These Confusing ‘Science Facts’ Challenge Your Knowledge In A Hilarious Way
Ask yourself right now, why is the sky blue? For the vast majority of us, we might have to think for a moment, recollecting those memories from middle school science classes. The truth is, we often know a lot less than we think about the world around us.
The “Fake Science” Twitter page is dedicated to creating “vintage-style” posters with, you guessed it, scientific facts that seem like they could be real but are actually as fake as a unicorn. So get comfortable before you scroll through, be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your thoughts below.
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We are planning to leave one unliveable planet to go live on another unliveable planet? Wouldn't it just be easier to use the technologies invented for Mars to live here on Earth? Oh I forgot, that would require rich people to spend their money on normal people.
There's a Far Side comic where a spaceship with humans is coming in to land on another planet. Two aliens are watching, and one says, "Well, there goes the neighborhood."
Plus it's a lot easier to burn everything down with a candle so your plan is superior.
Load More Replies...turning the light on was the 2nd mistake I made today, just after I made the mistake of getting out of bed.
turning the light on was the 2nd mistake I made today, just after I made the first mistake to get out of bed.
Always turn on the light before deciding if getting out of bed is worth the effort
Load More Replies...But if you don't turn the light on, you'd have to FEEL the mess! EEEEWWWWW!
Have you ever heard of Eben Buyers? For way too long he drank way too much of radium water and eventually got lost of an anatomical structure called "mandible"...
Reminds of the Doctor Who 2 part episode "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances". Also, 23-29 it looks like they are yawning.
Yes but this is over time, not over one day, 36 hours is a day and a half
Load More Replies...21 looks like somebody trying to hold a poo which is coming out fast
An “interesting” development in the modern world is the abject rejection of science by a certain segment of society. Take flat earthers for example, people who have decided to reject evidence dating back to the 5th century BCE. It’s important to note that even the ancients had some understanding that the world was not just a disk and took measurements to try and get a better picture.
For example, multiple Greek philosophers and mathematicians, including Pythagoras (you may remember his theory for triangles,) Aristotle, and Ptolemy all did measurements and took observations of the natural world and concluded that the earth must have been round.
Can confirm. I have successfully trained my cat to sit on my keyboard whenever she feels like it, which is usually when I'm trying to do some work.
My cat doesn't do that, but she does like to lay on top of my legs or belly and then complain loudly if I move or get up. And she thinks my headphones and ear plugs are cat toys. And my feet become toys if she wants me to get up because she knows I hate that.
Load More Replies...I trained my cat to give kisses. If you say "can I have a kiss" she will touch her nose to your forehead. She's trained me to spoil her rotten and treat her like a princess so it all balances out. :)
Surprised you're the only one who says they taught their cat any tricks. Yours is a really good one - would love to get a kiss on command. Mine will sit or sit up on command (although only as long as he would still like another treat).
Load More Replies...And with just a little extra effort you can train your cat to make you do what it feels like you should be doing!
I have trained my cats to wake me up at 4:35 am to be let out and then yell to be let back in 2 minutes later.
Audi has trained me to hang up the shower curtain he knocks down every day so he can do it again.
I have a well trained cat, every morning she acts like an alarm clock to wake me up and remind me that her food bowl is empty. She then has 2 bites and goes back to sleep.
I've trained my cat to headbut me awake at 2am because he wants strokes, I've also trained my other to jump all over now that I'm awake because it's not fair that he's getting strokes and I'm not, why is he getting strokes? I want strokes!
Why the hell can't I edit the above to "jump all over me"?
Load More Replies...My kittens like to sit on my lap in front of my tablet while I am reading. They have a way of inducing guilt when you slide them over or have to get up.
Always use tissues. That way the germs will pass straight through the tissue onto the hand behind, where they can be distributed all over your body, everybody else's body, and everybody else's food. (Moral, wash your hankie after every second blow).
This is why you should always use a clean one, or a disposable one.
And this isn’t just limited to ancient Greece, Vedic texts from roughly the same time period actually assumed the earth was spherical when developing timetables and charting astronomy. Despite some common history myths (it seems humans can have a wrong understanding of most things) the Romans and even the early Christian church, all believed in a spherical model of the planet.
Really, I do believe there is one species on Earth more resistant than roaches. Homosapiens. If the Universe wants to keep us around, pockets of humanity would survive. Humans have lived through meteor strikes, super-volcanos, ice ages, the melting of the mile high Ice Sheets and 2 world wars. We are harder to kill than roaches.
