Although life is already full of unanswerable questions, like what to watch tonight or what you would like to eat, they are not entertaining in the very least. So, we got this idea to harness these tough questions, dig around a bit more, and find rhetorical questions that are actually entertaining, good conversation starters, and nice topics for deep pondering. Et Voila - our selection of funny unanswerable questions for you to enjoy!
Another awesome thing about these questions with no answers is that they will require you to actually slow down, take a breather, and think about them (instead of thinking about which TV series to choose or why your cat is staring at the ceiling). And these days, everything that allows you to slow down is well appreciated! Also, these inquiries touch various subjects - from material things to travels - so we’re pretty certain you’ll find ones that you’d like to ponder for a while on. Yet, if you’re a fan of unanswerable philosophical questions, your curiosity will also be satisfied in this list. So, as far as questions that are unanswerable go, this is probably where all of them come to in the end.
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Why does Tarzan never have a beard?
Because a British gentleman must uphold certain standards, and being abandoned by your family in a jungle and raised by apes is no excuse.
In the original book, Tarzan was adopted by apes after his parents died. When he was young, Tarzan found the cabin his father had built. There was a knife in the cabin, and at some point Tarzan taught himself to shave because he feared he was turning into an ape when hair started growing on his face.
And he cut his hair short, to keep it out of his eyes, using a shell he sharpened on a rock.
Load More Replies...He got tired of the gorillas trying to pick fleas from his facial hair...or the gorillas teased him about only being able to grow hair on his face which is one of the only places they don't have hair.
If you have fun wasting time, is it time wasted?
Comedy Central tv channel in Canada had the slogan “time well wasted” and I always liked that thought :) some “wastes of time” are a much better waste of time than others!
'Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way......' ~ Pink Floyd - TIME
Where do the missing socks go?
Beat me to it. Ask a veterinary tech the highest number of socks they have removed from a dog.
Load More Replies...Who is the world in debt to if humans invented money?
I am grateful to be in the presence of 3 owls that get along together and don't die while being stuffed into a coat. Have my life savings, 1 dime.
Load More Replies...It's all an illusion. Money is a made up, imaginary concept. The ultimate scam.
Why does the Easter Bunny bring eggs when rabbits don’t lay eggs?
It's a symbol of fertility taken from the pagan rites of celebrating Ostara, which is the Spring equinox. Ostara the goddess of Spring found a dying sparrow and out of love turned it into a Hare. One day a year the Hare was given the ability to lay eggs in memory of it's bird form and allow it to give eggs to those attending the Ostara Spring festivals.
Stranger than fiction.... And now... you know! Be very careful as to how you will use this new found knowledge! You have been warned!
Load More Replies...Because the Easter bunny doesn't want anyone to know his girlfriend is a chic
Sorry phone cut out.. he doesn't want anyone to know his girlfriend is a chicken
Load More Replies...Roosters are the ones to lay the easter eggs in some places. Right species but it puts a weird mpreg 'miracle' spin on the whole thing
Because Easter comes from the fertility goddess Ishtar. Her symbol was the rabbit.
The rabbit represents sex , and the eggs represents the woman. Easter is a pagan holiday and it is originally pronounced Ishtar after the goddess of sex.
In the word 'scent', which letter is silent? S or C?
Many English words sound the same, but spelled differently and mean differently.
They need to stop this downvote c**p. This is just getting ridiculous now
If God sneezed, what would you say?
But say it in the same way as 'go f**k yourself' and its 100% better
Load More Replies...That depends on the particular deity and their nasal intensity. Don't hang around when Ganesh sneezes, and don't worry too much when Artemis snorts primly. But be kind. Deities can be easily offended. Yikes.
Put on a mask you c*nt, what are you doing? Trying to get all of us sick?
The same thing I say to people who sneeze. Godzilla. Its non-denominational
From God's perspective in space-time, our entire timeline is in the blink of an eye, as when someone sneezes. So if God sneezed while we were there, he would never be aware of us.
THATS HOW COVID STARTED! He started sneezing! (/J ofc!!)
Load More Replies...Are child actors in adult-rated movies allowed to watch the film?
The poor thing was 10 or 11 years old and was allready staring in " erotic " movies ( pretty baby ) and again with 14 in " the blue lagoon " .
Load More Replies...If not, one wonders why they're allowed to be in the movie in the first place
I think they're only allowed to act their own lines. They don't know the whole content of the script or what exactly happens in the scene at that time.
The question means R rated movies, not adult films. If it was the latter it would be CP, which is obviously illegal.
Load More Replies...Why do people say that they "slept like a baby" if they slept through the night when babies are known for not sleeping?
Actually this comes from not being bothered by external influences, most of the time when a baby wakes they have needs (Not wants, a baby literally has only needs, they don't want food they need it, they don't want comfort, they need comfort). So a baby wakes for hunger and being soiled, cold or scared. But they rarely wake from hoovering, kettle boiling and normal busy noise, trust me when their siblings are being loud it's amazing, however, unnatural sounds such as creeping, cause the issue, same as moving them, be gentle and they wake, be matter of fact and strong holds and they rarely wake.
Lol... Well, a baby can sleep soundly through things too. And they look peaceful, so maybe they mean a restful and peaceful sleep.
Meaning that babies are innocent of all the worries of the world that keep the rest of us awake.
Babies can sleep HARD. Not just at night. I would be able to vacuum and play pretty loud music while my son napped in his room which was in front of the dining room and living room. That time to myself kept me sane
Because when babies do sleep it is peacefully...which is usually during daylight hours, they are often awake at night due to colic and other issues. Why those issues take place at night I have no idea.
Why are bread square and sandwich meat round?
The only square sandwich meat is Spam, aptly named 🤮
Load More Replies...Because you are buying cheap processed meat and should stop before it affects your health.
Because cold meats where made with pig intestins, have you ever seen an animal with square intestines??? And there are squared shape cold meats, like ham from the leg ( i have no clue how its called on English )
There is an animal with square poop. Google it.
Load More Replies...Depends on the meat, since s lot of stuff from the deli isn't round and is more of an oblong oval, which is somehow worse than just being a circle.
What do people who are born deaf hear when they think?
I read that they think in words if they are literate, and in images if not. Maybe someone will answer with personal experience.
I think they can hear their thoughts. Thought doesn't really need a language or imaginary sounds. The non-deaf can also experience this the same way.
Never thought of that one before. What about those who are deaf and blind like Hellen Keller.
Did we invent math or did we discover it?
I guess both. We had to come up with a way of "counting" but along the way we discovered different ways to work out various numbers. (such as Pythagoras theorem)
Math was an invention made for commerce and for explaining the physical world.
I think you're missing the philosophical nature of the question.
Load More Replies...We invented it. discovering is only for something that's already there. Math in base 10 is our representation of the world around us. But there isn't a need for it to have been base 10 to describe your world
If we learn and improve from our mistakes, why are we so afraid to make mistakes?
We are actually trained out of seeing mistakes as a natural part of learning and to see it as absolute bad. Think of grades in school. How many things depend on the outcome of your grades? Every mistake is counted and tallied. Your worth being summed up by a letter. Participation in activities depending on it, likely parts of your home life depending on it. If your grades are bad, you're seen as a bad kid/person. As an adult, if you make a mistake you are seen as a failure. One mistake and you're homeless and others see you as less than. Everyone is one mistake from fired. One mistake from dead. One mistake from ostracized. Honestly, we'd be better as a society if we encouraged trial and error, more scientific method coupled with compassion, less worth measuring by who made the fewest mistakes. That really only encourages people to live so far inside the box they fear touching the walls.
Exactly. So we never expand our comfort zones; on the contrary, we build our own walls within the box and stay inside those, too anxious or depressed to leave or even ask permission to leave. Then we get slapped with labels and/or drugged into submission or death.
Load More Replies...Fear of belittlement from peers; being seen as an individual that makes bad decisions.
Because certain mistakes can be painful for yourself and others and most of humanity has a healthy dislike for pain.
