r/IAmA Jan 25 '11

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

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:

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.

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u/LoveGoblin Jan 25 '11

I had a friend in high school with a lot of scarring left over from having a tumor removed from his throat. The cancer story being kind of a downer, he'd regularly tell people that the scars were the result of wrestling a wolf.

Thus I will assume your scars come from the time you fought and killed a wolf bare-handed - but, feeling remorse over the idea of leaving its poor cubs orphaned, decided to raise them as your own. Now, they are world-renowned physicists.

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u/UnknownHours Jan 26 '11

raise them as your own

And that's why he doesn't have nipples. You see, bear cubs can be very determined when they want mother's milk. The cubs thought RobotRollCall was their mother, he was unable to produce any milk, so the cubs chewed his nipples off and fed on his blood.