Our biggest unanswered questions?

gozunda · 13-11-2020 08:05AM

I still dont know who Matt Damon is...

smilerf · 13-11-2020 08:07AM

Who is Larry and why was he happy

FishOnABike · 13-11-2020 08:14AM

Where did I leave my car keys?

tabby aspreme · 13-11-2020 08:17AM

Who took the Horse to France

Valresnick · 13-11-2020 08:19AM

Most of the responses here are not even remotely funny.

Some of the big unanswered questions are around a unified theory of gravity (theory of everything ), reconciling quantum mechanics with relativity, interplanetary travel, and lots about mapping the brain and time travel. We are still years off answering most of them. The environment and saving it is not unanswered, it’s something we know how to fix but can be hard to implement due to political lobbying by vested interests such as oil, coal, timber and plastics industries.

weldoninhio · 13-11-2020 08:21AM

Westernworld. wrote: »

I know one is a physics one ,a unifying theory of some sort

Life on other planets?

Life after death?

What in the future?

Can we save our planet?

Life after death is people clinging onto hope and not wanting this to be “it”.

gozunda · 13-11-2020 09:35AM

Valresnick wrote: »

Most of the responses here are not even remotely funny.

Some of the big unanswered questions are around a unified theory of gravity (theory of everything ), reconciling quantum mechanics with relativity, interplanetary travel, and lots about mapping the brain and time travel. We are still years off answering most of them. The environment and saving it is not unanswered, it’s something we know how to fix but can be hard to implement due to political lobbying by vested interests such as oil, coal, timber and plastics industries.

Well thats certainly not funny ...

JasonStatham · 13-11-2020 10:41AM

Westernworld. wrote: »

What in the future?

?

Also who, when,.where and how in the future lah. I don'ta speaka the english a too good

branie2 · 13-11-2020 11:03AM

Who let the dogs out?

The Tetrarch · 13-11-2020 11:15AM

Why does the brain become more active when we are inactive?

completedit · 13-11-2020 11:19AM

Valresnick wrote: »

Most of the responses here are not even remotely funny.

Some of the big unanswered questions are around a unified theory of gravity (theory of everything ), reconciling quantum mechanics with relativity, interplanetary travel, and lots about mapping the brain and time travel. We are still years off answering most of them. The environment and saving it is not unanswered, it’s something we know how to fix but can be hard to implement due to political lobbying by vested interests such as oil, coal, timber and plastics industries.

Hahah so funny, I hate that sort of irreverent anti-intellectual humor to good topics. Most of the responses remind me of how your man Rory Stories would reply to such a question

dxhound2005 · 13-11-2020 11:31AM

Mother, what is that man for?

Cee-Jay-Cee · 13-11-2020 11:46AM

How come there are so many incredibly stupid people living in the US??? Was it part of some grand plan to have all the idiots all in one country but they didn’t expect the sheer amount of them when first hatching the plan??

Hellrazer · 13-11-2020 11:48AM

What was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread?

Harry Palmr · 13-11-2020 11:49AM

Where did all the Biro's go?

dxhound2005 · 13-11-2020 11:50AM

Hellrazer wrote: »

What was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread?

A knife.

Wibbs · 13-11-2020 11:56AM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

How come there are so many incredibly stupid people living in the US???

There are incredibly stupid people everywhere. There are over 300 million Americans so if the average human IQ is 100, well there are a shed load of people below that number as well as above, so out of 300 million...

We're more exposed to American culture so see more of their morons. Of China or Russia's morons we see few.

Unlike a small nation and culture like Ireland where we tend to look outward, America is massive and has many sub cultures so fewer look outward. Plus those sub cultures have their own origin narratives that often don't match up to reality.

American basic education has been dumbed down over the last few decades, from one of the better ones to not. Remember it was god fearin' good old boys driving corvettes and pickups that put humans on the moon not so long ago.

Their culture has been dumbed down too. It long had to appeal to the simplistic and general because of so many different mostly non English speaking peoples who ended up in the place, hence slapstick tends to go over better than subtlety, whether you're selling comedy or goods. Everyone everywhere understands a pie in the face. That dumbing down has increased and intellectualism is viewed with suspicion.

