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pro185 t1_j6mp6m0 wrote
Reply to comment by sstrombe in ELI5: Why does the order of adjectives matter? by AbleReporter565
Perhaps the most interesting part is this is a relatively high level priority ordering system that is (mostly) innately understood when learning the language as a child. Just by hearing others speak/seeing them write we program our brains to only accept one ordering of words as correct even though we were never formally taught this system.
Vogel-Kerl t1_j6mp5ga wrote
Reply to ELI5: If drinking salt water further dehydrates the body, why is saline used to treated dehydration? by Dartualexmachina
Normal saline is 0.9% sodium chloride.
That's 9 grams of NaCl in one liter of water. This is isotonic to your blood.
Sea water has ~35 grams per liter, almost 4 times as much.
Any-Broccoli-3911 t1_j6moz9c wrote
Reply to comment by AceDecade in ELI5: Why does the order of adjectives matter? by AbleReporter565
"He is running", " he was running", "he will run", and "he ran" all mean something different but are grammatically correct. That grammar rule is essential to the meaning of the sentence, in this case, the tense.
frustrated_staff t1_j6moywp wrote
Reply to ELI5: If drinking salt water further dehydrates the body, why is saline used to treated dehydration? by Dartualexmachina
False premise. Drinking salt water doesn't necessarily dehydrate the body. It's just that to avoid that particular effect, you have to drink much smaller quantities at a time, more consistently over long periods of time.
ProfessionalAd3313 t1_j6moxz8 wrote
Reply to comment by SpinCharm in ELI5 why do your eyes adjust so fast to bright light but so slowly to darkness? by melig1991
If Gronk go in dark cave not see big teeth of lion.
AshFraxinusEps t1_j6movii wrote
Reply to comment by DjShoryukenZ in ELI5: Why do so many fruits have seedless varieties but the apple and cherry do not? by JanaCinnamon
Not sure who you were replying to, but I never mentioned apples :-P
TrepidaciousDragon t1_j6mor7a wrote
Reply to comment by TrepidaciousDragon in ELI5: Why do we turn into our parents? by sonofakush
Fun side-information that is not really answering your question: if you want to change this behaviour, you have to be very aware of it and correct yourself everytime you are doing it, kind of like you are raising yourself again. By correcting the behaviour you enter what is called a corrective script.
The last sort of script is called an improvised script, which is when you encounter a situation you don't have a script for or when you are curious whether is a better way to do something.
AshFraxinusEps t1_j6moq6m wrote
Reply to comment by Redshift2k5 in ELI5: Why do so many fruits have seedless varieties but the apple and cherry do not? by JanaCinnamon
> good luck planting every seed from every archeological site in the Roman empire to see which is silphium
This is more the problem. But could be worth it, bearing in mind how historically important it was. We may have modern equivalents, but I bet that the medicinal value in modern times would be quite high too tbh
Atmosphere-Terrible t1_j6moltd wrote
Reply to comment by BobbyThrowaway6969 in ELI5: Why do computers need GPUs (integrated or external)? What information is the CPU sending to the GPU that it can't just send to a display? by WeirdGamerAidan
This answer is what ELI5 stands for.
grantnel2002 t1_j6mok74 wrote
Reply to ELI5: If drinking salt water further dehydrates the body, why is saline used to treated dehydration? by Dartualexmachina
https://ispyphysiology.com/2019/07/10/sea-water-vs-saline-why-not-all-salty-water-is-created-equal/
Amount of sodium is the biggest factor. Saline is purified water with a small amount of sodium chloride. Sea water is a high amount of sodium.
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collegiateofzed t1_j6mofhf wrote
Pinapple enzyme."bromelain"
While you're trying to eat it the pinapple is trying to eat you.
We're just an insane organism with litteral hydrocloric acid in our stomach which denatures the enzyme.
What little bromelain stays in your mouth really isn't sufficient to cause significant damage to such a huge biomass.
And what superficial damage occurs, our bodies EASILY regenerate.
Incendas1 t1_j6moe6p wrote
Reply to ELI5: If drinking salt water further dehydrates the body, why is saline used to treated dehydration? by Dartualexmachina
Salt water is too salty and saline is just right.
When you are dehydrated you also lose salts/electrolytes which are not exactly the same as sea water, for example.
