• From what the biggest star ever is, to whether rain has an actual smell, we answer
some of your most burning questions about life
• Hey there, my name is Doopie, I'll be reading out the questions and answers
• I'm Danger Dolan and I'm here to blow your mind with truth
10 – Peachy 12 How do bees make their hives?
• With hammer and nails.
You think it’s easy for them?
They’re like, a millimetre wide!
Tools are out of the question.
That saying, “You’re being a busy bee?”
You think that’s just idle talk?
No, these things work 36 hour days.
Considering the work they put in, hives are a god damn biblical monument created by their
whole tribe.
• You’re, like, deeply invested in this, aren’t you?
• I dig bees.
I like their attitude.
• Yeah, till they sting you with their BUTT and die.
• …………….why would you say that?
• Honeybees construct their hives by chewing on wax until it is soft enough to mould into
the hexagonal cells that make up the hive.
The worker bees store honey in their stomachs and turn it into wax using their glands.
The hive is constructed in a location that is protected from weather such as a hole in
a tree.
9 – Y Steizer Why does the rain have a smell?
• Fast food.
These companies are pumping out plumes of greasy gas from factories just so you can
have your McObesity Burger.
Killing the environment with waves of stinky oily air.
Melting the polar caps.
Ending the lives of children – all for a handful of your grime-ridden chicken strips.
• Noooo – that stuffs delicious.
I’d kill for a box of the greasiest chicken wings, twenty, NO THIRTY nuggets with a tub
of some… mmm… chocolate… mouse – oh gosh….
I need it…
• You.
You’re part of the problem, Doopie.
• No no no, go away, I love my grease.
• Rain has a smell because a chemical reaction is caused by oil that plants secrete during
dry periods.
When the rain hits the ground after a dry spell it releases the odor into the air through
microscopic particles called aerosols.
The pleasant smell of rain is called “petrichor”.
Also, lighting can split oxygen and nitrogen molecules during a thunderstorm, creating
nitric oxide.
This scent is known as ozone.
• Your scent is known as stink, fatty.
• Dolan STOP.
• Gotta stop eating that smelly fast food.
• NEVEEEEEEEERRRRR. 8 – FreddyFusebarRO150 Can we still breathe
without gravity?
• Here’s the thing though.
If there’s no gravity, that means you’re likely in space.
Which means there’s no air.
It is difficult to breath in space, I’ve heard.
• But – what about those rooms they put you in where you float and stuff?
• That’s… not a real thing.
• Um.
Yes it is.
My dad knew a guy who did it.
• Well, I know a guy who says you’re wrong.
Me.
It’s me.
You’re wrong.
• Yes, you CAN breathe without gravity, but only if you have something to keep the
air around you – either a space suit or spaceship.
Gravity helps us breathe on Earth because it holds in the atmosphere, keeping the air
around us.
So, gravity is not necessary for breathing as long as there is another means of containing
air.
7 – Escamillo Animations Who started naming plants with latin names? and why?
• Someone who just hates making things easy for us.
They couldn’t just walk up to a brown leaf and say “Yep, this is a brown leaf”.
No, instead it’s a brownlificusmomentumshoogyboogyrasputinus.
Thanks.
Man, ya really cleared up that confusion, didn’t ya?
• HA.
Caught you, Dolan!
• What—?
What are you talking about?
Where’d you come fro— • That old thing you said?
A little while back?
Calling my skin condition “Birdificus Melissalie” – that’s a LATIN name.
If you were so interested in avoiding confusion, why didn’t you just call it bird disease?
• Wow.
Um.
Sure.
You’re right.
I’m sorry… for that thing I apparently did.
• Thank you!
Sorry to interrupt Doopie, just had to correct Dolan.
Later guys!
• Yeah.
You uh… really sorted me out.
• It was Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus who developed the binomial system for naming
plants, which groups plants into “genus” and “species”.
He chose Latin because it doesn’t need to be translated and will always mean the same
thing since it’s a dead language and therefore won’t change over time.
6 – MicroMator Why do dinosaur fossils remain on Earth but human skeletons don’t?
• Because dinosaurs were huge, mate.
Humans are puny, shrimpy things that die if you breathe on them wrong.
If it takes 30 years for a human skeleton to waste away, trust me, it’ll take 3 billion
years for those big ol’ dinosaurs to clear out.
• 3 billion?
Come on.
That’s a bit of an exaggeration, right?
• Na.
When you die, I give your skeleton 3 years, tops.
• Well I guess I won’t die then.
Hmph.
• Tch.
Good luck.
• Dinosaur fossils aren’t skeletons but rock that replaced the bones after minerals
leeched from them while being encased in the Earth after a disaster – usually volcanic
eruption – that prevents the air from reaching the bones.