What would happen to the world’s oceans if every person on Earth jumped into the water at the same time?
After the waves died down, the average sea level would rise a few inches/centimeters. Some would drown. Some would splash water on others. Some would wish they left their phones and valuables in the car or at home. Most will go home with stories to tell ther grandkids about that day.
Wouldn't rise by that much. The total volume of humans is less than 10 km³. With oceans being in the hundreds of millions of km² by area, the rise would be in the ballpark of 1/10000000 km, or 1/10000 m. That's a tenth of a millimetre (which is more than I expected).
Load More Replies...The oceans would be alright, the overpopulation problem can be solved to some extent.
An older version of this asks: if everybody in China simultaneously jumped off one-meter-high ladders or whatever, would the impact along the Pacific Rim seismic zone trigger a San Andreas Fault earthquake that destroys California?
8,000,000,000 human bodies might be enough to detect a measurable rise in sea level. But I am sceptical.
The sea level would rise as the population fell. Whoever managed to survive the Lemming Leap and get to shore would be faced with the task of surviving in a decimated world. Between all the flooding and the aquatic crowd crush, I'd say earth would be in be in better shape, environmentally. Yes, this idea has merit...
It would be contaminated with a highly unintelligent newly exstict species.
Are there any extraterrestrial beings?
Im 99.99% sure there are 1st because the history Chanel says there are lol, 2nd and more importantly because there is no way that in the vastness of the universe there is not another planet with similar conditions to the earth
Totally agree, to be extraterrestrial it doesn’t have to be a humanoid it could be single cell
Load More Replies...The surest evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence is that none of it has tried to contact us. 😆
Probably. It's just very unlikely that any exist that are as technologically advanced as us or moreso within the hundred or so light-year bubble around Earth that respresents the time we've been broadcasting into space.
Or there could have been life and it went extinct a millennium before life on Earth was nothing more than a group of amino acids in a puddle of goo.
Load More Replies...Yes. More stars in the sky than grains of sand on all our beaches, most of these stars have planetary systems, dune of which will be in the "Goldilocks" zone. Those that aren't may still have life unlike anything we can fathom. We're not as special as we once thought we were.
Apparently they've stopped using the "sand on beaches" comparison because it turns out that, while counting stars is easy enough, nobody's really sure how you'd go about counting all the sand.
Load More Replies...Yes!! There has to be, the universe is so vast. :) (Don't downvote for my opinion please!)
We live on one planet in one solar system in one galaxy. We are but a speck. 8 billion specks on a larger speck. I got to see Bill Nye speak on his new book and he mentioned this too, the impossibility that we are alone in the universe. There was also a comment that, say we did receive communication from distant life, it could be thousands of years old by the time it reaches us and the civilization long gone. We aren't just talking about life throughout space, but also life throughout time in that space. It's truly filled with infinite possibilities.
Is your glass half-empty or half-full?
Surley it depends on the state before the fluid was in it. If it was empty and you half filled it, it is half full, if it was full and you drank half then it is half empty.
This is the only proper explanation I've ever heard!
Load More Replies...None of your business!!. You keep track of YOUR glass, I'll watch mine.
I remember this being a question asked on some survey at school to determine whether you are a positive or negative person.
How far up do bald people go when they wash their face?
Dude.... Come on, bald people wash their face like every One else, i start at the chin and end at the back of my neck.
Well, if I'm just washing my face, I start from my forehead and wash to my chin. Taking a shower, I start at the top and work my way down.
Why do we dream and what does each dream represent?
Then why are mine so random that I see myself falling up?
Load More Replies...To convert short term memory to long term. They represent your brain trying to rationalize the stupid decisions we all make.
I once dreamed I was driving a car with my family. The car was an open top jalopy, like in the Beverly Hillbillies. For most of the dream I was looking for enormous tree branches touching the ground in places, so that I could drive on the branches to get to otherwise inaccessible places. We ended up at an old brick building where they were secretly making chocolate in the basement. My day was not that interesting.
Simple, dreams are the way your brain " resets " it self, and your dreams are directly related to your life, may be events, fears, hopes, a miriad of things, but they are all related to your life, no matter how abstract they mau be.
Do dreams always represent things? Because some if mine make no sense at all.
Why is there a fridge light but no freezer light?
As does mine. I think it may simply be relative to age and/or price...
Load More Replies...I have a light in my freezer. Fridges with freezers on the bottom usually have them.
If your freezer is on the top, then probably more ambient light will reach the freezer than the lower part.
Freezers are typically smaller so less light is required to see what's in them. Larger freezers actually do have lights in them.
Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies?
You can bake anything in an oven if it fits. You could cook cookies in a pan, but not vary many at the same time. The words are just conventions, like cows are living animals, from old english, but beef is from french.
Nice word play. I've heard the one that says, "why do you park in a driveway but drive on a parkway?", but never this version.
Can emotions ever be controlled via technology?
In a way, they are allready, if you are depressed, you can get anti depressivos, if you're anxious you can get an anti anxiety pill, só in a way technology allready controls your emoticons.
Well, yes. They're just chemical responses in your brain. We already have drugs that can do this in a blunt-force sort of way.
Yes and no. While there are medicines that can influence your emotions they do not control the root cause of said emotions. Some medicines can help.control depression and anxiety, but they do not cure it. Movies and music influence emotions by replicating situations that cause emotions, though not all of us react the same way to those situations.
To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken?
A very high degree, not 100% but a good 85 to 90% thats why my life is só screwd up right now.
Amen to that. I think most of us are that way.
Load More Replies...Conscious control? Sorry, I can't calculate a percentage. But chance events? Everything I've done in life produced consequences, often unintentional, but I've somehow muddled along. Writing software, I've been outsmarted by devices dumber than a cockroach -- if I can't control those, how could I program my life?
True, but even with free will you can only choose from the options available to you at any given time. For example, if I'm on the plane, flying abroad for my holiday, I have the free will to which you refer, but I can't go scuba diving.
Load More Replies...I'm able to control how I react, but not the course life has taken. Decisions lead to consequences and consequences are often not at all what was expected, so mostly we are reacting to consequences from a decision or two that we had made some length of time ago.
I think it is in our control to choose the course, either it is good or bad. Then it is up to us to follow our chosen path honestly.
It's not. If you have that much control you're lucky.
Load More Replies...If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, will we ever know it?
Spelling is a convention. If other dictionaries have a different spelling, then maybe there is a mispelling, or it may be a different convention. For example, color versus colour.
Once I saw a quote that was something like “the dictionary does not define a language - the colloquial use is what defines a language” (which is why “irregardless” is now a word in the dictionary) 🙂
That's descriptivism. The alternative hypothesis, prescriptivism, states that language flows from authorities like dictionaries down into common use, and is quite, quite wrong.
Load More Replies...All I know is, I've seen the word "whoa" misspelled so many times that is misspelling has become an alternate spelling.
Why do we call them buildings if buildings are already built?
The word “erections” used to be common instead of “buildings”, but it went out of style for some reason.
The same reason we use the name cookie and biscuit. Cookie, for something cooked, and biscuit from the italian word, biscotti, which means twice baked ('bis' means 'two', and contributes the first syllable of binary, binoculars, bicycle, etc.)
Will we ever find a universal cure for cancer?
No, because 'cancer' is not a single disease. The term cancer covers a surprisingly broad spectrum of ailments, with a large number of causes. It is impossible for a single cure to be effective for all types of cancer. The same way we can never cure the common cold, because it is a term for a number of different diseases with similar symptoms.
This is usually my answer when someone tells me they're sure someone is withholding the cure for cancer to make money.
Load More Replies...I had uterine cancer over 35 years ago and I'm still here. My friend was diagnosed with uterine cancer a few years back, and was dead in no time at all. Total and complete different types, stages and grades of cancer, yet of the same organ. Still have survivor's guilt at times. And God forgive me, but cancer medicine and care are big business. Pharmaceutical and nursing facilities would take tremendous financial hits. Sorry, but it's true.
