How does a computer network like HBO's handle the massive output of data for short bursts of time, like a GoT episode? |
- How does a computer network like HBO's handle the massive output of data for short bursts of time, like a GoT episode?
- "Graphene can do just about anything except leave the lab." Why is graphene so difficult to utilize?
- When something gives off a scent, does it lose mass?
- Can statisticians control for people lying on surveys?
- If we made a perfectly round object, would it be possible to know if it was spinning or not?
- When I leave the window open, is it heat escaping or cold entering that reduces the temperature in my house?
- How are humans able to fart gas out downwards if gasses naturally rise in the body?
- Why do our eyes become red when we are deprived of sleep?
- Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology
- Why does the gas constant R show up in so many equations, even ones not involving any gasses?
- What is the purpose of things that are not food smelling good to us?
- Would it be possible to get a sun tan on the moon?
- Why are there no CPUs with an odd number of processing cores?
- [Physics] What exactly determines how a radioactive isotope will decay?
- Is the recording of my voice really what my voice sounds like? I mean is it what people hear when they hear me talk?
- How does ecolocation work when several bats are near eachother?
- What's our galaxy orbiting around?
- What happens in my ears when I close my nostrils and mouth and try to exhale?
- Does uranium actually glow green as it's often depicted? If so, why?
- Is personality genetic? If some of it is how are certain traits determined?
- How complex can 'nuclear molecules' get?
- How are two photons quantum entangled?
- When I zoom all the way in on my camera, the front of the lens goes inwards and then back outwards, while the image smoothly zooms in. Why does the lens change direction halfway?
- Why does it seem like ancient texts (Roman, etc) are written so densely. Were people really that verbose in those days or does it come from translation?
| Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:25 AM PDT HBO but have to stream massive amounts of data for about an hour when the episode is first up followed by a percipitous drop-off in usage. Would they have to build a network with the capacity of Netflix just to have this capacity for a few hours a year? Generally how do massive amounts of data get transferred from one source over shortly periods? [link] [comments]  |
| "Graphene can do just about anything except leave the lab." Why is graphene so difficult to utilize? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 10:20 PM PDT |
| When something gives off a scent, does it lose mass? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 06:35 PM PDT |
| Can statisticians control for people lying on surveys? Posted: 16 Aug 2017 07:58 AM PDT Reddit users have been telling me that everyone lies on online surveys (presumably because they don't like the results). Can statistical methods detect and control for this? [link] [comments]  |
| If we made a perfectly round object, would it be possible to know if it was spinning or not? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT Implying that there is this theoretical perfectly round sphere, if I spun it, wouldn't the fact that it's the same on every side you can imagine make it so you couldn't see the difference between it "facing" north and facing south? Then how would it be possible to know if it was spinning? [link] [comments]  |
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| How are humans able to fart gas out downwards if gasses naturally rise in the body? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 07:57 PM PDT Inside of a human's rectum, shouldn't solids sink to the bottom gasses rise to the top? How can we fart gas followed by solids? Doesn't physics say it should be the other way around? [link] [comments]  |
| Why do our eyes become red when we are deprived of sleep? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:17 AM PDT |
| Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Posted: 16 Aug 2017 08:07 AM PDT Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big or small for AAW. In this thread you can ask any science-related question! Things like: "What would happen if...", "How will the future...", "If all the rules for 'X' were different...", "Why does my...". Asking Questions: Please post your question as a top-level response to this, and our team of panellists will be here to answer and discuss your questions. The other topic areas will appear in future Ask Anything Wednesdays, so if you have other questions not covered by this weeks theme please either hold on to it until those topics come around, or go and post over in our sister subreddit /r/AskScienceDiscussion , where every day is Ask Anything Wednesday! Off-theme questions in this post will be removed to try and keep the thread a manageable size for both our readers and panellists. Answering Questions: Please only answer a posted question if you are an expert in the field. The full guidelines for posting responses in AskScience can be found here. In short, this is a moderated subreddit, and responses which do not meet our quality guidelines will be removed. Remember, peer reviewed sources are always appreciated, and anecdotes are absolutely not appropriate. In general if your answer begins with 'I think', or 'I've heard', then it's not suitable for /r/AskScience. If you would like to become a member of the AskScience panel, please refer to the information provided here. Past AskAnythingWednesday posts can be found here. Ask away! [link] [comments]  |
| Why does the gas constant R show up in so many equations, even ones not involving any gasses? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 07:05 PM PDT |
| What is the purpose of things that are not food smelling good to us? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:23 PM PDT Was at work crossing things off with a sharpie and caught myself sniffing it while I was thinking about something. And I was like "What the heck nose that isn't good for you!" [link] [comments]  |
| Would it be possible to get a sun tan on the moon? Posted: 16 Aug 2017 07:11 AM PDT Provided the needs for human survival are met, i.e oxygen and warmth (in a heated Perspex capsule for example) could a person get tanned or sunburned on the moon? If not, why? [link] [comments]  |
| Why are there no CPUs with an odd number of processing cores? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 06:16 PM PDT Aside from a single core, there aren't any odd numbered core count CPUs that I know of (Tri-core, Penta-core, etc). [link] [comments]  |
| [Physics] What exactly determines how a radioactive isotope will decay? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:18 PM PDT Physics graduate here, I've got a decent understanding of nuclear physics but I've never seen an explanation of what exactly determines if a radioactive isotope will decay by alpha, beta, gamma or a mixture of the three. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2017 11:21 AM PDT Hey redditers I was recording my voice for my YouTube channel and it when i was listening to my voice and I cringe so badly cause is it what people hear when they hear my voice. [link] [comments]  |
| How does ecolocation work when several bats are near eachother? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:38 PM PDT If a group of bats are flying within a given area, do they experience 'interference' from one another? Do they use slightly different frequencies? Or are they even able to use signals from other bats to 'see'? [link] [comments]  |
| What's our galaxy orbiting around? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 07:18 AM PDT So our moon orbits around us on earth. Earth orbits around Sol. Sol is orbiting around something in the middle of the milky way. What's the milky way orbiting around? [link] [comments]  |
| What happens in my ears when I close my nostrils and mouth and try to exhale? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 07:54 PM PDT |
| Does uranium actually glow green as it's often depicted? If so, why? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 09:14 PM PDT |
| Is personality genetic? If some of it is how are certain traits determined? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 11:18 AM PDT |
| How complex can 'nuclear molecules' get? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:24 AM PDT In the 'hard' science fiction book 'Dragon's Egg' by Robert Forward, there is an intelligent species that evolves on the surface of a neutron star, using nuclear interactions to store energy, consume food, have thoughts and immune systems, etc, instead of chemical/electron interactions as life on Earth does. Putting aside the question of how likely this would be or what barriers the magnetic field might pose - how complex can nuclear interactions get? Is there anything equivalent to the element carbon and the rich diversity of molecules it spawns, in a nuclear setting? Are there any realistic candidates for nuclear ATP, DNA, proteins, etc? [link] [comments]  |
| How are two photons quantum entangled? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:18 PM PDT As in, when the Chinese scientists "teleported" a photon by entangling it with another, how did they do that? [link] [comments]  |
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