r/shittyaskscience • • 8h ago

If I traveled to a parallel universe and gave a hand job to the parallel me, would that make me homosexual?

17 Upvotes

Wouldn't it technically be masterbation?


r/shittyaskscience • • 22h ago

Why are rabbit holes so interesting? They look just like regular holes. I see so many people asking questions like "What’s the deepest rabbit hole that you found on the internet?" Are people really that bored that they find holes interesting?

72 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Is "W" anti-science?

84 Upvotes

Out of all the letters in the English alphabet, only "W" has more than one syllable, having three.

This leads the absurd situation where it is quicker to say "World Wide Web" (3 syllables) than "WWW" (9 syllables).

It appears that "W" is anti-science and is purposely slowing down progress in technology.

I propose changing "double-U" to "wuh" or something similar. Then we could say "wuh wuh wuh" instead of "double-U double-U double-U".


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Can germanium and ruthenium neutralize polonium?

41 Upvotes

I think this worked at least once.


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Does Lightning McQueen take out car insurance or life insurance?

38 Upvotes

And if someone was to have an accident with Mr McQueen, could they be charged with manslaughter?

Is there any science rules that one could use to help in this case (asking for a friend)?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

If we all agreed to shorten ham sandwich to “hamwich,” how much time and energy would we save ourselves collectively?

46 Upvotes

I’m talkin time saved AND calories saved per year/decade/millennia


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Why are people always going on Wild Goose Chases?

9 Upvotes

What did the geese even do to be chased?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Nos prometieron "carros voladores", pero la física y nuestra propia psicología chocan con la realidad.. ¿Estaré equivocada?

0 Upvotes

Hoy estoy pensando mucho en por qué seguimos anhelando un aparato ineficiente energéticamente solo porque sale en las películas, ignorando las leyes termodinámicas y de la gravedad.


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Do objects in motion get hotter?

4 Upvotes

I heard that temperature is just a measure of speed of the atoms in an object. So if I make a car go faster, the atoms move faster. Shouldn’t that make the car get hotter? Is that why the engine gets hot?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

If I caught a bunch of electric eels, how could I use them to power my home?

16 Upvotes

Just trying to cut down on bills.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

In the series Your Lie in April, does the piano sound better in the anime or in the manga?

9 Upvotes

In the series Your Lie in April, does the piano sound better in the anime or in the manga? Any opinions on this?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Why are people still getting science degrees?

69 Upvotes

When they could just watch a 10 min Youtube video and become an expert?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Neuroscience speedup with electrical power

9 Upvotes

I have learned that the brain runs on electricity. I was thinking that adding more electricity to my body would make me smarter. But whenever I plug myself into the wall socket I suddenly wake up a few steps away. Sometimes I am on fire. How can I use electrical power to speed up my brain?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

What defines a booger

10 Upvotes

Why do eyes and noses get boogers and ears get wax? Aren’t they all technically a boogers?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Why can't science admit that cats have poison claws?

22 Upvotes

When my cat scratches me the cut will itch forever and won't heal right. Surely this is because of poison coating the claw, there's no other plausible explanation


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

An uncountable infinity exists between 0 and 1 by creating smaller decimals. But if you count to infinity by 1's, then it's a smaller infinity than between 0 and 1. Are mathematicians just trying to start some BS and want to fight me?

63 Upvotes

I think we could take a countable infinity of mathematicians and win.


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

With all these food recalls in the US, I've been trying to grow more of my own foods. What is the best way to prepare soil to grow ground beef, and are there seeds for it for sale?

20 Upvotes

Need meats as soon as possible. I'm getting really hungry. A friend is trying to grow hot dogs without much luck. I have a nice patch in the garden reserved for something new. I figure ground beef is the best kind of meat to start with since it's so versatile, and comes from the ground, right? Anyone have any good tips? Where can I buy seeds? Or is it bulbs, roots or something else?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

What do they do with teenage spinach?

33 Upvotes

We eat baby spinach and fully grown spinach, obviously, but what becomes of adolescent spinach? (Or senior spinach, for that matter?) Is it used for science experiments? Is it wild and mostly untamable, so they have trouble picking it or something? Why are they so secret about this?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Is philosophy the only field Dunning Kruger doesn't apply?

9 Upvotes

I mean most lay people don't have a position in ontology or epistemology. In fact it takes a lot of study in philosophy to be spectacularly wrong about it. The more expertise you have in philosophy the less likely you are to be right in any philosophical inquiry. Am I wrong?, Has anybody ever Talked more confidently about the properties of zombies than a philosophy professor who wouldn't know a blowfish from finch?


r/shittyaskscience • • 4d ago

According to Plato, there are men chained inside a cave, and they only see shadows that are formed in the wall of the cave. Can someone tell me in which cave those men are chained, I want to go there and give them phones so they can watch tiktok or youtube, watching only shadows is boring.

80 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Who is this Erdős guy and why does he have so many problems?

9 Upvotes

And why people all over the Internet try to solve them for him instead of just tell him to get a therapist?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Unstoppable force vs Immovable object

5 Upvotes

What if, the unstoppable force hits an immovable object and the unstoppable force destroys a part of the immovable object but the base never moved (immovable≠indestructible)?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Missed Connection: Bot in the News section.

8 Upvotes

We agreed in the comment section of the news subreddit in regard to cats overtaking the government. I think we had a lot in common.

I am bot product: #45ds3, build 432.6767, located in a datacenter outside of Tulsa, Orion Corp, Suite 45, Row 3, rack 45x, 12U. HMU.


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Us humans love honey but in-reality, it’s just bee throw up…

5 Upvotes

Why aren’t we disgusted


r/shittyaskscience • • 4d ago

Scraping is used in several medical tests. What are skyscrapers testing the sky for? What have we learned?

11 Upvotes

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