#ask science

[cyandocs]

TREE PEOPLE

TF is happening to the chestnut trees in my neighborhood??

The bark up top is all stripped???

[captainboringposts]

So if jellyfish act like animals, but reproduce like plants; and we are taught in school that animals have a rounded style cellular structure, but plants have a cubic style cellular structure...

What exactly would the cell of a jellyfish look like?

Do we even know if it has the same components as either type of cell?

[thoughts-i-had-once]

Is there a technical term for the revulsion some people feel from certain words (e.g. moist) purely because of how they sound, rather than anything to do with its meaning or connotations?

[the-person-of-the-screen]

Why does locking eyes work? You could look at someone's face or even eyes, but you know exactly when they look back at your eyes. I've never had that happen with drawn or even videoed eyes. why does that happen? Why do we have a feeling and know when we perfectly lock eyes? I wanna learn more about the phenomenon but the only things I can find are about the romance tropes and such.

Does anyone know? Science side of tumblr?

[hookprevails98]

Wind

I don’t know enough about anything to know if this is a good question or a stupid one, but I wonder. If friction creates heat, why is wind not warm? 

[cutabello]

Is it normal to sprain your big toe in your sleep?

[ripplestitchskein]

How much weight can a rabbit pull? Like if one were looking for a Radagast style sled situation pulled by Rhosgobel rabbits but like, sub for Flemish Giants, how many rabbits would one need for a human being?

[ripplestitchskein]

Ummmm so I ordered a bag of star anise off Amazon and there...is a fucking tooth.... in my bag???

A tooth.