• From transferring our minds into robots, to nuking the Moon, we answer some of your
most BURNING questions about life • Hey there, my name is Pecan and I'll be
reading out
the questions and answers • I'm Danger Dolan and I'm here to blow
your mind with truth 10 – TheBlownut - How long can you look
at the Sun without going blind?
• My average is around an hour, thinking about going pro but I don’t want to show
off.
Still - let’s see if I can break the record.
• Here we go.
One- • *
• Wow.
You didn’t even last one second.
• Look.
I’m just tired today.
I’m gonna hit up the hospital and I’ll try again.
• You can’t stare at the sun for very long.
Even just 1 or 2 minutes can cause permanent damage as the UV rays flood the retina.
The cells around your eyes will blister and crack, and you might see dark spots.
You’ll usually recover within a day or two, but some cases can take 1 month or a whole
year to fully recover.
9 – Gavin Jones - What allows starfish limbs to grow new bodies?
• Gym bulkup.
Not many people know this, but exercising day in, day out will force parts of your brain
to relocate around your body to make room for extra muscle.
When you have most of your brain in your foot, you too will be able to grow a new body.
• Oh – so that’s why people sweat in the gym.
It’s not because they’re exhausted, it’s because they’re pushing their own brains
into their… feet…?
• Exactly.
You’re a wise student.
• Starfish, or sea stars, house most of their vital organs inside their limbs.
Most species need to keep their main body intact, but some can regrow an entire body
from just one severed arm or a leg.
The stem cells inside the fish’s body can reform any imperfection, sort of like how
our cells repair cuts or bruises on our human skin.
8 – Aidan ramsey - What would happen if we nuked the Moon?
• Well then the people on the Moon would fire nukes right back!
All-out war, is that what you want?
I don’t think we should be solving all our problems with nukes – “oh, my friend double-dipped,
better nuke his family”.
Why do we have to nuke people with HATE?
Why can’t we nuke them with LOVE?
• Not much would happen if we nuked the moon.
Even the largest bomb we’ve ever unleashed wouldn’t have the firepower to even be a
visible blip in the night sky and there’d be no danger of throwing the Moon off course
or raining down debris.
Not even all of Earth’s collective nukes launched at the same spot on the moon would
do much.
7 – Queen Aßhley - If humans never evolved to eat meat, what would life be like?
• It’d be GARBAGE.
Think of how many hours people would spend hunting animals, skinning them, carving them
up, cooking them, seasoning, preparing & presenting in a delicious banquet, only for everyone
to realise we can’t eat them.
Like, what a TEASE!
• Maybe it’d save time to not do any of those things.
We could all eat fruit instead.
• FRUIT!?
You don’t get... food, do you?
• Least I don’t cook meat and not eat it.
• (sigh) You have a point.
But I don’t have to like it.
• It’s believed that meat gave humans a head start in developing their brains due
to the energy and protein gained from consuming it.
It’s possible we never would have reached our current level of intelligence needed to
develop language and plan hunts for wildlife.
6 – Russ Habinek - Could we survive without gravity?
• Pshh, gravity isn’t real in the first place.
You can’t feel it, you can’t smell it, it doesn’t weigh anything.
It’s a myth, a hoax.
You’ve been duped.
Earth is flat and spins around on a turntable - that’s what generates resistance and keeps
you grounded.
• You think Earth is a vinyl record that… spins?
• As opposed to the theory Earth is a bowling ball shape that spins.
• The short answer is: no, we couldn’t survive without gravity.
Natural resources rely on some level of gravity to remain stable, including the atmosphere
and oceans.
Without them, everything would drift into space and boil or freeze away.
5 – David Buur Is it possible to transfer our minds into robots?
• Well if a human can transfer their mind into… whatever Pecan is… then anything
is possible.
• Hey!
I was born this way.
And I’ll have you know there are plenty of people out there who love me for being
what I am.
And you’re one to talk – what are you even supposed to be made of?
• Oh, that’s easy.
According to the lab results, I am 30% marshmallow, 45% meme, and 20% Australian.
• What’s the other 5%?
• Trash.
Which is okay.
We’ve all got a little bit of trash in us.
• The concept of brain mapping or neural links might be more in the realm of science
fiction, but we may eventually evolve the human race by adapting parts of our brain
into technology.
Before you know it, we’ll be slowly upgrading our thoughts, feelings and emotions until
one day we’ll wake up more robot than human.
4 – Zz_zoo - Could Earth run out of lava?
• Yes.
Leaving your oven on, forgetting to switch off your central heating, using your fireplace
at all - it’s all sapping the planet of its heat.
We’ll run out of lava, global warming will do a 180 and we’ll end up in another ice
age and it’s all your fault.
• Is there anything we can do to add more lava into the world?
• Hmm.
Na.
We’re buggered.
All we can do is nuke the Earth until things heat back up.
We’ll all die… but it’ll be worth it.
• Though lava comes and goes, the Earth will never run out of magma.
The solid interior of the planet is a crust that continually melts as it reaches a certain
temperature, which is pushed to the surface, ejecting lava from tectonic plates and volcanoes.
If the Earth cooled too much though, it would run out of lava AND magma, becoming lifeless
like the Moon.
3 – Cookies & Milk - What would happen if our brains were in a different part of our
body?
• This is the best possible outcome for a workout session.
Now you can be decapitated and brush it off like a scratch.
Me?
The contents of my skull have been scattered so finely over my chilled physique that you’d
have to register my brain matter in parts per million.
• I can believe that.
• You giving me lip!?
If my eyes hadn’t exploded earlier I’d give you such a glaring right now.
But you’re fortunate.
• Unfortunately, it might be difficult for humans to house their brain outside their
skull.
Everything is linked through the central nervous system and the spinal cord, our bodies would
have to undergo a significant overhaul to relocate.
Outside the body, though?
That’s theoretically possible.
• What about starfish?
You said earlier they’ve got brains in their arms.
It proves my gym bulkup theory.
• I think you might’ve exercised so much you’ve pushed your own brain into your butt.
• Hey.
Safest place for it.
Cushioned.
2 – How do seedless fruits grow if there’s no SEED?
• Bloody MAGIC!
Society has advanced so far forward that now we can plant fruit in the ground and it produces
MORE FRUIT.
Next we’ll be planting school textbooks and spouting diplomas, or planting phones
and getting slightly upgraded phones that aren’t really that different but we pretend
they’re different.
• What if you plant people in the ground then?
• Oh come on – everyone knows that’s how children are born.
No magic involved there.
• Seedless fruit are grown from cuts to a branch or vine, mixed with nutrients and
grown in dirt instead of from seeds.
The one exception are seedless watermelons which have tiny invisible sterile seeds that
nobody notices when you eat them.
Most of these are plant hybrids that are artificially produced.
1 – Skyler Adams - What would happen if the sun split in half?
• Well you better believe we’d be gathering up all the sticky tape, all the blu-tack,
all the glue sticks and every adhesive you’ve ever heard of to try and fix this MESS.
I’m talking staplers, nails, bolts – man, no need to hold back, bust out the super adhesive
ultra-strength durable super glue cause the sun’s – in – peril.
• I’m not sure if that’d work…
• Well, how would you fix the sun then?
• I think I’d burn up just going near it.
• You would with that attitude.
• Splitting the sun would destroy our solar system.
If we somehow survived by magic, the reduced brightness and heat from the two suns would
freeze all the water on Earth and kill us all, but Mercury would become the new habitable
planet.
In any case, it wouldn’t be pleasant experience.