• From whether we can breathe liquid oxygen, to what we call a male ladybug, 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 – Alejandro Castellano - Does the sun have a shadow?
• On the edge of our solar system there’s a dark sun that spends all of its time crying,
writing poetry and listening to My Chemical Romance.
We try not to talk about it too much because it’s really embarrassing to admit it in
front of the aliens.
• Some star systems have two stars orbiting each other and can cast shadows by having
the dimmer star orbit in front of the brighter star.
Our own star has cooler, dark areas called sunspots that look dark because they’re
shadowing the bright plasma core.
9 – Karri Mulroy - why does uranium glow?
• It’s actually called urinium and it only glows when it’s peed on.
This wouldn’t happen if it weren’t for its hypnotising powers that convince scientists
to pee on it.
• Why on Earth would it want to be peed on?
• Duh, it’s just ‘into’ that sort of thing, don’t go judging when you lick
your butthole.
• Uranium doesn’t actually glow, since the light it emits is outside of the visible
spectrum.
Radium, however, does glow when you mix it with zinc sulphide, this happens when electrons
change energy levels thanks to the reaction of the two chemicals.
8 – Tanya Jelly - Why does Australia have the scariest insects?
• Don’t be silly, they’re actually fluffy, friendly and make great pets!
Just look at him.
Isn’t he adorable?
oh yes he is, oh yes he is.
Give me a kiss you cutie pie.
*spider bits his lip* I don’t, I don’t feel so —
• This is because cold-blooded animals are just better suited to Australia and the most
efficient types of cold-blooded animals are venomous and very efficient killers, once
they get their feed they can wait out the harsher times of the year when food is sparse.
• Um, are you okay?
• *Dolan’s ghost comes out* • I feel better than ever!
Look, I can fly and the spider can’t hurt me at all!
• No wait, that’s a— • You can’t hurt m—
• —ghost spider….
7 – Isabela Ruiz - Why are bubbles always circular?
• Well it’s all to do with the shape of your mouth, when you blow a bubble you make
a circle, some people have really weird shaped mouths and they can make bubbles in the shape
of some weird nonsense.
• This is because bubbles naturally want to take up the least amount of space possible,
thanks to a tendency called surface tension.
The least amount of space possible is a sphere while it’s in the air, but once it’s on
a surface it can form other, more complex shapes.
6 – Captain Nekomata - What is half of Infinity?
• Well if you take the infinity symbol and turn it around you can see that it’s actually
an eight.
When you cut eight in half you get two zeros.
Here’s the tricky part, now you need to divide them together, but if you do it right
you should get 4.
• Let’s say we take out an infinite amount of odd numbers from our infinity, how much
is left?
Well, there’s an infinite amount of even numbers left, so it’s still infinity.
This is one of the reasons why infinity isn’t a number, but is instead a concept.
5 – SnowFallAJ AJ - Can you breathe in liquid oxygen?
• Well when you breathe out, you breathe out carbon dioxide, so you might wonder where
your oxygen goes?
You sweat it out in its liquid form and boy does it taste great.
• Yes actually, if you get an oxygen rich fluid, with some other chemicals in there
since we need more than just oxygen, you can breathe it just fine.
Scientists think that it might be useful to use such liquids for space exploration and
deep sea diving.
• * • Try it, it’s deliiiicioooous.
• Er, okay.
• *spitting noises* • Is that your sweat?
• Where else would you get liquid oxygen?
4 – Jess Ong HD Productions - Why does the solar eclipse happen?
• The moon is just really awkward and it’s constantly getting in the way of the sun,
but try to be nice to it, it does mean well.
• Oh uh, I’m sorry, let me just, I’ll just try and get over here with my spaghetti,
it’s uh.
OH NO!
I’m so sorry.
• A total solar eclipse is a very rare and very special phenomenon.
The only reason it happens is that the moon is both 400 times smaller as well as 400 times
closer to us than the sun, thanks to this the moon covers juuust the right amount and
we get a spectacular effect.
3 – What do you call a male ladybug?
• They’re known as manly bugs and they help us make anything from park benches to
gigantic buildings, you can tell who they are by looking at their trademark yellow heads
and their orange and white torsos.
• Why are lady bugs so small then?
• Because they’re smelly girls, duh.
• How do you know they’re smelly if you have no nose?
• *sniff* too far Shima, too far.
• Ladybugs are known as a ladybug, no matter what their sex is.
Funnily enough, that’s not all that’s wrong with their name, since they aren’t
even bugs, they’re beetles.
Which is why you might hear people refer to them as ladybirds or ladybeetles.
2 – Hyrule Legend - How is cancer caused?
• Cancer is when a dancer learns the can-can, like me!
I can, I can do the can can, we can do the can can, everyone do the can can can can can
can cancer, oh yes I am a cancer, you can be a cancer if you do the can can like your
hero Dolan the cancer of can can.
• The two main ways cancer happens is through inheriting it from your parents, or because
of harmful substances collectively called carcinogens such as tobacco smoke or radiation.
What cancer actually is, is a cell with mutated DNA that never stops growing or reproducing.
1 – TheBlack Phoenix - Why are stars in space all different colors?
• Well the sun is yellow because that’s the correct colour for a star to be, the other
so called ‘stars’ are just dead pixels in our atmosphere, which is why we keep making
super bright lights in our cities so we can’t see them anymore.
• This is because different stars burn at different temperatures, the cooler stars burn
a deep red, whereas hotter stars burn blue, our star might look yellow close up, but further
away it’s actually in the mid-range of burning white.
• I finally caught you, I knew you were lying all along.
• I… what?
• Our sun isn’t white and blue isn’t hotter than red.
• It is white if you look at it from far away - didn’t you ever take science class?
• Who is a science?