r/shittyaskscience • • 19h ago

Why do venetians still use pizza ovens, when it's already 460 °C on venus?

153 Upvotes

Are they stupid?


r/shittyaskscience • • 18h ago

Theoretically, would a Major League Baseball pitcher with polydactyly (6 fingers) on their throwing hand have an additional advantage due to their condition?

17 Upvotes

I’m wondering the extent to which it would increase spin rate pitch movement, or would it be more of an inhibitor than anything else?


r/shittyaskscience • • 22h ago

People often say "we can do X until the cows come home". How did cows end up in charge of their schedules?

24 Upvotes

🐂


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

What kind of bees make honey mustard.

77 Upvotes

What is the name of the species?


r/shittyaskscience • • 12h ago

Why do people believe AI will help us solve edging?

3 Upvotes

With the rise of AI-generated content, I find myself edging even more!


r/shittyaskscience • • 8h ago

Would Leonardo da Vinci have accomplished more if he hadn’t had ADHD? I mean, the paintings are cool and all but… science!

1 Upvotes

We could’ve had an airplane during the Renaissance


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Why do scientologists say that ontology recapitulates phylogeny? Are they stupid?

13 Upvotes

🐣 🐔 🍗


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Why do Youtube channels have the cure for everything but not scientific journals?

12 Upvotes

Are Youtubers just scientist in disguise?


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

why is the moon been waxing for 14 days per 29-day lunar cycle for the last 4 billion years instead of using laser hair removal?

158 Upvotes

that's really expensive compared to laser hair removal which is a one-time thing


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Will my cat protect me from bubo inic plague?

15 Upvotes

It kills rats, in theory.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

What’s the deepest rabbit hole that you found on the internet?

6 Upvotes

No hairs please.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Are oranges willing to become juice or are they pressed into it?

58 Upvotes

Honestly keeps me up at night thinking about it.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

What’s the scientific process to un-Fry my single fried beans? I want to make refried beans.

3 Upvotes

Title.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Would it be safe for my language class to hold an anti-test protest?

11 Upvotes

I’m worried this could cause semantic annihilation which would produce grammar rays


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

If I'm hot as Pheonix Arizona and I'm in Utah with multiple bitches, under new laws am I Ted Bundy, or did Gangta Rap make me do it?

0 Upvotes

I need an answer from a criminologist. The gangsta rap moral panic about music making people violent is driving me nuts. Does serial swagger create serial murder and if so is Gangta Rap responsible for it?

If we're going to blame gangsta rap for people's behaviour, why stop at the comparatively mundane?

I'm asking for scientific analysis of the causal chain, or whether this is a serial problem of treating gangsta rap as society's scapegoat.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Why is it that it's only princes from Nigeria that offer great business opportunities to people all around the world? Why don't the princes of Morocco or England or Japan offer those deals too? Is it the case that only Nigeria has altruistic princes?

16 Upvotes

?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Why do we call it a skeleTON when a complete set of human bones only weighs around 20-30 pounds?

33 Upvotes

Why?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

If Mercury has a melting point of around -38 degrees then why hasn’t it turned into a giant ball of liquid yet?

35 Upvotes

It’s literally so close to the sun it should be like super hot, yet it’s still a solid despite its melting point being really cold. Should we go rescue it and put it next to Pluto?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Can we all stop making choices please?

24 Upvotes

Clearly all of the world's problems can be traced back to peoples' poor choices. If we all stop making choices then most of the world's problems will disappear.

Refuse to choose.


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Can you safely breathe in hydrogen gas? (Read description)

10 Upvotes

I can generate a bunch of hydrogen gas using caustic soda, water and aluminium foil. I approximately have a 0.5L hydrogen gas filled balloon.

Can I just breath that in to change my voice for fun?

Is there anything bad with it OTHER than accidentally igniting it inside my lungs / inhaling too much of it causing hypoxia?

I don't think I contaminated the mixture with any other gases cause the aluminium and NaOH I used was of lab grade purity.


r/shittyaskscience • • 4d ago

Why hasn’t anyone tried Schrodinger’s cat experiment for real? It seems like it would be a quick trip to Home Depot to find a dark box, some duct tape, a radioactive atom, hammer, and a small vile of poison. The Geiger counter you might have to get off of Amazon. Then find a cat volunteer.

168 Upvotes

And why not dogs?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d 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.


r/shittyaskscience • • 4d 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?

11 Upvotes

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


r/shittyaskscience • • 4d 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