I just wanted to share that I often have auditory hallucinations, most of which are very unpleasant. A couple days ago i hallucinated you saying “nice job” after I made myself some Mac N Cheese and it was honestly more support than I had gotten all week. So thank you Matt
As an Indian, I can confirm that we don't have airports; we always use the magical ropes which we charm like a snake. Some people who originate from Persia use magic carpets though.
fellow indian using a magic rope here yes, but i also want to fit my 6 million farms in my family generation and also 2 millon masalas so can someone please give me any recommendations for other magic ropes
Not sure if this is true or if I'm remembering this correctly, but I recall hearing a story about a plane that was grounded because a woman had accused the guy sitting next to her of being a terrorist because he was "writing in Arabic" when in reality, he was a mathematician doing calculus. Maybe this person's son was just doing math lol
I absolutely love the “can you balance your body on your penis”. I bet we were all imagining that and the response “yes but I am afraid of heights” is perfect
Yeah, I think they just phrased it a bit badly. Though, there is no good answer to it. You could maybe answer the "travel forward in time" better, but it really depends. Usually when we look at ways to travel forward in time, it's usually more about putting you in some type of artificial coma and preserve the body in a way that doesn't let it age, so the "time" would continue naturally for everyone else. When it comes to "back in time", it's more complicated and harder, and that's usually where the "multiverse theory" comes in, but it's hard to say for sure unless we find a way to test it. If they mean what happens with time as a quantity, then nothing, because time is just a phrase used to explain progression, not a quantity in itself. If they mean "What happens to the current time period if you time travel to the past?", then my already written answer is relevant, but the main thing is that we don't know for sure, because we have no evidence on it being possible for now, only theories and speculation. Though, that isn't to say it's impossible, we just have no proof of going back in time being possible at this time
My best guess would be that you would perceive time moving the same, and everything else would perceive you moving faster through time or something like that (keep in mind I'm just some numskull on the internet, so feel free to correct me)
"If I have 5 real cows and I multiply them by Zero, where do they go." I laughed so hard I went very dizzy -- I don't think I've actually genuinely laughed in a very long time.
I appreciate the confrontational tone of the original question, too. Like "How do you mathematicians come and tell me I have 0 cows? Where do they all go?" lmfao
If Tyson isn't available, we can consult the nearest person with a lab coat (but only if they aren't religious.)
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I used to do that, then I put all the answers in a spreadsheet. It's a bit of a pain opening up Excel each time to know what flavour I'm eating, but at least I can now enjoy my sweet-and-bitter chicken without emails to Neil.
Atheist here, I need some advice. I believe I’ve been accidentally summoning Neil Cicerega in a trench coat instead of Neil Degrasse Tyson before eating and consulting him on the flavor of my meal. Is this an issue?
@@foxwithoutahat Yes, summoning Neil Cicierega would be an issue as the only flavor he could ever report back is lemon. Also he is part demon which atheists don't believe in.
I genuinely remember a person on quora asking the question “I did an iq test online and got an iq of 17, should I be concerned and should I consult a doctor? I’m really scared” I absolutely lost my shit that day was the best day ever.
Very easy to pass an IQ test even if you were a dumbass, just need to be tactical thinking and quick to adapt. Which proves IQ tests in itself aren't that intellectual to begin with.
As someone who used to use Quora, the site itself is to blame for this. If you’re active enough they will offer you monetization for asking questions. Which SOUNDS nice until you realize that not only is the monetization dependent on how many answers you get but that the site will automatically combine your questions with similar ones (and this happens a lot because ofc the genuine questions people have to ask have already been asked before). As such, people learned that asking stupid questions works around this. They’re just trying to generate rage clicks and answers. It’s why you can find tons of clearly fake stories of people being obviously terrible parents on quora.
oh damn. as a child abuse victim, i couldn't be sure they were fake, and being unable to unsubscribe from their emails after leaving was stressing me out. thank you for saying this, that makes me feel better.
@@cloudbrooks Honestly does still piss me off they fake stuff like that for rage clicks though. It's hard enough talking about abuse as-is without all these grifters about.
