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Hey Pandas, What Are Some Of The Most Confusing Question The World May Never Answer? (Closed)
Tell me confusing questions like, "what came first, the chicken or the egg" and other confusing stuff like that.
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#1
Hey insurance companies! When did our teeth and eyes become separate from our bodies???
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#2
Is their a layer of reality that we don’t know of because we don’t have an organ to perceive it( like sight-eyes)
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RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
There are many indeed. If string theory is correct, then space isn't 3 Dimensional. In fact there may be as many as 10 spacial dimensions, folded into the fabric of the universe. But our bodies aren't able to perceive beyond three dimensions. Consider a being that exists in two dimensions. If you walked into it's space, it could only perceive that sliver of you that occupied the space that it could comprehend. If you picked it up, then it would see different slivers of you, but it could never fully grasp a three dimensional object in it's mind. So what would we see from a 4 dimensional creature. Or 6 or 7 for that matter. The universe is far more complex than we can grasp intuitively.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
yes. That's why we have nightvision goggles to see the infrared layer of reality, and why we have particle accelerators to see the subatomic layer of reality, and why we have microscopes to see viruses, dna, bacteria, etc.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
Probably, since our brain is too slow to process every single input it filters stuff out and fills gaps with guesses, quite an interesting topic. Besides we also have no sense for the Earth's magnetfield despite still having some amount of magnetite in our skulls
#3
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
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#4
In the U.S. you're required by law to register for Selective Service (aka: The Draft) at the age of 18 because that's when the government deems you as an "adult" to where you can be forced into military service so you can then be whisked somewhere overseas and possibly get killed, lose a body part or two, and/or end up with serious PTSD or worse......but God forbid you want to purchase a cold beer or go to a bar before the age of 21 because you're not "adult" enough to consume alcohol ? F*****g really !?!
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RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
Similar question, why is it that you're mature enough to buy a firearm before you're mature enough to buy a beer?
bhannebrink 2 years ago
When I was 20 years old, I needed my parent's permission to get married, I couldn't buy alcohol nor cigarettes, but I was drafted and sent to Vietnam.
Toni Atchison 2 years ago
Based in older times, a young man is a man at 18. The drinking age was set long after that. And it has been lower than 21 as well. Going back to a time many were farmers, and going back to the first part of my comment, a man is a man at 18. Later this became standard in other areas as well. And honestly, the drinking age was influenced by bad behavior.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I suspect there is an answer to this and my guess would be (a) most countries have or had a draft at 18, but (b) america had prohibition and didn't get over it.
#5
Why do we park in driveways and drive in parkways? Why is it called cargo on a ship and a shipment in a car?
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
Answer for (a) is it's a way (path) you can drive upon. Parkway is not a term used outside USA, but it means a road near a park/with trees/ etc. Park as in leisure park. (b) Cargo = from spanish carga (to be charged or loaded up). A ship is a germanic word, seen in dutch schip, german schiff, swedish skip, etc. -ment means condition-of, in french. The word "shipment" is a combination of a germanic stem (ship-), meaning thing that transports goods or people, and, (-ment), meaning condition of. So condition of transporting goods. A car therefore can carry a shipment, as can a backpack, a ship, a drug dealer, or a space shuttle.
#6
does everybody see something different? like my orange is your red??? can animals understand us fully? is it possible to speak animal??? (i could go on forever so i’ll just stop here for your own sanity)
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
1. Yes. My eyes see colour slightly differently. I have to open both to see the same as "normal" people. 2. Dogs can apparently understand about 100 words, mostly verbs and nouns, as can great apes. So I suppose it's a training and intelligence thing. 3. Theoretically yes. They're trying now with dolphins and with pets. I imagine their language is verbs, warnings and nouns. So: "eagle!" or "food!" or "friend!" Whether this counts as 'language' depends on whether it has grammar, whcih it doesn't seem to. However, cetaceans might have grammar.
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
Animals can also speak to each other. Birds and rodents are known to warn each other when raptors are in the area. You can speak this language too. It's call Pishing. Making this raspy call will alert birds and rodents to the presence of a predator. Often the other birds in the area will seek cover and take up your call.