No. There are som many different types of cancer, and each affect person in different way. We might find cure for certain type of cancer, than might treat certain types of people, but universal cure - not a chance.
We probably could. Basically it would have to be something that inhibits errors in cell division. It might have the unfortunate side-effect of ending human evolution, leaving us vulnerable to all kinds of new disease. So swings and roundabouts.
Load More Replies...I personally believe we already have. But the general public will never know about it, because pharmaceutical companies make money treating diseases, not curing them.
I read a multi-part article about cancer and cancer research. I guess it was kind of like conspiracy theory but it basically said a lot of researchers really don't want to find a cure because there's millions of dollars to be made just in cancer research. Im not saying it's true, just something I read.
We already have, just that the conventional drs shun it because conventional medicine pays Billions...
No. See others' answers for information on how "cancer" is not one disease. Also bear in mind that although the USA has for-profit medicine, not all countries do, amd that hiding a cure for cancer would make no financial sense for those countries.
Load More Replies...Why is a pizza box square when a pizza is round?
Space and transportation... Why are ship containers " square " when they carry furniture or Cars??? Come on....
If you had to assemble a round one, it could take longer than making the pizza!
Load More Replies...Why are goods on a train called a shipment and goods on a boat called cargo?
And why do you park in a driveway but drive on a parkway?
Load More Replies...1. It's cheaper, so your pizza is too. 2. So you actually have room to pick up a slice without plunging your thumb into molten cheese to grip it.
Because they are easier to make. Round ones would probably start with square material that would get cut off and wasted anyway.
We dined tonight on a rectangular pizza packed in a rectangular box. Such is life.
How do we know we all see the same colours in the same way?
Just imagine if everyone saw a color as some other color , say I saw blue but I learned that color was called Pink and my friend saw yellow and learned that color was called Pink because the person who taught us also was taught the color they saw was called Pink. It's impossible to know. Explain that to your high friends, it will be great .
Remember that blue and black dress and the white and golden dress??? That Alone should answer your question.
That was less colour perception and more the fact that some people’s eyes can look at a photo and understand how to “white balance” the image (for lack of a better term lol I’m not that smart) and some people cannot! Hence the people who thought it was gold and white - they just couldn’t see the lighting difference and their brain interpreted the colours literally. Very interesting phenomenon :)
Load More Replies...Im colorblind and when I get a color wrong and people correct me I tell them to "prove it". they can't, they just point to it.
This reminds me of the time my family were gathered at my parents' house about to leave for somewhere and someone asked if anyone had seen a certain sweater or something and my colorblind brother said, "yeah, it's on the purple couch." Dead silence as we all stared at him. He started to look confused and concerned while mom's face worked into a comforting expressin. "sweetie, we don't have a purple couch. It's blue." He looked like the rug had been pulled out from under him, then, grasping for some sense that things were still normal, he asked "but Joss' couch is really purple, right?" We all laughed and assured him that my couch was indeed sporting a purple cover and he looked somewhat relieved. He recently got some glasses that filter light for his type of colorblindness so he can see colors the way we see them and we've each tried wearing them for a bit to see how different the effec is...we don't see things the way he does through them, but we see how differently he sees from us
I do not think we do. I have chromesthesia, we don't see the same colors for the same sound ever. How do people survive without this ability?
Why do we say spineless snake when a snake has a spine?
Why do we say sweating like a pig when cows don’t bark anyway?
This is the most intelligent thing I have read in this article 😆
Load More Replies...You might say that, I've never actually heard anyone ever say that, must be a regional thing
It's a double insult. Spineless means cowardly. While snake means conniving or sneaky.
Because spineless is an added descriptor, otherwise it would just be "snake". The person is both spineless and a snake, they are not a snake without a spine.
Why is vanilla ice cream color white when vanilla itself is color brown?
Because the ingredients are mostly light colored. Cream is a light yellow shade.
Well not all vanilla is brown. There is a cooking vanilla more for baking that is clear.
Because flavored foods are often colored to resemble their well-known image. In this case it is white, like the vanilla orchid.
Are soulmates a real thing?
If you think feelings are a real thing, then, yes. But it doesn't mean there is only one soulmate out there.
Not likely, but if you believe in a soulmate, then you must also believe that they can exist anywhere in the world at any given time as the soul is not bound to time or geography. If you found your "soul mate" within a 20 mile radius, you might want to question a few things.
What exactly is consciousness? Are animals also conscious?
One definition could be: an organism that reacts to its surroundings is concious. But plants react to thier surroundings in various ways. I once had a concussion, during which I was walking around, talking with people, but I don't remember any of it. I woke up the next morning not remembering going to bed. Was I conscious during that time? I think conciousness should include the ability to remember experience, but maybe that's too much.
Being aware of and responding to our surroundings. Of course animals are conscious.
I think consciousness is an awareness of the world around you, and the ability to think and remember. I think mammals and birds are very conscious, based just on personal observation. They are a lot like us. Fish, reptiles and insects I'm not so sure about. Maybe they do, but in a different way than us.
Surely animals are conscious. And humans usually are. Alcoholic blackout and some head injuries seem to nullify consciousness.
Animals are conscious....of being deprived of a treat when you give another animal a treat in front of them.....as in dogs....just try that one and see if the other dog has consciousness and wants a treat, too.
i saw some of your commebts saying youre deaf and dumb but i cant reply because theyve been downvoted. dumb as in cant speak?
Load More Replies...Can someone blind from birth see in their dreams?
As they have never seen anything while awake, I would think they have absolutely no idea what the word ‘see’ means. So, they would probably say they didn’t know.
If a cave has a cave-in, is it still called a cave?
If it desperately wants to be empty again, I would call it a crave(ing).
How long will you be remembered after the day that you die?
Not so much as a single day. People don't even remember me now when I'm alive, why would they when I'm dead?
What is freedom and does it really exist?
No One is completelly free, we all have laws, morals, ethics etc, that makes that none of us are actually free, we have some freedoms, but none of us are free.
I would vote it but my autist doesn't like 'nome'
Load More Replies...You can do anything you want, then suffer the consequences if you are too selfish (which means hurting others).
Freedom is more than just doing what you want all the time with no regard for others. Constant self indulgence can become its own kind of prison.
If you punch yourself and it hurts, are you wear or are you strong?
How would you know if time had been altered in some way?
When a black cat walks by a doorway the exact same way, twice in a row.
A glitch in the matrix is a dead giveaway
Load More Replies...In theory, quantum information can't be destroyed... so you'd retain memories from alternate timelines, but you'd write these memories off as the "Mandela effect", so you'd refuse to acknowledge them as real.
Will the world be better off with relatively more countries or relatively fewer?
More, definitely. Diversity is good, as long as we are all intelligent enough to be interested in others.
Having more doesn't mean they would be accepting of their neighbors differences though
Load More Replies...If humans were more social less. Countries, borders and ownership of land is territorial behavior. The strongest, most powerful rules over all who are allowed in is territory. With the current human behaviour more countries would be better as there would be less layers in hierarchy needed with could reduce the gap between the people at the bottom and the people at the top
Considering how many countries have indigenous populations, probably more, so that everyone has a share of land and the right to practice their culture.
The number of countries in constantly shifting through history and the ride and fall of empires is ironically rarely completely controlled by man.
Will we still have today’s style of nation-state countries 1,000 years from now?
No, 1,000 years from now humans will no longer live on Earth, we would have either destroyed our whole race by then or the planet itself.
Yeah, but will the apes have nation-states? Also, we won't destroy the planet unless we develop a "Death Star". We might ruin it for a bit, killing everything, but it will still be here
Load More Replies...Probably not, look at the Italian, or the French, none of those countries existed 400 years ago, they where a bunch of city states similar to de ancient Greeks, then they ended up as a big country, Im preety sure that in a few Hundred years that Will happen again, for instances in Europe, look at the laws the rulles there are even talks for an European army, in my mind i believe that in a few centuries Europe Will end up as One big country.