@@Xnoob545 nobody is stupid enough to the point where they will ACTUALLY punish their kids for the dumbest things, and they mostly do it to get attention anyways.
As an Irishman, I can confirm that we are, in fact, not from Ireland, but rather we crawled up from the depths of the lost city of Atlantis because as it turns out, potatoes are quite difficult to cultivate beneath the sea.
It's actually not. Time travel to the past is theoretically impossible without literally undoing the universe. Time is literally just the unit of measurement of change. Therefore, to travel backwards, it would mean undoing all the changes in the entire universe to the point you'd be traveling back to. Short of an omnipotent being existing capable of such a feat, it would not be possible. Time travel to the future only applies to things with a perception of time. Time travel to the future is merely suspended animation. The traveler still exists and it's traveling at normal "speed", they just don't perceive anything changing around them. Everything is traveling forward through time all the time.
@@TechnoSpice Poverty of imagination is not a stand-in for intellectual discourse. Time is not a measure of change - time flows even if nothing is changing - colloquial descriptions are not the same as scientific definitions. But none of that is relevant to appreciating the point of the question. Which you can't do, because you've filled your head with a whole bunch of quasi-pop-science nonsense that is at best, 'approximately correct;.
it doesn't make sense don't you think? or is there something I'm missing? no, anyway you can't put out questions about the Peculiar Workings of something if we can only imagine what that something is in the General Sense.
@@robertd4851You can put any questions you want. If the ability to answer is a prerequisite for asking the question, we would still be in the stone age. And yes, it makes perfect sense. You have a time machine, you get into it, at exactly 12:00 am, you press 'go', to 1000 BC. You open the door, it's 1000 BC, your clock says 12:01 am. Where'd the one minute go?
0:05 Technically, yes! Only by such a small margin though. It’s so small that an ant probably wouldn’t notice. But when downloading files, it does add the tiniest amount of weight.
Actually, a german childrens program tested this. Sendung mit der Maus it is called. (Broadcast with the Mouse... Nothing to do with the Disney Mouse) And I absolutely trust in the Mouse. It's like Sesame Street with less Puppets and more green shirt guys. And yes, we germans love measuring things. For better or worse.
"Why are things?" is actually a question so basic that it "loops around" to the point of becoming very involved, profound, and mystifying. Seasoned and tenured professors of philosophy and researchers involved in theoretical physics have to consider that very question, and various different permutations of it, all the time, at least in some sense or another.
I was thinking the same thing tbh, that seems like a misunderstanding made by the people of the great site called 'Quora' as the question '''Why are things'' is one of the greatest debates ever in the whole world even some people try to justify god and some people say that it is in spite of one and it is one of the greatest mysteries ever no one has a right answer that is the same for everyone. also sorry for bad eng 2. language
@@anonymousapproximation8549well gasses formed from protons, neutrons and electrons after the big bang and then some gasses called hydrogen and oxygen bonded to make another gas but this gas became this thing called water after things cooled down a bit from the big boom. Yeah that's probably how it went.
@@bananatheo3796 you said it first, that's HOW it went. Now, WHY is -there- water? Answer that. If I ask 'why are rocks', are you gonna tell me the tale of the big doot again? To explain HOW?
Edit: ok now I know it was accepted in Rome too, stop please 😅 I think they confused ancient romans and ancient greeks' culture. In ancient Greek homosexuality was accepted, while in Rome it wasn't (this is the only thing that came to my mind to try to related Pompeii and homosexuality but still I don't understand how gays could had set a vulcanic catastrophe on XD )
@@Tama-1313 I think it was more just “gay people exist and god caused Pompeii bc of it” I mean that’s at least what I constantly hear down here in the south
@@songbird6414 It probably has something to do with the theory that the embracing lovers found in pompeii were actually both men, and in fact gay, but idk if it's true.
For some reason I always get frequent emails of different Quora questions, but they’re all about parenting for some reason. Here’s some examples: “My son was sleeping without my permission. How should I punish him?” “My son has 12 million subscribers on RU-vid. How do I tell him it isn’t a viable job and that he should delete his channel as soon as possible?” “I’m depressed, my son’s depressed, and my daughter is depressed. What should I do?”
