Steemit Basic Income Giveaway (The Answer)

in newbiegames •  6 years ago  (edited)


Lots of groundbreaking innovations that were suggested in Last week's question about technology and inventions. Mostly centered around printing/writing/internet (passing on of knowledge) or agriculture (food production). I guess these are the basic foundations that allowed our modern population centres to grow and take root.

This week, I've been travelling a lot, some of it in a bit more of a hurry than I would prefer... but that's the way things are! It means that my brain is a little bit hazy due to jet-lag and the lack of sleep that that a full touring schedule imposes upon us.

So, this week's question is about an answer or two....

My Question

I was thinking about questions and how I have so many of them... most of which probably will never be answered definitively... at least within my own lifetime! Which got me to thinking, is there a question or two that I would that I would most definitely want a absolutely truthful answer to?

So there are two questions for this week. If you were guaranteed (by a genie or a fairy) to get an absoultely truthful answer to a question:

  1. Is there a question (that could be about anything at all) that you would love dearly to know the answer to? What is it?
  2. Is there a question that you would ask another person? What would it be?

My sample answer


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My answer for the first question would be the question:

Is it possible to have faster than light speed interstellar travel?

For the survival of the human race, it would be absolutely essential in the long term for us to be able to get off this planet, and then in the future... off this solar system. It is interesting (for me, at least!) to know if this is at all possible or if we are forever doomed to be swallowed up by the Sun in a far off future!

The answer for the second question for me, would be the question:

Are you real?

Surely, it has crossed everyone's mind... why am I looking out of these eyes? Does everyone else have the same experience? Being able to know if another person is definitely real or not, would help down that line of questioning!

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  3. In the comments, answer as best as you can the questions that are posed in the "My Questions"!
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Steem Basic Income

One of the first communities that I came in contact with at the beginning of my time at Steemit was @steembasicincome. As a author starting out on your fresh new Steemit account, Steemit can be a daunting and lonely place to be. OFten, it can feel like you are posting into an abyss with no one listening and with no ability to grow out of the situation. A share of Steem Basic Income gives you a guaranteed vote on one post a day, thus giving you a small but over time cumulative support to your account to help grow you out of your initial wilderness!

With this post, I want to help sponsor people who might not even have the spare 1 STEEM that is required for registration. So, when this post pays out, I will sponsor people depending on the payout of this post. Basically, I will round up the SBD payout from this post and then that will be the number of people I will sponsor. (So, if the payout is 2.3 SBD, I will sponsor 3 people). OF course, this is not simply an altruistic move, as the sponsor of a Steem Basic Income share also gets a share, so it is a great way to help others whilst helping yourself!

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Is there a question (that could be about anything at all) that you would love dearly to know the answer to? What is it?
Is there a question that you would ask another person? What would it be?

  1. Who really create the world?(That would be in regilion categories)
    Every god of the every religion(except buddhism) said that they has created the world.
  2. What do you think of me?

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That would be an interesting question to ask, to know who (if indeed there was a who!) created the world, and by extension, I guess you mean the universe! Every faith has a different claim, and if you are like me, then the question itself is under question, as I do not think that there is a need for a Creator of any type!

As for your second question... hmmm, tricky... I'm not sure I'd always want to know truthfully what someone else thought of me... if it was good, then that would be okay... but otherwise!

Sorry I should ask second question like this. Can I change this.

Ha ha... looks familiar!

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So there are two questions for this week. If you were guaranteed (by a genie or a fairy) to get an absolutely truthful answer to a question:

  1. Is there a question (that could be about anything at all) that you would love dearly to know the answer to? What is it?

Q. I want to know how do we exist?
I don't believe in religion or gods plan so what i really want to know is how all of this could happen. People, animals, life, technology..... Everything that we can do and cannot do. Obviously science can take us so far but it will never be able to tell me how i came from whatever big bang moment created life to sitting here on a couch making a post on a computer that can be seen in every corner of the world in an instant..... It makes no sense to me and i would like to know how???

Is there a question that you would ask another person? What would it be?

Q. What do you really think of me?
Not a single person but there are a few people who i would like to know how they really think about me, good and bad. It would be nice to have the truth and not just lies and the usual stuff.

So you subscribe to the theory of evolution? Or are you talking about why the universe exists which ends up leading to you at the computer?

