To be, or not to be? is the opening phrase of a soliloquy from Prince Hamlet of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and also one of the most famous passages in English literature. However, this is not the only question left unanswered both in Shakespeare’s play and in real life. In reality, there are more questions left unanswered than there are answers.
Although it may seem that the older we get, the more answers we gain, the truth is that we only grow to understand how much we still don't know and how many hard questions remain unanswered—and possibly never will be.
While many hard-to-answer questions can be scientifically explained and answered, there are many confusing and hypothetical questions that even science can't provide a solution to.
Despite humans being the only (yet discovered) most intelligent species, some facts are so challenging to uncover that they escape the grasp of human logic. Not everything can be explained at this stage in our lives, and the many unanswered questions stem from this.
For now, the only option is to refer to those questions with no answers as philosophical and hope that perhaps we will find the explanations to all seemingly unanswerable questions in the future.
Below, we’ve compiled some very impossibly hard questions to answer that go beyond the human brain’s abilities. So if you are looking for an easy way to make your brain hurt, the many questions below will do the trick. Do you know of any more confusing questions to ask? Let us know!
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Assassination’s Weird Flex
How important do you have to be to be considered assassinated and not just murdered?
IMO, it's not about how important you are overall. It's about how your death frees up the path for an overarching goal. Jimmy Who Hates Your Sort and Jane Who Runs A Competing Taco Truck murder you. Johnson Who Finds Your Taco Truck Obstructive To The Taco Mafia assassinates you, and then everyone calls it murder because nobody wants to legitimise the Taco Mafia.
Assassination is defined more by the motivation behind why a person was killed than who was killed.
I think it comes down to whether the person was killed specifically to prevent a certain goal or event from taking place; in that case it's an assassination.
This is the exact same question of, how rich do you have to be to be called " excentric " and not " crazy "
Load More Replies...Merriam Webster sorts this out rather neatly. "murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons ". If I'd been asked to define, I'd have said that assassination is not as person, it's one stage removed. It would be carried out by an assassin or a hitman, not an enraged husband.
Interesting but assassinations can also be carried out by another class of person: nutters.
Load More Replies...It's not about importance. An assassination is carried out by an assassin, which implies they were paid or hired to do so, while a murderer is just someone who commits murder for their own personal motives.
IMO, it's not about how important you are overall. It's about how your death frees up the path for an overarching goal. Jimmy Who Hates Your Sort and Jane Who Runs A Competing Taco Truck murder you. Johnson Who Finds Your Taco Truck Obstructive To The Taco Mafia assassinates you, and then everyone calls it murder because nobody wants to legitimise the Taco Mafia. sad dp
Wait, So Do We Even Agree on Colors?
How do you know that you see colors the same way that another person sees them? For instance, what if what’s red to you is blue to them, but they still call it red?
I’ve had this this thought before. My conclusion was that it’s impossible to figure this out
No prob. Colors are names assigned to frequencies of light. Some people see with four bands, though, mostly women.
Load More Replies...Science. In general, we agree that 440Hz represents the musical note "A above middle C". This allows the members of an orchestra to ensure they're in tune with one another. We've also agreed that light with a wavelength of 650nm is "red." If you don't see 650nm as "red," then you're likely colorblind. If you don't hear 440Hz as "A above middle C," then you're likely tone deaf.
I used to think something like this I still do it’s “what if people use whole different words but they mean the same thing so we don’t realize” it’s hard to explain it’s like how do you know everyone else is hearing you the same way like it could be a whole different word to them but just mean the same thing
I have hundred this question myself. But the answer is simple biology. Human color receptors are all identical. Some malfunction and do not work at all, but they don't twist colors around. They can, however, be tricked when multiple colors exist close together. Remember the illusion about the dress being gray or blue or something like that?
I was pondering this question when I was 10 years old. Still don't know the answer.
give them something red and then have them give you something they consider to be red then you have the answer kinda simple if you think about it
Load More Replies...This Is Literally Me Every Day
If life is so short, why do we do things that we don’t like and like so many things that we don’t do?
There was even a song about it; 'I got bills, I got to pay, so I'm gonna work, work, work every day' - by Lunch Money Lewis. So true.
Load More Replies...In the New Testament of the Bible, Paul writes " I do the things I don't want to do and the things I want to do, I do not do."
An excellent question. We applied this to family celebrations a number of years ago. We talked about the best bits of Christmas, and what we loved doing. There were so many traditions we were keeping, but we were each doing it for others. Not doing those things, and concentrating on the things that actually brought us joy, made the holidays so very much better and more enjoyable.
*reality check* Because most often it costs money and/or time (that we have to spend making money) tondo the things we like. It would be great if we all could be rich enough to just do what we like, when we like and not have to do things we don't like..
Load More Replies...Because life is too long for our primitive directives and we have too much emptiness. We have found that if we fill most with negative or neutral tasks, the dopamine and serotonin stimulating ones have a greater effect. If it’s all good, nothing feels good. I feel we have created sluggish systems designed to make us wait because we have nothing else to do.
*reality check* Because most often it costs money and/or time (that we have to spend making money) tondo the things we like. It would be great if we all could be rich enough to just do what we like, when we like and not have to do things we don't like..
The Most Patient Letter Ever
Isn’t the word ‘queue’ just the letter Q followed by four silent letters?
It’s not. It’s the letter “Q” with the other letters patiently waiting in line. It’s as British a word as you can get.
Queue is the only word in the English language where you can remove the last letter of the word continuously one at a time and not change the pronunciation
You don't play Scrabble very much. There are quite a few that you can do that with... though I've never heard any of them in conversation before.
Load More Replies...Q wasn't good enough, Que means "what" in espanol. What the heck let's just add an extra "ue"
No, it's french for 'tail' and in that language, pronounced differently than the letter Q, however, english-speaking accents translate it so that it's pronounced the same as the letter.
Golf’s Sneaky Minimalism
Why is the objective of golf to play the least amount of golf?
You need to hear Robin Williams explanation of golf to really understand the game. The Scots invented it - you knock a ball into a gopher hole....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fXG2v0bS8
So the ball gets in the hole faster, which would give the player more points.
Curious Territory: Forehead or Beyond?
How far up do bald people go when they wash their face?
Duhh i wash my entire face i mean its obvious, from the chin to the back of my neck......
All the way. One of the benefits of having no hair to dry. When I had hair and would do something like it to stay cool or whatever, my hair would be a bear to dry so rarely did it. Now though, splash, pat pat dry and go.
If pinccio nose grows when he lies what if he says his nose is going to grow
Load More Replies...Undead Drama: Who Wins Here?
If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire or does the vampire become a zombie?
Neither. Technically, both are undead. The difference between a "vampire" and a "zombie" is the divine spark of consciousness; one eats the thing necessary for life, the other eats what remains after life is gone. Regardless of the source of lore, vampires feed on the *vital essence*, and zombies don't have any *vital essence* left, so there's no nourishment for a vamp. Zombies, typically, are created via a virus, and since vampires are already undead, they can't be infected by a virus.
