upward or downward trend in the future- and I'd estimate upward. The average height of a human has increased greatly over the past century due to availability of nutrition. Larger mothers have larger children, which would hypothetically need a longer gestation. However, this is environmental, and hasn't necessarily been selected for in our genes. Humans have also hit a roadblock on gestation- we're limited by the size of the birthing canal. Our massive brains need to develop, and if they were any larger at birth, we wouldn't be able to be born. (This is why human babies are so helpless- that giant brain is basically a blank slate at birth because it wants more development time, but can't get it in the womb.) With increased availability for C-sections these days, women having very large babies can still safely deliver. And these over gestated children, which otherwise wouldn't be born, are able to survive and enter the gene pool. All of these lean towards a longer gestation. However, at the same time, medical advances mean that children who are born prematurely are also able to survive and enter the gene pool when they otherwise wouldn't. So all up, I don't think we'll see much change in our gestation time in a hurry. Over a few million years, it might move a week or two either way. tldr; a) No, with a but, and b) yes, with a but.


Question: Why do landlocked countries have naval forces?

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Landlocked countries are usually defined as those without a coast. However this doesn't mean they have no access to the sea necessarily. For instance Paraguay would appear to be landlocked, but it is connected to the ocean through rivers. They have a navy which patrols these rivers for protection against the usual things like piracy, smuggling, or that sort of thing and of course defense against aggressive neighbors if it comes to that.


Question: Why is the word "consumer" used instead of "customer"?

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They mean different things. A customer is someone who buys a product. A consumer is someone who uses a product. These might frequently be the same person but they're performing different functions. They're not quite synonymous.


Question: are crustaceans bugs? And why or why not?

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No, they are crustaceans. Insects and crustaceans are both Arthropods, but so are 80% of the animals on Earth. Still they are very different creatures. Crustaceans are similar to insects in the same way that cats are similar to humans.


Question: Why do some horses need horseshoes?

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Horses only really need shoes if they're workhorses. Horse hooves are made of keratin (the same material as your nails). If they're walking around every day lugging around heavy things, or walking around on hard terrain/cobblestone/concrete, horseshoes stop their hooves from eroding/wearing down. Same reason why you might wear work gloves so you don't get blisters but not when you're at home.


Question: SSRIs, SNRIs... why would you want to treat depression by stopping these neurotransmitters from being absorbed more?

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Don’t think of them as absorbing and excreting. Think of them as a means to plug the holes in the pool so the water will last a bit longer before evaporating. :) shimmering, happy water in the happy little pool.


Question: What does that artistic spiral made of boxes of increasing size mean?

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You're thinking of the Golden Ratio, also described as the Golden Rectangle. It's a principle that things in nature tend to grow in a certain shape, and that pictures composed using this shape tend to look good. URL_0


Question: How does torrenting files (movies, shows, etc.) work?

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Instead of just connecting to one single server that hosts the file you want, your torrent software downloads pieces of the file from several other users (called peers) that already have those pieces. At the same time, the pieces that you have already downloaded get shared with other users. A service called a *tracker* keeps track of all the connected users and which pieces they have. URL_0


Question: Why do people get dizzy while reading in the car? Is there any way to avoid the dizziness while still being able to read in the car?

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a ) Not everyone gets dizzy. b ) This would be your brain being confused trying to process conflicting information. Your eyes are telling your brain that you're still, quietly reading while stationary. Your inner ear (sense of balance) is telling your brain it is moving, because it sense the car movement. The result is your brain not knowing if it is still or moving and getting confused and sick.


Question: Do base values change the patterns in numbers?

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Yes. Changing the base can change the patterns you find in numbers. Consider 1/12 in the following bases. 2: 0.0001010101... 3: 0.002020202... 4: 0.01111.... 5: 0.020202... 6: 0.3 7: 0.040404... 8: 05252525... 12: 0.1 > If you were to apply a different base value to calculate Pi, would it still show no signs of patterns or repetitions? Pi is allowed to have patterns and repetitions. It just can't be a pattern or repetition that repeats indefinitely. You can use irrational numbers as bases, in which case pi would be equal to 10. In which case it would terminate, rather than repeat. > Would the Fibonacci sequence still produce the golden ratio? Yes, certainly. Remember that different bases don't change the values of numbers, just the symbols we use to represent them. And you can don't even need numbers at all to represent the Fibonacci sequence. You can imagine it as the length of a rope, for example. You can then replicate the sequence without ever knowing "how long" the rope is.