Hmmm'm... To know exactly what other people thought, I think it would be a dangerous thing, it would be nice to have the truth, but sometimes it is a difficult thing to know...

Obviously there has been an evolution of our species. The science is there to prove it. What I can't comprehend is how we ended up here, now.......

So many different species and all so complex and varied. How humans can do what they do? It's a mystery to me.

To know exactly what other people thought, I think it would be a dangerous thing, it would be nice to have the truth, but sometimes it is a difficult thing to know...

Absolutely dangerous and maybe not a good thing but the curiosity is always there. I know how many truths I need to hide every day. Even just small things like when dealing with customers at work and being nice to them. You would need to have a tough she'll as I'm sure you would not be happy with a lot of what you might hear. The opinion we have of ourselves doesn't always match what the rest of the world might think.

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Thanks for doing these. They are fun and at the same time pretty easy to take part in. So here it goes.

  1. I would like to know if magic was ever real in this world. Our history is full of stories of people or beings that had powers. That could do things we could only dream of. So are all those stores fake?

  2. I would ask people or a person why do they let other people tell them what they need.

I love your second question. I can't lie I have had that thought. Like I see the rest of the stuff going on all over the world that I can't see can't really confirm. Is it all real? has to be right? Right?

Oh yes... I would also love to know if magic was real or not! Just imagine, if it was real that would really change the way that we view the universe! Or maybe it is just a problem of undiscovered physics...

Yes, why do people like to be led? I guess sometimes it is just easier to be told what to do, rather than trying to discover what it is that you really want? Who knows? Or maybe it is more a submissive role thing?

Glad I'm not the only one to have that second question cross their mind!

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1- Are there other realms of existence, ie. other dimensions or universes where there are living beings, unimaginable to us?

2- I would like to know what their question would be, for the above point. It would be a nice way to get to know someone.

Different realms of existence! Wow, that would again be another mind blowing piece of knowledge if it were true... and a bit disappointing if it were not!

Wow, top answer for the second question! I am finding that I do learn about people in the way they answer the first question... what is that they are curious about and what seems to be important to them!

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My questions

  1. Why does deja-vu happen? (the feeling of living through something all over again.)
  2. Who are the doppelgangers we see of people who look identical to someone we might know. Are they paranormal?

Why does deja-vu happen?... (ha ha)... I heard an idea that it was due to the fact that our conscious mind is lagging behind the real world. We already know that the reflexive side of the brain is much faster than the thinking part. This is the explanation that seemed to be most in tune with what I understand, but there are many other ideas as well!

You also see doppelgangers! I only catch them out the corner of my eye... People that look so familiar... or somehow similar to people I know, but that are not actually that person! I guess you could ask them, if you could ever catch one without looking like a crazy nut!

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{Let's see if I can keep this streak up...}
Now unto the reply:

  1. If there was a question that I would love dearly to know the answer to, then I want to know if I may possess the book that has all the answers and questions of the universe. Think about it, it would possess everything any could ask and possess the answer to them. The universe would melt and restructure itself many times over with our tinkering with it. Plus, societies would change and never be the same after all the knowledge that could spread be out and available to the Public. Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics would massively fluctuate and finally be grounded as all the guesswork would be cut out. Contemporary society's problems would go away as now we now how to best deal with them. And a brighter future for one and all, where slave-like conditions and exploitation are gone.
  2. Shifting the topic - if I could ask a person, fictional or "actual," any question that they had a definite answer to, then I would ask Lucy Boy (Lucifer) why he got kicked down to Hell. Think about it, we asked him and he'd probably tell the tale once again and see it from his perspective how things transpired. Not only that, but also truly know what type of Lucifer we're dealing with if they'd existed in our universe. And on the flip-side to see what really lies behind the veil of serenity up in the clouds and whether they're really angels or just really nice people.
Here's to more participants!
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Haha... for trying to twist the question and get god mode on the universe, it may be that if you asked if you could possess the book of all knowledge... your answer might be a simple... NO!

That would be an interesting idea to ask what the perspective of the Devil would be! I'm sure that he would have thought it was justified!

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  1. I would like to know the answer for the question : "Is any other form of intelligent life existing besides Earth in the entire universe?"
  2. I would like to ask another person: "What is your biggest, innemost dream? "

@bengy Your questions are just great, its some kind of inception or nesting :) I've just discovered your initiative. I'm keeping my finger crossed for that!

