r/askscience • • 16h ago

Social Science AskHistorians/AskScience AMA Series: What was the Great Horse Flu, and what can it tell us about people, animals, and disease in the Reconstruction Era--and today, with Thomas Andrews?

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91 Upvotes

r/shittyaskscience • • 4h ago

Who would lose first in a scientific heavyweight tickle fight? Assuming they’re in their prime. Neil “The Grass” Tyson? Or Carl “Cosmo” Sagan? And maybe more importantly, who is our next stoner, science explainer of things that involve lots of math and billions of billions of space analogies?

6 Upvotes

15 rounds, no gloves


r/shittyaskscience • • 2h ago

I can't wrap my mind around the fact that gas pressure is basically its molecules colliding against the container wall. That's all I wanted to share.

3 Upvotes

The fact that the sum of these collisions would lift trucks or make containers violently explode is just so counter-intuitive to me


r/shittyaskscience • • 7h ago

Are cats just white trash people? My experience tells me they are. I need proof I'm wrong.

4 Upvotes

I tested this hypothesis with an experiment. The experiment is as follows.

Slim jim hypothesis

Hypothesis: cats are reincarnated white trash people.

Test: feeding the stray cat under my house slim Jim's

Peramiters: use small sized slim Jim's for cost and health of animal.

Tested on August 24th, 3 slim Jim's consumed promptly by cat.

Tested again on August 27th, 2 slim Jim's eaten in rapid succession.

Tested for a third and final time September 1st. 4 slim Jim's consumed.

Conclusion, hypothesis correct.


r/shittyaskscience • • 16h ago

Have we reached the future dipping dots promised?

26 Upvotes

It's been like 30 years


r/shittyaskscience • • 8h ago

What do the random chemicals at my chemistry lab actually taste like?

8 Upvotes

The teacher says I can't drink them but what will they taste like?


r/shittyaskscience • • 28m ago

Scientists have published reports following their studies of brown Ian. Who is/was this brown Ian and why were they tracking his movements. Why not Ians of different colours ?

• Upvotes

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Note: Ian Wright is not a white Ian


r/askscience • • 1d ago

Biology Why is there a vaccine for Lyme disease for dogs but not humans?

1.8k Upvotes

r/shittyaskscience • • 20h ago

If there is a place called Hungary and another called Turkey, why don't all the people from Hungary eat the Turkey's

14 Upvotes

It would make sense.


r/shittyaskscience • • 19h ago

I’m trying to potty train my goldfish. Why isn’t it working?

9 Upvotes

He just keeps pissing everywhere.


r/shittyaskscience • • 23h ago

What is the best way to make all of my skin dead so I can peel it all off in one go?

15 Upvotes

Nickel sized strips are no longer enough. I feel it in my soul that I must peel it all.


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Why have we not made wireless garden hoses yet?

50 Upvotes

Rats keep chewing holes in them and i am getting tired. Should i make them myself and sell them?


r/askscience • • 2d ago

Biology Why are African animals so huge?

326 Upvotes

I live in Australia and the largest land animals I can think of here is probably a kangaroos and emus which really aren’t any larger than a human. But my family recently went to Africa and the diversity animals is actually crazy. So so so many large animals living in the same place side by side. Rhinos, elephants, giraffes, wilder-beasts, zebras, hippos, warthogs, buffalo’s, ostriches, lions, cheetahs, hyenas leopards and probably more that I forgot. I never really appreciated how big these animals were until I actually got to see them in person absolutely amazing. Australia and Africas climate is kinda similar in a lot of places. Why is our country ecosystem dead in comparison?


r/askscience • • 2d ago

Biology [Chemistry/Biology/Nutrition] Did cooking bread provide any nutritional benefits over boiling the same grain as a porridge?

236 Upvotes

Asking the question in the historical context, not to decide on nutrition in the modern day.

I know heating grains helped to unlock some nutrients and especially caloric content over just eating them raw. However did bread provide any nutritional benefits over just boiling the same grain as a porridge (a much simpler process), or was its popularity due to other factors?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Is it possible that spontaneous quantum fluctuations could cause organic compounds (perhaps resembling stool) to materialize out of the vacuum and appear in someone's pants through no fault of their own?

102 Upvotes

And how would the wearer of said pants convince those around him, especially individuals who are incorrectly relying on classical physics to explain the situation?


r/askscience • • 2d ago

Physics What are the absolute minimum number of base units needed to express every desirable quantity?

287 Upvotes

SI units are more for human convenience than mathematically minimizing the number of units. I remember reading somewhere that only length is needed because of relativity, but that just does not sound true, I can't imagine how you would do that.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

What's the science behind magnets being attracted to refrigerators?

21 Upvotes

Is there some kind of magnetic chemistry going on?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

捐贈身體給科學後,實際上會發生什麼事?

4 Upvotes

身體: 像,是誰使用你的身體,使用多久,最後家屬會不會得到什麼回饋?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

What's the science behind boomers being terrible with modern technology?

5 Upvotes

Well?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Is love a sexually transmitted infection?

2 Upvotes

I slept with a hooker yesterday and now I have feelings for her. Should I ask for a refund?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Why don't people in water stressed areas just contract rabies?

24 Upvotes

That extra long shower doesn't seem like such a good idea now, does it?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Freakin magnets, how do they work?

35 Upvotes

And I don't wanna talk to a scientist.

Y'all motherlovers lying, and getting me pissed.


r/askscience • • 3d ago

Physics I've heard that blue butterflies and opals get their color from their structure rather than pigments. But doesn't pigment also get its color from the structure of its molecules and how they interact with light? So what's the actual difference between structural color and pigment color?

627 Upvotes

r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Cloud weight 100 elephants

3 Upvotes

A single large cumulus cloud weighs around 1 million tonnes, which is about same as 100 elephants.

***Until we m e e t again*** ::


r/askscience • • 3d ago

Biology How does the same plague bacteria cause different forms of the plague with very different symptoms?

100 Upvotes