Hey Pandas, What’s A Mystery From History Or Science You Wish You Could Solve? (Closed)

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what prehistoric animals actually looked like

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Vermonta 10 months ago

fascinating! The more I search the more animals I find. Technology has seriously improved for archaeology

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#2

Who was Jack the Ripper and what on earth was his problem?

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Charlotte A.

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TheReader19 10 months ago

Yes, this one; I demand that there be a judgement day so I can find out who he was 🤣

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#3

What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa?

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DB

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#4

Is there an afterlife? I wanna be with my dog again.

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Seymour Heiney

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Julia H 10 months ago

I honestly believe there is an afterlife. A place where you and your best friend will be together. He's waiting for you ❤️

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I would love to experience viking age Scandinavia first hand. How did Old Norse actually sound like back then? How was it to be left in the village when the vikings went away? And how many myths and legends have we lost?

Also, as a genealogist, I'd love to meet everybody in my family tree and have long conversations with them about who they were and what time and place they lived in.

I'd also like to know how the world would look now if we had only ever had electrical cars. Would we have super fast and environmentally friendly electrical cars?? Or would they still be slow and the climate change still be as big a deal as it is now?

What did dinosaurs actually look like? Did they have some awesome features we can't know about just by looking at the fossils? Like... I don't think you would be able to tell from a fossil of a spider that it makes these amazing webs. What if some dinosaurs had some ability we can't tell from their bones. I'd sooo want to know about that!

Also, I'd really love to learn what animals talk about. What their roaring and hissing and tweeting actually means word-by-word.

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Lene

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#6

Is our reality simply a microscopic universe in a much larger type of universe?

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The Redhead

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censorshipsucks 10 months ago

Yes, as demonstrated with sound proof in Men In Black, where clearly the galaxy is just a marble on the cat's necklace.

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#7

I would like to find the mystery ingredient that can cure cancer!

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Kevin the Manager

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Thatkamloopsguy 10 months ago

Death. Stops it dead in it's tracks.

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#8

Efficient and safe faster than light travel. I want to explore space Star Trek or Star Wars style.

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Angelshark

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censorshipsucks 10 months ago

Sadly not possible, because Einstein's equation entails (mathematically) that your mass would become infinite when you reached lightspeed, ie you'd occupy the entire universe and be infinitely immovable (have infinite inertia). The only hope is wormholes or spacetime warping.

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#9

Was there a real Atantis? What really happened? Were there descedents? Do they know and are they keeping it a secret?

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Libstak

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Sand Ers 10 months ago

Plato was very clear that the story of Atlantis was allegorical, and did not represent a real place. The only "mystery" is that people are so desperate for it to be real.

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#10

Were any of the events in the New Testament related to Jesus, as well as Jesus himself, true.
What books were held in the library of Alexandria?
What happened to the princes in the tower?
Where is the tomb of Genghis Khan?
What’s actually inside the Sphinx?
Did they make the pyramids the way we think they did?
And so so many…

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Lily Anne

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Allen Beloe 10 months ago

And is the lost Ark of the Covenant really in a church caved out of stone in Ethiopia?

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If the afterlife is so wonderful, peaceful and happy for everyone, why do we have to muck about on Earth at all? Why don't we spend our entire eternal existence in peace and harmony? If your answer is so that we can weed out the bad souls...surely they wouldn't be bad, or have the chance to be bad, if they only existed in the afterlife world?

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Apatheist Account2

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Lyone Fein 10 months ago

Free will.

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#12

How was Mister Spock always able to “calculate our odds of success” for an event that was happening for the first time ever? e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQEh9gm2xcs

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Justin Tyme

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Justin Tyme (Submission author) 10 months ago (edited)

Wow, no Star Trek fans here? I thought this would get voted to #1.

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#13

I think for me it's a three way tie between figuring out how the "lost order" was lost (civil war thing), finding the amber room (ww2 thing) and finding the Isabela stewart gardener paintings (recent thing).

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the_avenging_knight (her/she)

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Sand Ers 10 months ago

I suspect the Amber room was destroyed by a bombing raid. And that Isabella's painting are all in one thief's "collection" and will turn up some day.

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#14

Why does anything exist at all?

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Surenu

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USAFfan 10 months ago

Because if it didn't, itd be pretty boring. Whether or not you believe in a God or not, it would be really boring if there was just a void.

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#15

What exactly is at the end of the universe...and what lies beyond that?

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Hi 10 months ago

A restaurant.

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#16

Mostly how to stop ageing. I hate it.

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TheReader19 10 months ago

I really don't mind getting older, but why does it have to hurt so damn much. And why is my skin so bloody dry?

