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00136568de6abf7810e2 | At least according to [On Killing](_URL_2_) the casualty rates were much lower than you'd expect. Bayonet charges with no deaths by bayonet and such. | |
00137f1cf7a95e8ab203 | 4 days 20 hours 22 minutes [computation](_URL_1_) [equation](_URL_0_) (no relativistic corrections made) | |
0013872fe6d534c33da5 | Hi, I talked a bit about this [here](_URL_0_). | |
0013aa4029e4719ce54b | > ...it is reasonable to assume that the expansion of the universe affects all scales, but the magnitude of the effect is essentially negligible for local systems, even at the scale of galactic clusters. [Source](_URL_0_?) | |
0013b58eaf840f8ad2ac | Your face skin is different from your back skin, wrist skin, hand skin, foreskin, heel skin etc. Depending on where the skin is located, it may have more or less layers, hair, nerves, sebaceous and apocrine glands etc. You wouldn't use a chemical exfoliant on sensitive skin, but it's perfectly fine on the thicker and l... | |
0013d427562a6fc240dc | Not to dissuade further discussion, but this section of the wiki: [Calendars & Timekeeping](_URL_1_) may point you in the right direction. Particularly, [Other Dating Systems](_URL_0_) | |
0013f481c5f06e96a652 | The answer *is* because quantum mechanics says so. It's because of quantum tunneling, which is where a particle crosses through a barrier that it shouldn't have enough energy to cross through. Barriers in a quantum mechanical sense aren't true barriers. A particle with energy E passing through a potential of V can sti... | |
0013fe5e5cd4ad4a0710 | Part of the reason the Achaemenid Persia is considered feudalistic is that we don't know much about the social structure besides that the king ruled through a series of other minor kings. There were three primary class divisions: warrior/aristocracy, priests, and farmers, though this structure was also influenced via d... | |
00140781f3516b5537d3 | The "light is affected by gravity because E=mc^2 " thing is just a way to help people think about it when they don't know any general relativity. In general relativity things move along straight lines (more correctly [geodesics](_URL_1_)). The geodesics which light follows are called "null geodesics" and are character... | |
00145a1482b9e6a5fa31 | Neutrinos have no charge, so they don't interact through the electromagnetic field. They are the lightest of the non-massless subatomic particles, so that they have very little interaction through gravity. They do not interact through the strong nuclear force because they are not quarks, gluons or hadrons. That leaves ... | |
0014a6cb93f65bd0dece | Remember when your Pokemon game (r/b/y) lost all of your Pokemon after a while? That's because the place the information was saved in the cartridge needs electricity from a battery to keep the information saved. The battery inside the cartridge dies after a while and the Pokemon are gone forever. It is thought that the... | |
0014aed9148361e8d20c | Yes, mechanical stimulation of photorecpetors produces [phosphenes](_URL_0_). Pushing on your eyes activates the cells that normally respond to light, causing you to see funny colors/designs. | |
0014bfb1ebf1a20bb11a | Free radicals are any molecule with an unpaired electron in its outermost shell. They are highly reactive because they can easily react with biological molecules (by oxidation/reduction ie, the transfer of electrons) to damage DNA, RNA or proteins, and can also alter cell signaling through reacting with cysteine residu... | |
0015062fae92d2e02c67 | Every species produces a certain amount of base muscle. This is coded in your DNA. Gorillas just default to really strong (ditto tigers, lions, bears etc). However having all that muscle isn't useful for everyone, it takes energy to maintain and humans adapted to a lower muscle mass. If that gorilla started working out... | |
001526cafe1f4fa1adb8 | This post provides a really good answer to your question by /u/Agrippa911: _URL_0_ | |
001596d0ca21d5321b1a | Yes, we know that the latest possible date for the first Roman to appear in China would have being 166 AD when Chinese sources records a delegation proclaiming themselves to be the ambassadors of King "Andun" (Antonius Pius) of "Da Qin" reached the Han capital of Lounyang. While in the 90s AD a Chinese general had disp... | |
00159aa8df11997a19a9 | Stereo sound that is directed through two or more speakers so that it seems to surround the listener and to come from more than one source. Soundstage Determines the space and environment of sound, as created by the headphones | |
0015a5cca9f65def30e0 | Red Cabbage contains a chemical called anthocyanin. Anthocyanin is a pH indicator, meaning it will change color based on the pH of its environment. | |