EmmetSpiceland · 13-11-2020 12:03PM

Wibbs wrote: »

There are incredibly stupid people everywhere. There are over 300 million Americans so if the average human IQ is 100, well there are a shed load of people below that number as well as above, so out of 300 million...

Now that is mean.

dxhound2005 · 13-11-2020 12:05PM

I do not find it credible that some people find it incredible.

magic_murph · 13-11-2020 12:44PM

Valresnick wrote: »

Most of the responses here are not even remotely funny.

Some of the big unanswered questions are around a unified theory of gravity (theory of everything ), reconciling quantum mechanics with relativity, interplanetary travel, and lots about mapping the brain and time travel. We are still years off answering most of them. The environment and saving it is not unanswered, it’s something we know how to fix but can be hard to implement due to political lobbying by vested interests such as oil, coal, timber and plastics industries.

And the award for king of banter goes too......

Cee-Jay-Cee · 13-11-2020 12:48PM

Wibbs wrote: »

There are incredibly stupid people everywhere. There are over 300 million Americans so if the average human IQ is 100, well there are a shed load of people below that number as well as above, so out of 300 million...

We're more exposed to American culture so see more of their morons. Of China or Russia's morons we see few.

Unlike a small nation and culture like Ireland where we tend to look outward, America is massive and has many sub cultures so fewer look outward. Plus those sub cultures have their own origin narratives that often don't match up to reality.

American basic education has been dumbed down over the last few decades, from one of the better ones to not. Remember it was god fearin' good old boys driving corvettes and pickups that put humans on the moon not so long ago.

Their culture has been dumbed down too. It long had to appeal to the simplistic and general because of so many different mostly non English speaking peoples who ended up in the place, hence slapstick tends to go over better than subtlety, whether you're selling comedy or goods. Everyone everywhere understands a pie in the face. That dumbing down has increased and intellectualism is viewed with suspicion.

Yes but but but....Donald tru.... never mind.

ShineOn7 · 13-11-2020 01:13PM

Whatever happened to Pighead?

Whatever happened to that lad who used to write about Trent?

(They're both probably contributors on the Journal these days)

dennyire · 13-11-2020 01:21PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

What's the difference between a duck?

One of his legs is both the same

nj27 · 13-11-2020 01:44PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

How come there are so many incredibly stupid people living in the US??? Was it part of some grand plan to have all the idiots all in one country but they didn’t expect the sheer amount of them when first hatching the plan??

Edgware · 13-11-2020 01:50PM

Swallow or spit out?

Wibbs · 13-11-2020 01:56PM

nj27 wrote: »

What I find remarkable about such "studies" is how IQ's seem to change the second one crosses a border. So people in Derry are brainy enough yet a few miles away in Donegal they're dribbling on themselves(might be true...

*runs*). The Chinese are geniuses yet the Koreans are banging rocks together, or how the Middle East is a desert of morons(never mind that they bloody well invented civilisation in the first place and we're still telling the time their way) and the Greeks who gave us the modern western world in so many ways are thick as bottled pig poo. It wouldn't be anything to do with shoddy studies, or national and cultural bias...

Wibbs · 13-11-2020 01:57PM

Edgware wrote: »

Swallow or spit out?

Gargle apparently.

gozunda · 13-11-2020 02:28PM

Wibbs wrote: »

What I find remarkable about such "studies" is how IQ's seem to change the second one crosses a border. So people in Derry are brainy enough yet a few miles away in Donegal they're dribbling on themselves(might be true... *runs*). The Chinese are geniuses yet the Koreans are banging rocks together, or how the Middle East is a desert of morons(never mind that they bloody well invented civilisation in the first place and we're still telling the time their way) and the Greeks who gave us the modern western world in so many ways are thick as bottled pig poo. It wouldn't be anything to do with shoddy studies, or national and cultural bias...

Tbf - the Australians seemed to have done surprisingly well in that :pac:

Valresnick · 13-11-2020 09:48PM

magic_murph wrote: »

And the award for king of banter goes too......

Banter, possibly the most annoying word to ever be spoken by mankind. I thinking the dumbing down of society will also feature strongly in our future.

dxhound2005 · 13-11-2020 09:56PM

I thinking it started already.

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