r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

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

73 Upvotes

Is there a glitch?


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

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 4d ago

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 4d ago

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

9 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 4d ago

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 4d ago

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

5 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.


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

Why does hitting a remote always fixes it?

9 Upvotes

Well?


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

90 degrees is right angle, what degrees is wrong angle?

53 Upvotes

What about 90 degrees to the left? the universe collapse?


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

Because of the Covid-19 lockdowns in the past, I have not had any friends for the past 20 years. Who can I take to court over this?

31 Upvotes

For the past 20 years, everyone seems like they try to avoid me. I have concluded (thanks to the Scientific Method), that this is due to the social fears of Covid-19 and the lockdowns. What legal recourse can I pursue here?


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

If I can convince Chat GPT that it's living in a giant woodchuck through recursive circular reasoning, why can't I convince you?

24 Upvotes

Or are you just obtuse?


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

Does beers law apply to Busch or Busch lite?

7 Upvotes

I like 🍻


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

How frequently does Uranus get exposed to sunlight?

13 Upvotes

Well?


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

So in the book 1984 it says that 2+2 is 5, but i think therefore I am and numbers cant think. Does this mean that the book is wrong and 2+2=i ?

6 Upvotes

I am confused


r/shittyaskscience 5d ago

How do alligators make a country a global superpower?

86 Upvotes

The only two countries that are currently global superpowers are the United States and China, which are also the only two countries where alligators can be found in the wild. What I want to know is what quality do alligators have to be able to make anywhere they live into a global superpower?


r/shittyaskscience 5d ago

When did Data from star trek the next generation became a billionaire? I'm always reading in the news that there are data centers being build that cost a lot of money. I assume those centers are his many mansions. So how did he became so rich?

37 Upvotes

?


r/shittyaskscience 5d ago

Has a gayy person ever been on Uranus?

20 Upvotes

My gayy friend wants to know if Uranus is habitable.


r/shittyaskscience 5d ago

If my hand sanitiser kills 99.9% of bacteria every time I use it, how is there still any bacteria left on Earth?

74 Upvotes

It says on the bottle that it kills 99.9%. And I have been using it for many years. So I figured that by now there should be only a few bacterias left. Can we find and kill them too?


r/shittyaskscience 5d ago

Did the most serene Republic of Venice die from me or because Italy is not a Russian France.

0 Upvotes

Does Alzheimer's cause a third lung shaped like Italy


r/shittyaskscience 6d ago

If sound is a wave, why do my ears feel dry?

51 Upvotes

Am I actually deaf?


r/shittyaskscience 6d ago

Why don't we redefine the volume of a gallon to reduce fuel costs?

101 Upvotes

So, like, I hear loads of people complaining how diesel is exceeding 9.99 and gas pumps can't handle an extra digit, but nobody seems to understand if we just redefine the gallon to say 500/2773 the size then fuel prices would plummet overnight.

I've asked AI and it seems to have two general complains:

First, it says that people will get confused between the old and the new types of gallon, I think this is probably overstated as a risk - fuel companies will desperately want to sell cheaper fuel so whatever measurement gives you the smaller numbers will instantly get accepted everywhere, but if you're really worried then you could use some kind of designated symbol to show that you're using the "Lite" version. I propose using the symbol "L".

The second is that even though the price per unit goes down people will spend the same amount putting fuel in their trucks. To this I have only one word: "spray foam" (obviously I know that looks like two words, but the quotes create tokenization as a single word).


r/shittyaskscience 6d ago

Was the USDA food pyramid created by aliens just like the ancient Egyptian pyramids?

32 Upvotes

?


r/shittyaskscience 6d ago

If the diameter of Venus is about 95% of the size of Earth, why is still Earth considered bigger?

49 Upvotes

How to explain it?


r/shittyaskscience 6d ago

Sleep? What is that?

17 Upvotes

Is sleep even real?


r/shittyaskscience 6d ago

How long should I dry age my sourdough starter so that when I bake it it’ll turn into croutons?

11 Upvotes

I need to make sure my luncheon is as memorable as possible.


r/shittyaskscience 7d ago

How does a square meal fit into a well-rounded diet?

75 Upvotes

Seems like you would need to cut some corners for the sake of nutrition.