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Why is Wellington so windy?
It's the [roaring forties] (_URL_5_). New Zealand is a long way south [citation needed]. And the southern ocean is a [seriously windy place] (_URL_3_).
Why did the endless cascading of windows (such as the ‘not responding’ window)on older operating systems occur?
Windows didn't cache a windows pixels when something is placed above it. It simply asked the message handler to render that area of the window when the area was returned to the window. When the messag
Why can .exe only run on Windows – not Mac or Linux? When a file like .mp4 can run on both? Can’t a compatibility application be made to support .exe?
It's not that difficult to write a Mac or Linux program that can read the instructions in a Portable Executable file (the format that Windows uses for .exe files). The problem is that doing so doesn't
Why is water in drawings portrayed as blue even though most rivers and lakes do not look blue?
Large bodies of water like rivers, lakes, and oceans really are blue. Pure water with nothing else in it is transparent. But large bodies of water are not remotely pure.
Why is it when you rewind VHS tapes they lose their quality over time?
Since rewinding needs to be done for each playback, what makes you think it is the rewinding which causes quality loss? Tapes lose quality over time whether you play them or not due to breakdown of th
Why do they call it a season of television in the US but call it a series in Britain?
Network TV in the USA has a pretty regimented schedule, running from fall to spring, with around 23 episodes per program, year after year. With this sort of regularity, it makes sense to call it a sea
Why does it get so windy during a wildfire?
Wind is created by heat, basically. The sun warming part of the world up and not others creates warmer spots in the atmosphere. That causes warmer air to rise, which means cooler air has to come in to
Why do people get sick when the seasons change
There are two main causes: 1. **Allergens**. In Spring, for example, flowers begin to release pollen.
why cant trains get a more efficient emergency brake system?
One of the reasons that trains are so efficient (in fuel used per kilo of cargo) is that their wheels don't have much rolling resistance. So you can't use car-type brakes very efficiently - there just
Why does inbreeding cause the offspring to have a significantly lower IQ than average? What is the science behind it?
take it that a human body has 2 sets of genes. When a baby is made, half the genes are from the mother and other half is from the father. These genes make proteins which help our body work.