EXPLAIN IT!

[Mello]

Raw things might have bacteria and other harmful viruses living in them. :3 Cooking them kills it by changing the environment so the viruses and bacteria have an unsustainable living place.

Explain getting butthurt and then looking for beliefs that support your already biased views?

 

[Pizzabeak]

Not wanting to lose or let the fact go that you vested countless hours of research into your beliefs & views only to have them simply crushed?

Explain the social system of seeing who knows the most people/it's not talent, it's who you know/socializing for ladder climbing.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Explain the social system of seeing who knows the most people/it's not talent, it's who you know/socializing for ladder climbing.

It is the evolutionary state of the drive to survive. Do what you must to get to the top to secure your future, direct "acquisitions" and "terminations" are no longer feasible so now you have to politick your way to success.

This has permeated areas of creative expression where industrialization and commercialization has taken over raw talent.


Explain why the moon occasionally appears to be gigantic.

 

[BigApplePi]

Explain why the moon occasionally appears to be gigantic.

Psychologists have studied this and the explanation is not known, but it's a good question.

Explain why power corrupts, assuming when it does so.

 

[Pizzabeak]

Are we supposed to be taking this seriously?

 

[BigApplePi]

Are we supposed to be taking this seriously?

Explanation: The OP doesn't say. It says only to explain. I see it as an opportunity to either think and give a studied real explanation or to make fun of an ambiguous or unreal request.

Edit: The OP post has two examples in blue. One is serious; the other is tongue-in-cheek.

Explain why power corrupts, assuming it does so.

 

[Peripheral Visionary]

Explain why power corrupts, assuming it does so.

Power corrupts due to its valence, which makes for a good galvenic couple when in contact with ambition and both are immersed in an electrolyte--usually goverment, but any force will do.

Do you know the way to San Jose'?

 

[eagor]

you have to take a left turn at Albuquerque

explain the sun and the mayans need to worship it

 

[Amagi82]

explain the sun and the mayans need to worship it

The sun is the true giver of life on this planet, and a much more logical and reasonable god than the fantastical ones people made up throughout Eurasia.


Explain why people buy into religions, especially the particularly crazy ones.

 

[Cognisant]

Because they're natural born slaves, lost without the guidance of a master, if you take a moment and think about it being someone else’s lackey is actually a pretty good survival strategy (most of the time) so it's not unreasonable to some people may have a genetic quality that makes them more predispositioned towards being slavishly submissive to whatever authority they deem most prudent to serve.

Why haven’t the aliens come yet?

 

[Amagi82]

Why haven’t the aliens come yet?

Because they don't view our primitive, violent species as equals.


Explain how to convince your girlfriend she should be wearing sexy lingerie around the house most of the time.

 

[BigApplePi]

Explain how to convince your girlfriend she should be wearing sexy lingerie around the house most of the time.

Tell her you may be willing to tie the knot with the first female who will wear sexy lingerie around the house most of the time.

Explain why sex is so powerful a drive.

 

[Yet]

because sex makes the ventral tegmentum active, and from there the hypothalamus. After the orgasm the nucleus accumbens takes care of a dopamine boost. Aparently this mechanism is comparable with what happens when someone has a heroin fix.
I prefer orgasms, never tried it otherwise.

why is alcohol in chocolate such a nice combi?

 

[Sanctum]

Because its a marriage of two things a lot of people love.

Explain the purpose of nipples on a man

 

[eagor]

a great cosmic joke to who ever created man

explain anarchists and their fascination with napalm and pipe bombs

 

[BigApplePi]

explain anarchists and their fascination with napalm and pipe bombs

They are upset with the way things are so this is a fast way to make that fact known.

Explain the temperamental difference between men and women.

 

[ayn]

Women have different hormones flowing through their bodies that cause them to be less logical and more psychopathic.

Explain why, when I go a long time without eating, I only feel faint for perhaps 5 minutes at a time before the feeling passes.

 

[Yet]

Ayn:

Women have different hormones flowing through their bodies that cause them to be less logical and more psychopathic.

speak for yourself

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Explain why, when I go a long time without eating, I only feel faint for perhaps 5 minutes at a time before the feeling passes.

Internal body mechanisms respond to external conditions in waves. Your body is saying:
"Hey, I'm hungry, got something to eat? oh, not right now, alright then!"
"Hey have you eaten something yet? No? Ok.."
"Hey, still haven't eaten yet? Aw, alright.."
"Hey! Me again, just wondering if you've eaten anything, still no huh.."
"You know, just give me a call when you're going to eat.."



Explain 2+2 = 4.

 

[BigApplePi]

Women have different hormones flowing through their bodies that cause them to be less logical and more psychopathic.

Explain why, when I go a long time without eating, I only feel faint for perhaps 5 minutes at a time before the feeling passes.

I failed to check for others answers, so this must be nullified.
The body has natural oscillations like stomach growling when hungry and then going away so obviously you have not tried your experiment long enuf and should test not eating for 30 days or more which should be a good test and if you don't feel faint after that time should report back here for what to do next.

Explain if woman's hormones cause them to be more psychopathic why it is that men start and fight all the wars?

 

[BigApplePi]

Explain 2+2 = 4.

I added 2+2 and got 4.01 which didn't match your answer so I added again and got 3.99 whereupon I took the average and got yours exactly.

Explain why if women are like that, it is men who start and continue all those wars.

 

[BigApplePi]

Ayn: Quote:
Women have different hormones flowing through their bodies that cause them to be less logical and more psychopathic.

Ayn: speak for yourself

(Yet you mean he has to explain why he's not a women???)

 

[perkins]

Explain why if women are like that, it is men who start and continue all those wars.

