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explainlikeimfive/cibolvy | 28jjzs | Why is a drone strike considered invariably worse than an f-16 pilot dropping a 500lb JDAM? | When the crossbow was first invented, it allowed a grubby peasant to kill a noble knight. For a while people, mostly those who relied on knights, labeled crossbows as "dishonorable", and try to discourage their use. Eventually, warfare adapted and moved on. That is kind of where we are with drones. People are more comfortable with a standard air strike, because a pilot is at risk and there is some sense of "fairness". But because drones are new and spooky, complaints against them get more airtime. | 12 |
explainlikeimfive/dnm1col | 72xekm | Why are tuberculosis skin tests still used to test for the disease? | Blood tests are more expensive, take more time, are less comfortable for the patient, and in general not worth doing as the first line if there is an easier skin test which can eliminate someone as having the disease. Only those who show up positive need to be tested to determine if it is a false positive and while that takes longer than the blood test alone, it is a better way of going about things. | 7 |
AskReddit/c6s0ky2 | 124902 | What's the best/worst backhanded compliment you've received? | I hear "Your hair is so long!" all the time. It's not exactly a backhanded compliment, but I never have any idea how to respond to it. "Thanks"? "Yep"? "Brilliant observation"? | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/dff71ec | 61gmx9 | Why are there patterns on the "surface" of Jupiter instead of one bland color? | The gases, especially under Jupiter's relatively intense gravitational pull, have wildly varying densities. Jupiter has its own convection currents between different gases that cause weather patterns (just like convection currents of water vapor and heat on Earth), and the gases swirl around. They don't mix largely due to the different densities, just like how air and water don't mix or just float around together. | 3 |
AskReddit/e0ldlt7 | 8qrcn4 | How do you stop laughing at inappropriate times? | Every time I go to an important or serious event, such as an exam, funeral and even when I am being told off, I almost instantly lose it laughing. Every time I am in a silent room or when someone is saying something serious to me, I instantly think of funny things. Sometimes when I am being told off or in a silent room, one of my friends will look at me and smirk, this also makes me laugh. I don’t want to laugh at serious/inappropriate times though. I want to be able to control my laughter and keep a straight face. TL:DR - How can I control my laughter and keep a straight face during serious or inappropriate times? What do you do, and how effective is it? | 2 |
AskReddit/cgovt14 | 22ooix | If you have to buy 3 items to make the cashier the most freaked out, what would you buy? | buy a box of condoms. When the cashier tells you the price, go like "dayum thats too pricy for me, brb". Come back with plastic wrap, duct tape and vaseline. Be sure to make eye contact with said cashier for bonus effects. | 27 |
explainlikeimfive/diemui8 | 6f17rp | Why is a lieutenant general Senior to a major general? | The rank of Major General is a shortened title. Historically it was Sergeant-Major General. Somewhere along the way in the 18th century, the sergeant part of the name was dropped. It could easily have been the major part that was dropped and that would have made more sense. Sergeant-Major means "sergeant-leader" or "greater sergeant" and is an enlisted rank, greater than a sergeant but junior to a Lieutenant. As the Major-General rank is named after the enlisted rank of Sergeant-Major and not the commissioned rank of Major, it is the most junior of General ranks. So next time, think "Sergeant General" instead and it will make more sense. Edit: a word as I can't grammar today | 18 |
AskReddit/ea2tmk7 | 9yo1je | Why do humans treat animals better than they treat other humans? | Animals are not moral actors in the human sense. They can't do "wrong" in the same way we consider people to do, ergo they're easier to view as innocent and worthy of good treatment. | 18 |
explainlikeimfive/cfrctab | 1z7z0u | Why are graves dug 6' deep? | it is the approximate depth that prevents wildlife from digging it up. both as a matter of moving 6 feet of earth and because the gasses from the body will not filter up quickly enough to be detected by scavengers. it's also the approximate height of a human being. a digger could easily assess his depth and also get out of the hole under his own power were it necessary. | 373 |
AskReddit/d9aapqk | 59ouv1 | What do you still get excited for? | I still get excited over Pokemon. New video games. PUPPIES, KITTENS, BUNBUNS. animals in general. My girlfriend teases me about how much I love every kind of animal. LARP. Vacations! I'm going to Japan next year and I can't wait! | 2 |
AskReddit/ca2s7bn | 1eqlpz | What is the best thing that has ever happened to you while you were on drugs? | Oh man, there have been so many good times. One time while on molly, my friends and I were hanging out by the piers at night and lots of total strangers kept walking up to the pier who were also on various drugs, and I became the Drug Ambassador who welcomed them to the pier and introduced my group to theirs. I felt very important. What's your answer? | 2 |
AskReddit/dex1omo | 5zcrox | What is the hardest time/experience you have had to go through or watch someone go through in your lifetime? | My grandfather passed away last month. He had been fighting dementia, but otherwise had been physically healthy. One day, he sat down on the couch and had a heart attack. Grandma called 9-1-1 and he was whisked off to the hospital. Once we got to the hospital, the doctor told us that he had lost too much oxygen to the brain and would no longer be responsive. Grandma made the decision to remove him from life support. We thought he would calmly pass minutes later. He didn't. Grandpa laid there and breathed on his own for nearly twenty-four hours. Being in that room and watching Grandma hold his hand and gently coo to Grandpa while he passed away was one of the hardest things I've ever gone through in my life. She never left his side and thanked him for giving her seventy wonderful years together. I sit here crying just thinking about it because their love was so pure. Even though Grandpa had lost his memories years ago, Grandma cared for him and loved him no matter what. I can only hope that whoever I end up with will give me the same amount of love that I saw between my grandparents. | 2 |
AskReddit/dxbcybe | 8c0c8s | What’s your favorite fight scene in all of fiction? | The final fight versus the Formics, as told by Bean in the novel Ender's Shadow. That despite his brilliance, Bean never would have come up with the solution that Ender did. > If I had a plan, I'd take control. I have no plan. So for good or ill, it's Ender's game not mine. And the subsequent description of the double-cross that Ender has perpetrated on the Formics, after fighting the entire war to this point by spending as few of his forces as possible, and then changing the rules in the final battle, to commit ultimate xenocide. And how only Bean, of all the students, understands the sacrifice that Ender is calling for, that these are real lives being spent, and that the Formics don't understand human psychology at all: > for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane. Bean's prayer to the humans fighting this war: > “O my son Absalom,” Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. “my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!” | 40 |
AskReddit/ewyzple | cqso37 | What’s the worst case you’ve seen an adult act like a complete child? | One of my employees (50f) came to my office and started crying because another employee hurt her feelings. I tried to explain that I didn't feel like the person was intending to be hurtful especially since I have known that employee for nearly 15 years and she's one of the sweetest people I know. My employee started to sob even harder slamming her hands on my desk telling me I was wrong and that I'm too nice to recognize mean people (whatever that means). I just kinda stood there in shock that an adult woman was throwing a temper tantrum in my office over getting her feelings hurt. | 2 |
