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ELI5 why do flies constantly land on you, when they are constantly swatted away?
My assumptions are that 1) they sense our bodies, meaning interesting biological smells (potential food) and they are aggravatingly, ceaselessly resource driven
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ELI5:Why don't car tires use innter tubes?
I'm sure there's a simple and reasonable explanation but it seems weird to me! Edit: Argh typo in the title, I'm a big dumb
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ELI5 How the first people to measure the circumference of earth do it?
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ELI5: Why do so many websites care that you're using a VPN?
Plenty of websites won't let browse them, if you're on a VPN. Why do they care? Many of them give generic login errors, if they're a site where you have an acco
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ELI5: How much internet traffic *actually* passes through submarine cables?
I've been reading a lot about submarine cables (inspired by the novel Twist) and some say 99% of internet traffic is passed through 'em but, for example, if I'm
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ELI5: If you bend a metal stick a little bit, it springs back, but if you bend it more, it stays bent. Why?
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ELI5: If grip depends only on the perpendicular force and the coefficient of friction and not on the contact patch area, why are sport cars using slick and wide tyres? Doesn't larger contact area reduce the load on the tyre, reducing grip?
I've always heard that slick tyres are for more contact patch area, but why is that something desidered?
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ELI5: Why do F1 cars look so different from normal cars, yet MotoGP bikes look very similar to normal bikes?
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ELI5 what is fhe purpose of statue limitation?
I was watching a cold case show ( it happened in Washington, Seattle) where a woman helped her brother after he killed someone—like hiding evidence and lying to
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ELI5: What is "wet bulb temperature" and why does it matter?
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ELI5 How does it benefit Google or OpenAI if people choose to use their respective LLM models?
I understand the pay to use model but so many companies are creating their own models and allowing limited free usage now. Is it just bragging rights and other
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Eli5 Why does gallium have a high boiling point even though it melts easily in the palm of your hand?
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ELI5: Why do "musical roads" not have Doppler shift?
There is a "musical road" in Fujairah UAE that plays Beethoven when you drive over it. But standing by the side of the road you don't hear the Doppler shift. Wh
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ELI5. Could black holes consume the entire universe?
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ELI5 Why does everyone use AWS, and what actually happens when it goes down?
Every time there's an AWS outage, half the internet seems to go offline. Why is there such a heavy dependence on it, and can anything be done to reduce that?
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ELI5 The old UK pre decimalisation currency system?
How did it work, how could you workout what change to give if somebody bought something from you?
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ELI5: Isn't the more powerful lifter still technically using more force and power via their muscles when lifting a weight to the same height more quickly?
The classic introductory physics example for differentiating power from energy is two powerlifters lifting the same barbell to the same height, except one doe
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ELI5: Who decides who gets each IP Address? How does for example Cloudflare own 1.1.1.1?
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ELI5: Why/When/How do we take the natural log of data sets?
I am currently looking at water quality data over time for a well. We use a cumulative sum (CUSUM) model to determine when/if a significant shift in the average
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ELI5: What does it mean when a large language model (such as ChatGPT) is "hallucinating," and what causes it?
I've heard people say that when these AI programs go off script and give emotional-type answers, they are considered to be hallucinating. I'm not sure what this
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ELI5 How does surgery to remove cancerous growths or tumours not result in cancer cells seeping into the blood stream causing wider spread of cancer?
For example a risk from melanoma is that it could grow to reach blood vessels, providing a highway to spread to other parts of the body - how then during the pr
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ELI5: what are fractals? And why are they important?
Q in the title - thanks for your help
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ELI5 Coma left untreated
If a person was by themselves and went into a coma from an accident or overdose how long would it take for them to die without any medical treatment?
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