Same! Since they're obviously trolls, I found some funny at first, like how do people think of this stuff. But eventually got bored and deleted my account since I don't need one more social media, especially since Quora kinda turned into a Twitter/Reddit hybrid at some point.
@@abhijitkurse53I also got the 12 million subscribers one. I don't even know why I get emails about parenting questions on quora am 17 and far from being a parent 😭😭
As a texan, I can confirm there are werewolves. In fact, every texan is required by state law to have werewolf insurance, for spontaneous werewolf attacks
I once made an account on Quora to see the answers to a question that was likely about schoolwork. Ever since then I've been getting emails with digests from Quora including questions mostly by the most deranged parents. Things like "why is my daughter uncomfortable with me installing a camera in her bedroom if she has nothing to hide?" or "I only let my son play 15 minutes of video games daily. How do I explain to him that is more than enough?"
@@boiledelephant thought as much, I don't think any parent with a stick up their ass would suddenly be open for constructive criticism on quora of all places
as a lesbian, i can confirm that i dont get periods. as soon as i got the thought, "i might be lesbian", my period suddenly stopped and it hasnt came back since
After we find out we're lesbians and our periods stop we start shedding our skin to reveal our true selves because every single lesbian is actually a demon in disguise 😋
once i looked on quora for "why are we taught that william the conqueror was the first king of england when he wasn't" and there was someone in the replies like " *i* was taught that aethelbert (or something) was the first king of england at *my* school" and i'm definitely sure you weren't they never just answer the questions
Oh yeah I see these all the time. None of them seem to realise that their answers are NOT helpful and will NEVER be published - except possibly in the *BOOK OF IDIOTS*
To be fair, that one could get a bit sensitive politically, considering the shockingly large number of war crimes/genocide denialists you’ll find there.
I have a story that is quite similar to the single white egg. For years, every Friday when me and my family went outside there was a pineapple on our doorstep. It was actually kind of ominous and threatening. The “pineapple bandit” as we had taken to calling them delivered it no matter what the weather was like and even when it was so snowy that we couldn’t move our car. This continued for about three and a half years before we decided we wanted to catch whoever was doing it in the act. So, my dad got a security camera and in the morning we watched the footage. Turns out that it was my grandpa and we asked him about it next time we saw him. He’s still doing it to this day.
Of course, some of us who aren't born at the bottom of the Irish Sea are instead born on the Isle of Man, and we swim over to either Ireland or Scotland. Choosing between the two countries depends on where the phrase "God I hate England" was last muttered.
I was watching this on the tram and had to stop midway because I was SO close to bursting. Incredible how some people go online to post a question on quora, a process which takes more time than using google for questions of that calibre or simply thinking about it for more than a second.
That question about ducklings being used as ass-wipes in medieval times most likely comes from someone taking too seriously a passage from "Gargantua and Pantagruel" a satirical novel by François Rabelais. There a character describes all the things he tried for "that purpose" involving various hilarious items and animals (including a cat), it ends by claiming that the best of all was a white duckling.
Unless of course, it's some underaged toddler or baby, speaking it out of nowhere, despite not being surrounded by Arabian language via society or media. That's some upgraded Damien Omen sh*t.
I'd upvote you but you seem to be deliberately showing support for barbarian murderers so I'll downvote instead, despite agreeing with the content of your comment.
I think the question about “cop the gay” might actually be a weird autocorrect/text-to-speech from “coyote”. It’s the only thing I can think of that both sounds even remotely similar to “cop the gay” and could reasonably be seen eating a bird in someone’s backyard.