AskReddit/e74s3zq | 9l82kw | What are some good tools your therapist taught you? | I get really sad sometimes, even when nothing is wrong. I might be out with my friends having a great time then suddenly feel like breaking down. I hate the quick turnaround of emotions. She taught me that it’s not so much as a drop as it is a shift. That I should think of very intense feelings of happiness and sadness as existing right next to each other, and try to appreciate that I live life feeling so strongly. Helps to think about when I suddenly feel so upset. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cr21ctd | 358loo | Why is the word "playwright" spelled with "wright" instead of "write"? | Because despite the similar sound, the word "playwright" does not mean "one who writes plays". The suffix "wright" means "maker of", as in "shipwright", "wheelwright". This an example of a word that has been frozen since old English, when the word for "worker" was "wryhta". The vowels have shifted slightly but the archaic form has been preserved. | 20 |
AskReddit/eht5yav | axf50v | What do you think will happen if the government legalized drugs? | I think it would completely rearrange the stigma with how open people are with their drug use. Given, this wouldn’t be immediate but i do think the “whaaaat? It’s legal what’s the problem” response would occur frequently for drugs we “shame” now. | 2 |
AskReddit/c3oqn5f | peowh | How does one get hired at a place like Area 51? | There are two ways: 1)Work in a field of science or engineering that has a purpose on site. Materials sciences mostly. I think they moved the aviation stuff to another site. After you have a relevant degree then go get a clearance job. Once you work your way up the clearance system start working on cutting edge stuff. You'll bounce around to different thing, perhaps ending up at Area 51. 2) Go into the military. Get as high a clearance as possible while there. Retire from that and go into private security. They contract out the security there. Be sure to work for the highest end security contractors as they are the ones that get those jobs. All that said there are two issues. If your goal is to get a job at Area 51 you'll never pass the background psych evaluations to be placed in such sensitive areas or to get higher end clearance. Secondly, you'll likely see some far more interesting things at other sites and will be very disappointed when you end up posted in the middle of no where working on jet coating materials or guarding an empty hill side. | 20 |
AskReddit/c331cvh | mqbmo | What would you do if you became lucid in a dream? | I had my first lucid dream recently. My dog who died a couple of months ago and was my best friend showed up and I petted her for a while. It was pretty much horrible. I absolutely knew I was dreaming, but didn't want it to end. | 2 |
AskReddit/dq7hv4t | 7euebp | What was a time when nobody listened to you even though you were right all along? | Every time I've had a girl who was a friend and I told her the guy she was talking to was a douche that was playing her.they never listen to the nice guy cause "we're just jealous" | 3 |
askscience/dpu4gh2 | 7czxjh | Do molecules have different textures? | > I also said that we are never really touching anything because there are always going to be molecules separating us from our environment. Does this common bit of pop science actually make sense? If we define touching to be something that isn't actually what we mean when we say something is touching, outside of the cores of stellar-mass objects and particle accelerators, hasn't that word effectively been redefined to the point of irrelevancy? | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/e4sj3mn | 9a3gsc | Why do some cultures use oral history and avoid written records? | Could you expand upon the question? If you're referring to ancient civilizations like the Incas and the myans it's my understanding that a lot of relics have been melted 1 and 2 in most cultures bards and such were respected positions because they communicated the history and legends of the people to the illaterate common folk. The thing is for most of human history reading has been largely unnecessary, as people lived there entire lives in a single location repeating actions such as hunting and/or farming which was taught to them by there parents elders and fellow villagers. Or in short: reading was unessential and therefore histories of the people were likely not a common commission of the rulers as it would only be useful to a very small amount of people. | 2 |
AskReddit/c0mncsq | bge5k | Has anybody here ever done a surgery like this? | OBGYN here. Never treated a pilonidal cyst, but basic principles of surgery would suggest that if you're letting a wound heal by secondary intention, you should be getting regular wound care- at least Sitz baths three times a day, more reasonable would be daily dressing changes with a bacteriostatic or hyperosmolar dressing. Did your doc make any home care/ wound care arrangements? A simple gauze over the top of it doesn't seem like the best approach. A deep incision should be packed and changed daily-ish. Keep it clean, and it will heal completely- MUCH bigger wounds heal by secondary intention all the time. | 2 |
AskReddit/dh33orc | 69202m | What is one of your best memories? | This is rather LONG, so please bear with me here. My mother was best friends with a woman from way back before either of them were married and had kids. After they both got married and had kids, my mothers friend resided with her husband and kids in a colonial style house out in the suburbs. They were happy and living the ideal lifestyle of happy middle class people in a middle class house in the middle class suburbs. Meanwhile, my own life was taking a turn for the worse. My parents split up when i was very young. I dont recall my exact age. Around 5 or 6 years old. Mother got custody of us kids. If that wasnt bad enough, my mother had severe mental problems and turned on us kids. She became very mean and abusive. Verbally and physically. Yelling and screaming almost every day of the week when she wasnt hitting us. Still, a handful of times a year we would go for a visit with my mothers friend out at her home in the suburbs and spend the entire day there. My mother would be on her absolute best behavior during these visits (my mothers friend had no clue what my mother was really like). Being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home, i turned towards watching lots of tv for escape and comfort. My favorite tv shows were the daily syndicated reruns of all sorts of classic tv sitcoms. My favorites were the portrayals of happy families living in nice homes. And the home of my mothers friend was the closest thing in real life that i ever experienced. When one stepped foot inside their home, the very atmosphere of their house was one of happiness and contentment. The kids of my mothers friend were clearly happy and well adjusted. Being raised in a nice normal home with good, kind, loving parents. And just like the families on tv, they had a private house with a grassy front lawn, a backyard to play in, wall to wall carpeting, a dog, etc. I was so enamored of these people and how they lived that I studied them as best I could. I wanted to bottle up whatever their secret to happiness was and take it back with me to my sad, abusive, dysfunctional home. For example, I was allowed to wander in any part of the house on the first floor and the basement (where they had a rec room). But i wasnt allowed on the second floor where they had their bedrooms. I was getting frustrated with not being able to get a reading on them from looking at their basement and first floor only. I figured that if i can see their bedrooms, I could get an idea on what made these people tick. So to that effect one day I decided to sneak up to the bedroom area on the second floor. My mothers friend almost caught me, asking me what I was doing. I pointed at the little bookcase that was on the landing halfway up the stairs, telling her I wanted to see the books. She said that was alright and she left the room. As soon as she was gone, I made my way up the remaining stairs. The doors to all their bedrooms were wide open. I looked in and all there was were their neatly made up beds and dressers. No clutter of any kind. No pictures or anything hanging on the walls. No books. No toys. No nothing except for their beds and dressers. It surprised me because in my bedroom and the bedrooms of all my friends in my neighborhood, we all had some sort of clutter in our rooms. Books, toys, record albums, etc. Understand that I never looked in their closets or drawers. I just stood outside the entrance of their bedrooms and looked inside with the exception of one bedroom when I gingerly took a few steps inside the room and then backed out. Whatever their secret to their happiness and normalcy was, I couldnt capture it. Whatever they had, I hoped to absorb into the very pores of my skin and carry it back to my unhappy home. But I just couldnt get a reading on these people. I was saddened that I had failed at my mission and headed back downstairs. To you, to everyone else, these people seemed like nothing out of the ordinary. Just an average middle class family living in an average middle class home in the average middle class suburbs. But to my eyes and heart these people and their home was something extra super special. When i was home, at night after we were sent to bed, my sister and i used to sit up and just talk about how great the home of my mothers friend was. So my most happiest memories of my childhood, of my entire life, were the times I spent visiting at the home of my mothers friend. TL; DR: my best, happiest memories are of visiting at the home of my mothers friend | 3 |