Human fossils have been found, but skeletons don’t remain on Earth because all organic
matter will eventually decompose - bones just do so at a slower rate.
5 – LunaStarGirl AJ Why is glass fragile?
• Cause it’s cheap.
They don’t make glass like they used to.
Back in my day, you could run over a pair of glasses with a tank and it would utterly
destroy the tank.
Nowadays I can’t even pour two drops of water into a glass without it exploding into
3 billion pieces – AND NO THAT’S NOT AN EXAGGERATION.
• This is due to the brittle, crystalline structure of glass, which doesn’t allow
it to bend or dent.
This happens because the tetrahedral crystals that compose the glass are not regular and
repeating.
This means it cannot bend, and if enough force is applied it will shatter.
This is why glass shatters when it gets hot, because it doesn’t have the ability to expand
very well.
4 – Narwhalsaman 44 Why do electronic screens randomly dim and brighten?
• That’s the phones way of saying, “Hey idiot, stop using me so much, go outside and
interact with your friends”.
But of course, nobody pays any attention.
SOME people are just way too addicted to their…. *sigh*…feed.
• Hey I am talking to my friends, you butt stain.
• Yeah well, when I was your age, your friends had to actually BE there.
• When was that – 3 billion years ago?
• Ugh.
Oh.
That was a good rip.
I’m genuinely hurt.
Damn.
• This is an automatic energy saving mechanism designed to limit power consumption in portable
devices like smart phones and laptops.
The iPhone for example, also adjusts the brightness depending on the light around you.
It goes brighter when out in the sun to counteract the glare, and dim when in low light conditions.
3 – Milca Cebujano Which is the Biggest Star ever recorded?
• I think the major problem with this question is that when you look up, they’re all the
same size.
I guess some of them are kinda, a little bigger than others?
It’s like comparing ants though.
Man, which grain of sand on the beach is the biggest grain ever?
Yeah, I’m sorry, I don’t care.
• UY Scuti is currently recognized as the biggest star.
German astronomers discovered it in 1860 but the true size was not known until 2012 when
it was observed through “The Very Large Telescope” in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
It is between 1,054,378,000 – 1,321,540,000 miles in radius, which is 1,700 times the
radius of the Sun.
• Hey guys – what is it?
What do you want?
• Um… what?
• What are you talking about?
• You wanted to talk to me, right?
Said something about the biggest star ever?
• ………..ooooooh COME ON.
Not you, ya dingus.
• Huh?
• Ugh.
He thinks biggest star means him.
• Oh.
Wow.
WOW.
• Hey – what can I say?
I’m fantastic.
2 – Jacket-the-rooster Why are Eagle, Falcon, Hawk and Vulture females larger than the males?
• That’s just a myth.
Nobody can tell the difference between a male or female bird.
Visibly they look exactly the same – angry eyes, hook face.
You haven’t got much to work with.
• You saying Melissa looks like a guy?
• Her?
She got bird disease, it’s different.
If she spent more time exercising and less time swooping on people rambling about Latin,
she’d be bigger than all of us.
• What are you talking about?
Melissa’s ripped!
She plays tons of sports, her body’s tight – it’s just hidden under her feathers.
• Well, no…
I — wait how do you know what her body looks like?
• Girls know things that boys don’t.
• * • The best theories suggest that it has
to do with the females taking care of the nest.
Called “reverse sexual size dimorphism”.
The female spends more time building the nest and then incubating the egg, and therefore
must keep the eggs warm and protected.
So, it would make sense that she would be larger to defend herself.
The male needs to be lean to catch prey efficiently.
1 – ClarkGuild Why do we only have 5 senses..
Are there other senses that exist or others that we don’t know about that we may have?
• You know when you’re on the beach and you get sand stuck between your toes and you
try to brush it off but it just makes more sand stick in there & you realise you’re
literally surrounded by sand and there’s no escape so you feel frustrated, depressed
& sunburnt?
I have no idea if that’s another sense.
It’s just been bothering me so I thought I should tell you.
• Well, I love the beach.
• Good for you.
• You should just give it a chance.
• No thanks.
• Don’t be such a pooper.
• Bye.
• Senses are a way for our body to register various “physical phenomena” and for our
brain to process them.
In fact, we have more than five senses - although the exact amount cannot be agreed upon.
Some additional senses that have been confirmed are: pressure, itch, balance, temperature,
hunger, pain and thirst.
• * • Oohhhhhh it’s so nice to relaaxxxxxx
• WOAH.
Guys.
Check this out.
Biggest grain of sand I’ve ever seen in my LIFE.