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      I’d say, as long as the topic isn’t political, then the risk of people saying bullshit, is quite low. If you for example ask specifically for the theology of a specific sect of Islam, you will likely get a lot of good answers, with a few bad. But near entirely non-political, or very precise questions are very rare, and rarely asked.

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        ‘‘Can I kill a T-Rex with spear?’’

        ‘‘Who would win T-Rex or 20000 Velociraptors?’’

        ‘‘Who is stronger: strongest man alive or gorilla?’’

        ‘‘Can I sell my soul to satan and then ask for it back after a few years?’’

        ‘‘Do British people speak in British accent by puropose to distance themselves from Americans?’’

        ‘‘If Einstein was so smart, why did he die?’’

        ‘‘My kid is going to WC without my permision, should I punish him?’’

        ‘‘Does China have computers?’’

        ‘‘What if we nuke Yellowstone?’’(good one I admit)

        ‘‘Is fascism okay with you?’’

        AND WHAT…

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          "The Hebgen Lake earthquake released more energy than a 2-megaton nuclear weapon—100 times larger than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945, and equivalent to an “average” hydrogen bomb. What’s more, this earthquake occurred not above, but next to Yellowstone’s largely solid magma body, so most of the earthquake’s energy was transmitted directly into the rock. In a nuclear attack, the detonation would occur above ground, so the majority of the energy would be released into the air. And guess what happened to Yellowstone volcano after the M7.3 earthquake? It didn’t erupt! The only impacts were some changes in hot springs and geysers due to the shaking.

          1959 was not the first time an earthquake occurred on the Hebgen Lake fault."

          Not quite a nuke, but like close enough

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            Imagine asking the question: do you like (any dinosaur) or something else, imagine not choosing a dinosaur.

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      On rare occasion you get pretty based comments. I have a bunch of commie stuff in my quora, and the emails usually follow the formula of someone asks a perhaps silly question/ has a bad faith assumption about communism and the top post will usually be a communist responding in due kind!

      I used to like it a lot when I was into philosophy…