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So what if I thawed out a block of cheese but never opened it and threw it back the freezer?

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So to those animals…. We all kind-of look alike as well.

You are biased, you have been genetically engineered to identify and remember small changes from face to face that if you weren’t a human wouldn’t be anywhere as recognizable. Heck, sometimes your own dog has to smell you before they fully recognize you (plus dogs have way more looks between breeds than humans do).

Plus, a lot of our biggest differences are simply fashion choices. Other animals tend not to have fancy clothes or hairstyles. Strip that away and do we look that different?

Plus, humans conquered the globe. So the differences between like italians and asians has more to do with having lived on different parts of the globe for a long time. Like there are lots of different deer out there because they’re everywhere and they evolved to their various environments. If they ever invented airplanes and started mixing you’d also cite diversity.

Oh! I can actually answer this!

Fertilizers have a lot of nitrogen and phosphorus. When they enter a waterway, that causes algae to grow really rapidly and form “algae blooms” that cover the surface of the water. This blocks sunlight and makes it harder for plants to photosynthesize, which reduces the amount of oxygen in the water. As the plants and algae die, they’re also eaten by bacteria that require oxygen which limits the amount of oxygen in the water even further. The whole process is called eutrophication.

EDIT: Thanks for the awards!! This is my first comment that’s gotten more than like ten upvotes, how fitting for it to be about something nerdy.

Made of multiple different kinds of tissue: check (connective and epithelial)

Has a specific function: check (protects, cools, encases, just to name a few)

That makes an organ an organ

They look identical to us.

As humans we are much better at noticing small differences between humans than animals.

We are just more used to it.

Practical example, if you go to a farm, every cow looks almost the same to you, still the farmer can identify each on in mere seconds. Same reason, he sees them every day and notices every small difference, you don't.

Which is why they investigate aircraft crashes so thoroughly? So that a slight change in design, processes, procedures etc will further the body of knowledge about aircraft and the odds will decrease

It's the basis of all safety, I suppose.

These are two different problems.

The breakdown of cells from freeze-thaw cycles makes the food less appetizing.

The time spent in the "danger zone" (40-140F, or 4-60C) allows bacteria to grow, with bacteria growing faster at warmer temperatures. If you thaw food in the fridge, it should be safe for a few more days. If you thaw food on the countertop (and let it come to room temperature) and then put it into the fridge, it might go bad in a day.

That's a fair assessment, and essential survival can certainly be applied to different scales.

The difference seems to be one of immediacy. You could survive a long time assuming your other needs are met, without protection from the sun.

You cannot survive for long regardless of ulterior needs without protection from the cold.

I always assumed that they didn’t because they didnt think the earth orbited the sun. But the length of time of each season was predictable and so maybe that’s how time was tracked especially for people who could read and weren’t taught how to use a calendar.

So your question is why is jury duty required for you specifically?

I heard a great explanation of this recently on the news. It’s a number that (taking a bunch of other things into account like payment history for bills including mortgage, loans, etc, credit history (mainly think “how long have I had and used a credit card) and other factors into 1 number from 300-800. This number tells people “how likely am I to pay back credit?/how good of a borrower am I? (From a bank’s perspective$” the higher the number, the “better” of a borrower you are.

This is important and you should care because those with higher credit scores:

• can get lower interest rates when you go to get a mortgage
• would actually qualify for higher loan amounts/can borrow more money, and a bunch of other stuff.

Sometimes, poker is a good example, assuming you're playing with a 52 card deck and there's 5 people playing and you're 4 flushing and waiting for the river to hit. You'd think that since you're 4 flushing your odds of hitting the flush are 1 in 4 since the river card can be 1 of 4 suits.

But it's actually slightly less because if you're 4 flushing then that means a disproportionate number of your suit were already played.

It doesn't throw it off MUCH (so if you're 4 flushing you should probably chase it, especially if you're pocket suited) but it is LESS than the 1 in 4

Evolutionarily animals typically are better at interspecies recognition; it makes sense, one should people to tell individuals it spends the most time with apart.

In the same way humans of one genetic group often joke "All people of that genetic group look the same."

Cats, crows, dogs, horses, all these social creatures have cues to let them know individuals in their social network apart.

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Engine braking along with brakes would be fastest in theory as it applies the most stopping forces. But humans cannot downshift that fast realistically so realistically, slamming on your brakes and letting ABS do the work is the best choice.

It's called Supersampling and basically gives the computer more options for what to render for any given pixel.

If you "render" at a higher resolution so that each final pixel is 4 pixels in the supersample then the computer gets 4 reference points for what color that pixel could be instead of just one. It can then average those 4 values and get a cleaner value for that final pixel.

When you have high contrast areas (black against white for example) the computer can pick a cleaner average between the two areas (shades of gray) instead of only choosing between white and black.

Here is an ancient calendar in Peru (2500 years old) can tell the time of year by the positioning of the sun in relation to the towers. BBC video about it.

Every roll of the die is an completely independent, right? There's no way that your previous roll can effect your next roll. That means you might go 30 rolls without landing a 6, or you might roll a 6 ten times in a row. But averaged over many many rolls 1/6th of them should be 6s.

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There often are laws and regulations around spreading and even for riparian zones (vegetation next to streams). The places with a lack of regulations for this are often the places nutrient run off is a signifcant issue in watersheds. A lot of the monitoring for my area is done by local watershed conservation groups who share their data with other authorities or authorities in their organization. They often work together with policy makers to find a good balance for the watershed and the economy.

Well done! I love mixing metric system prefixes with real units as well.

If you can't tell a difference between force and mass you might as well not bother measuring anything and just eyeball it.

And the difference of how much a pound weighs varies significantly, at poles its half a percent more than on equator. That's a lot, half a percent makes a difference between a buy and a sell.