Thread: Odd Questions that Don't Fit Anywhere Else...

This thread is the home for random, abstract questions that actually have some merit to them but aren't quite profound enough to deserve thier own thread. That does not mean it invites pointless, stupid, or entirely sarcastic questions, but hust strange ones.

WARNING: Once a question goes into this thread, there is no removing it. Even if we've gone 12 pages without mention of it, your question can randomly be brought back to the circle of attention. Consequently, dumb answers to said questions are also never out of the realm of scrutiny. Ever.
Rule of thumb for this thread: There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.



I'll start. (P.S.- You need not format your questions like I have, though you may if you want.)



Question: If a shrink ray could be developed, could it be applied to a living organism, a human for sake of argument? And if it could, to what extent?

Reasons It Could Work: The shrinking would be entirely proportional. So all the body parts would be there in the same relation to each other.

Concerns Why It Wouldn't Work: Is there a point where you can't shrink a cell anymore, even proportionalty? And how small would you have to be before you couldn't breathe air molecules properly?

What would cause the universe to stop expanding rapidly? If the universe stops expanding at the rate it is there is a good chance that gravity will cause it to become a singularity (a point in space-time of infinite density and zero volume), ending the universe in a "big crunch."

Will the universe become so large that it doesn't necessarily have slow down it's expansion, but the gravitational pull becomes so great that it pulls everything into a singularity?

Originally Posted by CatBus

What would cause the universe to stop expanding rapidly? If the universe stops expanding at the rate it is there is a good chance that gravity will cause it to become a singularity (a point in space-time of infinite density and zero volume), ending the universe in a "big crunch."

Will the universe become so large that it doesn't necessarily have slow down it's expansion, but the gravitational pull becomes so great that it pulls everything into a singularity?

A bug in the space time continuum, if it's possible, would stop the universe from growing, maybe the big bang would repeat itself. That is beyond our reach, my friend, all I have for you is 7, 49, and 3 . . . which brings me to this question:

What would we see in a mirror if it had nothing to reflect? White is something, same with black, although it's no pigment or all pigment, it's still something . . . I'm talking about nothing.

^ that question got me an idea. But to answer your question, it would be black completely. Black is the absence of light.

What if you had a hollow spherical mirror. What would the inside look like (assuming nothing is in it, it has no holes, and it is lit)?

Bandaids are fleshtone color, but whose fleshtone? When was it decided that the color "nude" is a slightly dark peach color? If they made colors for various shades of skin, would that be considered racist? Is it racist to only have one shade?

Originally Posted by Wolfsbane

Bandaids are fleshtone color, but whose fleshtone? When was it decided that the color "nude" is a slightly dark peach color? If they made colors for various shades of skin, would that be considered racist? Is it racist to only have one shade?

uuuumm bandaids are sooo racist.... hehe

what wold happen if a bear attacked someone and that person hugged the bear? lol seriously though...