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Photo Phriday

GOT JUNK??? Maybe it’s not junk, maybe it’s a cherished heirloom or a valuable antique. Or maybe it’s just a bunch of plastic necklaces and bracelets from your otherwise lost-in-a-closet Pretty Pretty Princess board game.
So take a picture of your favorite (or weirdest, most disturbing, etc.) tchotchkes and get ready to show ’em to us starting at 8pm EST.

Please do not post any pictures of your genitalia. Perv.

To our left is not one of my tchotchkes. That’ll come at 8. But this lil ‘guy gives you the general idea.

Lunchtime Poll

So, this is what’s called a lunchtime poll.

You inherit 5 million dollars the same day aliens land on the earth and say they’re going to blow it up in 2 days. What do you do?

There are no stupid questions. Except for this one.

More gamez

Why is the sky blue?

The gases in the atmosphere scatter blue light most efficiently. Read more here.

Why is grass green?

Chorophyll absorbs blue, red light, reflects green; light —> energy. Read more here.

OR MAYBE YOU’RE JUST NOT SMART ENOUGH. Fine, black holes.

Star implodes. So much gravity nothing escapes; sucks together space-time. Read more here.

Also, fuck you.

String theory. Go.

Not even string theorists know what they’re talking about.

Submit a science question to me either in the comments, to my Gawker account, or to my email. I will answer it in ten words or less. If you ask me a question that neither I nor anybody else has the answer to, I will pretend I never received the question.

Game time!

How was the universe…created? Do we even know that?

Short version:
THEORY: Not created, formed. Space/everything began, grew. Before? *shrug*

Long: Read more here.

I was always terrible at physics. Why is [light] both a wave and particles?

Short version:
Light reflects/refracts like waves, has energy/momentum like particles.

Long: Read more here.

Submit a science question to me either in the comments, to my Gawker account, or to my email. I will answer it in ten words or less. If you ask me a question that neither I nor anybody else has the answer to, I will pretend I never received the question.

Just kidding. If any of you can answer this, there’s a Nobel waiting for you. Is the multiverse real?