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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Are women treated as true equals to men yet?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

When is time travel invented?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are the best means of energy collection, storage, and transmission?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if the person I asked had knowledge enough in the field to answer this, I'm not sure I could understand it enough to retain any of it. I don't even understand todays batteries.

Imagine if someone from the 1920s asked you such a question. What would you explain? What frame of reference could they have to understand the answer?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The Dyson sphere is pretty effective.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What precise instructions should I follow to be able to time-travel like you?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What should I do about my car's extended warranty?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd ask what I could do to make their modern day better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What is the best recipe for nachos in the future you guys have got to have figured this out by now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is science able to describe reality completely?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How did you all kill the san-ti 600 years ago?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

What's the most effective way to build all parts of a nuclear fusion power plant? Please, be specific.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How make proper fire with stone?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did the year of the Linux desktop finally happen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, just last year!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What will be the lottery numbers for the next year?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What is the formula for immortality?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Probably something timeless and philosophical, since it's not like she'll be able to answer.

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