From whether lungs have a smell, to what happens if you flush every toilet at once,
my name is Darlink and I’m here to answer everyone’s burning questions about life.
Hello dere. I’m Danger Dolan and I’m here to blow your mind with TRUTH while Darlink
has me trapped here - a prisoner! Don’t be silly. You’re welcome to
leave at any time. You just shouldn’t.
You always say that but you don’t explain further. What’s outside that front door? Why
do you keep so many locks on it? It’s for your own protection.
From what, the wind? If I weren’t so lazy I would be out of here so fast. So anyway,
here’s a list of questions I could easily Google but you’re right here, so…
If we can make skin and muscle cells heal cuts and bones, why can’t we
regrow a finger if it were cut off? Regrowing a finger is infinitely more
complex than healing a cut because you would need to generate bone, muscle,
skin and blood vessels in tandem. Even large wounds can be healed if
you understand our bodies are like houses, and a blind repairman is fixing everything.
A cut is like a broken window that can be repaired even though the repairman can’t see what caused
the damage. And if a whole wall is destroyed, the wall will be repaired asap as a scar,
but the window frame will be missing now because the repairman prioritises fixing the giant gash,
instead of restoring every little detail. So it’s not a perfect system, but works well.
Repairing a broken finger would be like asking a blind repairman to build and
attach a bedroom to an existing house. Na - regrowing appendages depends on how
strong you are. If you can bench over 120kg then you should be able to concentrate hard
enough to grow back a finger. Hey Darlink - I’m gonna prove my point by cutting off your arm.
Fine, I’ll do it some other time. That’s a shame, because I cut off your
tail when you weren’t looking. NO! MY TAIL! Wait.
Are you trying to trick me again? Dolan, please.
What if we could zoom in with microscopes infinitely? Would there
be more details or is there a “cut off” point? The problem with continually zooming on anything
is eventually you’re going to lose visible light by around 400 nanometers. Electron microscopes
can go deeper, but theoretically there should be no cut-off point, at least to our current
understanding of particle physics. You’ll end up looking past the hydrogen atoms, the electrons,
the protons, until you’re so deep that time seems to “slow down” in clouds of protons and
photons, before you hit quarks, gluons, the infamous Higgs Boson, plasma and neutrons.
Beyond that, there might be supersymmetric particles, gravitons and dark matter - we don’t
yet know. You’ll see CMB waves leftover from the big bang create particles until finally,
we’ve delved so deep that we’re now creating miniature black holes.
At this point I advise you to put the microscope down before you destroy the whole universe.
What you’re actually seeing is the evolution of spiders. They start off as black holes,
before evolving in size bigger and bigger, so pretty much the reverse of everything Darlink
just said. Then when they’re mature enough, they’ll *blip* into existence.
That’s why spiders seem to appear in random spots of your house without rhyme or reason.
Your spider is ADORABLE! Does it have a name? Na it’s just some random one I found - hey!
Good boy, Charles. Let’s find you a nice juicy worm to eat.
If dark colours absorb heat, why aren’t more roofs white coloured?
Usually this comes down to the materials used. If there are asphalt shingles, wooden tiles,
terracotta or slate, then they’ll have a natural colour like grey or orange. But
assuming it’s a painted roof, a lot of concern is about stains and dirt being visible up there,
whereas dark colours hide this easier. A lot of business buildings though have
flat roofs, so that’s why quite a few are brighter colours: to cool them down. There
are certain humid areas of the world though there white roofs are common - so it’s not unheard of.
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Is it illegal to drive with the car light turned on inside?
While it’s not technically illegal, it does hamper your vision while driving and is not recommended.
Coincidentally, a lot of police associate the light on with drunk or sleep-deprived
drivers trying to keep themselves alert, or with people multitasking when they should be
concentrating on driving. So while you won’t get arrested, it is interesting to note that
statistically you have a higher chance of being pulled over if you leave the light on.
Not only is it illegal, it’s extremely dangerous. The only reason creatures of the night can’t see
you is because you have that light turned off. The instant it goes on, they’ll begin to follow
and you won’t even realise. After five minutes, a fog will enter your car. Your check engine
light will blink on, but whatever you do, do not stop the car. Do not open the door. If you have,
then it’s already too late. Unless you’re a weirdo, like Darlink.
Why can you smell things by inhaling and not exhaling? Are lungs odourless?
It makes sense that you wouldn’t be able to taste or smell your own lungs because you’ve had them
every moment of your entire life. Your brain will separate persistent smells from conscious thought,
sort of like how a cat litter box doesn’t affect you but will affect your friends
visiting. Your nerves will get tired of signaling the same thing over and over.
As a side note, paramedics have confirmed that lungs have a distinct smell, and it’s
a gross one. But we’re so used to them and it’s covered by so many other things like the throat
and mouth that we would never notice. AXCTUALLY, lungs have the strong scent
of burnt cinnamon and strawberries, but they’re buried so deep inside your body
you would never know that. Me? I regularly sell lungs to select clientele for their own uses.
Mr D, where did you get those lungs? Did you take them from people against their will,
or did you go through my stuff again? I found a bag of them but when I reported it,
nobody collected. So it’s fair that I might as well make a profit before they go bad.
Um. Hmm. Okay, I guess these ones ARE
yours. But I’m confiscating the rest. Ow.
What if every toilet flushed at once? This has never been attempted before,
but it’s safe to say if every toilet in the entire world were flushed at the same time,
sewer systems would be overrun by millions of gallons of wastewater. In small pockets where
pipes and drains have been tested (such as sports stadiums), they would manage to hold,
but most were not designed for the simultaneous flushing of an entire
country and likely wouldn’t be able to handle it. Funnily enough the closest we’ve come has been
the Super Bowl Flush, where everyone tends to go at once across America.
If we flushed every toilet at once, there would be mass whirlpools. Reverse tsunamis. The water
levels would rise and everyone would need to find higher and higher buildings to climb until there’s
not enough room on the roof so you have to kick whole families off to make room and you see them
float away in nasty toilet water but there’s no time so you climb to the top of the people pyramid
to take one last desperate breath before the water consumes you all - but that’s when it happens,
when all hope is lost, I, Dolan, transform into my final form. Dolan becomes DOLPHIN and I ascend to
the heavens until I reach space so I can look back at the helpless mortals into the toilet
bowl of a world they themselves created, before I float off into the void to fulfill my destiny.
You would be the first one to get sucked into a toilet. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
Well, thankfully ever since I had that guard rail installed, it hasn’t happened… again.
Why does GPS work underground but phone signals struggle?
GPS have just as much trouble without a clear view of the sky. But they’re augmented with
accelerometers to assist when the GPS positioning is unclear - this is a process known as “dead
reckoning”. The accuracy diminishes the more you travel, but it can also use wifi location signals
and cell networks to help augment the position. So though it appears as if GPS is stronger,
in reality it’s the technology that’s providing the illusion of accuracy.
Don’t you think it’s a little strange that recently GPS have been getting more accurate?
A little suspicious? I bet you didn’t realise that when you got the COVID vaccine they added
a little extra something - a 5G-powered locator chip. GPS will never lose track of
you with that. Those booster shots you get? Bug fixes for the chip. Wake up, sheeple.
Are you telling me you never got the vaccine? Of course not. You’ve been with me every
moment since my 2 year sleep. I can’t let that poison into my virgin untouched bloodstream.
Your immune system must be spaghetti. When was the last time you went outside?
O-outside? Here, give it a try.
You’re finally releasing me back into the wild? Alright. It can’t possibly be that bad-