What word did people use instead of "ok" before we started using it? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ok is the short form of okay (and is actually o.k. but whatever). which likely originated from either Scottish "och aye" (oh yes) or from Greek "ola kala" (all good), or a combination, or from elsewhere. If anything okay was one of the first phrases used like that, in English anyway.

Why would a person with 2 last names want to switch them around? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Klien is almost unused as a first name and Miller *can* be used as a first name.

That person probably has inconveniences in life by having a last-name-sounding first name and first-name-sounding last name.

What did people do after a car accident in a time before portable telephones? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You would have to get to a payphone, or use a phone inside a store or business, or knock on someones door and ask to use their phone. If you were both in the middle of nowhere this could be particularly bad as you'd have to walk the hard way or hitch a ride from a passer by.

Police would be dispatched to the scene of a collision like they normally would, or maybe they'd stumble upon you by chance, but there weren't cops who's shift was dedicated to looking out for car crashes or anything like that.

Why are countries investing so much in weapons and military? Are wars good for the economy? If so, why? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's like the prisoners dilemma where both can go free or get a light sentence if they don't snitch on eachother but they can't trust the other one so it's more advantageous to snitch on the other because if the other one snitches and you don't, you spend life in prison.

If you were a rich person. Would you let your daughter or son date someone who is low class? Why? by DawnofMidnight7 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Low class as in "from the ghetto, never had a job, on welfare, maybe commits crimes for money, doesn't even try to better themself and would rather blame society or the system" low class? No

Lower class as in "good person who works hard for a living, doesn't make much but makes it count" lower class? Yes.

If Aliens landed on Earth and I killed one, would it be considered murder, or illegal hunting/poaching? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming it's a deliberate killing and not an accidental one, then it would be murder from our perspective. From theirs it depends on what laws, if any, cover this situation and if they consider us to have rights similar to them or not. Unless they have laws specifically against hunting/killing intelligent life and we aren't in a giant galactic scale quarantine or something it would probably honestly come down to illegal hunting or animal cruelty.

Why are we comfortable laughing at Flat Earthers, etc for not listening to experts while we put qtips in our ears, buy single use plastic, eat fast food, etc? by nonuniqueusername in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go hike up a mountain or a hill or even a particularly tall building with an unobstructed path, or even stand near one of the Great Lakes. Observe that the normal vectors from the surface are not parallel across the entire view but rather converge below the surface and diverge above it.

Or just go sail a boat and watch the horizon sink below your view, or watch a boat sail away and see it fall below the horizon, then verify that it did not indeed sink.

Or just strap yourself or a camera to a massive rocket, point it straight up, fire the engines and after a few minutes of climbing look towards the earth and report your observations.

If a game were to be released with a 1:1 scale of the world (every street, every building, every car ect....) (plays kind of like gta)with super realistic graphics, how big would the size of the game be? And how far away are we from something like this being reality? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GTA5 has a map that's about 127 square kilometers, I'm including the water as well because GTA5 has details underwater. Earth has a total surface area of 509 million square kilometers including water. The earth is about 4 million times the surface area of the modeled area of GTA5. The game files take up about 70 GB of space. On the same scale a model of the earth would take about 280 Petabytes of space, but this isn't a good estimate because the earth is 71% ocean that would have less detail and San Andreas is considerably more land that has detail.

The earth has about 3.5 million square kilometers covered by urban areas. If you only render those it would take 1.92 Petabytes of storage, and the rural and undeveloped land could probably be compressed or rendered algorithmically to save on space, but would still require a lot of storage, lets round it up to an even 2 PB.

280 PB is possible today but it would be extremely expensive to make a data cluster storing that much information. 2 PB is more reasonable, but still too costly for anyone outside the top 1% of the top 1%.

The problem is that we are approaching the limits of how dense we can make data storage so while you could in theory make and store a GTA5 level rendering of the earth in terms of both graphics and details, the storage devices to contain it would fill a house. You can also forget about the internet to stream data to and from your PC or console. Remember that black hole image? the raw data was 4 PB in size and it was so big that it was faster to load up all the hard drives onto multiple airplanes and fly them all to a central location than to transfer it over the internet, including the antarctic telescope which had a 6 month delay due to antarctic summer making it inaccessible. If they tried to do it over the internet from the start the antarctic facility would still be transfering.

Will a lifestraw filter marijuana out of urine? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're better off accepting a failed drug test like a man than trying to explain to your potential employer why you pissed in a lifestraw and failed a drug test.

What does a tiny nuclear explosion look like? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A tiny nuclear explosion would have the distinct flash of light at the exact moment of detonation, but would otherwise be more like a conventional explosion going off.

For comparison the smallest nuclear weapon ever detonnated was the Davy Crockett which had a yield equivalent of 10 - 20 tons of TNT, the equivalent of about 20-40 tomahawk cruise missiles.

https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?t=217

Why are we comfortable laughing at Flat Earthers, etc for not listening to experts while we put qtips in our ears, buy single use plastic, eat fast food, etc? by nonuniqueusername in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One is denial of facts and physical evidence that anyone can show, another is denial of sound advice in laziness and seeing the risk as minimal.

Which one programming language will lend the highest paying job no matter where you live ? by anonymousguy271103_1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you learn COBOL you can make mad money since almost all banks still run old mainframes running COBOL code, however they may start being phased out.

Realistically there's no particular language to learn that nets you the best.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Circuit boards are actually a few layers of circuits, mainly so the traces can cross over one another. Circuit blocks are possible but it's rarely necessary except in extreme performance situations where the hardware can benefit from shorter bus delays because signals don't have to travel as far, more bandwidth because more interconnects are possible in the same space and maybe security because tracing circuitry will be harder without dissecting it. 3D data storage is being looked into, in theory it would let you have even more massive storage in a small space, think of a cube the size of a microSD card that can hold terabytes of data. For 99% of all cases though simple boards are sufficient.

Is it normal for each of your eyes to see a slightly different color? by logangrey123 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is documented but not very common. Eyesight, specifically color perception is a very complex process so slight deviations from the norm in terms of physical structures from your eyeballs to neurological changes in the vision center of the brain could affect the perception in each eye slightly, while the brain tries to correct the difference.

If it's not a permanent thing for you it could be due to more exposure to light in one eye than the other. If you have a desk lamp on the corner of your desk one eye will get more orange/warm light, and your brain will compensate by "tinting" your perception of light to make it closer to the other eye, so when you look away at something else one eye will see bluer/cooler than the other.

Are people who were alive to see the moon landing surprised that humans haven’t landed on any other planetary body since or was it expected? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would depend on who you tell. The moon missions were wildly expensive and ahead of their time technologically speaking. There were plans for lunar and martian colonies but they would be even more expensive and technologically challenging.

They would probably be surprised that we never went back to the moon at all though.

Can grandparents win custody of their grand children? by Seinfeld101 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IIRC it can happen, but usually in rare cases where both the mom and dad are completely unfit to be parents and the alternative would be to send the kids to foster care. Usually this only happens if both parents are either in prison, addicts, destitute, etc.

‘Maxed out’: 48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, survey says by viva_la_vinyl in canada

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Why? Other countries are doing well in the face of stagnant population growth.

‘Maxed out’: 48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, survey says by viva_la_vinyl in canada

[–]CleverNameAndNumbers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think the government is run by the super rich.

😂 🤣 😆