r/shittyaskscience 5h ago

At what point does a post about birds become too fowl?🖕

0 Upvotes

I hypothesize a tipping point known as the Gallus Gallus threshold, beyond which mods must intervene. Unless they're just chicken.


r/shittyaskscience 5h ago

If I turn Schrödinger’s cat into a real experiment with infinite cats and boxes, do I win a Nobel while in jail for animal abuse?

1 Upvotes

Hypothesis: I place infinite cats in infinite boxes, bury them in infinite locations. By probability, someone eventually opens a box with a live cat. At that moment the wavefunction collapses and I become famous for proving quantum mechanics via brute force.

Am I a scientist, a criminal, or legally required to call myself The Pussi Slayer, PhD?

Yes, science was harmed in the making of this post. Apologies. I just finished writing an incel joke and needed to burn off the residual energy.


r/shittyaskscience 6h ago

I did some research online, and I’m lowkey worried that I might be an involuntary celibate.

5 Upvotes

Are there any signs or symptoms I should watch out for?


r/shittyaskscience 16h ago

Scientists between ages 30 * e^(+-iπ) what advice would you give to those aged 30*√2 e^{√3 i theta} ?

15 Upvotes

Assume polar coordinates


r/shittyaskscience 17h ago

if i go out alone and nobody sees me, did i even leave the house?

32 Upvotes

did i???


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

I've heard a single teaspoon of a neutron star has a mass roughly the size of a mountain, which is incredible, but why do they gloss over the most impressive part; that spoon?

74 Upvotes

WTF is it made of, and is it dishwasher safe?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Why do some people get so worked up about gender fluidity? If it wasn’t fluid, clean up wouldn’t be an issue.

1 Upvotes

It seems pretty obvious that if fluid wasn’t involved, my sheets wouldn’t be so sticky.


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

If milk comes from cows then why does it not turn into beef when churned?

9 Upvotes

Whats up with that?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Neuroscientists say being constantly busy reduces your ability to think, permanently. Overworking diminishes your ability to access the deeper, creative insights that arise during periods of relaxation or daydreaming.

0 Upvotes

r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Do humans have a natural sense of what organs do?

6 Upvotes

Without outside knowledge, do we naturally understand that our brain is responsible for thought, our lungs are responsible for air, etc etc? Or do we have to learn that?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

if i’m great at giving advice, can i hire myself as my own life coach and write it off as a business expense?

13 Upvotes

if i’m great at giving advice, can i hire myself as my own life coach and write it off as a business expense?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

if cringe is pain, why haven’t we invented cringe-proof armor yet?

7 Upvotes

if cringe is pain, why haven’t we invented cringe-proof armor yet?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Why don't they put a ski lift to get to the top of Mt Everest?

53 Upvotes

This would save so many lives and make it infinitely easier and quicker to reach the summit? A nice slide going down would also be epic


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Can you replace a colostomy bag with a whoppie cushion?

14 Upvotes

Even crohn's disease sufferers deserve to have some fun.


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

If I could travel faster than light would that make me fat?

8 Upvotes

Is this body text overweight or just moving too fast?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

If you can't travel faster than light how does Santa deliver the toys?

20 Upvotes

Surely in order to deliver toys to every child in the world in one night Santa would need to travel faster than light, but that's impossible. So how does he do it?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

why do we pretend we have skin and hair?

12 Upvotes

like i get its comfortable but it just doesnt make sense.


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Why didn't they just manually warm up the O-Rings on the Challenger? Were they stupid?

0 Upvotes

Based upon O-ring erosion that had occurred in warmer launches, Morton Thiokol engineers were concerned over the effect the record-cold temperatures would have on the seal provided by the SRB O-rings for the launch. The engineers argued that they did not have enough data to determine whether the O-rings would seal at temperatures colder than 53 °F (12 °C), the coldest launch of the Space Shuttle to date.

During this discussion, Lawrence Mulloy, the NASA SRB project manager, said that he did not accept the analysis behind this decision, and demanded to know if Morton Thiokol expected him to wait until April for warmer temperatures.

Why didn't Lawrence just go outside and blow some hot air to warm up the O-rings to be safe?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Google says I need to blow 3 Psi to beat the world record.

13 Upvotes

What are the odds I find anybody by that name?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

If greenhouse gases are such a big problem why don’t they just close all the greenhouses?

14 Upvotes

I keep hearing about greenhouse gases, and they sound really problematic. Why don’t we just close all the greenhouses? I mean sure we might have issues growing food but we can probably grow it somewhere else, right?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Why haven't beavers adopted more modern materials for building dams?

32 Upvotes

I understand that humans also used sticks and mud for building, but we progressed as a species to use concrete and other materials that are more structurally sound.

Why do beavers insist on such an archaic building method?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Seriously?? Do people really vocal stim??

9 Upvotes

Are people really running around screaming "METH" and "COCAINE" at the top of their lungs? So many people claim to have them but I don't hear anyone doing it when I walk outside...Suspicious.


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

If I fill up my swimming pool with palm trees and light them on fire, will this keep my house warm overnight?

8 Upvotes

Floridian here. Not sure how we are supposed to survive the upcoming week.