Pretty sure Ancient Greece had nation-states.
Load More Replies...Depends on society and if future generations will learn from our drama obsessed stupidity and mistakes.
How much time do we have left on Earth?
That's what I believed 20 years ago. Now I fear my niece and nephew will see humanity end.
Load More Replies...Congratulations on the first truly stupid answer on this thread.
Load More Replies...When was the time created?
And there wasn't even coffee or anything... It was savage
Load More Replies...There's a theory that time is an illusion. We can't interact with the past or the future, only with the present. So does the past and future really exist at all outside of ourselves and the things we have interacted with? You could say that last week you took your dog to the park. That may be true, but you didn't take your dog for a walk in the past (because you can't interact with the past), you walked him in that single moment that was the present last week. So rather than referring to past, present and future, we could really be forgiven for referring to a constant stream of infinitesimally small 'presents'. Which reminds me, I need to get some gift wrap.
Time is considered in physics to be the 4th dimension. So time in that sense would have been created at the same moment as the other three dimensions. Our perception and usage of time may have a specific date in history, however time itself has been here regardless of our thought to measure it.
Time is a result of matter in space: therefore, time has existed as long as matter has.
The question is paradoxal. If there has been a time when time was created, what was time in the first place? (I think the answer is, time is an invention of a conscious mind and it doesn't exist if there is no one to observe.)
Atoms lose heat, and radioactive elements degrade over time. Time is independent of the viewer.
Load More Replies...Time is a human construct designed by us to unify and make sense of our existence we need the concept of time. Now it's manly used to chain us to a work and sleep schedule
Why are cars made that go faster than the worlds speed limits?
Because Germany thats why, imagine if you buy a car in the US or Canadá for example, but later in your life you have to move to Germany, there are zones of the autobhan that don't have a speed limit, i mean, its preety onvious lol ( Im of course kidding, i have no frikking idea )
I agree, I drove a Mercedes Benz on vacation once and it was like ithe car was made for high speeds on the highway!
Load More Replies...I'd sooner have a car that has a higher top speed than one where the top speed is the speed limit, just so the engine doesn't work as hard and is less noisy.
Because speed limits are only valid in the traffic zone. Person decides where to use the car and to comply with the law.
So the cops can chase them and act like they are actually DOING something.
Because some people have the ability to recognize stupid laws and others do not
Originally for emergency vehicles, but the general public got jealous and wanted them too.
Why does the early bird get the worm, but patience is a virtue?
Because the early bird got up early and had the Patience to wait for the worm.
the early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese
Load More Replies...What shape is your field of vision?
Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Don't know why you're being downvoted, it still being moist in the container is exactly why it doesn't stick. You have to wait for glue to dry for things you're gluing to be stuck together, after all.
Load More Replies...In the case of superglue, because it gets sticky when it oxidises.
Why do black olives come in cans and green ones in jars?
And in my part of the world, our small grocery store only has cans!
Load More Replies...I've heard black olives are not really black. That may or may not be correct, but I won't look it up.
AFAIK there are both actual black olives and green olives that have been dyed black.
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What exactly is gravity?
Or it's the exchange of small particles called gravitons. There are three forces that govern the universe "strong force, electro week force, and gravity". The strong force keeps the nucleus of an atom together, the electro week force keeps similar atoms together and governs electricity, and gravity keeps large bodies of atoms together. Strong force and electric weak force are both governed by the exchanging of particles. Like two people tossing a tennis ball to each other it's easier to do when you're close together. The nuclear strong force has strong but short-lived particles thus keeping the nucleus extremely tight and the electro weak force has weaker but longer lived particles. All three forces are working the exact same way and so we would assume that there would be graviton particle that would keep large bodies of atoms together but we've never observed a graviton. Those series of gravity work perfectly fine and can be used to describe an explore our universe.
Load More Replies...Gravity isn't a force, it's a incoherent magnetic field...go play with some magnets...
Load More Replies...It is what I originally thought the Bee Gee's were singing about, turned out to be Tragedy
It's incoherent magnetism.. gravity does not exist, just one of those lies they tell so you continue to pay for energy harvested from aether.. which is free.
That's not gravity, that's abuse. He's a victim and you're a criminal.
Load More Replies...Will it ever be possible to communicate with people from the past or from the future?
People communicate with people from the future all the time. It's just one-way.
We do that now....via movies and recorded music.....music from 1600 is speaking to us thru composers all the time....
WTF is up with these downvotes? Downvotes are a tool to be used against abusive posts or spam. C'mon, now!
Load More Replies...Time travel to the future is possible, just u have to go at high speed. And only a little bit of time at a time
When you read a journal or historical document you are communicating with the past. When you write a journal you are communicating with the future.
Is the opposite of opposite the same or opposite?
It does not have to be binary. Travel 100 miles North. Then travel 100 miles South. You assume you end up in exactly the same spot. But if you started 100 miles from the North pole, you head 100 miles North. you reach the pole, then any direction is South, you could travel 100 miles South in the opposite direction. I'm sure there are any number of similar "opposites". In politics, far right, and far left are equally totalitarian and oppressive.
The question is "is the opposite of 'opposite' opposite?" not "is the opposite of an opposite opposite?'.
Load More Replies...Opposite of opposite can be independent from the original, like "Sunny > Cloudy > Cloudless"
How do we know that a new dogfood has an "improved taste"?
Knew a guy who worked in one of the factories and he told me that almost all cat/dog food is made for human consumption so they can test it. He invited me up to said workplace to prove it. To this day there are things i can never un-see and NO i didn't try any. As far as i know he is still single to this day. Story was from about 25 years ago.
If you can be allergic to anything, can you have an allergy to water?
Yes you can, Aquagenic urticaria. Very rare but also very painful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_urticaria
My ex must have this. His hair is so greasy I can't even. And he was a blonde and dyed it black so it looks even greasier 🤢 (I'm being sarcastic about the water allergy but not anything else and I know it's off topic sorry pls don't downvote)
I don't know if it counts but for some drinking cold water causes them to choke or hacking. like an allergic reaction. But fine when it's room temp
An allergy is a biologic reaction to other biology. Water is not biologic, but it can contain biologic impurities.
Is there an end to the universe, or does it just keep going?
Yes and no. The universe expands at 1,000,000 miles per minute. So yes, there is one, no we cannot reach it
The universe is finite yes, but its expanding, and One day os also going to end
Considering science cannot find the end of the universe, I'd say it keeps going. After all matter itself cannot truly be destroyed.
Will it be possible for countries to operate without prisons in the future?
Easy to answer this one. NO. Never happen here in the US the judicial system is way too corrupt to ever be fixed. They are mostly privately owned for profit prisons with politicians as share holders that basically use prisoners as slave labor, and they will never give up their revenue streams.
could happen in countries besides the US though. but I don't think its a good idea, I think that prisons should be focused more on rehabilitation and education for the most part though, except for constant re-offenders... and child abusers/r**ists. there's a special place in hell for those. lock them in a dark windowless room and don't let them out.
Load More Replies...Yea, if we adopt something in the style of the hunger games, but with criminals.
No because no matter how hard you try there will always be people who do bad things, so unless Christ comes and knocks some sense into humanity, we remain stuck with our own stupidity sadly.
Are animals that don’t live in houses homeless?
If they are abandoned yes, but if they live in their own natural habitat then no/
A tomato is a fruit, so why is ketchup not called a smoothie?
Is it possible to know if something is good or bad?
Did Adam and Eve have a bellybutton?
The omphalos question (omphalos is Greek for navel). It was a big theological issue in the middle ages. Some believed that, not being born, Adam and Eve would not have navels; others contended that they would have been created to appear normal. The *actual* answer is, of course, that Adam and Eve didn't exist (mitochondrial Eve is a metaphor).
If you believe the entire human race spawned from just 2 people 6000 years ago, you maybe shouldn't be pondering questions deeper than whether or not you want fries with that.
