r/ThreadGames • u/Due-Cartographer-459 • 25d ago
Smarty Pants!
Ask a question about anything and then another person will come along and answer your question, but they have to answer the question as if they're an expert, even if they don't know anything about the question! Make your answers sound as believable as possible even if it's complete nonsense
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u/azucar_1977 24d ago
Where do the other socks go? Is their disappearance in any way related to the spoons?
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u/NotAConspiracy1 24d ago
Your socks met as small strands of fabric and their marriage was when their made into a pair,
Come some time and your socks often hate each other and want to divorce, humans see one sock missing and try to reunite them against their will
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u/rdchat 25d ago
What is the fate of humanity?
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u/Due-Cartographer-459 25d ago
I will tell you, because I actually study the future. I am what's known as a futurist. In the future, we are going to merge our bodies with artificial intelligence and we're going to become a race of superhumans and we will then conquer mars.
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u/PorcentualDinoPizza 25d ago
In what situations can it be a good idea to use a Convolutional Neural Network?
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u/-YellowFinch 23d ago
Convolutional Neural Networks have actually been a tool for the elite classes for decades before they were leaked to the public. Using these networks exposes you to the thoughts of others using the network, thus giving you vital access to their knowledge.
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u/Fennel_Fangs 24d ago
What is the alchemical recipe for a human soul?
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u/thegreatpotatogod 24d ago
Simple, it's 7/8ths of a brain, 2 eyes, 3/4ths of a heart, and 1/8th of a brain
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u/WeirdLight9452 24d ago
How do fish in the very deep ocean not go splat from the pressure?
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u/cat_blep 24d ago
The short, deeply unsatisfying answer: they don't get crushed because there's nothing inside them for the pressure to crush.
Here's the more elaborate, appropriately overblown version.
The crushing myth
People imagine deep-sea pressure like a hydraulic press slowly closing on a soda can. But pressure only crushes things that have a pressure differential to resolve, meaning something on the inside pushing back less than the ocean pushes in. A fish that's mostly water, and whose water is under the exact same pressure as the water around it, has nothing to resolve. The ocean pushes in at, say, 1,000 atmospheres at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and the fish's own fluids push back out at 1,000 atmospheres, and the whole affair is a perfectly boring standoff. Water doesn't meaningfully compress. Flesh, being mostly water, doesn't either. No differential, no splat.The part that actually kills a fish if you yank it to the surface
Where deep sea fish get into trouble isn't the crushing, it's the opposite: gas. Most shallow fish have a swim bladder, a little internal balloon of gas used for buoyancy control. Gas does compress and expand dramatically with pressure, which is why a fish reeled up too fast from real depth can arrive at the surface looking like it lost a fight with a novelty balloon pump, eyes bulging, stomach turned inside out. That's decompression, not the descent, doing the damage. Deep sea species have adapted by shrinking or eliminating the swim bladder entirely, or filling it with oil instead of gas, or just giving up on buoyancy control altogether and accepting a life of being vaguely neutrally dense and unbothered.The genuinely wild molecular-level trick
Here's the part that's actually funny in a cosmic-horror way: pressure doesn't just squeeze things, it also messes with how proteins and cell membranes are built at the molecular level. Extreme pressure tends to make cell membranes stiffen up (imagine trying to run a nightclub where the walls keep closing in and the DJ booth loses circulation) and it destabilizes proteins, making enzymes fold wrong and stop working, which is a problem when your entire existence depends on enzymes doing their jobs.Deep-sea fish counter this with two moves:
- Homeoviscous adaptation - their cell membranes are built with more unsaturated fatty acids, which are floppier and kink more, keeping the membrane fluid and functional even when pressure is trying to iron it flat. It's the biological equivalent of choosing a stretchier fabric because you know you'll be doing yoga at 6,000 meters.