^This. Once you're undead, you can't be affected by additional undeadness.
Load More Replies...Blood is not circulating in either, they will both just end up frustrated.
Zombies and vampires have many different interpretations, but assuming both creatures can only infect through biting, then the zombie would become a vampire.
Wait, am I the glitch or the game?
How do you know you’re not crazy and just hallucinating your whole life?
Who knows? We could even be in a matrix situation, in which are lives are all just simulations.
Time traveler vibes, low-key genius
How did the person who invented the calendar know what day it was?
Strategies for keeping track of time exist since the dawn of humanity. The Gregorian calendar most countries use nowadays was not the first. It was probably just a matter of translation.
Plot twist: Nose knows best
What would happen if Pinocchio said ‘My nose will grow now’?
The world would blip out of existence from the resulting paradox thanks a lot Pinocchio
Pinocchio's nose is not some sort of magical lie detector, but an indication of intent. Does he intend to lie? If so, his nose grows. But if he says something he genuinely believes is true, his nose will not grow regardless if the information is false.
Yes, also Pinocchio is made-up, so there’s that 😛
Load More Replies...Nothing. The lie would make it grow, the truth would make it shrink, therefore it would have no noticeable effect
actually his nose shrinks when telling the truth therefore his nose would shrink. But in a conception you're correct nothing would happen because he is predicting what was going to happen because he isn't lying so his nose wouldn't grow. He also isn't telling the truth because he is pretty much predicting the future or trying to at least. So that would mean his nose wouldn't shrink either. Allow me to explain, if he lies his nose grows if he tells the truth his nose shrinks but since he isn't lying his nose doesn't shrink. The reason he isn't telling the truth is because he's predicting what would happen. So for instance it's the same as getting in a time machine and going into the future and then saying what will happen before it can therefore creating a tear in the universe. Let me explain some more but simpler his nose isn't going to grow unless he tells a lie now if he said "My nose is going to grow when I lie" that's a different story. So nothing happens
Load More Replies...Geppetto would smack his wooden little a**. It would hurt him more than it hurt Pinocchio.
Time well wasted, no regrets
If you had fun while you were wasting time, can you still say that you wasted time?
I had fun while wasted. I had fun while I wasted. I wasted while I had fun. Yes, I see the problem here.
Yes, because having fun while wasting time does not mean you achieved the goals that you have in life.
Blind faith, or just winging it?
Do caterpillars know that they’re going to be butterflies or do they build the cocoon not knowing what will happen?
Remember: if a caterpillar has to become literal goo in order to become a butterfly, that means it’s only natural for you to fall apart a bit before you can put yourself back together.
I doubt they are capable of thought. They operate on instinct.
I would think they can at least feel scared, right?
Load More Replies...Don't know, but what I do know is that they don't just get skinnier bodies, grow longer legs and wings, but they go through an entire metamorphosis, in which they changed into a sack of mucus. And when they come out of it they still have the memories they had from when they were caterpillars. At least that's what scientists claim. Not really sure how they prove that...
Monarch butterflies, migrate from north America, from a milkweed where they were born and a caterpillar..become a butterfly, fly to Mexico and then back to if not the very same plant where they were caterpillars to one within a few feet... they have been very precisely studies and tracked and marked. You can always do a search and actually spend some time learning on your own too..
Load More Replies...The mind of a caterpillars is very primitive. They probably cannot form an 'expectation' and be 'surprised' when what they 'expected' didn't happen.
The feline conspiracy deepens
Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?
Why don't they just make it butt flavored? They are always licking theirs anyway?
Also cat food is often made out of left over meat from human foot, and humans don't eat mice. Also mice farms for meat probably wouldn't be too efficient
I'm pretty sure that you meant "food" and not "foot", buddy.
Load More Replies...Lost and Found in Brain Fog
Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
The memory never goes anywhere, it's just a matter of if your brain can find it.
ok this made my head hurt I sat there for an hour thinking bout this
Has no one seen the Disney movie with the little red dude?? THE DUMP! NOTHING COMES OUT OF THE DUMP!
Questioning the \"New and Improved\" Paradox
When they say that something is ‘new and improved’, how can it be improved if it’s new? What is it improving on?
Currently, it means the package is smaller with fewer contents while more expensive.
The package or color is new and the improvement is in the company's bottom line.
Back in the '80s, Coca-Cola produced something called New Coke. As they anticipated, many people did not like it and so they brought back the old recipe under The branding of Coke classic. Gotta love marketeers...
Makes zero sense but here we are
Why do people say that they ‘slept like a baby’ if they slept through the night when babies are known for not sleeping?
"I slept like a baby." Meaning I woke up every two hours screaming and crying.
"I slept like a baby"="I annoyed my mom so much she put me up for adoption.
Babies actually need a lot of sleep, 16 hours when they're just a newborn, in fact.
Because calendar drama is real
Why did we decide to give February just 28 days when lots of other months have 31 days? Couldn’t we have just taken some of the 31st days from other months and added them to February?
TED-Ed has a video all about this. :o) https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/MXwQDDs8
Something to do with Roman emperors’ massive egos and vast over importance being placed on months.
So that people born in February would not be born in an ordinary month. (2/22)
I am 2/8 myself but was due on 2/29 of a leap year. Thank goodness I was a bit premature! If I was born on the 29th and was technically only able to celebrate every 4 years, I'd be 12.5 years old instead of 50. 😏
Load More Replies...Because Earth's rotation around the sun is imperfect, two days need to be taken out of the equation, otherwise, the date would be innacurrate. February was chosen through coincidence.
The Ultimate Genre Debate
Where do they put the bible in libraries – fiction or non-fiction section?
All religion books (including Quran, Greek myths, etc.) are in the non-fiction section. Source: Am librarian, worked in libraries.
When “Cold” Means Nothing Cold
Why do they say that you have a cold when your temperature goes up?
Our brains make us feel cold to help implement several physiologic measures to produce a fever.
Because you feel cold idk. (just tryna answer as many of these as i know lol)
Morals: Group Chat Edition
Who decided what’s right and wrong?
Groups of humans, societies. Over time, some of the 'rights' and 'wrongs' were codified and became laws. Some became the unwritten laws and customs of society.
Right and wrong is an entirely human concept and is how we control society in a way to ensure survival and safety...however, the original right and wrong seems more like common sense. It's wrong to kill one in our own group because then we are lessening our chance of survival. It's wrong to steal because it can cause fighting which can lead to injury that would impact our survival. Those being the original right and wrong when it comes to thinking. In our personal idea of right and wrong, it comes from the narrative of society, plus the morals we've personally learned. People also fall back on being right in justification, even if it may seem wrong to another. So in the end, what's right or wrong in a society is determined by the majority (supposedly) but what is right or wrong to an individual can vary drastically. While in reality, those are all personal beliefs and there is no true right and wrong, there only is.
