r/shittyaskscience 7h ago

How long could one live without skin?

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Asking for a friend


r/shittyaskscience 17h ago

If lifting heavy rocks makes you stronger, why do I have less strength remaining immediately after lifting one? Did the rock steal it?

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If I can't pick it up on day 1, how am I supposed to be able to pick it up on day 2? Won't I be tired?


r/shittyaskscience 1h ago

Why does meat sauce heat up faster than pasta?

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r/shittyaskscience 23h ago

Do humans have biodiversity because we use meters and kilometres?

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Lions all look basically the same because they don't have meters or kilometres and therefore can't conceptualize enough differences between individuals.

Humans invented standardized measurements, which gave us the ability to look different from each other.

Before this, people had to call things “great” because they couldn't actually measure them. Great Britain, Great Lakes, Great Pyramid and Alexander the Great.

So shouldn't countries that don't use meters and kilometres eventually get dumb like lions? Has anyone measured how long this takes, or are they already too dumb to measure it?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

What was so great about the great dying?

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As a trilobyte don't see why ending the Permian was anything to celebrate.


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Would a Jenga tower be more stable if it was made from blocks of cheese?

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I heard that fat is more stable than wood, so this could make the game more interesting, plus you'd get to eat cheese while playing.


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

If Cicadas have such great rhythm, why do they only wake up every 13 years?

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I'm always hearing about Cicadian rhythm, but they lay dormant for over a decade. Why don't they wake up already?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

If sound can't travel through vacuum, then how is it passing through the air molecules, which not only have vacuum between them, but also in them?

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Air molecules have "enormous intermolecular gaps" between them, search that up.
Atoms in air molecules also have enormous gaps in them, search that up as well.


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

If climate change is such a big deal why are we farming so many factories?

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Like, I hear so much about how bad climate change is, but then I hear about how America has massive factory farms. Making that many factories has to be contributing to climate change a lot, right?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Why did Marie Curie invent Radiation?

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Is she dumb? How many deaths could have been prevented if other scientists chose not to use her radiation in the atomic weapons project?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

If Pi are square, shouldn't the value be 4?

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Like 3.14 doesn't even make sense. How can you have 3.14 sides of a Pi?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

What sort of questions did scientists ask goldfish to prove they have poor memory skills?

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I'm thinking like, "Tell me about your childhood," and the silly fish has nothing to say.


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Faded or light fingerprints

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Since birth I had these faded and very light fingerprints and it was always so hard when I had to do biometric for my college or for my I'd verification and many other processes and I have passport verification soon where I require fingerprints verification idk what to do my fingerprints are visible and sometimes they can be detected and sometimes they can't read. I can unlock my phone easily but with machines, it's sooo hard.


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Our family cat died and our children say they want him cremated like their Grandma Mabel was. If I can't afford this, can I just do it myself in the oven?

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The urn itself is already going to run me a hundred bucks. I'm thinking if I do it in our oven while the kids are in school, they'll never know, and I'll save myself a lot of money.


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Why we have exactly five fingers , not four or six?

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?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

I bought some wood glue. On it bottle it referred to it as all purpose. It was a fine pine adhesive but was downright awful as a toothpaste or bear repellent. How do I sue these charlatans?

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Quickly, I'm being chased by bears


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

If time travel is impossible, how did William Shakespeare plagiarize Arthur Laurents's West Side Story?

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I'll give him credit for reimagining a 1950s gang rivalry in 16th century Italy, but let's be honest, the rest of it is just a ripoff and he didn't even bother to rework any of the musical numbers. Did he spend all his creative energy on the time machine?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Would oil tankers as submarines be able to ignore oil blockades?

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Just go under everyone.


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Who is this Prack-Tiss and how are people getting so much better at everything just by hanging out with him?

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Where do I find him? Will he even have time for me?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Is beastiality more immoral if the animal is underage?

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And does it make a difference to quality of life if you end up in prison?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Glitter bomb the atmosphere

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If global warming is a problem why can't we just use a hydrogen bomb under a mica rich mountain in North Carolina to glitter bomb the upper atmosphere with highly reflective mica dust?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Why does tennis have a rule where the umpire calls both players a douche when their score ties at 40?

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Well?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

So I stuck my cat in the crisper drawer in my refrigerator overnight and I don’t see any DNA changes. WTF??

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Any assistance would be appreciated.


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

Why do humans drink cow milk?

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Why drink milk made for cows when there is actually such a thing as human milk? Seems like the milk made by humans would actually be better for humans. I dunno. Don’t get all weird and creepy. That’s not what this is.


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

If Schrodinger's cat was high on catnip, would the altered/expanded consciousness and divergent thinking allow the cat's observations to collapse the wave function?

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Why did the cat being in the box not collapse the super position, as a cat would be considered an observer?