AskReddit/dv5ykdm | 81xr41 | What is the biggest amount of money you have found laying on the ground and did you keep it? | I found $160 bucks scattered on the ground spanning about 60 feet apart . I kept it, it helped me feed my family. But if I found it now a days I would have turned it in | 4 |
AskReddit/c0c89jv | 9cb8w | Is it never ok to parent/discipline other people's children? | Here's my advice: don't discipline her unless asked to. Children need to have a certain relation with their parents that allow them to test boundaries in order understand how social relations and conventions work. This is not your job, but seeing that the girl listens to and respects you seemingly more, this probably means that it's working: she's figured out how people interact with each other, socially. This is good, and expected from a girl that age. But, here comes your opportunity: children also need adults - she sees you as one regardless of how you feel - that are not their parents nor their teachers. This is because parents and teachers tend to be rule-setters and rule-enforcers and therefore often give a less than "authentic" response and interaction to the child. With "authentic", I mean the way that an adult would interact with another adult - talking from their own heart and mind and not trying to enforce norms or rules set by the school, society or themselves even. You have the chance to just be yourself and be a genuine adult for this girl to interact with and learn from. Interact with her and express yourself out of your own emotions and she'll get a chance to experience how adults really are. In today's western society children seldom get a chance to experience authentic adult interaction because they are handled by so many adults that only are there to make sure they follow this or that rule or convention. So see this as an opportunity not to discipline her and just show by example how adults are, and leave the yelling to her parents. | 6 |
AskReddit/dts34k7 | 7vgl3m | What’s your favorite thing about your SO? | There's not enough time or space on read it for me to list all my favorites. But my favorite thing about him physically is his big smile, personality-wise, I love his indomitability. It doesn't seem like he gets defeated by stuff easily, and because he's normally indomitable that causes him to try and learn new things, that I would look at and be skeptical that I would succeed. | 3 |
AskReddit/doumejf | 78ku1c | How many miles is too many to commute to work? | My mom used to commute 50 minutes a day to work. In Northern Virginia, I think 30-45 minutes each way is typical. Some people commute an hour every day. | 7 |
AskReddit/ecmzesz | a9w42u | How did you learn to cope with death? | I’ve been reading meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Stoic philosophy is pretty good for trying to not worry about death. You learn that it is a natural process, a a part of the earths cycle. There isn’t any stopping it. So enjoy being a good person while you can. Aurelius said: ‘Death smiles at all of us. All we can do is smile back.’ | 4 |
AskReddit/eq98wrq | bxrtmc | What is a compliment if it is said to a child but offensive if it is said to an old person ? | Any compliment to a child can be seen as a patronizing insult to an elder "Wow you ate all your peas! That's very good of you" "You did that all by yourself? Nice job!" People are very often unintentionally rude to old people | 5 |
AskReddit/eq91t0y | bxqhw3 | If you ever got a chance to tell a family member "good-bye" before they died and didn't say it, how does it affect you now? | This is a strange example, but when I was 7 I was playing a board game with my grandmother and I had the thought “I’ll never see her again” out of nowhere. She died that night in her sleep, in her early 60s, with no explanation. I miss her. She was an artist, and depressed, and super creative and sweet. We had a lot in common and I wish I could’ve told her that. I wonder a lot of times what advice she would’ve had for me. | 3 |
AskReddit/dsd15bd | 7oxwtu | What's the nastiest thing you've seen happen at a restaurant? | My mom took my older sister and I to a restaurant in San Francisco's 'Chinatown'. While we were eating I saw motion in my peripheral vision and looked over and saw a huge black rat scurrying across the dining room. It ran along one wall and under 3 or 4 tables in the process, all of which had diners who were unaware of what was happening at their feet. I didn't say anything, I just sat there stunned, and then my sister whispered to me, "Did you see that?" We both giggled at the weirdness of it all but neither of us ever told our mom because she was trying to show us a good time (we lived with our dad) and we didn't want to ruin it. We did finish our food. | 13 |
askscience/cjxsrsf | 2e9qn0 | Why do the continents of the Earth seem to be tapering downwards (top is fatter, bottom is thinner)? | I'm astonished none if the responses have mentioned the fact that the standard map projection gets less accurate the further north/south from the equator you get the planet is not really a rectangle). Looking at the northern hemisphere, everything looks fatter at the top because of the weird way the map projection makes it look. Look at a globe sometime and you'll see its not really as pronounced as it looks. | 11 |
AskHistorians/c5vtc8i | yhrfx | What is the oldest known archaeological discovery? | This question depends on how you define an archaeological discovery. If you count it as simply digging up something from the past and recognizing it as an man-made artifact, then that's probably been happening since forever. But if you're talking about the establishment of scientific standards for excavation, then that was only really adopted in the early 1970s, or maybe the late 40s early 50s. It's quite debatable. | 5 |
AskReddit/cqc4b7i | 32ksbx | What's a film you saw which you thought was going to be mediocre but turned out to blow you away? | Interstellar. I wouldn't say I thought it was going to be mediocre, but I thought it would probably be my least favorite Nolan film. Finally watched it a month ago and it has become one of my favorites. The score for that film is amazing as well. | 112 |
AskReddit/dnzgdtu | 74mat0 | What is the weirdest thing you or someone you know has masturbated with? | Really hope nobody I know has my reddit account username. I used to use this old desktop joystick. It was the early 2000's type that was designed to be used with flight sims and stuff. Was legitimately one of the best toys I had in awhile because it was made of a sort of soft skin like plastic. Actually the first thing I ever masturbated with was a magic bean bag. | 2 |
AskReddit/c0e1mk7 | 9r2x7 | Can you tell me about a time your parents handled your misbehavior in a unique and insightful way? | This wasn't really unique or insightful. but it saved me my drivers license. I got a speeding ticket back in high school going 94mph in a 50 zone. My dad took my car away for the rest of the summer, I was only allowed to drive to work and back. When it came time for my court date, the judge looked at the ticket and said "I've gotta take your license." then my dad stood up and addressed the judge, "Actually, I took his car away for the whole summer already." The judge then asked my dad to keep me from driving for another two months, and he would amend the ticket so he didn't have to suspend me. Saved me my license and $200. | 90 |
