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tmahfan117 t1_jdi8sh6 wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why does "turning it off and on again" work so well for troubleshooting? by WillShelbyOBE
Because computers a really good at following instructions. They love following steps. But if something goes wrong and they get off of those steps it’s very hard for them to find their way back into them. But if you force the computer to start over at the beginning, chances are it will complete the steps just find as long as nothing goes wrong.
So turning something on and off again is essentially just saying “hey, you messed something up but you can do this, I’m gonna put you back at the start, try again.”
tmahfan117 t1_jbbqqmw wrote
To be bit fair to the Vatican here, its quite possible they were the ones to originally steal it. The Roman empire was stealing from the Greeks long before the church even existed.
tmahfan117 t1_jad88gh wrote
They hide the fact that they didn’t perfectly cut the floor boards or the drywall so there’s a gap in the corner. Making things look nicer.
But functionally yea those small boards are just for looks.
Not you CAN get skirting that is actually meant to protect the wall by creating a buffer space, like keeping a cart or something like that from scratching it, but that’s much larger.
tmahfan117 t1_j9lwzw7 wrote
Reply to comment by Sand_Trout in ELI5: Are all solids minerals? If not, why? by CaitlinN22
Yea you right
tmahfan117 t1_j9kmhoy wrote
No, minerals are “a solid, inorganic substance of natural occurrence” so a lot of solids are minerals yes, but not all solids.
Any solids that are organic, like wood, are not minerals.
And any solids that are naturally occurring, like Steel or Bronze, are not minerals.
tmahfan117 t1_j2u2baz wrote
Reply to comment by waltwhitman83 in Family Statement for Damar Hamlin by ShepherdsDoof
It depends on how deeply you’re sedated.
But like the vast majority of the time people can breathe on their own while sedated. Like anytime someone gets knocked out for a planned/routine surgery they’re sedated.
tmahfan117 t1_j2axzxm wrote
You open the door and try to push it out.
And then the normal snow plows with the big wedges on the front exist, but many cities that get heavy snowfall also have things like industrial sized snow blowers (like the thing you see people push in their driveway, but the size of a Big truck.
As well as plain old construction equipment, front end loafers, etc.
tmahfan117 t1_iy64n34 wrote
Reply to ELI5: How does the body turn calories into energy? is it the stomach that does all the work? by IsItInyet-idk
Through a process called cellular respiration.
All your stomach does is break food down into simple parts, simple sugar, protein, and fat molecules.
Those parts then enter your blood and are pushed around your body and absorbed out of the blood into the cells that need them.
Sugars are your cells main energy source, and they break those sugars down into CO2 and H2O through Cellular Respiration to get energy for the cell.
tmahfan117 t1_iy634s6 wrote
An H-Bomb is a kind of Atomic bomb.
Broadly there are two kinds of atomic bombs. Fission bombs, and Fusion bombs.
The first kind, Fission Bombs, were the first ones made of Uranium and Plutonium, the kind that were dropped on Japan during WW2. This work by splitting very large, heavy, radioactive atoms like Uranium and Plutonium. In a chain reaction.
The second kind are Fusion Bombs, these work the same way the Sun does, by fusing Hydrogen atoms together into Helium. Which to get to the pressures needed to do that it actually first explodes a fission bomb “around” the fusion bomb to compress that core and force fusion to happen.
H-Bombs are “Hydrogen Bombs”, so bombs that fuse hydrogen together, making them the second kind, Fusion Bombs.
tmahfan117 t1_ixszeug wrote
It doesn’t, mostly.
You can totally pump gas into a car with the engine running and not have anything explode. As long as the gasoline doesn’t get to the engine or any other part hot enough to ignite it, it won’t explode.
The problem is that people In general are stupid, so removing every possible risk is the best move.
tmahfan117 t1_iujavd7 wrote
Is it possible. Yes. Is it possible for you personally? Maybe.
The US government have facilities that are effectively impervious to nuclear attack. These bunkers are deep underground with complex ventilation and supply storage, and would house the critical functions of the US Government and Military in the event of a nuclear war.
Obviously you probably could not afford to do that. Instead you are probably stuck with at best a concrete and steel bunker only a few feet below the earths surface, with only basic ventilation and water/supply storage.
For you, could you survive a direct nuclear attack? Probably depends on your ventilation system. Since you’ll need a way to let fresh air in. Maybe you can design/buy a system that can withstand the pressure wave from the nuke, maybe you can’t.
But surviving a direct nuclear attack in a backyard bunker is probably unlikely.
BUT, if you aren’t at the direct epicenter, yes you totally could survive. Underground in your bunker. You’d have to stay down there for at least a few days, but ideally you would want to have a radio that you could listen to emergency broadcasts with (Yknow that really annoying TEST message that plays on radios and TVs? Yea, that’s partly for alerting people what to do during nuclear way)
Because it would also depend on things like the wind and where you live. For example, if the wind is blowing from your bunker towards the nuclear blast center, it’s blowing radiation away from you, meaning your area would be safer, quicker.
tmahfan117 t1_iuj6uve wrote
Reply to comment by tpb772000 in eli5 What came of Edward Snowden leaking all of that classified intel? by tpb772000
Nothing drastic changed, no, is the CIA and/or NSA still harvesting American’s data? Almost certainly.
tmahfan117 t1_iuj61n9 wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why does MSG make food taste so irresistible? And why is everyone against it? by theinvincible-dosa
MSG have a very savory (umami) flavor and enhances other savory and salty flavors in the food.
So adding it to chicken broth made it taste extra chicken brothy.
People got against it because some articles came out about how it had sodium in it (which it does) and could have negative health impacts.
After research, it was found that eating MSG in normal small quantities has little to no impact on health.
tmahfan117 t1_iuj5l3z wrote
That’s the neat part, there wasn’t.
The main outcome was the Snowden got branded as a treasonous traitor and fled the country to avoid arrest and is now living in Russia.
There was some public discourse, but hardly anyone truly cared and there wasn’t much political will to change anything.
tmahfan117 t1_jeb7q0z wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why do people grow plants in greenhouse ? Is it more efficient than growing plants outside ? by dellive
Greenhouses extend the growing season. Plants that would normally die from the cold can last from a few weeks to sometimes a few months longer in the greenhouse.
Some places can grow some plants all year round in a greenhouse.