With “how can I have sex with Asia”, there are quite a few different things which the poster might mean. The first is that they want to have sex with a girl named Asia. I do not know Asia, so I can’t give personal advice, but I would advise OP to get to know her and try to be confident when approaching her. I would also encourage them to not make fun of her for her weird name. The second possibility is that they want to have sex with the continent of Asia. In this case, I would advise they go to any Asian country, find a small hole in the ground, and just go to town on it. The third is that they want to have sex with all of Asia; that is, that they want to have sex with every single person on the continent. I would say that this is impossible for numerous reasons. 1. A very large percent of people in Asia are married or otherwise in a committed relationship, and as such will likely not want to have sex with anyone other than their partner. 2. Most people in Asia are exclusively attracted to one gender, so OP will have difficulty trying to have sex with people who are not attracted to their gender. 3. Furthermore, homosexuality is illegal or shunned in many Asian countries, so even if OP could convince every same-gender Asian to have sex with them, it would be illegal. 4. Also, many Asian countries are rather conservative and so many people will not want to have premarital sex with OP. Polygamous marriage is illegal in most Asian countries so OP cannot solve this problem by marrying everyone in Asia. 5. A large percentage of people in Asia are minors, so attempting to have sex with them is both illegal and immoral. 6. Finally, there are over 4.75 billion people in Asia, so having sex with all of them within one’s natural life span is pretty much impossible. For all of these reasons I advise that OP does not attempt to achieve their goal of having sex with everyone in Asia, as it is doubtlessly impossible.
The last question I saw on Quora, prior to seeing this video, was "Are sheep hydrophobic or are they insane?" Word for word. I'm not sure how long ago I read this, but it will stick with me forever.
It may surprise many people that "Is Israel on the world map?" is a more complicated answer than yes. There are a non-trivial number of countries that actually don't recognize it as a country either for religious or political reasons. So not all world maps may have Israel on them.
@@Liggliluff Well, tbf there is a "official" world map which is comprised of the country who are members of the United Nations (for example Transnitria, Kurdistan and the Sahrawi Republic are not there even thought they are fonctionnal states)
@@PanzermeillerI dont know about other countries but there is no country known as Kurdistan. Kurdistan is an autonomous region in Iraq, not an actually independent country.
My favorite part of Quora is that the actual answer is usually sandwiched between 3 other answers to “related questions” which are presented in the exact same way.
quora is the best place for absolutely ridiculous powerscaling questions, some of them can unironically be compared to "can a dog beat a nuclear war machine"
As an Irish man, I can confirm we aren't actually from Ireland. We originated from Nevada, specifically around the Las Vegas strip, where our ancestor's first performed 'The hickory jig' to live audiences.
"Why does the sausage have two ends?" is probably a question regarding the German expression - "Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei", which means, 'Everything has an end, but the sausage has two', essentially it is expressing that everything must come to an end.
@@darthrincus I personally don't think so, the moral of the expression is already delivered on the first half of it, it makes sense to ask why the sausage have two ends. If the expression wants to say that everything has one end, why did it included the sausage after? My bet is that it's supposed to convey that you ended a pig life to delight on the sausage, but the positive delight also has an end, this of course making the "pun" of it actually having two ends
As a reminder, quora also autogenerates questions to spark discussion. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're poorly worded, sometimes they're just bizarre..
This makes a lot of sense. Still, I think there are a lot of children like my younger self who discover the question and answers site and ask the first thing that comes to mind. I think I'm a tiny part of the reason Yahoo Answers went down. I asked, "Why don't bumble bunnies exist?" And to be honest I already had enough information at the age of 10 to answer this question if I thought about it for a second. Obviously, a cross between a bunny and a bee would just eat all of the flowers it was supposed to pollinate... Also, it wouldn't be able to pollinate anything, it would be too big (at least how I imagined it). However, I also heard (well read in this comment section) that people at one point had a monetary incentive to write B.S. questions (like they would get paid for questions that were different from others and got responses).
In Shrek’s first appearance, we know that he was faced with his land appropriated for the state’s use of relocating the undesirables. Determined to reobtain his private property, he embarks on a trek, through his charisma, befriends Donkey, a domestic jackass, after he made an escape from the train headed to the prison camp. They made their way to the capital, where Shrek bested Farquaad’s knights, and formed a deal with the lord himself: to bring a certain girl in a keep to him. In the way was a fire-breathing dragon, which, after seducing Donkey, Shrek outwitted it and defeated her, although keeping her alive as he knew she would be of use to him later. Bringing Fiona back to Farquaad, they were ambushed by a group of gangsters. During the attack, Shrek was shot and did not even notice it. Once Shrek brought Fiona to Farquaad, and reobtaining his property from the undesirables, he immediately made plans to construct a wall. Shrek headed back to the capital with Donkey and began his political assassination. With his hitman, Dragon, they killed Lord Farquaad, without a struggle. So if Shrek, the Ogre who toppled an authoritarian regime with ease in under a year was faced against Hitler, he would probably be able to end the nazi regime in two months tops.