0015cf07e10cd2753d84 | They're rightly written with apostrophes, but everyone puts them in the wrong place. They're contractions, - `the 1950s` turns into `the '50s`, just how you would contract `they are` into `they're` | |
0015dbe855742d041136 | Some states have serious restrictions on ticket resale, others do *not*. This is not universal. Scalping *at* the event is arbitrage. Scalpers can take advantage of people and price-gouge them. You are *not* guaranteed authenticity. So laws were made for consumer protection. Lastly, resale of tickets at sold-out even... | |
00161e68ac99959bc333 | You cannot really ignore ships for your question. Ships is one of the places where one of the best Japanese weapons of the war was deployed, the Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo. The type 93 had a heavier warhead, better range, and better speed than any other torpedo in the war. It gave Japanese light fleet element devast... | |
0016aecf05f70e4585df | There are several ways. * Some neurotransmitters are just pumped back into the presynaptic cell. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors partially block the reuptake of serotonin, for instance, letting it sit in the synapse and perisynaptic space longer. * Some neurotransmitters are also cleared by astrocytes, which ar... | |
0016fc8ba5897f62945a | IBM did make a version of DOS themselves. PC DOS was the IBM brand for their PC operating system. Up through DOS 5 it was basically a rebranded MS DOS. In 1993 MS released a version 6.0 and IBM released a separately developed "PC DOS 6.1", which would go on to have several subsequent major revisions. The IBM DOS's impa... | |
0017024c1a8f117ac464 | Animal death isn't as clean cut as that! There are examples of people being resuscitated from basically every stage of death before decomposition (and even then, I'm sure there's an example of someone with a flesh-eating disease like necrotising fasciitis, which is effectively just an immune-resistant decomposer, being... | |
00177151eb4041b7de2e | Electricity is a phenomenon, it doesn't fall under the umbrella of a state of matter. If you were to isolate a bunch of electrons in a chamber, it would be a plasma. | |
0017891e2af9b0d5b50d | Cancer isn't bacteria or virus, it's you body's own cells malfunctioning. Normally your immune system can notice when cells are reproducing uncontrollably, but not always. They are your cells, not foreign bodies. Even when tumors get destroyed, there are often still rogue cancer cells floating around in your blood that... | |
0017aeceea0f8c32f024 | Derivative and integral are inverses; that means that the derivative of an integral is the original function. Why do you think that couldn't be true? | |
0018758391ab4fc8047f | All these diseases are called "cancer" because they share the same basic pathology of unregulated cell division, but otherwise they often have little in common. The exact mechanisms of different cancers and the treatments that will be most effective can differ significantly. So much so that the research into one varian... | |
00194c6a43037cc4d861 | _URL_0_ As you can see, tan(Θ) is the length of S-T, and 'tangent' to the unit circle. It's also easy to see that tan(Θ) is infinite when Θ = 90°. | |
0019ae6cd2b5327046f8 | > Like I'm sure it's impossible to get from point A to point B in space in a "straight" line without coming across an inevitable planet, asteroid, star, black hole or whatever else. Not at all. If you pick a random direction in the sky, you are *overwhelmingly* likely to go many billions of light-years without hitting ... | |
0019be0f9d4194537fd8 | No, they're not all connected. Most of them are standalone stories, in fact. There are a handful of paired games, where the setting and sometimes characters are the same, but for the most part they're independent of each other. I think that accounts for a lot of their success, actually. There's always a new story, new ... | |
0019f910cb6e55e1dd5f | Molecular weight doesn't quite matter - the filter doesn't operate base on [size exclusion](_URL_2_). Your Brita filter removes most ions by [ion-exchange](_URL_3_) - these are stationary phases with pre-existing slots for ions to bind to. The "exchange" occurs when your impurity replaces the existing ions in binding t... | |
001a1a6a5185eec4bc06 | Your vision is a cone. Move your hand a few inches in front of your eyes and your hand is crossing only like 1 foot of distance. But far away you are seeing miles left to right. Things take way longer to cross a mile than cross a foot. | |
