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I loved the stuff around the answers the most.

*talks

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I liked the guy who didnt want spoilers.
I liked the ones that 'went for the throat.'
I wish one of them had asked 'What should he/she [indicating the person with them] ask?'

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I would like to know the coordinates of the nearest solar system (besides ours) that is home to sentient life.

I would like to know if our universe is someones experiment.

The answer to all these questions can be found in this video.

Where did I leave my goddamned credit card?

How about how to cure cancer? Or are such things less interesting to upright apes than all the nonsense in this video?

Ask them again when they're dying of a curable disease.

why 42?

How much does it cost to license Explosions in the Sky? Oh wait, it's the internet. Everything's free!

>> ^Trancecoach:

why 42?


That's what got my upvote.

I admire beyond description the artists behind the camera who so wonderfully capture the everyday beauty of ordinary people.

Also, nerd highfive to the 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' reference.

dude...the kid (Wayne) NAILED the question better than anybody...

"what is light made out of?"

Will my kids still love me as much as they do now when I am dead?

Is religion based on fact or is it mythos passed down through storytellers through our meager recorded history?

Bingo. My thoughts exactly.

>> ^rottenseed:

dude...the kid (Wayne) NAILED the question better than anybody...
"what is light made out of?"

How do we break the speed of light?

OR

How can we develop cold fusion?

etc. etc. etc.

Interesting, a question brought out the true colors of people. Smart film.

I'm with you direpickle, I'd have asked, "How can I create a technology that will meet all of humanity's energy needs?"

Previous installments in this series:

*happy

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I found myself irritated by people who asked questions to which the answers are readily available ("How does a venus fly trap, like, work?", "Exactly what is in Jello?","What's in a Wonder Ball?") or questions that were just intentionally stupid ("Where can I get the biggest, cheapest cookie right now?", "What's your favorite microwavable food?", "When's the zombie apocalypse gonna happen?").

Really? You have an opportunity to have any question answered and you're going to ask something meaningless or something you could find out for yourself with less than a minute of research?

I guess that says as much about me as it does about them.

Ithaca, NY is full of hippies. Did you expect any other type of questions? Venus fly trap?!?

I would never ask "Is there a greater meaning to our existence", because the answer might be "No."

I might ask - "How can i achieve cold fusion?" or "How can i travel faster than the speed of light?" or "What is the catch-all works-for-all cure for true depression?"

Other ones like "How can i harness the energy from lightning?", "What does extra terrestrial life look like?", "Is there anything like us in the universe and do they have the same insecurities and fears as us?", "In full, what is the grand unification theory?", "Light behaves like a wave and a particle, what IS it?" (which is kinda what the kid said, amazing).

But if there's no answer, i'd hope to get a retry. But the cold fusion one would be one of the most tempting. Faster than light travel is probably the one i'd want to know the most, but without effectively limitless free energy the world will never reach the stage of harmony that we'd need to travel faster than light, get off our knees and really begin to walk as a species.

Well that was all a bit wanky.

To be honest I can't criticise them for not coming up with conversation-killers like "what's the cure for cancer". They obviously wanted to elicit more personal questions. I would slap a few of them for giving rhetorical questions.

And that kid at about 43 seconds, did she really say her name was "Seven"?

Big thumbs up for Wayne.

Thumbs down for all the self centred stupid, inane questions. Really, microwavable food?

Thumbs up for the ones that asked proper questions like What happens after death?, and Will humans ever stop fighting?

Cure for cancer is a good one too... something that can give greater good would be the best type of question, things that are self centred are the absolute worst.

"Fucking magnets, how do they work?"

I wouldn't like to be so specific as to ask about cold fusion or lightning or even how do we solve the energy crisis, or how do we cure cancer (though these are all good questions and I would be hard pressed to come up with anything better in the spur of the moment).

It would seem to me that given the power of such a miraculous hypothetical situation, the key to getting the most out of it would be to strike deeper than the obvious and immediate problems. The kid had the spirit with the light question (impressively so). The answer to that question would fill volumes, and a complete answer would very likely supersede what we already know.

On further reflection, I think really deep physics questions would be the way to go...

What is the nature of gravity (in full)?

What is wrong with the general theory of relativity?