explainlikeimfive/ckmjkev | 2gu4p1 | Why does most food taste better baked than in a microwave? | Most of the time, if you see a food turning brown and tasty when it's cooked--think of bread becoming toast or a steak being seared--the Maillard reaction is taking place. The Maillard reaction needs a few things to proceed well: High heat, and low water at the surface. In an oven, the hot, dry air favors browning, so bread gets a nice crust. When fried in hot oil, potatoes turn golden brown. Boiling notably doesn't result in browning, because the presence of water inhibits the Maillard reaction. In a microwave, however, the food is heated not by conduction from hot air or liquid, but by microwave radiation causing greater molecular movement. The food is cooked evenly, so the surface doesn't get hot enough (nor dry enough) for the reaction to proceed. One solution to this problem is cooking food surrounded with a material that absorbs microwave radiation and emits enough heat to stimulate browning; the metallic/paper sleeve that comes with a Hot Pocket is an example. | 4 |
askscience/cd5zy8g | 1ptadb | How do you take up more mass by exercising? | This question actually has nothing to do with the law of conservation of mass or energy. You don't take up more mass by exercising; in fact, you technically lose mass because you are sweating water and other substances out, as well as converting your food into heat and having this heat escape your body. It's just that when your muscle fibers are damaged through exercise, they "over-heal" (to put it very unsophisticated-sounding). The food you eat contributes to feeding these growing muscles, which adds more mass to your body. So you lose mass through exercising, but more than make up for it with a proper diet. | 5 |
AskReddit/cowqnh4 | 2x4b71 | Would young adults benefit more from living in the city or the country? | I grew up in mostly suburban areas, but moved to what was considered "the sticks" in our area at age 14. Now, at age 27, I live in the heart of Pittsburgh. As previously stated, there are benefits to both. If I had to chose right now where I would go for the rest of my life, it would be city every single time. I work downtown, so getting to work for me is a 20 minute walk. No traffic, no waiting, and if it's cold I just bundle up. The walking itself keeps me reasonably warm. I think it's all in where you're at in your life and what your interests are. Some of the things I miss about being secluded (like being able to sit on my back porch and be completely alone with a drink and some music) I don't have in the city, but I happily trade it for not having to worry about driving 30 minutes just to get anywhere remotely populated. Cities are convenient above everything else. | 2 |
AskReddit/c4ybpyc | ut941 | How would the world be if we used Reddit to judge lawsuits/law breakers/etc instead of a court system? | Awful. edit: Well, think about it. You're proposing we remove the justice system. In the criminal justice system, both sides have a right to a fair trial, to be represented by a legal professional and to have a jury of their peers listen to evidence and testimony in a structured process so that all might be heard. Those who represent plaintiffs and defendants are only suited to do so after spending a good many years of their life studying the ethics, nuances and practicalities of the legal system, not to mention why certain aspects of the legal system exist. You are proposing (hypothetically) we remove all of the safeguards, checks and balances that are the culmination of centuries of legal practice. Our legal system may be flawed, but what you propose would be catastrophic. The fact that you cite the 1994 Hot Coffee lawsuit--a hallmark of skewed facts and misdirected public perception--as part of the logic supporting this argument is reason enough. The same logic applies to those who think legislation by majority of the people would be a good idea. In the end, minorities and minority interests get hurt, despite the fact that it has a good "hey, wouldn't this be neat?" ring to it. | 6 |
AskReddit/e9ty4w3 | 9xoy9k | How do you balance personal responsibility with staying chill and realizing you can’t control everything? | When it comes time to work for real, just accept it won’t be fun. It’s gonna be work. Prove you can get through it, let all the other good stuff go. And when you want to chill, the same but opposite. Let work go, you can do it later. Now’s the time to enjoy. | 2 |
AskReddit/ci50qf2 | 27vj0r | Who, from the 1980's to today, do you think people will still talk about in 2000 years? | I actually just had this conversation with my friend the other day. We both came to conclusion that the wars will be discussed like the older wars in history class. "WW2 was fought between these nations and won by the allied nations " and that's it, not extreme detail like who was vp , or leading commander of this battle. It will be pushed and compressed down . We will learn of the A - bomb and main bottles. ( Speaking relatively close in the future about 200 - 400 years ) . I could be wrong though due to better record keeping and the control the government has on our education. | 2 |
AskReddit/d6rnn8z | 4yzp9b | What was banned at your school and why? | We had a guy come in and do a yo-yo show, and eventually everyone had yo-yos and they had to create a yo-yo zone. Eventually too many people got hurt so they banned them. Also Tamagotchis. Edit: And Red Rover! | 2 |
AskReddit/c7e0crj | 14kwqe | To the married on Reddit, what was the hardest thing you had to overcome together or alone? | Long distance killed my marriage. We lived 200 miles apart, with an international border in between. We lasted 4 years, with no infidelity. Eventually I asked for a divorce, as she had no interest in moving to my city, and I didn't want to leave. It will especially hard going to the divorce court at 8am sharp with a black eye from a few nights earlier.(I was caught in the middle of a crew that went after my roommate). Fortunately we had nothing to contest, no kids. Court was just a formality, she didn't even attend. After 6 months of not talking I ran into her when visiting other friends in her city. we hooked up a few times, got close again, then called it quits for good. The twist, we were married at 18 and had met on IRC. Young foolish love. Some things are insurmountable! | 3 |
AskReddit/ehep1p9 | avfkt0 | What movie made you ugly cry? | Obvious choice but Schindler's List. The end where he breaks down about being able to save more. I laid on the couch and sobbed through the rest of the film. I knew I'd probably cry, but that movie absolutely broke my heart. | 2 |
AskReddit/d11wrbu | 4ankba | What childhood story of yours does your mom or dad love to tell everyone? | My mom loved telling me this story. As a child growing up I expected it as my bedtime story and asked her plenty of questions. It was nothing special, it started as my mother took me (then only a few months old) to the market in Vietnam and while she was shopping she saw a man beating up a woman. No one was helping the woman so my mother decided to alert the cops. Through the commotions she lost me. And so a search for a three months old baby ensued. Many were discovered - lots of abandoned children in Vietnam in those days and were used by homeless people to beg for money, but none was me. She sat on the muddy street and wailed. Through the throngs of people, she saw me, actually my baby carriage, tucked away behind a fishmonger's basket. And here comes my favorite part, still warm my heart everytime this story is resurrected. She picked me from the ground and kissed me deeply and wetting my face with her tears. Among the stench of fish and garbage around us, my familiar sweet baby smell was the only odor that filled her lungs. And we headed home. I lost my mother in 2008 from cancer. This brought back so much wonderful memories I have of this incredible woman. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/co7zxyt | 2ufsy2 | Why is a smart and dumb friendship duo of two people always portrayed on TV? | At least in TV land, usually the "dumb" person is the audience stand in. They ask questions the audience night want to know the answers to which gives the smart person a reason to explain what they're talking about in a way that TV viewing audiences can understand (see Bones, Big Bang Theory, Fringe, Eureka as just a few examples off the top of my head). It's useful, but can be a particularly annoying trope when the subject is not really that hard to understand for anybody with a tenth grade education. | 7 |
AskReddit/e8eia50 | 9r65pp | What's the difference between being obsessed with someone and being in love with them? | i think being obsessed with someone generally implies that you’ve overlooked all of their flaws and idolize them as a perfect partner. being in love with someone means you recognize someone’s flaws, but care for them in spite of those flaws. | 104 |