TrepidaciousDragon t1_j6mod93 wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why do we turn into our parents? by sonofakush
There is still a debate on this how big of a part of this is nature and this is nurture. I do not know much about the nature-part, but maybe there is someone here who can explain that part. However, for the nurture part, when we are born, we don't know anything. We learn by the things we see around us as "scripts".
One sort of script we learn is the replicative script, in which we kind of copy the things we see around us. A small thing can be that you see your parents doing the dishes a certain way and take that way over, because that is the only way you see it being done. From now on that is part of your script. Another example could be meal times, or a certain way of talking.
In your example it probably is also a replicative script, you have seen your mother talking in a certain way, and even if you find it annoying sometimes, your brain is kind of getting programmed to think "oh this is how it is supposed to be".
TLDR: Because you have seen your mother talk in a rambly way, your brain is programmed that this is a normal way to talk and so it is tend to follow that way
BlueParrotfish t1_j6mnpu2 wrote
Reply to comment by Atharaphelun in Eli5 Why can’t Stars use Iron in nuclear fusion? by Drippidy
Hi /u/Atharaphelun!
The sidebar states:
>LI5 means friendly, simplified and layperson-accessible explanations - not responses aimed at literal five-year-olds.
PofanWasTaken t1_j6mnj6u wrote
Reply to comment by zeekoes in ELI5: Why does eating pineapple make my tongue tingle? by crqlp4
Bro, what?
"Bro, melain"
dirschau t1_j6mne6r wrote
Reply to comment by joeyo1423 in ELI5: If the universe is flat, and therefore infinite in size, how could it have been condensed to a single point in the past? by joeyo1423
I'm catiously optimistic
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Reply to comment by Giggingurl in eli5 why do we use a 12 month calendar? by brybob19
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Sir_wlkn_contrdikson t1_j6mn5tw wrote
Reply to comment by Spiritual_Jaguar4685 in ELI5: Why do so many fruits have seedless varieties but the apple and cherry do not? by JanaCinnamon
Is this a anti fancy way of saying GMO. From your comment, it seems as though it just happens
suedehelpme t1_j6mn1hj wrote
Reply to comment by stargatedalek2 in ELI5: Why does the order of adjectives matter? by AbleReporter565
This is a bad example, yes. Brick wall is essentially lexicalized at this point. It's stored in the brain as a single entity denoting a specific thing. This is like asking why you can say a big bluebird, and not a blue big bird.
psycotica0 t1_j6mmonh wrote
Reply to comment by Sneak-Scope in ELI5: Why do computers need GPUs (integrated or external)? What information is the CPU sending to the GPU that it can't just send to a display? by WeirdGamerAidan
I think it depends on what they meant by task switching. I think they meant "do a bit of game, then do a bit of web browser, then read some files, then back to game".
The GPU is good at doing the same "task", but a billion times, often with a huge amount of parallelism. So it's obviously good at switching from doing that task on one thing to doing that task on the next thing, but in the end it's still the same task.
Atharaphelun t1_j6mmoe4 wrote
Reply to comment by BlueParrotfish in Eli5 Why can’t Stars use Iron in nuclear fusion? by Drippidy
What happened to the "explain like I'm five" part?
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Reply to comment by activelyresting in ELI5: Why does eating pineapple make my tongue tingle? by crqlp4
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joeyo1423 OP t1_j6mmmtg wrote
Reply to comment by adam12349 in ELI5: If the universe is flat, and therefore infinite in size, how could it have been condensed to a single point in the past? by joeyo1423
That's pretty interesting, hadnt thought about the unique geometries that allow flatness but still are unbounded. There doesn't appear to be any reason it would be a torus but I suppose there is no reason for it to be any shape, it just is whatever shape it is.
Tying to understand these concepts in a human mind is dizzying sometimes. I hope I can stay the course and continue studying and eventually join the effort to answer these questions
frustrated_staff t1_j6mp9h3 wrote
Reply to Eli5: what is the difference between/the relationship between RNA and DNA? by LumpyEducation2588
The ELI5 answer is that DNA is the architect and RNA is the builder, but to be a little above ELI5. DNA is the blueprint from which everything is copied from or to. RNA is the copy machine. When DNA needs to copied, it's RNA that comes in and attaches to the open DNA molecule (one side only) matching it's pairs to the DNA before moving off. Once in place, bits and pieces attach to the RNA until the DNA strand is complete and BOOM: new DNA.