And it looks more and more every day as if we’re least deserving of being so hardy. Imagine some homo sapiens survive a global nuclear event. Can’t you just imagine them destroying what little is left? Grrr. (And the “terraforming Mars” one just makes me sick for Mars. We ruin one planet and wanna go ruin another? FFS!)
Load More Replies...Headless Roach has a lot of explaining to do, if she ever comes back.
They just have Spring depression now. All those new flowers, beebirds, and chicks just remind me that my life is the same old c**p day day after with nothing new on the horizon.
Load More Replies...Good point. Always keep a pot of bleach nearby. Less painful than boiling water. Please dispose of used bleach carefully, take it to the pond in the local park.
Load More Replies...Throw some carrots and potatoes in there for a nice lunch time treat.
Boiling water in a water pistol to squirt at anyone who comes too close
The origins of this myth, a true “fake science” fact of the past comes from American writer Washington Irving’s belief that early opposition to Christopher Columbus was from the church that believed his ships would simply go over the side of the earth. Seeing as the church had no such belief at the time and there is no record of this, Washington Irving may have founded the entire flat earth movement on a lie.
"The great one horned rhino" should have been named just as "unicorn". Stupid scientists
If I were the scientist, I’d be more worried about the skin condition that has turned me completely red.
Probably has to do with the post on radiation we saw earlier in the article.
Load More Replies...Of course, even people who are wholly on the side of science will often spout falsehoods about our world. Let’s take the seasons for example. In the northern hemisphere, winter is cooler and summer is warmer. Many a parent has told their children that this is a result of the (spherical) Earth being closer to the sun, but the real “culprit” is Earth's 23.4-degree axial tilt.
Drinking water cures existence? I've gotta try this - brb!
Load More Replies...You can cure that brain tumor headache with Bayer's All Natural Cough Syrup (it's just heroin).
... and heroin is natural ... so, what could possibly go wrong?
Load More Replies...1. sinus 2. migraine 3. tension. And plenty of other types too. What's really fun is combo headaches. Migraine plus tension is just the worst.
And on the topic of space, there is an often repeated anecdote that NASA spent millions developing a pen that would work in space, while the Soviet Union just used a pencil. Except that the graphite in a pencil is conductive and its shavings could be an electrical fire risk. The bottom line is that this joke is simply false. Additionally, the pen NASA did use went for $6 a unit and the USSR actually bought some as well.
Ah the good ole days of having teeth. I really don't have real teeth. Medication and depression took them. Teeth are optional. Even pizza can be a smoothie if you're a dedicated fatty like me!
When I ponder the void using the bathroom, it's usually after employing a somewhat different body part...
As a fellow wool allergy-haver, this makes perfect sense, thank you!
Load More Replies...Is that anything like cotton fever? Or does that only come from vegan mosquitoes?
There's not a sheep within a 100km but it still itches because it's the histamine in the saliva. If you apply heat to the bite (as hot as you can tolerate and not burn the skin) the source of the itch breaks down and the itch stops (thankyou Dr Karl).
Gotta feed the deep ocean critters in the Mariana Trench somehow, and we're running short of dead whales.
It wasn't fun getting shoved in lockers in school, but at least they weren't Davey Jones's
People do love a good story, which is probably why the anecdote stuck. Similarly, and this might shock some people, lemmings do not commit mass suicide. The 1958 Disney documentary film “White Wilderness” presented this idea as a fact, while in reality it was completely fabricated. Even worse, the documentary wasn’t even original, as there were legends from the 19th century about lemming suicides.
Our soft can-opener read that book. There wasn't a single thing in it about how to kill mockingbirds. We told her to get her green pieces of paper back.
Load More Replies...And on the topic of cartoon producers lying to us, mice have no special love for cheese. Certainly, they will eat it, but in reality, most mice prefer sweet food items. This myth may have been a side effect of people storing cheese outside before indoor refrigeration was common. Unsupervised, outdoor cheese would have been an easier picking for an enterprising mouse.
Sirius - The Dog Star... is there a Cat star? YES! as of 2018! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felis_(constellation)
There are two dog constellations in the sky, Canis Major and Canis Minor.
I like to make fun of the stupid ones instead of pondering the void
There’s a sad lack of bunnies in the night sky these days.
Tight! Now give me some Lovecraft! It goes Poe, Lovecraft then King. True American Horror masters.
