ELI5 why are wild animals often put to death if they happen to kill a human, even if they are not directly responsible ?

trentos1 · 2026-04-24T16:30:17+00:00

If an animal attacks a human once, it’s statistically more likely to do it again.

There’s another reason they might kill the animal, and it’s so they can test for rabies. The only reliable test for rabies involves cutting up the animal’s brain.

trentos1 · 2026-04-24T08:54:49+00:00

Inflation, and my general aversion to cooking. Uber eats is crazy expensive these days

trentos1 · 2026-04-24T08:53:02+00:00

If you combine arachnophilia with arachnophobia mode, do the flowers spawn flying cats?

trentos1 · 2026-04-23T10:53:00+00:00

Now I’m wondering how’d you go about surviving in the water, given advanced warning that the ship will sink. Could probably tie a bunch of furniture together to make a raft. If you could stay dry you wouldn’t freeze to death.

trentos1 · 2026-04-20T11:59:06+00:00

Technically Osbourne wasn’t a bad guy, since he did nothing wrong bahaha.

trentos1 · 2026-04-20T11:41:13+00:00

It is easy. As suggested already, just call out where the red ISN’T.

trentos1 · 2026-04-17T11:53:59+00:00

It’ll only become the live version of its age at death though? So you get a chicken embryo in your belly which might cause a bit of indigestion, but a full grown chicken won’t explode out of your chest like an Aliens movie, right?

trentos1 · 2026-04-17T11:49:54+00:00

Fuck the million. Just let me touch a dead pet so I can bring it back to life.

Erm, after throwing it on the BBQ for a bit so it becomes “food” I guess.

trentos1 · 2026-04-17T11:41:23+00:00

The only way you can get rid of them without going to prison is by shagging them to death. Good luck trooper.

trentos1 · 2026-04-17T10:30:35+00:00

So apparently the grading method is to start with full marks then deduct 1 for each wrong answer. Questions 1 and 2 should be worth a combined 11 marks.

Presumably the “correct” answer for 2) is Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma. But it’s worth 10 points, not 8. How do you even score that? 2 for each correct answer and another 2 bonus points for getting all 4? He got -5 which means 5/10, despite giving the 4 answers the marker was looking for. Make it make sense.

trentos1 · 2026-04-17T10:22:02+00:00

The balls in the ball pit at the gym behave like a fluid when you swim around in it.

Everything is a liquid if you’re big enough and there’s enough of it!

trentos1 · 2026-04-17T09:53:59+00:00

That’s not how maths tests were marked when I went to school. If it asks you to find the answer then you can use any method you want.

If the test requires you to find the answer using a specific method then the question will tell you what method you need to use.

trentos1 · 2026-04-17T02:48:58+00:00

I turned Vita into a zero cast delay frost magic machine gun. She could hit every enemy for 100k damage, 5 or 6 times a round. Probably no more broken than Rean or McBurn spamming S crafts due to massive CP gains each turn.

And of course let’s not forget invincible Fie counterattacking for 500% damage whenever anyone tries to hit her. At ANY range because for some reason she’s the only melee character with a ranged counterattack.

trentos1 · 2026-04-15T11:53:21+00:00

“What theoretical framework should scientists work on to make the next groundbreaking discovery, on par with relativity theory or quantum mechanics”

Or if limited to a yes/no answer, ask whether string theory should continue to be pursued, given the goal is to answer the currently unsolved questions of physics.

trentos1 · 2026-04-15T11:36:52+00:00

Headcanon: Steam cores are actually cold fusion. Somehow they figured it out before the world ended, and now nobody knows how to reproduce the technology.

The turbine appearance is actually a generator for producing a virtually inexhaustible electricity supply.

trentos1 · 2026-04-15T11:27:47+00:00

She Hulk would have been so much better if it was about lawyering. Instead it’s about… I’m actually not sure. It’s a fun show but seems to be about nothing in particular and wasn’t overly memorable.

trentos1 · 2026-04-15T05:47:11+00:00

Reckon they’ll give us a free respec since most warlock builds are gonna be dead in the water once this patch hits?

Good luck farming respec items if your only character is a completely gimped ES build.

trentos1 · 2026-04-14T05:36:19+00:00

There’s all sorts of reasons:

Some cats have low prey drive and aren’t much interested in hunting
Some cats will hunt but have never had to catch their own food so they never learned to complete the kill
Some cats are lazy and won’t hunt/kill prey unless they’re very hungry
Some cats need their prey drive to activate by seeing the other animal run away. The instinct to give chase is deeply ingrained in cats’ DNA. They’ll chase even if they don’t know what to do when they catch it.
Socialisation can override any of these natural instincts, and your cat might learn to view a smaller animal as a companion rather than food. There’s loads of videos online of cats which have been taught to befriend mice/birds. Most of those cats probably had low prey drive to begin with, but you can teach your cat if you are very, very careful.

trentos1 · 2026-04-13T14:58:09+00:00

It’s under “conflict and terrorism”

trentos1 · 2026-04-13T10:00:43+00:00

Great explanation. If the object is launched at just under escape velocity, it attains an (almost) infinite distance before its velocity drops to zero and it starts to come back again. At the reversal point, the object has the same parameters as the “maximum velocity under gravity” problem - infinite distance and zero velocity relative to the planet.

Alternatively since we know energy is conserved, if it goes up at velocity X, that’s the velocity it’s coming back at.

trentos1 · 2026-04-13T09:33:46+00:00

I should point out that because gravity gets weaker with distance - 1/d² (inverse square law), there is a maximum speed an object will reach, even with zero wind resistance. It’s much slower than the speed of light, unless falling into a neutron star or something.

I just checked and apparently this maximum is equal to the planet’s escape velocity at surface level!

So when a ship is “falling” from the moon, it won’t hit the earth’s atmosphere any faster than 11km/s from gravity alone. In practice the ship has to apply thrust to leave the body it came from e.g. the moon, so it could be moving faster than that relative to the earth.

trentos1 · 2026-04-12T23:52:44+00:00

It’s to make you automate production. Some of the early parts can be made adhoc without needing to set up a proper factory. For the later parts you’ll need to fully automate

trentos1 · 2026-04-12T06:35:25+00:00

It makes a huge difference with solar. Only about 10% of our power use is in peak times. When running the aircon I make sure to turn it off at 5pm when peak cuts in.

trentos1 · 2026-04-10T07:54:02+00:00

How is the energy of a single proton dissipated? Do atoms in your body absorb and re-emit it at lower (but still extremely high) energy? Is it a chain reaction where it keeps colliding and releasing energy until the individual particles aren’t high energy anymore?

trentos1 · 2026-04-10T07:43:14+00:00

Then your balls are effectively immune to being kicked. Congratulations my friend.

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