Asklemmy

44148 readers

1234 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

-13

Would you watch the earth form from nothing to the current time for 500.000 $? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Grogon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

40 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I give you a cozy chair and you are now going to watch the beginning of earth til today with all your senses. You won’t age, everything freezes. But once you reach this minute you will get a million dollars.

All you have to do is watch earth form from nothing to how it is now in this minute and then you will come down to earth with a million dollars and nothing changed.

Yes or no? You will see things nobody has ever seen and you can watch the dinos if you get to that point after a few million years. I will give you a chair and binoculars

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It was a billion before that.

Cosmic superbeings aren't paying like they used to.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even for a billion it’s such a shit deal. Billions of years of doing nothing experiencing the Big Bang and burning alive for centuries on end, to get pennies a year you ultimately will get to spend in the very last fractions of a percent of it all.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, being able to see everything play out would be worth it for me.

[–] demoman@lemmy.one 3 points 8 months ago

You would certainly go insane

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

VC funding gets us all, transcendental or not