Question: How does the ISS travel at 17k kmph for years without using much fuel?

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Because there isn't really anything slowing it down. There isn't any air in space that it hast to move through, and there also isn't any friction from tires or whatever. However, there is a tiny amount of stuff with slows it down *very* slowly, so we do occasionally send up propellant.


Question: If 70-75% of all stock trades are executed by lightning-fast, software-driven, algorithm-based High-Frequency Trading (HFT), what advantage is there to the remaining 25-30% of trades occurring at traditional human timescales (especially those occurring on trade floors)?

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not everything needs to happen lightning fast, the fast trading really counts when you are "day trading" and looking for stocks that move in that moment(for example you see it start to go up you buy it you then wait for 10 mins you see it start to go down and you sell it,you are trying to get a profit by the minute or sometimes second). but there are still a lot of people who just want to buy a stock and just let it be, for example you save some money and want to invest it so you go and buy some stocks or bonds buying it in lightning fast speed or waiting a couple of minutes has no effect for you.


Question: How do ants cling to a surface so strongly that blowing at them hard doesn't budge them, even if the surface is somewhat smooth?

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Ants like many small creatures have tiny hooks on the ends of their legs. They simply hook into whatever they are standing on. Even when a surface looks smooth, at the microscopic level there are scratches and protrusions that your eye just can't see.


Question: Why are most reptiles carnivorous?

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 Why are most reptiles carnivorous?

[Turtles and Iguanas]( URL_0 ) are herbivorous reptiles.


Question: Why are theatrical movies 2.40:1 or a similar aspect ratio but our TVs are only 16:9?

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The 16:9 size was chosen as a compromise between the wider shape of most movies, and the narrower shape of older TV shows. This way neither one looks ridiculous.


Question: Is donating money/food to help starving people in africa even helpful?

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I would say donating physical goods which they can produce themselves (food, clothing, toys) is a very bad idea. Donations of clothes to Kenya have destroyed their textile industry, which shrunk from employing [500,000 people to 20,000]( URL_0 ) A good idea would be to donate technology, education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. Look for charities that are working on these long-term sustainable approaches. An even better idea would be to just buy stuff from the African nations you wanted to donate to. If their industries grow they will have more employment, access to credit and self-sustainability. Of course, if there is an active disaster like a tsunami, earthquake or civil war, then donating physical goods like food/water/medicine is fine. The local industries will not be able to meet their own needs in these cases.


Question: Why do babies find it easier to sleep when they are given a to and fro motion, like in a rocker chair?

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 Why do babies find it easier to sleep when they are given a to and fro motion, like in a rocker chair?

Google the “fourth trimester”. The theory is that for the first three months after a baby is born their preferred environment is still the womb. Rocking motions mimic the same rocking motion of floating in the womb. Parents are also encouraged to “woosh” softly to mimic the sound of the mother’s blood flow in the womb. I think there are some other ones from what I recall from when my son was born.


Question: When watching football/soccer why can you hear the sound of the ball beeing kicked but not the players shouting/talking to eachother?

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The cocktail party effect: The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon of the brain's ability to focus one's auditory attention (an effect of selective attention in the brain) on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.


Question: When a clock is say, five minutes ahead of time and we reset it, why does it return to being five minutes ahead?

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The timing mechanisms(?) are off, so a minute or an hour on your clock is not the same as a minute or hour in real life, so gradually over time it begins to get further and further out of sync. Then someone notices it is out of time, resets it and the process starts again.


Question: If you look into a mirror at a reflection of something far away, are you looking far away or nearby?

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Your eyes focus on the virtual image ‘through’ the mirror so you’re looking far away. You can actively focus your eyes on the glass of the mirror which blues the surroundings and is how you look nearby in the case of your question.


Question: Why does persevering food via airtight seal work?

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Regular old "put in a plastic bag" delays spoilage, but does not prevent it. It limits exposure to new bacteria and fungi which means that they can only multiply from what is there, not add new ones (which would then also multiply). But it also helps regulate moisture which can keep something from going stale quickly. Or it can prevent dry things (like crackers or cookies) from getting soggy in humid air.


Question: How does 50% sodium salt exist?

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They displace sodium chloride with potassium chloride. It doesn’t taste exactly the same, which is why light salt tastes a bit strange. Source: URL_0


Question: How do metal detectors work?

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Metal detectors work by creating a magnetic field. When a piece of metal enters this magnetic field the equipment is built to sense the loss of energy that is flowing into this piece of metal, even really small.