It's basically set culturally over large times and as we go along because you don't know you like or dislike something until it happens to you or someone else example murder is wrong to such a large number of people that we outlaw it if no one cared then it would be legal
Same species, wildly different job titles
Why is Goofy considered a person and Pluto considered a pet when they’re both dogs anyway?
Because Goofy stands on his two feet and walks, he supposed to be a "goofy" hybrid of man-dog, while Pluto is just a dog.
That is why the scientific method was developed. To separate imagination from reality.
It's a kids show. Don't expect them to be realistic. If it was, Goofy wouldn't be able to talk in the first place.
Mind-Bending Dream Logic
If you had a dream that none of your dreams would come true, and you woke up and had none of your real-life dreams come true, would that be a dream come true?
I feel like these are all just the same question worded 153 different ways.
'Dreams' as in ambitions and 'dreams' conjured up by the mind during sleep are different.
Wait, so being told to lead is just following?
If you told someone to ‘be a leader and not a follower’, wouldn’t they become a follower by following your advice?
hi, officer in the US air force here. I can back up his comment and confirm that in fact we do lead and follow at the same time
Load More Replies...Following someone's advice and following a leader's decision is not the same thing. They would become the follower of your advice, but they would not be the follower of a leader anymore.
What's the follow-to-lead ratio required to be a follower or leader? Hmmmmm
Words that refuse to update
Why are they called buildings if they’re already built?
For some reason the word “erection” fell out of use in the construction industry.
"We shall call it...AN ERECTION!" No, no don't listen to him we'll call it a building
Load More Replies...The 'ding' is not indicative of a verb, but of something that's already been done.
Wait, dogs are the taste testers now?
How do we know that a new dogfood has an “improved taste”?
This one has a boring answer: there are human taste testers. Less boring: "improved taste" is marketing, not describing.
https://amp.theguardian.com/money/2015/jan/05/from-dog-food-taster-to-eel-ecologist-six-jobs-that-are-surprisingly-enjoyable
Load More Replies...I've always wondered who decided the difference between ribeye and sirloin dog food.
Mind-Bending Strength Test
If you punch yourself and it hurts, are you weak or are you strong?
Because you got hurt. Only a weakling can be hurt?
Load More Replies...weak bc you will try to stop urself from getting hurt by being less painful and it still hurts ur weak, but also pretty dumb
You're strong. If you were weak, the punch would not hurt as a result of your arms being too weak.
Mind-Blowing Food Logic
If tomatoes are a fruit, is ketchup considered a smoothie?
5 minutes ago I had a smoothie I'm on a very healthy diet
That's assuming that any mashed fruit mixed with any few ingredients is a smoothie.
Wait, Do Deaf People Even Hear Thoughts?
What do people who are born deaf hear when they think?
Well, I'm not deaf but I don't have an inner voice. If you leave me alone long enough without me speaking, I can't even do it on command because I forget what I sound like. And, well, it's not like I lose the ability to think. The words are still there - not in an audio form, or even a visual one. They just are, conceptually. So I guess the brain would just find a way, silently.
Nothing. Thought is abstract, it's just that we assign words to it.
I don’t think hearing in your head isn’t the same as hearing something with your ears
Worms vs. Patience: The Real Playbook
If the early bird gets the worm, why do good things come to those who wait?
Being early means you can pick a good spot to wait before every other animal snatches it from you.
Because you have to wait in the queue for long time, wake up early in the morning to get served on the afternoon, like public services' rations...
And if many hands make light work, why do too many cooks spoil the broth?
Mind-Bending Brain Teaser
Is the opposite of opposite the same or opposite?
'Left' is the opposite of 'right'. 'Right' is the opposite of 'wrong'. 'Left' and 'wrong' are not the same, but neither are they opposites. :o)
Left can be wrong, So they are the same sometimes
Load More Replies...Objectivity? Lol, good luck with that
Is it really possible to experience anything objectively?
Disappointingly, the answer is no. People cannot experience anything objectively. Although we can do scientific tests and use our collective human minds to figure out how the universe works, we will always be experiencing reality from our own perspective. Therefore, very little in life is actually objective.
Identity Crisis, But Make It Deep
What makes you, you?
Not boiled down enough : the neurons in your synapses
Load More Replies...Ken Campbell once said "you is just one of the things your brain does".
Instant Applause Energy Boost
Why do we hit our hands together (clapping) when we like something?
It makes a lot of noise, which contextually can be associated with celebration.
Mosquito: I was in some people's house yesterday. They must have liked me because everyone was clapping at me.
It's what we've been told to do all our lives and has been engrained in our psyche by society as a way of showing appreciation for a performance
To increase air movement, which enhances perspiration evaporation caused from our increased excitement. Or, a symbolic attempt to "slap the stupid" out of someone sitting in front of us.
Mind-Bending Success Paradox
If you’re trying to fail and you succeed, did you fail or did you succeed?
I have successfully failed many required family gatherings and will successfully continue to fail to improve my success.
Considering a common perfectionist hack is to intentionally bomb, I'd say it's a success >:3
You objectively failed, while personally feeling like you succeeded.
Successive failures bring you closer to the opposite end, a success.
You failed, therefore you succeed. But by this logic if you tried to fail and did fail that would be a success (and therefore a fail???)
Wait, the dictionary might be lying?
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, will we ever know it?
Switch the US and UK dictionaries and you can survey the academics to find out >:)
I always assumed that was the problem with much writing on the internet.
No because that will become the new spelling of the word
Yes, because we'd know from other dictionnaries who don't have the mistake.
I have seen dictionaries that have the most popular mistakes and spellings.
Forever young, forever confused
If the fountain of youth can make you live forever, can you drown in it and still die?
It makes you young, so I expect it performs some wacky DNA-repair-telomere-extension alongside all that Magic Physical Morphing. Last I checked, this doesn't make you a fish, so I expect you'd still die. But at least you'd be a youthful corpse...?
No, because you would at the very least accidentally drink some of it before you manage to drown.
You will just breathe the water like the Highlander did when he got pushed out of that rowboat.
Plot twist: shoes don’t play fair
If Cinderella’s shoe fit her perfectly, then why did it fall off?
My question is: How did the shoe stay when everything else went back to normal? Even if it was Cinderella herself needing to touch it, wouldn't that mean the shoe would revert the moment the prince tried to put it on her foot?
How was it she was the only woman in the kingdom who's foot fit that shoe?
The more import question is how the hèll did her feet not swell while dancing in them? If they had then the shoe would not have fallen off
And why didn't shoe revert to rags at midnight, along with all the other trappings?
Load More Replies...In the movie, she actually repeatedly loses her shoe on the same foot. Like all the others, Cinderella's glass slippers are identical, and don't account for one foot being smaller.
I searched it up it said something like “she was runnng and it was glass she was also sweating” so yeah
Freezer’s Dark Secret Revealed
Why is there a fridge light but no freezer light?
