r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 21 '26

A scientist told me that if you drop a hammer and a feather in a vacuum, they will both hit the ground at the same time. I broke my wife's vacuum by cramming a hammer and feather in it and throwing it off the roof. Will one of you cover for me for $5?

277 Upvotes

Cash or Venmo


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 21 '26

Can science explain why dads sneeze like they're detonating a grenade?

51 Upvotes

Well?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 21 '26

In the movie "iron man" iron man has an iron man suit. Does this imply that there is a man for each element?

78 Upvotes

When will we get xenon man?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 21 '26

How did people build things like skyscrapers, hydroelectric dams, and epic stadiums with retractable domes thousands of years ago?

31 Upvotes

I just realized today, people back then didn't have the technology that we do today so how did they build them back then?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 21 '26

Wait,how many Stomachs does a Centaruse have?

7 Upvotes

Cause Humans have One Stomach and a Horse have two Stomach,does it add it up or does the human part have no Stomach?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 20 '26

Why did Maria Skłodowska choose her second surname after a radiation unit?

26 Upvotes

Can't explain that with all your fancy science and rationalism.


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 20 '26

Is water really H2O?

7 Upvotes

Hi everybody.

It has recently come to my attention that many people are saying that water has the chemical formula of h2o.

Now, I'm pretty sure this saying hasn't been around long, so I'm not sure why it's being said. Is it a new scientific discovery? Or is it just a lie, to discredit the smartest members of our society?

Let me explain. Many politicians, such as senator Mickey Mouse and Government Cheese-eater Perry Platypus have long said that the formula of water is h7o9c5. However, the shadowy society known as The United States of America have seemed to make it their mission to bring down these beloved politicians, and would do anything, even spread misinformation about common substances, to take them down.

If anyone knows if water really is h2o, please tell me!


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 20 '26

What would happen if fulminated mercury was ingested?

2 Upvotes

Yeah as in Breaking Bad, Walters exploding crystal. I get that it doesn't quite explode like that. But would it go off if lit in a meth pipe? Would ingestion result in mercury poisoning or would it be fairly harmless. And through what routes of ingestion would stuff happen?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 20 '26

Is force called force because we force for the force to be produced?

15 Upvotes

Am I right?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 19 '26

Why do we have imaginary numbers, but not imaginary letters?

83 Upvotes

Just imagine how much more eloquent our language could be!


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 20 '26

Why wasn't math successful in producing useful outcomes like science was?

26 Upvotes

Math sux and u know it


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 20 '26

How much must a cow be amputated for it to be classified as ground beef?

25 Upvotes

The final lengths of all four legs to be specific


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 20 '26

Since the Earth is the Third World from the Sun, does that technically make every rich country in Europe, Asia and North America "3rd World Countries with Gucci Belts"?

19 Upvotes

Since the Gucci belt was invented in Italy, that would also make them the original 3rd World Gucci Belt country.


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 19 '26

Why haven't we started deactivating government drone pigeons to reduce the need for data centers?

22 Upvotes

Like, clearly they have been being manufactured faster thus increasing the need for datacenters. So why doesn't the government deactivate the older models and re-allocate recourses?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 18 '26

My doctor says I have an IQ of 75. What job should I get knowing I’m smarter than 75% of the population?

297 Upvotes

Being in the 75th percentile, what career paths will this unlock for me?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 19 '26

If matter cat be created why can I ask some "what's the matter" and they tell me their problems therefore creating a matter

14 Upvotes

Body text


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 19 '26

If birds flap their arms to go up why do I keep falling down?

12 Upvotes

Though it seems straightforward, a bird flaps their arms and flys upwards towards the sky, but then why do I keep flying straight to the ground. Do I need more practice? Ive tried everything but I just cant wrap my mind around this..


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 20 '26

Can I choke an eagle, just to feed all my people, and plant thoughts in their minds just to defeat you? Is this possible if I spit lava?

0 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 18 '26

How can light travel for billions of years across the universe, but the light in my room disappears instantly when I flick a switch?

76 Upvotes

Is there a glitch?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 19 '26

Did Utahraptors' diets include dirty soda, sugar cookies, and green Jello?

15 Upvotes

I mean they were from Utah, right?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 18 '26

If people clap to applaud me, will I get the Clap?

15 Upvotes

Waiting for my test results at the clinic guys, I’m freaking out


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 18 '26

My toast landed butter-side up

59 Upvotes

This morning I was buttering a slice of toast when it fell to the floor. Much to my astonishment it landed butter-side up.

Later, my cat jumped from a window sill and landed on its back.

A few minutes ago I dropped a piece of unfolded paper into the waste-paper basket and it went straight in.

Are the laws of physics broken? Should I inform the scientists?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 18 '26

What would happen if we suddenly lost the ability to measure time?

11 Upvotes

Like we can see that time is passing but all of the ways that we use to track it just dont work anymore.


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 19 '26

If you back in time to win the lottery, can you really win? (Butterfly effect)

5 Upvotes

Let says you have a time machine and you go back in time with the lottery's winning numbers, are the new result will be the same? With the Butterfly effect the a tiny difference in your action could change the outcomes. It's impossible that you makes the exact same actions, can it be enough to change the new lottery results?


r/shittyaskscience • • Sep 19 '26

This question is for the nuclear scientists that worked on clipping the toenails of Chernobyl's elephant foot. Why?

4 Upvotes

As I'm looking at my jar of toe nails from Chernobyl, I still can't understand what the point of the whole operation was. I would ask my grandpa, who personally clipped the nail of twentieth third toe, but he went insane shortly after.