Explain Like I'm Five | Don't Panic!

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Always_Mine_ on 2023-10-07 14:15:03.

Boeing has been building planes safely until the groundings happen years ago. What is the rush on producing unsafe plane and how did the planes even pass certifications?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Sugadip on 2023-10-07 03:29:07.

Does it stay locked up or does it go back into the community somehow?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Deimosx on 2023-10-07 00:59:11.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Rude-Highway-9544 on 2023-10-07 05:21:35.

My girlfriend and I were lying in bed watching a murder mystery, and it brought up a son doing a DNA test to see if his father was the killer.

Anyways, we both are curious how you could be anything more than a 50% match to your parent, being that you are a 50/50 mix of both your mother and father.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/BobTheBobbyBobber on 2023-10-07 04:15:22.

I mean its friggin everywhere in the ocean.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/PvtDeth on 2023-10-07 03:12:34.

I understand supply and demand. People start wanting brisket, demand increases while supply stays the same, price goes up. What I don't understand is how the price can go up on everything. The "good" cuts seem to be going up as much as anything else. If demand is just shifting, market forces should drive the cost of some cuts down as others rise. Meat consumption has been fairly even over the past 10 years.

Chicken wings, oxtails, skirt steak, brisket, all used to be poor people food. At this rate they'll be charging $12.99 a pound for chitlins and gizzards will be $1.29 a piece.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/eastbayguy90 on 2023-10-07 02:32:25.

Higher than expected hiring and wage growth, but that “concerns the fed” and the media is making it seem like a bad thing.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/HorizonStarLight on 2023-10-06 20:57:25.

Nearly all organic material (like bacteria and viruses) is destroyed at temperatures above 60° Celsius. Some temperature resistant pathogens can survive slightly higher temperatures than this, but even the most hardy will be destroyed at temperatures above 150° Celsius.

But for prions these temperatures are hardly sufficient. They can survive being frozen, cooked, steamed, and even chemically treated with substances like formaldehyde and alcohol. Temperatures as high as 600° Celsius will not reliably kill them, and only in the 1000° Celsius range are they destroyed. At this temperatures, most metals will melt.

Why are prions so hard to destroy if they are chemically identical to the organic material inside our body already?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Hambone102 on 2023-10-06 22:39:35.

My university has a sputtering machine which is this crazy expensive piece of equipment that has to have a really strong vacuum pump and wacky copper seals and if it loses power for even a minute it has to spend 16 hours pumping it’s vacuum back down.

I know people talk about how a perfect vacuum is like near impossible, but why? We can pressurize things really easily, like air soft co2 canisters or compressed air, which is way above 1 atmosphere in pressure, so why is going below 1 atmosphere so hard? I feel dumb asking this as a senior mechanical engineering student but like I have no clue lol.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/PenisErector175391 on 2023-10-06 16:48:12.

usually people overlook it, but humans are still animals. why is it that only humans cook their food and every single other animal is fine with whatever?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Money-Calligrapher85 on 2023-10-06 17:00:41.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/3rd_y on 2023-10-06 14:41:37.

I have read somewhere that propeller fighters are very maneuverable despite their slow speed. Won't equipping them with targeting computers and modern air to air missiles be more cost effective at countering faster jet aircraft?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/TsuNaru on 2023-10-06 14:14:59.

Say I went to bed at 12am and woke up at 8am. But during the night, at 3am, woke up and went to the bathroom... then spent the next 10-20 mins in bed before falling back to sleep, so a period of about 30 mins breaking up the 8 hours total.

Does that still count? If it does, what is the limit? An hour before it becomes two separate sleeping periods?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Prospero314 on 2023-10-05 21:23:01.

For instance, when athletes get their knee or elbow “cleaned”? What happens during that procedure?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/SomeY2KBullshit on 2023-10-05 19:53:40.

What is it about Peanuts specifically that frequently triggers such a strong autoimmune response from so many people?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/The_bored_seven on 2023-10-05 21:27:07.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/AlphaPlays_607 on 2023-10-05 20:25:30.

I don't know if I'm explaining this right... A computer can run logic at some speed based on how powerful the components of it are, so if it can perform the logic of something, for example, movement in a game, how does it know how much should be done based on its power, instead of essentially running in "fast-forward" or conversely in slow motion?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/NellimNagata on 2023-10-05 19:50:53.

My three year old asked if she could touch a candle flame when wearing a glove. I said no, because then the glove could start burning, too (I know it’s possible to suffocate the flame, but I don’t want 3 to try that out with their own hands). Kid then cleverly asked if the glove would still catch fire if it was made from stone. I said no. Couldn’t answer the inevitable next question: „Why?“ Help me out? An explanation worded for actual five / three year olds would be appreciated.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/35usc271a on 2023-10-05 18:38:50.

I read articles about various governments trying to steal US industrial software. My understanding is that such software can be used to make a factory run, etc. My question is, what's so secretive about that? It seems to me that most software engineers could write a similar code without having to steal someone else's. And besides that, isn't every factory different, therefore requiring different software anyways? What makes it so valuable that it's worth stealing?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/ISHIMURA_MJD on 2023-10-05 17:57:27.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/SatanScotty on 2023-10-05 14:30:57.

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/chunkybrewster55 on 2023-10-05 14:52:31.

There is always the same amount of (growing) money in the world, no?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/francoisr75 on 2023-10-05 13:10:12.

For some reconstructive surgery they have to re-break bones to realign them properly. How do they do that cleanly without causing a catastrophic break ?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/parachuteguy500 on 2023-10-05 09:21:59.

Opening a zip of csv or txt can grow 10x in size, but images barely change. Why?

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Paneipple on 2023-10-04 23:36:55.