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#17

what actually happened to Amelia Earhart? Did she crash on a desert island?

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Doodles1983 10 months ago

Came here for this answer!

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#18

I have several: (1) The unexplained disappearance of planes and boats in the Bermuda Triangle (2) What happened to the colonists of Roanoke? (3) How were the Moai built and transferred on East Island? (4) Did DB Cooper survive his legendary jump? (5) What happened to Amelia Earhart? (6) Origin and meaning of the Nazca Lines?

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ShyWahine

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Robin Roper 10 months ago

1. This area is heavily traveled and flown over, thus, there will be more lost planes and ships. Research has shown, percentage wise, there is about the same loss in this area than any other area in any ocean.

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#19

The greatest mystery: I know the answer is 42. What is the question, though?

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Skara Brae 10 months ago

The author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, chose 42 as the ultimate answer, because he preferred Earl Grey no. 42.

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#20

Who is the real slim shady? Why won't he stand up? The deeper I dig, the less I know.

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Julia H 10 months ago

Slim Shady?

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#21

Why is "abbreviation" a long word?

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Justin Tyme

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Lydsylou (she/her) 10 months ago

Why is the word short longer than the word long

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#22

I'm still trying to understand how magnets work. I'm told it's not magic, but I'm not convinced.

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Papa

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Jeff White 10 months ago

I have a Ph.D. in Chemistry and I'm still trying to figure out how magnets work.

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#23

What does the colour blue taste like

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Echo 10 months ago

According to a synesthete I've met, it's tangy.

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#24

I think for me it's a three way tie between figuring out how the "lost order" was lost (civil war thing), finding the amber room (ww2 thing) and finding the Isabela stewart gardener paintings (recent thing).

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the_avenging_knight (her/she)

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Meowzers! 10 months ago

Duplicated as its such a mystery.

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#25

How am I supposed to pet Bouche without touching her?

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!

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TheBlueBitterfly 10 months ago

Use the force.

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#26

Why did societies make the male the one in charge and women property?

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Vermonta

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Nils Skirnir 10 months ago

Size and greed

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#27

Where did missing Australian PM Harold Holt disappear to, and find out if the Tasmanian Tiger really is extinct or not

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KombatBunni

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Auntriarch 9 months ago

I so want Tasmanian tigers to exist

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#28

What really happened to Anastasia Romanov? Form what I know her body was never found! What happened and where did she disappear to?

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Alexia 10 months ago

Her remains were actually found and DNA-tested to confirm identity. She had been shot along with her family, only the body was buried separately.

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#29

Far from the evergreen of old Assam
Far from the rainfall on the trails of old Saigon
straight from the poster town of scorn and ritz
To bring you the wilder side of gold and glitz
But neon tiger there's a lot on your mind
They promised just to pet you, but don't you let them get you
Away, away, away
Under the heat of the southwest sun
Took to the spotlight like a diamond ring
Came from the woodwork and the hopes they might
Redeem themselves from poor decisions to win big
But neon tiger there's a lot on your mind
Strategize to maim you, but don't you let them tame you
You're far too pure and bold
To suffer the strain of the pain that's old.
I don't wanna be kept, I don't wanna be caged, I don't wanna be damned oh hell
I don't wanna be broke, I don't wanna be saved, I don't wanna be S.O.L.
Give me rolling hills so tonight can be the night that I send them up a thousand thrills
Can you cut me some slack, Cause I don't wanna go back, I want the new day and age
Come on girls and boys, everyone make some noise!

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the_avenging_knight (her/she)

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the_avenging_knight (her/she) (Submission author) 10 months ago

Sorry, my idiot brain put this in the wrong list addition box.

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#30

Do they like me or not?

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Who cares what I think, but...

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Lydsylou (she/her) 10 months ago

Yes I've known my besties for 10 yrs but they also might've just been being nice this entire time and they secretly don't like me at all

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#31

Exactly how did the "Big Bang" occur? (Take ten points off your score if you invoke any kind of deity.)

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Freya the Wanderer

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Julia H 10 months ago

Great question. And what exactly exploded?

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#32

Why do children get cancer?

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Auntriarch 9 months ago

Because they are humans too

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#33

Basically, everything! I am SO sick of 'scientists' explaining what happened thousands of years ago as if they were there - and then changing their minds every decade or so! If they were HONEST - if they would at least say, "Our current THEORY about this ..." I can accept speculation. It's the "stating a theory as if it were a fact" that bugs me.

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Catherine Maven

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censorshipsucks 10 months ago

Yeah no, what you have described is precisely how science works. It never claims stuff is a fact, it is precisely revisable and open to correction. Unlike religion.

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