001a1d3bc0f32aa6bc51 | A constitutional crisis is when something happens that the constitution hasn't accounted for. It means no one is really sure what the correct course of action is because the constitution doesn't say what should happen. An amendment might be one way to resolve the situation. Another might be getting the courts to see if... | |
001aadb16512a4c276c0 | The LAPD has long had a reputation for brutality and incompetence. The OJ Simpson trial, the Watts Riots, the Rampart Division, the NOI shooting in the 60’s, Daryl Gates, Rodney King,etc.. As of late, there has been speculation that the Charles Dorner case was handled poorly by the LAPD and they screwed up his capture/... | |
001abb38332a156199a0 | They are actually commonly referred to as "floaters." The technical name is "Muscae volitantes" , and the seeing of them is called "myodesopsia." The reason why you see them is because the part of the eye called the "vitreous humour" is usually transparent. Sometimes imperfections can develop in it, and the shadows of ... | |
001ac464003e1e342a28 | The scale has two contacts, one under each foot. A current is run through your body between the contacts and the scale measures the voltage needed to get to that current, which tells you the resistance of the body. Different types of tissue that make up your body have different resistances - muscle tissue is a pretty g... | |
001ae520baed23b22605 | I've previously written an answer to a similar question [here](_URL_0_). Needless to say, they worked very well as a *military* force but as a counter-insurgency force, they were actually downright awful. Unfortunately, the post-Bush War literature (often written by the RLI themselves) were quite happy to overlook this... | |
001b9047ae8bc373cbca | Because the vast majority of people still work the same 9-5 shift. | |
001b910bd40d4b5ea88c | The plastic items dissipate their heat to the air more quickly. Glass and metal hold onto the heat longer, allowing it to transfer to the water and speed evaporation. | |
001b9e09e8c88a544b34 | With the diets humans evolved to eat, generally speaking teeth/enough teeth would last easily long enough so continually growing teeth wouldn't really provide a benefit and would have several notable downsides. If they kept growing then our bodies would need to continue to expend energy in order to continually grow th... | |
001ba2dbea09e90f1568 | The machine does not activate whatever works on the inside to pump gas until you lift the handle out of the holder. Some have a lift handle where the pump was resting, and others are triggered by the metal flap that the nozzle pushes up when re-inserted into its holder. Thats how the machine knows that you have removed... | |
001ba66c85e4270db6f4 | This is civil inattention at work. Civil inattention is the process whereby strangers who are in close proximity demonstrate that they are aware of one another, without imposing on each other – a recognition of the claims of others to a public space, and of their own personal boundaries. | |
001c582a682f2412e66b | This is known as the [Dunning-Kruger effect](_URL_0_) and it basically runs on the idea that stupid people don't know information to realize how much they don't still know, while smart people know enough information to see there is so much more to still learn. The same effect applies to almost anything, including thing... | |
001cba0e73ec3f869efe | A rainbow is the separation of white light (which contains all wavelengths) spread out in order of wavelength. Each color in the rainbow is a single wavelength of light. The colors that we perceive in the world are actually mixtures of many different wavelengths, just as many sounds aren't pure tones. We do not percei... | |
001d29c896b775de3041 | Because they are expected to spend 15 min or less with a patient and that rarely is sufficient time to fill out the paperwork let alone give and accurate exame. So they will always run over delaying things. If you are seeing the doctor the expectation is that you will take the whole day, or several hours off. You have... | |
001d2f4e34f0cf7c60df | Ok here it goes.... it takes blood flow and cells to regenerate and heal. When we are injured more blood is redirected to the area that swells. Swelling is fine and is a natural response to an injury but in some cases your body's healthy response can be unhealthy (like say if your throat was injured and swells... not g... | |
001d38a1f6899064397e | Hey, voice teacher here! So, usually when you’re lifting weights, the yell/grunt you make isn’t actually on the vocal folds, but on something just above called the “false vocal cords”, which offers resistance to the airflow without causing the same injury/pain as a yell ON the vocal folds. So, here’s why that’s releva... | |
