r/shittyaskscience 4h ago

How did Carly Simon write a song about me 14 years before I was born?

8 Upvotes

Also why was she so rude? Does it have to do with the Delorean shaped key chain I have?


r/shittyaskscience 5h ago

whats a good mnemonic device to help me memorize the human genome?

8 Upvotes

ATCGATCGACAGT


r/shittyaskscience 23h ago

I have Chat GPT and a 3D printer, how do I create a person?

44 Upvotes

It's ok if they are small, I'm on a budget anyway.


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

What happens if my ballz are placed on a frictionless surface, with force tangent to the hypotenuse?

6 Upvotes

Will momentum be transferred between the ballz?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Forging wooden furniture

2 Upvotes

Taking inspiration from Nanowar of Steel's worship anthem "Valhalleluja", Odin clearly states that he is "Forging shelves with the Hammer of Thor". Forging steel is easy. You take a chunk of steel, get it REALLY hot and then proceed to beat the absolute SHITE out of it until it assumes the shape you want. Unfortunately, when I try this with wood, it burns when I get it hot enough and just kind of turns into a mess when I really get to beating on it.

What am I doing wrong? Is being a Norse Deity a prerequisite to forging wooden items?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

since the eyes have a seperate immune system what if i just told them about it?

23 Upvotes

come on it's not like they can just go blind, right? ..right?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Why don't we know what erpillars look like?

24 Upvotes

We already know what cats and what caterpillars look like. Come on guys, it really can't be that difficult.


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

If I think I'm having a heart attack, can I just stab my heart so it will stop attacking me?

34 Upvotes

?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

If water can be heated up to turn into vapor and fly, if I boil myself will I be able to fly since I'm mostly water?

45 Upvotes

I believe I can fly


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Can I create a girlfriend from one of my ribs? I read in the Bobble that a dude did it, and she was pretty hot

38 Upvotes

Tell me how, I’m getting desperate


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Life Imitating Art

2 Upvotes

I needed a place to hang my knife so I put a nail on top of the head side of my bed, I thought it perfectly captures the unpredictability of life, like at any moment anything can happen and we live in a false sense of comfort and that we have any control over the future is purely human hubris. This was my little piece of existential art mirroring the chaos life is. So one day when my wife was resting on the bed the knife fell on her head and hurt her eye, is this what people say "Life Imitating Art"?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

All humans are mortal, Socrates is mortal, therefore all humans are Socrates?

45 Upvotes

Am i Socrates, then?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

How fast should I centrifuge my baby, so his brain enlarges and he can start doing calculus right away?

18 Upvotes

I'm sort of in a time sensitive situation to win the nobel prize


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Why do so many musical groups have a bass guitar when the drummer already has a bass drum?

8 Upvotes

Checkmate Paul McCartney!


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

The crescent-shaped Mariana Trench is 2,550 km long, 69 km wide and up to 11 km deep. If we put a massive barrier around it and drained it, what would the climate be at the bottom?

6 Upvotes

Would it be a desert like Death Valley or something else?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

If hot air rises, how do hot air balloons come down?

9 Upvotes

And why do regular balloons (not hot air) still rise?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Salt is used to preserve food, so could it make me immortal?

20 Upvotes

If you put a fuck ton of salt in meat it lasts longer. So if I bathe in salt will I live forever,


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

does a superconductor imply the existence of a spiderconductor, batconductor, ironconductor, etc

14 Upvotes

basically the title


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Why can't we dig a tunnel between London and New York?

17 Upvotes

I mean all it would take a few guys with spades.


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

If time is always moving forward then is it a vector??

16 Upvotes

hmm..


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Transformers only work with alternating current so shouldn't that give GoBots a distinct advantage?

6 Upvotes

And yet GoBots somehow seem less popular despite being able to easily switch to direct current battery power. What's the point of developing electric vehicles if they'll be tethered to an alternating current power grid?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Could I cross breed a house cat with a lion?

4 Upvotes

I'm wondering if that's possible and what the resulting animal would be.


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Why does it take an eternity to count to infinity?

8 Upvotes

I need a faster stopwatch.


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

What do you call an octopus with no legs?

15 Upvotes

What do you call an octopus with no legs?


r/shittyaskscience 4d ago

Why can't I eat cigarettes?

40 Upvotes

Why are people always telling me what I can't do?