Even more perplexing: why does a salad I make for myself at a salad bar taste better than a salad I make for myself in my kitchen? I swear, they must sprinkle crack on the lettuce leaves…
It does, but the way the eye works, everything is upside down anyway. Light coming in to the eye passes through the lens and hits the bottom inside (the retina). Likewise light coming in from the left hits the right and vice versa. Our brains “fix” the image so we perceive it correctly by telling us that light hitting the bottom inside part of our eye is coming from above us and light hitting the left inside part of our eye is coming from the right. Light reflecting from the bottom of the mirror itself is hitting the top inside of the eye and our brain recognizes this as the bottom, logic follows that if we kick out our foot we will hit the bottom of the mirror. However the light reflected in the mirror without the aid of a lens got there in a straight line (directly from the foot to the mirror) so that light hits the bottom of the mirror and travels up to the inside of the eye telling us that our feet are on the bottom. Where our brains get confused is when light traveling from our right hand (for example) travels in a straight line and hits the mirror on its left side (from the mirror’s perspective) then through the lens of the eye to hit the right side of the eye. Our sense of perception is used to seeing things facing us as opposite from our point of view so what we perceive as the left hand of the person facing us is actually the reflection of our own right hand. If we lay on the floor light works in the same way and the image is reversed in perspective to our own. This would not change if we were hideously deformed (not symmetrical) nor would it change if we were either like a Cyclops or had eyes situated vertically instead of horizontally. The only thing that would change things is if our eyes either received light in a straight line instead of at a focusing angle or if the brain started interpreting images incorrectly. At least that’s how I remember it from high school biology class, if this is incorrect consider it a POOMA answer.
What I don’t get is How do buffets stay in business considering cost of food vs. amount of food eaten for one low price?
Restraunts buy their bulk food staples at remarkably low prices. (Cheap restraunts do, anyway. Expensive restraunts probably ay out for high-class food.) Further, a customer at the buffet does not necessarily take all that much more than a prepared entree. An entree is usually designed around the amount of food that an ordinary person will eat. People won’t take more from the buffet than they can eat at one meal, or at least not very much more.
My question: why is the type of television show that has least in common with reality referred to as “reality TV”?
Because they charge the same for “expensive” items and really cheap ones. Let’s imagine a person goes hog wild and eats three pounds of food. Most of that is cheap food (potatoes, mac and cheese) and only some of it is expensive food (roast beef, fish). But they’ve paid their $12, so the potatoes, which cost maybe 4 cents a pound, are going for $4 a pound!
Heck, even if the occasional Atkins-er did eat *only *three pounds of roast beef, it would still be going for $4 a pound, which is more than the restaurant paid for it. And three pounds is a heck of a lot of meat.
What would this explanation predict for people with only one functioning eye?
Why is it that when I saw Qadrop the Mercotan had responded to this question, I expected a medical explanation and was disappointed when he waxed philosophically?
Similarly, how does 50 degrees feel downright tropical in the wintertime, and absolutely bonechilling in the summer?
OK, I know it has something to do with maybe blood thickness and relativity and all, but damn. It’s hard to believe the same temperature can feel both amazing and horrendous to the same person.
For me, this is about having a pleasant surprise, rather than planning for a particular pleasure. This works for movies on TV (as Dewey Finn noted), or foods I like, or a lot of other small, non-essential pleasures.
Why is there air?
Why do people post wrong answers to optics questions only to make themselves appear stupid?
So we can play volleyball!
Lets see who gets the reference…
Well, when I was a young’un, Bill Cosby said there was air to fill up basketballs. And I believe Bill, 'cause he wouldn’t lie.
I have had a tooth ache for a week.
My appointment for the Dentist was for tomorrow.
Today, it stopped hurting.
I called and cancelled the appointment.
Tomorrow, it will be hurting again, and I have no appointment.
Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
When does a building finally become a built?
And if enough people draw a blank, when will we run out of blanks?
Yes, but did he have an explanation of why these hairs keep growing out of my freaking skin?
Why do we say that some people died of “natural causes” and others not? Everybody dies of something and given our activities and carcinogenic environment, couldn’t car accidents and cancer also be called “natural” outcomes?
Because:
The “park” in parkway evokes the noun. It is supposed to be a park-like place to drive.
The driveway is the way to drive up to the house. Today’s driveways are rather short, but imagine a long road-like path for your horse and carriage to approach the estate.
Why do they call them fingers? I never see them fing.
…oh, wait…there they go.
How come I never want the ice cream in the freezer until after my boyfriend has eaten it all?
Does “anal retentive” have a hyphen or not?
TELL ME! OH, GOD, PLEASE TELL ME!