Yes they were, they had kids. That's the whole point of them. (If they were real, obviously). The question is about how god thinks. Did he create them as their kids would look, i.e. with navels even though they weren't born, or did he prefer that the difference should be apparent?
Load More Replies...Is the world eternal?
It depends on your perspective. When you eat something, the atoms don't dissappear, they just go different places.
Eternity is like infinity, merely an admission that you don't know when or where to stop counting.
The world as we know it, no. Life cycle of our start will see to it in roughly 4 billion years.
The universe shows clear signs of having a beginning and clear signs that there will be an end (entropy) due to the fine tuning theory. So, no.
time is eternal, yes. But out world, as in, our earth, or our galaxy, perhaps even our universe? Maybe not. The idea of nothingness is a concept that both intrigues and terrifies me. (like.. what is the nothingness when your life is over, for example. like when we cease to exist?)
Time isn't eternal. It requires the increase of entropy, which has a limit. Eventually time will stop.
Load More Replies...Is there life after death?
No, you die and that's it, unless you take the walking dead as a documentáry....
That’s what I believe too, but we can’t say it’s a fact.
Load More Replies...Now this one IS unanswerable. No one really knows, although we all have our own beliefs. I think in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books (fiction) those who died met Death (who always spoke in capitals) and mostly experienced what they expected.
Most of the time, yes. Particularly in Small Gods...the desert that you have to walk alone. But some characters, like Mr Pounder in Maskerade, get surprised.
Load More Replies...Who can know for sure? Everyone has their own beliefs. I'm torn between the fact that it's non-existence and WHAT EVEN ISTHAT, and the idea of rebirth, because I can't fathom the nothingness of not existing after I die.
That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons, even death may die. - Abdul Alhazred No that did not answer the question but I do love that quote so, you know, yeah.
"Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage" - Mrs White in Clue
Physically or mentally? Physically yes, all energy circles and transforms from one form into another, so the flesh that rots and is eaten by bacteria will eventually feed the plants etc... Mentally probably not, your thoughts and feelings are all little electric signals in your brain, much like the 0s and 1s in a computer, if the powers off, so is the machine. Philosophically, no one knows for sure...
Is it really possible to experience anything objectively?
Yes, math is objective, no matter what your fellings are, the math Will always be objective.
No it isn't. In fact we change scientific beliefs as we think and learn more. Newton was eclipsed by Einstein.
Load More Replies...Don't know why you got downvoted, this is true. Have an upvote.
Load More Replies...Isn’t the word "queue" just the letter Q followed by four silent letters?
Are we the only life in the universe?
Almost certainly not, but we may well not live near enough to any other life to ever discover it.
Will the world be better off without "bad people"?
Seriously. I know that I'm a good person, but I'm not religious, and I've had some people say I can't know good from bad without a God and therefore can't be one. Good and bad is somewhat subjective.
Load More Replies...It would be better off with no people, are trying to ask if human civilization would be better off then yes
Maybe just selectively eliminate a few, and leave the rest for reference.
Is something trying to teach humanity a lesson?
The only lesson for all of life is the consequences of our actions and inactions. If you are religious, the ultimate consequences are unknowable (in this universe), because "faith" is another word for "hope", not "knowledge".
Pain is an efficient teacher. Some humans learn not to hammer nails through their hands. Pain is not 'trying' at anything, but actions have consequences, so don't lie down on a bed of hot coals.
I'm agnostic but I don't think that downvoting a person because of their beliefs is really the path to follow. There seems to be a lot more 'haters' on BP lately, or is it just me?
Load More Replies...No, I think they have given up on us for ignoring all the warning signs
If God is watching us, why doesn’t He stop us from doing bad things like killing each other?
This is called the problem of evil. If god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent then he can and should stop evil things from happening. If he does not stop evil things happening then either he can't stop them, in which case he is not omnipotent; he doesn't know about them, in which case he is not omniscient; or he doesn't care enough to stop them, in which case he is not omnibenevolent. If any or all of these things are true then god, as we define him, does not exist. Most people try to wriggle out of this by appealing to "free will", conveniently forgetting that many evils of the world - such as diseases and natural disasters - are not the products of human action.
The same reason your other imaginary friends can't hand you the remote
I think the question is better rephrased as: if there is a god, why doesn't he/she/it care what happens to people. I was sitting in a church once where the speaker explained that everyting that happens is god's will. One man got very upset and angrily retorted, "You're saying it was god's will that my children died in a fire? I could hear them screaming." The church speaker responded, "yes,"
Wow…..how is that version of god any better than the devil then? Man I’m so grateful I was raised agnostic.
Load More Replies...AFAIK 'god' is a job title, not a proper name. Humans have invented many, many gods. We see how well that works out. ;(
Because there isn’t something that god will be truly mad at you for doing if you kill someone they will go to god and I’m pretty sure god doesn’t mind. Killing a person (in my opinion) probably wouldn’t actually be wrong to god
Sin. And God never created sin, it was created by man. God created Adam and Eve to be with Him, but by their choice, they sinned. Love is a choice, you can never truly love anything or anyone without choosing to do so. When Adam and Eve chose not to love God and go their own way, they were punished, and sin forever entered the world. God does not cause the bad things to happen, but he doesn't stop it because in the end it is man's choice, it's where the term "free will" comes in. Free Love.
So wrong it's not even funny. Cutting to the chase of my previous answers, Adam and Eve couldn't have known what right and wrong were until AFTER they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, so god deliberately set them up to fail. No free will was involved.
Load More Replies...God let’s things play out in a human way. We all have free will to make our choices.
Wrong. See my comment above. "Free will" is a cop-out answer. An omnipotent god could give us free will without the requirement for evil.
Load More Replies...*summarising other comments* if god is omnipotent then he is responsible for sin.
Load More Replies...When you forget a thought, where does it go?
It doesn't go away, stay or disappear. You rebuild a thought so that you remember.
Into a pocket dimension with left socks, car keys and the name of that (insert a media or person) you were talking about.
All forgotten thoughts and missing socks go to a place called the Hozone.
How can you describe something indescribable?
If you are bald, can you get dandruff?
If anything is possible, can anything be impossible?
If everything is possible, it's impossible for something to be impossible, so not everything is possible.
Why are we called humans?
From Latin(?) humus meaning earth, made from earth and will return to
No. From homo, "man". The root word for earth, "phgem", is much older than Latin - proto-Indian.
Load More Replies...This is a valid question for any word that is not a composition of other words. As soon as we started communicating with sound we started making things. Even animals do.
This! Just this. We. Are. Not. Polar bears.
Load More Replies...Why do people have to die?
Biologically, because our cellular processes can't maintain themselves forever. Also, if we didn't die everyone would starve, so dying permits children to live.
exactly, at now over 8 billion people on the planet we're already massively overpopulated. Imagine the hellscape if 8 billion people continued to live and not die, whilst adding billions of more to the population? yikes. It would also mean I'd be jobless an my studies would be for nothing, given I'm in mortuary work. xP
Load More Replies...Because we reproduce. Even now we are on/close to unsustainable numbers.
Ever watched " altered carbon " if not, go watch it, they really show it to you on a way.
If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected?
Why is the objective of golf to play the least amount of golf?
Imagine the drunk Scott's man that came up with the game with his buddies. " I bet you i can hit this tiny ball with this stick to that patch of grass way over there." And his buddy said " okay but can you do it with a bunch of trees, sand pits and a pond in the way?" And then they competed to see who could do it better than the other.
Because golf is for killing time with style. So if you do it for sport, it better be fast.
If Cinderella’s shoe fit her perfectly, then why did it fall off?
I feel like the more important question is: What kind of psycho runs around his kingdom slapping a (let's be honest) swampy-a*s glass slipper on people? I'm not kink shaming but goddamn, that is one helluva foot fetish. No judgement on the fetish.
