• From what the most dangerous computer virus is, to whether it’s possible if the
world could end any day now, we answer some of your most burning questions about life
• Hey there, my name is Melissa, I'll be reading out the questions and answers
• I'm Danger Dolan and I'm here to blow your mind with truth
10 – Sketch What is inside a tongue?
• There’s actually a smaller tongue known as a “worm” that judges taste based on
appearance, so if you eat an apple it’ll tell you it’s an apple, if you put in bacteria-ridden
dirt it’ll tell you to STOP, DUDE, STOP, I don’t know what this diseased brown stuff
is, but STOP • The tongue contains a wide variety of
muscles that operate bonelessly like octopus tentacles, as well as taste buds that travel
along nerves inside your tongue up into your brain to translate into taste
9 – Jen Glover Why is it so difficult to remember our dreams?
• It’s not difficult.
Have you considered that maybe your dreams really were vague?
That dream that had a pool in it, and something happened and there were blurry people?
THAT WAS THE DREAM; THAT WAS THE WHOLE DREAM.
You thought about a thing about the pool for 9 hours, your memory is working perfectly,
congratulations • Two reasons: one is that there’s no
evolutionary advantage to remembering dreams as we might accidentally confuse dreams with
reality, and two, our minds don’t collect dreams in long-term memory, they’re only
kept in short-term memory because they’re usually just chaotic neural firings in our
brain that have no useful information • *
• Hey Melissa, nice shoes • What—?
• * • What’s wrong?
And what’s up with your feet?
• * • Wow.
Okay.
8 – Chica_FNAF_FAZBEAR Why do people love video games?
• Because they’re fun, they’re interactive and— wait, why would you ask that?
What are you, a parent or… an alien?
PRINGLE!
Are you Chica_FNAF_FAZBEAR?
I SEE YOU.
I SEEEE YOU.
Trying to figure out people.
Nice try, you yellow goon.
• Many different reasons!
Like any sport, it could be the thrill of competition, for others it might be a bonding
experience with friends despite their age or physical abilities, it could be a way to
escape from the stress of life; mostly though, like any game, it’s just fun and makes people
happy 7 – Haliegh_IRL Do we get grey hair from
stress?
• No, you get grey hair from being boring – have you considered not sharing that story
about your sandwich that went missing ten years ago to all your friends for the eightieth
time?
We get it, horrible tragedy, mental scarring, OKAY DON’T KILL ME TELL US THE STORY AGAIN
• Actually yes, hair colour is controlled by melanocytes and grey hair is caused by
this turning off at a certain age - being perpetually stressed will heighten the chance
it will turn off when you’re younger • Nixxiom, it must have been a really amazing
sandwich for you to remember it so well.
What was in it?
• Some lettuce, bit of tomato, some dead rat, mayo, wholemeal bread of course – white
bread is very bad for you 6 – CephasRed What makes soft drinks dark
coloured?
• Dark?
That’s not right, soft drinks are supposed to clear and bubbly – are you sure you’re
drinking the right thing?
You may want to look into that, in the meantime, enjoy drinking your tar, bro
• Well, all soft drinks and colas are unhealthy, but dark colour soft drinks are even worse
as they contain a chemical purely used for colouring known as “caramel colouring”
that has been linked to causing health problems – cola companies put this chemical in to
add the distinctive colour to their drinks 5 – Sassyno1 Why are red-heads so rare?
• Because you’re not cooking them properly, let them sizzle for at least 4 minutes on
each side and only turn them once or they’ll dry out – use tongs to handle the red meat
and don’t pierce it, because I’m pretty sure you don’t want those delicious juices
to escape • Red hair is caused by a genetic mutation
of the MC1R gene in our bodies, it gives you red hair, pale skin and freckles – only
40% of the world’s population has this gene, only 25% of these parents can give birth to
a red head child, and so only 1-2% of the world is made up of them
4 – dauriru What is the most dangerous computer virus?
• The worst of them all is anti-virus software.
It pretends like it’s going to protect you from viruses but in reality it’s just a
guilt machine designed to bombard you with popups asking why you haven’t installed
the premium version, hey I’m going to do a full intrusive scan without permission,
your system 32 is corrupted I’ll go ahead and delete it, GRUUUUH
• One of the most dangerous that frequently top all-time worst virus lists is the ILOVEYOU
virus from the year 2000 – it was an innocent-looking email that contained a heartfelt confession
document which, when opened, would email itself to 50 of your email contacts and spread further.
It caused $10 billion dollars in damage and affected over 10% of all the world’s computers
3 – Alzitalove What would happen if there was no air for 5 seconds
• Tragically, all the babies on earth would perish as their lungs are too small to go
5 seconds without air – this might sound horrible, but at least airplane rides would
go a lot smoother, no more diapers to deal with, and we get to eat ALL the baby pudding,
of course humans would go extinct but small price to pay
• A lot of things you might not expect: the blue sky would turn dark, all buildings
made of concrete would immediately turn to dust, your ears would explode and you’d
lose a large chunk of your hearing and oceans would evaporate into space – so… not good
• So if there were no air, wouldn’t that mean you can’t fly anymore?
• If there’s no wind I can still fly, but if there’s no air then I can’t get
lift.
Why?
• Pretty sure my brother is trying to get rid of every tree in the world.
So.
That’ll suck for you.
• If there are no trees, there won’t be any oxygen.
So.
That’ll suck for YOU.
• Yeah.
Sure.
2 – supm8lol Would it be dangerous for humans in other galaxies?
• Good question, I only know one person who has any idea about that stuff – Pringle,
is it dangerous for people in other galaxies?
• Na, it’s not that bad, pretty similar to here.
Humans would do fine.
Pretty sure YOU would die though.
• It depends if there are habitable planets in the other galaxies, we’d also need to
figure out a way to get there as other galaxies are millions of years away from us – time
dilation might help, travelling at the speed of light to cover a large distance in short
time, but humans aren’t even close to being capable of this yet
1 – Videomastermat03 Is it possible that the world can end at any second now?
• Absolutely.
Especially when you have people like Hellbent risking everyone’s life with his constant
smoking, being a total renegade…
rascal.
AH.
WATCH OUT.
• * • It depends if you’re talking about the
world being destroyed or all humans dying – there are lots of ways humans could perish,
such as super volcanoes, flu mutations, a nuclear apocalypse – but the world could
be destroyed with a comet big enough or a rogue black hole swallowing the Earth – most
of these are relatively rare though, so don’t panic too much
• So, I noticed the world didn’t actually explode, what’s up with that—
• * • Ugh… just a dream.
Did I have a script recording due today?
Wait, it’s my day off, yay!
Don’t have to deal with Dolan— • HAVAGUDWUN