“Here’s the difference, to me, between boys and girls: Boys fuck things up; Girls are fucked up. That’s the difference. Boys just do damage to your house that you can measure in dollars, like a hurricane. Girls, like, leave scars in your psyche that you find later, like a genocide or an atrocity… That’s the difference between boys and girls. And it becomes the difference between men and women, really. A man will, like, steal your car or burn your house down or beat the shit out of you, but a woman will ruin your fuckin’ life. Do you see the difference? Like, a man will cut your arm off and throw it in a river, but he’ll leave you as a human being intact. He won’t fuck with who you are. Women are nonviolent, but they will shit inside of your heart.” -Louis C.K.

Explain why there are so many unrelated definitions for the word "fag".

 

[Cognisant]

Because it's a fun word to say.

Why is glass so incredibly resistant to acid?

 

[eagor]

it was a teenager in the sixties and went to woodstock

explain the difference between morality and legality

 

[BigApplePi]

it was a teenager in the sixties and went to woodstock

explain the difference between morality and legality

Morality asks about right and wrong while legality tells you.

Why is glass so incredibly resistant to acid?

Explain eagor's explanation to cognisant's question to explain.

 

[eagor]

in the sixties lsd was a commonly used psychedelic drug, it was also known as acid.

also hippies gave there children strange names

 

[ayn]

When teenagers do lots of drugs their resistance goes up, eagor was playing on the word acid, talking about the psychedelic drug rather than the chemicals that can dissolve materials.

Explain why anal sex hurts so much.


EDIT: pretty odd, that over the 5 hours since the last reply me and eagor decided to respond at the same time.. :P

 

[Cognisant]

Because you're doing it wrong.

I love how many ways that could be interpreted

What is doing it right?

 

[ayn]

Because you're doing it wrong.

I love how many ways that could be interpreted

What is doing it right?

Your answer was fucking dead on. hahaha, loved it.

Doing it right is being true to yourself and not letting society persuade you to change.

OOPS: Explain how computers work.

 

[Cognisant]

Such as not leaving a question?

 

[ayn]

Ha, pretty sure I edited my post before you posted yours... :333 Just saying. Answer my question now.

edit: err.. perhaps not? It seems as if my sense of time is very skewed today.

Explain how computers work.

 

[Amagi82]

Computers work through a hybridization of silicon transistors, nanotechnology, and voodoo.


Explain why people have such difficulty seeing the big picture.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

They have 480i TV sets.


Explain why birds aren't electrocuted when they perch on communications wires.

 

[gruesomebrat]

Power lines are insulated to avoid ensure that the electric energy follows the conducting wire, instead of flowing into the critters running on the line.

Explain the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

EDIT: Sorry, just realized you asked about communications lines, not power lines... pretty sure that they're also insulated, plus there's not really enough voltage to do much damage in a comm line.

 

[Amagi82]

42.

Explain why Earth was bulldozed.

 

[gruesomebrat]

Earth was bulldozed to make way for a hyperspatial expressway.

Explain why certain ideas become phenomenal successes, while others burn out.

 

[Lot]

They have a sustainable fuel source that's byproduct is the original product, therefore ensuring that it is maintained while existing in our heads.

Explain why Brad Pit is so sexy.

 

[BigApplePi]

42.

Explain why Earth was bulldozed.

Non-functional:
I believe I heard 42 is the correct answer to the one b4 previous ...

They had enuf cows so they decided to give the bulls a rest.

What is the meaning of your (the person responding) life?

 

[ayn]

I just realized while reading past answers that you all think I'm a male... -__________-

Brad Pit is sexy because he has a certain symmetry to him that humans find attractive.

Why is it assumed that I have a penis when I already posted my tits in another board? T____T

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Because that picture didn't count, it's unverified.


Explain why the world hasn't been destroyed by nuclear bombs already.

 

[eagor]

we need more...soon though...soon

explain girls that commonly say "omg lol wtf?" to other girls who reply "rofl zomg becky"

 

[MizKodomo]

we need more...soon though...soon

explain girls that commonly say "omg lol wtf?" to other girls who reply "rofl zomg becky"

Because they think it's ok/ clever to speak short hand in real life.

Explain why Hitler was indeed a hipster.

 

[eagor]

hitler was a shitty artist/author, therefore a hipster

explain the differences between space flight and in atmosphere flight, and how they both work.

 

[Amagi82]

Space flight is in space, and purely ballistic, while atmospheric flight is in the atmosphere, and subject to aerodynamics.


Explain why there are no girls on the internet.

 

[ayn]

You think there are no girls on the internet because all girls can tell you would doubt their existence anyways, so we find no reason to reveal ourselves to you.

Explain why people program in java using Eclipse rather than NotePad++.

 

[BigApplePi]

explain the differences between space flight and in atmosphere flight, and how they both work.

Null and void:
Atmospheric flight gets lift and thrust while space flight is just inertial motion.

What is the meaning of your (the person responding) life?

 

[BigApplePi]

You think there are no girls on the internet because all girls can tell you would doubt their existence anyways, so we find no reason to reveal ourselves to you.

Explain why people program in java using Eclipse rather than NotePad++.

The explanation is they used the easiest one for them to use, easier than the other one.

What is the meaning of your (the person responding) life?

 

[ayn]

The meaning of my life is to obtain as much wisdom as I can, then have a child and provide all my insights to my child in hopes they can be a strong individual.

Explain why people think they need a partner to have a child.

 

[BigApplePi]

Explain why people think they need a partner to have a child.

Almost the same reason why sexual reproduction exists because it provides for more after birth variation.

Explain whether or not you think ayn's avatar's hair is hir natural hair coloring.