001d59417f09b5008d2f | My understanding is that you basically are focusing too much to the point where you override your muscle memory. Ever notice how if you're struggling to remember a password, or how to spell a word, that if you just start typing without thinking, it will easily come out? It's kind of like that | |
001d8babdb9df1a7d4ee | When you exercise, your body releases adrenaline into the blood. This is responsible for activating the "fight or flight" mechanism. When this happens, your body prioritizes what areas of your body need blood and oxygen more. Your body isn't very good at determining if you're playing sports or running from a bear, so i... | |
001d9ca70ea404ebf678 | It doesnt. It slows down biological activity in the muscle, slowing any damage being done, such as that from lactic acid (though some evidence suggests that we need said acid). Heat helps recovery, cold hinders damage. | |
001e4a64d6281472acbd | The idea behind privilege is that depending on the circumstances you were born in, for example being white, male, straight, etc. give you innate and unearned advantages in life. For example, as a straight person myself I don't have to deal with any of the issues that many gay people deal with. Telling somebody to check... | |
001e58299c70674f4a0a | We don't. A good hacker (hackers who are intentionally hacking government servers) won't leave a trace. Or at least they will be behind so many proximity it'd take forever to find them | |
001e72cdfc116e91a59c | It's a catalyst that has a different phase from the reactants. | |
001e91efb9640304e378 | A little gear spins an off center weight in your phone. The rest is inertia - your phone feels force from the weight spinning and wants to move, but can't, hence the vibration feeling. | |
001ea0484b6bdfbecbf4 | When you say "put on by Mozart" do you mean he's performing, or it's a concert of his compositions, an Opera he wrote? And is it adult Mozart or child Mozart? | |
001ebbf3c876fb6a0f97 | That assertion really depends on where you live. In some parts of the country, the "nice" neighborhoods are designed to be car centric and aren't really intended to be walkable. A little extra road length doesn't matter when you're driving anyway, and it allows for more space between houses. This kind of cul de suc cen... | |
001ec16385b45b0ebceb | The US have a lot of forests for timber. As it is much easier and cheaper to build with wood then with brick many houses are made of wood. In older countries most of the forests have been cut down and given way to farmland so wood is not as available. | |
001ee1cefc2864de58fc | In the UK, [it doesn't](_URL_0_). > Credit-application footprints can affect your credit score, but other search footprints, such as those created by ID checks or quotations, cannot. I don't know if the same applies in other countries. But if running a credit report *does* affect your score, it would be because people... | |
001f314e3a93690e4932 | We can measure the speed of an aircraft in two ways - ground speed, and airspeed. Ground speed is how an observer, stationary, on the ground would perceive the aircraft. Airspeed is how fast it's going relative to the air that it's in. If you have an aircraft that's doing an airspeed of 500mph in a 200mph tailwind, it'... | |
001f3d68e272c9f47b97 | I have never heard a credible argument that early Christians consciously changed the dates of their holidays to hide from persecution. The New Testament connects Easter to the Jewish holiday Passover, which is still more or less when it is. It's much less clear historically why Christmas is when it is, since the NT do... | |
001f950cda2b2c3ecdab | Last time this question was asked, the exact same point about most oxygen producing organisms being algae came up. Then the question was clarified in the same way. If I didn't know for a fact that I've seen this question before, I would've thought that there had been a glitch in the matrix. Edit: The answer was deter... | |
001fa3e76c20494472b0 | I'm not really certain what sort of acknowledgment you're looking for, could you be more specific? They were certainly aware that they lived in areas that had not always been Christian, and if they were able to trace their ancestors back that far (which wasn't always the case, the aristocracy was not particularly stabl... | |
00201c44e164a575c66f | Electrons would still move at absolute zero, that's a common misconception. | |
0020298c0490093a2dbc | Delta Force is a special mission unit of the US Army. SEAL Team Six is a component of the Joint Special Operations Command which is from the US Navy. They exist separately because they belong to different branches of the armed forces of the US. Why exactly the people who carry guns on the ground are different from the ... | |