Question: How does Ink stick to paper?

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The ink doesn't stick per se. At a smaller scale, the paper is a bunch of wood fibers that are matted together in a sheet, almost like cloth! Here's an image of paper under a microscope: URL_0 & nbsp; When the ink touches the paper, the paper absorbs the ink into the gaps between the fibers, much like cloth absorbs water. After the ink dries, the water disappears, but the pigment remains trapped between the fibers.


Question: What's the difference between how banks function and how a pyramid scheme functions?

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Banks actually make money with their investments. A pyramid scheme just involves handing money to people for no reason. Then you have Ponzi schemes that lie about making profits and just take all the money


Question: In early ancient history how did they tell whether diamonds (and other gemstones) were real?

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 In early ancient history how did they tell whether diamonds (and other gemstones) were real?

first up, weight. diamonds are very dense, so they should weigh more then glass. second up, volume. lets say you make a fake crown, filled with iron and not pure gold. the crown weighs exactly 1 kg. 1kg of gold has a certain volume, iron has another volume. so if you carefully place 1 kg of gold in a full bucket of water, some will spill out, that spilling is the volume of the gold. the shape doesnt matter. if that gold bar/crown is filled with only gold, it would displace just as much water as the kg of gold would. the first guy who figured this out yelled "eureka" and ran around naked trough town, but the sience is sound. the same trick can be applied to anything, a fake ruby/diamond would have another weight/volume ratio and that can be measured with a bucket of water.


Question: Why/what are people spraying on the floor after a nuclear/chemical accident?

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A lot of radiation's danger comes from irradiated particles - dust, graphene particles, etc. You can breathe them in, or they could settle on your clothes etc. So something that's usually done is a chemical that binds all these particles down, so they stop floating around or settling on things. You cannot wash away radiation - but you can "wash away" irradiated particles. During Chernobyl for example they sprayed chemical around that bound all the irradiated stuff down to the ground, and then they literally replaced the entire top level of soil in the area (because irradiated stuff was "locked" to that soil by the chemicals they sprayed).


Question: If the bubonic plague was present throughout so much of human history, why was the outbreak from 1346 to 1353 (the black death) so much worse than the other outbreaks?

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It was able to quickly spread across all Europe (and probably north Africa too) though the Mediterranean trade network. A lack of hygiene and previous starvation also worsened the situation. Moreover, it's wasn't only the bubonic plague, there was also its pneumonic form, which is much more contagious and deadly.


Question: If neither of my parents have O+ as their blood type, how am I O+?

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Theres 3 blood types: A, B, and O. Genes determine what blood type we get. Genes also come in pairs: one from mom and one from dad. If someone is type A blood, their genotype could be AA or AO. Either of those genotypes can result in type A blood since O is recessive. In your case, if both your parents do not have O blood, they can still carry that O gene to pass onto you (AO mom + AO dad — > AA/AO/OO kids). The +/- means if your blood cells carry a specific tag marker. If you’re O+, it just means your parents carry the O gene as well as the + gene.


Question: How come we can know who a certain person is just by hearing their voice? What makes us able to distinguish between people?

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Somebody with a neuroscience background could probably better answer your question, but in short our brains are wired to be exceptionally good at identifying people. There's actually a certain part of the brain specifically for recognizing faces. Think how easy it is to identify 100+ people you know of just by their face. That's no small feat. We certainly couldn't do that for, say, 100 different cows. People with damage to this area suffer from prosopagnasia. They can identify a mouth, eyes, etc, but cant put it together to put a name to a face. Voice recognition I believe is similar. Probably to a lesser degree, but our brains are very fine tuned for this. It makes good evolutionary sense. Mothers can easily pick out the sound of their child in a crowded area, etc.


Question: Why do pubic hairs get curly as it grows longer?

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To put it very simply, hair grows of 2 kinds of pores. Circular and oval. When hair grow out of circular pores, they come out straight. When hair grows out of oval pores, it gets curly (cos it's less directed, imagine it).


Question: What makes us forget what we were literally about to say?