AskReddit/ev25jcl | ci7krc | What gives your life meaning? | Time to go all "I'm 14 and this was deep" Much of my life has meaning because of all the people that love me and care for me, because if their meaning of life is me then my harming myself or killing myself would drive them to suicide too, I've never wanted to let anyone down either. this got me through depression | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cpssbvb | 30ipn4 | Why haven't we evolved to find healthy food tasty? | If you're a starving caveman, which is better for you to eat: a pound of meat, or a pound of carrots? The answer's the rabbit: more calories means you stay alive longer. So we evolved to find calorie-dense chemicals tasty: things like fats, sugars, and proteins. So, in a natural environment, it's the animals and fruits that we're mostly going to try to eat. Now, vegetables have plenty of important vitamins and such that we need to be healthy. But from an evolutionary standpoint, it's better to be unhealthy and alive than to be dead, but with really good eyesight and teeth. | 7 |
AskReddit/c7i1dp6 | 15037d | What is the best/worst/most embarrassing nickname you or a friend has ever had? | My best friend and I were on the flag team in high school, and when we had to change into tights and leotard, she apparently would forego the undies. We all found out about this because one of the band moms found my friend's forgotten panties on the bus after a competition, and announced loudly to the entire colorguard that we were going to start doing underwear checks. Her new nickname became "Commander." She even had it printed on the back of her team shirt. TL;DR: Commander | 2 |
askscience/e9zg5px | 9y6yfw | Why is “e” a special value in mathematics? | First consider that every circle is “the same,” differing only in scale. All circles can be described using C=πd. This gives π a special place in mathematics. In a similar way every growth and decay is just a different version of f=Ae^(kt). Where circles only requires one parameter for full definition, the exponential function requires two: k, the growth (or decay) rate, and A, a scaling coefficient. (t is just the independent variable, often it is time) Just like circles are found everywhere, so is growth and decay. The function has applications in finance, chemistry, biology, engineering, all over. At the core of all those things is the constant e=2.72. The constant e becomes critical in differential equations and complex analysis. | 4 |
askscience/c6k142h | 117i0q | Why does 60 degrees inside a house feel a lot colder than 60 degrees outside a house? | The sun emits solar radiation in a variety of forms, but most of what gets through the atmosphere is UV (ultraviolet), infrared and visible. When you absorb this radiation, the UV and infrared impart this energy in the form of heat to your skin, making you feel warmer. This of course does not happen inside your house unless you're by a sunny window. Being outside in the sun will always make the temperature feel at least a few degrees warmer, except in Winter when the sun's rays are relatively weak. This only works with direct sunlight, UV and IR don't go through your walls. Thus being outside -> exposed to more direct sunlight -> more energy transfer -> more warmth. There are other factors as well, such as general activity levels and your natural sensitivity to temperature changes. But I think solar radiation absorption is the biggest factor. | 8 |
AskReddit/cad6af7 | 1fruo4 | Does population growth conflict with the idea of reincarnation? | well that's the human population, just think about all the species we've destroyed. Reincarnation isn't human to human all the time, your next life you may be a chipmunk, and the life after that a beetle . I'm certain their are better ways to word this but yea, considering all the species that don't exist now (lots of bugs from the rainforest I'm sure) it's not inconcievable. | 2 |
AskReddit/cf6g43g | 1wy76r | Has a pet or other animal ever saved/changed your life? | My half-sister's father got her a kitten a few years back. Since I was on summer vacation at the time and the only person in the household mostly 24/7, the kitten and I bonded fairly quickly. I taught him how to use the litterbox, played with him, made sure he had ample food and water, the works. The kitten was 8 weeks old when we got him. He had a lot of energy, and when left unsupervised, he would get into cabinets, make messes, typical kitten stuff. Not a big deal, something he would have grown out of soon enough, if he had the chance. Summer vacation ended, winter came and went, and it was spring. He was still small; he never really did grow. My half-sister's father, in a drunken rage, spewed hatred at me and the kitten because of him getting into things (despite that it was his first incident in a month). He threatened to get rid of the cat. I figured he wouldn't remember, since he was so drunk. A few days later, I came home from school. The kitten was gone. "Given to a family friend" was what my half-sister's father claimed. No, the kitten was taken to the woods nearby and shot in the head. It made me realize that things can change quickly, and not always for the better, that there's not always a second chance for improvement, and that people lack patience and rational thought. But, that kitten finally gave me the courage to step up and cut all contact with my half-sister's father. I do not want or need people like that in my life, period. tl;dr: Got kitten, kitten mysteriously missing one day, kitten shot in head. | 3 |
askscience/cnqq7jn | 2slyen | How is light that is as old as the universe travelling to us from 13 billion light years away? | The universe was opaque until ~300,000 years after its formation. So the light from the CMB is around that age. Now, imagine an infinitely long ruler. Pick any marking on that ruler and place yourself there. When the universe became transparent, a photon from 10cm from you gets sent in your direction, but due to the universe expanding, the space between markings keep increasing. You and the light source are both still at the original markings, but the expansion has caused that 10cm to become billions of light years. When the photon eventually reaches you, it must appear to originate from that marking which is now far away. P.S. There is no center of the universe. | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/ceesv34 | 1u5soq | Why do my eyes get red when I drink alcohol? | Alcohol is a vasodilator, which means that it increases the size of your blood vessels (your body can vary the size to maintain blood pressure with varying blood volume). This increases the amount of blood flow to the surface of your skin which makes you feel warm, and also increases the visibility of blood vessels on your eyes making them appear red. | 7 |
AskReddit/cyywtb8 | 411l57 | What age do you want to live to? | Well really it depends on the life I live. If I live to be 90 and don't have a loved one, no children, no family, and no friends then what is the point?! I see it more of how you can live your life to the fullest and get the most experiences out of it rather than actual age years. | 2 |
AskReddit/d933vat | 58tmor | Who do you think will be killed off in The Walking Dead tomorrow and why? | Maggie. In the previews where they show Rick, his face is splashed with blood on the right hand side. When they show the group kneeling, Maggie is on his immediate right. On Maggie's right is Abraham, and Negan already told Abraham he wasn't going to be the guy. Negan needs soldiers, and people who can carry out his wishes Maggie is sick, and to somebody like Negan, is probably useless. However, she will carry extreme shock value to the Rick crew if she is killed, so for Negan she makes for a good target. That's who I expect it will be. | 5 |
AskReddit/ejejdnb | b5mzn5 | What song or music genre you secretively listen to ? | Not a music genre but I do sometimes listen to Eurovision songs. I'm a metalhead and really dislike modern popmusic but some Eurovision songs are just so catchy. Even if they are shallow and uninspired. | 3 |
AskReddit/eymlqfh | cxpgcb | For the people who had a teacher in their school who was fired/arrested, what did they get fired/arrested for? | not at my school, but a friend of mine had a gym teacher who would constantly harass the girls in the class. touch them, say stuff about their body's you name it man. he only got fired because one girl decided to tell her parents (the teachers were aware of this and did nothing). | 8 |
