Ask Lemmy

26275 readers

1620 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Rules: (interactive)

1) Be nice and; have fun

Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them

2) All posts must end with a '?'

This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?

3) No spam

Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.

4) NSFW is okay, within reason

Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].

5) This is not a support community.

It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

164

You are given an opportunity to hard reset our universe (particularly, the Earth). You are also allowed to change one rule about the new universe. What rule would you change? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

281 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The rule could be anything, as funny or as serious as you want. The universe will progress in a similar way that it has up until this point, unless your changed rule prevented it from doing so.

Some examples might be:

The invention of currency is not allowed.
Iron is slightly less stable.
The Ancient Greeks are able to cultivate Silphium, which does not go extinct now.

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd increase the speed of light.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What difference would that make

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I guess that would mean we can travel faster between planets. Communication would be much faster also.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unless this gets me faster internet, I'm not interested

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good news! Internet would be technically faster.

Time would be faster also so you wouldn't be able to tell it but compared to us your internet would be faster

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yay!

Aw!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This kind of gets at that (I think? I'm dumb, someone smarter than me may have something better/more relevant):

The Speed of Light is NOT About Light - PBS Spacetime

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I prefer my causality dilated.