Load More Replies...Take your butter (low in sugar), and dip it in sugar (low in fat) and enjoy your low sugar, low fat snack!
Don't forget to wrap it in bacon, deep fry it and dip into chocolate sauce.
Load More Replies...No! Our brain is two thirds cholesterol. We eat butter to increase our cholesterol so our brain doesn't shrivel up. Lubrication indeed, butter is a poor lubricant, I can suggest a dozen better lubricants for you to eat.
"Butter is a poor lubricant"? Ever watched "Last Tango in Paris" ?
Load More Replies...Unfortunately, other pop science facts, like the housefly having a lifespan of 24 hours, are false. In reality, the buzzing pest can live up to thirty days, most of which are spent ramming headfirst into a window. This is positively an eternity compared to some forms of mayflies that can reach stunning maximum lifespans of up to five minutes. So next time you are browsing Spotify, try to see what songs could fit into a mayfly's entire life.
Bedbugs are awful. I had them for around 6 months, and the toll they take on your life is terrible. Those buggers are hard to kill.
One of my greatest fear is to get bedbugs
Load More Replies...Did you know that China under Mao Zedong declared war on bedbugs in the month of April 1960. These were the measures they took.
If bedbugs ever show up here, I'll just crank up the heat on my waterbed & cook them all. LOL
First rule, do not use spring mattresses, the bugs get in the spaces and make themselves at home. Latex or other dense material do not allow them to nest. Also avoid chairs with spring seating surface
If you need a pumpkin as a pasty then yes, you have a lot to unpack. /S
Load More Replies...I get hives on contact from my pumpkin allergy. The diaper one made me wince so hard.
Some Australian magpies will. They grab the front of your clothing with their claws for support while pecking at your face, even though you supply them with pre-pecked eyes. But don't worry, these most troublesome of magpies have been mostly relocated out of Brisbane now, to Canberra.
The Pedal Power group in Canberra used to supply "eye" stickers to go on the back of your bike helmet. They work because the Australian Death Magpie won't swoop if you are looking at it. Works much better than the nest of cable ties sticking out of the top of the helmet I see here in Brisbane where they still get swooped on and I don't with my rear eyes. BTW, if you have a local swooping DM, feed it. Once it gets to know you it won't swoop you.
Load More Replies...Similarly, cockroaches are quite resilient, but not to the degree that they would be the sole inheritors of the earth. First and foremost, they would simply not survive direct exposure to a nuclear blast, nor the ensuing destruction of most of the food chain. While they might not get incinerated, the cereal they steal from your cupboards would. Additionally, they are not the only creature out there that has some innate methods to resist radiation.
No. That's tigers. Ever noticed how the tigers ears look exactly like butterfly wings. See.
What a ridiculous sentence. Monarchs aren't powerful enough to scatter much of anything beyond a little air when they fly & a few butterfly droppings.
These millennial snails, spending all their money on avocado toast, rather than saving for a house /s
You really thought you needed that “/s,” huh? That’s awfully depressing. 😞
Load More Replies...All in all, one has to sit down and wonder if they really know anything about the world at all. Because it’s not enough to know that these posts are false, since most of us won’t actually be able to explain the real science behind the ideas mentioned. If you have kids, you have probably already had to make up some fake science to not break the illusion that adults know everything. If not, best start learning. And if you want to see more “fake science” posters, Bored Panda has got you covered, you can find our previous article here.
"Everything will kill you eventually". Absolutely true. Even carbon dioxide, a very significant component of soda.
Soda pop is a miracle medicine! I had too many teeth and once I had some, they fell off completely!
"too many teeth". Dentist: "those four extra teeth are still down inside your jaw. But we gotta hack your jaw apart and get them out anyways."
I asked for a King reference after Poe earlier. You nailed it.
Load More Replies...Just like everyone is naked underneath our clothes. We're all slutty.
Load More Replies...For a better shine, Jean Luc Picard used a number four head wax on his.
I happened to notice that at exact noon one day in my city, my shadow was pointing exactly South west. And I can prove it.
In case you really want to know, zebras have stripes because they used to live in a forest, duh.
Sounds like you've been Kipling, just so.
Load More Replies...Applied science. Ya gotta love it. Ever tried comparing head lice to pubic lice?
Just give them the money. Don't try to be a hero.
Load More Replies...Crows have been known to buy food with cash. Squirrels don't follow the capitaliist ideology as closely as crows do.