Holy shit, I can't remember the last time a video made me laugh so hard that it actually hurt. Half of these questions are completely indecipherable and your delivery just made them even funnier. You've earned a new subscriber.
I’m convinced that Matt traveled back in time to place the egg, thus promoting the question on Quora and its subsequent inclusion in this video, thus continuing the loop.
The best part of Quora isn't the questions, but the people who answer them, and they all have like 30 titles in their names and all answer like they're renown experts of the subject.
"Can music cause a candle to light?" sounds like an episode of Mythbusters. I would genuinely like to see someone use sound wave and convert them into energy used to heat fire on a candle
I prefer their unhinged questions I see in my email every 5 minutes "my son went to bed past his bed time, so I threw a white phosphorus grenade in his room, now he won't speak to me"
“what is my date of birth” is actually a fascinating question because it implies that no one (surviving perhaps) may be able to tell you how old you are, especially if you don’t have documents of some kind. you only know how old you are because someone told you a few times and you remembered or wrote it down. if someone is from another country or lost documents, there is an actual question there. how would one find out how old they are? hospital records?
@@adarshraj7352 If I remember correctly, carbon dating tells you how long ago some organic matter stopped being alive. It would very much not work on something alive.
@@Kumire_921 its not, just because something isn't written down or any way similar it still exists, like the sun doesn't conform to our construct of time, some things just move on without humanity and aging is one
I remember seeing someone ask: “I accidentally dropped a ramen seasoning packet into my boiling water. Is it still edible?” And someone replied with steps on how to get away with murder…
The fact that the guy listed himself as "teacher/coach/father" made it even funnier to me. I'm guessing he's heard his share of dumba** questions from kids over the years & usually doesn't get to use the sarcasm as much.
I'm on Quora. I don't recommend it- most of the questions are either "AITA for punching a two-year old for smiling," or "When will the left/right learn..."
as a lesbian, we usually get jealous of the straight girlies getting periods every month!! so instead, i like to simulate it by putting in some vinegar and baking soda for a volcano effect 🥰🥰 and it even gives you the pain of menstruation!! very creative!!!
0:00 he's kinda right on that one. Macbook Airs use SSDs so they store voltage/electrons in the NAND chips. By downloading data it would increase the mass of the laptop by the weight of the electrons to write that data to the NAND chip. This has actually been measured with both SSDs and HDDs. Charging your battery though would cause an even larger weight increase.
Actually, depending on if you are using battery power or wall power the weight of the laptop may decrease instead of increase due to no prodded being 100% efficient.
🤓acxshually I took a single year of chemistry and just finished with redox reactions. A battery supplies power by transferring electrons from one piece of metal to another through the rest of the circuit. The total number of electrons in a battery hypothetically never changes, not unless something in the circuit undergoes beta radiation or something weird like that
"Asia" is a girl's name. It's pretty uncommon in the UK (although still present), but in other parts of the world it's fairly common. In Poland it's short for Joanna (don't ask me how, it doesn't make much sense but there you go). So the question "How can I have sex with Asia" is not that stupid, although asking the Internet about it seems weird.
@@braunstein5645 It's because it's not short form of "Joanna" directly, but of the diminutive of it: Joanna (base) -> Joasia (diminutive) -> Asia (short) Jack and James are through the common etymology. They are coming in Egnlish from adapting the variants of the same name, but those variants were old French (James) and modern French (Jack) respectively.
My kid stayed up a minute late, so I took away his furniture, electronics, and only fed him bread and water for a week. Did I do enough? Edit: Someone suggested I should take his skin away, so I did just that. He’s very annoyed.
00:03 Quora questions veer off into nonsensical territory. 00:46 Quirky and bizarre questions on Quora 01:22 Quora questions are often bizarre and irrelevant 02:02 Addressing absurd and irrelevant questions on Quora 02:46 Confusion about topics being discussed on Quora 03:29 Bizarre and random questions on Quora 04:09 Deaf people's complex questions on Quora 04:42 Animals use different excretory organs for various purposes.
