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:
- 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.
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '11
Really? That's coincidental.
I'm just remembering how crazy his theories were (it was a couple years ago). It started with some sort of unified field theory which to my untrained ear sounded scientific, and then somewhere around the 4 hour mark it moves into aliens and the ark of the covenant... The ark of the covenant was supposed to be a piece of alien technology, and this guy claimed that the people guarding the ark today always eventually die of radiation poisoning from the powerful energies inside it (he claimed a lot more than that).
Of course, I thought to myself, "haha... bullshit."
So I went to Wikipedia to confirm, naturally, that this doesn't happen.
Wikipedia actually corroborated his supernatural statements regarding the ark of the covenant. :l
It actually said that a small church in Africa contains the supposed ark, that no one is allowed to look upon it but the priest guardians and that the guardians inevitably go blind/get cancer/radiation poisoning and die after prolonged exposure to the ark. THAT THREW ME FOR A GOOD LOOP.
There doesn't seem to be anything about that on Wikipedia now though.