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Our brains are poor data-storage and retrieval devices because it didn't make the difference between life and death in the food chain. Consider all of the things that *did* make the difference and look how well developed they are: - You have excellent front-facing colour vision that can quickly adapt between high and low light environments. - You can tell where sounds are around you because you have excellent spacial-awareness and audio positioning. - You have opposable thumbs for gripping things delicately. And associated well-refined muscle groups for manipulation, allowing you to craft tools and get the most out of your food. - In an endurance race, you can out run nearly *all* other animals on planet earth. - You have built in parental instincts that make you want to nurture something with a cute face and large eyes, because it incentives us to protect our offspring. - You have built in senses of revulsion to things that look diseased, rotted or otherwise wrong to stop you from consuming it and becoming ill. - You have a lack of hair on your body to make parasites easier to detect. - When another human vommits you feel compelled to do the same to preemptively flush out the same poison. Complex conversations with other apes however? For hundreds of thousand of years, nobody ever died because they took 2-3 seconds to remember the name of that thing they saw once. So it wasn't all that high on evolutions *things to adapt* list.


Question: Why is shampoo not good enough to also be used as body wash?

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Body wash or even hand soap is good enough to wash your hair and even your clothes. Soap is soap and there is not that many variants of it. However you may want to mix some products in the soap you use for your hair to get different effects. Most of these will be harmless to use on the rest of your body. However anti-dandruff shampoo might make your skin dry out and flake off. And using shampoo to wash the rest of your body is a bit of a waste of money. However if you are packing light and have to pick one soap then there is no problems.


Question: Why do we have that ‘sour face’ when eating sour food?

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It's not entirely known but there are some hypothesises as to possibly why. One is that we're a social species and communicate a lot through our facial expressions, especially before language evolved. Certain tastes, such as sour, can denote that food has spoilt or it poisonous. The facial expression may be to warn others of our tribe. Another is that when you make that face you put pressure on your salivary glands which squeezes out extra saliva which then dilutes what's in your mouth and makes it more bearable. Could also be both. Could be something else we haven't thought of.


Question: Why have animals still not figured out that roads are dangerous for them?

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Busy roads have only been around for a blink of an eye. It generally takes much longer than that to evolve behaviours to deal with new threats. Additionally, another thing to consider is that perhaps simply not enough animals are killed by roads to change their behaviour. If a squirrel has a (just coming up with random numbers) 1 in 20 chance of dying from a car, and a 5 in 20 chance of dying from a fox, there will be a much higher pressure on 'fox behaviour' than 'car behaviour'. And sometimes, the kind of behaviour that helps them deal with other predators is what gets them killed on roads.


Question: what is anxiety as a feeling and why does it seem like it's becoming more common?

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You know that moment of gut-wrenching fear when you see the face of someone who is a second away from telling you that someone you loved just died? Or the suckerpunch feeling when you start to fall? It's like that, but can last for hours/days. A severe panic attack is so painful and scary people routinely mistake them for a heart attack. In a mild case, it feels like the night before a big test but for no reason. Part of why it seems more prevalent is we call it by a different name. Long ago, people with anxiety were 'neurotic' or an 'invalid' or 'hysterical' or just outcast completely if it was severe.


Question: If everyone is paying by card, then where is all the cash money that’s not being used?

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Mostly, it was just never printed. That is it's created when a bank loans out money (banks are allowed to loan out more money than they have), and the federal reserve maintains an account for banks, if the banks need cash the federal reserve can take from their account and ship money to them, if they have too much they can take money and put it in their account. If the federal reserve doesn't have enough cash to satisfy the request they print more, if they have too much they might destroy more than they receive. If a bank loans out money to someone, and they electronically transfer it to someone else (such as via credit card), money is created and sent, but it was never needed as cash, so nobody ever transferred it to a federal reserve account and asked for it as cash, thus the federal reserve never had a need to print it.


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The light that usually passes through the water reflects and refracts off of the surfaces of the bubbles that are made when the water crashes into whatever it's crashing into.


Question: This might be stupid, but is sound louder on planets with thicker atmospheres than earth’s because there are more air molecules that carry the sound vibrations? If so, would it be vice versa for planets with thinner atmospheres than earth’s?

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 This might be stupid, but is sound louder on planets with thicker atmospheres than earth’s because there are more air molecules that carry the sound vibrations? If so, would it be vice versa for planets with thinner atmospheres than earth’s?

