• From parts of the brain you could live without, to what the deadlist organism ever
is, we answer some of your most burning questions about life
• Hello there, my name is Shima, I'll be reading out the questions and answers
• I'm Danger Dolan and I'm here to blow your mind with truth
10 – Ada Cascone - Why do my fingers get wrinkled when I stay in water too long?
• Most people don’t know this, but water is actually really bad for you.
When it’s exposed to your skin for prolonged periods of time, it causes accelerated aging
until merely 70 years from now, you’ll be a wrinkly old man, all because you can’t
stop taking showers and baths, you FOOL • This question puzzled scientists for a
long time and there are multiple theories on the matter, but the most commonly accepted
theory is that the wrinkles increase your hands and feet ability to grip things, just
like car tyres do.
• Hey Shima, are you havvin a gewd one?
• *gag* • Do you think you could stand further away
from me, like a lot further?
I want to do science.
• Okay, in the name of science!
• Keep going.
• Okay yeah, that’s fine.
• What?
9 – Patreon - nikolay molokvas - why do we age?
• Because nobody can figure out where the off-switch for it is on our bodies, I’ve
pressed in all the weird bits and dangly stuff but I still seem to be developing this wrinkle
that’s been growing for the last 300 years – guess it’s a good thing I’ve kept
away from water…
• If we knew the answer to that we’d probably be able to stop it, but one theory suggests
it’s because DNA gets more and more damaged over the years, making the essential job of
cell replication less accurate and efficient.
• How old are you, Shima?
• That’s rude, you can’t just ask people that
• Yeah you’re old, you’ve stayed away from baths too— * uhh…
what?
• Baths?
*hiss* 8 – CooperGal24 - Why is it okay to eat
beef from rare to well done, but not pork?
• Because pork is just dirty nooblet food, it gives you a -2 strength debuff and it takes
like five whole minutes to wear off – beef is delicious nutrient-hardened food of the
gods, it gives a +1% bonus to facial hair, it’s so strong that even your eyebrows will
grow a beard • This is because there’s a parasite sometimes
found in pork that makes you feel really ill before killing you with a heart attack, but
strangely enough if the pig is raised and eaten in certain countries like Australia
there’s no more risk to eating rare, unprocessed pork than beef.
• CAAAAT!
• I really wish you wouldn’t call me that.
• Then stop eating all of my wires!
• But they’re so delicious!
7 – Victoria Carr - What parts of the brain could you live without?
• When I got a brain scan the doctor man said I had two whole brains, so I don’t
even know how you chumps live without the superior power of double thinking!
• Can I see that?
• Here ya go!
• Err, Dolan…
This is two brain cells, not two brains.
• Po-tay-to, po-tah-to • No one says po-tah-to.
• Anyways…
thanks to an amazing property of the brain called neuroplasticity you can miss half of
your brain your entire life and never realise it.
Technically you can go without everything except your brain stem, but you won’t be
able to do anything other than breathe and keep your heart beating; this means you’ll
need an IV drip to keep you fed.
6 – seth Lester (tank) - Could the universe reincarnate when we're all gone?
• It depends – have you been donating to charities?
Did you remember to wash your hands after you went to the bathroom?
Did you thank your mum for the dinner she cooked last night?
No?
Well…..
I’m not sure the universe will want to exist if you’re not making the effort.
What if you rethought your life to make it not… crap?
• We really don’t know what will happen to the universe after the last star dies out,
but according to the commonly accepted theory the universe only has one go and will never
recreate itself.
There may be an infinite number of big bangs going off every second, but we’ll almost
certainly never know about or interact with them.
5 – Golden Foxy – Is there any chance to evolve enough so we can use telepathy powers
with our brain?
• It’s closer than you think – already we’re making huge breakthroughs in neuroscience,
tomorrow you’ll be able to make a glass of water move 2 inches off the desk to your
hand so that you won’t have to get up, you’ll be able to answer calls using nothing but
your mind, you won’t even need to exert the energy to blink, telepathy will handle
everything • If we’re going by our current understanding
of science, then no it’s impossible.
This is because there’s simply no way our brains could produce a force, wave of energy
or stream of matter that could control the world around us in a meaningful way.
4 – The Mohawk - How do cybernetic limbs connect to the body
• Well scientists had to invent some completely innovative technology to make cybernetics
work, but after years of research, testing, financial hardships & the collaborative effort
of all the nations in the world, they finally created through the blood, sweat and tears
of millions, this miracle breakthrough: ‘Sticky Tape’ and the world was changed forever.
• There aren’t any artificial limbs that actually connect to nerves, which would be
the ideal way to control them.
Instead, scientists realised that when you try and move your fingers, your forearm twitches
in a certain way.
Taking this information they put in sensors on the arm and extrapolate that information
into a crudely moving mechanical hand.
3 – When people lose weight, where does it go?
• It flakes off, one piece of skin at a time – this is why your feet sometimes get
a lot of flaky skin because all the fat has dribbled down there and it’s trying to rub
off onto the ground – just keep peeling the dead skin off and you can eat as much
cake as you want without gaining a pound • You know how we breathe in oxygen and
breath out carbondioxyde and that humans are mostly made of carbon?
Well most of the carbon we burn off during the day metabolises from fat into energy for
the body and the waste products, like carbon and water, get breathed, sweated or peed out
of your body.
• Ugh…
Shima… can you peel the skin off my face please….
ugh • Eww….
there’s so much of it!
• Aaaaah… much better!
2 – Hyrule Legend - What's the deadliest organism we know?
• Mosquitos.
These things regularly carry around and inject people with ebola, herpes, acid, acid herpes,
the black death, polio, diseased sunscreen, smallpox, acid smallpox, malaria, milk that’s
gone off – but at least they’re not as deadly or destructive as the monster known
as CAAAAT • The organism that kills the most humans
is the mosquito, it’s estimated to have killed around half of all humans that have
ever existed.
But don’t go worrying about that bite you’ve been itching; it kills by spreading malaria,
which is both treatable and very rare in areas of wealth, such as areas where people are
wealthy enough to watch YouTube.
• What do cables taste like, by the way?
• Kinda like chicken – if the chicken were made of cables, I guess
1 – angelicMonster - Theoretically, what are ways that zombies could actually exist?
• Well, technically they already exist – just mention the word board meeting and watch as
everyone around you turns into an energy-deprived zombie with mumbled incoherent references
to wanting coffee, does anyone have form F?
Where’s my pen, you have my pen?
I can’t find my pen…
• Well as far as we know there’s no way for a virus to affect the corpse of a human.
However, when it’s a virus like the one in ‘28 Days Later’ scientists have admitted
it’s possible since the Rabies Virus already acts in a similar way, although it’s nowhere
near as extreme and hasn’t caused anything close to an apocalypse.