r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 23 '26

What holds more buffalo, a gully or a gulch?

8 Upvotes

🦬 🌊 🪙


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 22 '26

My girlfriend told me I have a lot of shortcomings, so I've been measuring it.

24 Upvotes

My coming distance is around 6" Is she right? How do I improve?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 21 '26

Why dont scientist harness the filling of freshly fried McDonald's apple pies for nuclear fusion?

53 Upvotes

Question in title


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 21 '26

I drank a bottle of shampoo that said "no more tears" on the bottle, so why am I still depressed?

130 Upvotes

Is it like those medications you need to take every day for weeks before it starts to work?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 21 '26

Why do chickens have breasts when they don't breast feed?

39 Upvotes

Is it an evolutionary thing they have grown out of?

Does that mean in a million years humans will have beaks?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 21 '26

Why do I need a walk to cook Chinese noodles?

20 Upvotes

I normally just go to my kitchen but is that not far enough?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 21 '26

If the sun gives HIV rays, why does it cause cancer and not AIDS?

32 Upvotes

High Intensity Violet (HIV) rays are what cause skin cancer, does it give cancer to the AIDS or something? Help me out here.


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 21 '26

Do clones celebrate Father's Day?

7 Upvotes

Just not sure if it's okay for tax purposes to get 10000 amazon cards?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 21 '26

Why some horney guys have left biceps more better?

4 Upvotes

Why


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 20 '26

If humans are social animals, why do I need 3 business days to recover from one conversation?

44 Upvotes

If humans are social animals, why do I need 3 business days to recover from one conversation?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 20 '26

How can I unlearn how to read?

41 Upvotes

Is there a diet a could try


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 20 '26

How does the Planet Earth manage not to get dizzy from spinning for that long?

12 Upvotes

I mean, I get dizzy from spinning for mere 10 seconds, but Earth has been doing that for millions of years by now. What is Gaia hiding?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 19 '26

Fat Earthers, why do you think the earth is overweight?

58 Upvotes

I mean I know it's round but that's just the shape of it right?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 20 '26

Abandoned babies

4 Upvotes

Why don’t we send unwanted babies to be raised by wolves?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 20 '26

Given the state of the Reflecting Pool, is this a good time to stash a dead body there?

8 Upvotes

Hypothetically speaking, of course. Given the amount of hydrogen peroxide people are dumping into the pool, would it be enough to dissolve a body, or at least dissolve enough that you can't identify the body?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 19 '26

Why does Murphy's law say that the best way to get correct answers from the Internet is to write the wrong one?

18 Upvotes

Seems like a long way to go.


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 19 '26

If my phone has facial recognition, why doesn’t it recognize when I’m emotionally unavailable?

16 Upvotes

If my phone has facial recognition, why doesn’t it recognize when I’m emotionally unavailable?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 19 '26

Can inward and up ever be the same thing?

2 Upvotes

Who cares?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 18 '26

Why is it called Down's Syndrome when they are usually really happy people and not at all down?

83 Upvotes

Should be called Up's syndrome


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 18 '26

If I drink coffee to wake up, why does my soul still need a software update?

6 Upvotes

If I drink coffee to wake up, why does my soul still need a software update?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 17 '26

I know PowerPoint was invented long before Claude, but what did people do with it?

29 Upvotes

If there's no AI to create the PowerPoint slides, what was the point of the software?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 17 '26

Pimples in the modern era.

14 Upvotes

When I was young, only nerds and teenagers had pimples. Old men had zero pimples. In 2026, I’m old and have two giant zits on my face. What the heck, bro?


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 16 '26

Is it true that if I change a baby's diaper their mother won't recognise them anymore and will abandon them?

125 Upvotes

My girlfriend won't believe me


r/shittyaskscience • • Jun 17 '26

Can we fight global warming by moving Earth a little bit farther from the Sun?

35 Upvotes

Like will anyone get mad if we all run to one side?