Same but only one of my fridge freezers (I have two) (I have a big fan)
Load More Replies...No, no. In communism both sides have light, but have to share one bulb.
Load More Replies...Blink or wink? The cyclops dilemma
If a cyclops were to close its eye, is it winking or blinking?
wow got word blocked. this thing needs to recognize homonyms and context. smh
Load More Replies...English Is Confusing, But We Roll With It
Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies?
Same and for the same reasons. Plus, it's a lot easier to collect the bacon fat for later use.
Load More Replies...I asked my friends this they said wow that’s actually a pretty good question
Self-Hating Haters Club?
If you hate haters, does that make you a hater and will you hate yourself?
I don't hate haters, though. I don't tolerate their behavior, and I find it disturbing that someone taught them to hate, but I don't hate them. I pity them. They're unnecessarily impoverishing their lives by automatically excluding people based on things that don't matter, like skin color or gender.
Consider Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance". If we are a tolerant society then we will tolerate intolerant people. Therefore unlimited tolerance of intolerance will lead to the disappearance of tolerance.
Yes indeed and may I add that you shouldn't? Cannot fight fire with fire, use some water instead.
Mystery of the Number 2 Pencil
If the number 2 pencil is the most popular, why is it number 2?
Most used by constipated mathematicians. You know, they work out the problem with a number two pencil.
Bold move for breakfast goals
What was the first man to milk a cow trying to do?
Humans have been making milk for their babies since long before we had language. People would understand the similarities between mammals feeding their young. The first person to milk a cow would undoubtedly be trying to milk a cow!
if this statement was true, Florida Man would not be a thing.
Load More Replies..."Hey! This white stuff that came out of that cow is good!" Why did you go near that area? "Well uh...Want to try it? 😅"
Plot twist: Revenge is dessert
If revenge is a dish that’s best served cold, and revenge is sweet, then is revenge ice cream?
*sigh* NO IT'S A MILKSHAKE! (made with your enemy's blood of course!)
This makes me very very happy! I have been asking this for a while, and I love that someone else agrees!
Ghosting forever, huh?
How long will you be remembered after the day that you die?
Me? People barely remember me while I'm alive. I doubt anyone would even notice that I was dead.
I'll answer when I become an omniscient ghost monitoring every person that my existence has ever influenced.
Mind-Bending Brain Teaser
If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected?
You can't expect the unexpected. Doing so changes the event from "unexpected" to "expected."
Expect the unexpected doesn't mean to expect something specific, it means expect the result to not be what is expected.
Yes indeed, there are occasions were we know about something is going to happen but not exactly when, while on other cases we know that on a specific time period something is going to occur but not about what exactly. Both of those situations are partial knowledge, in order to gain full knowledge you have to account for every possibility and prioritize those more probable, justified by empirical observations and common sense, you cannot account for events which have never happened but in theory could occur, it's simply not practical.
Forever stuck in your awkward phase?
When you get to heaven, do you look as you do at the age that you die?
That'd be cool. "What age shall you present yourself henceforth?" uhhh let's do 18 NO 22!
I always wondered how in Coco, Miguel's great great grandparents looked like they were in their 30's, but Coco looked like she did at he age of death.
If there’s an afterlife and the universe ends and all atomic structures are gone, does heaven still exist? Would it be part of the universe?
I hope not! If I go to heaven, I'm making myself a child so I can have that nice energy
You'd look as you did when you were happiest in life, but could change your appearance at any opportunity if you so please.
Plot twist: Nature’s sugar hack
How do you grow a seedless fruit?
Most of the time the plant is the hybrid offspring of two fertile species
Also: if you transplant bits of plant around, or work with a plant that grows anew when you yoink a bit off and stick it into the ground, you can keep the plant propagating without needing seeds. This has the side effect of making a lot of these fruits genetic clones of each other.
Load More Replies...Development: "Parthenocarpy is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilisation of ovules, which makes the fruit seedless." Propogation: "the plants are generally propagated vegetatively from cuttings, by grafting, or in the case of bananas, from "pups" (offsets). In such cases, the resulting plants are genetically identical clones."
Cloning via grafting. In fact, every banana you've ever eaten is most likely a genetic twin from the same original tree.
95%of all bananas are genetically identical. Variations in taste is caused by environmental effects (soil, sunlight, perspiration). The reason that (artificial) banana flavoring doesn't taste the same as real ones, is because in the early '80's almost all (consumption) bananas were wiped out by a disease. They rapidly developed a new variant that was immune and spread them all over the world. The artificial flavor is nearly the same as the previous, extinct variety. Ask old people!
Load More Replies...Not sure, but sacrificing a chicken under the light of a full moon is probably required.
Fruits are plants, therefore they must be at the very least born from a seed.
With cloning? This is general knowledge. Have you never met a pothead before they'll explain the whole damn process to you. Many plants can be grown by simply replanting part of the plant I stead of the seeds. Like the above mentioned plant, you cam take off the top of a Marijuana plant and plant thay and it will regrow a full plant. And then you can do it again and again. All you need is to breed that first seedless plant. This is why the Cavendish banana is the preferred banana now, we used to grow a different type of banana but because we cloned them, a mold wiped them all out. And now banana flavored candy doesn't taste like banana because it's modeled after an extinct species
Mind-Bender Alert: Halfway From Where?
If you are halfway from your destination, is it from the beginning or the end?
English is wild, but okay
Why does “slim chance” and “fat chance” have the same meaning?
They don't. "Slim chance" means there's a possibility, however minute. "Fat chance" means "no way in Hell, dude."
You ruin everything. i wanted to figure it out on my own. JERK.
Load More Replies...Why do we say “Two people left, so now there are only three of us left.” (Full disclosure: original group was five people.)
Both slim and fat can be body descriptions. Same logic as the question.
They don't. Fat chance implies there's no chance, while slim chance implies the slightest of possibilities.
Not quite a forever deal
Do coffins have lifetime guarantees?
Wouldn't deathtime guarantee be more appropriate? Or in certain cases, undeadtime guarantee?
No, after they're buried, no one has any need to check how they're faring unless there's some sort of transfer.
When Cats Break the Dog Pile Rules
If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?
Yes. The word doesn't change when humans pile up on each other, so there's no reason it should for cats.
Plot Twist: Spoiler, No One Knows
Is there life after death?
If I could find the answer to this question on BP, I could finally justify the hours I spend here.
Sure. People die all the time and I'm still here - alive - living my life.
It's been that way for millions of years. There could be no life without death.
Somethings I think that god reincarnates people who didn’t live long enough (like people who died at birth or in the womb)
The Paradox You Didn’t See Coming
If you describe something as indescribable, haven’t you already described it?
Sheep Problems We Didn’t Know Existed
Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?
Good vs. Evil: Still No Receipt
Is it possible to know what is truly good and what is evil?
Philosophers have been talking about that, almost non-stop, for thousands of years. The answer that every single one of them has come up with is that it depends on far too many factors to ever be able to give a straight answer. And that is a very over simplification of what they would actually say to you if you ever ask one directly.
