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#1
what prehistoric animals actually looked like
Final score:
11points
Vermonta 1 year ago
fascinating! The more I search the more animals I find. Technology has seriously improved for archaeology
Sand Ers 1 year ago (edited)
What does archaeology have to do with prehistoric animals?
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#2
Who was Jack the Ripper and what on earth was his problem?
Final score:
11points
TheReader19 1 year ago
Yes, this one; I demand that there be a judgement day so I can find out who he was 🤣
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
How would judgment day give any of us that information?
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#4
Is there an afterlife? I wanna be with my dog again.
Final score:
8points
volcanic_larva3 1 year ago
replying so you can see (i think thats how it works)
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago
you dissolve into the earth or atmosphere depending on how your body is disposed of, and at the moment of death the electrical circuits that make YOU dissipate as energy and spread out into the universe, never to represent you again.
Load More Replies... volcanic_larva3 1 year ago
do not worry my child, soon God will call you to join him in everlasting paradise, and you will reunite with your dog, and you will never be separated again.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
As much as people want to believe this, I see no scientific reason to believe it. Sorry.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Even though I consider myself very science-y person and I'm not religious, I can't imagine how incredibly dull my life would be if I only believed things because of "scientific reasons".
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#5
I would love to experience viking age Scandinavia first hand. How did Old Norse actually sound like back then? How was it to be left in the village when the vikings went away? And how many myths and legends have we lost? Also, as a genealogist, I'd love to meet everybody in my family tree and have long conversations with them about who they were and what time and place they lived in. I'd also like to know how the world would look now if we had only ever had electrical cars. Would we have super fast and environmentally friendly electrical cars?? Or would they still be slow and the climate change still be as big a deal as it is now? What did dinosaurs actually look like? Did they have some awesome features we can't know about just by looking at the fossils? Like... I don't think you would be able to tell from a fossil of a spider that it makes these amazing webs. What if some dinosaurs had some ability we can't tell from their bones. I'd sooo want to know about that! Also, I'd really love to learn what animals talk about. What their roaring and hissing and tweeting actually means word-by-word.
Final score:
8points
#6
Is our reality simply a microscopic universe in a much larger type of universe?
Final score:
7points
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Yes, as demonstrated with sound proof in Men In Black, where clearly the galaxy is just a marble on the cat's necklace.
#7
I would like to find the mystery ingredient that can cure cancer!
Final score:
6points
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
There are a variety of cancers and they all have in common only one thing: runaway cell replication. The current research looks at using mRNA or delivery viruses to stop it. I think we'll have cures soon.
#8
Efficient and safe faster than light travel. I want to explore space Star Trek or Star Wars style.
Final score:
6points
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Sadly not possible, because Einstein's equation entails (mathematically) that your mass would become infinite when you reached lightspeed, ie you'd occupy the entire universe and be infinitely immovable (have infinite inertia). The only hope is wormholes or spacetime warping.
Doodles1983 1 year ago
But faster than speed f light has been proven. So, then what?
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Was there a real Atantis? What really happened? Were there descedents? Do they know and are they keeping it a secret?
Final score:
5points
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
There's a theory that it relates to the Minoan civilisation destroyed on the island of Santorini - the same eruption that gave rise to the biblical plagues.
#10
Were any of the events in the New Testament related to Jesus, as well as Jesus himself, true. What books were held in the library of Alexandria? What happened to the princes in the tower? Where is the tomb of Genghis Khan? What’s actually inside the Sphinx? Did they make the pyramids the way we think they did? And so so many…
Final score:
5points
Allen Beloe 1 year ago
And is the lost Ark of the Covenant really in a church caved out of stone in Ethiopia?
PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago
No it's in a U.S. government warehouse. Since 1981.
Load More Replies... USAFfan 1 year ago
The Romans actually have records of a person born in bethelehem with a name simillar to jesus. Also there is a historical record that mentions Jesus's cruxifiction. It was written by Tacitus, and its worth looking up. Its up to you on whether he was the son of God or performed miracles, but he definitely existed.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
1. No, there's no evidence for him apart from the Pilate stone (which names pilate), and the Caiaphas stone, which names Caiaphas. 2. We will never know since they were burnt and the palace of Alexandria is underwater in the Med. 3. That's being answered at present, apparently they were sneaked out to france. 4. TBC. 5. Nothing, it's a weathered rock that looked sorta like a lion so they carved a face on it. Google this, it is a new hypothesis. 6. Yes, no aliens involved.
USAFfan 1 year ago
Its universal: Whenever anything of note happens aliens must somehow be connected.
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If the afterlife is so wonderful, peaceful and happy for everyone, why do we have to muck about on Earth at all? Why don't we spend our entire eternal existence in peace and harmony? If your answer is so that we can weed out the bad souls...surely they wouldn't be bad, or have the chance to be bad, if they only existed in the afterlife world?