In the original version of the story, the ball was multiple nights long and she kept leaving, so the prince spread pitch on the stairs the last night to stop her. Obviously she just kept running and wound up leaving a shoe behind.
The fairy godmother greased it so it could be used as a clue for the prince...as for that if everything disappeared at midnight, why didn't the shoes dissappear too?
If shoes fit perfectly they don't fall off when you run...or didn't you read the question?
Load More Replies...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?
Doing the things we don't like aids in the pursuit of doing those we do. The former, unfortunately, usually thwarts the latter!
The increase in misery makes the few moments of joy more precious. But i think there is a tipping point where it just leads to depression because there is so little time and even less joy to be had
Don't do what you like but like what you do. One of my dad's favourite sayings.
Is there a risk to ever be completely dependent on AI?
Yes, there is a risk to everything, but personally I hope AI behaves like terminator
I'm kind of hoping for a sentient AI keeps humans as well loved pets situation. It will be like living as a kid again only instead of your parents taking care of you it's a robot
The risk is not artificial intelligence, more natural ignorance. (I forget who said this originally)
I don't know, many members of the younger generations already don't know how to do alot of things for themselves, like writing a letter, or entertaining themselves without technology.
Is karma real or just a human construct?
Nah Karma's real. I've witnessed it so many times. Too many times. Like ironic karma instant karma.. just desserts
I don't know cause and effect is the most basic law of science. If you do an action the consequences will eventually occur. The consequences are subject to a high degree of variability.
But the cause and effect here would be based on a human constructed religions rules of good and bad. Both the cause and effect are based off of human constructs.
Load More Replies...Are there limits to human creativity?
How do you measure the worth of someone’s life?
Lifetime income+ value of societal contribution - lifetime use of resources.
Load More Replies...There is no single answer, because different people will have different opinions, which will generally be different than their insurance company"s opinion.
By their material possessions. At least that's how they do it here in the USA.
You can not measure the value of another person's life as the meaning and purpose of life is for the individual to decide.
Depends on how you define 'worth'. Is it cash, or good deeds, or vivid literature? I recall a cartoon of a funeral procession including a Brinks money-hauling truck. One bystander tells another, "He decided to take it with him." The deceased must have been worth something, hey?
Some would use the puppy rule: If you have been a positive influence in many puppies’ lives, you had a valuable life.
By the amount of valuables they're willing to part with rather than their life. But seriously, life is worthless. Hail Cthulhu you worthless maggots. Lulz.
How far east can you travel before you are travelling west?
You will always travel east ... but, if you travel north you will eventually travel south
Exactly. Because there is no East or West pole.
Load More Replies...You only go west if you turn around. To respond to your implied question, east becomes west, by convention, at 180 degrees longitude.
Standing on the north pole every direction is South, reversed for the south pole of course.
Your GPS or compass can be defective and lead you in odd directions. Yikes.
Ok for real though - last week I boarded a 10.5 hour flight in Bangkok at 12:00 midnight. About 4 hours into the flight I cracked the window shade open to take a peek and it was full sunlight outside. By the time I got to Vancouver 6 hours later, it was 6:00PM there and dark again. Did we fly against the earth’s rotation through an entire period of daylight in just a few hours?
Consider what time it was in Vancouver (and which day) when it was midnight in Bangkok. Add 10.5 hours to that to work out the answer. And presumably you would have crossed the International Date Line as well. Hope this helps.
Load More Replies...Are we living, or are we dying?
well, we all die. so I guess right from our birth we're (hopefully in the case of most of us) slowly dying, as if we're not killed in another way, we inevitably die simply of old age.
Schrodinger's cat isn't subjective. It's objective but indeterminate-until-observed. The cat isn't alive for some people and dead for others. But anyway the whole point of Schrodinger's cat is that it doesn't work. A cat can't be alive and dead simultaneously. Schrodinger was pointing out that quantum effects don't affect real-world physics.
Load More Replies...Why do we count sheep before bed?
Again with the "we". I have never counted sheep at any time for any reason.
Not everyone does, although some mind calming exercises before bed can help you sleep better.
Do we have free will or is everything predestined?
Every action you take creates a universe in which that action took place.
We have free will to make choices but they are based on our genetic make up and life experiences.
We have free will. I also don't believe in coincidences. Things happen for a reeason
So all Biblical prophecies come from the devil then? Can't have prophecy without predestination. So that's the Book of Revelation gone for a start.
Load More Replies...What is the purpose and meaning of time?
The universe needs neither purpose nor meaning. They are human constructs.
FINALLY. Someone gets it too. I swear, I've wasted more "time" arguing with people about this very thing than I care to admit. Humans, it has to MEAN something. No. No it does not.
Load More Replies...From a physics perspective, time is a result of the entropy of the universe, where the enormous energy released at the (theoretical) big bang decays to absolute zero. From a personal perspective, it ought to be the amount of time we have to enjoy life.
What is the color of a mirror?
The coating on the back of a piece of glass which makes it a mirror is called silvering for a reason. Traditional mirrors are silver.
When does it stop being partly sunny and start to become partly cloudy?
Partly sunny means that it is more clouds with some sun. Partly cloudy means it is more sun with some clouds. So the tipping point is when it is equal sunny and cloudy.
It stops being partly sunny when it's overcast. There may partly be clouds even if you don't see them clearly.
How do you grow a seedless fruit?
I don't understand what mathematical charts have to do with fruit. I think you need to be more specific, like bar grafts, or line grafts or what?
Load More Replies...If you told someone to "be a leader and not a follower", wouldn’t they become a follower by following your advice?
Leaders usually follow the instructions of advisors. Follower is not the opposite of leader, you can be either, both, or neither.
It means that you should think for yourself, not just go after whatever fad happens to pop up.
Who taught the first ever teacher?
Do today’s technologies make global conspiracies more or less feasible?
Equally unfeasible. Humans are intrinsically bad at cooperating. Technology does not change that. We're all tribalist morons.
Well my group and I don’t believe that, so we aren’t going to listen to you or your ideas.
Load More Replies...In many ways more because it allows the tyrannically minded to find each other and commilunicate better. While they eventually destroy each other they also destroy most of thier societies while they are at it.
If people were given the option of starting a new country, what features, options or capabilities would make it more valuable than counties today?
Have politics be a civic duty with term and salary limits and not a high level career choice. And no appointed government positions either .
Is there a limit to how smart one person can be?
Knowledge is limited by experience, whether personal, or learned from others. Insight is also limited by knowledge. For example, the smartest people in the world would not have understood that viruses inject thier dna into other cells to reproduce, even though they understood that something was being spread from person to person.
There is no limit to.what you can learn. There is a limit in how well you apply it however.
Yes, most brains can store about 1000 terabytes and that isn't enough memory to know everything
Will it ever be possible for someone to live forever?
So that I can get as far away from this planet as possible
Load More Replies...You can look this up, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the physicist said he believes that the first immortal person is already alive today.
Skara Brae expressed it very well in another part of this list: "Biologically, our cellular processes can't maintain themselves forever. Also, if we didn't die everyone would starve, so dying permits children to live."
The amount we would have to change our selves to accomplish that, or even just add 10x to our life span... would you still consider that person human?
Do we run the risk of becoming too dependent upon artificial intelligence?
Yes. Until it fails and whoever survives learns to do things for themselves all.over again.
What is our place in an infinite universe?
Earth. Maybe some other planets someday. The universe doesn't care. Our place is whatever we can accomplish.
Stuck behind the person who is arguing with the cashier about an expired coupon
Or behind the guy on his cell phone driving half of the speed limit!
Load More Replies...What happens if we are stuck in a dream and have no way to come out of it?
You would be transferred to a hospital for either a coma or locked in syndrome
Eventually you dream that you are awake, and you can't tell the difference.
Once I woke up three times in a row, only dreaming that I woke up twice. That was very weird.
Load More Replies...You are possibly under some kind of medical sedation, or very ill and delirious.
Would time continue if everything in the world was frozen?