AskReddit/dye01f8 | 8grg4g | What is the weirdest thing you and your SO do in private? | We have this weird thing where she’s a kitten and I’m a puppy. When we’re both feeling extremely tired (not hard or infrequent right now, as we’re both working multiple jobs), we’ll discuss how tiny we are, how much we need to sleep, and how adorable the other is. It’s weird but it’s like supremely cute? I don’t know how else to describe it. | 2 |
AskReddit/ee8a1mm | agqrat | How would you react if your drink on your table moved from one end to the other all by itself? | I had this happen in a bar years ago. We were drinking sangria out of small glasses on a glass table top. When we would put the wet glasses on the table top, they would sometimes start sliding for six inches to a foot. They had to be basically sitting in a puddle for this to happen. We all cheered everytime it happened. I never did figure out exactly what was going on with that. There was no perceptible lean to the table, but we were drinking. | 2 |
AskReddit/e7aproa | 9lzvlo | What’s the most badass dream you’ve had? | You know the dream, I think we’ve all had it. I’m standing naked, atop a high hill. I’m surrounded by thousands and thousands of women who are all screaming my name and throwing tiny little pickles at me. That dream, every, single, night. | 2 |
AskReddit/c0rsql7 | cdev4 | Would life be better without clothes? | i would love to never wear clothes again. i think it would dispel a lot of misconceptions about others' bodies and break down a lot of barriers between people. we would see each other's bodies at all those moments during the day when we let down our guard and relax and learn to appreciate the human body as it naturally is and moves. granted, in many areas of the world (god bless america) this would mean not only seeing the human body as it naturally is, but also as it unnaturally is, but maybe it would also serve as a leveler. i don't know, but either way, i love being naked. | 3 |
AskReddit/e6bmvcl | 9hdjpr | What opinion do you hold that you’d never actually share with most people close to you? | I think that there's not really a meaning to life and some people live lives of pure suffering for no reason other than the time and place of their exsistance. It's so grim but I 100% believe it. Everyone I'm around are very positive and spiritually inclined, or at least believe in fate or luck or something like that. I kinda find some peace in it, that human exsistance is truly so marvelous and rare and everything about us is a gorgeous microcosm, but this is all we have. Everyone who perishes in tragic fires or genocide just die because it's possible to die. There's nothing else to it except the creative and comforting stories we tell our loved ones. We need those stories and it's vital to hold value outside your own selfhood, but that's just part of being human, it doesn't mean it's real. | 5 |
AskReddit/e8o2aha | 9se77f | What was the best adaptation from a book to a film that you've ever seen? | The Princess Bride. Several reasons: First, the screenplay was written by the author of the book, who was already an accomplished screenwriter. Second, he realised that the book can't translate directly, but he made the changes he felt would still represent a good story. He knew what elements to leave out, for example. Third, the movie was made by a really, really good filmmaker who knew exactly who he wanted for every role, who he wanted to do the music, etc. To the point where he didn't think he could do the movie at all without the relatively unknown actors he chose for the leads, whom he knew were perfect despite their lack of experience. And he was right! There are many good book to film adaptations. The Lord of the Rings movies and Watchmen are great examples -- but they (mostly) stick to the original book. The Princess Bride is much less strict in this regard, but it still works as an independent entity. | 5 |
AskReddit/eez8ofe | ajw4q9 | Is there any shows on tv nowadays that is similar to mad tv? | Key and Peele is kind of similar since it’s random sketch comedy, I miss mad TV. Will Sasso cutting his fingers off at Paul Timberman’s friendly workshop pops into my mind, or Stuart lol | 5 |
AskReddit/ew2s6wf | cmjzqr | Why don't senior citizens (65 or 70 year olds) have to redo their drivers test in order to maintain their license? | Because almost all of us can drive as well as you do. Either everyone should be subjected to a test regularly every x number of years, OR anyone who is observed driving erratically or unsafely should be subjected to a test. Having to take a test simply based on the date you were born is a waste of taxpayers' money. | 4 |
AskReddit/c8wevuv | 1adfu2 | What movie have you seen that will never get old? | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Probably have seen the whole movie 50 times, and the first 20 minutes 100 times. It gets put on a lot after a night of drinking, and then I fall asleep on the couch. | 3 |
AskReddit/c0jv2p1 | ax8go | Why are guys naturally good at fighting? | From the moment a boy first holds a plastic soldier in each hand, waves them about and goes "pew, pew, pew" they are thinking about fighting - where and how to stand, what the "rules" are, etc. It's ongoing at a subconscious level.* * exceptions exist. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dkuzxr1 | 6q6t6q | Why does throwing up hurt? | Between your esophagus and your stomach is a sphincter that, usually, keeps things in your stomach (acid, food, mucus) from coming up into your esophagus. However, in infants, this sphincter is not totally developed, and thus doesn't always keep things down. During the normal movements that an infant's stomach makes, it might push some food up, through the weak sphincter, into the esophagus and out. However, in older children and adults, throwing up is usually the result of some specific stimulus (responding to vertigo, disease, bacterial toxins in food, etc). In this case, your stomach is actually working to push its contents back through the esophagus and out your mouth. As such, the muscles in your stomach clench very hard and at the same time, which can be painful. | 8 |
AskReddit/cj5pz2t | 2biq2d | What did you break as a child that nobody ever found out you were the one who broke it? | Put down the handbrake in my dad's '68 Fastback Mustang, leading it to go down the driveway and smash itself to a concrete cube in our neighbor's yard. Mechanic said the cable probably broke. I never told him. | 3 |
askscience/cjgx8g1 | 2clypj | How can ocean mammals drink the water? | In general, they don't. While they may take some in on occasion, it's a small amount and is filtered by the kidneys. Most of their dietary water requirement comes from the food they eat. Seals will eat snow sometimes, and manatees (which like in brackish water) will look for fresh water to drink. But purely marine mammals just use their food. This isn't unique to marine mammals. The kangaroo rat, for example, will not drink water and relies entirely on food. Many desert animals will live on primarily food with little to no fresh water. | 15 |
explainlikeimfive/crm4ri4 | 37ex6n | How did ancient people construct pools, ponds, cisterns and reservoirs that didn't leak or require plastic linings like we use today? | Plastic linings didn't make water storage possible, they made it cheap. After all glazed ceramics hold water just fine and they have been around for ~1500 years and quite a bit longer for the unglazed variety. Animal skins have been around much longer. We switched to plastic because it allows us to waterproof much less labor intensive products like paper and aluminum. *Though the lining on aluminum is to prevent corosion not waterproofing | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/dfbk626 | 612ru8 | How are snails born? | I studied cone snail development as a Master's student. Many marine snails are laid in egg sacs that contain tens or hundreds of individual eggs apiece. Each gravid female can lay 20 egg sacs or more. The opening of these sacs is blocked by a gel that degrades as the developing snails mature. This gel acts like a timed fuse. When it degrades enough, the developing snails (termed veligers) can get through the gel and start their free-swimming life. Veligers have wings instead of a foot and take on a planktonic lifestyle (known as the planktonic larval dispersal stage). The PLDS can last anywhere from less than an hour to months depending on the species and developing conditions. In cone snails. the longer the veligers spend developing in the egg sac, the less time they tend to spend as planktonic larvae. At some point, they get a chemical cue from the reef and settle out to begin developing into adult snails. | 7 |