Final score:
5points
Apatheist Account2 (Submission author) 1 year ago
So if all new souls were born in the good place, there wouldn't be a problem...
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How was Mister Spock always able to “calculate our odds of success” for an event that was happening for the first time ever? e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQEh9gm2xcs
Final score:
4points
Justin Tyme (Submission author) 1 year ago (edited)
Wow, no Star Trek fans here? I thought this would get voted to #1.
PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago (edited)
I think it's more that no one questions this :-)
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 1 year ago
As a logical thinker, and a super genius, Spock was capable of looking into long chains of causes and effects to see their ultimate outcomes. This is also what made him such a good chess player.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Spock was sort of a ChatGPT genius. Ask a question, and a search of all the universe's knowledge would lead to an answer. And strangely formed hands and feet.
#13
I think for me it's a three way tie between figuring out how the "lost order" was lost (civil war thing), finding the amber room (ww2 thing) and finding the Isabela stewart gardener paintings (recent thing).
Final score:
4points
the_avenging_knight (her/she) (Submission author) 1 year ago
Robert E. Lee lost it right before the battle of anteitum, union soilders found it and gave it to george McClellen, it let him know how Lee divided his army.
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Why does anything exist at all?
Final score:
4points
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Why should nothing not exist? This is a human question. Only existing things can consider the concept of non-existence. Hence, in order for non-existence to be considered, existing things need to exist and be sentient. Hence, the anthropic principle.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
That makes no sense. Lacking something is imperfection. God is perfect. A god that wants to be loved lacks love. A god that lacks love lacks something. Lacking something is imperfection. Therefore a god that wants to be loved is imperfect. Therefore, if God exists, he she or it cannot want to be loved. Therefore, a perfect God would not create a universe of creatures to love he/she/it. A perfect god would be perfect; that is, complete in and of itself. Therefore, a perfect god would not create. Fullstop, you are refuted.
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What exactly is at the end of the universe...and what lies beyond that?
Final score:
4points
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Or if there is a place that you consider to be the end of the universe and something lies beyond that, then obviously that place is not the end of the universe.
Julia H (Submission author) 1 year ago
I don't believe it goes forever. That'd take a leap I'm not yet ready for ☺️
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
If you take the universe to be a Riemannian surface (spacetime fabric), you can imagine it as an onion-like toroid that recycles back in on itself, so the answer is: nothing; it's cyclic.
#16
Mostly how to stop ageing. I hate it.
Final score:
4points
TheReader19 1 year ago
I really don't mind getting older, but why does it have to hurt so damn much. And why is my skin so bloody dry?
#17
what actually happened to Amelia Earhart? Did she crash on a desert island?
Final score:
4points
#18
I have several: (1) The unexplained disappearance of planes and boats in the Bermuda Triangle (2) What happened to the colonists of Roanoke? (3) How were the Moai built and transferred on East Island? (4) Did DB Cooper survive his legendary jump? (5) What happened to Amelia Earhart? (6) Origin and meaning of the Nazca Lines?
Final score:
4points
Robin Roper 1 year ago
1. This area is heavily traveled and flown over, thus, there will be more lost planes and ships. Research has shown, percentage wise, there is about the same loss in this area than any other area in any ocean.
#19
The greatest mystery: I know the answer is 42. What is the question, though?
Final score:
3points
Skara Brae 1 year ago
The author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, chose 42 as the ultimate answer, because he preferred Earl Grey no. 42.
Martin Kaine (Submission author) 1 year ago
Yup. Heck of a man, heck of a player. ap_5603010...fd36b5.jpg 
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
What do you get if you multiply six by nine - according to the pocket Scrabble set.
Kenneth Spare 1 year ago
The meaning of life. Trust me, I've thought it over for quite a while.
Allen Beloe 1 year ago
Yes the Question is 'What is the meaning of Life?" the answer after a lot of waiting was revealed as 42. Now some say that it is 'To Die' or rather Two Die, 42 being 2x the total of the numbers on a Dice 2x21=42 (but that my be a myth)
#20
Who is the real slim shady? Why won't he stand up? The deeper I dig, the less I know.
Final score:
3points
Jennifer Gray 1 year ago
American rap artist Marshall Mathers, or. It's a line from the rap song of the same name.
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Why is "abbreviation" a long word?
Final score:
2points
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
because it comes from latin: ad (to) brev (brief, short), ation (to make it so).
Justin Tyme (Submission author) 1 year ago
Why is the word used by people who don't live in Latin America?
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#22
I'm still trying to understand how magnets work. I'm told it's not magic, but I'm not convinced.