Actually good questions. "How high do planes fly when landing" - Planes have to descend to a certain altitude before landing. "Is Israel on the World Map" - It's hard to see Israel on the world map because it's quite tiny. Definitely won't have the word "Israel" written in it. "What are things" - Entire field of Philosophy called "Ontology" "Can deaf people do surfing" - Not if they have Hearing Aids or Cochlear Implants the salt water could damage them.
"Planes have to descend to a certain altitude before landing" This sounds very confusing. I assume you mean the decision altitude / minimum descent altitued, which is the lowest height a pilot is allowed to fly without seeing the runway?
I remember seeing someone say “my thirteen year old daughter has been using pads for her period with out my permission what should I do?” Like bitch what-?😭
Actually music can light a candle. If the music is loud enough, the sound waves will eventually carry so much energy that the candle will heat up enough to be set on fire. The reprecussions are that if you managed to make music this loud, it would also set your whole house on fire (and kill everyone living near you through soundwaves)
I have a guess that the question about deaf people being able to surf at 4:20 is because of balance problems since this stuff is inside the ear. Therefore, as a deaf person, I can nor laugh out loud or surf
The egg question reminds me of a prank I pulled. Here's the story: When I was in Driver's Ed a few years ago, me and my classmates gifted the teacher a cartoon of eggs with faces drew on them we got during break from a convenience store. It wasn't my idea, but I really liked the prank idea and joined in, helping with drawing the faces on the eggs. It was the last night of Driver's Ed btw and our Driver's Ed teacher is a very chill guy. As for his reaction to the prank, was one of confusion and amusement. He didn't want to keep the eggs, nor did anyone else, so I brought them home with the idea of my own prank. It was a 2 days before Halloween, so I decided as "trick", I'd leave one of the doodled eggs in the mailboxes my neighbors a few houses away from my home. I choose empty mailboxes only and gently propped the eggs against the back of the mailboxes to prevent any breakage. I had the face of the doodled eggs facing the entrance of the mailbox so the person would definitely see it's silly little face. I never got to know how the neighbors reacted to my prank, but a day after Halloween I checked the mailboxes I put eggs in, and all but two were gone. As for the the last two eggs, I threw them into the woods for the animals to eat the yolk.
One of my favourite Quora Questions is one I recall seeing almost a decade ago lol. It was "Is a bird a bacteria?", and someone seriously answered it with "No, a bird is not a bacteria." I screenshotted it and kept it on my desktop for around 8 years. Just made me laugh
Well technically birds are alive and so is bacteria, both of which start with b, so I can see why someone would begin to question the glaring similarities
the first question about downloading files on it is actually a decent question. It actually may make it slightly heavier though insanely negligibly because electrons have some weight, and the RWM will be able to contain some electrons outside of the battery of the computer at times. also using music to light a candle is also a good question because the thread of some candles have a flammable oil in them that could possibly be triggered by a strong soundwave at the right frequency
I was wondering about the candle too, because I used to watch a lot of science videos that did the weirdest things and part of me went "....but is it theoretically possible?"
it would only make it heavier if the disk was already zeroed. If it contained some garbage data (from a deleted file, for example), it might actually make it _lighter_ if the bits it's overwriting contain more 1's than it does
I remember one time, I was bored, and, for my own amusement, made my own stupid Quora question. It was this, "I recently caught my wife eating a left Twix, but I only eat right Twix! Should I divorce?". It only got one answer before I decided to delete it myself and it said, "Yes, right and left Twix is a very serious matter", or something like that lol
The question about how high do aircraft fly when landing 🛬 could actually have a scientific answer if we consider things like pressure attitude and height above sea level. Some airports, such as in the Andes and the Himalayas, can be several thousand feet about sea level, to which aircraft altimeters are usually calibrated
I’ve been home sick with covid and spending many of my waking hours binging on your channel. Something about hearing your voice shouting aloud other people’s nonsense cheers me up during this time of suffering. So thank you Matt 😊