Wow, that would also be on my list of questions as well! Is there any other intelligent life in the universe... are we an accident, or is it just normal evolution of the Universe to come up with intelligent life? Or do we all miss each other in time...

Would you go out of your way to try and fulfill that dream? Sometimes, what we think we want isn't actually what we want when we get there... on the other hand, sometimes it is exactly what we wanted!

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  1. ¿En cual mundo me encuentro?.
    En el que veo, en el que no veo, o en los dos.
    ¿Son dos mundos? o
    ¿un solo mundo dentro de uno? y ese solo mundo soy yo.
    Mi pregunta es la siguiente;
    ¿Si vivo en un solo mundo como se en cual de los dos mundos estoy?

  2. ¿Pregunto si estan en contacto con su mundo espiritual?

In which world am I?
In the one I see, in the one I do not see, or in both.
Are they two worlds? or
A single world within one? and that only world is me.
My question is this;
If I live in a single world as in which of the two worlds am I?

I ask if you are in touch with your spiritual world?

What world/reality do we inhabit? It would be useful to know that, and if there are other ways of experiencing the universe... or if there is only just the one!

Are we in touch with our spiritual self? I'm guessing that most people aren't, even if they are professing it on the outside!

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If you were guaranteed (by a genie or a fairy) to get an absoultely truthful answer to a question:

Is there a question (that could be about anything at all) that you would love dearly to know the answer to? What is it?

Yes, and it will be vague but I would like to know the answer if my quest to reveal the truth about a certain situation work out.

Is there a question that you would ask another person? What would it be?

This one takes more thought. I am sure I would have many but can't pin point one atm.

Lol... that first answer is completely vague! ... and cryptic!

I'm make it a valid entry when you get back to me with the second one!

Your second question is tuff .... I suppose I would ask a high level government official to tell me their darkest secrets.

Haha... it could be very enlightening and disturbing... that they like to dress in drag and sing catchy songs in the outback of Australia!

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First, I thought of a whole lot of questions I don't want to ask - like life events in the future - good and bad, or stuff like if there is a God. All of that is better left to the mysteries life is made up from. So, the question I want to ask (maybe besides the lottery question 🤪) is - are there Aliens among us?

Asking another person. Hmm. Again. Not sure. Are the answers going to be an absolute truth answer or what they think they are going to do? Maybe if I can rely on them when they say yes to something... Or if it is a business manner - how trustworthy they really are...

Haha... the lottery question would have been the one... but to know if there are aliens amongst us, that would be absolutely mind-blowing if there were... and somewhat disappointing if there wasn't!

I think someone also mentioned asking if they could trust someone! I think given that people are fickle and changeable, the answer that they give might be truthful for the moment, but might be different an hour later!

But if we all asked the lottery question and all won - the winning would be so small :) Another thing to be better left to the mysteries of life...

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Its a silly question but i often wonder..

    1. Why do chicken cross the road?
    1. In steemit, i have been meaning to ask someone.. how have you became a whale?

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AAAAARRRRGGGGG! I think @dreemsteem set you up to ask that....

I think whales come either through early adoption of the platform or by investing a huge amount of fiat or other crypto.... either that or a big big stork...

Hahahahaha not initially! Although we have discussed about it in a lot of times but we do not have any concrete answers..

but i always wonder, hahaha how to be a whale (i know too ambitious haha im even having a hard time getting minnowship how much more for whalehood!a)...or how they have become one.. i dont see much of them do.. they are pretty hard to catch up active here.. not all..

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thanks for the feedback! Cheers!

The second first, and really, this is not about the words someone says... What are you feeling? The tough part is, we don't have the language we need... Or... The answers need to be given telepathically. Or, empathically. I need to feel your feelings to know, really, how how you're feeling feels.

As far as a fact goes, I'd like to know for sure what I can do to turn the tide in our apocalypse that will lead to a more positive outcome for humanity.

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What are you feeling? That is going to be tricky, as you pointed out, without shared experiences and shared reactions and emotions, it can be pretty much impossible to do better than a really rough estimation of the explanation. Empathetic Telepathy would definitely be needed to give an accurate answer....