AskReddit/e4i11d9 | 98qiqu | What extra powers should the American President be given to address the concerns of the 21st Century? | None. The Constitution was worded vaguely to allow as much as we need. We've got an Air Force and an FAA, we've got laws concerning internet privacy, etc. If a law needs the president to have extra power in order to work, it's not worth it. | 2 |
AskReddit/dqnetpi | 7h1h4f | Where should you NOT go on a first date? | Never take a first date to someplace that requires a long drive to get there. If the date gets strange you have a long ways to ride back. A long awkward car ride home. | 28 |
AskReddit/c2ous1o | l0vpw | What movie do you love but at the same time wish it was better? | Zombieland. Was a great movie, horror-comedy, well-wrttien characters, pretty funny, go special effects, scary enough but not really. Just after watching it a couple times I realize. what was the point? There was no arc or objective other than to go to the amusement park. why? | 6 |
AskReddit/c4y1qv2 | us0h4 | What are some of your favorite drinking games? | I should mention the standard drinking rules. Any breach of these involves a drinking penalty (we usually go for two fingers of your drink but it's up to you). No pointing. Drinks must be at least two fingers from the edge of the table (or whatever they're placed on). Holding your drink without drinking from it. Double parking (more than one drink at once) - the penalty for this one is downing one of your drinks. If you are refreshing your drink while it's your go then you must down your drink, take your go then go get another drink. There are a few more but that's all I can remember at the moment, other than: Thumbmaster. There is a designated 'thumb master'. Initially that will be you. At any time you may place your thumb on the edge of the table. The last person to place their thumb on the edge of the table has to down their drink, and then becomes the new thumbmaster. This is not intended to be a race, it's meant to be subtle. It's quite good for targeting individuals as you can subtly indicate that the thumb is on the go. | 2 |
AskReddit/cfg0nwe | 1xzlox | What questions that are asked seemingly all the time do you think are annoying and wish would just stop? | Questions about the significance of your username. "What if" questions no matter how the poster phrases it. Questions about personal secrets (what idiot would post "secrets" on a public forum? I could go on, but that's a start. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d1joicw | 4cmdf5 | Why are taxes in the North generally higher than taxes in the South? | Short answer is industrialization/unions and segregation. The north had industrialization, less agriculture. The union movement created a lot of middle class jobs and those new middle class people wanted public services like quality public schools, public transportation, ports, good roads, parks, etc. They built up big government infrastructure to support those public services, which were often themselves unionized to keep a lot of jobs paying middle class wages. The result is they needed more taxes to support those new services. In the South, the culture was stratified, segregation caused a big poorer class. The south did not support public services because most would be geared to the lower classes. With a less educated work force and poorer infrastructure, industry kept away. So there were generations with a smaller than normal middle class. Then globalization made the northern workforce labor costs totally out of whack. Unionism never took hold in the South and the cost savings were significant. So the tax base in the North and their economies got smaller, but they haven't been able to reduce the costs of government. Hence higher taxes. The south's middle class basically created a system of private stuff like Christian schools, pool clubs, private gated communities, and not funding public schooling and a lot of public services that the poor and minorities would benefit from as much. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dnssesj | 73srkh | Why does it feel so much better when another person massages your head as opposed to when you use your own hand to massage your head? | This is based on my own experience, not scientifically-proved. But as someone who loves massaging very much, when massaged by others, I cannot predict which part of my organ (like head, feet) is going to be massaged and I feel really pleased. I guess this can also answer why you cannot tickle yourself, as your brain has already expected your own act. | 12 |
AskHistorians/eoujvuj | bt56r6 | Why Were Swords More Popular than Maces in the Medieval Period? | A sword is: a convenient-to-wear sidearm, so easy to have with you if wearing it is legal and/or appropriate, a sharp weapon, and thus much more effective as a weapon under many circumstances than blunt weapons such as maces, often longer than a mace, and reach can matter a lot in fighting with weapons, and often more agile than a mace. The combination of reach and speed provides a large advantage. While a mace is potentially more effective against armoured opponents (but this will depend on the weight of the mace), note that armours typically had many gaps that could still let a sword be effective, and maces had plenty of competition as weapons more effective than swords against armour (such as polearms such as halberds and bills, guns, daggers). But even if using a mace or any of these other weapons, it was still possible and often useful to wear a sword as a sidearm. Thus, on the late Medieval battlefield, even though armies primarily using spears and other polearms (including cavalry using the lance) or ranged weapons (guns, crossbows, bows), most of those soldiers also carried swords. The first point above - convenience as a sidearm - made swords very popular weapons even on a battlefield with plentiful armour. Off the battlefield, one was less likely to fight armoured opponents, so the sword was popular off the battlefield, too. For use against armoured opponents of the battlefield, the mace was convenient, but infantry would typically use spears or other polearms instead. This left the mace as a convenient weapon for armoured cavalry fighting other armoured cavalry. This wasn't close to enough to make the mace (and various warhammers, etc.) more popular than the sword. In some times and places, maces saw wider use. Maces could be relatively cheap (depending on the design), and didn't need steel. Cheap lightweight maces found use as tough weapons for the battlefield, and were used by those who couldn't afford swords, and could still serve as backup weapons in case swords broke or were dropped. Maces (and other clubs) were often popular in Stone Age societies where swords were not available. Maces also saw use (in China) as police weapons (basically, as long metal truncheons). Note that neither of these two cases depends on better anti-armour performance. | 239 |
AskReddit/dzuvbbm | 8ne3ho | To those who are against domesticating wild animals, what do you think about domesticated monkeys who live in peoples homes as family/a pet? | I believe they are tamed wild animals, not domesticated. There is a difference. They still retain wild instincts. A wolf can be tamed, but it cannot be domesticated (at least, it took thousands of years). I’m not super familiar with monkeys though | 2 |
askscience/c4cnema | saxgc | Is there any truth to the claim that some oils are healthier than others? | All lipids are not created equal. Fatty acids are not just converted to adipose tissue, but are precursors to necessary compounds such as eicosanoids (signalling molecules that regulate things like inflammatory processes) and are utilized in making cell membranes. Specific fatty acids are needed to make specific compounds, and certain fatty acids interact with each other in different ways during synthesis of different compounds, making fatty acid makeup dietarily important. These different kinds of fatty acids differ in properties like chain length, degree of unsaturation (number of double bonds), location of these double bonds, and whether they are in the cis or trans conformation. While our bodies can modify some of these properties in order to turn various fatty acids into others or into the target compounds, there are certain conversions we can't make. You hear about "essential fatty acids" because we do not have the some of the necessary enzymes to convert some fatty acids into these. One example are omega 3 fatty acids (where the first double bond is 3 carbons from the methyl group) which we do not have the enzymatic machinery to construct, and thus need to ingest (from fish oil and various plant oils). The metabolism and requirements for different fatty acids differ by species, so I'll defer to someone else if you'd like more details of exactly what humans need in terms of fatty acid content. EDIT: grammar and rephrasing. | 3 |
