What happens if a commercial airplane tries to go outside the stratosphere? - Quora

Answer: The first thing that would happen would be that all of the engineers w.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest What happens if a commercial airplane tries to go outside the stratosphere? Tim Hibbetts, Naval Aviator, Airline Pilot, Landing... 1.9k votes The first thing that would happen would be that all of the engineers would start pointing and laughing at the pilots. With bruised egos, the pilots would start giving the e... Read More » How can I piggyback off a Wi-Fi Internet connection from home if neighboring connections are secured with passwords? Garrick Saito 2.7k votes So, you want a piggyback ride, huh? Knock on your neighbor's door...  Read More » Is it true that only 5 percent of smokers get lung cancer? Ian York, Virologist, immunologist, biologist 570 votes It is not true that only 5 percent of smokers get lung cancer. Source: IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans (monographs-iarc-fr/ENG/Monogra... Read More » After watching 'Lucy', I'm starting to wonder if 1+1 really is 2 and is the real unit of everything really - the time? Dan Holliday, Recruiter, Traveler, Runner, CrossFit... 1.2k votes "Lucy" is a scifi movie the employs some of the most ridiculously stupid plot devices that I have ever seen: That we only use 10% of our brains. That magic chemicals can tur...  Read More » [SPOILER] In Interstellar, why was Prof Brand (Michael Caine's character) obsessed with studying gravity? What was he trying to solve? Robert Frost, Cinephile 2.9k votes Remember the scene where Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine are walking around that giant concrete building and Michael Caine says "Turn your bloody head sideways, Maste... Read More » Is being worth $10 million USD considered 'rich'? David S. Rose, Make it, spend it, save it, invest it... 1k votes If that $10 million were to be earning you a 5% annual liquid return (which is not wildly unrealistic), you would have a permanent income of about $500,000 a year which wou... Read More » How do Bill Gates, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey manage their email? David Shin, Algorithmic trader 3.6k votes When I worked at Google in 2006/2007, Larry and Sergey held a Q&A session, and this exact question was asked of them. One of them answered (I don't remember which) with the... Read More » How difficult is it to assassinate Kim Jong-un? Jon Mixon, USAF Vet 517 votes For someone close to him: Not very hard. We are all one bullet away from being a lifeless husk. For almost everybody else: Next to impossible. ... Read More » Neuroscientists: What are some things that neuroscientists know but most people don't? Colin Gerber, Parkinson's Researcher 453 votes I would say one thing we realize is that we understand relatively little about how the brain functions. It was only within the last 10 years that we realized the majority ... Read More » What are the best formats for a resume? Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Author of Cracking the {Coding Interv... 3.0k votes Just as the best product is the one that gets the job done, the best resumes are those that communicate your skills and accomplishments in a clear, effective way. Graphic... 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.

What is the craftiest way to dodge a question during a presentation? - Quora

Answer: Here's a little flowchart for how to handle questions during a present.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest What is the craftiest way to dodge a question during a presentation? Robert Frost, engineer/instructor at NASA 3k votes Here's a little flowchart for how to handle questions during a presentation. You're asking for a 'crafty way to dodge a question', but that really is one of the stupidest... Read More » How long after working out do you see results? Sed Chapman, Latitude 36 Attitude left 1.7k votes When noobies, usually in their 20's, at the gym ask me how long it will take them to get the magnificent body I have? I tell them, 'About 30 years. Get cracking!' Do you... Read More » What can a person with an IQ of 160 do that a person with an IQ of 100 cannot? Are certain things fundamentally unlearnable/undoable like IQ claims? How can this be overcome? Peter Flom, Independent statistical consultant fo... 1.8k votes There are no absolute rules with regard to human abilities and outcomes. But there are some tendencies. People with very high IQs (e.g. 160) will generally have an easier ... Read More » Do Ph.D students get time to pursue their hobbies? Jean Yang, CS PhD student at MIT. 1k votes When I was a first-year, I was impressed when a senior student told me about her various hobbies--she sang in a choir and also rowed crew. "You have time for hobbies?" I h... Read More » Do top ranked (top 100) coders on sites like TopCoder or in programming competitions like ACM ICPC, Google Code Jam or Facebook Hacker Cup find it easy to get a high-paying job at companies like Google, Facebook, etc.? Aideen NasiriShargh, Ex-Googler, ACM ICPC World Finalist x... 743 votes Depends. Assuming you know the difference between a coder, a programmer, and a developer, I'd say a top100 coder is not always a good industrial developer. They do not n...  Read More » Do restaurant staff eat leftovers? Domhnall O'Huigin, An amateur in lifelong love with the ... 1.7k votes As a kitchen porter many years ago, in a restaurant lauded for the fine dining experience it provided and very popular with the great and good of Irish society, I was speci... Read More » How do bullet wounds compare with the wounds inflicted by bow-and-arrows and those by crossbows? Andrew Warinner, Code monkey, expat, utility infielder 572 votes Arrows and crossbow bolts would not cause the damage by hydrostatic shock that bullets do. You can see the shock waves produced by bullets passing through ballistic gelat... Read More » Did the Mongols have a reasonable chance of conquering Europe in the 13th century, had Ogedei not died just before launching his invasion? Tim O'Neill, Atheist, Medievalist, Sceptic and ama... 631 votes Despite what breathless History Channel pop-documentaries and Mongol fanboys would have you believe, probably not. Yes, anyone who has done even the most cursory reading ... Read More » If my bank mistakenly injects $1,000,000 into my account, am I legally allowed to spend it before they realize their mistake? Garrick Saito 1.5k votes Bank makes an error. No law against that. Honest mistake, happens all the time. Bank corrects the error. No law against that. They've simply reversed what was not supp... Read More » I was recently told, after 10 minutes in an internship interview, that I'm "just not cut-out for Facebook." What (if anything) can I take away from this feedback to improve for the future? Ankur Pansari, Some random dude 1.9k votes If that was the wording that was used exactly, then please send me a PM with the details including the interviewer's name. I'd like to send it to some of my friends at Face... 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.