Perhaps this is the positive outcome? Just needing to look on a much much longer timescale and in less detail and more the general sweep?

There's a short story by Howard Fast about children being raised without being told their limitations. And because no one tells them telepathy is impossible, they can do it. I find that idea fascinating. I dunno about telepathy, but I think a lot of our world's problems are solvable if we just could believe we had the power to solve them.

I remember one of the Golden Age sci-fi short stories having the similar hook. Something about being able to develop anti-gravity after being shown a video of some "genius" having had achieved it (but dying in the attempt). Which made the scientists give up their ingrained ideas, and try to develop the idea!

Yeah, the idea of "our only limitation is that which we put on ourselves" is definitely in the aether. And I think both woo-woo folks and scientific folks find it true to varying degrees.

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Oh, you are a freaky little one, aren't you? You stole one of my questions, how did you do that? Well, the first one I would rephrase a little and concentrate on traveling in general, not only at the speed of light but the second one is spot one. There were times when I too wondered if everything around me was just an illusion created in my mind.

My questions:

  1. Following in the footsteps of Einstein and Tesla, when will we and how will we master teleportation and if we ever will; can a soul or what makes us who we are be teleported too or only the physical particles?
  2. I would ask a person the first question you have asked us. That way, I would receive another piece of hidden knowledge. Presuming the person is intelligent enough to ask a good question :)

Haha... maybe that is a hint that you aren't real, but only an extension of my mind... or maybe it is the other way around and that I'm not real... uhoh!

Teleportation would be even better than Faster than Light! I should have asked that one! However, like you mention, it does bring into some real questions of what our conscious being is really... after all, it isn't something that is tied to our particular constituent atoms, as we change those continuously all the time...

Sneaky sneaky... getting a second piece of forbidden knowledge! I would lose it laughing if the person came up with a really mundane question.. like what is the time?

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Thank for hosting this contest!

  1. What is my purpose here in life, Why am I alive and why do people die?? This just makes me think a lot.
  2. Why are you trying to make yourself look so good even if you know what you are doing is wrong? Why did you even promise something that you can't even keep?

Indeed... that would be a question that I would love to know the answer for. Why are we here, is there a reason? Does there have to be a reason?

Haha... is the second question directed a bit towards our political class? It seems to be a question that often pops up for them... saying things to be popular, knowing full well that they can't really deliver... but anything just to get a vote!

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Very interesting post including nice project. 😋

  1. What is the beginning of our life and what are our life for?

  2. Can I be your friend?
    @aggamun

Yes, the big question.... Why are we here? What is our purpose!

Haha, a very practical second choice there!

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Well, my instincts are to go full blown selfish once again. My question to the genie would be: what is the next winning powerball lottery winning number?

Question to someone else? That’s trickier, but I guess I would choose to ask O.J. Simpson if he really did it or not.

Damn it! I should have thought of that! Incredibly practical choice there!

OJ... That is something from a long way back! What do you suspect?

I’ll split it with you 😁

I think he knows who did it... whether it was him or a friend, not sure. But I think he knows.

I also thought of asking a few of the other lesser known suspects of other true crime shows, like Making a Murderer and Stairway. I just would really like to know the truth of what happened in these crazy cases! The worst part about watching these series is when the end and you’re left to decide for yourself. I obsess over it for weeks!

I haven't watched any of these open ended series! I think it would drive me nuts! Do you haunt the internet boards looking at other people's theories as well?

Heh, I don't go quite that far, though I do keep up with the news articles that come out afterward. It seems like these "true crime" docu-series are all the rage now.

I don't know what is worse: not knowing, or knowing something truly horrible. If you want to bawl your eyes out and die a little inside, watch Dear Zachary. No ambiguity at all on that one...

Might send that one to my wife!

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This questions are very simple, but a little but thought provoking.

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  1. I will ask the genie how did the existence of God came about, Is there really a God up there overseeing the affairs of mankind or we are just made to believe in it to make us comport ourselves always and if this God is real, who is his father. they said he doesn't have a begining nor a end then how did he came about.

  2. I want to ask people what they think about me, about my blog post, there perceptions of me.

It would be interesting to know, if there was a creator of some sort, as that would imply that there is something outside the physical universe that we experience. That would be an absolutely mind blowing piece of knowledge. However, personally, I don't think there is a need to postulate the existence of a God...