The amount of energy in the sound waves and therefore how loud the sound is remains the same no matter what the sound travels through. Different materials and different pressures does cause different impedances but this only matters when transfering the sound between materials with different impedance and not how loud the sounds are. What you do get with different pressures however is how loud the maximum volume can be. Sound is waves of varying pressure so it is possible that a sound wave creates vacuum or at least very close to a vacuum. And since you can not create pressures lower then vacuum the volume of the sound is sort of capped. This is the same thing that happens when you max out a microphone or speaker and you start getting that ugly cracking sound. You can hear the exact same sound during rocket launches when the sound generated by the rockets gets above what the pressures on Earth is able to carry. And with a lower pressure this would happen at lower volumes. For example you are able to carry human voices and similar sounds in the Martian atmosphere however and louder sounds like a hammer hitting a rock will sound muffled and broken because there is not enough pressure in the atmosphere to carry the sound.


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The signal is reflecting off some items, blocked by others. And the reflections can collide with each other, creating complex patterns of interference over very short distances.


Question: How did humans start measuring angles and how do we know for sure they are even relatively accurate?

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The Babylonians in 1500 BCE measured angles using a hexagon, dividing a circle into 60*6=360 parts and using pi = 3.125. Before that, the Egyptians had a gadget called a groma that measured right angles. They were accurate enough to build the Pyramids.


Question: People say that Apollo 11 could have been done with a normal calculator, so why is space flight nowadays still so hard?

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All the math your computer does to run Call of Duty could be solved with an Abacus and a lot of patience. There were professional mathematicians titled Calculators who did loads of math on pencil and paper to figure out flight trajectories and stuff that today we have complex programs that can do it in real time. Fun fact, many early maneuvers in space were eyeballed by the astronauts because they didn't have time to do the math. Getting into space may take less time to do mathwise, but rockets are still engineering marvels and take a load of work to make and maintain.


Question: if a lightyear is the distance light travels in one year, how do we know something is 1000 light years away? Would we not have to wait 1000 years before we know, or do we use something other than light to measure objects in space?

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For distant stars and galaxies, there's some highly educated guesswork based on apparent speed and brightness, but for closer ones, there's actually a really intuitive method called **parallax**! It works like this: suppose there's some distant object like a mountain that you want to know the distance to. Notice that as you walk sideways, closer objects like trees appear to pass you much faster than the mountain. This is the parallax effect. To use it mathematically, simply measure how far you walked, and how far you had to rotate your head to keep the mountain in view. Now the start point, end point, and the mountain itself form a triangle, of which you know the measure of one side and two angles. Using trigonometry, this is enough information to determine the remaining sides, which are the distance between you and the mountain! It would be difficult to walk far enough on earth to see a measurable change in the location of a star, but we can "walk" the entire earth just by waiting 6 months for it to be on the opposite side of its orbit. This enables us to calculate the position of nearby stars, without actually going to them.


Question: why do puddles of spilt drinks (whether wet or alr dried up) attract ants? can they physically pick up the water or sugar molecules?

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They drink it. Later on, if need be, they can vomit it back up to feed the rest of their colony.


Question: Why is it that a new television costs about 1000 dollars, it has android, a chipset, wifi etc, while a phone wich is much smaller, but has also a chipset etc, also costs 1000 dollars ?

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Smaller, more intrinsic technology to fit in to the space. The quality of the housing, the function. Tiny technology is more expensive to produce than something 20 times its size.


Question: How would a carbon tax affect the price of meat vs vegetables?

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Yes, a carbon tax would impact meat, fruit, and vegetables. Unless you walk to the orchard to eat apples, transportation cost is a major cost factor in all food costs. Farmers and distributors would pay the tax, and pass it on to you.


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You’re a potato clock but instead of telling time, you breathe and blink and your heart beats.


Question: What determines which country has the strongest currency?

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Note that "strongest currency" isn't really a well defined term. Currently, the "strongest" in a truest sense is the dollar, due to the petrodollar, America's large presence in the world economy, etc. But, what about the pound or the euro? Aren't those "worth" more than the dollar? No. That's not how it works. *Relative* movements can say something about an economy's strength; the absolute amount is completely arbitrary and due to historical events with no relevance to the current time. The value of currencies relative to each other is supply and demand. People, and countries, buy currency. If Walmart wants to buy some toys from China, they have to buy RMB with dollars to buy the toys. That means the RMB goes up in price, because there's more demand and less supply of RMB. The YEN is roughly 1:100 with the dollar. Does that mean the US's economy is 100 times stronger than Japan's? If Japan decided to denote everything in "super-yen", where 1 super-yen = 10 dollars, is Japan's economy 10 times stronger than the US's? Even though they didn't do anything? No. It really doesn't matter. If one guy says he has 20 nickles, and another says he has 4 quarters, does the guy with 20 nickles have more money? Not really, it's just a different base unit. At some point in the mid 20th century countries decided to toss the gold standard and use this "free market" based approach for the relative value of their currencies. The relative values at that time because the "base". Furthermore, countries can (and have) "rebased" their currencies by just inventing a bigger base.