How is our current Standard Model of particle physics wrong?

Even if we didn't understand the answers, it would be immensely helpful to have some extra meat to chew on.

Of course, I'm just biased...some spiritual question might be worthy too. I'm just inclined to believe that there are no real answers there.

It's not just you. That's exactly how I felt.>> ^xxovercastxx:

I found myself irritated by people who asked questions to which the answers are readily available ("How does a venus fly trap, like, work?", "Exactly what is in Jello?","What's in a Wonder Ball?") or questions that were just intentionally stupid ("Where can I get the biggest, cheapest cookie right now?", "What's your favorite microwavable food?", "When's the zombie apocalypse gonna happen?").
Really? You have an opportunity to have any question answered and you're going to ask something meaningless or something you could find out for yourself with less than a minute of research?
I guess that says as much about me as it does about them.

Those people are summed up by the question at 3:26 :
“I would like to know why people try so hard to be anyone but who they are.”

Also, those questions remind me of the Woody Allen line from Small Time Crooks :
“The one thing I would like, I would like to learn how to spell Connecticut.”>> ^xxovercastxx:

I found myself irritated by people who asked questions to which the answers are readily available ("How does a venus fly trap, like, work?", "Exactly what is in Jello?","What's in a Wonder Ball?") or questions that were just intentionally stupid ("Where can I get the biggest, cheapest cookie right now?", "What's your favorite microwavable food?", "When's the zombie apocalypse gonna happen?").
Really? You have an opportunity to have any question answered and you're going to ask something meaningless or something you could find out for yourself with less than a minute of research?
I guess that says as much about me as it does about them.

got to love ithaca. spent 4 years of school there and this is the perfect cross section... peaceniks, stoners, hippies, idealists, professors, young mothers with darling children, young lovers, rastafarian street musicians...

>> ^Arg:

It's not just you. That's exactly how I felt.>> ^xxovercastxx:
I found myself irritated by people who asked questions to which the answers are readily available ("How does a venus fly trap, like, work?", "Exactly what is in Jello?","What's in a Wonder Ball?") or questions that were just intentionally stupid ("Where can I get the biggest, cheapest cookie right now?", "What's your favorite microwavable food?", "When's the zombie apocalypse gonna happen?").
Really? You have an opportunity to have any question answered and you're going to ask something meaningless or something you could find out for yourself with less than a minute of research?
I guess that says as much about me as it does about them.



But you guys know they're not actually getting the answers, right? They're asked a question with a camera in their face and they're having a bit of fun with it.

Bonus upvote for the modern Jesus thumbnail.

*philosophy


My question is: What would Stephen Hawking ask?

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>> ^xxovercastxx:

I found myself irritated by people who asked questions to which the answers are readily available...
I guess that says as much about me as it does about them.


I'm pretty sure your comment is a pretty strong point in favor of this video.

Fuck this video for making me cry at 5:53 in the morning. It was awesome.

Why is my happy place so close to my poopy place?

If god were a city planner, he wouldn't put the playground next to a sewage system>> ^honkeytonk73:

Why is my happy place so close to my poopy place?

As a researcher, coming up with a good question is often harder than answering it. So, I might turn this around a bit and ask "What is the most important question for humanity to try and answer?"

Dag's suggestion is excellent, though.

Misleading video. They asked at LEAST 3 questions.


1. The question the vid refers to.

2. Can we film you and would you like to participate?

3 What is your name?"

False advertising, I want my money back.

>> ^albrite30:

Fuck this video for making me cry at 5:53 in the morning. It was awesome.


grow a sack buddy, unless you're a chick. in which case, train yourself to be a female body-builder, then grow a sack. jk.

to many "why" and "what" questions. not enough "how"'s.

My answer would be to ask the interviewer the same question, because recursive loops are awesome.

>> ^ambassdor:

>> ^albrite30:
Fuck this video for making me cry at 5:53 in the morning. It was awesome.

grow a sack buddy, unless you're a chick. in which case, train yourself to be a female body-builder, then grow a sack. jk.


Grew a sack... now what the hell do I do with 4 fucking balls?

>> ^rottenseed:

dude...the kid (Wayne) NAILED the question better than anybody...
"what is light made out of?"


Pfff. Obvious. It's made of light.