Final score:
2points
Jeff White 1 year ago
I have a Ph.D. in Chemistry and I'm still trying to figure out how magnets work.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I have a BS in electrical engineering. I'm still trying to figure out how redox reactions work.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
electricity, magnetism, gravity: some of the basic forces / fields in the universe. It's just a feature of anything that is matter. In the case of iron and other ferromagnetic substances, the fields are lined up, you see the effect as a cumulative magnetic field. You get a similar effect with electricity called static. If you rub an inflated party balloon with a dry cloth, and sprinkle small bits of paper round it, it shows up a field just like a magnet does. These are just brute facts about the unvierse.
Jeff White 1 year ago
Not positive / negative. The force arises from an electric charge of a material that happens when the vast majority of the electrons in the material have the same spin direction. The only simple way to test this is to use another magnet. If the original material feels a force from the second magnet, the first material is magnetized.
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Someone who knows more about science than anyone else said that magnets die if you drop a glass of water on them.
Richard Cranium 1 year ago
All magnetism is based on an electrical charge. Positive + and Negative -.
#23
What does the colour blue taste like
Final score:
2points
#24
I think for me it's a three way tie between figuring out how the "lost order" was lost (civil war thing), finding the amber room (ww2 thing) and finding the Isabela stewart gardener paintings (recent thing).
Final score:
1point
the_avenging_knight (her/she) (Submission author) 1 year ago
Sorry, I didn't mean for this to show up twice.
#25
How am I supposed to pet Bouche without touching her?
Final score:
1point
#26
Why did societies make the male the one in charge and women property?
Final score:
1point
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Men are on the whole bigger and stronger. Early groups had the strongest as the leader, and if someone didn't like it, they fought for it, so the stronger invariably came out on top. It's pretty much the same in large parts of the animal kingdom, certainly most mammals.
#27
Where did missing Australian PM Harold Holt disappear to, and find out if the Tasmanian Tiger really is extinct or not
Final score:
1point
#28
What really happened to Anastasia Romanov? Form what I know her body was never found! What happened and where did she disappear to?
Final score:
0points
#29
Far from the evergreen of old Assam Far from the rainfall on the trails of old Saigon straight from the poster town of scorn and ritz To bring you the wilder side of gold and glitz But neon tiger there's a lot on your mind They promised just to pet you, but don't you let them get you Away, away, away Under the heat of the southwest sun Took to the spotlight like a diamond ring Came from the woodwork and the hopes they might Redeem themselves from poor decisions to win big But neon tiger there's a lot on your mind Strategize to maim you, but don't you let them tame you You're far too pure and bold To suffer the strain of the pain that's old. I don't wanna be kept, I don't wanna be caged, I don't wanna be damned oh hell I don't wanna be broke, I don't wanna be saved, I don't wanna be S.O.L. Give me rolling hills so tonight can be the night that I send them up a thousand thrills Can you cut me some slack, Cause I don't wanna go back, I want the new day and age Come on girls and boys, everyone make some noise!
Final score:
0points
the_avenging_knight (her/she) (Submission author) 1 year ago
Sorry, my idiot brain put this in the wrong list addition box.
#30
Do they like me or not?
Final score:
0points
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
Yes I've known my besties for 10 yrs but they also might've just been being nice this entire time and they secretly don't like me at all
#31
Exactly how did the "Big Bang" occur? (Take ten points off your score if you invoke any kind of deity.)
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Jeff White 1 year ago
Potential is what exploded. An incredibly tiny mega-extremely-whoppingly dense ball of potential. Strong stuff.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
The whole universe was in a hot dense state, then 14 billion years ago, expansion started - wait!
Stary_cat 1 year ago
The earth began to cool the autotrophs began to drool!..
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Why do children get cancer?
Final score:
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#33
Basically, everything! I am SO sick of 'scientists' explaining what happened thousands of years ago as if they were there - and then changing their minds every decade or so! If they were HONEST - if they would at least say, "Our current THEORY about this ..." I can accept speculation. It's the "stating a theory as if it were a fact" that bugs me.
Final score:
-4points
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Yeah no, what you have described is precisely how science works. It never claims stuff is a fact, it is precisely revisable and open to correction. Unlike religion.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
That is exactly what scientists say. So read what they say, not what people say they say
Julia H 1 year ago
Quoting a line from "The Core", it's best guess, all science is, is best guess.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Because The Core is such a reliable source for scientific information.
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What do you think ?
AnonymousApple 1 year ago
Mine would be every civilization that's seemingly "disappeared without a trace." Like the Tiwanaku; I know there are multiple examples throughout history. I also want to know if there really was a female Pope.
AnonymousApple 1 year ago
Mine would be every civilization that's seemingly "disappeared without a trace." Like the Tiwanaku; I know there are multiple examples throughout history. I also want to know if there really was a female Pope.
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