Mind Games or Free Will?
Do you ever really do anything out of your own conscious choice, or are we always controlled by some external stimulation or motive?
Every human has an ulterior motive when they speak or make a decision, otherwise they would not have a reason to speak or act at all.
Technically speaking if we had a data point of every molecule at the beginning of our universe and powerful enough computer we could predict everything including uncertainty principle, and paradox’s so maybe everything is predetermined technically speaking (and yes every you trying to be random to out smart this explanation still holds, everyone is just a very complex chemical reaction which also could be predicted)
On a tangent but related to Very Large Machines - Boltzmann Brains are a fun thing to think about, even if you yourself are sceptical of the idea.
Load More Replies...The Ship That Wasn’t
If you took a ship and replaced all of its parts until none of the original parts are intact anymore, is it the same ship or a completely different ship?
You have shed the cells from just about every part of your body over the span of your lifetime. Are you still the same person, or a completely different person?
Ha ha, I asked this just today to two 12 year old boys - pointing out that few cells live more than 10 years. They responded by asking if they got on with the work assigned would I stop messing with Thier heads.
Load More Replies...If the ship retained its personality and all of its memories, I would say same ship.
Depends on what is meant by the same ship, but if just in general, the answer is yes
Debt: Global Oops, We Did It Again
How is it possible that the world is in debt?
Thats how the centralized banking system works, if there were no debt there would be no value to money.
That's true but it could has been otherwise...instead they want us to believe there is not any alternative in order to justify their incompetence.
Load More Replies...We paid too much attention to the assistant and not the magicians.
The world isn't in debt, but the multiple societies that inhabit it are indebted to each other.
Alphabetical Anarchy, Honestly
Why is the alphabetical order that way? Who said that that’s the order that it had to be?
Ask the Romans and Greeks. Then ask the crazy people who invented English.
It makes it easier to remember, and back in the day when letters would be assigned numbers for compact numbers-keeping, it helped to know whether A was 1 or 100.
In mythology, the alphabet was used by priestesses and the order 'magical'. It was only to be trusted to women because of its power. Orpheus was the first man taught how to use letters, but out of respect for the priestesses and fear of its misuse, he changed the order of letters. Legend has it he knew the real order, and used it to move mountains. I have read the Celts have a similar myth to the Greeks on this.
Mind-Boggling Night Visions
Can blind people dream?
Yes, blind people dream. Blind does not mean they are totally blind. Most blind people still have some sight. However, even totally blind people might be able to dream in pictures. If they have had sight, then the chances are high they will dream with pictures, but that can fade over the years. If a person has never seen, then their dream worlds are created from other sensory information (smell, touch, taste, vibrations, heat, etc).
Mind blown: silent letters exist?
In the word ‘scent’, which letter is silent? S or C?
Wait, so it’s just infinite empty?
What would a room made of mirrors look like if there was nothing inside that room to create a reflection?
Pitch black. If there was nothing inside the room to create a reflection, then there could not be a light source inside the room, as the source would reflect. Without light, there can be no reflection, therefore the room would be dark.
The mirrors would reflect each other. Its a kool thing to view one mirror with another; true infinity.
The same thing which happens when you are connecting a camera with a television, enclosed loop extending to infinity.
The mirrors would reflect each other. Its a kool thing, looking at one mirror with another; true infinity.
Existence’s OG mystery
Was there ever a time when nothing existed or has something always been in existence?
How anything can begin is an idea I can’t handle. Even people with god, how did god begin? How did the nothingness for something to exist inside become?
Yeah thats something us Christains don't even try to comprehend
Load More Replies...There was never a time when nothing existed, because time is something.
No. At least not in our current instantiation of time, since that started at the big bang. There are a number of models about what could have come before the big bang, but none has become a theory yet. It doesn't help that causality and conservation of energy start to break down at the quantum level in our current universe or that the laws of physics don't necessarily apply outside the universe.
I suggest that it you try to imagine space time not existing, the concept of 'before' has to go too. I don't think this really answers the question, but it's a good answer when people ask this with that look that tells you they have no intention of listening anyway. If it gets you thinking though, Brian C*x does a great series and 'Before the Big Bang' tells you what science thinks and why it thinks that - I highly recommend.
According to theoretical physicists yes and no to both questions. Which ones you believe is up to you.
The Great Armrest Debate
Which arm rest is yours in the movie theater?
The same as the one in the airplane, it comes down to who is going to sit down first.
Indecisive About Being Indecisive?
If you decide to be indecisive, which are you?
When you’re both in the struggle club
Is it okay for an endangered animal to eat an endangered plant?
Plot twist: yes, they actually do
Do prison buses have emergency exits?
So do school buses, but the occupants will not be shot if used to escape.
Once I was behind a van at traffic lights, it clearly had someone in desperate to escape. My passenger and I talked through what options we had (it was a busy city centre, and we thought it odd no one else seemed bothered by this apparent kidnapping). We decided I should follow, while passenger tried to phone police, I said there were always police around the next corner - by the prison. Ahhh look, it's turning in to the prison. Hmm some days I'm bad at thinking.
Wait, Do Fortune Cookies Expire?
Is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?
Only if qualified in the message, or death will usually render it meaningless.
Only if it cites a specific time on the prediction that you've passed, or if you're dead.
Mind Games or Cosmic Script?
Do we have free will or is everything predestined?
Define "free will". Define "will", and "free" too, while you're at it. Wait - define "predestined" as well, and "random", and "imaginary", and "reality", and - oh no brain hurty :(
We do have free will. But He's already known every choice we will make since before everything was created.
Assuming that you are true, what's the point of witnessing something you already know again and again?
Load More Replies...My dad always told me I'd answer that question one day. I've decided I will not.
Neither. The universe is fundamentally deterministic, but it has emergent features.
We do not have free will, even though some say we do. Sam Harris explains it well.
Colors throwing shade at fruits since forever
Which orange came first – the fruit or the color?
The fruit, orange(the color was called red, bonus almost all of history blue was called black)
The fruit. Originally orange the color was considered a shade of red. This is why in ornithology you will find a lot of birds with 'red' in the name, such as the red tailed hawk, but the bird is actually orange.
The word "naranj", for the fruit, came to English from Arabic via Spanish. Over time "a naranj" became "an orange" (that transposition of the N from the noun to the article is quite common). The colour took its name from the fruit.
Are oranges called orange because oranges are orange or is orange called orange because oranges are orange
The fruit. Pigments were gradually discovered all throughout human history.
Oranges are not a natural fruit. They're a cross between a pomelo and a mandarin. So I'd guess the color?
Existence Called Out
What is freedom and does it really exist?
No, we are bound by our own self goals and motives making ourselves the ones holding us back from "freedom"
It depends...there are varying degrees of freedom and like with almost everything else, what is sufficient for you may not be for me, therefore a rather subjective notion.
Yes freedom exists. It's my husband's name, and if he doesn't exist how come everything is magically out of place again?
