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Exploring "Why" questions about Technology
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why my computer speakers go spastic every time i get a call on my phone
Your mobile phone communicates with the phone network using electromagnetic radio waves. One feature of electromagnetic waves is that when they pass through a wire, they create an electric current in
Why do iPhones have issues with sending and receiving pictures from androids, and vice versa?
iPhones will (would? I haven't had one in a while) use iMessage to send texts if it thought that the other side had an iPhone. If you had an iPhone, and then switched to an android phone, you might ha
Why were the “fappening” photos so effectively removed from the internet when other, more offensive and harmful, images remain?
All the rich and famous peoples lawyers just threatened websites with expensive legal action, they arent gone, they just arent explicitly displayed anywhere.
Why do nut packages display the warning “May contain nuts” instead “Do contain nuts”?
I assume you mean packets of peanuts. Peanuts [aren't actually nuts](_URL_0_). Someone with a nut allergy may not be allergic to peanuts, and vice versa.
Why can’t homeless people get on government assistance like food stamps and section 8 housing, aren’t they the people that REALLY need those programs?
As homeless housing programs have shown, it's in everybody's best interests to give the homeless housing with no strings attached. _URL_0_ All homeless housing programs reduced homlessness signifigant
Why do large explosions result in a mushroom cloud?
[Wikipedia says](_URL_0_): > Mushroom clouds result from the sudden formation of a large volume of lower-density gases at any altitude, causing a Rayleigh–Taylor instability. The buoyant mass of g
Why do explosions, more specifically huge gnarly fireballs, produce the mushroom cloud shape?
The column rising up is caused by air convection. It's really hot there so the air rises up. The air in the center is hotter than at the edge of the column, so it moves faster.
Why do classic arcade machines have players look at the screen through a mirror rather than looking directly at the monitor?
Those monitors were HUGE. If they had put them facing you, the back of the machine would have poked out really far, so they put them in the bottom, reversed the image (so everything wouldn't be backwa
Why does AT & T giving customers unlimited streaming mean a “war on an open internet” ?
It starts creating walled gardens of the internet. With a limited data cap, it hurts any streaming service that's not covered under their unlimited streaming plan. Why watch Netflix when Hulu doesn't
Why don’t U.S.-based websites have a two letter code like the rest of the countries?(like .it for Italia, .br for Brazil, etc)
It used to be a reserved domain until "recently," so companies turned to .com making it the unofficial domain of America. .us is available now and can be used (has been available for over a decade) bu