They mean the latter, which means the later of multiple options given.

Yes, camping as a kid is how I learned about guy wires/lines.

Little droplets of liquid water. The air is already too humid for the water to evaporate away, but the droplets are too small for gravity to pull them down. When they get a little bigger, gravity does pull them down, and that's rain.

On the upside, 6.5 is already almost 20% above average. So if this typo is relevant to you, you can still have that bounce.

It's not a guess, we can see it! For example, here's an image from the Hubble telescope of one galaxy pulling material from a smaller nearby galaxy. So now we know that's a thing that happens - and we're not just guessing, it's something we're actually observing happening.

BTW those two galaxies are 200 million light-years away. For reference, our own galaxy is about 100K light years across. So that's an event we're directly seeing that's about 2000 galaxy-widths away from our own galaxy.

The signal from your brain that tells your muscles to squeeze is electricity. When you squeeze all the muscles in your arm, your hand closes tightly.

So when you're electrocuted, all your muscles are just getting the SQUEEZE signal from all that electricity, louder than your brain has ever sent it before. So your muscles squeeze like crazy, locking your hand closed.

And if you try to let go, your brain's own weak electric signal saying "let go" is WAY weaker than the electric jolt yelling SQUEEZE. So you squeeze.

BTW if you want additional answers, the sub /r/IfYouLikeBlank is for this exact type of post.

There are billions of bacteria living in your mouth all the time. They're all constantly reproducing, peeing, and pooping. That waste smells bad.

During the day you are generating spit and swallowing, which helps to keep the bacteria populations down, and continually washes the waste away as it's produced, or at least before it can build up too much.

At night, you stop generating as much spit and you don't swallow. So all the bacteria can multiply and their pee and poop can also accumulate. That's what morning breath is. Bacteria colonies and their waste.

Besides the other answers, it also has to do with duration.

When you're doing cardio exercise, do you go for 5 hours non-stop with zero breaks? Energy drinks raise your heart rate constantly, for hours. If jogging for several hours straight sounds like "too much exertion to be beneficial and into the realm of possibly also damaging" well that's why elevating your heart rate for a whole day with energy drinks is possibly damaging too.

Living tissue (including fat cells) need a constant supply of blood and oxygen. The bigger you are, there's just physically more flesh to keep supplied. Your heart has to push a bigger volume of blood through a longer length of tubes to reach all the parts.

It's like how if a city could only have one water-supply pump station, and could only use one diameter of pipe, as the city got bigger and added hundreds of houses further and further away, that pump would have to run more often and at higher pressure to keep up with the flow being drawn from everyone's taps.

Well if they don't learn sometime, they'll grow up spelling it "beastuality".

(bestiality)

Even if there was vapor loss, that vapor is still aluminum atoms. They'll condense somewhere and still be aluminum. So the amount of aluminum on Earth stays the same no matter how much we "use". I think that's what they're getting at with "100% recyclable".

Evolution is a lot like engineering: just-good-enough-to-work is the ideal solution. Why worry about creating systems to actually deal with all the types of poisons it could be when you can just have a universal eject function and then eat some food to replenish whatever nutrients you also ejected along with the poison...if it was even poison. Oh well, at least you didn't die to poison, so that's a plus.

If the sickness was being caused by something poisonous you ate, vomiting is a quick way to cure yourself. It could even save your life if the poison would have killed you!

Since the alternative is possibly dying to something you could have easily just thrown up, evolution has "decided" it's a better overall strategy to throw up when sick just in case.

Isopropyl alcohol is a good solvent for resin/tar. Salt is not very soluble in the alcohol and acts as a scrubby abrasive that can get into every curve and crevice, while not being hard enough to scratch up the glass. You could use isopropyl alcohol and sand and it would clean great but scratch the glass over time.

Plus the salt easily and cleanly rinses away in water after you're done cleaning (vs something like sugar).

Let's say iced tea costs the company 10 cents per L to produce.

