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aspheric_cow t1_j6orxb7 wrote
Reply to comment by Viv3210 in Eli5: when will oceans actually start rising? by Just_a_happy_artist
We do see it, mainly in the form of flooding from storms. The flooding is worse because the sea level is high to begin with, and you've got storm surges etc. on top of that. Many coastal cities are building flood barriers.
NoLIT t1_j6orw3k wrote
Type and number of copies generally express the phenotype. The recessive type, in nature, enrich with the adaptability the dominant behavior adoption by characterization and deactivation (still present\dormant) layer.
ScienceIsSexy420 t1_j6orvnh wrote
Reply to comment by C_Wisn in ELI5: What is the point of Christian Colleges?? by C_Wisn
No, a private entity can refuse you service for any reason they want, except for a few protected reasons. You can refuse service to someone for the attitude, offensive clothing, or because you don't like their face. But you can't do it because you don't like their skin color or sexual orientation. There are some exceptions carved out for religious views, like in the case of sexual orientation, but even the church can't kick you out for your skin color. So it's a hybrid of religious exceptions, and private entities can be selective
picknicksje85 t1_j6ortj8 wrote
It's been a secret area for decades. And I'm sure you know about the rumors of an alien crash, or alien vehicles being housed there or tested. Not saying that is true. But you know the answer to your question :P Why do you ask a question with such an obvious answer?
Spiritual_Jaguar4685 t1_j6orsf9 wrote
Planes fly due to two forces, lift which is generated by air traveling across the wing, and thrust which pushes the plan forward. Combine those two and you get flight.
The Earth's rotation doesn't really enter into it because in theory everything Earthy also rotates, including the air in the sky and the plane on the ground. In theory, since the plane and the air in the sky are part of the spinning Earth system it all cancels out and spinning or no spinning, the motion of the Earth doesn't interact with the physics of an air plane.
But of course the air in the sky isn't just spinning with the Earth, we have wind and storms and jetstreams and things like that mean the bulk motion of the air IS important to flight. For example, because of the Jetstream that blows roughly from NYC to Ireland, it takes around 45 minutes longer to fly back to the NYC from Ireland, because you're flying into the wind.
ScienceIsSexy420 t1_j6orojk wrote
Reply to comment by breckenridgeback in ELI5: What is the point of Christian Colleges?? by C_Wisn
No, they absolutely can, except for a few protected reasons. You can refuse service to someone for the attitude, offensive clothing, or because you don't like their face. But you can't do it because you don't like their skin color or sexual orientation. There are some exceptions carved out for religious views, like in the case of sexual orientation, but even the church can't kick you out for your skin color
maveric_gamer t1_j6orn8j wrote
Reply to comment by NdavG100 in ELI5: Why are people so obsessed with uncovering whats in area 51? by NdavG100
Our country was literally founded by telling the extant government to go fuck themselves, being distrustful of the government is as patriotic to an American as you can get.
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CryonautX t1_j6ori4c wrote
Short answer: It had been decided that light will always move at a specific speed no matter who or what observes light and even time itself would bend to make that be always true.
Long answer: Let's start with understand a bit about relativity. Let's say you're on a train with a friend and your friend gets up and walks towards the bathroom. From your perspective you see your friend moving at about walking speed towards the bathroom. It's not particularly fast. But what about someone outside the train? Let's say a man is standing a safe distance away from the train tracks and your train zooms past this man. This man sees your friend who was walking to the bathroom. From his perspective, she is going really fast and is zooming past the man. Now your friend has 2 speeds. One really fast speed from the perspective of the man outside the train and a slow speed from your perspective. Both speeds are correct and it all depends on what the speed of the observer is. Everyone will have many different speeds just like your friend and that is what relativity is.
But here's the thing. Light is special because it will always have 1 speed: c! No matter who the observer is and how fast the observer moves, light will always move at the same speed(in vacuum) which is a specific number that is roughly about 300 million meters a second. Now obviously this would seem to contradict the earlier point about relativity but here's the magical thing that lets light move at c. The observers looking at light will either have their time sped up or slowed down to make it such that light is moving at c. So if you try to run really really fast to try and catch up to light, light won't appear to have a lower speed, it would still be moving at c by magic because time slows down for you and light will appear to go faster to make it so it moves at c.
stairway2evan t1_j6orepn wrote
Christian colleges are private entities - since they aren't part of the state, they can kick you out any time for any reason. Students who decide to go there (presumably because their religion is very important to them, or because it's cheaper or more prestigious than an alternative school) are choosing to follow the school's rules.
