Bielefeld native here: Good luck!
>Bielefeld native here Impostor clearly
I heard anyone whose documentation shows they're from Bielefeld is actually an undercover BND agent.
German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist
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#12Here's the basic problem: They gave a month deadline. That's not enough time to get permission for time off from work, book a ticket, take photos to show there is no city there, and submit, at least with the required degree of integrity (e.g. confirming GPS coordinates in some temper-proof way, etc. -- they'll just say you took the photos elsewhere).
There is no city there.
Pretending it's a fake conspiracy seems to be convincing people otherwise, though.
A contest with an unreasonable deadline seems, well, like a not very good attempt to prop this thing up.
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#13What's the going rate for a medium yield nuke?
Not sure if it works with « doesn’t exists anymore »
And who will pay ?
Too bad, it was a good idea out-of-the-box !
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#14Here's the basic problem: They gave a month deadline. That's not enough time to get permission for time off from work, book a ticket, take photos to show there is no city there, and submit, at least with the required degree of integrity (e.g. confirming GPS coordinates in some temper-proof way, etc. -- they'll just say you took the photos elsewhere). There is no city there. Pretending it's a fake conspiracy seems to…
Presumably there's plenty of people nearby, even if you are not.
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#15But if they don't exist, doesn't that meant they can't pay the million euros?
Promises you know you'll never have to keep are the best kind!
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#16Bielefeld native here: Good luck!
waves same here. I'm slightly annoyed though, wouldn't mind travelling on the other side of the earth once without hearing that silly joke. Not sure why the city-PR felt the need to further solidify that.
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#17Tom Scott did a video [0] on Bielefeld a few years back which was how I found out about this.
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#18Pet peeve: converting currencies from the original makes for awkward headlines, as well as making the article future-incompatible (because of exchange rate fluctuations).
They should keep the original €1M in the title. It is what they offered.
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#19Probably just have to watch flat earth theorists how they do it.
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#20In Italy we have an entire region (Molise) that doesn't exist.
Do other countries have their own non-existent places too?