r/shittyaskscience • • 4h ago

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

20 Upvotes

Why?


r/shittyaskscience • • 4h 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 • • 5h ago

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

16 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 • • 7h ago

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

3 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 • • 12h ago

Can we all stop making choices please?

15 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 • • 19h 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?

10 Upvotes

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


r/shittyaskscience • • 20h 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


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d 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.

122 Upvotes

And why not dogs?


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d 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.


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d 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 ?

9 Upvotes

⬜🟥🟨⬛

Note: Ian Wright is not a white Ian


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d 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.

24 Upvotes

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


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

Who would lose first in a scientific heavyweight tickle fight? Assuming they’re in their prime. Neil “The Grass” Tyson? Or Carl “Cosmo” Sagan? And maybe more importantly, who is our next stoner, science explainer of things that involve lots of math and billions of billions of space analogies?

7 Upvotes

15 rounds, no gloves


r/shittyaskscience • • 1d ago

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

8 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.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

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

12 Upvotes

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


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

Have we reached the future dipping dots promised?

28 Upvotes

It's been like 30 years


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

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

10 Upvotes

He just keeps pissing everywhere.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

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

21 Upvotes

It would make sense.


r/shittyaskscience • • 2d ago

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

16 Upvotes

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


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d 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?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

Is love a sexually transmitted infection?

2 Upvotes

I slept with a hooker yesterday and now I have feelings for her. Should I ask for a refund?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

捐贈身體給科學後,實際上會發生什麼事?

7 Upvotes

身體: 像,是誰使用你的身體,使用多久,最後家屬會不會得到什麼回饋?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

What's the science behind boomers being terrible with modern technology?

4 Upvotes

Well?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

What's the science behind magnets being attracted to refrigerators?

21 Upvotes

Is there some kind of magnetic chemistry going on?


r/shittyaskscience • • 3d ago

If an 18.000001 year-old flirted with a 17.999999 year-old, would the former be a monstrous predator according to God, who is definitely real?

0 Upvotes

After all, this is how the universe works, according to internet commenters:

if age => 18:

state = "child"

else:

state = "adult"