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- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14415. Scientists are still trying to discover why we park on driveways and drive on parkways.
- AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+111On an Infinite Improbability scale I'd rate it a banana.
- Harabeck, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9714. Gravity
No really. We have no idea what creates the force that attracts matter. - lupinus, on 10/21/2007, -6/+90I just want to know how can American Idol be so damn popular.
- elnerdo, on 10/21/2007, -3/+84That one's easy.
People are stupid. - DiamondIce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+74Wookies live on Kashyyyk.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5915. Why do I never get an answering machine or voice mail when I accidentally dial a wrong number?
- ewy99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42I remember hearing the saying that "the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine". How much do you agree with this statement?
- AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -10/+47@ Harabeck
Dude, you can't reply to my 14 with your 14! - interrogate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35So good to know articles have expiration dates now. Any facts contained stop being true after 6 months!
- AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3914. How Harabeck sleeps at night.
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3414. The PS3 costs $600, yet people pay $1000 on eBay, and it's really only worth its weight in dirt (really high-quality dirt though)
- otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29None of you can explain any of these. So, for the sake of this post, only comical comments shall be permitted.
- whodatis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30It's nice to see an article that isn't baed around a game system....
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28Are people stupid because they watch American Idol, or is American Idol stupid because the audience is stupid?
A scientific mystery. - vezquex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21lol, a quick search reveals that this gets dugg every year or so, this is the third time it has amassed a significant number of votes.
http://digg.com/search?area=all&age=all&sort=old&s=13+things+that+do+not+make+sense&submit=Search
Just the circle of Digg. - coldphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18And to support his argument, I'm going to simply say that pattern recognition is one of the key defining qualities of the human mind, one of the few assets that remains to allude even the most powerful of computers.
- Corrosionx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21"15. Scientists are still trying to discover why we park on driveways and drive on parkways."
Cause a driveway is the way to drive and a parkway is the way to park? I'm asking seriously...
Kinda like you bring a shipment by car but you bring cargo by ship? - Cougaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Hey, you should email that to some scientists or something, I'm sure that your conclusions and arguments will once and for all end these discussions.
Honestly, this is a dumbed down article, the reason scientists can't explain things but you can is that they understand why it's an issue and you're going off of some article with two paragraph summaries on some of the stickiest problems in the world of science. - CraigJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I'd have to go with a bowl of petunias...
- CraigJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16#10 - galaxies emit light - a lot of it. Try to find a speck of sand in your dark garage with a match...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I know enough to say that one of those, the Homeopathy one, is dead as a doornail. I don't know what the problem was with that particular study, but there's been dozens of studies, and homeopathy doesn't work: it's complete rubbish. It really isn't so that snake venom diluted in distilled water until there's less than one snake molecule in the beaker becomes snake anti-venom; people really don't heal better in rooms painted in red color; and water really doesn't have a "structural memory" or "remembers" what's happened to it. It's known, proven, bunk.
- CraigJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I think Bill Gates would say worth it's weight in bricks, but it's all semantics at this point.
- Ajajadude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I think that's a paradox...or some other fancy word
Sweet article
EDIT: I'll go with conundrum. That's my final answer - spikeismoo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18They forgot Lost.
- jbrevik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1316. Why is there a banker on "Deal or No Deal"?
- coldphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13What's so mysterious about that?
- lburgguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1514. Before the wedding ring, great sex, after said wedding ring, no sex.
- jgclark123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12eBay
- jkaiser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1514. Why anyone would camp out for 36 hours for a PS3 :p
- captainzoom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@Eridanus
Oh my god. You did the math. You're a genius, call Oxford for your degree. Tell that crackpot in the wheelchair to move over...
the actual mystery involves the transfer of energy. To go more in depth...
Imagine the universe as an aquarium. The water is 70 degrees F. Each star is heating element in the water. Imagine just one star (one hot rock) on a far end of the aquarium. The energy from that rock travels out into the water, heating the ambient temperature above 70F
Add a second element, at the same temperature on the other side of the tank. The water in the center will raise to some median temperature *at a constant speed*. This speed, in the universe, is the speed of light.
Based on our math of the size of the universe, the amount of time it would take for that "center of the aquarium" temperature to come to an equilibrium has not yet elapsed. (based on 28B light years and 14B years to work) and yet it appears that this equilibrium has already been achieved.
THAT is the mystery, not that 14X2=28.... - fredrated, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I will tell you what I think causes the placebo effect.
As you know, our brains are excellent pattern recognition engines. The neocortex also has pattern recognition abilities, which it applies to the rest of the brain. That is, it doesn't just recognize patterns in input, but patterns in the whole flow of input-process-output of the rest of the brain.