0020404493bf97f48962 | Because if you have that particular ailment and hear about the drug enough, you will ask your doctor about it. If the doctor keeps on getting asked about the drug from hi patients, he will start to prescribe it. Then big pharma makes more money | |
002049fc84425bf24e43 | A spark like that is very close to an "impulse function"....a signal with a very, very fast rise time (and fast decay time). If you do a Fourier analysis of an impulse function, you'll see that it contains every possible frequency component. Of course, a spark is not a true ideal impulse (which has zero rise/fall times... | |
0020f6259ba413a9f7ce | Because it's not "your" credit score. It's a company's credit score that they created *about* you. In other words, it's their proprietary data that happens to reference you, and not something that belongs to you. And from a practical standpoint, it prevents you from repeatedly checking your score after every single tra... | |
002123c5b257edd4dfd7 | When eunuchs were a thing the first step was to place a thin silver tube in the penis. This was about 8mm is diameter. The balls and penis was then amputated and the wound bandaged around the tube. Once healed the tube provided an outlet for the pee. The genitals were then fried and preserved. This allowed the eunuch ... | |
00220a298ba103662dc3 | Ya know how tattoos are drawn on a deeper layer of skin and therefor never go away? Well sometimes your body accidentally spills something called melanin which controls how tan your skin is. It gets spilled on the same layer of skin. | |
0022b4c59bd1ab5b1454 | This doesn't appear to have been translated into English. The question of ownership of rights to the translated work when the original work is out of copyright is determined by the contract(s) signed between you, your translator, and if you are publishing the work, your publisher. There may be two different contracts, ... | |
0023d899a628d08417f3 | At first I thought there would be some sort of gas/liquind phase transition for a certain depth, but then [Wiki has this](_URL_0_) on the subject: "...At this depth, the temperature is above the critical temperature, which for hydrogen is only 33 K[37] (see hydrogen). In this state, there are no distinct liquid and gas... | |
00240a15b9e894a5bf90 | Fun fact, it's not a good idea to run a microwave with nothing inside. The energy feedback between the empty chamber can bounce back to the magnetron, and overload it. Basically, the food inside is absorbing energy, which heats it up. Metal is also a bad idea, because that energy can interact in different ways, from ru... | |
00241dd56a7189e43be6 | The games aren't rigged in the sense that the house odds have to be within reasonable limits. However, they aren't required to be the same as the player's odds and they aren't in virtually all casino games. | |
002490290b289189afe2 | Its because birds eyes dont move in there head so they do the quick movements to look around | |
00249793cb90cd99d12f | There are certain liquids that dissolve caffeine better than they dissolve the compounds in the coffee beans that cause flavor and aroma. We can use these liquids to wash the caffeine out of the coffee but leave behind the smell and taste. It's a lot like washing the dirt out of your clothes, except we look for stuff t... | |
0024a42f0e7ea7199925 | 1Larger gyroscopic effect from bigger wheels. 2 simplier motion. The pedaling motion isn't shifting balance too much. Skating is literally a series of motions in which your one leg is pushing you while you are falling forward, and then your other leg is catching you only to become the pushing leg. | |
0024bd535a86eb58902c | Funnily enough, we were talking about this recently. I've skimmed "The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People by James Serpell. As far as I can tell, in many cases dogs were given the same status as humans. And it also seems that domesticated dogs in the Bronze Age were all drawn from the s... | |
0024ca9e3261444f1d88 | For some people even a gentle poke is very painful so they have a stronger reflex because it hurts more. | |
00252fa55a2548203f80 | It's just courtesy, there's no reason why the seat needs to be up/down/whatever. As for the cover, you can put it down when you flush to reduce the amount of toilet water particles that spray out of the toilet. These particles are generally smaller than you can feel or see and don't really cause health issues so long a... | |
00253e197cecbc909c3e | There's also [this really great lil podcast](_URL_0_) about the history of bar- and QR-codes (plus how they work!) by 99 percent invisible. | |
00255902ec2becb164f2 | Personal preference. I know people who prefer it at room temperature. | |
