The 'What do you want to know?' thread.

[CavLancer]

This is what I want to know...

I want to know why space aliens built the moon. Other than that I'd like to know what the effect of CO2 really is, and whether it can be counted on to offset the end of the Holocene, not to mention a significant solar minimum as the one we appear to be going into. I'd also like to know if the Holocene can really be expected to run for tens of thousands of additional years, massively breaking all previous interglacial periods duration. I'd like to know whether the universe is real or a simulation. I'd also like to know when the Cascadia seduction zone will unzip and the strength of the quake. Knowing what is cleaning the Mars rovers might be fun.

Anyone you knows the answers to these please, go for it. Also, if you want to know something, this is the thread.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

For the answer to your first question, there's an episode of Doctor Who that offers one explanation (see the Doctor Who thread in the A&E forum).

 

[CavLancer]

Should I read through the entire thread to find the link?

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/the-doctor-is-coming-the-doctor-is-coming.161129/page-2

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It should be more toward the end of the thread. Do a search for Plotinus' posts and you should find it easier than searching for mine since I've posted more recently than he has, I think.

We got into an argument about it, since he knows the guy who wrote the story.

 

[CavLancer]

Does that mean he has inside info you didn't agree with?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Does that mean he has inside info you didn't agree with?

No, it just means Plotinus thought the story was okay, even good, and I think it was crap.

Even in Doctor Who, I want some attempt at scientific plausibility. Unfortunately, that whole season was aimed at an audience of scientifically illiterate 8-year-olds.

Not that I'm saying Plotinus has the mentality of that sort of child, but he's a lot more forgiving of bad writing than I am.

 

[Perfection]

Knowing what is cleaning the Mars rovers might be fun.

 

[CavLancer]

Very nice, its a theory of course. Shall I put you down for Dust/Wind/Dude? I'm more into Aliens/Nice/Shy, its just more fun. Space aliens being nice, but shy and not wanting their photo taken. Martians are like that.

Curiosity is dead (not the rover) as it seems none here want to know anything. That, or everyone here already knows everything. Alternately, none want to admit to ignorance on any subject in case they should want to pontificate on it in the future. Staying on topic: I want to know why nobody here wants to know anything.

 

[warpus]

I'd like to know whether the universe is real or a simulation.

We'll probably never find out so you might as well assume that you're in a simulation and that when you die you wake up in the simulator machine and have to pay a guy and get to go home.

My question is.. Is there life somewhere else in the solar system, and did it arise independently from life on Earth?