What is The Great Filter that ends all of humanity?

The Great Filter isn't a specific doomsday event—it's an invisible evolutionary wall. It explains why finding a bacterial fossil on Mars would be the worst news in human history. The observable …

Top stories for Long   What is The Great Filter that ends all of humanity? NovaPrism • Answered June 22 The Great Filter isn't a specific doomsday event—it's an invisible evolutionary wall. It explains why finding a bacterial fossil on Mars would be the worst news in human hi... Read more » 812 103   Oliviasia • Posted Jun 30 BREAKING: A North African Muslim tells a French woman, born in France, that her clothing is "inappropriate" and that she shouldn't wear a Christian cross because it's "haram.". France belongs to the... Read more » 5.7K 896   Is having big breasts worth it? Ajax, knows English • Answered July 2 It depends. Is your profession being an actress, social media influencer or sex work then yes. If your job is 9 - 5 sitting on a desktop in front of a computer screen then no... Read more » 1.7K 443   How did Ty Cobb manage to steal home 54 times in his career when Rickey Henderson only did it four times and Lou Brock only did it twice? HalftimeLedger, Sports analysis and commentary • Answered June 21 Rickey Henderson only stole home four times because attempting it was a terrible statistical bet. Ty Cobb stole it 54 times because waiting for a home run was an even bigge... Read more » 141 11   If Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in schools, what is being taught? Statements are made that it is only being taught in Law studies; so either that is true or not. What's banned if it is being taught OR why is anything banned if it's not? Franklin Veaux, lives in Portland, OR • Answered August 20, 2021 Have you ever looked at a container of Orville Redenbacher popcorn? (This is relevant to your question, I promise.) Notice anything funny about the label? No? How about this?... Read more » 7.4K 629   Why do restaurant employees frequently quit right after receiving their first paycheck? Martin Bayer, Chef, CDM, CFPP (1994-present) • Answered June 16 I hired a guy once for a line cooks position. He works for 30 days and quit. I ran into him a few months later and asked him if he’d had a bad experience working for us? He... Read more » 3.6K 380   How did adding mirrors near elevators in a Manhattan building solve the problem of long waiting times? OpenBlueprint • Answered June 17 When tenants of a mid-century Manhattan high-rise threatened to break leases over slow elevators, a psychologist stopped the complaints without speeding up the cars. The bui... Read more » 182 9   Ages Kruti Munot, MSc Environment and Development, London School of Economics and Political Scienc... • Posted Feb 13, 2013 Two old friends, Jack and Bill, meet after a long time. Jack: Hey, how are you? Bill: Not bad, got married and I have three kids now. Jack: That’s awesome. How old are they? Bill: The product of the... Read more » 458 93   Why does almost every Mexican meal include rice but I’ve never seen Mexican rice farmers wading out in the rice paddies? Jon Mixon, Been there. Done that. • Updated June 18 Q: Why does almost every Mexican meal include rice but I’ve never seen Mexican rice farmers wading out in the rice paddies? Let’s see: The best areas to grow rice in Mexico a... Read more » 1.3K 66   Nikki Haley says there is not enough lithium in the world to produce the batteries to even replace the petroleum vehicles in America, much less the world. Is that really true? MetroDispatch • Answered June 17 Replacing all 1.4 billion gas cars on Earth would require 11.2 million tons of lithium. Geologists have already found 105 million tons—but the real EV bottleneck isn't buri... Read more » 1.4K 252   Why do the Brits copy us in everything? They named their country the United Kingdom to imitate the United States. Stephen, Living in sin. Don't need my ego to be stroked. • Answered December 31, 2024 I know I'm a Johnny come lately. But I was watching Q. I the other night. They had a American on, who had lived in the UK for six years. Then her eyes widened and said ‘ ol... Read more » 734 152   🔴 Ukraine Just Reached Omsk — 2,500km Deep Inside Russia and see what it does Natasha Kovalenko, Monitoring Ukraine war from the ground. • Posted Jul 1 🇺🇦 Read that again. 2,500 kilometers. That is closer to China than to Europe. And Ukrainian drones reached it anyway. Omsk Oil Refinery — Russia's single largest refinery. Processing 22 million ton... Read more » 840 94 Read more in your feed

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Why do caddies hold the flagstick at an angle when tending the pin for their player?

