Help Questions you wish you knew the answer to.

[Cerb]

Hey guys.

So the website of the news place I work at has this thing they do every week called "Just Ask".

It was inspired by Ken Wilburs "A brief history of everything".

Every week we answer (mostly science) related questions by interviewing experts. Examples of past questions include "Artifact restoration: how does it work?", "How does salt battle road Ice". "how close can you get to the sun" and "How does sunscreen work".

So this week we haven't got a single damn question from anyone and I am drawing a blank.

So FHOT what are some interesting questions (science related best) you don't know the answer to but wish you did. EG but not including "why is the sky blue? How do rainbows happen? etc etc."

Thanks and rep for all your help!

 

[Gwadien]

What's the meaning of life?

 

[Cerb]

You're a bollox

 

[Ch3tan]

Why are Americans so obese?

 

[Ch3tan]

Why does fox news make it's content up?

 

[Cerb]

Haha seeing as that's where I'm working out of that might be a tad too touchy

 

[Ch3tan]

Hence the question

 

[cHodAX]

How many gay black jewish electricians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

 

[Cerb]

I knew this would happen, I really did, but I tried anyway. Oh well.

 

[cHodAX]

How is oil turned into medicines.

 

[Calo]

- Can animals smell fear?
- how long does it take till all the continents are back against eachother
-Why do women open their mouth when they put mascara(eye liner) on?
- What is the most rare substance on earth?
- What happens if a nuclear bom explodes in space?
- Does a gps give you the right speed when you are going up or down a mountain?
- What is the massa of the earth and is it getting lighter or not?
- Your home key, on how many locks will it fit in the whole of UK?
- how many megapixels has our eye?
- Why is a giraffe's tongue blue?
- Who is the most famous person in the world?
- What animal is in comparison the strongest?
...

 

[Gwadien]

Which animal has the largest testicles? *envy*

 

[gohan]

on a scale of 1-10 how gay is a pokey bum wank?

 

[rynnor]

Why have we still not done anything to prevent a repeat of the banking bailout?

 

[Nate]

Why do people eat Chitterlings?

 

[Ch3tan]

How is oil turned into medicines.

No no no Chod, in the spirit on the thread, the question should be;

How many Iraqi's did we kill to turn oil into medicine.

 

[Cerb]

I'm beginning to think you're just trying to get me in trouble Chet!

 

[Zenith.UK]

How is oil turned into medicines.

I can answer that one.
Buy oil.
Sell oil at a higher price.
Buy meds with the profits.

Or do you mean how is crude oil used as a base for the variety of organic compounds used in pharmaceutical manufacturing?

 

[Ch3tan]

I'm beginning to think you're just trying to get me in trouble Chet!

Every Iraqi we kill and bury in Iraq today, will be oil in a few million years.

 

[Scouse]

What's the meaning of life?

or:

Why do people think that life must have a meaning?

 

[Gwadien]

or:

Why do people think that life must have a meaning?

Everything has a reason.

 

[Ezteq]

- what the hell are chitterlings?
- how is it possible I have the energy to dance like an epileptic centipede at a jean michele jarre concert but cba to change the battery in my kitchen clock?
- do animals, other than humans, get phobias?

 

[Ch3tan]

Everything has a reason.

That's a very narrow minded and selfish view.

 

[Bahumat]

If a duck perfectly aligns its spine, can it flip a tank?

 

[old.Tohtori]

Here's one;

Would 1.21 gigawatts be enough?

 

[Ezteq]

If a duck perfectly aligns its spine, can it flip a tank?

LOL :worthy:

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Everything has a reason.

I hope you're being sarcastic.

Reason does not exist.

 

[Gwadien]

I hope you're being sarcastic.

Reason does not exist.

Ja, sarcasm..

@ Chet, People beleive that but I can't see why it's selfish + narrow minded.. surely it means that humans live to take care of each other, bees make honey for humans to survive on, Humans have a responsibilty for the enviroment etc?

 

[megadave]

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

 

[Cerb]

You're nearly all Bastards.