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  1. A question that I have always asked myself is that what motivates people not to think about what they are doing and just go through life without questioning why or what they are doing?
  2. Do you ever wonder why you never question your actions?

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I can only answer for myself... But I think people notice only when actions impact upon them rather than the impact that their actions cause to others. I guess, in a way it is only natural to take into account the local and immediate effects of any particular action... However, short sighted of inconsiderate. To do otherwise takes extra effort. That said, I generally try... But I can't be sure of all the down stream effects... On the other hand, too much is crippling in it's own way.

Perhaps sometimes the answers that come from the questioning are too depressing?

Or maybe for some people thinking causing more oain than not thinking lol!!

I guess that why the anawer to life is 42!!

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Thanks @bengy, will have a look!

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1- ¿Cómo se puede curar la ansiedad de morderse las uñas?
2- ¿Los obstáculos que tienes para cumplir tus metas te los colocas tu mismo o los tenia preparado el destino para ti? ¿Eres sincero contigo mismo?

  1. How can nail biting anxiety be cured?
    2 - Do the obstacles you have to meet your goals you put them yourself or had the destination prepared for you? Are you honest with yourself?

That is an interesting question to know the answer for! Do you suffer from nail biting? Or anxiety? Or is it a bad translation...

Trying to figure out the delegation, but I guess you are saying, do we hobble ourselves, create problems where none exist? I have to say, personally, u try not to, but you never know for sure! It's something that easier to see in other people!

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  1. Would scientists report it if they found a © mark on human DNA?
  2. I'd like to ask my unborn self why on earth did I choose this queue.

Oh, I would hope so! That would be weird and bring up so many questions!

Did you want a faster queue or a slower one? Or one to a different shop!

I'd have to look at the options available. For example If I were born to wealthy parents would the broomstick shoved up the a%*$£% be obligatory. I like the idea of a whole new shop though. Opens up possibilities.

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ThanQ for the bounty Bengy

Hi @bengy. Scrolling around Steemit, looking here and there and I came upon this mind-bending exercise. So here it is, on a Sunday morning, which once was given over to church services and now blends in seamlessly with the rest of the week:

  1. Why is? Why existence? Why anything?
    (Sorry, you asked)
  2. What do you want of me, really? What is it you need me to be for you?

I'm tapping my foot, waiting for VP to build, so I'll be back for the upvote. Hard to control the impulse to vote, but I will. Hardest part of Steemit is rationing out those votes. I have poor self control :)

A few people have answered the same as you for the first question! I guess it is THE question, why are we here? What is the purpose of being conscious and experiencing this universe? Do we add anything? Does it matter? Does it have to matter?

Haha... as for your second... it sounds like the sort of thing I would be asking after a disagreement with my wife!

:)

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Hi there!

I missed the last week questions, but I'm back :)

Here I go:

  1. Is there a question (that could be about anything at all) that you would love dearly to know the answer to? What is it?

Is there a true religion?
I'm a believer in God. This doesn't mean that I'm questioning His existence, but the veracity of religions, I mean, I've always had my religion, and respected it, but I can't deny the fact that I'm curious about the other religions. Sometimes I think there is a possibility that I'm believing in the right God, but not the right religion.

  1. Is there a question that you would ask another person? What would it be?

Why do you let your life revolve around "love"?
There are so many people I would ask this question to. I can't understand how people set aside more important things in life for what they call love. Life goes on either we have it or not, but some people can't live without chasing it desperately as if nothing else mattered.

Glad to know you're fine, @bengy
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That would be interesting to know if there is a true religion, or even if all the religions are describing different aspects of the same thing! Personally, I am atheist and so I don't see any particular need to invoke a God for any reason... but that is my personal belief, and I have no problem with others having their own!

I also knew of people who would do anything for "love"... although in those cases, I wonder if it was love that they were searching for, or companionship... a fear of being alone?

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  1. How is conciousness related to phyiscs? While we have a very clear idea what we mean with conciousness, we have no idea how it is based on the laws of nature that hold for non-living matter.
  2. How do you perceive the world? I know what red is to me. Someone else may have a very different perception of red. Just by language we agree to call the same object "red", but what we actually perceive does not need to be the same. Just being able to see the world as someone else would be extremely fascinating

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Your first one is also a question that has crossed my mind! How is it that a certain configuration of atoms has consciousness and "will" and the same set of configurations a moment after death does not? It is pretty weird! We don't even carry the same atoms from birth to death! How is it that we still consider ourselves the same self?