Time is just how human's percieve events. Even if everything was frozen, events would still happen. Humans are not so cosmically important that things would stop happening simply because we don't percieve them.
Time is the increase of entropy and doesn't require an observer. Take for example the several billion years before humans existed. Would you claim time didn't exist then? Time is kinda important for physics to work.
Load More Replies..."World" in what sense? "Frozen" in what sense? If you mean "all of universe would be at absolute zero", the answer is no.
If it makes you feel better, most all solids are considered frozen. So you don't need to freeze that much more to find out :)
Yes. Time is an aspect of the universe, not dependent on the motion of objects.
Humans can't interact with the past or the future, only the present. Time is a human invention to rationalise what went before and what may happen. As far as we know, the Universe should follow this notion and frozen or not, everything, everywhere, all at once, is experiencing their own versions of the present. Would time continue? Time does not exist. Which reminds me, I need to get a new battery for my watch.
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?
The significance of accomplishments is how much happier our decendents will be. For example, if you live in a house with a heating and cooling, you may live in a more comfortable place than royalty did 200 years ago. But the universe won't care no matter what we do to it.
No from the picture of the universe, what we as an individual accomplish means nothing except to other individuals
Hummm let me think, grab the world Guiness book of records ( which we can agree contains mankind greatest achivements, and granted a lot of really dumb ones as well lol ) put it in a high temp. oven. Thats exactly the same thats going to happen to earth in a few Hundred million years when our sun becomes a red giant and incenerates the earth.
When you get to heaven, do you look as you do at the age that you die?
If I go to heaven, I will raise hell. I didn't sign up for that s**t and I will not abide that aggression.
What happens when an immovable objects meets an unstoppable force?
The force transfers through the object like sending a croquet ball... the object stays fixed and the force doesn't stop
Can Jesus microwave a burrito SO HOT that even he himself cannot eat it?
Load More Replies...Will we ever be able to travel through time?
Yes. Forwards, at the rate of one second per second. Apart from that, no - because if time travel becomes possible at any point, it will, by definition, always have been possible.
Technically we've already time traveled. Time moves faster for astronauts, it's quite measurable. The farther you are from a gravity well, the faster time moves for you. If you could hang out near a magnetar or just inside the event horizon of a black hole, you could watch the universe fast-forward around you. You would have, effectively, time traveled into the future. Of course, there's no feasible way you could do either of these things and survive...yet.
Our very existence proves the impossibility of traveling back through time. Why? Because people fock-up stuff. Some clumsy time traveler would aim for the Big Bang and would inevitably fock it up, ending space-time. Yikes.
Actually not true. Relativity allows for the existence of closed timelike loops.
Load More Replies...We are constantly traveling forward through time, backwards isn't something we are able to do.
What will be the biggest human advancement on planet earth during your lifetime?
Define 'achievement'. An engineering project? Political transformation? Extinction?
Realizing your parents and those who came before you were not stupid
What is the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?
People crave explanations. If there is no explanation they'll buy into theories and rumors - the seeds of mysteries.
Load More Replies...The mystery is how people are so bad at statistics. The Bermuda Triangle only has more missing ships than other areas because it is a high traffic area, and therefor has more ships overall. But percentage wise, it is no worse than any other part of the ocean.
The weather patterns and currents that we haven't completely figured out yet
Are there mysterious species hiding from humans?
If you were an different species and saw how humans are wouldn't you hide as long as you could?
In the UK they are called Doctors, we used to be able to see them but now......
Just because we haven't discovered something doesn't mean it's hiding.
Why do we make exceptions to rules if we all should follow the rules?
Because the universe is far too complex for any rule to be able to account for every possible contingency. Rules form the guidelines, but exceptions must be made for situations not planned for when the rules were created.
If you're rich, or a police officer, or a judge, etc, rules don't apply to you. Maybe that's just in the UK and the US...
Why do we drop the kids off at the pool? There are a lot of tough questions out there.
Can you have a daydream at night-time?
If the sky is the limit, then what is space?
What are dreams?
a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep.
Do you know what a defrag is? That. Dreams are the human equivalent of a hard drive defrag. Memory storage and organization. Put simply, if you will allow it.
As someone once said, “Dreams are just reams with little d’s in front of them.”
Do you ever really do anything out of your own conscious choice, or are we always controlled by some external stimulation or motive?
Do you think a victim ever made a conscious decision to be assaulted?
"Everything you think, do, or say / Is in the pill you took today" --IN THE YEAR 2525
I do what i want a lot of Times, and i don't give a flying f... what other people think, however not all the time, ( back track to my freedom answer )
If killing people is wrong, then why do we kill people that kill people?
In practice, because the mob enjoys its own violence.
Load More Replies...Because we are simple creatures. We have gone to extraordinary lengths to convince ourselves we are not animals. Animals we are. And killing is natural. The human race seems to think it is better than its nature. It's ok to want and hope for better, just not terribly realistic.
To stop th from killing even more people, when nothing else will get them to stop.
What would a room made of mirrors look like if there was nothing inside that room to create a reflection?
Nothing inside would mean it would be dark, so it would look like dark.
It would look like silver. If there is not even light in the room, the colour wouldn't matter. But if there was a perfect white light from an invisible source, it would seem like gradient shades of teal, because of the glass that made the mirror.
Something that isn't not perceived actively doesn't technically have an appearance.
There is always the ceiling and floor and lines where the different mirrors meet.
Where do they put the Bible in libraries – fiction or non-fiction section?
Most libraries don't actually contain scriptures of active religions as they are afraid of offending someone. However they do carry horror books and adult romance books and alot of other potentially offensive material.
Do you consider eyebrows facial hair?
Yes. Which is why it is totally ok to tell a woman that her “facial hair looks good today.”
Do prison buses have emergency exits?
By law they have to. But they are welded shut for obvious reasons.
Yes I went to Alcatraz Island (an abandoned prison in San Francisco) and they had emergency exits (I think)
If the fountain of youth can make you live forever, can you drown in it and still die?
I believe the fountain of youth rule is “Drink before you drown, have a night on the town. Drown before you drink, you’re as dead as one might think.”
Have you located said Fountain? Please post a route map. But I hope it's not in Florida. Yikes.
I assume it reverts your aging process…but babies can drown. So you die.
Who was the first person to milk a cow?
...and what did he think he was doing at the time? From an old Billy Connolly routine.
Will it ever be possible to "replay events" that happened in the past?
Wait. Was this list written before Edison invented the phonograph?
Will the advancement of today’s technologies yield a positive or negative result?
As one that watched "today’s technologies" come alive, I have some serious concerns!
If someone altered your memory, how would you know?
If you had a physical record of something you'd surely know................wait, what , I didn't type that
Is poverty an inevitable part of every social structure?
Yes. Someone will always be marginalized and so therefore left in poverty because we are a terrible species that does not look after one another as we should.
It doesn't have to be but we are seemingly incapable of developing a social structure where basic human needs such as shelter, clean water, food, and health care are met with little to no difficulty. Perhaps if we prioritized the pursuit of knowledge and finding equilibrium in the world over the pursuit of money and expansion.
At what point is a genetically enhanced human no longer human?
When they assimilate the Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000.
As a kind of sub question I overheard, are doctors trying to cure something that is really evolution of the species
I would have to say that when a “human“ can phase in and out of The Crystal Plateau, he is definitely no longer human.
Which major corporations will no longer exist 20 years from now?
Historically, many major companies from 20 years ago have gone on to live in a modified form through diversification. GE, Honeywell, IBM and RCA are some obvious examples. Some newer companies already evolving (and diversifying) from their initial business models are Amazon, Dell, HP and Microsoft.
True! The petrol corporation, 'Shell' are now selling broadband in the UK. I could hardly believe my eyes!
Load More Replies...What exactly makes us human?
Compassion... so, most people aren't actually human, they're self serving predators of one kind or another.
Edit: they're self serving parasites, not predators.
Load More Replies...What comes after cryptocurrencies?
Decentralized trade (for everything possible). The end of currency trend.
