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Answer: Excellent question! You just come up with the same question that Eins.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest If a car runs at the speed of light, will the headlights work? H. Li, Born in China, Phd candidate in US. 307 votes Excellent question! You just come up with the same question that Einstein had when he was 16, Einstein's Most Famous Thought Experiment. That question was the original mot... Read More » What are good, successful excuses to use after being pulled over by a cop? Patrick Woten 719 votes I pulled a guy over for speeding. I was taking my time running his info. By the time I approached the window his dog was in the driver's seat. I looked at him and he said,... Read More » Does crashing weddings work in real life? Aaron Ellis, Screenwriter 1.3k votes I crashed a wedding once before. Had a good time. At the end of the night, the groom's mother caught on and confronted me. She was the person who sent out all of the invite... Read More » Why do bullets instantly kill someone besides just creating wounds? Chris Bast 924 votes They don't, normally. When you see someone in a movie get hit by a bullet and then drop to the ground they usually don't show you the part where he lies there gasping and m... Read More » Are Germans content to earn 19% less than Americans in 2014? Philip Newton, professional software developer, amat... 96 votes Germans also tend to have at least 20 days of paid holidays a year (with 30 not unusual in white-collar jobs), plus up to 30 days of paid sick leave (and even after that, t... Read More » How did the first kings gain power? Glenn Watson, Teacher 56 votes Imagine a situation called the state of nature. There are no kings, no organized church and no one in charge other than the fathers of each family Many such families liv... Read More » Why don't the Chinese fight for democracy? Tom Wills, The more I know, the more I know I do... 1k votes I'm an American, and I believe in democracy. I've also spent time in China, gotten to know many Chinese, married one, and learned Mandarin along with some Chinese history a... Read More » What are the tricks employed by casinos to attract and retain gamblers? Mark Bellingan 2.1k votes As an architect, I know that one trick is to gradually soften the floor finish the closer you get to the machines. So from the sidewalk (very hard) to standing right in fro... Read More » My father is dying of pancreatic cancer. We are in the last stages. Is it wrong of me to force him to eat thereby delaying the inevitable and dragging out the misery? Amanda Sederstrand, Sometimes my weaknesses are stronger ... 1.5k votes My husband died from cancer. Towards the end I pushed him to eat... I even made him drink those Ensure drinks. When we went for his last chemo appointment - they brought us... Read More » What are the disadvantages of hiring someone who has been in the US military? Jon Davis, Writer and Blogger on Military, Veter... 778 votes I am going to speak as a Marine and currently a hiring manager. Here are some negative attributes that come with military service. Military people don't get you and you do...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Quora is the best answer to any question. Unsubscribe from this email.

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Answer: It wasn't a line of work or a profession who had the most impact on th.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest Which line of work or profession has had the most impact on the course of human history? Why? Jon Groubert, New Yorker, lawyer, always very curious 2.2k votes It wasn't a line of work or a profession who had the most impact on the course of human history. It was ONE GUY. Who? This guy: ... Read More » What does modern air warfare (fighter vs fighter) look like? Tim Morgan, Ruby on Rails developer, commercial p... 636 votes Modern air combat is split into two phases: beyond visual range (BVR) and within visual range (WVR). Tactics in each arena are very different. The BVR phase is largely de... Read More » What is the best way to learn JavaScript practically? Alex Jansen 949 votes 1) Build shit! Get an account on Google App Engine, and start launching real web apps, with real CRUD features. 2) AVOID JQUERY. Try as much as you can to write javascript ... Read More » What are common scams in Paris? Thomas Johnson, Thinks Quora is just another team spo... 292 votes The Ring Scam is one that I have only seen in Paris. You, the unwitting tourist, are walking on one of the paths in the Tuileries Gardens when you see a glittering gold we... Read More » What does it mean when soldiers say 'actual' in a radio conversation? Noam Kaiser, Principal@Gemini VC, Daddy, Hubby, Is... 232 votes This is mainly for ground forces radio usage. The fighting unit, from platoon level and upwards, has what is named "TAC" - Tactical HQ - the mobile command group of the un... Read More » What are the most effective ways to combat elite troops such as Navy SEAL or SAS units? Jon Mixon 107 votes Remove the element of surprise. Special Forces groups are small and they depend heavily upon maintaining secrecy and the element of surprise when undertaking their mission... Read More » What is it like to be a CIA agent? Michael Finley 2.4k votes I had the opportunity to work with a former CIA officer on a project. He was retired and living in the DC area. As we were driving to dinner one night, I asked "Bob" what... Read More » What was it like to be in the Soviet Union just after it collapsed? Sasha Latypova, Co-Founder, Serial Entrepreneur with ... 1.8k votes I was 18-20 at the time. It was a very difficult time, and I would not characterize it as feeling of freedom. Freedom was the last thing everyone was thinking about, but ... Read More » How do programmers code so quickly? Jesse Farmer, Co-founder, CodeUnion (formerly at De... 950 votes They know how to use their keyboards to do work. Keyboards are way faster than mice once you know how to use them. They're also more amenable to muscle memory. Are you c...  Read More » I'm 16 years old and I want to run my own tech startup in the future. Should I get a degree in computer science or electrical engineering? Stan Hanks, building "the Internet" since 1981, n... 643 votes I can't answer for you, but can tell you what I've learned along the way. When I was 16, I wanted to get a PhD in electrical engineering and an MD, and work on human-compu... Read More »   Read More in Your Feed This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Quora is the best answer to any question. Unsubscribe from this email.