Upvote. I bet you regularly converse with primates. Paterson, sheesh.
Load More Replies...Just glad that they don't have American politicians to bother them.
Not forever. You haven't read "Around the world on 80 days", have you.
Actually ... yes! A major contributor to the death of the dinosaurs, probably more significant than the asteroid, is the Deccan Traps in India. This spewed thousands (if not millions) of cubic kilometres of lava onto the surface of the Earth, releasing volcanic glasses carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide in such huge quantities as to poison the whole of the Earth's atmosphere and most of the oceans. Killing everything that couldn't fly away, hibernate, or head for the deep ocean. The carbon dioxide from the lava would have turned the oceans into a delicious soda.
The Deccan eruptions were likely caused by the asteroid impact. Also, the living stuff on this side of the planet didn't have time to be affected by volcanic gases halfway around the world; what wasn't incinerated by the initial impact was killed in the resulting tsunamis and wildfires.
Load More Replies...Gets to be a difficult calculation when those strands are inside chromosomes of different sizes.
Mammals - popcorn of the Cretaceous. You don't need teeth to eat popcorn.
Can confirm, don't have teeth ( not a joke, medication ruined them).
Load More Replies...That's the old Arby's logo. That's how you know that this picture was taken a long time ago when dinosaurs actually existed. Always confirm details like this when doing science.
I wonder, there must be scientific treatise out there about which rocks make the best weapons. A rock high in arsenic for poison, etc.
Wish it was true. Polar bears are the blondes of the bear world, and all that that implies.
Get a new face! The monkey will remove your old ugly face for free!
"I smoke because I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something."
200 years of depression. No wonder they stopped even trying to mate.
So that's why no one tried too hard to talk Oceangate as.shole out of his dive in the PlayStation sub.
Cripes. I've done all three of those. I gained 10 kg weight when I replaced my bathroom scales. The diet involving raw wheat I call my whole-food diet, you have to eat the whole plant. As for the periodic table, well, who doesn't.
I like to bend spoons in restaurants by shaking them up and down.
I once calculated that miniature copies of all the species of the Earth's biosphere would together weigh less than one kilogram. Miniature copies of the entire Earth's biosphere could easily fit in a rocket payload.
Yeah, the Ark of the Covenant is full of DNA samples. Miniature copies, eh?
Load More Replies...QI says the cow in the shadows is lying. Roosters crow all the bleedin' time.
French baguettes are just remnants of when baguettes ruled the world.
Substitute "carbonaceous chondrites" for "baguettes" and you've just about got it spot on.
Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane Jane plays with W***y, W***y is happy again Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it
Aww, Martha. Check out this new thing. It's called the internet.
Samsquatch? Must be a Bubs fan. Big ups. Quit it with the apostrophes, though.
Load More Replies...And - Mythbusters take note - and it can tell you if your rocket will fly straight or tumble unpredictably.
Easy, Billy. Be very quiet. You don’t want to spook that steak milkshake as you go in for the kill.
How odd you'd look with conch shells on both sides of your head.
Load More Replies...The word is "assimilate".There was no need to invent the neologism "grok" when we already had the exact synonym "assimilate" already at hand, or in stomach.
Be bear aware. Rubbish bins can't be made bear-proof because the intelligence of the tourists is a lot less than that of the cleverest bears. Truth.
... or you work in my workplace. Yes. One of my work projects was growing algae in a tank.
Listening to your lungs. To be dead honest. From a medical perspective.
Load More Replies...Yes. We can never be 100% certain of this. (Eg Douglas Adams' Magrathea).
Phoenix, I believe you are an above average primate.
Load More Replies...The scientific fact behind this cartoon is that there's no scientific difference between a moth and a butterfly. A moth tends to have branched antennae and fly at night. A butterfly tends to have smooth antennae and fly during the day. But there's a fair bit of overlap.
That is sincerely the most cogent thing you've said ever.
Load More Replies...Take note Bored Panda. We notice when the picture doesn't match the text. ;-)
Not only did the ancients greeks know the earth is round, a mathematician called Eratosthenes mesured the circumference to 45.000 km. To day we say 40.092 km, so he was not that far off.
Where was all this science when I needed it? Those 40 years of school would have gone a lot smoother
Not only did the ancients greeks know the earth is round, a mathematician called Eratosthenes mesured the circumference to 45.000 km. To day we say 40.092 km, so he was not that far off.
Where was all this science when I needed it? Those 40 years of school would have gone a lot smoother
