If Chinese had many larger armies than Europeans, why didn’t they try to conquer and enslave the planet like Europeans did?
There were three reasons for that. First, China is a large country. I don’t mean large, I mean large. Huge. Vast. Image 1. Map of Asia. As easily visible, China is huge. Almost…
Why do supermarkets in Japan have 2 different color shopping baskets?
It’s to combat a certain type of shoplifting. As the OP probably already knows, in Japan, it’s generally shoppers rather than the checkout person who do the transferring…
What will happen if a nuclear bomb is detonated in space?
We don’t have to speculate because, in typical early Atomic Age fashion, the US military tried it just to see what would happen. Thus, we have test shot…
Since Jupiter is a gas planet, why can’t comets collide with Jupiter and pass right through it?
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, with a diameter of approximately 143,000 kilometers and a mass 318 times that of Earth. As a gas giant,…