Things you would like to know the answer to

66Mustang

Have you ever had any questions or puzzling thoughts that a Google search can’t answer (or that you can’t be bothered to search for)?

Share them here!

Maybe someone else knows the answer, or maybe we can just have a light debate over them.

66Mustang

One of mine is, why is it recommended to read the book before watching the film of the same story, why not the other way around?

Ross_Alumni

With the book question, I think it's because more often than not the book is the original source of the story and is the best representation of what the author wanted to convey to the audience, and will have more detail compared with the adapted film version. I guess that's why they called them adaptations, because the book is almost the master version, and the film is there to supplement it and enable others to experience the story in a much more consumable length.

I see the saying most commonly associated with Harry Potter and while the films are fantastic, the books offer an even greater insight into the world and how everything works. 

vikingqueen

         I would like to know how my dad always had an answer to my questions. He never once said "I don't know". How did one person know everything.....or is there an awful lot I still think is true when it isn't 🤔

leeCal

Birds and many small animals die every day I should think but you seldom see their dead bodies, I’m thinking especially of birds really.
Where do they go? 😕

janer1967

If there is a heaven or hell hoe can all the people who have ever died fit in heaven or hell they must be massive places 

janer1967

What came first chicken or egg 

leeCal

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

Sandy_123

What ever made you think of that @leecal 🤔 

emancherry33

Are there Aliens if so why don't they come to visit Earth ?

leeCal

@Sandy_123 It’s just that only babies with mothers have belly buttons, a divinely made person wouldn’t have one surely? Adam was first according to the bible and Eve was made from one of Adams ribs, so the story goes. Hence, no belly buttons! If they did have them then their origin was different ...shall we say.

Sandy_123

Hmm food for thought lol

SueHeath

I hate to be the barer of bad news @leeCal but with dead animals birds etc their bodies get eaten by other animals, no waste in nature,
Love the question regarding belly buttons xx

SueHeath

Food chain in nature @Biblioklept x

66Mustang

I wondered recently who, and how they, invented bread so long ago. Most foods hundreds/thousands of years ago were very simple with few steps involved i.e just take a piece of meat and cook it or take a vegetable and peel it. However with bread you have to take wheat, grind it down to make flour, add water before cooking it. (I think, probably wrong. ) How did they come up with that idea without knowing about it first?

66Mustang

Another question I have is why do video games often revolve around killing?

My guess is that games are a way of doing things that you can’t do in real life (like being a pro footballer, driving fast cars etc.) and one of those is killing. I’d like to know if there is any psychology behind it though. Are we as a race still just bloodthirsty animals like we were thousands of years ago watching gladiators etc?

leeCal

@66Mustang said:
Are we as a race still just bloodthirsty animals like we were thousands of years ago watching gladiators etc?

Just watch what happens when there’s a serious shortage of food in the shops! Haha

civilisation is a very thin veneer I’m afraid.

This may be of interest
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Psychology_of_Video_Games.html?id=Z_r_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&redir_esc=y

As for the origin of bread. Thousands of years ago people would eat anything including wild corn. They probably found that if chewed and sucked it softened enough to eat and so soaked it first in a vessel. This may have turned mushy  and when dried was in effect unlevened bread. Later alchemists of sorts maybe by accident found yeast made the paste rise if heated etc.

leeCal

Sometimes I wonder who first thought of sitting on a horse? Must’ve been quite a surprise to both person and horse 🤣 a weird thing to do unless...they were actually hunting the horse and jumped on it to kill it, then found it was fast and fun!

It could have been a monkey that first rode a horse and we just copied it! We'll never know.

66Mustang

I wonder if people tried riding all sorts of animals before settling (literally) on the horse  

leeCal

Porcupines and hedgehogs not so fun.

66Mustang

This came up on another forum and was never answered. I think about it quite a lot for some reason. I wonder if someone will answer it here.

If you were to drown would you end up just holding your breath until you fell unconscious, or would you  breathe in and fill your lungs with water? I'd prefer to just fall asleep but not sure if my body would automatically just breathe in which is quite scary.