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Auntriarch 2 years ago
One of my eyes sees bluer than the other, so I would expect people to see the same colour differently
Alias-the-shade 2 years ago
1 the color thing don’t know to prove/disprove 2 social mammal/bird can understand our body language if given enough time(of course like us they can misinterpreted us) 3 you can’t speak animal vocally but could do (communicate)so if trained to understand body/facial language (of course it would have to be a species with noticeable intelligence. Real life examples are our domesticated pets whom have been selectively breed for centuries to understand us and us to them.
#7
if Cinderellas shoe was a perfect fit then why did it fall of why do we bake cookies and cook bacon
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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
And how did NO ONE in the kingdom have the same shoe size as her?
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Exactly! Maybe there was a mass deportation of people with her same shoe size before the story took place? (Guten tag Deutschland Mädchen, wei gehts?)
Load More Replies... RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
Can you imagine how stinky your feet would get in glass slippers. Glass doesn't breath
#9
Any number divided by zero.
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#10
if you put a straw through a blueberry, would it be a blue strawberry, or a straw blueberry? wouldn’t the back of ypur back be the front of you?
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Mike_The_Nike (gender fluid) (Submission author) 2 years ago
This is the kind of stuff i think about at 1:00 AM
#11
Do plants talk?
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TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Yes, through chemicals released into the air, on contact or symbiotic fungi connecting roots.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
same pedantic point I want to raise. is it just signalling ("danger danger") or is it grammatical? Talk implies grammar.
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
You can talk without language. Pidgin is not considered a language (as opposed to Creole languages which are fully fledged languages), but speakers can use pidgin dialects to make themselves understood. Some pidgin dialects have very simple grammar too. Note that there are full creole languages with the word pidgin in the name, but they are still full languages.
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#12
How much wood exactly WOULD a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Also, why do we call it a woodchuck if it can't chuck wood? Feels like a bit of a misnomer.
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RafCo (he/him/ele) (Submission author) 2 years ago
Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks
Load More Replies... RafCo (he/him/ele) (Submission author) 2 years ago
Sure, but that's getting into motivations. I'm talking pure physical limitations. Like how much can you bench? Personally I only ever need one bench, but if I stretch myself and put all the benches side by side along their long edges, I'm pretty sure I could do at least five.
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Why did all the senior Empire bad guys on the Death Star speak in British accents when they were from outer space and there was no Britain?
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#14
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
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#15
Does anyone else realise that we are sideways on earth? maybe that's why we are comfortable when we lay down because we are finally standing upright! 0_o
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#16
I think we won't ever answer the "life after death" question to everyone's satisfaction. Or the "is there a god" question. I'm happy to go on believing no/no to those. YMMV. If you want to believe in them, cool, just don't try force anyone else to believe it.
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Laura Osborne 2 years ago
I believe the wonderful Dame Maggie Smith had the best response to a religious question: Having a religion is like having a penis. It's okay to have one and be proud of it - it's not fine to get it out in public and try ramming it down anyone else's throat!
Wiggity 2 years ago
"just don't try force anyone else to believe it", especially through legislation that removes the rights of others who may not share your beliefs.
Em 2 years ago
I'm a devote Christian (from Europe, not America), and I agree with you 100%. And God does too, according to Scripture. It doesn't require a lot of reading to understand this. But those false "Christians" (who are called children of the devil in Scripture) who use religion as a weapon or to gain political power have almost no knowledge of Scripture. Christ came to give us freedom, and to set us free from slavery, to give us a Kingdom that is not a part of this world. The worldly domination that you are describing is what the Bible calls anti-christ. It's idolatry. I'm not preaching. I'm writing this because I just want people to know that the religious oppression in America (and so many countries before it) doesn't and cannot possibly come from God.