Your second one is also an interesting one, but only causes problems if we are considering absolute meanings. As long as we both point to the same thing when we say "red", it doesn't really matter if my red is your green!

Absolutely. There must be a massive part missing in current physics and there is also no clue how to learn more about it. I have a couple if ideas on this, but the big problem is that the scientific method is not suitable to answer these questions. It seems there needs to be a big shift in the paradigms of science.

For the second one, we will also cannot use science. We both call the same object red and there is nothing in the world to find out if your red is my green. But there is also no reason why it should be the same red for both of us....

I still would hold that the scientific method would still hold sway for the first question. If we can't make a falsifiable hypothesis and test it in some way, then it would be impossible to determine what sort of things are demonstrably true or just a wish? I would place my bets on unknown parts and knowledge, which will later be testable....or not, but that would remain unknown knowledge rather than a shift in being able to what would be true or not.

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  1. Is there a chance that the real true its spread around the all religion?
  2. Why do you love some one?

Yes... or even if religion has a germ of truth at all, or are they more like guides for living and being a good person? On the other hand, if there was some (or all ) truth in religion, I think my mind would be completely blown!

Do we love people (not children) because we are scared of being alone?

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You have no. 1 twice, btw.

  1. Explain in simple (understandable for me) terms how the universe came into being.

1(2)) Can I trust you?

Another btw: You don't need faster-than-light travel for mankind to spread in space. Generation ships would do. Of course, you wouldn't be able to just visit another star system, but at least homo sapiens isn't stuck here.

I also love imagining us in generational starships, developing whole ship-based societies as we seek habitable planets

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I wonder if we would turn it into a big Lord of the Flies experiment!

I sure hope not! All my imaginings make sure that there's a theatre troupe up there that specializes in helping people resolve their problems with role-playing while also entertaining everyone with theatre! (Especially using Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.)

Ha... yes thanks for pointing that out! I will get around and fix it!

How did the universe come to be? That would be an interesting thing to know... given that all we have is an extrapolation and a best guess! Maybe things are weirder than we every thought!

Your second one is a good one as well! Knowing who to be able to trust... or not... however, given how fickle people can be... it may be that that answer is only good for the next hour!

Generational ships would be pretty awesome, and would allow us to escape! If only we could get our arses in gear for such a monumental project!

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Is it possible to have faster than light speed interstellar travel? - No
Is it possible to travel faster than 186k m/s? Yes

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Haha... "as we currently know", is the qualifier that is assumed!

I think by pinning a figure on the speed of light when it is relative rather than absolute is a bit presumptious. We know that time can be seen to contract the faster we go as these changes are observable from a single point. You can't do that with speed. I propose that what we are seeing is a manmade artifact due to the way we have defined things. It is not only time that appears to contract but everything else too. Thus travelling at speeds close to the speed of light would mean that what is n front of you is fully expanded and that light would still be appearing to be travelling at 186km/s faster than you. Thus if you went faster the speedometers on your ship would read faster than the 186k m/s but to the observer at the start point you would still be going slower.

I'm not quite sure I understood your comment, the speed of light is constant with respect to all inertial frames of reference. So, from that point of view, it is a constant and absolute figure (as far as we know!).

As we approach the speed of light, it is as you say, and asymptotic in behaviour with a problem at v=c. To do the faster than light part, we would need to do a bit of leap of faith and jump over the problem (that bit is for the engineers!). The mathematics allow for faster than light objects, as long as they don't cross back down (again, it is a question, if this is an artifact of the modelling or actually a real thing). The crossing point is the problem if you are planning to traverse the entire space in between the two points.

This is from memory, it was a while back! and things might have changed significantly since I learnt it!

I am trying to say that although we may be travelling at say 230k m/s according to the instruments on the ship light is travelling at 186k m/s faster according to the same instruments. To the outside observer we are both travelling at 186k m/s. Not only time is compressed but distance and defacto velocity. ie. We can travel faster than 186k m/s but not travel faster than the speed of light.

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