• If you buy 500 mL for $2.80, the company makes $2.75 profit
• If you buy 1L for $3.00, the company makes $2.90 profit

So you feel like you're getting a good deal, and the company turns more of your money into their profit, even after accounting for having to make more product.

TLDR: Bulk pricing encourages consumers to buy more, which makes the company a bigger profit.

(Yes I know I'm ignoring packaging costs and stuff. frodeem's answer covers these economy-of-scale considerations very well)

>level 4ChickenEnthusiastOp · 4 min. agoSo it's like we should stop talking about "the richest/wealthiest person" and start talking about "the person with the highest valued assets

Exactly! For a recent example, see Bernard Arnault (owner of Louis Vuitton) passing Elon Musk this year for "world's richest" person - not because LV sold a bunch of merchandise, but because the things Elon owns became less valuable to potential buyers due to his damaging of them. In the earlier analogy it's like he dropped his own trading cards in the mud and "lost money" because their value decreased.

As for your second point, no I'm not aware of such a metric, but I agree that it would be useful and intriguing to see. Maybe someone else here can inform us. I imagine the problem would be where to draw the line re: "consistently valued". If gold is included, what about silver? Copper? Bonds? It could get complicated.

Yes it only considers the combined total mix, not each individual source. All it can do is measure the soundwave that actually reaches your ear, using a built in microphone.

Think of being in a pool. You've got 4 different people swimming, splashing, diving in - making different sizes and types of waves at different locations. But that doesn't really matter - you're at one end of the pool with a little float that bobs up and down and traces the net combined total of all these waves as their combined peaks and troughs reach you.

That little float is like the microphone in noise-cancelling headphones. The microphone measures the total net combined sound wave peaks and troughs reaching your ear, and then the headphones play an "opposite sound" that has peaks where the room noise has throughs and troughs where the room noise has peaks. The peaks and troughs cancel, and the room noise is imperfectly but substantially eliminated.

And yes it's an engineering marvel that this measurement and active response can happen at the speed of sound in an ear-sized device.

Yes, this. It's like if you had a trading card and one day someone offered to buy it from you for $100. Nice! You don't sell though, maybe you'll get an even higher offer some later time.

The next day someone finds a whole sheet of that same card, and now the most anyone would pay for your card is $5. The value of your card has decreased by $95. In a sense, you lost $95 of value (because you could have sold it in the past for $100). But you didn't actually lose money. No cash has changed hands. It's just the agreed-upon worth of something that has changed.

That's what's happening when billionaires "lose millions". No money is changing hands, it's just the agreed-upon (aka "market") value of their assets changing.

Yes the order is always the same.

A light's colour is determined by its wavelength. "White" light, like sunlight, is a combination of all the different colours.

Rainbows happen when the suspended drops of water in the air act like prisms and refract the light. When light goes through a prism, it gets bent by an amount that depends on its wavelength. The longer the wavelength the less it is bent, the shorter the wavelength the more it is bent. That means the light gets "fanned out" according to colour. Red has the longest wavelength and gets bent the least, orange gets bent a little more, etc etc.

This photo is a tiny 240x320, something messed up with your link.

Shoutout to/r/ThatTreeFromWanaka

Tip: If your google results for something are getting swamped by a more popular thing like what's happening here, you can use a "+" before a word to only include results that have that word.

Search: "oxycontin and a glass of wine +lyrics" and your results will ONLY be from pages that include the word "lyrics", excludes all of the addiction websites.

Lots of companies, even Walmart, will make custom puzzles of an uploaded image and ship it to you. So you CAN buy a puzzle of this, or whatever pic you want!

https://www.walmartphotocentre.ca/en/puzzles/-pg-54/175

https://www.shutterfly.com/photo-gifts/puzzles

https://www.vistaprint.ca/photo-gifts/puzzles

At Walmart it's only like $20 for a 520-piece puzzle, too.

Yes, amazing lenticular cloud sitting on top.