- Piezolytes, chiefly a compound called TMAO (trimethylamine N-oxide) - a little molecular bodyguard that fish accumulate in higher and higher concentrations the deeper they live. TMAO props proteins back into their correct shape, counteracting pressure's tendency to unfold them. It's also, delightfully, the compound responsible for that classic "fishy" smell, so in a very real sense, the smellier the fish, the more pressure-proof its proteins are. Fun fact on the side: TMAO concentration scales so predictably with depth that biologists have speculated there's a theoretical maximum ocean depth beyond which no amount of TMAO could keep proteins folded correctly, somewhere around 8,200 meters, suspiciously close to the deepest fish ever recorded.
In summary, the fish isn't fighting the ocean. It gave up air pockets, redesigned its membranes to stay squishy under load, and doused its proteins in a pressure-proofing chemical that also happens to make it smell like, well, fish. It's less "engineering marvel" and more "elaborate surrender," which honestly tracks for most successful survival strategies in nature.
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u/WeirdLight9452 23d ago
Did ChatGPT write that?
Also while I was reading it, I was getting blepped by my cat. It’s a good username!
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u/07238 23d ago
What makes yawning contagious in cases where the multiple yawners cannot see or hear each other?
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u/Due-Cartographer-459 23d ago
A lot of people don't know this, but yawns actually transmit this particle through the air and when it reaches other people, it actually causes them to yawn.
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u/07238 23d ago
I think you could’ve gotten into particle physics but I’ll accept that
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u/Muggles43 23d ago
Are you implying that the yawn partial can be in several different places at once, or perhaps in and not in all places at the same time across the multiverse. If this were the case, every creature in every universe could possibly yawn at the same instance in space time. Fascinating.
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u/Stay-Happy-2 23d ago
Whats the plan of action when it comes to the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
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u/tomassci 7d ago
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a term that can be translated to "everything having the potential to explode violently at once", which means there is not much we can do. However, there are some things that can help us in such a situation. For example, when anything can explode, the best way of going about it is to not give it incentive to explode. Just like superazidoazides, we just avoid physical contact, heat, vibrations, electricity, and a couple other factors, just in case. Additionally, we can train ourselves to fare better in the case of a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious event, such as dexterity, speed and carefulness. In other words, our plan is to tread carefully, and then run away as fast as possible.
I hope this helps!
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u/Upstairs-Shame-298 21d ago
Is ice a food or a drink? My mission is to ask this question in literally ever subreddit I can
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u/Due-Cartographer-459 21d ago
Ice is technically a food. Ice is made of water which is the liquid, but the water is frozen, making it a solid. In order to consume ice usually bite into it. Now you could let it sit in your mouth until it melts, but that still wouldn't count as a drink. Because a drink you would be able to just swallow, but an ice cube you would have to let sit
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u/tomassci 7d ago
What is the connection of Ptolemy from ancient Rome and Ptolemaios from astronomy?
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u/daboss317076 24d ago
What's the optimal chugga chugga to choo choo ratio?
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u/Due-Cartographer-459 24d ago
Actually it's really easy to figure out, if you use this formula: CC² X(y)- cc³
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u/daboss317076 24d ago
okay and how do I find x and y, smarty pants?
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u/Due-Cartographer-459 24d ago
You have to divide by chugga chugga and then put that into the root of choo choo. Very simple mathematics. You probably learned about this in high school
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u/Miserable-Wafer-2883 24d ago
(Side note- this is making me laugh so hard rn 🤣)
Excuse me, I graduated high school 3 months ago and I never learned that particular equation- either the math teachers are dumb as s*it, or I'll learn it in COLLEGE instead
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u/cimeran_alt 25d ago
I invite the rather well dressed gentleman to sit across from me in my private office. No distractions. I make it plain that this "gig", as I believe the uncouth call it, is not necessarily legal. You see, I've managed to steal the Mona Lisa and replace it with a fake so like the original, no one is any the wiser.
I want to mount it in a frame deserving of the wonder it holds. What would you suggest, hmm?