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Why are people saying that the Ebola Virus is not as transmittable as suggested?
~~A lot of diseases can survive in the air or on surfaces for long periods of time.~~ ~~Ebola can't. Unless you directly get some of an infected person's bodily fluids inside you, you're extremely unl
Why do teeth need to have sensory functions? What evolutionary purpose does that ability have?
If you bite a metal bar you can tell it's too tough to chew. Without nerves you wouldn't be able to tell and would end up breaking your teeth
READ THE INVESTIGATION arrow_right_altWhy wasn't procrastination eliminated by evolution?
Because there's nothing evolutionarily wrong with sitting around and not expending energy until you're forced to. That sounds like a pretty good survival strategy.
Why was a country as small as Germany so effective in WW2?
It was a combination of good strategy, good industrialization, and that they embraced new technology early on, so they could build up a strong force of tanks and combat aircraft even before they went
Why is patient zero of such significance?
Viruses mutate as they travel to different hosts, so the first patient to get it has the most basic form of it that has the most in common with the daughter strains, which may evolve in completely dif
Why do we focus more on the Vietnam war and less on the Korean war?
I think it has a lot to do with the advent of video in the media. Vietnam was our first "televised war." That really brought it home in a way that was never possible before. This (and lots of other fa
Why do police Tasers have cameras on them but not their guns?
Police officer and Taser Instructor here: Taser (the company) has a monopoly on Conducted Electrical Weapons. So any CEW you see an officer use is made by Taser. They offer cameras for thier devices (
Why deploy all 10 Iridium-3 Satellites in the same location?
The satellites presumably have a small amount of fuel on board. It doesn't take much fuel to tweak your orbit a bit to get the satellites all following the same orbit but spaced ou
