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FlipFlopX t1_jed3vj9 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ELI5: I understand that sound waves essentially stretch and disperse very quickly, but technically, aren’t the very tiny sound waves still there, thousands of miles away? by Strict_Alternative74
Would such modulation techniques actually work? I’m mean EM waves aren’t exactly a 1:1 match to sound waves and the former doesn’t use a transport medium. I admit this isn’t my field but you have made me curious.
V1per41 t1_jed373t wrote
Reply to comment by mojoxer in eli5 What does “indicted” mean? by jcw10489
So how is this different than getting a judge to sign an arrest warrant or something similar? Is it the type of crime that matters?
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mikeholczer t1_jed2nk2 wrote
Reply to comment by twelveparsnips in eli5: Why do women only have their period/ are fertile for approximately 50 years if they’re born with millions of eggs? by MediumYoghurt3061
Also for most of human evolution, life expectancy was much less than 50 years, so there was no evolutionary pressure to be fertile for longer.
twelveparsnips t1_jed29l6 wrote
Reply to eli5: Why do women only have their period/ are fertile for approximately 50 years if they’re born with millions of eggs? by MediumYoghurt3061
Because we evolved from animals that released millions of eggs in their lifetime and thousands at once. There is no evolutionary pressure for you to produce fewer eggs even though we evolved to produce very few offspring.
SsurebreC t1_jed1bv0 wrote
Reply to comment by LangleyHearse in eli5: Why do women only have their period/ are fertile for approximately 50 years if they’re born with millions of eggs? by MediumYoghurt3061
No but that would be such a neat idea :]
Cramps is what happens when cells that line the uterus (endometrial cells) break down. This processes releases chemicals (prostaglandins) that cause the muscles and blood vessels in the uterus to contract.
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ForestCityWRX t1_jed070q wrote
Reply to comment by Pegajace in ELi5 If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? by cashmoneyhash
I genuinely believe my brain can’t comprehend that level of thinking. Thanks for the explanation.
ubcsestudent t1_jeczyou wrote
Reply to ELI5 How do MMORPG Games have the same armour models fit all characters when the heights and models differentiates a lot ? by ErieeKo
Im not a game developer. But knowing a bit about coding. I think the most reasonable thing is that the asset for armor probably just scales directly vertically with height and horizontally in both directions with fat/muscle/mass.
Im sure it just rerenders the model with different dimensions. It probably has base dimensions, and then they are probably multiplied by character height and mass to scale it up or down.
Pegajace t1_jeczwq8 wrote
Reply to comment by ForestCityWRX in ELi5 If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? by cashmoneyhash
You're still thinking of space as if it's some material existing within space, but that's a fundamental error. Space isn't occupying space, and it's not at a location within itself or anything else. Space is what matter & energy occupies, and what separates locations & events via both distance & time.
> What is there before space is there?
Space isn't "here or "there." Space defines "here" & "there." If there's no space, there is no "there," full stop.
Hefty-Set5236 t1_jeczuil wrote
Reply to ELI5 How do MMORPG Games have the same armour models fit all characters when the heights and models differentiates a lot ? by ErieeKo
Imagine you made a bunch of dots on a person, all over their body, and you assigned each dot a number. Then you did the same thing to a set of armour. You put the armor on the regular sized person so all the numbered dots on both the person and the armour lined up. Then you could make a person bigger or smaller, but the dots would remain in the same relative locations, by effect shrinking and growing the armour. Sometimes, an artist would review how the armour grew and shrunk, and make small custom adjustments to make sure it looked good.
This was basically how it was done in the late 90s and early 2000s when mmorpgs were just starting to come into their own. Theres more complicated methods that have been added onto this basic method to make armour look even better and change shapes even more, but that's far beyond the scope of this sub.
LangleyHearse t1_jecztmg wrote
Reply to comment by SsurebreC in eli5: Why do women only have their period/ are fertile for approximately 50 years if they’re born with millions of eggs? by MediumYoghurt3061
So cramps are actually monthly tournaments with egg on egg combat to determine who's the strongest?
Brhall001 t1_jeczmi2 wrote
Reply to comment by ForestCityWRX in ELi5 If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? by cashmoneyhash
No one really knows.
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Reply to eli5 What does “indicted” mean? by jcw10489
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ineedhelpbad9 t1_jeczj45 wrote
Reply to ELI5: I understand that sound waves essentially stretch and disperse very quickly, but technically, aren’t the very tiny sound waves still there, thousands of miles away? by Strict_Alternative74
Yes, but not at the range of thousands of miles. You can use large (3-4 meter wide) parabolic dishes to focus the sound waves to a point. They're called Acoustic Mirrors they had a range of about 35 kilometers. You can also buy a parabolic microphone, those can pick up sounds up to 2.5 kilometers away.
jaa101 t1_jecz5fp wrote
Reply to comment by ToxiClay in eli5: Why do seemingly all battery powered electronics need at least 2 batteries? by OneGuyJeff
> To get a single-cell battery
Strictly speaking, a "single-cell battery" is an oxymoron. The word "battery" means a group of things working together so, while a 9V battery is a battery of six cells, a AA is one (electrolytic) cell and not a battery.
The word originally comes from batteries of guns which were used to batter down fortifications.
ForestCityWRX t1_jecytp4 wrote
Reply to comment by Pegajace in ELi5 If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? by cashmoneyhash
Okay, hear me out. Brand new space. What space is the new space occupying? What is there before space is there?
FlipFlopX t1_jecytc9 wrote
Reply to ELI5: I understand that sound waves essentially stretch and disperse very quickly, but technically, aren’t the very tiny sound waves still there, thousands of miles away? by Strict_Alternative74
At some point the waves will have dispersed so much the sound vibrations would be smaller than the random motion of the air molecules. There would be no way to detect the original sound at that stage.
toastyhoodie t1_jecyqmf wrote
Reply to eli5 What does “indicted” mean? by jcw10489
When a person is indicted, they are given formal notice that it is believed that they committed a crime. There usually will be a criminal trial held.
mojoxer t1_jecyqij wrote
Reply to eli5 What does “indicted” mean? by jcw10489
It means a group of people called a grand jury have seen enough evidence presented by prosecutors that they think the person being investigated should be tried for crimes.
That’s it. Not that anyone is guilty or innocent. Just that there should be a trial, because there’s enough evidence to hold one.
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Reply to ELi5 If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? by cashmoneyhash
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