When the neocortex comes to recognize a pattern like "pill followed by pain relief", and then it sees a broken pattern "pill but no pain relief", it simply completes the pattern itself through the release of endorphins. - darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12this article is still popular because science still hasn't solved any of it, so it's still as relevant today as it ever was
- Jiffylush, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20This is all very easy to understand
'and God created the heavens and the earth'
;)
snarky btw - unknownunknowns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Dammit. Is "moran" becoming the new "rtard"?
/I'm getting too old for this ***** - Cougaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The point is that these are anomolies. Sure, for many of these, other tests prove otherwise, but certain people getting certain results definitely begs for further investigation, even if that investigation only tells us that the anomoly was an error.
- unknownunknowns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yes. It's a grand conspiracy. omg i see 37s.
- motthew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@lburgguy
What's with this ridiculous idea that marriage ruins sex? Get with the times. Studies are showing exactly the opposite is true. http://health.discovery.com/centers/loverelationships/articles/marriage_myths.html
Check out item #8: "married people have both more and better sex than do their unmarried counterparts."
Some of the other items are very interesting as well, especially the one regarding cohabitation before marriage. Those who live together to "try it out" statistically have worse marriages than those who don't. - Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Oh my gosh, these do not make sense!
- raisinbran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@iamnos
I'm not certain, but I don't think the problem is that the microwave radiation has traveled that distance, it's that the radiation has achieved equilibrium across the entire distance that it has traveled.
Could someone verify this? - anonym41414, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I wasn't making an argument. I was simply pointing out that life is a total mystery, despite centuries of intensive research. It continues to defy our understanding.
Doesn't mean there is or is not a God. That's got nothing to do with it. I'm just saying that mysteries are neat.
And on the subject of food, you missed my point. Living matter (like, you know, bacteria and birds and bugs and you) has the ability to manufacture more of itself, through both growth and reproduction. Non-living matter lacks that ability. And we don't know why.
It is not possible, as far as we know right now, to take non-living matter (either organic or inorganic) and turn it, by application of non-living physical processes, into living matter. We don't know why that is, either.
That's why the origins of life remain a mystery. We understand how YOU got here. We even kinda-sorta understand how your distant living ancestors millions of years ago got here. What we don't understand at all, even at a theoretical level, is how the very FIRST living thing got here. Was it a matter of initial conditions? Can life emerge out of non-living matter spontaneously under the right conditions? If so, then those conditions must be radically different from any we can find on Earth today, because otherwise life would be emerging spontaneously all around us, and centuries of research into biology leads us to conclude that it's not. The sun doesn't breed maggots in a dead dog, etc.
So okay, maybe life came to this planet from somewhere else. That doesn't answer the question of how life first emerged; it just pushes it back to an earlier and more distant event.
I love the mystery of life. It's the most fundamental thing about our world, but we don't even have theories as to how it all started. It's a complete mystery, and something about that really makes me happy. I love a good mystery.
I wasn't making an argument, dude. I was just talking. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+619 March 2005
This has been front paged with a lot of diggs before.
But this is a great example of something that I will digg twice. Its fascinating. Science isn't the all knowing all powerful all answering entity we sometimes view it as. - rsmaniak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5the answer is 42
- zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It should be said that all these are silently subtitled with "Based On Our Current Understanding and Until An Alternative Working Theory is Found".
All theories have their eras (or errors, for those who misread that), until they are demonstrated as being precisly "thus".
Anyone of limited knowledge (in the subject) might say "Hey ! That's impossible", until they are shown how something is / may indeed be, possible. - anonym41414, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14We haven't the foggiest idea how life works. We can identify and distinguish between organic matter and inorganic matter based on the type of chemistry present. But trying to distinguish conclusively between living organic matter and non-living organic matter has completely eluded us.
What's even more mysterious is that we've never, ever seen non-living organic matter turn into living organic matter, despite the fact that the reverse happens all the time.
Life appears not only to defy entropy, but to run perfectly counter to it. AND WE HAVE NO IDEA WHY OR HOW THIS HAPPENS.
Life is the biggest mystery of all. Because even with all of our attempts to study it and understand it, we have mountains of observational data and continents of theories, and absolutely no explanations of how it all works. - AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@raisinbran
Yeah, I think that's really the problem... - darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3could you be quiet, thefutureisours, some of us are trying to learn.
- sh0rtbus56, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they left off gravity
- krazykit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Interestingly, it HAS been shown that people heal faster when they have views of open spaces rather than, say, a brick wall out the window.
- mjbi99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ anonym
Biochemists have created living matter from completely nonliving matter using non-life processes. Scientists have chemically synthesized DNA molecules that code for a virsus, exposed it to the proper chemicals (water, proteins and such, which are all non-living, protein is just a specialized polymer), and made living cells that can reproduce. Don't have the ref on me right now, sorry.
There is no difference between living and non-living chemistry. -
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