Don't get me wrong, we can certainly argue that a school's policies are draconian, or out of line with what most modern religions allow or expect of their adult members. But that doesn't mean we can stop a school from setting its own rules (within the bounds of the law), and they'll likely keep doing it as long as people are still signing up to go.
JackSartan t1_j6or86g wrote
Reply to comment by Dysan27 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 knew exactly what that was before clicking on it. Mythbusters and paintball is a good mix. If anyone is confused, that's the video to watch.
C_Wisn OP t1_j6or6hk wrote
Reply to comment by breckenridgeback in ELI5: What is the point of Christian Colleges?? by C_Wisn
That’s what I was thinking!!! Like it just seems discriminatory to me. Like how can it be illegal to deny someone employment based on marriage status and family planning, but an institution you pay for, can kick you out for being pregnant be having a bf?
ovirt001 t1_j6or4lg wrote
Private schools are given extreme leniency in how they operate and what they can teach. They can make up whatever rules they wish so long as they don't violate the law.
Arbitrary_Capricious t1_j6or2sg wrote
Because the government is so determined to keep it secret. Not just legitimately secret tests, but things like refusing to confirm the base exists (when it's easily visible from a number of publicly accessible vantage points). When the government acts like that, people are driven by a combination of curiosity, paranoia, and well, basically trolling, to find out what's there. Honestly, if they'd just said what everyone knew--we test secret planes out there, please stay away or we will take action--they'd probably have less of a problem. But when the response to "What are you doing at that base?" Is "What base?" when it is obvious that there is. In fact, a base then you're pretty much inviting conspiracy theories.
AcusTwinhammer t1_j6or182 wrote
Reply to comment by breckenridgeback in ELI5 - When filling multiple choice bubbles at random why only go with 1 letter? by Stellar_Panda
I didn't take the class, it was just a quick summary he gave of part of his class, but if humans are selecting the answers, or even just reviewing and editing the answers, there is going to be some sort of bias--"that's too many Cs in a row," or "there's too many As in this section." Whether or not one specific "SAT tips!" advice or another was actually better, I don't know.
breckenridgeback t1_j6or0oj wrote
Reply to comment by ScienceIsSexy420 in ELI5: What is the point of Christian Colleges?? by C_Wisn
> In the US, any private entity can end its relationship with you for any reason
Well, no, they can't, there are many rules against discrimination by private entities.
It just so happens that most of those rules have loopholes built in for religious beliefs.
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Any-Broccoli-3911 t1_j6or03c wrote
Reply to comment by Viv3210 in Eli5: when will oceans actually start rising? by Just_a_happy_artist
Because you don't live in a low altitude region most likely, which is normal since most people live a lot more than 1 meter above the sea level and we won't even get an increase of 1 meter by 2100 in most prediction (though we will get close).
Also, most low altitude regions have dikes to block the sea and river from flooding the land.
Faleya t1_j6oqx7w wrote
Reply to comment by Stellar_Panda in ELI5 - When filling multiple choice bubbles at random why only go with 1 letter? by Stellar_Panda
sure, unless you somehow chose B on all of the answers where C is correct and C on those where A, B or D is correct.
so yeah you have a chance to get a few more right, but also to have a few more (or all of them) wrong.
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breckenridgeback t1_j6oqudf wrote
The air is rotating along with the surface of the Earth. And so is the plane. The movement of a plane is relative to the moving surface.
Except for very near the poles, or a few supersonic aircraft, a plane traveling "west" is in fact still being carried eastward by the Earth's rotation. It's just traveling eastward less quickly, so its position relative to the surface moves westward.
NickyXIII t1_j6oqtl2 wrote
Reply to comment by Bensemus in ELI5: Why is having a lower refresh rate on a display better for battery? by NotJoeMama727
It's much less noticable in motion when using an analog interlaced display than when using a modern digital progressive display. Interlaced is absolutely worse, but that is exactly why once we could logistically make progressive happen we did
Red_AtNight t1_j6oryz9 wrote
Reply to ELI5: What is the point of Christian Colleges?? by C_Wisn
We have them in Canada too, look up Trinity Western University for example. Our Charter also allows the free exercise of religion, as long as it doesn't violate the Canadian Human Rights Code