The Big Here Quiz
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The Big Here Quiz
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#224 on the main quiz, 27 including the bonus questions. It helped that the full moon was last night, the sun only just set, and I live almost directly on top of a fault line to the point that the park down the road has a prominent ridge with a sign on it indicating it as such.
The latitude question had me stumped since there's basically nothing latitudinally or longditudinally projecting out from here. Eastern Russia, Middle Argentina, the top of Tasmania.
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#3This is a great tool to explain how unaware we usually are of the environment that has so many implications for us.
But I'd like to see this go one step further: How about we measure this continuously to see whether awareness drops?
That might show that (a) humans are getting more or less aware (I guess we grow more aware since information diffusion has grown immensely) and (b) the world gets more complex and thus harder to be aware of (pretty sure on this one, see reflexive modernity)
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#424 on the main quiz, 27 including the bonus questions. It helped that the full moon was last night, the sun only just set, and I live almost directly on top of a fault line to the point that the park down the road has a prominent ridge with a sign on it indicating it as such. The latitude question had me stumped since there's basically nothing latitudinally or longditudinally projecting out from here. Eastern Russia,…
I saw the "before your tribe lived here" question and realized this quiz wasn't for me, I don't know what people ate 6000 years ago.
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#5Surprisingly easy for religious Jews. Sunset today? It's Friday so that's around candle lighting time. Full moon? We are just over halfway through the Adar I lunar month. North? Easy if you pray towards the east.
I also live in a city (London) whose y and z coordinates are both approximately 0, which keeps things simple, although it's quite possible that the answer to 'where does your waste go' is the Thames.
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#6The watershed questions stumped me, but I feel like I had a rough idea of most of the others.
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#7This is a great tool to explain how unaware we usually are of the environment that has so many implications for us. But I'd like to see this go one step further: How about we measure this continuously to see whether awareness drops? That might show that (a) humans are getting more or less aware (I guess we grow more aware since information diffusion has grown immensely) and (b) the world gets more complex and thus ha…
Pretty sure this is something specific to “modern” places. I’m on vacation for a few days in the middle of nowhere Alaska and most of these questions are easier to answer for this spot than where I live.
A few are harder “After the rain runs off your roof, where does it go?” (What’s rain? It’s -30f here…). Also the invasive species questions (Do any of them survive?)
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#8> 9) Before your tribe lived here, what did the previous inhabitants eat and how did they sustain themselves?
Seems focusing on colonizers. Most people don't live in places with a clear separation between the previous tribe and the current tribe.
> Name three wild species that were not found here 500 years ago. Name one exotic species that has appeared in the last 5 years.
Is it really that common for a new exotic species to get introduced every 5 years? Animals and plants are mostly adapted to the biomes they originated in and usually don't survive well if you take them elsewhere, not much survives in temperate forests/taigas that doesn't already live there.
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#9> 9) Before your tribe lived here, what did the previous inhabitants eat and how did they sustain themselves? Seems focusing on colonizers. Most people don't live in places with a clear separation between the previous tribe and the current tribe. > Name three wild species that were not found here 500 years ago. Name one exotic species that has appeared in the last 5 years. Is it really that common for a new exotic sp…
A more charitable way to say “focused on colonizers” is that no tribe is “primordial” to its region; everyplace, everywhere has predecessor tribes.
Or more simply: We are all colonizers. No matter who you are or where you live, a different culture existed there before you. What can you learn about them?
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#10> 9) Before your tribe lived here, what did the previous inhabitants eat and how did they sustain themselves? Seems focusing on colonizers. Most people don't live in places with a clear separation between the previous tribe and the current tribe. > Name three wild species that were not found here 500 years ago. Name one exotic species that has appeared in the last 5 years. Is it really that common for a new exotic sp…
A more charitable way to say “focused on colonizers” is that no tribe is “primordial” to its region; everyplace, everywhere has predecessor tribes. Or more simply: We are all colonizers. No matter who you are or where you live, a different culture existed there before you. What can you learn about them?
You mean your ancestors? Couldn't it just say "how did people survive before modern technology", that way it would be clearer. Otherwise you could say "they lived by working in factories", which doesn't seem to be the point. Europe used to be covered by a kilometre thick ice sheet, people didn't survive there then.