Science holds its last great mysteries up to the light [top 25 unanswered questions]

Times Online ^ | Mark Henderson

[flashbunny]

"Will Malthus continue to be wrong?"

My favorite question.

The answer, of course,is yes - as long as man continues to be free.

If the world is run the way liberals want it, the predictions of malthus will come true in a most unpleasant manner.

[ScreamingFist]

I'll start working on these now, I'll get back to you....

[JimSEA]

Is an effective HIV vaccine feasible?

How hot will the greenhouse world be?

What can replace cheap oil — and when?

Will Malthus continue to be wrong?

Do I detect just a tiny wee bit of politics???

[zencat]

This is going to require large quantities of beer before I reach any conclusions.

[MikefromOhio]

the one they missed is will genetic engineering bring about any new advances in the treatment of disease. Most notably cancer, AIDS, HIV, ALS, you name it....

[sharktrager]

There forgot the most important:

My thermos. It keeps hot things hot. It keeps cold things cold. How do it know?

Damned If I Know

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

[From many - one.]

They got the first two items wrong.

#1 Where did my other sock go?

#2 Why is everything in the last place I look?

[umgud]

Can the liberal gene be identified?

[Graymatter]

How come water is blue, yet snow is white?

[3rd Order]

#2 Why is everything in the last place I look?
because you'd be stupid to keep looking after you found it

[Graymatter]

And where did all that water come from anyway? It can't be easy to combine hydrogen and oxygen like that.

[chariotdriver]

And when I lose something why do people say 'where did you leave it last?'

If I knew that, it wouldn't be lost.

[Prince Caspian]

top 25 unanswered questions

Who says these are the top 25? And only 25? Something tells me we haven't even scratched the surface. A touch of politics? Indeed. A professed fascination with the laws of the cosmos with a peculiar lack of interest in the Source of all law. Like a blind man stumbling into the ditch while thinking he's nearly got the way figured out.

[Dog Gone]

And the number one question....

(drum roll........)

Why do men have nipples?

[muir_redwoods]

I think those are four good questions but I would have put the question about whether we are alone in the universe and the one about the Grand Unified Theory first and second.

I'm sure you know there is always a political side to anything involving three or more people.

[TheGeezer]

This is going to require large quantities of beer before I reach any conclusions.

If you do as I do and use Jim Beam, the quantity is very much reduced.

[Mount Athos]

How did Kerry get nearly 50% of the vote with no substantive alternative solutions, just bellyaching and vague platitudes?

[PioneerDrive]

>How are memories stored and retrieved?


This one has always fascinated me...