Why do people squint their eyes when they can’t see? Wouldn’t that just make it less space to see out of?
"Squinting helps momentarily improve their eyesight by slightly changing the shape of the eye to make it rounder, which helps light properly reach the fovea."
Squinting effectively reduces your eyes' apertures, increasing your optical DOF (Depth Of Field), the region that appears 'sharp' and detailed.
What lies behind death, if anything at all?
Behind death, or beyond it? Life is behind death; there is no beyond. You're gone. Bye.
Hopefully more of a purgatory/different plane kind of thing rather than Heaven and Hell
How do you know that you are not hallucinating?
Honestly, as a schizophrenic, sometimes its hard to tell. Even the pinching/biting method isn't foolproof (I have tactile hallucinations alongside visual and auditory hallucinations) sometimes i just have to reach right into myself and tell myself it isnt real. It's difficult.
One f my worst fears is that this world isn’t real (the universe) and in the real world everything is different and im in a coma or im dreaming or im dead in the real world
Can you yawn when you are asleep?
Will tomorrow ever come?
Is it possible to know everything?
True knowledge lies not in knowing the right answers, but rather knowing the right questions.
What is the purpose of death?
It doesn't need a purpose. That's anthropocentric thinking.
Just watch the first part of the Lion King... He literally explained the circle of life. You're going to become the grass for the antelope or something.
When does the future begin?
There’s no past,present or future,only an eternal now,and if one can’t live there,one can’t live anywhere else.
All I can think of is Colonel Sanders and Dark Helmet watching Space Balls: The Movie. When is now? Just then.
Who decided what’s right and wrong?
No one right and wrong don’t exist we just need something to keep the earth in check
Humans are Social beings and like all Social creatures we have instinctive rules that allow us to coexist and work together for our survival. Any animal with Social tendencies in nature has its own set of instinctive rules that aid in thier survival. Wolves, lions, ants, naked mole rats, bees. All of them exhibit Social behaviors or rules that allow them to safely live together.
If data scientists had the ability to accurately predict who was more likely to commit crimes in the future, how should society respond to that information?
They already can. The problem is the word "likely", and the fact that society doesn't want to spend the money.
The word 'accurately' does a lot of heavy lifting too.
Load More Replies...Heard of concentration camps. Just because some scientist says who are more likely to commit crimes society would handle it the same way Hitler did. And let's not start that again
Will people still own their own cars in the future?
I mean, some cars you don't technically own now. Sales are considered an "extended lease" and are still owned by the company.
If inflation is anything to go by... No. Car ownership might go the way of homeownership.
In the future humans may well find the perfect blend of high technology and sustainability. So I think the question is, Will we all own our own Hover-Donkies in the future?
Will we ever have an ability to measure artificial intelligence the way we measure horsepower?
Given that we can't accurately measure human intelligence, it's reasonable to say that any sufficiently advanced AI to actually be called "intelligent" would be too complex to measure according to a simple scale.
The operating speed of AI software on a given platform, as well as its data access capacity, can be measured. But equating those with 'intelligence' is IMHO flawed. Mea culpa: I played with various AI systems some time ago. Tedious stuff. ;(
We will measure all intelligence IN horsepower. As in, “That guy is running at about two horsepower, if you get my drift.”
How did the universe begin and why did it exist in the first place?
Two different branches of thought as well. One of science, and the other of philosophy.
Load More Replies...'Why', the search for motive, implies awareness. I see no evidence that the universe is conscious, aware, motivated. Sh!te happens, and here we are.
Did th big bang make a sound? If sounds can't be heard in space? Unless of course th big bang created th vacuum that stops sound waves.
How is life on earth going to become extinct?
Probably humans, but possibly a massive meteorite impact, and eventually the Sun will go nova. But if it turns out at ET aliens get us, I'll sure look silly. ;)
Are aliens ancient human beings?
One could just as easily ask, “Are human aliens being ancient (s)?
Are aliens really visiting us in UFOs?
I'm quite in favor of my father's theory on this one. The 'UFO' craze really came alive during the Cold War era. Suddenly people were seeing similar lights in the sky and reporting them as aliens. My father theorizes that the lights were likely military craft, possibly experimental planes. By encouraging the 'alien' discussions, it would keep suspicion of foreign governments off of the military activity. And if suddenly people in foreign countries saw those same 'ufos', well its not the US spying on them, its ALIENS. Obviously this is just speculation, but it is an interesting thought.
Load More Replies...Given that we now know that “UFOs” are actually just unidentified flying oaircraft, most would say the aliens are visiting us in “IFOs”.
Where were we before we came to existence?
Where is that French panda guy who always posts his “oh yeah, well France has THREE ancient Roman coliseums” comments? We need him on this thread. He would say we were all in Paris before we existed. (And he always includes tiny pictures of the stuff he is bragging about, which is a plus.)
Which came first: the sun or the earth?
Sun....Come on..... These are supose to be " unanswerable questions... This One is in most science books from the 9th grade....
The sun, although both formed from the same accreted disc of matter.
The sun. Without it's generational pull the rest of the matter that makes up our solar system would have drifted off to eventually be part of something else.
Genesis 1:1-3 [1]In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [2]Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. [3]And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Yeah but I think the questioner meant in real life.
Load More Replies...If the sun was first what did it revolve around?
Load More Replies...What came first: the seed or the plant?
In the case of an individual plant, the seed. It is the same organism as the plant it births, and it came from a different one. In general terms, however, plants came before seeds. The oldest plant families, like mosses and ferns, reproduce by releasing spores. Seeds are a more recent evolutionary development.
Egg. Lizards were laying eggs long before chickens evolved.
Load More Replies...Do you really mean seed? Or did you just misspell Steed? Because that is a horse and would completely change this question.
How do you learn about something that doesn’t exist?
Same way you learn about things that do exist: you read about them or somebody tells you.
Of course you can! Unicorns do not exist and never have, but you and I both know exactly what I mean by "unicorns".
Load More Replies...If the truth is different for each of us, how can we call it the truth?
It isn't. False premise. Just because you believe something doesn't make it true.
And just because you don't believe it doesn't make it not true
Load More Replies...Which came first: the universe or time?
Neither. Current thinking is that time started at the Big Bang, so the universe and time are conterminous.
Time is technically a human construct designed to make sense of our world. Time only truly exists of there is need to measure it.
Can you cry underwater?
Can God create a stone that is too heavy for even him to lift?
Which deity are you asking about? Most gods are probably busy micromanaging their realms and lack motive for creating useless rocks. Do you expect Jehovah or Ganesh or Freya or Kokopeli to bother? Yeah, sure.
Is your god devoid of intellectual curiosity?
Load More Replies...Is your god devoid of intellectual curiosity?
Load More Replies...Is a question with no answer still called a question?
Was there ever a time when nothing existed or has something always been in existence?
I think time requires space to exist, not matter. But the answer's the same either way; no, because time started at the Big Bang.
Load More Replies...How was a calendar even invented?
Logic would suggest that someone noticed that the first letters of the months spell out the name JASON (January, February, etc.) and the calendar took off from there.
A thousand years from now, which things will be possible and which ones will not?
You will be able to work but won't be able to have physical money in your possession.
Is the Earth alive, as in a living, breathing organism?
If you can stomp on it and dig in it and it doesn’t scream and shake all over, then, no, Earth is not alive.
Will we ever have a definable form of measurement for the concept of truth?
Things are either true or not. There is no measurement, and there is no such thing as "alternative truth".
Sadly, truth is a dissolving commodity, as of late!
Load More Replies...Why do we keep time if time is endless and everything happens in its own time?
“Keeping time” is simply a construct of the human Id. In multidimensional hemisphordal planes the entire notion of keeping time is actually quite ludicrous.
If you hate a hater, do you hate yourself?
How much hate could a wood hater hate if a wood hater could hate wood? 🦫
What forms of government will be better than democracy?
Churchill famously remarked that democracy was the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried.
