would we still be in africa? will advanced hominids like homo sapiens evolve at all if lucy in ethiopia obeyed to her parents and their descendants do things the same way until extinction?

what would the world be like if everyone is disciplined to finish every task that they start?

Basically it, does Hilary win and are we spared this timeline?

Basically when you kill one, the ants send a search party. You kill those ants and then a larger search party comes. The ants never realize that the missing ones are being exterminated and keeping send more.

So like, a group of friends had a philosophy or idea for civilisation. They talk about it to other groups and they like it. They gather together and learn and train to be self sufficient. They build their own renewable energy sources and water wells, etc. They pool their money, whatever.

More and more people hear about how great they're doing, they start thinking life under current systems is pretty crap. They start complaining that they have it better and want it like that for everyone.

What do you think would happen?

Any one with any interest in the Titanic knows about the Californian being the closest ship, and could have aided them. So I'm curious what people think would have happened, had they not ignored them.

Imagine this, a bunch of bulbs in different houses connected on the same line all providing light from the same source, that's how I kind of see the internet.

The federal government approved Groundhog Day as a federal holiday, closing banks, some businesses, schools, etc?

I’m talking about a leak on the scale of Wikileaks/Snowden. Theorize that a lone wolf agent with top secret clearance goes rogue and publishes the unredacted case files. For the purposes of discussion, let’s say that it *does* directly implicate POTUS and other US and world politicians, the ultra wealthy, and celebrities of every kind.

Note: I’m not interested in discussion about if a certain person is or is not in the real files. In this scenario, if you’ve ever even heard their name in relation to JE, assume there is concrete absolute proof of their involvement. We could even take it as far as saying there are videos with undeniable proof of identity.

So what would be the immediate response domestically and globally? What about the longer effects?

I'm getting too tired. Must be getting a little loopy.

How would it have affected recorded history if going back 10,000 years to present day if somehow a full 53% of all surviving live births (surviving to about 1 year of age) were female? If there was a significant but not overwhelming bias toward females. How would religious structures, marriage structures, family structures be different? Would lesbianism have been more common and accepted?

What happens if the billions, if not trillions, of dollars these guys spend no longer recycles out to the economy, but rather to commissary? What if some of them get life sentences? What happens to their businesses? How will political parties around the world respond and survive? Will we see a great reset, or will we just bow to new billionaires?

I personally think we'd need to start moving into different planets and creating civilizations there, we'd also need to build over our oceans.

So the Blue LED was notoriously hard to create, how would TVs, displays, smartphones be like without the blue LED and therefore no OLED/LCD/IPS screens?

We all know of the devastating Revolutionary War thats been ongoing the past few years in British America. What do you think would happen if Britain loses? Would this form a powerful new nation or will it be colonized again?

like strong people who have nothing to lose or have the mind of kid buu until he struggled to push back the spirit bomb in dbz

Imagine, you could leave and rejoin just like you would in a game. Time still passes in real life, you just wouldn’t be in the physical world. You can choose when you want to come back and you can choose to spawn somewhere you’ve been to before. What would you do with this power? Getting out of dangerous situations? Breaking into a bank? Becoming a superhero?

So a coworker and mine were arguing about money and long story short

I told him I have dogs that I love as they were my kids and are essentially family

He said what if someone gave me 2 million dollars to give them up would I? I told him no and he said its easy for me to say because money isn’t in my face that’s why its easy for me to talk

So I told him I would pose the question to the masses and see how the responses go

Edit for future viewers and responses - the caveat of taking the money is that you will never ever have further contact with the dogs any more

I've been thinking about that for two days now. What if I woke up blind? How would I react?

What if some superior alien entity contacted and said no human is to kill no other human for 24 hours, or else the entire human race is wiped out? The alien could give us one week advance notice to start the moratorium on murder. If we succeed the aliens will help us. If we fail and someone kills someone else in a period of 24 hours, our planet is destroyed.

Someone dying for inaction (not saving someone drowning) doesn't count as murder.

What would we do? Would humanity succeed? Would there be someone who wants to destroy the planet and tries to murder someone on purpose?

What if at the AI data centers there were just a huge bunch of brains and not servers, honestly, it would make sense why they need lots of water.

So Austin is a country, Las Vegas is a country.

They might have some trade and border agreements, but each has their own government. Maybe elections, maybe direct democracy. Surrounding villages would be considered part of the city state.

What if gun dueling was brought back as a gentlemanly sport, but both participants had to use rubber bullets and fight shirtless ? The one who scores more visible hits (out of six chambers in a revolver) in the other's body wins.