AskReddit/egvwgyd | asnr7a | What is the most interesting theory you have ever heard of? | That Douglas Adams said “42” is the answer in Hitchhikers Guide because it’s * in ASCII which is a wildcard and therefor can be seen as “whatever you want it to be.” Mostly interesting to me since I found out while studying computer science. Not huge, but neat. Another one is that the increase in Celiac disease/gluten sensitivity is because of an increase in gluten content of wheat. There’s a paper on it in that ncbi website (and is a “theory” since it didn’t find anything concrete - which in terms of the science field means it isn’t a “theory,” but I’m assuming theory here is the every-day-definition of it). | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cle84vy | 2jqro8 | What exactly is Delta-v? | If you do 6 mph on a bicycle, and speed up to 10 mph, your velocity change, or delta V, was 4 mph. Simple enough! Now, given your bike, you and your muscles and your ability to convert oxygen and food into muscle power and some flat ground with a specific coefficient of friction, and aerodynamics, then starting from a speed of 0 mph, there will be a maximum speed you can ever reach. This would be your maximum delta-v. In rocketry terms, if you have a rocket with certain engines, and tanks with a specific amount of fuel and oxidizer, you should in theory, be able to change your velocity by a certain maximum amount, the maximum delta V you would be capable of. If you want to leave the earth and not come back, you'd have to have a rocket with a delta-v capability greater than the earth's escape velocity, or you would not be able to do it. | 6 |
AskReddit/cgd4iyb | 21hmxj | What is love to you? | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. | 2 |
AskReddit/clcse7v | 2jldxq | Have you ever had to put your life on hold for something? | Lost my dad one month before I was to leave for West Africa through the Peace Corps. I deferred placement then ultimately withdrew my application to stay back and be with my mother and brother during that time. I since met and married my wonderful husband and there's nothing I would change about how any of this went down after my dad's death but sometimes I feel like my life plan was supposed to involve me being in West Africa and I'm just currently on hold. | 6 |
AskReddit/cl6w6t2 | 2izdx1 | What is something that you have bought that you are not even kind of using to its full potential? | I bought a crock pot (slow cooker, whatever you want to call it) and I've only used it once. The one time that I did use it, I made pork chops so good that I wanted to eat nothing else for weeks after. Since then though, I haven't had the motivation to cook again | 702 |
AskReddit/d6f33uw | 4xfto3 | What is your biggest pet peeve? | Chewing. I have misophonia -- I CANNOT stand the sound of chewing. I can't even stand the sound of MYSELF chewing. It's worst than silverware scraping plates. Cool Story, bro time: When I was stuck in 911 Dispatch, the . wonderful lady. that worked as my partner found out about my pet peeve. So instead of being kind to me, she started chewing ice. Hourly. Loudly. With her mouth open. I asked her to stop, she got management in there to tell me she had the right to chew ice. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cg5o9xk | 20q0cl | If public schools' funding is based on surrounding property taxes, why don't states put all the funds for school into one large fund an then disperse the money evenly, thus giving all public schools the same funding? | Your first question has been well answered, so I'm going to jump in here and address the second question: >Would even distribution of the money improve our public education system? Simply put, yes. Depending on what you believe the purpose of schooling is I would give different answers, but Dewey (a philosopher of education and also probably the most important American philosopher) linked education directly to democracy. He said that for democracy to function and succeed then the people participating need to have as much education as possible. For him that meant that education needed to be about discovery of the world and forging identity of the individual. It's a pretty clear takeaway from this that if your schooling is radically unequal (or even just radically different) then your educational system wont be fulfilling it's primary purpose of creating citizens who are able to fully engage in democracy - a space where everybody is suppose to be equal (one person, one vote). | 3 |
AskReddit/cajiu0j | 1gefbt | If you absolutely had to kill half of the population of the world, what question would you ask to determine who gets to live? | I wouldn't ask a question, but I would form them into groups and send them into the wild to fight like Battle Royale. The ones who survive will live. We need people who are strong, resourceful, and battle hardened. They need to able to dodge, dip, duck, dive.and dodge! | 9 |
AskReddit/ccd36yc | 1mvt1w | What family have you thought to be a perfect example of what a family should be, only to get to know them and be severely disappointed? | High school in '74. My best freind was a Christian, fast forward his daughters wedding last year. I thought they were well adjusted and close. They are the loosest thinking war within a clan that I never imagined. I walked away from all of them during the reception, no scene ,no goodbye. I just walked away. | 2 |
AskReddit/d4kel0k | 4pexcb | If you could do it over, what job would you want to have? | Shuttle Driver. I had a four year driving career going and I blew t because the front desk agent told me it would be okay to have a light beer on the job. I wasn't driving, and I had no other access to the rules so I figured it would be better to be hydrated. But that person tricked me and got me fired. I didn't lie about it though so that feels good | 3 |
AskReddit/esp3bod | c8rkic | What's the scariest thing that happened to you while home alone? | When I moved into my first apartment, living alone for the first time, I found it very creepy. First, I moved from downtown on a major boulevard to a very quiet neighborhood into a large building. I worked graveyard so I rarely saw my neighbors, like ever, and my unit faced the inside garden so it got so quiet that I could usually hear my own heart beating. I started to turn on stuff just for the ambient noise. Anyway, one day I was by myself inside, and I could have sworn I heard a male voice clearly say my name behind me. I jerked around and of course no one was there but holy cow, I definitely heard it. It only happened once and I convinced myself I imagined it. I do not and have never drank booze or taken drugs BTW. Stone-cold sober always. I thought it would be so great to have it so silent but I never could stand it. | 4 |
AskReddit/cl0dl63 | 2iak1f | For those who attended school, what is it like to be held back or skip a year? | Devastated! It was the first day of school. I remember going to the third grade. The teacher tells us as we walk into the classroom to find the desk with our names and if we can't sit anywhere. Obviously I can't find mine so i sit down. when teacher starts taking attendants I didn't hear my name. So I am thinking maybe it was just a mistake like the desks. An hour into the lesson a lady comes into the room and ask me to follow her. She takes me into my old second grade classroom than leaves. I'm thinking "WTF Is This." I soon realize I were being held back. So cry about a week every time I had to go to school. I felt so sad and embarrassing every time I seen my old friends in hallways or at lunch. I just spent the entire week with my head down crying. until this day i still don't remember why i fail. I don't remember there ever being summer school. Maybe my grades were bad. | 2 |
AskReddit/d790yzp | 513ojd | What is something very common today in the Internet that won't be in 10 years? | Realistically, nearly everything. There isn't much that was common online 10 years ago that still is today. The Internet culture is changing really quickly all the time and the things people are talking about today will be archived before too long. A better question might be what will be common still in 10 years? (Specifically, besides Dank memes and pirated movies) | 2 |
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