Out of all of the unanswered questions in science, which one do you find the most intriguing?

Plain or sphere? wrote:

Why has NASA been faking photos of Earth from space for the last 50 plus years?

If the earth is a sphere, then why are all horizons flat?

Nile, longest river in the world, c.4,160 mi (6,695 km). Over the last 1200 miles the the Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea, it drops a total of 2 FEET! How can this be when the math says it must ascend and/or descend (depending on its relation to the Equator) by some 12 miles, yet it only drops 2 Feet????

The Earth is not a perfect sphere you dumb*ss.

the irrevenant wrote:

Why aren't boobs the size of beachballs?

If humans evolved over thousands of generations, the women with the biggest boobs should of churned out the most kids passing those genes along.

We have used have instead of of since forever and yet you're still spelling it wrong.

ER = EPR, spacetime = entanglement

To fisfy wrote:

However for those who don't believe in life after death, my retort has always been, wait until the day you take your last breath, then and only then will you know if you were right and the rest of us who believe in God/Heaven/Salvation After Death, were wrong.

Actually, if our belief that there is no life after death is correct, then we won't know that we were right and you were wrong.

I was thinking about ocean life. Dolphins can catch glimpses of life outside water but they aren't capable of exploring land. They have no idea what's outside of the oceans in which they live. There have to be some amazing things just outside of our reach. I hope humanity can get past petty squabbles and use our collective energy for learning about the universe.

My iPhone still blows my mind. Camera, video, texting, FaceTime. i can access the Internet on my phone with faster speed than my old dial up aol in the mid 90s. Now when I'm bored I'll read about all types of things; politics, science, philosophy. It's all here in my hand while I'm sitting on the toilet.

Maybe in my lifetime society will become fully automated and everyone will be able to spend time learning and creating rather than slaving away at some bs job.

Why do trolls troll

It's not the unanswered questions that interest me, it's the unthoughtof questions.

Question Love wrote:

Now when I'm bored I'll read about all types of things; politics, science, philosophy. It's all here in my hand while I'm sitting on the toilet.

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You may want to buy a stool softener or a lazboy.

How do people like jamin still exist? Shouldn't they be bred out by now?

What are the scientific reasons for running 7 days a week versus running 3 days a week with more recovery & strength training?

A few questions:

How life started on earth. Abiogenesis as a previous poster said (I had to look that up). Apparently scientists still have very little idea how that happened.

What happens inside a black hole.

As a concession to religious people I would like to know what Jesus was like during his teenage years.

ryan foreman wrote:

How life started on earth. Abiogenesis as a previous poster said

Abiogenesis is unlikely. It would have happened during the hadean period when the earth was being bombarded with meteors, and somehow survived. Yet in the billions of years since that turn of luck has not been repeated despite much better conditions.

The correct theory is panspermia. Comets look like sperms because they are sperms, swimming around looking for planets to impregnate. Long ago the earth was surrounded by comets, each striving desperately to be the first to smash into it. But the earth could be fertilized only once. So now when comets see the earth they just keep going, only smashing into earth by accident.

For the posters wondering about black holes:

ryan foreman wrote:

What happens inside a black hole.

Oh, it's the same. Skin color really makes no difference in that respect.

What came BEFORE The Big Bang...and no I do not refer to the TV Program.

How was the image on the Shroud of Turin created?

Who wrote the book of love?

Andrew Wiles proved the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture in 1995 (first published in 1993 but with errors)

Fermat's last Theorem is a consequence of Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture.

There still isn't any proof for the Riemann Hypothesis.

The most intriguing problem in todays science is P=NP since nobody even has the slightest idea of how to prove/disprove it.

peace frog wrote:

What is the origin of the universe?

Don't tell me 'big bang.' There is no way that one day there was nothing, then the next instant 'poof,' we have a universe. That's the most intellectually lazy, illogical proof I've ever heard.

It's one reason that I believe in a higher power.

Instead of lecturing you on a message board, I'll simply say that you might want to read a "little" bit more into quantum mechanics before you believe that the GUT (grand unified theory) simply states that "there was nothing, then the next instant 'poof,' we have a universe."

Infinity.