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sirbearus t1_jdsu519 wrote
Reply to ELI5 Why did the nazis lose the war? by Avitailzzz
There is no ELI5 answer to a question of this complexity. Seriously it happened 80 years ago and it is still an active topic for serious inquiry.
My top most opinion is Germany underestimated the Soviet union's ability and commitment to fighting.
Germany and The Soviet Union had a non-aggression treaty to divide Poland. If the Germans had abided by the agreement they would not have expended so much of their resources in the Eastern front and might have successfully controlled Western Europe.
https://www.britannica.com/event/German-Soviet-Nonaggression-Pact
sirbearus t1_ja86p8v wrote
There are three levels of college degrees. From lowest to highest... Undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees and terminal degrees.
Imagine that college is like regular school you are already familiar with undergraduate degrees are those you earn in "four years or less," Graduate degrees are an additional 2 years post undergraduate and terminal degrees are the highest level of degree that one can earn in a field (if you ignore law and medical school,) these are typically 4 years (or more) after your undergraduate degree and entitle the person to call themselves doctor.
The term doctor can be confusing as it didn't originally have anything to do with medicine as is commonly believed today.
sirbearus t1_j9ofw5r wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why do people wear different types of helmets when skiing and bicycling? by LucasUnited
They wear different types of helmets because the risk of injury to the skull comes from different types of injuries.
Bicycle sheets are designed to protect a rider from impact with the pavement and motor vehicles. These injuries often occur from side and top impact to the head.
Skiing injuries are usually from impacts with trees. These injuries occur from impact while forward facing.
American football helmets are another type of helmet with different priorities.
Bicycle and skiing helmets also prioritize hearing differently. Bicycling safety requires hearing skiing doesn't.
sirbearus t1_j6mooms wrote
That depends on how much time you have to practice. Yes you can learn to pass a driving exam in 28 days.
sirbearus t1_j6lha3b wrote
You have a misunderstanding of temperature. Temperature is different than humidity and that is also different from heat loss.
To start backwards, when you are sitting at a window and the weather is cold outside, when you feel , "the cold" at the window you are actually feeling not the cold air coming in, you are experiencing heat loss from your body.
When you stick a thermometer outside it senses the air temperature and it reaches a state when the liquid inside the bulb is the same as the outside air temperature. There is no heat exchange taking place as they are in equilibrium. Unlike your body which generates heat and you will continue to feel the heat loss just like at the window.
Humidity is a measurement of the air to carry water vapor without it returning to a liquid state. It is expressed as a percentage where the current water load of the air is compared to the maximum capacity.
Capacity goes up as a function of temperature. That is why the cold months seem dryer.
I hope that helps you to understand.
sirbearus t1_j6klvsv wrote
TV and movies make it look cool but in real life power is required. If the power is out then the cameras are not capturing information.
sirbearus t1_j6kft56 wrote
Muscles are told to fire by the electrical impulse that comes from the body's own nervous system.
The electricity coming from the electrocution source is more powerful than the body that any impulse to open is not received.
The hand in particular has a design which favors the closing motion and not the motion to open. Both sets of muscles are stimulated at the same time by the electrocution source but the closing muscles hold the object in the hand.
sirbearus t1_j4tmotu wrote
Reply to TIL Generally, hobbyists or casual photographers can expect their digital cameras to last five years, as determined by the shutter count or number of digital images a camera can take before the shutter stops working by Ok_Copy5217
They didn't specify that it was referring to DSL either.
sirbearus t1_j2el8oj wrote
Reply to eli5 If people will die being up-side-down for too long, why do babies in the womb not die? by IJustBeTalking
The lungs of fetus are not working like they will after they are born. They are not responsible for oxygenation as this is done by the mother's body.
The lungs are designed to function with gravity during inhalation and exhalation is caused by the elastic nature of the lungs.
When a person is inverted for too long the cause of death is asphyxiation.
sirbearus t1_j2cef9t wrote
...and yet we know who is really the one who loves Biscuit the most.
sirbearus t1_j2003yr wrote
Reply to TIL Universal Studio's Colonial Street set has been home to Desperate Housewives, Psycho, Leave It To Beaver, The Munsters, The Hardy Boys, The Burbs, Dragnet, Delta House,Nancy Drew, The House Of the Seven Gables and more, all on the same "street". Built in the 1950, it remains in use today. by 54_actual
I re-watched Harvey this weekend. This was a cool and timely TIL.
Thank you.
sirbearus t1_iy6pi8r wrote
Reply to comment by As_TheHoursPass in ELI5: Sugar free drinks contribute to obesity? by YakkoRex
A well stated replay to the question.
sirbearus t1_jeeqxop wrote
Reply to ELI5 - In moviemaking, it seems "dailies" would be pretty easy to create for review and playback in the digital realm, but how were "dailies" created in the film era, if the film had to be processed/developed and then sync'd to sound first? by OsgoodSchlotter
They were created just as you would imagine. They processed film, then synced audio. They had a staff dedicated to taking film and doing all this all day long.
They were not edited. Just the raw film as captured.