Existential Belly Button Debate
If God created Adam and Eve, did they have belly buttons?
This was actually a hugely important theological question a couple of hundred years ago, known as the omphalos question (Greek for navel). The answer, as far as I can remember, was "errrrrrrm"
God is effectively a human construct in which man projected their form onto, so God has whatever features that they are believed to have.
How does one know where the navel is to be located if birthing had never taken place?
Load More Replies...No, the real question is who created God? When everyone figures that out the world will stop fighting wars in the name of their Gods.
No, because God has no biological gender, which is the prerequisite for reproductive sex. There would be no trace of a tube.
Weather’s indecisive mood swings
When does it stop being partly sunny and start to become partly cloudy?
The moment you notice the distinction, the difference is within the eye of the beholder.
Waiting so long you become the staff
Isn’t it that when you wait for the waiter to come back with your order, you become the waiter in the process?
No, because the waiter has to wait for the food to be prepared before they can serve it to you.
Mistakes: Why We’re Low-Key Scared of Growth
If we learn and improve from our mistakes, why are we so afraid to make mistakes?
Winning the Longevity Game, Slightly Slower
Isn’t good health just a slower rate at which to die?
Theoretically, it's also meant to be less painful, but yes, yes it is.
Yes, but it also impacts the painfulness of your death as well as the method.
Time just couldn’t wait, huh?
If a baby’s bum pops out of its mother at 11:59 PM, and the head comes out at 12:01 AM, what day will the baby be declared to be born on?
Birth- the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being. That being said, once the baby is fully out then time is declaired.
In reality That would d be a very risky birth. Coming out the reverse direction.
12:01 AM, when it finally saw the world for the first time, and thus became part of it.
11:59 also that sounds like a very risky birth to have the bum come out first
I'm I right to think if it came out head first, it would still be considered having been born at 12.01?
Science’s sneaky little secret
Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
The glue is slightly separated from the wall in order to be spun freely by the wheel at the bottom without sticking.
Color? More Like a Mind Bender
What is the color of a mirror?
All colors. Mirrors reflect light, and light is the combination of all colors in the spectrum.
WHITE light is all visible colors. UV and IR aren't colors since you can't "see" them with your eyes.
Load More Replies...Perfect mirrors are white, but they don't exist. The glass causes a slight amount of extra green reflection. So they're green!
The color of whatever light is being reflected in it. All color is contained in the light source.
Guess the ocean’s reaction to us all diving in
What would happen to the world’s oceans if every person on Earth jumped into the water at the same time?
The total rise in sea level would be about 0.00012 of an inch, or less than 1/1000th of an inch. If everyone completely submerged themselves, this would double the answer to 0.00024 inches, which is still only about the width of a human hair. Source: https://theconversation.com/amp/if-everyone-on-earth-sat-in-the-ocean-at-once-how-much-would-sea-level-rise-156626
They would all become wet, or what they are wearing would become wet. (that's why they call them wetsuits.)
There would be a collective cheer from all the other land animals who would United to stop us getting back out. Led by cats I think
There's an interesting book that asked what would happen if everybody was gathered in one place and jumped at the same time. Basically the earth would deflect about 1/4 inch and that's it. However having all the world's population in one place would doom everyone. It was pretty interesting.
Brain Freeze Meets Color Confusion
Why is vanilla ice cream color white when vanilla itself is color brown?
Real vanilla is expensive and vanilla extracts/essences are awful in significantly colouring qualities.
Vanilla ice cream generally isn't white. It's a light tan. The cream is white with a little brown vanilla.
True vanilla ice cream actually has specs in it. But otherwise the ice cream is white because the milk is white and only a tiny bit of vanilla is used.
Teacherception moment
Who taught the first ever teacher?
Brain Teaser or Mind Twister?
If nothing is impossible, then would it be possible for something to be impossible?
By reversing the terms, everything (instead of "nothing") is (instead of "not") possible, we are arriving to the same conclusion.
Load More Replies...Yes, but not because nothing is impossible. There are many things that are impossible.
Yes. Nothingness is in and of itself a paradox, so there always has to be something that's impossible.
Brain’s way of trolling us again
Why do noses run but feet smell?
Noses' running refers to when mucus drips down, thus 'running across your face' while feet(s smell refer to the odor that they leave off, which is 'smelled' by whatever recipient is here.
Living in Perpetual Tomorrowland
Will tomorrow ever come?
Time’s awkward pause button question
Would time continue if everything in the world was frozen?
Times flow has nothing to do with our planet. Our planet could completely be destroyed, and eventually will be, and time would still keep going.
Yes. Otherwise we could never have evolved in the first place.
Load More Replies...Mind-Bending Without the Sky
What would the water look like if the sky didn’t exist?
The sky isn’t reflecting the water. The atmosphere is causing the scattering of certain light frequencies and it makes it look blue.
No, the question is what would the water look like if it wasn't reflecting the sky
Load More Replies...It's like you are asking: "if I was not in front of the mirror what it would reflect?", the answer is whatever there was in front of it.
If the sky did not exist, would there be natural light? If not would we have evolved the sense of sight?
The sky is the atmosphere which exists thanks to the Earth's electromagnetic field, if the planet had no atmosphere there would still exist natural light, that is to say, Sunlight assuming a star in proximity with the planet, or even without a star there would be gamma rays from exploded super novas (deadlier than nuclear radiation). For a creature which is deprived of light since birth there would be a gradual atrophy of eyes' bulbs until the eye sockets have been assimilated by the surrounding skin, assuming that the creature's predecessors used to use their eye-sight, otherwise they could born without any eyes. The bottom line is that whatever you are not using in any way is being vanished gradually, a knowledge, a relationship, even organs because evolution is adjustment to environmental variables.
Load More Replies...Homework, but make it complicated
Can a homeless kid ever be given homework?
Plot twist: save the heart, short-circuit death?
If a guy that was about to die in the electric chair had a heart attack should they save him?
Plot twist: Clown meat’s a vibe
Do cannibals think clowns taste funny?
No, clowns' flesh doesn't taste any different than any other humans, but a cannibal would probably be mean enough to make such a joke.
Time’s got jokes, right?
When did time begin?
If we're actually granted eternal life, in some form or another, until the end of time, what happens after time ends?
The big bang was when the universe started to expand. But technically time has and will always exist, our observation of it is the only thing that can change.
Load More Replies...At the moment of creation. Depending on who you believe, that might be 13.7 billion years ago, or approximately 6000.
When the first creature that could imagine it began to live in the universe.
From my perspective, time began with the first instant I was aware of myself, and it will end when I cease being aware of myself.
Math: Human Hack or Cosmic Truth?
Did we invent math or did we discover it?
We invented it to put a word to things that would otherwise be undescribable.
I am not usually pedantic - but I dislike the wording of 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?' Unless you specify the chicken or the chicken egg, the answer is definitely egg. Eggs have been around way way longer than chickens.
