30 Confounding Mysteries Of Everyday Things That People Just Can’t Grasp

Oh that's simple to answer: greed of money & power.

Because conservative Americans only believe in what will help THEM, and not what will help the entire country.

Because rich people and Republican politicians prefer the population to be stupid. The rich because they need cheap labor, the Republicans politicians because educated people do not vote for them. The lack of single payer healthcare is because ruling the world with the military industrial complex takes precedence over the health of the people.

The answer is simple: Greed and stupidity. It's our greatest export.

The "Why" is because (a) very wealthy people want to avoid paying a lot of money in taxes (like for funding schools), so they spend a little of that money to convince enough politicians to cut taxes, (b) people and companies that make a lot of money from healthcare spent a little money to convince enough politicians to not crack down on exorbitant pricing, and (c) those same politicians try to convince enough voters to vote for them using any excuse they can think of, and not talk about the things they are doing to make the people in (a) and (b) happy. If enough voters aren't paying attention, they won't hear or think about what's happening in (a) or (b) because some of the people in (a) own news outlets (e.g. Murdoch), and downplay what the people in (a) and (b) are doing with the politicians.

This... never mind the felonies. People can't get a job or join the military with felonies. They ruin regular people's lives when they have 1 felony. This guy can run for president woth a bunch of them...wtf

Many American agree. We don't understand either.

He is running on hate. There are a lot of people feeding on that hate.

My view is that anyone who would vote for him is racist, greedy or stupid ... or some combination thereof. I used to naively believe that our country would always progress ... maybe at various speeds and encountering various problems along the way, but we would eventually get there. I'm still depressed about my realization that that may not be true, that democracy is fragile. Vote Blue!!

Here's hoping for a stroke of luck. He is 78 and eats junk every day....

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” -Douglas Adams

We all need unanswerable questions like these to inspire us with awe. I'll add in "is the universe curved or flat?" If it's curved, it will eventually circle back onto itself. Are there other universes? As to how it began, I love how the general answer seems to be the same as for "If God created us, who created God?" Always was, always is, always will be.

Since the dawn of man is really not that long As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song A fraction of a second and the elements were made The bipeds stood up straight, the dinosaurs all met their fate They tried to leap but they were late And they all died (they froze their a**es off) The oceans and Pangea, see ya wouldn't wanna be ya Set in motion by the same big bang It all started with the big bang It's expanding ever outward but one day It will pause and start to go the other way Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it won't be heard Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang

100 million year ago when the dinosaurs roamed th earth we were at the top of the galaxy. Now we're at the bottom ish. Mind blowing

The universe is a self contained reaction the proceeds into uniform chaos. At the exact point of uniform chaos a separate universal 'big bang' will occur only one that is governed by a completely unique set of units versal laws, values and constants. This reaction also occupies the same space and in fact, the amount of physical space of the universe never changes. The only change is how matter is organized within the boundaries of the universe. Think of it like a snow globe. It isn't actually snowing, it only looks like it's snowing.

It's getting crowded on earth. The competition for resources make people go gaga.

Selfishness combined with power is why. If you're alone, you can't force people to do what you want. But organize by religion, social groups, jobs, etc. and you can organize hate.

After taking and ancient literature class in college, I went home and told my Mom "We've been lustful, greedy, jealous, evil, lying, torturing, murdering savages since we climbed out of the mud." Nope, haven't changed.

The nature of a person is selfishness and self-preservation. Everything everyone does is to benefit themselves in some way. Altruism doesn't really exist. Those that seem to be altruistic are actually doing it because of the way it makes them feel, so even that, in a way, has a selfish motivation.

Technology allows ways to be a lousy person to evolve much more quickly than people do.

Here is a video that summarizes how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_iZZ4Bx2o

Yes and the evolution of twig insects baffles me in the same way...what consciousness in the DNA recognises the twig and the leaf and then emulates it as camouflage on a cellular level fgs?