My silly question…
Why is water wet?
Hmmm… don’t continents have their own continental shelf? That is to say the land is all on the same big single piece of rock, which also has to be of a certain (large) size. That’s what I remember being taught.
per Yahoo: Water is wet because it is a solvent. “wet” is a slang for “solvent”.
Here’s mine: why do we YAWN when others do? Why do we YAWN even if someone like me writes the word YAWN?
Wait till the end after the credits. There is an answer.
6. The answer is clearly six.
It’s a natural reflex to look toward the noise to make sure it isn’t a tiger sneaking up on us. Nope, it’s just the door, somebody go get that.
Generally, it is (a) to see how bad the storm looks, or (b) to see if there is any more lightning. Because thunder doesn’t usually occur as a one off.
They are standardized, but the standardizing agencies are much more localized than you wish.
Why is it a “subcontinent”? Is it because it is “below” (i.e. south) of Asia? Or is it because it is a part of the continent?
Because we are land animals, and so we are referring to a type of fish as being similar to a land animal. Why would we wish to describe a land animal in terms of a fish?
Because they are stinky and cause secondary health effects. Your smoking affects me. So we don’t completely eliminate smoking, but we control where and when it is allowed. And because cigarettes are extremely addictive, so many people who wish to stop are not able to without significant struggle. And because cigarette manufacterers were discovered to be controlling the products to make them more addictive.
Down only has meaning within the context of a gravitational field, in which case “down” simply refers to the direction towards the gravitational center of said field.
And yet we talk about “a meteoric rise”.
Nobody knows; however, yawning is also contagious in dogs and chimpanzees.
That one doesn’t work very well either, since the continental shelf is continuous between Siberia in Eurasia and Alaska in North America. There is no deep-water break between these continents. Of course there is also continuous continental shelf between the continents with a dry-land connection, including Africa and Asia and North and South America.
Why only cigarettes? People’s obesity and drug/alcohol use causes secondary health effects and costs the taxpayer even more than the use of tobacco does. There is something else at play here other than money.
We know that makers of food with empty calories are also manipulating food to make it difficult to stop eating it. Overweight people will admit to having a problem controlling their intake.
And it goes without saying about alcohol and drugs.
Do you see why I am calling this a stupid question?
If I smoke a cigarette in the booth next to yours, it’s gonna get smoke all up in ya face and unless you’re a smoker it’s gonna annoy the fuck outta you. Also, second hand smoke.
If I eat a giant greasy cheesy triple bacon burger with a side of chili cheesy fries in the booth next to yours, it’s not going to affect you at all. There’re no second hand calories.
That’s why.
Not that I smoke or support bans on business owners from making their own decision on whether or not to allow smoking in their private businesses, just sayin, it’s not a very comparable situation.
This sounds like a question for Randall Munroe to ponder on What If?
If you eat one of those cheese burgers every day it is going to affect my pocketbook. And then there’s that issue of prejudice against heavy people.
If you are drunk in the booth next to me it’s going to affect me.
If you smoke in a park or outside the restaurant how will that annoy me?
If you vape how will that annoy me? Yet those things are being banned.
Can you see why it is a stupid question?
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Originally Posted by BigT
They appear to shoot across the sky and appear as glowing dots, just like stars.
Do you know why most people think owls are wise? Because they look wise. Similarly meteors look like shooting stars.
During continental drift, when the supercontinent Gondwana broke apart what is now India and a few surrounding areas was a separate chunk of land with its own geology, flora, and fauna. What is now North America, Europe and Asia were a supercontinent called Laurasia, which was also breaking up.
While the other continents were moving toward their present positions, this chunk moved north at a geologic high speed and rammed into the southern border of what is now Eurasia. The results of this continental fender-bender (which is technically still proceeding at a reduced rate) are the Himalayas. 
This animation http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim1.html shows it pretty well; the continents take their recognizable shapes and positions, then India rushes in like a kid late for class. 
“Back in the day” EVERYTHING in the night sky that wasn’t the Moon was called a star. “Comet” derives from a meaning of “hairy star”, and were considered ill omens: “Disaster” derives from “Bad Star”. “Planet” derives from “wandering star”. So it is logically consistent for the pastoralists of centuries ago to refer to something that is a spark of light showing rapid motion across the sky and occasionally coming near or impacting the ground as a “falling star”.
The only ancient “dissenting opinion” is “meteor” which comes from a Greek word meaning “suspended in the air”.
Not in my house. You can turn all you want, but you still can’t see the door. If the visitor doesn’t knock loud enough, you can’t even hear it. Fortunately, we have small dogs that are happy to notify us of visitors before they even reach the door.
Because you’re having a nicotine fit?
However, India was known as a “subcontinent” long before plate tectonics was discovered. The fact that it’s on a separate plate isn’t the reason it became known as a subcontinent. India is a very large region with a diversity of environments and cultures, and is somewhat isolated from the rest of Asia by mountains, rivers, and deserts. Therefore geographers have considered it a mini-continent.
I don’t think the system is that smart. I keep getting ads for things I just finished buying.
I agree. I’m still getting ads for a uke I bought two months ago. I mean, I do have multiple ukes, but they’re all different, and I’m not going to buy a duplicate.