Neil Degrasse Tyson has a wonderful explanation. The egg came first. Laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
Load More Replies...Existential Crisis? Same Here
What is the goal of humanity?
...and procrastination, would you bother to cut and polish your nails in the knowledge that sooner or later will return to their previous state?
Load More Replies...Deep Thoughts, No Cap
What is ‘god’?
1. (in Christianity and other monotheistic religions) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being. 2. (in certain other religions) a superhuman being or spirit worshipped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity. can't give anything more than that I'm afraid XD
A figure made up to explain things. Gods are as old as people. They have changed along the way. The current God of Christianity was made up by the emperor Constantine to control his people and unfortunately, even with science explaining things, the fear of hell still has people believing in this God.
When using a lower case g, it usually is referring to mythological dieties for ancient times. When using a capitol G it is usually referring to modern day dieties.
I was always angry at myself for thinking this but I have thought this before we only call god Bc god means like something we worship I don’t think anyone actually knows what god is called or if it’s even real I think gods real tho
Kinda feels both, right?
Did you arrive at this point in your life because you willed it or because you were destined to be here?
I don't know. But I find the idea of being destined to be here more romantic.
Wait, my eyes have a shape now?
What shape is your field of vision?
Sideways oval I believe; because you don't have a sqaure shaped set of eyes, and your eyes themselves are such shape.
Mood Forever Unclear
Are we living or slowly dying?
Both could be true, do you think a glass is half-full or half-empty??
Mind over matter, literally?
Is a body transplant just the same as a brain transplant?
Mind-Bending Geography Moment
How far east do you have to go before you start going west?
I'd argue that east and west are more rotational than directional. East is anti/counterclockwise relative to the north pole, and west is clockwise.
The rotational direction is as subjective as the East and West are, the CW and CCW are becoming the opposite of what you said when you are facing North from the South hemisphere (and vice versa).
Load More Replies...You cannot head west if you continue heading east, but you can pass all the same points by continually heading either way.
You will never start going west, those are directions not destinations.
East and West are subjective terms, the only 4 objective directions are North, South, Up (height) and Down (depth).
Plot twist: They’re the only allowed fans
Are children who act in R-rated movies allowed to watch the film when it’s done?
I was always thinking about the 5 year olds acting in age restricted movies
Load More Replies...Wait, Are Brows Hair or What?
Do you consider eyebrows facial hair?
Brace Yourself for the Afterlife
Do they bury people with their braces still on or do they remove them?
If the family requests them to be removed for whatever reason, it will be honored by the mortician. However, in most cases, the removal of braces would be completely unnecessary as they sew the jaw and mouth shut. They also will cover the teeth with cotton before sewing shut to give the mouth a "fuller" appearance.
Dunno about braces, but they usually remove gold teeth, silver fillings and any jewelry to deter thieves.
When everyone agrees, is that the real tea?
If everyone says that life is unfair, doesn’t that mean that life is fair?
Fairness doesn't necessarily equate to equal treatment. A systematically unfair system isn't fairer, it just sucks universally.
Mind-Blown Soap Dilemma
If you drop your soap on the floor, does the floor become clean or does the soap become dirty?
The soap becomes dirty... and the floor becomes slippery. (If all it took for the floor to be clean was a soap to land on it, I would be throwing soaps around my flat for quick and fun cleaning.)
Caregiver vs. Caretaker, Who Knows?
Why are caregivers and caretakers the same thing?
Wait, Earth’s Got Feelings Now?
Is the Earth alive?
Well, I haven't seen it reproducing recently, so from a biological perspective, no. Philosophical and spiritual perspectives, on the other hand, are always up for debate.
No the planet itself is not alive, it supports life. Much like a petri dish.
Not the mood, literally every time
Why do people have to die?
If we could retained our youthfulness by genetic engineering then we would have to deal with the overpopulation, even now is a serious issue where "eternal youth" is an utopia for the time being.
So... killing bad guys is okay?
If killing people is wrong, then why do we kill people that kill people?
By becoming a murderer in the place of the murderer doesn't make me any better, by claiming that if I wouldn't have killed someone else would has done it, doesn't excuse and justify the foul practices which I'm exercising...good and bad are within all of us but our consciousness and judgement make the whole difference for what will eventually prevail.
I suppose you could "justify" the death penalty by the amount of space in prisons, plus the killing is controlled. Otherwise the original killer may have the opportunity to kill many more people, than to just have their singular life taken.
I suppose murder makes the difference. In war, etc., men, women, children are killed.
As Steve Aylett said: murder is the killing of one person by another, in war it's the other way round.
Load More Replies...Time’s just a weird human flex
Why do we base our age off of the number of times we went around a burning ball of gas?
Because it's human nature to impose order on perceived chaos. We like things tidy.
Why did we decide a day should be 24 hours? Or 60 minutes in an hour? If the Earth was a few million miles closer or farther away from the sun, a year is a totally different amount of time.
Since we are not vampires in life expectancy terms it makes sense to count in years instead of centuries, millennia...etc.
Because people wanted to keep track of when days would get longer (Summer) and shorter (Winter) for the sake of survival. Also ancient people originally tracked their age by counting the phases of the moon.
We like to be regular in most things. The older you get, the more that is understood.
Falling, floating, or physics trolling you?
If you were to dig a hole that went through the center of the Earth and you jumped through, would you be falling or floating upwards?
Ignoring the temperature, the pressure would probably fill the whole in and you would be suffocated
If we don't take into consideration temperature, pressure, etc. but only gravity, I would say you're falling until you reach the center and then you start floating upwards from there.
Philosophy’s Ultimate Mic Drop
What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force?
Yeah the immovable object is not necessarily unbreakable
Load More Replies...License to Dye
What hair color do they put in bald people’s driver’s licenses?
My license uses my original wonderful hair color (brown) (which is now gray).
I don't know if they put hair color in licenses anymore, I know my permit doesn't have one. Considering how people dye their hair so frequently now, they might think it no longer practical.
Not as easy as it sounds
Can you stand backwards on a flight of stairs?
Wait, who put that there?
Why did they put the word ‘dictionary’ in the dictionary?
Grounded comedian energy
What do you call a fly without its wings?
Bless you, deity?
If God sneezed, what would you say?
Talk Less, Do More—Seriously
When all is said and done, would you have said more than you have done?
Time Travel: Group Chat Pending
Will you exist in the future if you can’t ever go there?
You ARE going there. Constantly. At the rate of one second per second.
Even more there is no "present" but past & future; into which I've been hurled writing this.
As a matter of fact there is only present, a constant, momentarily, now forever. Past used to exist but not any longer, future is always ahead of us, therefore the only time in which life is actually taking place is the here and now. Some have been stuck in the past, some live for the future, I prefer to live like there is no tomorrow!
Load More Replies...Wait, Did the Rock Just Blink?
If, in an instant, a moving object looks the same as an unmoving object, is movement possible?