Question: Whats the rationale behind grocery stores using "Sell By" instead of "Best Before" for expiry dates on food items?

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The "sell by" date is just an arbitrary number the store assigned to the product. This helps their FIFO (First In, First Out) processes, since they don't want older product sitting on the shelves for too long. Sell-by is *not* an expiration. The store/manufacturers anticipate that it will sit in your fridge or pantry for a while. If there's a real expiration date, it should be printed on the product/packaging. "Best Before" is also not an expiration date. It's just the cutoff date in which they no longer guarantee that a product will be fresh. You might see this on a bag of potato chips. They won't be *bad*, but they could be a little stale. "Use By" is an expiration date. There's usually a decent-sized buffer here, but it's essentially the company saying that the product is getting pretty old and they'd rather not be liable if you get sick from consuming it beyond this point.


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Just getting indoors, and away from windows will greatly reduce risk in the event of a large explosion.


Question: What's the difference between crack and cocaine?

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There is a small chemical difference. Cocaine hydrochloride is a salt of the cocaine molecule (slightly alkaline) and hydrochloric acid. Salts generally have high melting and evaporation temperatures and are more water-soluble. Reaction with a more strongly alkaline material, sodium bicarbonate, and the acid is striped away leaving the free base molecule. That has a lower evaporation temperature so the drug can be inhaled in the gas phase for quick effect rather than having to dissolve in the mucous membranes lining places like the nose and mouth and be absorbed that way.


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If you are talking about more modern mega fauna, say the last 1/4 million years. The evolution of an advance apex predator decimated most of them. If your talking beyond that. The Cambrian era, whichever one with the giant bugs and such, I believe it was due to higher levels of oxygen allowed them to grow large. Dinosaurs, higher oxygen levels and evolutionary warfare. One Dino grows big to evade predators and reach food, so prey animals adapt. To be fair it has been a really long time since I have really read up on this sort of thing, so some of what I know to be true may no longer be fact.


Question: If pasta is made of the same things (flour, egg, water), whats the point of the dozens of shapes?

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It's about the sauce. Sauces cling on to each shape differently. Lighter sauces coat long pastas well. Tube shaped and ridged pastas work well with thicker sauces because they can pick up the sauce better. Buttery sauces are best with filled pastas. There are many great online guides. You should check them.


Question: How do you simulate protein folding computationally and why does it require massive computational power?

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We know how atoms interact with one another fairly well. We can use that information, relatively easily, to simulate things like the crystal lattice in metals. Because every atoms acts the same it isn't bad. We can also do alloys with mixes of metals. We have more interactions going on but we can figure it out. Then we get more complicated stuff like chain molecules and proteins. We still know how the atoms should behave except we now have a lot of atoms all potentially interacting with each other. If we want to accurately determine how these atoms interact we also need to take into account timescales. In a videogame if your physics updates 30 times per second you'll be fine for the most part. With atoms if you do that then your molecules might just fall apart (a relatively high velocity atom that would get slowed down by bonds/collisions instead just flies away). This means we need lots and lots of really small steps in our simulation. Bring that all together we have a really complicated system with lots of lots of interactions that needs to be looked at/calculated many many times. Right now the best/only way to really do that is by brute force (lots of computing power).


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Are you asking about magic as in supernatural, or magic as in illusions performed by magicians? If it's the former, the idea of magic has been around as long as humans had the ability to think about complex ideas, so there's no way to know or say when it originated. It's certainly been written about since the first written languages came about. As for why it's associated with medieval times with knights and dragons, that's a product of you presumably growing up in western society. Every culture has it's own conception and history of magic. If you grew up in the Middle East or Asia or Africa, you'd have an entirely different concept of magic appropriate to your local history and traditions, although there are certainly common themes that you'll find in magic lore of many different societies.


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I'm surprised no one has mentioned that roasting almost always includes coating the food in an added fat to aid in the cooking or browning process whereas baking is dry. E.g. potatoes: baked potato (no oil, could be in tin foil); roasted potatoes (tossed in cooking oil). ETA: The word *coated


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there's a specific type of nerve cells called nociceptors that report pain. Our brain doesn't have any so it can't feel pain.