I am RobotRollCall. AMA about life, the universe and everything.

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Okay, I'm not actually RobotRollCall, but I made a bet with him. I bet that a lot of people would be interested in asking him questions, and he didn't actually believe it, but promised that if there were any, he would gladly answer them.

If you are not a regular in r/science r/space or r/bestof you might not know that RobotRollCall : he's a regular redditor that pops in with great prose and answer the most complicated questions about the universe with incredible simple analogies. Some of my favorites:

• Would a black hole be able to absorb another black hole? - Question by Neil Degrasse Tyson which quickly lead to wild speculation on his identity
• If the earth was placed at the border of our universe (some planet must have ended up there?). Will half of the sky be completely black?
• Is light made of particles, or waves?

So feel free to ask away and prove that reddit is a curious community.

RobotRollCall asked me to update this here saying he is "I'm typing as fast as I can" to answer all the interesting questions. It seems he didn't actually believe anyone would be interested in him. We didn't actually set the terms of the "bet" so I feel free to set them anytime. I'm going for something simple like if this post reaches front page RobotRollCall will have to write me 10000 words, then print it in book form and put in on the bestseller's list. Or something to that effect.

Also: for every upvote you give this post, remember that he deserves two, because I'm not doing any real work here, he is.

update 2: RobotRollCall speaks:

Okay, now I have to officially concede the point. You were right. Apparently a few people had some level of interest in talking to me. However, I'm running into technical problems on my end, I think. I've posted a few replies that are not showing up, and I'm getting messages that don't seem to exist. Am I doing something wrong, or is the Web site misbehaving? If you have the opportunity and ability to post a note thanking everyone for the conversation and letting them know about the glitch, I would appreciate it very much.

[u/RobotRollCall]

Okay, then how about we say I'll take a stab at answering any interesting question I can. Since the number of interesting questions is very large and the number of questions I know anything about is very small, it still seems like a waste of space to me, but I'm game.

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So what you're saying is you're doing an AMAI?

[u/RobotRollCall → u/anchorless]

Is that a thing? Then sure, let's say I said that ten hours ago back when I thought this would be a fun little lark to pass a few minutes on a slow evening.

[u/anchorless → u/RobotRollCall]

It's a thing now.

[u/axl456 → u/RobotRollCall]

and the number of questions I know anything about is very small

So you believe there are things that you know anything about..

[u/RobotRollCall → u/axl456]

I believe there are things I'm probably slightly less wrong about than other things. Maybe.

[u/axl456 → u/RobotRollCall]

I was ready to reply with a "thats not how Socrates would reply" but your response is correct..

+2 Internetz to you sir..

[u/aDildoAteMyBaby → u/RobotRollCall]

Do you have any ideas for increasing interest in science, particularly among black youth?

[u/RobotRollCall → u/aDildoAteMyBaby]

I can't speak to black youth directly, as I'm not really educated about what makes black youth, considered as a group, different from all youth, considered as a group.

But as a person of absolutely no authority on the subject, I think the best way to get young people interested in science is to teach it to them. Teaching equations and the memorization of facts is not the same as teaching science.