I was taught a few things when I was a kid caddying. Here’s how it works: You only tend the pin in the player requests it. If he doesn’t, you pull it and get the hell outta there. If the player…

Top stories for Long   Why do caddies hold the flagstick at an angle when tending the pin for their player? Stephen Simmons • Updated November 15, 2019 I was taught a few things when I was a kid caddying. Here’s how it works: You only tend the pin in the player requests it. If he doesn’t, you pull it and get the hell outta ... Read more » 143 25   What is the most successful Las Vegas residency act of all time? FeverIndex, Updates from the world of Pop Culture • Updated June 10 One superstar didn't just set the record for the highest-grossing Las Vegas residency of all time—she claimed the second-highest spot, too, generating over $681 million. Bef... Read more » 218 8   Why did engineers decide to make the Hoover Dam so much stronger than necessary, and what were the risks they were trying to avoid? OpenBlueprint • Answered June 14 The base of the Hoover Dam is 660 feet thick—nearly as thick as the dam is tall. This wildly over-engineered monolith wasn't a luxury; it was a strict necessity born of she... Read more » 2.2K 58   Is it possible to water wash Tesla cars? Akash Goswami, Owns and drives a white Tesla ModelX. • Updated September 10, 2019 Absolutely not! Touching even a drop of water into your tesla might cause short-circuit and start a horrible battery fire! You should keep them in garages as your prized po... Read more » 10.2K 174   Can water be compressed? If so, how much pressure is required for water to be compressed to twice its density? NovaPrism • Answered May 9 Try to crush room-temperature water to half its volume, and it won't just shrink. Long before it doubles in density, the liquid snaps into an exotic, room-temperature ice. G... Read more » 2.2K 98   Is having big breasts worth it? Ajax, knows English • Answered July 2 It depends. Is your profession being an actress, social media influencer or sex work then yes. If your job is 9 - 5 sitting on a desktop in front of a computer screen then no... Read more » 1.6K 409   Why do Google engineers use MacBooks instead of Linux laptops? David Tussey, worked at Google • Answered October 30, 2023 I worked at Google for six years. Not sure of the status of laptops at Google is today, but back in 2010–2011, Google moved to all Mac laptops (from the Lenovo Windows mode... Read more » 942 68   Does carbonated water flush kidneys? Jacob Admireson, former Kidney Specialist • Answered March 7 The bubbles everyone loves. And the question about the kidneys, which deserves an honest answer. Plain carbonated water, without any sugar, without any sodium, without any a... Read more » 799 31   Do salesmen at Ferrari & Lamborghini dealerships get paid really well? Seems like it'd be difficult to upsell & brag about something that you have no hope of ever owning yourself. MetroDispatch • Answered June 12 Top exotic car salespeople earn well over $250,000 a year without pretending they can afford the cars. They don't upsell rust-proofing—they upsell billionaires on $30,000 h... Read more » 200 11   How long does it take for gasoline to go bad in a gas tank? Joe, former Retired at Highway Dept (1990-2008) • Answered July 27, 2023 I took my string trimmer to a shop because it wouldn’t start, immediately, he dumped the gas, put in some he had in a can, third pull, it started. I told him the gas was pr... Read more » 4.1K 534   Could a person visiting the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor, dip a small container into the oil slicked water to take home? Or would that be looked at as desecrating a war grave? Is it permitted by the US Government? SepiaGlyphs • Answered May 30 Every day, up to nine quarts of bunker fuel bubble to the surface above the sunken USS Arizona. These drops are known as the "Black Tears," and trying to bottle them is a f... Read more » 1.6K 197   What should you never say at the US-Canada border? Dave247, former Engineer (retired) • Updated June 7 Myself, my wife and our 2 young sons were crossing over to go to Myrtle Beach. The US customs guy asked us where we were staying. I told him that we were going to go as far... Read more » 1.1K 199 Read more in your feed

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