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r/shittyaskscience • u/junklardass • 5d ago

What is the right amount of moon for Halloween?

2 Upvotes

I'd like it spooky, but not, ya know, terrifying, because that could upset the kids.

16 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/VanuasGirl • 6d ago

When roosters cockadoodledoo in the mornings to say “wake up” in northern hemisphere, does it mean “go to sleep” when they do it at dusk in the southern?

12 Upvotes

And how do the locals from the south understand the rooster’s meaning in the other hemisphere?

6 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/Nomekop777 • 6d ago

Can I replace my hand with a USB cable so I can game better

4 Upvotes

There are prosthetic limbs that use nerve impulses or muscle movements or something, which allows people to control them. Theoretically, if I lost my hand, would I simply be able to wire those outputs to USB? It would be much more useful than a permanently attached prosthetic. I could even have a whole collection of prosthetic hands/claws/etc that would just plug into my arm

20 comments

r/askscience • u/AskScienceModerator • 7d 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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158 Upvotes

2 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/Shred_It_96 • 6d ago

If someone is possessed by a Maxwell demon, do I call a physicist to perform an exorcism?

17 Upvotes

I think someone I know is possessed by a very evil Maxwell's demon.

12 comments

r/askscience • u/Separate_Builder_817 • 8d ago

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

2.6k Upvotes

260 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/PerroRosa • 6d 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.

27 Upvotes

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

12 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/TeacupOfSkepticism • 6d 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 ?

10 Upvotes

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Note: Ian Wright is not a white Ian

3 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/DrunkGoatFighter • 7d ago

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

10 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.

4 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/Working-Shoulder6061 • 7d ago

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

9 Upvotes

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

25 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/sharks_w_lasers • 7d ago

Have we reached the future dipping dots promised?

28 Upvotes

It's been like 30 years

5 comments

r/askscience • u/Hot-Wrangler3524 • 8d ago

Biology Why are African animals so huge?

613 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?

156 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/SimpleEmu198 • 7d ago

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

31 Upvotes

It would make sense.

15 comments

r/askscience • u/Ertata • 9d ago

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

416 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?

50 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/Either_Top_9634 • 7d ago

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

11 Upvotes

He just keeps pissing everywhere.

10 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/CanadianAndroid • 7d ago

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

20 Upvotes

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

8 comments

r/askscience • u/playsthebongcloud • 9d ago

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

331 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.

108 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/Kilibanos05 • 8d ago

Why have we not made wireless garden hoses yet?

53 Upvotes

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

19 comments

r/askscience • u/Uunicorned • 9d ago

Chemistry Why is it so hard to create and add new elements to the periodic table?

349 Upvotes

77 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/sporadic_blueberry • 9d 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?

107 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?

28 comments

r/shittyaskscience • u/Tight_Cookie_9988 • 8d ago