Load More Replies... RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
We've already disproven the existence of God. The babblefish. It's a creature so extraordinarily useful that it could only have been created by a higher power. However, God is a being of faith, and by it's nature, faith can only exist without proof. But by creating the babblefish, God has proven his existence, thereby destroying himself. Ergo, God doesn't exist.
censorshipsucks (Submission author) 2 years ago
I wonder if you can explain this better as I haven't heard this argument. Suppose for the sake of the argument we take it that the Babblefish is real/exists. And suppose it could only have been made by a higher power. At that point I think what you've done is disprove evolution. But we continue. "God is a being of faith". No, I think your argument fails on this premise. See, in theism, God exists independently of persons' faith. He(She) is omnipresent (all-existing), omnipotent (all-powerful), omnibenevolent(all-good), and omniscient(all-knowing). Therefore God is also transtemporal, or extratemporal, since time itself would be made by him, hence, eternal. Right. So that means that your premise "God is made through faith" is false; God on theism exists prior to humans and their having faith. Rather you want "God is known through faith". In which case you at most have shown that God can be known by empirical means (the existence of a babblefish), and hence is not only known thru faith.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
As someone who’s either agnostic or atheist, I sometimes wonder which religion/civilization was right about death. I’m afraid that the Egyptians or Mesopotamians were right about the afterlife. More afraid for other afterlives with Hell as I’m sure I’ll go there.
censorshipsucks (Submission author) 2 years ago (edited)
please don't. It's really patronising to assume I haven't given this a lot of thought and research and come to my conclusion after serious work.
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On a slightly more serious note: Why do they call it "non-coding DNA" when in fact it does code for stuff, just not for proteins? How is it non-coding if it codes for things? E.g., certain kinds of RNA molecules. Inhibition of other genes. Binding sites for proteins. Activation of or deactivation of transcription of segments of code.... Someone tell me why the eff it's "non-coding" when it *obviously codes* for molecules that are useful in, y'know, our existing... What idiot decided only "codes for proteins" counts as "coding"?
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RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
Because when it was discovered, they couldn't figure out what it did, so they thought it was leftover dormant stuff that didn't do anything. This is what they believed when I went to school, but then they discovered that indeed, it's important and codes for things, just not proteins. But nobody wanted to change the name.
Robin Roper 2 years ago
Because they had to call it something. Just like someone at some point, decided that thing that grows out of the ground is a tree; it could have been called a glurbd, but it's a tree and now, everyone knows what is meant when someone says "tree." It isn't as if this impacts the average person's everyday life; it impacts scientists who work work in genomics. At one time, it was called junk DNA.
Leo Domitrix (Submission author) 2 years ago
Yes, and that has had an impact on public (non-scientist) perception ever since it was called "junk" and even since it was re-named "non-coding". They are both false names, and lead to more idiocy against science.
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Why are the largest weapon manufacturers on the planet also the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council ?
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I think we all know the answer to this and the answer is Bretton-Woods.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
Because the nations with the largest weapon manufacturers tend to own a lot of their products and have easy access to more of them. They are the security council because they have the means to secure a conflict as last solution if it gets too out of hand (In theory, not really working)
#19
If you drop soap on the floor, is the soap dirty or the floor clean....?
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#20
If the Universe is expanding all the time, what is it expanding into?
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Maybe it's a torus or toroid and moving along a gravitational surface back to its start point (think of an onion)
Margaret H (Submission author) 2 years ago (edited)
Yes, that is possibly how it is expanding. My point is more about the big bang. If the universe was contained in one initial point that exploded and there was nothing else, is the universe creating the space to expand into as it goes?
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Does God exist? Humanity has been trying to figure it out for millennia, and we seem no closer to an answer. Enquiring minds want to know...
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#23
If god made everything,who made god????This is my biggest question.PLEASE ANSWER IT.PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Marek Čtrnáct 2 years ago
If God wrote a book and all you know him is derived from the book... then you should be suspicious. He didn't have to write the truth in there, after all.
Hermione (Submission author) 2 years ago
DOUBLE WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
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#25
How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie roll center of a Tootsie Pop
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What do you think ?
trollingergirl 2 years ago
... comment just vanished.... I would , second try, comment on the Empire bad guys talking with a british accent... well .... Now I wonder, too. In addition: even if there also was no Germany, a lot of times the bad guys have a german accent?
trollingergirl 2 years ago
... comment just vanished.... I would , second try, comment on the Empire bad guys talking with a british accent... well .... Now I wonder, too. In addition: even if there also was no Germany, a lot of times the bad guys have a german accent?
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