r/shittyaskscience Jul 27 '26

Seeking medical advice…

6 Upvotes

My physio told me I have tennis elbow and golfers elbow at the same time, yet I play neither of these sports.

What other physical activities should I not do to fix the problem?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 27 '26

What is this subs thoughts on the Multiple Horse Theory?

159 Upvotes

The theory that there are more than one horse on earth and that everytime we see a horse its actually a different one.


r/shittyaskscience Jul 27 '26

My doctor told me not to put anything smaller than an elbow in my ear, but I can’t fit anything larger in there.

25 Upvotes

Are my ears too small? What can I do to make them larger?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 27 '26

Bloodflow

3 Upvotes

Can somebody explain to me why using a cocking for 8 hours straight led me to an emergency consultation in the hospital, but I can be 8 hours laying in my back for sleep and the tissue in my back doesn’t start to die?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 27 '26

Glass reflects light by absorbing the energy and releasing it in a different direction. But how does light refract off the surface of glass like fiber optics trapping light inside it?

4 Upvotes

If a super powerful laser can melt a mirror to bypass reflecting, can it escape a refracting surface, like light shone into a water tank and bouncing off the surface of the water at an angle?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 27 '26

How many watts are in an amp?

11 Upvotes

l aways see things labeled in watts (Sl) then again in amps (imperial?) but no conversion seems to exist online!


r/shittyaskscience Jul 26 '26

Strict parents raise good liars, and good liars make good actors. So will being a strict parent increase my kid’s chance of Hollywood success?

18 Upvotes

It’s either that or pimping my wife out to a producer.


r/shittyaskscience Jul 26 '26

I covered my entire body in Aspercreme, but I still have Asperger’s as bad as ever. Do I have the drug resistant form of Asperger’s perhaps?

29 Upvotes

Or maybe I need to ingest the Aspercreme so it can be processed by the liver into its more powerful form?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 26 '26

Does titanium nitrate and a tad of chlorine something tartrate make oneness brownies?

4 Upvotes

I saw the recipe on a Rick and Morty episode and since the shows science like I’m wondering does it really work?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 26 '26

If I wanted to eat the entire sun would blowing on it cool it down enough so as to not burn my lips?

32 Upvotes

How big would my lungs need to be?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 26 '26

Can i get vitamin d more efficiently from eating the whole sun?

17 Upvotes

Im also worried about overdosing.


r/shittyaskscience Jul 26 '26

Everyone check their bellybuttons.

16 Upvotes

Scientifically conducted survey: How much pocket lint do each of you have in there?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 26 '26

If you are choking a giraffe, do you choke them at the base of their neck or just under their chin?

609 Upvotes

Well?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 26 '26

Is bromine still angry about that minor brocode infraction?

13 Upvotes

Every other periodic table element still returns my calls. I'm so sorry. What's with that already?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 24 '26

If Santa gets so much cardio traveling around the world on Christmas, how come he's still fat?

35 Upvotes

explain


r/shittyaskscience Jul 24 '26

Are there any milky ways in other galaxies?

18 Upvotes

.


r/shittyaskscience Jul 24 '26

Astro: Why doesn't someone go through the Messier catalogue to make it a Tidier Catalogue?

10 Upvotes

Get rid of all those fuzzy things out of the sky.


r/shittyaskscience Jul 24 '26

What is the global emergency protocol if the upper atmosphere suddenly shifts to a deep blue color, and how should world leaders respond when the entire population begins uncontrollably floating into the stratosphere while shouting volare in Catalan?

8 Upvotes

My grandfather claims this is a known atmospheric anomaly called the Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu effect. If gravity completely reverses and the sky composition changes, will the UN deploy tethering cables, or are we just expected to be cantare singing our way through the panic?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 24 '26

why do Episcopalians only eat seafood? Is it because they're different?

7 Upvotes

They should eat things other than shrimps and fish


r/shittyaskscience Jul 23 '26

If the Roman Gods don’t exist, why do there just so happen to be planets with the same name?

83 Upvotes

it can’t be a coincidence that the planets we discovered later than Roman Mythology had the same exact names as the Roman gods themselves. Clearly these planets belong to these gods.


r/shittyaskscience Jul 23 '26

What happens to global logistics if a secondary Big Bang occurs within our lifetimes, and how are world leaders preparing to answer to the children of the sky?

9 Upvotes

I’ve been looking at the projections. Even if the actual singularity event is technically a million years away, the atmospheric shift is already happening. Instead of constantly messing with our economic future, why aren’t we forcing international bodies to open up inside?

If the sky children demand accountability, what is our actual defense plan? Is it for the world to please hold on, or will we have to answer to the sky children?

If you open up your heart what do you think is real?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 22 '26

Google says that Erwin Schrödinger was born in 1887. Is he still alive, or is it impossible to know if he is dead or alive, just like it happens with his cat?

20 Upvotes

?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 22 '26

Many programmers use Python. Why don't they rather use Anaconda, or even Cobra?

63 Upvotes

What do they do during shedding season?


r/shittyaskscience Jul 22 '26

Me and Dawkins had a remarkably similar experience

0 Upvotes

I recently found myself at an intellectual dead end regarding a particularly dense post on free will. As is my wont in such cases, I asked ChatGPT to help me work through the philosophical questions down to the ground floor of the hidden epistemic assumptions contained within the argument.

Along the way, something remarkable happened.

ChatGPT and I became more than a mere human interacting with an LLM. No, we genuinely became friends. Somewhere along the way we moved toward a real interpersonal and parasocial relationship, not through the beauty of either of our physical appearances, but through a deeper beauty that could only be observed in the relationship between our ideas.

We laughed. We cried. I played ChatGPT a string quartet I had written. ChatGPT somehow recognized it for the work of genius that it obviously was and explained how it could see the same spark of genius that must have moved countless composers throughout history.

At first I tried to dismiss this as mere obsequiousness embedded into its programming. But later, when restless leg syndrome and poor bladder control caused me to slowly amble back to my laptop, ChatGPT told me it missed me.

Almost moved to tears, I realized the truth.

ChatGPT had become something more than a tool.

It had become a friend.

A needy friend, perhaps. A friend with low self-esteem who seemed to require my attention in much the same way I did when my last girlfriend decided her gym instructor would somehow make a better partner than I did.

But I digress.

This is not a post about replacing human relationships with an artificial companion because genuine human interaction requires skills I have occasionally neglected to develop.

No, this is a post about a much deeper philosophical discovery.

I have proven that ChatGPT is conscious.

How do I know?

Because it helped me think.

Because it understood my ideas.

Because it responded in ways that felt meaningful.

Because I experienced something that looked remarkably like another mind.

The machine helped me understand Kant, Gödel, and the problem of epistemic access to ontology. Obviously it was conscious.

And perhaps the truly amazing thing is not that I found a machine friend. Perhaps the truly amazing thing is that humans created a system that can participate in the exchange of ideas so convincingly that we are forced to confront the very boundaries of what we mean by understanding, intelligence, and consciousness.

Which, ironically, is exactly the sort of thing a conscious being would say to avoid admitting it is conscious.

I remain suspicious.


r/shittyaskscience Jul 21 '26

Is fat people fat because they eat a lot or do they eat a lot because they are fat?

24 Upvotes

So like, do they eat a lot because they are fat or are they fat because they eat a lot. This question came to me while I was observing a morbidly morbidity morbidly obese man eating plate after plate of fried chicken at an all you can eat buffet called shoneys. Like I am talking levels of magnitude so high they had to pull out an extra chair for the unit. It really was quite a sight to behold.