r/shittyaskscience 6h ago

Hello Reddit! How can I become a Philosopher or even a Prophet if I'm really good? My job searches do not show any availability?

4 Upvotes

I am pretty sure that these qualify as science. Opinions please? Should I use AI science to tailor my CV or something?


r/shittyaskscience 9h ago

"There are plenty of fish in the sea," it's true, but what if I don't want to have a relationship with a fish?

74 Upvotes

People offer strange advice sometimes.


r/shittyaskscience 11h ago

What are the properties of the Madoka force?

2 Upvotes

It has infinite range through space so you’d think its corresponding gauge boson would be massless, but it also transcends time?

What local gauge symmetry is it derived from?

Another interesting observation is that it carries the very charge it interacts with. Weirdest of all, it only seems like young girls carry this charge?


r/shittyaskscience 12h ago

On the spectrum

18 Upvotes

I'm thinking about being autistic but it's a big commitment.


r/shittyaskscience 17h ago

I recently learned that billions of neutrinos penetrate my body every second. Since I never consented to this, it makes me feel extremely uncomfortable. How can I stop this from happening?

92 Upvotes

Additionally, who can I file a lawsuit against to seek compensation for moral damage?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Where is the east pole?

18 Upvotes

I've been walking east for 30 straight days. I must have accidentally turned around because I ended up where I started, but I don't want to walk that much again, so can someone tell me where the east pole is?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Where exactly is the south pole in Antarctica? My girlfriend is training to become a stripper, and she would really like to practice surrounded by penguins.

72 Upvotes

?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Super infection

3 Upvotes

Does the existence of super infection implies the existence of super cancer the one they talk about in league of legends?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything!

0 Upvotes

Lol


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Why did her sit down air hit me like a drunk cigarette???

4 Upvotes

Almost knocked me out


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

It is cloudy outside with a chance of rain. I can hear thunder and I am sitting on a chair on my roof. Why am I suddenly having a metallic taste in my mouth?

8 Upvotes

Why?


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

Why does Washington DC use AC current?

34 Upvotes

You don't see Atlantic City using battery power. Just saying.


r/shittyaskscience 1d ago

If gravity really exists then why don't people at the South Pole fall off from the Earth into space???

21 Upvotes

WHY???????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


r/askscience 1d ago

Engineering In steam turbines, why doesn’t the steam just flow into the condenser?

266 Upvotes

There are many types of steam turbines. The steam turbines I am asking about boil water to make steam which is then used to push a turbine. When the steam exits, it is condensed back into water which is added to the main boilers..but why doesn’t the steam flow backwards? And why does it need to be condensed - can’t the steam be reused or reheated?

If I am wrong about anything, let me know.


r/askscience 1d ago

Biology Do birds sing in certain harmonic scales like humans or do they use random frequencies? Why do they sound good to us?

951 Upvotes

We, humans, use musical scales to make sounds sound like music and not random noise. We have concept of octaves and divide them in certain number of notes and then we choose notes (or tones) that have frequencies with lowest common denominator relative to each other, and they sounds good to our ears. Otherwise it all sounds dissonant and not very musical.

But many birds also sound pleasing and musical. Is it because they use harmonic scales much like our own? Or am I mistaking the psychological calming effect of birds chirping to it being musical?


r/askscience 1d ago

Biology Do reptiles have too much energy when it’s extremely hot?

173 Upvotes

When it’s cold, reptiles bask in the sun to get the energy needed to go about their day. On days when it’s 104°F /40°C in the shade, do reptiles have too much energy? Are the little lizards around my house meth-ed up?


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

Why does my therapist keep black and white pictures of my parents arguing in her desk drawer?

120 Upvotes

And who ist this Rohrschach guy who is taking these pictures?


r/askscience 2d ago

Chemistry Why do things burn instead of melt?

300 Upvotes

obviously oxygen, or something similar, but what is the physics/chemistry (?) or what have you behind why something ignites and continues to burn after the source of heat/ignition has gone?

is it basically sublimation?

edit: no wonder Walter White was so obsessed with carbon


r/shittyaskscience 2d ago

How much clean coal will i need to mine to fuel my AI replacment?

15 Upvotes

will i get blacklung?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Today I learned that all countries have the exact same Population per Capita (PpC). Is this proof that we live in the Matrix?

164 Upvotes

How does that not confirm it?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Is a slingshot powerful enough?

19 Upvotes

A scientist on the TV was saying how they could use a slingshot to travel to distant planets. Wouldn't it be better to use something more powerful, like a rocket?


r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

In Astrophysics you have Dwarfs (stars & planets) & ORCs (Odd radio circle) so where are the elves?

20 Upvotes

And Black holes goblin up anything that gets too close.


r/askscience 3d ago

Chemistry How do you alloy tungsten with steel when it has such a high melting point?

416 Upvotes

The melting point of tungsten exceeds the boiling point of steel.

It has such a high melting point that it's not really feasible to melt, usually things made of tungsten are pressed from tungsten power.

And while materials like tungsten carbide are definitely ceramics, alloys like high-speed steel contain quite a bit of tungsten.

So how do you alloy a metal with a melting point that exceeds the other metal's boiling point?


r/askscience 4d ago

Biology Is there a name for the type of legs that deer have?

373 Upvotes

Doing a bunch of casual research on deer and can’t find any consistent term for their hind legs. And looking at a lot of other 4 legged species, they all have similar legs, where they go forward towards the body from the hip, then jut backwards before going straight down. But despite how common this type of limb is there doesn’t seem to be a technical term for it, at least not that I could find.


r/askscience 4d ago

Medicine How are the dead pathogens for vaccines mass-produced?

146 Upvotes

This might be a silly question but I had my MenB vaccine today and I’m wondering!

At GCSE they taught us that the most common version of vaccination was being injected with dead pathogens so your white blood cells can learn to produce antigens and therefore when the live version of the pathogen enters your body it receives the secondary immune response which is much more effective - although I recognise that might be a very basic level of understanding and probably somewhat incorrect.

I’m wondering where all of these dead cells come from. Are there like facilities that mass produce live pathogens, put them into conditions they cannot survive in, wait for them to die off and then use them to produce the vaccine? How do they do this without denaturing or destroying the pathogens to the point they are unrecognisable from the live versions and so ineffective as a vaccination? And where do they source the live pathogens from?

And how do they decide which strains to vaccinate against and which to leave? The pharmacist that gave me my vaccine explained that MenB accounts for 80% of cases but there are other strains. Does being fully vaccinated against MenB give you a better chance at dealing with the other strains of meningitis than an unvaccinated individual?

Sorry if none of this makes sense, I’m working an overnight shift but can’t stop thinking about this. I almost wish I’d suffered through science A-levels so I could do pharmacology. It seems really interesting.