Motion describes the property of appearing in different points in space over time, relative to a given point. It's not an innate property, but rather a concept used to stop the physicists going insane and turning the LHC into a death ray ;)
Movement doesn't exist in an instant movement is always relative to two points in time.
If your perception of reality was speeded up to the point that blah blah blah, maybe.
Brain Movies or Secret Messages?
What are dreams?
Dreams are merely a conscious portal to the unconscious mind where children sing in stereo and unicorns poop rainbows. - Winston Churchill
Subconscious frequency of your mind, fine tune it in order to be able to receive meaningful intel, like in TV, if you don't like what you see then just change the channel.
I enjoy a podcast - the infinite monkey cadge, in case anyone wants to try- where leading scientists get together to debate things like this, with a lot of homour thrown in. One episode was called what are dreams, from the top experts in the field, it seems you can give a lot of simple answers but in the end they don't really know.
Deep Thoughts, Shallow Deadlines
What is the purpose of setting goals if we all die anyway?
Goals are set to be achieved before you die. It is way to keep you moving while you are alive instead of waiting for your death on your sofa.
When Does Old Age Officially Start?
What age should a person be considered old enough to die of old age?
69, "Instead of adding more years to your life add more life to your years." Blaise Pascal
Plot twist or totally unscripted?
To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken?
Deep Thoughts at 2 AM
Why are you here at this very moment in your life?
What BP stands for, Beneficial Procrastination??
Load More Replies...Rules with a side of “except when”
If we need to follow rules at all costs, then why do we make exceptions to these rules?
Because every ethical situation includes nuance. Is it wrong to kill someone? Yes. What if that someone attacked you with the intent to kill you, and you killed him in self-defense? Still wrong? Not so much.
Nuance is important, a lot of people seem to forget that or argue against it.
Load More Replies...And here we are, still wondering
Why does anything exist?
Time’s just messing with us, right?
What is the purpose and meaning of time?
At first I thought this said, What is the purpose and meaning of urine? 🙃
Just a blip in cosmic history?
Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved?
It may be disquieting to some but the Earth is so damn tiny & insignificant that losing it (or the entire galaxy) won't even be a blip on the cosmic radar.
Nothing any human being ever does, no matter how significant, will make the slightest difference in the grand scheme of the universe.
Well if the world ends noones really going to care unless the end of the world causes affects to the universe that can be felt by lifeforms elsewhere
Evolution’s awkward family reunion
If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
We didn't evolved from monkeys. Humans and apes had a common ancestor from which we both evolved. Dogs came from wolves and we still have wolves
We didn't evolve from monkeys. We evolved from APES. The apes of today also evolved from those apes. We aren't descended from today's gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans etc. Just like you aren't descended from your 16th cousin, you and your 16th cousin have the same great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents. And there's a pretty good chance that was Ghengis Khan.
So we still say we evolved from apes when we are apes? Sorry to ask as this seems more semantics than evolution - but I just just can't decide. Like I see it's true in the same way homosapiens evolved from other homo species, but I would not say we evolved from homosapiens and are still homosapiens.. hmmm thoughts???
Load More Replies...We evolved from chimps/apes and not all of them evolved some might have evolved in some way but not fully into human
I personally don't believe the mainstream BS which only purpose is for some to claim fame and fortune by making up a ridiculous theory such as "evolution theory".
However, if you, the intellectual beings that you are prefer to believe that you have some long lost ape ancestor then be my guest, after all what difference does it make anyway?! evolution-...5e414a.jpg
Circle wins again
Why is a “manhole” round?
Wait, You Can Yawn in Your Sleep?
Can you yawn when you are asleep?
Though why we yawn is still up for debate, Dr. Matthew Ebben has reported in the New York times that it can happen but is very rare (google)
I think the general consensus is that we yawn when our brain needs an oxygen boost. Why they seem to be contagious however is a mystery.
Load More Replies...Travel or just skywalking?
If we could fly, would we still say we are traveling somewhere?
Plot twist: Fish have feelings too
Can a fish get seasick?
Like when they're doing sea-weed? Pods of dolphins are known to pass around pufferfish. To get a buzz?
The Classic Brain Teaser, Still Unsolved
Which came first – the chicken or the egg?
The egg. Eggs existed long before chickens. If you are specifically referencing the chicken egg, it is still the egg, laid by whatever species would ultimately evolve into the chicken.
Love’s greatest myth busted
Are soul mates a real thing?
Yes. Its just that some won't find them, or think that their soul mate must be someone they are romantically involved with
Local slang hits different
What do they call french kissing in France?
Un baiser amoureux (a love kiss). But I don't know anyone who uses that expression. Usually we use slang : "Se rouler une pelle".
So "snus" in Swedish? Like the tobacco bad you put under your lip? French kissing in Finnish translates to tongue kiss. Nomnom.
Load More Replies...Dentists: DIY or Doctor’s Visit?
Do dentists go to other dentists or do they treat their own dental care problems?
Apparently they cannot do everything on their own, just try to imagine if you were trying to look into your mouth...by holding a small mirror in one hand and another tool on the other it wouldn't be the most convenient way to do your teeth, to put it mildly.
Height Doesn’t Equal Shade
If you were shorter than someone, would it be possible to talk down to them?
Greatness is not in the physical height but in the actions one might do or not.
Meta mystery: origin edition
When you buy something that’s made in China while you’re in China, does it still have the made in China tag?
Well. We have made in America tags on things (good or bad). So I imagine many Chinese folks are proud of what they produce. So, yes, they're labeled as being from China.
It could has been imported, thus yes, in order to clarify the product's origin.
Philosophy or just forest noise?
If a tree fell in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Such questions reveal the egocentric arrogance of some people, like they were the center of the universe everything should revolve around them, otherwise it doesn't exist!
Nonhuman animals in the forest can certainly hear it or the scattering is caused by a meteorite.
Scientifically the answer is no. Sound is just vibration until it's perceived as sound. So if nothing is there to translate the vibration into "sound", there isn't sound.
With the same logic, every place, entity, person, animal, plant...which you are not aware of it doesn't exist and continues not to exist until you discover it! Just because you cannot listen, see, know, feel something does not cancel automatically the rest of the world because it doesn't revolve around you! How r****d some persons may be!
Load More Replies...Debate That’s Older Than Dirt
Which came first: the Sun or the Earth?
Actually, all of the matter that makes up both is the same age; but the sun was shining before the earth was fully formed.
The sun accreted first out of the disc of matter that coalesced to form our solar system. This is known science.
Nighttime mind wanderings?
Can you have a daydream at night-time?
When your arm’s the only VIP at the wake
If a person dies at sea and only their arm is recovered, how would he be displayed in a casket? Does it need to be a full sized casket?
How do you know who does it belong to? Who would pay for the casket? Would all the families in the world who lost somebody at sea and not recovered the body, attend the funeral?
Depends on preference. Some people would choose a full size coffin, some a small more child size coffin. Others could cremate and then place the urn in a burial coffin that is made for urns.