0025a2784b4ff4673f90 | [See this pic](_URL_0_), givin that it's a tube and the velocity of fluids tends to be higher around the center i guess that while pressing the tube the colored paste in the edges gets pulled towards the center, resulting in an more or less uniform shape. | |
002678e900f11a795010 | In a car the speeds of the engine and the wheels are directly connected by the gearbox. The engine needs to be within a relatively narrow band of speeds to run efficiently and generate the best power, so you use a gearbox to allow the wheels to turn at a wide range of speeds while the engine stays within its preferred ... | |
00272c750881a18aaa90 | Basically, instead of light traveling in a straight line, it moves kinda like a corkscrew (orbital angular momentum meaning it spins for the most part). So instead of sending data in straight lines of light, we can spin the shit out of them and packs in lots together. Imagine driving on the highway in rush hour, but ca... | |
00272d0eef38a7aa3622 | Well your teacher is kind of wrong. The first is that is one way to do it. The light can be controlled by supplying current to the screen, high current means very bright and low current means not so much. Using a variable resistor will limit that current. But it doesn't mean the total energy changes. The excess energ... | |
00277e557f3b49475862 | Here is a video series explaining his style: [Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style](_URL_0_) | |
0027d8c4fbbc9436e973 | Because they own the government. It takes big huge steamy piles of money for a candidate to get elected. Wealthy donors give wads of money to a candidate. Should that candidate get elected, she/he/it/they now need money to run for reelection. Wealthy donors can essentially manipulate the candidate (now mayor, mp, or wh... | |
0027de6f539100b7abf1 | While the Cold War had a huge role in making the Middle East turmoil more complex, many of the conflicts in the region have ethnic/religious tensions as foundations. The Shia/Sunni divide causes a lot of turmoil in Afghanistan and between Iran and everyone else (particularly Iraq). Meanwhile, the Kurds are another infl... | |
00285653664b3028c579 | Based on my limited knowledge, the distribution of microbes varies depending on diet, location, and, more recently, proximity to certain animals. One student I know found that the microbiomes of incoming graduate students changed over the course of a year suggesting that stress may play a crucial role. There are also a... | |
0028720a68ed3bd20fb5 | Grad students generally will work under a professor who assigns the student work. The problem is, it's up to the professor's discretion on how much work to give, and the amount of time spent is therefore not clocked and it can widely vary. So the professor could assign 40 hours of work and claim that it should only tak... | |
00287cc5ea315fd9a29e | _URL_0_ As to why, its the same reason a foot is 12 inches instead of 10. At the time it was developed, the primary difficultly in any numerical system wasn't converting between units, it was measuring those units, so it was easier to use a number system that divides in halves, thirds, and quarters easily. | |
0028cadeb84d7eacfc86 | Check out the Wikipedia article on atmospheric tides _URL_0_ | |
00292d5b456d6c7fe7fb | You need ~10 times the Jupiter mass, that needs multiple collisions. The planets would collide with speeds of tens of kilometers per second, and the pressure differences would propagate at least with similar speeds. At that speed you need something like an hour to have the impact affect everything. Shockwaves from the ... | |
002946ddba1b64a24fab | It's always been rich against poor. Eventually, the poor call shenanigans on the rich and overthrow them. They will form a society to see that this never happens again, as people will have all necessities and comforts directly provided to them. | |
00294db4b6068954d426 | In this context it's considered a soft interjection -- like 'oh', or 'hey' | |
00297c356cf3f4613ebf | To stop animals from eating the plant in addition to its berries. The small to medium birds that are the ideal seed-spreaders can fit between the torns no problem. | |
0029a25655e7a6bb3c3e | They are cousins, but because their parents have identical DNA, genetically they might be regarded as siblings, because any variation that one couple can make, could be made by the other couple. But they are legally, and factually cousins. Edit: this only applies for identical twins marrying identical twins offcourse. | |
0029bbc1aae9e060c528 | There was a recent paper on it here: _URL_0_ You might not be able to access it. Maybe here: _URL_1_ | |
0029e656effbff533508 | Most of the time it is referring to something being self referential like tropic thunder being a movie about making a movie with actors playing actors |
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