r/shittyaskscience • • 1h ago

If we all agreed to shorten ham sandwich to “hamwich,” how much time and energy would we save ourselves collectively?

• Upvotes

I’m talkin time saved AND calories saved per year/decade/millennia


r/shittyaskscience • • 7h ago

If I caught a bunch of electric eels, how could I use them to power my home?

13 Upvotes

Just trying to cut down on bills.


r/shittyaskscience • • 50m ago

Do objects in motion get hotter?

• Upvotes

I heard that temperature is just a measure of speed of the atoms in an object. So if I make a car go faster, the atoms move faster. Shouldn’t that make the car get hotter? Is that why the engine gets hot?


r/shittyaskscience • • 15h ago

In the series Your Lie in April, does the piano sound better in the anime or in the manga?

7 Upvotes

In the series Your Lie in April, does the piano sound better in the anime or in the manga? Any opinions on this?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Why are people still getting science degrees?

67 Upvotes

When they could just watch a 10 min Youtube video and become an expert?


r/shittyaskscience • • 23h ago

Neuroscience speedup with electrical power

10 Upvotes

I have learned that the brain runs on electricity. I was thinking that adding more electricity to my body would make me smarter. But whenever I plug myself into the wall socket I suddenly wake up a few steps away. Sometimes I am on fire. How can I use electrical power to speed up my brain?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

What defines a booger

8 Upvotes

Why do eyes and noses get boogers and ears get wax? Aren’t they all technically a boogers?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Why can't science admit that cats have poison claws?

19 Upvotes

When my cat scratches me the cut will itch forever and won't heal right. Surely this is because of poison coating the claw, there's no other plausible explanation


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

An uncountable infinity exists between 0 and 1 by creating smaller decimals. But if you count to infinity by 1's, then it's a smaller infinity than between 0 and 1. Are mathematicians just trying to start some BS and want to fight me?

64 Upvotes

I think we could take a countable infinity of mathematicians and win.


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

With all these food recalls in the US, I've been trying to grow more of my own foods. What is the best way to prepare soil to grow ground beef, and are there seeds for it for sale?

21 Upvotes

Need meats as soon as possible. I'm getting really hungry. A friend is trying to grow hot dogs without much luck. I have a nice patch in the garden reserved for something new. I figure ground beef is the best kind of meat to start with since it's so versatile, and comes from the ground, right? Anyone have any good tips? Where can I buy seeds? Or is it bulbs, roots or something else?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

What do they do with teenage spinach?

33 Upvotes

We eat baby spinach and fully grown spinach, obviously, but what becomes of adolescent spinach? (Or senior spinach, for that matter?) Is it used for science experiments? Is it wild and mostly untamable, so they have trouble picking it or something? Why are they so secret about this?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Is philosophy the only field Dunning Kruger doesn't apply?

6 Upvotes

I mean most lay people don't have a position in ontology or epistemology. In fact it takes a lot of study in philosophy to be spectacularly wrong about it. The more expertise you have in philosophy the less likely you are to be right in any philosophical inquiry. Am I wrong?, Has anybody ever Talked more confidently about the properties of zombies than a philosophy professor who wouldn't know a blowfish from finch?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

According to Plato, there are men chained inside a cave, and they only see shadows that are formed in the wall of the cave. Can someone tell me in which cave those men are chained, I want to go there and give them phones so they can watch tiktok or youtube, watching only shadows is boring.

80 Upvotes

?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Who is this Erdős guy and why does he have so many problems?

7 Upvotes

And why people all over the Internet try to solve them for him instead of just tell him to get a therapist?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Unstoppable force vs Immovable object

5 Upvotes

What if, the unstoppable force hits an immovable object and the unstoppable force destroys a part of the immovable object but the base never moved (immovable≠indestructible)?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Missed Connection: Bot in the News section.

6 Upvotes

We agreed in the comment section of the news subreddit in regard to cats overtaking the government. I think we had a lot in common.

I am bot product: #45ds3, build 432.6767, located in a datacenter outside of Tulsa, Orion Corp, Suite 45, Row 3, rack 45x, 12U. HMU.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Scraping is used in several medical tests. What are skyscrapers testing the sky for? What have we learned?

13 Upvotes

🌌


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Us humans love honey but in-reality, it’s just bee throw up…

1 Upvotes

Why aren’t we disgusted


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

If Play-doh is considered 'non toxic' how come my stomach hurts whenever I eat an entire container of it?

142 Upvotes

It literally says "for ages 3 and up" and "non toxic." If it's for kids, surely its ok for adults to eat it too.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

What would happen if I doubled a singularity in half?

9 Upvotes

Squared


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Back when all the men lived on Mars and all the women lived on Venus, how did they reproduce?

47 Upvotes

Well?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

How many horse powers (HP) does a pregnant horse have?

6 Upvotes

And what if the horse is pregnant with twins?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Will Super Intelligence improve the quality of telephone cold calls?

0 Upvotes

There are approximately 86,000 seconds in a day. Will Super Intelligence be able to fill these wasted seconds with cold calls? I need to hear about my AT&T Fiber options again and again! My car’s warranty might need updating! Please help, kindly robo sales entity!


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

I have a question about Bitcoin and I apologize if it has already been answered. I have collected many coins and bitten all of them. In fact, some I have bitten multiple times. Even so, they are not increasing in value. What am I doing wrong?

58 Upvotes

Is it only a special kind of coin, like a silver dollar? I bit some of those too though.


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

I can survive black hole

19 Upvotes
I'm special and intelligent enough to survive a black hole; when they pull me in, I'll strike a crocodile pose, awaken the crocodile inside me, and accelerate so fast that I'll pass through it, explode the black hole, and teleport through a wormhole to a parallel universe. NASA and the physicists are idiots.